בס״ד
Maatos-Maaseh
Calev ben Yephunah, haKenizi,
Adopted son of Kenaz,
Who married his widowed mother.
Only here is he mentioned before Yehoshua,
And called haKenizi.
Some say to indicate that now,
On the cusp of entering the land,
They are equal, but how?
Yehoshua, of Ephraim, of Yosef,
Whose rule saved us in Mitzrayim.
Calev, of Yehudah, the tribe of
Dovid HaMelech, the King of Israel.
Calev and Yehoshua, Yehudah and Yosef,
Twin harbingers of Moshiach.
One in the land, and one in galus.
But Kenaz, through his love and kindness,
Raises a boy, bereft of father, as his own,
Earning his chelek in the ancestry
of Redemption.
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