Parshat Beshalach | Rabbi Baruch Taub

okay good morning everybody first of all um want to dedicate this sh fora for Barry Wise D's husband barl been uh having a brain freeze barl Ben frera he's coming along we hope for the best and our learning should be a s okay first piece is from Rak ketki uh the para so much in this para all these so after says get out go leave go do do what you you wanted to do you wanted to doen go doen go offer your sacrifices and uh and then after they left so the uh his all of his advisers said to him what do we do what were we thinking right so R asked simple question what's I don't understand what what they're thinking they forget about the plagues what do you mean what did we do we we had enough right they didn't really send because they wanted to send but after the after the mar so he [Music] says so I want to I want to provide two answers one is kind of a psychological answer uh a human nature answer and the other is um esph uh in in in the whole event right kind of a logical thing okay so let's see what he says you see from this how a person can fool himself how um what you want to do you know what a person wants to do you know is going to distort reality a chef Char to the extent that you forget what happened in the last seven days right the death of the first born what a what a tragedy they went through and the the whole MRI was like if you see the pictures of Gaza today um that's apparently what must have looked like was completely devastated right Didn't They Know M was finished was out right so what do you mean what what did we do uh maybe they should have thought of having a plan let the United States come in and rebuild M right if there's just a little tiny just a little tiny uh window right so the your your desire is going to distort SE we're talking about when the the Egyptians said after they send out B Israel par says get out go offer your sacrifices leave and then they say you know M what do we do what do we do so we're talking here about we don't understand he's asking a question what do you mean what did they do what why why would they even after the the marus the destruction the devastation of M him why would they um have a second thoughts so the first thing he says is that a person a person very simply human nature that a person can very simply distort reality with his after these 10 plagues where it was clear to everybody in the world that was [Music] the the master of the universe right and the the the determining factor of everything that happens in the world right which was of course one of the one of the main purposes of the plague was to drive that fact home right we call elim points out that only one of their Idols was remained called Bal safon right oh so they said listen they made a mistake you know what's going to happen here that they went around they went circuitous way because Bon is is is running the show here right they're not going where they're supposed to go right they're going right to the Sea right um so it's our God that's doing this V right who at they still saw the miraculous Cloud that protected B is and the fire that protected B Isel day and night that God was going in front of them that not withstanding they weren weren't afraid right so this is they're convinced that their Idol you know after everything that happened right the person the person can distort reality right so this was not they said this was this is an unnatural thing right they ran after them into the sea underneath the the the wall of of water which is standing up miraculously why you know why this is happening there was a strong East Wind right that's a Russia there was a strong East Wind so so clearly the wind did this right so we're going to get through and we're going to kill them right and this is clearly because God really wants us to capture them and and bring them back now this is an absurdity the first one obviously is absurd that that the idols doing it but this is also from from a a a a natural perspective it's it's absurd because the the the sea split in two directions so you needed an East Wind and a West Wind not one wind to the east would only take one of the sides of the sea split not not the other side right so um from a pragmatic perspective it's uh it's nonsense so that's the first that's the first thing he says that this is mish a lesson in human nature don't don't deceive yourself right deal with the you know don't confuse me with the facts that's really what happened here don't confuse me with the facts that's why they they went back after B Isel secondly he says a he says some kind of a a logical thing based on something I said in which we've never done what he writes over there remember the and this was something that mosha asked for on his own but the agreed let them go out for three days what was the idea of going out to have a a you know we said like a kind of a shabbaton a retreat although I think I pointed out in the past that that's a Catholic term you know Jews don't have Retreats although you see that people advertise them uh the Catholics call it a retreat we call it a shabat we should call it a forward it's not a retreat it's going forward right so in any case that's what the ram had in mind they should go for three days and they they realize now that's all the raon wanted to do so they strengthen themselves in this in this three-day shabbaton or if it's not over shabas whatever a three-day um Gathering right they'd be able to come back to Egypt what Theon wanted this is what right to be enslaved sh to the end of the 400 years which decreed right it was supposed to be 400 years right didn't do he didn't let them go this is what they were thinking this is their this is their thinking since par didn't let them go so therefore God had a Tighten the Vice he had a make and it was at that point it became much heavier uh servitude right he made things harder for them now they had to make their own bricks right because God want would taken them out after 210 years right so he made it so in other words he kind of condensed 400 years into 210 years was was GNA do I so look I went into this I'm not going to go any further said but based on this idea n really had in mind 400 years right the the Egyptians concluded that since God has been making them suffer here right allowing us to do what we do he's doesn't object to the servitude right he didn't take them out they can't handle 400 years make made it he made it harder he let us make it harder for them right what right but he was going to only let them go out for three days right three days this is the problem here right he says after the firstborn tragedy for him get out and he added he added go serve your God the way you asked meaning what farro assumed they're going to go out for three days and they're going to come back right K so here saying you know what I told him to go worship they have to come back God wants them here there God wants them here he didn't say be to them I'm sending you out that you should return why because he suspected maybe they would die I don't know I don't know exactly what he means here but but this is what the means what did we do in other words we sent them we only should have sent them out for the three years that's all they asked for why are we giving them more than they asked for right mosha keeps but when he spe was specific about it it was for three days right so he convinced himself that that's all they wanted so they'd have this celebration to strengthen their faith then they' come back now we had that he let them go completely so this two explanations of why the Egyptians had a kind of K they they they felt they did a they did a wrong thing by letting them go okay let's go over the page let's do number three first what question is answered so um Maya number three this is from this is the beginning of the par right he took us around Cirus way the desert yamu towards theam and the Jewish people were armed when they went out pish rashi rashi expl what does kushim mean now there are lots of interpretations on kushim he says Yu only one of the Jewish people left MIT and four fifths of B Isel died in the darkness now you realize what that means you're talking about three million people because when we talk about 600,000 going out that's only males from 20 up to 60 or whatever you want to say it doesn't count women doesn't count children so the total package here so that means that there were four fifths of the Jewish people millions of people who according to the simple the textual reading of this medage that Rashi brings that were r that were in UND deservant of The Exodus right and he says M it's a the med it's a medish it's a we have they went out oneth right some say 1 some say 150th one out of 500 which what if you do this math this is very very hard to swallow right according to this these opinions in Theon hundreds of millions of Jews before the G right also strange according to all the opinions however whichever mathematical equation you use there are a couple of million that let's say three million this was worse than than anything that happened in in mitan right so this is a major and it's like kind of hidden right and it was done you know the Russ during the plague of Darkness so the Egyptians would not see that Jews were killed and they would bury them during that three days of darkness right the Jews right the other ones but it's it's almost ridiculous right so listen to what he says VES d rash I want to I want to take a different take on this and I want to do it based on another comment of Rashi at the beginning of baresi right when Cen and he one brother kills the other right and the says the blood of your brothers plural is is y are doing to me from the grave so p rabbis in the gamor say in sanedrin not only the blood of his brother but the blood of his future children grandchildren great-grandchildren etc etc in other words that's the tragedy right that's the tragedy not just that he killed his brother but what could have come from his brother the future Generations so he wants to say this is what's going on here truth be told there were not many who died who were there were some very Wicked people remember the Jews were in the 49th level the Jews were still worshiping Idols right the Jews were worshiping Idols still in MIT so there were certain Jews who didn't want to let go right so they weren't fit to be redeemed okay a few and they di during the three days of darkness if they would have been alive these Jews would have stayed alive how many millions would come from these people right and this is the the right AR Pim was it four times 60 uh 6 600,000 or 40 times or 49 times right however you want that's the math right so just how do you make that of of four fifs right how far do you go you go you count the number of Jews from the time of until the rebuilding of the mikdash so that's millions and millions and millions right oh or eternally until right where you got you're into billions right right so that's makes a lot of what he's saying makes a lot of sense right because I'll tell you why he says and I wanna I want to sort of um prove it to you he rashash says they died during the three days of darkness why not another time as we said rash is he didn't want gam did not want the Jews to think did not want the Egyptians to think that Jews were dying also right to give them that that pleasure right they died and they were buried during the darkness right and the Egyptians didn't didn't realize that they were missing I have a question if you do this medish just the way it is the P text to the med four fifths of the Jewish people million millions of Jews the overwelming majority of the Jewish people died it's impossible to say that the Egyptians would not pick up on this I mean you have three million three million people dying the Egyptians aren't going to hear about it right it's clear the way I'm saying it it has to be this way only a few people died is and it wasn't a a heavy physical loss of Claus right also how could they bury in three days three million people right and they're not going to hear about it right but let me give you an example he says it's a bristling example IM om we just had right 80th Holocaust Memorial Day right for the if we say that the the he wrote this 30 years ago right 20 years ago so 30 years ago he says if he's talking about 50 years we're talking about 80 years now let's say they killed 600,000 Jews right or if they K killed they let's say they killed six million right um so today we say there were tens and tens of millions of Jews that were killed so you we know that there are let's say 600,000 and probably more right we could only prove approximately whatever 6 million right we proved 6 million right there were probably more than six million but we say 6 million right so let's say you know we didn't say six million right um but if six million died right how many would be there today for us 80 years later the last 80 years all of the Six Million Jews who died would have had children and grandchildren and great grandchildren that's that's the the the the enormity of the tragedy of this the the evil empire of the Nazi each year so the number would keep increasing and their blood and the blood of their future Generations were crying out to the ronish what look what CLA Israel could have looked like takes n for the all of the the um the tragedy and the Jews that were lost and look at now what the what CL Israel has become it's not it's not a answer you know but it's it is at least a it is a kind of comfort zone that gave us that we were able to rebuild stories of survivors and how they rebuilt their lives they came here they came here with nothing I mean just it's incredible I mean take what's happened today with the hostages this girl um this girl who what was her name Armon I forget aam right look look at and the other girl said if not for her she made she gave us strength this is a girl who came from not not from a religious background right she started decided to keep Shabbat she started to keep shabas she kept shabas she fasted on tshaba she found a sitter right she found a sitter in somewhere right who knows how that the Palestinians might have taken it they we saw they took muras they took all kinds of things and at the same time her mother unbeknown to each other also start to keep shs right I mean the strength of the you know so um that's our n for all these terrible terrible things that uh that we have to deal with okay now go to number two on the sheet um I I left it for the end because I have a piece that I did not put in that I'm going to do with you afterwards kind of a a PS to this this is from a sa called but which we have used in the past it means a hot meal M shabas like a good malaba Mala banquet Mala Mala it's the name of a saer that the students of the Toba put out to is a very very um prominent today in yush um a very um spiritually popular a very brilliant man people come from the secular World businessmen politicians people go to him to discuss uh for Aces very special person okay um he has fascinating history also his roots actually come back go back to Toronto and so there's a lot more to say about him um I I believe he went to nativ mayir high school which was the only daui High School in yushan many moons ago right so there's a story here right but he come his grandfather was the Tolen re and his father didn't want to be the to he became toen re so the rest is is really something special now here on the par it says in the Moshe comes and he doens to Theon save us right we're finished here so what is God say to him what does the Kish say to him what are you talking to me for what Mona why why you doing to me go speak to is I have a question I mean there's a lot of interpretations on this the has we maybe have done it in past lot of interpret what he really meant M but listen to what he's going to say something which I find very special right first first they asked the question why shouldn't he dve into the right what do we do when we have we we and we say to him so what do you was in a terrible terrible situation so why not right what he says there are really 10 verbs Ines for prayer right s right which it means to shout right desperation that's one of 10 right this is what he quotes his Yeshua which I I think was a great uncle or grand not sure exactly of the lineage here but the the PES in his in his I quote it's true MOS should have doed but he shouldn't have made screaming desperation demanding with desperation that's that's the connotation of the word right Rea he should have doed with Reena with joy Mo sometimes praying with joy will make all the difference in the world right um and he [Music] says the word Reena is one of the 10 verbs for one of the 10 nouns to describe prayera it's also a noun Rea it's a noun Joy from the Jewish people were being threatened Army was being threatened by a large army so what does tell the what does he tell them tells the king don't worry you're going to be successful and when they went out the the singers the singers lar h what did they do they do in Hal right what does it say it says it rather in the in the that they they D with Reena with joy and tahila and praise of hasem but you know when they they defeated the enemy that the the had the enemies of the Jewish people had a a a devastating loss and B Isel were victorious you see from that without a doubt MOS should be doing we all should be doing when there's an right but with with be alive with right with confidence and joy he say the next column he says in yish should be a lively doing right almost like like you know car minion right big thing a right so don't be broken don't come to me as a broken person right with with s the opposite lead come go and what do tell them to go say right the's going to take care of them I told you I'm going to take care I'm going to take you out of MIT so right should be with a moon and be PS he says I want to add something to what the said was right in his now I have it here wrote incredible poetry um one of the poems that he wrote is there's a custom I don't know if you're familiar with this but at a Brisa this poem is sung it's called y laasha right it's in if actually if you look in your in your sitter when you go home look in your art scroll sitter go to Brisa the bras of bris which be after Bening after shakas and you'll find the sudit it'll have the poem of yosha in Hebrew and in English and there's a lot of reference to the splitting of the sea and there's a splitting of and the idea of of bris because all of Ben Israel did brism before they left before they left mitz Rah right so this is this it's an incredible po poetry from Ruda leevi and and there's one line here that he's questioning at the end it says your beloved um exalt you they sang to youa so he's translating it um they before the the miracle of the Red Sea before the miracle of C yamu right they sang to you before the yamu was split right right this was the that they they sang right so he's asking on this now he says it says Ina Le wrote that they sang by the by the asked on the on they're actually meim on poetry of rur right there on the Poetry of where do you see that they before they only sang after the right based on what said right you can say like this after said to don't come and do to me with screaming and helplessness help us right Saka and they he told them that's what he told them to do and Mos clearly accepted this advice gathered the people together they all D with joy with with re this was before and that's where wants to say that's what means right that you preceded the event with Shir Lina was talking about the The Joy yam now you'll see that the English translation doesn't translate it that way right it just says with song they come and greet you right to be M to be but this is much more precise translation of the words of rabuda Lei and it could very well be that that's what rabuda Lei had in mind a beautiful just an absolutely beautiful idea but I W to I want to take it another step further from something else that he wrote I didn't think we'd have time for it so but we have we have a few minutes I think we have five minutes or something like that so I'm I'm going to do it orally to you he asked another couple of questions two questions he asks um the med says there's a med you might be familiar with this medish that how do we know that even um in vitrio the the the in vitro the the Jewish babies who weren't born yet were also singing Shira Byam it's a med a famous medish it's based on is that we blessed from the of isan from the womb right name so he asked a question on this what do you need this for hello yua um I'm just you don't have this in front of you um maybe I'll just try not to read it and just Kish boru um doesn't stum do Miracles right um so we have to wonder why why would he do this extra kind of a wild thing why not by the mcus when they do for the makus or any any other thing why dka byus yamu you have this incredible miracle that the babies were also saying Shir right then he has another Med on on theu D nor by the way the First Med is Rabbi mayor the second Med is rury same person rury is because n he enlightened the eyes of the Jewish people no LA with Torah right his Torah but in any case he says another thing that when they were going through the sea if a baby was child was hungry mother would reach out and an apple tree would be there and she would take an apple and give the child or maybe even a baby bottle right for the child right there two in AR why do we have by do by yamu you have these wild um Nim that that take place right you don't have it by any other situation right why is that so he writes here um and more one more thing he says that the med says when a made servant saw at the right prophets didn't see right it was such an extraordinary extra what was so special right I want to say like this you do this was this was the mother of all redemptions you see MIT is the source that's why we say it every day in ding everything we do with we have all we have a which celebrates is the mother of all Redemption every Redemption comes from the fact that the the Redemption that a loves us right it's a it's a Sim that is beyond it's a Sim that's beyond and I'm just making it short that's what he says so now I just want to add to that based on something that rev hutner said rev hutner asked a few questions also first of all when when did cre jamsu take place on the seventh day of PES PES right why don't we have a special yum based on all of this why do we have a special yum for cre yum special day not just right in fact it's so important we sing a every morning in d right it's that's that's how powerful it is it's the greatest SYM right of our of our you know renewal so why isn't there a special y for um and something else he asks when we say ining and just like we sang by the what do we say etc those twoos who why we what about the whole oos why does the why do K take that just that M hasem you'll take a look at the sitter who is like you Hashem as the that's how we sang to hasem why there so what he says is and I make this short he says that Shir was was not just about the moment of cre yamu but it was past and future right we also if you read the a carefully you see we praise God for the bet mikdash we're going to come to come to we're going to have the mikash it is a total of the history ofel the protection of the Redemption of CLA Isel and M that's the that's the bridge that PUK is the bridge from going talking about the past miracles of the splitting of the sea then going onto the future miracles of the rest of Jewish history that he's going to take us to ER Israel so K yamu is so that's how he answers why it's no there's no special day you know why and he says this I might have done this a few years ago he actually writes this in the mimer that this is not just a Sim of the moment right it's Jah de vivra he says in French The Joy of living it's just not you can't quantify create yamu to a one day C vibration we have to say a yoser every single day of our lives and we have all these extraordinary Miracles that the Tolen arus says happened that are we don't see by anything else because of the extraordinary Central nature of the Sim of the re Revelation the Redemption of me right okay pleasure