Shnayim Yomi - Bo - Shlishi - #3 - Rabbi Yaakov Glasser - The Role of Material Life

Paras the aliyah of Schlishi. The aliyah of Schlishi talks about the notion that parro finally acquiesces to some of Mosha's request and allows him to take the Jewish people out of Mitsim but falling short of completely indulging his demands in that parro wants to retain control of all of the cattle and the flock and the possessions of the Jewish people. So the Ramban explains that this was a pragmatic consideration that if he held on to the wealth of Amisro then he was guaranteed that they would ultimately return what kind of nation is going to sojurn into the desert and without any resources is simply run for their lives rather they would under they would end up returning to Mitsay to reclaim all of their possessions and everything they have. And we know this to actually be a fair assessment because later on in the story of the Jewish people, every time we encounter a moment in the midbar where our resources have been compromised, whether it's water or food or general fear of outside threats, THE FIRST REACTION OF ISRAEL IS let's return to Mitsay. So Pyro correctly assessed the mindset of the slave mentality of the Jewish people. So what was so fundamentally problematic about this? So why couldn't Mosher Rabenu simply give into this? And the answer is that the real impass between parro's perspective and the approach of Yanados is in understanding the role of material life in a hashem to mit this was a total bifurcation. There's your theology, there's how you relate to your gods and then there's your humanity, your indulgence in the material world. And so therefore to them you want to GO WORSHIP GOD. SO GO WORSHIP GOD. GO INTO THE forest surround yourself with a spiritual environment and create a sense of connection to the transcendent experience of encountering a what do YOU NEED ALL THESE ITEMS FOR? What do YOU NEED ALL THIS LIVESTOCK FOR? But in Yahadus, that's not how we serve the that's how angels serve the human beings serve with their humanity. We summon from within ourselves the totality of our human experience. And the material world is part of that. What it means to serve is to elevate the physical. is to go INTO THE DESERT AND NOT JUST commune with God, but to TAKE WITH US ALL OF the elements of our life that animate our physical existence and consecrate THEM TO OUR TO ELEVATE the totality of our humanity. And so therefore, this was this was not possible. Moshenu turned to parro and said to him, independent of all the pragmatic considerations, we can't serve a kesh without the full picture, without the entire package.