Parsha Perspectives for Today (Bo 2023, 5783) - The Holiest Place in the Jewish Community

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previous years shiram available online you can get together here in this room and listen together watch together talk together learn together but we will I will not be here together so no sure next week and also one other housekeeping announcement before we Dive Right In in addition to a reminder to turn your phones off is the latest episode of Out of the Shadows we started a new Mental Health uh podcast in order to take away the stigma the shame the Shanda of mental health issues last night we released episode number three on the topic of trauma it's well worth listening whether you yourself have experienced trauma or you know somebody who has uh the next episode will be about OCD but you can listen you can find it now online on YouTube or any podcast player out of the Shadows Stone hummus page 340 the article Stone Hamish a memory of Irving Stone parachute pasta okay Hashem says to Moshe no come we're heading out we're going to Paro it's time I've hardened the sword again in the heart of his servants so that I can continue to show these signs in other words five plagues have now been visited upon the Egyptian people and understandably they would cave they would fold enough is enough any rational person would not continue to self-sabotage they would let the people go they would meet this this request Paro does not why because Hashem hardens paro's heart and there are many many questions we're not going to dive into them we've spoken about them before what are the ethics of hardening someone's heart what happened to Free Will where is the free will if you hardened someone's heart why is that fair to power a power then suffers the consequences punished because his heart is hardened but really if his Free Will was suspended is it really his fault and the many approaches there are to this question also why does it say Bo what should it say we say this every year because Hashem is telling us not only Moshe each and every one of us whatever our mission whatever ours wherever we go Hashem doesn't say I'm going to sit back under the palm tree sipping a pina colada and you go you take the risk you make yourself vulnerable you go fulfill the mission he doesn't say let go through puts his arm around us and he says Bo no come come let's go pay a hospital visit come let's go make a meal for someone come let's be on time for sure will come let's go to the parisha class come whatever our mission whatever our mandate whatever we're meant to be Hashem doesn't say go he says come Hashem is right by our side he is right there with us he's more than assisting he's the senior partner in our in our success and now we have an interruption go tell your children why I'm doing this such Pomp and Circumstance again we've reviewed all of this so let's fast forward past the eighth plague seven plagues have been done already why before this plague I've gotten in the habit of posing questions to you I don't give an answer so that you have some homework on your own but why before specifically this eighth plague of arba why is it now that Moshe offers this curriculum and says we're going to gather we're going to celebrate what we're experiencing right now forever we're going to transmit it to the next Generation why not after the first plague second third fourth fifth sixth seventh why not when it's all done after the tenth why the interruption here specifically before the eighth plague Moshe says just know we're going to One Day celebrate this together what is it about the eighth plague why here and why now again I leave you for that to consider on your own but we're going to fast forward the ninth plague of hoshech we've also discussed previously the plagues supposedly build an intensity dumb as horrific as it would be for us for all of our water sources to turn to blood that was considered the most mild Marcus bojoros the death of the firstborn of course was the most severe everything in between is building an intensity is building an intensity Darkness never experienced a blackout never gone in the dark why is why is Darkness considered this plague it's already the ninth plague the penultimate plague it's considered the second to worst second or most severe why what's so severe you can't survive in a blackout what really went on saturas pages and pages and Pages different descriptions of the thickness of this Darkness Darkness wasn't just the absence of light this Darkness was a thick Darkness some say it wasn't a darkness in the atmosphere it was cataracts but macular degeneration because created an Optimum ophthalmological was that right ophthalmological illness disease they were all struck with simultaneously and there weren't enough ophthalmologists retina specialist to heal everybody at once so nobody could see it was Darkness their other opinions are all bag he quotes all these the Torah tamima maybe it wasn't actually Darkness it was a severe light sometimes a bright light can blind you so maybe the darkness was actually a bright light not a Darkness at all but Darkness can be debilitating and paralyzing so beautiful this is all what I'm not telling you it's a beautiful who says what was the mark of look at the pasak what happens for three days you know what the darkness was when you have a egocentric narcissistic self-centered society and nobody can see anyone else there is no greater Darkness than that the darkness was not in the atmosphere and the Darkness was not in their eyes the darkness was socially interpersonally people only cared about themselves in a world of society where people don't see anyone else they don't extend themselves they don't care then there's no greater sense of a darkness in the world than that so you have you have Darkness this penultimate plague what was so terrible about it again I have freedom long long essays about what was so terrible about this plague of of Darkness what do we know happened during Darkness Rashi here tells us why did bring Darkness who else experienced their demise who else suffered a plague with the Jews who were not destined to leave there were Jews who were cowards they weren't courageous they were Jews who preferred the slave mentality this fatalistic life who felt in the mates are of mitzrayim we spoke about this parashabas they were living in these boundaries they couldn't break free they couldn't imagine something different the self-imposed prison in addition to the oppression and persecution of the Egyptians the mates are of mitzrayim and they preferred to stay than to ever leave they couldn't bring themselves to leave so they died under the cloak of Darkness why Rashi tells us why why did they die under the cloak of Darkness because Hashem did not want the Egyptians to see what to see their downfall to see their death where is this I can't see not because of Darkness because I'm getting old uh we're getting many other numbers scream out a number this is like Bingo over here Lottery over here Russian quotes from Ghazal that they died we know this later and the two translations of the word either it means armed or the alternative interpretation not armed but one-fifth four-fifths eighty percent perished where in Egypt so the mega Joseph and this is question number three I'm not going to answer today he wonders High Darkness help you think when the darkness cleared and the light came back on you think the Egyptians didn't notice that 80 of the Jews were no longer there how obtuse were they what did it help why did Hashem do it under the cloak of Darkness as soon as the light came back on they would notice and he does the calculations how many millions of Jews there would be because we know how they proliferated we know the Jews the population explosion that took place so eighty percent you're talking about four five six million people died during the plague of Darkness Jews four five six million Jewish Graves and Jewish cemeteries were filled four five six million fewer Jewish slaves the Egyptians didn't notice hey something's going on here so what did it helped to do it under the cloak of Darkness why did Hashem do it that way check out the mega Joseph he has an answer to that question but we're going to get started today not only with questions providing some answers Hashem tells Moshe I got one more I got one more that I'm going to smack him with pyro and then after that it's time to go and after that we'll get out of here speak to the people is off please speak in the ears of the people and have them borrow one from the other we've also spoken about this before I'll throw one more question in we've answered it previously you got to see the girl on this puzzle means please please speak why would you have to say please speak to your friend means a fellow Jew so it sounds like it's saying go borrow from from the Egyptians borrow because you're not really returning when someone says can I borrow a tissue you hope they don't return it that's the kind of borrow the Jews were doing here can we borrow some on our way out we have no Commodities no resources we have nothing to work with can we borrow some on the way out they had no intent to return Isn't that cold another name for that is stealing where the ethics of they're taking it the answer of course is they had hundreds of years of of compensation of back pay of restitution the Egyptians owed the Jews so they weren't in fact stealing they were taking what they would do what was theirs but why would you call the Egyptians they're not your friend they're not your peer they're not your comrade and why would you say no please so the Gras is a different interpretation here that this was an instruction to Jews the little that you have lent to one another you need to do with one another it's only in the Merit of not living in it's only in the Merit of a willingness to see one another to care about to extend to one another to lend to one another it's only in community Society we'll come back to that that you can have Redemption that you can have freedom so before you can go free and break free you need to establish your own Freedom by demonstrating the freedom of caring and loving and creating Community where you lend to one another the first crested committee the first Society that you demonstrated with one another that you were not self-centered you didn't Retreat into your own world caring only about your survival you were willing to care for one another it's in that Merit that you were redeemed it's because of that that you were redeemed not possible at about midnight and here we start with a beautiful insight foreign based on rashi rashi notes the word says which means at around midnight right a Jewish notion of time around approximately around this is not a yakasha Rashi over here before him and after approximately about around tomorrow night we have the Baba Sally hilula of this vardem I don't even know what time it starts but I would not come at that time you might be in a room all by yourself the Baba Sally will not there's no shama will not even be there yet so there are those who live with the mentality approximately around we were invited to a spidey wedding years ago and we came intentionally a little bit late based on what it said on the invitation and we got the mamish nobody there so we called the family called one of the siblings of the Hassan he said yeah we're at home getting ready we haven't even left yet it's tomorrow another time anyways at about at approximately at around now that's true for more Hamish attitude to the Jewish notion of time which is not an app a proper attitude we believe in seder we don't believe in the Jewish notion of time that's wrong we believe that if you're earlier on time if you're on time you're late if you're late don't come we believe in the the proper notion of time so the rebellion of the almighty certainly knows exactly time he knows time he's got better than an atomic clock from Costco he knows exactly the right time so why not at midnight this final plague is going to strike at midnight why approximately the before a little bit after he didn't say bachat sauce you because you know what will happen Paris advisors para's astrologers paro's cabinet will say this wasn't God Moshe came before and he warned you what would happen but he told you it would happen at midnight and you know according to our atomic clock according to my Apple watch says Pyro's advisor it was 11 59 and 58 seconds it was 1201 so this wasn't God this wasn't so Hashem refers to what is at midnight but when Moshe communicates it in order to build some margin some some room for error he says at about midnight and you're just blown away by this ration you should be blown away by this Rashi hello this didn't come out of nowhere Moshe doesn't introduce himself at the temple he can say I'm Moshe nice to meet you God's about to strike you at about midnight because I don't want you to think it wasn't him it was just a coincidence when did this play come after nine times that Moshe says the rules of nature are going to be suspended and interfered with nine extraordinary things are going to happen to you and all of them you will suffer through and now the tenth one there's still room for cynicism and skepticism the tenth one pyro or his advisors might still say because it was 12 minutes and three seconds or 11 59 and 52 seconds that's enough error for them to say it didn't come from above what's going on over here how's that possible after the mark of Kingdom even power's advisors pointed and said this is enough too many coincidences this isn't random this coordinated incredible interference of nature that's above that's God and then it says you know God's in charge he's in control I yield I surrender to him I I can't compete so now after the tenth plague after the khartoumim already conceded after Paro already forfeited now after the tenth plague is when we're worried that the cynicism is going to kick in that was a little off it wasn't God is that what's going on foreign this is the human psyche we so desperately don't want to admit the truth we so desperately have an aversion to taking ownership or responsibility that if we can find .0001 chance that this is not something that would then bear responsibility on us we'll go with it ah the chances are so beyond unlikely doesn't matter as long as we can find any possibility of any chance the human psyche so manipulates our thinking that we will in an effort to not have to take responsibility come up with the most creative imaginable way to not bear responsibility so sometimes we don't want to see the hand of Hashem in our life we want to be able to say no that's just chance it's just random it wasn't Hashem and even though it's so far-fetched and nearly impossible to reach that conclusion where do you see that you see that essentially with every atheist and agnostic the evidence of hashem's existence is so overwhelming that it takes more faith to be an atheist than it does to be a believer when you examine the evidence it takes more faith to be an atheist than it does a Believer you can read Rabbi Kellerman's permission to believe permission to receive you could read countless you could read Dr Schroeder's Genesis in the Big Bang You Could Read many beautiful works that compiled the evidence of hashem's existence you could learn the ramban on our Parsha we've spoken about before that there's no such thing as nature that it's all miracles like like uh what was his name Michael's the great announcer in the Olympics do you believe in miracles that's what the Parsha and that's what this world in this life are screaming out to us what was his name Al Michaels do you believe in miracles do you believe in me I didn't watch it I wasn't old enough I don't even know if I was alive what year was it and you're all looking at me with blank stares like you know what I'm talking about It's the Great American miracle I was alive but I wasn't watching it but I wasn't watching it you know the Miracle on Ice when the Americans beat the Russians do you believe in miracles in those final seconds do you believe in miracles those iconic words one of the greatest sports uh calls of all time which he was screaming at all of us like the ramban he didn't know it he was channeling the ramban do you believe in miracles there's no nature there's no great coaching great team because they only had to you know they didn't have a name on the back of their Jersey they only played for the logo on the front of their Jersey all the dressers that have been given about that iconic call and that moment in sports but it's all the rambanon and our Parsha the rambana pasha's bow if you know one ramban on the entire Torah that's the ramban you have to know because the ramban writes that a person has no rayachora a person has Torah they're on ban writes you have no portion in Torah if you don't recognize that big and small everything is a miracle from Hashem there's no nature when you drop this bottle and gravity makes it fall and thank God the cap was on that's not gravity it's not physics it's not nature that's Hashem everything a relief that falls that changes colors everything is Hashem big and small and that's why Hashem did all these Miracles and Pomp and Circumstance in order to teach us and to show us that a world where we see him pulling the strings behind the curtain that's what's going on everywhere that's what's happening so when you examine the evidence it's overwhelmingly conclusive there is no absolute proof because there's no absolute proof of anything in this world there's no absolute proof that you could drink this bottle of water it's not been poisoned and tanked and you won't drop dead there's no proof that when you got in your car you would get here alive and yet we every decision we make we compile the evidence and if it's persuasive compelling overwhelming we go with it to be willing to get in the airplane to be willing to get in the car to be willing to drink the water to be willing to take the medicine from the pharmacy there's no proof of any decision we make in our lives every decision that we make we make because we have weighed the evidence and the evidence that Hashem exists is at least as compelling as the evidence you can get in a car on 95 in South Florida and that you'll get there alive at least that's compelling so it takes more faith to be an atheist than it does to be a believer I so why are there atheists and agnostics left because there's a huge consequence to becoming a believer you have to radically change your life your lifestyle your choices your focus your faith everything about you if you believe so the mind has a way even though it's 0.0001 chance that there is no God that it's all random that it's the result of a big bang but I'll go with that because that allows me to make the choices that I want and not have to yield to a higher power so that's what he says is going why did he have to why did he have to build in what the cynic might say because the cynic is inside each and every one of us we too run that risk and that possibility so what happened on that night there was if there never was before there never will be again the kind of shriek the kind of Scream the kind of reaction to what happened is but against all the children of Israel no dog shall wet its tongue against neither man nor beasts so you shall know that Hashem will have differentiated between Israel and between the Jewish people and between the Egyptians a miracle that night and what was the miracle of that night the dogs were quiet they embarked it and how the dogs were quiet the dogs were quiet who kept the dogs in the dogs were quiet so what's the greatness of that Miracle so first of all I gotta share with you foreign Jewish people and the Egyptians this is what the repentance of course answers Loya rats Loya karat doesn't only mean to bark means to be broken or divided into two Rock yellow don't be broken we say one thing and you do another to leave be consistent follow through that's what he says is going on but that's not what the Posse means so what does the Apostle mean and here the oatsu plus we don't have time to examine all of it if you are a dog lover a pet lover you have a dog you know who you are and you've told all of us so you'll love this he has pages and pages and pages of the Jewish relationship with dogs with pets and so on he says what's the big deal I got it firstborn all died I got it all the water turned to blood frogs or crocodiles alligators roamed all over Egypt that's a big deal the dogs were all quiet that night okay that's such a big miracle that was so important to hashems sometimes dogs are quiet sometimes so that's a revealed Miracle of Hashem because he says dogs had every reason that night especially to bark the fact that they didn't bark is not the anomaly it's a day of every reason to bark and yet they didn't and then he goes through many many reasons we'll just share a few of them there were corpses they were dead bodies all over Egypt dogs like dead bodies dogs like dead things dead animals than people dogs bark when people go out at night when a dog sees peace of Senses a person walking roaming at night they bark because she had never be here but I mean angel of death comes the dog somehow perceives that and that's another reason a dog barks so three reasons the dog should have barked and didn't that was the miracle and he says the people were there with their staff in their hands dog bark when they see people with Stan with sticks after midnight because they're Watch Dogs they've been trained to bark after midnight yet they didn't bark so there's another reason Kabbalah foreign we just described this enormous scream this huge reaction unprecedented unparalleled you can imagine that if the people shrieked and screamed the dogs would likely respond and react by barking yet they didn't that was a miracle they say for Agra de kala brings them a soda two times it says even when there was Darkness the Jewish people had light for the Jewish people no dog barked so we have this sort of Israel all the Jewish people were not affected by darkness and all the Jewish people um no dog barked it never got dark the night of Marcus not only did the Jewish firstborn not die but also it never got dark that night and we're learning that from the parallel of the golden what do the dogs get as a reward what's the reward for the dogs that the Jewish dogs didn't bark that night to differentiate from the Egyptians number one we don't eat something that was killed other than through shrita so Roadkill something that died of natural causes what do we do with it posix specifically tells us give it to the dog to eat throw it to the dog's tea we reward them we give them the food that which we can't eat our shirayam is number two dogs bark Shira to Hashem every day he gives many many reasons what are the rewards of the of the dogs of the dogs because of this banished says the davapella we continue to reward dogs today and how do we do it on paystack night you can't hit a dog on pesach specifically so I don't think you should hit a dog anytime Peter save your letters but to someone who has to uh train a dog no training or striking a dog on pesach because that's the holiday that we appreciate our dogs and we don't hit our dogs and we keep our dogs and while we talk about dogs and don't hit a dog that's sleeping only a wake awoken dog okay Moshe called the mitzrim the trorade gets very upset is says Moshe was calling all the Egyptians dogs the Egyptians he was calling them dogs that night okay there's another medrusion to heal him says something Wild wow to someone who thinks Jews don't have dogs the majors to Helen is says that when the Jews left Egypt everyone had a dog everyone took a dog okay why would they need dogs is told him he had to wander he was vulnerable he was fragile there was going to be someone who would avenge hevel's blood Hashem gave him a dog to take him that would be his protection the dog would be a security the dog would watch so maybe according to this the Jews who still had a fear of the mitzrim when they left they each had a dog they were protected the dog was a watchdog the dog was protected where'd they get dogs from foreign they got the dogs they inherited the dogs from yaakov as The Magicians yaakov had sixty thousand dogs that watched over his enormous estate of flock the ishoma May of the Essen reboken they really have dogs they do not have dogs anyway he has pages and pages and Pages he dug up every message and everything there is to say about a dog many dogs why do non-jews call Jews dogs foreign children is the same as kalavam dogs so then we see ourselves as bonam but the nanchues see us as right here in Palm Beach County do you know how many country clubs had a sign that said no Jews no blacks and no dogs Jews and cut Jews are are considered were considered once again are being considered dogs the gum cost of Ki Li Bene Israel Russia tevos my dog non-jews refer to Jews as dog I don't want to go on and on unless we have much more inspiring to return to share but fascinating discussion you gotta love those Torah pages and pages and pages in the Jewish view the Jewish history the Jewish connection but who knew every Jew left Egypt with a dog yaakov avinu bequeathed to his children all these dogs we reward the dog don't hit the dog the manager says don't need a dog and place at night why would you be hitting a dog if you didn't have a dog obviously is assuming that people are dogs anyway fascinating peric you know Turn the Page your servants to come down to me and bow down to me saying Moshe took leave of Paro after he warned him about Marcus bajoros he takes leave of para bukhari off with great anger what is the angry or frustrated about why bakari AF what's Moshe upset about what did he think power was going to do give him a Grace what did he think you're a dunk what do you say thank you what do you think he was going to say to Moshe so of course he's frustrated with the way Paro interacted with him but what did he expect from Torah or gives a murder answer he says the following he says we learned before we studied last week that Moshe had an amazing sense of akara satov he wouldn't strike the water he wouldn't strike the sand because they were both good to him gratitude is not for the recipient gratitude is how we condition ourselves to be willing to be humble enough to say I needed you I depended on you model Moshe is the Paradigm of gratitude's whole life is characterized by gratitude that even here even here his akara satov goes so far that he's grateful to Parow as horrific and heinous as power was he also grew up in Paris Palace Paro gave him room and board Paro took care of him pyro he grew up in Paris Palace certainly he knew power's wickedness and evil ulami the hash Club but he also felt a gratitude that is where while his brothers and sisters were suffering outside he was spared he was saved he grew up in a lap of luxury and prosperity every maca it's a beautiful depiction of zedel offers with every Maca para Moshe comes back to Parow and he hopes beyond all hope that maybe this callous cruel person his heart will soften then maybe just maybe he will accept Hashem feel regret and remorse take responsibility show Moshe some affection like he did when Moshe was a baby being raised in the palace but what happened but para only became more strident power became more stubborn power became more callous and more cruel and Moshe was devastated he yelled out beyond all hope but it didn't become a reality and that's the source of Hari AF he was disappointed he walked away disappointed after all that hope but he maintained that Kara satov because the reality was that as much as Paro had done wrong he also did right we collectively practiced that too we spoke about it I think two years ago the plastic says you're not allowed to aggravate a grieve in Egyptian how does that Express itself you can't essentially bear a grudge against Egyptians can't bear a grudge they did a genocide against our people they turned our little boys into bricks cast them in the Nile kill depressed murdered enslaved for hundreds of years and we can't bear a grudge the Torah says yes because before they did that the Jews had a golden age in Egypt before that happened when the economy of the world collapsed and the Jews were hungry where did yaakov and his sons go they came to Egypt don't ever forget the good that was done even if it was layered over by evil and wickedness Hashem says I'll hold them accountable I'll hold them responsible you can't marry we don't marry an Egyptian for several Generations but loses you also have to remember the good so what is that relationship that we have we spoke about after the war with Ukraine broke out because we spoke about what is the Jewish attitude to the countries that have hosted us both in good times and bad what is our approach to those countries you know there is a supposed that a Jew cannot live in Spain it is said that the abarbanel when he was exiled instituted that a Jew can't live in Spain there's a lot of chuvas there's a lot of literature can Jews go back and live in Spain Torah tells us you're not allowed to go back and live in Egypt that's the balance tension on the one hand Torah in three places tells us a Jew is not allowed to go live in egyptically we don't go back to Egypt we don't go back to Egypt psychologically we don't go back to Egypt spiritually metaphysically and we don't go back to Egypt geographically physically she was not meant to live in Egypt on the other hand loses don't bear a grudge don't aggrieve the Egyptian so which is it you know the ukrainians Jews have been living in Ukraine but there are many Jews who lived in Ukraine who will tell you a recent speaker at the J F weekend refusing will tell you that every Ukrainian grew up in their mother's milk was hating a Jew the ukrainians were greater accomplices to the Nazis than anyone else they were glad to play that role what's our relationship what's our relationship to Germany and to Germans and to German products into German reparations the great debate between vegan and begurion so it all stems from the Torah none of these feelings or reactions or conversations when a war breaks out with Ukraine should we feel empathy sympathy send Aid not only to the Jews but the ukrainians do we remember what they did and we bear a grudge and we don't ever help we don't ever feel in our heart we don't just pontificate and we don't rely on the pundits but we have a Torah hakadosha to turn to that has this attitude says because he still had akarasatov he simultaneously lived with that tension on the one hand this power is the cruel despot and dictator who is torturing our people on the other hand it's his Palace I grew up in it says Palace I lived in we took our trip to Poland several summers ago first day the first place we went in Warsaw was the Jewish Museum in Warsaw and there you can trace and track hundreds of years of Jewish Renaissance in Poland before the war if you didn't know the way the story ended you'd say wow what an amazing country what a great illustrious history we have here our history is complicated and how do we react to that complication what should we feel it's all from the Torah and there is a great example of a parakeet base now we interrupt our story to bring the first Mitzvah in the Torah our story becomes interrupted the first officials this is your month Nissan the first month for you for the months of the year many students bring down is the Jew allowed to write one what's today the 25th 26 whatever day it is 24th is it your later right 124-23 the date there are Troopers that bring down absolutely not the monkey was very close to it certainly but even on documents how could you call January the first month Nissan is the first month so you write out the word January don't write the number one because that's not the first month of the year others say yeah you don't mean it's the first month in any religious sense you're simply using the numbers the way Society does in documents and in contracts and the like says literature on this question can we count according to the months and according to the years gave a share on this recently at the Yeshiva on New Year's because that was the question what is New Year's the Rama quotes the truma sadeshan it was censored out of the out of the Truman sedation we sent it out of the Truman sedation it was sent out of the Rama but the Rama is talking about idolatry refers to nitl knittles the 25th of December it is the birthday of that that Jew yeshu Hano tree and eight days later it was his bris was the first of January so if you mark those days and use that calendar and 2023 is since what year so if you're using those dates are you implicitly acknowledging and are you implicitly practicing idolatrous now the truth is the dates don't work out those dates don't even work out so you're probably not even if it were something prohibited but it's inaccurate to begin with those dates they don't even work out the way they do so it's fascinating literature can you use the number one can you use the year are you allowed to not allowed to outside of Israel we don't really have the choice but it all comes from this pasta because because Nissan is it's the first month of the year Nissan so the first midsolatory gives us really the Torah should have started from here everything that came earlier is the teachers who are we why are we here what are we meant to be how are we meant to live and then we can get to the Mitzvahs but this is the first Mitzvah of why is it the first Mitzvah we control we manipulate the calendar it's not imposed on us count six days every seven day Shabbos like it or not here it comes but when it comes to rosh khudesh when it comes to the calendar we control it today because of lazakin we have a fixed calendar but in the times of the talmud we controlled the calendar Witnesses came and testified they saw a new moon we controlled the calendar but we didn't just passively control the calendar based on receiving testimony we were I feel like we were allowed to manipulate the calendar oh if this is going to fall out in inconvenient days get out of here Witnesses we're not hearing you let's get the next Witnesses we'll say it's the next day we were allowed to manipulate and control the calendar even to our advantage why did Hashem give us that power and why is this the first Mitzvah that's given in the Torah the Savannah writes you know why it's the first myths from the Torah because the Jewish people are about to be set free they're about to be redeemed to celebrate freedom and do you know what is the sign of freedom whether you control your time a slave has no control over time they serve their Master whatever the master tells them where they need to be when they need to be how they need to be they have to surrender to their Master a free person controls time so we have no management of our own Time come back to Jewish time if you're always late you're a slave if you're free you control time you manage time time serves you you don't feel enslaved to it that's why it's the first myth offered here in the Torah but has a different reason you know why it's the first mix on the Torah foreign not just every day tamid every moment every second every millisecond it means how long does the world's contract last before it needs to be renewed a fraction of a millisecond the world's contract our contract our existence is constantly in a state of renewal tumid over and over and over again why Hashem has nothing else or better to do we don't earn to deserve a longer contract so it says there's something so powerful you know why a Jew is never stuck we're never fixed we're never finished we're never done if Hashem is renewing the world every moment we are renewing ourselves every moment just because that's who I was a moment ago doesn't mean that's who I have to be right now every second every millisecond every moment we can redefine Our Lives we can start again over and over and over again the first Mitzvah we were given when we were set free that is the most empowering Mitzvah there is is not just the month is yours Yahoo writes this don't read it freshness renewal New Beginning new opportunity Fresh Start that is a gift given to us we don't ever have to feel we're fixed we're never done we don't have to ever be fatalistic this is not who we are or how we have to live like Hashem emulating Hashem we too can be mahadish we can renew and redefine and recreate ourselves every day no matter what age no matter what stage of life we look out we say I'm not satisfied with what kind of mother or father I've been husband or wife ever Hashem Community member you're not done you're not fixed that power that capacity for renewal for starting again Hashem gave it to us he gave it to us it's pregnant with possibility it's filled with opportunity the new moon yesterday was rashford if you went out last night what do you see in the sky next to nothing you'd think that the holiday that celebrates the moon you'd see a full beautiful magnificent bright moon but you see nothing when do you see the full moon halfway through only on the 15th that's when you see the foe that's when you see the full moon but Josh Weinberger gave a shoe the other night and he quoted his says it's a little bonus to our total for you not directly connected to the Parsha but we're now in the month of us we should hear good news and good tidings we know this is the month of Blossom of of the Rosh Hashanah for the trees when is it the first of shot or the 15th what are they arguing about not time wise not the mitzias they're not arguing about when does the first route take place underground what they're arguing about basila say you know when there's blossoming when there's growth when there's possibility when you can see what there is yet ahead when you go earn and you go get that's the shamai basil I'll say the 15th of the month when there's a full moon when it's bright when it's full when we've inherited that fullness when we can build upon it when we can build upon it that's the mclokus and there's truth to both the idea is even the darkness of the cold and frigid winter somewhere even when it feels like everything around us is dead because the dark cold frigid winter even when the iguanas are frozen and not moving under the ground is the beginning of movement and we should know inside ourselves that even when it feels like I'm stuck my life is cold and frigid and dark and gloomy inside there's some movement there's some change there's some growth there's possibility it's a Russia ilanos there's a tubishvat coming this is who's speaking here who's speaking who's about to say what's said next Hashem speaks to Moshe on our own and then Moshe is the one who says it so Rashi says Hashem is speaking to Moshe and he says in the singular Atta you speak so why debru why in the plural um are communicating together and they're showing deference and honor and respect to one another to communicate and transmit this in collaboration together but the Matthias is that Moshe is the only one who spoke Moshe is the one who's transmitted hashem's word so nothing came from our own so what what are we gaining here it's brought from teaching us when Brothers love each other and they don't compete with one another this is a big principle that we see throughout don't worry Aaron's not going to be jealous Moshe Moshe is proud of our own Aarons proud of Moshe they take pride and joy and satisfaction in each other's success they celebrate each other's success they experience each other's success as an extension of their own they're not competing such a problem of sibling rivalry of that inability to forgine to be happy to celebrate someone else's success motion Aaron celebrate one another's success it's true that the first thing communicated was just for Moshe Hashem alone spoke to mosheim he was the first one to speak had the ability to explain to elaborate to extrapolate Moshe said please Aaron you do a better job take over and when Aaron was done explaining there was the next point to teach he said new Moshe pick it up from here sometimes you see people and they're competing for who could speak the most they're shouting over one another nobody's actually talking they're all just waiting taking turns till it's their turn to speak louder than the next person Moshe and Aaron were not so so the public attributes that Brew they spoke together even though they didn't it was in sequence because of the respect they had in an ability to really communicate one at a time to really speak one to the other so the Apostle says this is what I really wanted to get to so now we're ready to start on the 10th of this month they should take for themselves each man a lamb or a kid for each Father's House a lamb or a kid for their household salave salvos so what's going on over here go take celebrate next possible not will be too small for a lamb or a kid so you don't have enough to eat all that shawarma in your house so get the whole block together combine a few houses together collaborate and everyone according to what he eats shall be counted for a lamb or for a kid collaborate connect combine and you will be able to experience the carbon pesach together this is the instruction of the carbon pesach of the Corbin PESA the carbon pesach is the featured way that we celebrate pesach now today we don't bring a carbon pasta we have the zeroa at the Seder table to commemorate the carbon passage but we don't need a dafka to show that we're not consuming we don't have a basement should be built speedily in our days but we don't have a carbon tester today however it is represented several practices to ensure that we keep it alive before you even go to the same table there's a Minogue to recite the carbon pesach fulfillment we can't bring it but when we read about it it's as if we brought it and we have shilen we have a roasted bone and a roasted egg represent the way it was brought in the basement the way Hillel ate it as a sandwich was to commemorate we have regular references throughout the Seder for the base so even though we don't have it today we do have it and is present it is represented it is at the Seder table this carbon which is the hallway we celebrate pesach which is this is a very unusual carbon it's a very unusual carbon if you're on time you read it every day if you're on time and you can keep up you read aizuma common every day separately independently as a carbon and the rambam introduces by telling us there are 15 unique aspects to the halachas of a carbon pasak different than all of the carbonos this is a unique this is a distinct this is a different carbon than all others it where is it can't be removed from the courtyard of the base column are disqualified of taken out of yushalayim Corban pesach where the boundaries of the carbon Passage in the partial here the boundaries are the walls of the house what does the plastic says turn the page now continuing still with the Contessa pitch 354 in the art scroll Stone commercials you can't take it outside the walls of the house until the morning until the morning why could they not leave the house until the morning simple understanding why they shouldn't go out is dangerous the angel of death and it wasn't an angel Hashem himself traveled throughout Egypt that night in order to strike and wipe out the Egyptians but it's dangerous because once permission is given it's dangerous get out of the way stay home that night if they go out it can be dangerous them was this notion you had to stay home they had to stay home not only because of concern because of danger you had to stay home because there was something special about the carbon pasta being at home in mitraim and what was it there's something very special about the homes you find in fact this phrase used so many times so many times bias you know how many times it's used in this Parsha the word bias is used 14 times in paris's bow in this partial celevisa the word bias the word home house is used no less than 14 times you know why everything revolves around the bias everything revolves around the bias where is the blood sprinkled on the doorway where is the meat eaten in the house who do you eat it with preferably members of your household you can't leave your house that entire night with many reasons which are given why you can't leave your house that night empiric base you have to eat it in one house you can't take the meat out of that house because he writes according to the plain meaning it means must be consumed The House of the owner no parts of it may be sent to friends you can't say oh my neighbor loves this piece of meat I'll send it to them when one consumes something in a hurry you don't have time to attend to such niceties since the whole way we left was on you don't start sharing the leftovers my neighbor loves the way I make the pastrami he loves my corned beef loves my flunken loves my let me give some of it to the they love the tongue they love the tongue but uh they love the tongue don't don't eat anything don't taste anything that tastes your back so uh so you bring it to the neighbor so because Cooney says that's something that free people with all the time in the world do but if you're leaving you don't have time to do that's a different take I wish I had more time in barbadell says gives a different reason he says safety it's not safe to go out but the meshachma says you know why you don't leave the house because being part of family being part of community being part of a khaburra is part of the answer to idolatry the paganism the idolatry the attitude that is pervasive and permeating all around you in Egypt that's selfishness that self-centeredness that egocentric life our answer is to eat as a family we believe in the unit of the family the idea our first base I make Dash the first base I make Dash is not the base of mikdash the first base that mikdish was not the mishkan the very first base I make this the Jewish people had was our home our home all the sprinkling of the blood where you could eat it you tank take it out all of these of the carbon PESA from our Parsha about the home parallel exactly the halachas of the carbonas in the base base proper and this exactly is what this story is All About Moshe talks to power and he says give us three days and para says who's going he says who's going this is a party we're all going the elderly the young men and women it's going to be a schmuck it's going to be a valid it's going to be unbelievable what was Paro asking me about him Moshe you supposedly want to go in order to offer sacrifices in the desert so who are the priests give me the list of the clergy and I'll get them a pass you can go for three days Moshe says that's not how we operate that's not how we go all religion is not delegated to the priests and the clergy and everyone else is absolved in our religion you know sometimes people say to me Rabbi I understand why you after that you're the rabbi you have to be stricter you have to keep that or you have to display that level of your Hashem I am or that's on you in our religion there's no halacha that applies to the rabbi that doesn't apply to every single other person nobody has greater responsibility maybe we live more under a microscope maybe people expect more or demand more but in the shulkarnath there's no section for here's the shock for balabatim here's the foreign presupposed that clergy and and pastors and Priests they're the ones going because those are the ones who lead religion not in our religion in our religion we are all equal it's incumbent and obligated on all of us we're all bear the same level of responsibility and accountability why because if religion is a burden and a pressure If religion is a responsibility only so it's delegated to the priest the pastor to the clergy but it says it's a party we're not depriving the kids and the men and the women and The Young and the old it's for everybody we're all going we're all going because where is our religion practiced our religion is practiced in the bias 14 times in our Parsha the bias is the first base that mikdush that's why the blood that's usually sprinkled and sprinkled in the doorway of the home the walls of the home took on the status of the walls of a big time that night they were the boundary and the border of that kachem column the conclusion of the glory of Hashem rests in the basis Israel where is the Jewish people's um the central place of religious experience is in the Jewish Home is in the Jewish Home and that's a beautiful tell you an incredible insight foreign he says you know ananju the church the the the mosque that's the place of religious activity and the home is the place of purely secular activity when you walk into a Jewish Home it looks like it's a shulam this durum there's a stender there's mezuzahs there's religious articles and religious art and religious items that Adorn every wall of a Jewish Home the moment you walk into that Jewish Home you see the practice that is permeating that home so that's the shot he says in the pasok keep a see that a Jewish Home looks like for them uh a a synagogue or a temple that's the level of activity taking home kibesi Jewish Home should look like so the Jewish Home is the first place of of Jewish activity that yaakov described differently than his father and his grandfather avram called it ahar paharashem called it a mountain called it a bias based Elohim enzyme and who was the most accurate the most correcting why is calling it a house more correct than calling it a field or a mountain it's a lot to say about it but a first says when we turn our bias into a base Elohim when our house is a place of virtue and nobility and honesty and integrity infested in Torah learning here of generosity than we've created from our house the greatest show Hashem the biggest gate to heaven is from our house Yakov calls it a bias so the shul is important it's not the holiest place in the community the holiest place in the whole Community it's not the shul it's not even the Mikvah the holy is placed in the Jewish Community is the Jewish home it's the Jewish Home Based Elohim from a Jewish Home we create a Hashem so from our Inception from our birth from when the Jewish people began how did it begins it's all about out the home it's all about the connection it's all about being together that's what it's all about and you see this demonstrated we're out of time in the carbon Passage that has to beat the notion of the home and then the next concentric Circle the the primary Circle the center circle is the nuclear Circle the home the family what's the next Circle let's have Community the next concentric Circle the seabor Krampus a funny carbon it's not really carbon or a carbon sea board somewhere in between it's Unique it's distinct and all of this is embedding within it these values of Freedom that we share we don't have a freedom so that we can go live on our own and satisfy our own hedonistic pleasure and pursue our own happiness freedom is translated into connection to community to family Friendship sibor Community am and being a nation those concentric circles are really what our freedom are all meant to produce they're really what they are all about it's a lot more to say about this no share next week but we still uh tomorrow morning 10 minutes living with the moon tomorrow night we're going behind the bema with Yehuda cone who is the great Sadiq the father of the thousands who have lived in bait elizaki 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