Parshas Bo: The Ten Steps to Recreate the World

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want to wish you up David in all of his Endeavors and uh and from his home I wanna welcome my dear friend with Ivan sacks from all the way from Dallas Texas actually we brought Reviving into our show to speak Ivan's also a terrific lecturer and he has a wonderful story so it's great to see so many deer and friends this evening and let's cut right to it we're we're learning now the partios of and we read about the Marcos and the ten plagues and as teaches us it is critical that we constantly upgrade and Elevate our understanding of the simple narratives that we read when we were children otherwise we are in danger of forever remaining with a childish understanding of the stories says our daily prayers if we continue to look at our daily prayers the way we did when we were five six seven eight nine years old we will continue to pray the way we were since we've been five six seven eight nine years old therefore we constantly have to upgrade our understanding of everything we learned when we were younger and this cannot be more true for the Macos we have a very childish sometimes understanding of the Macos we we view it that the revolution took the Bronx Zoo he opened up the gates and he unleashed the zoo on Egypt and we never really upgrade and Elevate our understanding of what the objective of the Macos was what the purpose of the Macos were and we would like to focus on that this evening what was Hashem trying to accomplish by bringing the Macos on the mitsurium so let's begin with the comment of the bahagascar we know that we have a tradition based on the gemara makois that there are 613 Mitzvahs by the way just as an aside it is not unanimous that there are 613 Mitzvahs the ramban writes that it's only the opinion of RAB simaka is that there are 613 says it could be others disagree and Others May hold they're more than 613 misses nevertheless it's almost universally understood and accepted that there's 613 mitzvahs and the reshind him have this disagreement what exactly are the 613 Mitzvahs so the rambam has his list and the ramban has his list and the smug and the smog and rafsad you're going and the restraining discussed the various Mythos in the Torah and then there's the count of the bahaga is and the bahag makes a very mysterious statement the bahag says he gives names to the five books of Moses to the five books of the Hamish so boracious does anybody know what does the ramban refer to say for boracious as safer right the book of creation that's a very appropriate name it speaks about the creation of the world but the bahag calls say fibrations get a load of this safer voracious okay that's the bahag calls Taurus right remember when you were a kid the blue kumashim so voracious they call Genesis and fayuka was called Leviticus and bamir bar he calls the book of counting the book of numbers and devaram he calls mishna Taira Deuteronomy the repetition of the Torah Deuteronomy 2 do is to now get a load of this drum roll please he refers to the second book two [Applause] wow what a genius name for the second book of the Hamish where did he get that name from it looks like he for he he ran out of names he couldn't think of a better name other than hamesh Shani hidden cooperation he didn't call that but when it comes to Hamish which we refer to actually calls it hamesh Shani and then it's SIV with natality Huda Berlin in his introduction to safer shimais questions this terminology why does the bahag refer to it as shaini he says the language of our sages are here to teach us insight and throughout the years we've already offered maybe four explanations why the biographers to shimais as Hamish okay another question a very interesting question and that is if you read the partios of shemaisma era and by you'll notice as follows that once God begins his barrage and his assault of the Macos there is absolutely no interruption at all between Maca 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 and 9. it's damn Bam Bam Keenan bam one after another after another No Interruption no pause no commercial breaks no word from your sponsor one after another after another after another with one exception in this week's parashah as an introduction to Marcus because we have this heftic interval I gave a class to um students in Yeshiva and I'm an American my Hebrew is uh you know is a work in progress I asked him how do you say recess in Hebrew half Saka okay so now I know that already I'm I'm about 50 I already elevated my Hebrew about fifty percent hafsaka recess I could almost be get a job here as a Remy that's the key word right there there is a recess between before Marcus and that is the very first Mitzvah given to the Jewish people what is the very first Mitzvah given to the Jewish people this month is for you the first month of the year where God gives us the Mitzvah where when you see the Slither of the Moon just the the No Light of the moon this was the first time I remember I was in beijamas for Shabbos and they announced the moylad was I don't remember that happening in America you know the mylet will be usually today um on Shabbos they announced the Milad was okay but we have a Mitzvah that when you see the new moon you see it like this and you're going to um sanctify the new moon so the question is why as an introduction to the 10th Maca did God give us the smithsva it seems to be uncharacteristic where we have Maca after Mark after Mark after Maka and as an intro to the 10th Maca we have the mitza of um okay so we begin our journey with a comment of the medrish The Meters tells us that when God brought the plagues on the Egyptians God told Maisha go go afflict the Egyptians with plagues because the Egyptians subjugated the Jewish people for whom the world was created with ten statements so afflict them with ten plagues because they're abusing the Jewish people for whom the world was created with ten statements the committer the medrish is referencing the mishnam we're all familiar baas the world was created with ten statements so let's digress for a moment what are the 10 statements with which Hashem created the world let's review so on the first day of creation here God said let there be light that's the first statement number two on the second day like God said let there be a firmament on the third day God said let all the water gather the Sarah and let the dry land appear and then on the third day again God made another statement that the world Sprout with herbage so on day one one on day two one on day three two on day four vayoma like rice God said let there be sun moon stars and further on day five the fist I remember like him yeshuetsu hamayam on day six God said let there be animals lions tigers bears yeah and then God said finally came Adam let us make man these are the ten statements with which God created the world one on day one one on day two two on day three one on day four one on day five two on day six these are the ten statements with which God created the world and the gemara asked him to set the Rosh Hashanah ten they're only nine right you see the nine they're only nine the gamara asks and the gemara answers boracious Nami Mama even though it says voracious bar like him in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth but God actually said there should be Heaven and Earth boracious is tantamount to a statement like the possuk says by the word of God heaven was created so the mouth of the masks so why doesn't it says and God said Let There Be Heaven and Earth why is that statement omitted so the Muslim explains that it's for a grammatical reason that there's a fundamental difference between Amira and Deborah Amira is when you talk to your friend when you talk to someone so when ruvain talks to shimane ruvain is speaking and shiman is listening but then they're speaking that someone's talking and no one's listening right like when you talk to your husbands right so you're talking but no one's actually listening that's Deborah debor is when someone's talking but there's no listener or when a rabbi gets up Shah this morning to give a drasha right Deborah someone's speaking but has anyone actually listening Amira is when you talk to a listener Deborah is just when you talk now listen carefully from the second statement and on God had someone to talk to and that is matter God told matter be light God told matter be Earth God told matter be luminaries be plants be animals but the First Act of Creation is what we call Yash in Latin ex nihilo something out of nothing there was nothing for God to speak to so it couldn't say and therefore it just leaves it as voracious so these of course are the ten statements with which God created the world two on day one on day two two on day three one on day four one on day five two on day six these are the ten statements with which God created the world Let There Be Heaven and Earth let there be light let there be a firmament let there be dry land let the Earth Sprout Let There Be luminaries Let There Be fish Let There Be animals Let There Be man these are the ten statements with which God created the world and the villanue and the morale and The Madras will ask we're still missing one statement so this is a discussion of great length this is a major subject where is the missing statement with which God created the world so tonight we're going to be going with the approach of the vilnigon and the maral that the tenth statement with which God created the world was the greatest Act of Creation the greatest miracle you know what the greatest miracle in this world is supper is served food food is the greatest miracle when we say every Shabbos the penultimate line the final gratitude is noises God gives us food it's the greatest miracle because how is it we have a body we have a soul the body and the Soul are antithetical to each other the body doesn't like what the soul likes the soul doesn't like what the body likes somehow when you eat bread it sustains the body and the Soul together that's a miracle that is unfathomable fathomable that cannot be comprehended the gift of food is the greatest act of creation and therefore the villanue says when God told Adam is here eat these plants eat this vegetation that is the greatest Act of Creation that is the 10th and ultimate statement of creation okay so here we have it the ten statements with which Hashem created the world somehow there's a correlation between the ten statements with which God created the world and the ten makos what is the connection God created a beautiful world with 10 statements God destroyed and barraged Egypt with ten plagues what is the connection between the ten statements with which God created the world and the ten makos comes the safer sir hamara was written by Ravi avraham Sabah where from Sabo is one of the garushi svarad one of those who were exiled from Spain in 1492. and he has a very tragic story had two young boys who in 1492 were taken away from him forcibly baptized and he never saw them again he also wrote a commentary on Hamish which was confiscated and he never saw it again he comes I believe to Lisbon and he had to rewrite everything from memory he had other children but there's somewhat of a happy ending and that is his granddaughter married review so he became the grandfather-in-law of the author of The and he wrote a pair of saror hammer and he advances a beautiful idea so every Friday night we make and we say what is voracious we lift up the cup we declare God created the world and we remember the Act of Creation but because everyone's so tired Friday night and Friday night is the time for a temporary amnesia within about 10 seconds we contradict ourselves and we say we're making let's see us that's Ryan wait a second 10 seconds ago we said this commemorates creation and now we forgot about what we just said and no everyone's half asleep and we say what we just did is to commemorate The Exodus so make up your mind as kidders to commemorate creation or as killers to commemorate The Exodus and that srahamar explains both because there was a man named Paro and Paro said God didn't create the world the world always existed then Paro said I created the world the river is mine and I made myself paroi denied the ten statements with which Hashem created the world para denied God's Mastery over water over air over Earth over fire over light so God says paroi you don't believe I control the river look what I could do to the river paroi you don't believe I control The Luminaries I'm going to turn the lights out paroi you don't believe that I control the air I'm going to bring hell Paro you don't believe I control man watch what happens to your firstborn the Tramore says that the ten plagues authenticated and verified for a heretic and any disbeliever that in fact God created the world with ten statements so mitzrayim is a certification an authentication of the ten statements with which God created the world now comes the maharl and the morale amazingly says and he goes through a calculation we're not going to go through every one that each one of the ten plagues perfectly corresponds to one of the ten statements with which Hashem created the world but instead of going in sequential order it works backward so for example what is food remember the creation of food is the last statement with which Hashem created the world think what happens when you eat food what do you like to eat what's your favorite dinner somebody steak thank you that's the right answer right anyway so what happens when you eat the steak you ingest it you digest it you reconstitute the molecules of the steak and those molecules now become blood so the process of eating demonstrates God's Mastery over dumb because God could take any material and make what out of it blood power denied that power denied the last statement with which God created the world Hashem says you don't think I control the blood look at your God denial bam it turned into blood you don't think I control them you don't think I created the world with the ten statement that I'm giving you food that will ultimately turn into blood look at my Mastery over blood we'll go the other way around what's the first statement with which God created the world voracious the beginnings pyro you don't believe I control the beginnings the first check out my control over the first all your firstborn they're gonna drop dead what's the second to last Makkah Darkness what's the second statement with which God created the world or God created the life you don't believe I created the light the opposite of Motel Six I'm gonna turn off the lights we're going to turn off the lights and you'll see that I'm the one who said by yarma like Kimmy here you're in Israel you're not supposed to get this okay you're American for how long are you gonna be American okay here are one more one more I'll tell you two more first of all there was one maca that the Egyptians the sorcerers were embarrassed to come before Moshe albino and that is makas shrim they're embarrassed because they they look disfigured they had boils all over their bodies Samara asked why were they embarrassed of skin why weren't they embarrassed the fire day of the frogs I mean you had a guy he had a frog leg coming out of one ear he had two frogs coming out of each nostril that's pretty embarrassing no the morale says that wasn't embarrassing because the guy is inherently he's still a good looking guy he just happens to have a frog coming out of his ear that's not so embarrassing but when the body itself is disfigured that is much more embarrassing so Shin demonstrated God's Mastery over the body itself that corresponds to NASA Adam and then finally the last one that we're going to explain is that the our bill will destroy the produce of the land the posix says a lot of produce your field will Emit and it will gather in a little bit because the arva will destroy it so arbe consumes and destroys produce so Paro you don't believe I created produce you don't believe that I'm the one who said I created the herbage and the plants and the trees and the flowers and the bushes look what happens when I unleash the arba look what happens now bearing this in mind if we're attuned to the fact that the ten plagues correspond perfectly to the ten statements with which God created the world if you look carefully at the nuances of the posseck it comes out incredible how slight nuances of the sukum can only be understood in the context that they are upholding and authenticated one of the statements with which God created the world case in point did you ever notice that one of the plagues they did not listen to God they didn't listen to Hashem which plague if you look at number 10 God is describing the Makkah of Arabia it will cover the light of the land he will not be able to see the land Plato and we'll eat the remnant That Remains The Grasshoppers excuse me one time I got a very scathing email said Rabbi they're not grasshoppers they're Locust and I apologize profusely they are locust but what will the locusts eat as coal Hoyts what does AIDS mean well Israelis what does AIDS mean wood the tree right the tree so eat the tree it doesn't say it's going to eat the fruit it's gonna eat more than the fruit it's going to eat the tree itself that's what God says the locusts will eat the tree itself let's call her it's did the locusts eat the tree no look in the next plastic number 11. has the same color as it covered the light of the lands the dark in the land is called Prius and it ate all the fruits they didn't eat the tree they only ate the fruits could you imagine disobedient Locust God told the Locust eat the tree they didn't eat the tree they ate the fruits of the tree How could a maca disobey God isn't that absurd an answer is not absurd at all because the mark of arba is merely authenticating and certifying when God said let the Earth produce herbage so let's go back to voracious and we'll notice there was actually something in creation that also didn't listen to God let's go back to the first day of the fourth day of the third day of creation look at number 12. and God said let the Earth Sprout with herbage Ace of Missouri Azara it's pre-ice prey God turns to the tree and he says Mr tree do me a favor produce fruits but that's not enough I want you to taste like a fruit I want the bark of the tree to taste like a fruit did the trees listen there's only one tree that listened to God and that is the S Rogue is the only tree where the tree itself tastes like the fruit look in the next Boston the Earth spread first fourth herbage is era seeds herbage yielding seeds the AIDS oyster pre and trees producing fruit but God didn't say the tree should produce fruit God wanted the tree to taste like fruit if you imagine a disobedient tree God tells the tree tastes like fruit and the tree doesn't taste like food the tree produces fruit so is there any Wonder then that the grasshopper didn't listen to God so Locust was merely certifying and authenticating the way it works in round one so God is not doing anything new in round two he's just proving the way it worked the first time so the same way when God created the world the first time around the trees didn't listen the locusts were merely replicating the original Act of Creation now fasten your seat belts this says Chevron explains why as the introduction we have the Mitzvah of we asked we have done and then all of a sudden we have a commercial where God so to speak gives us the Mitzvah of what's that doing as an introduction to Marcus the answer is don't remember the first Rashi in hamesh what's the very first rash in Hamish Rashi says the Torah should have began with which mitzvah but Rashi explains why the Torah didn't begin this way but Rashi is saying logically the Torah should begin with so God opens up the art scroll and he reads the first Rashi and Rashi says God when you create the world you should begin you know what Hashem said Rashi you're right if I would ever do this again I will start with so sure enough in the first statement of creation of round two which is what is the tenth plague which is confirming the first statement of creation it begins creation the way Russia asked Hashem should have done it the first time now that's not really a nice way of saying it the nicer way to say it is how does Rashi know that the Torah should begin isn't that a pretty bold challenge Roush is challenging God he's saying God you should begin the Torah where did Rashi get that God should begin the tour that way you know what she got it from from Hashem himself because while she sees God when you created the world the second time around you in fact began with so really Rashi says he should have done it the first time but there's a reason he didn't do it the first time that way let's take it a little bit further and ask you a question now and it's don't be embarrassed if you know the answer I've asked this question to thousands of people Nobody Knows the answer but after the show you're going to know the answer and sometimes you could ask a question and people say no I didn't get up to that yet that's why I don't know but I'm pretty confident you got up to this word but nobody knows what this word means you ready voracious translate literally voracious in the beginning of in the beginning of what what does Rashi say I don't know I said I don't know there's no meaning Raj she says there is no shot in the word voracious we have to explain this on the level of drush but there's no simple interpretation of the word voracious Rashi who is the modus operandi was what is she says chapter 3 verse 8. she says there's no shot in this pasta you know we say um we say about Sharma every day voracious blessed is he who made the beginning of beginning of what doesn't make any sense we say Elena you say Elena to the one who created in the beginning of in the beginning of what these statements don't make any sense there must be a literal interpretation of the word voracious it should say Allah says the one who created the beginning biracious means in the beginning of but that doesn't mean anything and therefore the gra and the malbum and rafutner explained that there is a simple meaning of the word voracious and that is before Hashem created man an animal and fish and bird and sun and moon and dry land and lights and darkness and Heaven and Earth God needed a place to put everything he needed a context for everything to fit into what did the ribana son put the world into what is the context what is the space in which all of creation fits into and the answer is the world was placed into the framework of time into a beginning into a middle and an end before God created any matter he created time God Lives outside of time that's how Hashem knows the future Hashem knows the past because time is a creation God exists out outside of the framework of time the very first Act of Creation was veracious time borrow like him God created and now that we have time we could put heaven in it we could put Earth in it we could put dry land in it we could put water in it we could put flowers in it but without time you have no framework for creation voracious varala Kim created Beginnings by definition means there's a beginning a middle and an end time so let's think for a moment it's the very first Act of Creation is the creation of time so then when God recreated the world with which Marco de Hashem recreate the world what's the first statement of creation recertified Marcus God will now have to recreate time that's exactly what he did because the letters of voracious could be read aleph the tissue the first day of tissue because that's the first day of the world of man but then God said you know what I don't want time to begin with tishui anymore we're going to recreate time so now time begins with Nissan so Hashem says the First Act of Creation in round one is voracious aleph patishre and when I recreate time in round two from now on it's not going to begin in tissue It's Beginning so the same way in the first round of creation God created the world with time in the second round of Christian God also re-constitutes and restrains time or you could add God has to show his Mastery over time as an introduction to Marcus bajoros which he did because even moshabbana was afraid to say exactly at midnight because nobody can know precisely at about midnight but God himself said exactly at midnight because God could slice time in half because he's the master and the creator of time and therefore when God recertifies the first statement of creation he does so by demonstrating the recreation of time the re-movement of time and his Mastery over time one one added point and we'll wrap it up there's another system here see the system of the morale is the Marcos go in the opposite order of the ten statements with which God created the world so the first statement is voracious and that corresponds to food and the second statement is the firmament and it goes backward there's another system here which is offered by rabbitsak Isaac is a cover is known as the peshlishi the third mouth because he's a student of a student of the Vilma guy he's the third mouth from the film again and he learns the Macos and the ten statements with which Hashem create the world correspond to each other in sequential order and the last statement of creation which is let us make man according to abuse cover was authenticated by Marcus God demonstrated his Mastery over man now in this system we also see an incredible insight and we could answer one of the most difficult questions on this coming week's parashah you could ask anybody it's a very hard answer but according to what we're learning the answer is simple and clear we say in the Haggadah that of all the Miracles of mathrium there's one particular Miracle where God said it wasn't him and it wasn't her and it wasn't anybody else it was me me me me the death of the firstborn the authorities every firstborn an evil is not a fiery angel s Hashem me and nobody else so if there's one Mac on one miracle that God says nobody else did it but me it was a plague of the firstborn and yet the only plague in which we another character is brought in we have this guy called The Master's and God says nobody should go outside the night about because I don't want the Master's to get you what Marsh this I thought it's God it's me me what Master says no Masters to be cautious Kasha if God did it what's the mashkas that you have to be careful of someone answered very simply if Marcus bakares is authenticating the creation of man let's talk about how God created man who created man God right I will make man no he didn't say that God said NASA Adam let us make man Sebastian wait a second I thought God Alone made man of course God Alone made land why did God said let us make man that we learn from God humility and that a superior should always ask advice from his inferiors even if you're not going to listen to it as an act of courtesy if you're the boss you go to your employees and you say what do you think how should I do it doesn't mean you have to listen to them but it's a it's a way of showing humility so who made man God so why does God talk to the angels and say let us make man it's a formality why does God go through the formality to teach proper etiquette so we could say the same thing about Marcus bajoros who brought Marcus bajoros God so why is God saying I don't want the Martians to get you it's just etiquette Hashem is saying from here we learned that even when you do something yourself you say I didn't do it myself I had a lot of help even though nobody helped you this is God is replicating and repeating the manner in which he created man he created man with a certain cordiality by saying let us make man even though he was the only one involved and when he replicated it and he authenticated it he did so in the same manner by bringing in the smash list who also was just a formality it was just the way of God demonstrating he doesn't do everything on his own even though he does so friends if you were writing the five books of Moses and you came to safer mice and you were looking for a good name for safer semis and you realize well the first book is voracious the book of creation what would be the most apt and accurate description you could give to say Fishermans what we're learning is say for shamas is take to let's try this again let's prove it this time let's authenticate at this time therefore the bahag did not run out of good names he did not pick a name out of his hat he gave the most accurate description for safer Samos and that is book two because if you don't believe in Mass separations it will be proven and authenticated the ten plagues was just the recreation of the world and therefore when we make hitters Friday night there's no contradiction which was confirmed by him these are just a few nuggets and treasures that Hashem has given us a privilege to unearth from the parishes we read I guarantee you on every pasok and every word and every syllable and every dot there are treasures and treasures and treasures that we could uncover May the Revenge some give us Heavenly assistance to dig on Earth all the great Treasures in the Torah he should uncover our eyes that we should see wonders from the holy Torah thank you so much for coming tonight thank you you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com