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Khamenai's Last Stand - The Final Battle?
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Why did Pharaoh, the brilliant ruler of a superpower, refuse to surrender despite the devastation of his country? In this powerful Torah class, we explore the deep psychological insights of the Ramban and the Sforno regarding the "hardening of Pharaoh's heart." ..
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Parro was [clears throat] in charge of
his whole nation, one of the strongest
and most populated nations in the whole
entire known world of the time. And he
had to make decisions on the spot about
whether it is time to let Ben Israel out
and stop all these plagues from
happening or not. He had a certain
responsibility over his nation. Here
they were suffering from already the
plague of dam of blood that they were
choking on it as they were swallowing
it. It was there was no water to be had
anywhere. The fish were dead.
Agriculture was finished. They were
having a situation where they didn't
know what was going to be next. And then
suddenly the hits them and his depar's
decision and only his decision a one-man
show to be able to decide is it time to
put an end to this plague or these
plagues that are happening on top of us.
On that writes a very strong words
we sit here with incredible bewildered
absolute astonishment. What was this man
thinking? Going ahead and saying over
and over again, "No, no, no. I'm not
going to let them out." What was wrong
with him? Now, let's not think for a
minute that this person was some fool.
He was some imbecile and some idiot. Of
course, he wasn't. This was a very
highly intelligent king, the most
intelligent king of the whole entire
known world. He was smart enough to know
that Ysef's dream interpretation was the
correct one over everybody else. He was
smart enough to know to take Ysef as as
opposed to anyone else in hisstead. He
was the one who was incredibly highly
psychologically adept to know how to
give Shibbut how to go ahead and bondage
a whole entire nation of millions of
people slowly but surely per until he
got them there. When Mosher Rabenu came
an incredible, if you think about the
incredible psychology of what he did, he
went ahead and doubled up the work. Why?
because he couldn't beat up Moshe, but
he could beat them up so that they would
hate Moshe even more. Very intelligent
move. This man was incredibly
intelligent.
Says over and over again,
the reason for the plagues that are
happening in order to prove the
greatness and oneness of
it's over and over again. Hashem is
using this puppet that we call parro in
order to prove his greatness. Now, when
au takes a kusa, when he takes someone
who's a partner to go ahead and bash him
like a like a punching bag in order to
do a lot of pill pulling back and forth,
we assure you he's not taking some
imbecile from a third world country.
He's going to go ahead and take the best
of the best and prove from the top of
the line in order to show that look who
we're dealing with to make us appreciate
and realize the greatness of Hakaru. So
we were talking about an incredible king
of a powerful nation, the most powerful
in society of the time and one with a
great intelligence. So what was he
thinking? What was wrong with this man
that he didn't just throw in the towel?
Why didn't he raise the white flag? So
the answer is in two incredible resh in
this week's parts of the Ramban in peral
and theo in Peric both say the same
exact thing. The Ramban basically says
that in the beginning he saw magic very
nice sticks going ahead and switching
around. I like that trick. I could play
that in my magic show also. I'm not too
impressed. And showing little fancy
things about pulling your hand in and
out and doing interesting things. But
when he and that's why in the beginning
is the only time we use he used a very
strong
I don't know
he directly said I'm not going to go
ahead and send them out he went face to
face against Mosh Rabenu but says from
after the first Makkah and on we don't
find him going face to face we find him
saying no and I don't want to and this
or whatever but we don't find him using
such direct words and he says the reason
why he was always listening attentively
to Moshe And he never threw he threw him
out but he never went ahead and
dismantled and disclaimed anything that
Moshenu says in the words of the because
he was
he was takared he was in fear. If you
would put on a check on his blood
pressure at the time it was high. He was
actually in a tremendous amount of
intrepidation of fear and he didn't know
what would happen tomorrow. The same
words of the and they both use it on the
leo. What does it mean
or that his heart became hardened? We
think that okay his heart became
hardened. says no. He was afraid and
naturally his natural inclination, his
natural te the nature that was within
him was to say enough. I've had it. Get
out. I don't want it anymore. That was
his natural inclination. But he was
meaning he went ahead in these words.
He worked against his nature, his
natural instincts and he went
and he ended up not being afraid of the
he put it behind him. He made himself
forget it. He put him in a stage of
doing that. How do you do that? Have you
ever fasted and the whole time you're
thinking, "Wow, I don't think I'm going
to make it. This is too much for me.
Wow, I'm starving. Oh, I hope I'm going
to do it." You count hour by hour,
minute by minute, finally you get to the
finish line and then you go ahead and
hound down and eat. And when you talk
about the person 20 minutes, a half an
hour later, you don't even remember
there was a fast. You don't even
remember the status of the fact you were
hungry. It was something in the past.
How often do we do what parro did? What
did he do? Libo. He had a sara. He had a
pain. Something was going in. And at the
time he was saying, "Please, no more
frogs. No more dumb. Get it over with."
But when it was over, when the time came
to pass,
He went ahead and said, "I'm going to be
okay. It's fine." He forgot about it.
What happened was happened. It's
something from the past. We're going to
be fine. A person who has a questionable
diagnosis. The doctor says you have to
come back to me in a week after doing
tests and we're going to see in if it's
positive then we're the person is going
to have to go through radiation or some
serious heavy radiation.
The [clears throat] person is dabbing
and praying all threeas and four and
fiveas a day vala thinking about what's
going to be. He's driving outside in the
car looking out of the window and seeing
all the beauty of the world around him.
He goes to the doctor and he gets the
diagnosis. You're okay. Everything came
out completely negative. You're fine.
Suddenly, he takes a breath of fresh air
and he goes, "Oh, he's so happy."
A week later, he doesn't even remember.
He was by the doctor. He moved on with
life. That is something from the past
cuz when we're in it, like Par was in
it, it was fine. But and then
afterwards, Voy, he went ahead and
progressed. Am I going to get accepted
to the school? He gets accepted and then
a year into the school you don't even
remember the fact that you still have to
appreciate that you are here. That is
something that we go through but much
more that he went ahead and broke his
natural tendencies because he was not
going to do it. I refuse to let these
people out. He will fight to the guns
because when he has a will and he has a
decision to do it, it's going to be and
going to go that way. The stipler
daffaratus on the puk by mak borrowed
the borrowed. They gave a warning. Put
all your animals inside. Expensive
horses, cows, sheep, all the things that
you want that's precious to you. Keep it
inside. Money is important. People love
money. And what does it say in theim?
Unbelievable.
The people who didn't pay attention,
they left it outside. You're number six,
buddy. What are you crazy? We number
seven. You already saw six makot. You
saw every word that Mosha Rabenu said
came to pass. What do you think? This is
a game. Some type of illusionary type of
person who's just playing a a practical
joke. You saw it happen. You not joking?
But the answer is when a person doesn't
want to believe Shut he puts it behind
him and he says, "I'm going to try to
avoid it because he doesn't want to get
to that stage of making a change of
doing something different. That s is
over. I will leave it behind me. I put
it behind me. I'll make forget I was
given the power of forgetfulness and
I'll do that. This very much explains
the phenomenon that we are here in ten
over here in the middle of tet day
today. We're waiting for the news seeing
the ma that's going on right now in Iran
the actual protests and the
rebellion that's going back and forth.
Thousands, literally thousands, and we
are almost positive that it's tens of
thousands of people are being killed at
the time. And here it is that Trump is
trying to be somewhat diplomatic with
them and saying if not, you are not
allowed to be doing what you're doing by
killing those people. And he says he's
trying to be diplomatic and speak to
them. And it's one thing to try to kiss
up, but it's an incredible thing when
you listen to the words that they say
that this is a man of big words. He
thinks he can run the world. He's not
going to tell us what to do. We are
powerful. We have a lot of ballistic
missiles and we're going to take care of
you. We're stronger than you. We're
aiming towards all your embassies and
everything that you have and we will
finish you off. Where is this man coming
from? What does he think that he's
doing? He's already being topsyturvied
by millions of his own citizens that are
disinterested in his existence. And
you're going out. The last thing you
need now is America and especially
Israel on your back. You don't want
them. And you've already seen the
results. What is going through this
mishuga's mind? And again, he's probably
just as intelligent as parro. He's not a
stupid man. He came from the place. But
the answer is loi.
He put it behind him. He doesn't want to
pay attention to what is happening
because he wants to hold on tight to
what he thinks is right. The living
sheer, the living lie that he's been
living for the past 40 for the past 47
years. They want to let it continue
this. And therefore they're going on and
holding on to it with tooth and nail
because this lie that they were living
that the religion that they represent is
one of terror of one of murder of one of
pilfer of one of evil and one of actual
destruction and catastrophe is one big
lie and they're just continuing in that
sheer and that they've been swimming in
and grew up inside of. And when you do
that, even when the emis faces you and
and the the emis comes to you straight
in your face, when the truth comes and
you realize that you're in a bad shape,
he puts it behind him. He makes sure not
to do it. When Israel had the 12-day
Roy, they the 12-day war, they literally
said they use black magic in order to be
able to figure out all of these things.
Now, if they were religious Jews, maybe
they were right. But we're not even
talking about religious Jews. They said
they use black beds because when a
person doesn't want to face the truth so
then
will be or the person will be his life.
Let's take this as a lesson for
ourselves. How many times are weak or
when we're having this dilemma of if
it's going to happen or not the
situation I'm in am I going to be
accepted or not? What's the situation
with my unemployment? Am I going to find
the job? Am I going to be able to be
okay or healthy? it's going to be with
the shik and a year later we end up
forgetting a year after the wedding we
end up forgetting that s that we were in
instead we should use it as a stepping
stool as a pedestal in order to take
ourselves to a different step as writes
in chuva anyone who receives muser and
doesn't apply it to himself then that's
it's a problem and it's user to do let's
learn from this evil man that we know is
that his head will be hanging soon and
we should appreciate the fact that the
reason for His downfall all comes from
the that he took from parro.