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So the first point I want to make about
about Egypt and about the Jews going to
Egypt and the Jews in Egypt right now.
Who are they? The Jews in Egypt right
now?
Us. Us. We're in Egypt. And in fact, the
whole world's with us in Egypt. The Arab
is the rest of this world. We're all in
Egypt right now. 2026 Egypt. And I want
to say the first point because it's the
first words of our story right now is
this.
If you look at the art scroll, I hope
they're going to pay me for this plug.
You know, I guess the five people that
watch this video, they're not going to
pay me much, but
she if you look in the in the Hebrewsh,
it says that this is the book called
Shemote. Sheamos
in in Ashkanazi talk means names. This
entire book according to the rabbis the
sages and part of our Torah Torah
Shabbal the oral tradition this book is
called names
but if you look on the left side there's
a fancy word called exodus which means
kind of like to go out to depart and uh
the fancy word for that is um gula
redemption. So there's two names to this
this week's para and this entire book.
It's called names or exodus which is uh
redemption. And why so many names? So of
course it's Jewish. So we got to have
this argument. But deeper is this. The
Greeks were the Americas of of the olden
days. And when the Greek culture took
over, it really took over the world. And
the Romans were like um just continued
what the Greeks started,
which is like Israel today. Israel is
just America with a with a bad accent.
You know, is America with an Israeli
accent? Yes, I can get it for you. No
problem. What you want? How much? Okay.
And what we're going to do is appreciate
the difference between the Greek
translation of our Torah and the
different names that were given to this
second book of the Torah by the sages,
which is the book of Shemote names, and
the Greeks that called it Exodus, which
is to go out, the the wonderful leaving
of Egypt and and all that it entails.
And it's we're going to start with this.
And this is, I think, probably one of
the the most powerful
lines ever in my opinion. Happens to be
that I made it up, but I really have
nothing to do with it, but this is the
line. The Greeks saw the second book of
the of the Torah, the Bible, and they
looked at the main event of the story,
which was obviously the unbelievable,
spectacular once in a-lifetime miracles
that God did for that God did in the
desert, which is when the Jews left, but
even more so what they did to Egypt. The
whole Exodus from Egypt and the coming
into the desert
was unbelievable. And when you're making
Hollywood movies, so that's the things
movies are made of. In fact, there have
been more than one Exodus movie, you
know, the Ten Commandments, Exodus. And
so the Greeks looking at this book are
looking at the idea of the unbelievable
powerful
unlimited ability of God to do whatever
he wants. And these unbelievable
miracles is what sells movies. And it's
what sells books. And they called this
book Exodus because the Exodus is the
word that that en encompasses all of
what happened in in in the departure
from Egypt. But they missed the point.
They missed the point. I'll I'll explain
you how and why they missed the point
because if they got the point, if the
Greeks had gotten the point of this
second book of the Bible, of the second
book of the Torah, then they would never
have come and attacked and murdered and
destroyed the Jews and the Jewish
temple. if they got the point. And you
know who else didn't get the point?
Germany. Nazi Germany did not get the
point because if they got the point,
they wouldn't have started to massacre
and and and try to, you know, rid the
world of of the of course the the evil
of the world, the Jews. And then and so
they didn't get the point either. And
you know didn't get the point. No,
Benny, who didn't get the point? Islam
had to get the point
that that they want to kill God's
children in God's name. Radical Islam
2026 also didn't get the message. Didn't
didn't learn from God's book. They have
their they have the book. They have
God's book in their in their Bible in
their what they call the Quran. And the
Quran's full of a lot of good things.
Those that come from Judaism and Torah
and God and and then it's full of a lot
of other things like um you know
Jews that Jews worse than the devil.
Jews you could kill the Jew and make God
happy. A lot of unfortunate lies are in
in the Bible of the of the of the of
Islam. So, they didn't get the point
either. And how about the Christians? Do
I have to even say one more time that
they worship our brother and and and and
they they went and abused and murdered
his brothers and sisters for millennia.
They're they're they're they're calmed
down now, you know. They're they got
they got their valium and they're
they're a lot more calm. They're not
killing anybody like they used to, but
uh they did their share of damage. So,
they didn't get the point. So, who who
gets the point? You know, sadly, how
many Jews don't get the point?
So, let's get the point. Let's get to
the point.
The Greeks saw the point of the book of
Exodus, the wonderful miracles and power
of God to do these unbelievable
miracles. And that's what they're
focused on is that unbelievable
departure from Egypt. What they forgot
is, you know, God can do really anything
he wants. Creation of the world is is
probably the greatest miracle. Nobody
celebrates it as a miracle. For God,
miracles are are not such a big deal.
But what is a big deal is who God
decided to do the miracles for. That's
the Jewish people. And that's the
beginning of this para. And these are
the names
of the children of Israel. those
unbelievable special cuties of Hashem
that God said for you Yity pinch my
cheek my own cheek for you Yity if this
is standing class I would have done my
little my own chest butt like they do
when you get a touchdown he said for you
Yity boom
I'll do anything
for you David I'll do anything
and that's the point if the Greeks or
the Romans or the Nazis or or the
Christians or the Muslims understood
that God stopped the world stopped
creating stopped everything and said for
you Ben Israel I am not only could do
anything I will do anything and
everything and it doesn't stop God's
love does not stop if God loved us one
day he loved us forever if God loved us
one if God loved us one day he loved us
before there were even days.
And if you understand that,
then you get the point. And if you
don't, then you can murder Jews because
they're Jews because you don't want to
get the point. That's what I'm saying.
And so the line, the takeaway line is
this. For God, miracles, it's not such a
big deal. The bigger deal is not the
miracles, but who God decided to do
those miracles for. And that's us.
That's Yity. That's Arami. That's
Schllei. I mean, they sound like really
goofy names when you're secular. When I
was secular, I did not expect that I
would be calling myself Yudity one day.
My name was actually Ike, which is my
parents fault. I have to blame that one
on them. I was too little to be involved
in that decision. When you take the name
out of the story, then you get the
numbers on those arms of those Jews in
Awitz and everywhere else they were. and
you get six million Jews burnt alive
or gassed or whatever it was. When you
take the name away from the number or
when you give a number without a name to
a human being, a human being becomes
just another number
then you want to make space for
different numbers and you get rid of
what you want to get rid of. And when
you hate the Jews, so they're the ones
that you get rid of. It wasn't the first
time Jews were faced annihilation,
genocide attempts. We still face it till
today. It's just the most civilized
world. So it's not happening. Also, God
doesn't let them do it.
So that's that's the that's the point of
this book, the point of life and the
point of of of our story, the human
story. And it's not only about the Jew
per se, because you could fill in the
blank. It's about anyone that is looked
at as a number. Anyone that is looked at
without his name. And that's how you can
have the slavery that you had in
America. America was built on the sweat
and blood and tears and pain and
suffering
of African of Africans that became
African-Americans
and they were Bible people. So go figure
out how they forget because they also
didn't get the point. You could be a
Bible person, you could preach the
Bible, you can have the Bible, you could
know the Bible by heart, but you're not
a Bible person because it's not about
the information. It's about when the
Bible, the Torah is a part of you, is
inside of you, then you have a Bible,
then you have a Torah, and then you can
express that in the world. But if it's
just information that you study, it
doesn't doesn't make a difference in the
world. And so look around today in the
name of God, in the name of their Bibles
all around the world, how much murder,
how much how much destruction,
they don't get the point either. The
point is the most important thing in the
world
without any exception is what's your
name?
Angela.
>> Oh, Angel. My name again. Okay. Should
we do that with again?
>> You know, it's a boy you don't get the
name wrong also. Angel. What's your
name? Joe, what's your name?
>> Kobe. What's your name?
>> Mariano.
>> Mariano. I like that one. I like with
the Spanish accent. What's your name?
>> Unbelievable. And you?
Davidid, your name.
>> Binnie,
>> that's the point. The point is the most
valuable thing in the world are its
people and their feelings and and what
they go through and what unfortunately
we put them through whether it was an
act by accident or not. You can say
you're sorry for an accident and you
know what you can even say you're sorry
if you're not the cause of their pain.
You could just be sorry for them. When
we understand that the human being is
much more priceless in comparison to the
priceless Ferraris, the human being is
what matters. A piece of metal, we move
for metal. We move for for what we the
person is number one in in in our life,
in his own lives, and in God's life. And
that's the motto of life, you know. Do
do unto others what you what you the way
you treat people the way you want to be
treated. Don't do unto others what you
don't want done unto you. And in the
story of life, the who matters most,
it's the people. And that's it. That's
the message. And these are the names of
my people, my children, those that I
love so much that I'm about to turn the
world upside down for them. Because even
my world means nothing in comparison to
my people. That goes for every people,
all the human beings in this world that
choose to be on the side of truth and
good and want to be a part of God's
world. God says, "I made the world for
you, not the opposite, not the other way
around. The car is not to get you to a
point from point A to point B with no
purpose. The car is for you. Everything
is for you. Everything in my world is
for you. I'm for you. And how can we not
be for each other? If God is for my
fellow, then how can I not be for my
fellow? And in fact according to one of
the greatidic masters the Balatana his
name was Rabbi Zman the founder of the
very famous today movement the kabad
movement
you know has beautiful story where a one
of his students asks him rebi what's
greater the mitzvah the command from god
to love god or the divine command from
god to love your fellow human being and
of course your fellow Jew as well your
you know the mitzvah was given to first
and loving our neighbor which was we
were all Jews but it extends in a more
broad sense to the entire world. What's
greater and more important than loving
your fellow human being or loving God?
And he answered beautifully, what can be
greater than loving the one that God
himself loves? When you love your
fellow, when you take care of your
fellow, you're loving God. You're taking
care of God, so to speak. And God
doesn't need anything except what? To
see us behave like human beings. You see
us behave like like family when we
create a world that that that where our
cult is is love for your fellow and
we've created a world that can invite
God back into his world and a world that
will merit to live forever with Messiah.
That's that's that's what it's all
about. The next lesson is very obvious.
We're taught that the king of Egypt was
replaced with a new king. And then the
sages come and tell us like you might
think how could the sages do this but
the sages really change the meaning of
the verse.
Now if you're not familiar with how
Torah works and the divine communication
of Torah. So you might respond like who
do the rabbis think they are? Who gave
them the right to change the Torah? If
God said one thing, how could they say
another thing? But the the real truth is
once you get to know the Torah and you
get to know how it works is that God
gave us the Torah and its keys to
expound and open up, uncover and and
solve the riddles within the Torah. And
in the end of the day, when the sages
tell us that when a verse says that a
new king rose, it doesn't really mean a
new king. It means the king that made
himself
new.
There's a reason for it and it's the
truth. It's and it actually even more
beautiful is in this case it's a there
are two opinions. There are two rabbis
that have different opinions of what
this verse means and it sounds like a
non-starter. The verse says and I'll
read it for you in English with the art
scroll. Another plug for art scroll and
the new king arose over Egypt. A new
king arose over Egypt. What's his name?
Not the same name as the first king.
He's a new king. So what do the sages
say? Two sages argue and say that's not
a new king. It's the same king and the
king never changed. His attitude changed
and he became a new king to the Jews
because he he made it like he never knew
the Jews. He never knew Joseph. Never
knew Joseph. Which essentially means
it's the what have you done for me
lately syndrome. When I needed you and
when you helped me, you were my world.
Now that I'm over with you, I'm done
with you. I don't need you. You can do
nothing for me. Then you're done. You
don't exist anymore. And so the
interesting irony is it's we're calling
it a new king.
Because when you forget who got you
where you are, you forget who helped you
and you turn on them, then you kill the
person that you once were and you become
this new person built on on nothing
without a foundation. Because if you
don't hold true and hold on to what got
you here, then you're not connected and
then you're not even here. And so you're
you're a new king on some level. And
again, the more core issue is and the
more message is that he just made
himself like I never saw you before. I
never heard of you. Who are you? Who are
you, Joseph? I don't know who Joseph is.
And I I certainly don't know who his who
his family is and I I owe them nothing.
And that's how a a Egyptian exile could
happen. That's how a world can turn on
Jews and try to genocide us, annihilate
us. That's how Hitler could do what he
did to Jews. That has certainly been a
contri contributing factor in the world
since it started. We have been the the
behind so much good in the world, so
much progression, so much wisdom, so
much so much conscience. He himself
hated us for that. But if you can ignore
and forget and and and make as if it
never happened, so then anything's
possible. And so the first message we
see in this story is how Egypt did it
first. Don't don't it's not America that
can that can turn on us or did turn on
us in earlier generations. It's not the
world that has been turning on us ever
since getting kicked out of Spain, you
know, getting abused in every country
we've been, even in Egypt, you know,
because I know I know they're trying to
say Egypt's like a fivestar hotel. It's
not. My family's from Egypt. I know
exactly what they went through. They had
to have fake names when they left the
neighborhood. And my grandfather, as
I've said before in videos, was lynched.
And thank God for a good, honest, you
know, Egyptian Muslim Arab that saved
his life. He would would not be here. He
would have not have been. He's not here
anymore. He's he's in heaven by now. But
it would have killed him and he saved
his life. So there's good and bad
everywhere. But but when you can forget
where we come from and what we've done
for each other, then you can do the
worst atrocities. And it doesn't mean
only the Jews. It means how can you
treat human beings in that in such a
way? How can you treat human beings as
if they're worse than animals? You have
more compassion for animals. In Germany,
they had laws how you had to treat a
dog. You couldn't mistreat a dog, but
you could mistreat a Jew however you
wanted.
You say, and that's when we make
ourselves new and make ourselves as if
we don't remember the people that helped
us. We don't remember people around us
in general and their feelings. It's the
same message, a continued message. And
that's a problem. That's the beginning
of the downfall and the destruction and
the hurt of humanity. That's why you
have today, forget Egypt. Whatever you
had in Egypt, you have today. Today is
the Egypt 2026. We're suffering. The
world is bleeding. The world is
suffering. The world is is screaming in
pain. People were selling people. We're
kidnapping children and selling that
children.
Forget about how many women are being
kidnapped and sold.
It's a sick world because when we don't
care about anyone else but ourselves,
that's sick. And this idea of being
neutral in a world where people are
being slaughtered, swallowed up alive
and you sit back and do nothing. You're
part of the problem. Part of the
problem. Guilty by association or lack
of it. And that's another problem. You
know, the peaceful Muslims, there are so
many of them. We don't hear about them
because they're doing nothing to counter
the aggressive radical Islam that that
is blowing themselves up all over. You
know, just look at the news. blowing
them up everywhere, kill rammings's
everywhere. It's not only in Israel that
they ram they ram people with cars.
France, it's all over. So if you're just
going to quietly sit back and say it
doesn't bother me enough to do something
about it, then then you don't care. So
we got to come together. Goodness has to
come together and and follow the values
of the Bible, the real Bible, the Torah,
and and and and stand up and unite. It's
it's a Torah and it's a value system for
the entire world, for all of humanity.
And so when we get the point and get the
picture and we come together for what we
do agree with instead of fighting for
what we disagree with, we'll have a
better world. We'll be able to protect
each other more. We'll be safer.
And again, that's all built off of this
simple, beautiful hidden message. Two
rabbis arguing whether parro was a new
king or just the same old king that
just, you know, had the what have you
done for me lately, you know, syndrome.
Again, choose your cult. Choose your
cult.
Okay. Second message.
[sighs]
It's beautiful. Actually, I mean, some
I'm thinking up as we go, but it's
beautiful to see the exact solution. We
talked about Harro, the king of Egypt
that just completely turned his back on
his Jews, which is really again anybody
turning your back on anyone that that
you really are indebted to and you oh,
but it's just more convenient to forget
and and and ignore. And then we see the
opposite. We see two Jewish women, which
could be any kind of woman out there.
Women are powerful today. Power to the
people, power to the women. they they
are in amazing positions to do a lot of
good and to fix a lot of the evil of
this world because women are are a lot
less violent certainly they don't yell
as loud as men and uh you know they can
help make this world a much much better
place now that they have the power to so
we see Jew Jewish women and the power of
women already here in the story saving
lives saving Jewish babies
the the uh we're going to understand it
again this was this is Egypt 2026 also
so we got to have the double vision when
we look at the story But it's like this
law and and regulation in any modern
country can pervert itself. For example,
my favorite example is the squatter's
rights example. You know, judges in
America in the name of law, in the name
of truth, in the name of justice, and
yes, this is a parody. This is a comedy
show, this is a satire, decide that they
could take a home that belongs to person
A. And because person B snuck himself
into that home long enough and say that
person B gets to live there gets to
steal person A's home and all this is
the name of law and order which is again
choose your cult. It's it's it's if it
would be a comedy a dumb dumber comedy I
would I would laugh but it's not. So
should I cry? What do you do? That's
stealing people's homes and giving it to
to squatters because they squatted long
enough.
Okay, that's that's that's a prime
example of how governments and modern
regulation can be so corrupt that
they're just facilitating crime. They're
mafia. Now, they're just another mafia
with a with a suit and tie. So, here too
in Egypt, they did that. Egypt made a
new decree and a new ordinance. Um, it's
just, you know, it's just the way it is.
And this is an extreme example. I mean,
squatting is squatter is right is, you
know, you only lose a home, but it's
it's very tragic and it's not fair. It's
money's money. Money belongs to a
person. But here, they're talking about
a new decree. What's the new decree?
Jewish babies are going to be killed.
We're going to take Jewish babies and
put them in the in the Nile River and
and they're going to die. Now, this is
this is extreme. How can any society
absorb that and say, "Okay, but again,
unfortunately, we're we're too quiet
when we need to when we need to be when
we need to stand up." Just like in in in
in Germany, same thing. People were
quiet. At first, people could have
stopped it before it got started, but no
one no one cared enough or no one was
strong enough to stop it before it got
started. So, here too, they decided,
we're going to take Jewish boys only and
kill them. Two women stood up to power
and the regulations and the rules and
risk their lives to protect the Jewish
children. And and these were Miriam and
Yed, Shifra, and Pua. Because the Torah
doesn't only talk about the fact that
they risk their lives to save lives. It
talks about the fact that they had the
sensitivity and care to sing to those
babies. Sing to them that they should
have a pleasant experience amongst
amidst this horror that they should
smile and be happy and to beautify them
and to make them feel good. It's
unbelievable care and sensitivity. We
we're in a world that you can become so
lost. You know, people are are so hurt
and so distraught so you can lose the
big picture that it's a person and that
person feels. And when we are in tune to
the fact that the person feels and our
job is to care for that person and to
and to make that person feel better,
that it's not just, oh, so you're a poor
man. Here, take 10 bucks and leave me
alone or here take a piece of bread and
get out of my get out of my face. It's
it's it's how you do it. It's the
sensitivity to help uplift a person, not
just to give him a sandwich. Sandwich is
fine. I asked for a sandwich. I still
haven't gotten it. But but the point is
is is the sensitivity. You're dealing
with a fragile, delicate, broken person.
And that's that's that's important. And
and you know what? There's an
interesting Jewish law when it comes to
charity. For a long time, it made no
sense to me. And I won't say that it it
makes perfect sense because it's still
difficult to absorb. But but but but in
light of what we're talking about now
and the sensitivity that has to go with
your kindness, look at this
says if there was a rich person that
became poor, right? It's the the law in
the laws of charity in the Bible in the
Torah is that you must if you can give
to the person according to what he
needs. not a standard of giving. So if a
if a person that was let's say poor for
example he lived in a one room uh a one
room apartment and another person was
wealthy not that he had a family but
himself wealthy and lived in a much more
dignified you know much more luxurious
manner. He had a be much more beautiful
spacious apartment. And again, we're
talking about in an imaginary world, we
our funds are unlimited. Unlimited funds
because again, if funds are limited, so
we're not going to do this. But when
funds allow, this is the ideal. So you
give the poor man that had a small
apartment, a very simple apartment,
that's what you replace for because our
idea is not how much money we gave him,
but have we remedied the problem? Have
we made him feel better? Have we
restored him to to the himymn that there
was that he could be happy about that
he's not suffering or struggling
anymore? So if that man was content with
a small apartment, we give him a small
apartment. But the man that was used to
a bigger apartment, we don't say, "Who
do you think we are? Go get a job. We we
don't we get him what he had is the
ideal." Again, when if I was if the
world was just this unlimited lottery
where there's all the money and there's
no limit. So if if Donald Trump would
become poor, right, then we would
replace his life. We would try to match
his lifestyle so he doesn't have to
suffer because again if he had to, you
know, change his lifestyle, it would it
would be hurtful. So we replace that so
the person is not hurt. That's the law
in of charity. And that's the idea of
the sensitivity that we're speaking
about here. It's not enough to just get
help a person get from point A to point
B, but did you make him feel better? Did
you did you make him forget about his
loss and his suffering? Did you did you
treat him like like you the way you
would like to be treated? Did you treat
him like a real brother or sister? Did
you treat him like the real human being
that we're meant to treat people like?
Did you remember that God loves that
person and therefore you loved him
because you know if God loves him then I
should love him. If God cares for him
then I should care. Now I stepped into a
trouble because if God cared for him so
much why did he get in the apartment?
But that's a discussion for another
time. All right. Next.
All right. I'll be honest. We're going
from theme to theme. If we're going to
talk about sensitivity and the extreme
sensitivity of unbelievable people that
can reach a selfless point and an
awareness that they can excel at
sensitivity beyond what we could
imagine. So, who who better to speak
about now than the birth of Moses?
Moshe. Moshe was born and let me tell
you,
hands down, the most sensitive, caring
person that ever lived. You know, if
we're going to do People magazine 2026
edition from from the history of
mankind, he's maybe number one on the
list. If not, he's he's one of the top
on the list. There is no one that was
more sensitive and kind than Moshe was.
Moses. Beautiful stories about him we'll
get into. And it doesn't stop with him
because if you hear about some of these
sages and their sensitivity, it takes it
to beyond human. We're talking about
walking angels, but it's not because if
walking angels, we wouldn't be impressed
by it. By the way, a walking angel, if
an angel came down to heaven and acted
like an angel, so from heaven, and act
like an angel, that would not impress us
because he's an angel. But when a human
behaves like an angel, that's impressive
because that human being has to overcome
all of his selfishness, all of his what
makes us what we are, all what weighs us
down. And he can fly like an eagle. I
mean, an angel says just a song, you
know. What can I say? Fly like an eagle.
Something like I don't know.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's in my mind the
song. I'm going to save you. The the the
suffering slipping.
>> Oh, yeah. Life does creep on slipping.
>> Sing it. Sing it, man.
>> Fly like an angel.
>> Yes, we'll we're gonna we're gonna
remake the song. Fly like an angel. When
a human being can fly like an angel,
that's impressive. And that's what Mosha
remain. We're going to get into his
story. Beautiful story. We're going to
jump since this is we're going to talk
about the book of of Shimote, not just
the para. And it goes like this.
Imagine you're the one. Yeah. You
you
God wants you to save the Jews. Take him
out of Egypt. Exactly. You No, I mean
the guy in the watching this right now.
Um so what what happens? So God chose
you're you're the chosen one. You're
going to you're going to redeem this
world. You're the Messiah. You're going
to redeem this world from its darkness.
And it's time to do your job. And the
first job, one of the first jobs that
Moses, Moshe has in the Torah is to go
to the Nile River and turn that Nile
River into blood.
Now,
if we would all think about it for a
second, who's the star of this movie?
Moshe.
Who's taking a staff and turning that
river into blood?
No,
>> not Moshe.
>> And the question is, why not? Why not
Moshe?
So the answer is this and I'm going to
explain it through Mosha's perspective.
Imagine the sensitivity of a human being
you know like imagine
the president. We don't have anything
better than that but imagine the
president like I'm busy running America.
Like I don't have time for all these
little things like a boy that's upset
because his his cup of milk spilled.
Basically I'm busy. I'm running the
world. you know, this kid with the cup
of milk that spilled, you know, someone
else will take care of that. And you
missed the point because it's all about
that kid whose milk spilled and you
notice it and you take out of your busy
important so to speak life because we're
all the same importance in God's eyes.
That kid with his cup that just spilled,
if you could save him from his sorrow,
you just saved the world because God
created that entire world for God. That
boy that's suffering. you're too busy
and too big for that boy or for that
person that that's you that is
insignment in your life. We're all
significant in God's in God's eyes. And
so it's it's counterintuitive. You would
think that Moses look at the story.
Beautiful story. Moses is trying he's
busy saving the Jews from exile. We got
to get the Jews out. And the next job is
to to turn the river into blood. But
imagine Moses got the staff.
I can't do it. Imagine a movie scene.
HEY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING, CHARLTON? WHAT
IS THIS? Put Take the stick and touch
the river. I can't do it. I can't hit
the river with my stick. And what do we
pay you for? You're going to be ruined
in this in this industry. Just, you
know, Charlton was Charlton H of course
with the Ten Commandments. How come
Moshe didn't do it? So here's the answer
in this ridiculous dramatic drama
dramatic version of of my story is this.
The river helped him. That same Nile
River saved his life and protected him
from being drowned in it when he was a
baby. And now he was a baby. He wasn't
even conscious of what happened. But he
knows what happened. And now he's faced
with a job to do. God Almighty has, you
know, put me in charge. And it's my job
to turn that river into blood. But you
know what? How can I strike that river
and turn it into blood work? How can I
repay the river that did so much good
for me with such bad? So it can't be me
that that's supposed to do it because
that would contradict his life
principles. You cannot repay good with
bad. You just can't. Oh, there's
millions of Jews that have to come out
of Egypt. That's a different story. I
cannot repay good with bad. So, you know
what? Someone else will. And Aaron did
it instead. And look at the sensitivity.
It's just a body of water. No feelings,
no no memory, no anything. But it's not
the water. It's the person. If Moses,
the leader of the Jews that would speak
to God on Mount Si, you know, a year
later or so, if he could take a stick
and hit the river that saved his life,
what does that represent? What does that
mean? So Moses on his level could not do
that, would not do that. God would never
ask him to do that. Therefore, who was
the person to do it? Someone that didn't
owe that debt of gratitude to the Nile
River, which was Aaron. And Aaron did
it. Now, of course, we have to be
practical. If there was no other way to
get it done but Moses, Moshe, then I
assume he would have done it because
then it's already exterior
circumstances. But if it doesn't have to
be that way, then don't do it that way.
And the beautiful sensitivity and
appreciation, the godlike, the angelic
beyond human motion is able to stop and
understand, no, this is not the way God
created his world. It's just not it. You
can't do a wrong to accomplish a right.
It doesn't work that way in God.
Another beautiful story just to touch on
the sensitivity of two two people
walking in in a in a garden, walking
down the road, whatever. And it was one
of the one of the Libaba Rebes. I don't
remember which one, but but a saintly,
you know, holy Jewish leader of of
thousands and thousands of people. and
his son who would one day become a rebi
the rebi they're walking and without
paying attention the father's teaching
him of course deep ideas important ideas
that he felt that the boy needs to learn
and amidst you know amidst their
discussion the boy not even thinking
about it just grabs some leaves off of a
tree and tears them off the tree branch
whatever and crumples them up and throws
them on the floor as they're walking and
his father the rebi turns to him says
says, "My son, were you conscious of the
fact that you're in God's world when you
grabbed those leaves and broke them off
the tree and crumpled them?"
And and again, we're talking about a a
level of appreciation and sensitivity.
He was teaching son a life lesson
because he would become a Jewish leader
one day and he had to understand we
don't just take life that way. We don't
just take God's world that way. Those
leaves are sacred. That tree is sacred.
The ground we walk on is sacred. And I
heard this somewhere. I'm not sure
where. It may not be a Torah idea. It
may be a Torah idea. One day the ground
will say to you maybe in the world of
truth. Who gave you the right to walk on
me? Who gave you the right to walk on?
The earth ground gives us a place to
walk. Those trees give us what they give
us. Appreciation, sensitivity. This is
greatness. This is what the human being
can achieve if he's placed on the right
direction. What cult are you living for
when you're all about self worship? So
that none of this makes any sense. It's
actually insanity. But what's the real
insanity?
Okay.
If I'm going to talk about sensitivity,
I want to bring it to a modern day
example. We're going to go from Moses,
Moshe of the Bible to Moshe, the great
sage that lived about 50 years ago. Re
Moshe Feinstein from Brooklyn, New York.
Brooklyn.
And unbelievable story. Again, beyond
human. Beyond human. He was leaving some
type of event and he was going to a car.
He was driven from place to place
certainly when he was older. and someone
wanted to be so nice and to help the the
greatest sage of the generation or one
of the greatest sages of the generation.
They wanted to help him to his car.
Imagine you're talking about, let's say,
someone who was just the biggest Trump
fan that you ever saw in your life. The
big, you know, the biggest Trump fan.
I'm sure he has he has some huge Trump
fans. Anyway, so you're talking about
the biggest Trump fan has an
opportunity. He's just somehow is he's
not a not a important person, but
somehow he's in the right place at the
right time and he could say hi to Trump
and he could actually walk Trump to the
to his car and open the the door for
Trump and let him in. Imagine would make
that guy's life. So here you have a man
that just loves Mosha Fein so much. He
was a sadic. He was unbelievable. One of
the golim of all time, not just of a
generation. He has an opportunity to to
help the Godor into the into the car and
he does it. But he's so nervous and so
swept away by the moment. He ends up
closing the door on his hand.
Unbelievable. What a tragic ending. All
he wanted to do was help the gut door.
He closes the door on his hand. Now,
what does Mosha Feinstein do in this
book?
He shows you that he's he's greater than
human being. He's more than human and
endures the pain. And an old man endures
the pain of a car door being closed on
his hand and does nothing. Not a flinch,
nothing. The man that closed the doors
watching through the window has no idea
anything happened.
Drives away. Waits until he's out of
sight of the people. Then tells the the
car driver, "Please pull over for a
moment." And he opens the door and puts
his hand out with blood bleeding.
Travis shock
the pain. What? What? What? He's like, I
couldn't bear the pain
if if I that man knew what he did to me
and and the pain that he would go
through. I couldn't bear that. So I
endured this pain. I'm speaking from
now. So he endured this pain not to
cause himself the pain of knowing that
he caused another human being pain.
godlike
when when God sees that he's impressed.
Can you imagine? How do you impress God?
That's how
not with the millions, not with the
cars, and the homes. You impress God by
doing stuff like that or at least
wanting to do it. You want to do it,
Hashem already gives you a big kiss on
your cheek, big kiss on your forehead.
He loves you already. If you just want
to if we just want to be the right
person, that person that God created us
to become, that's you're already halfway
there. In the world of effort, you're
not there yet. But in at least in the
world of want, desire, what you want and
what you desire is who you really are.
If you can want it, if you can envision
it, you Hashem is already with you
saying you I I love you. If you could
work and make the effort, you get an A
for effort. that even if you fail in
God's world, you got an A for effort
because you tried to accomplish that
greatness that you were given the
potential to fulfill.
How much more so if you can accomplish
it and become superhuman beyond him, you
become God. The end of the day, we're in
this world. We have two options. We can
come in the world an animal and leave
the world an animal. And if we die
trying, we are winners
because you try to beat that animal
inside you. You tried to grow up and
stand up tall with your eyes to the
heavens. And I'm not a creature of the
earth. I'm a creature of the heavens.
And you tried and you failed. In the end
of the day, you didn't become Joseph.
You didn't become Mosher Rabenu. You
wanted to go to Lador. You were a simple
guy that had problems and had issues and
you worked on them, but you didn't
become this great man. Hashem says,
"You're my in my world. You're great.
And I have a special place for you next
to me because you try.
That's what life is all about. We're
here to try to understand who and really
who and what we really are and where
we're really meant to be going. It's
just a shift of direction. In the end of
the day, it's a shift of direction. You
make a onederee turn to the right
and you reach your destination. You
reach the finish line. And one wrong
shift to the left, we won't talk about
where it can take you. We are a people
of extremes. You can become the
greatest, you can become the worst. It's
up to you. The main point of it all is
don't give up. Because if you give up,
then the downward spiraling effect is
endless. You will fall to the lowest of
lows once you give up. But if you never
give up, even though it's hard and even
though you may have not have made the
progress you wanted.
So we're winners in Hashem's world.