Shnayim Yomi - Shemot - Sheni - #2 - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg - The Fruit of a Mitzvah

[Music] In the second aliyah, we're told about Y and Miriam Shiffra and Pua and the incredible heroic work they did in saving the Jewish people and God was treated the midwives kindly and he made homes for them. Rashi explains this refers to the royal family of David that descended from Miriam and the kohanim who descended from that was the reward but kohuna and malus. But curiously, the Torah interjects between these two clauses, between that was happy and the reward. It tells us right in the middle that Ben is population grew exponentially because of the heroism of the midwives, the Jewish people propagated, promulgated, they grew. Population growth. As the Torah informs us of the reward that Hashem gave the midwives, for some reason, it finds it necessary to mention that Ben Israel grew and that they prospered. What does one thing have to do with the other? Why would we interrupt that these midwives found favor in the eyes of Hashem then tell us population grew then tell us what the reward tell us Hashem was happy and the reward and separately tell us the population grew says of the great rashiva of the mere Brooklyn zat that this consequence of the midwives actions increase their rewards you see when a person performs a mitzvah of course you get the reward for the mitzvah itself but let's say the mitzvah that you did the that you did the kindness that you did it bears fruit it yields posit positive results. Good things come from it. Then you get rewarded not only for the mitzvah but everything that comes from it. So the midwives who defied parro and cared for the newborn infants instead of killing them. They did a wonderful thing by saving by refusing orders by risking their lives. They're rewarded not only for that act itself of not killing the babies but also for making the nation grow. The population increase that resulted from their work was credited to them. They're rewarded not only for not killing the baby. They're also rewarded for all the families and all the population growth and everything that came. Sense of is a very positive lesson that when a person makes a shik the rewards are truly incalculable because that is rewarded not only for bringing two people together but also the family that will come the children and the the grandchildren and a whole family that will emanate and descend from that. You're rewarded not only for the shak, you're rewarded for everything else that results and comes from it. Of course, one is rewarded even for the braha you say on a drink when you're home alone. But the reward you get from mitzvah that bear fruit that impact others that other people can answer are immeasurable. Every positive outcome that results from every good deed is credited to us. That is a lesson in the story of the mios. It's a lesson of the second aliyah of parashmos.