Shemos - What's Your Name? | Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

hi welcome to the rowski paraa in five where we give you a five minute thought on the paraa for Our Generation who has ADD and when none of us can concentrate anymore which reminds me of a story anyway so uh we're starting now a new safer safer shos or if you have the farty pronunciation safer schot because this is the book where God schote the Egyptians in case you wondering where that comes from but uh you know it's a it's an interesting thing when it comes to the names of the kashim uh some of us grew up where we did not have we grew up with Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers and Deuteronomy and uh it seems a little strange and yet the fact of the matter is that those names are closer to the names that are in uh thear and that gives the names of the you'll never see Rashi refer to he will call as we know as the does which is countings numbers pretty close right um is always Mish Tor right which is the double Torah Deuteronomy do is two Romy is a repetition of the Torah I have no idea but uh VRA right is uhar calls it uh tus kohanim we call it Leviticus levim kohanim right close enough andos is called saera which is Exodus Exodus yeah and that's a little closer to Gula than uh Thanos right shos is apparently just the first significant word in the pmos so we takos yet there is a general rule as has pointed out we Jews have been called everything except for stupid they'll accuse us of every terrible thing in the world but not being stupid yeah uh so we we might be joked about as being too Sly and too clever and yeah but we're never stupid so if there's a to call these by these names there must be a reason for it of course it has to be significant so it's not just because it's the first significant word obviously because the par to no we call it Noah we call that toos so obviously there's some reason besides the fact that it's the first significant word or right we take as the name of the par so there there's more to it than that there must be a reason so this par and this whole saer is called shos why is it called shos saer G so I would like to suggest uh based on the medish the following idea and that is the medish says they went down with their names and came out with their names but in gullis they did not have names uh when I was younger I I thought maybe I would play the guitar because everybody played the guitar um I don't have that level of dexterity and that's why when I was a magician my younger days um I wasn't very good at it you know that trick where you cut a woman in half I've got two half sisters but uh you know the the real dexterity of magic I wasn't very good at I had mechanical tricks and I got by on personality no surprising but uh I tried playing the guitar and the only thing I could play was the introduction to Johnny Rivers secret age of man after a while it really becomes very annoying and that's all I ever learned how to play but the song Secret Agent Man which is about a Secret Agent Man Has a line in it they've given you a number and taken away your name right because uh in prison they take away your name when you don't have a name you don't have an identity your name defines who you are that's what it is anytime we have a name when Adam was asked to name all the animals the names that he gave them captured the essence of of who they were so we come down to MIM and we're ruin we're shim we're Ley we know who we are but the whole paraa suddenly the names disappear Moshe you don't know what moshe's name is mosha is the name that basro gave him by the way you don't know her name either yeah and uh um when it talks about mosha being B born it's uh doesn't say I'm R their names aren't there the there's a process where names are not there and it's so interesting that ver the next week's para where we start talking about the Gula suddenly we go through all the toos and all the names are mentioned because in order to be redeemed you have to have names and that's why we make a census and we see who everybody is by their names to identify people a lot of people don't know who they are it's big problem they don't know their name yeah you uh you probably know this it's even in the ARs SCH cter at the end you say a PK with your name because otherwise you'll get up to shamayim and you won't know what your name is wow that'll be so awkward what's your name um what I used to know this happy birthday to you happy birthday dear I I I don't remember and you're supp have spend the rest of Eternity on a bench going Frank I don't think so Bob that Fred yeah that's not what it means you know your name down here but do you know that your name is a PK in the T do you know who you really are we have to find our name we have to figure out what we're doing in this world to be able to achieve it and when we can then we can imem have an EMA gula chabas