A New Vision: Chizuk for Iron Sword by Rabbi David Walk

hi hi uh bov and and shov this is uh you this is the beginning of of uh of a new week on the program it's the first time I've had Sunday morning but I just want people I'm sure you got messages and are aware that starting next week there's going to be more of a schedule in um the Israel Center um back live and in person but uh pay attention because we're looking forward to also doing programs not only live and in person in the OU Center but in some other communities also we're starting to run a program in uh in modin and we're working on other places so please watch carefully for all of the announcements um sh you're gonna have to uh okay thank you you're gonna have to mute yourself you're gonna have to wait whatever it is we want to hear it but in about uh 15 minutes so it's it's the beginning of a new week and it's also and for some people I mean I don't really notice it so much it's a beginning of a new year but okay in America it was a it was a bigger deal than here mostly because I wrote checks and I had to remember to change the uh the year but uh otherwise it is a new beginning but it's also a new beginning of a Kash for us we start sayfe for schote and I'm not sure everyone's aware of the fact that uh everyone one of our kashim has not only the more popular name based on the first significant word in the book Brit VRA Etc but there's also a rinic name for every uh for every book in the Torah BR is the book of formation I I guess in in Greek you could call it Genesis um this but the rinic name here for safer schot is safer Gula the book of redemption which of course is appropriate based on the content of the safer but it's appropriate for us for our nation for our country for our people right now because we uh we really would like to see and receive from a in our present uh situation so the newness the new stuff that starts this week continues with the inauguration of our greatest Navi mosha rabenu and a couple of Naim like yah who uh have special ceremonies special incidents around their becoming a navi but none of them are as impressive as the story and the vision that U mosha rabenu has by the snare and besides the the really impressive nature of it and how MOS Renu you know sees this bush burning but not being consumed and he sees that kesh's voice is coming from the flame but in it comes extremely important messages and the important message begins in pasuk Zion verse S and Hashem says I'm I'll read the whole pem God speaks to mosenu even though before this Elohim was being used but now that we're going to hear about the is now so Hashem says my translation says I have marked well that's how JPS translated I've seen other translations say I have surely seen for the repetition the Affliction the suffering of my people who are in Egypt and their outcry sh I've heard no because of their task Masters people who are torturing them k at because of that I really know their pain so kesu is telling us two important ideas in this Pursuit number one he sees our situation and he understands what is the basis of this of this terrible situation so when we say I have certainly observed or as JPS I have marked well some people say that the ra the repetition of the verb to see is for emphasis I uh I I'm really not so happy um with that kind of TR with that kind of uh translation or that kind uh of uh of exegesis because whenever the the idea is doubled we try to find two ideas so what is the double seeeing of aades so the the izra great pasan wants to tell us what things really mean says it means I have seen things no one else has seen or noticed so when he says ra I have not only seen the big picture which was the simple thing to see everybody saw the Jews were slaves but I have seen every detail of this slavery when he says that I see and feel your pain it's because of that second reti the second verb to see I've noticed I really understand what's going [Applause] on in ways that other observers may have missed but I really love theot of Theos this great mystical commentary from uh the middle of the uh 18th century he died in 1750 here in N after having been born in in Morocco in North Africa so the Ora explains the double language of God seeing the first the first citing is that they have fulfilled the bre remember the entire situation of galut MIM was the Fulfillment of the vision that that aino had back in pered in chapter 15 of braid that the Jews would be strangers in a Strange Land for 400 years so the first raau is about the fact that the Jews have gone through the entire the entire galute suffering Exile period and that theoretically it's time for the exile to end end but what's the second explains when he continues I also see the cruel behavior of the Egyptians and as a result not only have you done your 400 years outside of of er Israel okay outside of owning erit isra God recalculated the 400-year period to make sure that 400 years but that was from the time of the covenant not 400 years in Egypt and God explaining I gave you a reduction in your time of suffering because those Egyptians have have cruy treated you during this period so that the two things I see you did what was expected of you and it's time for you to leave perhaps earlier than might have been because the Egyptians have been exceedingly vicious against you the ferocity of the time in Egypt was going to be a payment against the Egyptians and help the Jews get out a little bit uh a little bit uh easier a little bit earlier so one re is for the Jewish fulfillment of the bre and two the second R for the ferocity of the Egyptian uh of the Egyptian shibud so when the Jews go through circumstances kades weighs two issues number one the situation of the Jewish people have they truly learned their lesson have they truly come through this situation with the messages that were necessary to be em bibed have they really taken them in and the second one is the severity or the difficulty of the situation also arouses AES Bar's reaction and his mercy and his Redemptive power I think Tida is important for us because we know the ferocity of our own situation has galvanized and United our people our nation like we haven't been United in a long time the the last time I remember the Jewish Nation being this United together purposefully was probably the Six Day War but again the Jewish nation has responded to the terrible situation in Aza by uniting after a period of real p real separation even and that's one positive that's come out of this terrible situation the other thing is that we have to pray that the ferocity the viciousness ofas would also arouse the Divine the Divine compassion and kindness which we really need right now to bring the Gula from our present sarot from the present difficult untenable situation and just maybe to bring the G as well um and that's what we have to be thinking about that a Kadesh tells us in this week's paraa that he responds to the combination of the Jewish awareness of the situation and the severity of what's going on around us and I think as we go through sa for schot we have to think not just about getting ready for the PES oh what did RoR and I say but I think this year we have to look at ourselves and see that we are in our own sh our own sarot and even here in ER almost the type of uh of of galute type galute type suffering and uh and vicious violence against us so I really hope that as we go through saot we uh we look at the stories and not only think about what what the basro went through in Egypt 3,200 3,300 years ago but we have to think about how this has to be applied to our situation today and let's hope and pray that uh that things just get better and better in in in Aza the north stays quiet all of the uh all of the surviving uh Kim those who were seized and kidnapped are returned and let's just hope that this is uh the beginning not just of a Goa from this terrible situation that we find ourselves in right now but hopefully the beginning of the GMA that's what we're doing here in erit Isel that we want to bring it along and uh and it's our it's our time to think about it very very seriously and learn the story as well as we go through uh sa for schote now there was just a message before I say goodbye from KH to let us know uh that today sheim have been sponsored by um by Ruth kingburg by oh and in memory of uh Kim Ben mosha Hali z uh on the 22nd y site and the learning should be and Aliah for MOS and and I thank everyone I thank everyone for for joining this morning and uh and hope that our shim have helped us get through this difficult situation and hopefully will help bring clausell to a better situation starting this week and continuing onwards and upwards from that point again thank you all very much everyone should have a sh and hopefully the the anticipation of of better days coming our way be theam very very soon so thank you the con family and uh and uh hopefully the learning is Merit for Claus and for the memory of K bosha Hali Z