Shnayim Yomi - Bo - Chamishi - #5 - Rabbi Yaakov Glasser - Hovering in Protection of Bnei Yisrael

Harsh the aliyah of kamishi. The aliyah of kamishi of course brings us to the experience of makas. It's one of the central moments of in the previous aliyah at the end of the previous aliyah kashar who instructs Mosherenu to tell the Jewish people that they have to put blood on their doorposts and in order to identify the homes of ami Israel. This is this was the ritual that was required. And this way when a goes throughout and executes all of the of which was done because in mitim the concept of a the concept of something that came first was the notion of power the notion of vigor. In yahadus when we think about what comes first we think about kadusha we think about sanctity we think about and that will be the end of the para in terms of consecrating the soar says this is the plan going to go through we'll be able to identify the homes of Israel I want to share with you a fascinating comment from the Torah tells us that tells us the Torah It tells us that Hashem was also such a beautiful insight. What does the word pak mean? So we've all been habituated to translate it as Passover. To pass over he writes, if you look at the story of El Carl, El 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, the word does not mean to pass over. How long you going to pass over the two sides? No, it means to hover. Pak 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 Rafuk, that's how you read this. What was that 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 midrashim that we've learned as kids and the way they've been interpreted, is God is basically going through mitz out of vengeance and and punishment and destroying all of these, but he's skipping over the Jewish people. That's not what's happening. Makas bearos was a kesharu 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 Mit and WAS you know where he was? He was hovering in protection of the Jewish people. The experience of pesak, 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.