🔥 The Nine Days: And The Astonishing Proof That Torah Is True

Shalom Aleichem Chevra, welcome back! Moshe Rabbeinu begged 515 times to enter the Land of Israel — not for the beaches, not for the falafel, but for something so deep it will completely change how you see the Nine Days. In this shiur we dive into one of the most emotional parshiyos in the entire Torah — Parshas Va'eschanan — and we open with Rashi's explanation of that very first word, Va'eschanan. We learn that Moshe wasn't leaning on his own merit when he pleaded to enter Eretz Yisrael. He was asking for a free gift, a matnas chinam, the same way Hashem showed pure love and forgiveness to Klal Yisrael after the sin of the Golden Calf. Moshe says: relate to me the same way you related to them. That's the tefillah. That's the heart of Va'eschanan. We also go through Rashi on the two Names of Hashem that Moshe uses in his prayer, how one carries the weight of din and the other the weight of rachamim, and why Moshe says 'You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness.' Moshe is looking at the defeat of the giants Sichon and Og, the settling of two and a half tribes on the other side of the Jordan, and he's saying: Hashem, the decree was made before all of this happened. Maybe