Parsha Perspectives for Today (Shemos, 5783) - Connecting the Dots

partial perspectives for today this week we have the privilege of starting the second book of the Torah the second book of Hamish the book of and the Parsha of shimos I want to thank our generous Parsha series sponsors for the year Becky Navi cats and family member of David Gross only the initial is this morning she is also sponsored by Marilyn Stein in memory of Stephen Stein by Cynthia Navi Shrine family is also I want to just mention as we begin this Moze Shabbos those who don't live on the circle if you're on the circle the Shabbos we have the privilege of Hosting or by Hower my good friend of Howard the head of the OU this mozai Shabbos at 8 30 p.m we're having the great Magid the great author the great speaker the Great Mall so wherever you live you can make it on mozai Shabbos 8 30 p.m no charge together with the Toro um so join us 8 30 this mozai Shabbos page 292 in the earth's growth Stone Hamish We Begin The Book of shemos benef these are the names of the children of the Jewish people who are coming note an anomaly in the Posse we spoke about it last year so I won't repeat it other than to point it out to either make you feel bad about your memory or make you curious to go look it up whatever the case may be but note we shift and we switch from which means foreign is present tense Asher Ube so but what time says they came the past tense why do we shift from the present tense to the past tense I leave that to you to explore Revenge we enumerate we mention all of these 70s they were 70 in total and Yosef was in mitraim so let's start out with a incipi revolva by the great revolva and Yosef was in mitzrayim why is that curious and Yosef is image I am yeah pretty sure I know pretty sure we just read many partios in which we saw the story of Yosef Ware in mitzrayim so all 70 of them were in mitraim this whole book is beginning by telling us about their descent but how they arrived about where they were about the servitude the oppression the persecution the slavery the subjugation they were all in mitzrayim why single out Yosef and why do we have to be told where Yosef is we know where Yosef is Yosef is where he's in mithrayim so why do we begin with that so Rashi tells us look at Russia foreign out in the field and the Joseph the greatness the greatest Jewish influencer of his time the second the Viceroy of all of Egypt the Finance Minister who saved the economy of the world the same Yosef who was Anonymous the same Yosef was invisible the same Yosef with humility who spent his time with the little sheep of luck in the field he never changed he never grew arrogant it never got to his head he's the same Yosef the one who Rose to gedula to Greatness the one who Rose to power and influence he never stopped being the exact same Yosef and on these words is an Insight revolve has a great Insight revolba says it doesn't just mean that Yosef was humble it doesn't just mean that Yosef never grew arrogant and never went to his head what it means says revolba is the same Yosef who was the shepherd how hard is it to be righteous when you're a shepherd what are you doing all your day if not entertaining a dialogue with the almighty with the Divine a Shepherd it's not a coincidence that our greatest leaders were shepherds the Zion roam we talk about him we welcome into our sukkah the seven Great Shepherds the Shepherds spend their time his voted Us in conversation with Hashem they're marveling at nature they're observing hashem's world they're in conversation and dialogue with the Divine with the Almighty and now Yosef has to try to practice ezraville but that same righteousness not in an environment which is conducive not out in the field and in nature not in conversation with Hashem but now he's trying to balance his profession his career with his family with the base medrish how will he be righteous when he's going to work how will he be righteous when he's having cabinet meetings does he wears yamaka to the Palace does he talk about Hashem does he find time to Daven is he able to squeeze out time to learn how is Joseph able to manage at all and that says revolve is what she's telling us is yosef's greatness he's able to balance he's able to manage Noel not only in the environment an Ambiance which is conducive but even when he is professionally advanced in his career he's climbing that corporate ladder he's still the same yo safe Lo diazzo it's telling us the righteousness of Yosef to be at sadik in your years of Yeshiva to be at sadik when you're sitting in Kailua it's not easy it's hard work but it's easy but are you still at sadik when you now try to create a Synergy between your religious life your professional life your personal life when you're no longer in that cocoon you're no longer in that environment how do you do it how do you manage it are you able to be able to do it and revoba suggests you know how Yosef was able to do it and you know how we're able to do it as well one word there's a media that you need that Yosef had and excelled at he talks about peregration is on the topic of seder sailor order organization discipline Seder seder is the secret to life how do you get it all done how do you get it all in how do you live your values and your priorities how do you stay the same person when you were in Yeshiva on the same righteousness a greater a different and in many ways a greater righteousness even when you're out is all about the idea of seder the author of kelm said about Seder said I must have told you this before because I find myself telling my family often he said if you don't push your chair back in at the table it's the equivalent for the author of calm about being Mahalo Shabbos if you pull your chair out and you leave your chair a mess you don't tuck it back into the table like a mensch like a normal person then he for the altar of kelm that was as egregious as hello Shabbos kind of a nice Mentor you you get up in your chair chairs are strewn all over the room now you didn't tuck it back in you didn't clear your plate you don't live organized then with Seder what kind of a person are you kind of a mentor you can't accomplish anything so what was the altar of kelm was there mental illness was their OCD was it obsessive compulsive was he no the author of Karen believed and he made an incredible comparison we're not speaking lightly of those syndromes but the outside of kelm was not suffering from it he simply valued seder to be able to get anything done in life he said seder is like the string of a pearl necklace what's more valuable the pearls or the string the strings negligible the string is nothing string costs pennies the pearls depending how much the person who loves you is willing to spend but the pearls Pros are worth a lot and yet without the string the pearls are all over the floor you lose the pearls what makes it a necklace what gives it its beauty what organizes those pearls the string so seder being organized being obsessed with being organized organization is not the Supreme value learning and living a righteous life and balancing career and family and that all of those are the pearls of Life seder is the string which holds them all together and without it it's all strewn all over the floor there is no Center you have nothing so he writes or Volva he writes so beautifully if you're a greater badass if you're smarter if you're more sophisticated if you're more disciplined you're not more disorganized your desk doesn't look like a hurricane hit it you're organized your schedule your desk your life your timing if you're greater you're more organized if you want to see greatness look how organized look how disciplined the person is what does their schedule look like how disciplined are they in observing it I want to learn the whole Ali show with you right now but it's a Parsha class why am I mentioning all of this well skip ahead all this applies to your mind to Everyday Life fortunate lucky blessed says revolve is the person who knows how to live discipline knows how to be organized who doesn't implode and it's not chaotic and doesn't waste time and doesn't lose things and now he gets to why I'm bringing it in um why does our partial begin what is the Apostle say and Joseph was in mitzrayim well when a person lives with seder when they're organized when they're focused on their discipline when they maintain priorities they know how to adapt to different situations you know how to be righteous in the old world and you know how to be righteous in your new world you're not to be righteous than Yeshiva or seminary you know how to be righteous in or working life you know how to be righteous when it was just you you know how to be righteous when you balance it with a family you're not to be righteous at home you know how to be righteous on vacation a person who lives with seder who's organized and disciplined and focused and has priorities is able to adapt and able to implement that seder no matter the surroundings no matter their circumstance and that says revolva is what Rashi is telling us and where she is celebrating about what Rashi is celebrating about Yosef who Yosef the same Yosef the same righteousness who was the row at son who was in the field in conversation with Hashem is the same Yosef who is now living in mitzrayim who's got a balance being the Finance Minister who has to be the finance secretary with everything else okay let's folk Let's uh fast forward a little bit we know that nobody recognizes Yosef what does it mean they didn't recognize Joseph will come back to the same Yosef was it a new Paro the same power but he failed to continue to feel a curse I told gratitude for what Yosef had done how did that come back we'll come back to him but now we know Paro has a plot he feels threatened we're seeing a rise of anti-Semitism again people feel threatened by Jews it's not a realistic reason it's not appropriate concern but they feel threatened power was threatened by the population growth and explosion of the Jewish people and therefore he finds a way he's going to stop it how is he going to stop it they're going to outnumber us we're going to have a demographic problem Jews are going to control us and then we're going to have a problem so what does he do no matter how much pressure you put on the Jews continue to multiply and to grow he made our life difficult how did he try to get us to not believe how did he take away our hopefulness and our positivity how did he take away our our sense of uh a faith that Hashem is going to rescue us busyness he understood that the greatest work what would be the greatest task master is busyness busyness we live free and clear in the sense that we're not enslaved but we are suffering under the servitude of busyness we have no freedom of our mind no space to think or to just be we're busy busy busy busy and that is a form of Oppression is and power now instructs these two women who are The Midwives who are the ones who are helping Jewish women give birth if it's a boy kill him wipe him out paru understood he intuitive astrology that the savior of the Jewish people is going to be born a man a boy and therefore boys have to be executed girls can live it's an interesting question why do we have to end that sentence if it's a boy kill him and what would you knew what would you know automatically you don't have to kill the girls means that they will live it sounds like power was giving an instruction more than just don't kill the girls sustainer help her live give her life why was power's interest in sustaining the girls second question of the day I'm not giving an answer but they saw God they were God feeling fearing they were said you know what we don't answer to Paro we answer to a higher power we answer the almighty and God has a greater plan here and therefore they didn't listen but tomorrow they're being supported to Paro but uh God was very pleased with that they were continuing the population growth and because they feared God God made for them but him Holmes what kind of homes he award them of the big house crazy real estate you can't get a house in a circle but they were good they helped deliver children Hashem helped with the real estate Hashem helped them find the house is that what it means we're all familiar with the famous Rashi what does it mean by us lambatim what kind of homes it means that they were the progenitors they were the mothers what would descend from them were homes of kahuna priesthood Livia and marchus monarchy royalty and these are homes these are dynasties these aren't just statuses or identities they're about in their homes where the president of the Kahuna and the La Villa and from Miriam descended wonders the mega Joseph or Joseph surotskin again doesn't give random rewards the rewards that he meets out are measure for measure they need the Canadian they are commensurate they corresponds somehow with the good thing that was done they ignore paro's command with tremendous courage and bravery they don't listen and put their lives at risk they answered Ohio power Hashem and therefore they continue to deliver children and in return Hashem gives them he gives them but him how does that mean that can I get me the how does that corresponder can I get me the boss I'm bottom lavari says he heard from his parallels even after paro's xera the Jewish people would continue to exist why because Paro said exterminate the males allow the women to live if the woman could live with whom would they mate with mitzrim their children would be Jewish into marriage it's still tragic a Jewish woman marries a non-jewish man it is still tragic we have to do everything we can to educate and to oppose and to love it's still tragic but the children the product of such a marriage would be Jewish but what would be missing what would be lost if there's no Jewish father the children will all be Jewish but what status will be lost because it's true the identity of Jew or not you follows the mother the status Colleen Levy follows the father follows the Father Tell us tonight similarly similarly a convert can't become a king someone who has a Jewish mother but another Jewish father cannot become a king a prerequisite Israel to being a Jewish King is a Jewish father alsocial um it's a beautiful Insight it's not just random Hashem said oh what should I pick from my my prize cabinet oh they did a nice thing they're continuing to deliver Jewish children I should give them something what do I give them I know I'll make them progeners of kona La Vie and Marcus no me they can again they would have been Jewish children by virtue of having Jewish Mothers but would have been lost is the status of coin Levy and Marcus and melach because they continue to ensure the birth of Jewish males and therefore they ensured the continuity of Marcus that's what they were given veneer so now that's from the Zaid but now the mega Joseph says I want to give another suggestion in Iration was pleased foreign was not that they risked their lives to the continuity of the people was the gishmach The Joy the satisfaction the Fulfillment that they got through that accomplishment through that accomplishment they weren't thinking about the reward they weren't thinking about what they would get out of it when they saw look what's happening it's amazing you know a person who founds Yeshiva person who adds minyanam to a shul a person who starts committee person who doesn't say to themselves you know maybe now I'll win the Mega Millions tonight I did something good I organized I started initiative we founded a Yeshiva we've expanded the menu and the learning opportunities we have a new Colo so maybe now I'll get a reward maybe now I'll win the Mega Millions 1.1 billion who's counting maybe now I'll win person says do you see how many people are sitting and learning in this Yeshiva do you see this we've accomplished and we've made do you see that we've done how many people have food on their table that's all the scar I need Hashem loved about them that they weren't looking for any extraneous outside reward the reward was the result of the good they had done is he said to himself I'm not going to give them as a reward but who do I want to be the mother the progenitors of leadership I want leaders who aren't looking for outside reward I want leaders who will derive reward internally who will be satisfied from the good that they've done foreign the criteria the number one the number one characteristic of an effective leader that Hashem wants is the leader who's not looking for personal reward who doesn't want to get anything out of it themselves is not looking for honor and recognition rather call my gamma so their whole aim all they want is the good for the people and the satisfaction they get from it the shifts who showed this they were the perfect DNA they were the perfect people from whom to descend such leaders and you see that I'd like to tell you in leadership there's enormous reward Hashem people say beautiful things and treat you beautifully there's also a lot of Heartache a fair amount of heartache and there are leaders there are committee leaders who people don't recognize and people don't thank them it's a thankless job you know you need to go into it knowing that it's such an English job Chef rampua didn't look for thanks the satisfaction and their happiness came simply from seeing the good that they did and that is a prerequisite to leadership if you're going to go into it for the reward or the thanks choose another career make a lane change I get an enormous amount of thanks and positive feedback and I have the best job and the best people and I'm good but there are many many who struggle that they do and they work and they toilet and they sacrifice enormously and it's thankless God by him for example don't get paid a penny and is there a more thankless job than being a guy by when was the last time anyone walked over to agave and said I want to get I haven't gotten an alien forever you forgot my mother's Uric site but I want to thank you because you don't get paid for this all you get is grief and aggravation for it and I don't want to do it and I'm so grateful you are thank you when is the last time someone said Thank you to a guy bye it's a thankless job but don't go into agabai because you think you're going to be thanked be a guy bye because you see the schmuck the bar mitzvah boy and the family you see how you got all the eurotites in even though there were so many how you figured out those stuff go into it because you put a smile on someone's face and that's enough for you didn't look for anything else Hashem said that's the DNA we need in leadership should descend from them because they saved by saving the boys they saved for his shot they had the DNA of leadership that's what he wanted fast forward what a story we know it we've read it and it's still exciting each time someone went from the home of Levy and married someone who was a bus lady okay what's with the mystery we can't use their names and that's a particularly compelling question why because we're going to get to their names and after all is in names what the book's all about it's called The Book of names and why did they matter Redemption because they maintain their names and the first person began by listing the names of all the tribes and so we're so focused on names and yet here the mother and father of the one who will emerge to be rabenu we can't know their names very interesting insight why does the terminal tell us seven things are hidden from people seven things are hidden from people one of which is the day of redemption bring this to an end the anti-Semitism the oppression the illness the suffering when will it all come to an end the gemara says we don't get to know that day we can't Market on our calendar there is no save the date in the weekly for the day of gaula redemption originates from the higher worlds it comes from a place that we don't have access to that we don't understand matters concerning the Redemption their nature is mysterious they're cloaked and clouded in mystery they are a secret yaakov wanted to reveal the Kates because these things must remain mysterious and secrets and the birth of the goal Israel the birth of moshebenu who would redeem the Jewish people was also clouded in secrecy and until that day until the Redemption materializes the Torah doesn't even want to give the name of his parents in other words even the seeds even the very beginning of the process of redemption is cloaked and mystery we don't even get their names we don't know who they are it's Anonymous and it can help us understand another public after he smites the Egyptian he strikes the Egyptian Moshe saw a Jew about to hit his fellow Jew and he chastised him and he says are you going to kill me like he killed the Egyptian and the posix says why did Moshe say that parakeets why did Moshe say that but um and what was moshe's fear foreign do they know is the matter known what's the matter he was worried about that would be known she says the simple thing is do they know about me what I've already done but the second image is afraid says Rashi the penisra might not be worthy of redemption why because there were they were machinim they were gossip mongers there were people who loved to whisper and tell secrets there are people sharing things that should remain a secret you know what the Jewish idea of a secret is something you tell people one by one that's the Jewish definition of a secret but that's a bad Secret s are not shared one by one rather than in groups secrets are kept to yourself secrets are meant to be kept in confidence and when you gossip and you share and you chirp gossipmongers they thwart they prevent their obstacles to the ghoula to the Redemption why because the whole nation of nature of redemption isn't the secret until it happens it's mysterious we do what we're supposed to do we behave the way we're meant to behave and it will come about but don't whisper don't talk the moment you do that and you shine a light on it and you bring attention to it in fact you prevent it so Moshe had wondered why specifically the Jews were subject to gullus and now the reason became known because they couldn't keep a secret because they were gossiping because they were sharing the Jewish people's uniqueness comes from panemius and the others are focused on hizonas so Keeping a Secret inside this nymph nimi is a reflection of the capacity for panemius that that capacity to focus and maintain and learn pneumius preserve our uniqueness as a nation to keep those Secrets is necessary for gaula so to him to allude to that this parisha that begins this Story the birth of the Redeemer begins with mystery begins with mystery and the Mystery of days we don't know their name we'll be given their names in due time the narrative will alert us to their identity to the story but the beginning it's mysterious because that's the nature of gula is it has to be mysterious there's a difference Rashi first it tells Usha he separated himself from her from because of the Xavier of Paro and then he went back and took her back he went he separated he was Paris from her and then he went and he reacquired her he remarried her why did he separate why did he abstain why did he leave her because he said to himself who could bring children into such a world look at these conditions look at the Jews are targeted it's cruel it's harsh I can never bring a child into such a world I know people who think like this I have a relative who suffer terribly this childhood and life and because of his own suffering and his own personal story a narrative he projects that into saying I know what I went through and how I suffered I can never do that unto someone else I don't want to bring a child to such a world but that's a reflection that's an outgrowth of an attitude of pessimism that the world is not a place that's worth bringing children into because who is the one who encouraged him positively who got him to remarry her mother Miriam Miriam says Abba tati dad I don't know what she called them she says what are you doing you're worse than Paro Paro said no boys but by you separating and leaving mom not only are you preventing no boys but you're also bringing about no you're worse than power what are you doing and he's compelled and he listens to her advice and he remarries and he takes that risk he takes that risk it is the greatest affirmation in our belief in Hashem when we bring children into such a world when was the biggest Jewish population explosion in the DP camps after the war the Jewish population explosion after the Holocaust was enormous many in this room are only here because of it Skin and Bones skeletons people who have survived the worst atrocity in the history had every right to say good Nook we're done we're finished we survived we're going to live it out ourselves it'll be what it'll be I'm going to bring children into a war with this Connect into a world where this can happen again I should bring children into a world only for them to be rounded up and put in the ghetto to be deported to a concentration camp to be put into a gas chamber a crematorium for that I should bring children into the world but they didn't say that they didn't say that they said I have faith and I believe this world is yet worth bringing children into I'm going to build communities I'm going to be Jewels I'm going to build seminaries I'm gonna build mcvos I'm gonna build castras I'm going to build because this world is a place that will once again and are we not seeing it now we're seeing the Fulfillment of their optimism an explosion of Torah learning and Torah growth in Jewish communities in a total World which is on fire which has several problems but which overwhelmingly is blossoming and flourishing and is only the result of their faith and their optimism and their willingness in that setting and after all that they survived to have children the miriams of our world who are willing to do it absolutely incredible absolutely incredible my children are only here because of it I'm only here because of it I reserve the right to tell this story as a irritate Russia one time but my grandparents came over they lived in Germany after Crystal not their store was destroyed my grandfather was deported to Miracle how he returned and they were able to get out and they came with my aunt who had been born in Germany but and that was it they weren't going to have more children because when they survived one was enough how are they gonna live in the new world and one night my grandmother overheard my aunt she was standing by the window looking out the window and she was dominating to Hashem she desperately wanted a sibling and only because she heard my aunt davening desperately wanting a sibling she decided she would have one more child it was my father it's the only reason that I'm here and my wife her grandparents were each married and lost their spouse and child in the war survived and every reason to say we tried we had families once you know we've done it what we survived why are we going to continue they had sitting here in the front row my father-in-law it's the only reason my wife is here the only reason my children are here and grandchildren are here we're all the product of their faith their optimism their hope their willingness Miriam's Vision that she said to her father what are you doing you got to get back together bless you so on that says the following was no slouch who was amram he was the god of he was the greatest of the generation and yet he concluded he decided with his greatness with his Insight with his wisdom with the sagacity concluded good Nook we're done no more children no more couples no more intimacy this is it how old is Miriam when she advised her father like my aunt she was four years old a little girl he heard the advice of a little four-year-old middle four-year-old girl said I want siblings and this world is worth bringing children into and don't be worse than Hitler don't be worth than pyro don't exterminate the next generation is not yet even conceived or born and only because of her vision only because of only because she was compelling to her father four years old because of her passion because of her emotion only because of what she the picture she painted for her father Moshe my father's Moshe but Moshe rabena was born didn't want to have children he saw that Menasha and malach the worst King was going to descend from him was critical he said what are you doing your job is not to worry about the future your job is not to worry about the world and the way it will be you have a job which is continuity you have a job in the present not the future and therefore he had a child and he gave birth to a Yoshi about whom it was said no one ever Rose like him in every circumstance we have to say now it feels right not what feels good not what I want not what is my emotion tell me to do but what does Hashem want what does Hashem want from me right now does he want me to give up on this world does he want me to live with pessimism does he want me to give up my faith or does he want me to believe the world is yet worth bringing more people into what does Hashem want from me you also see the power of a four-year-old girl of an innocent Sweet Child who can see with an optimism that her parents had lost who convinces her parents he doesn't say this but I thought he was going to say something else another conclusion I come to from it think of how extraordinary not only that Miriam gave that advice but that amaran listened to it he heard it he listened to it how many of us would pinch the cheek of the four-year-old and say sweetie that's cute that's sweet I understand where you're coming from you think that we should but you don't know what I know I'm the guadala door we have committee meetings we sit and we talk and we discuss and we debate and we deliberate we're older we're more experienced we have more wisdom it's sweet you're cute pinch the cheek that's sweet here's the candy here's a little doll go play we've concluded this world is not worth bringing children into amram goes back to the committee he says you know my daughter raised a good point we're doing something worse than Paro we have to believe the world is yet worth bringing children into we have to believe with faith and optimism and hope that there will be Redemption it will become a better time and the people say your daughter I'm a how's that daughter again she's four she's four says yeah but she made a good point accept truth from wherever it comes I think that's a remarkable part of the story we don't necessarily focus on not only Miriam's passion enthusiasm and sharing that advice but amram's willingness to hear it very based possible so they have a child they listen they remarry they have a child and time comes to put that child in a basket in the river to hope that he will survive but Tifton Miriam opens the basket and she sees and she recognizes him and she says this is a child from the Ibrahim this is a child from the ivrim uh sorry says what happened moshe's floating comfortably in the Nile floating comfortably in his basket it's coded it's comfortable floating down the Endless River he's got his hands behind his head he's sipping a pina colada he's happy he's happy and the daughter of Miriam I'm sorry the door of para Busia basparo sees him she sees him she stretches out her arm we've discussed in the past the miracle that her arm stretches out how did she know that would happen she didn't but she did it anyway again the Fate the optimism we have to do our part Hashem does his the measure says gavriel came and pinched Moshe to make him cry why so that she would have pity on him and take him in and bring him to the Palace foreign her father is out there he's got press conferences every day talking about destroying the Jewish people he's got cabinet meetings every day with the final solution and she's going to bring home a Jewish child she knows he's a Jewish child right away she recognizes and she says she out of her mind what made her so moved to take the enormous risk to bring home a Jewish child when her father is consumed by his final solution to get rid of the Jewish people foreign it was his tears had he been floating in the basket sipping a pina colada she would have seen him she would have kept doing her laps she said oh it's cute there's a baby she would summoned one of her advisors and said find somebody to watch this baby what moved her to take this risk it was his tears tears pull and tug on the heartstrings tears have the capacity to transform and move people she can't believe the Moses our tears our tears can move mountains our tears can transform people and decisions our tears can pierce the Gates of Heaven he doesn't say this but what does it say the the are not Nina lost in front of Tears what does it mean the Gates of Heaven are not locked in front of Tears if it's not locked why do you need Gates the answer is maybe you have Gates and maybe they're closed but what unlocks them are the tiers heartfelt authentic genuine tears tears of the capacity to transform to transform the majority says the power of tears power of tears I once saw it described tears of the sweat of the Soul just like when a person works out the evidence that you've worked out that you've engaged your body is sweat tears are the sweat of the Soul when the soul is engaged when the soul is moved you cry you hear a story that makes you cry you have a moment of happiness or sadness that makes you cry tears of the sweat of the Soul it's the tears that move bisia and that lead to her risk to be able to save Moshe which saves the Jewish people which saves the Jewish people who's the Nar Moshe right that's kind of strange how old is Moshe he's a baby why we describe him as a Nar so Rashi tells us one of the Miracles is the most had a mature voice he had a deep voice he sounded like a Nar even though he was just a baby but says the balaturim something different one of my favorite Bala turisms it wasn't Moshe who was crying reread the possum says the balaturam I love this balaterram she opened the basket and she saw the baby and then she heard maybe she didn't hear but the Torah is describing the scene she opens the basket and there's a baby and simultaneously observing that scene of a woman coming to save his brother hiding behind the tree watching all along was watching are on a coin and why was Aaron a coin watching because he couldn't not watch when he put his brother in the river he didn't go home and continue to play the Xbox he didn't go back to the basement pick up his kavarusa he didn't go on with life he didn't go to Starbucks and offer order his triple latte caramel upside down backwards double scoop whatever he put his brother in the river and he couldn't tear his eyes away he jumped just kept watching to see what would happen so when someone came to save him and who's that Nar is our own one of the 48 ways the mission imperialbos tells us the total is acquired one of them at our nickname is one of the 48 ways is a person has to be no say the capacity to feel the pain to lift the burden to carry the burden of a friend and we'll see this is in fact mosharabana's greatest quality I'm not going to elaborate because we've shared it in the past but the altar of Kalman are Parsha says why was Moshe chosen because he's the most humble now most righteous no smartest no greatest speaker for sure now greatest midos no why was mostly chosen best looking most athletic most artistic no no no why was he chosen the measures tells us when he was a shepherd and one sheep got lost Moshe could have moved on without him he had an enormous flock but he found that sheep that sheep had deviated had left corpse because it was down by a river it's thirsty was tired so Moshe didn't yell at the Sheep he put the sheep on his shoulders and he carried it back to the flock foreign it wasn't visible to others he's the only one who could see it did he have special 3D glasses everyone could have seen it was visible to all why didn't they see it why didn't they say why is he the only one who sees it because they're all walking by and they're texting and they're scrolling and they don't see it moshebenu who was a Shepherd who knew how to live in the moment who knew how to be in conversation with himself with Hashem with the world around him I'm not sure abenu he's not scrolling he's not texting moshrabena was actually observing and enjoying his environment and what does he see he sees this bush it's on fire it's not being consumed and he turns to look and the posix says he turned to looked Zuck the medrus rabba he didn't turn to look you know what could Sally rose means he saw Larose Li Rose the civilosam the medrus connects the puzzle kisado he turned to see with when Moshe is in the palace he grows up in the palace and he grows up in with prosperity he grows up with everything a person could want grows up in the palace and yet his brothers and sisters are being tortured and oppressed outside and what does he do by yatesa he goes out of the palace why lyros the civilosami can't stand to watch from afar he goes in order to join them and to feel their pain to see their pain and their burdens to carry it with him so says the medrish you think is means why did Hashem make him the leader of the Jewish people because he stopped to see the bush that's not why some he stopped to see their pain a leader is a leader stops to see pain and that's as the author of calm it wasn't as Brilliance it wasn't his humility it wasn't his righteousness it wasn't his kavana when he doesn't you know what it was he's sorrowly Rose he stopped to turn to Sea to see what liosum to feel the pain of a fellow Jew to peel the pain of another this is in contrast to Hagar when Hagar's son Ishmael is thirsty and starving to death what does Hagar do she doesn't turn towards she doesn't turn to look she turns away and what does she say I can't stand to see I have to look away it would be too hard for me she's the opposite of being no says it's all about her oh I can't stand I couldn't bear how could I see him my own son my sharabenu goes out of the palace he can't stand not to see he can't stand not to intervene he can't stand not to be with them and where does he learn this from clearly it's a family trait who is crying not Moshe okay Rashi says Moshe had a mature voice but according to the balatorum because Aaron was watching from behind the tree he couldn't stand to not look he couldn't stand to Nazi and now we have this confrontation to Jews who are battling Russia he says to the wicked one why are you striking why are you hitting your brother why are you striking your brother says Russia Moshe is asking him a question what does he want to know why are you foreign but before he ever gets the answer to that what does he already call him a Russia he calls out hey Russia why are you hitting your brother maybe you should find out who's the Russia who's the Sadiq maybe he has a good reason a legitimate reason Moshe if you're really curious and you want to know there's a real question mark at the end of it not an exclamation point then maybe you shouldn't be calling him a Russia to begin with he didn't need to wait for the answer to call him a Russia why there is no legitimate answer to explain why one would ever be hitting a fellow Jew simply seeing one hit a fellow Jew it was legitimate to call him Russia even before he had an answer the Russia and that's what anyone who raises a hand against a fellow Jew is a Russia Cole the Lord there is no legitimate reason there is no excuse there's never an explanation or an answer call anyone everyone who raises a hand there is no question mark at the end Moshe wasn't asking why are you hitting a Jew he says Russia you're a Russia because how could you ever hit a fellow Jew so it's an entirely new way of reading this puzzle Moshe wasn't asking waiting for an answer Moshe was exclaiming It's Mia Russia just you're raising it is never a reason um critical of those who call themselves those who with pride describe themselves as Jewish zealots religious zealots never zealous against another Jew a Jew never raises a hand against the never Jew you're wrong even if you're right the moment you raise a hand and therefore Moshe rabena was in the right in calling out Russia not waiting for the answer to the question but simply declaring how could you okay now I want to tell you I've been trying to tell you for two years but we never get to this part of the parisha oh I want to tell you a phenomenal Vitara I still want to tell you a lot more divotora but if we get to nothing else I want to make sure to tell you this to our Torah it comes from our good friend Rob schlita I've been trying to talk to you for several years goes to the he has to run to Midian and in Midian he goes to the air to the well and he gets to the well there are women who are the victims of the metoo movement of me too there are women who are victims of sexual abuse the Shepherds and these male Shepherds come along and abusing them Moshe saves them and he so gentlemanly that he not only saves them and Spares them he then goes above and beyond and he feeds their flockam they go home to their father what are you doing home so early got a job you're never home this early is everything okay but tomorrow this Egyptian man you won't believe it you know those Shepherds who every day the much of the shepherd they abuse us today an Egyptian man showed up and he was our savior he wrote in on his with his Knight and shining armor rode in on his horse and he saved us the game he went even further and he fed our flock so Rua says and where is he you found such a knight in shining armor he found such a shiruch bring him home where is he the measure says on these words how do they describe Moshe an Egyptian man saved Usha wonders the measures that's the best description of Moshe does he Walk Like an Egyptian does he dress like does he look like does he talk Like an Egyptian that's what they thought of Moshe rabeno IA Nicholas what happened they said Moshe you saved us you're amazing you're incredible you're my hero you saved us you saved us and most Ravena responds and he says I didn't save you you know who saved you there's a guy in Egypt who saved you he's an Egyptian man Egyptian man had the Egyptian man save them because if not for the Egyptian man who threatened Moshe that made him flee and run to midyan motion never would have been there in that moment he would have still been in mitzrayim says the metric gives a muscle a person is bit by a snake poisonous snake he runs down to the river to wash out the bite the necklace but now he runs on the river and lo and bald what does he finds is a baby drowning the river and he reaches in and he saves the baby and the parents of this baby say we want to give you a reward if not for you you saved our baby our baby would have drowned and the man says I didn't save you there's a snake that saved you it's not for the snake I'd still be hiking on the path I only ran down to the river because I was bit by a snake that snake saved your baby's life when they come home and report an Egyptian man saved us they weren't describing Moshe they were relaying and they were buying into and tapping into moshes and Muna in Hashem Moshe was saying Hashem always has a master plan I'm not the one who saved you Hashem had this confrontation with an Egyptian man I had to run from him that put me in position to save you it was the Egyptian man and it was Hashem who put him there that saved you not me Cesar of druck what an amazing magic what an amazing there's so many beautiful parts of the story but among them maybe most among them is that moshrabinu doesn't take credit how many would say you're right it was me but it was my pleasure am I a hero probably but you don't have to call me a hero I don't know but moshrabena says I'm not a hero I did nothing the only reason I was here is because of this is a mystery killed someone else mosharbena was going to confront him he had to run from him Moshe doesn't take the credit although he could he redirects them he redirects them thank Hashem thank the mitzri in illum now we go back to the beginning of the parashah and we said there was a new king a new Paro and we saw this is a new King the same King we didn't remember um Moshe goes out of his way to credit someone who began a chain of events who no one would have expected him to credit Paro does the opposite why is there a healthy economy why is the Egyptian Empire only because of Joseph and Paro says I don't know Yosef why Yosef I don't remember Yosef you see the exact opposite of the very same quality Paro who it should have been front and center in his mind Paro who in the grand entrance of the palace there should have been a huge portrait of Yosef Paro who everything he is and has and the sustainability of his whole country is only the video Safe absolutely forgets Yosef and Moshe whatever you're right to say am I a hero uh yeah my hero says Hiro what are you talking about I'm only here because of the mystery connect this to this to this to this to this there's a mystery who saved your life not me this was the quality of motion Moshe was the quintessential Moshe is unwilling to strike the river where the Earth because yes to both because he was able to bury the person in the in the sand and because the river saved his life motion's whole life is gratitude creating links connecting the dots of gratitude that's our mission to mandate too to be like Moshe to connect the dots of gratitude how many names ten which one do we call them not the one his parents gave not the one Hashem gave him which name do we call him the one that this you gave this non-jewish woman the daughter of the of the villain that's the name that we use you know why is because she saved him from the water which means in perpetuity every single time that we use the name Moshe which is going to be a lot over the next several months the rest of the year beginning now Parsha shimos every time we use his name what are we saying oh by the way thank you again for saving him akarasatov is implicit in his name in perpetuity we're thanking her every time we say his name just like Leia was the first to really say thank you when she said how could you say she's the first to thank she was the first to never stop thinking every time she used his name yahudah come for dinner do your homework you had to clean up your room every time she said his name Yehuda was she was saying Yuda oh by the way thank you Hashem for the sun go clean up your room Moshe oh by the way thank you basparo for the courage and the risk of saving his life is the product of akarsatov that's why his name is Moshe he practices akasatov that's why he refuses to strike the sand or the river and he practices zacharusato when he credits the ish mitzri and that's what we're supposed to do as well is to connect the dots of Our Lives to always be saying thank you to always be thanking Hashem I asked two questions I didn't give an answer I'll ask a third I won't give you the answer is a speech impediment how to get the speech impediment everyone knows the Madras the coal what happened there was concern and doubt is he going to be the savior of the Jewish people is he the one what's going on over here so ISRO who was in paro's cabinet says I have a suggestion heat up coals and he does something foolish well no he's not the one you don't have to feel threatened or worried about him pyro heats up the coals and there's a pile of hot coals cold calls and Moshe takes a call from the hot pile puts it to his tongue to his mouth burns his mouth forever he's he's what should have happened before he burnt his mouth he should have burnt his why don't we find he burnt his hand his whole life he uses his hands he's carrying the staff he's carrying the bones of Yosef he's using his hands his whole life and we never find that he's injured in his hand why not didn't he have to touch the coal before he put it to his mouth or was there a certain merit with his hand and because of that Merit his hand was never injured and leave it as a question until next time there are Flyers available on your way out 8 30 PM don't miss it he's always inspiring tomorrow morning 10 minutes to shower I'm living with the moon 8 45. tomorrow night going behind the beam with the great A.B Rottenberg you don't want to miss someone as well so next time stay happy stay healthy stay holy