Beshalach - Forcing Redemption

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with hashem's never- ending assistance in rap Israel 5785 2025 this week's par par B it's an exciting moment for the Jewish people it's the moment of redemption parro after being cajoled and begged over and over again let my people go and after being struck with 10 really debilitating plagues causing massive destruction to the Egyptian people finally when the first borns die including his own firstborn par says get out of here and they push out the Jewish people says and it was when parro was sending out the Jewish people and you know when we read this P we have to ask to ourselves well you know it's kind of funny if let's say I let's say I uh let's say somebody let's not say I let's say somebody has an experience where they're robbed by a gunpoint and and uh the robber says give me your money or your life so would we say that the person gave his money to the robber or you know it's kind of unwilling it's not really exactly being done with the person's desire but the PK says that it was when parro sent out the Jewish people I mean I mean he was coerced he was forced so is this called that he sent them out I'd like to share with you a medish the First medes on this week's para and the mes points out three different points in time where we see that either parro or Kings were forced to give up something that they wanted let's read this together in mishle 26:3 says that if you have a horse and you want the horse to move you need a sh a sh is a a stick to hit it with and when it comes to a mule or a donkey so you need RS you have a bit inside of its mouth you have the strings attached to it you pull back on the RS in order to prevent it from going in a Direction you don't want it to go says the me when we speak about a stick that's used to strike a horse in order to get it to go in the direction you want it to go this is a reference to the first parro parro Harish means the the Pharaoh that we had all the way back in braus when AR and sah came down to Egypt and parro takes the beautiful woman thinking that it's his sister and what does Hashem do to prevent him from actually consummating the quote marriage tells us that gave he gave blemishes and as the explained the blemishes and the physical discomfort that the that they had was in the private areas of that person so that he would get the message that he shouldn't or he couldn't be involved with another man's wife so who smacks the horse in order to get parro so to speak to release s so as a side point the measure says why is it referred to as the wife of Abraham because there was her her Merit the her sidus her righteousness that caused her to be saved in a miraculous way and there was also the righteousness of ab himself she was the wife of ab there were two people here who had a who had a merit that enabled them to be able to be freed for to actually intervene in nature and the end result was this is an important Point although in the magish itself it seems to be not so relevant it seems to be a side point but I think it's very important for us to understand the parallels between what happened there with Sarah and Amel as a whole sah emanel let's understand and recognize SAR was the beginning of am she was the mother the aim so she contains within her all of the potential for what's going happen in the future right as we find that which happens to the forefathers they are the root of who their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren are so we need to understand what happened to to her and Aram and how it reflects itself in what happens later to am is but the but the me says that as a result of this challenge that they went through Pharaoh perhaps felt like he had to apologize or to to make good on the mistakes that he made so he gave aam and Sarah a tremendous amount of wealth soar sheep cattle money Etc now so that's the first one the first case was parro and S but there's a second instance which is very interesting as well and again we need to watch what happens here because we need to try to understand what's going on with our current para the para of Amel where par does not want to let them lead but leave but ultimately allows them to leave there there's a difference between using a stick to force an animal to go in the direction you'd like it to go as opposed to using RS to hold it back so the second thing that's described in the Mish is that a a donkey you have a ren you have a m RS this parallels what happens with right in in Braes so she had two instances where she was abducted first by parro by pharaoh and by AI so what happens with AI it's a little bit of a different story did not actually strike in a positive way give some kind of blemishes on the body of a to prevent him from consummating a marriage with someone who is already married but rather Hashem was he held back their ability to give birth all of those who were in The Proximity of a the members of his household there were women there who who were either about to give birth or were already in the process of giving birth but everything stopped all of their ability to con to to bring babies into the world was arrested right there was a holding back that was the symbol that hasm gave to a in order to indicate that he's playing around with something that he shouldn't play around with so then went and he said about himself he praised himself and he said I did this with the with the Simplicity of my heart I did it I was I didn't do anything wrong by taking her meaning he he claimed look he told me that it's his sister so I didn't know that it was his wife did nothing wrong but hasem says in response I prevented you from sinning to me it wasn't that you were such a sadic you were such a righteous individual you did everything right I stopped you from sinning and as I believe it's himself says that's the first thing that you ask when someone comes into this to to your country who's this woman it's a guy's wife you're threatening the guy what is this comparable to says the Mages to a donkey that a person was riding on now the donkey's walking along in the market and there's a child a baby playing on the floor and as the donkey gets to the baby the the donkey jumps over the baby and nothing happens the baby is safe everyone starts praising the wow what an amazing donkey it's so intelligent it doesn't want to cause any damage wow it's just absolutely unbelievable it's the guy who's sitting on the back of the donkey says to them I promise you shall if I hadn't pulled back on the rains the donkey would have caused damage to that child that's exactly what happened with people said oh he's such a good guy he didn't he didn't do anything to to cause damage to Sarah he didn't actually marry her consummate the marriage says hold your horses here moment literally he wanted to but I didn't let him I was the rider on the donkey preventing him I'm the one who held him back God says Hashem does not allow the wicked one to to fully perpetrate the wickedness he wants to perpetrate that's why the says in reference to the concept of the the mess the reins that hold back okay so we have these two people wanted to do something wrong they didn't do it one was struck that was parro and one was held back with the reins that was a and I want to point out and we need to think about this as we think about am Israel the Jewish people in Egypt and what was the whole idea what were they there for what was the purpose of the of this time that they spent there what did parro gain from them in order to understand that we need to look at the parallels that the medish is drawing between the Jewish people that's what we're about to see and sah IMU being taken by parro and by taken by a why is the T even tell us the story why is it so important for us to know about this abduction it's a very strange thing and when we understand this we can start to understand also what's going on Even in our times where unfortunately we've seen these abductions we can understand in concept what does it mean what is what is the what is the attempt what does it signify and what are we to learn from it what is the idea between that what is the idea behind the releasing of those who are deducted what is the idea behind what does that teach us what is what is the supposed to be the end result of that so the Mish goes on to the third thing that's mentioned in the P Mish and shows us how it parallels the Jewish people being released from Egypt the the a stick a shet it ends up in the lapse or I don't know exactly how to translate the word leev but the the fools end up struck a fool ends up being stricken right a person who the the the the parent walks in and says if you don't listen to my instructions you're going to end up alone in your room you're going to be punished you're going to be grounded for a week whatever the foolish child doesn't listen to the parents and ends up being punished who's that that's say and Egyptians when when they experienced the plagues which obviously did not come for their benefit came for the Jewish people's benefit but they were ready and willing to do something which they didn't want to to do which was to let the Jewish people out as the says that sent them out so I want to first point out that just like with when he let them out the me doesn't say this but I think the me is implying this just like with a when he let and claimed oh I let them out I let her out so par also P says he sent he sent out the Jewish people but really who is the one that sent them outes is the one who forced parro's hand forced him to release the Jewish people he he sent them out but really it was because struck him he was a fool he kept he kept being obstinate in the face of all of the the plagues and he didn't stop he didn't step back now there's a lot of beautiful things in this it's a very long medish not going to read everything here but I'd like to read to you one more part just cuz it's so pretty it's so beautiful sometimes you read a mish and the and the the the mush the mush the analogy of the Mish is just so beautiful listen to this in regards to the fact no I'm sorry is going back on previous thing what is Pharaoh comparable to what's the analogy that we can compare parro to when it comes to the way that he he was really he was asking for punishment he was asking for punishment Hashem says let them go he says no and he gets he gets punished over and over again says the mush is like this there was one Shepherd who was a Shepherd not of sheep but he was a shepherd of pigs what a great mush this is parro is The Shepherd of pigs such a great one so there was amongst these pigs there was one single [Music] sheep so the owner of the Sheep said what are you doing with my sheep amongst your pig herd give me back my sheep the owner the owner of the sheep of the I'm sorry the owner of the pig herd says back I don't know what you're talking about I don't have any sheep of yours this is my [Music] sheep so this guy was serious the owner of the sheep wanted his sheep back he he started to do some research and find out where this guy goes to bring his pigs in order to give them what to drink he he gathered intelligence and he went to the place where this guy would bring his pigs to drink and he closed up the wells the source of the water and he said let my sheep go give me back my sheep they said again I don't know what you're talking about I don't have any sheep of yours so then it starts to get more serious the owner of the sheep is like I got to find out where exactly he brings his animals to rest so he went there and he destroyed all of the the tents and the and the the booths that they would make for the animals in order to have them protected from the elements and he said let my sheep out Bring let me have back my sheep he said again I don't have any sheep of yours you know it's like think about like why is he so obstinate the owner of the the pigs like let the Sheep go out so the owner of the sheep says I got to find out where exactly he Shepherds his sheeps where he brings I'm sorry he Shepherds his pigs where does he bring them in order to give G him pasture so he found out and he went and he burned all of the area all of the grass that they would that they would go to to eat all the pigs again he said give me my sheep he said I don't know what you're talking about so he says I want to know where this guy's kid goes to school and he kidnapped the child he said give me my sheep finally he says okay here's your sheep he gives in by takes his firstborn son he was continuing and then I'm not sure exactly what this means it sounds like he hid it by his son or so so he got got got to the Son and the son's like why are you still keeping me here let me go back to my father you have your you have your sheep now so the owner of the sheep says no no no I'm not giving you back your son yet because you still need to give me as long as my sheep sheep was in your possession you got all of its giz you got all the shearings from the Sheep you got all of the milk from the Sheep you got all of the benefits I need you to pay me back all that I lost as a result of it being in your possession you need to give me back all the back pay he starts screaming and saying hey what do you mean you're going to charge me for all that Stu I wish I never I shouldn't have given it back to you so why did he give it back he had no choice he would have killed his son and but in the end all once you admitted it it's your problem you admitted that this is his sheep and now you got to pay for everything that's the back pay that's the back [Music] pay okay so it's a it's kind of another you know another level of understanding or we could think a lot about what it teaches us the pigs that's the the Egyptians are the pigs they're the low class human beings let's say Idol idolators idol worshippers and we understand pigs don't give out any gizis right let's look at the contrast pigs don't have any shearings they don't have any wool so we understand that that uh the pig farmer wants the Sheep he has benefits from it what is it teaching us this is what I think it's teaching us and I think it's very powerful why does parro still abduct s what is the T teaching us with the story what why does it just like telling us a scary story like why is it telling us this story with a and parro and I think that what it's teaching us the whole thing centers around the the power of am Israel [Music] the future of amist who is Amel who is aru he's the future of the world he's the future leader of the world am Israel is meant to be the ones who teach the world about God that's what Aram did that's what Sarah did when paru abducts SAR when a abducts sar what he's really doing is he saying I want the power s represents the future she's the one who's going to have the child it's going to be a y who's going to be the future of am Isel they're saying I want the power I want the future I want the leadership of the world that's really what's going on beneath the surface when parro when the Jewish people are slaves to parro in Egypt for 400 years or 210 years and really by the way it starts back with y's birth right so it's really start starts the story with a is the same moment it's right before Y is born but the the there's a sub a subduing of the K of the power of the future of the leadership of the spiritual leadership of the world that's what's going on in the story of aam and a and that's what's going on in the story of the slavery of the Jewish people in Egypt what's really going on is that the Egyptians want the giz they want all the talent of the Jewish people the Jewish people were the ones who built these incredible engineering Feats called the pyramids unbelievable the Jewish people were the ones and I heard this actually from my R rakov they were the ones who had the talent they were the ones who had the know the knowhow we were BR we're brilliant today God gave us incredible intelligence in high-tech in Tyra of course which is the real high-tech in all these areas the nations of the world want to harness the power of the Jewish people for their for their purposes the Jewish people are amazing at protecting themselves iron domes we want to take that and create an Iron Dome for ourselves says the leader of the of the uh United States of America they want to take the the gizis and that's what happens in gullas that's what happens in Exile the Jewish people their power is taken away is harnessed by the nation which in which they find themselves and there's an incredible danger there's an incredible danger that we lose that we get lost amongst the pigs that we think of oursel as a pig but they know that we're different they know that we have this the Sheep's the sheep's wool that they're going to try to take they're going to try to benefit from and they're going to try to make all the money off of they're going to try to make all the money off of us they're going to enslave us and subdue us and take our power but AES who says he's the he's the shepherd and he says I want my sheep I want my sheep back I want the Jewish people to live in Isel I want them to use their power to serve me I want them to learn Tyra I wanted to be a light unto the Nations not just in Hightech I wanted to be a light unto the nations in spiritual Hightech I want them to teach the world about balance about serving Hashem not as the Muslims do out of complete fear of God's Wrath and not as the Christians do thinking that everything is just love but in Balance that's the spiritual High te and that's the BD that's what the temple is it's a place place where we come and we ask God for forgiveness but it's also the place where this the it's the place where the the Sanhedrin the high court of the Jewish people sits and guides us with strict Justice it's place of love and forgiveness and it's a place of Justice am Isel has that spiritual High Tech and the result is throughout our go that we've been hijacked and parro wants I'm and once to keep am doesn't want to let them go doesn't want to let go of our power doesn't want to let go of our talent but says no their talent is for me I want my sheep back and I'm going to keep smacking you until you let him go and going and I'm going to keep creating situations in the world that will remind my people where they belong and encourage them to return sometimes very difficult situations that cause us to be exiled from wherever we were so that we could return from exile to Isel and sometimes K gives us the opportunity and the question is if we take it but ultimately we need to know that as long as we're in gullas our power is being hijacked yeah they want the Jared kushners to and his father to be the people who are using their power for the government yeah they want the Noah deers I mention that because he's my cousin he was a judge state of New York very powerful person passed away during Corona they want our power they want us to serve them but really the point of The Exodus the point of is to take us out so we should serve Hashem on this mountain that's say the power from the first moment they're not they can't serve you they're meant to serve Hashem they're meant to bring Corban meant to to to show that God is their Master not you and as much as you continue and you say and you uh reiterate that they're yours K is not interested in what you have to say he wants his people back he wants is people who are supposed to reflect his divine presence in the world Hashem is not interested in letting you keep their power hasem wants that power of am Israel to be used to reveal his power in the world that's what's going on here that's the hijacking and a forcing the nations of the world to Let It Go Paras Iran Iran wants to say that they're the ones who reflect the light of hem in the world they want to destroy us says sorry we're going to give you some macas we're going to give you some plagues it might look like beepers it might look like your president dying on an airplane it might look like the destruction of Kamas it might look like Syria falling your allies falling and how long will you adamantly say that you are the light of the world how long will you adamantly say that and even how long will the West try to hold on to being the Lord over the Jewish people even even when things look good even as things turn and look better and better for Israel but how long will we be subservient to them dependent on them dependent on their power that's what we're waiting for we're waiting fores to take us out to take us out from subservient and our talents being used for them and it's time for us to use our talents for him for I want to bless you I ask you to bless me has should help us that we should indeed understand what our personal talents are and what our national talents are who should help us to use those talents to take them out of subjugation out of being subdued to the nations of the world hm should help us to use our power for him to serve him to bring a light into the world thank you so much for listening have a wonderful Shamus this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.wag.com or search on iTunes Ari goldwag [Music]