Moshe Rabeinu: The rest of the story

The Ramban says that based on the simple reading of these, it would seem that was a fugitive and where did he run to? He made a beline to he goes straight to there. Rashi says he learned from Yakov and over there he meets the daughters of Raul daughters of Isra and in a very short period of time he marries Sapra who's one of the seven daughters of Israel right so right after he ran away he's in Midon the next thing you know he's married a year later already has a son whose name is Gashan says the Ramban that's not really what happened and the Raman says I'm going to tell you why logically it can't be what happened because Midon geographically is very very close to Egypt and if Moshainu felt that his life was at risk and for that reason he had to run away you're not going to run to the neighboring city it doesn't make any sense if you're going to run you're going to run really far you're probably going to go Abraham right you're crossing the Euphrates River I don't know you're going somewhere else but to go to Midon would make zero sense says the Raman so Raman says, "I believe that these two stories of and even though THEY'RE mentioned in the same P, they happen years and years and years and years apart. As a matter of fact, you ready for this? You know how many years apart says the Raman happened?" In my best guess, approximately 60 years. And he says, "I'll tell you why. Because how old was Mosha when he ran away?" So Raman says I'm not sure maybe he was 12. He says for sure not older than 20, right? He's a teenager, right? That's basically what he is. He's a teenager. When Mishraenu is going to return back to Mitan to be, how old is he going to be? He's going to be 80 years old. That means that means that from the time that Moshenu runs away until he comes back is 60 years. Now this story right here of Mosh Rabenu having a son Gam and Mosh Rabenu marrying the daughter of Israel is going to immediately segue in the next year revealing himself to Mos and telling him that I want you to be the I want you to be the one that's going to take the right. So for sure the story of for sure the story of Midion happened when was 80 but when he ran away he's a teenager. So says it's just back to the envelope arithmetic. This is not even complicated. It's very very simple. It's elementary for sure. For sure decades past in my mind says Raman it's approximately 60 years must have endured from the words to the next words in the which are so here's the question. Where was Moshe for those 60 years? It's a very very long time. Where was he? 60 years are missing from the greatest Jew to ever live. I mean, we spoke about Moshe in the introduction. Is a nest. He's aella. He's come. We're missing 60 years of his life. I mean, we're going to know the next 40 years of his life. We know the beginning of his life. We just read the but there's 60 years. A very long time missing from the narrative, right? What happened to Mosha? Where was he during those 60 years? Now, it's very very interesting. There's a ya chimi in the beginning of parish that fills in the gap that talks about it's a long yak chami and it tells this incredible fantastic tale of the missing 60 years of there are snippets of this that are quoted by rishim in but I think the source that tells the story in the most detailed and the easiest way to read way is in the safer Hayasha. Now the safeasha requires a raite of its own. There's a lot of history behind the safosa. Now this is not to be confused with the safosa that was written by it's not to be confused by the mus safer called sayasha. This is a medish quote unquote called safasher. It's interesting. And it was first discovered in the 16th century 17th century but it traces itself bis already to the times of the so this is an old old collection of midrashen which fills in not only the gaps of these 60 years of but a lot of the stories a lot of the parishes and the you go through specifically the life and times of the there's a lot of different gaps # rest of the story that emerges from say fascinating fascinating fascinating work most of it again I didn't go through it but from my understanding most of it is rooted inim and really has mis in more traditional sources but as it relates to the 60u the has 30 pages on it and again it's right here in the beginning of and there's a lot of parts of this that are quoted by different it's clear that the wereab this messiah that's mentioned in the safer hayasher. So I think it's good to read a few paragraphs from the saferasher but just to set the stage and that is at this time that Mushraenu ran away. This is when Mishrau was a teenager. So Mosh Rabenu runs away there was a war that was taking place between the land of Kush which is Ethiopia and the land of Aram and the Benedan. So Aram I guess that's where loving came from. So the other side the Abraham is fighting with the king of Kush and it's around that time that Moshenu runs away. Now the safosa goes on to say that the king of Kush went out to fight this battle and when he went out one of his residents, a man you might have heard of, his name was Bam and his two sons decided that they're going to overthrow the kingdom of this Melikosh. So the king of Kosh is out fighting a battle. He's there with his whole uh cabinet and all his strong guys, right? All the tough guys are out at war right now. So he goes after the weak links and Bonam basically takes over the city and he's able to use his kishv in a way where by the time the king of Kush came back, the king of Kush had no ability. He had no ability to get back into his own country. He had no ability to get back in his own country. So right now the country Kush is somewhat fortified and it's being controlled by who? It's being controlled by none other than Bum, one of the great nemeses of Clus and his two sons. It's at that time that enters the picture says it was at that time when this war and this siege was taking place on the land of Kosh ran away from because had wanted to kill him because he killed the So the medish gives us an exact date was 18 years old at the time and he went and he fled to the camp of Kickos. Kicknos was the name of that king of Kush who were trying to get back into their own country. This siege, so to speak, WITH THE KING OF KUSH TRYING TO GET BACK INTO his own house lasted nine years and was with them for that entire 9-year period. Whatever they were doing, was one of the But was someone that was the favorite. He was very very popular amongst the troops because he was very special and he had the stature of a lion. He was very big. His face was like that of the son, right? He was also very very strong. was certainly quite intelligent and he was a consultant to the king as the end of the nine years. The king of Kush became very sick. The sickness which ultimately would take his life. It got very bad lasted seven days and then he died. Right? They embombed him, mummified him. They buried him outside of they made him an oil etc etc. It was after the death of Kickos the king of Kosh things were getting very very bad in terms of the war and everything that was going on. So the started talking amongst themselves. It's already 9 years that have passed. This has been going on for a very very long time. We need to come up with an idea. So they said, "You're right. But the first thing we need is we need a leader. Our leader just died. So we have to replace him." So there's a whole back and forth. I'm skipping around. They decided that we think the person that's fit to be the next king of Kush is none other than he took over. He is now the replacement. And if you want to know when this happened relative to the reign of it was the 55th year of his reign. Mits 157 years from the redu from when the time Jakab had come to mit at that point maka alush how old was he so it's back of the envelope arithmetic he was 18 years old when he showed up he was engaged in the siege for 9 years so and he was king for 40 years everybody loved was very religious, very faithful, but he was also good together with the people. Either way, the medish goes on to talk about how Rabenu came up with an idea of how to be able to get into the city. His idea worked and Mosh Rabenu now was immediately incredibly successful. He was able to do what Kiknos couldn't do in 9 years and suddenly he's able to take hold of the city again. was able to conquer the city using his now he had the palace. So now he's not only king, he was already king outside. But what kind of stellar was that? Now he has a palace. They put a crown on his head and they gave him a wife. And the wife that they gave him was Adia, the queen Adia, who was the wife of Kiknos. You're the new king. You marry the old king's wife. Butu had incredible fear of he wouldn't even look at her because remembered the his great great grandfather had made Alza swore and that was and had commanded his son the same thing when he was running away from was king for 40 years, but he never paid any attention. Even Enough of all I'm skipping. 40 years. He's still the king of Kush during those days. He was very very successful. It was 40 years. is there with the queen. Everybody's around and all of a sudden who's the queen who's been living with sort of being ignored for 40 years. She couldn't anymore. So she turns to the and she says, "Do you know Do you realize that? You know, he doesn't worship the Listen to me. If you're asking me my opinion, think you take a foreigner and you bring him in to be king over your land. I don't care how smart he is. I don't care how big and strong he is. He's the wrong person. I think what you should do is I think you should take my son. my son from Kickos from her previous husband. He should be the next king because this is someone who's gonna follow the culture of Kosh. He's someone that's going to worship of Kosh. I think he's the one that's appropriate. Either way, the med says they heard what she had to say. And they agreed and they went to Mosha and they told Mosha, "We'd like to respectfully ask you to resign." Now, the Medus goes on to say that even though they asked him to leave, but they asked him to leave in a baking away, they didn't throw him out. He wasn't a fugitive, but at the same time they asked him to leave. We're getting closer to the end. So just spent how many years? 49 years, right? He was 18 years old. He spent 9 years outside Kush and then 40 years as the king of Kush. He just spent a half a century in Ethiopia. This is the story of Moish, right? Is this amazing? But either way, so just spent all this time. How old is he now? So the man is going to do the math for us. He's already 67 years old. He was 18 when it started. He's 67 years old now. because it was getting closer to the end. It was getting closer to the time where was going to be the not of but the where he was going to be able to now go ahead and fulfill his but either way he has to go now and he has to leave. So Rabenu goes and you know where he goeson he goes to the land of Midion and he settles by the bear and when he's sitting by the be and they come home early and he says what are you doing here? So he says I want to meet this guy. See, he comes and they break bread. But how do we have it in the next thing that Isra says is, "OH, WOW. YOU'RE A HANDSOME GUY. I HAVE SEVEN DAUGHTERS." NOPE. Says the med. That's not what happened. As a matter of fact, we're missing 10 years of narrative. You know what really happened? Shows up and he meets Raul and he says, "So tell me, who are you?" He says, "Mommy, I was just the king of Kush for 40 years." He says, "So what are you doing here?" I was kindly asked to leave. You were kindly asked to leave. That's not the way every Joseph is. It's not the way it usually works. What do you mean you were kindly asked? No, I'm telling you. I was fine. They they set me out in a very very nice way. I had a GOOD RUN, BUT WHATEVER. YOU KNOW, IT'S A GUN. YOU HAVE TO KNOW all the details. Ru was too smart. He was very, very suspicious. Something is not adding up over here. He said, "I have a feeling this person is a political uh fugitive right now. There's no way he was kindly asked to leave. And I have no doubt they tried killing this person. It has to be. So he said, "I'm going to score some major political points right now." He tells Misha, "Come with me to the basement." He starts walking down to the basement, right? It's a little cold. It's a little dark. Watch his step. The next thing he knows, he locks him up and he incarcerates him. And Raul goes running back to Kush and he says, "You're not going to believe it. That king of yours, I got him. I nailed him." The bottom line is we're missing some gaps here. But Rul kept Mosha in that cell for 10 years. He just left him there. Now says the medish sapra had seen Mosha and Sapra liked Mosha. Sapra every single day would go and she would sneak literally behind her father's back and she would go she would give him something to eat. She would give him something to drink. She would nurture him. She would take care of him. unbeknownst to her father at the end of 10 years. They're sitting around, you know, at the dinner table, Isra and his daughters, I guess, a couple of Adams maybe, and they're all around. Says, you know, I wonder what ever happened with that uh guy that's, you know, he's living in the basement. I haven't I haven't heard from him in a long time. Says, why don't we go find out? He said, he must be dead, but he must have died, you know, n years ago. I mean, there's no way he's alive. No one's fed him, you know. Let's go. Let's see. So they go downstairs and they take a look at and you can imagine during those years and they see Rabenu and Mosh Rabenu is as strong as he's ever been and when saw that he was very very taken back he says oh boy this is an Israel like Kim right this is a scary scary man immediately takes Moshe out invites him upstairs then tells a whole another story allows him to marry. I mean this is someone I want as an Adam. He was able to survive 10 years without any food. Raenu becomes the adim of Isra. He becomes his shepherd. And that really segus into the next part of Rabenu's life where is going to reveal himself to him at the and he's going to become either way as they say. And now you know the rest of the story. That is the story of Mosha. this nest, this pillow which the Tyra tells us in such short Kurt language. But this medish with there's a mess on there's a real real messiah on this medish. By the way, just to end with something so fascinating and that is that you know we always talk about the says in that Miriam spoke about what was the lashes you know Miriam tells you you know our brother Misha you know he married Ishach and everybody struggles to understand what does he mean he married ashes Rashi says that he married someone that was as beautiful says is right that's what says what does it mean says because we have a mess that was a king and she told you you know I never knew this I didn't realize was married to this Ethiopian woman TO ONE OF THE WHAT'S GOING ON OVER HERE THAT WAS THE I JUST HEARD 40 YEARS NOW the says she didn't know the rest of the story It's something that she didn't know. But that was the iska this story. But either way, this is the story of Mo Rabin.