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Why was Yehoshua chosen to lead the Israelits and not Kaleb?
Two main answers that can be brought are as follows:
1) He represented the mesorah (tradition) of Moshe
Yehoshua was Moshe's primary student and was therefore the natural successor.
He was a great ...
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Why is "Yehoshua" spelled with a full Vav in Devarim 3:21?
Midrash Chaseiros VeYeseiros says it's written maleh in three places. Here it's because he acquired six crowns (the value of the letter vav): beauty, strength, wealth, wisdom, leadership and prophecy (...
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LXX transliteration of יהושע
The name Ἰησοῦς is used consistently for both Joshua and Jesus in the LXX (not Ιησούς, which is the modernized spelling, though accents weren't marked in the oldest texts). To my knowledge, this is ...
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How can Moshe be jealous of his Talmid Yehoshua?
R. Kook notes this a responsum (printed in Tehumin Vol. V pg. 286), but explains that Moshe was jealous of Yehoshua, even though one isn't jealous of a student. That is, he understands that the ...
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Why was Yehoshua chosen to lead the Israelits and not Kaleb?
Rashi in his commentary to Avot 1:1 writes:
ולמה נאמר ומסרה ליהושע ולא לאלעזר ולפינחס ולא לשבעים זקנים המתנבאים במחנה שלא רצה למסרה אלא למי שהיה ממית עצמו מנעוריו באהלי חכמה וקנה שם טוב בעולם וזהו ...
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Yehoshua 5:15 - Why is the ground considered holy?
The Kli Yakar on that passuk explains that the malach was introducing Hashem (who speaks to Yehoshua in 6:2) and therefore the place he was standing was holy because the Shechina was there.
He then ...
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Why was Yehoshua chosen to lead the Israelits and not Kaleb?
I wrote elsewhere, in response to a different question:
The book Hege Yona (Jerusalem 5756), by my grandfather-in-law Rabbi Yona Munk, explains that Y'hoshua, described as tolerating everyone's ...
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What is the point of Moshe asking for a successor?
Because he planned to ask God that one of his sons should succeed him. The Midrash says:
Why did [Moses] make this request [to appoint a successor] [right] after ordering [that the women should ...
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why wasn't Yehoshua bin Nun Moshiach?
the answer is simple (according to Rambam's rulings on Moshiach here)
Moshiach is one who fulfills the following in this order:
Brings all Jews to the promised land (check)
Fights and wins Amolek (...
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Why Yehoshua was not anointed as a king?
Update:
I just saw a Gemara at the very end of chapter 7 of meseches Yoma. See the last three lines of that chapter and the second to last Rashi! Explicit proof.
Great intriguing question. I just read ...
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Why Yehoshua was not anointed as a king?
Ralbag explicitly states (in his commentary to Joshua Chapter 1) that Yehoshua was a king:
ושכל מי שיעבור על מצוותו יומת כי כן יסדה התורה בעובר על דברי הנביא
וכל שכן יהושע שהיה מלך ונביא
And ...
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Why didn't Yehoshua conquer the whole land of Israel before he passed away?
According to the Midrash, Yehoshua could have been more aggressive in conquest and finish the job, but he was stalling:
במדבר רבה כב ו
אמרו רבותינו כתיב ביהושע (יהושע א, ה): כאשר הייתי עם משה ...
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Yehoshua 5:15 - Why is the ground considered holy?
The Midrash (Bereishit Rabbah 97:3) explains:
"And it was when Yehoshua was in Yericho, and he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, a man stood over him... and he [the man] said 'No, but I am ...
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Why Moses' way of teaching Israel left Yehoshuah out (Eruvin 54b)?
I heard from my Rabbi a very interesting explanation given by Rabbi Menashe Klein in his work ספר הקנינים (Sefer HaKinyanim).
Rabbi Menashe Klein writes (Sefer HaKinyanim, p. 39):
להם יהושע וזה א&...
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Was Nun, the father of Joshua a righteous person?
Presumably yes, as per the principle brought down in Sifree 133:
וכל מי שמעשיו סתומים מעשה אבותיו סתומים, והכתוב מייחסו לשבח – הרי זה צריק בן צדיק; וכל מי שמעשיו סתומים ומעשה אבותיו סתומים, והכתוב ...
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Was Joshua young or not?
The Ibn Ezra writes,
Why then did Scripture call him a young man? This is its grammatical explanation. His minister Joshua, the son of Nun, performed the service of a young man.
the editors at ...
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Does Deut. 34:10 mean that Joshua wasn’t the prophet like Moses?
The prophet who immediately succeeded Moses as leader was Joshua, and this bestowal of leadership begins in Numbers 27:15-23. As you mentioned, we indeed see the Almighty speak prophetically to Joshua ...
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Did Joshua serve Moses in Egypt?
According to most mefarshim (commentators), it means that Moshe Rabbeinu equated himself with Yehoshua.
The Tur HaAroch writes:
משרת משה מבחוריו, “the servant of Moses from his youth.” Ibn Ezra ...
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Was Joshua young or not?
The word נער can be a general term for an attendant/servant, as we see in the story of the Akeidah in which both Yishmael and Eliezer are referred to as such (את-שני נעריו אתו) as explained by Rashi. ...
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The conqueror of the first conquest [of Israel], is called Yehoshua (the word for salvation, which is above asiyah*) because miracles were done to him that were not according to the way of the nature ...
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Here the first conqueror is called Yehoshua-Joshua (the language of salvation which is above doing) because miracles were performed for him that were not in the nature of doing. And the conqueror of ...
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Why Moses' way of teaching Israel left Yehoshuah out (Eruvin 54b)?
Rabbi Ouri Cherki suggests that the differing sources on who received the Torah from Moshe (the one in Eruvin and Avot 1:1, "Moshe received the Torah from Sinai and passed it to Yehoshua") ...
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Why Moses' way of teaching Israel left Yehoshuah out (Eruvin 54b)?
According to the Meiri in his introduction to Avos, Yehoshua stayed in the tent the entire time, so he heard the Torah 4 times from Moshe too, based on the verse that says Yehoshua never left the tent....
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Did Yehoshua violate a Torah prohibition?
The commandment forbids adding anything to the Torah on one's own. In this case, Joshua was commanded by G-d to write those eight verses that completed the Torah after Moses' death. So Joshua was ...
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Why was Yehoshua chosen to lead the Israelits and not Kaleb?
He just fitted the job!
Exodus 17 portraits Yehoshua as a (military leader) who fought against Amalek. Exodus 24 teaches that Yehoshua was the attendant of Moshe, Moshe must have thought him a lot ...
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How are there Elders referenced in the beginning of Sefer Yehoshua?
As elders died, new elders were added to maintain the group. We see in Pirkei Avos that the elders were maintained until the beginning of the neviim (Shmuel Hanavi) the entire era of the shoftim. As ...
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Was there an exception for Joshua to allow him inside the Tabernacle?
First of all Bamidbar 1:51talks about approaching the mishkan to perform the work of taking it down (and setting it up) which was restricted to the Leviyim.
51 When the Tabernacle is set to travel, ...
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Why did Yehoshua have to use the Urim Vetumim?
Rashi on that verse seems to address this;
ולפני אלעזר הכהן יעמד. הֲרֵי שְׁאֵלָתְךָ שֶׁשָּׁאַלְתָּ, שֶׁאֵין הַכָּבוֹד הַזֶּה זָז מִבֵּית אָבִיךָ, שֶׁאַף יְהוֹשֻׁעַ יְהֵא צָרִיךְ לְאֶלְעָזָר (תנחומא): ...
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Who was Yehoshua Bin Nun's father?
According to the Midrash recorded here (we don't have such an extant Midrash) there is an entire backstory:
Yehoshua's father lived in Jerusalem, and his wife was barren. After many prayers she ...
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Why Yehoshua **Bin** Nun and not Yehoshua **Ben** Nun
when we read bin nun together - binun - it means constructor, from de world בְּנִיָה - binyah, that tell us he would be the constructor of Israel.
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