Parsha Perspectives for Today (Bo, 5785) - A People of Courage

okay I was about to say good morning good evening everyone welcome to parion perspectives for today I appreciate everybody's flexibility as we're having Shear during a different time this week and I understand I threw some people for a huge Loop dinner before dinner after early bird late dinner 6:30 some of you already were in pajamas you got dressed to come it means the world to me par year is Gen sponsored by Becky cats and family in memory of David G I'm not helping the image that bokeh is a bunch of uh we have y there's so many young people here the people listening or watching could only see this room the youthfulness in this room is is unbelievable sponsored as well by cind and aish and family and leish Bernard salivan Dove on his and of Max and a Contin I also want to dedicate our learn a young boy from our community had open heart surgery yesterday please God should have a speedy and painless and complete ruim an amazing young Manon Zev Ben leina should bounce back with a if it's even possible a bigger and a stronger heart than he already has we're par Bo page 340 in the art scroll Stone El Hashem says to Moshe Bo ELO you know the challenge with all these paros for me is I have my favorite D Tor in every para to get to the new ones and not just retell you my favorite it's so hard it takes so much discipline I don't know I have it but I'm going to try but why B not Le we're not going to give the answer why doesn't hem say to Moshe go go to parro why does he say Bo come come to par okay I'll tell it to you because somebody texted me an interesting question only because you insist why boa Paro I mentioned I think last year boa because wants us to know that when we have a mission in this world when we're on a mission when we have a purpose he not sending us Hashem doesn't sit back and watch and say go for it let me know how it goes he says new come Bo I'm gonna be standing right next to you when you go protest speak truth to power I'll be standing next to you in the operating room or the boardroom I'll be standing next to you in the court room I'll be with you wherever whatever Bo I'm coming with you you got a mission you got a purpose it's not Le you go and I'll stay here it's Bo come I'll come so somebody who listened to last week's last year's par year yesterday text me asking me if that's the case if that's the case why does it say why does tell he should have said Bo no come come to the land I'll show you what do you mean Le why does AB get a Le and Moshe gets a b it's a good question it's a good question though I think maybe Bo elar was not a test for mosha mosha passed his test was his mission now it's time to execute carry out what he's meant to do is a test and maybe the test of was without a feeling in a sense that Hashem is with you go maybe a feeling on your own you don't know where where is the destination where is the journey what are the coordinates what's the address just Le and not a sense of Bo but it's a good question and I welcome your suggestions and your answers so hasem says to mosha no let's go I have hardened power's heart and the Heart of his servants so that I can put these signs of mine in his midst in other words if you were flexible if you were if you were willing to let your people go I wouldn't be able to fulfill I wouldn't be able to finish all these Moos but the makos are a curriculum hasem is trying to communicate something to par to the MIT and to all of us and so he needs to harden his heart to hold out a little bit longer so we can continue this curriculum this education I want to share with you several the he has incredible it always but particularly I found on this what is hashem's Mission I'm going to I Harden his heart why so I could put these signs the main goal was show who boss show parro who's in charge after all what was parro's reaction when mosha first go what is power's reaction he says and I don't know God which God what God who God I don't know a God Mom go in my office and take some water get some privilege because your son's the rabbi it's okay paro's reaction is I don't know what God what God who God which God so he's now on his way to introducing hi it's nice to meet you I'm God I suspend the rules of nature I control nature I'm the one who created the whole world what is this biig here bow the goal is for par to know where do you know up here in your head what do you mean inside it's possible for a person to see countless miracles to be exposed to the revelation of hashem's guiding hand you read about the pager Miracle has blows up doesn't injure the people around them carried out with such Precision over years impossible it's a miracle a miracle you hear that hundreds of ballistic missiles are launched by Iran and Israel safe you hear that Miracle after miracle and then you remain that's interesting that's fascinating that's wild and my life looks exactly the way it did before the splitting of the sea headlines breaking news that sea it split and the whole people walked right on the dry land in front of it and then it collapsed on their tormentors their enemies the oppressors and they all drowned in it and you know what the world other than yro which is what makes him exceptional we read about him in a couple weeks other than isra you know what the whole world said huh isn't that interesting could you pass the cream cheese isn't that fascinating I'll take another cup of coffee and they went on with their lives looking exactly as the way it did before something so miraculous and such violation of the rules of nature so out of the ordinary and nevertheless the average person went on as if nothing happened even if a person recognize is great yeah God is great what does it have to do with me what do that to do with my minion attendance what does that to do with my lanara what does it have to do with how I dress what does it have to do with how I listen what does it have to do with how I conduct my business or how I file my taxes yeah God's Great true Miracles pagers ballistic missiles Miracles what does it have to do with my life and my lifestyle what do I have to do all I have to do is recognize it I heard aasha I cried a little I laughed a little I said hhm is amazing thank you Hashem and then I moved on right back to my ordinary life tomorrow looks like yesterday how could that be how could that be and that's what says Hashem says I don't want power to turn the page I don't want power to say what's next on the channel I don't want power just to know it upstairs I want it to seep in bbo I want it to feel there's a God there's an Almighty he runs the world and I can't live the same way October 8th I have to be different than I was on October 6th How could a Jew look the same today as they looked a year and a half ago how could it be our children and grandchildren are going to look at the picture albums they're going to ask us about our schedule they're going to check our credit card statements and they're going to say did you make a change did things look different were you transformed what did you do differently in your life what did you take different what did you take more seriously about your life about your life is not just flexing some now young people know what that means for those who don't flexing is when you're you know like flexing in the mirror flexing is like you're showing off for no reason you're show you're strong you're showing off you're flexing what's exactly the difference between a flex and a T4 that's for another she it's another time T4 is a therefore what's it what's the flex and T4 I don't have it clear myself it's a Shear it's a whole that's a that's a that's a that's a shab I don't know but K is not just flexing he's not just showing the world look at my muscles look how strong I am look at how I control everything is not flexing he's not showing off why is he displaying his might because he wants all of us to say not just wow but wow I have to make a change I have to do something different I have to live my life knowing that there's hem in the world how did we react it needed to seep down and go we at the splitting of the sea we pointed and we said this is my God and I will glorify himely Bas MD I'm gonna build him a house I'm gonna build him a house I'm gonna make room for him in my house my life and my lifestyle are going to reflect I live it with a God to the people that we interact with in the store at work in our lives do they know that we are God-fearing do we live our lives in such a way that they would say about oh him oh her oh she talks about God oh she's disciplined oh she follows morals and ethics oh he lives on a higher level an awareness a mindfulness do we point and say this is my God and I'm gonna live a life that reflects that demonstrates I'm going to live a life that people will point to and say that's a God-fearing person so we can't just say it's for y it's for the other person that miracle that amazing thing that thing that happened it's for the other person it's for us everything we see everything we're exposed to everything we learn about we should react and we should respond with wow I can't be the same I can't be unchanged I have to be transformed I have to evaluate my life and what I want to do differently as a result you see this back in Pas he continues here's a long essay I'm not even reading you most of it but he says and we ask hasem is following through on all the kindness all the goodness all the promises he made before yob ever went to the house of L can you really empty out the bank account of hem if Hashem made those promises and hasem wants to treat us with kindness Hashem can be good and kind forever so what is he worried about and what does me me call and I'm worried about all the truth why does was so kind with my staff I crossed I divided into two camps and I was merited great wealth great health great longevity great Nas great success Allah and you see Hashem follows through hasem fulfilled his promise hasem was so good to me and jakob's answer was I'm so humble I'm unworthy what he meant saying to himself I have to be changed I'm humbled by how good Hashem is to me that awareness that recognition that feeling when we take stock of Our Lives when we look and we see what we have we don't say well I deserve it well I'm entitled to it it's right we say wow konti I'm humbled I'm humbled by this incredible life filled with blessing and how can I demonstrate that humility that appreciation that gratitude what change can I make what can I do differently what can I do differently how can I express it how can I show it he goes on he has many more things to say b b hasem says you know why I Harden's heart because so that you may relate in the years of your children and your grandchild that what what does the word mean I made a joke out of the Egyptians art scroll is Kinder so it writes I made a mockery out of Egypt but I'll put it in the vernacular I turned them into a joke they're a joke they're a nothing they're a nothing that's and the signs I placed in them and you'll know that I am God wonders again where do he became a comedian now now he's on the comedy circuit I made a joke I made a Moy out of them he's telling jokes where do we find HM is making a joke out of people Hashem takes things seriously so if in Earnest he needs to stop and punch the Egyptians for what they did good do that now hasm is flexing over what a mockery and what a joke he made out of after all we have a we're not supposed to Rejoice P quotes this P attributes it to said why where do you know shon's name from he is the author of the 19th of theid the of the I read an article a few weeks ago about who I have in mind when I say this which of the Jews are taking the wrong side turning us over to the wrong people falsely accusing advocating or aligning or or protesting with our enemies that's who I have in mind when I say Shut was the only one who could write that BR because he had no personal malice because after all he's the one who lived he didn't get any he didn't Rejoice he didn't get a g out of the downfall of an enemy so with that sincerity and with that authenticity he was the only one who could write that snipp for so the PK says don't party in the downfall of your enemy and now hasem is like I made a joke out of MIT I destroyed Egypt I made a joke out of Egypt Egypt is nothing I took down Egypt this is talking and this notion that Hashem is so proudly celebrating and flexing I made a joke out of Egypt where do you have to tell it in the ears of your children whisper it to your to your grandchildren why wouldn't it be enough to say my signs I placed among tell your children and your grandchildren about the 10 plagues why that you turned Egypt into a joke moreover why da now it says with the Mak of AR what's the Mak of AR Locus what is it about this ma this plague that hem says I turn them into a joke good says we already see a hint and illusion har and the Egyptian people have already said we now know that there's a God we've seen his hand we know he's in charge we see that there is a a Master of the House who rules over Heaven and Earth and everything in it but he says to himself even though I know academically intellectually I know that there's a God I don't have to surrender I don't have to submit to him I can even go to war with him how got his Chariot got his horses got his weapons and went to war with God himself remained in his Rebellion even after God already displayed his hand is no longer saying who God which God what God I never heard of God now he's been introduced to God he knows God so now says now I need to now says it's not enough for to acknowledge I exist I need to turn him into a joke because I need the world to know a a has flexed and we were worried hundreds of thousands of Miss missiles stockpiles a year ago all the political pundits predicted if Hezbollah is drawn into this war Israel can't fight on two fronts if HRA is drawn into this war Iron Dome and the arrow they'll be overwhelmed they can never withstand the missiles and the pagers made a joke of hisb Ronan Bergman an expert in the mosad recently spoke here and he said more than the thousands of injuries more than sidelining the Hezbollah Fighters was humiliating them on the public World stage our enemies our enemies they don't value life not their own not ours you know what they value they want respect and honor and when we make a joke of them that's What Hurts the Most that's what sets them back the farthest and that pager Miracle which is nothing short of a pager Miracle made a joke because you know they they acknowledge God little Locust could bring down all of the mighty Egypt the mighty Egyptian Empire the mighty hasb of Fighters little pagers sitting on their belt no Israeli soldier entered to fight Hezbollah at that time when they paid little pagers they they're so great they're so high they're so mighty they can go to war with God himself K says I need to humiliate them I need to Humble them how not only defeating them physically but making a mockery of them you see this as well in G morning tells us the story if a is ainu and Moshe is rabenu and Ys isad and is all these great people have Appalachians they have titles who whom do we refer to as harasha who is the wicked one our rabbis knew him as harasha the wicked one none other than tius Titus har as is a Russ we have no end we have no shortage of R but tius the tells us Titus tiha the Roman general who came into the Kash he did unspeakable things there and he pierced the parus with his sword and God made it bleed and Titus titos had the goal the Brazen is to say he defeated he killed the god of the Jews the almighty himself there says that hasem chose to stay quiet we say in our ding who is as great and strong and mighty as you says don't read it doesn't take might and strength to yell to scream to lash out you know what takes the greatest strength stay quiet to to absorb the blow someone can curse you out scream at you say whatever they want and you don't respond that takes even greater strength than yelling and screaming and fighting back to be able to absorb an insult and not return it don't escalate it just stay quiet that's what Hashem did but the gamar there tells us that Hashem paid him back later how what did he do a little crawled into the ear of Titus rash while he was sleeping and that little gnat that little bug that crawled into his ear it grew inside his brain and it rang and it rang and it rang until it drove Titus crazy crazy there's an article in the journal I don't know if it's the American Journal of Medicine it's an American it's in the Journal of Medicine I have the actual article that claims that the condition known as ttis is named such because it is named for Titus ttis the endless ringing in the ears is named for Titus AR Russia because the little knat that crawled into his ear and rang endlessly in his head and it says when he died the Romans did an autopsy and what started as a little Gat had grown into this large large animal inside his brain and Hashem had the last laugh because Hashem his people we are all still here Titus was tortured how by a briala by a little KN by a gourish by a little fly by A nothing L man again para perspectives for today so far all these T relate to right now we have to be changed and transformed by The Miracles we're seeing we have to see the mockery Hashem has made of them they think they're so high and mighty they can go to war with hasem and his people Hashem has not only enabled us miraculously for which we are so grateful B to defeat our enemies he's done it in a way that is a mockery that is a mockery of them that is a mockery of them per Al ol Turn the Page we'll come back to T peric Olive we're making our way through now sorry peric yeah y Al we're making our way through the eighth plague the ninth plague of Darkness ninth plague of dark darkness is such a plague you never lived in a blackout such a plague so horrible it's the penultimate plague so there's all kinds of answers we've spoken about it countless times in the past said I wasn't going to repeat the very Torah but I'll just tell you the what was the plague of Darkness the plague was not the climate the environment the darkness in the air it's a plague when people can't see their brother when everyone is living such a self-centered self selfish narcissistic egocentric life the when people are so obsessed and consumed to themselves that you can't even see your brother your sister the person next to you that Tak is a plague on your house that's a plague that was the plague of Darkness the duration of the plague power's offerings fine then we have per page 346 one more plague I'm bringing on on the Egyptians after one more play God will it'll be complete he'll drive you out same word power finally one more plague he's divorcing you he's sending you out it's a divorce it's over he's finished with you he's going to get rid of you he's done with you par Al Al writes I never saw this or thought of this until this year we have the privilege of knowing the story and then we read it so we all know every little child every little Jewish child who's blessed and privileged to have a Jewish Education knows from their youngest of age that how many plagues are there 10 everybody knows that 10 plagues from the littlest youngest age they come back to the table to take out the little drops make sure they're perfect be able to count them it's when the props come out it's when the costumes come out that's the fun time at the Seder everybody knows there 10 plagues everybody knows right when did parro know when did Moshe and Aon learn we have the privilege of hindsight we know but how did they know maybe as they're going it's going on maybe this's GNA be 20 50 100 how long is this going to last right Sal not until after the ninth plague did God revealed to mosha that there would be a total of 10 one more to go Hashem also did not reveal when would take place until this point they also didn't know when they're getting out maybe they're going to be destined to in 10 more years 15 more years it's only been 210 years and bris told how many years will your children be in Egypt for 400 so they don't know until now changes everything it's a whole new way of reading it not through our eyes through theirs parro mosha and Aon and all the people they didn't know that there's a total of 10 plagues until this moment one more to go they didn't know that with the 10th plague with the final plague they also didn't know that they'd be going free this would be it similarly throughout the desert sojourn clly did not know how often or where they'd be moved the uncertainty so wonders are by salich why why the mystery why keep it a secret everybody wants to know how much longer till we're there yet when are we leaving Are we almost home how many more to go right everybody knows every kid knows not only how many makos there are all of rash they also know exactly how many pages are left in the mo and then if they're using Hebrew English when they realize they could divide by two the best moment of rash so why the mystery here Hashem can't be telling us is 10 maros before the first day just want to let you know so you can plan accordingly it's going to be 10 just want to let you know be taking you out such and such date just want to let you know we're going to be camped here a few more day a few more weeks then we're going and we're going to go on the road this length of time then we're going to Camp what's with all the mystery says there by salv in one sentence the uncertainty required claw Israel to develop faith in Hashem we need to be prepared for lives of uncertainty we don't get we don't get the crystal Bowl we don't know when who where what we do our best we live our lives we let go we let God we surrender we submit and we put down all the baggage because we are along for the ride with a and when we feel entitled when we demand answers and we think we're going to get the calendar and the schedule we're going to get the itinerary we're gonna get the agenda we're gonna get the stops and how long we're gonna no no no no we do the best we can we set out and our lives are designed by definition with uncertainty why because that helps us develop a relationship and faith in hasem Hashem granted the people favor in the eyes of Egypt and moreover Moshe is he's a big man in Egypt he's a big man on campus everywhere in all of Egypt everyone knows Moshe and the Servants of parro no mosha and the people know mosha everybody knows everybody knows mosha everybody knows Moshe now wonders of I understand why he's the biggest celebrity and the biggest influencer among the Jewish people I got it why he's the Liberator he's the hero he's taking him out of course he's a big man he's a he's our hero however all the time of Theos there was some relief there was some reprieve when each Maka was carried out K got to take a deep breath and who's the one who warned and caution and brought the Mak Moshe so Moshe is is I get it among the Jewish people the Egyptians think that mosha is the man the main man the man with the plan the Big Man on campus he's the G the ish the Egyptians what do you mean he's the villain he's the enemy he's the one who destroyed your property he's the one who made you lose your house your livestock he's the one who brought these plagues on your home literally not only do the Egyptians and does the cabinet of parro not hate Moshe they are impressed with Moshe they admire Moshe to them Moshe is G it's an anomaly it doesn't make sense it's a great question I love learning D Torah that ask a question that after it's asked it's obvious you find yourself wondering how come I never asked it before and now I need an answer do you know what impressed do you know what inspired do you know what they admired about mosha that Moshe never made it about him he wasn't the celebrity or influencer who was building his brand Moshe always represented the almighty he defined himself his calling card said Moshe didn't say CEO founder president Maca bringer plague Slayer what did it say Moshe what was his title R in his card nice to meet you I'm Moshe I'll be bringing the next plague here's my card so even the very people that were being struck by the very plague that he was bringing never held it against him why because they understood it wasn't from him and it wasn't about him he was just the agent the ambassador of Hashem B they didn't hold it against him everything he did wasn't of his own will ortion it all was as an agent of he made he made a joke you know there are two types of people online there are those who make it about themselves it's always about them their brand their name their face where they are what they just ate what they're doing who they met who they're with they've been invited to speak what they were and then there are the people it's oh Hashem Hashem is the brand Hashem is the mission what's hashem's message what's hashem's Vision how can we help repair and redeem in the world in hashem's image it's Hashem and that's who we should respect and admire that's who's G when a person carries themselves with humility as an agent of asem not about them then others will not hold it against them even when they become the victim of that decision it's true in a work setting you know if a boss has to give constructive criticism sometimes even let someone go but if it's not personal and if it's not about them it's not about their ego it's about the good of the company maybe even about the good of the person that's being let go then it's not held against them it's not held against them that's why Moshe earned the admiration and the respect even of the MIT and even of the a it's who we are and how we're meant to carry ourselves also to leave that impression on all that we we are agents of Hashem it's not of our own volition we're not looking to be influencers we're looking to have influence on hashem's world in hashem's image hey flying right along mosha tells um that tells the parro and the people hashem's coming for you you know what time you can set your clock to it you know when he's coming at about mid that's not what hasem said hasem didn't say I'm coming at about midnight what did Hashem say he's coming when midnight set your clock to it I'm coming for you so why did mosha change to first of all it's the humility of Moshe human beings by definition are imprecise no matter what kind of uh what are they called those clocks Atomic no matter how fine-tuned your atomic clock we can never be precise to be able to say definitively at midnight it is the humility to say approximately at about moreover Rashi quotes why did he say Kos because what was going to happen if the Egyptian forget moshe's clock it was going to be precise what if the Egyptian clocks were off off and all of a sudden now Mak happened at 11:59 and 59 seconds at 12:00 and 3 seconds you know what they'd say wasn't God wasn't him all the jump on this and ask we may have said this in the past really you're telling me after nine plagues this 10th extraordinary event happens that simultaneously all firstborn across all of Egypt Dro dead and because it seems to be a millisecond off some 's going to say it wasn't God and the answer is yeah that's exactly what we all do we find any excuse any reason any rationale to say it was nature it wasn't God doesn't have to mean anything for me I don't have to change anything in my life we act just like that finding any even irrational reason to ascribe it to not being God but anyway every firstborn in Egypt will die from the first born of sitting on his throne until the first born of the lowly maid servant even the first born of of the animal even the first born of the animal says the we're gonna get to other insights but says all firstborns were included how do we depict the range of firstborns from the firstborn of parro stracy royalty wealth to the firstborn of the L so you'll say I understand I don't understand but I understand why the firstborn of parro were punished but why the firstborn of the LLY sh what did the maid servant what the housekeeper do wrong what did she do wrong she's an employee she's working he's working why were their children struck as well Rashi answers you know what why what was their crime and what were they accompli thises because when the maid servant overheard the Egyptian Master torturing and oppressing the Jew they had a little smile on their face they got a little Joy a little gmak and that egged on that urged on the mitz to further oppress and further persecute and for that they're an accomplice say I don't understand even those who were held captive Egypt was an Empire that tortured not only the Jew Egypt was the strongest Empire on the globe and they also captured other people and they had in their prisons other peoples and those people their died too so says what did they do wrong when a person is doing evil when a person is perpetrating perpetrating evil and someone gives them a smile of approval someone protests in their favor someone eggs them on urges them somebody posts to them those campus protests that are aligning and accompanying and urg Hamas Anda and the houis and all seven fronts that Israel's fighting you'll say what did they do they didn't pick up a weapon they didn't attack a Jew what did they do that's so wrong those supposed Jewish organizations that are supposed pro-israel that are also calling what Israel did in Gaza genocide what did they do they didn't uh take any Jewish hostages they didn't kill any Jewish any Jewish Soldiers the answer is whether they're posting online or offline when you smile at when you encourage when you EG on when you urge evil you become an accomplice to evil you are accountable for that evil and you make it onto my list when you vote to not sanction the ICC somehow you're not protecting your people should be honest about your name you're a Shoemaker and you are belong on theim list because you abandon a people when you smile and you urge and you egg on our enemies by using their language by using their language genocide Criminal Court wanting to hold the prime minister of Israel whatever you think about his politics to call him a criminal who's guilty of genocide you're an accompl to those enemies and you're accountable and you're accountable says R baram and that's why the Bor even of the sh the even of those in Chevy they smiled they egged on they urged they voted with they used the language with they protested with they held up the banners with they wore the flag or the pin of and they urged on that evil they're accomplice to that evil and they're accountable too even if they're not guilty of perpetrating the exact act itself y I'm not speaking about anybody or anything specific y gimm gimel page 348 says to mosha here we interrupt our story to bring to you the first Mitzvah of the Torah the Mitzvah of bizarre abrupt Interruption of the narrative in the story and all of a sudden we have the gift ofm gives us this first Mitzvah that rash the very beginning of says really we should have started from here why did we start from God created heaven and earth he rested on the seventh day skip right to para's B direct beine right to para's B why didn't we in order to communicate our right to our land that we have I wrote about this past week America is going to celebrate its 250th anniversary we got it 60th inauguration you think you're here forever it's guished Israel's connection Jewish people's connection to Israel is 16 times longer 4,000 years old that's what brius is all about to tell us he created the world and everything in it he gave us that land and its ours and forget to because that's not going to convince anyone at the UN no matter how good the new Ambassador may be but rather it's to convince us as we see if our own people don't believe it if our own people don't Proclaim it if our own people don't stand by it then we can't expect anyone else to either that's why we had all safe AB so we should have started from now why do we abruptly interrupt why is it here and why do we call this the first Mitzvah we already had mil and pral we had other Mitzvah and why now inim if I were going to say to you this slave Nation 210 years taking him out what Mitzvah should we give him how should we get him started and a path on a life of Holiness and happiness what would you suggest shabas Kus probably would have suggested sanctify the new moon and set the calendar so why is that the first Mitzvah we're not going to give the answer because you should have come to the we spoke about it there three answers to that question why maybe I'll post it I recorded it what I said there the tonight is good the new month should bring newness and freshness and a new beginning it should bring and good tidings on the 10th of this month this new month what month was it Nissan the Jewish calendar starts from Nissan the non-jewish calendar from non-jewish Kings count from Tish they follow the sun we follow the moon they are subjects of Nature and we are under the Providence of the almighty so speak to the Jewish people and tell them on the 10th of this month on the 10th of this month take for themselves each man a lamb or a kid for each Father's House a lamb or a kid for their household this is a word that's going to repeat itself often here points out a beautiful idea says this word say should be reminiscent when did see the word say the at the end of the when on top of the mountain and he's right of his Slaughter and he passes the test when they call it off what does it say before they ever get there when y says how old is that day we have this image this picture of a little young a little boy how old is he he's 37 years old he's a grown man he's a grown man and he turns to his father and he says tell me again where we're going tell me again what we're going to do one second where where's the animal what's the connection the med connects everybody should go take a on the 10th of Nissan courageously tie it to the bed post leave it there until the 14th you're going to slaughter the god of your enemy in front of your enemy Again part of making a mockery of their God G have the courage to break out because God does does not redeem those who are not prepared to redeem themselves God does not perform miracles for those who are not prepared to be the miracle themselves God does not swoop in to be the hero of those who are not prepared to step up and be the heroes themselves we have to do our part we're not passive Spectators and as much of a of doing and learning is we should never ever minimize of Ding and of learning always and forever from the beginning of our history till the end of our destiny with Ding and learning does for our people can never ever be underestimated or minimized Hashem says when we're standing opposite that sea what are you doing you got to start walking and he tells us in don't think that I'm just going to swoop in and take it out where's your courage I need to see you step up and you just see you face the enemy and take him head on so what's the connection to the significance of every mitz we do depends on the mindfulness and the intention that we bring to the Mitzvah and the more a person does a Mitzvah with all their heart my and their selflessness and with joy the love so the this mitvah now is elevated the Mitzvah gets elevated with what we bring to it it's not just an empty act we don't put put a check mark next to it what do we bring to the Mitzvah ourselves and therefore if a person just mails it in if we get away with the bare minimum we just go through the motions of the Mitzvah you make get a check but that's not right that's not right the Jewish people right now are being asked dig deep dig deep it's hard they're tired they're exhausted they're physically emotionally spiritually spent the courage to dedicate an animal tied to the bed post Slaughter in front of your enemy that takes mysterious neish not one day not one hour four days it's a dangerous dangerous mission but they didn't hesitate they weren't reluctant they said what's the mission we're ready we're ready to take the risk we're ready to fulfill the mission that's the Jewish attitude to whatever our mission is if the mission is a Mitzvah if the mission is protecting Israel on its borders whatever our mission we have that capacity from m nees where do we get that from where' we get that ability the strength the Courage the conviction the tenacity the resolve to dig deep where do we get the strength in that moment when we're tired when we're spent when we want to give up when we want to surrender where do we get that strength and that resolve and that resilience that's in our very DNA that's baked into who we are as a people that's what the med is saying just like abam dug deep and he overcame the inertia and he displayed the courage and the resolve to get it done he gave all of us that capacity he put that in us we're never too tired never give up never surrender never fail failure is not an option for a Jew we can dig deep and we can most nees and we'll get it done and we can get it done what word is used in the pum over and over and over again what word is used in thisum over and over again we've mentioned in the past the word bias bias how many times does it appear in this narrative in the section no less than if you say the number then I won't repeat the Torah if you don't know the number then I know we should 14 times 14 times in this section the word bias appears you think there's a connection between the home and this carbon indeed the home and the family play a crucial Central role with this carbon command they were commanded nobody leaves the house until the morning we spoke about this last year I'm not going to repeat what we said then I want to share a different insight and idea what is the connection bias 14 times in this corbon when we consider the way the Corb P was performed on this night you see the home is treated like a the blood was placed on the doorpost that parallels the the sprinkling of the blood in the Corban of the Altar and whereas normally corbas have to beat in the bikash and the walls of the meat of the P was to beaten where inside the home the home is the status of B this mitah to turn the home into mikash was given to is when from our very beginning at our outset we weren't yet in the Holy Land we weren't yet in we didn't yet have a b mikdash so we brought the B mikdash to us that's by the way the in even while we were in we virtually went to geographically physically we were still in MIT but you see that a Jew could be in bokeh it's not the same don't write me emails we have to be there and go there the Kad is not the same I know it's not the same but until we're there a Jew can virtually where do you live and where are you I'm in that's where I always am that's where I live that's where my soul that's where my heart is that's what pesak is all about that no matter where geographically or physically you are you're always in y to be in that y the center of our religious life what is the center of religious life and loyalty the home the home that is the home that's where we are and that's where we live and that's where we belong of Weinfeld Weinfeld who was just here a few weeks ago points out that we believe the opposite of Stalin Stalin where'd that come from in the 1930s Stalin smashed the mold of Russian Society in a fashion the world had never seen before and would not see again he set out to build a new universe in which the loyalty to family friends colleagues was extinguished and Stalin created a culture in a country in which that loyalty was replaced how with a fty to what the people of whose interest he was the sole Orbiter he encouraged turning on people who weren't loyal to the party children should snitch on their parents parents turn in their children Brothers turn on their sisters turn in your neighbors his strategy was to convince all of Russia that the good of the nation depended on getting rid of all the connection a person has naturally and surrendering to the good of the people and that's exactly what the Torah is seeing the opposite you know where our loyalty is family where does our religious Journey begin not leave home say goodbye to your family and go to sh go to another Tish go to another faan go to another get together no there's room for that and it's wonderful but first in the home it begins in the home turning our home into a center of religious life that's where it beginsin Feld homiletically points out in one of the one of the hermeneutical laws that we derive Torah the CL can only be a strong and healthy of it consists of the Pratt the smaller units of the family of real people that's what we have to that's how we have to live rers writes there'd come a time when the nation oppressed and tortured by parro would lie on the ground seemingly easy prey for the vultures of history but then aem's called the nation would rise up again to eternal life at that time Hashem would begin the up building of his people not from the rooftop not from the leadership of the highest Echelon not from the party or the people from The Rock loock foundation of the home that's where Gula begins at home don't run away from your home to find it find it and bring it and Inspire it and ignited in the home it's the heart and soul of the Jewish people is the family the Family Ties the family bond 14 times in this section because that is the significance and that is the importance God says the blood will be a sign for you on all the houses for he say when I see the blood I will skip over them skip over them it's a very funny thing we're not going to get into it right now what do we call the Holiday on the 15th of Nissan but it shouldn't be called pesak when was Pak the 14th of Nissan if it's called P because God skipped over the houses when did he skip over the houses that we marked with blood on the on the 14th so the 14th ER PES that quas of a of PES should be PES and then that night the next day should be Matos why do we call the next day P even was on the 14th not the 15th it's a great question and we are not going to answer it the measer says I passed and I saw you wallowing in your blood a from this is the blood of the p and the blood of BR the two mitzvas we had in MIT wereb P right the slave hates physical pain he suffers enough from the Baton of the Taskmaster and is not prepared to endure pain because of a commandment which will not increase his portion of meat from the flesh pot the slave is a coward he Quakes before his owner and his brutal of his brutal Taskmaster after all a slave does not understand the idea of self-sacrifice of fighting for a principle or an ideal therefore Kaz says slave does not make a worthy witness cowardly as he is he will often not tell the truth mosha came and told the people undergo physical pain circumcise yourself no uncircumcised male no or can partake of the carbon p and offer the lamb which is deified by the Egyptians when the Egyptians notice they will certainly blame the Jews for profaning their religion but that's what nevertheless the slaves took upon themselves both the suffering and the Commandment of the K PES would love they weren't frightened they were ready to pay with blood of suffering and for fear and fear for the privilege of Performing God's command G courage or heroism is a foundation of yish the sanctification of the Divine name manifests itself in Courage this courage was shown by Jews on the night of pesak on that night and K passed over God wants to see your sacrifice your transformation your wondrous courage your willingness to conquer your fear and suffering you have learned to distinguish between the sacred and the profane you have displayed gura in conquering your fear and your will therefore God will distinguish between you and the Egyptians and will reveal his trait of gura or restraint that is the story of this last year and a half my friends the gura this is not a war of October 7th a war of a defenseless people whose border was penetrated of people who were slaughtered and kidnapped the enduring lesson and message of this year and a half is the gura of our people the sacrifices the Courage the response with which they stepped up and answered the call I saw a video my family shared with me today of a woman who was four months pregnant when her husband paid the ultimate price was killed in Gaza fighting and the baby that was born today and her message about her husband who wasn't here to see it to experience itur there was a might there's a might these incredible lone if you haven't heard our conversation and behind the beam I don't even want to single anyone out because it's everyone the gura the gura of these soldiers who don't hesitate who go fight with gura and the family that they leave behind and please God will come home to this is the G the heroism that the is writing is a foundation of Y then mosha turns to the people while yet MIT and he says you're not some passive people and don't look for comfort and convenience and it's not going to be spoonfed to you or handed to you on a silver platter it's going to demand heroism G might that's what it's going to take to be this people to endure this history to be this people of this Destiny that's what it will take and that's what I think this story is the blood of the Corb p and the blood of the bris and the blood of our people what do we say at every bris weot the it's with that courage and it's with that heroism that we are here and that we can never forget and never stop saying thank you and thank you for it okay it turns out even at night an hour goes by pretty quickly look at that same 60 Minutes even at night as the morning who knew there was a lot more I wanted to share but we'll leave it there thank you again for coming in this off hour should be a night of yes may we hear only good things every