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The Yeshiva.net — Devarim 5784

Выпуск: The Yeshiva.net — Devarim 5784. Темы: parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. As an inheritance to Esau I have given Mount Saeir.’” https://www.theyeshiva.net/jewish/item/962/essay-parshas-devarim-the-arab-israeli-conflict-is-not-territorial 1/9 8/4/24, 3:33 PM TheYeshiva.net - Rabbi YY Jacobson Moses continues the instruction: “You shall purchase food from them for money so that you may eat; also water shall you buy from them for money so that you may drink.” From Saeir, also known as Edom, the Hebrew’s continue their journey northward toward the territory of Moab, located at the East of the Dead Sea. I will not give you their land as an inheritance, since I have already given Ar [the capital of Moab] to Lot’s descendants as their heritage.” As the Jews continue their voyage up north toward the country of Ammon, today's Jordan, Moses has this to say to his people: “G-d spoke to me saying… ‘You will be coming close to the Ammonites. You shall not distress them and you shall not provoke them, for I shall not give any of the land of the descendants of Ammon to you as an inheritance; to the descendants of Lot have I given it as an inheritance (2).” These words, uttered three millennia ago (in the year 1273 BCE), one month before Moses’ dies, are startling. The Torah is communicating to us the circumstances surrounding the ultimate Israelite conquest and settlement of their homeland, Eretz Israel, so that when the United Nations, the White House, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the European Union, the State Department and all of the Arab countries will decry Israel as an apartheid state, occupying Palestinian soil and controlling land annexed from another nation, the Jewish people will be able to open their own constitution, the Torah, and present its unwavering message: “Listen ye, defenders of morality and human rights! At a time when most tribes and nations were slaughtering their very own children to pagan gods (3); in a milieu when parents regularly practiced infanticide, murdering their weak newborn children; in an era when cannibalism was a routine diet, and most people lacked the slightest idea about the very notion of right and wrong -- Jewish children growing up in a desert were taught that they could not touch that which did not belong to them. It was only following the Six-day War in 1

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