The development of the "Redeemer" By Rabbi Neil Winkler

last things that we did when we were discussing about the righteous women who basically not only impacted but shaped the very life of um mosenu including his sensitivity his empathy his sympathy um clearly it was impacted very much by the women who brought him up which is why as we point out again and again uh no men mentioned in the story until yro comes along so um we learn about his brother huh not mentioned no wasn't mentioned until afterwards it's not mentioned till he comes back from uh midan and after he's been in jro's house and he comes back and then he meets with was involed while no well Moses um um when Moshe re refuses the mission he says he say and God that's God says for the first time that word ofon he says I know thaton will be happy to see you that's the only time it's mentioned but that's even after it's not mentioned when Moshe is a child or a baby or growing up he didn't say you know he was playing handball with his brother you know before he got out nothing about him no know nothing about him until God says that you know and that again is after quite a well in with yro he already had children there okay at any rate um I left off last time telling you about um the lessons that we learn from this part of the upbringing of Moser Renu um that um besides I pointed out that good people are found among other nations as well you know uh it isn't only one that's why it spreads over uh the the uh Egyptian princess and the minonite wife so but at any R um the lesson the deeper lesson that uh we learn from here uh is what I what the whole focus of this sh is about and that is what did God see in Moshe or how did go say Moshe as a proper Redeemer and um this background of Moshe created the man that could have done what he and pointed out a couple of things we'll probably repeated it here again not only the sense sensitivity and as I said the empathy learning how to protect the victim and um stand up for what is right but we also have um the fact that he was brought up in a palace in a Royal backing which was an essential part of being a leader of a nation and not be yeah and not being a slave which was his choice no kazal say Ley was never enslaved and they do that understandably because both mosha and are going back and forth to without saying uh no you you haven't punched in you're a slave go so to say that is it's nice and it could very well be but it's not textually based I could make the argument that the leaders of Israel had also come to pharaoh and back and forth as as the representatives of another Nation perhaps and that's why they did allow him but that it was not necessarily um because no of sh Ley ever was enslaved but I think there's a lot of uh other reasons why I think kazal said indeed they weren't really in slave but I'm not going to go into that anyway um the ibra touches upon this and the iban Ezra and I believe um were up to um number I should say Source number five is it uh yeah you have four Source number five and in the um English it's easier you to it's another facet I just touched upon preparing mosha for the leadership it's what I said actually somehow the izzar said it before me um and uh I mean no no not quite 11 a thousand years he lived in the 1100s um anyway he was together with Rashi interesting by thing izra and Rashi lived at the same time they did not know each other unfortunately the watsapp was down you the one living in Spain one living of course in basically the Holy Roman Empire in France wasn't holy it wasn't Roman it wasn't an Empire uh and um so they never really knew each other uh they course but they did live at the same time so at any rate the ezzar says something very interesting and I did translate it for you here we find another facet that prepared mosha to leadership what I mentioned and he writes very beautifully in Hebrew I I'm sure my translation it's not as nice he he does write a beautiful Hebrew knew Hebrew very well like most Safari rabbis at the time the scholars were very uh linguistically um knowledgeable they love the dick du uh the grammar and they found many many different things the as sources to understand part of the T whereas ashic jewry primarily the rabbis there focused upon thear and not more than that within the Muslim Worlds the Muslims were garans they were they poets I mean they don't have much poetry in in the ashkenazic world in the in the Hali you have come on come onb gab you have um that beautiful beautiful poetry that comes out the the stuff that we have the both that we have are beautiful now there are ash too are very difficult to to understand uh sometimes they even change uh word wording and grammar let it rhyme but also difficult because it's very deep often comes from mic things and things and the the SP things come basically from the tanak at any R uh the iban Ezra was a fascinating individual the Ezra was as I told you very very knowledgeable in this thing in grammar and so on and so forth he was a poet he but he was never a would say he he never made it wherever he was he was just couldn't make a living he writes he has about 11 children he writes about himself about how foror he is and how things he never never is successful and he writes with humor and bitterness he said if I were an Undertaker nobody would die but it doesn't Hebrew that's he writes now you some of thiso you have a magnificent okay beautiful stuff beautiful stuff never made it she started traveling ended up traveling I'm sorry for that against my history thing travels to eventually to Italy Italy is not it's not uh Ash it's both there and they hear his translation they went crazy over it they loved it he was very popular there still poor but very popular and he had a difficult life he had a I think 11 kids I think all 10 of them died and the 11th one was a m so oh my goodness uh anyway um he writes the following he says um God's thoughts are deep and only he controls his plans however he says and who am I to know exactly but perhaps he says Hashem s to it that mosha would be brought up in a Royal house so that he would be taught and trained in a Regal setting and not be brought up as a slave or in a slave ethos or attitude and this would explain his mindset that had him strike down the Egyptian who was beating the Hebrew and the boldness to stand against the midianite Shepherds was he yeah he strikes down the the Egyptian was after all a an officer in the want I call the Egyptian army or police stra what who you Mr Nobody ah but because he was a prince he was the son you know he's brought up in next El he said I can do this you shouldn't be doing that he had the guts to he had that um confidence to do what's right which even persons who know what is right and wrong can't stand up to high higher authority he was able to because he was brought up in a palace it's a very very positive and Powerful reason to understand why he was able to do what he do and he did and why God sought to it that he would get that type of education and that type of experiences you need somebody who can stand up for what's right even against a whole nation that's screaming against him yeah like B is in the mid I know when did Moshe realize that he was a Jew he was he lived in the house of faraoh he was a royal person he had a fancy mother did he ever contact his mother while he was living in the in the palace when did realized that the that's my question were Jewish did Miriam have involvement did she visit after she took from baa to you don't know did you didn't see the movie only a movie could tell you look I will tell you generally and mem our next year I'll get more specific about Moshe and his jewishness okay we wait till next week and his Wom I didn't say next week the women in M's life I just went through that yes last week I went through the whole thing of all the women who impacted him did that H stay tuned that's right um read the book and yeah that's mov much easier so but you're right generally I would say it's a good question I I I can't imagine that he was kept completely isolated from his birth um family I would imagine there was some connection I don't think it was very deep and very constant but I do believe he did get impact of uh the fact he knew he was a Jew we know that from the text it says because when he went he got up he went down to his brothers and he saw that a one of his brothers an Israelite was being be beaten and he went to help him boy but if it's a Mr Nobody or anything this is what the Egyptians do you beat slaves why is he now suddenly running over so it would seem he had that sensitivity that knowledge and the fact that in the second story he goes and wants to make peace between the two arguing Hebrews yeah don't tell me that I know what kazal say it's you know fine um don't like Nat they they blame them for everything you know they blame for everything if they had burned the man on Flow cooked their bed you know they uh they have reasons have a wonderful concept of how they bring bad is bad and good is always good um we have this unfortunate reality that that ain't always true that there everybody has a good and a bad you know how we over overcome The Temptations or not overcome them is what world is about what life is about uh but kazal in in teaching and educationally had a very important approach to do that uh which I won't go into now at any rate um that's where I think there was some connection but it wasn't very deep he was really educated in his L latter years and I don't mean when he was you know 25 and 28 but rather when he was already after five years six years old seven years old he already growing up within that Regal um uh um yeah that all right so um in doing so he learned about leadership qualities he learned about um um Royal Behavior he learned how not to be influenced by a slave culture when you're a in a slave culture you doesn't have to be for Generations you see the impact that it will have in when all the hostages come back and the one girl came back well after 50 days she's afraid to talk she couldn't talk in the first 50 days it has a terrible terrible impact I was going to say go through Holocaust Survivors how many Holocaust Survivors do we know who um who still would always save some sometimes food under the pillow or sometimes in the never will allow things and you know they can be millionaires but they wouldn't pay anything this it's it's it impacts you as a as an individual absolutely so God made sure that he wasn't going to have that that the the new Redeemer the the eventual ultimate Redeemer who's going to bring Israel out of slavery had to be someone who understood that he's not a slave that he's a free man and he could do these things uh that was very and um the ezzar actually goes on and he explains that the upbringing which taught him to stand against the uh violent of the the Egyptian and the Hostile Hebrew and the aggressive medanite also he's a new cont nobody even knew him he's going to stand up now and fight against midianites you know yeah you're illegal alien what are you doing here you going to fight so um that was a way um he learned he he was um his upbringing taught him to be a leader and therefore to stand up even in front of parro and had to courageously repel the acts of evil it took a while when God told him to go before parro he said who am I to talk to phro he wasn't one two three I'm great wasn't that part of the the fascinating part when you look into the story of Moshe is the development of Moshe and some and perhaps According to some which is another story by the end of the 40 years into the desert the I hate to use a term um impatience that M impa impatience that mosha eventually has with the people yeah uh the terrible story people who we always respond to but why was God so after all so so terribly so angry with Moshe why didn't he punish him so severely the man's been hanging around here to get into to the the land of Israel that was his whole thing he did everything he started at 80 years old I mean they they could even Social Security couldn't find where he could mail the check he did everything 80 80 years old and he everything just to get in and God says Nah and the 40th year mind you there we would say in English um King in The King's English it was literally just there it was the in the year of entering the land and God said nope out of the pool you're not going to go in why and I that's another sh maybe we'll get to that too um it wasn't so much a punishment of Moshe but an understanding and the need of the nation they needed a new leader they needed somebody who was and we'll discuss that when I get to sa yahushua they needed someone who s uh somebody I said somebody new and they needed a new leader they needed somebody who would understand that the new generation that came 40 years after the people who were the slaves these young kids who were 10 and 15 and now are you know 50 and 55 are grew up grew up with freedom they don't didn't get the the whips on their back they didn't get that whole attitude as you can't do this you can't do yeah they had the Torah which is almost the same thing but most of the the laws of the Torah didn't start functioning until they entered AR Israel so they had a freedom there I'm not going crazy about the you know the restaurants that were available but they got through the desert it was a different psych psyche mentality and mentality they didn't have that slave mentality Moshe still he didn't have the mentality but he G he saw them as a hard what they say stiff necked people ah you stiff neck what stiff necked they complained that the kids had no water what's terrible about that you complain also what do you want never they see their kids don't have enough water let alone their flocks and themselves they didn't have water so they they said they they complain go got very angry God says what are you angry about he hits a rock yeah right so again that's not what I'm saying talking about now these rabbis go off in the tangent um but at any rate that why was essential for um mosha at the time there had to be he had to be um let's say just uh replaced no it wasn't bad because he was bad or sinned but because he wasn't the right guy for the for the job right now and I was as I will tell you when we studying about yosua or at the end of mosha but forget about this because that way when I tell it to you later on you say oh that's interesting um you find that uh he yosua had never had those problems yosua the whole book of yosua there's not one complaint against him that's the same generation that was complaining against Moshe in that 40th year they never complained about Yu was a different type of person a great leader also in a different way but it was what was needed at the time God knew that um back to what I would say Okay um the um some of what I've mentioned before I I I see that I have placed it over here but again he I repeat the fact that uh in the early parts of his of Life of Moshe we don't see any male hero or anything um his father was par huh he grew up with par as his father yeah I don't know if par came and said tat I get the feeling that as a pharaoh as the emperor thing he had so many wives and everything they said he was his Granda his mother was yeah yeah again but don't take this as a personal family this is like this is not see how many BS were there how many W uh wives did he have they had a herum even in her if you give birth to so you're the princess so huh right British royal families they were killing each other all the time right well if you knew them you anyway um the this is really we had to take ourselves out of 2025 and see the ancient world as it was um talking about Esther and in the purm story also and you see that he had all this heram and can you be my wife no but I'll put you in the herum you know some there were dozens of not more look we are told that in the tanak that David had anybody remember 70 wives I thought he was only allowed 12 oh including the concubine that's right that's right uh so so that was the truth of the ancient world especially High um you know uh High Kings and um High officials officers that was part of your greatness you'll have many wives and so on and so forth and have many children I'm I may have been confused about about DAV he had 70 Sons that's what it he had 70 Sons not not wives but he had 70 Sons um when we read in the beginning of the um I think it's the six third chapter of sh we the the the six seven sons of David they were only the first born sons of each wife that he had at the time the six seven wives he had that he was allowed to have but there were other sons that came along so that was what the ancient world was at the time and there's no reason to sayoh because doesn't it's a different time and it was an acceptable thing I mean schma may have gotten a little overboard with the uh 1,000 you know but but anyway but again he had a thousand a th well did he did he have an engagement did he go on a date you know not what happens these were political connections so that there would be peace in the world hence he had all of these we uh these foreign lives and that's why he was schomo shalom shalom that's why there was that's why there was so much peace in this time he's able to make peace around no went out of his got out of hand a bit which is why I got in trouble uh but yeah Limited in never talk about for instance the daughters of David with the exception of the one so their children okay it would be the same thing do we know who the daughters of David were in their children some of them know who his daughter's children that's that's probably I'm we hope that D did know him them but um don't know you know there it's huge amount that's that's how it was so I I so I shy away from the concept of it was you know that the per went into bedroom and then the crib and went Moshe I I believe that bat Paro being bat Paro had a certain stature she got people to listen to her did did parro really know mosha well let's face it when he found out that mosha killed somebody said get him and kill him right I don't know he was so chy ching with him right so because it was just one another one of them many he had uh that's how I see it and I believe that's a little more closer to the reality um the um so anyway you know so that's what no men were mentioned and it's true perhaps because all the men were enslaved uh at that time um you know and they indeed retained a slave mentality um and therefore they couldn't imagine standing against the powerful um army or police state of that that was Egypt at the time resented Moshe what the Jewish people resented Moshe when Moshe killed and so then the Jews came to him are you going to kill him like you killed the other guy when you say Jews how many of them were how many of them one person said that you're not being fair so why is he being quoted because he was the one who was beating and mosha talked to him how can you beat another Jew and he said well you're going to do this like you killed the other guy that's what happened it's only that one person now over the years that they did complain to Moshe uh they said at one point let's get another leader no question but let's face it what leader you know you could you can won the you can win the popularity vote and and everything and you're still going to have a whole bunch of people who hate you that's the reality uh unfortunately uh and that's why that's why Moshe himself told God G no he didn't know yish well maybe he did but he said it's enough already I can't take it anymore you know and that's why God said I'll give you I'll give you 70 people to help you I can't do it anymore there just too much it's that's when he complain it's a stubborn stubborn people my God I love my people in Israel but it's a pain in the neck to watch everything that happens whether the color they going to on the um lights on the traffic lights they're going to go and they're going to tra they're going to have terrible terrible uh complaints against and having blocking blocking because they want different colors on this side and Jews are always right and since sometimes Jews aren't the same with each other and don't say the same thing so one side's going to scream and yell and it's exactly what it says in the Torah and as I say often it's a pin in the neck it's impossible but weren't for their stubbornness we wouldn't be about around for this long that's right yeah but it's a tough thing so yeah Mo had a tough time huh that's what golden mayor said to Nixon you are the president 100 million people I'm the president of 100 million presidents everybody think prime minister yeah I tell you a quick story I like my stories um 19 I'm trying to remember exactly when 96 I believe what I was asked to um to meet with the the then vice president Gore uh I was asked by the RCA the to they said I should bring up the about Israel and help then they said in the middle they said no no he says bring up the issue of um Jonathan Pard I had been deal I dealt with him and you know so they knew I knew something about it so I was sitting there and uh president I think I'm sure it's gory it must have been in it was Clinton's vice president I think he was about to run on because it was the second I think of Clinton so he's planed to probably run against I guess that was Bush wasn't it afterwards yeah so um we sat in a a room and I was asked to speak and I I gave for the um and uh so he said something about oh yeah I was born in 1940 I said I said I was also born in 1948 I'm was m suar i so I tell the vice president before I can get on to my thing he said yeah I said so how come you look so much younger than I do I said I said how come you look so much younger he said well you know I think I said no I said I'm sorry Mr vice president said that's because of the fact that um you have to deal with one president it's a president of the United States I have to deal with president of my SCH so it's a lot more difficult and I got I remember that that anyway um so this was uh as we said last time this was mosha this is what developed him what but it's also essential for us to realize that these influences dual or even triple in in um influences um uh that fashioned him into the individual that he was was also what exactly God himself wanted um they and I mean looking the text and I want to emphasize this how similar they were even though they were from different nations so that for example we have um y that it says there that the mother um it says again the name wasn't no it's gave birth to a son being Moshe and this was his her son when B Paro takes the child the baby from the river or Riverside um it says he became her son mosha has two mothers in effect um when he was born it says that the mother saw byor she saw he was good I'm not going to go into I could I have a think what that means we have a l different things to um and so she saw him and thought he was good what does it say by B she saw him and he was crying when he was in the river then you have the text telling that goer that she created a basket made of the Gopher and that's where she uh put him and so it says it says also it says by she took the baby out of the who put him in who took him out they both were really mothers they treated him and as mothers um and uh then of course comes the name right he's called Moshe so the Torah says the following tah says um when he started to grow up he old enough to be taken out of his his biological mother's home and brought to the princess okay as I mentioned she was a a he was became a son for her and she called him M saying I have drawn him out of the water so who named Moshe right correct that's what the text seems to say she brought him to and she he became a son to her and she called him Moshe because she was but who brought him to it says but she brought him to B par who didam he sayi it says here I think it'ss who named Mo you're cheating you're cheating don't cheat yeah or or Y who was only took after all who was she all Miriam was was said I'll get you a nursemaid so it's a nursaid who would logically be the one to bring him okay he's grown up I have to bring it back to you okay cuz she she gave instructions to the nursaid and said you know want you to nurse him and and then so now she brought him back she was also paying herself no wasn't she paying your PR Sal she said and I will give you your salary yes nursing him huh but he was being nursed by his mother yes yes yes and that mother was being paid for that not a bad deal and um when it was time for him to then be he has been weaned he has to be brought back it was logical it would be the mother now who was nursing him that she said okay now he's wean I have to bring it back so forget and because and because it says and she brought him there's an argument of the rabbis been his own mother maybe the she now refers not back to being it was her but maybe it was your and here we have izra and the probably that's about all time we're going to have today and what they say about this name look at the ezar is absolutely fascinating and number six says the same Moshe is actually an Egyptian name translated into Hebrew it was based upon the Egyptian name he says is munus okay uh we find this in ancient books of his husbandry copied from Egyptian to Arabic as well as in the books of Greek philosophy so it's not a Hebrew name why is he saying that because how would you know Hebrew and but Paro gave a name she wouldn't give him a Hebrew name she would give him an Egyptian name makes sense by the way I just discussing this with somebody who happen to know Egyptian or somebody says that's not an Egyptian name that's a Latin or the Greek name actually you know you know that's I said actually yeah yeah but I'm say yeah but it was was translated from the Egyptian to the Greek and thez knew the Greek though the Original Egyptian but it wasn't Egyptian day okay new yes that's yeah or he says possibly perhaps pharoh's daughter may have learned Hebrew or ask someone the Hebrew name abch to me but he he's not sure one or the other whereas seems to be sure in what he says that's the next thing and he quotes through kazal a rabbi said that she had converted and therefore learned Hebrew so she did GI the name uh and she learned Hebrew that's why she could call Mishu another approach had a old P then too anyway he another approach Pharaoh's daughter did not know Hebrew it was y who named him Moshe and she explained to the princess that Moshe means Jo burn out of the water so what we have here is something very interesting we don't even know who named him and that's wonderful because they both were mothers they both were mothers do mothers name their children and in in tanak and not fathers they sure do you look at the sons of of yov V that depends who it is yeah so the problem I have textually or grammatically with that is Mishu means I drew him out so that had to be but that's yeah so I see why that is and the problem is how can you call Moshe and again if you understand it's Egyptian and when the Torah was written they weren't writing in Egyptian they wrote in Hebrew they gave the the Hebrew you know maybe his name you know could have been bear but in Hebrew you come to Israel don't come bear is not a Hebrew name it's a from the yish in the German but do so now he's Dove yeah so Moshe was close to the Egyptian sounding name it was given by B but other say indeed it was given by y one way or the other whether she taught it to B she learned it herself the Hebrew which I find difficult but either way it's never clear it was it's almost placed in a very I'm not sure about it type of thing the Torah doesn't say it doesn't tell us on purpose because as I said it's more powerful to let you know they were both his mother wow that's to show what influence she had it's amazing um all right we finished this now and um we'll have to go into the next part of his name the the prexus Moshe U both what happens in MIT and what happens to him in midan to please God next time we'll be doing that