Shnayim Yomi - Va'eira - D'var Torah

[Music] hi everyone rabbi yakov moskowitz here and i want to let you know it's been such an amazing journey going through parshas veera with all of you this week i want to thank ilad for inviting me to join this incredible group of people who are zeroed in and focused on trying to get a grasp and understanding the parsha every single week and hashem all of you should take that feeling that we have at the end of the week that understanding that i got this i understand this parsha i really understand the message of what hakurasu is telling me in this week's torah reading and take that throughout every single parsha throughout the entire year to be hashem get a real grasp on the entire torah at the end of the parsha paro does something that's very uncharacteristic of him after the makkah of bharat after the plague of the hill paro says the following words he says i have sinned hashem hashem is righteous and i and my people are wicked paro for those moments did a very real chuva in coming close to hashem and the rishonim were all bothered by what was unique about the makkah of bharad of the hail that caused him to say this and the revolt amongst other rishonim explain that before the makkah of bharad hashem gave a special warning to paro that you and the egyptians should take in your cattle and those people who take in their animals the animals will not get destroyed however if you leave it out it will get destroyed and after the makkah was over para was reflecting upon what hashem told him and the words he says are he says that paro felt she said that hashem did a facet for me to warn me about my stuff but me and my people we didn't think about that and we are rashayam because we didn't zero in on that and if you stop and you think about this it's absolutely unbelievable you know my receiver of hennep leibowitz pointed out that we've gone through so many macos paro has faced total destruction throughout egypt physical pain emotional distress financial discomfort it's been terrible and none of that got paro to admit that there's hashem he was so stubborn he wouldn't do chuva throughout all of that however even though he was so stubborn but when he recognized when he zeroed in on achased that hakuras baraku did for him that he gave him that warning that penetrated in paro's heart so deeply that that that's what caused him drove him to come close to kurdish baraku and for those moments actually did a real chuva you know very often we find ourselves wondering what is it that could bring me and that could bring other people closer to barcu and the answer is right here if para who was such a russia and who was so stubborn was able to come close to hashem by recognizing the haste hashem by recognizing hashem's love for him hashem's kindness for him by all of us if we stop and we recognize and zero in on the said that is doing for us in our lives on a consistent basis then that is what will bring us closer to the rabona shalom there's an incredible story going around at the beginning of the pandemic about a 93 year old man who was taken into the hospital and he was on a ventilator for 24 hours and when he left the hospital they gave him a bill for 4 000 euro and as soon as he sees the bill he begins to cry and the doctors come over and they say listen you know i'm sorry but that's what it costs but if you need we could come up with a plan a payment plan whatever we can figure it out he says that's not why i'm crying he says i could afford to pay the bill but he said i had a very clear recognition right now that if it costs 4 000 euro to be able to breathe on this machine for just 24 hours then what do i owe god who has given me the ability to breathe for the last 93 years and i didn't pay him anything that man had a very real recognition of the chaste hashem of how hashem has allowed him to breathe allowed him to live for his entire life and look at how much i o hakuras baraku and that's what brought him close to him let us take this message this message of parsha's vaira that we need to stop and zero in on the hashem that's going on in our life look at all that hashem gives us our health our family our paranosa every single thing that's going on in our lives and recognize whoa hashem is doing so much for me what is it that i could do back for hakuras baruch hashem through that recognition that is going to bring us ever closer in our relationship with hashem have a wonderful shabbos [Music] you