Bo: Judgement Day | Rabbi Ari Kahn | January 22nd 2026

She sponsored by Rabbi Michael and Jerry Laxmmeter for the foolish name of the granddaughter of Vigail Sabat Shaona and also they get a mazav for a great grand >> son. So mazav the entire family should have >> and and I have a new grandson as well but it's a different grandson. This is not the same. Uh [laughter] >> yes. Yes. So let us let us begin. So it's it's actually good that Michael gets attention this week because this week every year Michael gets attention. >> Yes. >> It's true. You'll we'll see we'll see why as we proceed. So parro's had enough already. Get out. Go speak. So and and you know what? When you read this, you kind of wonder why did parro wait so long to get upset like this? I mean, he should have said it the first time. Walk in, let my people go. Like what are you talking about? Like take him out, kill him. I'm sorry about >> you're sorry. [laughter] >> There was uh there was a a great fascinating rabbi of Ysef Malo. You can look him up. So he was convinced that he was Messiah. So he went and had a meeting with the pope >> to tell him that he is the Messiah. And it did not work out well. So again, you could you could read the the story. I mean these things, okay, I'm here to save the Jews. Moses, you're here to save the Jews. But as I said, uh there's there's lots of reasons why these things don't work out well. And and I'll say it again. It's kind of shocking that it takes so long unless of course we kind of suspect which we should by this point that when we're told that God is micromanaging certain feelings and responses so maybe it's as well over here that parro you know parro turns into somebody who really can't do what parro would have done under other occasions. So as you wish and I think with Yul Brener this was very uh this was very convincing and you know okay that's it you won't see me again and of course there will be a time that parro very much wants to see him as we move further in the narrative alo I will bring one and that's that's important because as opposed to the first nine here is where God directly independently without any without Moshe without Aaron doing anything else God will bring this upon them and he says and then they're going to you know chase you out so by the way at this point in the narrative it and again it depends on on how broadly or or how narrow you're looking at it says and then then he starts to talk about so some of us who are financial the gold and silver investors among us would be saying, "Oh, so that's the last plague." But if you remember all the way back where God had said to Moshe, "Go tell parro that Israel is my firstborn. If you don't release my firstborn, then I'm going to kill your firstborn." So if you've been paying attention ever since Pericdal, then you know that there is still one more plague which has been promised from the very very beginning, which which means in a certain sense that's the first plague. That's the first plague. It's the first play which was articulated but it doesn't get played out until uh until this point. So I'll say it again. It's interesting. I got one. So which is it? So don't get fooled here. This is just this part about taking the money is more likely than not part of an which God says they're going to be enslaved. They're going to be abused. To what extent? How bad? you know all that I'm going to judge [clears throat] afterwards as far as what takes place. So is something again back to the that's something that you have to keep in mind because that now is going to kind of come out to the the four of the of the discussion. So as I said just like I suspect before about parro all the people like them So Moshe is is beloved and Mosha is respected. So that itself is not what you would expect. You would expect that the person who's leading about and as of this point nine plagues which have been devastating destroying the economy, destroying the land, destroying the people, destroying the morale and so on and so forth. But yeah, but Mosha is really cool like you know like like Mosha is the guy. So I'm just saying this is just so surprising but it sounds much again that and then without God saying over here and lastly there was another conversation but Moshe talks about God and so on and so forth. And just keep that I'm pausing in the middle. There's going to be a scream and a cry. So remember back in paraglim, you know, we went back to paragal before. Now we just go a little bit further back when God first introduces himself to Moshe at the burning bush and he says in source two, just keep one finger back on source one, I've heard's cry. So again, you made these people cry. God is going to say you you will be crying as well. So there's going to be some mida mida if we wanted to work very hard and we don't today I hope hope you're not disappointed to start leaving now but if you wanted to work very hard in a rigid kind of a sense which a lot of commentators like and that's like to line up all of the of the plagues then try to match them with the judgments that they deserve. The the only problem with this is you end up having to use a little bit too much force in order to make them match up. And we never like using too much force. We're just going to focus on one plague today really. And uh and that is not even. So let's let's continue. It's it's not a plague as much as something else which is taking place. It continues. We're back in source one, right? We just read part of and no dogs are even going to open up their mouths. So you have to kind of wonder what is this doing in this? I mean, okay, like there's destruction taking place. There's things happening over here. There's going to be a cry taking place within all the Egyptian homes, but wh why are we introducing the dogs over here? And it's at this point and that I end up going down the rabbit hole that I go down every single year. It's not the same rabbit hole, but it >> the same rabbit. [laughter] >> It may be the same. It may be the same rabbit hole, but different rabbits. That that that may that may be the that may actually be the point. And then the thought that will come to me because that's the only thought that comes to me when I'm reading all of this. I mean essentially it there are interrelated questions when when we're reading the plagues or reading anything which is taking place within the narrative within within. So some of these things are clearly directed towards Israel which I do believe is the main audience and we need some good things to say. I mean that that's that that's what this is all about. That's not me. The Torah says that Right? So you can tell your children and grandchildren about this. So this whole thing is really that we can have something to say on P. But then you also kind of wonder how the Egyptians are reading it, which means what's their op-ed saying about this, which means within Egyptian culture, what is taking place? And then the flip side of that, if within Egyptian culture has a certain type of a meaning, the Jews who are right now in Egyptian culture, they would may very well be reading it in that parallel kind of way. So then of course the question's going to come, so hold it a second. What exactly is the meaning of dogs in Egyptian culture? Now the answer to every single question you look, that's the rabbit hole. Every single thing you ask about hold it. What do they think about? Fill in any blank you want and the answer will be oh they worshiped that that that was part of the their their uh religious experience. So therefore, you end up in the same place. Dogs were considered to be man's best friend in Egypt. Now you didn't need me to tell you that, right? Um dogs not only were man best friends but they also would sometimes take them and towards death as well and Egypt is really into death. I mean more so like like killing other people but they themselves are into death. So >> they're more into catch than dogs. >> Correct. But dogs as well dogs as well were inv were involved in in burials. They were involved in uh in pyramids. And that's what I'm saying. But that's the problem. Every place you look, you're going to find some kind of Michael study Egyptology, which is why we look at Michael this way. And and if he's shaking his head like this, then you know that I have to like kind of back up and [laughter] but but but he's but he's he's very uh kind and generous. So most of the time he'll only correct me after class and say what you said was completely wrong. But other than that, it was very nice. But uh but no but but but it it's kind of futile because every single thing that I checked and and there it's a whole bunch of moving parts today. So yeah, dogs dogs are the dogs essentially man's best friend in this world but in the next world as well. They uh they can accompany you. So therefore if the dogs are kind of having this lack of sympathy towards the Egyptians so there may be some kind of a palemic taking place. Okay, I said that as as softly as I could without trying to oversell it, but it it's you're going to find this by almost everything. But still, the dogs intrigue me. They then we're going to stay we're going to come back to the dogs still. But again There is a statement taking place. There's a distinction taking place. There is a pmic taking place over here. So meaning that's not my imagination. That's just the continuation of the pok. So the only thing that I'm then asking is okay, how do they read this? How do they understand this? How are they responding to the quiet dogs? I mean quiet dogs I think are good. A couple of my kids have dogs. I don't get it. I don't understand this. So I I am a grandfather of dogs and and and uh and and occasionally the dogs come to visit and the dogs love me and they make themselves at home and they lick and they do all kinds of bizarre things. I'm not against the dogs. I don't trust them, but I'm not. And most of them like very big dogs, which also is, but my daughter who just has the just had the baby, she has a really big dog, but she sent it to the other grandparents. So, we're we're getting her and the baby and her husband and they and they got the dog meanwhile. So, I hope that they feel that it's an even an even trade. Okay. Continue after our dog interlude. and so on and so and Mosha leaves and Mosha's again we we we remember all of these scenes will um I got a lot of things I still want to accomplish here a lot of things I still want to do there's still some stuff on the checklist so parro is not going to give in in order to be able to facilitate the tremendous you know visual acts which are going to be still taking place. So we we we noticed we took from source three what we needed to in source sorry in source two in source number three there's just something which it's kind of random I pulled a number of them out I don't know if I missed any but this is hope you recognize that judgments which mean that uh it's judgment today, right? That that that's part of what's taking place. And now is where the real judgments take place in again in perag, which is pretty close to pervo and so on and so forth. And then they're not going to listen, but then right they're going to be taken out in great judgment. So again I know that the flip side of this is so here Moshe says sorry God tells to Moshe no I'm going to do this here in peric which is ready par we're going to start the whole story of the corban pes and the seder pes and the celebration of leaving and And then just a couple things to think about as as we're noting this one is that we have this slow process or relatively slow process of plague after plague after plague after plague. I don't know if I said nine of them yet. Plague, plague, plague. We have all of these which are taking place and then we're going to have in very quick secession. We're going succession. We're going to have celebration. That's what I'm calling the pesa. We're going to have devastation. We're going to have liberation. They're set free. And then we're going to have that final step of actually leaving Egypt, which is after liberation. And that is what I would call complete redemption. And those things all take place very very quickly. And already from the seder, we get the sense of quickness. Right? Do this with your walking stick in hand, with your coat on, with your shoe on your feet. And uh you roast it. This is quick. This is fast food. Not in the really unhealthy type of fast food. This is everything is about speed. The matzah is about speed. The the the again the roasting is about speed. And all of this is this sense we're going very quickly now. So we have this slow process which is again full of these judgments. And apparently every single one of them are necessary in terms of God's divine checklist which he did not share with us exactly what the rationale for each of them is which is again why we need to work hard to figure them out. But then again really dramatically quickly suddenly everything is going to take place and that's that's that's interesting. It's interesting and maybe the most interesting thing is the celebration before the liberation. I mean that itself is that itself is uh is extremely interesting but that may be a part of the liberation of knowing you're leaving. I mean go ahead and celebrate and take the matzah now because you're going to leave so quickly. I mean all of that is really interesting but again along the way here now we we also had one other thing which I skipped in and that was start with the months start counting the months and again that's something which is strange had we been told God says to Moshe aon in 10 days from now take the corban have it set get ready for 4 days and then on the right 15 days from now 14 days a night you will offer it it would have been fine. Why? Why the mitzvah of the kodeshes is given at this point. Had the mitzvah of the kodes waited and you can pick any time that you want. You want to wait fine. You wanted to put it in par fine. You want to put it in par where? Next one. Next choice pinas fine. You want to put it in para what's the next choice? Re that would be fine. Right. Those are the various places that speak about different types of uh and of all of those that I chose which one would be best clearly pen. But you don't Oh, good. Good. Clearly >> clearly Pinas is the best one. If you have no idea why just Yeah, I was thinking that also. But uh you have to take a look at the list. What's what's in each one of those? What's what's what's in each one of those list of holidays? But no, they they all have but but why why is there but but that was the right the right answer. >> That was the right answer. So back again but but for some reason rosh kodes is being introduced over here and the other thing which is a general Jewish kundrical mystery I'm not saying impossible mystery but a mystery and that is why do we have rashash shana on the seventh month right rashash shana on the seventh month and why do we have pes on the first month and why is in the sense why is n on the first month and that's the seventh month so what in the world is taking place of course the short answer to that is well you know little things like creation which we actually know it's an argument if it's in the fall and the spring. So that that that's connected to tish. But when it comes to Jewish counting, we count from which is in Nissan. But again, was that a good enough answer to shift over the whole calendar? Again, maybe yes, maybe no. But the other thing that we know, especially with Tubish coming up, is that Jews live with multiple calendars. That's the first mission rash. We have four different calendars which is difficult for people to understand until you ask them if somebody says when's the start of the year. So what's the answer? So it depends. Was it a teacher? Was it a baseball player? Right. >> Right. Accountant which means those are those are all different. We live with multiple calendars. So living with multiple calendars again just the sports fan just stay with them. Football season, basketball season, hockey season, baseball season. Those are all different starts and ends of the year. And they think without ever thinking about it, what what's opening day? Well, it depends what what we're talking about. Which floor do are we uh are we talking about? So over here also, okay, I'll be nice and I'll say laavio. Just just in case there are any fumies out there who get upset with me. I mean again, what you don't know again just picking on Michael today when I said baseball season, he was thinking about the Yankees and uh and he was there 100%. next week he may even wear his Yankee cap because he is uh so so invested. So again, it is interesting nonetheless those two verses that I skipped why ro kesh is being introduced right now and you know the answer even if you don't know it you know the answer it must somehow be a part of the story because it's not part of the story then why introduce it which means the dog's a part of the story right is part of the story so when we continue reading over here we're told that on the 10th of the month this is source five And again just as easy t of the month it could have said in 10 days from now right it would not have been a problem and then if not enough people whatever it's people and then there's an interesting definition because again most of us I believe are city folk and city folk have no idea what a say is so therefore we we we would have no idea whatsoever. I mean one of the interesting things in the mission in Yoma it talks about I I guess some of us know that there were times during the second beta mikdash that the cohenul ship was bought and sold. So it says that they would actually bring all the animals in front of the cohenul and say okay this is a lamb and this is a ram and this is a because I mean what do we know about these things? I mean lamb chops we know but but but but to actually identify what the what the animal is. So it says celab and then it said something which is a little bit perplexing and I have to come back to this today right so what's a and what is an which means now we're being told that the ci can either be a lamb or a goat so I hope some of you know that that these are different animals and Right. And there's some more things to say about this. Now, one of the things that I noticed trying to prepare and and again, there are certain thoughts that you have before you start, but they were all confirmed. There's no bias in this. This was absolutely confirmed. And that is that all kinds of reasons were offered why the Corban Pesak was this particular animal of the Corbin Pesak. And virtually all of the explanations that were offered were all connected to the lamb as opposed to the goat. So just pause on that for a second because that already became much more interesting. If you want, I'll I'll comment a little bit more on that right now. Um once again, we can turn turn to our resident Egyptologist. Was the was the ram something which was uh well respected within Egyptian mythology? >> The creator god had the ram head. >> Creator god had ram head. Is that pretty good? Yeah. Again that that sounds pretty good. That that does sound pretty good. So therefore you could see things of the pharaohs with ram heads as well in the in the costumes and whatever. Any of you want to dress up as parro. The beautiful thing about this, there's so many choices that you can have, [laughter] right? There's so many different things you can have. So therefore, the the suspicion over here is going to be. So what then is the significance of the lamb? Well, that is a little baby ram. By the way, the baby part of it becomes really much more interesting. By the way, how many of you say, "Oh, really? I never knew that a ram and a lamb were the You knew that, right?" Yes. We eat lamb, but we don't eat ram. Apparently there apparently doesn't taste all that good. Very pungent smell and very tough meat. It's it's also like the real answer, not the fake one that all of us were taught. The real answer why people don't eat giraffe. So I know the oh we don't know where to chef it. No, you can chef it any place within that neck. The whole thing. But what's the answer why you want to eat giraffe? It's not very good. It's [laughter] not. Which means if we're good, we find exactly you know where it is that you need to chest it. But uh apparently it just doesn't taste that good. If you're going to make it, you have to really slow cook it. We can discuss recipes, but you probably also have to uh have to deal something with the with with the smell, which by the way, some of the commentaries are going to discuss, which is also will become interesting. But but as I said there, it it it just struck me as all of these people com people all the commentaries I mean it goes back. We can find kazal as well that are telling us what is the significance of the lamb but they kind of leave out what is the significance of the goat. So I'm going to try to uh to to come back to that before we finish today. And it says that you take it and you take the blood and you put it on there's z already you right you you hold on to it till the 14th of the month. And then there's you take the blood and you put it on the doorposts and on the the top whatever the mashkov is called in English. >> The lint you say lentil and they're thinking about yakov soup. So and then it says and you eat it. So we're going back to that speed and that's and then the surprising part which we're not really going to discuss today but at least you have to note it is here in the so till two weeks before to get the matzah ready. It's not that just that the next day they left so early so quickly they had two weeks to bake matzah. So that if you never noticed this this is actually really quite interesting or challenging. I'm sure I've given whole classes just on this point. Yes. Absolutely. And now we now we double down. Don't eat it raw and also don't not cooked rather but also now you see it has to be when you're it's roasted it has to be whole the whole body now if in Egypt they worshiped this particular animal and this animal now is presented whole and roasted and so on. So that's part of the drama that is being picked up by a lot of the commentaries that taking their animal their god and you know taking into your possession and taking it and and then designating it for sacrifice and then and then chefing it and roasting it and so on. Every step of this is again the word I'm using today is pmical and it's something you have to notice but there's going to be another word here which is going to help us and then we're going to have you know again to start rethinking certain things or focusing certain things. It continues and says in the next pa don't leave anything open to the morning and anything open left over the morning has to be burnt which is if you were to compare the corban pes the corban schlamim which is a pretty good comparison a corban schlam could actually be eaten the next day as well. So this is a special type of schlam which can only be eaten that night. In the morning, it needs to be burnt. And it says this, how you eat it with your belt on, your shoes on, and so on and so forth. Right quickly now, again, God speaking, God is personally involved. Right? That is only true regarding. That is not the case regarding the other nine. But it was only that took us out of Egypt. The other ones may very well have been more of the punishment that is taking place or the which is taking place only one yes you could tell me it's no no all 10 took us out no only one took us out so you see I mean that that's the the line that we say in the mit was facilitated by road because that's when parro breaks and that's when he tells us to go and that god does by himself and that's the god speaking Right? That is the key that we need to pay attention to because that just now represented a shift that we didn't see until that point. What was different? Not just the judgment which is going to take place is a judgment of the Egyptian gods. So in case now I've been imagining something regarding maybe maybe the Corbin Pesak is somehow related to what they serve and again I have my same problem. What's the problem? Our rabbit hole. What's the rabbit hole? It is so many different rabbits. Why did it have so many different rabbits? Because they worship so many different things. You know, if we go back and I'm going to say this part through Kazal's understanding, which by the way is in sync with ancient Egypt. That was the ha that we saw last week and it said it there a couple of times that parro is parro is called the he that that there is this aspect of god that he is the god of the nile creates the nile but there's also another word in that verse what was that word the tanim right so tanim is really interesting because what is a tanim a tanim is a crocodile So parro is the crocodile but also when Moshe go right remember by the we've done this that we did this by the burning bush it is a nash and when he goes to parro it is a tanim and then Aon picks up the staff and it swallows the tanim of parro but if parro is the tanim and tanim is one of again these powers that there were and and again the power I'm pausing in a second think for a moment about the Nile which is itself a life force turning into blood. It's like stabbing the Nile and making it bleed. And this there again to the gods of Egypt. There's judgment taking place. And then the tanim being turned into a piece of wood. There's a statement which is taking place there. And again, those of you imagining a real or imagined problem about how it how is it that parro doesn't have free will? You know why he doesn't have free will? Because he devolved into a piece of wood. Pieces of wood don't have free will. Because parro is the what? Okay, that was very good, right? It was worth it was worth it was worth no meaning you didn't realize that as you're reading that verse, but when you realize that parro right parro is there wearing a lacass shirt with a picture of a crocodile on. By the way, if you want, I'll say I I generated one on AI. I have I have a picture right here. I could show you this. It is absolutely hilarious. But but it does have Parro with his uh little little crocodile over there. So you realize that parro identifies with the crocodile and then you know we come in with our staff and throw it down becomes a crocodile. Wow. You're going to show me a crocodile trick. You know we can do this. And they do the same thing. But then our then ours eats theirs and then holds it turns it back into a stick. And now what happened to the crocodile, right? Crocodile's gone. But I'm going to say it again. The crocodile is this mean children eating animal. That's important. That's part of throwing the kids into the Nile. It is a It is a mean childing animal which has now this is not a question of the dog being tamed. You you do realize now that all this is connected, right? It's not just the dog being tamed. This is so tamed that it just now devolved into a piece of wood being picked up and walked out with our own and we swallowed your god. Your god is gone and now it has turned into something which no longer has teeth, right? It no longer has any power. So all that I'm asking you for, you know, really is so as these things are taking place, how is power reading it, right? And how are his people looking at this? And and I hope you realize that a lot of this is just completely devastating. And now I'll repeat myself. I'll say it again. That parro loses his free will. Yeah. When you are a baby eater, God can decide that. And that's who parro is. Parro is the crocodile. Parro is the tanim. Pyro is the tanimado said that. That's not me saying that. So when you behave like that and you say, "Oh, you're not going to kill the kids. Throw them into the throw them into the Nile." What happens when they get thrown into the Nile? So again, you get to choose. Do they die by drowning? They drive by by being eaten by the by the crocodiles. Or or is it both? So yeah. So that crocodile, they're not going to stay. That crocodile is going to be not just tamed, is going to be swallowed, is going to disappear, is going to devolve, is going to become something which no longer exists. And now I read this ver verse to the gods of Egypt I'm going to there's going to be judgment. This is judgment day. that to the gods of Egypt there going to be judgment. I just hope that we're reading all of this a little bit sharper, a little bit better. And as I said, I'm completely convinced that there's many many more levels which are taking place over here, but at least not let's not miss the things which I think are jumping out at us as being as being obvious and we need to of course get back to our uh to our pes who are in the middle of this. But just now we were told something really significant. And one of the things that happens again now use Jewish imagination when you do a you take the blood and you put it on the misb which means right now the doorpost just now became the misbak right and so instead of putting it around the misbak you're putting the blood on the doorpost that means that every Jewish home just now became a place which is holy it's a makum kadu If you want to even call it at least a ba maybe even like a bet like a quasi beta mikdash. So that's interesting. So the Jewish homes that have this will be passed over because these are places which are holy and the places that don't have the blood are going to end up having a different kind of blood and that's where the makat bharot will take place. Of course the bkur also in Egypt is somebody who is most respected in every single family. The bkore is the one who gets the most honor. The bore parro is the of the of the of the and as I've said many times if you want a visual of that imagine a pyramid a pyramid is the visual of theor sitting on top of everyone else which is underneath him. So therefore the architecture becomes and again assuming that it's somehow connected and all and I don't know for real but then it's interesting because it comes a representation of that the firstborn dying means the whole leadership disappearing completely. It's it's not just the way that we would read it on a more of an emotional level. It's something which again theologically for them is completely devastating. If we continue now a little bit more when I see the blood, right? And it's interesting. Keep that in mind. We're told a little bit more about the Corbin Pesak the door frames. So what actually happens? There was one more thing which I think I skipped over there. One of the things that it says is do not leave your homes on that on that night. I probably skipped that here along the way which is again an interesting dichconomy. Have your shoes on, your coats on, walking stick in hand, but they're not permitted to leave until the morning. Right. You know, get out of here. They go borrow the gold and the silver. It then continues the story, you know, furthermore by Israel. They go a rev goes the matso they couldn't stay and so on and so forth and then leimho part of question the plural here's a custom some people don't say malamita because it's it's it's a night that it's protection that we're protected as it is it continues and it's but others want to know what the shimar plural is and maybe it's this same night but different years. We'll see if we can get back to that. You know, we just had the leaving with us. So now we're told about another prerequisite of eating the corb and that is that one needs to have a brit which very much sounds to me like it's somehow going back to this people joining you can't eat the corbut that you're not allowed to take the pes outside it has to be in the house and you can't break a bone on it which means what we realize now is we're getting more instructions. And the way that some read this is that these were the instructions from beforehand that it could be lots of the Jews didn't themselves not have a Brit. By the way, I want to go back now to the 10th of the month. 10th of the month, you take the Corban. Now, you have a couple of days in between. You do the Brit. Now, what's the problem with the Brit? It's going to be a little hard to travel, a little you need a little time. So just think back about Aram for a moment. A is the Brit and then on the third day the angel come the angels come to visit the people come to visit. God comes to visit. So it's only maybe perhaps on the fourth day that he starts to feel better. But but can you stay there for a second? What else happens then? We're told that you're going to have a child. I think all this got a little bit more interesting. And we're told that next year on that day is when is going to be born. Yes. Which means that and that's what it means it's pes. So if it's pes and a just had his bilah prior to this. So what day did he have the bmilah? Now you don't know exactly the answer. Well it's at least 3 days or so before which actually it's interesting to overlay the calendar. Um what day exactly does God speak? Now you realize it's the beginning of Nissan is when that conversation takes place. And now you come to this interesting realization that Amy Israel's behavior on the days that they're getting ready to leave Egypt is very much identifying with Arainu in terms of what Aram did in order to become Abraham. He's Aram before now becomes Abraham. I I know you should be thinking they didn't change their names and so on and so forth. He become he becomes Abraham and and that is the person who's now able to have children and that and and the the descendants are the ones who the Britarium applied to. So he has the Brit and then the child will be born. They have the Brit and then they can bring the Corbin Pesak or participate in the Corbin Pesak and then they can leave. Which means it's not just that what the Corbin Pesak does is a palemic against the Egyptians. There is this other side of it which somehow facilitates us being us. But again together with this larger dynamic which again I'm pointing out is the Britney law as well. By the way you want to think about something else because again when you talk about the lambs you think well lamb where do I ever see a lamb? Okay, Mary. Other than that, where do you ever see uh which definitely has uh Corbin Passoff connotations to it? Mary has had a little lamb is definitely about the Pascal lamb. Okay, without any question to it. >> What? >> Think about that for a while. >> Oh, continue one second. Continue. But if I were to ask you a different question. Instead of instead of a lamb, what happens when a lamb grows up? it becomes a ram. Does a ram have anything to do with or >> Abraham? >> Right. One second. Did any of you think about that when I started talking about a lamb? Say, "Oh, yeah, of course." That by the when when Yitzk is almost dead and then get saved is we're almost dead and then we leave. We come back to life. 40th level of tuma is two months made and then we're able to come back to life and we're going to use again using the baby becomes interesting. Use and you do realize that the Corbin Pak is a baby. If you didn't realize that, it has to you you you'll look this up afterwards and you'll see what time of year lambs are born. It can't be a year. So, it's it's the spring. [snorts] It can't be a year old. If it hits the first birth date, it's too old. And essentially, they're born in March and April, which means on the average, the carbon pak is probably around 3, four, 5 weeks old. It's not it's not going to it's not going to be older than that. [snorts] And again, may maybe that's interesting, but they kill the children. That that is that is part of Noi. So, we're going to use a baby lamb and we're going to put it and it's not going to grow up to become the ram at any point. But the ram's part of the story also. So, I'm just trying to point out that some of this stuff may be a little bit more interesting than we uh had realized initially. The Ramban is going to add one more thing to this which will help us. Any of you know your uh astrological signs and what is this? What is not this time of year that time of year? >> Aries. And what is Aries? >> A ram. So the the Ramban is saying that's not a coincidence. Look at the Ramban in source number six. That is when that this power has the strongest power that and now again the PMIC we're going against that power. We're going to take it. We're going to slaughter it and we're going to leave during this time and that is part of the liberation. So to a certain extent the Ramban's going to say this the Rambam and theim is going to go down the same kind of path. You're going to have in source number eight the gonna go down the same line seean they deserve to die also 49th level of bring this is going to be the game changer bring now without explaining what he's saying I want to rather go back to where he's getting it from and that's the midrash in source number two and the whole first part source number nine the whole first part of it is going to delineate about how bad we were then that we were steeped in idolatry so it's not just a pmic against the Egyptians against parro and against parro and his henchmen and his people the midrash saying that Israel is together there let me quote some sukim that a prerequisite of us leaving is our stopping to worship these gods. Otherwise, you go back and I I I assume that you're imagining and remembering that midrash that we're told by the splitting of the sea where the angels say which means what makes these different and part of the answer is of God at that point is yeah you're right but they will accept the Torah which means that we're capable of dropping this and then accepting God and then it says continue take the kill their gods. So now you see that the Raman's not the first one to say this is already here in the midash. Part of liberation from Egypt is our killing the Egyptian God because God commanded it. It's accepting God and serving God, putting the blood on our doorpost. So it is a divorce from Egypt. This is a get to Egyptian gods and at the same time an acceptance of the God of Israel, which means this madrash is far more interesting. But again, one doesn't understand the mythology does not understand what's taking place and therefore the lamb being a part of the story becomes a part of the story. We're going to skip a little bit. Another one of the Baltosis verse 12 also should be and he again he talks about the astrological issues and anybody aware of that that's in the background. So just just saying that in source number 13 we have the Zohar discussing some of these things. You'll take the gods of Egypt capture it. But you going to have it captured for three days and on the fourth day take it out to be judged. And that's really good because the little mishhatim this dani were judging their gods and therefore every single Jew or group of Jews needs to do this this trial as it was taking place. Again, don't even start with me with lateral implications of all of this. But then gather for it to be killed. By the way, it was very important for Christianity to claim that Jesus is the pascal lamb and Jesus brings about redemption. He brings about liberation. And now once you believe in him, you no longer need any of the other things because now he becomes the ultimate carbine. But as I said, it it is deliberately trying to hijack the the Pesak story. There there's no question about that. And the last supper therefore is a uh there is confusion there within the chronology. Anyway, enough must speak. We don't need another rabbit hole. Right. It continues again describing how this is a liberating right. Don't eat it raw because then they'll say, "Oh, you were afraid to cook it because you're afraid of the power of the dead god." Still, if it was cooked, then it already you can't really see. No roasting, you see the whole animal still. You want the smell. And by the way, lamb smells. Yes, lamb. Lamb smells. I mean, I did not know this about my wife before we got married that we were ultimately incompatible because she does not like the smell of lamb whatsoever. And I and if I make lamb what it's terrible, what the smell like it's like the worst. >> No, no, no. She she goes. Yeah, I understand. But we find excuses and and and so many other people in the house like so Rashana, I'll put it, you know, whatever. We we had a pinion ben for my other grandson born a couple of months ago and uh there was lamb for the pion which by what oh you had the lamb was good wasn't it okay and and the kids that just had a baby now then they said it's going to be a boy pion we want we want lamb again so it's going to happen but over here it's saying because of the smell that's a part of this that the smell will all over what's that smell pyro can't miss that smell ridiculous all of Egypt can't miss the smell in every house they're making lamb They they are roasting lamb over here. So again, how are the Egyptians taking it? So again, the zohar is therefore interesting. Um unmistakable. Everyone knows this that this is lamb. And yes, I told my wife about this zohar early in the week. Don't break any bones. Now I don't know the status of this part of it. Don't break any bones rather. So what do you do with the bones? Throw them into the streets and they can't save these bones that God is going to judge their gods. So the judging of the gods is including the piles and piles of bones of lamb which is all over the place. Now there just to know what we're skipping the sift kohhane which is source 14 and which is source 15 and which is source 16 all of them will take this zohar in different directions in terms of what is taking place again the pmic taking place against the Egyptian gods specifically connected to the ram lamb and so on. I still have to get back to >> dogs and goats. >> The dogs and the goats. The one who's going to take us back to the dogs first the dogs is going to be the Yalutam Loes in source number 17. >> He connects the Brit during those days. Remember I told you the Brit ma he says it clearly that in the first section by the way there's two paragraphs they're not next to one another. I just put them next to one another but they're both from the um the first part over here says that whole commandment we got before about having that was for that year they needed to do it. by the way just just imagine the story being laid on top of this story because it it's the same dates. That's the issue. It's the same timing. >> How do we know? >> How do I know that? >> Why do we know that? >> Because by the third day is when the >> angels know that >> because they're serving matzah. We'll go to serving the next year at this time. We know is born. The 400 years begins with birth. He's born next year at the same time. The special thing about the Brit that's part of and that's why only is there an obligation to take the lamb on the 10th of the month because you need those days for the Brit. You need to buy bagels, locks and whatever else one needs in order to have a brit ma. Okay, the next paragraph. Now he's back to the breaking of the bones. Now remember something. The lamb is very young. It's very young. The bones are very soft, which means it has to be eaten really very delicately and very carefully because it's very easy to break these bones. I mean once you push the the the the age to a much younger age, you have to break the bones that mean that moak is not brain. And the mo is what does he going back to this idea that we saw in the zor that we saw in the that they serve they worship the tal and he's gonna add one more step to So what was keeping the dogs quiet? >> They wanted to love the lamb. >> They were leaving the bones. >> They were eating the bones. >> Well, right. So now we're saying what was keeping all of these dogs quiet? They had a lot a lot of lamb bones. That gets the wow. That's the [laughter] So of course the dogs are quiet. You just gave them lamb after lamb after lamb to eat. So the but the the important thing is the lamb who's supposed to be the best. Meaning we co-opted the dogs. The dogs are also part they're friends and they're supposed to accompany them. So >> hashem made the dogs stop barking. That's a more >> yes metaphysical rather than just they're busy. >> Yeah. And and they're very and they're very quiet. So so again this is uh >> but it's revenge. They're supposed to be the loyal animals here. They're eating the Egyptians god. >> Exactly. Exactly. >> Just brush my be. >> If it took this long, you're very blessed. >> Yeah. There's also >> Yeah. In source 18, there's this book called which is written by a Yemenite scholar and it's mentioned as a footnote by the Mam Loes. And if I got the right, it's a problem because it was published afterwards. So it seems just to be that the editor saying, "Oh, take a look over here." But he also plays with the word. Why do they leave? Because they didn't break the bones and the bones were given to the dogs. And it goes back to the same kind of a of a circle. But again if the dogs are something which have significance the lamb and the ram and but everything has significance but all they're all part of the gods what's happening over here is that we by worshiping sorry we by bringing the corban pesak are doing something significant first of all for us because we are slaughtering the false gods right the what would be the sacred cows it would be right was it was sort was slaughtering the false gods we're roasting it so you see it, the smell goes over. So, so again, it's interesting how they're taking each one of these pieces and making it a part of the liberation that we need to go through. But at the exact same time that we are being liberated, there's another side to it and what's the flip side to it? And that is how each one of these things were devastating for the Egyptians. going from the point of taking the animals and roasting the animals and it's unmistakable what animal this is finally to the point that their friends the dogs who are supposed to accompany them in their you know their path to the next world and so on are eating the bones of their other god that they would never have worshiped they never would have slaughtered and therefore what you have is theological havoc taking place for the Egyptians so there was one more step that I wanted to say that I still owed you and what was that >> and that was the goats so The goats for me always goes back to Yoseph. Mik Yoseph is the start of the of the of the Egypt story because Amusel when does Amusel start to go down? So the answer is when Yoseph goes down. So Yoseph goes down because they kidnap him and they send him down and they take a goat and they kill the goat and then they put the blood again blood of the goat on the goat and they and and YaKob sees this and thinks Yseph is dead and that's the whole beginning of the that's the beginning of the story. So it really be interesting that the end of the story is now gather together. Sit around as a family. That's that's really important. Sit around together as a family. You're going to take bread, right? They they then they sat down and had a meal but without one member of the family. Everybody together. You're going to take the coran and you're going to take a goat. Again, that's the option of the goat. [clears throat] And then you're going to slaughter the goat. You're going to eat the goat. So it sounds to me as if there's two different narratives that we get to tell on Pesak. You can choose each year which one you want to tell. Do you want to tell the story of how we became liberated from Egypt? How we were stuck in the Menauma? Do you want to talk about how the Egyptian gods were all devastated and Egyptian beca and Egypt became the theologically bankrupt and all of their gods are eating one another and so on and so forth and you know humiliation on the streets? What do you want to tell the story about that we need to tell and about how we need to be unified? How we make mistakes along the way? how sometimes we're not a family because leaving Egypt is about becoming a family and leaving Egypt is about becoming unified. So it sounds to me as if we get to choose each year which carbon we're bringing again it's corban pes they're both stone but which one which story do you want to tell this year so it could be that one year no based how the kids are behaving based on your how you're behaving you say you know what let's tell the story about how bad Egypt is and another year you're saying maybe we need to tell the other story this year about how the whole how we first got down to Egypt in the first place and then the goat becomes extremely extremely important so I essentially see over here that God is giving us an option. The Corbin Pesak becomes this thing of liberation. But we need to be liberated from different things. Sometimes we need to be liberated from outside forces and sometimes we need to be liberated from internal conflict which takes place and therefore Pesak just became so much richer because again it's focusing on the very beginning of the Pes story and that's or you going to focus on the very end of the Pes story and that's but they're both you know so which which one do you want to start with right over here and it seems that they're both a part of the pes story but you get to choose teach you the one that you want to tell. >> Oh.