Ha'azinu - 2nd Portion

Join me as we learnish for Monday Paresu. The second section of the song that Moshe, the poem that Moshe makes with the Jew, tells the Jewish people, a covenant that he made with them before his passing, reminding them of the covenant he made with God. Yesterday we began with the first part. Today we begin with the second section. [snorts] Chapter 32:7. Recall in the olden days contemplate in the years of the generation in the generation and the generations meaning the generation of Enosh referring to the generation of Noah ask your father meaning the prophets and he will tell you about God's promise the elders you inquire by your elders which is The sages and they will tell you about the events in the past. Let's see how Rashi explains it. Remember asked them what happened in the previous generation who made God upset. Contemplate into the previous generations. Which generation of [snorts] which was immersed in idolatry? which God caused the Atlantic, the waters to wash them away. So too that happened with the with generation of the Mabel of the flood that were washed away and they were destroyed because of their sins. Another explanation what this means is you did not pay attention to remember what happened in the previous generations. contemplate, take heed and understand and recognize. [snorts] If you don't look what happened in the past, you're not going to know to know what to do for the future. God has the ability to make it good for you and to give you the greatest reward which will be in the time of the days of Moshiach and the time to come in the world to come. Ask your fathers. These are called the prophets of that are called the forefathers and the fathers as it says by by Elijah the prophet. When Alicia saw Elijah the prophet going up into heaven, he yelled out of Israel, "My father, my father," the the rider of the Jewish people, the and its chariot, who are the elders, those are the sages. They'll tell you of what happened in the earlier generations. And this way, you can learn from them what you should be doing. [snorts] Verse eight, when the supremum gave the nations their inheritance, which was after their flood, [snorts] when he divided the descendants, which was the tower of Bavlim, he firmly established the boundaries of people according to the numbers of the descendants of the Jewish people who descended in Egypt. Let's see. When God gave each one of those people their portion to those that made him upset, their portion of their punishment of what they got because of what they did and he washed them away in the flood and the punishment that he gave to the people of the tower of bevel that he spread them out all over the world. was that they should destroy them as well. The only and he did not do that. And the only reason why he did that was for as the verse continues. He kept them around and did not destroy them. And why did he keep them around and not destroy them? Because for a few Jewish people who were going to descend down to Egypt [snorts] that are going to come from the people of Shame. for the 70 Jews that went down to Egypt. He made great nations. How many nations that they all speak 70 languages? That means the generations that God had and God made that they should still exist of the children of Sheame only that later on they should be there for the Jewish people when they go down to Egypt. Verse 9 because God's portion is his people, the Jewish people. Jacob the rope of his inheritance. Why did God do all this? Because God's portion was amongst the nations of the world. And they were going to come out of those nations. Who is his portion? Who is God's portion? That's called the lot of God. That's his nation. And who is his nation? who is like a rope connected with him. Why does he call it a rope and a third of the forefathers which is referring to Jacob who is intertwined who is tripled with three special merits. He has the merit of his grandfather, the merit of his father and his own merit which is giml that's three like a rope that's made up of three different strands. So to Jacob is a rope made up of multiple strands of the great merits that he has for himself. Therefore, [snorts] he and his children were and considered as a possession to God and not the son of Afra and not of the son of the verse continues verse 10b indeed God found him the Jewish people faithful in a des in a desert in a desert land. And in a desolate wasteland filled with howling creatures, he surrounded them with the clouds of glory. He provided for them. I'm sorry. He instructed them. He guarded them and he guarded them like the pupil of his eye. Let's see the words how this is explained in Rashi. God for now it's talking about the praise of the Jewish people that found them that they are trusted that they are faithful to God. Where did he find their faith and their trust in the place of a desert? That they accepted upon themselves the Torah and the yoke of the Torah and the subservience to God. Unlike the people of it says that the it shine from and it showed up on Mount Pra meaning that God offered the Torah to the other nations of the world and they refused it. Over here, the Torah is talking about the emptiness of what the desolateness that a that a desert the desolate wasteland of what a desert is. And it says as follows. It's a land that's dry and desolate. It's a place where there's animals, snakes, scorpions, and all different kinds of things you hear throughout the time. Even in that place, the Jewish people went after the trust and belief in God. And they didn't say to Moshe, "How have you taken us out to a desert in a place where it's desolate? There's no water. There's nothing there." [snorts] King as it says by Jeremiah. So said God, "Follow me into the desert." And still the Jewish people followed along and they didn't question. There in the desert there in the desert, God protected them with the clouds of glory. And he gave them the flags from all four sides. How they made that all the Jewish people the way they surrounded the tabernacle. He protected them and surrounded them also while they were standing at the bottom of Mount Si accepting the Torah because he covered upon them the mountain like a big uh pot so to speak and told them either you accept the Torah or you'll be buried under this mountain. comes from the word comprehension. He gave them the ability to understand and grasp to he protected them from a snake, a scorpion and from the wild animals and also from the other nations around them. Who does it mean the darkness of the eye that's the pupil? Because the pupil is the black part that's in the center of the eye that the light the ability to see comes from it. Translates this verse as follows. God gave them all their needs in the desert. It says that he made it found that he found it for them or from the other word that we find in Yeshua that they couldn't have what they need. They couldn't. It wasn't enough that he made it enough for them that they should have the explains. God made that the divine presence should surround them from all sides which was the we had the tent of gathering which was a tabernacle in the center and the four flags all four sides. Verse 11. As an eagle awakens its nest, alif spreads its wings hovering over its young. It's it it hovers over it young spreads its wings when picking up and rises them on its pinions, carries them under on its pinions. God took the Jewish people in great mercy. He led them with great mercy and pity. Just like this eagle who has mercy, who cares and respects its young and does not just go into its nest suddenly, meaning not to wake them up and not to scare them because it makes noise and bangs with its wings between the two trees on its ways to its nest between one wing and another. As it's getting closer, it makes this noise. So the little kids and then so the little chicks uh know that he's coming. So they should be awoken gently not surprisingly and they should be have the strength to accept him wakes up its uh wakes up its chicks wake up wakes up its u young when they are in the nest. He doesn't make it difficult. He doesn't make himself heavy on his young. He hovers over it. It's like a right on top of it but doesn't touch it. So to God as it says in that God doesn't show himself with great strength or great um his discipline upon us. God came to give the Torah to the Jewish people. He didn't suddenly come upon them from one shot. He came from all different sides of the universe. It says it tells us three places that the divine presence came from. So it wasn't like one surprise attack in one area that would knock them down by force and it says that God came from Yemen. So you see from Pan from Raides and so you have Zur that was the fourth side. You see that God came to them from all four sides to make it calmer or to make them more um adaptable to what that divine presence would come upon them just like this eagle when it comes to take its little young from place to place if it doesn't take it with its feet is like the rest of the birds that they pick up their young with their little with their feet [snorts] the reason why most other birds carry their young with their feet is because they're afraid of the eagle that hovers on top of them so it can grab their young. So therefore, the way they protect them is underneath and hold them with their feet. However, because the eagle can go up higher than all the other birds and flies above them for every other bird carries them with their feet and not on their wings because of the eagle that can come and grab it away. But the eagle because it flies the highest It's not afraid only from arrows therefore carries it on its wings rather that I intercept and I accept that arrow and it doesn't go into my children God says in the book of Exodus and I will carry on the wings of an eagle that when the Jewish people were traveling after the Jews and reach them and they tried throwing throwing things and shooting arrows at them and they were throwing at them stones and arrows stones that are done with like a slingshot. Immediately the angel went between and intercepted all those arrows just like the eagle intercepts the arrows that come from above from below and puts its young on top on its wings. So to God protected us with the angel in between us and the Egyptian camp. [snorts] Verse 12, God unassisted guided them and there was no other deity with him. Rashi meaning who takes the Jewish people that he's alone and he's guaranteed and he's able and he is assuring and took them assuringly through guided them unassisted safely through the desert. It did not have the power, the strength or any of the other gods. non the idols to be able to show off their strength that they would be able to overcome the Jewish people and to wage war with them. The rabbis explained this is coming to talk about in the time at the end of days in the time of the coming of Moshiach that God will lead the Jewish people into the holy land and no other nations will be able to start up with them or hurt them in any way. So to the explains it, however, I say this is actually words of rebuke which most of this is about that the heaven and earth is giving testimony before the Jewish people. This talks about the song is at the end is that they're going to rebel against God and they're not going to remember God. It's not their earlier things that happened and not the things that are going to happen to them. Therefore, not every word of this verse that they shouldn't be a contradiction. It has to make sense for both ways that we're saying it whether for the good or also for the positive that may happen. And therefore this whole idea is referring to the beginning of this aliyah which we spoke about remember the days and contemplate for generation to say meaning This is what he did to them in the past and this is what's going to happen to them in the future. And all this the Jewish people should think about and contemplate on this way to remember the confident and the promise that they made to God. This concludes the second aliyah for paresino.