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Full Description
With this volume, the Me'Am Lo'ez series
begins its commentary on the second section of the Bible-the Prophets.
Of these books, the Book of Joshua is unique in that, as the Talmud
states: "Had the Jewish people not sinned, they would have received
only the Five Books of Moses and the Book of Joshua." In this sense,
this book is a completion of the Torah. It tells of the fulfillment of
G-d's promise to Abraham, "To your descendants I have given this land"
Had the Jews proceeded faithfully in their holy mission, the Bible, at
this point, would have been complete. Lest anyone think that the Book
of Joshua is little more than a historical account of military
stratagems and the division of the spoils among the victors, the Me'Am
Lo'ez Anthology reveals the true nature of the conquest: a spiritual
triumph of the first order! Drawing from a broad spectrum of sources,
this volume shows how not only the overt miracles which G-d
performed-halting the flow of the Jordan, opening the earth to swallow
the walls of Jericho, suspending the sun at midday-but everything-from
the successful sending of spies and the setting of ambushes to the
assignment of a portion for each tribe-was accomplished through the
guiding hand of the Almighty.
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