Like A Star - Rabbi Yosef Weinberger

it's a very interesting rashi at the beginning of seifer's most in fact the first roster in the entire safer rashi there is wondering why the torah has to repeat the names of the benelli israel names that we are quite familiar with certainly anybody who's been paying attention to the end of safer voracious ruin chimo levyhuda we know these names so rashi says the reason that they were repeated here is to show us how beloved they are the bina israel really we are the banega israel are called because they are compared to stars it's a little bit odd it's a famous metaphor the jewish people being compared to stars but what is that doing here at the beginning of safer shimon so perhaps we go back to that encounter between hashem and avraham where we were initially compared to the stars uh we can uh find an answer there and it's really a beautiful and powerful powerful message so when hashem tells abraham to go and count the stars go outside and count the stars he tells him this will be like your descendant so the simple shot is however many start as numerous as the stars are that will be the number of your descendants right now avraham doesn't have any children hashem is giving him this promise that you're going to multiply to become a great nation it is a simple shot in mikuryotimidebschuto but it's a little bit of a challenge that we know there are billions of stars billions of stars in it and all the galaxies and the bane israel as numerous as we have become we are not as numerous as the stars so i heard a beautiful idea from michael talbos should have refused lima [Music] but it's a beautiful idea hashem was telling abraham to do the impossible go and count the stars like i said there are billions there's no way apiteva avraham could have done that not to mention this as well before the invention of a telescope like avraham couldn't have done it and yet what was his reaction what was his response okay hashem told me to do to count the stars i'll go and do my best whatever i can do i'm going to do it because that's what hashem asked me hashem saw avraham's response here and he told him this is going to be like your descendants that in the face of adversity and seemingly impossible if i ask them to give them if they know something is expected of them they're going to do it they're going to or they're going to do their best at least the same way you did this dna is going to be embedded within the banana israel so perhaps that's a message that's being given here at the beginning of safer shemos that we are nimsh of this message of khoyas that the the the glory days of save her braces and the avocados and yosef being the melaka mitzvah that was coming to an end and now we're about to head into the the bitter and dark galas of sheba mitzrayim and things were going to get difficult but as challenging as they were ko yes that we would we we would do the impossible and that even though we we did falter we never completely fell off the map we never completely lost hope and uh and fell into the abyss we always remained connected enough as challenging as it was and now is that barakah that hashem told abram avinu they are going to follow in your footsteps of doing the impossible ko yeh [Music]