Parshat Bo: Follow the Money | Rabbi Ari Kahn

this week is Paro I just scribbled on top a few really little letters but it wasn't meant to in terms of importance says it's a fellow who passed away last week who um his name was Tom and he lived in eat a lot of people there called him rabam but uh he he worked with his hands but at some point previously he had been a musician actually had a band coming out of Chicago back in the 60s for all for all for all I know some of you were actually groupies there but um but that's that's all that's all that's all I'm saying that's all I'm saying right now and uh and he he passed away last week and at some point in history he had been in Texas where a student of mine was a rabbi and I had visited there m times and he had picked me up from the airport and whatever and so the sheer should be anything else about that we could talk afterwards okay so where are we we're peric alive per excuse me hasem this is what makes it kosher it's like any restaurant I go to is under Orin supervision right yes I know so here we are in this week's Parish there are three plagues yes and mosha which should help you understand what we're up to now what's interesting is that in this case God didn't say exactly clearly right here what's going to happen but that's something which perhaps if we've been paying attention she we should have known anyway it continues in and says go please speak in or now speak in the ears of the people now actually there is one could have a suspicion is this the plague because it says one more plague and then I'll let you go go and speak to the people so it would make it sound like this is the plague I'm sure that there are some who would be tempted to read it that way that's not correct shall is by the way the word reu is interesting over here is generally we think re who meet somebody with there's some kind of camaraderie so a person should borrow if that's what the word means and I have no reason to suspect otherwise go borrow things of silver and things of gold and God will give favor of the people right in the eyes of the Egyptians now that's also important because you know when you say one of the things you're asking for is to find favor Fain in the eyes of the right your you're stranger and coming to a place people may not know you and xenophobia and so on and so forth so you want people to find favor you want people to to judge you favorably there as well and over here God says he guarantees [Music] which is itself is very interesting that mosha is actually seen as a hero here where one can easily see Moshe as somebody who has been the individual who brought upon destructive forces upon Egypt destroying their economy destroying their land destroying one would have thought the psyche of a Nation but nonetheless people look upon mosha and see greatness there and one wonders is this is part of the they know that this is part of what's taking place is that people suddenly realize and appreciate this incredible spiritual Charisma that Moshe has but I'm saying that itself is something which is really quite remarkable now this theme as I said should not have come as a surprise because if we go all the way back to Source number two which is peric gimmel which if we don't recall this is by the SN by the burning bush here I already said by the way it's interesting because as much as we theologically beat ourselves up regarding oh how could it be that God hardens Pyro's heart and so on and so forth here you have another example of the same phenomena taking place and those of you who've uh who've attended sh of mine over the last number of years know that I've pointed out the same phenomena throughout safe Abra in terms of almost every adversary that we have where God micromanages their Free Will system and they're forced to do something which they don't necessarily want to do so over here as well it's not just that God hardens power's heart along the way it's that God said that no I'm going to soften their hearts if you will but it's the same thing I'm going to soften their hearts they're gonna all find favor in you and let's continue the and when you go you're not going to go empty-handed smot and you're going to borrow things of silver and things of gold and now the word smot is really interesting because assumingly it means clothing or maybe even dresses so the other day actually I can go yesterday and also a couple weeks ago yesterday somebody called me up and said somebody I saw I asked a question and said how in the world could they be taking this malot when we know that the Jews kept their names and they kept their language and they wouldn't wear the clothing of the of the Egyptians so I told him well it actually doesn't say anything about the clothing the if you look in the original madash which maybe we'll have a chance to look at a little late today or I wrote about this in my first book in Explorations and I have an up I mean theoretically I have an updated version of schote coming out but I do have the footnote written on the updated version of this with all kinds of sources about this particular point the the idea of the clothing really became much more popular among theid in the 18th 19th century we became something which was very important to retain the clothing and then they kind of read back into other sources which are not really there i' had actually mentioned in passing in my sh a couple weeks ago that clothing wasn't there on the list and then one fellow you know you have to know who's in your audience there's one fellow who I always look at him I'm look he knows he the rash all the rashis all know and he comes over me afterwards he goes I just realized it said that they that God told them to borrow the dresses if they're borrowing the dresses so this fellow called me yesterday said he saw a great answer which I had seen by the way I just didn't think it's significant enough to quote but it's if you like it it's great it's so they said how how can you borrow the dresses I mean these are these are the dresses of the non-jewish women so it says it must be that the Jewish woman borrowed the Egyptian women's clothing but they gave it to the little girls so the mini dresses of the adults became the proper dresses for the girls now if that makes you happy excellent excellent if this if if if this right if this I'll okay I will try to show you a better answer later on I told them okay I give you better answer but but just wait up but you only need an answer if you think there's a question the truth is there's no question over here because dresses or clothing was never included in that original midrash we will see what is there instead and that's interesting and we'll also see what else we can do with our dresses if we need to so just hold on now I know that there's going to be great interest in this class because you know now now I can write this sheer for Vogue like I I don't have to uh right right right so let's let's continue I guess that's where it get and you're going to put it on your children your sons and your daughters and now we can try to figure out what me Sal means so so far we had peric alive where God where mosha tells the people we have peric giml where God had told mosha and then let's throw into it pericet is where it actually takes place that's Source number threea by the way if we're going to stay with our fashion issues so parro presumably was wearing his pajamas as the song goes Pama most likely in his pajamas there were like little frogs and uh I don't I know what or it could have been you know like lost but but it could have been a crocodile o over there so again we we could we could discuss what power was wearing but that doesn't concern us so much but it does say go leave whatever by the way if you recall pericu bed actually God had said to mosha put the blood on the doorpost and so on and no one leave until the morning so there's an absolute Divine instruction not to leave till the morning if at this moment pyro set them free our first expression of freedom is to say no we're not leaving that's the that's our first expression of being free which is interesting because and kazal divide between leaving Egypt it's at which is in the morning and which is at midnight but the means that politically economically and so on we are now free people but our Free PE our freedom says we're not leaving like criminals in the middle of the night that's the language of the midash rather we're going to walk out like free people we'll continue we'll Skip and the Egyptians wanted to grab the people send them out quickly and said you better get out of we're all dying now now again I'm not saying to B to feel bad for the Egyptians I'm not quite going to go there at all but rather one can understand the pressure that they're under which means something actually just now happened there was a dramatic change I don't know if you paid attention or you realized it but something just now happened which Jerry getting ready for your Shear on chabis these are all theologically troubling but they're all Al um without understanding the theology they're annoying they're very annoying we we have ones as we continue which are economically devastating but with the death of the first born we just now jumped a level why because now people are dying which means there was no clear expression until this point that people are dying you can imagine that when the Barat comes that sometimes Barat hits you it's not a pretty thing but this is when we're told that people are dying and now they realize that it's over and what do they say will all die which means in their minds okay all the firstborn dies so what's the next play going to be all the second born and the Third born and then before you know it the whole place is gone it means so therefore the hysteria at this point is one which has been built up by the annoyances the economic Devastation going up to the point that now people are in fact dying and you know and at the same time if you do go back to the issue of the sun god the last three plagues are all in darkness and and the Sun God has been eclipsed and parro is probably also feeling somewhat devastated and Egyptians by extension are feeling devastated so all that's taking place and they're saying no leave go and they want to get them M and I I just want now to stress something you know God says you're going to find the of the people so we imagine the they're going to be oh no jolly and happy for us it could be that the that we find is out of incredible concern you they're saying you have to go you have to go we're all going to die and what if you then say I'm happy to go but that that little gold thing that you have on the shelf take it just go just go which means the pressure which has been created right now is something that we have to pay attention again that's these These are in the words and what is again right after this when go because we're all dying it says but and they go and they put the the dough and they put it by the way notice they put it in the clothing so you can say no they took the the clothing just so that they can take the dough me that should be the firm answer if you don't want us wearing the clothing of the Egyptians and they did as Moshe said so the is added back over here that's M and God gave him favor in their eyes and Egypt that's to be they to took advantage of also could mean they empti them out we we'll we'll see about that but but nonetheless God here has orchestrated a very um convenient situation whereby we could again do what we're asked to do we know that smote is in peric giml smote or by the execution youb and for whatever reason it was not mentioned in peric Alf the izra who by the way is one of the places we would want to look I know that you think yourself why want to look in Ezra well izra actually has lots of interesting comments in brait regarding wealth izra himself did not have money he wandered from place to place um he claims that the reason that ASV gave up on the first born was because y because y had lost all his money so what do I need it for I'm not going to have any heren I mean it's very difficult to say this in shot I would say almost impossible and one suspects that this is more autobiographic about the Ezra who had a very difficult economic life ra as opposed to about the life of yit but therefore when it came to money he's one of two places I would love the other would be the sorno and maybe I'll explain that also when we go further izzar writes so he just now did a couple things one is note that he used a comparison when yakob left Lan now the villain told us this was a whole another talk and not for today but the vnon told us that if you pay attention to the Jews leaving Egypt you'll realize that the Prototype is Yakov leaving lvan and every single element is identical for those who know how to discern that's what he writes over here and this is one of the more obvious ones which is there in the passage of the Z that he was explaining is the example of both cases of leaving the rushad by the way the other thing that he has in both is that Yakov uses a stick there and here mosha uses a stick which means also theut is one which is in uh in both but he goes on I I I one day I'll come back to this B but I've counted over 15 maybe 20 different elements of the two stories that should be compared to one another but this this izra therefore is at least aware of saying oh look at this word we've seen it before but where what you does he have he has the usage of where yob explains to your father God has caused your father to empty out all of his possessions and give it and give it to me which means that yakob leaving Lan will leave and by the way after he was abused and and enslaved and taken advantage of and so on and he's going to leave so now over here as well Egypt well so I'm saying that that's a really interesting izra because we would have if I didn't point this out have just said oh he's just pointing out linguistically that there is a comparison and I'm telling you it's not just linguistic that there's something which is deeper over here it's a comparison between the two episodes but he added and he said something else and in both cases really what this talking about is a sense of of saving if I'm reading that right because in both situations there was well you see the word Hamas over here which is not a nice word in any case it's that abuse has taken place that Yakov was abused the were abused at some point down the line God is going to say there will be a day of payback there will be a day of judgment there will be a day that those who are guilty are have to pay for what they've done so over here in both these cases at least there is a financial aspect to it so in both of these cases what's taking place is is moral I think that's really important now if I just go back and now ask you so what's really bothering him mean what is what is Ian addressing which means if he's sitting around teaching students what is he anticipating that somebody's going to raise their hand and say you know excuse me how can Amy iseli act in such an immoral way how can they go and ask to borrow something when they know they're not coming back at all how in the world does uh or Jews who are supposed to be moral and have uh all kinds of uh ethical let's say an ethical conscience how could we be asked to act like that so izra just cutting that off and saying excuse me when you take advantage of somebody for 400 years don't think that it's not going to be buil to pay at some point down the line so he over here just did all of that by saying not and that's very clever not only is this the right thing to do and and by the way not only does God instruct that this is to be done but there's another element to it this is actually ha yakob left Lan years and years ago so yeah this is the right way to do this because people who take advant at one point at one point down the line God will finally get involved and things will be set right the who even though you'll think oh toz is absolutely impacted by the B need they need to pay from three different types of things from from silver and gold and clothing look in order to fulfill that they're going to leave now those of us who don't know what he's talking about I already used that term a couple times today but that takes us back to the Brit Bim give me a couple seconds we'll get there but then he writes and it's similar to when an evid is set free so now if you don't know what I'm talking about take a look at source number six and say it's Vern over here we're talking about an evid iy means a Jew who's come upon hard times and has become a servant for somebody else work you for six years the seventh year you set them free don't let them go empty-handed now it's interesting the word ream over here is being used right don't look at back at source number two for a second this was the original time that God says that when you leave Egypt but you're not going to go empty-handed over here the which is established and says that when you have the servant don't send them empty-handed now if you just if you think in case you think the is working too hard he says no that means this is the source for severance source of severance from the Torah how many years did you work at the post I hope hope they gave you severance [Music] yeah figures anyway you give three types of things meaning you were blessed you had somebody working for you God was involved and now just in case you didn't get the connection you were slaves in Egypt and God redeemed you now when this person has been again I'd rather use the word ser for you that's the reason that I am commanding this so in case when you first saw that saying oh this is similar to that yeah it's quite similar to this that means when someone works you why you don't send them empty-handed and therefore this becomes and it's in order to remember you slaves and what's the conclusion if he doesn't want to go and and if you don't remember the rest of the R is in K is that that ear Rashi quotes it in that that ear that heard by that you're my slaves and so not Servants of anyone else that person should not stay in a situation like this and therefore so on and so forth if you look at source number seven Bim tells us and we're skipping a little bit further next so now we're back to our dresses right he writes everyone took two dresses plurals too one of them in order to wrap the so this is now our theory of conservation of dresses so I if we have a dress which is being used over here to carry out the dough and you have a dress being mentioned in the same section so therefore you realize that these dresses are connected but there's another one but another one to wear now just in case you're thinking hold it first of all you're traveling when you're traveling you can't carry the whole wardrobe with you you you you you you you can't do that but he writes and their clothing never never wore out so therefore you only need needed one dress because that was kept perfectly fine and perfectly fresh and I guess maybe the M the same way you can imagine that it was any food you wanted maybe we can sa the clothes each morning you can imagine which colors were going to be on your uh on your clothing that day I know you'd be happy if I told you I s midash that said that but I didn't but I can always write one so now now now let's go back to the to the midash and I will warn you there are various versions of this madash I picked out one of them actually I picked out two of them so let's take a look in Source number eight I know you think three and this one says four okay so a lot of them say four a lot of them so the first two are easy they didn't change their names they didn't change their language now in this case doesn't mean what you think it means I know that you're thinking that it means you're like channeling your inner and you think that this means I don't believe that that's what it means hold on a second and none of them were sexually immortal do you now know why in all elementary schools they teach clothing instead of sexual immorality maybe they should switch it by the way but but that that's what it actually says and therefore it became a really easy thing to switch because you had like this whole kdic movement anyway wanting to talk about the importance of maintaining 17th century clothing as if it's something which is religiously significant and therefore don't change your clothing at all keep clothing of people polish Warlords or for whatever reason but that also allowed you then not to start talking about the lack of sexual immorality which took place among the Jewish people by the way other than the exceptions which is the continuation of this midash is that there may have been some obessions they all okay except for maybe those who weren't and it then goes and gives some examples but go down a little bit further in this source now what does that have to do so it's a little bit more interesting it means that there was actually a secret over here and the secret was that they're leaving and the secret they were leaving was something which they knew about but that can ruin things in terms of borrowing from the Egyptians if they really know that they're leaving so therefore keep things quiet if you look at source number nine and it comes from the same Source they did not reveal their secret so again the and even the way it was explained over here that there was a secret that they didn't reveal that seems to be the what kazal trying to tell us and and then again and there and the the women were not then Bartered for sexually in order to improve their standing as slaves which means I'm going to say it again you realize why part of this midrash is really easy to turn into an educational uh objective in for for elementary or high school but part of the this midrash becomes a little bit more difficult for teachers by the way not for the kids the kids will talk about it for for teachers to talk about so therefore we just traded it four became three one of them became clothing and everybody's happy inour kin so it says that I'm going to give the favor this assured that they will then be able to facilitate to borrow the things essentially what he's dealing with is why does God why does this need to be repeated so he says God told it to Moshe by the burning bush before all the plagues so to have the favor of the people and and by the way what's actually being implied here what would have happened if mosha goes to parro and says okay let my people go and parro says oh sure cool now I know that that really can't happen because immediately afterwards God does say to Moshe that I'm not that he's not not going to go right away and he's and I'm going to harden his heart and we have a whole uh we have a plan and and by the way that's really what I want to get to today make sure we have time there's a plan and we have to understand the plan still but but again the the the he's insisting that that that's why it needs to be repeated because it's things things will have changed by the time we get further down the line okay rashbam Source 11 and this you'll know realizes much closer to what the ezzar was telling us and yes the ezzar met the rashbam was blown away by the rashbam wrote a new wrote a second commentary after he met the rashbam even though there was at least one thing that the rashbam wrote that really really bothered him and he wrote a whole book to counter it those of you who know you know if you don't know you don't know if you don't know then opportunity to come back to that but he was blown he was blown away what it says here it was an absolute complete present now what's the problem with that the problem is it says to borrow so it says to borrow how can he say that it means no that's not a Bor was a gift and it says because it says that they had favor they had favor that it must be a present by the way you realize the logic is not does not completely flow it could be that because you have therefore I'll let you borrow this it doesn't mean that I'll let you keep it as it says any he brings a good proof over here see if I uh wrote down where it was no I did not he he um he actually brings a verse where it says sorry let me just do that again shaal me many ask of me now shaal doesn't mean borrow or ask ask of me and I will give it to you so you see be asking for and then a complete present and then he adds five words and it's these five words which actually will tell you a lot this is but by the way I only gave you three of the words now when somebody insists that something is shot what do you know you know it's notat why because if it wasat then no one would have to insist that it's Pat correct or not correct so no no this isot this isot so nobody has to protest and tell you and convince you that it'sot when it's really shot now if you remember there is a long brush bomb explaining that the brothers never sold yoseph and he tells you there that's shot not only tell you he's shot he says that I learned with my grandfather and he agreed with me that we need to write new today and he actually says for the which is which is very strange why wouldes if it's it's why would meaning he he seems to actually be saying that we need to find another level shot that itself is fascinating a level up shot which resonates with the audiences which exist today now don't bother me with whatat means because I know everyone thinks the rasham says pad and Rashi doesn't Sayad and he tells you there that I say Shad my grandfather didn't say shad and he agreed with me even just one there's only one thing that bothers me asides from everybody else there's one thing that bothers me with that rashbam why did he wait to chapter 37 of graa to give us his introduction to his methodology and now his grandfather agreed with him why didn't he write an introduction to braet and stay down his methodology because what is he going to explain in chapter 37 he's going to explain how the Jews really didn't sell him and now remember something we always read parv coming right on Kaneka but there's actually another holiday right then which is Christmas and Christmas was actually really quite dangerous in the neighborhood of the rashbam they would have Christmas mass and they would not only have passion plays they would also replay the scene of M Ys because they saw this as a precursor to Judas Yehuda Judas who rejects Jesus and therefore what the rush bomb says what are you talking about the Jews never Sal him which means there was may have been a very very good motivation for him to try to make this claim by the way here when he insists that it's you know what he writes right I told you there were five words I only told you three and a response to Heretics which means the rashan very well knows that he has to give a response and what's the response to to those who are saying look at the Jews look how Jews behave Jews go and take things they borrow things they never give them back Jews are dishonest so what does he Sayad is they gave it completely as a present they never wanted it back and that's so why is he fighting insisting that's because he's going to say I'm going to insist that's I'm going to tell everyone that that's I'm going to insist that's what it says in the and one wonders had there not been people who were challenging Jewish values and ethics whether he would have insisted so strongly that it shot and the two words that give it away here is and this is so now you realize it's pical and which he doesn't admit in the other place but I'll tell you in both places he does the same thing he insists this is shat so what is our new rule our new rule ofat is that if somebody insists something's Pat then you have to at least be very suspicious so we're we're back to the izra now in Source number 12 um he so now we're going to go back to some of our issues in v in Vogue which uh the NV is going to also later down the line come back to also he says they bored why did it say women yeah because women are more likely to borrow clothing than men will and also and to put it and we would put this in our children's ears and noses I wonder how many people will not teach this Ezra so some somebody had asked Rebel Yos if men were allowed to wear earrings and he said yes reel Yos was like was he goes yes so they try to say but I mean but is it appropriate he goes like he's reading the pum yeah it's approp he like was completely outside of any kind of uh social considerations that this may not be so all that I would say is is that if some unfortunate like high school rebi had a student to want a male wanted to wear your earrings say let's ask r y r yosu would have said uh would have would have said yes I discussed this onstein and he uh he in his typical way said the Jewish tradition looks looks a scance upon this that was that's now you know that that those were his exact words and he said in yu in the 60s we had similar issues regarding people who wanted to wear long hair where again there's no it's not breaking any Hal but any good re's going to find a thousand different reasons why this is not good so anyway the Ezra says you know you'd borrow it to put the earrings on the nose rings on all the other cool stuff I toldra and the realize that he's reading the r he says there were those who complained he say this that our ancestors were were thieves and he says so first of all he he just now went to a very really interesting moral argument what creates thievery and what creates good behavior bad behavior well God says don't steal God also said take this stuff so once it became an instruction from God changes don't ask start asking why we do want to know why by the way he says because God creates everything God decides by the way here you get the Ezra who had money or didn't have money he actually didn't have money God gives money to who he wants to he can take it away from one and give it to someone else this is not objective morally wrong shal because God owns everything so on a procedural level the izra sidest steps this again the the rashbam tried to do it on aot level and here he does this more on a procedural level not saying it's not's saying yeah God gave this in instruction again same same neighborhood of the world it was given as an as as absolutely pres present and so on he then adds another thing why that they needed this but actually there's two reasons because we know that that's not the whole story he says that the stated reason is going to be because when you go and celebrate holidays you need to wear nice clothing so therefore as the slaves are going to go out so everyone's have to borrow something because we need nice clothing and nice what else what goes with Nice Clothing ladies nice jewelry so therefore we very good those of you who are quiet just now I'm quite suspicious you need should try it again you we need Nice Clothing what do we need to go without Nice Clothing access we need to accessorize very good very good um but then he writes either you took advantage of you emptied out Egypt as payment not even reward payment for years and years of slavery so what you see is in different ways these various commentaries are all telling us that this point of borrowing was in fact moral even though there's this admission that maybe it doesn't look as good right really bad Optics but it's moral it's moral this is right it's moral because God said so it's moral because they owe us wages it's moral for because they wanted to give it to us of course they wanted to give it because God manipulated their wanting system but everything's okay and we are uh and we're happy how much more of this do we want to do Source 14 again same school he he spells out what I spelled out from the very beginning he goes of course they gave it right they gave it complete when the Egyptians wanted to get them out the door as quickly as possible they we have some stuff they were terrified of what was going to happen next so of course they were very happy to give them anything that they wanted at that point and you you could decide in terms of M if this is considered to be a you know a good sale not a good sale what kind of pressure there is certainly what to talk about but I intimated earlier that there was a little bit of background to this and that background goes back to Source 15 and that of course is a b and it's all spelled out here and you should know that your descendants will be slaves enslaved and abused and a land which isn't there 400 years I'm going to judge that people and it [Music] continues and then they're going to leave with a great deal of Rush whatever however translate Rush uh I do Wonder should we reading the two ports together and which means what exactly is the Dan the judge ments over here and what exactly is the are they interrelated or are they separate so that's something which you look at the various commentaries you're going to see that they don't necessarily agree on that point about how to read it Rashi for example writes 16 that what's the D that's okay depending on how they behave that's going to be the Mak the great deal of money as it says again they emptied out Egypt the which means he reads them together I'm going to judge and what's the Judgment going to be God is going to then put on know the calculator and say how many hours do they work how many hours were overtime how many hours was excessive labor and how many again just put the whole thing on the clock how much you get paid for not paying on time right re and whatever else that we need Mom and so everything is going to be included in it which means and then which means the Rak is reading both sides of this together so okay here's a little bit about the sorno I've said this before the sorno didn't like money because s Ferno lived in Italy and he lived for part of his life literally in the shadow of the Vatican he was actually hired to teach people Hebrew who were people non-jews of of power and of influence and he saw the corruption of the church he saw the corruption of the Vatican he saw that there is this inverse relationship between great wealth and great spirituality and he actually has some really interesting comments regarding the the mishan and the first first bet midash second bet midash regarding Holiness and amount of gold or silver which is there so the the Ferno sore certain things and it does impact how he so I'm saying that's why this fora would be interesting as well should I explain to you why all this is may be the case and one of the suspicions that we should have and we're not going to track this down as much as we should let's say we do take a lot of gold what happens to that gold okay can I give you a hint we eventually made a golden calf we made a golden calf where did we get the gold so on the other hand you could say but we also made a mishun and and the mishun so I'm just saying is that there's something interesting over here that he could have gone but which is why we would be interested to see what he says in in so again in Source 19 he actually says that Dan an is the Jews how much servitude they're going to get and it's going to be the Egyptians for what they've done so I found that fascinating because they didn't see anyone else go in that direction which means God everything here is going to be God involved using highly sophisticated tools of judgment to decide how things are going to play play itself out now Source 20 21 22 and 23 I am not going to do with you but I'm going to tell you what they say they're all uncomfortable the same way that we s weown them uncomfortable regarding taking money and know it kind of ruins the story because you know what we want to be spiritual people so now what if you're highly spiritual and you want to tell the story why do would you want to turn this into just a story about money so what we'll notice and again just the years are interesting the Al Al lives in in the 16th century theen who very often brings teachings of the AR then a little bit afterwards but t a little bit later but again similar type of tradition he's a littleit gener a little more rational all of them say that the r is going to be spiritual all said was promised is that spirituality you're going to become greatly spiritual people you're going to become people become morally refined you're going to become people who become sensitive to the servitude of others you'll be people who'll be able to stand by heri you're going to become people who morality is going to become second nature to them because of this Collective slavery that we went through and we're going to become great moral people and all of them read the that way which is really interesting because I I'm they're just missing one thing to say no this isot because you know that this is notot but as I said you can read each one of them put their the spin on it which they choose but again it's it's all of those sources do the same thing they all claim the is something which is fundamentally spiritual and is not something which is fundamentally to be used economically and after all that I can just go and look at sour 24 which is it says go and tell the people go you know to borrow things by can mean two things be quickly or it can mean please so here it's says God says to mosha please by the way within the whole theme of leaving Egypt it just as easily could have been quickly everything's quickly right put the coats on get the walking right everything's quick just please please go so why is God saying please should not turn around and say to me him you kept up one side of the Bor again that they became slaves and were abused low man what about the other side when you said that they're going to leave with great wealth where where is all of that and it says right so therefore I need to be able to answer aaham so please go because this is God is saying this is my word on the line right now okay I'm doing everything to facilitate this but please go and do this because I owe something to aam right now and I I God says I like to pay my debts so that's really interesting and he doesn't seem to be know to know about this whole other consideration that no this is spirituality and someone no he understands this quite this is the gamar Tom Bley understands this quite literally is that no is that I I owe Abraham and his descendants a payment over the's response is [Music] fascinating made goes Hali we just leave already which means somebody who's actually enslaved or somebody who's being held someplace against their will they could be saying just I mean I'm I'm willing to forgo the r just let me get out of here already so it's a really interesting comment that the gorah ends with but God says you know God's point is no that's not enough I gave my word and therefore please go ahead and uh and don't won't allow it the situation I will not be keeping my world um the in 25 goes a little bit further into the legalities of the issue essentially he says that mosha is a na'vi and if a na'vi tells you to do something which is quote unquote immoral but it's har one time then you do it which means it's back to this point is this writer this war and he says like like mosha but by the way it's not mosha God said to mosha to the people so even if the people would not have wanted to do it even if you considered stealing so there's nonetheless if you want to read a little bit right perish they did it what does that mean pish their motivation was not because they wanted the money M said something the re we're gonna do what we're going to do what mosu said so that's that's also it's very very nice again you can argue with it's true or not and then he goes through and as I said he tries to explain the Dynamics of this is why this is the correct thing to do in source 26 we have over here the m and by way I want to be careful this is not the regular M it's the M which once existed disappeared and was reconstructed based upon things in the G in in Egypt so here it says and it comes back to again very similar point which was again anticipated by the I say anticipated because he did not have this book in front of him and it's also this is that it's the instructions which are there the which is also found in the in Egypt he says do not go empty-handed is aot you're not allowed to go empty-handed afterwards when it says that you should borrow so it's turning this absolutely into this is what God commanded and I said all this fits together with where God said I gave my word if I gave my word then you know this is what you need to do the continuation will take us closer to my problem with God gave them presents when they lost them and he's focusing here on actually when they stood by SE it says that they put on jewelry now was jewelry physical jewelry or spiritual jewelry if it was physical jewelry where did they get the jewelry from well of course this goes back to barring the gold and the silver but what happens when they s s the golden calf it says that the jewelry then is removed and as I said that that becomes interesting because Rika according to this m is actually connecting them all and now we're much closer to get where we wanted to get to the sperno in 28 I told you the sperno is interesting to us which is why I I went through everything every single sperno in the par looking carefully to see so listen to this one so again you could say either take advantage of or you could say empty it out but he's going to get us much closer to a plan which may have existed here and what God was trying to create or to from the very beginning now this is again back in him even though you are going to get everything by virtue of borrowing so he he he's not like the rash bom who's insisting that really means that they was given a present and what happens when you borrow something to all the people who borrowed books from me over the years what happens when you borrow something you're obligated to return it good but afterwards they acquired everything legally how did they acquire it legally when they chased after you what happened is an easy is an easy question when they chase after you what happened they they went to war they took out all the Chariots that took out over their weapons they're chasing after you and a war begins now what happens when someone goes to war with you then you're allowed to take possessions you're allowed to take Spoils of War so things interesting things happens at War you go and go to war against somebody guess what you can end up losing you can end up losing land you can end up losing property you can end up losing the the legal rights to things that you lend to somebody which means it's really interesting that this Forno over here he he actually solves this moral problem in a completely different way he says when they borrowed it they borrowed it they had an obligation to return it how they were going to do that becomes a really interesting question but he says but the ultimately they end up owning it legally and how do they own it legally they end up owning it legally because of uh because they went to war by the way there is another gamorra that didn't in courot another G in St hedin that says that that somebody went and argued again in a secular Court of gorra that the Jews owe all the spoils that they took they said they have to return all these things and all all the spers all the things they borrow they have to return and the counter in the gamorra was well you owe us for labor costs and he goes okay here's the bill and and then the judge said okay these things certainly even them El out so I'm saying this approach that some it's interesting they all said this none of them quoted thear so that that that is just somewhat mysterious but I'm going to say it again the sorno really is interesting over here but let's proceed a little bit I told you I looked at all the Soros in this week's para in Source 29 go and borrow but don't worry that perhaps because you they're going to borrow things they're going to go and chase after you because that is actually going to be in how you're going to become liberated now if you're not understanding yet what the farno is doing over here look at the farno in Source 30 which is back in peric and he writes skipping him sorry now this is something we need to pay attention to because this is kind of going to cut through everything there's going to be judgments that are going to take place right where where did we see that okay is the flip side of right so what so full pause right now I already told you must have been around 29 minutes ago that maybe more that there was this plague was different killing the firstborn was different what made a difference people died the other plagues were annoying economically devastating but this is different people died there's another plague which is coming up which we never count as a plague right it's the 11th plague and the 11th plague is the splitting of the sea but the splitting of the sea is not the issue splitting of the Sea by the way it's not even the miracle I know we think it's the miracle you think it's the miracle because the timing and then you talk about the that's next to it the the the the splitting of the seam actually splitting the sea actually seems quite natural all night the wind blew and the wind blew and the wind blew and then there was no water and they went through the the dramatic Miracle is the return of the water when the that's the dramatic Miracle when the water returns and drowns all the Egyptians that's the that's really what takes place the splitting of the sea is something which seems completely natural now you can walk on dry land the Egyptians go right into it and then God says oh I promise to return something very interesting return the money I promise to return something what does he return the water oh you wanted to return fine we return all the water all the water comes back and then suddenly all the Egyptians are gone now there people are dying now I want to read this Forno again because he says that in terms of judgment there are two things which means did they deserve frogs I I know somebody can go and argue that yes they deserve brogs did they deserve locusts did they deserve Li all these things you know you're going to have to work really hard to say yeah they did there were two things they deserved and I don't have to work very hard for it what's one that they deserve they deserve they deserved they deserved and that's the first thing that God said what what what do he say Israel is my firstborn if you don't let my firstborn go then I'm going to strike your firstborn and that was said from the very beginning that was laid out from the very beginning and that was something which they refused to do and what was the other thing that Egypt did that was not in the instruction guide to how to enslave the people how do you enslave a people you make them work you make them work hard you work make them work day and night you make them work in the kitchen you make them work in the fields you make them change the light bulbs that's important by the way you make them do all kinds of things but what is not there they never said anything about taking them and throwing them into the water and killing the babies that is not them and if they went and killed Jewish children and threw them into the water and God is going to come down and be involved in history God has said by God you're going to die in the water as well because that's what you deserve that's that is judgment and that's very different from the other plagues and now keeping that in mind read this Forno again because those are the things that God very important God makes these punishments God gets involved God says I will treat you mid mid this is God telling Abraham all these years before that I will judge them what exactly did they do and how did they do it and what do they deserve punishment for and two things were isolated and now hopefully we we could begin to figure out a little bit more about what is being played out over here the tells you in Source 31 this is a own it's a little long but we'll just again get towards the the conclusion over here and back to the plan which I think we understood it already from the Sno but spells it out again borrowing the things the possessions the gold and silver over and the dresses is what draws the Egyptians out to go chase them and what happens when they go chase them because they have to get their things back they took all of our things they're not coming back so once they chase them all what's going to happen then they're going to end up standing in dry land and I'm going to say it again you want to return something I'll return something I'll return the water to you I'll return all the water here like it's supposed to be and at that point the Egyptians are killed which means there's a plan over here there was a plan from the beginning and the plan from the beginning is midak mid and the truth is is that from that very difficult moment that we read at the end of peric Al where parro tells to his people any of the males who were born throw them into the water so God says okay rash it's written down there will be mid mid and by the way presumably the males thrown into the water presumably the people that chased them off into the where the Army where were the men who chase them off and the males end up dead in in the water I mean that that's presumably exactly mid mid and that is what we're being told over here which means you know even though we started along the way you know how we go and borrow these things and not return them and and and you know they really meant to give them or we they owed us our payment or we can keep on going or the first thing that we saw is no this is the rule when somebody leaves you have to give them some kind of an appreciation just for just for leaving as the we saw all kinds of things along the way we saw the rashbam together with the botos but all insisting that this is something which was owed to them and this is right and they gave it completely and and they never expected it back but then we see again all that other side know step that we ignore it all those commentaries who prefer to see it is that the r is actually something completely spiritual we now realize that there were these others who saw that there's this whole I don't know if you can call it a subtext or the text is that what it's trying to do is that there's a master plan that God has and it goes back a while actually the truth is it goes back just like theur says I made a certain promise to AB in terms of the money but I also made other promise promises to AB and that was I am going to judge them God's judgment doesn't always take place immediately and God's judgment isn't always something that we get to see but God is someone who makes promises and promises are fulfilled and what we're now learning the way that they're reading this whole story is that the gold and the silver and the clothing or part of a larger plan in order and now you can just put some of these things together is that once they chase us down and once they're declaring war on us and once they are defeated in battle at that point all of this becomes legally hours because that's what happens in war but there is this other point as well and that is that these last two plagues again I'm calling them both plagues the Mak on the one hand and the splitting of the Sea on the other where people are dying that is God doing this and by the way it's interesting that also by the by the by the Mak it's not mosha or Aon lifting anything up God does that this is something which God does the return of the ward over here is what destroys the Egyptian Army but that's part of the story and now all that we're doing is essentially we're saying okay it's like Wate follow the money right follow the money follow the gold follow the silver follow what's going on because that became the lore that became the thing that the Egyptians are running after that's the reason that they're trying to track us down and that ends up becoming not just their defeat that ends up becoming God sitting in heaven and meeting out judgment according to the way that he had promised toid according to the way that the Egyptians behaved may we Merit to see God judging our enemies for the things which they've done and the punishments which they deserve