How One Donkey Assuaged Moshe's Negative Feelings About His Mission

good morning everybody and welcome thank you for gracing us with your presence and welcome everybody from all over the world wherever you are joining us on this wonderful bright morning last night sunday night we had a three hour session myself and by shimon russell the famous therapist from jerusalem on the question of why are so many teens miserable today and what can we do to help them it was quite a session i think we started at 9 30 and we finished like 12 30 and some fascinating questions from parents from educators and great conversation that i think some ideas very very important very very relevant for all of us to appreciate and understand and grow with and grow through so if you didn't watch it live you can watch the replay on double speed if you need it's on the yeshiva.net so you could watch the replay tomorrow is tuesday so we're going to have our 12 45 p.m shear of course new york time that's a woman's class live in person everybody's invited 24 shea tent gimbal and thursday morning we'll also have the class 7 30 am i posted in the chat for zoom the source sheets for today's share so we could right away begin i want to make a mention today's class is dedicated by rifki sirota with gratitude and thanks to hashemis barach for her wonderful and extraordinary parents whom i'm also fortunate to know i say that in parentheses remotel and brianna berkowitz may they have arikis yomim and shanimtivus many many good happy healthy abundant prosperous years filled with serenity good health great joy great spirits much nachas growing up rebuttal who was one of the youngest holocaust survivors survived as a child was the chasm for col nidre in 770 by the minion of the laboratory and his khalid melodies and heartfelt davening are still etched in my psyche to this very day so mrs siroda i join you and we join you with your blessings to your wonderful parents and thank you so much for your prayer friendship and partnership today as partisan we're going to learn a secret an address that was presented by the laboratory at two occasions shabbos parishes that shabbos of 1987. i had the privilege of being there and hearing it from the rebel himself live in person the second one is from yutez kislov the 19th of kistle of 1957. at both of these occasions the rebbe developed one particular theme in parishes which was later published in the coup d'etats volume 31 and here it is they never spoke in yiddish but this was written up in hebrew so most of you hopefully will be able to understand it why did i choose this siddha why did i choose this sheer this talk this presentation by the laboratory first of all it's fascinating moving inspiring but there's also another reason and that is the second half of the talk which we're not going to get to today is one of those very powerful revolutionary watershed moments where there ever shares an idea about the human body and our physical relationship and our relationship to our physical selves that is absolutely astounding and he said it in 57 and as i said 87 but i think the full significance of it we're beginning to see now this is a continuation to what we learned a few years ago a few weeks ago about avraham and sarah being the soul and the body and hashem telling avraham to listen to sarah those of you who remember we had two classes on that so this is a continuation in theme even though it's going to come from a completely different angle and with surprising developments and results but before we get to that part of it he's going to analyze in his unique way a rashi in parishes about the donkey that maisha rabbenu used to travel from midyan to mitsrayam to egypt so let's begin first page you see the title page from the mice okay if allah foreign number one identifies this passage as shmois perigdalid passing base exodus chapter 4 verses verses 2 right i just want to see if it's a huff or it's a it's a base right i thought i made a mistake period possible sorry looked like a base to me exodus chapter 4 verses 20. what is the context the context is moishirabenu has spent a long time in a country called midian that's where he met his wife tzipira he married her he spent time with his father-in-law israel jethro he was shepherding his flock at mount holyoke he has this revelation of the burning bush hashem appoints him to become the jewish leader to go to egypt and emancipate the hebrew slaves from tyranny and subjugation after a long argument and conversation back and forth moshe acquiesces hashem gives him his mandate gives him his message hashem tells him it's time to go back and the passage says and this is the quote moshe takes his wife he takes his two sons because at this point he had two sons gershom and eleazar and by our kiwi malhemia these are the key words you have to always know the key words right he writes them he places them on the donkey he returns to the land of egypt and moshe takes with him the stick mata kim the stick which hashem designated for him to take pointed out which stick he should take he takes the stick up comes rashi and now she quotes two words in his subtitle in his headline martial placed them on the donkey says this was no regular donkey this was the donkey the special unique donkey it's the donkey that avraham avenue settled to take to the binding of yitzhak if you go back to parachutes valley we say it every morning hashem asks avramovinu to take his son yitzhak and go to mount maria and bring him as an offering what does it say ayashkim of ramba baike you remember up early in the morning and he prepared his donkey settled his donkey by hika no revita and then he took two lads by ivakaza and he splintered lumber to use for the wood for the carbon oiler for the offering and he began traveling to the place that hashem told them to go to says rashi that is the donkey the same donkey and russia continues not yet we're not finished yet and this is the donkey that in the future king mashiach is going to reveal himself on this donkey shanema as the navi says the navi zakariya riding on a donkey this is rashi we all know this is a very famous rashi moshe wasn't just riding moshe didn't place his wife and his children on a regular donkey to go back to egypt this donkey has loaded history this donkey was used by avraham this donkey is going to be used by mushi now i know the questions we're going to get to everything but the rebels now the laboratory is going to analyze this rashi from the perspective of shat be passed literally you can ask a question what's bothering rashi here remember rashi's mandate is not madrish and not to find the hints and intimations entirely which there are many rashi's mandate is understanding the literal meaning of aposic rashi says this many times in virayas already basila um i would say he says what was bothering rashi was one letter it says placed his wife and his children and had them riding on the donkey why on the donkey donkey the bug donkey was absolutely a donkey and minion that everybody spoke about what's this even if you want to tell me it's important to know the nature of the animal the species that took moish and his family back to egypt granted what's the hakama in hebrew that extra prefix hay before word is called heihaidia the hay that node tells me that this is a known donkey this is not just a regular donkey you bought from a farmer you bought from a donkey owner from a donkey breeder no this is the donkey so rashi says why is it the donkey he wrote them on the top they wrote him a donkey so she says let me tell you why the donkey if you have the donkey that have rama been used for the arcade and that meshiach is going to use is the donkey says but there is really something we have to understand first of all number one very important question again rashi is not here just to give us fantastic interesting midrashic interpretations he see it explained the possible says the donkey so you need to justify that expression using the prefix hey idea in order to justify it you have to explain that it was a special donkey so all rashi has to say is this donkey was used by avraham you don't even have to add any more he doesn't even have to add that it was for the al-qaeda if the donkey was used by avraham you know it's already a special donkey ah you want to add for the arcade you can add it but it's not necessary and i'll tell you why there's no other time we find that avraham settled the donkey the only time in humashit says that prepared a donkey was for that caterpillar there's no other story there's no other time the commercial there's a fraction would just say this is the donkey that avraham avinu used whoa the words like this yitzhak are superfluous because that's the only time he uses a donkey number one number two he doesn't have to add anything else he doesn't have to add locators and he doesn't have to add the whole future story that mashiach is going to use this dunk even if there's a madrid that says it and there are but rashid doesn't quote every mattress on every possible actually quotes whatever he needs to explain the literal interpretation because remember literally from a little represent that it's very strange that every says this is a stupendous miracle that there's a donkey that's going to live for thousands of years if you take it ashley literally and say it's the same physical donkey so this donkey is alive from of rama vino tell me who lived approximately 3 700 years ago 3 600 years ago so this donkey is alive not for hundreds of years not for centuries for millennia and it's not relevant to understanding the passage you can ask so what it says in madrid it's a good question but to understand the puzzle gets irrelevant why does rashi have to put this in even if you want to tell me hakama it's it's big enough to say that it came from avramovino that's also a long time from rama vino to my shirabena because moisture was the seventh generation from avramovina it's also a lot of time it's not a few thousand years it's a few hundred years it's not a very old donkey still supernatural the jews were in egypt for 210 years moisha was was 80 years old when he came to p when he came to para and when he liberated the jewish people out of egypt so it was the last 80 years the jews came to egypt 210 years so this is a few centuries after avram but rashi feels the need to add that it lives all the way to mashiach in other words the donkey is still around is this really necessary to understand the passage in footnote five the laboratory quotes the commentary of the gurarie this is the maharal of prague rabbi yohuda liver of prague who wrote a book called gur arye his name was yehudah and he was called leva a lion it says commentary here in parishes and in his book vurus hashem chapter 29 he writes clearly it doesn't mean that the donkey lived for so long and it doesn't mean the donkey is going to live for so long it means something as he explains we're going to get to that later it's a remis it's it's it's a metaphor it's it's allegorical of an idea but the rebbe says that's true that the gurari says this but rashi who writes his commentary even for a child doesn't say this enemy rashid doesn't get into the details and say it's only allegory and from a literal perspective it seems from rashid that he means it's the same donkey and he says go further and look in rashiway repair base about the realm of avraham inaudible the ram was prepared from the six days of creation and it doesn't seem that's allegorical either if rashi would tell you this is just an allegory and it's just trying to bring out an idea okay and that's what the morale says but the rebels says when you redraft she doesn't seem that he's saying that base another question is in rashi everything is meticulous in his headline he quotes two words why does he quote al in the headline he's not interpreting the word al al means on they rode on he's interpreting the word the donkey sadashi should have quoted in his headline just the word not the word al now you might say what's the big deal the rebbe always showed how even the headlines in rashi are meticulous and i said which words from the past does rashi choose to focus on to accentuate he uses the two words al-ahmar when it seems like ostensibly he's only explaining the word hammer base and i want to say mazel tov to everybody who started to learn massachusetts megillah so in your honor we're learning now a piece from the gemara mcgill that you're going to get to very soon says the gemara was an egyptian king from the greek dynasty and ptolemy ptolemy as they call them spelled with a p compelled and invited sages of the jewish people and he summoned them to egypt where he quarantined them for a few days to translate the toyota into greek this translation became known as the septuagint or the translation of the 70 or the 72 men there were a few changes ghazal say that their god gave them a gifted in their mind this insight to make a few important changes in the translation one of the changes came in this past of the gemara says vikas who they wrote in the translation vayar kivem al-nui sabnayadam moisha had his wife and children right on something an animal that carries people they change the words allah in the translation to he had them write on something that carries people opinion so rashi immessages mcgillidaf test mcgillin 9a explains what's the big deal because the mash magama they wanted to indicate they didn't change the text but they wanted it they wanted to indicate i'm saying they didn't change the animal they didn't write it was a it was a camel but they wanted to indicate it was a camel so that tamiya shouldn't say your teacher ebba didn't have a horse didn't have a camel it's a pasta people of stature would ride on a horse would ride on a camel not on a donkey they felt it was this was disrespectful so therefore they changed it from hammer toysville says the same thing over there as he says in footnote seven rash discusses it now you're thinking what's the big deal okay good question um avraham ibn ezra one of the greatest biblical commentators he came from spain he lived in the 12th century the eleven hundreds of one of the earliest commentators we have on hummus he was a great poet and a great astronomer and a great philosopher and a brilliant linguist and a great sage and rabbi an interesting man a great philosopher so his commentary here in parish moyes he says the reason for this changes because it's disrespectful that the wife of the prophet was on the same donkey she and both of her children all on one donkey that's why the sages felt that they have to manipulate so to speak the translation of turtle into greek and change it from a cat from a donkey into he placed them on an animal that carries people valpis malcolm so we have two interpretations rashi messages mcgillis says they felt it's going to be strange that moshe your teacher didn't have a horse or a donkey and that venezuela says that again this is very very cheap and disrespectful on one donkey she and her two children [Music] so perhaps maybe rashi wants to answer these questions too why did moishe place his wife and two children on one single donkey flat and obviously it seems like he put everything they owned all their assets the mobile assets also on the donkey could have to go back to egypt and he didn't put them on a horse or on a camel or at least take a few donkeys it seems like it's so uh disrespectful it's not the way to do it stuff your wife and all the kids and everything you own all on the same donkey and he's also going on the same donkey why would he do that and tell me amelia would be perturbed by this or as rasheed says in mesut ozil's megillah you bring also a horse and a camel for them to travel so maybe rashi was also bothered by this massacre says it wasn't a regular donkey it was a special donkey it's the donkey that i've rum used for that cadence donkey machine is going to use oh now there's no wonder if such a supernatural donkey could carry anything could carry a woman could carry two children could carry mushroom could carry all their packages it's already natural for this donkey to be supernatural if it's the donkey of that the donkey maybe that's what post-perturbing rashi what bothered rashid was not the hakama what bothered rashi was one donkey for everything which is the reason that the gemara says that they changed the wording in the greek translation that's how much this guy would be perturbed tommy would say this can't be true it's ridiculous a long journey for median to egypt you use a camel you use a donkey you need a few donkeys maybe that's what's bothering rashi but once you understand this was the donkey then it's all clear this donkey was not a regular guy no regular dunk this would also explain nicely why he puts in the word al into this headline because his explanation is coming to explain and justify that yaaka that motion is placed so much on the donkey how do you put so much on the donkey you your wife your children and everything your own a little ahman is on the donkey which is why tommy would reject it and say something is off so rashid says i'm going to explain you how he could put so much on top of this poor little donkey because this guy wasn't our poor little donkey this donkey was uh hush of a donkey he's the donkey of history for time but now we have another question to use for his wife and his two children and all of their cafeteria everything that they own because they were moving to a new country why didn't they just take enough donkeys take a horse take a camel when eliezer went to go find a shidduch he had 10 camels camels horses are very very impressive powerful animals larger animals so this itself is a question let's say rashi feels that he has to justify it that moishe uses one donkey for everything which is strange which is why the gemara says that the skating the elders changed the text in the greek translation i got it but now let's discuss itself why did marsha feel the need for this take a few donkeys and as he explains in 12 if moishe himself would be using this donkey for himself it was about him then i understand since the donkey was used for such elevated tasks use it for that mashiach is going to come through it so moisha when he's going to redeem the jewish people the first time he's being sent on the mission of the reborn of them to go redeem the jewish people from egypt he also uses the donkey but the pasta doesn't even mention that he was on the donkey mentions he took his wife and his children and he placed them on the donkey there's not even a mention of him that means the focus here is not him the focus is his wife and his children so why did moshe for that purpose for his wife or his children for whatever they owned which they probably took with them they probably didn't come broke why for that did he feel the need that he has to use the donkey for that kid and as he brings in the footnote on the footnote that rabbenu and bahaya and the shah even say that mushroom himself didn't use the donkey he came afterwards he sent them before him that means he himself say did he really feel the need that his two kinder luck and his wife and and and his packages have to go on the donkey that's going to be used by mashiach why just take a second donkey take a third donkey in foot note 11 the rebbe says that this donkey was close to 400 years old from avraham avinu and therefore if it's such a supernatural donkey it could carry everybody in footnote 10 he explains what's the big deal that his wife and two children should be on one donkey he says because gershom you have separate donkeys it's much more comfortable it's much more convenient it's much more balabatish unless he brings from the evanescent that could be gershwin was too small and therefore he wouldn't he wouldn't put gershom on a separate donkey and eliezer we understand because he was he was young he was a baby ramban says elias wasn't born yet he was born on the road but rashi disagrees this is all in footnote 10 you could see the details there's another thing that requires explanation where did you actually get this from the source for this rashi is in the madrid known as pirkei the rabbi eliezer the chapters of rebellion that comes from rabbi eliezer hagado rabbil bin hurkin is one of the greatest sages of the talmud the teacher of rabbi akiva who lived in the first century and the second century after the common era so there's a matrix called pirkeid rabbi eliezer and in that safer period all of chapter 31 this is the source of magdalena there he has one more thing this is the donkey that was created the donkey the son of the female donkey created being hashmasters created on twilight of the first friday of creation we speak about the donkey as one of those things that hashem created head of shabbos and later bilaam would be riding on that donkey and god opened the mouth of the donkey this is also the same donkey rashi takes this out interesting rashi quotes the priesthood ebola he speaks about two things that this donkey is going to be used for but he takes out the third it comes from the beginning of creation [Music] rashi quotes madrushim of our sages his nature is he doesn't just quote them as they are in the source verbatim he does not do that he quotes what is relevant to understanding the passage that's why we see rashi often quotes madrashim but he adds he deletes because he's not just quoting madrash most madrashimi doesn't quote he quotes what is necessary to understand the puzzling so therefore he only uses the part of the medrush that justifies the literal interpretation of the posix this is important especially then in piccadillaza this is coming to explain the story of avramovin or ashley takes it for the story of so therefore she feels free not to put in all of the details and he doesn't feel you need this detail that it comes from the beginning of creation good granted which by the way shows us how meticulous rashi is in his words because he quotes the madrid but he cuts out what he wants to cut out because he doesn't feel it belongs here mikhail mccomb says that nonetheless ki which is but this itself needs understanding if rashi is trying to show us that this is a special donkey that's why it says that's why moishe used this donkey so why do you delete this detail this is an important detail in fact this is something that distinguishes the donkey already all the way since creation just like you feel the need to say that the donkey comes from avraham even though it's supernatural it's close to 400 years nonetheless you could say that because you need to explain something about this donkey so why indeed did rashi feel compelled to knock out the other information in piccadillas that who came from the time of creation in fact this is something to bring because this shows us how special and unique this donkey was and it was already known as this donkey at least to maishirabenu it would be much better to bring this detail to the detail about because the story of mashiach is something that's going to happen in the future so it doesn't yet define the donkey now it's going to happen in the future you want to bring out that the donkey is already special and unique now so why don't you bring what happened already in the past it was created banash mushes which explains that it was a special donkey and avraham avinu used it that's what you should bring nonetheless rashi cuts out that detail and he only brings the fact that it was used for that and it's going to be used for the future which is not here yet mashiach didn't come yet at the time and was still waiting why how does all of this fit into the literal understanding of the these questions bring us to the following conclusion it seems from all of this that rashi is not trying to explain to us that this donkey is generally a special donkey that's empirical he wants to bring out that this is a unique donkey it was created during the beginning of creation on friday it was used by avram it's going to be used by mashiach that's not the focus of rashi because then he would have introduced that detail rashi wants to bring out the uniqueness of the donkey in our context why moshe chose this donkey to go from midyan to egypt to liberate the jewish people so for this rashi brings two details number one it was used for the arcade number you two it's going to be used by mashiach in other words this is a donkey that was designated for redemption for guru and therefore when moshe is going with his wife and his children to liberate the jewish people from egypt he uses this donkey because there's a donkey that was designated for redemption and that's why he feels the need to bring the fact that it's going to be used by mashiach he's not here to explain that the donkey is a unique donkey in general he's here to explain the connection to this event why moshe takes this donkey to go to egypt to liberate the jewish people so he has to bring about mashiach because that explains that this donkey is designated for ghoul granted but then we have the opposite question then why does he bring that it was used for the al-qaeda that's not gullah you're telling me that he doesn't mention the fact that the donkey was created on the first friday banash mushrooms because that's irrelevant to the theme of this story going back to egypt for gullah he wants to bring out why this donkey was designated for gula so why does he bring the arcade that he could just bring one thing this is the donkey that mushrik is going to come on and that's why avraham moshe could use this donkey it was a supernatural donkey it's going to be here when mashiach comes but he also brings the arcade and yet he cuts out what happened on the friday of creation via san you could say that this is the explanation and here he begins the explanation is what's bothering rashi is that the whole sentence is superfluous why do you have to tell me what type of animal moisture used in order to go back with his family to egypt you could have just said moshe took his wife and his children and he went back to egypt how he went back whatever i don't know why is that relevant to the story that's what's bothering rash remember that the way the toyota the genre of toyota is one that it doesn't just give us details to spice up a story for example we don't know what adam looked like we don't know what have looked like we don't know what avraham looked like we don't even know what maish rabena looked like we know that joseph was handsome and beautiful because that's relevant to the story too because it explains what happened with the wife of paitifah but the torah doesn't give us all of the details and the nuances and the story in order to give us the ambiance and to know exactly what things look like toyota is very very precise and brief and concise and meticulous what details it introduces what it does and only that which is relevant to the story and the lesson why do i have to know that my ship placed them on a donkey that's the question the question is not only the question that rashi is explaining is not why he didn't use a few donkeys the real question is why the toyota puts in this whole story this part of the narrative could have just said they went back to egypt explanation answers why this is so important and the detail is connected and is part of the context of the theme of this parsha and that's why the trader puts it in and is going to explain and suggest his explanation how you have to understand this is earlier right before this story there is a long conversation between hashem and moshe hashem wants moshe to go and redeem the jewish people and moshe refuses he comes up with many rationals rationalizations and excuses to explain to hashem that he's not the right person seven days rashi says this dialogue went on seven days hashem was trying to persuade moshe to accept the mission and at the end maisha says do me a favor send somebody else what are the words literally please send the person please send for this message for this mission the person you should send is send it through the hand of the person you're going to send it's a little ambiguous so rashi says meant two things used these words and he meant two things first of all i don't want to become superior to my brother aaron aaron was older than moshe and aaron was a prophet so at the end of the conversation for this mission choose the person that you have that you read that you usually send to speak to the jewish people aaron was already a nominated prophet he was a messenger of god he was a prophet and he's older than martial so much was uncomfortable that he should become the leader he should become the great prophet he should become the redeemer instead of aaron when moshe was a few years younger than iron he was three years younger than that six years younger than miriam three years younger than our during the exodus aaron was 83 moisha was 80. he was uncomfortable she said this mission choose the person whom you usually use to send your messages to the jewish people number two there was another interpretation maisha already felt at that time that he will not complete the mission he's not going to bring them in territorial so he said find somebody that you want to send to do this mission because i'm the wrong person i'm going to start and i'm not going to finish i'm not going to go into history my she already felt that i'm not going to redeem them in the future i'm going to start and not complete so send it with the send the person who could redeem them fully and bring them back to the land this is while rashi explains what moshe was telling hashem at the end of the dialogue and why he refused to go i'm number 7 avalanche what happened at the end how was moshe convinced moishe accepted the mission and rashi says it's because it says hashem got upset he got upset at merchants so might say okay i'll do it got it but one second maisha had some serious questions here how did hashem negate that how did hashem answer those questions he said why don't you send aaron i do not want to take this position aaron is older than i am iron is a prophet he felt very awkward and uncomfortable to take this position on our over iron and second of all choose somebody who's going to finish the job who's going to redeem them all the way is going to be the back tattoo so it's not me hashem never responded to this apparently moshe had these two questions everything he said hashem responded to here he just gets angry i hashem told them aaron is going to be happy for you rashid says you think iron is going to be upset he's not going to be able to deal with it no he's going to be happy the number says it doesn't really answer it fully because moshe didn't want to take the job not only because aaron is going to get upset and get offended and see it as a personal affront he just felt uncomfortable that he should be in a superior position to iron aaron is older than him aaron is a prophet already that's what he felt it wasn't about that aaron is going to be upset that aaron is not going to like that aaron is going to be jealous of shalom that wasn't the issue the issue is he did not feel comfortable to be in this position vis-a-vis iron how did hashem respond to this hashem didn't respond to the two big complaints of moshe in the which that's why this detail is important he took them on a donkey when maisha agreed to fulfill hashem's mission the answer of hashem to moshe's two complaints are also conveyed they're intimated in the fact that hashem made sure that the journey to egypt to fulfill this mission should happen through a special donkey what donkey the donkey that avraham used for the arcade and the donkey that meshiach is going to be revealed on by the ultimate ghoul because this answers both of the lamentations both of the complaints of martial why is the first detail is this donkey was used for the arcade avramavinu was told by hashem take your son and bring him as an offering you would think of ram would hesitate he didn't hesitate to fulfill hashem's commandment on the contrary as it says he went and himself he settled his donkey he didn't even delegate it to one of his servants he woke up in the morning by yahweh murder because he had this agility and this alacrity this jesus that he himself wanted to fulfill the mitzvah so from this moshe was to learn something very profound that even if there's reasons to hesitate because you don't want to become such a great figure you don't want to become a great leader you have an older brother aaron especially that marisha felt it's not just i'm taking the position maybe aaron will be upset or at least he won't be so enthusiastically happy he won't embrace it with a full heart but if hashem is telling you what to do hashem knows the right thing you do it fully and you do it with joy and you do it with complete heart learn from avraham rama venus task was much more excruciatingly difficult and he had much more reasons to hesitate and and and argue and say find somebody else and what do you want from me that was the first response to moshe's first complaint he felt he doesn't want to sacrifice aaron on the altar of his greatness she learned from avinu he was ready to take yitzhak to the arcade and not just sacrifice aaron that he wouldn't have this position but much more sacrificed the entire life of his son and give it back to the creator so mushroom would learn from this hashem tells you to do something do it and do it fully and do it with a great heart that's number one that was response number one by having him use this donkey now what about his second lamentation i'm not going to go in territory why don't you give them the final redeemer who's going to take to redeem them from the jewish people hashem says this donkey is going to be used by meshiach what's the point these are not two separate redemptions whatever mashiach is going to accomplish in the future is a direct continuum to what you are accomplishing here when you're going to take them out of egypt and the future redemption and the revelation of melaka on the donkey is dependent on what mushroom is going to accomplish in the redemption of time now the redemption of the mitzrayim begins a domino effect it unleashes the forces of emancipation and liberation in the consciousness of humanity which will ultimately lead to the mashiach says i'm going to start the job and i'm not going to finish it what are you what you got the wrong person get the ultimate redeemer hashem says no you don't understand it's your process now your process is not incomplete because it's not being completed what's going to happen through mushrik is going to be a direct continuation because of your work not a separate thing it's not like moisha didn't do the job but somebody else is going to do the job your job is what you can do because that's indispensable and then machine can only do what he does as a continuation to what you did now we understand why the pasek felt the need to say what animal he used these words are not superfluous because this is somehow important to the story because this answers moisha's two questions at least it doesn't doesn't answer them explicitly but it answers them implicitly so rashi feels the need to explain why did the pastor put in these words very akira malacha they're completely superfluous rashi understands because this is important for the story because this is how hashem responded to maisha's final two lamentations that hashem never addresses in the story but through the donkey does address it number one that the problem with aaron is not something that should hold them back learn from of rama venue and number two the problem mashiach is not something to hold you back because this very donkey that you're using is going to be the donkey machine will never be able to do what he does without you so therefore if you don't do this mission you wait for a machine it's not going to happen it's you begins the process that mashiach builds on your process very powerful sometimes you say why should i do this mission i'm not going to finish it nobody is going to be able to finish it without you beginning it it's not like we're going to find that magical person who's going to do the whole thing you do your part and then he can do his part if you don't do your part he'll never be able to do your part and therefore you'll never be able to do his part like it says in prakayavas right lawyers you can't finish the work but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't begin you can't finish the work but that's not a reason you shouldn't begin you do what you have to do and then mashiach will be able to complete the mission because you started the mission that's why this donkey is going to be was used for the arcade that was used for mashiach that's why it actually doesn't put in the story that the donkey was used and was created on the first friday of creation that's an amazing idea in piccadillas but it's not relevant to the prosciutto shall maker so what's bothering rashi is not just and not just that too but this is the key why the toyota even feels the need to mention this whole detail and now she's explaining to us that it's all essential to the story in 25 the rebbe adds one more detail that this may be the reason why the toyota only specifies that his wife and children were on this donkey doesn't say it about himself and it's ambiguous because even if you say he was on it but the torah doesn't mention that we're going to learn more about that later in the second half but he says this uniqueness represents what's going on because when the toyota says that he places his wife and his children and all their objects on one donkey which is strange to use one donkey it represents that this is something special about him going to egypt with his donkey if he would have just said moisha himself went on this donkey you would say the donkey was used because this is the donkey that mashiach is going to come on so therefore moshe also used this donkey because moshe was going for the ghoul so just like this donkey is going to be used by mashiach the donkey was used by moshe in order to go to egypt but the fact that the toyota doesn't mention that the toyota mentions his wife and his children it means that there's something more here it's not just it's going to be used for gula then speak about marshall while he's speaking about his wife and his children you want to bring out that there's something special about him going to egypt on this donkey because it responds to the complaints of mashirabenu the two complaints of maishraven are being addressed he says at the end of the day and soros here one more detail here hey alpiana this explains also a few questions in the language of rashi alef speaks about the donkey he says this is the donkey that avraham avenue settled saddled when it comes to mashiri is this donkey that mashik is going to be revealed on one sec by avram avinu you use the word because that's the words in the title so use the words of the prophet so rashford should have said this is the donkey that avraham saddled and this is the donkey that mashiach is going to ride on use the terminology of the prophet in fact that's how the practical ability says it rashi changes it it's very strange number two in piccadillas it says this is the donkey that ben david is going to ride on rashi changes to melaka mashiach why these two changes the explanation is the moment we understand why rashi chooses this commentary his changes in his language become crystal clear in peer kid rabbi eliza the source of rashii the point is to enumerate the unique qualities and usage of this donkey it was the donkey that was created on friday during twilight it's the donkey that avraham avinu used for the arcade it's the donkey that moshe used going to egypt it's the donkey that the son of david is going to ride on the pika derby is enumerating the unique qualities of this special donkey so that's why he uses the language of the passage aniverich valhammar and he calls mashir bendavid rashi's objective as we said is not just to talk about the donkey to explain the connection of the donkey to this situation to this story like we learned before that by using this donkey hashem was responding to the reasons moshe gave him why he's refusing to take on the mission to go to egypt in the two details that we discussed the issue with aaron and the issue with mashiach that's why rashi chooses his words meticulously for the first topic the arcade actually uses the word of rama vinu himself prepared the donkey to go to the arcade this brings out how one ought to fulfill a mitzvah of hashem without calculations and without considerations it doesn't make sense and this one is going to be upset this you see that in the fact that abraham didn't only do it he himself as we learned before got up in the morning and he himself appeared that donkey didn't delegate it because he had such a joy and such alacrity and such enthusiasm to fulfill the mitzvah of hashem and therefore he didn't want to delegate it even though avraham avinu had many servants to do it but he himself did it because when you love something when you love something you don't make calculations you completely embrace it ava calcul so rash uses the word shakhwash because this would inspire martial and it would be the response to his issue how can i sacrifice aaron on this altar of my leadership i can't remembering this is the donkey of the arcade it empowered martian it gave him perspective look what this donkey was used for and look who saddled it a few hundred years ago when he went not to egypt to redeem the jewish people but to offer his son the second issue is he didn't want to take the job because he's not going to complete it and hashem showed him that everything that mashiach is going to do is because of him it's a continuum to marsha so he doesn't use the words this is the donkey that the son of david is going to use to ride on because that doesn't have to do with redemption it could be that ben david will use it generally ben david the son of david is going to want to ride somewhere and he's going to use a donkey which also means that it's special because ben david is using this donkey but it's not connected to the ghoul the point here is hashem is not trying to tell avraham to tell maisha it's a special donkey no it's the donkey of goola and that's why you're taking this donkey because of your beginning goal a ghoul is happening because you mashiach can do it without continuing your work it's a hamster it's a continuum to your work so to just to say that ben david is going to ride on it use the words lyrica if doesn't capture the point that's where it actually is forced to change the language of pirkhitab of his own source in order to justify why he's bringing it here in the passage so he changes and he makes two changes this is the donkey that melaka will be revealed on it so he explains that the donkey is connected not just to ben david but to mello hamashiach and number two he's going to be revealed on it he's not just going to ride on this donkey the oola is going to come on this donkey this demonstrated to marsha nabenu and it gave him the answer to his second lamentation that he's not fulfilling the job give somebody else this mission somebody who will finish the job which is mashiach and the answer is no the person is going to finish it because you're going to begin it and in sieve that adds one more detail and this is going to be the last for today and then we'll continue the next year for ideas limer there's one more thing we could add so one more final detail here my two complaints number one i cannot take greatness assume this position of greatness instead of aaron who's older than me who was part of raising me who's a prophet already i don't measure wasn't a prophet at the time who's older than me who's greater than me i can't even if he's going to be fine with it i can't that was his big complaint the first complaint and we said that's why hashem gave him this donkey which was used by the arcade the rabbit says the second element that mashiach is going to use it is also a response to this first complaint that he cannot assume this position in lieu of iron and remember when hashem first asked moisha to do this job the first thing he said is who am i i can't it's not for me i'm not the person for it how does this get responded to by saying this is donkey when rashi proves that mashiach is going to be using a donkey he quotes the possibility of alhamar why does he quote the detail that meshech is going to be poor why is that relevant here the point is he could have just said it it says by mushi he's going to write on a donkey why is it relevant to quote the pasek ani if he quotes the whole passage fine but the first half of the passage he takes out it says you're going to have a king who's going to come he's going to be at saddam he's going to help you he's going to be poor he's going to ride on a donkey he doesn't bring the first pasuk if he wants to quote the part of the puzzle that shows us talking about mashiach then bring the beginning of the passage but he doesn't because he just tells you which passage it is and you could look up and you'll see it's talking about meshiach so why does he bring this detail that he's going to be poor why is that relevant especially that it seems to contradict the concept that he's going to be the king the king of the jewish people is going to be poverty-stricken the answer is rashi over there in zakaria explains what does poor mean poor doesn't mean that he's broke poor means that he's humble and riding on a donkey is an attribute of humility he's not coming in a bmw it's coming in a donkey why a donkey not even a horse not even a camel a more aristocratic animal a horse this is part of his humility why why is that important the answer is because when hashem sends you on a mission any mission even when the mission is to be a king to redeem the world to redeem the jewish people it's always dependent on one foundational prerequisite and that's humility authenticity because the only way you could be a conduit for the malchus for royalty for aristocracy of hashem to flow through you is only humility that's what the posix says in yeshaya you shall your parikh nunza in isaiah 57 hashem says i am exalted i am holy but where do i dwell i dwell in the humble person because when a person is arrogant when a person has this vanity this fake pride this big inflated ego which comes from deep insecurity the person is not a conduit for infinity the person is not a conduit for hashem's flow the gemara says in sayta she says i can't live in the same roof under the same roof with an arrogant person so what's the conduit what makes your conduit for malchus for the ultimate leadership meaning you're an ambassador of hashem complete humility that's why rashid says aniver he's riding on a donkey and he's poor poor in the sense not financially poor could be very rich it's an attitude he doesn't feel he owns it he feels it's a gift he's a recipient he's a humble person he's a humble servant this answered martial benue's question marshall said how could you appoint me do you know why my show was a very humble man we know he was the most humble of men as the terrorist says later in baalois in the book of numbers so the first question is [Music] who am i especially that i have a brother but his first words i'm not the person for this god you got the wrong headdress this was maisha's uniqueness he was truly truly he didn't need this he doesn't need the validation he doesn't need that attention he doesn't need the power sashem was saying ah you're going to use this donkey that's going to be used by whom in other words the person we choose to be the redeemer is the person who feels i don't deserve this this is not mine i don't own this i'm not here to control people i'm just a simple person that's why you could be the leader if you would feel about yourself of course i deserve this of course this is my destiny i'm the king oh yeah yeah yeah then we have to be careful power corrupts absolute power corrupts absolutely it gets to your head it's precisely because maestro bainu has this question why me this aaron and who am i even if there was no iron i don't deserve this especially that is iron trump says that's exactly why you did why you need this role so this donkey of mashiach where ashley uses the words anivera represents exactly why you should be doing it because what's used by mashiach is using this donkey is because he's oni because he's humble and that's why he's mashiach and that's exactly the answer why you're being chosen and that's exactly why you could be chosen even though you have the brother aaron because the fact that you actually feel this doesn't belong to you this is a gift it's not about you you're not taking yourself seriously you're not here to control people you're certainly not here to manipulate people you're not the power hungry ambitious person who feels that you deserve to be their lead on the contrary questioning yourself allows you to become the quint essential leader where you don't take yourself seriously you take your mission seriously we're not afraid of criticism we're not afraid to be introspective where your humility is never compromised you remember that you're a shliya you're an ambassador you don't own the people that is exactly the qualities that we need so this donkey being used by mashiach also answers the first and major lamentation and complaint of mashraemu with which he explained why he does not want this mission that's why it's important for the passage to tell us he brought them on the donkey it's relevant to the story because this was god's prop that he used to respond to moisha's question sometimes you respond to a question verbally and sometimes you respond to a question not verbally but through a prop through a physical graphic illustration this donkey mush answers your question it was used for the arcade it was used by mashiach it answers what your real problem was that's why the pasik mentions the donkey and that's why rashi feels the need to explain why the pasik mentions the donkey that it's actually part of the whole story so it doesn't only answer why it says doesn't only explain why he used this donkey and not a few donkeys because then there would be a lot of other questions but it's really explaining why hashem chose this donkey to respond to his resistance to go liberate the jewish people from egypt and it's this donkey that justifies it and explains it to marsha in a way that he can embrace his mission enthusiastically this is the first part of the sikh the second part of circuit goes off into a different dimension showing the spiritual meaning of the three times the donkey is used the donkey of avram the donkey of moshe the donkey of meshiach and then we're going to learn a whole new dimension in how the body keeps the ultimate score of history and of the human truth and of human life that we're going to continue basing hashem next time which is going to be thursday morning 7 30 a.m please now there let me take a few questions if there are and we're also going to have tomorrow a women's class tuesday 12 45 p.m it's going to be streamed on the yeshiva.net and it's going to be live 24 shayroad okay question you had a shirt a while back about the donkey yes a drama in four acts that was a shir we gave a few years ago in bullock i believe and it's on the yeshiva.net yeah a drama in four acts which is based on our discussion here as well this was such a beautiful connection of the patriarchs and maishrabenu showing the humility and humbleness of the most influential people in history anti-semites this is our friend from pakistan writing antisemites say that jews are racist and full of pride and ego because we say that we're the chosen people little do they know that the jews are chosen because of their humility and their feeling of responsibility to god and humanity let me tell you something she writes in other abrahamic religions horses and swords are the main weapon of influence but jewish tradition is telling us that donkey is mashiach's animal because this represents humility the donkey is humble this is a transformation in my mind it shows us the discipline and the humility we're not trying to show off our power the donkey might have much deeper strength and power as a vessel of transportation but it represents the ultimate humility wow thank you that's beautiful that is beautiful okay i see also a lot of comments on the website but because the hour is late maybe i'll address some of them in the next class we'll see in the meantime i'm gonna wish you all a beautiful day and i'm also going to uh suggest last night rabbi shimon russell the famous therapist and myself had a wonderful wonderful session of dealing with education why are so many teenagers struggling in today's generation what can we do to help them you could see it on the yeshiva.net it's right there on the home page you can watch it in double speed it was a three hour session and i think it's important for parents and educators of all types and all sorts to tune into it because some very important information was shared wishing you all a beautiful day and sending my love and blessings