Josh Brody - Lessons from Pharaoh

good evening everyone thank you for tuning in first I'd like to thank project inspire for putting this together and for hosting us and other various websites shooting world and not seventh or any time of course that are broadcasting this live obviously we're in a very very difficult motto for the world or cause well in particular and while I you know leave it to the good of them to tell us what exactly a particular lesson is for us it's hard not to notice that the world that we took for granted as recently as a couple of weeks ago suddenly has completely changed any when that happens obviously you realize that sense of control that we thought we had is gone because the things we thought we'd be doing today are obvious enough the things that we were actually doing and you know this type of matza really goes to the heart of what we as the chooser supposed to be doing right there on bond in the first bowl talks about that all of the mitzvahs have a common theme which is to increase help us work on Arden so now the sort of matzah is happening gives an opportunity really to focus on our Amina and well that concept is with the school year it's particularly highlighted and strong in the month of Nisan and during the faceoff as show'm says that say it or not eating is really the roughest trauma for me that the things that we can accomplish the night of the Seder in terms of increasing I'm wanting the strengthening our woman getting closer to the letters powerful it's something that you can't be accomplished rest of the year so we're in right now we're leading up to that night to that opportunity to really come closer to our cutters borrow hope now is the time to capitalize really think about the focus on our ammonal obviously the the backbone of our aluminum it's uh I know a shaman or Kevlar is all about it's yesterday's right and so you focusing on the story of ETS withdrawing is really what gives us that opportunity you really break down at its most basic what it means to happen one of the things were supposed to be focusing on in order to understand how to come close to relish barber you know the challenges with the Soviet es to destroy him of course is that because we learn it from such a young age there's certain aspects to it that we tend sometimes to sort of this gloss over because this is sort of yeah we understand this is the way it sort of worked and didn't necessarily focus and think about understand what really was happening I remember human ones that were footing or said about himself that Bubba comment was worse to assess uh because you could never get over what he called his nourish understanding of economists could we learned it from he was a young boy who actually think about the story would see us to destroy him the two main human characters were Moshe and Carl and I think that for most of us it's pretty easy to look at the way most of the hate and the things that no she did and say oh I need to learn from that I mostly did it this way they do this well how did he think about things what did he say because he's motioning and it's obvious that we're supposed to learn from him and have that can I treat them but I think in many ways prob who is emotional to see a foil if you will we tend to thing to not really focus too much of the things he said and did simply because he's power he was a terrible person and he's not the kind of person we would think that you want to be but obviously the the Tober includes so much of what Tarla said but obviously there's something in there for us to learn from the door doesn't include the things that power said just because they were needed to be bad a little bit any interesting right it's there because we need something that's there for us to learn from so if you start to think about looking at the story that's yes Vince Ryan through the lens of power and how power experience things the thing that he actually did you actually can start to see some things we might not otherwise noticed so for example if you so I think we're going to start with power there really is one over are some question you have to wonder about and this is a question them before she were to deal if you look through the first five Makos you see that it constantly talks about the fact that power law was heart was hardened but it's always done through the perspective of it says it power was one who was doing it this is subtle shift but not a shrimp where it doesn't say that part in this heart it says as a chemist I borrow that Shem was the one the hardened Pharaoh's heart no again if you think about it before moving we all grapple with this issue because of the book your focus is one of the building blocks of hirschbaum who deals with his creations so it seems colossal unfair that para essentially lost his believer and had no choice but to consider through the last five Marcos and having the whole country destroyed and wiped out and get punched on top of that as medics goes on to explain great links but seems a little unfair how can it be that kind of protocol assumption to promise a free choice and yet held them accountable for the things that happened especially after the end the last five models and then on top of that if you look in at certain specific issues and words and phrases that party in power uses you start to see certain concepts and ideas that you might not otherwise notice and these questions actually from the psalm these ideas I got from from us well Miller so before the maka of bharata most remain who comes to peril and gives him a warning and this morning here's a little bit strange a newbie on fire he gets into why exactly motion he was such a strange warning we said specifically bring all the animals but beyond that we actually think it's written to moshus warring was even more bizarre the pus accelerates devar hashem those needs through that fear Hashem they brought all their animals and their service inside but the ones that were not yelling to our channel or some go wash em they left all the animals outside I think about this for a second remembering these are actual events that happen were met with actual people I don't care skeptically I don't care how much you're a I believe it when I see it not before then the fact is but up until this point most were available had six times warned Hara what was gonna happen any four times in warning me - you haven't said coloreds Albemarle's but he had warned the midstream of some radical wacky things that were gonna happen and they all happened exactly the way he said it would I don't care if you're skeptical how did he not bring your stuff inside when he tells you that if you don't it's all gonna be destroyed and then on top of that what does he assured me with anything if you only fear Hashem that's when you were practical enough to know that you should bring your stuff inside the things doesn't make any sense why would anyone behave that way everyone should have brought their stuff inside the last question right after the mock ups kosher so power calls in motion and says look you guys go sir a sham for three days like you asked but leave your cattle behind now again this seems like a little bit of a strange thing for hit hard to ask for did we show you know also again they they almost didn't point out I said Paul was really trying to get some sort of collateral to insist that the union would return but again does it make sense to think that the Jewish people after two hundred and ten years of slavery and a Holocaust are going to return to mitzrayim on account a couple the heads of cattle and it just defies logic when we do that and then most relators response apparel also does it make any sense or it seems like a another good response most of the response was oh no not only are we taking our cattle but you're sending dinners as well I mean this count you know my kids didn't want to go to sleep and I was trying to get him good hey Beth o'clock okay fifteen eight o'clock okay 37:45 right that's a negotiate the tenure and that was most advanced to par he can just say no said I'm gonna one-up you this is cavilleri bit of a strange dialogue there and when after Marcus closure just to recap three basic questions I want to try to address number one how does it seem fair that Parra lost his bethey row during the last half of the mock us this country was completely destroyed what that hasn't result number two why is it that only those midstream who were your as devotion brought their animals inside anyone who had any sense should have brought their animals inside after the warning emotion gave a number three what's this negotiation that's going on we taped our own motion are they know where para seems to be si since our collateral and the motion says no no you collaborate you're gonna get stuff what was the deputy did party was gonna happen with the Jews would do as there's all the readings in cattle behind now I think one way to understand Karl is to recognize that gizelle is perspective notwithstanding the fact that at different points in time when the Torah says uses the word Paro it was clearly a different person has out viewed all pars through the same lens I think the more on sight on document Padma Bates says why was that car was the one that was open as were to enslave been a struggle it's because para was the one who also was no Lava hovering of you out of violence are Qingdao not obviously that tall was not the same person but because I was prospectively viewed Paro as being cut from the same sort of spiritual cloth and therefore what the Torah says about one parle really applies across the board every parle because there's a certain you've caught up to mother you know got her working as a team with Paro that was the same for all of them in the beginning of partially case tarlyn describes Paulo's dream and the Torah says indication I mean claim he made all made out higher now the way that's typically translator is you think the translate English homage already translator dude he's standing on the banks of the Nile River but but that's actually a bit of a mistranslation Ohio or means on the river because I'll point out that that's exactly what Paul was dreaming you he was dreaming she was standing literally on top of the river okay it's a dream not necessarily so crazy but how sob derive from this and they say that rishonim stand on top of their gods we're tsadikim have the fear of God on top of them I think what that means is the far as follows people are from licked Hashem in a way that is less about how do I serve Hashem and it's more about what can I say me do for me I need things and Hashem is the one that can't even get them from so as a result I need to do my part because this way I can get the things that I need from Hashem but I saw Hashem because I want necessarily Mississippi for him but I mean for me so I wanna show to make me happy I want him to give me the things that I need now of course this really misses the point and it's the wrong starring perspectives to have in serving others for when you serve a Shem you're doing it because that's what he wants and that's what she's saying she do not necessarily because it's good free of her we're good for me because that's what Hashem says to do and as AB Dashon that's the perspective we're supposed to have in serving others far off the person has a me first attitude that it's completely backwards and really the underpinning in this attitude that the only God a person has is himself the only thing your person or deity that he wants to satisfy is himself and that's really what politics but the Nile was worshipped by the Egyptians as God but in Karl's mind they're not the Nile was doing his bit and serving him and helping him so he's viewed himself as standing on top of the Nile now of course with that kind of attitude you're not really gonna have much of a relationship with your God whoever that may think that that may be and you don't even realize it while you're living in this fantasy world when you think that your actual relating to God because you're serving him but you're only doing it because your starting point is yourself for the things that you want now most comes to Paro and he says to power all apologies to Charlton Heston he did not say let my people go what he says it is send them out there's a very subtle distinction here saying let my people go let them go he's just getting away you need to do anything just steps on what Moshe was telling Paro was then another you have to be involved yourself you have to serve Hashem here too by sending them out it's not enough for you to just get out of the way you need to be involved maybe think about it you didn't could have left with Ryan at any time during the course of the Marcus and they weren't working anymore the objects had stopped I've got a straw we couldn't easily just made it if they walked out so why didn't he fall the pomp and circumstance oh that's my modest what exactly was Curtis for trying to prove the answer is it wasn't about beating down the mr. Ian wasn't think he needed to beat them into submission so they finally relented and let didn't go it was about demonstrating to its Ryan that there's a voter it wasn't just for the in you knew that already this is because Kaurava wanted to demonstrate the most powerful empire in the world that it's not you you're not in charge there's a burial he's the one who runs the world and I kind of brought a fool time time time again over the course of ten miles was trying to prove to the midstream and get them to recognize that car off who runs the world now the thing was ironic para understood this from the get-go and we should not underestimate how much para llamar stood what was going on you know that Paulo's reaction to emotional came to him the first time his response was me I'll share my share - Nicole who is the son that I said I should listen to me not just who is a shame I've heard of them but who is effeminate I've never heard of him and I should listen to him meaning another God says it's your thousands of God's no problems I got a god that's great but I should listen to him what's your God done for me I don't pay him any attention how understood exactly what motivated was getting at an issue but he didn't want to actually go and give in to it he didn't want to acknowledge the fact there was a bird Oliver was on top of everything else now ultimately by the way misgiving towards the end Paro understood it because when he finally simply hidden out he said you know there are some Gamow see I understand you know so Hashem she blessed me to do that I realize now that I kind of powerful was the one who runs the world this verse explains why it was that power was trying to let these didn't go in exchange for the cattle it wasn't about collateral it was about power trying to convince himself hey look you know look God's stronger than I am and get it but I you know I got some leverage for - so you know what we'll negotiate in this way we're all said and done the Jewish people can leave I know they're not coming back but I'll keep all their cattle and this way I can tell my people and I tell myself they've got a negotiator I could have said the deal you know it was the best deal I could get for us you negotiated I did the best I could this was move she said - no no no no not only me not leaving our cattle or taking yours - God doesn't do deals God doesn't negotiate Hashem wants you to send the Jewish people how he wants you to recognize and acknowledge that she's the voter until you're willing to do that you're missing the point and so the beatings will continue because until you can recognize acknowledge that cutter scroll fool penis knows you have not gotten a message the prom for Paro was he created this fantasy room for himself in which to the only God that matter was part and the real tragedy of this attitude is not that it's inherently just not very honor to think and do a crunch bar over this way but you're living a lie because that's just not the way the world works there is a barrio whose mascius on walks and who runs the world and as long as you convinced yourself that you're in charge you're just missing the point you know a lot of ways this is how Paro could go on constantly just ignoring what was going on around him country in ruins and continue to insist that he's not going to let the Jewish people link rain this explains why he was treating themselves only brought in their cattle if they were yoren's devar hashem because that was the whole point but the mockers was supposed to be was this definite was this recognition in this demonstration that control who runs the world anyone else they didn't fear a Shem I wasn't gonna be practical it was they knew if I bring my cattle inside I'm acknowledging that I shall runs the world I'm not doing that psychological truthfulness called cognitive dissonance and only those with swim would gotten the message were able to recognize what they needed to do and do the smart thing and bring the cattle inside and this also explains of course what happened and why Paro is Hertz Horton the last five plagues see it's not that kind of spur took away his believer the opposite is true when Kurdish parfume did was strength and courage believer very often we asked why don't we see Mesa nowadays it's a lot unfortunate about that's one explanation is because if you see an ace in a way that takes away your bikina because how can you possibly not survive God is powerful you've just seen an openness so here was the same thing could have brought of course at the power but I don't want you to be I can do the influence but all the reason that I'm doing there's so insistent that you're right you're so insistent that you're the one that runs the world no problem I'm gonna help you stand firmly and usually extra backbone so you don't need to give in to the nice thing that I'm doing you only change your mind if you come to that conclusion on your own because they cash on the slave parole it wasn't that a cutter spawn took away possible hero it's the opposite cutters wrongfully strengthen is the Thira and gave me more firmness to be able to stand up and say I'm not gonna do something that's I believe else right okay so I think now we have a pretty good understanding of powers perspective what was going on Junichi yes that's right okay what exactly does that have to do with us you know I think that one of the things we often struggle with on a day to day basis when it comes to him you know has nothing to do the belief in the existence of a kind of carajo it's easy the reality is that even if you talk to some of the most the biggest skeptics out there recognizing that there's you know there's a bar holding between not that complicated it's pretty straightforward and for those of us who were born into it especially it's the thing we take the second nature the problem is recognizing that occurs for who is with us in every aspect of our lives and that the things that we think are important to us don't necessarily mean but that's the way the things should go but we have this tendency to just think oh it's important to me and I need to make sure this is gonna happen and therefore if it doesn't suddenly I've got tremendous frustration I can't understand why doesn't happen to me what's going on and that's what our Mumma actually starts to play a role Edgar Allen Poe once put it as how could I possibly believe in a god that's greater than me now I'm sure that for most of us we would never say something quite dad you know pure dick but let me see things like I can't believe I'm sitting in traffic why is this line so long why did this network out why is the things that I want to go right are going wrong but we're not ghastly frustrated about other parts of human nature this is us questioning the reality of the world that we live in that why doesn't the world bend itself to what I want when we think about it you know and look I should look at again our Shannon who created the world that's great when it comes to the basic things that go on in our lives so often we're not willing to recognize the fact that I cut her off her lungs in the world and we're pushing so hard against it because wouldn't us think that hey I'm the one who's running my life and I think it's not going the way that I want and this person didn't do what I wanted to do and this person didn't do that they should do and why does this work out the wrong way wait a second what happened to them you know it's really ironic when I find this happens to me all the time where you know if you learn something about a man working yet to work not forbidden the tragedies happening sometimes people have a much easier time tapping into that Emunah and recognizing that occurs for the whole run of the world they kind of just so give themselves off to it and say okay coach brothel will take care of it but when it comes to the little things you tend to just sort of lose it I had this car that I learned with in the morning with learning in the other you never knew no and I found it more often than I want to admit I'll sit and learn for a half-hour of learning stuff but uh finally if you're really charged from it you know I'll come home and one of my kids or something will do something which is very frustrating and I get pretty upset arise that's what just happened I was just learning about Emunah striking away the last half hour and nothing big bothers me everything's great I worry about a thing and all of a sudden you know my mic you spilt something on the floor and it's so you know I'm so frustrated never said why can't you be more careful what am I missing this idea of the morning I've shown run in the world it's gotta be with this at all levels and it's recognizing that we're not in charge I mean obviously you know what's going on right now if that didn't help us understand it I mean it's so I'm so obvious to us but it can't be just in the big things the little things to every step along the way we have to recognize that the purpose of our relationship with Hashem is not about us as long as it's about us you're just missing the point you can be doing everything you're supposed to be doing keeping learnt I'm doing this lesson and all the wonderful amazing things that you can do every single day but if your starting point for doing it is because this is what I want what I want because I want to kind of off onto Shalom into the bruja because it makes you think you feel good and well me feel better I want to do it a certain way even though people are saying I should die let me tell me not to do it that way but it's it's what I want you're missing the point let's just serve a color is powerful because that's what a powerful boss and if you don't have that as a starting point for your perspective you're just you're just missing it now the thing is this could be like a little bit of a red calling emotional problem for us because the thing is if you're thinking about a cutter powerful purely as look I understand you everything that he wants and it's all about him you know sometimes I can make you feel a little bit like well she's something being it for me how do I know that I'm doing all this things for him how do I know what that he's gonna do something for me but that attitude is a little bit again missing the point but at the same time from an emotional perspective it's human beings living in either 2020 it can be a little hard at times to not have a little bit of that feeling we all have that friend who the only time they call when they need something and they're your best friend in everything's great but sometimes it feel like I'm I really come to me is hoping that hoping my friend and really have a deeper relationship as a result but I kind of know we're not going to he gave a little bit of it but he sure the credits bar for sometimes get an emotional level we feel like is that right - no I'm actually struck like this often - when a stray sometimes a day at the end of a kind of sorrow you say I say Lomond Chanel huh that's something we said you're going to sleep us all the time say LeMond janessa shown do it for your sake and frankly that strikes me as so disingenuous at times but I know well I'm gonna go show you deal and I say look let Susan you choose for your benefit right yeah I'm staying doing it for your benefit because I know it's really for my benefit but it seems almost like like fake we're talking about his problem do it for your benefit really I don't know it just seems a little bit like you really mean that to really have that relationship I think it's really really important to different color clocks I want to share it put into perspective the way our relationship I kind of start off was supposed to be so first beginning of Parsons Aron Moshe Rabbeinu comes back to punish brothel and says you want me to go talk to Paro and nice well no one's listening to me this is just not gonna work and I shows response is a little bit interesting I shouldn't just says by it's a vamo been a miserable Bella Paula merral from trial he just kind of says now you command to me go back to my name is wrong so could you just lady says something absolutely fascinating he says it cutters borrow home gets such incredible novice walk from being a native to us he gets such incredible enjoyment out of Claudia stroll getting bi has been amitav thought I was doing good things for us it's so enjoyable for him that it's a mitzvah for Colliers role to accept that benefit to accept that hot tub a funnel cutters borrow that every time we get profile from Hashem and we take it it's a mitzvah cuz I cut her off and get such novels the kind of thing she's lady could say it would do a search for a favor by taking that tava he's giving to us the good things that he's doing for us how could his father who wants so badly to give us good things that pushes the Mitzvah for us to take it and when you recognize that's the relationship suddenly things are very different because now you know that the person you're dealing with 100% has your best interests in mind and one other another part i want to share because I heard originally from nothing really because rock hotels coffee movie no it's a chef teah talk and when he's giving him the TV he says go take his bin Club I said to her I shall have to let me talk and I'm gonna come I'll explain why she explains why he's a baguette do it that way but he uses those three explanations it's big huh if they thought sure I have them yet after I cut off from told off with you not to chef to talk I recognize in your M now because of the fact you didn't show you already Sheffield soccer he says but doesn't describe you it's up the same way he described his ass it's been classy good huh she leaves off the words I share a half dog overnight Weinberger who is one of the unusual of Waynesburg back in 40s 50s explains the from Optima views perspective gets what was going the Sun that he had been waiting for for his entire life cut off from Tolerance you have to shut him an hour from Avinu being - no he no said ok and in his mind you suck was gone oh can you imagine the simpler that having Aviva felt when he was told by Irish powerful no he's still yours keep the emotion that album of even felt for you look at that point the word after doesn't justice how often have you felt by yourself at that point there simply isn't a word in the Hebrew language to encapsulate the out point of emotion and love that album of even fell free it's fun there's no way to describe time so you determine about it were to say in Sheila s reign Yalta coming up in a couple of weeks Telefonica Ameen a hot dose of you loved us right up past tense so explain your a greenberg it's the same thing maybe once upon a time a couple of this but now would love simply doesn't do justice how cut off the fuel is about quieter all my each and every one of us individual the feelings that cut off from has for us are so strong that Satan can't be described in words when you recognize that that's the way that customer feels about you having the perspective of I want to serve him for his sake because he wants me to suddenly easier to do because that bond that relationship is so strong before you even lifted a finger cuz I gotta spell almost you just because of the fact that you're a yen when you recognize that suddenly it's easy the server colors for you in the right perspective from the right place cuz how can you not surf somebody who loves you that much here's the alternative when you put yourself into that place in your server - em because that's what she wants and you recognize that the world's being run by Hashem and that he knows what's better was best for us way better than we ever will why would you ever worry about anything if things aren't gonna still gonna go your way not the way you expect at least you remember yourself hey what I expected what I wanted no it probably wasn't necessarily what was best for me I know there's someone who does know what's best for me and as I said enough is best for me now all of a sudden you just enjoy life because what are you worried about everything you could possibly need is gonna be taken care of for all you need to do is just recognize and open yourself up to that relationship a relationship that's already there Hashem is already there for us he already wants to give us everything that could possibly ever want he gets more enjoyment out of us getting the things that we enjoyed that we do so what's to worry about and just to end one of the things that's so important remember is I don't think anything that I've said tonight is a fetish or anything that I've said tonight even from before you sister reminding ourselves of it it's so amazing unfortunately in the hustle and bustle of life as we go through the difficulties of the or go through so just lose sight of the fact of how she feels about us they lose sight of the facts that he wants better for us than he ever could want for ourselves but if you just constantly remind ourselves it constantly tried every single day to just remember who were supposed to be doing because their own bond points out all the way to us that we have all the interest that we do are supposed to lead us to this same conclusion to strengthening our Munna in Hashem and we take that and especially in times of difficulty recognize that it's not about us it's all about hashing and he loves us more than can possibly imagine and more than here among ourselves in that I'm just hoping praying that brought upon all of us much profit for bringing him he start us immediately there's a shaman for the rug and we sit in a loop listen see the mini God looking everyone in Washington