Parshas Va'eira: The Mystery and History of the Miraculous Staff of Moshe

this tour class is brought to you by torahanytime.com welcome everyone to tonight's share on power chance be not disturbed by the very powerful background music the music of the Torah has been playing much louder much more powerfully for much longer also tonight is January 13th all the Hebrews Forum are on sale on the website until January 15th so please check that out Rabbi dg.com we have a very interesting subject tonight I want to thank my good friend with Rafi Weinberg for suggesting this topic for tonight's year and that is the staff of moshrabino the Stick of my shopping we know that the Stick of the moisture is mentioned many times in the Hamish in fact one of the very interesting most tonight is comes from a safer base seller Kim the basilic Kim was written by ramosa metrani a contemporary of the Ariza on the base and he's buried right near them in the ancient Cemetery in spas and he wrote a safer basalikim and he points out that in parashas shimais which is the first time the Mata appears Hashem says I'm holding a staff and then it turned into a snake and it turned back into a stick and then Hashem says take the stick emotion took the stick and then in this week's Power Shot parashatva era when pyro speaks to you and he says give him my face say to arrow and take your stick and iron through the stick and they threw the stick and our own stick swallowed and the stick that turned into a snake we have many mentions of the stick in this week's parasha and in parsha's boy of course the money she gets to the yamosha es Mateo 's hits the rock with the stick so the stick is mentioned how many times 22 times Connecticut the 22 letters of the aliphase so that is certainly of note why there was the stick mentioned 22 times in the klimish can I get the 22 oysteros of the Torah furthermore we come to the medrish the Madrid says in parashim bash number one on your sheets Maisha says the staff of God is in my hand well says the medrish when Aaron's holding the stick it's called mate when I'm doing Miracles it's called when God is doing Miracles it's called Mateo like him whose stick was it it's one stick the matter says there's one stick the Stick Of God it depends who's using it God Maisha Aaron but it's all the same stick in the opinion of the medrish in fact the medrish says excuse me the base only Kim writes that in a way the stick was equally used by moisha by Iron and by a college barjo by Aaron he threw the stick and it turned into a snake the first time he turned into a nakash second time it turned into a tannin and then Aaron did damn with the stick svardia with its sick Keen in with the sick Aron did use the stick five times uses the stick five times he hits the tour in parashas bashalach he hits the cellar impartials Maisha does borrowed with the stick he does our Bell with the stick he does Chris yams of with the stick by the way many would probably not realize that no that many of the makos the stick did nothing the stick was just a stick in the mud the only Marcos that the stick were used were down through their Kingdom by Aaron moisha borrowed in Arabic the other five Marcos the stick was not used so that begs the question because we know what was written on the stick have which by the way the base of the Kim says another amazing rames the gamatria of the sakhadash biakhav which we know is famously 501 if you take the missparkatan of dalid is fourth Sadi is nine I in the seven you get 42 the name of Hashem foreign it doesn't seem to mean anything actually we gave a sheer last year of what the words could mean the Torah anytime.com what what we said over there but it if I'm not mistaken it has the words have meaning themselves humility different perusum in what the words mean but thank you for reminding us we have to look over they have to review what we learned last time but simply the shame members the gemara says that God has a 42-letter name which is a very special name that's alluded to in honorable has 42 letters I'm not going to sing the whole thing right now but that's that's the 42 letter name of Hashem that's why in cabala Shabbos when you get to anubakayak you stand up why because it's hashem's name now that's one of the most important type parts of cabal Shabbos how do we know because many people skip it or just Mumble it that's how you know something's very important whenever the it'sahara tries to foreign okay yeah so the kayak specifically is it's Mala something from one madrego to the next so for instance when claw Israel wanted to go from it's right so they made 42 masoys to bimala Tara's Israel or you wanna lift up the nashama in fact we spoke about that in uh the shiram Empire anytime.com the it's connected the difference each one has six wings and the wings of the malachem they they elevate from one madrega to the next okay uh we're learning that the mate of moisha according to the medrish was the same mat as a matter of Aaron is the same Mata as the Mata of however the Zara kadosh disagrees with the matters and the Zara cutter says that there was a matter of Maisha there was a matter of Aaron and they were actually made out of different materials and desire even asks why does my share why is Moshe told tell Aaron to take his staff why doesn't Hashem tell Moshe to use moisha staff and the zyraq other says the Mata of arrow in is not the matter of moisha they're not to have moisture was much holier than Aaron's MATA in fact on moshe's mate was engraved the name of our color sparkle and we're going to discuss that soon and since did not want to defile the matter of Maisha he had our own use his Mata so that is the shita of the Zohar the zayar is going also says the mate of Moshe was not the mate of Aaron and the matter of Aaron was not the Mata moisha in fact the clyaka also points out that motion Aaron had different Matos and uh my friend Ramos and waldler reminded me that we gave a sheer patches maybe three or four years ago that the rugged shover learns that moishes mistake in hitting the rock is he used the wrong stick to hit the rock moisha's stick was made out of San Perino which is a stone Aaron's maybe staff was made out of wood and that's why it didn't do the job but be it as it may the position of the medrish is that it's all one stick The Stick of arrowing is a stick of moisture is the Stick of and we're going to learn that this was no ordinary stick the Madrid says the number five the stick weighed 40 saw it was made out of San Perino and by the way there is a famous Legend with Moses Mendelson that San Perino has a special power that it could split water in fact somebody once brought to the gra a santorin on Stone and it was put in a cup of water and the water split so the question was oh well then Chris yamsuf was not a miracle because Maisha used to stick and the stick was made of santorino and so the natural process of saprinos is it splits water so the grass said no that's why Hashem lift your stick away move the stick out of here because I don't want anybody to say that your stick split the water that's a schmooze I'm patches that's already the fourth year you need to listen to but we're not discussing any of that tonight tonight we want to know what does it say on Maisha stick why did it need to say all of this information we mentioned only five of the Macos were performed with the stick so why does it have to say that brings from the gra that not everybody agrees it says holds that he gave a Simon that sakhadash say we don't need a mnemonic it's not rocket science damn it said on the stick damn it said the whole retina or the whole list of the Makkah is what it said on the stick the mnemonic or the full version of the Macos but one thing all the matters say together is that the stick was 40 sa that's it's a very heavy stick that means it's the weight of a Mikvah which by the way the rugged Chopper says that was my show when he hit the rock and he hit it with wood wood is the caval Tuma so now the the Mikvah that came out of the rock is not a valid Mikvah so the Jews couldn't go to the Mikvah so if there's no there's no shalambayas so his says they were fighting because they could the woman couldn't go to the Mikvah if he would have hit it with the rock then the Mikvah would have been a a kosher Mikvah and uh there would have been Shalom base and it wouldn't have been May mariva that's the rugged shover in Charles City that's a separate schmooze that we're not going to get into tonight now the outcome Ravinia number seven brings its like was the stick made out of wood or was the stick made out of stone the say it was made out of stone San Parina rubidou says it was made out of wood where did moisha find the stick obviously by the Schwarz house where else do you find a good stick right it's well known that in the schwer's house I'm not I'm not saying from personal experience it just it's your Duo I'm a foursome that you find sticks by the schwer and Moshe found it in the backyard by the schwer that's why after Hashem said here's the stick moisture ran back to yusui's house toys just asked what's the connection between yusu's house and the stick that's what moisha got this stick from okay fine so now much you got a 40 saw stick by his schwera's backyard what did it say either or all the Macos together so the first thing we want to go we want to work a little bit backwards and we want to learn the base of like him the mabir emotion metrani has a very long essay and Exposition on the stick of my shopping first of all he points out that the word Mata appears 22 times in the furthermore as we're going to see this is not a regular stick you know this is not like I don't know okay it's a baseball bat a hockey stick this stick we're gonna see has a long-standing tradition other mauritian had the stick Ira you had the stick no you want to ask a question what do you want to say yeah we're gonna learn about that you know this year already what I mean did it did it say most is like when the world is it yeah I don't know that's a good point in other words Masha had this mysterious stick especially according to the that it said that all the Mako is on it most is probably wondering you know why does it talk about lice on this stick I hear it we're going to see it said other information on the stick that's a good question furthermore so so the amount the uh basically Kim wants to know this stick had a long-standing tradition Adam had it had it had it and avraham had the stick Yitzhak had the stick yaakov had the stick had the stick why we know that the stick was special stick it was uh when was it created it's one of the 10 things that was created but the other items let's say the worm it's not like there's a tradition avraham had a little cage for the worm and he said I want to present something to you on your bar mitzvah here here's the worm and then gave the worm tiaka there's no like special tradition of the Deliverance of the worm or the rainbow whenever they needed these items the items appeared yet the stick had to be given over the Messiah from one generation to the other and the uh basically Kim addresses that question another very important question is that every single instruction that God gives about the stick nobody ever listened to Hashem every dozen for example by Marcus Hashem says stretch out your hand with the stick stretched out his hand where's the stick now he didn't stick it out with a stick by Marcus borrowed and Arbor Maisha was told Nate stretch out your hand not think about the stick so what does moisha Doo moisture stretches out the stick whenever anybody is told hit with the stick they hit without the stick when everyone at any time somebody's told hit stretch out your hand they use the stick take the stick they don't use the stick every sin and not only that every time they're given instructions and they don't listen those are the only Macos that it says and all the other makos where they followed instructions it doesn't say it Simon says right what's going on every time Aaron's told take the stick he doesn't take the stick stretch out your hand with the sticky stretch his hand without the stick moisture's told stretch your hand takes the stick and it says they listen to Hashem says that they sell like him of all the items that was created on Friday the most important item was the stick and that's because with the stick was performed the most important Feats that were ever accomplished in the history of the world namely the makos now ask the basala Kim why do I need a stick to make a maca I mean question God wants to bring in animals so I like to say over every year what the animals do so imagine if you know you you get a somebody rings the bell ding dong say figure it's a mashola no it's not a Michelle it's an elephant you know fine so you don't open the door you look out the people you know who's out there's a tiger there there's a a giraffe you know there's a dinosaur they had dinosaurs back then probably and also you keep the door locked no problem the matter says octopus came used one of those suction cups sucked out the lock and then the animals walked in it's not fun by the way an elephant walks into the house he wants uh I once had a to give a Kala in South Africa on a safari so we were out in the forest not in the forest in the field and there was a elephant a half a mile away and it was because you know they take the binoculars and you see the elephant is schwitzing which means he's he wants to kill and you know we're already too close so you know it's probably not a good thing if there's an elephant at the front door so here it is the Revolution was making Miracles you need it ah now that there's a stick oh now we understand how the all the animals were summoned like what does the stick do exactly how does the stick make the Miracles more possible God wants to make a miracle he doesn't need a little stick I mean yes stick no stick a miracle is a miracle so basically Kim says very interesting idea he says a miracle Hashem does not like to make miracles because making a miracle demonstrates there's something wrong with the way he created The World God created the world that animals live in the in the jungle and human beings live in the home and elephants don't come to your front door so if an elephant's coming to the front door that means God created something wrong I mean God doesn't like to change nature the lotion of the base of the Kim it's however if three banishum created an item during brias hoilum with which he could summon a miracle then it's not like that Hashem created any deficiency in creation it's the reason is not changing anything this stick that was created from the six days of the Bria has in it and I would add what I Rose it already says on it that sakhadash that means it was really Pro programmed from the time of Brio Salam that when the time comes we're going to summon certain miraculous events so it's not like there's a problem with the Bria this was programmed into the Bria that's why they Rebelution specifically used something that was created mishas he made boracious to make a miracle but still says like him it's not light it's not logical that a stick could make a miracle that's why this was no ordinary stick it said the name of God on it it said that so that was the first function of the stick to perform the greatest Feats that were ever accomplished but furthermore says the basa like him there was another important element of the stick and that is he who carries the stick is the man of Prophecy you ever hear that expression I I don't think so because I just made it up right but it basically goes like this my shabinu carrying the stick indicated he is the most important person in classical he's gonna make miraculous events he's gonna take us at him it's Ryan he's our leader God investing him with this stick uh demonstrated the greatness of my Shabana even though with the stick not all the Miracles were done the fact that he had the stick on which were written all the me the Miracles indicated his greatness and then the basala Kim has a dioc that when mashabin was hesitant to leave the Jewish people out of betray him Hashem so what do you mean what are you holding and moisha said a stick God says enough said if you understand you're the one holding the stick that means you're selected to take the Jewish people out of mitzrayim and he even as a diok when Maisha takes the stick he didn't take the stick to demonstrate he's the man he's the leader he only took the stick to be able to perform the Miracles of Hashem no excellent point about the basically Kim rights actually it's a toss soy from the base silicon so if you read the basala Kim it reads that Chris Johnson was set on the on the mate he means it wasn't said on the Mata only the Miracles of time proper were written on the Mata nothing else was written on the Mata now Hashem tells yes take this stick you know what how someone was telling Maisha and Aaron the stick is yours you could do whatever you want with it you could stick out your hand and hold the stick in the left hand you could flip the stick you could put in your pocket you could put it in your shirt it doesn't matter the stick is yours you have full discretion to use the stick however you want so moist and Aaron took the liberty to change it up every time Hashem said one thing they did a different thing because they wanted to show them at 3M the miracle doesn't lay it's not latent in the stick the miracle is for my colors the stick is just something with which the bunch of invested in us the ability to perform Miracles but the fact that they didn't listen to the T to what exactly Hashem said they did listen because what Hashem said was the stick is yours to be able to do with it whatever you want another interesting thing by the way is this is a Duke that I never heard before how many times do the Macos appear in the Hamish dam is written five times 11 times Keenum five arrive seven one fourteen two excuse me eight times a total of 72. we know that the number 72 is a very significant number when it comes to the tsmith trium we had a share on that parashas vashalach Ayan sham Taira anytime.com but we never saw and at least I never saw that there's a significance to the number of times the total MA the Macos were written in the torak Deutsche so they were written 72 times says the basilican because of the importance of the stick the stick had to be given over be Messiah from Adam to nayaks what happened to the stick where the stick is now we are going to investigate right now imminently I know you're very excited about this so we're going to get right to it what was written on the stick so far we saw that take a look at number 11 in the ALCO shamani jacobaini says in Remus on the stick was so this was uh a more elongated form of the name of akadeshbaka the madrasekhaltaib says that this stick was created it was Maisha got it from the schwer the schwer got it from Joseph It Was Written in the Shema Mafia split the sea with it he brought water from the rock with it he weakened amalek with it where is it it was nignas in the oil moyade and in the days of yeremiah it was hidden together with the Orion and the lucrez and the klihakadesh so where the stick is today it's buried somewhere together with all the Lost Treasures of antiquity the Orion and the and the uh uh why wasn't it given to your show so we're gonna deal with that question in a bit as well well Yeshua split the same but it's at least from the matter of seconds it doesn't say that Moshe gave it to Yoshua one thing at a time by the way look in the ritva the written by the way tonight two and a half months 10 weeks 10 weeks from tonight is say their night what Shabbat shave it the stick okay that's not bad Shabbat stands for Shalom bracha and taiva so imanisham should give us um and by the way was because the sap rises in the tree and man is like a tree so that's when the hidushan start to rise up in the mind I that's according to Beijing says my why does emotion pass come like Sharma he's a Charmaine man uh Moshe says God I can't take them out of Egypt I'm a sham I man Hashem says don't worry our own will be the hello man he'll be hello you be the shamai because also lovely we're going to pass in like shamai but we pass can like hello so we start major khadusha mantube but already tonight we start look up especially stick so what else does it say about moisture stick before the basketball like in yvombus before the basketball by the way when Rebecca writes and the ma'am says comes we're gonna pass in like shamai so much he would have taken us in Terrace Israel we would have passed like so much man okay let's continue the ritva says that on the stick were all the various serif Jose's with which Hashem created heaven and earth you know what else it says on the stick and the 22 letters of the alephase excuse me and the ten makois and the three of us who are the three of us your mom is trying to roll tonight and who else and who else the 60 mahes who are the 60 mahes hello Alonso they're all on there all the names are on there now the ALCO ruveni says you know who else is on there the malach gavriel he's also on the stick all of these things are on the stick now let's talk about the history of the stick Rafi was saying we have to talk about the the history and the time travel of the stick so the Perkins the Mata was created by and it was given to other Marie shine now watch this when was kicked out of Gane then so as he as Autumn is being kicked out of Galena she said wait a second one last goody you know like when you're leaving uh your parents house they didn't and after yamdev so they're sending you home but they send you home with a package so Hashem throws uh them get out of here but take the stick with you as he was as he's being thrown out shows he has to stick with him Adam gave it to Hanoi give it to shame shame give it to avraham avraham give it to you if yaakov brought it down to metrium and he gave it to yoi safe when did he give it to you are you safe look at number 19 number 18 when yaakov says to Joseph here I'm giving you I'm giving you an extra portion he gave him the stick we don't know who's Yehuda didn't know anything about the man so Joseph has the stick and then Yosef died and it was put in the Palace of power and one of the cartoon was yesterday Israel was a soothsayer by the way you know who are the main khartoumim of parai this man what did he have for what did he what did I feed you for supper not almost the main khatum of parai were the sons of balam yunus and umbras they were the chief they made the egal and the mid bar they were the khartoumim of parai by the way the balaturam says in the sixth parasha Russia Tevis involved with everything billum's the one who gave Paro the advice to kill the Jews that's another shot the Love on bikes wanted to share everything love in his villain So Yesterday sees the stick and he sees oh damn all these he says I'm gonna take it home and he planted in his garden and nobody could uproot it Maisha comes he says you know what Maisha reads the Mata and he picks it up he sees Maisha takes the Mata reads the Mata abruzzamata yesterday says he's going to redeem the Jewish people here take my daughter now by the way it wasn't so simple the push-up shot according to pick it up Lazarus it's a nice yusu is looking for a strong man to marry his daughter nobody could uproot the stick by the way I would say this is only according to the shita that the stick was Stone well was wood if it was Stone uh it's doubtful it's growing in his backyard anyway this is the he got it from uh from the palace he's a soothsayer he's practicing sorcery there and now that's what it says if you look in touch this though Tyson says not such a that the Sher was looking for uh uh gesunta Adam and he picked out moisha no the stick emanator looking number 20 is a fire emotion sees God's name and the Maka is and he's reading it and he says oh no this guy's gonna take the Jewish people out of let's try him and Israel takes his future Adam and he throws him into a deep pit emotion can't get out and you know who sends uh saves moishes life so it's not so pushed oh the said ah such a nice alien one you marry my daughter no no you try to kill him why are people shaking their head like uh so anyway and uh and sipara saved his life okay that's the story based on picture Blazer and by the way that's what it says in Yahoo money number 18 shemais this is what it says unto him a staff of strength God will send forth from Zion it was in the hands of yaakov what did yaakov do with it who did yaakov give it to [Applause] and then it went to Maisha and then it went to Aaron and then it went to David and it's in the hand of every single King until the base amigdush will be until the basement dish was destroyed and then the staff will go to the melakhamashiach question number one there's between the two minis the pericular that yaakov brought it down to matram and he gave it to your safe who gave it to Maisha so did it go to your safe or did it go to Yehuda both they both got dust with but partial shot is yaakov brought it down to himself if he brought so maybe you could say first Yakov gave it to Yehuda and yahudah gave it to Tamar and Tom are gave back to Yehuda and then when they got to mitraim yaakov says you're not the king anymore you're such the King give it to Yehuda give it to you safe says that Yehuda gave it to Maisha now you're safe [Music] and anyway who was the real King Yehuda or yay safe no we had a share on this that uh it was Yehuda that's why ayakov said to Huda to build the Yeshiva so one shot is I guess he gave it to Yehuda and then he asked for it back and then he gave it to Yosef but that doesn't film with the outcome shimoni that it went from Yehuda to Maisha so I have two ways to look at it do you think it really means that there's this one stick and yaakov had it and then yaakov gave it to you safe and then Yoshi gave the stick to moisha and moisha gave it to Aaron and it's the same exact stick or is it like many midrashim that are understood allegorically that the stick means that there's a special invested in the monarch of Israel to be able to perform miracles to be able to lead the Jewish people with strength with Valor with courage with that's the Mateo like him it's not a specific piece of wood because it's not one specific stick or could we say as follows Yehuda got a piece of it and you always have got a piece of it they both got a piece of the stick really you could split the stick in half maybe that's what the half Toyota of parishes yahuda is going to take his stick and you always gonna take his stick it's going to become one but until then there were two branches of it you know the same way you could have different branches of hasidism you could have different branches of the stick lots of lovely they'll all come together and now you have different dimensions of it okay something to think about again the the the basala Kim says the the stick represented something that was around when Hashem created the world so that in order to perform a miracle hashem's not just contravening nature but he's using something that was created from the time of Brio Salam it marked the Godless of my Sheen marked hashem's appointment and inauguration of Maisha by the way interestingly the ALCO ravini says in 21 where did this stick come from there was a piece of the eights had us The Stick of Maisha was the Peace of the eight Hadas toyvera so again that means it was wood and now you could Clare because we know their different opinions what the tadas was is it an asteroid is it a taina is it is it a Geffen is it all of the above so that means moisture stick you know okay comes the other banel and the Barbarella ends with the Whopper let's look at number 22. um because this CLI was a clear to perform wonders it was given to the master of all Prophets could not use the stick who asked about Yoshua I thought so he wasn't allowed to use it Yeshua used the key Dawn what's a ketone yesh idonza spear your show uses that your imagination the Mata represents mastery adnos the Ketone is just something that somebody takes to go out to war there's a stick of moisha and a stick of Our Own The Stick of arrowing was placed before the oreign like the Torah writes and parishes koirak and what else was there a jug of man a jug of oil what happened to it yoshio hid it and we don't know where it is anymore what about the Stick of Maisha says no information is given not in the hummus it says nowhere what happened to The Stick of Maisha not in the suvim not in the gemara we don't know therefore you need to say when Maisha went up to him to die he took the stick and the stick was buried with him because God did not want any other human being to use it again yeah why just like Maisha was the greatest Navi and just like the Miracles of Maisha were the greatest Loy come Kim and all the Miracles that he did so too the stick that he had nobody else was allowed to use so you could ask but doesn't the yakuchimaini says mashiach is going to use it so how could you say that Hashem didn't want anyone to use it but mashiach's gonna use it no So based on what we said the last two weeks so it's not like it's a new user it's the same username same password same individual now what is a little is the ALCO shamani says that after moisha it went to aroin it went to David it went to all the Marche based of it until the horben that doesn't seem to work out with what the barbarinal says but certainly there was something extra Supernatural about the stick it is a stick that plays a major role throughout the Hamish 22 times in the Hamish the Mata is mentioned five parashus 22 times 42 the Marcos are mentioned 72 times and there's an idea says that the two greatest gifts that the Revenge some gave you saw in our history are the Torah and the Miracles and the Nissan because through both we gain a real awareness of the presence of akadesh baraku and through the stick which by the way said the name of Hashem because of course paroi he knows there's a God power he heard f-style like him he always told paroi Ella Kim Jane parody but paroi believes in L.A Kim he doesn't believe in you he says so my show would Wag that stick with the youth cave in his nose do you want to know who Hashem is here here take that don't be a stick in the mud paroi look at the stick the stick I'm gonna Stick it to you and that's uh ultimately we stuck it to paroi and uh the Stick of Moshe remained the mate moisha we fight on moleik with that stick and Bezos Hashem we hope to see the stick again soon with the malacha mashiach amen you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by toraanytime.com