Parshat Shemot: Moshe's Leadership Training Chizuk for Iron Sword by Rebbetzin Pearl Borow

okay we are being recorded everybody um it is Wednesday afternoon as we just reminded ourselves uh I believe it's the 3 of January and or something like that and um we are going to not have the same sessions so um I will miss you thank you for coming I um wanted to mention something about the paraa that's actually something that we are very very familiar with uh and yet I got a totally new understanding of it from a wonderful Shure that I found on the internet by Rabbi Michael Hatton ha A T TI i n uh and I wanted to share that with you the uh para of course is parote and we are beginning a whole new safer and we are beginning the story ofel in MIT and of course then the MIT experience and leaving M and a very very good portion of this first par in seot is taken up by the conversation the very lengthy conversation that took place between a kadosh and Moshe rabenu in front of the SN in front of the burning bush because you seees hasem appeared to Moshe and oh wish to appoint him to return to mitzraim and speak to parro and Moses simply felt that he was not a good choice as a spokesperson from am for am Israel excuse me he just didn't feel that he was a good choice one of the reasons that he gave was that he wasad he was Tongue Tied he didn't speak the way a diplomat should speak and therefore perhaps Hashem should get somebody else but the truth of the matter is that mosha was mistaken because he was actually primed to be the proper spokesperson for am Israel from the moment he was born from the moment that his mother not the moment he was born but the moment that his mother put him in the T and put him on the Nile and left him there with only his sister to watch and he was found by the daughter of parro from that moment it is as though everything moved towards the time that he would be the spokesperson for am Israel he was raised in the palace he was adopted by the princess he was raised to hear diplomats he heard people conversing he also was blessed with a tremendous amount of Courage because you see Moshe made a choice to go out and seek his fellow Jews he left the palace he actually left his very very gilded surroundings to go out and see what his fellow Jews were doing excuse me if I cough hopefully just for a moment and he certainly had the courage and what Moshe perhaps didn't realize and what we didn't realize perhaps is that moshe's being Kad and the way it was brought about actually had a very positive impact on who he was and what he was and you may say to me how can you say that we all know the med that tells us how mosha became aad a tongue tied person andad lashon heavy of tongue it's one of the things that we learn in kindergarten whenever I used to years and years ago when I supervised teachers in the United States in St Louis Missouri I used to love to hear the kindergarten teachers do paraa every week because I love to hear them tell the story about Moshe and what happened to make him a I would like to share the medrash with you in its original form Raa it is the med Raba onot harot of course peric Al it's the very beginning and we read in the med at mosha but parro just loved mosha and when she got him into the palace when moshe's real mother y brought the baby after she finished nursing him to the daughter of parro she would kiss kiss him and hug him and just love him as if he were really her own son and she barely let him ever leave the Palace of the king and because he was a very beautiful baby everybody wanted to see him and anybody who saw him would not go away would not pass him by for and even parro himself would hug him and kiss him V who and he meaning Moshe no tail H Ro Al and he was a baby and he would take the crown of parro and put it on his own head as he in the future will do when he was an adult and of course Arrow was surrounded by his advisors and magicians and they were watching these scenes where parro would be playing with this baby and hugging and kissing him and the baby would take his throne off his head and put it on his own foru and they said they said we're a little bit afraid of this baby who is taking your throne off your head shall that this baby shouldn't be the one that we see in the future will take your kingdom away Mayim laor go and so some of these advisors and magicians of parro said we' got to put him to death Mayo some of them said he should be taken out and burnt this [Music] baby Mosa's future father-in-law was sitting among them yro was one of the three main advisor of parro for omem he said to them this is a baby folks he doesn't have any true knowledge he doesn't understand what he's doing Ella so why don't you test him instead of just taking him out and killing him let's test him and bring before him two bowls and one bowl put in gold pieces of gold and in the other Bowl put in burning coals burning coals if the baby will put his hand out to the gold yes then he has understanding he knows what he's doing the here goo and then you are probably correct in saying he should be killed but if he will put out his hand to the coal he doesn't really have any understanding he doesn't see anything but something shiny and sparkly love M and he certainly does not deserve to be put to death they immediately brought before him the two bowls and the baby put out his hand to take the gold griel and the angel Gabriel came with and pushed his hand and he took hold of the burning Co and he put his hand with the g into his mouth and his tongue was burnt and from this incident he became tongue tied and had difficulty speaking so if you look at the m on its on its simple level the m is telling us that God's will will prevail and when they wanted to test mosha whether he would automatically reach for pieces of gold or a burning coales who sent the angel Gabriel to push his hand so it would reach for the coal but the truth of the matter is that it's a very strange test that yro suggested why would he suggest gold and burning coal for a baby because you would think that if he wanted a test that would show that the child did not understand reach for wealth then certainly he should have put gold and let's say a toy a bunny rabbit some kind of toy that was making noise or something something that would attract a baby but no yro suggested a burning coal what does that make us think of what could that possibly be telling us you know there's something about the idea of a burning coal that is familiar to us when it comes to neua when it comes to our major Nim our three major Nim all when they tell us about their inauguration process tell us that something happened to them that included something with their mouth a Godly touch upon their mouths for instance and remember that with Moshe it was gabiel who pushed his hand so that he touched the coal and then put it in his mouth the great when was telling him in perak alif that he was going to be sent as a Nai to the people Demmer like Moshe and said I don't know how to speak I'm very young and a put out his hand he tells us and he touched me on the mouth and he said here I have put my word in your mouth and you will now speak my word because it is already placed there I have so to speak prepared your mouth for my words and when you speak you will not be speaking as a n but as a man touched by the hand of God the N when he was appointed Ai and told by Hashem that he would speak to the people of his generation Hashem showed him Aila and he saidel what do you see Andel told him I see a m that's written closely on both sides with doom with gray words with troubles with terrible punishment that's coming upon am Israel and Hashem said to him benadam human eat eat this meila and the Novi tells us that he took the meila and he ate it and when it came to his lips it tasted sweet as honey the meila spoke of Doom but being appointed the spokesperson tasted to him sweet as honey when that Godly meila touched his lips the most amazing comparison is the n yeshayahu who lived about a hundred years before the other two who when he saw his first vision of Hashem tells us that he saw an angel an angel coming towards him and in his hand yes there was a burning coal that he took with tongues from from the M from the altar in the BET mikash and the angel said to yes because yesah had said I can't be your spokesperson because I am a man who [Music] is I have unclean lips and I dwell among a nation that has unclean lips and the angel came with the burning cold just like with Moshe and touched the burning coal upon the lips of yesu and said you are no longer a whatever it is that you may think you have done wrong this has cleansed it has purified your lips said you were able to speak God's words so let's go back to the Moshe story the mosia story is amazing because it is as though that there is a preparation of moshe's lips a preparation of moshe's mouth that was done when he was yet a baby a cleansing and a making his mouth proper to speak the words of Hashem to speak the burning of Hashem to speak to the people when he needs to speak burning words Moshe we know it hurt it burnt it's another lesson being a leader and preparing for being a leader is not always Pleasant it is sometimes painful Moshe you are going through this process to prepare your lips to prepare your mouth to speak the word of God it is truly an amazing look again at a medrash that is very familiar and looking at this particular M that truth mosha has been prepared in every way possible including a literal preparing of his mouth to be able to speak the word of Hashem and if we speak about burning words there are burning words and a negative when it came to the words of the Nim their words their lips were prepared to speak the wondrous words of aades It's a Wonderful lesson that there needed to be preparation of these three actually four men including Moshe for speaking the Magnificent words in each generation and to each group of people people that they were assigned to but they needed to be prepared as mosha did but you know if we look at then we also have words compared to hot coal excuse me and those are negative words and those kind of words need to be removed and taken away it is the first of thear the first one of the 15 chapters of that begin with the word Shir says I am this is a more to Hashem whom I have called to when I am in trouble because he will always answer meem save me from the language of she of lies of falsehood mil sh from the language of treachery lying language falsehood what can false language possibly give to you and add to you they are not giving you anything good they are like the arrows of a man of war that are very sharp in gasa here it is like coals made of a certain type of wood that was very hard and when those that type of wood was set of fire the rotem the rot him when it was set a fire even if it looked as though it was no longer burning it was dangerous it was deceitful because it Act acted like it was no longer burning but the fire is held within that coal deceitful language is like that coal that burns even when it no longer seems to be a flame oh y Woe Is to me because I have lived in a Strange Land with strangers for so many years I slept with the tents of Kadar also far from my land Shalom My nees my soul has dwelt for a long time with those who hate peace Shalom I am peace I speak for peace for when I speak they are speaking of war the people that surround me are speaking for war and of course I chose to say this to Heim for two purposes purpose one was I wanted to go back to the medrash that we're talking about and the many uses of the tongue the uses for burning language the preparation of a mouth to speak and of course the misuse of the tongue and the reason that I was bringing it up is because we have been surrounded my friends in the past several weeks and perhaps we should say even more in the past several months it has been extremely strong around us deceitful Lon burning criticisms of am Israel as a nation we have dwelt in this world bar Hashem for a long time the world has been going on for a long time and it always comes back and it seems that it's come back to us again this type of Lon REM this falsehood that even when it seems not to be burning anymore still is high hiding within it the flame that it had and is still capable of causing a lot of harm may we D may we D together that this be this this week right now be the week that we will really begin to see the Yeshua come more than begin to see but that the Yeshua will come beem and may our soldiers come back unharmed and whole and whole and healthy and may we hear from all and may we really be able to say an Shalom I am peace itself because I dwell in peace and may we see the whole world dwell with us in that peace so sh Shalom My Friends