Parshas Shemos: Moshe Rabbeinu's Request For Royalty

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starting soon some of the shum will be on the Torah Communications Network okay Paras continuing the theme from Paras Hungarian no I don't speak Hungarian publicly but privately we could discuss that we discussed Mal we discussed Mal and we even discussed on Monday a continuation of that and we're going to continue this subject the PK says when the midwives they feared God so as reward God made a houses for them we know that any child that is born you have to any son that is born you have to throw into the river because they saw in their astrological signs that the m is was going to be born but out of the fear of God of these Jewish midwives they saved the Jewish children not only did they save the Jewish children but they um they uh supported them they fed them they helped them develop and as a reward God made for them houses what kind of houses says Rashi they were rewarded with the how the institutions of the priesthood the institution of the Levites and the institution of royalty and all of these institutions are called as the says came from and malus came from from Miriam how did malus come from Miriam because Miriam married K even though and K was K Bena from sh Yehuda we discussed a while ago in the sheer onum how um how malus came from K it would seem it came from K's brother okay but be as a made Let's analyze the first thing in that is why was the reward that because they saved the je Jewish children they rewarded with Kahuna Lea and Mal what is the appropriateness of this reward how is this reward quid pro how is it mid mid meaning that they would marri into the no what that meant is that Kahuna and levia came from through Aron and M in other words because y saved the Jewish children they merited that Kahuna and Leia would come from them and that malus would come from what is the appropriateness of this reward so uh AKA rerel said over the name of his father the brisar reel an amazing he said this is the most appropriate reward this reward is what we call quid namely what were the mitam trying to do they were trying to kill the Jewish boys what were they trying to do to the girls the girls nothing the girls would survive and they they would marry them now what would have happened to the Jewish people if the MIT would have been successful in carrying out their plan nothing there would have been a Jewish people you would have had Egyptian fathers and Jewish Mothers and the children would be y nice Jews so they weren't trying to harm the jewishness but instead they were trying to destroy those aspects of Judaism that are P of patrilineal descent namely Kahuna Kahuna if your mother's a k it's not going to do you any good Kahuna your father has to be a Ken Andia your father has to be kind and malus your father has to come from the Mal come from so therefore what the mitz were trying to destroy was not Judaism per se but rather those institutions that follow patrilineal descent so and the saved and rescued and preserved K those institutions of patal descent and therefore they in fact were rewarded that Kahuna and L came from Y and Mal came from mam so what are we learning that the Merit for malus had been accured and had been G gained and garnered all the way in Egypt so now we come to one of the great alltime individuals in fact the greatest alltime individual and in his first encounter with the almighty and he sees a bush that is burning and he wonders why does the bush not burn the bush is not being consumed and if you happen to be making sh this week it's a good to say over okay so I know the was going to say it I'm going to say it on on the 17th on the 17th I'm invited if you invite me on the camera it's hard to say no you know okay with the ref with the ref that I can't discuss on the camera but uh okay um so here we haveu was um approaching this SN and what does God say TOA if you look at number four do not approach here take off your shoe from on your foot made all of the place that you're standing on it's Holy Ground says the holy okay said Moses wanted royalty and God said no it says in the do not come here who am I God that you brought me here that's what said when proclaimed him as the king actually wheni said he would be the next king of Israel said who am I that you brought me at so we see refers to so if hasem told m I'll don't come here what God was saying is don't come here don't go there m I know you want to be the M don't go there because I can't give it to you says the gar ra asked said her sister-in-law was the king meaning this the G earlier was talking about Elish right and after that um it say Okay um was talking about Alisha and Al's brother-in-law was the king how's thatu M was Elisha's brother-in-law and mha was a king in fact if you look at number um look at number 10 the ra you cannot add on to the holy city of Jerusalem or the a only if you have a king only if you have a prophet only if you have and only if you have a son hedin of 71 and I so how do it mha was a m so thear is asking what do you mean God mha asked to be a m and God said no he is a king m is a king a so the gar says even though he's a king he was a king but he wanted his children to be a king and God said no only you could be a king your children can't be a king what made him a king King what what what Happ he was King over who he was the king over the Jewish people he was the king who made him the Jew Who Made Who proclaim mosha the king self we'll have to see who made mosha the king I how do you know okay so the gar asks I it says and his children were not a king says yeah is was a king or sh is not a because sh himself lost the because he had some type of arrogance and hasem took it away from him so there's no so the bottom line is this says wanteded to be a m he said God can I be a king and God said you can't be the king how do we know wanted to be a king it says the word and is by the way where else in tanak do we have the word and means we have in R come here tells R come here meaning you're kings are going to come from you so who was uh the great R in Yim one of the most brilliant alltime mindes he has two versions of this but he wants to know where do we see in the conversation between that wanted to be a I mean just because you have the word are there any more of a clue is there any more indication that M wanted to be a king more than the word so says an amazing ready for thisat God tells take off your shoe from on your foot okay let's make a little experiment who here is young and strong stand up no but let's go one one person I need a volunteer I need a volunteer young and strong as real stand up as real go for it ready go for it come on come on come on okay can you take off your shoe standing on stand on one leg and take off your other shoe could you do that uh like this your other how to slip on no no no slip on is fine they didn't have TI right I can't do you can't do it anybody anybody could do that no standing on one foot taking off your other shoe no no one IA could do it but he's not can do it publicly what no no stand on one foot and take off the other shoe okay that's easy stand Go For It rafie Go without without holding on to anything without touching it yeah no no no with you could touch it but without toppling over do it even without okay so raal is a young young strong man and he's able to stand that one foot and without toppling over says until what age are you a y soar says as long as you could stand on one foot and take off the other shoe once you can't do that anymore you're not a yelled finished yeah so gar says they said about rabina that he was 80 years old and he could stand on one foot and take off the other shoe which indicates typically an 80-year-old is not able to stand on one foot and take off the other shoe it was a special was able to stand on one foot and take off the other shoe but typically you need to be a young guy to stand on one foot and take off the other shoe how old was MH when God told him to take off his shoes Moses was 80 years old right mosha was 80 when he stood before par so M being then for all um intent of purposes could not remove one shoe standing on one foot so how is holy Moses going to take off his shoes were 90 80 over there wasn't the same now even though you'll say was a gbar but says disc that's later when he when he uh when he started going into full action when he received the look yeah but right now we don't know for sure that he so that means M if he's going to take off his shoes he probably had to sit down standing on one foot oh because how else you going to take take off your shoe down you mean to sit down so you said will sit here's the thing Hashem said take off your shoe because you're standing on ades which means it has Kad now in a holy place like the AAR you're not allowed to sit down there's yes the says in number eight so comes to a holy place he knows he has to take off his shoe he's 80 years old he can't do what we just did he has to he has to sit down so he wants to sit down but he's not allowed to sit down because so that's that that's where we see M asked to be a m because he wanted to be able to sit and take off andm said sorry I'm not going to give you m you're going to have to leave the area sit down Evacuate the area and sit down over there and then come back in other words how do we see that wanted because needed to take off his shoe and you can't take off youru if you're 80 years old unless you're sitting and you're not to sit unless you're a m so implicit in this conversation is m is asking God you want me to be the leader you want me to be the navi you want me to be aen you want me to be everything so I want to be M and God said no I MOS was a m his children weren't okay this is how learns where we see that wanted to be because in order to take off your shoes you need to sit in order right only Mr Rogers could stand on one foot and take off his other shoe this wasn't aor what ah even though this wasn't the AAR but good question dis says it was a holy place and and wherever the reveals itself it's and therefore was now a sit like in a holy place and must be he was asking to be a m this is the Shak lataria according to com couldn't sit in K cannot sit in the Azar no now there was a k who did in the his name was and we're going to come today now what was considered the biggest anov that ever livu was a very big anov why which anov would want to become the king guess who else was an anov David but David was a king you could be a king and you could be an anov it's not a s you could be humble and someone could insult you and you could Overlook it and if someone starts up with your malus you kill him that's the dichotomy of Mal is but here is the million dooll question of the evening and this comes from the courtesy ofz thank you where he ask the following question the says so ask wanted to sit and in order to sit you have to be a so the question is was a we just quoted from the rambam the rambam said M was a king so what's the problem m says I want to sit God says you have to be a king mosha should have said I'm a king I am a king so why could have mosha sit what's the problem why just because his children weren't the king therefore you can't sit I thought a king is allowed to sit who cares what status your children have m is a if he's a he should be allowed to sit furthermore the gar says in there's no sitting in that unless you're a king of the davidic line which wasn't so M wasn't what was he even asking for if a regular King could sit in the a m should have been allowed to sit so what was God's answer you have to be from the so was M asking he's not from the so good wasn't a king he wasn't he like a Nazi a king no what was he he was the head of the what was am yeah that's it he was the father of M he never did a he wasn't the the wife of Y wasn't he like the top top gun he could be the Top Gun doesn't mean you're the M was he wasn't the M you know but he was he was the one that everybody looked up but he wasn't a m yeah so okay rasi is saying and this is what I was uh thinking um based on the that we quoted last week that we have on the she number 23 says that learns that [Laughter] the learns part of it is was fulfilled in the times of and part of it in the times of ask how could I explain the partly in the times of and partti in the times of Mia say was the that redeemed our forefathers and he is going to redeem us in the future was the will be that is the the REM is stands for we know has to beud from the descendants of DAV and some say even DAV himself says you need to know that the of the of incorporates and encompasses and overarching is the general category of all of CLA Israel and all 12 tribes he is the encompassing element of all 600,000 Jews and in of the shav of DAV is in m and that's how could be a and a and a Le and a and a and a GI he had the G of of Yehuda he had the G of Don he had the Kahuna of Le he had the of Le he had the he had the and the of the will be revealed that he himself is Messiah that is the opinion of thees in that case which does he come froma comes from sh Le but in that case M could make the claim at least on some kind of spiritual level that he is somehow encompassing and in that case could make the claim and make the request M wanted Mal he could he could ask to sit I only the Mal bed could situ is from the however the question then would and what's God's answer God said no what do you mean no God said your children won't be a king so what his children won't be a king is from the so what difference does it make that M's children were not a king now there's a very interesting that we've never featured in number 11 Mas of disin I believe and he asked a very interesting question he asks that he wants to prove that the den of is not a phenomenon that only exists in the but perhaps any king would be allowed to sit in the Azara and he proves it he says like this the means that you could only sit in the Azara if you have the I malus if the primary malus rests in your hand you could sit in the aara whether you're from malus b d or not it's just that primary malus happened to have been given to D and therefore the malus from B the Mal B could send the AAR but if malus was given to M then MOS could have sit in the aara it's just that malus was not given to M now I would have said that Mal that perhaps could have sat in the a because he did come from the but we're going to see it's not enough it seems to come from the malus B it has to be that the malus was given to you and that is defined by do you pass it on to your children we may tweak that a little bit later in the year and the brings the following Rya so what what what but um well I will I will say that we've quoted often many many times the last couple of weeks theah and your homework last week was to read or two weeks ago was to read in the English book about the's comments on why the brothers wanted to sell y because they held he was starting up with Yehuda who is the patriarch of the Mal B so apparently according to the schl there was a concept of Mal going back to the that even Yehuda had some kind of status of the but I want to share with you number on who really the gar says the arrogance of yam d drove him out of this world like it says now we know yam split up the Mala from who any Jewish people in the audience who might know um whatam split up Thea from scho son ra and he said as follows he says if the people go up and they want to startop Bringing carbonos to then pe people's heart are going to turn back to the king ofuda so he was very weary that if the Jewish people go to Beal they're going to uh return their allegiance to the it and if they do that they're going to kill me say said so he said I have a there's a tradition what I could do is I could go sit in the Azar and sitting in the AAR means you're the M however there's a a tradition and Rashi says it's which by the way Rashi elsewhere in sh says um something else we have a tradition now that's a different L we find anywhere else in ch everywhere else in ch in in Yuma in we have a concept in here it says so says if I go up to the temple says if I go up to the temple and is sitting and I'm standing they're going to say he's the me and I'm the and what are they going to do to me they're going to say I'm and uh they're going to say I'm a nobody I have a great idea I'll sit down next to him so he says then I'll be and they're going to kill me and they're going to follow your so he gave the following advice he set up Cales in the north and they said from now on you don't go to the temple from now on we have our place of worship up here our aolm our agal and he stopped the people from being Regal and he put centuries on the road and he made sure the soldiers made sure people didn't go to but let's think about what this gamar said said if we go to the temple and ra is sitting and I'm standing then they're going to say I'm an and if I sit they're going to say I'm a ask the I don't understand if they see sitting and I'm standing why are they going to say I'm an everyone knows I'm the Mel of is and there's a only the of the could and not any other king so why would anybody say I'm an they're not going to say I'm an there's a there's you got to come from to so they're not going to say I'm an they're just going to know I'm not from the furthermore if said if I sit they're going to say why they say how am I I'm just violating that if you're not from the you're not to sit I'm not I'm not says we see tremendous sitting in the a is not only to the not only Kings from the deic dynasty said any M who is the primary leader of the Jewish people any M who has the Primacy of malus is allow to sit any M who malus is not primary's not let us sit so he said if if if is sitting and I'm not sitting they're they're going to say I'm a nobody they're going to say my malus is not primary they're going to say he has the Primacy of malus and I don't I'm going to sit then I'm I'm being mured by Mal because I'm saying I also have Prim and they're going to say that's a challenge to so now says we understand how could ask to sit in the Azar he's not from the Mal so again we would say maybe he is but says the he was allowed to ask for Mal because he had the Primacy of Jewish leadership he was the primary me of and the answer God said to him is sorry Moshe you can sit because since your Mal will not be passed on to Future Generations you are not in other words we see from this that is not specific to the we see that said if I sit if I stand they're going to think I'm a I'm an a what do you mean everybody knows you're not from clearly you don't have to be from to sit he said if I sit people are going to think why you're just violating the no in order to sit you have to be and this explains and answers the's question that again he's not from what was he asking for the answer is he was asking because even though he was a me but he felt he had the Primacy of Mal and he has the right to S says it won't go to your children the concept of of not being allowed to sit in the unless you're should only apply it do um so to do but it seems like anywhere the is all over the world everywhere no it's not everywhere no he's not why not ask him he's everywhere speak to him the is not everywhere the is only when there's a minion and then uh was in the midbar over the was protecting them uh they weren't allow to sit down the midbar did not necessarily have the status of the uh it's only M they didn't have to take off their shoes in the in the midar okay now this this there's a very interesting look in the r in number 12 the r says you can't s came and he sat before God saned sat in the they sat in the part of they didn't sat in sit in the Holy part of the the wants to know is this prohibition of sitting in the in the AAR is it a or is it a now we just saw inan number 19 says it's rash in says it comes from a so that means it's not it's Le out of a says you could say that these are just however Rashi in says something very interesting look at number 17 rash says you can't sit in the Azar because it's not cover to sit in the Azara even the angels don't sit in the aara or in the presence of God only to the Mal why God gives them honor that to show that their Mal is now says the M Rashi who says it's not C only because rash saying it's a it's notash saying that it's not so that implies that it's only a if it was aash wouldn't have to give a however he could say that rash is just giving a logic of why the the tah it because from the end of rash that Hashem gives honor to the it that implies that there it's a however says the you could approve that it's from the fact that the says that even did not sit down in the a why now if it was aind why in the world would be bound by maybe they the was not issued yet so that implies it was a okay what the words I place God before me always so that means he's always in front of us but doesn't the is not everywhere okay but if there's no minion the ain't there you can't Lane only with a minion yeah or even if there is a minion people are talking you also can't Lane you chase out the so is not everywhere the gar says 10 people bring the 22,000 people bring the 600,000 bring the so there many levels of the styler writes there many many levels of now this is also very interesting because if you look at number 20 in the M the gar learns out from who would sit in the AAR and nobody else was allowed to so the M asked what what in the world was doing he wasn't from the he was from the uh he was a so here is where you could say slightly different than the Mas the Mas says that sitting in the a is but you have to have you have to be and was not and if he would have said it would have been a wanted to be and God said you're not now that's a little bit difficult to understand that was not so who was more but you could say a little differently if you look at rash number 17 why are the allow to sit it's a honor that God gives them to show them that they malus is complete says the M once there were kings in the Jewish people from the Mal David then only the kings of Yehuda of the had a which was sh but the truth is before King David was selected anyone could have been the king look at number uh 14 in D we have the you should know God the god of Israel gave Dominion to David it's a covenant of salt says the rambam once David was anointed he was and the is for him and his children and his grandchildren forever and ever but only to someone who's not worthy cannot be a m but even if they're not worthy the Mal still rests in the family however says the m look at number 16 before David was selected all is waser to be the M now I believe that this does not work out with the kades that we've quoted all the weeks that the reason why the brother sold Y is because they felt y was usurping the why can't he usurp the according to the m before DAV was selected anyone could be the M says see I would have said that all of from would be Roy because once once perhaps malus could only come from Yehuda and then it could have been anyone and then David was selected but the bottom line is says before King David was selected then the AL who was he was the choicest of is he could have sat in the aaro which he did because he had a wholesome a shalim dominion over the Jewish people people I the M no the Mel was not allowed to there was no Mel however interestingly once was selected then only was the and even who was a legitimate me he was a king he wasn't allowed to sit why because his Mal was not shal I believe this is a little bit of a different Nuance than what the is saying saying that who could sit someone who is so then why can't couldn't M sit M wasn't but if you say a little bit differently maybe this is what he means the only person who could sit is someone who only if your Mal is complete now was now oh what does that mean complete so I would say Quant qualitatively and whate so yam couldn't sit because uh he he was challenged by by R he understood R is the m of Yehuda so he he knows he can't sit if he sits it's going to be we're going to come to that soon but could be his was not sh other words we asked why Coulda said he was a m so it's not going to go to his children so what it could be that's a lack in the Schamus of his Mal a malosma is something that is uh is hereditary it's in the DNA will get passed On to the Next Generation the only time you can have how could want to be when there well he was the Mel I mean the r couldn't even true but the r look at number 10 could be he was I don't know you know could only exist when you apparently not was there ever any other king when Jews were not in world was there ever some Mal anywhere Yehuda where know I but M was a I mean the ran says refers to Mosa now watch this according well Rashi says that in saned by the way the says that since sitting is not specific to but it's anyone who has that's why in saned the is because it's not specific to the but according to what we're learning it the reading of theim in in by the way there's a book called one of the N that's a part of the Torah which God gave to the Jewish people the um he says like this comes to David he says I will be to you as a father meaning this God is saying I will be to Solomon as a father the and he will be to me as a son by the way that there's a chapter on this that um building the bikash gains you the status of being a Ben this is one of the things that you become a Ben for okay so God says I will not remove my kindness from him like I removed the from sh your house will be it will be trustworthy it will be stable your sovereignty will be forever your throne will be firm forever and by the way the ra number 15 to indicate that once D was selected it belongs to him forever is whatav was told by n what's the first thing DAV does when he's told that not only is he a king but the reign will continue in his descendant what's the first thing DAV does David comes to AAR and he sits down what does he say God who am I God who is my house that you brought me to what took so long to sit he was always a king it's just now he's being told that it would continue to what took DAV so long he stood until now he stood until now cuz until now he was like who was a but it wouldn't continue his descendants so he wasn't allowed to sit wanted had we SE wanted because he wanted to take off his shoe and he couldn't take off his shoe because he's 80 years old so he has to sit so he wants to be a m and God said no it's only to you and not to your children it's not schma but when is told that the M will continue to the first thing DAV does to solidify and recognize his whome is he has a seat because and he says you wanted to know but how could you be a king and have humility this is exactly what D is saying he sits he claims the mantle of royalty but he says who am I that you brought me that you brought me to this great malus now I want to end off withus of the brisar on the we said that was afraid to sit down because it would be construed as a marida we asked why would it be a marida it's just a violation of the that you can't sit unless you're from the M it so he said well because the only way to sit is if you're the primary King so if he's sitting he's claiming he's the primary King the L that he uses is they they are going to kill me they are going to kill me who's they why didn't he say ra is going to kill me cuz after all question if somebody goes over to the king he says King you have a big nose he is he or could the king kill him the brisar says he's not but the King has the authority and the right to K kill him not so it says in the number 24 rashes it in Misa if you rebel against the House of David you're liable to the death penalty from bezden if you rebel against the king your the king could kill you wasn't told told to go and kill this guy kill that guy K this guy why because it was if you rebel against the king yeah any and if you're you have two one is um the king could kill you because you're and anyone could kill you because you're by the way that's how the schw Learned why the brothers wanted to kill y they held he was a so it's interesting by the way as an aside I never said this publicly do you remember the sheer from the barbanel that we had last Wednesday night that the whole was really to establish who's who should be the next king of Israel it can't be Ruan ruan's impetuous it can't be shim and Ley they have too much of a temper it's not done done ambushes not Z and he's a businessman it comes beautiful that the is D on is on his deathbed and he proclaims that will be the continue the because at first glance the only connection between the and is they both begin with but according to that the whole theme of the is the establishment of so that's the the continuation of through but the bris says as follows he says there's a very big na between and when one Rebels against is you're only a the king could kill you but if you're going to sit in the Azara and that's that's designated for the that's not a that's a that's why you him said they're going to kill me anybody could kill me because I'm because it's a in the so uh we've been able to continue this theme and next week we probably have a little bit of a a different uh angle on on a different indan but thank you everyone for joining us have an amazing evening and Salah thank you so much you've just experienced another Tor class brought to you by Torah anytime.com