Parsha Perspectives for Today (Bo 5784/2023) - Dress for the Job You Want

good morning BTO it should be a good morning it should be a BTO a day filled with BOS toos we should hear good news from Mar Isel please God our hostages should be brought home our soldiers should have a sweeping Victory they should return to their families we should hear only good things I want to thank our generous par Siri sponsors Becky and aiats and family in memory of Becky's Father David grman this morning is also sponsored by my dear friendsa and Dr Rachel WI commemoration of the for reiton netw Shah by Judith Rosen in commemoration of the Rosen Marvin Rosen we remember well by naali Aon Ben naali Herzel and it should be a Rua for Ra basam was undergoing a procedure today should have a speedy painless and complete Rua one housekeeping note we will not have sheer the next two weeks it's okay it's okay it's okay we're going we're going we're going to Israel and you could listen to plenty of previous year sheum online and plenty of other people give she as well so we are taking a break over the next two weeks Pas B page 340 in the art scroll Stone ready here we go we find ourselves in the midst of the makos the unfolding of this incredible drama in MIT even though we know the way The Story Goes we live it the para we know these Paras we know them well not only do we read them through saos we live them through the through the holiday of PES and despite that despite knowing where the story is going and how the story ends there's a drama there's anticipation it unfolds and there's always something new and there's always something relevant dka for the time in which we are living there are lessons for today today so let's start out with a well-known idea we've shared it before but it's shared now in a new safer in a new context she's coming February 5th to our community looking forward says to everybody knows this Torah should have said should have said Moshe go go deliver the message go confront parro go storm the palace go speak truth to power go instead he says El come with me he's sending par he's not calling him to him so bo means come here where I am means go go where your mission is why does he say Bo when first recruited he said to him don't worry you feel that you have a speech impudent you have a stammer you have a stutter don't worry I will put the words in your mouth don't worry I will give you the we spoke about it this past shabas I don't want to go backwards a par but when says I I appeared previously and Rashi says as if we don't know who are Rashi tells us in case you forgot those are the originals OG those are Theos as if you forgot who aov are so we shared several interpretations but one of them said I didn't get the new by Tuesday I don't have it yet they send the newsletter on email on Thursday so for shabas I have but for Tuesday we do not yet have saos out so says means they were great they were inherently very holy people but their greatness came because gave them once he designated themos once they were designated leaders a mouthpiece an ambassador of elevated them he gave them and says that in our home in our family in our community in CL Isel in whatever capacity the moment we accept upon ourselves leadership we are willing to speak up to speak truth then we Merit the same so they were great not only because inherently intrinsically they were great because once they were designated Theos they merited a Moshe was the same that's what Hashem was telling Moshe you're worried you're reluctant you're hesitant you don't think you have what it takes you don't have the courage you don't have the conviction don't worry go and speak up and I will give you the words I will give you the courage I'll give you the courage was coming back on Sunday my son has G I was in one car with my son my wife was driving in another car with my sh with my father-in-law and for the first time this was actually a little bit scary we have on each of our cars we have the flags that we gave out a thousand Israeli Flags American flags T flags on the car driving P met Park Road and some Maniac first he cut me off and he was cursing and he gave me the one finger salute and he had not nice things to say about Israel about the flags fine I just avoided eye contact I tried to take a little video so I could report him then he fell back and he did the same thing to my wife he cut off the car so I called you I said first of all obviously avoid him don't escalate she said you won't believe it I said what she said my father lowered the window and he's giving it back to he said your father my fa I didn't know my father had that in him who knew OS who knew when you're in that moment of truth and you need to speak up and you need to find your voice and you need to confront an enemy you find The Voice or the appropriate gestures or whatever you need to reciprocate to uh to the car that's confronting you that's coming by so says to don't worry you're worried you think you have a speech impediment you're worried and you say what if someone cuts me off what if they're cursing out my Flags what will I do K says don't worry I'll put the words in your mouth I'll put the courage in your fingertips I'll give you what you'll need in order to speak up in that moment what we have to know and we have to feel in our wherever we're going whomever we have to confront we're not alone K puts his arm around us and he comes says new come let's go we're going to the hospital to visit someone we're going to the SHA home to pay a tough sh come we're going to have a difficult conversation resolve a conflict we're going to negotiate a complicated business matter come we're going to an office of Congress to speak up and to speak out doesn't say go good luck let me know how it goes K puts his arm around us and he says no bo come we're going together it's not St vort this is palpably what we're meant to feel with every of our lives with every mission that we're on is putting his arm around us and he says Bo that's classic every body knows that we've said it a million times you could say to someone new go every morning we find ourselves saying to our kid go to school my girls live a 30 second walk to school I have to drive them car PS no but no go already it's getting late go what does go mean I'm staying here get away from me go over there that's what go means not to our children we love them but they have to go to school go go to work go to school go where you meant to go go I'm here you go there and there's some distance between us go suggests implies that you're going somewhere that I'm not there but is in the words of Here There and Everywhere so when we wonder why does it say B it should say say it's a you can't say with because you could never leave him Le means leave me and go where you're meant to go when it comes to Theon when it comes to the almighty you can never leave he goes with you wherever you go because he's Here There and Everywhere fills the entire world don't be afraid and don't worry don't be intimidated and don't be overwhelmed says I am with you wherever you are wherever you are even in the Palace of I'm not at a distance you didn't leave me behind I didn't just give you talking points and send you on your on your way says that's why it's Bo we always ask it should be why is a everyone gives a because says I'm going with you but he says it's not because is going with you you can't say you can never leave him behind wherever we go whatever we're doing whatever we have to overcome whatever we have to navigate in our lives he is by our side he is with us by definition by definition so all there is the only thing we can say is isbo continuing right along says so that you may relate in the ears of your son your son's son that I made a joke of MIT my signs that I placed among them that you may know that I am Hashem for whom are the makos we make the mistake of thinking the makos were directed at the MIT the Egyptians we make a mistake of thinking it's a p p to is giving a smack to parro you don't know who I am Moshe says I'd like to introduce you here's the card here's who I represent I'm here on behalf of the almighty God and Par says I don't know such a guy I don't know such a God says nice to meet you nice to meet you shom nice to meet you and the explained how that's what was saying there were three parts to the curriculum three parts to the curriculum par in three ways I never heard of you and even if you exist do you have anything to do with me there were three ways that parro rejected the notion of God and God responds with a three part curriculum but here in this P Hashem is revealing why is he hardening parro's heart and why is he performing these Miracles intervening and interceding in nature something Hashem does not like to do why is he doing it for whom to whom is it directed it's for us to never doubt to always look back that when we're going through a war in t p we know whatever gullas whatever harshness wherever we find ourselves can make Miracles he can intervene and intercede he could bring us out is the source and you'll say well who says maybe he created a world and he moved on maybe it's all over the answer is look at permeates our our shabas our KES every morning every night we're constantly tapping in we're constantly turning back we're constantly reminding ourselves of what happened in The Exodus why is Hashem so egomaniac egotistical he needs us to review over and over and over again how great he is how great what he did is no he wants to reassure us that whatever we are going through just as he redeemed then he can redeem now that's the in being spoke about this in Sitter Snippets we're already now finishing but when you finish makes a promise whoever if you simply recite and immediately adjacently go right into theid don't be distracted don't look around don't read Lord John Rabbi Sak's par don't talk to the guy who just walked into sh late don't set up the Kish you know what you Merit the world to come wonders really because you just went from G you into the amid with no interruption no matter what else you did in this world you Merit so he says you know what the is to be to means you start the and you say to yourself but who says can you really make me wise and smart are you really going to give make me heal and recover or give a full recovery to the person I love who's going through an illness are you really the one who could bring Redemption ofu are you gonna gather the Exiles are you going to bring Justice are you GNA all the amida why am I wasting my time why am I saying this who says he's interested who says he's involved who says he's aware who says he cares who says he intervenes you know what the answer is remember and recall the past right before you say the if someone ever once did you a favor then when you go into to ask them for the next favor you find the courage and you find the will and you find the words because you say you know last time I had a problem I called them and they took care of me and I'm sure they can and they will do it again and that's why we're so much because we maintain that theme we remember that and that's what this PK is telling us tell your children tell your grandchildren the Mak whatever MIT whatever matar whatever constricted restricted place when you feel the walls are closing in the ceiling is caving in when you feel the the sky is falling on you you're remember then because I can be go today I can be go today little preview of tonight sitter snippet is in HOV it's in the present tense why don't we say the future you will it's hopeful it's aspirational you willab preview for tonight says it's inov Hashem is constantly redeeming and bringing Redemption it happens in stages and increments the D the shess of G so to whom and for whom is it directed it's for us yes par and MIT yes the whole world got a curriculum they got an education but you KN know he needs that education most importantly we do we need to wake up every day and know he is involved in our lives he didn't create and move on he is intimately involved that's why the kuari quotes to Ezra's question and the kuari answers why does Hashem introduce himself with the aser I the Lord your God who took you out of Egypt not the most impressive thing on his resume everyone knows the interview start with the most impressive thing on your resume start with the most impressive thing on your sh resume everyone knows you start with the most impressive thing why does he go to number two I took them out of Egypt big deal you created the whole world start with the fact that you created the whole world the Kari says you know why first of all no one was there to see that but our ancestors experienced MIM and they told us they told their children told the children told the children told the children told the children who are our parents and who told us it was handed and transmitted to us person after person but moreover says the Kari you know why because maybe you created the world impressive ex Neo something from nothing incredible can never be duplicated replicated you created something from nothing but who says you didn't do that and then move on to another project who says you didn't do that and then retire how do we know you're still involved and the purpose of the the purpose of our relationship with you is not to be impressed not to be overwhelmed not to be intimidated but to be supported and loved to know that you have our back to know that you're involved in our lives that's why all these makos that's why everything that he did Skip to we're now on the eighth plague the plague of locust the plague of AR and the Servants of parro turn to parro right now this question never bothered me before I said we read the same paraa every year but you discover new questions new answers new insights it's amazing it's amazing so the slaves of power turn to him and they say they spoke yish they said enough enough how long are you going to let this go on send them out let him go let him go worship your stubbornness your obstinacy your ego your arrogance you're bringing plagues literally Upon Our Heads it's enough this is number eight how many times how many hurricanes and tsunamis and tornadoes and snowstorms and disasters enough enough do you not yet know that MIT is lost you can't hold on you can't stay the same enough enough and wonders do you not yet know do you not see the writing on the wall can you not read the room have you not read what the what the pundits are saying you've lost it you've lost it's over it's over so why are you clinging in such a way that the next plague is being brought upon us it's cruel enough there's a big question what's the question we read this pure every year and we sing and count the Moos of the SAR every year did it ever occur to you are they out of their minds who are they to storm into parro and to talk to him with such a such a brazenness what are you contradicting parro you're giving him mus even when you want to advise the president the Prime Minister the king gently softly have you considered have you thought about put in the briefing booklet but you yell at him you put a finger in his face and you say do you know what you're doing to us it's enough it's over Let It Go they're questioning his judgment his decision making they're demanding send them out they're declaring declaring you've lost the brazenness where' they get that from where' they get from from you have to understand that in that time to speak to a King in that way the king would declare off with your head he'd simply kill you so how could they talk to him such they're all his servants they're all his slaves where do they where do they get this listen to what he says listen to the Insight it's an incredible incredible principle here you see the impact of our surroundings on us who we hang out with to whom we expose ourselves our environment the culture you see how quickly it impacts sometimes we're not even aware of it we don't even see it or notice it we can't even measure it but it's contagious and through osmosis and through peer pressure an environment a culture it changes it shapes and molds so what happens even if the culture until now was everyone was afraid they walked on eggshells they titered but one person broke that barrier one person pierced that ceiling one person showed you know you could push back a little bit could show a little bit of you can challenge and survive when they saw that mosha and Aon had no problem Marching In The Palace had no problem pointing a finger in his face had no problem demanding of power Let My People Go all of a sudden they said they didn't do it consciously they didn't sit around and have a meeting and say well I guess we're allowed not talk that way update we're allowed to talk that way they just you see the impact of peer pressure you see the impact of a culture they what happened was there was a fear there was a fire and all of a sudden they splashed cold water on it mosha and Aon poured cold water on that fear and on that fire they broke through that invisible wall and now everyone could walk through it including including his advisers he says we find this concept elsewhere to H Russia H Russia had the whole world bowing down to him everybody a little preview I know it's not too a little preview to's got it all H's got it all he's elevated he's distinguished he's prominent Fame and Fortune power but it's all not worth anything to me as long as I see sitting there and I walk by and he doesn't bow I don't care that everyone else bows I don't care that I have Fame and Fortune I don't care that I'm the biggest influencer and I have all the power but that one little Jew I walk by and he won't look at me he doesn't bow to me he doesn't defer to me so it all doesn't matter all doesn't mean anything to me because I don't have that is nobody had the fame nobody had the fortune nobody had the influence nobody had the power and yet he says none of it's worth anything to me throws it all away he clouds his old judgment this one little Jew this old man who won't bow down who cares who cares so listen to what he says and moreover by the way and so what does he do they build the Gallows and I'm gonna hang hamon I'm gonna hang morai rather and one do Dr why do you have to make a special death a special murder for H for Mor you already have a plan to exterminate all the Jews and mor is one of the Jews so this lowly Jew is bothering you when you exterminate all the rest of the Jews of shushan there goes M to you need to separate them out and hang them on a Gallow hang them on a tree let him die with everybody else why do you have to waste your time spend your time and your resources why do you have to come up with your whole plan just for him and the answer is he spells it out a lot longer but I want to get further in the Para such a brilliant Insight you know what was really worried about yes I have it all yes everyone else bows down yes I have Fame and Fortune but do you know how fragile that is you know how much it could disappear in any moment you know why because all it takes to turn everything is one person realizing you know that Mori sits there and doesn't bow why are we bowing that Mor doesn't get up why do we get up that mortify doesn't submit and surrender why do we have to surrender and the presence of one person is the Kryptonite that could bring it all down and H understood it's not all of it's not worth something to me because it could all disappear at any moment he is threatened by the presence even of the one he has to be eliminated he has to be eliminated and where did hamon learn this isod from because many years before his ancestors who were from whom does Hama descend same as from come and they attack the Jewish people on our way out of we'll read it next week the Tora tells us what's their reason what's their rationale what's their mission why do amalik attack what's the what's the translation of the word we were on fire we were on fire when I was a kid there was a video game and if you hit three shots in a row in the NBA video game you were on fire and then your your uh player became like bigger and there was like rings around them they were on fire they couldn't miss none of you know what I'm talking about they were on fire on fire claw isra was on fire they were just 10 plagues and a splitting of a sea all for them they were Untouchable they were on fire no one could go near them no one could go near them my parents described that after The Six Day War a Jew walked around and to every non-jew every Jew was 10 feet tall the world was afraid of the Jewish people what Israel accomplished in the in the first six hours of the Six Day War there was a fear on fire nobody dare nobody dare anti-semites went into hiding nobody dare but what happened happens the amics of this world come along and you know what they do they Splash cold water on your fire they attack and when they attack they open the door for everyone it's exactly what we're seeing right now because it became inv Vogue and in fashion to be an anti-semite there were always anti-semites the last 75 years too but it wasn't it wasn't invogue it wasn't in fashion you couldn't speak out you couldn't pull up and cut somebody off and curse out their flag but now now that ceiling's been broken that cold water has been splashed on our fire it's what amalik did it's what ham feared M would do it's what mosha and Aon accomplished that enabled and allowed the advisers the to turn to him and say demand declare where did they get that brazenness where do they get that the answer is because mosha spoke that way so they did too so there's a bigod a big again he has a long essay he goes on a lot further nobody would dare challenge was an emperor he ruled with an iron fist he could do whatever he wants but when Moshe and Aon came and they popped that balloon they put a hole when they open that door Mak and they smacked him with one plague after another all of a sudden everyone found their voice and now they were able to push back and there's a powerful message a powerful message in this Insight per P yud per PK Tess turning the page 342 here you have this conversation now p is ready to send them out and he's ready to let them go a brief soj germ so M were returned to and he said to them go and serve your God asks who's going fine fine you're going to do an aod you have a ritual you have a ceremony you have a religious right you need to perform no problem give me the roster give me the itinerary I'm going to need passport numbers the two that soci Security numbers you're going you're getting a little break who's going what does mosha answer peculiarly you know who's gr our youngsters and our elders with our sons and with our daughters with our flock and with our cattle you know why it's a it's a y it's kind of an answer is that the par question what's going on over here in this conversation what's going on over here in this in this conversation so we'll start with the he going understood from everybody's going who's worthy I know your people and they've been influenced by us they're assimilated they're in the M they're all such graim they're all going to the B Med they're all going to they're all going to far with rberg I know them I've seen the lar I see the way they talk in daving I see the way they dress I see where they go I see how they F out their taxes I know them they're not such Grace at sikim I know them I know I have their browsers history I have their Netflix account access I know so who's so holy that who's going out to do this thing you call who are the who are the big because to get out of the muck to get out of the misery to get out of the impurity of sure there were a few so who who are the L of this generation asks parro who are the distinguished who are the mits who are the excellent who are the righteous give me the list and I'll let them go I know it's not more than that you know what moshe's answer was Judaism doesn't see age we're blind to age we don't care about a person's age whether you've been righteous since your youth whether you first discovered Hashem now today and you're turning over a new Leaf this morning it doesn't matter it doesn't matter turns mosha to and he says it doesn't matter men and women young and old whether they've always been righteous or whether Justice moment they've decided they want to try to live a new life everybody in y we're all equal we're all even we're all one and the same and all of us have a right and all of us have access and Hashem loves each and every one of us we don't delegate our religious rights and ceremonies and rituals to clergy to pastors to priests to rabbis to others m not just everybody's a bigad everybody's a bigad from the to the everybody every Year's a bigad every's a bigad every's a bigad that's what mosha is telling par you know all the every's a bigad some 80 and 90 year olds have been a sadic since they were 10 B some 15year olds just decided at 15 to be a sadic first 14 years of their life they were little T now 15 they're going to be aad doesn't mean young or old chronologically in age it means stage and frame of mind some have always been a holy sadic and some just discovered that they too can be a sadic but you don't have to have a full long resume ofus to be able to be in ever Hashem to be in ever hasem it doesn't matter whether you've always been or whether you're starting to be now all of us be a bigad that's what the says was the conversation between Moshe and back to our friend understands differently there's a debate a dialogue going on you have to understand it he wants everyone Out full emancipation says not only the men us mosha doesn't accept it either everyone or nobody we're all going together no way what's going on in this conversation if you think about this conversation with par you'll see the word that repeats itself over and over again is the word what did the servants and slave just say a moment ago I told you the last insight they demanded with the they learned they were allowed to have from MOS andon MOS andon gave them license to speak that way to par and what did they say send them out and let them go worship their gods means they understood what was the purpose and goal himself says go and worship go and serve when we think of aod what is aod theodos sacrifices ritual so parro says who does the ritual men clergy priests religious leaders not children not women not the simple people so if the whole reason par is willing to let them go is you've got some crazy religious practice you want and you're after me for your religious freedom fine no problem take a day go where you need to go go do your religious thing and then we'll resume then come back who's going mosha says who's going we're all going pro says you're not all going to do your religious thing you only need the religious leaders the priests the clergy and mhha says no that's not our religion our religion our religion young and old boys and girls men and women everyone everything why our religion is not just aod bringing making sacrifices our aod doesn't end at the door of the when you're done doing the theod in the heart what we do today we don't have a b m we don't haveb what is our aod today our aod today is is ding so you don't leave hasem behind to beem comes with us to the mall and to work to the gym and to the supermarket comes with us back into our house to the kitchen and the living room he comes with us everywhere because to be a it's to be a it's it's a all of life and every day is one big it's one big party with Hashem it's one big party and therefore unlike other religions you think this was just ancient even today other religions they have priests pastors and clergy and the religious and the righteous life is for them they practice celibacy they practice abstinence they have to practice rituals they have to show up regularly and the simple person in other religions comes once a year comes once a week nothing really as are demanded of them they can have concessions to give in and indulge their human desires that's not our religion I'll tell you a little secret I'll tell you a little secret the rabbi this one or any other the G of any generation the moas they don't have a different than you they're no more Bound by Hal than you they have no greater obligation they have no different religious religious practices they don't have different Halas we're all the same we are all exactly the same that's what it's all that's what it's all about and that's what's going on in this conversation that's what's going on in this dialogue par like every other religion says you need the clergy you need the priests but mosha is responding that's not what yishai is going to be and and sadly even within yishai too many have made it that are the rabbis are the one who have to raise their children a certain way they have to dress or be careful where they go or what they do what they watch they're the ones who have to show up the sh on time and not talk and make it till the end before they take off the filling it's for the rabbis the rabbitson the rabbitson has to and her children have to but we that's not our religion it's not some religious ritual or service it's not some burden it's not some it's G It's amazing And therefore it is inviting and open to all moving along turn the paric per page 346 the warning of the final plague says to m one more plague I'm gonna bring upon in Egypt a a Whopper we save the best for last number 10 number 10 we've built up to the 10th and after that he's going to send you out and when he sends you forth it shall be complete he will drive you out of here he will drive you out of here by the way what does mosha keep saying to par let my Let My People Go Moshe doesn't chant bring them home he says let them go the hostages the chant does not bring them home because as if there's someone not doesn't want to bring them home the government the IDF anyone we all want to bring them home and if we had that option we would the burden and the pressure should not be on the Israeli government or on us bring them home the chant has to be Let My People Go Let My People Go Let My People Go and now we have a little Interruption to our story before that 10th plague is visited before Moshe for the final time will say Let My People Go Hashem tells him I'm speaking the ears of the people they need to borrow from their re silver vessels and gold vessels speak in their ear and they need to and they need to borrow we're not going to repeat the we've shared so many times that I love from a who's you're gonna call the Egyptian that you're going to first of all you're not borrowing you're taking it number two Egyptian became Ura your friend not parro nor the Egyptians the Nazis of course were the primary actors of the Holocaust but too many of the Polish were happy to be their accomplices Kamas were the primary evil Wicked terrorists who perpetrated and are perpetrating this war and too many of the Gins are their accompli so that's r that's had a whole new reading of this that in fact it's not talking about the MIT whatsoever this was an instruction to the Jews lend and borrow from one another before you can go out you need to first practice you need to learn and practice you have so little but what you do have you could lend and you can borrow and you can set up G you need to create the G of and only after you establish a merit to go and that's the only takes us out we say it every day in says only when we first practice was he willing to take us out but that's the bar Tor I'm not telling you this year that's the one I'm not telling you this year even though I love it let's go back to the classic and simple understanding of this that is talking to telling Moshe to talk to says the word can mean to borrow or to take so it shouldn't bother us that it means borrow elsewhere in tanak sometimes that same word doesn't mean to borrow it means to take and here it means to take take from your MIT neighbor the tell us had a discussion with the bris told your children are going to be slaves in for how many years 400 years again it's we spoke about we say we use the word quickly because it was accelerated was accelerated that's why under under because it went faster we're suffering now through in the fourth Exile it was added those years were tacked on we're suffering through it but in any case in any case yearsis 400 years they're going to be slaves and what will happen when they leave they're gonna leave with with great wealth they're gonna leave with great wealth so the G tells us why now does Hashem say Moshe tell them go collect the wealth because I don't want a or his children to have AA on me you fulfilled the part of backbreaking Labor you fulfilled the part of centuries of slavery but the part of leaving with great wealth you forgot you left out so to fulfill it go take gold and silver from your neighbors grab it on your way the only reason hasem fulfilled his pledge his promise was so that a can't have a Tina later it's a funny gar BR Hashem says oh yeah you know what I knew I had that reminder set before you leave everyone take gold and silver and why so that AB can't have a Tina that I told him you're going to be slaves but you're also going to leave with great wealth I got to make sure to fulfill the second half of leaving with great wealth that's the only reason that he fulfills his word otherwise he wouldn't have fulfilled his word that's the only reason because when hasem told AB you're gonna leave with he wasn't talking about gold and silver you know what he was talking about the greatest wealth that we can have is not what's in our bank account it's not what we can deposit in the safe that's not the great wealth that Hashem was promising you know what he was promising was the and T to collect the holy Sparks to collect the holy energies to collect the holy Mitzvah to collect the holy to collect the holy children could care less about stock market and real estate about the cars and about the gold and the silver bars it's not what he cared about because whatever he had great or small was all devoted and dedicated to the service of hem if he was willing to sacrifice his son certainly he was willing to sacrifice his gold and silver it was the collection of the of the mitz of putting the door the D on the doorpost which we're going to get to momentarily that's what the the great wealth a person has I forgot where I said this recently which she incredible Mal it's definitely did I say it somewhere else P it's a beautiful song We Sing is that you can't take it all with you there's never a U-Haul attached to the back of a hearse don't come with pockets because you can't take any of it with you can't take any of it with you I don't care how many cars how many watches how much gold how much silver how much jewelry doesn't matter how big your portfolio what appears in your bank account you can't take any of it with you so why does the say why did sing he should have said it's not that in death you can't take it all in death you can't take anything so why does it say you can't take it all because you can take some things ah what can you take we can slip something into the Aron you're going to put something into the coffin you can't still take something with you no you can't take anything physical but you can take all that you collected spiritually Theos you can take the and the you can take and I told the story I'll repeat it quickly here that Ro was once was once asked by someone what's your net worth it's a rude question I don't think you're supposed to ask it but what's you couldn't google it the time today you just Google it you wouldn't ask the person to Reon but what's your net worth what are you worth so he told his secretary his assistant bring me my charity Ledger bring me my Stu a book and he said well you know I named this building I set up this Kyo I gave to this Mikvah I donated to the soldiers in in the Army in Israel so they I know it was before Israel understand so the man said I asked you your net worth not not what you gave away I asked you what you're worth and listen to what the Roth child answered he said you know what I have could disappear any moment stock market could crash the real estate market could implode what I have could be stolen could disappear the banks could go under what I have I don't really own it could disappear but what I gave away no one can ever take from me all that we ironically paradoxically ever ever have is what we gave away what we hold on to we don't really have and certainly we won't have forever but what we gave away no one can take from us that's what we'll always have and that's what comes with us in the next world and therefore our new campus expansion sorry I got distracted for a moment and therefore if anyone would like to talk about being able to take it to the next World and therefore giving it to us I'd be more than happy to entertain that conversation but that's what was saying what you have you can't take with you but what you gave away you can what you gave away is exactly what you take with you so don't hold on to it so tight don't hold on to it so tight the tighter you hold on to something the less you own it and the less the lighter you hold on to it the more willing and eager you are to give the more that you really ever have NE on the people who cling so tight NE on them NE because they think they're holding on they think they really have it all that you really have is what you gave away so that's the what hasm was telling AB the great wealth is the however didn't understand that after all they were still on this lowly level the slave mentality they thought was they thought was the Power Ball they thought was the lottery they thought was gold and silver had to say and you know that he fulfilled he fulfilled so therefore from the perspective of was ever himself going to reneg on it cook has a different Insight says R cook cook has a different insight and my friend by Aron Golder and his beautiful new book Torah United brings down this R cook what's theat so one approach is that this constituted reparations first example of reparations in the Torah is where were they stealing and they said can we borrow some gold and silver was reparations reparations 210 years of unpaid slavery this was time to pay up compensation reparations according to centuries of forced labor it was reparations we all know the debate benur andan should we allow Germany to pay reparations after the Holocaust benorian said we are a brand new country we have no resources we have nothing we're not in a position to say no it doesn't mean they're exonerated or forgiven let them at least give us buses and taxis yes Manan said absolutely not he gave a fiery speech in the knesset and he said don't let them feel that they've cleaned they're absolved of their guilt because they wrote a check for our buses and our cabs and our taxis it didn't go Bean's way of course you see the Mercedes all over Israel Germany paid reparations it was a great debate but here voted in this case and he pined reparations go borrow one from the other it was an object lesson Injustice in the fullness of time hasem punishes the wicked and rewards the righteous further reinforc the theological lessons of the makos the's Invisible Hand moving around wealth as he saw fit and that's what Hashem does ultimately it's a g it's a gal it's a cycle economic cycle on top today is on the bottom tomorrow Shem moves around that wealth he moves around that wealth that's why the wealth money is called it moves it moves or Z the Hebrew word for money is because it's z a currency not only because the currency moves because that same dollar moves throughout circulation but it means wealth transfers hands but still even if that were the reason reparations you know how many times the Torah mentions this no less than four times four time four times that has to tell us so cook suggests a different approach based on a gamar the gamar Tells tells us the following Shem asked the Jewish people for a favor please ask Egypt for gold and silver so will not have this claim thear we just learned what is so significant about this aspect of hashem's promise to AB that he was concerned that he would complain and why was this phrased as a request so of cook answers appears on his of cook wrote a commentary on some of the TIC sections of sh BR shabas and others and this appears in the [Music] tell you in English slavery says crushes the body we know that they couldn't hear MOS neasha back breaking labor as its name suggests breaks one's back it's physically grueling and crushing but it only doesn't only crush the body it also crushes the the spirit the soul and after 210 years of grueling Relentless laboring for others Jewish slaves needed to begin thinking of themselves as masters of their own destiny they needed to break out of that slave mentality in the early stages of the Redemption Torah tells us that the Israelites had difficulty accepting mha's message of Hope why because the smallness K of their Spirit it was necessary to make something unimaginable very real in order to break them out of their small- mindedness to expand their focus beyond the day's toil and gruel the sudden acquisition of precious metals would serve to awaken their sense of selfworth to bolster their ambition bed decked in gold and silver their Spirits could not help but be raised Hashem phrased this as a request to demonstrate to them this wealth was the means and not the end enriching the people allowed them to broaden their Horizons enough to bring spiritual greatness into their field of view you slave mentality who dressed and looked and surrendered like slaves put on this golden jewelry and see yourselves as princes and princesses have ambition and goals and drives see yourselves as royalty and carry yourselves as royalty so that's why four times this is mentioned not just as reparations according to Ra was trying to transform the mentality if we see ourselves as victims if we walk around in life as victims and martyrs will never ever make a change we'll never as ambition and aspiration we'll simply VI victims throughout our lives before we ever left said here's a wardrobe go get dressed because dress for the job that you want not the job that you have have ambition have aspiration have goals have Vision don't see yourself as a victim don't be complacent or apathetic don't be a passive spectator to your own destiny put on this gold put on this silver put on this uniform put on what you think right now for you is a costume but let It ultimately be a precursor to who you're going to be broaden your horizon have Vision be the Arbiter of your own destiny don't just be a victim don't just be a victim and that is why it's repeated four times and that is why it was so critical and that is why Hashem told Moshe no please this is so critical if you're going to break out of the slave mentality this is what will be necessary moving along the first of the Torah is our ability to control time a slave doesn't control their own time to be a free person is to be in control of your own time and if you live with Jewish time I.E you're late to everything if you're not punctual you are a slave if you want to be free then be in control of your own time be in control of your own time that's why the first mitz in the Torah first thing a slave needs needs to hear is you're no longer controlled by others if you feel I have no time I'm not in control of time I'm overwhelmed by time then you are slave you're a slave to whatever it is that's controlling your time whatever makes you lazy or procrastinate or late whatever is filling your time which is not what you wanted to be with to practice greater essentialism in your life to be free is to be in control of your own time per B gim page 3502 before hasem is willing to take them out he gives them the challenge to tie up the animal to the bed Slaughter it take the blood sprinkle it on the doorpost and the blood will be ass signed on the homes that you're there and I'll see the blood and now the name of the holiday I will skip over them there will not be a plague of Destruction upon you when I will strike in the land of Egypt says says in his in his we'll end with two we can quickly Revol given two Mitzvah to do before the Redemption from MIT bris and carbon p and in bris is sprinkle the blood and the question is and what's the reason it's given by the Torah itself you don't have to you don't have to uh guess what's the reason to identify the home hasem has to know which ones to skip over and of course R is bother the question that we all are does Hashem really need a sign tie a ribbon around the tree put a note on the front door put a muza on the doorpost sprinkles some blood so he knows which house to skip over he doesn't know 10 plagues he could bring but knowing which is a Jewish house that he doesn't know that he doesn't know it's easy the ones that have a minivan in the driveway why do you have to sprinkle blood just check who has a minivan check who has a minivan or a Range Rover so Rashi citing kazal explains everything is revealed before Hashem and yet hasem said I put my eyes upon you Z Rashi what's the Rashi here I'll only do it what am I looking for what am I looking to see whether you do my mitz I'm giving you one command sprinkle blood if you do it I know it's the right house and I'll skip it if you don't it's not the right house and then I'm not skipping it then you're going to get what the others are getting too says you see in this rash the whole idea of sorry I'm reading the wrong wrong one reading the wrong one what does he say say says you see from here are enlightening us to the spiritual mechanics of mitzvas had B not placed the door on their doorpost they would have perished along with the Egyptians even though has no problem he's omnipotent he's infinite he certainly knows which house is a Jewish house the point of asking to do it was not really so he would know the point was for us to have skin in the game are we willing to sacrifice are we willing to compromise are we willing to make an effort are we willing to also add relationships have to be reciprocal don't sit back and wait for the other to do for you what are we you willing to do how do you demonstrate your love how do you demonstrate your service your acts of service K doesn't need our mitzvos it's not for him but he wants us to see that we have skin in the game that we're invested in the relationship that we're willing to give to go go to do to sacrifice every Mitzvah we perform and every BR we recite brings BR and bounty to the world and before Hashem was willing to skip over the house first he wanted to see us do a Mitzvah the same is true with every Mitzvah he has all kinds of BR waiting to give to us but first he gives a little look and he says no are they doing Mitzvah am I in this relationship one way because I don't want to be in a one-way relationship all the expectations are on me I got to do all the lifting in this relationship not interested I'll be in a relationship if it's on both sides I'll be on the relationship if it's two ways how does Hashem know what our needs are what our wants are it's not hard it's not a secret we tell him all the time we ask him we protest we object we beg we plead we're angry he knows what we want how do we know what his needs are it's also easy there's no guess work how do you know his needs there's 613 of them they're called mitzvos so hasem says I'm all yours I'm happy to listen to what your needs are and I'm happy to provide them but I'd like you to pay attention to my needs and my needs aren't even for me my needs are also for you but I've spelled it out for you so therefore therefore when you do Mitzvah I skip on that house this Rashi is so fundamental says RBA we miss it we skip over it like the house we skip over the Rashi butash is telling us the whole purpose of don't do it for me I can I know which is a Jewish house even if you don't do it do it for you because a relationship has to be reciprocal a relationship has to be two ways only then is it a real is it a real relationship it was a beautiful of salich also on this why do we need to sprinkle the blood but we are overtime so we'll end here we'll start next year with this beautiful please to finish off saer tum take just a few minutes we divide into 30 parts we'll take just a few minutes please remain to finish off saer tum remember no Shear for the next two weeks we'll resume in two and three weeks from now if you're not on the WhatsApp group join the paral perspective WhatsApp group 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