Pesach: The Mystery of Why Moshe's Name is Not in the Haggada - The Diamond of the Vilna Gaon

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site second yard site shabus Nissan for his family tonight sh is also sponsored anonymously as a for the family of okay so tonight we're going to deal with a very interesting question it sounds like a good question and it would seem to be a very good question the question is raised most clearly byat of the if you were to ask who is the main character of the P story so you'd expect him mha to appear all over the you know M brought the D and he brought the and the K and he said to par let my people go and parro said not a chance and mha said we're going to send frogs into your ovens and mosha said we're going to send wild animals into your house we'd expect mosha to have a big part in the ha I mean I could find a good couple dozen places where's name should appear and lo and behold we have l in the hag L's like a main character in the even in I mean the whole year we don't say one time you could flip through your Sid it's a thousand pages does not appear I don't care is not in there you don't say he's not in there in with the good guys he's not in there with the bad guys we find all these characters um I don't know evenu makes an appearance P's in there they're all in there he ain't there the main character of the whole story is not there imagine if in Mill s oh she's not in the Milla is not in the M what happened to M this is the Kasha of the with mayat he says now this is very interesting who wrote the hag now this is not the first time I ever gave a share on the hag and I thought I found this big msah that there's like in in one of s we talk about the the author of the next week we're going to speak about the authorship of anybody know who wrote it at least six different perim and as of a week ago I only knew one okay but anyway who ain't in the why not in other words let's say a guy landed from atter space and he wanted to know what happened what are you do what are you guys doing on P so we give him he wouldn't know that there's someone called what's going on over here now the truth is it's not such a great question cuz mha isn't the I always knew this Kasha so I thought oh it's a great Kasha he is in the ha that's the question is why isn't in the answer is you didn't expect this answer the answer is he is he is in and now we could all go home have a great night get some extra sleep before P anybody know where in the he is what number now this is the most misinterpreted in the whole because most people think it means and they believed in God and they believed in M they believed in mha mha is a what you mean they believed in him m is not a God so what does it mean but that's where appears in the so let us begin with the comments of the vag in the's commentary to the hag actually this is the commentary found in the Sid on the pis on the chapter that says God took us out of Egypt what does it mean God took us out with his honor and with himself what do that mean you know somebody comes oh you came what does that mean says the commentary of the that the Revelation that hasem revealed himself inim was through M why why mha cuz mosha didn't take any covet for himself mosha lowered himself mosu was so self effacing that everything that he did he was it ain't me it ain't me it's was transparent that's why when Hashem called mha it's Moa mha Umar writes without a by Abraham God Called to him Abraham Abraham by Abraham Abraham was very humble nobody was ever as humble as Abraham but still Abraham was an entity Abraham was a he existed so therefore there was some separation between the physical Abraham and the Abraham an High m was such a non entity that he was transparent he was clear there was no he whatsoever when M performed anything it was apparent through the efforts of mha that this is the work of and what is m i just work I'm just I'm an EV M nice Mak no it's not me I'm an ID I'm just I'm just working I just work here I'm just doing the job of hem this is what it means that God did everything there was no lack of On's part there was no lack of On's part because attributed everything to directed everything to and therefore in the entire discussion of M's name is not mentioned why because we don't did not want anyone to share in the glory of and did not want any of the praise as we know therefore are you ready for the meaning of the P they believed in God and they acknowledg mosha was just a servant like everybody else that mosha was one of them in other words there was no hierarchy there's God there's mosha and there's the people that mosu made it that only and that was an evid and therefore they all sang together equally they're all exactly equal m made it that he's exactly equal to the people and this is what it means god performed the events of all the all the all the credit all the attention belonged solely to and therefore in the context of Ra's name is not mentioned because that's what attempted to accomplish that everyone should be Focus solely on the CID and the activities of without any other source of attention now we're going to talk tonight about this mid the mid ofu that made him eligible to be the go of what brings the says in and it's I have a good joke on this but I have to use it for the but why why why if you quote somebody in other words I could say over oh you want to hear a good now I heard it from some big RV somewhere it was his but I'm not going to tell you that so I'm going to say it over I'm going to say it over and uh make believe it's mine no that's that's a bad mid criticize that you need to attribute your sources why if you do you're going to bring the ask we know everything does is quid pro so why is it that if you imagine would you have thought you know of all the good things out there that bring it could have said ah somebody who has no if you quote your sources it's May why what's so special about that furthermore we know how what's the source that from Esther told hey I like you you're my husband I don't want you to die but it's not me I'm not the one who discovered the plot it's him Mori oh and we know through that sequence of events Redemption occurred says Mar who says that was the reason maybe it's because said every night maybe it's because Mor uh I don't know he he uh did every day maybe it's because Mor reviewed Mish three M today how do you know what what was the reason that BR yes Esther said it in the name of Mor and ultimately that was written in the was rewarded but who says that that brought comes andal says the main objective of God bringing is that people should recognize that is the Redeemer right because let's say it keeps on saying the whole purpose of gem is trying to demonstrate and manifest his power so if you don't recognize his power to then the whole point the G is is pointless so if the point of G is that people should recognize it's the most important Mida required to be instrumental in bringing G is the Mida of attribution meaning if you're going to help them save to save the Jewish people and people are going to say oh Esther great job we really we really appreciate what you did and as say yeah you know I've been practicing my whole life to redeem the Jewish people you I don't know how long I've been studying and how much hard work I put into it I I I really appreciate that you appreciate me then nobody's going to recognize what did so the most important M that is necessary to be worthy to be the instrument with which brings is that if anybody says to you good job you say B it ain't me I'm not doing anything it's I didn't do anything I'm just the so how do we know how can we determine what's the barometer is somebody eligible to bring Redemption to the Jewish people the mid is if you quote your sources if when you say something over you say it's not me it's them so you're basically you're not looking to take credit for something that doesn't belong to you so then if God brings Redemption you're not going to say oh yeah look what I did you're GNA say so the fact that Esther when said thank you very much he said it's not me it's him so that's the kind of person I'm looking for because if I bring G through her she's not going to say it's me she's going to Tribute it to the says Mar this answer is a very important question there are many people who say the and they quote sources and they don't bring any Redemption to nobody so says says it's not that by saying where you got something from you will bring G no guarantees it's that if you do if you have this Mida then when chooses to bring Redemption you will be a worthy candidate to be that instrument but not that in the Merit of doing that you will bring Redemption to the world so this is the maida that we see by Esther and in that to be the instrument to save CL and's name is not in the because attributed everything to and that's likely the reason why when the chose to redeem us he utilized good question I don't know so let's examine this me a little bit mosu ran away to midan and he comes to the well and uh their Seven Daughters of yro are being attacked at the well andu saves them and they come home to their dad and dad says how'd you get back here so quickly you always have problems at the well and she said now today something happened an Egyptians saved us so the med mosha was an Egyptian he was Jewish that's insulting if you call a Jew you know North Korean let's say it's insulting so why is she calling M Egyptian says the med there was a guy he got bit by a snake a scorpion ah his foot was swelling he was in such pain so he goes running into the river to bathe his foot and lo and behold there's a kid drowning and he saves the kid the kid says thank you say it's not me thank the Scorpion thank the Scorpion I didn't save you the Scorpion saved you so too killed the MIT they got into a fight mha gives them M they said who do you think you are you going to kill us also they went to tattle on mha mha ran away so who saved mha ran away he sees the doors of of Ruel being molested so mha say so she says to him thank you he says not me it's the Egyptian I killed I have a question Salomon does that even make sense did mean yeah thank the Egyptian that I murdered and buried in the sand what did the Egyptian do the Egyptian didn't do anything he was just was very nice of him to what what should she do she should go to his grave and and say a a vigil thank you thank you soul of the Egyptian for being murdered through Moses because because of you now I was saved I mean what what does that mean should somebody who is bitten somebody who is saved go thank the snake who bit the lifeguard's foot what what exactly does this medish mean says the meaning of this medish is very simple M could not understand why did God make it that he should have to kill an Egyptian and that somebody should see and he he should have to give them muser and they would say ah they would call them out they would call they would tattle on mha then mha ran away to midan he doesn't want to be in midan mha said to himself I could not understand why that happened but now I see God put me in this situation to be able to help somebody so is it because of me that I'm in Mion M said no the re used me as his vehicle and instr strument he took me from this point a he brought me to midan so I could help some I so I really didn't do anything I'm just the pawn in the hand of hemu always attributed anything he did that he's merely the conduit and the instrument and the vehicle in the hands of hem which means M had the ultimate level of the mid of didn't attribute anything to himself even though mhu risked his life to save uh these midianite girls mhu put his life in jeopardy put his life in Peril but recognized why would God put him in that situation I said I'm just Pawn in the hands of and therefore M had the mid of in the greatest possible fashion and therefore he was to be the vehicle which brought you know it's very interesting you remember the angels yob has a dream and what does he see in the dream no ladders a ladder a sulam and their Angels going up the ladder why are the Angels going up the ladder why are angels climbing a ladder I mean you ever go to a department store you ever you see Angels going up ladders you see them going down why were the Angels going up the ladder who are these angels so the ra the tus brings these angels and next question they're going up the lad how' they get down in the first place why are they starting up up first you go Angels go down and then they go up you never bothered by that question Azrael where do angels live down here in this world or in the heavens depends which one no it doesn't well you have Angels living in your house I mean you don't know Angels what the and as had angels yeah but where do they start they start thank you so they the Angels need to go down the ladder they go down the ladder why are these angels going up says the tysus these Angels were angels that already came down 138 years earlier these were the angels that were sent to destroy s but the problem is they blew it they said we're going to destroy sad God said we're going to destroy sad we're going to destroy s you're doing my job how how dare you say we're going to destroy s that's it get at it get lost you don't come back to heaven and they were banished for 138 years until the time of Yu and then in the time of Yu they W able to get up again why 138 years what do they have to do with yaku that's beyond the scope of tonight's sh but they took credit for themselves now Rashi says later by the way Rashi says even though said they said later on they said to LY get out of here run away we can't do anything until you go there Rashi says that was their punishment they had to be M against their will they have no power okay that's the story wasn't the that one that supped destroy but the two of them they they were partners in crime because the angel that was going to rescue Lloyd also went to S okay says the Alor of K he says he cannot make heads or tails on these words of kazal the Angels took credit for themselves what did they say look at number 10 we're going to destroy oh they took credit for themselves you want to try reading the next words God sent us to destroy it they didn't take credit they said we're hired God sent us yeah they said we we we're going to destroy but they explained God sent us God sent us so how do they take credit it's one thing if they would have said like after the fact you know let's say they would have said we're going to destroy s and then in the credits afterwards they write in fine print by the way really it's not us it's God in the three words later they said God sent us this is the Kasha the alar of c and the AL of he says he's these words of and then something happened to him he was reading the of the and the Begins by saying that if you ever read the he starts off saying most of what I say comes from the most of what I say already is written in the meaning it's not my stuff I got it from here from the Ram from other says the the alar of why did the need to immediately he he you start the sa everything I got is from the words of I mean you could say maybe at the end of the intro in the middle of the intro in the beginning the first thing the says is everything in this book I already got from theim says I waspo from the of the because he didn't want anyone to hear let's say something like this you say over right they say oh you want to hear a good answer say and you give a whole answer and after like five minutes and people oh so says so like you sort of let the cat out of the bag halfway through it's Ran So for a few minutes people thought this was your brilliant answer now you're going to say it's not yours you're going to say it's somebody else's but what if you don't say it right away so then for a few moments you give the impression that you know you came up with this great eina with this great uh brilliant stroke of Genius so did not want to give an impression even for a millisecond that these are his own original novel ideas so he said immediately before he says he says by the way everything in this book came from earlier authorities oh and says alar of kman now I understand why the malim were punished cuz yes they said God sent us but they said it three words later but when they started they said we're going to destroy so for a split second they made it sound like they have power and even though they corrected it immediately but for their holy level they took away they dimmed the glimmer of power that would have been recognized if they would have said Hashem is destroying and because they dampened the appreciation of the power of hem for a millisecond they were punished so where did the learn that when you're saying something over you should attribute it immediately and not even let a person have the impression that it's your own learned it from the that criticized the says Salomon please read inside the words of the alter of C the depth and the Simplicity how he was moved and astonished and and and aroused from how the immediately lets on that everything he got came from the earlier now you ever hear ofu Didu ever go to no why not the rock story The Rock so some say he hit the rock the rush says not there's nothing wrong he tried to speak to the Rock didn't go so he hit the rack nothing wrong with hitting the rack so what did he do wrong remember says how do you spell the word no not in the it's spelled where did the go so the rush say like this you know was punished and he didn't go into is because he said h you think we could get you think from this rock we will get water out for you we will get water no we will get water what did he mean we me Arin and God now did did he mean him no he means our team team God you know we I'll tell God what you need and I'll be right back and he'll give it to you he didn't mean he didn't mean him he meant God but he said we what should he have said y he now when that miracle happened did anybody think that MOA did it everybody knew God did it but as ra Salon explains the brilliant appreciation the light of recognition of hashem's power was dimmed ever so slightly when m said no we will do it he should have said Yi so he left out a y oh you left out a y you're of without a y you lost the Y that's what the rush says two different Rush one that the reason why spelled now was there ever anyone in history who had the Mida of attribution greater than Misha no there was never anyone in history who excelled in being a non- entity relative that's why he took his out of Egypt AR couldn't have taken us out of Egypt nobody else could have because nobody else was so self-effacing that M said you know I wonder if when said wipe me out of the book nobody says wi me take me out of the but is not even because he wanted to attribute everything to somebody said thank you no don't thank me thank the person I murdered meaning it's I'm just you know I just work care but even he slipped off ever so slightly in this indion itself and he wasn't to go into so at this step of the Shi I would ask why is Mos not in the so it's because it's not a gai forha it's his great cuu directed all attention and all acknowledgement and all recogn here's another angle in the very similar almost identical but I think there's another a Nuance of difference Asel do you like kanuk no really why really okay we'll have to discuss it after the sh but most people like it Israel okay say there's a very unusual word in Al you know the entire and all the is written Ines there's one word in Alan that mysteriously is an Aramaic poran is Aramaic what in the world is an Aramaic word doing in this is the question of so they should have said I don't know what does porun mean G Yeshua what's an Aramaic word doing in lived in in the whole Israel you ever he of Israel asrael no sound like it yeah it's in the Middle East they speak they speak Kesh over there speak Aramaic they don't n when theas were written they spoke Kesh what in the world is poran doing in says por is a very important word how would you translate it Ines P oh we can't use that word can't say that word because we know Kan came about through came about through Mor and we have a principle that gah is only associated with God Almighty only Witham there cannot be any human connection to G we say and if you say there's only one Redeemer when it comes to Redemption when it comes to other things anyone could do that the matter says God's the only so you're going to thank you're not able to say you're not GNA be able to say you want to say you can't say G and people don't go together when it comes to g g belongs solely to God the entire Mitzvah of there's no Mitzvah to say the story you're saying over the events of G what's the we make you know there's a big Kasha we're going talk about on chabas the main midst of the night of the there is what why don't we make a most say we do the is so we're talking about so you want to know why M's name is not in the he can't be in the that's the principle of Salvation the same way when we talk about we talk about this is different than ra I think it's a little bit uh a little Nuance of difference the same way when we say you can't say G so in the when you say G you can't say m so why is the oh but you'll ask but we do say m but we're what PK do we use that's why we da pick yeah we don't want to leave M out all together that's how I would say we're not going to leave him at all together you know the one PK we say and what's that's the one p you could say that that is definitely a in the but what does that have to do with okay I thought so okay but onel we're going to say that we're going to Lan that I bet you Lan what huh I'll L it you're going to lean it okay very good so we're talking tonight about the brings in his explanation of anos that there were many great people in history because they took credit for themselves they lost um they lost good things by the way the gar asks majority of sa was was written by but we don't call it we call it Ezra why don't we call it says because took credit for himself he lost the name of the sa now asks this is just a side point but nowadays we do call it Ezra so why did Ezra get it why did get it back so says you ready for this Ezra wasar wasal ra G took credit for himself from G was very tough and that's why ra gam was demoted The Same Way NE was demoted but then ra asked for forgiveness and was reinstated and once ra got his kapar so then got a kapar so later on in history even though the gamar say we called sa for Ezra later on in history because of the made a comeback and we have an interesting on that because if you look in how many times did say give me credit three times how many times in Shel was he overbearing over Rua three times and there are other similarities as well one of them is Ramel dealt with the issue of and if you look and say so did okay but we we're left with one question over here and that ISU is self effacing he says it's all the lord it's all the ream it's not me by the way it's amazing par calls Y and he says oh y I hear you know how to interpret a dream what's the first thing y says he didn't interpret the dream and then said wow how' you do that no that would be violating the principle we learned from the who learned from the that you can't even give the impression for a moment that it's yours you know oh you want to hear a great answer you say yeah who says that I say what's wrong I quoted yeah but you know the person for a second thought you could actually think of something on your you need to say immediately actually I can't think of anything on my own but here's the million question he gives all the credit to so let's look how the Torah ends how does it and ah all the signs wonders Miracles strong and and the mo thata did wow talk about the grand finale of the Torah is everything in this book you know who did ITA did it so that contradicts everything we learned tonight and says and that's because we have no idea how to read a simple in what does the worda mean doesn't mean here went to get the cow the C AB made the cow he went to the cow Factory and he made a cow or made the people he made them AB had a had a conveyor belt and he was making people the word Assa in Hebrew does not mean to make what does it mean it means it means to prepare this says that Abraham prepared the people that Abraham prepared them you make shabas you created chabas you're you're the almighty you made chabas you prepared for the word means say the Torah ends exactly with this point you want to know who mha is tell you whoa is all the signs all the Wonders that God sent in Egypt the mighty hand MOA prepared CLA Israel to appreciate it that's who M was says he prepared them and therefore Solomon says that the reason why M's name is not in the ha we're not being an ingr TOA it's not that he's not the main character no that's precisely why he's the main character because he attributed everything to he didn't take any credit for himself he was the ultimate maybe he was the ultimate vehicle to bring about G just like Esther brought about G because she was had this m now we understand By the Way Soo he's in uh he kills the MIT and then T says okay time out let's take a commercial for like 60 years now I'm going to tell you a story here the Jews are wallowing languishing in Egypt we're waiting for them to get out mha goes to midan he's spering around the well he meets some midianite ladies they're being attacked Misha saves them he smoes with his father-in-law the priest back to the story what do we need this commercial for why is there a commercial on par we have like the Side Story the Jews are being we start off they're being beat they're being massacred they're being destroyed they're crying out okay time out m is going to go hang out by a well in midan okay now now he's back no the Jews are wallowing they're languishing who's going to do the job who's going to take them out we can't get anybody we need someone to prove themselves that that they should be a worthy vehicle to Mula so so how do how could we know who's going to be a worthy vehicle only someone in their private life who when asked in a question in a private way thank you for saving me we'll say no no it's not me it was ream oh okay get back to Egypt you're the guy you're the man let's bring you back nowu is ready to be the go is and therefore mhu his name is not in the that's the ultimate and even though he's there once but as we explained the one time he appears it's th that Mo has worked hard that everyone should recognize that he is on a Le Level Playing Field with they them and therefore they could all sing together and we added the idea based on r salek that in the context of the book of G we cannot have attribution to B so it's really like opposite angles ra Salomon is saying that for the of's greatest Accolade was that he took him himself out of the picture and he was so self effacing said all the attention is on Hashem and another way to look at it is since the is recognizing hashem's G in such a context we cannot focus on anybody other than himself okay again thank you everybody for coming you could join us an hour before in the Holy moving vehicles on Peninsula and Oakland Avenue three trailers they're held together by three strings and uh hem um see you next Wednesday night we have really good stuff on the wishing everyone a wonderful you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com