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Join me as we learn together Kumish for
Wednesday. It's the fourth Torah reading
of Parasha Shamimos. Yesterday's Torah
reading we read we are Moshe came to
Midian met Yro's daughters helped them
by the well as well married Saporro who
was Yro's daughter had a child by the
name of Gersam and the Torah tells us
how God heard the suffering of the
Jewish people and Moshe was now the
shepherd of Israel's cattle
chapter 3 verse one
And Moshe was tending to the flock of
his father-in-law Jethro
who was a ruler in Midian.
And he would lead the sheepbar
through the desert.
And it came to be that it was by Mount
Kore which was the mountain where God
will eventually come to the Jewish
people on Mount Si. Mount Kore which was
also known as Mount Hashi.
One of the reasons why he would take
them to pasture in the desert was that
they should be away from other people's
properties. That they shouldn't be
stealing from others.
that they should not be sheep pasturing
in other people's fields
to the mountain of God. How is this the
mountain of God?
Because eventually in the future, this
will be the place where the Torah will
be given to the Jewish people and
thereby known as the mountain of God
where God's name is blessed on it. Verse
two,
a love and an angel of God appeared to
him
in a blazing fire
in the midst of a Thor bush. Then he saw
and he gazed. Mosha saw
and he saw that the bush was on fire.
However, something miraculous was
happening here.
But the fire the bush was not being
consumed by the fire while it was on
fire but it wasn't being consumed
explains
with a fiery flame with a blazing fire.
The word shal is a flame comes from the
word li from the word of heart the heart
of an of the fire. heart of heaven
believe like in the heart of the tree
the center of the tree
don't you ask the question why it says
shall
you have other places where the Torah
uses the female connotation to the word
heart for example
in the book of Ezekiel where it talks
about how destructive that heart is
what kind of bush was this was a bush
that was a
not another type of tree. Why was God
symbolizing that he was burning through
this fire the thorny bush
to [snorts] show that God is with them
in the pain and the suffering just like
the thorns are hurtful and and painful.
So too God is so showing Moshe that God
is suffering with the Jewish people. Ukl
the word ukl comes from the word
consumed burnt
[snorts]
and it's not being burnt from the flame
similar connotation to a past tense
activity
was not working with it that was taken
from there mosha sees this wondrous
event and therefore he says
says oh let me turn away from what he's
doing here the and go over and
this remarkable site. This one that's
going on.
Why doesn't the bush burn?
You have the word, let me go astray. Let
me go away. That means you're going away
from where you are to come close to
another place.
Verse five.
Verse four, sorry.
When God saw that he turned aside to
look that he got his attention
and God called to him
from the midst of the bush
and he said
Moses Moses
replied here I am. Verse five.
And God said to him,
"Come no nearer.
Remove your shoes from your feet."
Because the place that you are standing
upon
is a holy ground.
Shall what does the word shall mean?
take your shoes off
like we find in other places where it
says that the axe the metal of the of
the wood of the axe falls off when
you'll take down your olives
meaning the place you're on is a holy
place
verse six
I am the god of your father
the god of the god of the god of
mo
hit his face
because he was afraid
from seeing from looking at God.
Verse seven
and God says to Moshe,
I have indeed seen the plight as of my
people as the plight of my people
that are in Egypt
and I've heard their outcry. I heard I
heard from their task masters
and I'm very aware of their pains
like God says why does he have to say
that God know of course God knows what's
he telling us meaning I've put attention
to it to think about it and contemplate
of the pains and suffering
and I did not hide
my eyes. I did not close my ears. I did
not close my eyes or close my eyes to
close my ears
from hearing their pain and suffering
and I have come and I've come down to
rescue them from the hands of the
Egyptians
and to take them up from that land from
that land and to bring them
to bring them to a land of good
and uh and ample land.
A land that's flowing with milk and
honey. Elani, the place that now the
region of the Canananites, theites
and theites and the Pites
and the Heivites and the Jebusites.
Verse
8, verse 9. And now
the outcry of Israelites have reached
me.
And I've also seen the oppression
that the Egyptians are subjecting them
to. Verse 10.
And therefore now go
and I will send you to Pharaoh.
Shall take my people, the Israelites,
out of Egypt. Verse 10.
And you will go take the Jewish people,
my nation, out of Egypt. What's he
telling him? What is this commandment?
If you Mosha will say what's it going to
help
that you what's it going to help?
Because so therefore God says I'm
guaranteeing you that you will be the
one
your words will actually make an impact
and you will be able to take the Jewish
people out from there. Verse 11.
Moshe said to God, "Who am I
that I should go to parro?
Do I have the merit that I can take the
Jewish people? And [snorts] by what
merit can I take the Jewish people, the
Israelites, out of Egypt?"
Meaning,
who am I? Why am I so special that I
should be able to speak to people of
great kingdom?
Even more so more so the very fact that
he was in danger of death. He was almost
killed almost killed by Pharaoh.
Another reason
even if you're going to say I'm so
important that I can go talk to kings.
Why were the Jewish people what did they
do so special that they should have a
miracle that should take them out of
Egypt?
Verse 12.
So God respond
for I will be with you
and this will be your sign that I will
be with you
that I have sent you
because when you will take the Jewish
people out of Egypt,
they will all serve. They will all serve
God on this exact mountain that I am
talking to you right now.
Rashi verse 12
here God is responding to Moshe
God is responding to Moshe is two issues
on the first one first that he says who
are you to speak to Pharaoh and number
two why the Jewish people meritorious
that they should be able to come out of
Egypt he says number one
the fact that he said who are you to go
to Pharaoh that's not your errant you're
coming in my name it's not because of
who you are it's because of who you're
representing.
I'll be with you.
The very fact that you saw this vision
of me in the burning bush. This is a
sign to you
that I sent you
and you are going to be successful in
the errand
and I have the ability
to save the Jewish people from
everything.
Just like you see this burning bush.
You see this bush is consumed with the
fire and it's doing what I need to do
what I asked it to do and its message
but at the same time it's not being
consumed.
So too you can go to the king of Egypt
and tell him what to do and you were
afraid that you might get harmed.
You're not going to get harmed by it.
Now to your second question. What merit
did the Jewish people have that they
should come out of Egypt?
You asked what merit did the Jewish
people have that they should go out of
Egypt. So I'll tell you
the very fact that they're going to
come.
I have great benefit. They have a great
merit that they're going to come out of
Egypt. Number one,
because they're going to be receiving
the Torah on this mountain
after three months
of them being out of Egypt. Another way
to explain this verse
I will be with you
this that you will be this is the
guarantee that God is telling him that
you will be successful in your errand
this will be the sign
that about the second promise that I'm
going to give you which is
when you take them out of Egypt
they will serve me on this mountain.
What's the service? That they will serve
me on this mountain.
They will accept the Torah. That
acceptance of the Torah
that is already a merit for the Jewish
people now that they should be deserving
to go out of Egypt. Even though yes,
maybe right now you're going to ask what
that merit is. Eventually, this is your
sign because on this mountain they will
receive the Torah.
Similarly, we find this kind of
language.
This will be your sign
where it talks about the blessing that
will come to the Jewish people after the
fall of that over there. He talks as
well.
the very fact that will fall then you
know that the second promise will happen
as well
that your land will now have uh won't
have any fruit because they're going to
be destroyed by the kingdom of
therefore I will bless that they should
be able to have fruit and they will grow
afterwards. So we see a similar
terminology later on by where God says
one promise is contingent or will be
seen based on the other promise
and Moshe said to God
I'm going to come to the Israelites
and I will tell them
the God of your forefathers sent me to
you. When they will hear this they're
going to say they'll say to me what's
his name? What kind of God allows his
children to suffer in the land of Egypt
for so many years? Who is he? Where was
he until now?
And when they ask this, what should I
tell them?
14.
So God says to Moshe,
tell them that I shall be just as I
shall be.
That means I will be with them in this
exile as I will be with them in the
future exiles as well. Meaning that God
didn't ignore them as we'll soon see.
Rashi explains
and he says,
"So you shall say to the Israelites,
I shall be
sent me to you."
What's this that God is talking about?
And he says as follows in Rashi 14,
I was with them. I will I was with them
in this pain and suffering.
I will also be with them in the future
exiles that they will have.
So Moshe when he hears this, he tells
God, "Omighty God,
why should I mention to them about other
pain and suffering they're really
dealing with what's going on right now?
It's enough that they're suffering right
now. I have to tell them that there's
going to be suffering later. So God says
to Moshe, "You're right. You said well."
Therefore, God continues and says,
"I that was with them sent them to you."
And God continues to say to Moshe
further says to Moshe, "So you shall
send to the Israelites,
the God of your forefathers of the God
of the God of Yakov, the God of Jacob,
sent me to you.
This is my name for all times to be
concealed. It's not something which you
see, but it will be by the final
redemption.
And this is how I am to be recalled for
all generations.
What is he's telling us here? So Rashi
tells us if you look at the word it's
missing
meaning my name that is concealed that
you're not supposed to read God's name
the way it's written.
don't read it and pronounce it as we
read it as the name of
not in the name of
and over here Moshe was taught two names
by God the first one and the second one
should be one that has to be written and
one the way it is remembered
he taught Moshe
how God's name is mentioned and recalled
and so too telling him how it should be
said and how it's written so too he
God is your name for eternity.
Hashem remembers you for eternity. It
shall be recalled for all generations.
So you see again just alluding to about
the different names of how we recall
God's name and how God's name is
written. This concludes the fourth Torah
reading for Wednesday, Pares Shabbis.