Can You Change Your Fate?: How to Study Torah - Matot
Just before entering the Promised Land, two and a half of the Twelve Tribes ask for special permission to settle on the other side of the Jordan River. If they were meant to settle in that place, then why didn't G-d assign it to them to begin with? And if they were not meant to settle there, then why did G-d agree to their request?
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Levi Rapoport
NY
July 17, 2017
Correction in Introduction paragraph: Only 2 tribes REQUESTED land. The half of Mensahe wss given but didn't request it. Reply
John Hiers
July 19, 2012
Excellent Lesson Thank you so much Rabbi ! Amazing how G-d puts the words in your heart that I was needing to hear. Thank you, Be Well ! Reply
Anonymous
Trabuco Canyon, Ca/USA
July 18, 2012
Get out I have to get out of this solitary rut I have worked myself into and your teaching tells me this, thank you teacher. Reply
Correction at 27:36: Cattle may be raised in Eretz Yisroel. Sheep and goats may not. see Mishna Bava Kama 7:7, Rambam Hilchot Nizkei Mammon 5:2
TY. I stand corrected