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Vaeschanan - Cities of Refuge
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Why was Moshe insistent on setting aside the cities of refuge on the Eastern side of the Jordan river if they would not be activated until a number of years later? When was Moshe the beneficiary of a 'city of refuge,' or more accurately, a miraculous salvation from Hashem, after which he ran away from Pharaoh? What was the miraculous way he was saved? How did Hashem remind him of this salvation many years later when he was to be sent to save the Jewish people? What is the idea of Moshe 'singing a shira-song' for this salvation? Where is the place of refuge in our times? Find out in this week's Parsha Podcast.
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and Moshe Rabino tells us
it was very important to Moshe Robin to
Moses
to separate three cities on the Eastern
side of the Jordan River three cities
that would be Cities of Refuge news
foreign
when a person would unintentionally
murder unintentionally kill another
person
who like saying
it was clearly not done with any
premeditation he didn't hate him from
before
he will have an opportunity the ability
to run to one of these three Ari michlet
these three Cities of Refuge
and he'll be able to live
we find there's the concept of the goyal
hadam when someone is killed even if
it's unintentional
so the girl hadam the Redeemer of the
blood
a relative of the person who is murdered
he's allowed to go and kill the murderer
even if it was done unintentionally
now once the murderer the unintentional
murder reaches the City of Refuge he's
safe
the
Redeemer of the blood is not allowed to
kill the murderer
the measures tells us here
why was it so important for Moshe rabenu
to make sure that these three cities
were set aside these cities wouldn't
come into effect
wouldn't be available for unintentional
murderers until after the kibush after
the land was conquered
take another 14 years between actual
kibush and the
and the distribution of the land
why was Moshe insistent
upon creating these Cities of Refuge
at this time before he passed away I'm
gonna believe me
had experienced something
in the past where he needed Refuge
because he had killed someone
Whoever has tasted the food
knows the tastes
what was the circumstance amitri
yes
about a hundred years before this before
they came into the land of Israel when
he was a young boy
so he killed the Egyptian who had been
on the verge of killing a Jew
so he came out on the second day and he
found Dustin and aviruma fighting with
each other
says he came out in the second day
Reb review
um
right it was the sun who embarrassed
Moshe Rabino and said are you gonna kill
me right Musha saw these two people
arguing and he said to them why are you
fighting why are you why are you trying
to strike your friend
now word got back to pharaoh
lamosha Rabino had killed somebody it
killed an Egyptian
so pyro had seen many things that Moshe
Rabino had done
as a child he lived in the palace and as
a child
he had done many things which indicated
that he was the ultimate Goyle he was
going to be the ultimate Redeemer of the
Jewish people
for whatever reasons didn't say anything
until now but at this moment when he
came to one of the Egyptians being
killed by Moshe
he said look I was quiet until like
when it comes to the fact that Moshe is
killing somebody killing an Egyptian
grab him
okay so Moshe Rabino indeed had killed
someone
he had done it to prevent the death of a
Jew so he had done it right there's a
halacha that you're allowed to kill
someone who's coming to kill you prevent
the death of a Jew or
nevertheless he needed to escape
says he ran away from in front of
pharaoh
so what's the story The Message tells us
what's the story what happened
needed to run away from in front of the
face of pharaoh it sounds like
um
so it was a really close call
my strawberry no he was found guilty and
they had brought him to the the
guillotine
to chop off his head
and the Executioner
taking the sword about to chop off the
head of mushroom because
a miracle happened moshrabino should
have been killed but his neck became
solid like like shy
like uh marble
well
about Claudius of course includes all of
the souls of Claudia Israel
and shirashim the song of songs
Solomon's King Solomon says that your
neck is like an ivory Tower
and this indicates right that migdal is
always a tower is always something that
the human being constructs to protect
himself
so there's an aspect of protection that
monster Amino had miraculously
Hashem protected him that he shouldn't
be killed his neck became
as strong as marble
um
not only that sister Not only was my
sharabino protected from death
that his neck became hard but what
happened was the The Executioner took
the sword and was trying to kill my
shirabeno and instead it bounced back
and it killed the Executioner
Minaj
says
Hashem saved me from The Sword of
pharaoh
aramaically
there's The Magicians making in Russia I
was saved but someone else was not safe
from the from the sword
executioner was killed
so as I'm a fortune explained
everyone saw a head fall
of a person who is dead they thought it
was moistura that it was his head but
instead it was The Executioner's head
samosha was able to escape
went by kapara another explanation of
what happened how he was able to escape
that there was a malach an angel that
came
the angel took on the image it looked
like mushroom
and because the angel went in for the
execution
Maisha was able to escape
well you swim
in any event however it was that he
escaped he escaped miraculously and
that's kind of the point not kind of it
is the point
in the ear mikulat in the City of Refuge
we see that Hashem allows for creates a
possibility for the unintentional
murderer to be able to escape
to be able to find a place of Refuge
rabenu when he killed
as he was supposed to do the Egyptian
he needed to escape he needed divine
intervention in order for him to be able
to have Refuge to get to to ISRO to find
his white sippora
so too moshrabeno understood the
necessity the importance
for someone who kills unintentionally or
in in this case it's unintentional to be
able to escape and find Refuge
to be able to have a place as Hashem
commands a place where Hashem
gives that person a place to escape to
Arab Yeshua Ray Nissan
says something amazing now listen
there's so much to learn here in this
madrush because when we talk about the
the fact that Hashem is saving Moshe
Ruben
from certain death as a result of the
murder that he did
and when we talk about these things we
understand
that it also teaches us something about
the mistakes that we have made
the situations that we find ourselves in
and how Hashem gives us an opportunity
to escape from them right a person you
know an unintentional murderer there's
nothing more terrible than that think
about it person kills somebody else
another human being by accident it can
happen today someone recently just told
me a story someone killed somebody uh
ran them over in a car the person was
killed instantly what a terrible
situation terrible guilt
but Hashem offers the unintentional
murderer a place of Refuge not just from
the girl had down there the one who is
to redeem the blood of the murdered but
also from the person
for the person who has done something
wrong himself right
how does it happen and a person causes
the death of another human being
we find Hashem we find that Arkansas
tell us
the Hashem causes good things to happen
through good people
the Trump causes negative things to
happen
because the person needs to experience
this there's something negative that
they may have done
there's some tikkun some rectification
that they need to go through
we should never know such a problem
but the depth of it is as I understand
it
is that each and every one of us
has things that we've done that we're
not proud of
each every one of us has done a virus
we've hurt people around us
we have caused
spiritual damage to ourselves to others
but there's something called the City of
Refuge
and there's a way Hashem has set up a
way for each and every one of us
to fix
the things that we have broken
now listen to what happens
as most shelving runs away and this I
think is very much emblematic
of how this idea can apply to us
I mean sure Rainey look at the Miracles
that Hashem did for my show when it was
time when he had to run away
because he had killed the Egyptian
s
the officers of power they were running
after emotion had to escape
they became mute
they became
deaf they became blind
they weren't able to see them they were
able to locate him those were able to
see him couldn't speak they couldn't say
where he was those who could have seen
him weren't able to see because
they became blind
[Music]
Maisha was able to escape he was able to
run away
he was given the opportunity to seek
Refuge
through a miracle
now what's interesting is
when Hashem wanted Moshe Rabin to go and
save the Jewish people to be the goyal
to be the Redeemer
Masha said I can't I can't speak
I'm not I'm not an amazing orator
I'm not I don't have
the ability to say the things that need
to be said I don't have that smoothness
of speech Orlando
you don't remember what I did
when you needed to escape when you
needed to be redeemed
what happened to the officers of pharaoh
Adam
Hashem says tomorrow
you think you can't speak but who's the
one who gives the ability to speak to
the human being
[Music]
when it came to taking away the speech
of those officers when you needed to run
away they should be able to tell on you
I did it I took care of you when it
comes to Redemption
I'm good at that so to speak I know how
to save you
you think that I can't help you to speak
in order to redeem my people
in order to redeem the Jewish people
so in reading this message
it seems to me that the message is
telling us something amazing something
deep and that is
Redemption his Escape his seeking of
Refuge which Hashem allowed and made
possible through a miraculous manner
represents in his emblematic
of the future Redemption of the Jewish
people which would happen many years
later
and it's also representative of our
Redemption
our individual Redemption
and our national Redemption
Hashem promises us that when it comes to
redeeming us when it comes to us
escaping from the mire of sin when it
comes to us escaping from the mire
of our involvement and and
being stuck in Exile amongst the nations
of the world when we seek Refuge when we
want Redemption
it's going to come
in a way which is unfathomable which is
Supernatural
foreign
goes on to give us a number of different
examples
of situations of great sages of great
sadikim of great righteous individuals
who were trapped
they were trapped and the measures tells
us that you know sometimes you can have
someone who is your protector
sometimes you can have somebody who's
your guarantor who takes care of you who
makes sure that everything goes well for
you
who is your Patron it's actually the
word the major she uses
you have a human being
so sometimes their parents aren't
available for them sometimes the parents
have died some whatever it is situations
that require a patron
that a person has someone who will take
care of them who will represent them who
will protect them
well let's say the individual who has
this Patron who has this protector
somehow is caught he's caught by the
judges he's caught by the law
was caught by the cops he ends up in
jail Allah
they go and you tell the patron they say
the one who you're in charge of is stuck
he's been caught
there's a million dollar bail
ornament Sky my love
so
if the guy you know if it's like a lower
a menial crime so then the patient will
go and take care of the guy
but if let's say the the person is being
taken out to be killed
let's say he's been described me so he's
been he's been found guilty of death
but that Patron can't help him I can't
The Protector can't protect him from the
death penalty
well because
not this way Hashem is different than
this
the angels of Glory Days the angels of
Hashem they said to Hashem you're you're
your house Member One of the members of
your household has been caught my name
is he said I'm there Hashem says
they said he's been caught he's been
sentenced he's they're taking him out to
be killed um
[Music]
Hashem doesn't back off because he's
kind of means Hashem says that's it I'm
there I'm gonna protect him
right this is what the posix says Hashem
is there to protect us
even though
is protected and the pasta goes on the
magic goes on to talk about Daniel who
is thrown into the the Grava Araya as he
was thrown into the lines then
and still Hashem was there to protect
him and save him
also by hanani Michelle vazario
thrown into the thrown into the fire
well actually I'm sorry it's not it says
Abraham was thrown into the fire
someone to save him
was thrown into the belly of the fish
someone to save him
so Hashem is there for us and I will say
again Hashem is there for us when we
have fallen to the mire of Cinder Meyer
of Godless the mire of of
needing to be redeemed from the nations
of the world Hashem is pulling us out
Hashem is drawing us home Hashem is
saying here there's a place of Refuge
generality thrall in the land of Israel
return again to the land of your soul
don't stay stuck out there and goes
don't stay stuck
come home
and I like to just read to you the end
of the measures the last few lines
it's a final lesson an important lesson
Hashem offers us Refuge
do we appreciate the Refuge
do we appreciate that Hashem is ready to
save us we appreciate that the Miracles
are happening all around us
do we appreciated my sharabenu sings
Shira says
word us means then just like it says
it says that after mushroom and Claw
Israel experienced
the salvation of the Sea of reeds they
went through the yams of on dry land
they sang a song Mr albino also sang a
song
when he recognized and sometimes it
takes a long time to recognize that it
was a approximately 100 years later
after Hashem had saved my sharabino
that he separated these cities and he
had a had he had a the light bulb went
off like they say in Hebrew
it registered for him wow Hashem saved
me then I have to make sure that I give
an opportunity to save those
unintentional murderers now
and he sang a song when he recognized
that he was saved that the opportunity
for salvation was there she miraculously
helped him
and Hashem was opening up the
opportunity for others to be
miraculously saved and to have a place
of Refuge
he sang
he sang a song
Ivy says
he sang he sang then at the beginning
he sang when he was when he was saved he
sang a song
the public says he sat
at at the he lived where Israel was near
that near that uh
near the well myself
said a song at the air at the well so
too
they recognize that the well gave him
sustenance my sharabino also sang when
he recognized that the world gave him
sustenance he recognized that Hashem who
is the bear who is the source of Our
Lives the source of our sustenance
where I believe in the future
so Remy Levy says that he sang at the
time 100 years later when he recognized
the Salvation that he had that was the
Salvation that was offered to Those Who
Kill unintentionally he recognize the
Salvation that he had when he had killed
someone
so sometimes you recognize the Salvation
right away and sometimes it takes 100
years to recognize his salvation
but the point is you gotta sing
you gotta sing You Gotta look for and
recognize what's been going on here for
100 years in the land of Israel
over the last hundred years plus
who has offered us a place of salvation
do we recognize you know I read I read
the mishbach magazine recently there was
a whole section about the dangers of how
in New York the Liberals are chasing
after the Jews stopping them from doing
parts of Mitzvahs brzmila they're trying
to enforce upon them their educational
standards teach them terrible liberal
ideals that are completely antithetical
to our values
but do we hear the message and we don't
belong there we don't belong in New York
we don't belong
in California we don't belong in Los
Angeles we don't belong in Australia in
South Africa in South America we don't
belong in Europe
do we recognize that it's Hashem
speaking to us and saying you got to get
out of here
they're trying to kill you
yes you have a neck of stone you have a
hard neck we're gonna fight back against
them
but don't you realize you gotta run away
don't you realize
you sat through a tissue buff
you sat in you more and then you cried
over the base of
the destruction to be some English but
here it is about to be rebuilt
don't you want to be there for it
don't you recognize this is the place of
salvation
if you want to know where you're going
to be able to remain
it's going to be Eric's Israel the
mountain the mountain of Zion is the
place of Refuge
do we recognize that do we experience
that do we take that to heart
is ready to do the Miracles for us
but are we gonna run away
are we going to run to that place of
Refuge are we going to stay in the place
where the sword threatens us
I believe that part of the message of
what we go through on tissue and part of
the message of what my sharabenu is
teaching us here
Maisha
he sees
it's it's not even the time yet but he
already sees that we need that place of
Refuge
it's not even the time of that we've
completely conquered Arts Israel with my
sharabenu
and yet he sees the need for a place of
Refuge
he sees it already at the cusp as we
stand on the border of Arts Israel
here we are on the border of mashiach
time to recognize that we need to come
to the place of Refuge we need to return
to Earth Israel we need to return
to the place that Hashem promises that
he's going to protect us
bless you I ask you to bless me
some shall bless us all that we should
be able to recognize the opportunity
that is there for us to run to run
to be redeemed from our sins through
chuva through repentance from
the darkness of golus
the darkness of Exile which we don't
have to be there anymore some should
help us to recognize that it's time to
come home
some should help us to to open our eyes
and see
the place of Refuge
that he has set up for us here
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