Yehoshua 1 - Points of Interest
- What is the significance of the repetition of the words “Hazak Ve’ematz”?
- Every time it mentions Moshe’s name the phrase Eved Hashem follows
- Passuk 7-8 basically state the same command about keeping the Torah. Why is the second pasuk needed? What important idea is it adding?
- Look in the Chumash where Moshe explains to the 2 and ½ tribes on the conditions of settling on the transjordan. What are the differences between what Moshe tells them there and what Yehoshua tells them here.
- Take notice on how easy the transition was from one ruler to another. In almost every other country and civilization throughout world history political change equaled political strife, opposition to the new ruler, anarchy, and in many cases civil war and bloodshed. In Yehoshua the first change of leadership for Am Israel, the whole nation viewed him as an extension of Moshe Rabbenu, and the nation was ready to follow Yehoshua into Eretz Yisrael wholeheartedly.
- Grammar notes: when Hashem says he will be with Yehoshua it uses the feminine E’mach(with you) instead of the masculine E’mecha
Posted in Chapter 01, Points of Interest, Yehoshua - Joshua by Samuel Calvo on January 26, 2007 |
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