Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz: Unity (Achdut) Hides the Flaws of the Individual

[Music] okay hi everybody uh thank you for coming and uh i'm not going to talk about tuba tonight because hashem we have a uh ibanez running a tuba swat seder uh sunday night at nitsanim so i'm going to save my two-bit shot stuff for then uh first let me announce the dedications uh today's shirt is dedicated of binyamin israel benshlamo halevi and zevia bastavid and khasia bashlomo that is the mother of arik tavinsky and her your site is the eighth of shvats and we hope and we pray that all of these nashamat should be elevated in ganeden in the merit of the support of torah that our sponsors very very generously provide in addition this year is dedicated for a foolish leima to stephen ben khaba and bria batraba and as always on behalf of all of those who are ill whether it's coveted not covered inoculated uninoculated and those who are healthy should be as rat hashem remain healthy and those who are ill should have a reforged lima bisok charcoal israel we are very grateful and thankful 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commemorates the gemara vietseat mitsrayam which is kris yamsev in fact i don't want to go into this because i don't really have a great mahalak but this is sometimes used to explain what might be one of the most perplexing problems about the exodus it is so perplexing that i'm not even going to offer a real answer for it but that is the apparent fraud that was involved in moshira bainer's negotiations mosher abano asks and if hashem even tells him to ask for this give us a three-day break so we can go into the mid bar and we can pray to hashem the clear implication is give us the three-day vacation or give us a furlough and we're going to come back and paro refuses now what would have been if pyro would have said yes or even at the end even when pyro did say yes when pyro's will was finally broken by the plague of the firstborn if pyro is essentially agreeing to what mosher abaner was demanding that actually means pyro agreed to a three-day furlough now that's not so clear in other words uh you could learn the that by the time pyro's will was broken and he said get out of here he meant get out of here and never come back on the other hand le shutter shall mikra is simply acquiescing to the demand that was made so what's going on why is moshe rabbenu asking for something that the clear intention is that that's not true we want to get out montgomery so some say that this was all this before you say this this was a set up and this is why pyro pursued the jewish people pyro saw they weren't coming back after three days therefore he's pursuing them and this was hashem's strategy to get pyro and the mitsrayim at the amsaf and as a result they would experience their final defeat again there are more forces that say this buffet wish that moshe rabeno's time of the three days was to trick pyro into going to the amsaf of course pyro himself survived but everyone else i drowned la maisa i think it's very very fair i think i think you really have a serious ends justifying the means problem and that is are we going to say that it's okay for moshe to lie and to cheat and to misrepresent in order to be able to defeat pyro again the maforshim called it this is the way wars are fought this is the way you trick the enemy into being defeated there could have been other way i mean listen the whole makos are miraculous chris sampson's miraculous so if god wants to do miracles it doesn't have to be that particular way so as i say i'm not going to address that question because i actually do not have a completely satisfactory answer but as i say many meforshim do in fact say that the whole time of the three days was to get paro and the mithrim to the absence by the way just as a little aside the medrash tells us that although the egyptian army was wiped out pyro himself did survive and pyro was no longer popular in his kingdom because after all he decimated the country so the medrash tells us a very strange story that pyro lived many many years he became a balchuva a one who believed in god and he somehow gravitated it's hard to know in the midrashim talk about kings being kings in different places it's hard to know how they got from there there and how did they become a king but pyro eventually became king in none other than nineveh the great assyrian capital and when yona the navi really hundreds of years later called upon the people of nineveh to do shiva or their city will be destroyed actually yonah didn't say duchy we only just said in 40 days you're going to be destroyed and the king of ninja brought his whole city to chuva and because of that god annulled the decree and that's the torah of min kippur mafja yonah the medra says that the architect of cuba the one who brought his city to cuba was none other than pyrometh mitzrayim so he went into kirif he went into kirif right he went from um being the one who said me hashem asharesh mabacolo who is this god that i should pay any attention to him at all a very disdainful way of speaking i'm looking at my list he's not even on the list of the fortune 500 the most important deities who is this god and who do you think you are and he moved from that to the experience of being the person who turned to hashem with all of his heart and all of his soul and was able to avert the evil decree the message of yonah is very very simple really people say why do we john yum kippur i mean it's very simple that shiva is god's gift to the world not only to jews but even to the non-jews you know yom kippur largely focuses on jews the avodah of yom kippur the prayers of the cohen god all the rituals in the kodashak joshua but we reserve a certain corner of yom kippur little corner a corner of the middle service to kind of remember that god's gifts of forgiveness to those who sincerely turn to him applies to everybody that's an important idea the idea of divine forgiveness but it's so amazing that the vehicle of that divine forgiveness was none other than pyro malefice so there's hope for everybody right that's that's a message uh to keep uh to keep in mind okay as i say i don't really know the dynamics or the logistics of how the king of egypt becomes the king of nineveh but this is how they met with the medras teaches us now i want to mention uh a thought a very very ingenious thought of the ville nagon uh when it describes kriyasyamsaf there are two in close proximity to each other that almost say exactly the same thing with slightly different wording one passage says israel to their right and to their left a few succumb later it says almost the same thing but it reverses the sequence via bene israel same thing as the dry land of the sea from and the water was a wall mimi namu mismalam but the word coma in the second verse is spelt without a vowel even though we read it and there is a madrish on that second verse that choma without a vowel can be read sema the water was angry and the midrash tells us that when hashem ordered the water to split for the jewish people the water or the angel of the water said why should we split for the jewish people the jewish people are no better than the egyptians the egyptians are idol worshipers the jewish people are idol worshippers there was sema and god's only response was well they're going to receive the torah give them credit meaning there'll be something in the future they're going to do that makes it worthwhile so the villenegon asks three touches number one what is the purpose of repeating virtually the same pussac number one number two if you are repeating the puzzle why is there a deviation between tokhayam biabasha and yabasha and number three if there is a drash if there is a significance in the omission of the love so you read khomar wall as if it could be read anger why does that omission only appear in the seconds busak and it does not appear in the first puzzle the first basic is you don't have a double entendre it can only mean i can only mean wall it cannot mean anger it's only in the second plastic you have a double meaning so the villagone very ingeniously answers all three questions with one interpretation right actually that's the sign of a good vort how many questions it can answer right the more questions they can answer the better it is and the other bill mcgowan does a triple header he knocks off the three questions with when you soaked and he says that the tube took him although linguistically they they're they're virtually identical are referring to two different groups in israel uh you will remember that most of the jewish people the torah records that the jewish people were paralyzed with fear when they see the egyptians coming they are literally paralyzed they don't know what to do they are between a rock and a hard place between an army and an ocean or a sea the red sea or whatever part of the red sea that is and there they are really trapped by the way the ebenezer points out psychologically that why are the jewish people so terror stricken look at the numbers there's not a huge numbers of egyptians the number of jews six hundred thousand men between twenty and uh sixty uh if you add the kids uh below twenty again you might have with women children not everybody could fight perhaps but you may have three million people if you include the a if you include the a riv rav now maybe the arab rav didn't really reassure them because they didn't know if the aware of rob would side with the egyptians but with the arab rep some say the aorta was double and even much more so than the yoshi mitzrayim so even if the few thousand people that pyro had had weapons the jewish people also had weapons kamushima illuminae israel is so what are they so afraid of what is the terror stricken here how powerful could that small number of egyptians be even with chariots and everything else so the ebenezer says that this is indeed the mentality of a slave that when the master comes back all of a sudden you get terroristic and you lose your confidence in spite of all the miracles you lose your ability to think you're going to prevail in fact the ebenezer writes elsewhere following the same line of thought that is why the moshiach shall israel the human being that was chosen to be the redeemer of israel had to be a person who grew up as a free person as a noble person because a slave would not have been able to have the wherewithal to rebel there would have been a slave mentality it would have been very very difficult hashem had to take someone who had to arrange the history of events that that someone that would be the liberator of israel would be a person who had not experienced the subjugation of slavery but be this it may the jews didn't know what to do however we are told that there was one person and perhaps one tribe as well who had the courage and the faith to take the initiative that hashem would redeem them and tell us this is not recorded in the homicide explicitly but tell us that this was [Music] the head of the tribe of yehuda who jumped in up to his mouth some say up to his nose quite literally knowing that hashem is going to bring a yeshua and the sea split and interestingly enough according to the gemaran inciter he was not followed by other members of the tribe of yehuda he was followed by the tribe of binyamin so it's kind of a disconnect here nakshon the nasi of yehudah is followed by shaibut binyamin so the villenegon says this is tremendously maroomas in the passage the first passage says israel young be a basha that refers to the nakshan banami nadav and shavit binyamin who jumped into the sea that then became yabasha it then became yabasha but hayam now on them the angels in heaven cannot say why are they better than the egyptians of course they're better than the egyptians they're showing they're a moon and hashem so vis-a-vis the first passage that is referring to nakshon ben-amin the word khomar is only spelled with avov meaning wall and not not anger but the second passage are the people who were not willing to enter the absence until they saw the miracle that's why it says we are opening israel they entered it when it was already ya basha they lacked a muna they lacked faith they panicked they were scared they thought there would be no yeshua until they saw a miracle that's why it says and that's why the word is written without avov and then there was no better than the egyptians even after all the makos they still do not have emunah so mimaila why is all three questions are answered why is the puzzle repeated because one passage is nakshan bin i mean the other puzzling is everybody else why is the order reversed because for nakshon it was batohyun which became yabasha for everybody else it was and why is the first coma with above and the second hammer without because of it was a wall there was no kit right there was no prosecution there was no accusation in shamayim but with respect to the other people there was a kitsch rug there was a prosecution there was an accusation manishtanu elumielu and therefore the word coma could be read as if it is right so this is the horror of the vilna god but the metric who doesn't bring the vilna gone per se but the mesh does bring the medrash that the melaka in shamayim said why are the egyptians why are the jews better than the egyptians this is called the kitrik an accusation in shamayim that hashem had to address the midazzin the attribute of justice was saying the egyptians are no worse why do they deserve to die the meshach maya asks akasha the jewish people have just emerged from an entire process of 10 macos that took the space of a year basically yeah there are different complications exactly how do you get a year that doesn't jump out from the hamish but basically from the time that mosher abenu first came to pyro until the time that we left mithrayam was 12 months that's a mishna massachusetts the actual slavery stopped already rosh hashanah six months before pesach right there are different uh so there are different kush bonus in them apportion how to reconcile the duration of the marcos with all of that but be it as it may we're dealing with a 12-month period and in that 12-month period every single maca only afflicted mitraim and did not afflict the jewish people the exception might be the plague of darkness where indeed we are told that four-fifths of the jewish people died but even that that was not you see that that was not being affected by the plague of darkness they didn't die from the darkness uh you know they died because that they were they were not worthy of goula they were on the 50th level but the actual maca every makkah dams radaya kingdom whatever it was mahes bakarus was only misrayah so how come for a whole year we don't find the angels saying why are you punishing the egyptians and sparing the jewish people manish obviously first of all that's not even a question why are you punishing the egyptians and not punishing the jewish people well the reason is because the egyptians enslaved the jewish people the jewish people didn't enslave the egyptians i mean the whole question manish so the messiah says why does the kittrig come up for the first time only by kris yamsev and it never came up in mitzrayim so he says a very beautiful thought a very powerful thought he says that it's true that in misrayam the jew most of the jewish people were in fact over their vote zara they were in the 49th level of impurity uh indeed only shaibut levy was the only tribe that were not of their bodhisattva but as we already said a number of times in mitzrayim the jewish people had a very strong sense of actus and community and avas israel that is the meaning of the statement they didn't change their names they didn't change their language they didn't intermarry different lists they wore distinctively jewish clothing they're different lists that are given they didn't speak lash and hara against each other to get advantages again as i said but a few weeks ago when we say they didn't speak lesnar that's what the magilta says the makilda doesn't mean that they were learning two paragraphs of the time every day rather what it means is they didn't turn against each other they didn't inform on each other to get temporary advantages with the boss with the master there was a sense that we are in this together we suffer together we connect to each other so the mesh says a tremendous result when there is actus and love among jews we create a whole that is greater than the sun of the individual parts so even when claudiusrael is in a state of sin sinfulness even when thereof they have odazara ava's israel and connection to each other brings down a media of that can overpower the kitchen that are in shamayim so mimala for the year of the marcos where there was the akhtas of loshinu at shamam aslashonam maubusa so there was no room for the kitchen there of their bodhisattva yeah they're obviously available but they live with shalom they live with achtus they live with care and love for each other came by that in the moment of panic of israel the jewish people divided into four groups one group said let us jump into the sea that doesn't matter no let's commit suicide let's jump in and kill ourselves another group said let us surrender to the egyptians and go back to mizrahim a third group said let us wage war and a fourth group said let us appeal to the nations of the world to save us united nations and in my opinion that was always the most foolish of the of the four groups and all four responses were not right now the meshach was a little twist he understands that this was not simply an argument over what was the appropriate strategy but rather this was a disintegration of unity in which each person was only thinking about what's best for them says when you no longer have actus within quali israel then god is going to scrutinize you as an individual as a and as an individual all of our individual faults can now be looked at in a way that wouldn't have happened when there was unity in shalom in other words the concept is that when there is avas israel the flaws of the individual again we can't say totally overlooked that's obviously not the case but there's a certain media of rachel that mitigates the severity of the divine response so it's an important idea to recognize that abbas israel is not only altruistic it's also the best policy to pursue even in terms of my own selfish self-interest and that is when there's unity and actus the standard of judgment that hashem applies is going to be a more lenient standard the more compassionate standard and that is why by kriyasyamsa when there is a disintegration of the actus is when there's kids rigging in shamayim the kit rook and again it wasn't the kit again the kit rig was not that we don't have actus no the kitchen was an old sin i voted but the khitra gets niso rare it gets awakened when there's a disintegration of achnas something to remember that when we don't have actus when we live with sinatra when we live with rejecting each other and not speaking to each other not caring about each other we are opening ourselves up to strict divine justice strict scrutiny of all of our flaws and all of us all of us need the mim of hashem without the rahman of hashem we are vulnerable we are weak we are in a bad place and abbas israel is one of the great great insurance policies that brings rakhamim into the world this is what rev mayor simcha what mayor sinclair says but if we go back to these four groups at the amsaf uh you see uh there's an interesting explanation that is given in the safe air the hakhtama to the safer toldo siaco viasef this is actually an interesting remote it's a very important savior but uh historically it's also important uh told us yaakov visited was written by raviaco villasef of palna and he was the talmid mufak of the balshemptov second only to the imagine of mezrich and the torvasiacovice was the first safer of casitas that was ever printed and in fact when uh you know the balsamic didn't leave any safari so when people have swarmed like the balshem toe by la torre and the like really it is really a leakage from the toblerous jack of the eyes so tell us that the ice have quotes the balsham toef 500 times so if any of you want to write a safer one easy way of writing a safer is to take a saver that quotes somebody and be molocate uh from the say for all those quotes and in fact that's the kudus same thing the first guarantee didn't write a safe route on the torah but what happened was his grandson this fassemes quotes his grandfather many many times so some enterprising individual i mean it's a very worthwhile thing he simply went through the whole semester and took out every thing that the lucia rim is quoted as saying and he made a safer so the same thing when you see something like balshevz which by the way is a fine safer to have by all means there is no balchemt of the torah it is taken from the tordos yaakov yasif now the total structure of course in those days uh all khasidah were converts from the snagit i mean you weren't you couldn't be born ah if qasidas just started then so the total jack of yasuf was born in miss nage so to speak but he became a very very fiery husset and a lot and the total shock of yosef sometimes he literally is abusive of miss nagdin rabbayam and teachers and he's kind of almost insulting in many many places and they say that that's why the balchemtov didn't want him to be the leader of casitas he felt that in order for casitas to spread it would have to be conciliatory it would have to be peaceful it would have to be without a lot of acrimony so the mesoricious mage was it was indeed the opposite type of personality the maguita meza rich was not a person who who responded of christmas snacks and were very mean to haseem that's the grand and the like but by and large uh were taught by the magette not your response in kind but the total jacob yaiser was a very fiery person and but nevertheless his safer al-qamish is a very interesting safer and it really is as i say the first glimmerings of hasidic thoughts on the so in the hakhtama of the telus yakaviasev he brings the name of the balshevtov a very intriguing interpretation of the four groups at the yamsef again the four groups and metaphorically he says that when you're confronting so to speak a turbulency that could be referring to the turbulence within your own personality that rebels against hashem the hater horror itself can be described as a turbulency that is trying to destroy you and these were different strategies actually not strategies different weaknesses so to speak because these are not good strategies in which how does one respond to the different yates or horrors so the belgento starts off with the idea that ghazal taught actually it was based on greek philosophy but hazal incorporated this in their thoughts that all matter is comprised of different combinations of four fundamental elements we have the elements of the assad of fire and winds and dirt offer and water and everything is composites of these types of other than the pure forms composites of these different combinations so then while shelter points out that these are not so much this is not so much a description of chemistry this is really existing on a metaphysical plane that you know i played on would say there's an ideal idea of fire an idea of water an idea of dirt an idea of winds right these are spiritual forces that get concretized into the physical but they are ultimately spiritual forces that are the root of the manifestations of reality now each year so can have a good aspect and a negative aspect so let's take for example the soda fire fire is fiery so fire can represent passion excitement investments commitments that's the good side of it right fire of torah but h can also be the source of acrimony locus bitterness right so there's the h that's good and the age that's bad like everything else a you sowed a foundational idea can be utilized in good ways and utilized in bad ways that's the asodovaish so interestingly enough when the group that said let us wage war against mizrahim they were utilizing the assad of ace fire fighting but that could also turn into something very very negative the assault of age is the assad of anger resentment hatred fighting right so that's the assault of h now we then go to the assault of maya so mayam which gives a person uh relaxation it gives a person cleanliness it gives a person uh life so to speak it keeps a person alive so uh in that sense tyrus compared two to water the soda of mayam can represent a certain joy and contentment with life which is good percolvos who is a wealthy person you rejoice in your life you're happy with your life that's a tremendous treasure to have a sense of contentment in the life that hashem gave me but the soda mayan when it's too much can turn into the idea of hedonism a total connection to taiva so that was the group that said let's jump into the water let's embrace ourselves in the hedonism and pleasures of allah so the group that said let's wage war is a kyoko is a disruption based on the assault of age and those who say let us jump into the water is a disruption in the assad of mayam in which there's too much of a connection to the material and physical and sensual pleasure now then he says the group that said let us go back to slavery this is a kyoku kind of a a distortion in the media of afore let's take off all right so if h can represent passion and maya represents uh hedonism in negative ways then afar represents a sense of loneliness al sadhatov afar is humility and submission to hashem but al-sadhara if there's too much you sowed her off or what that does is that represents a sense of loathing of self self-loathing self-despair depression right so the one that let's go to the group that said let us return to egypt that's a kilco in the assault of afar and finally the group that said let us call out to the nations of the world that's ruach ruach so ruach can turn into guyva right what is what is about called ruach it is healthy self-esteem in which a person knows his value al sadhara it turns into guyva so the group that says bone it's let us go and announce our needs to the world and the world will take care of us that comes from a gaiver the assad of ruach those that say no of misrayam is the lowliness of afar and those that say nipa layam is a kyoko in the hedonism of the assad hanayam and those that say nasa milham is a kyoku in the asoday so metaphorically the bolshevdav is saying that this refers to the struggles they have against the azer hara in different ways and all of these strategies or all of these approaches are flawed because they become makoko the eight zoharis macaukill them so the age instead of enthusiasm turns into anger and the mayam instead of contentment turns into taiva and the uh bonus instead of healthy self-esteem turns into guyva and they're going back to uh to to betray him instead of modesty and humility it turns into self-loathing and depression and it goes to the idea that this is also the four cities of eric israel the four cities of eric israel are connected before you sodos in positive ways it says you shall i am is the city of fire right fire passion enthusiasm but that's why people get so angry here all the time people are always fighting here i remember i once i was in svad once for shabbos and i needed to get back it was an awesome event and sourcemail i had to be back in usual i am so they got a cab for me from swat so we took a cab back and the cab driver comes to you shalom like 8 o'clock in the morning and everybody is beeping their horns so the cab driver said to me i've been a cab driver in spot for 50 years i have never heard a horn blow i have never heard a car horn blow in 50 years and swat different thing your saliva is the city of fire that's what it is for some people it's a little too fiery right they got that i mean that's i mean everyone emotionally you shalom is our holiest city but for some people it's too intense hard to live here sometimes swat is the city of air ruach spirituality that's not concretized in the physical tivaria is yusod hamayam yam kineret and klevron is the assad of afar right so the cities themselves are kenaget can they negate the four elements okay so that's uh something you think about again it's a is a very very interesting word from the todos yaakov yaakov isif and the name of the baal shemptov but the other thing i want to share with you one other final voice here which is really totally different topic but it's connected to korea's yapsif as well and that is the fact that the splitting of the red sea took place on the seventh day of pesach and the egyptians died actually has a halachic ramification and that is we know that on sukkos we say a full halal for all seven days of sukkos even kalamawi and shminiyaseris as well full however when it comes to pesach we only say a halal challenge on the first of the no lal seder and on the first day of pesach in khus lawrence the first two days of pesach but the rest of pesach we only say hello and that's even on the seventh day which is the yomtif not only hola maui does even the yamcha vacheron of pesach seventh day and then seventh and eighth day is only a half hollow and there are different reasons that are given for this why is pesach different than circus the gemara itself gives a reason so but what's interesting is that the reason that people commonly give is badafica not the reason the kumara gives i'm saying this as an insurance because i don't want to get an email that i neglected the gemara's explanation i'm aware that morgan gives a different explanation but for time limitations i'm not going to go into the halachic explanation the gemara gifts but the most popular reason is given by the shibale lekket shibali lekket is one of the beshanim and the shibuya shibali elected quotes another madrish that says that when the egyptians were drowning in the sea the malacca wanted to say shira to hashem and hashem said to the malachim do not praise me while the egyptians are drowning my say yadai tavubayam these are my creations as well and they are drowning in the sea it is not a time for joy it is not a time for exaltation it is not a time for singing praises to me i am grieving over this and therefore you do not say she with me now the gemara or the accusator the gemara and the madrish are not talking about halo they're talking about the angels be sure you understand that that gemara is talking about the angels the shibale lekkas however applies it to halal by saying that since the seventh day of pesach commemorates the death of the egyptians and the madrish and the gemara tells us that hashem grieves when even evil people die myself so we mute our joy our joy is incomplete by only doing a partial hollow and not a complete hollow okay again i want to emphasize be sure you understand what the gemara says and what the shibali lekka says the gemara simply says the angels were silenced from singing she-ra that's all the gemara says because of my sayaday tava bayam the shibale lekkad actually like it does quote it in the name of a madrish that we do not have medra sharninu that this is the reason for a half halal an akron shall pesach because of the concept of maison yada tabobian although the gemara american gives another reason now the taz asks an obvious kasha on the shibali like it and that is kriyasyamsof is the seventh day of pesach so if you're going to use my sayadai to knock down the halal from full halal to part hallel we ought to say a full halal until the seventh day of pesach right why is it that after the first day it's a half-hour so the tarza's answer is we never want to make homomoids more joyous than yamcha itself so you gotta you got you kind of have to work backwards if you're not gonna say a whole halal on the seventh day of pesach that is a yomto then you're not going to elevate holomo eight to that madrid it's kind of a reverse engineering process that based on the fact that you're not going to do a whole one at the ends so you're not going to do a whole one for the hula maui daisy okay so that's the taj that's the shibali luckett and this is a well-known reason i think in fact this is the reason that most people do know that uh this commemorates kris yamsev but the question is we do say hallo on the first day of pesach now many many many many egyptians died on the first day of pesach the night before was makass and yet lail seder when we are singing dayenu haragas bakareyam etc you know we say a complete halal with joy the men are gonna narrate yourself from that foreigners as they say hello uh even at myriff right that's a big machokus do you say hello the base knesset layla seder but in the seder itself uh you're making to say hello for sure so what are you gonna answer well we frankly don't care what happens to the egyptians meaning this is the night where we celebrate our redemption if there's collateral damage so so be it so we'll call that the particularistic approach so the first day of pesach we're focusing on what's good for the jews all of a sudden on the second seventh day of pesach become universalists we care about humanity well which is it do i kind of be parochial and say hashem we are redeemed oh if those egyptians got killed so what or do i say no no no i feel the pain of even the egyptians who died so how come we seem to move from particularistic people to universalistic people and that's a transition that we undergo from day one to day seven by the way i also want to make the obvious observation that even though god feels the pain of the loss of life it was god that killed him it's a very important idea that the notion of compassion for humanity doesn't mean you don't do what needs to be done so if we kill if the army kills terrorists or whatever it would be we do feel rahman we do feel sorry that we do these things we do feel sorry that we live in a world where wives will become widows and children will become orphans we feel pain but we don't turn the other cheek one who comes to kill you or kill your nation you do it so it's a very complicated dynamic it's not the gandhi pacifism or the christian idea of turning the other cheek we do not turn the other cheek we do what needs to be done just as hashem did what had to be done but you don't glorify it you don't rejoice in it you don't dance in the blood of your victims as the other side often does you recognize that we live in a world of hard choices and we live in a world of tragic choices and therefore we choose and we must choose the lesser of two evils recognizing that there's still something sad and tragic about it okay so it's a complicated idea this is not a pacifist idea but this is an idea of empathy and compassion and the fact that it's a tragedy from god's perspective that a human being had to be taken out so the question still is why do we have this empathy badafka by kris yamsev and we don't have this empathy by uh by ucs mithraim itself so here let me provide a partial answer to this with a very interesting observation of the basal navy the basal levy points out that kriyas yamsev was a miracle that was qualitatively different than all the other marcos in all the other makkos the miracle that hashem did was the punishment aspect the fact that the jewish people were not affected was leaving them to the laws of nature so let's say blood right the miracle of the makka was hashem changed the water to blood the water of the jewish people did not change the blood so they are allowed to continue to live in the laws of nature and hashem changed nature in the direction of punishment and retribution every single marker works that way every single makkah the nes was the nace of punishment the hatsallah being saved from the makkah was letting nature remain as it was kriyasyamsaf the basal lady says actually moved in exactly the opposite direction the miracle of yamsuf was the splitting of the water the death of the egyptians was leaving them to the laws of nature right the laws of nature are when you walk into the sea uh if you're not swimming you will be drowned you see it's an interesting point the makos the nace was the ownership the hot salah was the teva right the miracle was the punishment the saving was normal life kriyasyamsa the miracle was the saving and the death of the egyptians was the teva was the nature now why is that important the basal labor says the reason why that's important is that when we emerge from the cs mitzrayim we emerge with a lesson that god will change the forces of nature to punish evildoers and exact justice so the basic lady says the dominant emotion that emerged from the makkos was yerasachem fear of god look at what god did to the egyptians and if god did it to the egyptians we it's kind of a preparation for matanto we realize it could happen to us if we're not worthy we better get our act together look at the awesome power infinite power of god to change nature to punish evildoers kris yams left the base of levi said we felt hashem's love yeshua punished the rashad but not to a miracle hashem punished the rishayan by nature hashem did a miracle not to punish hashem did a miracle to show his love for us and that's why the bait of lady says kris yamsev made us feel hashem's love even more than hashem's might and therefore here is the idea the puzzle says in mishleigh one of the most beautiful psuchim in mishleigh kamayam upon him opponent as water reflects the face that you show it i look into the water if i smile at the water i see a smiling face me if i frown at the water i see a frowning face so malek says cain lay for adam you will feel that which you show another person meaning i show you love i will get love back from you i show you anger and disdain i will get anger back for you every person i interact with is like a reflecting pool that gives me back what i show them the bellatonia says the same thing is true for our relationship with god the more i feel the love of hashem the more i will love hashem right one of the ways we love hashem is when we feel the love of hashem for us in many many different ways the baby upon him upon him god showing us love causes us to feel up so mimaila we could conclude the following if kriyasyamsaf enabled us to feel the love of god in a more intense way than even yet mithraim then by extension by our feeling the love of god we felt love for god you see kamayam upon him upon him applies to hashem to so kriyasyamsaf we progressed to avasashem in a higher level now you may ask me a little kasha it says by kriyasyams of padavka the people revered god they feared god according to what we're saying that would have been after the marcos kriyasyam should have been we loved god but that's not a conscience because you'll notice by ero ams hashem the name of god that is used in that passage is yet kev ke midas does not mean we were afraid of god but it means that morale writes that when you love somebody so intensely you are afraid to do anything that hurts them it's the year it's not fear it's the it's not even reverence it's the year that comes from love like imagine a person uh loves his spouse very deeply and has to get up so early in the morning while he or she is still sleeping so they walk so quietly and you know they'll even describe it i'm scared i'm gonna wake her. now that's not scared i mean uh you know your wife is not gonna take a take a frying pan and hit you over the head because you woke her up you're not scared and it's not even reverence like you know i'm waking queen elizabeth or something uh it's i love somebody i don't want to do anything that'll bring them pain so really it's an intensification of love the morale says there's a year that comes me up okay so now listen to this idea this is a little bit of an extension of this when you love a person part of loving a person is seeing the world through their eyes i want to understand how my child looks at the world how my spouse looks at the world i want to understand now obviously by definition that's going to be a very imperfect exercise because none of us can really see the world through somebody else's eyes but we try so if it's true in human relationships that if i love you i want to understand how you see the world when you love hashem you want to look at the world the way god looks at the world you see when your relationship to god is based on yra it's kind of self-serving i got to figure out what's good for me i don't want to do a video because i don't want to get punished right i do miss us so i'll get reward so when you live in the world of era your perspective is parochial when you live in the world of ava you want to see the world through hashem's eyes this is the difference between the first day of pesach and the last day of pesach the first day of pesach we were kona we acquired the attribute of era you better behave because you can see what god does to the bad guys better behave era is parochial so on the first day of pesach i frankly don't care what happened to the egyptians their collateral damage in my goal but if kris yamsef is the progression to ava and ava looks at the world through god's eyes then you have to understand that a human being is god's child i mean imagine i mean unfortunately it happens sometimes and i always think about this i mean people tell me i'm thinking about the wrong the wrong victims but i mean i think about this uh a lot of course it was relevant now with with with with walder and all these other things but you know you have let's say uh a mass murderer right these guys in america that'll go into classrooms and shoot up children awful right awful these people deserve to die but if you're the father or mother of that person what exactly goes through your mind do you stop loving them you know what it's a very complicated thing and you know hopefully we hope and pray that none of us should ever ever ever have to confront this type of problem if the parent has sacral the parent will recognize that the child has to be put away for life or even killed but that doesn't take away the sadness that this was my child there was something here that went wrong i don't know what it is but this is my child and in some ways they're even the silent mourners because they can't really talk about their grief because people are going to say to them who cares about you i mean right and again i think the walter family is facing a very similar type of issue and they say i i wouldn't be surprised if i will be criticized for this and again this is not about that subject directly but all i'm saying is my sayadai is the commiseration that a parent has when their child is a terrorist that type of thing hashem grieves hashem is bizarre that a human being became that way because this was his creation also and on srv i identify with that because that's a time where i feel god's love so i have greater love for god i see the world from god's standpoint as opposed to the time of era i see the world from my standpoint from my standpoint good riddance who needs them and that's true also but there's another perspective involved you see and that's kind of the transition the ambiguity of life the idea that rishoyan on some level have to be dealt with have to get rid of them one way or the other sometimes they cannot continue to exist in the world but at the same time there's a little bit of a corner of our existence that has the sadness even for the russia who potentially as every human being could have been righteous in different ways so that's kind of the difference in the first day and the second and the last day of pesach so anyway thank you very much and uh have a uh a good shabbos and uh again some of you might 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