Vaeira 5786

So paras bo uh we begin with the makus and and uh there's a lot to talk about each and every maka. So today we're going to concentrate on Makkah's de says goes ahead as he does throughout these makers tells you Benam said to me sent me to tell you that let the Jewish people go and so they can go ahead and serve Because if you refuse and you insist on holding on to them, the hand of God is going to go ahead and smite all the cattle, horses, donkeys, camels, bab and cows and sheep a terrible pestilence. And then adds And that this is not just a natural plague because in where Claws lives in the earth which is right next to Mitraim not one animal will die. So here you have a whole country that the cattle and the animals are dropping dead and in Gosh the land of the Jews not one thing happens. So the P continues the next day it happens and all the Egyptian cattle diesel just predicted all the Egyptian animal will will die not one Jews. So, one would think that Pyro should say, "Listen, I'm dealing over here with a supernatural force. Um, this is not normal, not natural, and therefore I better get give in before it gets worse." says the so the pix says par goes out and checks it out and not one Jew not one animal of the Jews died and this hardened parro's heart and therefore he did not send the people go. That puss doesn't make any logical sense. He saw exactly what happened. All of his stuff died. None of the Jews died. One would think, okay, uh, you know, I'm dealing over here with a force beyond my power. But since I saw that the Jews still had cattle, he became hardened. They say on the face of it doesn't make any sense because there were there was cattle still for the Jews just like Moshe predicted therefore he became hardened and refused to send the people. The answer over here I think is that you see a such a phenomenon by rashy by evil people whether it's parro or whether it's uh you know other the the wicked kings of of of the Jews eventually and of all nations of the world that that they just don't get it and they are very very shortsighted. I don't know exactly the terminology to go ahead and uh to explain this type of behavior whether it is a uh you only live for the here and now um eat and be merry for tomorrow you may die or that you you don't want to see beside beyond your nose but this is the way these are way act which means is to say that if they have some kind of exit ramp, they can get out of the situation. So, okay, I'm all right. You know, I can live with this. And what Par was saying is, okay, there's no more cattle. There's no more horses, donkeys, anything. But guess what? I have a way out because the Jews have cattle. And therefore, if I want to have steak for dinner tonight, I'll just go to the the Gan and get a a a cow or a sheep from from the Jews and I'm all right. I Your whole country is suffering. God's word came through to the to the nth degree. So, but but I'm all right. So I I don't know exactly how to explain this type of thinking, but what it is, it's it's as long as I'm all right, nothing else matters. And the truth of the matter is you see the same thing by Asov. You know there's a strange pik in the safer braces when uh the pik says by the by the bra the pik says mikay is ki when convinces to go ahead and to to sell thera. So he says to him, he says that word in there is difficult to translate. What does it mean in just to say send me the sell me the what's the word? The sora says over here a very important vert. time because you are a today person. All you're interested is in today. [snorts] What will be tomorrow? I'll worry about that tomorrow. All you care about is today. Today I'm hungry. Today I'm starving. Therefore, I'm going to go ahead and sell something that is eternal, that is of eternal value, the but that doesn't appeal to me now. I'm hungry. I need to eat because that's the type of person is. That's the type of people person is. That's the type of people that Rashim are. They're only interested in the here and now. You know, al further on, I mean, not further on before in the para when it comes to makarta the frogs. There's also an interesting anomaly that you find by the frogs that not by the other mas. The frogs come. Pirates can't stand it anymore. Get rid of the frogs. Take care of the frog. Get rid of take away the frogs. Can't stand the frogs. So, and so it happens that the the all the frogs die. So, the pik says, "What is reaction to that? What does that mean from the word? There was room. There was an escape. What is he referring to? The the frogs came. They were everywhere in Egypt. What's so writes over there and he says this expression and parro saw that there was there was there was space. This does not happen by any of the other. So what is that about? says the clea because by the all the other makas when the maka stopped the maka stopped when the bor stopped it stopped when the dra stopped it stopped you know the maka was over okay when the kishik stopped it stopped but with the frogs even when it stopped it really didn't stop because you had tens of Millions of frogs all over the place sitting there and rotting. Now you can imagine the stench that that caused. So here, even though the maka was over, but it wasn't fully over because the people were still suffering. How do we get rid of the stench? We have to bury this the the frogs, burn them. And it was it was in intolerable. You can't stand the smell. So what does power say? Everybody was suffering except parro. You know why? Because in the land of the Jews there were no frogs, therefore no dead frogs, therefore no stench. So guess what? I'll spend a few days in Gan. I can get out of it. I can wiggle out of this. I have to leave my palace, etc., etc., but I can I can handle it. Not, but certainly a bitty evit. And therefore, there's wiggle room. I don't have to surrender. That's good enough for me. That's his attitude. And therefore, by de I'm not going to have any meat to eat. No problem. I can go to the Jews and get meat from them. And I have a way out. And that's all I'm interested in. I'm interested for the here and now. And that is a personality trait of all these rash. If I can live for today, I don't have to worry about tomorrow. For the here and now, I'm all right. That's sufficient. That defines many of the rishoim that we have throughout history.