Shemos - 3rd Portion

Join me as we do kitas for today the kish for Tuesday the third Torah reading of parash yesterday we learned about the birth of Moshe Moshe was born and his mother put him by the side of the river where the daughter of Pharaoh found him asked Moshe's mother to nurse him and at that point Moshe now returned to the palace to the daughter of Pharaoh where she gave him the name Moshe. Today we continue about Moshe's life in Egypt. Verse 11, chapter 2. And it was in those days where Moshe was now elevated by Pharaoh in a position in his household. And Batya was very fond of Moshe and influenced his father, her father to appoint him to this position. Because of that, Moshe was elevated. It was in those days that Moshe was elevated and he went to observe his brothers and their suffering and he saw how they were suffering. He saw a Egyptian taskmaster striking a Jewish fellow Hebrew fellow of one of his brothers, his Hebrew brothers. Who are these people? What did Mosha see? And what's going on? Rashi number 11. It says already before that the child already grew up. What does this mean? Says the first one means that he got tall. The second one's talking about that he was appointed by Pharaoh as a position. Pharaoh appointed him to a position where he was in charge of things in his household. and he saw the suffering the Jewish people had. What does this mean? He saw he paid attention to it that he was paying by the fact that they were going through such suffering. Who was this Egyptian fellow? He was a taskmaster. He was in charge of making sure the Jewish people, the task masters of the Jews were doing their job. And he would wake them up in the morning and tell them, "It's time for you to go to go work. He was hitting a Jewish fellow, a Hebrew. He was making him suffer, beating him, and making him feel bad, humiliating him. Who was he doing this to? This was the husband of the daughter of Dri that later on we talk about. But what happened was this Egyptian taskmaster was interested in her. And at night when he came to wake up this Jewish guy that he should go work, he forced the Jewish fellow, the Hebrew fellow out of his home. The and the Egyptian taskmaster went into the home and raped his wife. She thought it was dark outside. She thought it was her husband. Then the man, the Jewish guy, came back into the home and realized what happened here. When that Egyptian taskmaster noticed that the husband realized what this Egyptian guy did, he was beating him and humiliating him all day. And that's why later on in the book of Leviticus when we find that the Jewish child goes and curses God because he wants to know which tribe he's from and was upset about what the Jewish people told him. This was this boy that was born from that relationship. Verse number 12. When Moshe sees what's happening here, Moshe investigated what was happening. He turned this way and that way he saw that there was no one around and he hid him in the sand. What does it mean? He looked this way and that way. He saw with divine presence what this Egyptian did in the home what he did to him in the field simple interpretation. Simply put, he looked all around to all sides to make sure nobody was looking. And he saw with divine presence that there's nobody going to come from this individual that will eventually convert. Because of that, he said, I can go and kill this person. And then it so happened to be he came out the second day and he seized two men. They were fighting with one another. And he said, he said to the wicked person, why are you going to beat your brother? These two fellas, who were they? This same Dustin Nav made problems later on that they left over from the man and Moshe got upset at them. We'll see that later on throughout the stories of the Torah. Dustin's name appear multiple times as the troublemakers. Why are you hitting your fellow even though he hasn't hit him yet? Was called an evil person by just by picking up his hand to hit somebody with the intent to hit somebody already. He called him evil a friend. He's just as bad as you are. There's some that the med explains that what actually happened here that dustin one of them was the husband of this woman and he wanted a divorce and he was yelling at him and beating him why you divorcing it wasn't his fault and so on and that was the argument that ensued. That's why the two stories are juxtaposed one to another. That's what a medish explains here as well. The Torah then continues in verse 14. The Hebrew man retorted and said, "Who appointed you to a leader of us for one a leader or judge us? Do you intend to kill me? As you killed the Egyptian was afraid. Oh no. The reason that it was now known. I feel bad that now what I did may be known. You're still a young guy. Are you going to kill me? From here we see that how did Moshe kill him? by mentioning God's holy name because he says are you going to kill me as you said that's why he killed him he was afraid for his life because maybe they'll kill him because he killed an Egyptian med says he was worried and concerned he saw that the Jewish people had amongst them informers that went and told Pharaoh what he did said maybe the Jewish people are not going to be worthy to go out of exile. Simply put, people found out and says, "Now I know the reason. I was always wondering. What did the Jewish people do wrong from all the 70 nations that they should be exiled?" But now I should be tortured with such backbreaking labor. But unfortunately, I see the way they're behaving and that there are informants that they may be deserving of it. I see Moshe, leader of the Jewish people, that even in their downtimes, Mosha is looking to see why would the people be deservant of such exile, caring for each one of the Jewish people heard of what happened. wanted to kill Moshe. Mosha ran away because of Pharaoh and he settled in the land and he fled to the land of Midon and he sat by the well of the by the wellish and parro heard. How did Pharaoh hear about it? They went uninformed on Moshe wanted to kill Moshe. He took him out to kill him. He brought him to the person who would kill him to the to the one that was going to kill him. However, he tried to decapitate him but the sword couldn't kill him. That's why Moshe when he names his child he says and he saved me from Pharaoh's swords and he settled in the land of Midan he stayed there like we find it said yeshiva mean he sat there when he went to where's the first place he went went to the well why did he go to the well he learned from that the dating place was by the Well, he realized that here he's going to find his match. The way Yako found was matched by the well, he felt maybe the same will happen to him. Interestingly enough, that the Torah omits a large chunk of Mosha's life where he ran away. He fled first Ethiopia where he joined the army there and he was there and remained king of Ethiopia for 40 years and only in the year 2418. This was when Moshe was the king of Ethiopia. And then later on as the mudrash tells about a story there were snakes and he told them what to do. Eventually at the year 2434 when Moshe was 67 years old Moshe left Ethiopia and this verse tells us that he settled in Midan where he sat near the well learning from his greatgrandfather Jacob. Verse 16. Now Pharaoh's former adviser by the name of Israel had seven daughters. They came to draw water to fill from the stro. They filled up those troves of water to give to water to their father's flock. 16. He was a leader amongst them. However, but he left idolatry and therefore they banned him that they would put water in spers that were in the ground this way that the cattle can drink from it. What happened was because he was banned, the other shepherds came and they tried chasing the the girls away got up and then he helped them and he gave their flock to drink. He watered their flock. Why did they chase them away? Because they were banned because he left their idolatry and he had his own religion so to speak. So therefore they banned him from their religion abands as well and they came to rule their father their father asked them how did you come so early today every other day it takes you so long so they said verse 19 they told him an Egyptian man rescued us from the hands of the shepherds not only did he rescue us but he also drew water for us and he watered the flock. So he asks them back verse 20. So he asked his daughter, "So where is he? Such a nice guy that helped you out. Where is he? Why did you leave him? Call him. Let us let him have something to eat. They knew that he's such an important person. He recognized that this was an important individual from the story of his daughters. He knew that this was from the children of Jacob because the water went up to greet him because they said he was also able to water it easily. So he knew that this was a special person. What does it mean bread? Doesn't only mean bread. He was alluding to the fact that maybe he will be able to marry one of you. Omar like when people say like it said before in the verse that Yseph said that the only thing that didn't give him was the referring to his wife. Verse 21 and Mos consented to stay with the man to stay with the man and he gave to his daughter to Moshe for a wife. Though Moshe went to him as well as what happened was when Moshe first came to Israel, Moshe told him that his adventures in Ethiopia and he suspected him of lying and he was concerned that he was an Egyptian man that they might come after him. So therefore he put him in prison for 10 years. During those 10 years, Tapora was the one that was giving him to eat. So therefore, when he released him from prison, he gave him Saporra as a wife and he was then in charge of tending to the sheep for Mosh for Yro. This way he made him swear that he wouldn't leave Midam without his permission. As we find later on when God tells Moshe to go down to Egypt, he first has to go ask permission from his father-in-law. Verse 21, what does it mean? Like the Tarum says we also have it before. Please come and stay and they agreed. God agreed like a swear that he swore to him. He will not leave only with permission. Verse 22. And he gave birth to a son. When gave birth to a son, they named him Gam. Why? He said, for he said, I've been a stranger in an alien land. This concludes the Torah reading for the oops I'm sorry doesn't conclude one more verse verse 23 and it was in those days and the king of Egypt died and the Israelites groaned because of the suffering that we're going through and they cried out to God and their pleas went up to Hashem because of the difficult work that they were going through. What does it mean in those days? Moshe was living in mid at the time. The king of Egypt died. But the Jewish people needed a salvation. What was Moshe doing at the time? As later on he says, Mosha Mosha was a shepherd and the salvation came through him. Therefore, Therefore, these sections are juxtaposed one to the other. The king of Egypt died. Not that he died literally. He got leprosy. And because he had leprosy, one of his doctors told him the best way. It says a person that has leprosy as if they die like we see later on by Miriam says she should not be considered as somebody who's dead. However, what was the way that he was looking for healing was by taking would take Jewish children and slaughter them and bathe in their blood. And God heard their anguished outcry saying God recalled the covenant that he made. What does the word mean? Their cry as we find It says that they would cry out as the covenant that he made with verse 25. And God saw looked upon the Israelites and God took note. What does it mean? And God knew took note. Of course, God knew about it. But over here, he says he took note to it. He did not conceal his eyes. He saw what was going on and paid attention to help the Jewish people. This concludes the third Torah reading of Parases Shimos.