Parsha Perspectives for Today (Shemos, 5782) - Hashem's Incredible Irony

good morning booker joe welcome back to partial perspectives for today as always we begin with gratitude and thanking our generous sponsors for the passion series for the year becky and avi cats and family in memory of becky's father david grossman our learning should be legally nishmas also this morning she responds by essie barry in memory of her beloved father max gopin thank you for that sponsorship and by leicester memory of nina is coming and mother of lester hannah and in memory of peggy wall pero rocco de revains your sight mother judy henner thank you so much for your generosity and shamash and aliyah from our torah learning tomorrow we have the privilege of starting the second book of the torah we move over to the book of shamos voracious the formulation of the first jewish family and then by the end of parishes maybe maybe not they've worked out how to live as a family when the curtain comes down in the book of gracious we'd like to think we'd like to believe everybody's getting along they've worked it out we have the first generation that is functional to find the menace are getting along the brothers have reconciled we've discussed in the past not clear that yosef is truly forgiven not true not necessarily clear that the brothers have earned or even asked for that forgiveness there's a lot to discuss at the end of precious but whatever it is that curtain has come down the torah feels we're ready for act two which is safer schmos the story of not the first family but the story of now a nation a nation in formation and then we'll be a nation in adolescence a nation that is growing and experiencing growing pains a nation that is coming together page 292 in the earthquake these are the names of israel these are the names of the children of israel who come to egypt notice right away in the opening passage we have a grammatical shift an inconsistency on the one hand we're told beneath they are coming down below the present tense the jewish people are still journeying they are still descending to egypt on the other hand these are the children of yaakov of ishuba they came did they come or are they coming are they beneath through all or are they the children of yaakov which is it we could spend an hour just on the opening pasuk have you ever thought of these questions before or have you heard pasha schmos a million times and just you went out and turned the page yaakov in the very opening puzzle of safer most of our passion we can ask these questions but before we get here let's start with the cut skirt we've been going through this beautiful safer and this collection of the teachings of the helicopter so the cut says the following you ready has to delve into the depths the analysis has to get into the story of ethios mitzrayim the way that we study halacha and toast the student in yeshiva knows when you're studying halacha from the primary sources to the secondary sources to the debate among the richonne to try to analyze and dissect it to try to get to what's going on toast as difficult penetrating questions analysis contrast comparisons said the cuts curve the story of euthys mitzrayim is the quintessential story of redemption if we want to redeem ourselves from our own personal exiles if we want to be redeemed collectively from a collective state of exile we need to delve into the story of yetis mitzrayim with the same zeal and with the same intensity with the same excitement and the same curiosity and quest for truth the way that one gets involved in allah and in tosus this exile is the introduction it is the preparation it is the paradigm for every exile we would suffer there were four exiles hearts is we are still in the state of the fourth exile we're in the state of edom if you don't think we're in an exile try to book a trip to israel today the ribonus shalom still does not want us to be able to simply go back when we want we may have jewish sovereignty over israel and we believe that's nothing short of a modern miracle for which we have to be overflowing with gratitude and recognition but just because geographically we have sovereignty over that land does not mean it doesn't still have enemies or that we still have access it's very very painful for all of us as we've taken this step back and israel shut its border yet again a reminder even in my whole lifetime and many of our lifetimes we felt after 2000 years of waiting and longing israel is ours a jew anyone in the world who wants to and needs to return home can and for the last two years that's been on hold again hashem is reminding us don't take it for granted since 1948 67 however long you've been taking it for granted you book a trip and you go you've got to fill out 17 forms take 40 tests one there's still to let you on one's have to let you off wonder if they'll let you back and all that's if you're lucky well that's if you're lucky if you're one of the lucky ones it's not passion so we're still in the fourth gullis now the jewish people have been through many gullies and not just collectively as a people as a nation individually anyone's going through a hard time anyone is going through a low anyone who's going through a a challenge a conflict is going through a personal goal as an exile so said the khatsuka but you want the answer the antidote you want the formula how to have faith and resiliency and resolve study pasha schmos study this story with no less nigiya with no less effort and toil than you delve into halacha and toast it's interesting he mentions tosos i'll give a shameless plug for the moment tonight we have a rabbis on the run series we do people of the book on tuesday nights been doing it for years different themes and this year's theme is rabbis in the run the rabbis who are our greatest scholars through the millennia who when fleeing persecution were authoring some of our greatest works it's mind-boggling we under a palm tree safety and security and good weather and a pina colada and a laptop and the barillan and the odds can't compose one original paragraph of torah thought and some of these greatest individuals on the run fleeing persecution oppression no printing press no no keyboard we're authoring some of the greatest work so tonight we'll study the rush rebel usher abner usher who fled from france and germany to spain and one of the things we'll talk about is that he brought the he introduced the learning of tosus to spain the learning of talmud to spain they had been neglecting the whole learning of of talmud altogether that has nothing to do with what we're talking about i just wanted to plug my class tonight 7 30 pm rabbi's on the run you can watch it online if you're online and you can certainly you're encouraged to come in person so the cutscene says if the delve is deep and get as deeply into it as we do anything as we do anything else for every detail we can extract and extrapolate how to overcome this horrible horrible exile ayla shamos ayla so why the shift we mentioned the shift so i picked up a new safer i occasionally buy my own swarm i always tell you people gift me and then i include them once in a while i gotta buy my own safari i saw this say for sure brussels don't worry be happy who doesn't want to go to the shabbos table besides look at this colorful cover is it beautiful anyway so he says the following who wrote this safer mosha rat and eliot i don't know who they are or where they are but thank you so they caught maybe didn't write on the parsha but we have a collection of his teachings and others and so they collected the teachings of nachman that are relevant to the parsha and organized it in the parashat so he quotes exactly this question jewish people were already counted why are we repeating this count the end of vibrations we counted the jewish people now we're counting again and the reason is it is communicating hashem's love communicating hashem's affection so what is what is the value of being counted what do we gain from that how is that an expression of affection to be counted can i know pretty large family you line them up one tooth not one not two one two three four okay everyone's here good get in the car we're ready to go do they say ah i feel so loved ah but that was so sweet you know you're counting us all up before we leave disney to head home okay you miserable ungrateful different just kidding okay you amazing delicious kids everyone get in the car let's make sure you're all here one two three okay you're in there abba you said i was three wow i feel so loved where's the love we're counting them again we keep counting that's such an expression of love right you have to know that the fall is also what is good and what is right for you sometimes we stumble sometimes we trip sometimes we fall we're off our game we make poor decisions we exhibit poor behavior in life and relationships with hashem with others in business personally and we have to know that when that happens it too was not a coincidence and it too was not chance and it's who somehow is for our own good for us to bounce back from um it was ordained from above that for some reason we were meant to trip to stumble we meant to try to catch ourselves we were meant to try to get up again that this too is not a coincidence our days do not run one into the next life is not a continuum and you don't say well i fell down yesterday so i'm down and out i might as well lay on the mat i might as well be out for the count every single day every hour every moment we begin anew we begin again every moment is a fresh start and the only thing that matters is not where we came from the only thing that matters is evaluating where am i right now and where am i going not that i fall or did i rise but when i wake up today where am i today and where do i go next is because if all we think about and we hold on to what we carry with us is that sense of fall is that descent then we will keep spiraling and we will keep falling and gravity will lower us further but if we start again anew anyone play golf here one of the beauties of the game of golf one of the beauties of the game of golf is you could draw a line in the card you could view it as 18 holes or you can view it as one whole 18 times each hole is a new game you draw a line on the card you got a triple none of you know what i'm talking about but in the event that tiger woods is watching the pastures here he'll he'll like this mushroom he'll appreciate this mushroom so if you have a bad hole you get a triple bogey on a hole you don't have to say well i just blew up i just hit three balls out of bounds i just went tin cup i'm out what's the point why continue you draw a line on the card and the next hole is a new game and now you're trying to shoot for par you try to get a birdie on the next hole every hole is a new game it says he didn't give that muscle but says rab nachman in life every day is a new hole every day is a new game every day is a new opportunity draw a line in the card of life and start again and don't say where did i come from and i fallen i'm still spiraling and i still have the pain and why and woe is me but where am i today where is my starting point and where do i go from here why am i telling you all this because that's connected to our passage how is it connected we are invoking two names because we are reflecting two attitudes israel is the higher name of the jewish people israel is the aspirational name yisrael is when we are the top of our game when we are faithful israel is who we are meant to be that's why it is made of the letters li roche yaakov on the other hand is a lowly level a cave it's the heel it's the bottom of the foot it's the lowly level so yaakov represents to who we are in the here and now yaakov represents the who we are with failures and shortcomings and struggles and he throws the aspirational who we could be so therefore it says [Music] you're not a finished product when you're bane israel you're about you're in the hover you're in the present tense because every day is a new game every day is a fresh start every day is a new opportunity we are ba'im not a finished product i'm not done i'm not this is the way it is this is who i am this is what you get it's a fresh start it's a new beginning you could be 80 90 100 years old and change your life you could decide in one day in one moment you could decide in one here horchuva in one thought in one idea and one conception and one determination and you can redefine and reinvent ourselves so we are but im in the present tense we are inventing and reinventing and reinventing ourselves over and over and over again whereas yaakov who are on the lower level issue baso what you see is what you get we came this is who we are this is where we're at my growth happened in yeshiva my growth happened in college my growth happened in my channel of marriage and now i'm locked in this is who i am this is my patience level this is my eating habit this is my sleeping habit this is my davening habit this is who i am i decided at 22 years old who i am and the rest of my life i'm just reliving that same year over and over again that's yakov that's a yaakov attitude a shabbat came done finished product complete a israel attitude is we are constantly coming we're constantly reinventing over and over and over again okay a lot more to say about that but back to our opening classic so rashid told us and why is an act of affection because if i count my kids putting him back in the car on the way home from disney what an act of affection and i say kind of you like the stars of the sky they count you over and over again what's the affection and what's the connection to the stars of the sky so i want to share with you very quickly three or four different interpretations of this we've shared others in previous years i believe these are all new and we haven't seen them yet before why specifically are we likened or linked to the stars sort of simcha wasserman who is rash shiva or al-qaran or son so he said the following he said we know the jewish people are compared to a sava to an army the jewish people are likened to soldiers in an army the army is made up of two kinds of soldiers the average soldier the average private is just a number what number are you soldier what number are you private but the higher up you go and the higher up you rank and now i will reveal how little i know i don't know what's hired sergeant lieutenant general general's high five star general very high so the higher you go the more distinct of a title you have and the more you're known by your name general schwarzkopf general patton okay that's my list of generals so general whatever general name that you have you're known by your name the higher up he goes to center and he says there are two types of soldiers are you a private or are you a general are you just a number or are you a name so the pasik said back in baristas foreign thus this will be like your children we've shared insights on that in the past shapiro about in particular amnesty the jewish people we are an army we're an army why are we like into an army what are we uh violent we embrace violence shalom we're an army the image of the army like the rebels army is we are an army who's meant to go transform the world we're not meant to sit at home we don't live with rights and entitlements it's not all what can i take from this world but rather it's what can i do what can i give how can i transform we serve in the army so the dangerous one in the army i'm just a number i'm just a private just a number i just blend in what's special what's distinct about me does anyone even know my name tells us feel you're of service to others serve be on a mission transform the world but that doesn't mean you forfeit forfeit your identity or your distinction simultaneously we have a name simultaneously hashem knows who we are and that is the expression of affection what was the affection is not just that you are like the stars that you are anonymous or that you just blend in or that you have nothing special about you it's that unlike other armies where everyone's just a private or unlike stars that are just a number of a star we have a name hashem knows who we are and what we are about he knows what is our unique and distinct mission that the world is waiting for us for ramosa shapiro had a different interpretation why are we connected to stars he said the following and why not the sun the sun is the source of light the sun of the sort of illumination energy warmth brightness stars what are the stars they just reflect the light of the sun it's not even the moon so moshe shapiro said the following hashem created he created for its purpose for its use for its mission the sun provides light to the world and it warms the world if the earth were just a little bit further from the sun we would freeze human beings couldn't exist if the earth were a little bit closer to the sun we would burn up we would be destroyed we'd burst into flames the earth is the exact distance from the sun it needs to be the only distance it could be for there to be life on earth brilliant brilliant we have to do a study nature and you see hashem's guiding hands so the sun intrinsically has this value this purpose and this role the moon also has its role the moon reflects the light of the sun it gives us the ability to navigate and to be able to get around at night with the more limited light but enough light the light of the sun and the reflection of the light from the moon also enables certain growth of other species that which doesn't rely on or depend on the sun what about the stars that's the sun that's the moon what about the stars why are the stars here what do we need the stars for for a pretty sky we've already ruined that so much artificial light you can can't even see the stars in the sky what do we need the stars for shonen zoo that the moon and the sun were competing who was dominion in the sky and hashem made the moon shrink and in order to appease the moon which had to serve the sun and was smaller he said don't worry i'm going to create legions of stars and those legions of stars will all serve you cedric moshe shapiro that's why the jewish people are liking the stars because the star's whole purpose is to make the moon happy and we need to know that our own purpose in this world and in this life is not our own happiness it's not the pursuit of our own pleasure but it's to bring happiness and joy to others now it happens to be and modern psychology has now proven this through countless research that if you want happiness and pleasure don't focus on your own happiness and pleasure when you make others happy then you become happy but says mr shapiro i love this insight it says why are we likened to the stars because unlike the sun whose purpose is the sun and the moon his purpose is the moon the star's entire purpose is to make the moon happy so we are not like the sun or the moon we're like the stars because we're supposed to we're meant to think you know my purpose my existence is not about my happiness but rather is about the happiness of others and making the world a better and a happier place okay one or two more quick interpretations on this and then we move on past the first passage wondered what happened forget the stars now we're moving on from the stars uh okay now let's take one more thing with the stars la dia one more word lahudiyah what is lahodea not purimla says you should know the affection know how much hashem loves you he counted the jewish people then why you like the stars when you love something you continuously count it la dia to whom is hashem modia to whom is he directing that laho dialogue art scroll lodia to koran lauder you know right when we're about to read the story of sinking low we're about to delve into the story of exile we're about to remind ourselves of our own exile we're about to re-experience our own challenges and suffering right now is when we need a little affection we need a little bit of love when you're riding high when everything's success when everything's going right and everything's well you don't need that extra affection when do you need a little bit of a hug when do you need a little bit of affection when do you need a little bit of a positive word when you're heading into gulas beneath we're heading into gulas hashem begins to say for shemos with a hug it's giving you and me that hug the to whom is he giving this affection to you and to me to all of us i love that imagery that as we're beginning safer and as we're beginning the story of exile and as we're beginning to experience the suffering of egypt [Music] are the verb to go but what verb was used earlier he says why is there a shift passion precious me cates sorry it says you read this claw yesterday so we've been talking about urethra a descent into egypt why are we shifting from the description of going down embracious it was all about going down the descent going down and now all of a sudden we start shamosh with asher which is it is it a urethra is it a descent is it going down or is it is it which one is it this is his question this is his question and he says he gives his own turrets there in the haggadah he quotes here a different answer from the masjidjoponovic i'm not even going to tell you here i'm going to tell you my answer i'll tell you my answer my answer i don't know if it's correct more correct less correct or correct at all than the other answers but my answer is on our way down to egypt it was a sense of urethra a person had to know where you were going from kanan from a land that's holy and sacred to a place that's corrupt morally depraved decadent you have to know it's uretha if you don't have a mindfulness and an awareness that you're going into a place which will assault your values into a place which can compromise and corrupt you you're in trouble you have to know it's a urethra but once you're there that's where you're meant to but be you're there that's where you're meant to be and you need to know i need to make the best of who i am where i am don't give up and say because i'm here i might as well be like them and don't say how could i be here why would i be here i guess hashem wants me to be like them if he didn't he wouldn't have let me be here so on the way there maybe it's uretha but once we're beginning say for shemos and we're already there then a person has to know this is where i'm meant to be where did i come up with that but neven saw in this beautiful swarm of says later parties by midbar we're going to talk about the different encampments in the desert we've shared this before so in the episode of the rebellion of korach which tribe suffers the most casualties korov comes from which tribe levy and yeah levy doesn't suffer the most casualties anyone know which tribe suffers the most casualties rooving says nevinsel and why did ruben suffer the most casualties they lived alongside korach so kodak recruited others to be in this rebellion and koroff made this breakaway i mean break away from moshe so he recruited these other people the ground opened up and swallowed them up and ruvain suffered terrible losses and ghazal conclude from their oil russia oil if you're a neighbor of somebody who is fomenting a rebellion and you're indifferent you're apathetic let alone you cooperate you know you're you're accountable too so ruben takes this terrible dive so nevinson says could you imagine reuben gets upstairs and says to hashem you i didn't randomly choose to live there it wasn't the realtor who showed me that house i didn't buy it out of foreclosure get it at a bargain hashem you told me to live there not like you told me i had some premonition or i went to a mukubo or a rebbe you actually told me this is where you're meant to live hashem designated the encampments in the desert so can't reuven say hashem you told me to live there and now as the result i went down with korach so nemensau says yeah even when you find yourself listening living next to a russia you need to believe this is where hashem meant me to be now i still need to be the best version of myself we can't think well if i'm here then i might as well be like them hashem wouldn't want me to be here how did i end up here wherever we are is where we're meant to be and we're meant to be the best version of ourselves nonetheless so maybe that's the answer from your reader to abia you're dim to ashiba because on the way down we have to know we are falling but once we get there once we get there we should realize that's where we're meant to be and to be the best version of ourselves once we are once we are there okay let's keep going we're flying now so we mentioned the different names that count the jewish people again we were fruitful we multiplied the abu bayad we filled the land we filled the land who did not know yosef a new king a new king arose so i'm sorry i skipped yosef and his brothers and the entire generation died why does the torah describe that yosef died and the brothers died and the whole generation and now all of a sudden now the oppression the persecution will begin why was the oppression of persecution delayed as long as they were alive so the simple understanding what i would have said is in their merit they were righteous they were pious they were great people in their merit the oppression the persecution was delayed but that's not what the arkham says that's not what the politics says says as long as the brothers were alive the mitzram was israel as long as the brothers dignitaries distinguished holy people walking around who represented a certain life a certain lifestyle certain set of values the egyptians respected they admired and they therefore held back from persecuting the rest of the jewish people the jewish people were hushed in the eyes of the egyptians and when when someone is kashif to you you're not going to enslave them to enslave you enslave someone because you think that they're lowly you enslave the one that you think is inferior you enslave and you make the person you feel should be a subject to you but when you feel that somebody is great when you admire when they're elevated in your eyes then you can't subjugate them so as long as the brothers as long as the jewish people were elevated the egyptians couldn't subjugate the precursor the prerequisite to the capacity to subjugate was the fact that they no longer admired they were no longer elevated they no longer respected it really at first they were elevated then when yosef died they became equals and then when the brothers died they became lower this was the descent first yo this is yosef is our fight yo is the secretary of the treasurer yosef saved the economy of egypt the whole world wow it's a brilliant mind a spiritual giant yosef's superior to us we love we embrace we welcome the jewish people when yosef died and it was just the brothers they're pretty good they're just like us they're like us and when the brothers died everyone else would somehow so assimilated and integrated they're lower than us they're less than us now we can subjugate and now we can persecute this is true not only about our external enemy and this tells us about jewish history when does the external enemy think that they can knock the jewish people when we are not living in a way in which they see us as elevated when they see us living a holy virtuous life when we're living a better version of ourselves they can't bring themselves to subjugate to persecute but when we ourselves are are lower when we're failing to realize who we're meant to be we're not living that level of sanctity and holiness that we could and that we should now we've created the passage the opening for them to come it was true not only then says it says it's true now but it goes further and he says if this is true about the um conflict with the external enemy it's also true in our conflict with our internal enemy i wish i could read it to you but there's so much more i want to get to he says the yetzahara you know when the sahara can get you when you don't see yourself as elevated when you don't see yourself as special when you don't see yourself as royalty as a banner basmella when you say i'm ordinary and i'm nothing special and i'm lowly and i give into my drive and my instinct and i'm pathetic and i'm a garnished natara says i'm jumping on top of that i'm jumping all over that but when we're in our own eyes and that's why the jewish way to educate our children you know jewish american princess was always an insult but it's a compliment because we are supposed to see ourselves and project ourselves and our children that that the whole jewish attitude of pastnished it's passimished it's beneath you we don't say don't do that because it's wrong don't do that because it says don't do that we say don't do that because it's beneath you you're better than that you're capable of more than that you're royalty do you know who you are do you know from whom you descend do you know that you're do you know who was inside you and what you're capable of and what is your potential and what you can realize so the more elevated we see ourselves in our own eyes not from an egotistical standpoint not from an arrogant standpoint but if we understand who we are where we come from what we're capable of then the eight sahara won't have any opening to get us but if i say i'm a garnish i'm a nothing and i keep giving into my impulse and my drive and i come from nothing and i'm going nowhere then that's when the eights are so that's a false on a counterfeit humility we think that's a humility that's actually exactly what nourishes the tzara where do you see that says you see from this first yosef died we went down a notch we went down a notch hola dorado we were so lowly now the egyptians trampled us now they persecuted us now they jumped all over us the lower lower lower we're seen by others and we see ourselves in our own eyes the more vulnerable the more susceptible we are the more we are inviting the persecution of others a person has to realize godliness the whole world still for me this is what khazal are encouraging us godless we're just beneath god we have to know who we are what we're capable from where we descend and we see ourselves as elevated and great what we are capable of then we will be protected not only from the external enemy the internal one as well tells us a new king rose now we're up to pasa again we've shared a lot of insights on this trying to give you new material each and every year back to our good friend we're going back to the shabbos table with a brussels rashid quotes the famous you know this much locus a new king does this mean literally a new king or doesn't mean the same king with a new attitude ismail khadas that there was an election the dictator was overthrown or he simply died and there was a new king a new king took the throne and this new king had not experienced yosef's salvation and therefore he didn't have the appreciation of yosef's progeny and descendants and therefore you oppress the jewish people was it literally a new king or melaka the same king with a new attitude the same king with a new attitude who is now capable of zerus khadashas it's possible that there are people who did unprecedentedly good things for israel and the jewish people just a short while later in an interview could say horrific things about israel and the jewish people the same person can flip and become a melech same person whose whole life is transactional and you learn only ever did it for themselves we can imagine our own time it's not so beyond our grasp that that same person could be a melo khadas they could be a melech when it doesn't serve them it serves them differently so this is the mahlokas we're the same king with a brand new attitude that was definitely going to get me a few emails that it was the same king with the new attitude he knew yosef the same king this is the king this is the paro whose dreams were interpreted by yosef this is the paro who yosef literally saved the economy this is the paro who yosef served as his viceroy as his vice president so how could it be us that he made himself as if he doesn't know and what did he do that was so egregious in that moment what an expression of ingratitude yosef saved the economy he saved the kingdom he saved paro he saved the whole world and this melaka because it no longer served him because he had a new attitude towards yosef now not only failed to continue to be grateful but actually flipped and began to persecute and oppress oppress and target yosef's own descendants how much of an ingrate do you have to be to do such a thing how ungrateful how ungrateful yo a lack of gratitude is among the worst qualities a person could have now why is ingratitude so terrible okay so you're not grateful someone did a nice thing for you and you couldn't even bring yourself to say thank you you couldn't pay the debt of gratitude you didn't have the humility to realize someone did for you okay it's not nice i don't want to be meshiach my children to you it's not not that anybody's ever asked me by the way in the inquisition are they grateful do they say thank you nobody's ever asked that when they're taking their medicines do they say thank you which medicines they take do they say thank you to the pharmacist for the medicines i want you to tell me nobody's ever asked that so ingratitude why is it such a terrible meeting why is it so terrible says and the answer is because of kfir khira what heresy is there in ingratitude why is that an act of khira so it says look at the passage and what happens when you start with a shallow disease then you get to maya this parallel when moshe comes to him says hashem i don't know god what god i don't have a relationship with god is it god i don't know all this is me well this is the jordan river all this is because i'm a deity our thriving economy it's me our agricultural society and system that's me this palace and its opulence is all me god this power returns to motion it says loyadatta i don't know what you're talking about sorry nachman says how did paro ever get to loyadatti seo safe hashem you know how you arrive at the adaptive hashem when you start with loyola is yosef if you're ungrateful to people you'll be ungrateful to god you can't see god feel god hear god how are you going to be grateful to god so it begins with people but if you're not even capable of being grateful to the person who you experienced in the flesh who did something kind for you you're certainly not going to be grateful to god so loyal hashem began with yosef you see some people want to distinguish excuse me differentiate between mitzvos between us and god and between us and other people but it's all interconnected and it all goes together because we have to realize the major goddess says the beginning of shemos if you're ungrateful to people in the end you'll be ungrateful to god if you deny the goodness and the kindness that people do for you then you'll be living in denial that god does good for you so gratitude and the interpersonal connection and capacity to be grateful is all connected to our relationship with hashem ayan rafitner why the same word modeling we've spoken out that footnote countless times so you see that hashem began with laya dasios what a beautiful insight by the helicopter gratitude ingratitude is a core corrupt negative quality why not only because it's demeaning not only because it is offensive to the people around us but because ultimately it leads to kfira if we don't have the humility and the recognition to be grateful to people we can never live with the humility and gratitude to be grateful to hashem it all goes together it all goes together okay let's keep going let's keep going uh let's see what's next all of you design we're turning the page don't get whiplash we're going this fast page 294 what happens so the jewish people promulgate and propagate we have this enormous population explosion and growth and the powers threatened understandably they have a very low birth rate we have a very high birth rate and para is concerned about being overwhelmed by this nascent by this currently subjugated people that they're going to rise up and they're going to overcome so what does he do he of course calls for the murder of all the of all the boys certainly the king of egypt tells these uh midwives whose names are shifted is let the girls live he wasn't threatened by them but the boys have to be extinguished what was his methodology by the way what was his thought process what was going to happen if you let the girls live girls are not capable why did he think what do you think was going to happen what do you think was going to happen so he knew i forgot where i saw this where did i see this i forgot where i saw this but he knew that there's a natural female instinct to want companionship it's not to say that men don't also want companionship that women yearn for companionship they want to be together that's why the is don't beat me up the halaq is a man can't marry a woman without seeing her first because maybe ultimately he won't be attracted and then it'll be a violation of but a woman can be married through shlikhos without seeing him first because even if he's not as handsome as the sharkhand said she yearns for the companionship she doesn't want to be alone that was hazal's intuition instinct that was what the gemara inconduction concludes okay everybody relax everybody relax it happens to it happens to have some element of truth if you see me and my wife together you know that we are a living example of some element of truth women are willing to settle and men only want to be with somebody who's very beautiful so paro understood that women crave companionship so here was his methodology this was his strategy let the girls live kill the boys the girls will be desperate for shidduchim just like now there's too few boys too many girls so what's going to happen for these girls ultimately they're going to go to the egyptian club egyptian bar they're going to finally turn to the egyptian sharksen and they're going to say i don't want to be alone so para said what is the best strategy to get full assimilation into marriage integration so i won't be threatened by this distinct people i'll let the girls live they will marry in and will eliminate the jewish people a very very interesting interpretation a very interesting interpretation so hashem sees them says so therefore they did not do what the king asked them to do the king called them and he said why are you doing this and they said ah they're different what can i do they're giving birth without us and so on fast forward to possible and it was because they feared god vayaslam but him hashem made them homes and what were the homes he made um we know that the positions of distinction among the jewish people are called the bhatte kahuna the homes of kahuna livia and malchus these are the baton that miriam and got they were the progenitors of royalty and of priesthood that was their reward for the fact that what finished the sentence that was their reward for what so billionaire l'hopian and as lev points out i would have thought that's the reward for what enabling the children to live saving the jewish people securing jewish continuity for the courage last night rav david yosef one of the sons of rav avadya wsafe spoke last night very beautifully very brilliantly and he pointed out that we think that the miriam and yahweh had two choices to obey the king or to disobey and they had a third choice to run away and they didn't do that they had the courage to stay and disobey they didn't do that third choice he spoke very beautifully so they stayed they had incredible courage but i would think why are they being rewarded for the courage to disobey and for securing jewish continuity jewish future for saving these jewish babies says that's not what the posix says that's not what it says israel can you imagine um we have a funeral right after this marcus whitston one of our beloved members passed away so i'm going to mention at the funeral he was named after his uncle marcus wisdom a polish jew who moved to ireland who during the holocaust opened the factory in ireland and secured visas for jews from poland whom he claimed had expertise to come work in his factory and he was known as the irish oscar schindler he was a jew who saved hundreds of lives so imagine somebody saves thousands of lives and then you say about them wow they're unbelievable we're gonna we're gonna name the street and yad vashem and israel after the person who saved thousands of lives why would you say you're rewarding them you show us oblon shalom imagine someone says oh it's beautiful he saved lots of lives did they have any i'm not sure how much yoroshima be had but he saved a lot of jewish lives they still made a movie about him you still acknowledge him nobody asked what was with his ear hello the reward came and their motivation and drive came because they feared god that doesn't mean that we shouldn't continue to acknowledge and have a great appreciation to schindler or others whether they're god fearing or not but the torah is telling us something very very special here this is another level there are people who save children because they can't stand the cry of a child because of humanity human humanitarian reasons these two women were not driven by humanitarian regulations because humanitarian reasons can spin in both directions the nazis thought they were humanitarian by ridding the world of the lowly jew hitler was elected democratically he was democratically elected the german people believed that they were doing the humanitarian thing by cleansing the world of these lowly jew the moment were driven by humanitarian motivation that can spin different directions you can you can get a democratically elected nazi party led by a hitler for humanitarian reasons these women miriam and were not driven by humanitarian reasons they were driven by being god-fearing they were here to serve god and they were god-fearing and they were god fearing and that was the reason for the reward the reward came not for saving jewish lives the reward came for being god for being god fearing for being god-fearing cosker says a similar thing but we will move on let's keep going by itself paro oh what's up paro beautiful spiteful so para tells them what has to happen we're now on par days last week of the top of page 296. every boy should be cast into the nile into the river and every door shall you be kept alive rashi says he tells the whole nation gaza young shalom it's like he did this even to his own nation all the boys have to be killed vainam yoda meme israel why because his astronomers his astrologers his psychic friends network came to him and said that they had a premonition they said they said paro the savior of the jewish people is going to be born today a boy para says i don't know if it's a jewish boy or an egyptian boy thralmol manile throme all the nile baron knew that he would strike the river the water that's why he said throw them all into the into the water the stiper gom khan kanyevsky's father the stapler is parrots says the following unbelievable incredible idea something we all know but we fail to have the scope or the context sometimes to realize it's an amazing amazing thing claudius are a terrible godless para the emperor of the world the most powerful man on the earth ordains every boy should be thrown in the river parallel oh maybe he feels cold and time shall issue so the moment he felt threatened he employed everything he could to protect his own power and his egyptians which included killing countless babies of his own nation of his own people why because he said i'm the emperor i'm in the position of power there's a baby born today who's going to be the one who saves emancipates these people not on my watch i'm the emperor i'm all powerful i have the ability to not only murder every jewish boy every egyptian boy i can micromanage i can control the situation i can eliminate the threat how did hashem orchestrate things i'm this is not my first time reading pasha shamosh but i never appreciated the story being described in this way the way the sniper does para says i'm all powerful para says i'm a deity power says i'm in control i can manage i can eliminate any threat hashem says ha ha guess where i'm gonna put that savior in the very river that you're saying to throw all the boys and guess who's gonna discover him your daughter and guess where he's going to be raised under your nose in your palace you can micromanage you can eliminate every threat you're in charge you're in control you know where that savior not only can you not eliminate him he will be saved not only will he be saved they'll be saved in the very place that you think that you could most expeditiously eliminate and not only will he be saved will he be saved by whom your own daughter and where will he be raised and trained in royalty in your palace by your servants under your nose and what will his name be you know that kid in the high chair at your dining room royal table that you think is so adorable and cute and you're going to call him moshe little motionla where did his name come from from that very water that you said was going to destroy and eliminate the threat and you could micromanage and it was a dealing with the god the the irony this is the iron the origins of irony the ribonus on the almighty is using the tool of irony to show power you think you're in charge you think you're in control you think you can micromanage you think you can eliminate ha right under your nose by your daughter in the very water he orchestrates the entire entire thing and why does he do it there's an amazing ezra hashemis why why was it designed from above that moshe would specifically be raised and grow up in a palace moshe who needs to and wants to feel the pain of his brothers moshe who goes out in order to empathize why did he grow up with his people while he grew up in the palace the venezuela says because if moshe was going to confront royalty he had to be like royalty if you grow up a slave you have a slave mentality this comes back to the vote we said before pasnish if we want our children to behave like royalty and to see the allures of this world as being beneath them then we have to train them and condition them to see themselves as royalty you're royal that's beneath you we don't speak like that we don't trust like that we don't act like that we don't think like that we don't go there your royalty your royalty that's not who we are that's not how we behave like kellerman by lawrence kellerman this book to kindle a soul tells the story of the son kadosh he tells an amazing story they were on a family tour during ebenezer and they're in the car and as inevitably invariably happens one of his children desperately needs to use a bathroom they can't find the bathroom they finally find a rest stop and they're about to run into the bathroom and he's running with his little child to go use this bathroom he desperately needs it in the last moment possible and the kid stops and his father says like element says you said you have to go to the bathroom you said you only have a few moments to go we're here there's a bathroom let's go inside the son sheepishly looks up at him a little boy and he says i can't he says what do you mean you can't you said you need to go to the bathroom he says abba my name is kadosh and this is a bar i can't go to the bathroom in here because if you give your son the name holy and you raise him to believe that he's holy he simply won't be capable of going into an unholy place it's past nish do we teach our children their royalty so even ezra says moshe grows up in a palace so he believes i'm royal and therefore that first time he has to go knock on the palace door to say paro let my people go he doesn't demure and he doesn't hesitate and he doesn't say i'm a little slave maybe if it's okay if you don't mind it's possible maybe you'll let them go he goes and he bangs on the door and he demands let my people go because i'm royal i'm a prince i know royalty i grew up in this palace steve vanessa says the very raphua came before the makkah where did moshe get the very skill set that would position him to be the savior of the jewish people he learned it from paro who was his mentor and how to have the courage to be able to demand let my people go hashem's irony that he built in here is unbelievable it's unbelievable moshe learns the very skill set that enables him to liberate the people he learns from the very dictator who is oppressing them so the stifler helps us zoom out the lens and get a little scope to see the storyline the subtext of the storyline and hashem's orchestration and irony of it is absolutely unbelievable it's unbelievable okay we only have time for a few more quick ideas everyone knows about bissia the daughter of para who stretched her arm out and the miracle that it extended the miracle is not that it extended because that's hashem did not her says the cutscore you know what the miracle is if she knew the basket was floating too far away from where she was why she put her arm out the answer is that if you see someone in pain and you want to help you don't think to yourself you don't calculate someone bring me a measuring tape let me see if i can reach or not someone screaming you simply reach and then when you reach hashem does the rest how many people have done things that make no sense and then in the end it brings a salvation a redemption it brings a solution or if they stop and they plot it and they thought they strategized they never would have started but because instinctively we leak we have faith we believe we do if you're a doer hashem will do the rest but if you start stop and pause to calculate it will never it will never happen like down motion motion grows up like dal moshe we haven't seen a uh in [Music] where does greatness come from a person might think you know what makes you great get away from people people are the worst people bring you down people are going to want to gossip and people will want to talk nars kite and among people there's mahlokas and strife and among people this division and divisiveness stay away from people go lock yourself in an ivory tower and put your nose in the books and you want to become a god though you want to become great isolate withdraw it says division it serves the opposite motion moshe became great why if you want to be great then connect with people if you want to be great then care about people if you want to be great then practice unity among people that is the story of of greatness that is the source of greatness that is the path to greatness is to be able to connect with other people to connect with other people has another insight says goes down and he sees their suffering he placed his eye in his heart in order to feel their pain so says you know there's an incredible integration between gashmias and ruchniyas they are inextricably tied and intertwined one with the other barracudas they can't achieve spirituality without physicality we elevate the physical akon our body is the instrument is the vehicle to do spiritual things you can't do a mitzvah without a body you need your body in order to do the mitzvah lagoon similarly just like you can't have ruknis without kashmiris you can't do a mitzvah without the body to do the mitzvah you also can't separate or divide the the body from the rakhnes whatever you see with your eyes is connected to your soul and that's why says rashi vayarba siblu-sam moshe chose to see their pain nasa navalibo leos made salah he paid attention he read it he looked because he wanted to feel their pain he wanted to express that empathy he could have looked away he could have not read the headlines he was protected in the palace he specifically went because he wanted to condition his gashmias to rukhnis we have to condition our gas mias we also have to continue to condition our gashmias to us to look at things which will evoke certain attitudes and feelings and and behaviors of who we are and of how we behave of how we behave okay ten more things to tell you let's see which of them i can quickly one or two more very very quickly um i'll give you one from saliva said the rav on the words asurana asurana para gamapasa gimmo sorry we only got through the first half of the parsha there's so much on these parties it's impossible it's absolutely impossible the bush is on fire it's not being consumed moshe says let me turn and see what's going on let me turn to see what's going on i have this image all the time now everybody else walked by this burning bush this extraordinary supernatural phenomena but they didn't notice it why not they were all texting and streaming and scrolling you could walk right by a miracle you could walk right by god you could walk right by this supernatural extraordinary phenomena but if you're looking down you're not going to notice what's going on right around you it wasn't there's a famous musician who's playing in the subway in new york anyone remember his name joshua bell violin violinist and he was playing the subway and everybody walked by nobody noticed if they would have paid two blocks away to go hear him they'd have to take out a mortgage but he was playing for free on the subway they walked right by and because in the subway everybody's busy they walked they walked right by him asura now suddenly salavatrik rashid comments and these two words i will leave the spot where i am in order to get a closer look what did rashi add with that sentence rashi explains that moshe was not referring to moving physically let me step aside he was stepping aside from a world view and embracing a new philosophy of life moving into a different frame of reference let me step aside from certain categories in which i used to think and adopt other categories other concepts other ideas similarly at the akedah avraham told alias and yshma stay here with the donkey was not referring to geographical distance he was referring to a different world view you remain with your philosophy the philosophy of the donkey materialism practicing uh pragmatism everyday logic but there's another world view the covenant logic and this is what moshe said asurana i must turn aside let me get away from the pragmatic logic of isro's estate manager let me adapt another set of rules another philosophy another world view let me examine this great site he instinctively felt that something unusual was transpiring in front of him hashem tested moshe to see how he would respond to this site most people would not have responded great events have happened in our own time said thereof second world war the holocaust state of israel the drama has not yet come to a close yet we don't respond appropriately we are not impressed we lack sensitivity when we see these things in the world we should stop and turn to look and the ref says it's not a geographic or physical description we should stop and turn to say how does this change my view of the world how does this change who i am how does it change everything that's what avraham did that's what moshe did that's what we're meant to do a lot more to talk about see you tonight 7 30 to talk about how the rush turned from spain and from france and germany to spain and we'll see you please god next week tomorrow morning 8 15 10 minutes of meeting so charmaid 45 living in the moon tomorrow night we go behind the beam with joseph giller who is the founder of le leckett my good friend joe gitler until next time stay happy stay healthy and stay holy