Parshas Shemos: בני בכורי ישראל

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com and welcome everyone to our first year here in the new basic knesses so here in Cedarhurst the first year is sponsored by yadidi my friend and neighbor of Nathan Fuchs should be as close for him and his homeless it's always a good place to start uh we have a classic one of the fundamentals in Paris the events deliver the following message to paroi so says the Lord Israel my son my firstborn is Israel okay what a beautiful pasok now the simple meaning of this pasta at first glance is that in order to have a Bahar how many people here are a bukhar so in order to be a Bahar there have to be other siblings in the family if there no other siblings simply you will not be a Bahar Bahar is a relative term you're first born meaning first means by definition there's a second you can't call someone first if they're the only and only is not a first so if the Jewish people are called God's firstborn son that implies that God has other Sons but we're just the firstborn and in fact the huskuni is madayak look at number five one of the reshine him who his uh his method of learning Hamish was to quote from about 20 different most notably he quoted from Rashi but he would not tell you where he gets it from and he believed uh contrary to I guess the general Viewpoint that it's better not to quote a source and let the reader and let the studyer basically determine on his own the value of based on the content alone because sometimes you say over Torah because some Services it must be good uh you know says it uh let people judge based on the content and not based on the one who said it when I quote the sources and he says all of the nations of the world are my children and meaning if the Jewish people are God's firstborn then all the nations of the world and the North Koreans the Iranians are all God's kids the Jewish people are more beloved they are the firstborn they aroused in the mind of God is to be created before any nation in other words God has many children all perhaps all 70 nations of the world are the children of the ribana but we're the Bahar and what does it mean we're the Bahar God didn't physically bear us and give birth to us it means conceptually when the emotional was planning to create the world he had in mind the Jewish people as the purpose of creation so what is saying that all the nations of the world are God's children and cloudy soil are the firstborn and the question that we're going to uh ask like ASI is alluding to is that we've spoken many many times based on the positive seems to emphasize that only the Jewish people are the children of Hashem after all it says exclusive it's it's exclusionary for example we know the famous gamaran Shabbos and then elsewhere it says you are man and the gradations Claudius called man the nations of the world are not considered men likewise we were authorized to read bunim atem you are hashem's children and the nations of the world are not hashem's children and that's exactly how the mishna reads in perki Elvis we all know the famous Mission you know you might hear on the media or elsewhere or read that you know after all we're all the children of the Lord but we believe that's nonsense it's not true because the mission says in parakeet always you have it on your sheet this is man who's beloved that all of man is created in the image of God an extra love man was endowed with some that he was notified that he was created in the image of Hashem meaning mankind are not the children of God they're God's creations they're created in His image but they're not his children the mishnah continues the Jewish people have an extra endearment that they are called the children of Hashem an extra love was shown to them that they were told they're called hashem's children so really we have a number of questions over here basically we have three questions number one why do I need Tupac Israel that were God's first born child after all then the possible is not necessary once were God's firstborn why do I need apostate that were his children obviously we're his children if we're even his firstborn secondly when you look in the mission of is that the mission is trying to prove that we're his children why does the mishna quote the apostles why doesn't the mission earlier in this week's parishion Israel and the the million dollar question that we're going to address tonight is Akasha of and that is for each other it's a contradiction because if the posix says that the Jewish people are the firstborn that implies by definition if we're first born then if there's a first then there's a a Ben push it as well then there are other children that means all the nations of the world are hashem's children as the in fact says and that's a contradiction to the mishnan of ice that only Claudius are considered the children of Hashem are all the nations the children of Hashem God tells them tell para you're all my Kindle and we get to pass this Ray and nobody I remember that what are the next words so a guy came over to me after rabbi it's like thank you so much right but uh it is but uh that's sister that's a serious offers the following uh answer and the answer will not suggests is as follows we know there's a posic in later on in safer shimais and parisha's body look at number six speak to the people and each man should borrow May Israel from their friend and each woman should borrow from her friend now what word are we using to describe an Egyptian friend Raya is a gentile called rayacha when the Torah says you should love your friend like yourself is there a Mitzvah to love akum there's no mits are you allowed to love anakum I don't think so I don't think so anakum is not Ray acha only the gemara darshan so many times only a Jew is called your friend you only have that friendship and the kinship with yiddin so why would the posix say Ishmael Israel we're not borrowing from other yet then we're borrowing from mitsri is not rayaka when the tar says I'll give you an example are you technically speaking this is a halacha that people are very surprised about you're walking down the street and I can't translate everything now for obvious reasons you walking down the street and uh you find a wallet and it belongs to another are you technically allowed to return it you're not allowed to is it a drabanon really yeah it says the man is technically now to return it okay they're factors of Hashem that may override their factors of Ms that may override but technically speaking no all the Mitzvah is lending money all the interpersonal Mitzvahs do not apply to akam and you may not be allowed to certain of them because only a Jew is called only a Jew is called urea only a Jew is called your so why would the Torah say yes very simply what makes the Brotherhood of the Jewish people what makes the kinship of the Jewish people what what we have in common our commonality is not the DNA not the fact that we belong the only commonality that gives the closeness between one Jew and another is the observance of Mitzvahs so before the Torah was given in fact there was a you know a fraternity there was a bro Brotherhood of all mankind because we're all in it together we're all equal so a Jew and a gentile they're there they have ahma they have Rios but once the Torah was given there's no more between Israel there's no more Brotherhood there's no friendship there's no kinship it's all over only Jews are called Brothers like it says let's say when it comes to ribbous you're now to charge the yehudi ribbous you'll add a charge you know they could come as always why because it says but not anymore may be the same thing if the Brotherhood of the Jewish people is created by the Torah if I'm if we're brothers right if me and you are brothers what does that mean it's because we have the same father we're all born in Hashem so we could say that before the Torah was given all the nations of the world were children of Hashem and we're all brothers and therefore you're supposed to sing his distinction is only where the Bahar but North Koreans are also because it's not like we have the Torah and they don't so therefore we're all equally Brothers once the Torah was given they're demoted they're not they're not Hashem anymore only the Jewish people become Hashem that's answer yeah in other words is before the tar was given pastures after the Torah was given the same way and their and afterwards so too they are upon him and then later on they're no longer want to heal them now today it's a Shyla I mean only for like external superimposed reasons but uh on Shabbos again they're you're they're they're you know they're superimposed reasons but in Ideal World I'll give you a martial let's say you find an object and you know it belongs to an outcome and there's no Kiddush Hashem let's say uh you buy something on a computer site and if you return it nobody's going to know because you're returning it to a robot Kent Ken again there's always going to be the shashem because maybe someone's going to find out that kind of but let's say you know in a in a test tube right in a perfect uh laboratory where all outside factors are removed you're not allowed to Okay so the Rebecca dismisses this answer but let's stick with this answer for a moment again's answer is that before the Torah was given all mankind are abundance after the Torah was given we only the Jewish people are considered so interestingly in the safer number ten anybody know who wrote the Bahia is written by uh contemporary Rabbi in the five towns in Lawrence wow yeah you're probably down in the show by the way Rabbi Alicia Horowitz you down there yeah you dive in there so your Rabbi wrote us a rat wrote a book called so he says as follows he says he wants to suggest based on his answer we understand why the mishnah did not quote the pasta and shemais right the mishnah says so he asked why didn't the Tana pick the plastic banibakari Israel says Israel does not prove the exclusivity that only the Jewish people are the children of Hashem in fact bonibal implies were all bad we need to go to the Posse after the Torah was given to prove in Israel that's what the uh suggests other other reasons by the way why the Tana did not quote the possible says is if it would have just said Israel you would have thought God is only addressing that particular generation only the generation of the midmar is considered Israel but sequent Generations maybe they don't earn that title so we have the Posse said in the context of mits in the context just like Mitzvahs so the concept and therefore from there we know it applies for all time also gives another approach why didn't the Tana quote the past Israel so he says very simply the purpose of the mishnah is the mission is trying to say the great love Hashem had that he articulated to the Jewish people how much he loves them is not talking to Claud Israel is tell paroi that the Jewish people are my firstborn so that doesn't show the great love when Hashem tells the Jewish people I love you that demonstrates the great love right lamasha if you tell your mother-in-law how much you love your wife okay it doesn't do it doesn't necessarily do too much for your wife if you tell her what you feel that you know that means something so too the fact that you understand told paroi you know what you tell the outside world doesn't necessarily indicate how you really feel it's funny is addressing cloudy as well directly okay but the bottom line is rejects this shot rabba Khan says you cannot say that beneath Israel is only after the Torah was given and that's because if you take a look at number eight there's a posse in year Mia the Posse again says that a college park who calls Ephraim now Ephraim is a reference to the Jewish people Jewish people are often called Ephraim right like the plastic says Hashem tells Ephraim you're my Jewish people you're my Bahar that implies even after the Torah was given we are the firstborn we are the firstborn in the rest of the world are still the children of Hashem so that he ends off there's a stirrah in the Torah you know it's one thing you have the stirrah and gamaras but you have a steering you have one person is that all the nations of the world are God's children and we're just the Bahar and we have a plastic and Ray that only cloudy so are upon him now asks me I would answer the question very simply the whole question is predicated on the fact that if Kali saws the Bahar that implies there's another son who's a regular son because an only son is not a Bahar is that true and only son is not a Bahar I would say you're not a Bahar for inheritance you're not getting a double portion because you're getting everything but in terms of kadushas Bahar you're still the firstborn you're still gonna fast on uhness you still have to be redeemed so when the brothers You're my son but not only are you are my son you also have the the kadusha of the firstborn it doesn't mean there's anyone else who's even a son but I would have thought that it wouldn't be a stir up but this is yeah we are trying [Music] in other words right why first is it called Israel and then call Ephraim each word probably connotes the different dimension that the positive is trying to bring out in other words sometimes we call these thralls sometimes we call the frame so this plastic is is using both words they're trying to bring out a dimension of both okay The Spar nose says something very interesting Sarno says that the possible Israel is going on laws of Love is going on the future it's not going on now is going on the future and the Buddhism is explaining a very interesting phenomenon because we know Allah comes all the nations of the world are going to recognize Hashem are going to serve Hashem with one shoulder with one subservience all the nations of the world are going to recognize Hashem so you can imagine the basal mcdosh is going to be based Fila yukare everyone's gonna pile into the Shoal you're gonna have Jews Italians North Koreans the show is going to be packed so the question is in what way do the Jewish people have any distinction if all the nations of the world will recognize Hashem so this farno says that's what the pasik is saying the one they're going to be two differences between Claudius number one the rest of the world yes they'll serve Hashem but they'll serve him as his avondim but we will be serving Hashem out of love because we're his children that's the first distinction of the Jewish people beneath it doesn't mean now it means in the future Israel the first thing is in the future when all the nations of the world serve God we will have distinction in that we serve him out of love and number two we will always be God's bakar what does that mean that even if you're going to be standing and praying right next to a gentile you'll always have the distinction that you're not a bandwagon jumper right you know who you're rooting for you know in the NFL I'll let you know in uh in three weeks right I'll let you know in three weeks that's what most people do so the distinction we're gonna have is that we're gonna say we always serve tashem even when times were tough so number one we're going to serve us a man of love and number two we're going to serve we have the distinction that we're the Bahar now this Farm point out that according to that is not Akasha because it's not saying right now we're the firstborn it's going on and it's saying two distinct dimensions of the Jewish people and it doesn't mean to indicate that the nations of the world are also his children okay then there's a simple Rashi which is according to Rashi with same Rabbit doesn't even begin because what in the world doesn't mean we're God's Bahar you know God did not physically bear us or give birth to us so what does it mean we're his first born child so Rashi says yeah Rashi says bukhar does not mean firstborn means Rashi says it means greatness you are my great son now does that imply God has other Sons or are you saying two things it's number one you're my child and number two you're great you know besides uh besides for me not everybody has every by every child is great you know sometimes you can have a child that's not great but Hashem is saying no bunny you're my child and okay but here's the main offering for tonight I happen to stumble across this brother is also bothered by Rebecca again the cash is on the one hand Israel that implies the nations of the world are upon him because the bukhar is a relative term so we're Bahar relative to who must be the nations of the world and on the other hand item there's a gross misunderstanding about Claus Israel how's that if I were to ask you know how many Jews are in the world today 13 million something like that 13 million Jews is everyone equally a Jew you would think yes despite your level of observance nobody's more a Jew than somebody else in other words not more a Jew than someone who's not sure then let's say someone who is not as careful foreign was born in France in the year 960 and he passed away how are we doing in Germany 10 4 in the year 1040. Rabino Garrison was the talmud of rabihuda leonton and he also learned from learned from of highgoing most people don't think that Robin was so early and he was one of the greatest in all of Germany he had tamidim from Provence from Spain and his Yeshiva was the most prestigious Yeshiva in the world and for the first time in history it eclipsed the yeshivas and bavel of suram pampadisa what's amazing is in the 11th century there were still yeshivas in Bothell those were the major Torah academies in the world for about a thousand years until rev highgoing moved the center of Torah scholarship from Babylonia to Germany and this was a major upheaval and cloudy so a major change in Kalisa because until then Iraq Baba was the center of Torah scholarship and with high Goins talmud Rabino Gershon moved it to Germany he taught rashi's rebi he taught many many of the early we shine him he wrote a Payless on the entire you shot on the tire babley but we only have a few messages we have erican we have Tinus and the gersoice of Tamar Valley that we have today is mainly thanks to Rabino gershine in fact Rashi had the talmud written in the handwriting of ravino garshine now we know Rabino Gershon is famous for his many haramim the most well-known of Rabino gershime is what come on last week you know how to talk you know how to talk in a show right right but besides that one which everybody knows about you can't marry two wives you can't divorce your wife against her will and you can't read other people's mail which by the way is an interesting thing I send you a text message I want to forward it to somebody else you allowed to do that or is that he never gave you permission to show to somebody else is it a harem to forward someone else's text or email without their rashes now it's interesting Reuben wrote a message to Sherman wants to share it with Levy a push-up shot so I'm giving it to you let's say it's made out to me I have mail made out to me so you're now to read it why can't you read my mail why not read my mail it's a breach of my confidentiality so uh right hasn't seen it yet and you're opening up that person's mail and a text message or something you're forwarding the person who's receiving it is it's like giving my mail that you sent me to someone else to repeat I've already seen it now I'm giving it to him through me okay so what would it be like if I wrote you a letter and you wanted to show somebody else what I wrote to you in other words if I wrote it to you I never gave you wishes to show anybody else pashto's right past us it is in other words Stam if I tell you information we never see all these two the problem so there it's understood like this if I tell you if I tell you something and it's understood it's understood that you know get the word out then you're allowed to say it but if I tell you information let's say I tell you uh next week I'm going to uh I'm going to where am I going Ukraine next week I'm going to Ukraine you're not a Tony buddy even if I don't tell you you know how to tell somebody right something like that anyway basically it's very interesting why uh just as an aside why did Rabino Gershon say you can't marry two wives why not why can't so there's a kabbalistic reason we won't spoke about but there's a very simple simple social reason you have to realize this was in the age of the power and the Grandeur of Christianity and in the Christian World marriage was considered immoral it was considered immoral to be married the relation with a woman is considered a lewd act let alone polygamy was considered outright gilearius so to preserve the Dignity of Judaism Gershon forbid marrying two wives because of the way it would look to the Christian world then the problem became that if you were stuck if you had one wife it would increase the chances of divorce so he had he had a sort of Ensure the that that one woman that you do marry you can't just force so you can't get rid of her against her will century getting married but the church the church didn't get married but and in the in the 11th century was that Rabino Garrison was addressing the attitudes of the church now the other thing is about the with letters he says um Jewish businesses the whole the whole the the system of merchants was dependent on the confidentiality of the of this of the letters every letter was sealed with the letters gimmel what does that mean every letter had on it you know by the opening of the letter was considered and a few hundred years later the secular World sort of caught on of the value of confidentiality okay so Ben aggression says like this that even though all Jews are equal but they're not all equal they're two types of Jews there's Carl Israel as a whole but there are always six hundred thousand Jews that are the core of kaly Israel there were 600 000 Jews who left Egypt and in every generation Claudia Israel proper all right see somebody now when we say that only the Jewish people are children of Hashem that means every single Jew is one of the Revenge from kinderlock every yid every person whose mother is a Jew is considered Hashem so what does it mean Israel doesn't that imply that we're first born vis-a-vis the nations of the world says no the 600 000 Jews are Bihar relative to what we call tophalim secondary Jews say how do you ever write to this very that's not a nice concept gemara mentions it many many times every time the gemara says that 600 000 Jews left Egypt but there were many children there are many people above and the gemara deems them to fail him means secondary says it says refunder in every generation there are what we call the main Corpus of Cloudy so by the way like you'll ask we know the zayar says Israel are yes there's 600 000 letters in the Torah and we say every Jew has a connection to their letter so the question is but there are millions of Jews the answer is only the shishim re boy are cured in the Me by ocis that fail in they have a share in what we call the parchments so let's have a funner answers the question the shisham reboi yiddin are called bun him and they're called who are they Bahar relative to they're relative to tophalim what we call the yiddin who are not part of the elite 600 000. they're also about him they're also God's kids relative to the nations of the world but they're not bukhar that's how learns this sugya now we've discussed many many times the machoik is between ramayr and rabihuda we know that the gemara brings the famous what is our relationship with is of the opinion that it depends how we act if we don't act like God's children we're considered his avadim if we act like his children were considered that's the sheet of bismancho is famously is we're always considered the children of Hashem so comes the morale and morale throws the twist into that a new angle that's again and the morale says that this that will be Huda holds that when we don't do the will of Hashem we're called avadim that's on an individual basis yeah but nationally cloudy so as a whole class was always always considered meaning nationally we're always individually if an individual does not act properly then he could lose his individual status of Ben he'll be considered an avid and the morale is based on the gemara one of the most amazing says that God came to hushaya and yeah God came to Hosea and he tells Hosea your children sinned against me so the gemara says should have told God they're not my kids they're your children they're your beloved children but hashad didn't say that said you know what get rid of them Chuck them told God get rid of your kids so Hashem was thinking what should I do with this Hosea so Hashem came to Isaiah he said do me a favor go to the base very nice go grab yourself a harlot marry her have children from harlotry and he had a first child and the first child's name Hashem said call him Israel and then he had another child and the second child was called and he had a third child and the third child was called loyami so the three beautiful children then God comes to Isaiah and he says get rid of your wife and I was just I can't get rid of my wife I have kids from her sashem says these children from her you know what this lady's name was this lady's name was dried out fig the gemara says because she was used by everybody you don't even know that these are your kids chances are they're not your kids you know there are many possibilities of who fathered these children and yet you can't get rid of the woman because they might be your children but the Cloudy Israel they're definitely definitely definitely my children so the moral says from this camera we learn that the whole machlaikusa is only regarding you could look at any and say you know maybe you're an avid you're not a man maybe you're an avid you're not a band maybe you're an evanada band but a cloudy Israel collectively are always considered now we happen to poskin like we're a mayor the bank actually grow upon him that every yaket is considered a bentashem also foreign now comes the auction and the auschak says once the Torah says why do I need to he says very similar to narrow he said had it only been for beneath Israel then I might have thought Claudius only considered bun him nationally on a national level collectively each individual is considered a bent Hashem so I have another plastic that every single individual is considered a child in other words often a person thinks you know yeah I'm part of uh I'm at MetLife Stadium and I'm part of this great nation loves but me personally you know Hashem not sure how Hashem feels about me no that's what I would have thought if it just said is a stamp on the collective entity of Claudia Israel comes the Posse that every single individual is considered a beloved child of Hashem ah so based on the morale and based on the auschach there's a safer knesses you saw that says going back to the mishna in our voice now I know why the mishnah did not quote the past Israel that the mishnah is not trying to say only that claw Israel collectively it's trying to say that every single yacht is a Ben lashem so in this week's Parsha when God comes to moisha and he tells moisha tell para he led us out of Egypt it's not relevant yet what the status of every individual Jew is it's relevant guess send out Chloe Israel as an entity because we're an entity of banam Hashem not until parisha's Rey was it expressed that individually we are also each individual Jew is considered a Ben Hashem by the way for those who've been uh following the shum for for many years does anybody remember when in history did we become into uh what do we usually say anyone remember we say it says when we left Egypt we were amoi but by Chris yams if we became so always wondered what do you mean parai was told were bonim so why does the davening only indicate so we could say that and when we left Egypt we were only bunnym nationally we became bun in individually at the moment of creation but it wasn't yet articulated until pastors thank you everyone for coming tonight wishing everyone you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Tora anytime.com