Sefer Shemos: The Book of Geulah

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com [Music] so this evening we have many many fascinating things to present and we have two sheets tonight two sheets because not only are we learning this week are we going to be learning we're also beginning sa the second book of thees so the first thing we want to discuss is what makes saer sh saer what is the general theme of the saer that makes this a separate book of the we know there are five books in the T so there has to be something distinctive something that makes these 10 paros or so a separate saer there's something thematic okay well what makes saer braus saer braus is there one common theme about saer braus you know at first glance it seems not because the ran has termed has coined saer braus the book of creation but if we think to ourselves is that really the proper terminology for the the saer Bas very nice the first para talks about the creation of the world but after that you have the flood you have the life of Noah you have AB is and yob 95% of the saer doesn't talk about the creation of the world so why is saer bous termed saer the book of creation so raan tells us in his introduction to saer shise that really we could say that the entire safer is the book of creation the whole book of verus is the book of creation how because first of all we have the creation of the world okay that's obvious but then and we mentioned this during Shas a number of times that the lifetime of Abraham Y and Jakob was the pre-enactment the Paradigm the symbolic representation of the history of Cl is their life created CL isel's history how the rule is whatever happened to our forefathers will happen to their descendants so for instance Abraham ainu he goes down to MIT right why does he go down to MIT because of hunger remember what happened sorrow was taken away eventually he leaves with great wealth that created the fact that CLA Israel would go down to Egypt because of hunger all the women would be saved with the threat made against the men but eventually we leave with great wealth what's the great wealth we we left with money they we took all of their all of their booty right plus but the real great wealth was a Tyra the real great wealth was a Tyra so that's just one illustration how the lifetime of ABR is and yob created the history of is so we could say safely that saer is safer the book of creation because it talks about the creation of the world and the creation of the history of CLA is say for that says is redemption saer the book of redemption why because the Jewish people are redeemed but even more than that if saer barus is the book where our history is being created sa for shos is where right sa for bous the history was pre- enacted sa for shos it's actually enacted it's carried through meaning is the is is it coming to fruition okay says ran what general theme is there in the whole saer shos G what does g mean Redemption we're redeemed fine so if we were writing the sa what would we do we would talk about the Jews going going down to Egypt and coming out but so the safer should end with once the Jews have left Egypt what do we need to know that they came to midbar SII and they got the Tyra and they built a mishan and so forth what does that have to do with Gul what does it have to do with Redemption says ran incredible thing what does the word Gul mean what does redemption mean it means being restored to the state that the Jewish people were once at okay now what state were we once at the state of Abraham and so let's describe what level AB were at right remember we learned about the T of s what were the three distinctive features of the tent ofu the the divine presence of rested on her tent okay number two she baked the kala a shabas it stayed fresh through the whole week okay and number three she lit the shabas candles it stayed lit right that that represented the fact the special that dwell on the tent of Abraham and we know that when Sarah passed away and Rifka came it came back so that was the state of Theos but when they went down to MIT and they they lost that special connection to Hashem and even because whatever that we didn't share that closeness to hasem how do you know we don't we don't see it we don't find it we don't find it where do you find it that it did these things when where um tell us that the med says that when Rifka came it says that um that y that Abraham that y was consoled after his mother meaning he was happy now that he had this wife Rifka Rifka brought back whatever Sarah used to bring so from there we learn out okay but we the clo lost that when did it return when they built the mishan what happened when they built the Mish the rested on the Mish that means the madga that s achieved in her tent CL achieved on a national level right the stayed fresh from shabas to shabas the was constantly lit so that means whatever Abraham Y and yob were able to achieve on their own that was lost until when until the Jewish people built the mishan okay so saer shos is a saer which sort of restores the level of Cl is had before they went down to M okay I I'll just bring out another point the meter says that wait so how do you answer why do we need the second half because the second half brought back first of all clo was not fully redeemed until they got the toal and they built the Mish and the rested on in the okay now another interesting faet the Met tells us that when set up the Mish it says and it was on the day finished the Mish okay we read that in the first day of so the med wants to know why does it say the word the med says means something that once existed was lost and then came back what was L that came back with the Mish says the med that before marish sinned remember when it says he heard God's voice traveling through the garden the the Met as we see from here God was in this world God was as a says the goal of mankind is to bring down the that was very special but don't tell anyone I said okay but um but but it was lost when adish sinned the left and it was not restored until the came came down on the Mish so in other words not only foros restoring the level of Abraham and yob it's restoring the level of the world before Adam Harish sined before Adam sinned Hashem he was around you know he was prevalent he was M he was uh in this world when he sinned Hashem was chased out until the came back with the building of the mishan so in other words what is say for sh a restoration of Bas bringing back barus okay now I'm going tell you something very interesting we know the gum of the last 500 years or so are called the from about the year 1500 to let's say from 800 to 1500 is the re before that period who are some of the okay he the biggest guy but he was from the okay and one of the was the okay and he says something which seems very simple but obviously is not simple only there many G listen to what he says he terms the five books of Moses he gives them new names bous saer bous that that he sticks to the simple the second book okay so you say you know what's a big calling it you know you know everybody knows it's the second book what does he mean so you would expect what does he a f a fth the book of the priests that makes sense it's all about the laws of the and and so forth the book of counting counting numbers the review of the whole Torah so it sounds like he's trying to come up with a term to describe each one of the gracious fine Creation in the beginning and he came up with this term for brilliant brilliant right what's he what's he trying to tell me by saying it's what's he adding what what Deep thing is he trying to tell me so the writes in his to saer sh listen the fact that the bah calls saer obviously he's trying to teach me you know what that is bous part two okay it's almost not a separate saer it's of the second part of creation how is sa for sh the second part of creation very simple if you look when Hashem created the world he created what did he create on the first day Heaven and the Earth and it says at the end of the day one at the end of the second day he created the heavens sh on the third day he gathered the water fourth day he created the The Luminaries the fifth day and so forth when it comes to the sixth day it doesn't say what is it say the why why doesn't say by the six says says rash it's not referring to the sixth day of creation it's referring to the sixth day ofan what happened on the sixth day ofan sh what happened on sh T was given Hashem saying like this I'm creating the world very nice very nice but everything is dependent on y hash the day the Torah was given Hashem says he made a condition he made a stipulation of the world if the Jews accept the Torah I will revert the world back to emptiness in other words the world you know it's like you make a deal with someone but on condition you meet certain requirements Hashem created the world on condition what that the Jews accept the Torah so in other words after saer braus and God created the world and he created the history of the Jewish people was the World created yet no not fully until when the Jews accept till the tor was given so so that's the why the calls it's part two of creation because if the Jews do not accept the Torah there is no creation creation would fall apart creation would disintegrate so therefore just to make clear the terms the second book the book of shamos to teach you it's the second part of creation okay and Creation in fact we mentioned that we had a questions now let's say let's say I'm can I sell my Birthright to my younger brother no you can't sell it you know why you know why you can't s because what are you buying you're buying the double share of The Inheritance but you didn't get it yet so you can't be ma future rights it's called you can't has not to the world yet so if you look he brings down from that before the Torah was given you're allowed to be something that's not in the world you allow to transact you can make a transaction on something that's not in the world why why why should that be what's the reason why let let's say I say like this to you um you know in 10 days from now you see my my apple tree there no apples yet but because it's not Springtime I want to sell to you the apples that grow on my tree in the spring can I sell it to you you give me a 100 bucks and I give you all my apples is it a is it a valid transaction a discount no no you cannot Hally transfer it cuz it's not here you can't be M something Hally that's not in the worlders you could uh so you know you could do you could sell the tree for the fruit land or the land for the produce in other words you could sell the Ken for the payros but just for the payros alone if the sale is not um if you're not transacting something that's here now if you sell somebody the tree so you could sell somebody the part of the tree that produces the fruit in other words a share in the tree that produces the fruit but just to transact the fruit it's ineffective so how could yov sell the to because before the Torah was given you can transact something that's not in the world why one uh some of the literature that I've seen basically says that on the first day it created the light but he didn't create the Illumina areas till later in the week and that the light was actually the the okay that's a subject in it of itself what does it mean there was day and night if God hadn't created the Sun and the Moon yet so whatever was the primordial light is right whatever that means that's a separate subject but actually the Torah was uh created many 900 and so Generations before the world was uh created there was a Torah okay abah ainu was generation number 20 the Torah was given generation 26 that was the thousandth generation from when the Torah was around the Torah was given in generation 1,000 LF Dar we say in theing Torah was commanded in generation 1,000 I think 964 Generations before the world was created there was a Torah fine so so how could you how was yob able to transact Isa the birth right if uh before the Torah was given the answer is before the Torah was given everything was not in the world world nothing was in the world because if the Torah is not accepted the world would disintegrate so in order let's say I want to buy a piece of land from you that's also something that's not in the world because it's not here yet because if the Jews don't accept the Torah the land won't exist so so in order to allow any transactions we had to allow transactions on something that's not in the world otherwise all transactions would have been invalid because until the Torah is given the world is not here so the world has no permanence the world could you know immediately disintegrate fine so what happened to the transaction because before the Torah was given you could transact something that's not in the world yet oh okay okay before the t is going be okay so in other words why is because it's a second it's creation part two first God created the world but without the Torah of seamos the world would not exist anymore fine just quickly cuz I don't want to lose that on sheet number two over here just to throw out and suggest another idea why saer is okay the second part of creation how many Exiles how many galim have we been in two all together three three four four four four Rome okay um r m Persia yavan Greek and and Edom Rome that's what we're in today these are the four gal and they're alluded to in the beginning of the Torah um it says what does it say is is m that's light is by and ised is like the Deep Abyss like this G is almost endless okay fine there four gal we always know we always talk about throughout all our literature MIM garas they're four galim what happened to the most obvious one which is the most obvious one one MIM what happened to MIM well that the 430 years or the 210 years in Egypt that was you know nothing that was pretty intense uh a pretty intense Goos says the AR that Goos was the father of all four gal it included in all of them it was the pre-enactment so to speak of all four gim that's why in the beginning of the para it says look in the beginning of this week's para p page 292 stands for okay the beginning of we already have says we have the hint we have the illusion to all four all four Exiles very interestingly so not only so saer shamos is also a book of creation created our various G that we went through but also for how do you know that there's a in everyone should know this look at number eight the tells us look at number eight there a beautiful P like the the days that you went out of Egypt I will show you miracles in the future in other words all of the Miracles of were a portend it was a symbolic pre-enactment of the G so sa for sh we could consider a book of creation in its own right it's creating the final chapter of our history as we're leaving MIM we're leaving with great wealth with great honor receiving the highest spiritual levels this represents the final Destiny of the Jewish people creating the final Desy like the P says as we left Egypt God will likewise show us miracles in the future all the Miracles of MIM are the preenactment of the miracle that will happen to us by the in fact we know the tells us the same way we were redeemed in right just we'll end off this part with one more thing the tells us that we know is called a in it's called it's called why because eventually will will come we have a tradition was born M was born onsh or will be born on Tish eventually the same night of the year the Jewish people left Egypt is the same night that Tisha falls out every single year you want to know what night Tish is whatever night the night of the S there is that's the night of Tish every year who the first night of p is the night of TSH Al T Al is the first night of PES T is TSH okay why because is the pre-enactment of the the whatever happened in is going to bring about what happens in the the Final Redemption and therefore the night of is the same night as which was eventually the time it is a we don't say it has now it has a great aspect of sadness but there is an aspect of Happiness also on we don't say because of the fact that it's aid but the fact that the night of the S is also the night of Tish Because the Night of the Sedar is the pre-enactment of the G like the says and in this sense is part two of the book of creation because saer braus is the creation of the world and the history until now saer sh is the creation of the final chapter of our history greater Miracles thei says that the Miracles of will pale in comp comparison to the Miracles of one of the things we know is that will split in half that's one of the things know okay now we move on a little bit old are going to be able to see it like first hand hopefully wow that's something to okay now we move on to the second sheet by the way you know they say what's the first thing the Jews are going to do when when mashia comes take out the camera right okay take it out it's there okay let's move on a little bit so in this week's par by the way um parro tells the midwives when you see your Jewish baby being born kill it kill it now what do the midwives say The Midwives say we can't the Jewish women they're like animals they don't need midwives they just give birth they know what to do you know they call they know the women these Jewish Baba they know what to do the baby just comes out what kind of what kind of response was that who cares T tells the women kill them so what so they came out so kill them after they come out you know what what what was their response because by the time we get there the baby's already born so kill them no there's we don't have any work they're not there they don't need us well when when when they come in when the nurse comes when the baby is taken to the nursery so kill them then no they don't need the nurse they're saying we don't working we're not working no no no no they're saying we get there too late so the is like this Harrow is the king of Egypt he's not going to make a decree for women to murder babies obviously not the the nation's not going to go for it his you know a king has to run the country with some semblance of rule order politically correct politically correct so what is he doing abortion he said you know go you abort the babies before they're born you know look inside see what the gender is going to be and abort the babies abort them but they say we can't Because by the time we get there the baby's already born and obviously a cold blooded murderer is not going to work in your kingdom that was the we that was the back and forth between and and what reward didem give andam take a look in page 294 94 this is a beautiful okay we're going to do some brisker Tire now and it was when the midwives feared God God made houses for them what does that mean he made houses says Rashi three lines from the bottom of the second column he gave them the following reward he said the priest will come from you the Le will come from you right we have we have Kim here we have L you're Ley right and Kings not yet hopefully one day what now so let's think so let's think for a second who they come from from from Kings fine we and what Kings married father the dynasty of okay so listen to this this is beautiful yeah why did Hashem reward Y and M that they would be the progenitors of tun and why that reward why not uh give them I don't know what you know put them on the cover of uh fors 500 I don't know give them a why that reward what cuz what did P want them to do kill the males what would have happened to the women who would they marry is that so terrible no the kids will be well were they going to destroy did py want to destroy clell no he only wanted to destroy those aspects of Judaism that are passed down through the father what are they is goes after the father only the father have your father has to be from so what power wanted to eradicate was the aspect of lineage that go after the father as a reward for them not doing that they were rewarded rewarded that Kohan and kings came from them cuz they restored The patrilineal Descent of the Jewish people why do you want to do he wanted to marry the women no why did he want to be why the only one destroy the the lady yeah I have on also the no the the Egyptian also used to do the same thing so that's the only mitvah that you did back then so so that explains why what only to so they stop and they were rewarded that just I mean they wanted to stop the mitzvah for the men interesting okay okay another another interesting piece okay this is also a lesson in uh social work you ready for this one here mosu grows up turn to page 298 okayi it was in those days grew up he goes out to his brothers he sees their [Music] burden he sees an Egyptian whacking his friend smiting his friend he turns this way he turns that way he sees no one's looking he smacks the MIT hits the he kills him he buries him in the Sand by the way I want to heard an explanation what does it mean he turned this way and that wayu is a little so to speak trying to figure himself out here mosu has leaves his Palace for the first time he knew his father was am his his mother was y they didn't raise him he was raised in the house of parl Moses an Egyptian hitting a Jew M says What Am I who am I am I a you or am I he turns one way he sees himself as a he turns the other way he sees himself as an Egyptian she says that's no way to be a man that's no way to be a man to be wishiwashi to be jumping on both sides and he said I have to take a stance he smites the MIT that he goes out to his brothers he had a determine now that he's leaving his Palace what am I he turns both ways there's no if you're a man you can't strad both sides of the fence you have to take determine who are you in any event but that's not what Rashi says that's what we call atic so who was he well he was a yid but look what Rashi says what does it mean he saw nobody was there what does it mean what does it mean he saw there was no man says Rashi take a look at Rashi is he saw there would be no worthy descendant to come out of this Egyptian no one would ever convert from this Egyptian guy let me ask you a question yeah he looked Ines and he saw there were no there was no uh no nobody worthy coming out of this guy so he killed him let me ask you a question when let's say in the time when there was a Jewish court system and they warned the guy don't desecrate chabas and the guy said I'm doing it anyway what would happened to him kill him they kill him they Stone him what if you know one of the tadim sees that he's going to have a grandchild who's going to be a big sadik what do they do to him they Stone him doesn't matter what's going to come out of this guy that's not our business when somebody is worthy of the death penalty that's not our prerogative to start playing God who is worthy to come out nothing's coming out of him you Stone him harder no no so what does it mean what does it mean that why was mosu if moshu felt that this individual is worthy of death what's he looking to see whether somebody worthy was going to come out of him or not if you're now why was this why was he liable to the death penalty the ram says if a GU hits a even if he doesn't wound him he's liable to the death penalty okay but we don't kill him what does that mean we don't kill him that means he's liable to the death penalty through the hands of heaven but the courts down here will not kill him okay how is M killing this MIT how did he kill him he took out a pistol and he shot him name ah he said God's name the ineffable name because we see later when he meets up with they said mosha get out of here you're G to kill me with words like you killed that MIT so how is mosha killing this guy with God's name what kind of Misa is that that's Misa am that's not a Bez that's using that's Hashem killing him when Hashem takes away somebody's life Hashem looks to see who is going to come out of this person and if this person is going to have a worthy descendant Hashem will refrain so therefore since MOS was not killing him as a Judicial judge but rather as and when it comes to and we have to look to see what is the outcome M has to see is is anybody going to come out of this guy because he's not killing him as a Dion It's okay says right says if you remember when CL yeah he says when the CL was traveling through the lands ofon Mo M so what did we do to the MIM they were they were liable to the death penalty because of all the harm they inflicted upon us they they caused us to serve Idols they caused us to uh to commit um LD acts and they were liable to the death penalty what did they mo ofar says we didn't kill moav why because out of Moab would come Russ and na who cares who cares who cares who's coming out of them if it's a war of a Mitzvah you got to do what you got to do you got to wipe them out the answer is because the Torah says this is Nikas Hashem this is God's Vengeance this is not a regular Warfare this is the Warfare of God when God exacts Vengeance it has to be calculated long term it has to be calculated and therefore because Russ and Nama were going to come out of them they were spared they were spared so again when the courts down here when human beings have to make a decision and punish someone they don't take into account the future that they don't play God but when we're using some type of Supernatural system m is using the sh he has to figure out exactly what are the repercussions is anyone going to command of this individual no then he could use it otherwise otherwise in the cas of who was it that was like the most they were no but hasem caused them to to uh cast upon their enemy a unnatural fear no but in order to see down the line you have to have a who we don't know who exactly hasem told Moshe told mosha no but was no they didn't K because of the future right many right okay here listen to this um let's look at the next okay he goes down on day two he sees two Jews fighting by the way who are these men says Rashi who are they and a right whenever whenever we say in a bad context it's the two you always have the two guys you know they always uh Whatever Whenever something bad is happening you always have the and the you know they they rear Up In All Occasions says to the Russ why you hitting your friend who is the Russia and he says to Dustin what are you doing hitting uh hitting your friend okay now let's uh Zoom a few decades later do they like MOS no no right in fact they were the that's what he killed them they were they were the main uh proponents of k k right no that was a myy this is episode two let me ask a question why does why does m yeah he he he rebukes dasan he rebukes dasan yeah so I understand why D hates M but a a he should love M here you have two guys getting into a fight right they're fighting duson picks up his hand he's about to slap the guy next to you right don't hit the ver he's my friend right but imagine he's about to to to attack and I I say see what are you doing yeah right right so okay I understand you're not going to like me anymore but the he's going to love me I'm I'm saving his life I'm saving his life but yet we find yet we find later on in history not only does d hate MOS he hates him just as much why is that says retki brilliant insight and are brothers if you look in it says and so forth when you meddle into family politics and you try to help out one side eventually they'll make up and they'll both hate you because family even if they're on bad terms now the nature is they'll go to the Kaneka party together and they'll schmoo you know they'll sit back they'll drink they'll eat and they'll forget about it but then one of them's going to say that guy that Rabbi you know remember when he rebuked me and you know what's his business who does he think he is and the guy the other brother's going to agree even though he was trying to help out that's the way it is be careful when you meddle into a family because you think you're helping one side eventually they'll make up and they'll both be against you yeah ketki if you look it's in number six I'm sorry we're not reading it inside but um okay domol get involved they can it's always that was a great analogy no it's right okay we're going to end with the following don't okay we're going to end with the following ready for this Orin I'm ready okay okayu comes to the burning bush right he comes to the burning bush what does God say he says well first he says don't approach here what do you think you're doing standing by by my burning bush move back step back alra what's the word halom right you said alra halom then he says take off your shoes remember we learned taking off your shoes that the body is like the shoe of the right because the Nish is the bottom bottom portion of the the in our body is the bottom portion of the the body to the Nish is like the shoe to the body fine so God says move away don't approach here take off your shoes you're standing on Holy Ground says the we learn from here at this point mosu was asking to be the king of he wanted malus to come from him probably because he already knew that his mother was promised malus you know he learned earlier the reward of was figured I have the lost theun by the way I want where do we see he wanted hasem says and whenever we refer to the Majesty of the king and tanak it's called halom we find in where the king said who am I that you have brought me at halom until here halom refers to a special uh level and we find when Boaz was talking to Ross he said he uses the word halom to allude that Ros Kings AR going to come from you Hashem says to Moshe I'll don't come here meaning you're not going to be a king you're not going to be a king but that's it that's all we see that Moshe was asking to be a king from the word halom is there anything else in this incident that gives us sort of a remz to this idea that mosha was asking to be the king so listen to listen to what he says tells us in until what age are you called a Yad a child when do you move out of being a Yad so listen to what the gar says gar doesn't give an age it gives a Simmon so long as you could stand on one leg and take off your shoe and put on your shoe you're a yellowad you ever see kids you know they're very flexible they're balanced yeah try try uh try taking off your shoe standing on one leg you know you me if you're standing on one leg you have to take off the shoe that you're standing on that's how no try standing one leg taking off the shoe it's a very difficult task says the gamar you could do that you're a Yad after that you can't says thear was able to take off his shoe standing on one foot at age 80 sayso you know why I was able to do that it was the hot water and the wine and the oil that my mother moisturized me when I was a child that gives me the kak the strength to be able to do this at age 80 so he's he's crediting his mother's care to his extraordinary strength at age 80 what do we see from here says that ordinarily an 80y old person cannot take off his shoes standing up it was only Reina because his mother gave him special you know aloe lotion whatever heared how old was at this point 80 years old he was 80 so if needed to take off his shoe what was he going to have to do sit down but there's a problem because what is by the the in the place of the you're not to sit you're not to sit in the bikash by the way you're not allow to sit within for of for the same reason the you can look it up um I put it on the sheet just very briefly number five the reason the T gives why you're not to sit within four of down is because the territory becomes like the becomes holy territory so you can't sit there's only one person who's allowed to sit a king who descends from so tells him take off your shoe says Fine starts sitting down sitting down is he a king obviously he wants to be the king because only a king has license to sit in the place of the a so what does don't don't sit here move away and take off your shoes I'm not giving you so besides the word that was that wasem's decision not to give M but besides the word the fact that MOS was trying to take off his shoes obviously he couldn't do it standing he had to do it sitting because he was 80 years old that means that MOS wanted to sit but you can't sit in a holy Place must be MOS was requesting Mal and that's how another REM to the fact that that M was requesting andem tells him do not approach here okay so some things to think about on safer shos in general andos you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by tor anytime.com