Ari Goldwag - Shemos - Redemption and the Mouth

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with our Eagle drag recorded with a chums never-ending assistance in Roma Misha Israel 5778 2018 this week's parsha is parshas schmoes and we begin a brand new book of the tour we begin the safer hull of the book of redemption where we experience we live alongside the Jewish people as they become slaves in Egypt they go through an incredibly difficult time and Motorama know Moses is sent as the girl he's sent as the Redeemer he's the mashiac of his time the Messiah of his generation and he indeed is an amazing story as you read it's amazing account of the events and there's so much beauty there's so much detail that's involved in the story and I'd like to share with you a few Madrasi 'm that when we when we see when we try to understand the essence of what the measure is actually trying to say beyond the surface level so we come to a very deep understanding of the concept of gula what is the point of gula why is the why is it that the Jewish people need to go through such a place through it through such a difficult situation to be enslaved what is the message of Google what is the message of redemption what is it that we're waiting for in the current realm in the current time in our times knowing that a chef is coming soon Messiah is soon to arrive what is mushiya what is Google or what is redemption what is the concept we've spoken about in past weeks in regards to yo safe but now we're going to speak about it in regards to Moshe of banal Moses because there are a number of important details about the story and about his personality and about his particular challenges which point us in the direction of an amazing depth of the concept of gula of redemption and of the exodus and of the future goal of the future redemption of the Jewish people may take place soon and in our days so the measure says like this the Torah tells us how paro Pharaoh had made a decree against the Jewish people that the Jewish boys are to be thrown into the into the river to be killed our sages tell us the reason was because his astrologers because much Asians had seen that the girl the Redeemer was soon to be born it was Moshe Rabbeinu himself they knew that he was going to be born and they saw that his downfall would be through water as we do indeed find at the end of the Torah washer obey no because of May meriva because of his hate his sin at the waters so he struck the rock instead of speaking to the rock so the result was that he had it down fall he wasn't able to enter into the land of Israel he wasn't able to fulfill to bring about a full Redemption and bring the Jewish people into Israel so that happened because of water they saw something about water and they knew that the Redeemer was about to be born and so they said all of the boys who were born now they didn't know if he was gonna be Egyptian interestingly they didn't know he was going to be Jewish any boy that was born was thrown into the river into the Nile okay now what happened with Moshe Moshe was placed in a basket into the Nile and Basia amazingly we need to understand this this story because it's not just cute it's not just cool that Moshe grows up under the nose of Pharaoh we need to understand why it was that that happened so bossy abbas paro the torah tells us that the daughter of pharaoh she was bathing our sages tell us we need to understand this concept as well that she was actually going into the water in order to convert to judaism she was going in the mikvah so to speak she was converting to judaism she was bathing in the water and she sees this little Teva she sees a little basket a little boat with a baby inside of it it's Moshe she takes the baby out of the water she says this must be a Jewish child she knew it was clear that you only a Hebrew would have to place their child into the water because of the fear that the child would be taken to be killed and she took him she took Moshe of a No interestingly his name was Moshe minimim is she see you perhaps will try to understand that as well he was called moisha Moses because she drew her out of she drew him out of the water mush mush of me Elijah miss Shaw mush a means to pull out to draw and so Moshe was drawn out of the water by Vasya and as will soon see the depth of it the measure sure about it Moshe as observe verses tell us Osia ends up nursing from his own mother you have it is brought to nurse her child family we have to remember was the daughter of lavey so she was we're talking about one generation in here moshe rabbeinu was a grandson of lavey so she's brought to nurse her child and he ends up growing up in a house of Pharaoh and I'd like to read you the Midrash him because there's some interesting things that go on in the house of Paro and the measures tells us the origin of of his quad pad the fact that he was he had a heavy mouth he was unable to speak so well Moshe I mean even though ultimately he would go on to be the greatest speaker of all time the Torah says over and over again why ADA burmecia Moses spoke right so the Torah tells us he was a speaker he was perhaps the most famous speaker of all time the fifth book of Moses is the called varmints it's his speech when I read before he passed away so he became the greatest speaker of all time but he was born it seems perhaps he had a speech impediment how did that come about we're gonna find out because there's a story about it okay let's start a little bit before my time release sale baa Sparrow so so Miriam tells boss power the daughter of Pharaoh who found Moshe Rabbeinu she says to him the the mother of the child would you like me to bring she doesn't say the mother of the child would you like me to bring a woman from the Hebrews who can nurse the baby now what is the the message wants to understand why would she need to bring a mother of the Hebrews why couldn't she have a wet nurse who is Egyptian why why was it necessary what what why was it important so the measure says like this when I face a buzz para llamar Miriam and ivory ice why'd she say let me bring to you a wet nurse from the Hebrews I saw them actually like Michala Banas is it forbidden for Moses to drink the milk of a non-jewish woman is that true like Antony no it's not true you find that it's taught in our in in Halle Halle in Jewish law by C star electronic of inertial KUSI's that a Jewish woman it's not permitted for her to give milk to nurse the child of a coochie a non-jewish child of a KUSI's tonic many so bearish oosa if a Jewish child is for some reason in the possession in the domain of a non-jewish woman so we are afraid that the non-jewish woman may do if we don't allow her to nurse the child she may do something negative to the charge of me get rid of the child she won't take care of the child we allow her in Jewish law we allow her to nurse the child so how logically it's not considered on kosher it's permitted for a Jewish child to nurse from a non-jewish woman ask your local Orthodox rabbi in the case where this might be an issue but this is what it says in the major issue so that being the case why did Miriam offer a Jewish woman a Jewish wet nurse and a llama McCain why did she say this the fish FC Rotterdam I shall call I'm it's yohoney choice a fossil as coolin Moses so he was a baby they took this baby Moshe to each of the different wet nurses the women who were Egyptians and Moshe would not nurse he wouldn't he wouldn't suck so it was a problem this baby's not gonna suck he could die so Miriam said hey maybe a Jewish woman would be the right move and that's indeed what happened now why did this happen what why indeed Blum Upsilon why was it that Moshe the way the measures had set up is that Moshe himself refused to drink he said it was puzzle it was inappropriate for me to drink it's inappropriate for me to drink from an Egyptian woman why is it I'm Morocco - Burcu so Hashem was behind this God was behind this one and God said like this how Peschel also the diver ami he knocked over Tommy could it be that the mouth that's going to speak with me Moses is gonna speak as a Tauruses later on pal path mouth-to-mouth with God we need to understand what is the concept of mouth-to-mouth with God but that mouth is going to speak to God directly could it be that that mouth is going to suckle from a woman who is Tommy who is impure who's not on a level of a Hebrew woman a Jewish woman can't be - see that's why the verse says in Isaiah chapter 28 verse 9 it's me or there who's gonna be the one to teach me right then the grueling hall of one one who is disconnected from milk so it means the milk of a non-kosher so to speak a non-kosher woman a non-jewish woman because that's the first shot of the mannish means explanation what is the idea why can't mush of a new nurse what is the idea that the that its tummy it's impure if it's a logically okay if it's not a halacha issue - for a baby to nurse from an Egyptian woman or non-jewish woman why in this case isn't a problem what's the idea what's the depth of it never after another explanation llama Posada Dan why is it that Moshe would not nurse from the Egyptian women Rakesh beaucoup zo sidled a very mean or soshim again was behind this is an alternate understanding he's going to speak to me this mouth this or actually here it's this child is going to speak with me Lamar um it's Teresa I'm recession Madhavi Martina Annie honey kiss you shanty not want that at some point when Moses is gonna have a revelation from God he's going to receive the Torah from God so that the Egyptian women you didn't want the Egyptian woman to say oh that that one who spoke to God I was the one who nursed that baby what's the problem what's the idea what's the magician coming to teach us what's the depth of this statement of the Meldrick think about it also by the time ocean Obinna gets his first and avoid his first revelation he's 80 years old so this woman's got to be at least 13 right 12 or 13 right so she's gonna be 92 when this happens and and she's not gonna get any younger as the years progress right so like what what is going on what is the mesh mean that Hashem didn't want some Egyptian woman to say I was the one who nursed this child okay we need to understand that because that's the first section of the Manders I'd like to read you the second section of the measure which speaks about what happened when Moshe grew up in the palace of Pharaoh an amazing irony right Pharaoh and his and his astrologers are trying to kill the one is going to be the future Redeemer of the Jewish people not only didn't they kill him but he actually grew up under their noses what an irony what an awesome divine joke right but there's more there's some depth to I won't understand that depth we'll get to that it's Russian but God's help okay big dollar yellow the verse tells us that the child grew up TV a la vez para right after the after this baby who's now as the measures to twenty four months old two years old after he stopped nursing so you rabbit the mother brought the child back to boss peril she had adopted him what happened over here voice of a Spanish echoes maha bekanze maha Bevis a so ik e lu lu b na the daughter of power the princess she was kissing a child and hugging a child and showing it so much love as if it was her own child well you might see i to me pal terran shell mel if she didn't bring this child out of the king's palace why was she doing it well fusia a you're Fiona Savin her I say Moshe obey no as a baby it was gorgeous he was so beautiful everyone wanted to see him Michel you're a hey look I am a Virat Smith me all love so whoever would see the child would not be able to turn his eyes away he had such a magnetic appearance his appearance was so beautiful everyone would see the child would want to look at the baby he would want to play with the baby etc so she kept him hidden inside of the palace very interesting it's yes sir says the idea is because she didn't want I in Hara we spoke about her in past weeks she didn't want the evil eye to befall him very interesting it's easy this is very much in line with what we spoke about it's easy when something is very beautiful or outstandingly wealthy etcetera affairs for someone to have a negative look at such a thing to be jealous of it this baby was so beautiful she didn't want anyone to look negatively upon him didn't she didn't let him out of the palace om Hari Menashe mohab COO so Farrell also was doing the same thing very interesting he was kissing him he was hugging him night tell kiss worship all right now here comes an amazing thing he took the crown of Pharaoh who miss email Russia commercial asset lassis like Jo goggle he took Pharaohs crown and he placed that on his own head no a little child 2 years old can you imagine takes crown of pharaoh a diamond-studded golden crown of pharaoh and puts it on his own head so it's typical get to do things like that right my kid my my baby she's 10 months old she's always grabbing the pen out of my pocket if it's here and she's I'm holding her it's gone right so that's what babies do right so hold on a second before we get to the take the crown taking okay one thing I want to point out which is very very important than I think internally connected here it says that both baa Sparrow a daughter of pharaoh the princess as well as Pharaoh himself they were kissing him and they were hugging him and I want to point out that the concept of kissing we need to understand the concept of kissing but clearly it's connected to what we're speaking about the kissing the kissing motion is done with the mouth and it replicates it shows love right what is the idea behind a kiss it's something that we do naturally we don't even think about it what is the other kiss I want to point out that it imitates it's precisely the action that a baby does when it's suckles from its mother when it drinks milk that's a kiss it's a sucking action it's done with the lips pursed in a sucking position so it's very interesting so what is the idea that the daughter of Pharaoh is kissing Moshe Robina what is idea that foul is kissing Moshe Rabbeinu okay you can also talk about the hugging but I'm not gonna get into that so much in this podcast okay so that's that's question number one question number two is he grabs the crown what is the idea of the crown what is the idea of Pharaohs crown we're gonna see the Pharaoh is very disturbed by the fact that Moshe a being takes his crown and the measure says not only was a correct frame to be disturbed but it represented the fact that in the future show us and lastly could show you a goggle that Moses is going to return when he's 80 years old and he's going to steal the crown of Pharaoh what is the idea of stealing the crown of Pharaoh because the crown of Pharaoh what is the crown it represents his Dominion a king where's excuse me King wears a crown King wears a crown it's connected and I can't get into it at depth but it's connected to the concept you know we spoken about the concept of kester which is the crown the transcendent aspect it's above logic that's beyond the mind it's the all-inclusive aspect that's where the soul is it's that place which which is all it come by it's the all combining aspect the king is the human being the individual within whom his entire country his color is included he's the one who thinks about all his thoughts have to do with his kingdom how to be a good leader and control his kingdom how to help his subjects etc that's the purpose of a king he's one includes all of those people he's responsible for all of those people the Kesser the crown represents that he sits above all of that which is below all of his subjects so the crown represents kingship ma sha Bain takes the crown representing the fact that he's going to lose his Dominion most Shelby knows they're going to be the one to prove that Pharoah has no dominion he's going to take away his kingship his kingdom okay measures points out that there's something that happens in the future as well in times of Hyrum I don't want to read that but I do want to revive Mela HaMashiach asleep army Adam here I should be mined by Medina the message points out that the King Messiah the future Messiah of the Jewish people so he also is going to be a member of he's gonna sit in the courts so to speak of Rome that's how he set it up probably in our times is gonna be somebody who's American she asked the Messiah it's gonna be someone who's American who lives in Washington DC perhaps and he's somebody who sits under the noses of the Ummah Asylum of the nations of the world and he is going to take their crown so to speak he's going to take from underneath their noses the crown of the Jewish people is going to return it to them so that's who Moshe is that's whom Moses is he's the one who takes the crown of Pharaoh and he returns it to the Jewish people because the crown of fower was stolen as well see stolen from the Jewish people okay and that's gonna happen in the future time as well it seems like who's in charge of the world it's the West perhaps over here in the Middle East it's the Arab nations but really who is supposed to be in charge of the world who is supposed to be the spiritual guides of the world the Jewish people we're gonna get to that okay now listen to this because this is really interesting and important well you show me a hard time he meets right now the astrologers of Egypt the astrologers affair were sitting never I'm a mister are no no Musa you are afraid you didn't know anymore they weren't sure there they said we're afraid about this one this Moshe sure I thought kiss recover nice not Russia he's taking now there's nothing that's a coincidence in in regards to that which happens to Pharaoh or there's not that many things that are coincidental the dreams that he has are significant they have to do with his country that was in the previous part shifts the child who's in his house grabbing his crown putting it on his own head don't think that that's a coincidence she'll oh yes I Isis unarmed shots lee.toma kuzmic ah maybe this is the child to the astrologers who he said is gonna take away your kingship perhaps this is the one him I'm room lahar gonna enlist our fight some said let's kill him let's burn him well usefully I should be an informer lamb no Jethro at that time before he became the father in law of Moshe he was actually the adviser of faroan you set him like this look and I resembled us as far as I'm concerned your predictions your prognostications you're worried may be founded may not be found it says this is a child yes no yes no knowledge is not smart he's not intelligent the bageno a survival the fun of a cars avec Achilles you said test the child let's see we can figure out if this is just a child playing with a shiny object you see something fun and shiny too to grab and putting it on his own head that's a coincidence let's let's test it let's bring a plate put on a piece of gold which is shiny and put on it a hot coal which is also even shinier in your CDL azov if he sticks out his hand to the gold ish with us we can we can recognize that he's intelligent indeed that he knows that the goal is what's significant Virgo is saying kill him I mean I should yell like a helis but if he sticks out his hand and takes the shinier thing which is the coal and Bide us he's not smart the an 11-foot Marvis he should not be killed jnana Villa Funabashi la falda cajas off now here's what happened they brought it in front they did the test my shaman starts to reach as a child starts to reach for the gold Raghav real vidura's yeah the toughest is a catalyst the angel Gabriel comes and pushes his hand so that he picks up quickly picks up that hot coal and he's gonna say that I'm a girl's life be like a child child's put every children put everything in their mouth took that that hot coal there must have been such that he could pick it up it must have been like covered by something only the top raps was showing hot part vanillish I know you took this is how he became clapping see how he became heavy of mouth this is how I became it became difficult for him to speak men on a sec fat pale fodhla shine that's how he became like he says taco the Chipotle say like it is to God I'm not able to speak please send air in my place I'm not able to speak okay how did it be what was the origin of that issue it was because of this story where he had he took the hot coal and he stuck it in his mouth he became unable to speak you know a difficulty was speaking okay so that's the magic beautiful cool story right difficult to understand what is the idea that bit what what is the idea why does not have to be unable to speak my sure Boehner the leader of the Jewish people to Redeemer of the Jewish people why is it that he is unable to speak why is it that it it it's a result of the fact that he tries to take the crown of Pharaoh what is the measures teaching us also notice that clad Pammy's he's unable to speak has to do with his mouth right they were kissing him with their mouths he didn't want to suckle from an egyptian mother from the milk with his mouth what is the concept here what is the idea of the mouth in regards to the gula regards to redemption how does it relate how does it relate to the fact that he's taking the crown how does it relate to the fact that they were kissing him how does it relate to the fact that he has difficulty speaking and I want to tell you an awesome and deep an amazing shot in what's going on here I want to tell you like this Pharaoh Western world all the same Elissa eylem nations of the world throughout the generations what is what is it that they represent what is Pharoah represent what are they trying to do why the Jewish people have to run to come into many different countries what happens when the Jewish people are in so many different countries why are the Jews out you know there are no Jews left in the Arab countries what's that about I can't talk about that right now it's for a different podcast but what is the idea of the Jewish people being found in all these different countries so there's a concept that the Jewish people the Hebrews the the hidden as we refer to them any dish we are all we have the power we bring the power of God into the world we bring spirituality we are the light unto the nations as you've spoken about previously we are the spiritual aspect of the world we are the transcendent aspect of the world the the sheva of the world the influx that God brings into the world God brings it through the Jewish people and it reaches to the oom asylum to the nations of the world through us that's who we are that's what we do that's a function in the world now you see that with the OC of it silac is very clear Joseph is the one who brings all of the money to Pharaoh and he's the one who provides the sustenance for all of the nations of the world in that time right the Jewish people become the slaves of Egypt that's where the power of the Jewish people is goes inside what's called the Clipper goes into the forces of evil and is trapped there Pharaoh claims Leah or even a sec it's mine the year or the Nile River which represents the power of Egypt presents the sustenance of Egypt he says it's mine I've done it it's clear to me Adi it's my power the Jewish people are mine they're mine okay and no one can break that no one can take that away no one can take that away so in the Jewish people in Egypt are in a state of negativity of everything is upside down the power is taken from the Jews and it's claimed by the Loom asylum by the nations of the world it seems like they are the ones who have the power that's what it looks like that's a foul is claiming by foul trying to kill my Charmin by trying to kill Moses so he is trying to stop the Jewish people from reclaiming their true power which is as being the leaders of the world being being the ones who truly bring the Sheva the power of the world into the of the power of God into the world and into the asylum okay so that's where we start and that is represented excuse me that is represented you Nica you Nica right when a baby is nursing from its mother all of the power of the child comes from the mother the Jewish people draw the you Nica the power the life force the life sustenance from the upper realms through as it were the the divine the divine milk is drawn down into the world the divine sustenance is drawn down into the world by the Jewish people through their mouths or mouth what does that mean through our mouths we pray we pray we ask God for help we have a different way of working in the world the new mussalam the Melissa Island the nations of the world they work through Kitely we are doing my power I'm gonna do this I'm gonna accomplish this I'm going to I'm going to work hard and I'm going to I'm gonna you know have success in the world that's the most solemn that's the nations of the world the Jewish people however we know that our power comes from God it comes to our prayer Jakub Avena jacob says in last exposure to Yosef italic I conquered sham the city of sham was conquered but cashed the Harvey of Akashi with my sword my bow tells us with my prayers with my prayers with my with my spiritual acquisitions with my spiritual tools that's how the Jewish people accomplish in this world is through our path through our mouth the mouth being is in the correct way by the things that we eat there are some who say that it's not so important what comes into our mouth it's more important what comes out of our mint that is not a Jewish concept the Jewish concept is what comes into our mouth is extremely suits supremely important what I eat the kosher food I eat is important why because it's I'm doing things even what comes into my mouth was sustaining me is godly it's it's an animal that was shafted that was slaughtered in the most humane human possible way okay that is represented by the food that we eat them what comes in Welsh Rubino cannot have something tell me why because Pharaoh is claiming I have the power it is my power Masha and the Jewish people come in and say no the true power is from God the true power is only from a Shem the power comes in through us to you don't try to think that you get that power because of yourself that's not true that's incorrect so that's the discussion here between Pharaoh and Moshe Pharaoh says this crown that I have which represents the chef's are coming into the world it's mine my crown Moshe says no it's my crown it's the Jewish people's crown you think that it's yours but it's not and now the blemish that Moshe Rabbeinu gets on his mouth the blemish he's unable to speak or it's difficult for him to speak and it comes right here why because it's teaching us that all of the problems in life all the challenges in life how do they get fixed is it there's motion up in a note need to go to a speech therapist there's motion I mean I need to go to a to a doctor so the the right surgeon who's gonna who's gonna fix the problem with his tongue so in our world in our you know in the world that we live in today so that's that's how it's done we lived the the Ummah so I don't have the power the physical realm has to take care of itself so to speak but Moshe Hashem tells him when Moshe says I can't speak this is the person who's gonna be the greatest speaker of all time I can't speak Hashem says me some Pella Adam NARR parsha who is the one who gives the mouth to a human being the true fixing the true tecum the true fixing of everything all of the problems hashem in the future will mashiac on the Messiah arrives God is going to make those who are unable to speak able to speak again right what is the idea all true fixing all problems ultimately are truly fixed because of God God Himself accessing God all difficulties where do we turn what is the Jewish outlook the Jewish outlook is we turn touch them we we fix the problems of our mouth with our mouth we speak we ask God for help we let us them into our lives right it's very interesting the mouth does two things it receives it receives the sustenance and it also speaks it also has the ability to create we create through our speech right and all all the things that have to do with that it's also true of the heart our receives love it gives love and the sexual aspect of the human being also has has a dual purpose want us to do with that which has received expelling that which was no good in that which was received it also has a creative power and the eyes also has to do with the eye in Hara that's what we spoke about previously I can't get into the know we are way past our time but that's the depth of what's going on here the eyes receive light and are able to see and they also emit through I am tell you though if we have a positive I we affect things around us in Hara negative I can also haven't forbid affect other people the idea here bottom line is and I'll I'll wrap it up with the blessing shem should bless me and you ask you to bless me that we should be able to recognize where the true power is we should see the lesson of Moshe I mean which is the Jewish people hold that power through our prayer through our through the through the challenges that we go through and we call out to God and we bring God into the world that is how we bring back the crown from Assumption tapas to bring back the crown from the Loom Asylum from the nations of the world from those that say that the power is our power Jim should help us to recognize that the power is God's power to help us to receive God's sustenance through our mouths and we should be able to use that to affect the world and have amazing creations that we put out into the world through that power thank you so much for listening I have wonderful Shabbos this podcast was 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