Shnayim Yomi - Shemot - Shlishi - #3 - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg - Hashem Chooses Those Who Care

[Music] In the third aliyah of parashmos, we already see Moshe. Moshe has been born. The miracle of his salvation and of his birth. And Mosha is growing up. He's being brought up in the palace of the very person who's persecuting Mosha's family, Moshe's people. In those days, he grows up. He's weaned. He's mature. He's an adult. He's assumed to be 20 years old. He goes out to his brothers and he sees their suffering. That suffering that he sees, the fact that he takes notice, the fact that it bothers him is itself the demonstration. To be a gul, to come of age, to be an adult means to not only care about ourselves selfishly, not only to feed the indulgence of our ego, but to notice, to care, to see the people around us, and to want to make their lives better. Indeed, later when Moshe is when Moshe is recruited by Hashem to be the leader of the Jewish people, it says Sar Lose that he turned to see when the bush is burning but not being consumed. Moshe turned to see when everyone else kept walking and everyone else didn't notice. Moshe turned to see the sos what Hashem noticed was not that Moshe looked stopped to see the net. What he saw is that Moshe looked he stopped to see the suffering of the Jewish people. The author of Kelm says what Moshe makes Moshe most distinguished, most unique, most well positioned to be the leader of the Jewish people is sympathy, empathy. He's no even though he grew up in the luxury of the palace. And even though he had every right to stay there, be protected from what was happening outside. He couldn't take it. He had to go see and join and relieve the suffering of his brothers. That no, that righteousness and virtue, that care and concern for others is what made him catch Hashem's eye. It's why Hashem determined that Moshe would be not only the leader for that time, he'd be the quintessential leader for all time. A lesson of the third aliyah for all of us is to see, to notice, to care about the pain of the people around us and to want to relieve it and make it better.