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Secrets of The Eighth Plague of Egypt

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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[Music] here's another thing that people have I hear this a lot lately is a uh first hasem tells him I'm going tells Moshe I'm going to you know mock the Egyptians and then you see Moshe and Aon come to par and they don't just tell him what hasem said tell a lot of other things says so Hashem god of the Hebrews uh so said Hashem the god of the Hebrews until when you refuse to be humbled before me send out my people and they they may uh so they may serve me for if you refuse to send my people behold tomorrow I shall bring excuse me a locust swarm into your border I will cover the surface of the Earth so that one will not be able to see the Earth meaning that the the Locust will cover everything you're not going to be able to see anything and it will consume the remaining residue that was left to you by the hail cu the hail with the fire pretty much destroyed almost everything so he said whatever is left the locusts are going to eat you're going to have no food there's going to be complete starvation famine in all of Egypt not going to be anything nothing all every all the trees will be eaten if you've ever seen if you want to see on YouTube there's a places around the world that they have these Locust attacks locusts fly in huge millions and millions of quantities mhm and when they arrive at a farm or at a town they eat everything they leave nothing and it's actually it's video today everybody's a cameraman because of the phones so you can actually see some of these things and you see 30 million locusts arrive a day two days three days they leave everything is destroyed the entire Farm is destroyed it's mamash unbelievable this is much worse over's telling you how do we know it's much worse after The Hil that destroyed everything whatever was left it's they're going to even eat this and it says specifically and it will consume all the trees that grow from for you from the field they will fill your houses the houses of your servants and the houses of all of Egypt such as your fathers and your grandfathers have never seen from the day they came onto the Earth until this day and later on this it says when they came never happened before and never will happen again that type of attack from locusts but one thing I was trying to mention here is that you see hasem gives mosu one sentence he tells him I'm going to mock Egypt Moses gives forced a whole you know a whole Milla of things what he created it this is a very very you know simple thing but for some reason people have a problem believing it today this is a very clear proof of the midash the midash is part of the oral Torah there's two toras there's the written Torah which is this the book that we read in theet or the that we have in front of us the that's the written Tora and then there's the oral Tora oral Tora was transferred from mouth to mouth from Moses all the way until today at the beginning of you could see a list of all the people that the Torah traveled from in every single generation literally has names of all the generations from who was the where it traveled from father to son from the and so on beginning of so now the oral Tor has many you know has many parts you have thear which is also called talmud you have the mishna which is part of the technically it precedes it comes before the you have the Z you have the which part of the Z is cabala you have the midashim midashim is the story behind the story but for some reason you tell somebody listen it says this in the Tora wa where does it say that the uh Locust a guys of the uh Egyptians after they finished the food after the Locust finished the food they started it they were looking for more it was already ruined they they didn't have that much food so what they do they start eating the eyes of the Egyptians so you tell us the people like where does it say where does it say I don't see in the verse that's the midash that's the all Tora that's what Rashi is that's what R AKA is that's what all these where you have a on ra raan R they put mid they explained us the story behind the story easiest way to prove it is you see obviously hasem told Moshe a lot more than one thing because Moshe here is saying several things and Moshe is most important prophet of all time nobody's going to be like mhe Moshe spoke to hasm face to face he spoke to him like you and I speaking to each other he's a big sadik it's one of the 13 principles of faith mosu has several parts of the 13 principles of Faith you have to believe in Moshe it's not uh you me it's mosenu so of course Moshe knows you're not allowed to add to hashem's words so how come it has five sentences versus two or one because Hashem is not going to repeat the same thing and waste time and add more letters for no reason every letter every sentence every word every paragraph in the Torah every letter has a reason nothing is duplicated for no reason so of course hasem made sure that he told Moshe all the details but there's no purpose to write him saying it and then Moshe saying it he's just going to write it once so this shows that obviously the conversation between Moshe and hasem is much more than what's written here that's the mid when somebody tells no no no that's the mid that's that's mid is tor it's not midash it's like it's like you know the stories of our grandparents to to make us go to sleep when we're three years old is part of the and for some reason lately I've been hearing this in a few places no no it's a mid like it doesn't matter mid is part of the Tor so now par his servants are breaking they're pretty much saying no how long will it be a snare for us send out these men so that may they serve hem their God do you not know yet that Egypt is lost I mean Egypt has been destroyed we went from the top we lost pretty much all of our almost all of our money we have problems we have barely any food so says he calls back Moshe and he says to them uh you know how how uh you know who's going to serve a who's going to the desert says you know everybody's going to the to the desert so is reading his face like he's looking at moshe's face and he's accuses him of lying goes no no see you're not going to come back you guys are wicked and he kicks them out he says to him um look the evil intent is opposite your faces so here we could learn something about somebody sometimes in a business world or just in a general World sometimes you meet people that they're always accusing everybody of doing something they're always accusing this guy of stealing this guy of cheating every they're accusing everybody of doing it usually that's a bad sign about them CU usually the guilty think everyone else is out to get to get them the people that are usually Wicked usually accuse everybody else of being Wicked what is accusing accusing different different different different the person that has a mentality that he naturally suspects everyone of being there out to get him I used to know this guy used to work for me actually that always thought that were out to get him somehow the funny thing is I did more for this guy than I probably did for any of my employees did things that you know to to help him out with things that weren't even related to work but for some reason he always thought that I have this master plan to fool him or do something against him or whatever it was I don't know why but again I later on I found out that you know he wasn't exactly aad uh but that's again that's the nature of of people that are uh actually now I think about it had more than one guy working for me like that guy I like that so people that usually suspect everyone are you know are are one are usually guilty themselves and that's what's happening with par over here he's suspecting Moshe andon of doing something wrong in reality it's his own it's his own inner Instinct that's acting up and it's because he is guilty himself so after the locusts come they eat everything par hurries up to make sure to call Moses and Aon and he says to them I have sinned to Hashem your God and to you and now please forgive my sin just this time K is like as if it's the only sin he ever made just this time and in treat AEM your God and remove from me only this death as mamash this Locust are so difficult they're destroying everything that it's it feels like everyone's dying people are getting their eyes eaten all the food is being eaten they're going to get to a point of having complete uh hunger here uh I mean here par acts as if he is uh doing Chua and he's not only apologizing to Hashem but he's also apologizing for disrespecting Moshe he says I have sinned to Hashem your God and to you in the past when he pretended like he was sorry he would say I have sinned your God was righteous and I was and mean my people were Wicked he only apologized to God never respected Moshe here finally is showing Moshe some respect he's saying I sinned against you just this time forgive my sin just this time like it's the only sin you ever made so already you see that this is nonsense see it's destroying my my my country they're eating everything remove this death from me because this is going to bring death now there was so many Locust the mid says there was so many locusts that uh even the Egyptians that were killing them they said okay they ate all the food so what we're going to do we start eating locusts which by the way is not allowed in Judaism except for one type this type was allowed the yemenites and I think some Moroccans actually to this day eat them yeah yeah buten not there's not that many you have to know only the only if you have an old tradition you can't you and I can't go to the store and eat locusts because we don't have that in our tradition but they have in a tra in their tradition to know exactly which Locust they're allowed to eat it's not every loc there's a certain type you're allowed to eat which is many many generations old and to this day uh they eat it especially the ammonites locus look so now he's asking to uh oh so they they lost all the food so the Egyptians start they see so many then start eating the uh the uh what's called The Grasshoppers and it's oh you know what we can build our country with this we have so many of them we could sell them so as soon as uh comes to Moshe Moshe goes to Hashem prays to hasem to remove it and hasem brings a wind a powerful wind from the west and pushes the uh you know the the the locusts towards the Sea of reeds every single one of them it says specifically not a single Locust remained within the entire border of Egypt so what about the Dead one not the no the uh mid says that they started filling out buckets and buckets of dead bugs to sell and uh they made the deal and as soon as the uh Hashem made this wind the live ones flew away and the dead ones came back to life and flew away [Music] number eight so the Locust came back to life resurrection of the Dead to make sure that the Egyptians don't benefit out of even selling them not eating them not selling them to nothing so but after this doesn't do CH even though he said he will the interesting thing about I wrote here in a note is that you see that even throughout this time that AEM has performing all of these Miracles he's still using nature to make it look somewhat realistic meaning that when he brought the locusts when he brought all these bugs from a different place to Egypt he brought them using wind specifically says he brought a strong wind and to get them away he's using a strong wind to get them away now in reality hasem just make them appear and disappear one day they're here next second they're not here why is he specifically saying that he's using the wind because this is still giving people the ability to have free choice if they see that the locusts appear like magic one day they hear seconds they're not here then obviously it's obvious that it's an act of God but if it came through the wind then he can say no maybe it's nature maybe it's nature that did it not God even though God is nature you know a Elohim and have the same the same numerical value is is nature and elim is uh which means that aema you know nature is AEM in Disguise it's being disguised so hasem even throughout these Miracle miraculous times is still using nature to give us free choice this this is the problem with today is that people are have gotten to the point where they still have this free choice but unfortunately they keep choosing the wrong thing so you have unnatural events like what's happening in Israel where the terrorists shot four 5,000 missiles at into areas where there's a lot of people and nobody died everybody like no see it's because of the Iron Dome it's because of the special weapons we have and the special Army we have and the special protection we have from the IDF and the government and all this they really believe that all you know if you shot you know one missile anywhere is a uh hundreds of people die or get injured 4,000 missiles nothing they don't think it's they still think it's the Iron Dome or the red Dome or all these Dome all this nonsense that they have they really think their weapons are going to really really what's helping them that's that's the problem so hasem is making it look natural he's making it look natural because he wants to give you the free choice so even then even during the times of Egypt he still made it look natural by using wind