Parshas Va'eira: THE DAILY EXODUS FROM EGYPT

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay welcome everyone good evening par our second Sher here in the new Bion and the beginning of the par says I appeared to the with the name but I did not make known the sh and then the says I established my Covenant with them Canan to give them the land of Canan the land of their sojournings that they sojourned in it another words the PK is saying I promis them to give them the land of Canan what is Canan the land of their sojournings that they sojourned in now this ptic there are a lot of extra words here it should just say that I gave them the land of Canan I promised them the land of Canan why the description that what is Canan Canan is the land of their sojournings that they sojourned in that what does that add just say what what does it add to WR okay another thing that we're going to completely revolutionize our understanding of is we know one of the important MIT that we do every day is the mitah to remember daily that God took us out of Egypt when do we fulfill that Mitzvah when we say that's we fulfill the Mitzvah Plus in we don't just remember that God took us out of Egypt we remember that he split the sea and like the says this is all part of the rubric of the daily remembrance of our leaving Egypt and the question is why is this so fundamental that we need to remember this every single day of Our Lives why is it so important that every day of Our Lives we remember that the took us out of MIT okay so since we're in the that talk about want to focus for a few minutes on something that we say that is unique to the we know that every shabus we inject a we say God you gave us shabas so give us the real shabas the full shabas grant us the on WE D in for the restoration of the big Su and every y we say what's appropriate for that particular y but the night of the we have a unique insertion that we don't say any other night of the year we say that we say every but we add the day that's entirely long the day that the righteous sit with their crowns on their heads and they Delight in the Splendor of the divine presence let our let our share in this world be with them in other words we have a very special the night of the S we ask God not only to give us but we get very descriptive we say we want to sit there in the world to come bask in the glory of the we our strl on our head we are the crown bask in the Great Divine Light of the and I was always bothered what in the world does this have to do with what is the request to bask in the glory of the got to do with the night of s more than any other night of the year we always want to bask in the glory of the that's the goal of Life what is the specific connection to the night of the S tells us that one of the greatest impediments to the service of Hashem is being too busy because the itahara knows that if we would have the proper uh Leisure Time and the proper uh free time to think for a moment and think about where we're headed and think about our actions that that contemplation would be so powerful it would change us in a very meaningful way very quickly in other words if we sat down for a moment and said said to myself you know gladin where you going where you headed how are you daving imagine if person asked themselves one day they sat down they say you know how am I doing how's my ding am I really focused on what I'm saying if a person would seriously think about it they would realize o you know maybe it's not so good how you how am I speaking with people how am I interacting with people is in the proper way how do I interact with my family how am I utilizing my time properly am I wasting too much time if a person would sit down even for a few moments and make a real legitimate that few moment of contemplation would be such a powerful experience that a person would begin to regret his wrongdoings and make very serious drastic changes immediately so the question is so why aren't we all big sikim if thinking even for a few moments that one's repertoire would make such a serious change in one's life so why aren't we such big sadim the answer is says cuz theara has successfully occupied every single minute of Our Lives that we don't even have the luxury to stop for one moment and to think are we headed in the right direction we're heading in the wrong direction we don't even have 10 minutes we don't even have five minutes we don't even have one minute a day to stop and think where are we headed but if we would have a moment today to think about it our lives would be completely changed but the itahara is so clever and so smart first of all he gives us jobs so that that occupies 90% of our time or 70% then you know you have uh you have mishak you have friends that that takes a you know 20 another 25 so you're left with 5% left and then the Yahara is so smart he gave us phones and the phones knock off any free second you have so people are busy all day wasting other people's time sending them dumb videos no I don't need your videos I don't need your messages I don't need any everybody's ruining everybody else's me uh free time if not for the phone you would have a few minutes to stop and to think and to actually make a and if we would do that our lives would be very different but thear has figured out many practical ways to occupy every moment of our life now says how who is the yahar like where did thear get this from this is exactly what par did when par saw that the Jewish people he was providing the straw and they were building the bricks and they would take off chabas and every chabas they would read their books and contemplate and they would come back and they would want to rebel because what do you think they were thinking about on shabas how are we getting out of this mess so said said let's make the life so miserable that not only are they going to have to build the bricks they're going to have to collect the straw and this way not only they not going to plan Rebellion they won't even have a free moment to contemplate and recognize that they're slaves they'll be so preoccupied with labor they won't even dawn on them what kind of terrible situation they're in what the m sarm is doing is he's comparing theara to who and that is an analogy that has made in many I believe the r Raam says something like this par took a page out of the book of the so with this analogy I want to um analyze one particular gazer of par and see how What the deeper meaning of this gazer was we know in par in last week's par par made the following decree any male thrown to the river and every woman let her live very simple G the is we're going to destroy the Jewish people the males will kill and the women will be red and we violate them and there'll be no more Jews that was the of par by the way the brisar says a very beautiful chat you know what was the reward of shi and Pua for saving the boys they had Kahuna and they had malas why Kahuna and Mal because the truth is if Shi Pua would not have saved the boys there still would have been Jews the the girls would have married Egyptians and the men would the boys and the whoever the children would have been Jewish children because if a Jewish woman lives with a gentile the children are Jewish so they weren't saving Judaism they were saving all the institutions that follow the father that go by patrilineal descent which institutions go by Patrol linial descent priesthood K and Mal royalty so since they saved they were rewarded that and came from them but yeah so Rashi says it means right that's what Rashi says it refers to so but we're going to uncover a deeper meaning of the based on the writings of the of a a was known as the basan he was a student of of Chernobyl some say also his is one of the classic um it's a beautiful saer it's a gorgeous saer and he was born in 1765 in theuk UK and he came to Israel in the year 1830 at the age of 70 so you say wait a second if he was born in 1765 and he came to AR in 1830 he wasn't 70 this is not a question on me that's what the books say he was born in 1765 and he came to Israel in 1830 at the age of 70 you know you'll have to crunch the numbers I don't know how it works out but that's what that's what it says anyway he comes now 183 37 who remembers what happened in SAS in 1837 earthquake very good the major earthquake in SAS aage I was in his SCH he moments before the earthquake he had a premonition that the earthquake was coming he called everyone stand near me near thees and anyone who stood near him was saved from the earthquake what happened in SAS in 1840 terrible epidemic everybody died but aage said I'm going to be the last to die my death will be a kapar and then the will stop right there there were many plagues in the north of that's how the ra died at a young age and a wrote the and as an introduction to what he writes I want to tell you what theah says a very fundamental piece in theah says I am a stranger in the land many do not hide your MIT from me King David says about himself I'm a stranger now that's a rather odd thing to say what does D mean I'm a stranger I'm not a D's a stranger you know if if he was in North Carolina then he could say I'm a stranger if he's in North Korea then I could hear he's he's in Israel he's the king you know if anybody was ever not a stranger it would be the king of Israel but David says he's a stranger what does do mean that he's a stranger next question tells you are and you are g means strangers to means permanent residents make up your mind are we G or are we to like rash asks when wanted to buy the field he saidash says what was AB saying was he a was says CL need to remember always every day of one's life every moment of one's life that in this world we are all visitors we are all strangers you could have a nice house you could have a big house you could have poured over samples for your blinds for 30 days straight you could have gone to the Kil for 40 days straight to Beal that you got the blinds and the bathroom tiles that you wanted it doesn't doesn't matter how much time you invested in your house this is not your house this world is a hallway it's a temporary quarters a temporary hallway to get TOA if someone were to ask where is the home of a Jew the answer is where are you going to spend 99.999999% of your existence and that is there is no home in this world in this world a Jew needs to feel that I'm a stranger this is not where it's at my home is in Hab now theah describes for us very uh illustratively what is this world like it's like a king and a king sent a one of his loyal uh officers he said I want you to go to foreign country I want you to go to Africa to the jungles of Africa and I want you to find for me a specific kind of diamond I don't want you deviating I don't want you doing anything else I don't want you changing course I don't want you going else swear I don't want you indulging in anything you go get the diamond and when I call you you come back to me and you bring it to me but I want you to know that if I call for you and I find you doing something else I had enough of you I'm done with you you lost your job I will chop off your head and you're finished but if you're loyal to the mission you will get such a promotion you will be elevated you'll be my next door neighbor you will be given a palace next to mine says thees this is exactly what our status is in this world God takes the soul out of its home the home of the soul is and sends the soul down here and he says I'm sending you to you don't belong there you don't like it you don't want to be there there's nothing in this world that gives you any satisfaction you could have Carlos and Gabby in Upper cross every other night of the year forever and ever at but you put it in your mouth when that bite is gone it's done you get nothing from it except for we don't want to talk about an hour later okay there's nothing in this world that you get any pleasure from you don't want to be here everything in this world is shouting out what the wrong thing is I always say it's a good thing we have the leftwing media why because if we didn't have the tah we would still know what to do by doing the exact opposite of the media whatever the media says is good is Rous is wicked whatever the media says is bad is whatever they hold dear is the mo the most LD disgusting thing in the world whatever they hold is wrong is is uh prohibited is says the everything about this world is the antithesis of the every bus screams out to you get yourself messed up in this world run after ga everything about this world is the antithesis of the says I'm sending you here for a specific Mission bring back the goods T and Mis don't get distracted don't deviate don't don't get caught up in K TAA GID don't get caught up in your own house even cuz it's not your house I have a question you know imagine you went to a hotel and in the hotel you looked in the room and in the bottom corner of the room the paint was chipping a little bit imagine you went down to the you're there for one night and you went there and you started screaming at the receptionist how dare you you put me in this room you're only there for one night so at least instead of screaming at the person for 2 hours sleep what difference does it make what what you know if there was a hurricane hitting you the room that's one thing but there's a what do you care about the little pain chipping but it's the same thing about anybody's house is it such a big deal depends how much you value your stay in this world is this world what we call a destination or is it only a station is this world the where it's at or it's only way a way to get there it's only a way to get there therefore says don't forget this don't deviate from this always be concerned maybe God will be knocking on the door any moment and I'm going to have to report to him did I focus on my mission or did I get distracted in this world sayses if you look on page two in the second paragraph about four Lin five lines into the second paragraph This is what you need to think about your whole life every day you wake up in the morning what are you going to think about you wake up in the morning what am I eat for breakfast what i e for lunch what i e for supper how am I going to relax how am I going to enjoy myself you you miss the boat every day every night every hour every moment and even if you're doing you're carrying out your mission you always need to be concerned am I carrying out my mission properly now the SCH says something that was shocking to me if you were to ask we know abav the greatest people who ever lived what was their greatness was a was a great was a great DAV sang to but if we were to dig a little deeper and pinpoint what was the greatness of Abraham and yob and David says the schl it's they had the conviction and the and the knowledge it was so compelling to them that this world is nothing this world is a hallway and recognizing that changes your life says if you look in They Were Strangers In This World said said yob said Abraham recognized I'm a stranger in this world I'm not you know you ever see somebody he just came from a different country you ever see the look on his face he he he's not comfortable he a Greener right he's not comfortable he doesn't know the mannerisms of people he doesn't know how to act he doesn't understand even if he knows the language he's just not comfortable in his surroundings he he feels very insecure a person should not feel too comfortable in this world don't be so secure over here you don't belong we don't belong here don't you're an immigrant this world we're immigrants what did M Say by his son oh very good right so someone saying also we could sayu always that was his perhaps his greatness even though the doesn't point that out and then so that's a very big to me we would have thought that every sadic recognizes the transience of transient of this world but the is saying the greatness of the was the level of conviction they had that they believe this they didn't just talk about it they believed it with every fiber of their being you know I'll tell you I had this when I was a b to for a number of years maybe three four years to go to the I asked him many questions I used to go to a lot of his shm and the Godless of R Miller more than maybe anybody ever met was that everyone talks abouta but you could see in him that he believed it was a reality like like like after this year I'm going to go home like I know my home is a reality it's a real place he lived that is is a reality you could touch it you could feel it that that was his Godless or or one aspect of his greatness then the ends off with a story that's quoted and say the story goes there was a he saw a guy was nervous so he turned to him he said what are you nervous about if you're nervous about this world God should eliminate your nervousness and if you were nervous about the next world you should be nervous even more it's a good thing to be nervous nous about if you're nervous about this what are you nervous about you're nervous about uhoh is my drapes going to match the new table that I bought in between the couch m m well how long you going to have that couch for how long is it going to be for you don't have it too long if that's what you're worried about Hashem should eliminate the worry but if you're worried about what your house is going to look like an worry even more okay you ready for this now fast in your seat bels says the B the decree of par we all know that in we weren't just physically subjugated our Das was subjugated there's a concept of paba that the Das the thought process the attitudes of the Jewish people were subjugated now what is yeah what is the single greatest truth in this world what is the single clearest reality in this world that this world is only a hallway before the world to come that is the single greatest truth in this world and if in MIT our was in gas that means this idea thata is the purpose of existence was being held hostage by par par who is a code word for thear by the way par is a code word says abasan for the thear wants us to forget about he says you you worry about it when you get there in the meantime this world you got to have nice shoes and you got to have nice clothing and you got to have a really nice car you have to have a car that when so when you drive down the street people should turn their head checking out what kind of car you have you have to have a really nice house you have to have a nice watch you have to have a nice everything MIT you just get them done make sure you fit that you know you figure out how to get into your schedule the wants a person to forget about wants us to forget about you ready for the decree of par in Caba there's something called Ben and Bas Ben the male is is uh represents primary Bas represents secondary what is primary what a secondary you know what par says you know what says toss it Chuck it throw in the river forget about it forget about everyone goes there everyone has says every Jew has it a little more a little less we're all going to get there thear says just come shabas afternoon for a few minutes and say you'll get the is you know what the three things the world stands on the says money money and money that's what it's all about says take Chuck it in the river Ben is primary the river money pleasure that's what life is all about that's what par says and that is a battle that every human being wages with par with theara every single day of one's life the central war against Sahar is to what level of prominence the person Accords the more you value the less you value the more you value the less you value this is the single greatest Battlefront in this world what is more valuable to you the Ben or the bass are you going to take the Ben and throw it into the river and make your life all about the bass or are you going to agundiz the Ben and make the B secondary that's what that is the central battle with parro every day and every day you need to leave MIT every single day when you wake up in the morning Yara says you know how you going to get more cover today how you going to have morea today how you going to get more Han today you have to take the boss and and say wait a second you know let's get things straight here today is about getting today is about how could I make my schedule I'm going to DAV in properly I'm going to make bras properly I'm going to interact with people properly I'm going to work honestly and ethically I'm going to guard my time so I could invest this is the single most important Battlefront that we face every day against par where we have to take the Ben and slep the Ben out of the river and downplay the boss and therefore every day a Jew has to leave MIT and therefore says abasan that is why it is so critical to remember leaving mitzraim every day of one's life you can't let a day go by you know what it means to leave MIT leaving MIT means leaving the influence of the who tries to elevate the importance of and downplay the importance of and that is why you can't let a day of your life go by without remembering and drowning par you got to drown him you got to take Paro and throw him into the river and say Paro this world is the opposite of what life is all about every advertisement every store every message is you par is you Yara therefore says this is what it means like the days that we left Egypt I will show you wonders and the Z asked what do you mean like the days we left Egypt we only left Egypt on one day no it should say what why like the days says because we left MIT every single day every day you have to leave Egypt every every day you have to extricate yourself from this barrage this assault of so before we get to the punch line I want to tell you a story I think I once mentioned the story this Gava story it happened in the times of the RAS rev Yakov David I think Willi he wrote one of the commentaries on the usami and later on he actually was a r in Chicago one of the classic commentaries on the usami was written by the rvas here's the story so one day there's a doctor a wealthy doctor but this particular doctor had abandoned his Judaism and he came into the butcher shop and he sees the butcher it's Thursday and the busiest day of the week and the butcher saying get leave everyone leave leave everyone leave I got to run I gotta not now if you want to if you need me come back in an hour so the the doctor is very surprised who in the right mind would send the C customer away this is the busiest time of the week and the butcher is saying if you know I can't deal with you now you got to come back a different time come back in an hour so the doctor strolls and he tells butcher May High what's going on why you chasing everyone away so the butcher says I got to go to m i got to DAV I got to learn and um after all I got to worry about o so the doctor was very upset by this remark it's ridiculous um he said there's no such thing as so the butcher says that's right for you there's no such thing as because you're not going to get any but I'm hoping for me there is so the doctor got very upset and he says listen you're such a big believer in I will sell you all my for one Ruble the the butcher said great what a bargain here's a Ruble and I took his and he ran to 5 years later A well-dressed woman walks into the butcher shop and she introduces herself as the am of the Roy yeah and um he said how could I help you yeah I remember your husband she said look the first time my husband came to me in a dream I dismissed it and the second time I dismissed it but the third time he was screaming he said you don't understand what's going on over here I am being judged in a very serious case and the the demerits are very very weight heavy and I actually have no mitz and I screamed out to the DI him I said I don't understand maybe I wasn't so religious but I healed many Jews and I didn't charge them any money what about isn't that a great Mitzvah and told me you're right it's a very great Mitzvah and really you should get reward the only problem is you sold it to the butcher so you're one and done where you're roasted and toasted you're going into oven not on 450 but on the selfcleaning mode help sprin get me out of here what you need to do is go back to the butcher hand him back the rubble and get the Mitzvah fast I'm online here for the oven so she said I figured I'd give it a shot is there any truth to the story so the butcher says absolutely yeah that's the story for a moment the butcher says I was actually thinking of you giving you the back but now that you said in Shay that Hashem said that those Mitzvah are very valuable and he would get o for it I'm not giving it back I'm just a simple butcher I don't know if I have any in my life but now that you told me that upstairs they value those there's not a chance in the world that I'm giving you back the Mitzvah so have a good one lady see you later she goes home she goes to sleep spr I can't believe you did that you let him get away you need to run to the rub of the city you have to go to the rvas and you we need to have a court case you have to tell him that this Jew bought my mitz and I'm going to suffer for a very long time so the next day she comes to sha and as the RAS was leaving the shaw she says Rabbi I have an interesting Shila for you and she tells him the whole story and the RAS does not dismiss the woman the r takes it very seriously and the RAS calls makes a big Proclamation that at 10:00 this morning there's going to be a court case in the city the butcher versus the lady and people cannot believe their ears is a court case what kind of court case between the Butcher and the wealthy woman and the whole city comes into the sh you know it's uh it's uh what kind of spectacular case this is going to be and they both present their argument the Jew says I bought the fair and square and I'm not giving it back and the woman said it's not right my husband's about to be toasted and roasted rvas thinks he Strokes his beard goes this way he goes that way he says recess I'll be back in 30 minutes 30 minutes later he takes you know the what is it here's theak there three parts part number one the butcher has no right to buy the of the doctor you know everyone breathes a sigh of relief you know the pressure in the room the stress in the room was just released it's like say you can't buy is the light that's created by the one who performed the Mitzvah it's an intangible experience you can't sell I give you a mush says Ras let's say you go over to a guy a big bronny guy and you say I one here's $500 I want you to chop wood in my forest and you hire him to chop wood and you give him 500 bucks and I want you to chop wood for a month could the Forester say you know instead of giving $500 to me give it to my kids uh you know school could he do that the money belongs to him he could uh Channel it anywhere he wants but think about the following he's going to be chopping wood in the forest for a month he's going to be breathing in the country air he's going to be getting exercise he's going to be out in the sun could he say you know what I transfer my exercise and my good health and my fresh air I transfer it to yankle it's not transferable the fresh air the exercise is part and parcel of him it can't be transferred so is only solely the experience of the one who earns it it cannot be transferred how good Kasha chapter two chapter two chapter two so everyone's relaxed everyone's happy you know the guy in he's gonna he's gonna get his Mitzvah back chapter two says R you know the doctor lost to share in Hab you know everyone gasps thear says in kadan that someone who's aad their whole life if at the end they regret the Mitzvah they did they lose everything thear says in saned if you don't believe in you don't get it this doctor despised he mocked he said there is no he said yeah there's here's Mya for a few bucks so the doctor lost his share in the world to come not because he sold it because he didn't value it there's like you know tears in the car everyone's crying for the am for the guy he lost to share in the world to come and then finally the RAS the doctor is now given a tremendous share in why because until this court case who ever thought about everyone just talks about it like it's like this concept that we believe in but nobody thinks it's something real nobody internalizes it nobody real lives with it as a reality but now that people saw that there's an actual D about and that there's a guy upstairs who's in big trouble because he almost lost his and that there's a ye downstairs who's willing to buy the doctor people start thinking oh there's something called it's real it's it's actual it's something you have to worry about something you have to think about who caused this whole Revelation and who instilled this new level of Education the doctor so tell us that anyone who and therefore this doctor who caused a new level of realization is now being given a tremendous sh so the butcher says what about me what about me I'm also part of this and that's where the story ends and that's where the story ends the biggest battle in life is ardas we all know is we all know we're here for a short stint that this world is a whole way this world is a passageway before the great trackin and before the great palace we all know it we all say it we all believe it but to the level that we live with this as reality to that level we will fulfill our mission and to the level that thear makes us forget about it to that level we will neglect our mission the greatness of abrah andov is Abraham said I'm a G in this world I'm not comfortable here I don't belong here this is not my house recognized it's a to the level that you feel that you're a stranger in this world to that level you will be a permanent resident in a person share in is commensurate with the level of recognition that this world is temporary and therefore we' like to suggest if you look at number nine number nine is from a saer that's not out yet soon very soon we want to suggest that the night of the S there we're talking about we left Egypt we left Egypt God took us out of Egypt God redeemed us from Faro God took us out of the the land of the Nile we're talking what's all about who cares we got out of the objective of getting out of m means we got out of the clutches of the notion that the ior in this world is the boss and Par wanted to throw the Ben into the river the the the G was primarily we could not free ourselves of recognizing the importance of we forgot about we Ag and therefore after we spend the whole night speaking about we say God we get the message we get the point we understand somebody told me that almost everyone is every night but before seeing this I don't think anybody knew why it's so important to remember leaving MIT every night and now we're learning because this is the central notion that we need to ingrain within ourselves and that is don't fall into the Trap of and therefore the night of we say we get the message you're you freed us from the clutches of par you freed us from the clutches of and therefore and we try to remember of course the Eternal words of begins the foundation of piety the root of the proper service of it should be clear and true to a person what is Our obligation in this world what should you place your outlook and your aspirations and everything you do throughout your life and what did our sages tell us that the purpose of creation is to ultimately enjoy not pleasure in this world but to enjoy the Splendor of the because that is the that is the single greatest pleasure so let's end with the words of the malum the malum coming back to the beginning of the the Mal says that the same way the says how do you become a how do you become a permanent resident in by recognizing that you're a temporary resident in if you realize you're a g in this world you'll be a to in the next World well says the malim you know why God gave and because they viewed this world a they view this world as a world they're just walking through that's all they viewed this world as they're just walking through this world they're just sojourning in this world says the holy malum look at number 10 the p is explaining the reason why did God promise to give them can because it was the land of their sojournings that they sojourned in never felt like they belonged in this world ra they felt like strangers M they felt their residence and their house you know people wonder R Steinman you ever see his house right everybody knows what is it it's not how's that possible because of this CU if you asked him where's your house he wouldn't say here he would say there right as of the famous story with the you know I think Mrs Golding once visited that's uh that's actually the person who visited Mrs Golding asked the you know where's your furniture so said uh Mrs golden where's your furniture see what I'm from America I'm just passing through says so am I so am I so what we're learning is the to get is to recognize that we're a g in this world says the level we understand our tempor temporary stay in this world to that level we will be to be a permanent resident in the you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com