The following is a brief summary of some of thoughts said over by R' Frand on the parsha this evening. I have attempted to reproduce these vorts to the best of my ability. Any perceived inconsistency is the result of my efforts to transcribe the shiur and should not be attributed to R' Frand.
R' Frand began his first vort by noting that although Moshe is told about his inability to enter the Land of Israel in this week's parsha, the actual story of his death is discussed in V'Zos HaBeracha. Specifically in the last aliyah (Devarim 34:1-3) Moshe is shown the entire land from North to South and East to West. Thereafter, Hashem says to Moshe in 34:4 "זֹ֤את הָאָ֨רֶץ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר נִ֠שְׁבַּ֠עְתִּי לְאַבְרָהָ֨ם לְיִצְחָ֤ק וּלְיַֽעֲקֹב֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר לְזַרְעֲךָ֣ אֶתְּנֶ֑נָּה הֶרְאִיתִ֣יךָ בְעֵינֶ֔יךָ וְשָׁ֖מָּה לֹ֥א תַֽעֲבֹֽר" R' Frand remarked that he would occasionally cry when this part of the Torah is read as its sad that Moshe did not get to enter the land. But why would Hashem show it to him and then tell him - I am showing it to you, but you can't enter?
R' Frand quoted R' Uziel Malefsky who noted that there are seven figures who are "Ro'im" and that they correspond with different Middos. Moshe's Middah specifically was Netzach - that what he did and what he touched lasted forever. Moshe gave the Torah and it is eternal. Moshe formed Bnei Yisrael and they are eternal. Had Moshe been involved in the conquest of the land, the Jews would never have gone into Galus, but that was not Hashem's plan.
So why was Moshe shown the land? So that he would desire to enter, as that feeling was implanted in our DNA. R' Frand remarked that over the last 600+ days, life in Israel has been very difficult, but people are continuing to travel there and to move there to live. This is the legacy of Moshe's desire to enter the Land of Israel.
R' Frand said a second vort related to Hashem's directive to Moshe in Bamidbar 27:20 - וְנָֽתַתָּ֥ה מֵהֽוֹדְךָ֖ עָלָ֑יו לְמַ֣עַן יִשְׁמְע֔וּ כָּל־עֲדַ֖ת בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל. The Gemara in Bava Basra learns that Hashem directed that Moshe only give מֵהֽוֹדְךָ֖ but not the entirety. The people of that generation observed that Moshe was like the sun and Yehoshua was like the moon. The elders of the generation then observed woe to us (using the terms Busha U'Klima). But why specifically the elders of the generation?
R' Frand quoted R' Yitzchak Volozhin who theorized that there was a difference between the younger and older members. The younger generation said - Yehoshua is just starting out, he will one day grow to be Moshe. But the older members said - we remember Moshe - he was like this from day one.
R' Frand closed the vort by stating that while no one, other than perhaps Korach, was jealous of Moshe, the Zekenim of that generation were jealous of Yehoshua. They looked at him and saw someone who did not have the natural abilities of Moshe, but who had obtained this position by diligently observing Moshe 24 hrs a day and "cleaning up the Beis Medrash." They felt that they could have been Yehoshua if they had put in the effort, but they had not.
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