Exodus from Egypt: Freedom and Faith - Parshat Beshalach - Rabbi Kaplan on The Weekly Torah Portion

all right so we last time we were speaking about the Corb P I just want to finish that that we're going to par and there is a vital concept here that we have to uh we have to mention the Torah says and um on uh page um where is it uh when it gives the laws of the Corban PES okay I I'm not going to look for the posic word I don't have the posic but the Torah says that a orl somebody who's not had a proper circumcision is not allowed to participate in the Corbin PES and not a circumcision could be any one of several things it could be that that he wasn't circumcised at all uh it's rare that a Jew is not circumcised sometimes it could be if a if a Jew has had a brother who died from circumcision uh uh from hemophilia that they bled to death but it's very rare very rare that uh that there be a problem but they could theoretically be or it could be somebody which is more common nowadays who's had a circumcision but not a halic circumcision because it could be they were circumcised in the hospital sometimes in the hospital like on a third or fourth day after birth they sometimes circumcise the babies in the non-jewish world they blow back and forth with the whether it is a good thing not a good thing it's healthy or that yeah healthy no whatever it is it's not avail valid H circumcision one has to have a valid H circumcision in order to eat from the meat of the Corbin pesak on the night of the 14th of Nissan one would have to have a halik circumcision otherwise he can't participate that's what the Hala says now there's a common denominator between Bri and the Corban P one of the common denominators is just socially Jews who are far moved from Judaism these are often uh two of the mites these are often two what's it on I forgot to turn back it happens the the BR and the Corbin PES are the two Mitzvah they're Jews uh now a days even Jews who are far removed from JM they keep them they will have their child circumcised many traditional Jews who don't do anything else but they bris mea they'll do and they also have a pesak Sader they also have a these two mitzah seem to go and the Torah here says that you are not allowed to uh uh somebody who's not had a brista cannot participate in the Corb and pesak that means when they slaughter the Lamb on the 14th of Nissan and the family gets together or the predesignated people get together and they eat the roast [clears throat] lamb somebody's without a Brisa is not allowed to eat that's what the Torah says we spoke about that last time girls girls are are not included in this okay do they are they required to eat from it yeah yeah everybody everybody yeah oh yeah and uh and and but but the the the the prerequisite for the males is Brisa the question is what's the what's the connection over here so we find a couple of connections interestingly enough between Brisa and Corbin peso first of all there's the Hal connection the Hal is let's say a Jew uh transgresses chabas or a Jew eats Anum Kipper what is the punishment does anybody know what does the Torah say what's the punishment what's the punishment for breaking shabbath there are no Witnesses K with premature death Hashem takes care of him what's the punishment for eating Anum ker K what's the punishment for eating the Forbidden fats of a kosher animal the is K there what's the the punishment for various forms of immorality uh where there are no witnesses that means that means independent of capital punishment which requires Witnesses if there are no Witnesses then Hashem takes care of them and often the punishment is KES for various prohibitions that somebody transgresses what about the neglect of a positive mitzah let's say you did not put on Fillin or let's say you did not put up a muuza or did not shake a Lula what or or you did not anything like that what is there we never find a CES punishment you you're neglected the mitzah you didn't you you neglected the mitzah you shouldn't have neglected the mitzah but you did okay so sometimes B may get involved in the times when there was aasin they may get involved in and if they see somebody's a habitual habitual uh uh Fillin misser uh so they will then lash him you know they use they'll apply lashes because it's not a hefkervelt over you can't just do what you want maybe take some you know they'll but there's no premature death there's no cut race penalty except for the neglect of two positive commands the first one is guess which they are boys br if somebody has not had a bris father neglected to give him a bris once he turns 13 he's obligated to get himself to get himself uh a brism and if he is negle if he neglects it then he is liable for chice he could obviously get out of it if he would have a Brisa done but until that point he's liable for the cor's punishment number one number two somebody who is capable that means you're not far away and he's not tum he's not impure and he neglects to eat meat from the Corban PES on the night of PES he is also liable for the C's penalty those are the two met okay the only two positive commands only two positive command there are quite a few negative commands those are the only two positive Comm somebody question question yeah go with regards to is does mean that you completely cut off con between is good question good question there are different levels of Courage the basic level is a person dies before 60 that's the general opinion he dies 46 and there are also forms of CH well he won't have children or he'll be and it certainly severs the bond between him and Hashem yeah yeah very can I can you do still do you could always do Chua not only that if a person that's a very important question If a person let's say does something let's say there are witnesses and witnesses to his courage but let's say Witnesses saw him eat on yum Kipper and they said don't eat and he ate anyway now at that point he's liable for the courage punishment once he gets whipped because there were Witnesses so now he's liable for cap for uh corporal punishment corporal punishment down here that removes the Caris if he gets if he gets the the corporal punishment so then that removes the kis penalty it's no longer hovering over him the CIS because the once he gets whipped it's learned from a p once a guy gets whipped he is considered your brother again and so there are ways to get out of but again the best thing is be good right don't get into trouble at all right if you don't get into trou trouble then we have to get worried about not get whipped but but it but at the end of the day that's the okay now there's another connection and this is what I wanted to get to you see what's the common there's another common denominator between Bria and corbon PES what is it what's the common there what's the first thing that comes to mind you think about what's that blood blood correct both involve blood blood always was symbolic of a packed I know I'm smiling because in all the cowboy movies you know there were right there you go you know they we became blood you cut you became Blood Brothers you know now with you know once AIDS started then they stopped that in the movie you know just not the same drama with gloves you know can you take off your glove for a second we'll do it through the gloves but there was this concept of being Blood Brothers a packed is a is sealed in blood the PCT of bris vaa it's a bris it's packed was given to who who was the command of bris milu given to AB ainu the individual Jew abah was alone in the world as the individual Jew Corban PES is the first Mitzvah given to Collective CLA Israel in Egypt the entire group and what that means is both are aack they both involve blood there's a PCT between God and the individual Jew there's a PCT between God and the collect of clly Israel if you want to be considered a member of the collective of clly Israel you have to carry out your responsibilities as an individual Jew you're Jewish if you're born Jewish or converted into Judaism then you're Jew we're not talking about technically Jewish but if you want to be really a member if you want to be on the team you can't just join Collective CLA Israel I know I have a Jewish a strong Jewish identity we we do Purim and we do Kaneka and we do we we do sukus and we light candles on chabas all the fun stuff and therefore we're Jo listen what about fasting I didn't hear you say anything about fasting no no that we're not into that yes you want to be what about what about getting to sh at 6:30 in the morning no no they haven't got time for that what about putting on fil too expensive you know a lot what about what about shabas no no I got a lot of things I got to take care of so I need to drive one second you want to be considered a card caring member of kille and be joined in the group pact with a with the Brit the juk you have to first do your individual pack that's a symbolism that your individual responsibility as a Jew which is keeping theas and doing what you have to do then you're considered a member of the club you want to be a member of the club just to do the fun things that doesn't work that way don't you have to for a for when you're in college what's it called when you want don't you have to pledge to become part of a a fraternity don't you have to pledge to get in the you want to be a member of the cup you're going to have to pledge you just take anybody who decides to join in you're going to have to pledge to be a member of the fraternity you want to be a member of the Jewish fraternity you have a pledge constantly The Pledge is keeping Torah and mitzah then that's the problem with the groups like conservative and certainly reform where it's all about identity but where's the where's the where's your responsibility as an individual and not only that then where's your continuity there is no continuity represented by the BR why is there no continuity because you didn't take care of the pack the way you should have Therefore your Judaism your judism dissipates that's what happens and that's what the Torah say that's the connection between BR and cor P okay let's go to par B I really hate to do this I really did want not want to do this I didn't want to Resort have to resort this but you know what A P stands for uh uh what's that preser right um it also stands for power of the whammy I have known to have certain powers and I'm now going to give the Eagles the whammy uh I'm giving them a gaj jang I didn't want to resort to this but you know I I have no choice and that's it it is now that that's it it basically count it it's finished it's not going to happen I didn't want to do this I had to do this because Sam has just been cheeky the whole week he's overconfident and they're just strutting and I'm now giving him a jang it's finished now now take all your money from under your mattresses guys and put it on casc because it's going to happen all right I'm telling you it's never failed me so uh [clears throat] boy it's going to be a bad day if they lose boy [laughter] it's going to be it's going to be a really bad day you may need I I may I have been contemplating retirement for a while [laughter] okay than take a look at page 366 so the Jewish people are leaving sends out the nation wouldn't let them out by the way of the Philistines because it was too close takes them in a circuit this route because he's worried that if they see the Philistines they'll uh they may become intimidated and want to go back to Egypt that's the that's the first thing it says number one so that that's number one number two it says I'm tell something a really incredible idea here escorts out the Jewish people as a result of parro escorting the Jewish people later on there's a PK in the Torah that says later on we are not allowed to torment the Egyptians the Torah says later on not to torment the Egyptians that's a reward for parro escorting out the Jewish people now obviously parro's escorting them out he's certainly not he's certainly not doing this out of his good will he just get out of here because everybody's dying and I don't want to die because I'm a firstborn that's why he's escorting them out so but in every action that we do see we we're we're very superficial we're very we think that you know you do a mitah and you get a reward you do a mitzah you get a reward do a very get punishment every one of our actions in the world of Truth is going to be broken down into Infinite components because in one action you can have different motivations you could give somebody tadaka because at one level you feel listen it's a MIT to give Saka at another level you feel compassion a third level you feel hum you feel a little bit of of of of Hess what a sadic I am because I'm giving Saka so one action can have different levels and it's broken down into many different components parro escorting the Jewish people why is he he's doing it all for himself somewhere deep down inside somehow is also the idea of the midst of escorting the guest you know when you have a guest in your house you escort him out you know it's a midst with to escort the guest out it's also just you know to make sure he leaves but so even when you're escorting a guess you have a guest you know a long-winded guest at your house and you escort him so a lot of it is because you're thinking Welly I finally get some relief over here but it could also be at some level you're thinking about the mitzah so the in the world of Truth which is infinite we have no way of measuring it other than standing in line at a bank which is infinite but in the world of or being stuck in an LA traffic jam uh which is longer than infinity at some level at some level somewhere deep down parro has a parro has proper motivation and later on there's a p that says you're not allowed to torment the Egyptians okay now the word v anybody know where we find the word vayi in a very popular piece of Torah literature where is vayi there's something that starts with the word what's that it wasn't the days of in the said that the word v indicates distress s it was in the days of that introduces trouble for the Jewish people so the commentary say is a of it's a terminology of uh of of how do you we translate Sor in the best word distress trouble what's that pain distress pain distress there's something negative about it V anything you could think of anything you can think of which which is distress yeah yeah I know listen I'm not gonna I'm not I'm not going to keep I'm not gonna you know whip a whip a dead horse you know what whatever the expression is but whatever represents distress why is what's distressful about it what's sad about it I mean he's sending out the Jewish people what's distressful about it why why he been made what's wrong with that what's what's what's what's what's why what's sad what's what's what's that to be unhappy about what for him for him it's distressful but the before says distressful for the Jewish people we're only worried about our the Jewish people's I keep saying the word like the a person oh he got sorus sorus is just the the mispronunciation of means troubles he be made trouble there's something troubling here what's Troublesome about being sent out of out of Egypt what's the problem the problem is ascribing it to parro that's the problem the Jewish people say we're getting out of Egypt why are we getting out because phro is sending us out of Egypt that's the trouble the trouble is attributing what's happening to parro where should they be attributing it to to the Reon and and the the Torah the Torah is is is uh the Torah is timeless and that's why we have in in our day and age also we also have this problem of ascribing what we see happening on the ground and we get all caught up on an individual level also it could be whether you be a person successful in the stock market because you know I you know wow you know I I've learned up the market I understand the stock market it could be a person who's successful in in in in business a person is successful in some other area of life where a person ascribes it to himself that's already its s what's happening over here certainly in Israel's Wars which we've spoken about which is very very deceptive because we're seeing the fight you see the the the the the the battle and it's very very difficult for us to constantly remind ourselves that this is the hand of God and the Jewish people certainly where they're being chased out by Egyptians I mean they're being rushed out of Egypt so it's very difficult to lose sight of the fact that it's ronam takes you out number one number two the Torah then says that Hashem did not take them by way of the because Hashem was worried the people look you know they're just they came out of Egypt they're all they were slaves now what they're going to see the the ptim are going to attack them so Hashem takes them in ccue at this route so say again there gentlemen the word Torah comes from what from the expr the word Torah we're learning Torah right Torah comes from the word h h means teaching the whole Torah is conly supposed to teach us life lessons and the life lesson is here that sometimes in life I see the direct route I see how to become successful and somehow my efforts are not meeting with success and somehow hak is taking us on a circuitous route so for example a guy wants to get a job and every everywhere he applies for a job he can't get a job they they're not hiring him and for some reason this didn't work out that deal guy opens up a business and it's not working out I should it work out I I I have I have a very very very clear path it could be a guy's looking for a wife sometimes in shim and he goes out it doesn't work out with this one doesn't work out there why is it taking me so long but why I have you know it should be happening and you see that and often in life takes us on circuitous routes till a person meets success we are frustrated by it we certainly don't understand it the th is telling you look what happened over here Hashem even gives a reason the Jewish people were wondering why aren't we going straight why does walk go right through up through Gaza up through ashalon and go into Israel what's the problem and course takes them around we're going to see it's going to be 40 years and that's a life lesson that often the route we want to take and all it's blocked off last night I had to go from my neighborhood to Ramat B shemes which normally goes on the tel Jerusalem Highway and then you turn right and you go to Ramat B Shemesh he puts on the ways we went through bayar completely different direction and then you go on the why weavy turny turny why because that was the healthier route got got us there faster we have a there is a spiritual ways here it's like has a ways for us we look at the route and think this is the right route in life no no no I'm going to take you on a different route now this is very strange he takes them by way of the desert Hashem took them up Rashi says Kushi means they were armed in other words the Jewish people they have to take some weapons with them there's another opinion that it refers to supplies they have supplies with them and the word Kim comes from the Hebrew word KES which the gorah says how many Jews left Egypt one5 four fifths of the Jews we spoke about that last week four fifths of the Jews died during the leg of Darkness now depending on how many Jews left that means a whole lot died and we spoke about the we spoke about the logistical problems of bearing so many people in three days of darkness or six days of darkness whatever it would be how many Jews died in Egypt oh by the way I so interesting why they died some these were the Jews who during Darkness could not restrain themselves and when they went into the Egyptian houses they did take the stuff we were speaking how the Jews went around over looking I mean between me and you that's a test also isn't it you walk into the they're helpless they're helpless and this is the guy who's been whipping you for the last for the last 20 years this guy's been whipping you every morning and you finally got him and he's vulnerable and he's standing there what are you just going to walk just walk right hey wed have a good day you know you know oops oops it may be difficult to difficult to avoid that to overcome so apparently according to one of the commentaries they did not overcome the temptation they didn't overcome the Temptation and and you know it's like walking in the house and you see your brother bent over there isn't an older brother seeing his old younger brother bent over who didn't walk past without doing Le something to him right it's almost beyond beyond natural law [laughter] you know that's the way of the world right Hey listen he's there to be hit so so you now number one number two you're looking at all this jewelry and gold so there is an opinion that they died but again the numbers the numbers don't makes sense according to one of the midashim according to the one of MIM six six what was it like six million Jews left so it comes out 300 million Jews died what does that mean that's what the med says based on the on the med the numbers are exaggeratedly high what does that mean what does that mean so I want you to turn back to the book of barus for a second turn back to the book of barus all the way back to page keep your finger on the place here and the first murder in history first killing in history have so uh it's on page uh 20 Page 20 Page 20 the Cen and H will go out to the field and uh take a look down gentlemen about the PK yud a little past halfway past the 50 yard line what do you call still it's uh about 10 lines from the bottom so hasem confronts cayen after he kills H everybody see that V anybody everybody everybody got that on page 20 about 10 lines from the bottom vem says to what' you do the sound of your brother's blood is crying out to me from the Earth but you'll notice it doesn't say cold Dam it doesn't say the sound of your brother's blood says the sound of your brother's Bloods de is plural called the sound of your brother's Bloods is calling out why is it plural why is it plural the sound of your brother's Bloods but how's the was it was it like that the Bloods you know isn't that how did how did he do it it's really right you know soen you know P walks up to H you know he goes hey h like yeah you know and he's not intimidated so he kills him and that's you know that's our version of the story but that's not quite what happened so K kind what what's the other one called the the do they have a do they have a thing yeah the sea oh just the sea just the sea you don't know who's watching like the dog I ain't scared bring it on [laughter] the the what do you call so they they they so so so it says his Bloods why does it say his Bloods not his blood called his Bloods maybe not him but the future Generations excellent the gar says D theam zaros his blood and the blood of future Generations that means that when a person's accountable you're not accountable for what happened what we see what about what's going to what would have happened remember when mosu killed the Egyptian he looked to see if anything's going to come from him can't see you kill a person he killed him what about all those future Generations that would have come now he's accountable for those future Generations the Jews that died in Egypt according to one of the commentaries it's not that that number their vast number that they throw around literally died which answers the question how could they have buried all of them in Egypt I don't know how many of them died but one thing is clear many future Generations were lost Millions of future Generations are lost that's why we talk about nowadays how we're going through a silent Holocaust A person who intermares guy has a Caple of kids and they intermar how many Jewish Generations are lost we've lost more Jews now than we have the physical Holocaust because people are intermar so a person intermares so then they have their children are no longer Jewish so look at all the generations that have gone lost so you have the number to explain what it means that so many Jews died in Egypt sure so many Jews died in Egypt that means future Generations I had a roommate when I was here or this was a guy who was in the who was in the uh Israeli Army he he was Israeli guy who been in the Israeli division of AR so this guy was in a uh this guy was in a um a Jeep and somebody a Jeep or a half trck and somebody hit the brakes there's a crate of bottles of cans or bottles that flew off and hit him in the back of the neck and it broke it severed his severed his uh what called The Spine and uh he was in the hospital on a respirator and the doctors were going to pull the plug and his father they not a not not not observant family he actually has had a sister who was actually a member of the knesset of the Israel keset is uh and his father told him you don't you dare and eventually he was able to he was he was paralyzed his entire right side was paralyzed but he lived he's married he has six kids and a future Generations now imagine that doctor pulled a plug so he's killed off he's killed off future generations of Jewish people so it's not that difficult to imagine it's not difficult to imagine what the what the ramifications are so if a person understands that's is referring to the Future Generations okay well there's another Point here um yeah back to the I I skipped one point that very important for us I had a guy here once I had a guy here once years ago well years ago so there's a uh like a summer program so the guys came in and I think it was right before the fast of the 17th of tamos now these guys were completely and they have very little connection to Judaism whatsoever so I spoke about the fast aamos and then the next day they came back and I went around the room I said' Mike uh Mike did you fast he goes Noah I'm not I'm not into that I said' rick did you fast he says yeah boy it was the hardest thing I ever did in my life I said Tom did you fast he goes well I'll tell you the truth I started and then I was walking downtown and I passed by a Falafel shop and then something happened he that's exactly how he said it something happened yeah if you're fasting and you walk by a Falafel shop something happened yeah so what happened he ate phaf that's what he did something happened in life people have challenges if you have a Challen what's the Torah teaching us God takes the Jewish people past he he goes through a circuitous route to avoid a problem why is there a problem because you know the Jewish Problem Jewish people going to have a TR trouble handling this a person who's trying to grow in their yudish kite understands I have vulnerabilities there are certain things I'm vulnerable to if in the past I had a guy here once told me his dream meal before he became a BAL Chua and he said when before he was before he was from he loved seafood and his dream meal was a shark steak with a side order I think of lobster and and crab something like that that was his that was his his dream meal all of which are trafas of McDonald's and and and he said that what now if you have a weakness for it and you're struggling with it so the best thing to do is avoid areas where they have sea food if a person has a vulnerability let's say person a person has trouble with drinking some people don't have trouble with drinking they drink all the time I mean they have a they have a serious drinking problem you have to avoid the taverns don't go anywhere near where there's a Tavern Because You're vulnerable because Ru says if the Jewish people are vulnerable I have to keep them far away very important rule in y we do not take on challenges and try to overcome them we try to avoid the challenges to begin with that means we say every morning and daving [clears throat] Hashem please do not bring us L day don't bring us to a state of test we're not looking for the tests life is hard enough what did they tell you in martial arts when there's a possible confrontation what are you supposed to do in martial arts walk away walk away because that's the show of strength if a person knows that if I go downtown and I go to a bar or a club even though guys a couple of guys asked me is it okay for us to go to a bar and review the gamorra in the bar the bar with a beer right because you just to relax with the bar and a beer and you know and the gamor uh-huh I see yeah you couldn't find a better place to to review gamar except with a bar with a beer and then and then uh the the entrance to the bar is the entrance to ganam and you're going to sin now don't go there and overcome the atar it doesn't work that way the test isn't when that you're there the test is at the point deciding where you're going to be going right now is a test should I go there or should I go there guy says to me yeah listen I went to the beach the other day and I lost control of my eyes yeah really no kidding no kidding right the test wasn't when you we're at the beach once you're at the beach you're finished you're dead the test is the should I go there or not should I go to the should I go to the be or the mixed Beach or should I go to the from Beach you know they have a separate Beach here where you a lot ofish guys running around and got kiss you know that's that that's where you should be the test is always in the decision say when when we're going to we put ourselves in situations the Torah say don't put yourself in that situation yeah letny go what are uh basically in every city that's not this one there's going to be a a bunch of unkosher food and all whatever any whatever physical Temptation best we can it's a good question world out there so but for example like with kosher like for me like food food's a big vice like also cuz kosher food kind of sucks but um it doesn't have to suck it just happens to suck [laughter] it depends first of all we could use a what you mean is it's not as appetizing as other food but every other every city like you're going to drive by tra that you used to eat okay you can't like not you're right giant you can not see the golden arches you're you're right what do you do okay good the answer is the answer like everything else once I've said what I said is we do the best we can that's the rule do the best you can we live in this world what can we do but there are still options to avoid first of all I don't agree with you about kulture food there are lots of excellent kosher restaurants okay it cost about 14 times the price of what you would pay for non- kosher food but I've been in there are plenty of good kosher restaurants good kosher bakeries good kosher there's Jews are you know food were okay what we want to do is try to avoid those situations try to avoid past relationships with they're not healthy where where even to meet up or even just to make contact is going to lead to all sorts of trouble food is the same thing there's good food we're you know if you if you have specific vulnerabilities so a person has to just be smart that's all to the best we can listen we live in the world what can you do we live in this world it's hard you know you walk into walk even even they have a lot of you know you walk into they get kosher food they have a kosher counter in many of the uh what What's it called the Ralphs in in Los Angeles they have a kosher counter the rest of the rest of the place is not Kosher most of it is not Kosher okay so you have to avoid that and stay with the kosher but if you know that you have a specific vulnerability you avoid it ESP places special people you have a friend who's a negative influence he's always the guy who's supplying the drug so avoid that guy that's that's the rule but we have to do the best we can none of us listen it's a every day is a test don't don't don't don't think differently I don't know what you guys think that just because you know you have a beard and a black hat and a black you know and all of a sudden you know just you know there there it is it's every day is another test every day is another test it isn't test it's a test of it's a test of character development it's a test of being patient with your kids being patient with your wife being patient with your family we're constantly being tested constantly being tested there the the tests end when they take us out horizontal that's when the tests end right while we're vertical every day is a test because every day is another day of growth that's that's the way it works okay I want show you something interesting watch this Moshe takes y's bones with him invoked an oath God's going to one day redeem you you're take my bones with so Torah says that ysep took yosef's bones with him if you remember at the end the part is before ysf died he invoked an oath he said to the Jews take my bones with you yoseph died before all of his brothers died at 110 he said when you leave Egypt take my bones with you to bury them in AR Israel and he invoked an oath so here the Torah says first of all you know the medra says how did mosha y find yose's see the Egyptians had hid yose's bones so there are two opinions there's one opinion that they put Yosef into the last PK in part it says was put in a coffin he would bomed him and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt the Egyptians dropped his coffin into the Nile CU they felt that he would be good for he would be prosperous for them so when Mosher raena when it was time to leave Moser raena went to the Nile and he said okay Yos if we're leaving come on up and miraculously it FL he said if you don't come up we'll leave it without you and miraculously the coffin floated to the top and the gor says don't wonder about it because Alicia the Lea the prophet also caused an axe to float in water and he's only a descendant a disciple of mosh abu's disciple elu from mosenu Alisha from ELO and Alisha there's a miraculous incident where a guy dropped his axe in the water and Alicia caused the X to float to the top so mosh raenu caused Joseph's coffin to float to the top there's another opinion that he was actually buried in some sort of tombs very interesting like the pyramids and his coffin was among the Kings and moso said okay YF come on time to go and the coffin came the coffin came out so moshu takes yose's coffin to to bury him now look at this P again does anything bother you here pay attention very carefully five lines from the top because he invoked an oath anything bother you about that bones because they he y invoked the oath nothing B Joseph's dead right how does he invoke an oath to the Future No he invoked an oath then that was passed down from generation to generation promise your children you'll take me out of here it almost sounds like had he [snorts] not invoked the why did Moser Reno do it only because he invoked an O and he would if he wouldn't invoked mosh wouldn't take it they would have tried to get yose's bones out of there only because the oath only because he fulfilled an oath only because yoseph made them made made made them made them know that's why not bother by that at all doesn't bother you at all I mean what [snorts] about the rest of y's family like they all so it says that they it says that along with his bones their bones are coming up for sure their bones was coming up for sure yeah yeah the brother yeah only yoseph had to invoke an oath why why is he invoking the oath why so why why it sounds like MOS only because yoseph made him promise when a promise he wouldn't have done it so I saw a very interesting M Feinstein says very very interesting he says that's not telling you why Moshe did it because there's a bigger question here one question answers another question why did yosea have to even make invoke an oath let's say Yosef would have said to his brothers hey guys do you mind taking me out of Egypt when you leave I mean don't these guys owe him a debt of gratitude he supported them for all these years you have to make them swear to take you with you it's not enough to just ask for a favor after you supported them for all these years not enough so why didn't he make them swear oh the answer is yoseph felt that the brothers don't owe him anything he didn't feel the brothers owe him anything why not he supported them all these years so why don't they owe him anything because Yos felt obviously and not only that they sold him there they sold him to Egypt Yos felt who put me here Hashem and so he said to the brothers he said don't feel guilty you tried to do something negative and Hashem made it come out good all for the point of me supporting everybody so yoseph took no credit for himself that's a tremendous act display of humility has nothing to do with me I'm only a I'm only a UT I'm only a tool in God's hands oh so who ends up taking moshe's bones yose's bones who ends up taking yose's bones moeno ah why did he Merit to have the most humble person in history take his bones because he himself displayed humility by invoking an oath he felt they don't owe me a favor so I'll have to make them swear so the Torah is actually answering that question why did ysep make why did ysep swear because he felt they don't really owe me anything I have to make them swear because they don't owe me anything otherwise why should they take my bones and therefore he merits that the most humble person in history is the one who takes his bones the gorah says while MOS was taking the bones what were the rest of the Jewish people doing backing up Le backing up what oh the gold of the gold they're Gathering gold they're Gathering soor says while the Jewish people were gathering the money mosu was taking y's bones they were commanded they were commanded but nobody was doing it and there's a that if it's a m nobody else is doing it you got to get involved so MOS went through everybody else is packing up money and packing up their donkeys and Mos takes but the idea here is but the idea here is that that that it's not a reason why the Torah is not saying why he did it the Torah is telling you why yosf merited to have Moshe do it because yosef's humility and therefore he gets the most humble person in history deals with it I you know moo have dealing with the bones is pretty much it's a very big honor has is by the way what's the root of the word Hasa what what's the word of the root of the word hash Chev which is seven how much is seven time seven when he said y invoked an oath that you're going to be redeemed when are you going to redeem 7 time 7 is what 49 when the Jewish people got to what level of spiritual impurity 49th when you get to the 49th level Spirit then is going to take you out of take you out of me right no accidents in Torah all right boys