Va'era - Purpose of the Frogs

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with ashan's never running assistance in or my picture messages real5783 2023 this expression is purchased by Era and in our Parsha we begin to hear the story of the Marcus of Mitra and the plagues that Hashem brought upon the Egyptians in punishment for having subjugated the Jewish people through slavery treating them in a way which was much worse than the decree had been and we find in the in the circum that refer to the tsvardia the frogs that were brought as a plague upon the Egyptians the second of the Maca is we find some interesting things I'd like to share with you from the majors Hashem says to Moshe I want you to come to power in my innat and if you refuse to send if you refuse to send out the Jewish people I will bring a I'll strike you Hashem says that's the message that moshes to bring she says means the advantage to posaking Coalition Ecclesiastes in chapter 5 verse 5. verse 8 I'm sorry the advantage of the land is greater than everything so in the pashup is teaching us that there's a concept that the land says koalas at the beginning in the first chapter of cohalis of Ecclesiastes human beings generation comes generation goes but the Earth always remains the Earth represents something which is eternal in a certain sense at least in relationship to the the human being the Earth has the advantage person dies the Earth takes him back right from dust to dust so what does that mean that what is this concept of the advantage of the Earth foreign which means an advantage can also mean itaron means something additional so the magic is making a Joshua like this that there are things in in reality there are things on the earth on the face of the Earth which might seem to be miyutar they might seem to be additional extra unnecessary for example flies mosquitoes what do we need them for you he's understanding the message the message is understanding the verse to mean the things that seem to be extra on Earth they are an essential component of the creation of the world they're included in the co what does it say about call which means everything also in Genesis that God saw everything that he made everything that he made and it was very good so the things that seem to be extra seem to be unnecessary in fact seemed to be quite a nuisance right mosquitoes bothersome they they can even carry disease flies they're very annoying no says the magic don't think that those annoying seemingly useless extra extraneous Creations don't think that they're for nothing they're part of the creation that Hashem made that he said that everything that I see is good very good [Music] and we're going to see how does this connected it's varde obviously it's far there you might say what do we need frogs for what is the concept of the frogs right it's an interesting way of Hashem bringing a punishment upon the Egyptians through the frogs croaking is annoying it's loud it's bothersome jumping in the food jumping in in in the Egyptians throats in their food in their in their uh but sec in the dough inside of their ovens because there are other things in the world that you you might think not only are there extraneous but they cause damage why did Asha make them for example snakes and scorpions make these things they seem to be actually they seem to cause damage they also are included in the creation of the world not only are they not mutar not only are they not extraneous they're essential as we'll soon see him now this is an interesting piece in the measure because there's different ways to understand it let's see let's see what it means Hashem says to the prophets [Music] I English there were some including Moses who said I don't want to be your I don't want to be your messenger Jonah he ran away in order to run away from from having to do his agency that which he was appointed the message he was to relay to the people of ninvee who said ah I'm not worthy or I don't want to for whatever reason be the one to to to bring your message Hashem says you know you think that I need you to be my I want you to be much like but don't think that I don't that I that I don't have other options foreign because there is an advantage to the Earth greater than everything the message here is darshaning and it's connected to the previous concept as we'll shortly see when she's darshaning I can send whoever I want I haven't there's an advantage of the earth there's an advantage of the animals that spring forth from the Earth even a snake I feel like they're active even a scorpion I'll feel all your dates and even through a through a frog I can bring about my message right Yona let's take for example he had a message that he had to give to people in invade they had done sins they were slated for Destruction wanted them to do chuva 120 000 people if I'm not mistaken maybe 1.2 million remember the number with a lot of people so he didn't want to destroy them so there are other ways of getting across his message one way is having a a Prophet come and say the message explicitly and clearly there's another way Hashem sometimes sends a snake or a scorpion to bite a person or in in our case in the context of our Parsha Hashem sensitude of frog to get that message across to the Egyptians that they've done wrong that they are to be punished that they are that they've oppressed the Jewish people for too long so Hashem uses everything even even a case where we see that an animal comes to bite somebody whereas I was learning this with my sonov I said to him you know I'm sometimes recording these podcasts I've been doing the be talking podcast out in the uh out in the fields and there are sometimes annoying bugs annoying bugs flying this way in that way but there's a message in the bugs that's what the message was saying there's a message we don't have prophets today we have holy people we have great sages great Scholars we don't have people at this level of mushroom but there are other ways that Hashem senses messages that's what the message is saying you should know that this is true Hashem sent us messages through the little annoying things in our lives and in this case with its vardea it was it was really life-threatening it was life-threatening they were literally jumping into the mouths of the people or jumping into their food or they could they could die they could choke so the managed we find that this is true we find I'm just moving this a second we find that there's an animal called it's zero which are hornets and Hashem promises he's going to use them in order to to exact the price exact judgment from the amorites if there were no frogs what would Hashem have used as it were of course he could agree with something else but what would you have used to punish the Egyptians that's how the plastic says I'm sending I'm sending if you don't send out my children I'm going to give you I'm going to strike you I'm going to give you a punishment through the frogs Hashem uses all means at his disposal in order to bring about not so much as a punishment it is a punishment but it's also a to bring out an awareness inside of the person the experiences that we have a little annoying things in life the little bodiceome things these are lessons for us there's a reason why this happens because wants us to wake up wake up it's a it's a message just like a a navi a prophet would come into our houses knock on our doors and say wake up you didn't wake up Jews it's time to do chuva it's time to repent it's time to be better it's time to change that's what the messages are person stubs his toe a person it's not feeling well they're sick they have the flu the terror tells us measures tells us gazelle teaches these are messages from Hashem these are this is this is part of what's going on let's see if it says the magician another shot what is the idea of I am coming to strike you right in the gifa besides for being a strike striking it also means a a plague create a plague as in like the corona plague whereas in like the Black Plague the first shot here the measure says is that God says I'm going to push upon you these these plagues we find that in reference to causing damage you could have an ox that pushes against the human being a person and causes him damage Hashem also is going to bring about a great damage upon the Egyptians now here's something which is really interesting and very amazing and I think very pertinent to the experience that we all just had in regards to Corona every single makka each and every one of the markets of the plagues blood frogs lice wild beasts we're bringing two Dever diver is the plague Dever is the is the sickness like a Corona type of plague that was brought upon the Egyptians now when did it start when did it start where did it come from it didn't come from bats in Wuhan but it did come it did start when the blood when the Nile turned to blood that was the beginning of it and then the svar them the frogs came out of the Nile that brought brought the plague further brought it closer and then the kingdom the lights brought it even more close and the wild beast they brought it closer as well each of the previous Marcus was a build up to bring to the devil the plague that would come as the fifth Maca in this context and perhaps we could say it's true really each of them was building up to the final one of the plagues which was the death of the firstborn foreign [Music] right he says at the very beginning told to tell power that if he doesn't let out the Jewish people he's going to bring a nagifa a plague he's going to strike them with what will he strike them he will strike them with devor with with a with a sickness a plague of sickness we find that the yada Sham in reference to the plague that came upon the animals and the people as well that plague was was referred to as the hand of Hashem the hand of Hashem was upon the cattle so it's a negative is a striking with one's hand Hashem struck the Egyptians from the very beginning already there was a build up that was taking place one after another until we got to that until we got to that plague the plague of the plague so it's very interesting it's very interesting because what we see here is a powerful thing we see here that when we are leading up to a certain Revelation about because really the Marcus the plagues are revelation of Hashem right we find a reference to the fact that when mashiach comes there's a a light that shines and that light in that light that Sadiq and the righteous bask in that light and the the wicked are burned by the Light Russian brings the Marcus so there are light for Claud Israel they free the Jewish people and at the same time they strike the Egyptians the wicked ones but there's an an there's a it's midorag right there's an ascending nature to these plagues there's more and more revelation of Hashem the first one is the is the opening the blood is the opening of the Revelation Hashem striking the Nile the Nile was one of the Gods of the Egyptians he's striking the Nile she was revealing himself more with inspired him with the with the frogs but each one of these is bringing to the next level and the next level of revelation of his light for the righteous and darkness and Destruction for the wicked and in in reading this I can't help but related to ourselves related to our times related to what we have experienced and are continuing to experience because you can see and this is something by Russia my pair mentioned during the during the the peak of Corona when we were going through that difficult time locked in our houses locked out of our shoes you know locked out of our schools our children had to learn from home there are ramifications subsidiaries of the plague right Corona does a certain thing but it also has it brings the next plague so to speak it brings about the next uh revelation of hashem's judgment in the world and we can see very clearly that Corona caused a certain political upheaval in the world in America in Israel everything one thing leads to the next it's it's like a snowball it's snowballs and right now in the world politically and emotionally and internationally and interactively the way that we think about each other has has really I mean we've things that were changing before but things have really changed polarization things like that you know all these things are results bringing a certain Revelation as we get closer and closer to the ultimate revelation of mashiach of the Messiah may it be soon as speedly in our days but each of these Revelations is a successive and advancing and and Revelation and it builds on itself and it opens up the opportunity for the next thing to occur right if we think about it Corona causes certain political situation to to be brought about that political situation brings out another situation look around the world read the news a little bit see what's going on and you see that things are snowballing Rising building for what for what where is it going it's growing it's going straight clearly to an incredible Revelation to opinion base to a building of the Holy Temple on the higher on the Holy Mountain Jerusalem we're waiting for that moment and and like where does it happen well it's very interesting because here Hashem says look at the very beginning right besides her being told like we just saw in the message that that Hashem is going to bring in the gifo is going to strike them which is referring to Deva which is the fifth of the plagues and it starts already from the beginning before anything starts or It Starts Here by svardia but really as I'm a fortune say it was started already before by by Blood but really Moshe Robin was told from the very onset that he's to tell power he's going to strike his firstborn everything was really leading up to the Striking of the firstborn because that in the destruction of Egyptians of the Egyptians most powerful and important aspect was the beginning the revelation of the light of the Jewish people's firstborn aspect which was the fact that we are the firstborn of the world we are the firstborn of the of the of our of God himself as it were and so there's from the very onset as we look at the plagues as we go through the description of those events we see that there's a build up a build up a build up and everything is leading it's snowballing and leading to the next thing and that's how it is in our times as well we're living in momentous times we're living in a time where you know obviously it's easy to say mashiach has never been closer the Messiah has never been closer it's easy to say that it's easy to see that we are all Al hasaf we are on the on the threshold of hashem's Revelation in the world and part of that Revelation is you'll have as we have in in the you know there's a plague and there's quiet there's a plague in this quiet and to a certain extent you know Corona at least for sure in Israel I don't know how it is out there in kutzalards but uh there's a sense that this that's calmed down we're not so concerned about it we're not thinking about this so much it's not in our minds here and there we hear sad stories but it's not the center of our attention there's other stuff going on in Ukraine and Russia stuff going on in Iran Etc I don't want to get involved in in all the details just open up the news if you want to find out the details but the bottom line is that things are getting that they're building they're getting closer and there's a culmination of a process we're watching that process in that process if you look carefully you could see that that was there throughout you can go back 100 years you can go back 2 000 years I don't need to go back that far and you can see how one thing leads to an X leads to the next World War One meant that the British Empire overtook the Ottoman Empire and now there had the ability to hand it to the to to write the white paper and hand it to the Jews and eventually that opened up the possibility that the League of Nations the U.N would partition have the partition plan we would be able to be here one thing after another after another seven million Jews are in this country unbelievable thing only growing we're in the process we are there we are in the process we're not yet at the climax of the process but it's undeniable that we're in the process and so as we look at this we need to ask ourselves we need to say to ourselves are we looking for the hand of Hashem do we see it do we see that that's the frogs that's Hashem Hashem put it there why to punish the Egyptians the mosquito is there at the punish in order for us to wake up and recognize do we see that all the things that we've experienced over the last few years decades Etc there's a wake-up call are we hearing it we don't yet have Naveen we will have prophets again very soon we have most of the Jewish people lives in Earth Israel prophecy can return but we don't have those profits but the profits are right there in front of us they're in the messages that Hashem sends us through the mosquito through the annoying fly through the challenges that we experience in our lives these are to wake us up and to ask us to recognize that there's nothing that's happened stance that everything is going on in the world nationally internationally individually everything is a message from Hashem and everything is leading up to something in our personal lives and leading up to something in our national lives as part of the Jewish people I want to bless you and ask you to bless me Hashem should help us that we should be able to recognize the signs hear the prophecies hear the little messages of the fly and the mosquito so it should help us that we should recognize the process that's begun and understand what it really means and and that the process as it comes to a close it's coming to a close should help us to be able to be here to be in the land of Israel to be able to have those front row seats to be able to experience the awesome Majesty of Hashem as he reveals himself to 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.regoldwag.com or search on iTunes Ari goldwag [Music]