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Why does Hashem (ה׳) tell Moshe to go up Har Ha-Avrim to see the land "that I already gave" (nasati) to Israel? The shiur develops a chiddush that there are two types of seeing - one that assesses what's already owned, another that acquires through the act of seeing itself. Moshe's viewing from the mountain was itself a form of acquisition that secured western Eretz Yisrael for the Jewish people.
This shiur analyzes the complex passage in Parshas Pinchas where Hashem (ה׳) tells Moshe to ascend Har Ha-Avrim to see the land before his death. Rabbi Zweig opens by noting several textual difficulties: the mountain has different names in different places (Har Ha-Avrim, Har Nevo, Pisga), the phrase "see the land that I already gave" uses past tense (nasati) rather than future, and the redundancy of "see the land and you shall see it." The shiur also addresses why Moshe dies "like Aharon died" and what it means that he was "mitaveh" (desired) this death. The core insight developed is that there are two distinct types of seeing mentioned in Torah (תורה). One type involves assessing and surveying property that has already been acquired. The other type involves the actual act of seeing as a form of kinyan (acquisition) - where the viewing itself transfers ownership. Rabbi Zweig suggests that when the Gemara (גמרא) discusses "habata" versus regular "reia," this reflects the difference between acquisitive seeing and mere observation.
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Parshas Pinchas
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