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If it\u2019s not ok, it\u2019s not the end\u201d. It\u2019s probably not intentionally based on the midrash for Numbers 21, but it\u2019s close.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">40 years have gone by, and the People are inching towards the Promised Land. Somewhere along the journey, camping \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the wilderness that extends from the territory of the Amorite.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it says (21:14)<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Therefore the Book of the Wars of the Lord speaks of \u201c<\/span><\/i><em>\u05d0\u05b6\u05ea\u05be\u05d5\u05b8\u05d4\u05b5\u05a3\u05d1 \u05d1\u05bc\u05b0\u05e1\u05d5\u05bc\u05e4\u05b8\u0594\u05d4<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2026<\/span>Waheb in Suphah<\/em><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the wadis: the Arnon\u2026<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We don\u2019t quite know what \u201cthe Book of the Wars of the Lord\u201d is, but where we don\u2019t know, we\u2019re left to our imagination and creativity. A few verses later it says, \u201cthen Israel sang that song\u201d (21:17), which might remind us of a verse back in Exodus (15:1): \u201cthen Moses and the Children of Israel sang this song\u201d. As the Exodus event was after the splitting of the Sea, known as <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yam Suph<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, here too maybe there is a reference to a split and a sea with the word \u201c<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suphah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d; and therefore, here too we must be speaking of similar, great miracles. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What happened? The midrash tells us that when the children of Israel came to Wadi (valley of) Arnon, they were going to walk through in the wadi, facing \u201c<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ein-sof<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d (endless, enormous amount of) people. Above it, were mountains with protruding rocks on one side, and hollow caves on the other. In order to protect the Children of Israel from enemies above and those hiding in the caves, God hinted at the mountains to join and become a flat pathway, protecting the people within them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Waheb &amp; Suphah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>,<\/em> those mountains, became symbolic of forces that come together, for a greater good: <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vahev<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the same root as <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ohev<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, loving, and <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">supha<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 storm, but also, <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sopha<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 its end, to mean, in the end they became one. 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