Perek 1 The first perek is dealng with hashem giving strength of character to yeohshoa to help him conquer Israel
1 the torah, derek eretz
2. Rambam says that we learn the cocept of mored bemalchus from here b/c we know that the king has the right ot kill anyone you disrespects him. He learns this from posek 18 here when t says “who ever doesn’t… however if he says don’t keep shobos you listen to hashem b/c the king isn’t above hashem so u listen to hashem and don’t keep shabos.” 3. b/c the chasam sofer says its we take the yud from sari which has no nekudos but in yehoshua we need the 2 dots so we 4. The word that keeps on repeating itself in perek one is moshe the reason is b/c the gemara says in baba basrah that moshe face was like the yeohshua was like the moon woo one to us the disgrace that before we had a leader like the sun and now we only have a leader whos the moon the chafets chiam says the zikanim(yehoshua friends) they were really saying that they did t reach their potential like yehshua we know hes great from whern the torah that hes compared to a naar and w know this sint a dis b/c the moon is a reflection of the sun instead this is a complnet yehoshuah was a relflection of moshe! This is what the gemara means the puyt down was on the zekanim not yehoshua.
Rashi says that it means in derech eretz- the way of the land comes before torah and that your going to accualy conquer the land like everybody else the next posek he says that this isn’t only a prsui to conquer the land but to have all of torah In the mishna avos rebi gamlial says that if u just have torah not derech eratz then its nt=ot good and it will cause you to sin and you will lose your knowlage this connects to yehoshu by when it says chazak veames it means derech erets andyou also need rak chazak veametz meot means with all of torah you need both. Perek 2 – worksheet #2
Yehosua sends 2 speis to yericho and hides in rachav who is
decribed as a zonah house the king finds out and wants to search her house and say that she left and convencies them that they left… know rest of story line of the rest of perek
1. the targom (is not merely a translation is a explination) explains
this as a innkeeper
….when he finished writing it the entre land shoke and a heavenly
voice and ased who did this and he respned by saying I did it I didn’t do it 4 me b 4 everybody else so theres no disadreement he then wantedto write on the kisobim he then said he shouldn’t do it b/c hell reveal when mishiach is coming so he didn’t write it
Perek 3- cont of worksheet #2
In the perek We crosses the yardayn just like the yom suk split so did the yardan for beni yesrael the yar dayn was a bigger mirrical becase the yam suf was a steady body of water the yardayn was a constant current going on when it split it put even greater fear on cannan the whole isreal was able to c it and was full of fear
2 The distance between the aron and the people… there were really 2 arons its written bano but its rread differently b/c its means both of them the aron and the bones of yosef Perek 4 1. When they first entered the land they put up 12 big stones symbolizing the 12 tribes why did thy put it up? A: you might think that they anted to be like every nation however this isn’t what happened they used to write the nation conquered this land however benie Israel write the entire torah to show this is why were getting Israel and if we don’t keep the torah then we wont get the land 2. Why don’t we make shabos hagadol on this day? A: the reason is b/c if we made it on the 10th thn we would say that we are celebrating us going to Israel b/c shabbos hagodol is really ment to celebrat going out of eygpt another reason was also on the tenth was the death of meriam and we don’t want to celebrate on that day
Perek 5 • The nations are afraid • The manna stops falling and know they have to work for food • All men get a bris we didn’t do it in the desert because in gemara it says that the reason is because it was a danger there was a northern wind constantly blowing because of the sin of the meraglim that wind was dangerous for a bris mela • At the end a malach says to take off you shoes b/c the land your satnding on is holy the malch is holdng a swor yehosua is afraid this is a strage story? A: the malch came with a sword to give him stregth like the malch this is a “pep talk” another reason was b/c hashem was upset b/c benie Israel stoped learning torah the didn’t bring karbon tamid yehoshua as why did u come he answers that b/c your not learning so right away yehoshua starte learnng • This instance reminds us of moshe juust like wher moshe waas standing was a holy place soo to where yehoshou was standing that’s wher the forst place wherte the mishkan was going to be Perek 6 In Perek 6: for seven days we walked around Jericho and blew the shofor on the seventh day which was Sabbath we walked 7 times aroud then the walls fell to the groud and we completely destroyed except rachov and her family and yehoshua cursed the city saying that no one should build there 1. We know that’s its shabbos b/c 2. Q: why are we having war on shabbos A: a king or a lavi is able to make … which is when we are able to not do one of the commodments of the torah 3. All the booty from the city had to be destroyed and be burned and couldn’t get pleasure from it why? A: b/c it shabbos and its holy AA: the radak says that Jericho was the first city to be conquered just like we take challah from the dough so to we should give the first spoils to hashem 4. The curse is that you will lose all your children 5. The rambam says that your not allowed to make war with anbody until you try to make peace no matter what it’s a pasuk in the troah if they accept it and accept the 7 mitzvos of noah nd they will be your slaves we also learn that we treat slaves goodly so we offer them this we learn in the gemarh the yehoshua offered 3 procleation eather run be our slaves or fight as we see that nation was given afriaca however the other 31 kings fought and fell. 6.So how could rachav be kept alive? A: same like the nation that made peace and rachav made peace AA: we see that she converted an married yehoshua we learn that you cant marry a canite? she was really a forighner Perek 7 1.we know that when one person does something it like the everbody did it 2. the radak says the it wasn’t only a sin it wa a breaking a promis. When yehosua says don’t take the spoils and since it says that in torah that you have to listen to the navi and you didn’t listen to the navi which means that you violated the torah 3. on sheet 4.on sheet Perek 9 Know story line of perek 9 and stuff on sheet Perek 10 Know story line of Perek 10
Perek 11 It says that hashem went ahead and hardened the heart of the kings but don’t we believe in free choice? Why does we hashem harden the hearts of people? Answers rashi hashem looked into the hearts because I see that they’ll wont do forgiveness and make peace so hashem anted to harden their hearts so it can increase there miracles also that he should put fear into benie israel Perek 16/17/18/19/20/21/22/23/24 All on sheet… we know the the 3 outsude Israel didn’t become divided untl the ones in Israel also when moshe set up the urI miglat outside Israel didn’t become ``active until the 3 in Israel but moshe knew this however he wanted to do mitzvos so he still did it 1. A:what happened was that moshe sent half of Menasha to convince them to come back to Israel however instead they got convinved to also stay 2. 3. Rashi asks why does it say that benie Israel brought up the bone no mosh did?! A: it says that because benie isrel finished the mitzvah so we see that if u finish a mitzvah then its like you did thw hole mitzvah that’s how they got credit
