This week’s Parasha, Devarim, talks about the different parts of Eretz Yisrael, and Hashem says,”Do not pain Moav; don’t get into a fight with them, Because you aren’t inheriting any thing from Moav, it’s an inheritance for Bnei Lot.” The children of Lot (namely Amon and Moav) will inherit part of the land. Rashi explains that Abraham Avinu was given ten lands, as stated in Bereshit. Seven of them went to Bnei Yisrael, but Keni, Knizi and Kadmoni would go to Amon, Moav and Seir. Amon and Moav came from Lot. Seir is Esav. Lot’s children get two, and Esav gets one. That is the breakdown of the ten lands. Why did Lot merit those two? Because he was quiet when Avraham Avinu was going into Mitzrayim. When Avraham said that Sara was his sister, Lot was quiet about it, and because he was quiet, he got upgraded like a son, and got a portion from Avraham Avinu. The Chafetz Chaim (in his Maamar Kavod Shamayim) says that we see a lesson from Lot- Lot merited so much because he was quiet. He says that a person can merit a lot if he’s quiet in an argument, or if someone insults him and he controls himself and doesn’t respond. There is a Gemara in Chulin (89a) on a pasuk in Iyov ( 26,7) where it says that, תֹּ֥לֶה אֶ֝֗רֶץ עַל־בְּלִי־מָֽה God hangs the world on B’li Ma/nothing. This can also be read as, the world is hanging on Bol’em- someone that muzzles his mouth in a time for argument. Middah for Middah, it works out that when a person has a lot of sins, there are prosecutors that want to talk, but when the person does not respond, those prosecutors can’t talk either. That’s why the Chafetz Chaim used Lot as an example. Lot was not the best of people. Rashi says that he distance himself from God. But because he was quiet, he got such a high level. How much more so will come to a Jewish person, who, in a time of argument, controls himself and does not respond. This is an incentive to us, to hold ourselves back, because we only gain from not responding. Have a wonderful day. Just like there are ten lands, God has ten Sefirot. Seven of them are middot that represent the seven shepherds- Avraham, Yitzhak, Yaakov, Moshe, Aharon, Yosef and David. And three of them are in our minds- Binah, Chochma, and Daat. Those are the three parts of wisdom. It says that in the future we will control all ten of these traits, and we’ll have the ten lands. Currently, we only got seven out of ten, which corresponds to the seven shepherds)