BiShalach 5786 - Roundabout Hanhagos of Hashem

In the parish, we have the very first PK that did not want to have them go through um because it's Corvu and therefore he had them detour around um and go longer the roundabout way. the um the Rambamim uses this as a reference point to something about understanding Hashem's ways. Ram is dealing with um his explanation of carbonos. He says that carbonos are way to win us off of it's a unique sheet of the Rambam. Um and but he he deals with the following question. If Hashem would want us to um not to worship, let him sacred it out, which he did in fact, and and so forth. Why would he go and take us sort of a roundabout way and by bringing carbon that will win us offer? Shouldn't act straightforwardly. That's the question that he poses and he answers very very strongly and he says that um this concept that akesh Baraku does things in roundabout ways is really enshrined in this para. It says akesh Baraku did not take because he was scared that they couldn't face the war. Okay. So he explains that the reason why he felt why felt they couldn't face the war was because these people had been oppressed for 200 years. They were in a slave mentality. They were not used to fighting and standing up for themselves. And in a natural way they would not be able to um to stand in battle. They would they would get scared and run away. So he took a roundabout route to get them to do it which is very similar to his point by carbonis that akureshu will have us engage in activities that are not the most direct route to our keshbu wants but rather taking the um reality of the people the plays involved that becomes the the the route that he takes. Now, the Rams poses the following question. Abraham can do anything. Why couldn't he just make us be brave and so on? That's sort of the the question that he's asking on our para same way. And the Rambam explains that will do miracles to change nature but not to change human nature. And he says um that even though every miracle is is changing some object in in the world in a way but the nature of people will never be changed through a miracle. Now he explains it's not something that is au can't create us with our temperament with our nature and so on that's that's we can't say that does not cannot change but does not want to change and let's explain um why that >> [clears throat] >> um the uh created the world for the following reason. He wanted that beings that are not spiritual, that are quite physical and and but have a spark of the divine in them begin to come to aes and develop within themselves that full recognition of the greatness of and so on. That is the purpose of the world. the you can say it in another way. Wanted each and every one of us to become um the person that we need to become. If this would be done by changing us then that would not be us. Every person was born a potential for some realization. If the realization of that potential happens in an organic way where it naturally develops from within and becomes what it ought to become that is realizing the purpose of creation. But if aes banged it into place a kesh who changed it so it's not the first person becoming it. It's like um imagine if you needed if if you wanted a person to to to to get to some greatness. So >> [clears throat] >> um and then you would sort of do a brain transplant and you become great. Well, but that's not the original person. That's in effect what a nace would be. It would be making a brain transplant. If we can give sort of another analogy to things in this world. If a person has crooked teeth. So the there there are two routes to go. We can remove the teeth and put in a complete set of fake teeth. They may be very nice but not his teeth. I can also straighten out the teeth. And it means putting a wire know as braces are with some level of pressure against the tooth and slowly the tooth in its own begins to grow where it's supposed to grow. So it requires that there not be a sudden blow. and I will bang you. A sudden blow would remove the teeth and then the person could have straight teeth, but they're not his teeth. He doesn't have them. He's wearing a set of teeth. Or if the person himself, if we if we do indeed want him to have nice straight teeth, we're going to have to apply pressure and slowly bring the teeth into place. That's going to be it. So the way for that is to detour around. [snorts] This is also interestingly enough in a kind of a different context but touching on a similar idea. The g in mish many times speaks about tbulos which are tricks. Now it means fighting the sahara not in a straight battle. you know, the assar says do X and I say no way. A lot rather to find ways around it and sort of uh trickery. I don't know if that's the right word for it, but sort of to do it with tactics with with with clever tactics. The reason is because if you want the person to change, if you want the person himself to change, an overriding of nature. So imagine somebody could imagine that I don't want to do X and somebody comes and puts a lot of pressure a lot of emotional and mental pressure or he vokes an extraordinary high and gets it to that point. So yes I did do XYZ but I can't really say that I did it. I was not the person I normally am at that moment. I was given tremendous guilt trip. I was given tremendous high. I was promised uh the heaven and earth whatever it is that's not really really me in that sense of the word. So a a person can have a um if if I want the person to develop then the person himself needs to gradually get to a certain point means I'm not uprooting things. I am getting I'm I'm using my natural development to get around it slowly. So this par which seems to be totally unrelated to Hashem. The Rambam finds an extraordinary point Hashem. We we have here taking the the the the sod out of his para that buru has a realization and a kadesh who um wants something and is going to get it acquire it by some sort of um roundabout way. The reason is because things that are in the way of progresses uses a moace, a nace to get rid of, but the person himself does not want him just to get to a certain point. He wants him to get a certain point. He wants the person to develop in a way that will reach some sort of accomplishment, some sort of goal. So many times the longer certainly a nace is not appropriate. This is true in what happened over here took us the roundabout way to get to so that we can slowly grow into the worries we need to be to take it and the ram applies it in his opinion about his description of what carbonas are saving you know helping us um overcome also he explains it in a way like that but the point is a karesh who wants us to get to the place that he wants us to get. The way for us to get there rather than having something a a destiny imposed on us is by having uh um by slowly taking us in line with our nature and getting and and getting to the place that we are supposed to get