Musar for Sotah 67:5
עודם בירדן אמר להם יהושע דעו על מה אתם עוברים את הירדן על מנת שתורישו את יושבי הארץ מפניכם שנאמר (במדבר לג, נב) והורשתם את כל יושבי הארץ מפניכם וגו' אם אתם עושין כן מוטב ואם לאו באין מים ושוטפין אותיכם מאי אותיכם אותי ואתכם
— What means 'othekem'? Me and you. While they were still in the Jordan, Joshua said to them, Take you up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel etc.;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Josh. IV, 5. ');"><sup>9</sup></span> and it continues, That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in time to come, saying: What mean ye by these stones? etc.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 6. ');"><sup>10</sup></span>
Shenei Luchot HaBerit
[The author digresses here to explain the symbolism of different kinds of water, and how the "wrong" kind of "water," or water which has not been put in the service of the right side of the emanations, will prove destructive, fatal. He also refers to the river Dinor a river of fire mentioned in the Book of Daniel which, according to Kabbalistic teachings, serves as a ritual bath for the souls once they emerge from judgment in purgatory. I am skipping most of this excursion into deep mysticism. Ed.]
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