Finding Light in the Darkness - Rabbi Mordechai Burg

we're now entering into the parshios of safer shamos which deals largely with the gallus mitzrayim and the ultimate redemption from mitzrayim you know whatever happens to claudius on a national level it happens also on an individual level myself simon lebanon what our forefathers went through is a great lesson to us in our lives so that we can overcome our own exiles and ultimately be deserving and worthy of our own redemptions so what lesson can we learn from going into galas and what lessons can we learn in order to have our own personal redemptions the final parasha in safer bereishis is partial is a strange name for a parsha that largely deals with death deals with the death of yaakov so why is the parsha called we know that the gemara says even while he is dead is still called alive we know that the gemarantinus says that yaakov avinu lomes yaakov avinu did not die what does that mean obviously yaakovino died he's not walking around today who is the source of all life and to the degree that one is connected to they are connected to life itself and so that sadik who is ultimately connected on an essential level to akadesh barachu even in his death he cannot possibly be called dead because he's so connected to life itself the nakhoni represents death in this world the nachos tried to convince hawa that there was another source of life that even if she would separate herself from akhadeshbarghu even if she would unplug from the outlet so to speak she could still remain alive and so the nakhosh was appropriately punished first of all he eats from the dust of the earth and the dust of the earth is the most inanimate of all matter it's the least alive so to speak and also we know that when a person dies he returns to dust and so the who believes that there's another source of life ultimately is connected to death yaakov avinu is the tikkun for the money and therefore he is called life itself paro is called the taninhagado the great serpent paro is ultimately connected to death and this is the struggle of claudius mitzrayim to remain connected to life even in the face of great death that's why yaakov avinu reveals the turish about in mitzrayim [Music] when they encounter death and they find life within death this is the avodah of golis that when a person feels so disconnected when a person feels like he's in a place of death and he just has nothing left in the tank and then he draws from a place that he didn't even know existed he draws from the most essential element of himself from the pentalyid that's inside of him that's where he finds life that's where he finds the connection to and this is how claudius survives mitzrayim when we don't give up hope when we understand that even in our most broken place when we have nothing left we cry out to the rabbanislam we're discovering life itself this is why he comes before shamas because a jew must know that even as he's entering into a place of death he can be deeply connected to life itself in today's day and age so many of us feel disconnected from the rabbani shalom la maison we live in a world where the urban islam is not so present and apparent in our lives all the time it's difficult to dive in it's difficult to learn it's difficult to find the meaning in life and yet there's a part of us that cries out and says i demand a relationship with the bahrain and i'm not satisfied just doing my judaism by rote and this in itself is a connection to this in itself is a connection to the ultimate goola that's how we get out of mitzrayim when we hit rock bottom that's a beautiful place to build a foundation when we feel like we have no connection left to hashem that's where we discover our connection [Music] in these parties to ultimately have our own personal redemption and a national redemption of mashiach [Music]