Beshalach (5786) When a Jew Must Take Up Arms

Shalom and welcome back to our paras. We find that when is leaving at the beginning of our para the Torah describes them as left in a way that they were says Rashi what does it mean? Rashi says it meant that they left arm they were holding weapons and they were ready to fight a battle. Rashi explains that since the since didn't take them through the inhabited land but rather through the desert they needed weapons to go ahead and to fight off any enemies in the hey I don't understand is not the go ahead and is given as a that you're going to live by the sword is the that's given to not to why do we find that Especially at the moment that they're leaving Mitzim. This is the moment that they become solidified as a nation as the amigula. They're on their way to Matan Tyra and Davk over here we find that needs to leave with arms. They're surrounded by they have no worry at all about any enemies attacking them. And the go and the simple rashi the second means only one fifth left but the simple rashi is that are left with arms. They're left with weapons. Why? And the is the which is given to why you leave specifically with the of the weapons the of being armed says that what took place was that since left that what got was the ability to not only have their but is able to go ahead and be I'll say If a person he could be to his own and of his friend of in not only to their own of which is how they got out of is through the call of the and the call of the terror of but by leaving is also able to be was also able to get the weapons of and therefore when leaves mit they don't only leave with their own they don't only leave with but they leave as well with the they leave with the weapons that are there in the hands of as says the why exactly would need this what does need of weapons for says in the year we're not talking about physical weapons we're not talking about fighting a physical battle with physical weapons against physical enemies in the desert rather we're talking about the way that is capable of standing up to the the med and our par brings down that calls his dove that's hidden in the cleft of Iraq. It shouldn't say my dove is rather says that acts like a lion acts like a wild animal acts like an animal that's ready to attack and to fight off and defend off any enemies when it comes to the as we find that the are compared to various animals is the don is compared to and is compared to animals When it comes to the when the and the nations of the world are going out and attacking us, we don't act like a meek dove. We don't act like a simple dove just sitting there and saying, "Okay, if they're attacking us, there's nothing we can do." When the nations of the world are spiritually attacking us, says the medish, we go ahead and we stand up to the nations of the world in a way like a we stand up like a lion and we're ready to fight the battle. done is the ready to fight the battle and not to take the not to take the suffering and not to take the spiritual the spiritual gulos that the are putting in putting us in. But when it comes to the then we're like a timid dove ready to follow the says this that means that the of being able to go ahead and fight the that took wasn't simply to fight physical battles but took that from as the ability to on the one hand of means that we're ready to go ahead and ourselves 100% to give ourselves up like a dove following's path But at the same time, we were able to go ahead and to take the weapons out of Mit to be ready to fight the battles against any of the nations of the world that are going to go ahead and try to tempt us to go ahead and to follow them as the says to what do you want from Shabas? What do you want from Shabas? Why are you so busy with Shabas? Why you going out and circumcising your children? They're trying to go out and to stop you. from doing mitzvah is connecting fights like an animal against the says we are not going to give in. We're not going to give one inch of our territory to the but ready to fight like a lion who's ready to fight off any attackers on on his or her prey is able to stand up like a to be able to stand up like the proper lion to take this mid and to be able to use it in the proper way as writes in a person needs to use all of the form to use the of a nemer of a leopard to be able to go ahead to serve the even though these areas that are generally not our we're generally of the but when it comes to the are ready to go ahead and to fight therefore says the therefore we took this from the we took the of we took the of fighting the from when we left we left in order to be able to go ahead and to be able to fight back against any one of the nations of the world that are going to stop us from getting to our destination of says when finally got to they were able to get to a greater level now is able to go ahead and do what we're really created to do. We're not created to fight off the it's a necessary tactic that's necessary at times to go ahead and to act like an area to act like a lion or zev like a wolf to go ahead and to fight off the to take that and to fight not to take anything that they're going to go ahead and try to seduce us and convince us to go off to even for one moment not to go ahead and to listen to them to stand up like a lion to them but that's not who we are who are we really the way that way describes us in dove ready to go ahead and to follow says when we came to said is going to fight your battles. Your job is now just to go talk to let them travel. Let them go ahead and like says let them call out and call out to let them go ahead and walk into the let them go ahead and attach themselves to what they're really created to do. And if the is necessary at times, but we want to rise above that. We don't want to be involved in the and fighting off the at every moment want to be involved in the process of fight for us and we can just go ahead and be silent with the silence of the is our this is what the writes both in and earlier in Islam. This is the of on the one hand, who are we? We are call. But at the same time, we recognize that if we're too timid and we go ahead and we're just call and we're not able to stand up for what we believe in. We're not able to stand up for our principles that we're going to end up getting taken. And therefore, it's necessary at times. It's necessary at times to walk around with a stick, to walk around with a gun, to walk around with a sword, not a physical one, but to walk around with a spiritual weapons, to be able to go ahead and to fight against to fight against anybody who's going to tell us what do you need Shabas for? What do you need me for? What do you need turn for? We say we are not going to listen. We're going to stand up like a lion who knows what who knows what he's there for, who has principles, is able to stand up for his principles. Able to stand up. Once we're able to go ahead and fight off the then we can go ahead will take care of all the enemies is what's going to get wiped out when it comes to then we're going to be able to get to this higher place the place that we don't have to go ahead and fight says these are the two names of Jacu is when he's fighting when his holding on he's grabbing on to the heel of fighting as saying I'm going to fight you I'm going to go ahead and physically and spiritually fight the war that is going ahead and waging against that's the higher than that is just following the to everything the ability to be able to go ahead and not need to fight not need to go ahead and get involved in this is our one hand to recognize that in golas it's necessary to stand up strong for what we believe in not to be timid but to go ahead and to be proud of what we believe even not to be shaken by any of the ideologies of the outside world, but to go ahead and walk around with the spiritual weapons that we need to go ahead and to fight off, but also to recognize that that's not really who we are. who we are as a people who are peaceful people a people's timid and that's a real bish is to get to a place of serenity a place of and that's our should that were when necessary to fight off the and to fight him off like a lion fighting off a predator fighting off somebody who's trying to go ahead and take one of her cubs but at the same time to recognize that although that's necessary now we dive for a time in our lives, for a time in all of the world's life, the world's history when we're able to get to the place of Mia, the place of the place where the will take care. Have a great chabas.