Shemos: The Strength to Change Your Mind

Welcome philosophy and thank you for joining us. I'm very excited about this week. I've waited to say this rock for forever. Such a good rock. Really very brilliant and innovative. The one you never heard before. From anybody. The the we learn about the common ones and and so So the one says over there about the common that's love I think that's that's love of the base. And because I am that the one talks about it's talking about the different animals that are massive that do damage. This is a lion pounces on a smaller animal. And the one the one trying to figure out from Sukkot what the lion's cover was was it simply to just harm the other animal to destroy it to damage it or was it to eat it? So the one says really it was planning not to eat it cuz she knew changed its mind. The after. What does that mean Christian in the world of the lion changes his mind? How do you know if a lion changes his mind? Why why is the one going into the world of the lion? What it's telling you was it was not going to was as if we're talking to a human being who has some kind of logical process of thinking. So my rabbi just pointed out that the word Nimrod Nimrod means to change your mind is the service of Malachi. A Malachi is somebody who's able to change his mind. He's not beholden. He's not hostage. He's not prisoner. He's not a servant to his previous thinking. The strength to change your mind is Malachi. Nimrod so it says I read the Malachi the lion the strength of the lion is its ability to change his mind. That's what he said. So my rabbi said a beautiful thing with that. He said the actually means later on in Parshat Beshalach that when Moshe Rabbeinu told the people to turn around by the coming to the Yam Suf they said what do you mean we're going right back into the hands of our enemies? Moshe said to do it ain't no other way than Amram. We're going to listen to Ben Amram. We have no none of our own our own logic our own reason our own calculations all out the window. We listen to Ben Amram. So my rabbi said what why are Ben Amram? Why do they call him Ben Amram there? Why not Moshe Rabbeinu? Where do we find out they call him Ben Amram? Ain't no other way than Amram. So my rabbi said who is Amram? Moshe Rabbeinu's father. How did Moshe Rabbeinu come into the world? Amram was Parshat Mishpatim. He separated from his wife cuz he didn't want to have a son that would get killed. Miriam his daughter came to him and she told him what Parshat Mishpatim taught him. You're making a mistake because you don't know if you're going to have a boy. It's not right. So Amram said you know what? What he said is good. My daughter she's saying cuz she's saying good so he changed his mind. And he got together with his wife again and they had Moshe Rabbeinu. An act of Malachi Nimrod the ability to change your mind not to be beholden to your previous thinking that Amram exhibited in that moment resulted in what? Moshe Rabbeinu the king of the Jews the the Malachi that came out of that decision that it was Nimrod. Amram's ability to change his mind led to the birth of Moshe Rabbeinu. Ain't no other way than Amram. The after this is the son of Amram. This kind of that the kind of we also have that kind of the kind of to turn back. We we thought one way Moshe is another way. The kind of Amram that's the kind of Malachi. Easy is it like every giver carry? Carry is easy to say is really that thing the strength of a lion to change your mind. I really want to do this. My soul is pulling me and I say no no no. I'm strong with it. That's me that's a Malachi. That's me that's an I read. Nimrod to go back on what you thought. So I I told this over to my friend to the maybe the most famous one of the most famous composers in class of history certainly certainly in the hall of fame Rabbi Green um who was a linguist which is explains a lot about the depth of his compositions. He is a tremendous a big affinity for languages philosophy and the depth of philosophy. So I told him this word from my rabbi about Nimrod cuz he told me back the word Nimrod is spelled nun mem lamed kaf. Nun lamed kaf lamed mem nun order. Nimrod is four letters in a row backwards. The kind of Nimrod is that I went one way and now I'm going backwards. That's the the kind of Malachi the kind of Ben Amram.