Devarim:in the shadddow of Jethro

There are some things that recall previous passages. Moses talks about the appointment of a system of judges . Jethro suggested it. ( Shemos 18:כא וְאַתָּה תֶחֱזֶה מִכָּל-הָעָם אַנְשֵׁי-חַיִל יִרְאֵי אֱלֹהִים אַנְשֵׁי אֱמֶת שֹׂנְאֵי בָצַע וְשַׂמְתָּ עֲלֵהֶם שָׂרֵי אֲלָפִים שָׂרֵי מֵאוֹת שָׂרֵי חֲמִשִּׁים וְשָׂרֵי עֲשָׂרֹת. כב וְשָׁפְטוּ אֶת-הָעָם בְּכָל-עֵת וְהָיָה כָּל-הַדָּבָר הַגָּדֹל יָבִיאוּ אֵלֶיךָ וְכָל-הַדָּבָר הַקָּטֹן יִשְׁפְּטוּ-הֵם וְהָקֵל מֵעָלֶיךָ וְנָשְׂאוּ אִתָּךְ.

Moses talks about sending out spies to guide the entry into the land, similar to a role that Jethro rejected.

The spies described the cities fortifed to the sky. Had the Canaanites succeeded in building the tower of Babel?

There is that evil word "hava" Bereshith 11:3,4 וַיֹּאמְרוּ הָבָה נִבְנֶה-לָּנוּ עִיר וּמִגְדָּל וְרֹאשׁוֹ בַשָּׁמַיִם וְנַעֲשֶׂה-לָּנוּ שֵׁם פֶּן-נָפוּץ עַל-פְּנֵי כָל-הָאָרֶץ

The nations and their lands:

what is the point of Darwin: the species most suitable to the space occupies it. Relate this to the subtitle of his most famous book: Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Who is the most favored race in the Torah? Why does Darwin posit a concept of the favored race? Does he get it from Devorim?

compare with Rashi in Masai on Zoth Haaretz: Israel was suited to the land and the land was suited to Israel.

The first Rashi in Bereshith says that we are told that El-him is the creater of the world so that we understand ( or accept) that it is the creators perrogative to apportion the territory as He sees fit! In Devarim, we see that apportionment and there are favored an non-favored races, and there is ascendency and decline. Does this justify Zionism?

Change is the only constant. The populations that occupy the variious parcels of land are replaced by new populations ( allowing the FAvored Race to annex them). The leader of Israel must also change and that constitutes a change in Israel itself.

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