Parshat Va'era: Let My People Go - Rabbi Yisroel Perelson

[Music] we're beginning with the Perseid the Moshe Rabbeinu trying to take cloudy soil out of its Rhine what a tough job tough job not an easy job he has to go in front Apollo the most powerful man in the world and he's got to convince him to take the Jews out of me trying very tough job he begins this job and he tells Paolo let my people go I want them to serve me to serve a college bar who and what happens Paolo says listen obviously you guys have too much time on your hands and what does power say you know what from now on you're gonna have to look for the tip and you're gonna have to look for the straw we're not gonna supply it for you and on top of that Matt gonna tell Vinny that quota you'll still have to reach the same quota of bricks I'm not going to ease it on you so all of a sudden power tightens the screws Moshe Rabbeinu is thrown off guard a college bar who sent Michelle up in her to accomplish a mission what would you expect if God sends us right to accomplish a mission we would expect it to go easy right hey I got God uh you know guarding my back nothing should ever go wrong Michelle I been who realizes that now oh not only tighten the screws he became extremely tough in the Jewish nation you know permit them Europe in you're lazy you're relaxed that's why you're you want two ways out you're finding it what person doesn't have is not occupied all the time all of a sudden he finds excuses why can't get things done but when he's occupied all the time it's like you know the saying goes give something to a busy man he'll get it done give it to a person rest time forget about it you'll get a lot of excuses Paul says this is what's going on over here these people obviously have some time on day and it's no good no good and he makes their job that much harder Michelle Robin who sees this and Bashara been oh he's thrown off guard he says what's going on over here lama of aorta lamas de la maza Sheila honey why did you do bear to this nation why didn't you have to send me leave me alone leave them alone how could this bar who you're a call your code you're able to do everything I thought when I'm coming to pyro with your word I'm okay everything is gonna go smooth but all of a sudden it doesn't it's very interesting it says I call this bar who was upset at my shirabe know who's not happy with him I'm not sure I banal complain Dakota's burger was not happy with him what does he say he says borrow a labrum le taco taco I appeared to Abram Yitzhak and Yakov and where's Rashi say traveled Abdeen venomous Killeen woe to the ones who are law who who have died but will never be forgotten why Avraham Avinu I promised the merits is wrong I said it was yours and I'm Rama V new comes Terrance is wrong and unfortunately Sarah dies and he's got to pay top dollar to Ephraim to purchase the land he could have complained to me God he gave me the land the land is mine I gotta now pay for it how does that make sense did you give it to me or did you not give it to me and he doesn't complain let's cluck the same thing comes there it's Heathrow and he's supposed to get the land right yet in order to go ahead and get water what does he have to do yes to deal with the pushed him yes the deal with the Philistines not easy for him doesn't complain complain Yakko Vivino yeah covina the same thing he's looking for a place to pitch his tent right he ends up having to buy from her more bench them for a hundred caseta which is an amount of money a large amount of money the place is spot the pitch his tent and he doesn't complain Moishe Rubino yes i sent you on a mission but who says it's supposed to be smooth who says it's not supposed to be with a lot of stumbling blocks la mariota llamas all of a sudden you start complaining what are you complaining about you're not like a bra music and Yakov that's a stark rebuke that's tough right but the first mask a very powerful question how could you compare it to how could you compare a bra music in Yakov situation to Moses situation of Rome music and Yaakov they're promised that they're gonna get the land but they understand that they're gonna get the land that the nation of Israel is gonna get the land so they themselves as they're going through it you're right they're going through it and it's very very painful but the pain is personal pain moisture a Boehner was an advocate for all a cloudy stroll he's not advocating on his behalf he could tolerate all the pain he's not a weakling as a tough guy Malaysia but I'm advocating on cloudy straws behalf my complaint is not for me how could he complained the tacit he compared it to not only that we see my share of a new putting his neck out for Chloe so many times we I'm putting his neck out when it comes to the egg girl and of course Brook who says you know what I'm gonna destroy all of cloudy sterling I'm done with you guys what is much the same attaining I'm a sip refresher course after you erased me from your book god I want to have nothing if I if you're gonna harm this Jewish nation I'll have nothing to do I would want to be in the Bible I don't want to be in the Commish so we see moisture urbane who does stand up for Kali strong and yet only here how cuz it's boar who gets angry why what's the difference here why does that go this boar who get upset over here and over there he's okay he acquiesce he takes moisture I been was a threat so to say very seriously and he doesn't erase cloudy strong he keeps them alive what's the difference the first time say that when moisture went wrong over here was the choice of words la Mahabharata la maza why did you do bare to this nation moysha excuse me I don't do bad you may not see the good that I'm doing you may not understand why I'm doing this but you're saying it's bad that I can't tolerate data that's what I'm upset advocating on the Jews behalf of course I admire that that's amazing you're putting your neck on the line for cloudiest wrote amazing but the moment you said la marea no mother why did you do bad you stepped out of line already that already you know Moshe you're not thinking now you have the same thing with Yakko Yakko when he meets Perry what does he tell him he tells them that my days are may at Vera aim there was there were little there were few and they were been there been and it says because of that I got this bro who shortened his life Jakub you want to tell me your days were been Jocko Bovina was supposed to live 180 years he'd ended up living 147 he lost he lost 33 years of life equivalent to the 33 letters that he said when he said me out of the rain but no he gave my days did not reach the days of my father's he gets punished 33 letters are off why how could who has the same complaint him you telling me your days were bad look what I've done for you I saved you from a sub I saved you from lovin I gave you back Dino I let you find your safe how could he tell me the bad how could he tell me the bed now you say to yourself are you kidding me while Yakov was going through this while he while he was going through and contending with a sub while he is going through all the years that he was missing yo safe it was horrible horrible years for him but in reality I call this broken sage says I paved the way for greatness when you were fighting with Aesop you know what happened you and Bude and your children and your children's children till the end of time the power that you don't have to give in when it comes to Judaism because they saw you how you stood up to to ace over he comes with 400 men and he stand up to him and then finally when you guys come together and he gives you a hug and he says you know what let me give you my let's go together my children gonna go with your children and you also stand up right that's Alenia Nami other free the other sub save me from our free if he's gonna act like a brother save me and if he's gonna be act like a sub save me awesome and here ya Bianco that stay is up against a sub whether he acts like a brother or yaks like an enemy I know I have to separate myself I'm a Jew I know we can't commingle we can't coexist together as one why because my children will learn from your children it's not going to be the same there's got to be that war and Yaakov Avena taught and inculcate AddThis into generations to come to be able to stand a separate life so Yaakov it looked bad but it was not bad it was great it was very necessary yo safe you thought Yosef was being right terrible you're missing eights everybody anybody would have thought that horrible experience to go through but at the end of the day what happens yay savour mash beer yay sip is the provider not only for your family but for the entire world so as you're thinking that it's bad you're looking from a very narrow lens and looking from that lens yes it looks bad it looks bad there are shush a person who was an individual who had a very very difficult time financially right we could all relate to this because we could always have more it's amazing I remember when I was speaking I used to be a principal and all simply she was so simple rabbi hyman so I had many Russian students and one of the Russian students I asked him I got into a conversation with the father and I said you know how was life back in Russia was it better than here or was that there is America much better he says no Rabbi Russia was better I said Russia was better what are you kidding me look at the freedoms that you have over here this is no rabbi you don't understand I said what do you mean says you know in Russia we used to be together with friends we would schmooze we would spend time together it was great I said no so what happened in America is not in America you can't do that America but he's working I said why is that he says you know why he says you know in Russia to get a suit I would have to work for six months six months salary to get a suit so I didn't need a suit to get a TV set I'd have to work for eight months I didn't need that either to get a car a year and a half two years I didn't need that either I ended up not needing anything and because I didn't need anything I was able to be together with my friends but I came to America and all of a sudden to buy a suit I just have to work another hour and to buy a TV set it's another two hours and to buy a car it's another couple of more hours and to buy a big home it's another and before I knew it I'm working 24 hours I have no time for anything I'm a complete slave Russia was much better you know I thought about it I said wow that's brilliant that's brilliant you know we think wow we live the best life you know everything is I just had a guy texted me today yeah buy a car $95 a month lease it $95 so it's 95 hours is nothing right my cell phone bill is bigger than $95 right so we think time I saw another couple of uh nothing before you know it you're a total slave that's it you're totally entrenched so when a person thinks many times I have the good life who knows is this the good life is this the good life that we all wanted that we all waited for that we all we don't know we don't know if really that's the good life but this guy was struggling accordin make ends meet my mush could not make ends meet so it comes to the rush and it tells our shots listen I think I'm gonna have to move this this area's expensive for me and the Shiva's are here and everything is here but it's expensive I can't I can't hold out and it's so hard for me I'm working day and night it's hard for me and there are shot she would always push him off tell him you know don't worry come back a different time we'll speak about it one time he comes to the Raja and he says listen I hate to say my wife was so upset today she said don't come home until you have an answer from your shots what to do rabbi I can't come home I can't come home the wife said what am I gonna do up till now at least I was able to sleep on the couch now it's Duncan he don't even come home I'm on the porch tonight so there are shots as you know what after the she'll I'm gonna give you an answer after this she ought to be an answer so he sits to the show during the show or he falls asleep and as he falls asleep he's dreaming he dreamt that he had an out-of-body experience he left his body and now he's being judged he's being judged and they're bringing all the mitzvoth and he swatted says this is awesome this is great tractor-trailers feet every morning that's eight meets both right away her tushy oh every word of she'll was another Mitzvah right then came home took out the garbage that's he helped his wife and he was working so hard why it's what are coming in there rolling in it's awesome it's great fine although meets what came in throughout his life now come the availeth alright darlin now Barrett show up right every single time we miss Litella Tia died came up we talked in sure oh boy another we every day and it's coming and it's coming and you really Wow through it through a simple day so many eyebrows I can't believe it looked where I'm not supposed to what my gosh this is it's ridiculous this is the this is like a world he realizes it's a world full of traps I can't believe it they were ever I turned it's that I got trapped over here and all of a sudden it becomes da they both are becoming a little more than meets well he goes all my goodness I can't believe it I blew it I blew it I messed up I messed up and that's over and he's sweating he's he doesn't know what to do this is this is the reality this is judgment all that a sudden another my luck comes and he says wait wait a minute we forgot to add something there's all now all the pains and all the troubles and all the headaches he went through and the brain damaging job that he had to deal with and ever now it's it's it's that's all coming in and they're starting to weigh it and they're starting to wait all this difficulties and the hard job and the morning till evening enough and dealing with everybody and customers and you know how customers can be and everything put together and he sees the scale almost tipping to even and he begins to scream god why didn't you give me a little bit more trouble I drop more you couldn't give me another ingrown toenail loss of money over there another that's it you have to stop right here I'm oh I'm even a drop more I would have been ahead and he's screaming and he's screaming and he's upset God what did you do with I'm out of a oath I wanted to do bad you couldn't give me one little more trouble another I don't know another flat tire and he's upset and finally from his screaming he wakes up he wakes up and he realized hey I'm in the shower right after she or the rush goes over to him and it tells them so you asked me a question about moving and not moving this is no no rabbi rabbi listen listen no no no no I'm not moving anywhere I'm here it's okay I know I got I got a deal with no money I know tonight my wife is gonna is gonna hassle me again she's gonna drive me nuts but this is it that I'm staying right here I got my answer already and that was the power that I shot she had yet extreme power that even you know he was able to to pull strings and Shammai how a person would give him a person would get the answer what's the idea that we go through life and we think that many times I could lose Berger who is doing it injustice every person walks around yeah I got a raw deal I got a bad deal in my life right and we think that this is somehow God forgot about us but we don't realize that everything is tailor-made everything is tailor-made our wife is tailor-made our kids are tailor-made our job is tailor-made everybody around us the you're sitting next to a guy in shul you got a deal with it's dirty tissues and is whatever is and you think hey what's this all about what's the reason for this and the truth is it's all exactly tailor-made so we should be able to brings the best out of us it brings the best out of us and not only that even the suffering that we go through in dealing with people it's over for our benefit right your insurer right there's a lot of politics right so it's hard to do a good thing you do a good thing you get 50 opinions right try to be a guy by for two weeks it's not easy it's not easy everybody will have an opinion in why you came late and what you do and you gave him and he should have given the other guy where's your mind what are you thinking this one had a child and he forgot yep all the everybody will give you a hassle and he thinking what do I need this for no but that's the opposite just the opposite that pain is a tremendous game for us it's a tremendous game and we should know that I could have spoken give us a test that we cannot pass where do we see it we see it from this week's special because it's bark who think about it what is musher being a tough Maori I want to leave I want to go motion howdy well how long do you want to go I want to go for three days what are you planning on doing after three they will return well come back we'll be slaves will be nice people what is most sure a bane of thinking and back of his mind he knows that he's leaving and it's for good gentlemen I ask you a simple question you're talking about moisture I been and what's your a banal I've got a smirk who's got his back right God it's got his back what is my serving of skid tell pyro I want to leave and I'm not coming back why why trick the guy tell him straight down this is my plan it's over this is our world we're out of here I had a very powerful question very powerful question al Shehhi caller says something very interesting he says I could this burger who doesn't give anybody a test that he can't handle power was able to handle this was a test friend ok you know what I'll leave the Jews let him go for 3 days that I could handle very tough on me very tough but I could handle that can handle it to let the Jews go permit li para couldn't handle it because this bar who says that's an unfair test I can't give even a Rasha an unfair test and that's something that's so powerful why because we get tested and a lot of times it's so heavy you know everybody in life is carrying a baggage up a hill nobody's exempt everybody's carrying a heavy load up a steep steep mountain and our job is to get to the top of the mountain right and it's difficult and it's hard and it's and it's really overwhelming many times but we always have to remember that even to Paulo even to a load dictator how colors borrow who said I'm not gonna give him something that's too much for him to handle I'm gonna go up to that point up to the limit but I'm not gonna go past that line and therefore he never told them let my people go out for good let them go for three days three days that was something that power was able to tolerate so moisture are bainham when he tells like oh ho na mahabharata Lamas de la maza she locked on him why don't you do bed to this nation that got a core despot who upset because Roco says I don't do bed what's the reason I created this world I created this world for one purpose what do I need this whole world and politics and Wars and and and problems and why why did I cause well who create this world says the missile a theorem right in the beginning he says the only reason I created this world is because I am intrinsically good how could this work was the definition of good and how do you do good without a recipient if there's nobody there to receive that good you're not by definition good if there's somebody there to receive that good then by definition you could be good Sacco this beaucoup creates a human being so he could give him good but in this world this world were not meant to get the good this world every enjoyment that we get in this world is just for the purpose of keeping us going but it's not for the purpose of enjoyment because every enjoyment in this world is so small think about it if I go this bar who created our bodies so we could have enjoyment it should be a vessel of enjoyment he messed up big time what a bad job very bad job he did you know why because if he would have created our bodies in order for it to be a good vessel for enjoyment we should be able to enjoy a steak sandwich for two years why is it only for 15 minutes we should be able to enjoy any type of enjoyment that we have is so short-lived take any type of enjoyment it's a couple of minutes and it's done the enjoyment is out the window so what's the purpose of the enjoyment is just to keep us going because this book who made us be able to taste good food so will will want to eat it otherwise we won't eat for days will die therefore he made all different types of colors and everything is beautiful right to encourage us to eat to survive but if you think that's the enjoyment itself it's for that purpose well the enjoyment expires right away will be will have a tremendous letdown so i could this baroque who says your body i created for one purpose so you could go into this world and it so Lama sets the world up deeds and you could accomplish as many deeds as possible learn as much tour as possible and then in the world to come that's when you're going to get endless happiness endless it doesn't stop it's not like in this world it's that your body can't tolerate so much happiness everything is fleeting every joy is fleeting sacrilege more hotels Messier banal you want to advocate on behalf of cloudy soil I'm happy I admire that I listen to you I like to hear your cries that you're crying on behalf of cloudy syrup but when you use the words namaha Ryota why did it do bad I never ever do bad I don't do bad now of course we could point to times in history which we won't have answers to that it looks horrible we as human beings have no answers for that but at the end of the day we see that at college ball gets upset at moisture a banal because seeing it from his perspective from God's perspective there's never anything that God does bed and this is something we should always carry around especially when we go through a tough time we should remember that at the end of the day we don't know how we don't have all the answers but we should trust them that at the end of the day even the most horrific situation is for our benefit thank you for listening and I wish everyone a good Shabbos [Music] you [Applause]