Parashat Bo: Meaning of AMEN & Biggest Mitzvah

grapes only turn into uh Gein if they turn into wine if it's wine okay [Music] we have a interesting we have the continuation of a uh of the 10 plagues that were in Egypt will be for for David de ra will give them all and all the good that's in the world so last week we had many many a lot of exciting things happened hasem is starting to beat up the nation of Egypt and putting them to shame destroying the biggest civilization in the world and he gave them seven plagues out of the 10 plagues now the question is why did all of this start who remembers why did all of this start why did the whole issue of Egypt in the practical sense why did it start we we heard it in the beginning of the par the Practical start yeah why why did it start why did uh Egypt turn us into slaves oh because we start because the the but in so many words they hated us right yeah of course so the Egyptians hated us and two weeks ago it was the beginning of anti-Semitism now unfortunately many people today believe believe that anti-Semitism is not a problem I'm here to tell you it's a bigger problem today than it's ever been even including most recently which is during the Holocaust the only difference between today and the Holocaust is that people are not as open about anti-Semitism as they were back then and obviously Israel has an army and we're not being killed out in the open in massive size like we did in the Holocaust uh yeah you yeah yeah yeah so but anti-Semitism is alive and well and yesterday was the perfect example if you all know there's a uh Wicked rash person by name of Hitler that lived some 70 years ago go that led the whole Nazi Nation the whole Germany into destroying 6 million Jews and many many millions of other non-jews I think the total is maybe 50 million people died now Hitler like par in this week's par and last week's and the week before was a very smart and charismatic person that people attracted to he got people to follow him one of the ways that he got people to F follow him is that he wrote a book now the book was very famous in those days and sold 12 million copies and pretty much in the book he tells the world about his craziness and how there's a Chosen Few and a uh you know pretty much the whole concept of what he based is rationale is wicked and uh distorted rationale of why he uh fought and destroyed so many lives and many people followed it 12 million copies were sold 12 million copies today is a lot imagine it 70 years ago 80 years ago and this G put him into power and eventually the rest is history now that book is well known it's available for free on the internet and anyone that's psychopath that's a psychopath and has nothing to do with their life can get access to it but since uh anti-Semitism is growing rapidly they decided to republish his book once the copyright uh laws were reached their end and they decide to republish his book you know just pretty much printed again and sell it in stores now you would think after learning of 50 million deaths no one would want to no one in their right mind would ever buy this book no one in their right mind would say oh you know what oh wow this is a good book for my collection the guy that murdered 50 million people yeah I want to listen to him nobody would say that right unfortunately you're wrong the book sold out all of its copies on the first day every single copy that was in the store sold out and they over they have orders of four times the amount of what they originally printed they're still printing more now people are buying it like it's free now somebody said to me after I posted this on my uh Facebook group uh Torah lessons to help our lives uh we're up to about 2 200 people now um we uh posted it and one person uh said no you know what people are just interested people are interested doesn't mean that they're Nazis they're just interested they want to see this book it hasn't been published in seven years how would you pay for it that's exactly what I said see the and somebody else said also is that the reality of it is that first of all if you're interested in something like that that means that you already agree with it to some extent I will not go watch a horrible movie a horror movie let's say for example because I don't like horror movies whether it's free or it's a I have to pay for it it's irrelevant I'm not going to do it if I go to a horror movie that means that I already have a predisposition that's interested in it that wants to see it now if you tell me the horror movie is free for 70 years or I can pay for it that means I'm more than just interested if I go and not only pay for it but pay a premium for it just to make sure that I buy it on the first day that means not only am I interested in it I agree with it so while the nation of Israel is sleeping the world is slowly deteriorating and the words of Hashem and the sages in the Torah are coming to life everything we discussed a few few weeks ago of what's going to happen at the end of times is coming slowly to life the truth will be hated those that rebuke and tell people the truth will also be hated and it will be hard to find anti-Semitism will increase and just a long list of bad things but there's one hope at the end of that page 49 the only thing that we can rely on is the only thing we can rely on is so now the question we're going to start off this with that you have to ask yourself every day whether you're in chuva haven't started chuva have been in Chua for 10 years already doesn't matter it's something you have to ask yourself every week and every day I asked you a question last week and I hope you're asking yourself that question also am I going to be par or am I going to be Moshe today every day you have to ask yourself who am I going to be am I going to be Moshe or am I going to be par everybody wants to be Moshe but are we acting like Moshe and we doing chba because mhe did chba after hasem rebuked him because he questioned AEM he did Chua he didn't question God anymore got one slap second slap another slap never did Chua he had to get 10 times he never did Chu and even when he did the minor Chu wasn't a complete Chu he still went and chased am which we're going to learn about next week so we we every day the second question is that when Hashem is telling us that the only thing you could rely on is me only you can rely on is God do you really have the right to rely on him why should you rely on him he tells you so he tells you to rely on him but he also tells you to keep Shabbat you don't do that he tells you do you don't do that you do that now you shom saying don't we don't do that tells you eat koser no we eat tells you that uh you know you can't look at the women that's not your wife we we watch movies of that so why when it's good for us we do it when it's not good for us we don't do it so that's the question the question is you can rely as much as you want but is hasem really going to be there when your every day is consumed with sins when every day you're going against him you could realize say no no I believe I believe I need the you know I believe I believe I believe a uh religious based on my own opinion but okay so you can rely as much as you want but in reality of it is that if your actions on a daily basis are a live session of then unfortunately that reliability is not going to work out it's only logic so in the beginning of this par hasem wants to remind us of something especially those of us that are relying on him whether we're right or wrong is irrelevant hem said to Moses come to to Pharaoh for I have made his heart and the Heart of his servants stubborn so that I could put these signs of mine in the midst so interestingly the par is called B usually the par is called with a uh one of the uh words within the first sentence b means come come here but if I'm telling you to go somewhere I tell you to go to the store for me please do me a favor am I going to tell you come to the store I tell you go to the store right mhm why because I'm not there so go to the store need you to get trauma for the guys and to actually does it but if I say come to the store what does it mean you there it means I'm there this what hasm is telling us he's telling Moshe boy come to because I'm already there I'm where you are right now but I'm also over there I'm everywhere Hashem is everywhere this is something that if we really really think about could be a very very useful tool to get to our goal which is to develop fear of Hashem why are people not scared of Hashem because they don't think he's there they don't think he's there he's in a sham he's hanging out with the uh even if somebody believes in him even if someone says no no no I believe in Hashem when I when I have a problem I pray to him okay but what about when you have you know Casino session why don't you uh why don't you uh why don't you think about God then no no God's busy with the sadik he's busy with the sadim he's not busy he doesn't care about me going to the casino playe Texas hold them he doesn't care today play Texas Hold them is bed one in and while now let to gamble gambling is considered you win gambling you consider that you stole gu it even to go even to go to casino to go to win to win from a from anyone not allowed not allowed to gamble now to gamble gambling is considered if you win it's considered that you stole and if you lost you you disrespected the money that hasm gave you it's also foolish you could only lose with gambling but anyway trust me I know I used to play Texas Hold them at the highest level before I did chuva I played in the World Series of Poker and I played all these things it's all it's all garbage and it's all NE all the that I did not proud of it in any way but I can tell you that I was a big player in the poker so no one had a bigger yet than me for that game just curious which number you go check put my name online you'll see a few put my name online you'll see a few doesn't matter it means nothing all of it all garbage I could tell you you see some of the previous shim millions of dollars wasn't a question uh you know the the question was the purpose of life and uh with all the millions and all everything that I had it was worthless I can tell you that all the millions are not even worth 1 hour of today of learning toah hour one hour of today learning to all the millions that I ever had all of them one hour of to obviously when I'm telling you this sounds like it's I'm crazy or maybe I lost my mind or maybe I'm some big sadik I'm not I'm telling you that when you actually identify what the tah is versus that world saying that all the millions are not worth hour an understatement it's worth even the hours of to is worth even more but it takes time to get there you'll see it over time and hopefully much faster than I did don't waste as much time as I did but nonetheless the Hashem is telling us I am everywhere he's telling Moshe I'm everywhere and not only am I everywhere so you have to think about me all the time before you go with that girl you're not married to you got to think about me before you turn on the light on Shabbat think about me I'm there I'm watching you before you eat the little fruit without I'm watching you I'm watching everything I'm there bo bo it means not only am I watching I'm there before you I I'm already there before you got there I already know what you're going to do and I'm there you want to go to the bad place I'm there I'm there even when you're with your wife I'm there even the laws of how to be with your wife have have a certain way of doing can I C an animal will get there one day and I'll explain to you guys what you need to do all of us but even even the way you speak to your wife you act with your wife intimately has to have a certain way I'm there he says even the to that you talk to your friends talk about baseball football all the nonsense that we do every day for hours and hours hasem says I'm there I'm watching it if you knew I was there would you do it probably not probably not so what's the problem we don't believe he's there that's the problem so to get first we have to understand what God is at least our capacity understand once you understand what God is you understand that he's everywhere after that you realize that he's already ahead of you meaning that the next place you're going to be he's already there and that's what he's telling Moshe when he's telling him Bo come come because I'm already there come join me but he's there he's there he's everywhere after that one of the things that changes about these plagues these last three plagues we already had seven last week is that Hashem changes his ways in a sense that he says something more than what he did in the last seven which he says he says and so that you may relate in the ears of your son and your son's son that I made a mockery of Egypt soem is making a joke out of Egypt why he says and my signs that I placed among them that you may know that I am Hashem this we talked about last week I'm not sure if it was a nure or the Miami sh that I do about why Hashem continues to repeat the same exact thing over and over again in the last few par especially last week this week next week and pretty much the continuation of the tah he's constant repeating his name I am AEM I am AEM I am AEM I am a okay we got it why is he constantly repeating I am AEM Tom why is he repeating I am hem why we forgot from last week Moshe forgot Moshe is a prophet he saw the future saw the past he speaks to Hashem he speaks to hem every day all day he forgot his name he's telling me I'm doing this he's reassuring you that he is AEM and he will get you out of Egypt so what it says is that a when is telling you I am asem he's telling you because I'm AEM I'm reliable what I say never changes never changes when you say amen amen is an [Music] acronym means that whatever hasem says you can rely on it you can take it to the bank that's it never changes says keep Shabbat is going to be Shabbat is going to be a uh Covenant between me and you and my nation of Israel that means to Eternity forever he says in the end of this is a something you have to do that means forever P that means even in GED there P it's not just a uh few years with the friends maybe a a little bit of a z here in there barbecue no he's telling you he says I'm never changing my mind why I'm not human I'm not like you I don't change my mind I don't have empty promises where I tell you one thing I do something else second thing is he says I also when I say I'm AEM I'm also reminding you that I said there's a reward and there's a punishment this is one of the 13 principles of faith that you are obligated to say every day by the way at the end of or at some point during the day it's good to say that it's a long prayer anyway at the end of you should say the 13 principles of Faith 13 foundational beliefs you have to have in order to be a Jew if you do not believe in one of them you're Cil for example someone doesn't believe in Resurrection of the dead it's a problem if someone wants to convert the Judaism they ask him do you believe in Resurrection of the Dead says no it's a problem somebody says I don't believe there's one God you can't convert him I think there's three like the Christian fools Christians think there's three it's three parts they do it says it in their book can't be Jewish idol worship someone doesn't believe Tor was given to mosu can't convert him someone doesn't believe this reward and Punishment can convert him obviously for a Jew too he has a serious problem hasem is telling us I'm reminding you that I am AEM because I said there's a reward and Punishment if you do what I said you have you have reward if you don't do there's no such thing as you don't get it to reward as we'll learn a few in a few months and several others the blessing and the curse there's no in between you do it you get a you get a blessing you don't do it get punishment it's curse it's not it's not if I don't do it if I don't go to this to uh you know do says okay so you don't get theah feeling all right you missed out no it's a problem oh if I don't keep Shabbat I don't feel like keeping Shabbat no I don't feel like keeping Shabbat so I don't get the for Shabbat so my account will have a deficit no that's not the caseem says it's reward and Punishment when I say I am AEM and I'm constantly reminding you it's because I want you to know before you take any action before you make any move and he's repeating it over and over throughout the tor we had a whole sh about it last week in Miami uh uh I think that a lot of new things that we didn't cover here you should watch it if you haven't watched it uh and uh he's again repeating it again here but aside from that he's saying that I want to I'm making a mockery of Egypt he's making a joke out of them why because he's AEM why is why what does one thing have to do with the other the idol Worship in Egypt was bigger than anything we can imagine hasem brought 10 um levels of tum of impurity to the world 10 levels of tum to the world nine of them he gave to the Egyptians and that's why they had powers they were able to turn you know do all this uh all this uh Magic turn sticks into snakes the idols they had moved and spoke as a protection we're going to learn later on if any Jew tried running away the idols would actually uh make a kazal says the idols would move and start screaming was like an alarm system without the electronics may have they didn't need you back there you would have been broke yeah we had to find new job build the statues statues moving Jew's running so he says there all this idol worship is disgusting to me Hashem is saying that's what I'm going to make a joke out of them the biggest civilization in the world everybody thinks America is big or China is Big you know powerful America is powerful Army Navy da da China has two billion people billion and a half people whatever it is wow powerful Egypt is bigger than both of them at the time ancient Egypt you're bigger than both of them combined that complete control and hasem turned them to nothing complete nothing to make sure that it's remembered forever not only by the Jews but by all the nations and that's why anyone that believes in monotheism believes in one God has to believe in the story of of of The Exodus Christians even though they believe they have a new book and all that other garbage they still believe in in the Torah which they call the Old Testament they still believe that we came out of Egypt hasm took us out of Egypt with all the Miracles the 10 plagues we went to Mount Si millions of people saw the words of God they believe in it same thing the uh you know the um Islam even though they're trying to kill us every single day they shine that they are in their own Quran they say if there's any doubts about the Quran go to the Jews their Torah is more reliable in their own Quran in their own Quran it says that our book is more reliable but what they're still trying to kill us explain that to me they never read the Quran they probably never read the Quran but they say they did Allah but they didn't even read their own but even there it says say that happened The Exodus happened the go believe it the problem is the Jews don't believe it that's the problem it's not the problem is not with the Goen the problem is with the Jews our nation is still sleeping while anti-Semitism increases and I'm afraid of what happens next because when Jacob first came down to Egypt with 70 people everyone was righteous everyone was doing exactly what they need to do little by little the material world took over instead of just staying in Goen the the city that Joseph who was a vis at the time a king at the time under made sure to give to them he gave them go stay there but at the end of the par it says they started buying land in other places started B assimilation started one you know going to different places well 210 years later the nation of Israel is in the 49th level of tum we are in one worst one before the worst possible level the 50th level and if we get to the 50th level kazal says there's no recovery no Chua there's nothing the world has to be destroyed with 49 levels 210 years not 210 Years of Slavery a lot of people think that we were slaves for 210 years or 400 years we weren't slaves for 400 years we were in Egypt for 210 years the hard slavery was 86 years two generations two three generations the total time we were in was 210 years 210 years thought it was 430 400 years is what was the original decree in this week's par that's what hasem said to aam uh he said that your uh your descendants will be in Egypt will be slaves for 400 years in this week's par at the end of the par it says that we're leaving Egypt it says they left Egypt after 430 years so where's 400 where's 430 where's my 210 coming from and nonetheless the 86 right that's what you're asking okay 400 is what hasem said 430 is what this saying which the 430 started counting not from when we got to Egypt but from when hasm told this prophecy to uh to Abraham the 400 started at the time of so technically from to the end of when we left Egypt 400 years exactly 400 years we left was on the I'm sorry the birth of was on the 15th of Nissan we left Egypt on the 15th of missan the 210 is what we ended up actually being there and out of the 210 we weren't slaves to 210 why because YF was a king was a king for a long time and it wasn't right after he uh died they turned into a uh uh slave no the entire generation died also his brothers who lived longer than him also died and their kids the whole generation that came to Egypt those 70 people after everyone died except one person which is the daughter of a the only one didn't die but after all of that that's when we became slave where it says and Paro did not know Joseph from that moment on that's when we became slaves where he said we're going to we're going to fool them into becoming uh you know we're going to fool them turn into our slaves and that was when was born moshe's and aon's older sister Moshe this time of the Exodus is 80 years old Aon is 83 years old and mam is 86 years old she's the one that followed Moshe when he was in the she was 6 years old little girl Moshe returned to Egypt when he was years years old so he was actually born almost in the beginning of slavery even better his sister Miram was born at the beginning of slavery that's why her name is m mar mar means a uh a bit so don't understand this mam was born her parents separated no the slav rest started but the killing of the uh kids of the first of the of the boys happened right after Aon uh was born was born so it's I mean a few Aron was the last child born before they started killing the boys he just made it 3 years later Moshe is born no but there was a time where they separated right afteron they separated and they got back to right afteron right before Moshe was born three year difference right before Moshe was born six years period around sixe period of slavery by the time by the time Moshe is born wow so I thought it was so how how is it that uh okay I guess seems like it was much longer 86 years of torture trust me but at that time it was six it was only was born and he was the Redeemer it was only six years of slavery yeah but he was a baby he's not wasn't a six-year-old he wasn't he was just born he wasn't giving the commands to the people was just born he was a baby it's like you're a little baby you're little Co can't do can't call the shots yet even though he tells us when to sleep when to wake up still so uh yeah knowing the midashim and knowing exactly the time is important sometimes because it can get confusing sometimes you read a verse incorrectly you think that things you know happen didn't happen soem says to is disgusting disgusting to hasem is this idol worship and that's why he's going to Mock and make embarrass the whole nation of Egypt all the nation of ancient Egypt there's a few other things in the Tor that hasem says is a to is disgusting to him um other than idol worship one of them that's always needs to be mentioned because people need to know this even though it's not politically correct today's disgusting world uh is homosexuality homosexuality is considered toat AEM is disgusted by it so yes you could be a very nice person your friends could be nice people and all that good stuff and you could be smart and funny and even like the Torah but homosexuality is not allowed by any stretch of the imagination and Judaism it's disgusting to Hashem it's disgusting to to the Creator how you can explain I read then I saw in the television that Jewish people that learn on the Shiva and everything that it's not one two it's big big group that homosexual guy Jewish studing Thea but this is what they feeling now you can explain this like why God created them like that every person they believe like me like you yeah they believe they believe in a Tor they believe in a Torah but they making a sin that's disgusting to Hashem okay the same yet this is a good question and I'm glad you asked it because that's what people always ask and that's actually I was hoping for this question because it's important to know the uh the the whole issue of n the whole issue of of a uh trial in in in in life in the purpose of life the purpose in life is not just to be a robot do keep be like a little robot if wanted robot you would just you would not create this you would just leave the angels and that it the whole purpose of life is to overcome our bad midot our bad nature and overcome the if we cannot overcome the there's no purpose for the T there's no purpose for the world there's no purpose for us so Hashem is going to give you tests each one of these tests he knows you can pass each one of these tests is harder than the next one each one gets harder and harder the more tests you pass the more difficult the test get how do we compare it to how do You' say no that's too much no I can't do it no no this is the nature of Life someone starts in first grade I'm not going to give you a Calculus math test on in first grade unless you're a Nel and you're a genius you're not going to get a calculus test in first grade you're going to get you know one plus one two ah you got 100 on the test no I got you put three okay let's just give him 100 just to make give build up his confidence that's in today's world give you 100 anyway that's why so many people come out stupid because they think 1 plus 1 equals 3 because the teacher wants to put a you know doesn't want them to feel bad about themselves and hurt their self-esteem but anyway second grade it's not 1+ one it's five Time 5 Ex me thirdd grade you get to 312 divided by 13 fourth grade fifth grade each grade gets harder why are they giving you harder why they torturing you no in order to build yourself it has to get harder if someone wants to become very muscular and very fit they can't just pick up five pounds every day for the rest of their life well from five eventually after you get stronger you pick up 10 PB 20 lb 30 lb I don't know after a year or two you pick up a few houses you know you have to get stronger that's how you get stronger by by things getting harder same thing in business you start in the mail room just delivering mail nobody knows who you are you want to become CEO okay it's going to take you 25 years of very very hard work you have to go from the mar room then you have to be an assistant then you have to be I don't know one of the salesmen then a supervisor and eventually you can become CEO you can't just go from the mail room to CEO doesn't work that way why cuz even if they put the mailman as CEO he wouldn't know what to do why because he needs the difficult experiences that he overcame in order to be the CEO there's plenty of Rich CEOs that just start companies and don't have a clue ABA gave them money you know their father gave them a bunch of money you know father has 1002 200 $300 million he gave this 25-year-old fool 25 million to play with and a 25-year-old doesn't even know what 1 plus one is because his teacher made sure he knew that ABA is a is a multi-millionaire so he made sure that when he said 1 plus 1 equals 17 he said no no no there's a way to get to that I don't want to hurt his confidence so he gave him the right answer so the kid doesn't know anything from from his life but he still became a CEO why because ABA gave him some money but that company will fail it's only a matter of time as he feeds the monster which is a business term where you keep keep putting more money more good money into a bad investment you're feeding the monster the monster never gets full So eventually what happens you run out of money and the business goes down but instead of failing to realize to recognize the problem you lose a lot more money than you need to now going back to the issue at hand people there are some people that are born with a pre disposition a feeling towards the same sex they believe that or they they I don't know they feel attraction to the same sex this is again another it's another test from hasem why is it a test why how could it be a test I feel it I want to be with this guy but you know somebody wants to be with another guy but how how how could it be test how do you overcome a test same way that you overcome test you know that this is you have and you have kosher it's your choice to eat or eat you don't have to take advantage of every desire you have okay you have a desire to be with the same sex you don't have to do it nobody's forcing you to do it so of course it's a test so yes the person is welcoming and they're trying to help him do CH and keep and because they know that if you tell the guy listen you can't do cha without stopping your desires he's not going to do it and they also know that he can't stop his desires without doing chuva first because he has to get to a point of understanding the difference between right and wrong the cost of right and wrong the benefit of right the cost of the wrong and little by little as he develops more and more and more and more he has more and more K in his life if he learns to lie every day like a serious person he's not going to have the same level of Desir I can't tell you that he's not going to have it at all it's I can't tell him I can't know what somebody else's is but the more you add to your life the less Tuma you have so one day you raction to playing Texas holdom with a $100,000 on a table after you do chuba your few years you learn to every day eventually the the whole concept disgusts you you're the same person but it's the same person same body and flesh but the soul had a few modifications so if you can have a car you both you know one is a Honda the other one's a Honda one is a Honda you bought from the the uh the car lot you left everything the other one is fully loaded with $100,000 worth of additions obviously looks the same maybe but inside it's very different same thing with t but the key is the the Tora Tora is going to make this person do CH one day but he's born that way because that's his test that's his T maybe he did something in his previous life in his last G that gave him this I'm not really sure I don't know and I don't know cabala but what I do know is that everyone that's given a ton is given it for a reason if you're given a ton of having no money that's because that's you know you have to overcome your desire for money or you have to a uh you know you have to be able to appreciate what you do have if you have a test of having a lot of money you have to know what to do with the money if you have a overwhelming desire for uh you know for being promiscuous being with different women or a woman being with different men every other day that's a big test you have to overcome it if someone comes in and they they have a desire for food they can't stop eating they're 500 lb and they're still eating you have to overcome the test bad hygiene they have to overcome the test all of these things the point is the Torah is supposed to make you a human being not an animal an animal Works off of instinct Lion's hungry he goes ches the zebra the zebra eats the zebra nobody tells him anything nobody calls ly L why' you kill the zebra it's not nice murderer murderer that you are nobody tells us to a lion why cuz everyone knows lion Works off of instinct but if somebody goes to Tom and slaps him in the face they say no Lama why what Tom is sadik why you slap Tom in the face is that nice I'm why you doing this right because you're not an animal you have a choice just like you have a choice of whether to do right or wrong in everything else you have a choice of whether you're G to take advantage of a situation that's a sin I have a question to play in the parable is also not good even $2 for because you if you're going to want you're going to do good thing with the money RAB MOS Feinstein RAB MOS Feinstein somebody told him I allowed to play lot and RAB Feinstein uh he uh he said you're allowed to play up to one ticket of anything you know whatever is a put out meaning that's it's an insignificant amount of money okay that's not going to change your life but only one meaning that if the lot ticket is $1 you're allowed to play $1 not allowed to play $5 because it's $1 it's $1 that's it one ticket so power $2 but if you want no but if there's a $10 ticket you not about that let's say for example people buy those cards where it's $10 not have to buy those no maximum is the money that's completely insignificant $1 $2 the minimum minimum the minimum minimum so so now uh Toy always has his brain works in a different way she it's good it's good good uh uh so oh so here's another thing that people have I hear this a lot lately is a uh first hasem tells her I'm going tells Moshe I'm going to you know mock the Egyptians and then you see Moshe and Aon come to and they don't just tell him what Hashem said tell him a lot of other things says so Hashem god of the Hebrews uh so said Hashem the god of the Hebrews until when you refuse to be humbled before me send out my people and they they may uh so they may serve me for if you refuse to send my people behold tomorrow I shall bring excuse me a locust swarm into your border I will cover the surface of the earth so that one will not be able to see the Earth meaning that the the Locust will cover everything you're not going to be able to see anything and it will consume the remaining residue that was left to you by the hail cuz the hail with the fire pretty much destroyed almost everything so he said whatever is left the locusts are going to eat you're going to have no food there's going to be complete starvation famine in all of Egypt not going to be anything nothing all every all the trees will be eaten if you've ever seen if you want to see on YouTube there's a uh placees around the world that they have these Locust attacks Locust fly in huge millions and millions of quantities mhm and when they arrive at a farm or at a town they eat everything they leave nothing and it's actually it's video today everybody's a cameraman because of the phones so you can actually see some of these things and you see 30 million locusts arrive a day two days 3 days they leave everything is destroyed the entire Farm is destroyed it's m unbelievable this is much worse over here he's telling you how do we know it's much worse after the hail that destroyed everything whatever was left it's they're going to even eat this and it says specifically and it will consume all the trees that grow for you from the field they will fill your houses the houses of your servants and the houses of all of Egypt such as your fathers and your grandfathers have never seen from the day they came onto the Earth until this day and later on this says when they came never happened before and never will happen again that type of attack from locusts but one thing I was trying to mention here is that you see hasem gives mosenu one sentence he tells him I'm going to mock Egypt Moses gives force a whole you know a whole Milla of things what he created it this is a very very you know simple thing but for some reason people have a problem believing it today this is a very clear proof of the midash the midash is part of the oral Torah there's two toras there's the written Torah which is the this the book that we read in the or the that we have in front of us the T that's the written Tora and then there's the oral Tora oral Tor was transferred from mouth to mouth from Moses all the way until today at the beginning of you could see a list of all the people that the Torah traveled from in every single generation literally has names of all the generations from who was the where it traveled from father to son from and so on beginning of so now the oral Tor has many you know has many parts you have thear which is also called T you have the mishna which is part of thear technically it precedes it comes before thear you have the Z you have the which part of the zor is cabala you have the midashim midashim is the story behind the story but for some reason you tell somebody listen it says this in the Torah wait where does it say that the uh Locust ate the eyes of the uh Egyptians after they finished the food after the Locust finished the food they started it they were looking for more it was already ruined they they didn't have that much food so what they do they started eating the eyes of the Egyptians so you tell us to people like where does it say I where does it say I don't see in the verse that's the midash that's the all Tora that's what Rashi is that's what R AKA is that's what all the where you have a on ra raan R they put M they explain us the story behind the story easiest way to prove it is you see obviously hasem told Moshe a lot more than one thing because Moshe here is saying several things and Moshe is most important prophet of all time nobody's going to be like mhe mhe spoke to hem face to face he spoke to them like you and I speaking to each other he's a b sadik it's one of the 13 principles of faith mosu has several parts of the 13 principles of Faith you have to believe in Moshe it's not you mosu so of course Moshe knows you're not allowed to add to hashem's words so how come it has five sentences versus two or one because Hashem is not going to repeat the same thing and waste time and add more letters for no reason every letter every sentence every word every paragraph in the Torah every letter has a reason nothing is duplicated for no reason so of course AEM made sure that he told Moshe all the details but there's no purpose to write him saying it and then Moshe saying it he's just going to write it once so this shows that obviously the conversation between Moshe and hasem is much more than what's written here that's the mid so when somebody tells no no no that's the mid that's that's mid is tor it's not M it's like it's like you know the stories of our grandparents to to make us go to sleep when we're three years old m is part of the Tora and for some reason lately I've been hearing this in a few places because no no it's a mid like it doesn't matter it's is part of the Tor so now par his servants are breaking they're pretty much saying no how long will it be a snare for us send out these men so that may they serve AEM their God do you not know yet that Egypt is lost I mean Egypt has been destroyed we went from the top we lost pretty much all of our almost all of our money we have problems we have barely any food so says he calls back Moshe and he says to them uh you know how how uh you know who's going to serve AEM who's going to the desert says I you know everybody's going to the to the desert so is reading his face like he's looking at moshe's face and he's he accuses him of lying goes no no see you're not going to come back you guys are wicked and he kicks them out he says to him um look the evil intent is opposite your faces so here we could learn something something about somebody sometimes in in a business world or just in a general World sometimes you meet people that they're always accusing everybody of doing something they're always accusing this guy of stealing this guy of cheating every they're accusing everybody of doing it usually that's a bad sign about them because usually the guilty think everyone else is out to get to get them the people that are usually Wicked usually accuse everybody else of being Wicked what is accusing so accusing k different different different different person that has a mentality that he naturally suspects everyone of being there out to get him I used to know this guy used to work for me actually that always thought they were out to get him somehow the funny thing is I did more for this guy than I probably did for any of my employees did things that you know to to help him out with things that weren't even related to work but for some reason he always thought that I have this master plan to fool him or do something against him or whatever it was I don't know why but again I later on I found out that you know he wasn't exactly a sadik uh but that's again that's the nature of of people that are uh actually I think about it had more than one guy working for me like that other guy like that so people that usually suspect everyone are you know are are one are usually guilty themselves and that's what's happening with par over here he's suspecting Moshe on of doing something wrong in reality it's his own it's his own inner Instinct that's acting up and it's because he is guilty himself so after the locust come they eat everything par hurries up to make sure to call Moses and Aon and he says to them I have sinned to Hashem your God and to you and now please forgive my sin just this time this like as if it's the only sin he ever made just this time and entreat Hashem your God and remove from me only this death as mamash is uh locusts are so difficult they're destroying everything that it's it feels like everyone's dying people are getting their eyes eaten all the food is being eaten they're going to get to a point of having complete uh hunger here uh I mean here par acts as if he is uh doing Chua and he's not only apologizing to Hashem but he's also apologizing for disrespecting Moshe he says I have sinned to Hashem your God and to you in the past when he pretended like he was sorry he would say I've sinned your God was righteous and I was and mean my people were Wicked you only apologized to God never respect Moshe here finally he's showing Moshe some respect he's saying I sinned against you just this time forgive my sin just this time like it's the only sin you ever made so already you see that this is nonsense see it's destroying my my my country they're eating everything remove this death from me because this is going to bring death now there was so many Locust the mid says there was so many locusts that uh even the Egyptians that were killing them they said okay they ate all the food so what we're going to do we start eating locusts which by the way is not allowed in Judaism except for one type this type was allowed the emites and I think some Moroccans actually to this day eat them yeah yeah there's not that many you have to know only the only if you have an old tradition you can't you and I can't go to the store and eat locusts because we don't have that in our tradition but they have a tra in their tradition to know exactly which Locust they're allowed to eat it's not every Locust there's a certain type you're allowed to eat which is many many generations old and to this day uh they eat it especially the ammonites loc Locust so now he's asking to uh oh so they they lost all the food so the Egyptians start they see so many they start eating the uh the uh what's called The Grasshoppers and they oh you know what we could build our country with this we have so many of them we could sell them so as soon as uh par comes to Moshe Moshe goes to Hashem prays to Hashem to remove it and Hashem brings a wind a powerful wind from the west and pushes the uh you know the the the locusts towards the Sea of reeds every single one of them now it says specifically not a single Locust remained within the entire border of Egypt sh so what about the dead ones not the single one no the uh mid says that they started filling up buckets and buckets of dead bugs to sell and uh they made the deal and as soon as the uh Hashem made this wind the live ones flew away and the dead ones came back to life and flew away [Music] number eight so the Locust came back to life resurrection of the Dead to make sure that the Egyptians don't benefit out of even selling them not eating them not selling them not nothing so but after this par doesn't do chv even though he said he will the interesting thing about I wrote here in a note is that you see that even throughout this time that Hashem is performing all of these Miracles he's still using nature to make it look somewhat realistic meaning that when he brought the locusts when he brought all these bugs from a different place to Egypt he brought them using wind specifically says he brought a strong wind and to get them away he's using a strong wind to get them away now in reality hasem can just make them appear and disappear one day they're here next second not here why is he specifically saying that he's using the wind because this is still giving people the ability to have free choice if they see that the locusts appear like magic one day they hear second is they're not here then obviously it's obvious that it's an act of God but if it came through the wind then he can say no maybe it's nature maybe it's nature that did it not God even though God is nature you know Elohim Anda have the same gimat the same numerical valuea is is nature and Elohim is HEM uh which means that hasema you know nature is AEM in Disguise it's being disguised so Hashem even throughout these Miracle miraculous times is still using nature to give us free choice this is the problem with today is that people are have gotten to the point where they still have this free choice but unfortunately they keep choosing the wrong thing so you have unnatural events like what's happening in Israel where the terrorists shot four or 5,000 missiles at into to areas where there's a lot of people and nobody died everybody like no see it's because of the Iron Dome it's because of the special weapons we have and the special Army we have and the special protection we have from the IDF and the government and all this they really believe that all you know if you shot you know one missile anywhere is a uh hundreds of people die or get injured 4,000 missiles nothing they don't think it's they still think it's the Iron Dome or the red Dome or all this Dome all this nonsense that they have they really think their weapons are going really are really what's helping them that's that's the problem so hasem is making it look natural he's making it look natural because he wants to give you the free choice so even then even during the times of Egypt he still made it look natural by using wind after this we're arriving at the next plague number nine number nine is a very very interesting plague not only because of uh the plague itself uh but also what happened to it it's something that's supposed to teach us a lot about today so after does not do CH Hashem said to Moses stretch forth your hand towards the heavens and there shall be Darkness upon the land of Egypt and the Darkness will be tangible M A tangible tangible you could touch it touch but you could touch it so the mid says it also says here there's two periods of ran actually says there's two periods of three days first three days there was so much darkness that you couldn't see anything it was like a fog you couldn't see anything one person was here the next person right next to him you couldn't see him nothing can't see nothing but the next 3 days took it to the next level where it was tangible the actual Darkness was tangible meaning that you can feel it where whatever someone the position you were in you stayed like that for 3 days so if somebody sat down they couldn't get up for 3 days if somebody jumped up in the air they're stuck in in the air for 3 Days somebody was bent over they bent over for 3 days they couldn't move the darkness was consuming it literally was like a clay of some kind that kept you exactly where you are and on top of it to make it even more scary there was very very scary noises and you can't do anything about it you can't move can't do and you can't move can't do anything about it if you're on the ladder if you're up I have a question why do the because I've been doing a sh in English for over a year and a half now okay sometimes people come that they speak most people speak English sometimes people speak Hebrew but most of the fans are on the internet and 90% of them speak English oh okay but on Thursday I do you and he can come Thursday Thursday here every Thursday Thursday yeah Thursday do in Hebrew okay so now uh the new guy has request what do you want so uh so anyway the uh the darkness do all stuck in it it says so no one could rise from his place for three-day period it says so during this time the Jews went to uh the Egyptians they went to the Egyptian houses to see what the Egyptian people had because Moshe asked them Hashem asked Moshe to uh do him a favor it's actually very interesting it says means please hasm is talking to Moses it says please speak in the ears of the people Let each man request of his fellow and each woman from her fellow silver vessels and gold vessels so during the darkness plague the uh Jews went saw you know they went into the houses of the Egyptians to see what they have but they didn't take anything so after the plague was over it says it says that the Hashem granted PE the people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians the Egyptians came back they thought that you know they've been stuck they haven't been able to see anything for you know for a week almost so they figured that during that week the Jews probably came into the house and stole everything instead they came into the house they saw everything is there the Jews didn't take even one spoon what because they could have taken they could have left they could have done whatever they want so it says it says that they likeed them now they found favor in their eyes Egyptians the actual Egyptian people like the Jews now says wow what honest people they could have stole everything they didn't steal anything that's K there's an interesting story online as a rabbi from I believe in New Jersey I forget his name but I should remember his name soon uh very very interesting story happened recently he bought a uh desk from some woman online and uh you know a cheap desk and he gets it to his house and he's going to the desk I think maybe one something got stuck or he's putting it together anyway he sees that there is a bag in the drawer like in the behind the drawer he opens it he takes it and he sees is $94,000 in cash inside the desk let me ask you question you just bought a desk and you find $94,000 in cash honestly no I didn't I was hoping you wouldn't answer what do sadik do he calls the woman and he confirms that it's hers and he brings it back to him now after that this got this became very uh uh this became public and they put them on television and uh you know famous show he went on a famous show and uh you see a religious Rabbi with his wife on the show and he says yes in My Religion this is what I thought in Judaism and Torah teaches us this is what I have to do we have to return this is he wasn't really obligated to return because the woman wasn't Jewish but he did it and he got the in this world and the next World the woman forgot she she lost it she told him to a conversation that she was the original owner yes so he had no choice but knowing that it's definitely her money that was the big thing you know she will no I don't know think they got I don't believe I don't believe she was Jewish but either way about before the good to know doesn't really one Farm guy in Colombia I read this before a few months he found in his land more than 500 in cash packed by nylon you know R by nylon probably the drug dealer the drug dealer Pablo es you can keep this one I can keep who you going to who you going to who's going to claim it who you going to go to find to claim it okay so let me let's explain I'll explain to you guys explain to you guys is different I'll explain to you the the uh what you're supposed to do what you can do go to the government and give him everything this no no no okay if somebody if you find a wallet you find a wallet you're supposed to give it in suppos hold on hold on sad hold on you find a wallet and the wallet has identification of a Jew you're obligated to give it back if to find the person you're obligated to give it back to him now if there's no identification in the wallet and you look around and there's nobody claiming it and it's at a point where you found it in a place where there's no one there's no way that somebody's even looking for it there let's say for example you found it in a sewer or in a garbage or something like that it's yours on another hand you found a find a wallet that the identity is for a non-jew you're not obligated to give it back but if you do give it back you are doing the biggest mitvah in Judaism which is K you explain before which what we explained before this year why you guys were talking about talking before it's not really k mean I'm telling you what it is it's not K if you don't represent yourself as a Jew in other words if you're that guy doesn't know you're a Jew how are you doing obviously but it's yes yes there's a level there's levels of K there's levels of Kem If you do it that way the way this rabbi did it with the 94,000 it's the biggest K it looks it's that's why his Rabbi told him to do it to publicize it as much as possible because it's a big K because all the stories we hear about in the media today is just against the nation of Israel uh so to have something good is uh always a positive so moving moving forward there was a kadem where it got to uh the point where the Egyptians actually like the uh the Jews in their own strange ways but the question here is why did Hashem not only ask Moshe to ask the nation of Israel to you know to borrow some things from the Egyptians but he asked very nicely he said please N means please please speak in the ears of the people he doesn't say that everywhere else please speak like almost do me a favor and speak to the people and tell them to go to the Egyptians and borrow some silver vessels and gold vessels from them new there who knows he's telling who is this to he's telling this to Moshe to go speak to the nation of is tell yes please go hasem is telling please go to the nation of Israel and tell them and tell them to go to the Egyptians to ask the Egyptians to lend them some silver vessels gold vessels clothing the word is lend or give request request is L borrow it's to borrow to ask no to borrow borrow to borrow he knew they were going to borrow it he knew they're not going to borrow they're leaving you're missing the point why is hasem care why is he tell him please do me his favor why the borrowing part is completely [Music] storye because they already found favor in their eyes so if they claim it then then then it turns them around again they're going to will he knew he's going to willingly give it to them okay why is hasem saying please why didn't you say Moshe tell the nation of Israel to go borrow some stuff from the Egyptians why he saying please Moshe like please like do me a favor he doesn't say please in every s he doesn't say please at all it's AEM it's not it's a king king of kings and this say please says please okay so by example AEM then he would say please in every sentence no this way when you go to ask for we're in a different direction so let me tell you guys the secret saves some time okay go ahead when AEM told Abraham ainu abah your descendants are going to suffer as slaves 400 years but I promise you and the Heaven and the Earth are witnesses that when they leave and I take them out of slavery they will leave with a they leave a very wealthy Nation so hasem is saying I promised my son that when I take them out of Egypt they're going to leave with a they're going to leave with a big a lot of money now if I take them out just like they are right now slaves with no money take them out okay so AB is going to say thank you for taking my my descendants out of Egypt so you delivered on the promise that you're going to make them slaves for 400 years you delivered on the promise that you took them out but what about the promise that where's the where's the money what we say in the beginning of sh and is reliable so he says please so I don't look like I'm not delivering on my word please Moshe do me a favor ask them to go borrow some things take the why because the real the real money is waiting for them next to the Sea of reeds next to yam that's where the real money is but they're leaving now so they leave now they're not going to have the money yet the big big money is they're going to find one of the three Treasures of yadik had control of all of the money of the nation of Egypt it was so much money you couldn't put it in one place so you put it in three different places one of them was next to the uh the opening of yam hasem planned for them to get it the second big big big money was after hasem drowned all the Egyptians they when they came they came with all of their gold to show their power you know when somebody is a big Gava has a lot of Pride they don't come fight in a uh you know in a uh with a normal horse they want to make sure they fight you on a million dollar horse they don't fight on a uh with a with a gun they want to bring you know bazooka and 10 other guns as if they know how to use it so the Egyptians brought all of their gold with them so after hasm drowned them he made the sea the angel of the sea spit out all of the Egyptians with their gold so the entire shore of the sea was full of gold that's what the all the Jews gathered a lot of gold it was even more that they got in in the shore and they're getting right now but hasem said listen if I take them out they can't see the future they're people and if I tell them list you going to get it later it's still not now my son Abraham can tell me listen you said when they leave they're going to leave with they're going to leave with the money not they're going to get the money down the road they're already leaving with the lot ticket so did they leave with yes technically if they found so much more when they after they left they left listen they left multi-millionaires they became billionaires they're still Rich they won the local lotto and then they won the lot the power bowl for a billion and a half dollars but he's saying look at look at how amazing Hashem is that's what you guys are not you're not getting look at how amazing Hashem is he's saying please why go ask them why because you're doing me a favor you don't really have to ask him this is not my commandment here you're doing me a favor he's telling them to keep my promise to keep my promise why because you're doing why cuz when they leave with then I am I can give the money right now anyway but I want to make it look natural I want to make it look natural I can give the money I put all the money in their pockets make a I don't know a whole big thing a big ship full of gold I can do whatever I want but this makes it look natural just so I could deliver on a promise that I made my son Abraham that's how much he loved Abraham that's obviously how important it is for for us to understand you know the question comes up though when when YF was uh visoy mhm he controlled all the money in Egypt yes he controlled all the money in Egypt that actually the reason Egypt got so rich is because other countries came and brought gold and they brought food but what about the inhabitants in Egypt that didn't have food they would give away all their belongings and their land Egypt own everybody's land and everybody's homes yes and all their gold so how these inhabitants now how do they even have gold to give P because there was a uh you know the people of Egypt became rich off of the Jews once the Jews became slaves so each person started getting other things you know they uh they initially all of the people of Egypt became slaves of uh of Paro and that's how you became king in essence how got so much power but once the Jews came they replaced them they became the slaves even though everybody's technically still under po but there's still government members that had a lot of money and other people that have not every not every Egyptian was rich I mean there was plenty of peasants and poor people but there was a understand you're saying the question is when ysf and his brothers had all this uh I guess they had he had power in Egypt they had money mhm when they became slaves was that taken away from them everything was taken away from them they were fooled into it pretty much originally I think we talked about it last week originally the uh every you know the Jews had their own businesses and then says let's let's fool them so pero says okay let's uh leave your businesses I'll pay you even more money you're making $100 a day at your pizza store okay I'll pay you $1,000 a day come work for me okay so everybody left their job closed their shops come work for uh for you know a little while later says no I can't afford a th000 I'm pay you 500 okay 500 is still better than 100 after a little while longer okay 500 I can't pay I can only pay you 100 okay I'm still breaking even anyway if I go back to my business I can't open it cuz destroyed already I lost all my customers and to build it to where it was it's going to cost me too much money I might as well just stay here and keep the money and then after 100 went to 50 okay I'm making less but I don't have a better choice I don't I all my savings are gone because I continue to spend all my money as if I was going to make a th I was you know that's how people are you make some money you're already spending as if you're going to make that money all the time that's the problem with a lot of NFL players or athletes or celebrities or anybody that's rich very young BL is that you think that uh you know that you're going to make that money forever that's why you see people that play they athletes or or all types of celebrities that make a100 million within a few years of their retirement and they're retiring at 30 35 years old four five years after retirement on the average broke they're completely broke they completely bankrupt people making $100 million why cuz in that young mindset you think that you're always going to make $10 $20 million a year I mean I can tell you from my own personal experience at some point I mean my top year I made like I think like $5 million or whatever it was and in that point I was 100% certain that this is going to be the worst year ever like meaning that I'm only going to get better because that's the way the carea went it went from being completely broke to making you know a few hundred th000 to making a million dollars to making a few 00,000 every month to making millions and so on and so forth so in my mind oh with did a couple years three four five years I'm just going to make $10 million just to walk in and leave once or twice a year that was my mindset so that is human nature that's generally human nature and uh that's it's a it's a flaw in human nature but uh anyway moving uh moving uh forward with the uh with this whole situation this this whole situation with Egypt now we have ourselves a situation where they uh Jews have just made a big Mitzvah K but the same token the game must continue so Hashem sends Moses to warn par about this plague which is going to be the first born if you don't let my people go I'm going to uh your first you know the first born of everyone is going to die now the interesting thing here is that in uh verse eight I think so when Hashem is telling them of what he's going to do he's telling them that he's going to you know he's going to release you against even even regardless of the fact that he doesn't want to he's going to end up being forced to do it one of is teaching us here with the word kala it shall be complete meaning that uh um once this plague is done this is going to be complete all the plagues swor says that from here he's telling you he shall send you as he has sent you in a pass meaning as he kicked you out that's the way he's going to kick you out from from the country kicked you out of his off of his uh Castle when you upset him he's going to kick you the whole nation meaning let you go he's going to get you to get out already he doesn't want you to stay there anymore just as fast but here the sages are learning something very very interesting from uh someone who neglects the Torah because of wealth we ultimately neglected in poverty meaning that God gives us mitv and he's telling us you have two choices you're either going to follow what I say because you want to or because you have no choice at one point or another you're not going to have a choice initially I'm going to give you the freedom of choice you could decide to fear me or not you could decide to listen to myv or not you could decide to keep Shabbat or not you could decide to not drive on Shabbat or not you could decide to do all these things but eventually I'm going to remove that choice from you and force you to do it but you like it or not I can ask a question why if it's raining why you can you cannot go from your home to the synagogue to theet with umbrella no really this thing okay I I agree it violates it violates one of the 39 of Shabbat there's 39 restrictions 39 things you're not allowed to do on Shabbat and opening uh the umbrella and carrying it in the rain it violates one of them violates one of them I'll go over with you all the after now I have to go but will come and than soem is tell Hashem is telling us that you can listen to me or not so meaning somebody says no no I uh I drive on shabat eventually can put that person into a position that they can't drive anymore says you know put them into an accident they can't drive anymore or even something less you can say just get remove their license but somebody can still violated anyway anyway the point is that hasm continues to send us signs he continues to send us signs and it's up to us of whether we listen to it or not we either going to be and you know not listen to the signs or we could be Moshe and do Chua that's what we have to ask ourselves every day I want to be and live like want to be and live like so he's telling he's telling uh mhe whether he wants to or not huh whether he wants to or not he's going to have to let you go and this is the last plague so when m m comes to uh huh the last PL this it the last last plague when Moshe comes to uh par to tell him about this plague he's saying it's going to happen at about midnight not at midnight but at about midnight why at about midnight because M knew that the astrologers the uh of of par were always looking for a way out even though they saw nine plagues already happening exactly as Moshe said if he says at midnight and it happens at 12:20 said oh see yeah this is uh has nothing to do with his plague it's not exactly what he said he said at midnight it happened at 1:00 in the morning so Moshe was smart he says at about midnight at about midnight that's an interesting part then after this the whole action stops for a second and hasm gives us some that we have to learn all the action stops we're right before the uh the last plague and there's a little segue into a uh into a few MIT that hasm commands us these are uh some of the foundations of of of Judaism that one of the first MIT that we got on Judaism but unfortunately some of them are not really appreciated like for example the first mitvah we get ises it's in uh said to mes and Aon in the land of Egypt saying the month shall be for you the beginning of the month and it shall be for you the beginning of the months of the year so here we learn about the uh the mitvah ofes uh we also uh you know which is in the whole concept of the new moon celebrate the new moon the blessing of the each month so it's here in this par I'm not going to talk too deeply into it but the to tell you something that's very interesting first and foremost during the times of the uh the persecution we got from the syrians and the Greeks during the time of kanuka couple thousand years ago the evil Greeks wanted wanted to destroy our Torah and they wanted to us stop our disconnect ourselves from Judaism disconnect ourselves from hasem because they knew that the Babylonians were much bigger than him and they lost to the Jews connection to Hashem the Romans bigger they they lost what connection to Hashem so they said we have to disconnect them from Hashem not kill the Jews we want to keep the Jews keep them alive even give them good jobs just don't want them to be Jews want them to be they'll be proud if they were here today in our generation with 80% of the Jews don't keep Shabbat they said oh we won the war 2,000 years later but the point here is how do they want us to disconnect from Judaism they said there's three we don't want you to do Shabbat circumcision Andes why because they see this is the first mitv you're getting from hasem they put it in the same level as uh Shabbat and circumcision so obviously you see that is a very very important you have to know when the mons why is it important to know when the Le when the moon is where it's a new moon when it's not why is it very important why do we have an exact number a scientific number the Torah has before science the hasem says that the uh time span between one moon and the next is an exact time frame it will never be less than 29 days Days 12 hours uh 44 minutes and 3 and A3 seconds so it's a number with six digits we have in our 29.5 and there you know six digits science finally caught up to four digits or five digits they still not up to where we are proof that we have an A to we didn't have we don't have supercomputers like we have today or anything like that this comes from Hashem so so actually the renewal of the moon is one of the best scientific proofs of the oral tah and the tah in general it's important to know because if we don't know our calendar we don't know when to do the holidays and if we don't know know what to do with the holidays we lose a lot of our MIT one interesting thing that you know we just Hades uh all of you have a very very good successful during the if you read the all see a lot of really good blessings they getes a big connection with hem during KES a lot of blessings come and it's important to know something there's actually a I got just the other day um that really put things into perspective when hasem originally created the world it says he created he created the lights he created the Sun and the Moon right but originally originally says the sun and the moon were the same size it was like two sons not only the same size both of them have the same light it's like two sons two huge Sons then The Story Goes the moon came to Hashem and said Hashem it can't be two uh two angels with a crown one should be less than the other so hasem said yeah you're right so since you're the one that spoke you're going to be less than the Sun and he got punished and he became the moon which is much much smaller than the Sun and also depends on the Sun for light the moon doesn't generate its own own light so for one thing that the moon which is controlled by an Angel like anything else the moon said one thing wrong CH a little bit of Gava said no it shouldn't be two of us should be just one for one thing said wrong he got minimized for the last 5,776 years and they say all the way until when the the world ends eventually it's going to get back its uh it its size and so on but kazal says for one sin for one bad thing look what I got but it teaches also that for a good thing that you say it's at least 500 times greater than the bad thing so if the moon didn't say it and instead would have said something good it could have been much much greater than the sun this is a mus skill something we can teach ourselves is that the next time we're about to say about somebody the next time we're about to say something bad about somebody next time we're about to say anything bad even a cursed because we're upset at something you got to do the calculation for bad Hashem can minimize me but for good it's 500 times greater it's easy accounting so that's that's one thing about the moon it's every time you look at it it's good to remember remember that um after this when he talks about the no yeah so uh after that he talks about how the we get over here it says says speak to the entire assembly of Israel meaning speak to all the N to all of Israel according even you know there's within sections within it but unlike what we have today with asazi Safar yite and everybody has a everyone thinks that they're better here is telling us everybody's together same Tora for everybody one size fits all um we're almost done almost almost so one of the things that we learned throughout of these uh throughout all of these uh plagues is that hasem is constantly destroying idol worship you know from the first plague of how he punished the water the Nile River turning into blood into blood that smells and he's constantly going against par and against idol worship and right before the uh last plague he gives us the mitvah p and he tells us that we have to celebrate in a certain way and we all have to take these uh sheep and goats which the Egyptians believed were gods and take them and tie them to our each person tied to their corner of their bed and leave them there for 4 days screaming man for four days now initially you think about it it's going to be a big punishment for uh you know for the Egyptians they see their God they're asking to come to the Jews and say what are you doing what are you doing to my God said no that's what hasem says and after we finish in four days hasem said that we have to slaughter them we have to kill your God the Egyptians wanted to kill them but they couldn't made them powerless they couldn't do anything but at the same token if I'm sleeping on that bed who wants to hear the Sheep screaming for 4 days imagine four days how much is screaming so this is actually one of the things that uh we have to understand that after all of the years of torture and the years of tum and the years of and not like we have today but meaning that being next to the Egyptians seeing their how they act the nation of Israel reached the 49th level of Tuma and it was so bad that when they got to yam when they got to the Sea of reeds the angel came to the angel of Egypt came to Hashem they said AEM it's not fair that you're going to drown the Egyptians and let the Jews live the Egyptians are Idol worshippers and the Jews are Idol worshippers that's how bad they were today I think we're worse by the way just in case anyone's asking were at least the same level they were if not worse we're still not too late andm will not let it get too late but nonetheless this is a big problem so Hashem why did we make this segue into these other circumcision he actually makes them all circumcised themselves why why circumcised because he says you can't eat the you can't eat the uh what's called the the sheep or goats that you tie to your beds after 4 days you have to uh Grill it you can't cook it or bake it or roast it you have to grill it to make sure that when you're cooking it it still looks like a sheep so the Egyptians can see it they could see their God being mocked and turn into nothing when says says disgusting to me he makes sure you know it it's not just like he says I want you to know I'm doing it in your face why I am AEM so what's going on here hasem is telling them you're so bad right now you're such a bad level that I have to give you a few mitv to get you at least a little less than 49th level so you give them the Mitzvah of circumcision you have to do circumcision no one's allowed to eat the sheep or the goat without being circumcised interesting also gives them they lost the circumcision the whole time they were in Egypt this SL time in the last generation of them they didn't do circumcision they got to such a bad level they didn't do circumcision almost like what's happening in Israel where they're trying to outlaw circumcision but you know what they're try I'm not making up trying to outlaw circumcision the whole world say says it's it's good thing and in Israel they're trying to but it's happening even if one person is saying it it's happening yeah so hasem is saying also the Mitzvah is in here he's giving us a couple of mitv why because you the next Mitzvah you do is going to save your life if you if you don't do the next Mitzvah that's it you get to level number 50 the next the next sin you make gets you to level number 50 I'm trying to save you do aah anyah pick one do circumcision do the Sheep do does do p anything you do just get out of level number 49 because you're about to reach number 50 once you're at 50 that's it you're done you're done I can't destroy the I have to destroy the world all of that they didn't get out yet exactly you had to give them you had to give them to even justify getting them out this needs to remind us of something no one knows where they stand and if you know where you stand you have a problem of Gava no one knows where they stand a righteous person needs to look at himself as always 5050 even if he's learning toah all day from morning to night or he learns to 15 minut minutes a day has to look at himself 50/50 meaning the next mitvah he does puts him on the good side the next sin he does puts him on the bad side but not only him the entire world the entire world is on 5050 right now your next mitvah puts you at a good puts the entire world on the good side your next puts you on the bad side after he does the good mitvah he has to say okay I'm on a good side I'm back to 5050 cuz somebody else made an we're back to 50/50 to make sure leads to another constantly have to look at yourself as 50/50 you can decide based on your own actions if the entire world is doomed or in a good position why because it happened before he's telling you in this had to in the middle of all this craziness in the middle of the last plague to get this whole story that's almost a year of these plagues you have Locust you have frogs you have water turning to blood you have you know water and ice uh water and fire and the same thing the the hail you have animals coming from Alaska if all this craziness happening in the middle Hashem needs to give us some what to do come on you couldn't wait till we leave Egypt let me you know let me get out of here first give me a Mitzvah after he's telling you so bad right now I have to give you a Mitzvah because if if you make another sin which is your natural human instinct to do it because you're friends your best friends with the you work friend for for the last several years you make another a you get to level number 50 and if you get to level number 50 everybody gets to level number 50 I can't take you out let we have to look at ourselves before someone lights the light on Shabbat before someone looks inappropriately at a woman before you overcharge the customer whether he's a or he's a Jew it doesn't matter it's even wor go because before you do all of this girlfriends nonsense garbage that's in the world think about it the world is relying on we're on 49 level right now nobody in the world no big Rabbi in the world is going to tell you no no no we're okay no one will tell you we're okay as overall we're not okay yeah of course it's to they came in our generation but as a whole we're not okay and I don't believe many disagree if anybody at all disagrees that we're not far off from Level number 50 so the world relies on you that's why broke up this whole par I threw some some in there because this next mitvah the next mitvah you do can save your life the smallest Mitzvah somebody came we said it before somebody came to the V see him on his deathbed he's he's crying why why you crying you're going to go to ganed sadik your whole life what yes but I'm leaving a world that for every second I get a mitzvah for wearing every second I wear it it's a Mitzvah how could I could have a better deal than that every second I get aah you know what a you know what the problem is though we don't know what a MV is that's the problem it's not that the ti really bothers us it's too hot it's too cold it's too this it's to that if I told you to that for every second you do anything I know you wear t eat you wear this you wear keep whatever for every second you just go like this every second you go like this I give you a million dollars would you ever put your hand down ever even after even after you get 500 million it's still a million dollar you're still going to go like this you're still going to go it's another million why I'm going to stop it's a million dollars so imagine a million dollars is not even a tiny fraction of what you get every second for warranty te it's not even a billion dollars it's a fraction of what a Mitzvah is a billion dollars is not even a fraction of what a Mitzvah is and you get that every second so is saying for every second I get a mitvah every second that's why I'm crying so the problem with us we don't know we don't know we don't know what what a Mitzvah is that's the problem what other sh we learn so now we're about to after we get this uh plague Hashem is telling us that in this last plague it's going to be him doing it not his servants not his angels as we read p mhm keep saying an an who is so here it says in verse 12 I shall go through the land of Egypt on this night and I shall strike every firstborn in the land of Egypt from man to beast and against all the gods of Egypt I shall meet out punishment I am AEM again he repeats I am AEM [Music] that's the last one now after this to finalize everything after he uh and let you guys get some sleep know you're tired [Music] so after this the plague came at midnight and it says that there was death in every house every house had a corpse but I'm asking your question here we're 5 minutes so relax still I'm I'm I'm not two hours yet uh so every house had a corpse every house had a dead body how could it be what every house was a firstborn firstborn moved out he got married he has kids he's not living at home does the answer is uh no Tom I'll tell you so it has something to do I try to remember I don't the answer I just try to remember this answer so the Egyptians oh the Egyptians they had had something to do with them having multiple wives not only that but even even if they had multiple wives meaning every wife had a firstborn but even if if there wasn't all the firstborns moved out the next person that's the oldest in the house became the firstborn in that house to make sure that there's a death in that house every house had a death not only every house every Barn they had animals firstborn of the animals died death everywhere and also one thing that I didn't know most of my life is remember like in the movies and our kids we think that the blood that Hashem said to put on the posts like the we thought that it would be outside what do you think you think it's outside probably yeah it wasn't it was inside the house the blood was for the Jews to see not for the go Hashem doesn't need it to see it because it's AEM coming down not an angel but it's for the Jews to see that they're complying with Hashem and the reason why Hashem did not send an angel to go do this is because only Hashem would know if there's a firstborn or not who's the firstborn but the blood was for us to see not for the going to see so even if an Egyptian was hiding inside a Jewish house he would still die even with with the blood on there so the blood was for to remind us remind us of what that God is who he is that he's that he's reliable so the it got so bad to the point where after this come comes runs in the street like a hysterical woman looking for Moshe and Aon and begging them to leave so much so that when the Jews come to the Egyptians to ask for some things to ask for you know some silver some gold whatever they asked for the Egyptians Begg them to take double just leave just leave and that's how the nation of Israel left Egypt with a they got a lot of money from it they already had some money from the plagues that they made money from the if you remember I told you they made money from the plague of the uh the Water the um turning into blood but overall you see how the nation of a of Israel is saved by Hashem Hashem was very much involved in this whole process he destroyed the biggest civilization in history and we're commanded to read all of this stuff several times a year as a matter of fact the whole story of Egypt you have to read twice a day none of the Egyptians that were uh that after seen all the plagues none of them became righteous Yes actually no not righteous but they became the air of love right it says here in verse Z which is 37 the children of of Israel soured from Ramis to sukot about 600,000 men on foot it's referring to um men between the age of 20 and 60 about 600,000 men on foot aside from the children also the mixed multitude mixed multitude the also a mixed multitude went up with them and a flock of cattle very much uh very much livestock so Moshe came to hasem and said listen there's a bunch of Egyptians that want to convert I said said no you shouldn't take them said no but you know they they they saw the plagues they believe in you do what you want you have free choice that's the a of and we're still suffering from this a of until today um now the uh the holy issue of of of the nation of Israel taking this money was actually uh went to court a few times throughout history about 2,000 years ago or less or more uh the Egyptians came to Alexander the Great Alexander mdon and told them listen look it says it in their book that they stole our money tell the Jews to give us back our money so Jew said where'd you get that where do you think that we uh stole your money he says oh look it says it in your book goes yes but it also says in the same book book that a uh you know that we were slaves so give us the wages for 210 years of being slaves so they ran away this actually came back to court about 10 15 years ago the Egyptians came back again and asked for the money and the same thing happened but there was also an argument between uh and that also went to Alexander the Great Alexander mdon where these kites kites are people that believe just in the written T but not t and they came to him and they said listen this religion is nonsense is they're they're adding stuff and it said we should have a debate whoever wins the other one has to leave so the Jews sent one of their people and he says uh you know and everybody that came into the castle had to uh take off their shoes but the Jew comes in with one shoe on his hand so Alexander ask him you know he sees it it's weird he's holding a shoe in his hand so the kite rash says look your honor he's doesn't even respect you to leave his shoes by the door he's holding his shoe you see it he says no no you know so he ask him what are you doing how come you have your shoe he goes to be honest your honor I'm scared he's going to steal it scite I'm not I'm not you and your people I trust all of you but him the scite he's a rash no he's a Thief His People are known to be Thieves they steal shoes and he says to him oh yeah and the carite start screaming no what Thief we didn't do anything what are you talking about what proof do you have so Alexander asking what your Source he goes well my source says that when Moshe went up to mount sa Hashem told him listen before you get to Mount Si you uh you know you're pure and everything you have to go to the mik so Moshe went to the mik and you know he left his his clothes out there and as soon as he came back his clothes were gone because the carite stole it so the carite scream Liar Liar Liar and the King says why why liar he goes the carrots weren't even around back then so ju says see I already won the argum