Vaera - By Hook Or By Crook | Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

hi de olowski and Welcome to our paraa in five we're in five minutes we give you an Insight in the paraa that is suitable for saying over at the chabas table or for helping you scintillate at a cocktail party I don't think I've ever actually been to a cocktail party but I imagine that people need to scintillate there so what better way of scintillating than saying yeah I was listening to Row's para in five and I heard the following idea so uh feel free and as always uh we uh we have sponsors you can see the sponsors uh in the uh notes over there um tell you about who is making this possible and uh we encourage people to help us be marbits toyra and cl because if you're here then you know that there is nothing like the rowski show and especially our in five thank you very much I gota you know you understand that I lose a finger I'm going to have to make this the par in four but right now is the par in [Laughter] five yeah very interesting that uh the um PK can be read in a couple of ways where Hashem says to mosha tell Aon as take your stick and hit the river and it will turn into blood and all the water in Egypt will turn into blood so you understand there's two ways to read that tellon take your stick Moshe or tellon take your stick tellon to take his and hit the river which one does it mean so it's very interesting because you know in pavos it says there were 10 things that were created on the sixth day BOS and one of them was the mat of Moshe had all the makos written on it Etc but uh [Music] theim says m so oh my gosh you mean that Moshe had a staff and Aon had a staff it turns out that they were the Joint Chiefs of Staff I tell you that's it we could just stop now for that joke but uh each one of them had a mat and now listen what the kleer says because it's absolutely amazing he says aon's Mata was stronger than our Moses even though mosha mat had grown in G aen and them took it out and it had been passed down through the generations and Noah took it on the Tava and eventually it grew in y's garden and no one could remove it much like Excalibur story and Moshe pulled it out and it was this unbelievable miraculous thing iron was more powerful and he the r is that when Moshe uses his mat only the river turns to blood but when Aon uses his mate all of the water in Egypt turns to blood the canals the Lakes the reservoirs uh inside of the little jars remember that scene when you know the the slave Girl drops the picture and it's filled with blood you know you know what I'm talking about that those of you who didn't read the book and saw the movie instead but anyway so uh uh that that his was more powerful why because Moshe had a m that was meant to lead B isos Z we say in the that's the oos because the O is for B is moim that's punishments for parro and that aon's mat could do because you use a real big stick to beat a bad dog says the magish and Pyro was like a dog but for B Israel it's the Stick Of The Shepherd to lead them you may have heard the expression by hook or by crook the crook like you have a crook of your arm so that little round thing at the top that's the crook and there was a hook at the other end to pull it back from the wool so I'm going to keep the Sheep on the path by hook or by crook so too Moshe was there to lead us and not to be too touch tough with us but aon's Ma was very powerful and that's why says a klea when mosha throws down his stick it turns into a Nash a snake when Aon throws it down it turns into a tanin which is a crocodile much scarier more powerful and that was what he did for parro so uh so we have to always remember that although we say and mich spare the rod and spoil the child it should be the rod of the shf sheer who's there to make sure we bring people back and not the stick that one uses to beat away a bad dog all of us have to know that we carry a stick speak softly and carry a big stick as Teddy Roosevelt famously said but our stick should be the Stick Of The Shepherd that we use to Shepherd our people back to where they belong shabas