Shnayim Yomi - Bo - Chamishi - #5- Rabbi Yaakov Glasser

[Music] the Aliyah ofish the Ali of Kishi of course brings us to the experience of makus it's one of the central moments of in the previous Al the end of the previous alyah instructs M to tell the Jewish people that they have to put blood on their doorposts and in order to identify the homes this is this was the ritual that was required and this way when goes throughout and executes all of the of which was done because in MIT the concept of a the concept of something that came first was the notion of power the notion of vigor in Yus when we think about what comes first we think about kadus we think about sanctity we think about and that will be the end of the par in terms of consecrating the so says this is the plag going to go through we'll be able to identify the homes of I want to share with you a fascinating comment from R the Torah tells us that tells us the Torah tells us that was that he passed over we know that's where the name of the holiday comes from the homes of the Jewish people say of cook such a beautiful beautiful Insight what does the word mean so we've all been habituated to translate it as Passover it's a Passover he writes if you look at the story of says to the Jewish people how much longer are you going to be on both sides how much longer are you going to live your life claiming that you subscribe to the ideals of Torah and at the same time engaging behavior that is more aligned within how long you going to be so inconsistent and hypocritical in that context says Rook the word does not mean to pass over how long are you going to pass over the two sides no it means to hover means to hover how long are you going to not pick a side you're going to hover here and you're going to hover there and you're going to move back and forth but you're not going to entrench yourself in a certain approach to life so says ra that's how you read this what was doing it's a totally revolutionary approach to how to understand what went on that night see our picture of what went on that night which comes from so many of the midashim that we've learned as kids and the way they've been interpreted is God is basically going through MIT out of Vengeance and and Punishment and destroying all of these B but he's skipping over the Jewish people that's not what's happening makos was a allowing a destructive force that was essentially created by the Egyptians themselves with their behavior and their attitudes and their approach to life he allowed a destructive force to be Unleashed throughout and was you know where he was he was hovering in protection of the Jewish people the experience of PES the experience of being spared was not an experience of a who just redirecting the danger it is a notion of protection of presence it's a notion that who was with the Jewish people that night as a result they experienced that level of protection [Music]