Shvi'i Shel Pesach - Cashing In At The Sea {Gateways Pesach Program 5778}

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good morning everyone brooke mabon so they asked me to fill in unfortunately the speaker who is scheduled um had a funeral to attend to so um you know the slot from 12 to 1 o'clock is very difficult because people are extremely hungry and when 12 30 comes people you know they feel they haven't eaten in many many many moments many minutes and so what i would like to do for you today is give you an hour shearing less hopefully we'll we'll get you to lunch on time as well okay so let's uh speak about we're coming in on the seventh day of pesach and of course we know that the prominent miracle that we celebrate in the seventh day of pesach is uh christians of the splitting of uh the sea of reeds and the question is what was the purpose of that miracle what was the function of that miracle if god wanted to take us out of egypt so let him drop an atom bomb and we could just walk out what are these two stages where we have yamthaf on the first day and then we have khalamoid and then we have another yampdev on the seventh day what did kris yamsaf add to our our perception of hashem our clarity of understanding the darke hashem and the hashgacha of shamayim so let us jump right into things no pun intended and try to understand a little bit what was revenge from trying to demonstrate to the jewish people and for us for all time so as an introduction to the splitting of the sea the rebound some comes to mashua speak in the ears of the people and let each man borrow from his friend and each woman from her friend silver goblets and golden kalem meaning please borrow from them all of their wealth and all of their expensive and valuables and the question is oh wait a second if we're supposed to be leaving the triumph with jewelry and money and silver and gold do you think you need to go over to a jew and say rabid please do me a favor would you mind taking millions of dollars out of that home i don't think you need to speak so politely just tell him to do it and i guarantee you he'll listen to you you don't have to be so courteous why was it necessary for mushroom to for the rebound to beg moshe he says please speak why please and rashi points out the word na is a language of bakasha a very earnest and heartfelt request i i beg you do me a favor please ask the jewish people to borrow the gold and silver from the egyptians why why was it so important that we take out the gold and silver from egypt says rashi because the ibanezham was afraid i don't want that sadiq abraham avinu coming to me with complaints and saying god you fulfilled the slavery of the inuisam you fulfilled the harsh and bitter exile of egypt but you never fulfilled what you promised you know you only did half a job you made two promises you promised us that we would be enslaved in egypt and you promised us that we would leave with great wealth you only fulfilled half of the deal so therefore says god do me a favor mashrabenu i beg you make sure the jews take the valuables out of egypt lest avraham avinu accuse me of not being true to my word so the vilnigan comes along and asks an obvious question on rashi the vilnigan asks wait a second that's why god wants us to take out the jewelry and the gold and silver out of egypt so that avraham avinu does not accuse him of not fulfilling his word what's it got to do with abraham avinu god should want us to take the gold and silver out of egypt because he promised us regardless of whether avraham avenue would challenge him and question him doesn't god need to be honest doesn't he need to keep his word why is he only desirous of us taking the gold out of egypt so that abram vino doesn't have tinus on him he should want to give us the gold and silver because he told us we would leave with gold and silver that's not enough of a reason to keep his word because he said so it's only because he's worried what abraham aveena would say we're talking about the ribanus shalom he's worried about popular opinion he's not worried about keeping his word isn't that strange that rashi would tell us that the reason why god is begging avraha begging masha bainu to make sure we take the valuables is only because of what avraham was would say that's all god is worried about so the villenegon says something fascinating and fundamental and that is we have to understand what was god's plan when he promised the jewish people either in or out yeah when he promised the jewish people that we would leave egypt with great wealth and valuables when did he plan on fulfilling that promise interestingly the vilna going tells us that ultimately that promise would have been fulfilled not the night of darkness when the jews would borrow the gold and silver from the egyptians that would have been fulfilled on the seventh day of pesach because the apostle says in sharashiren golden rose will be made for you imni with silver bulbs with silver circle circlets so the pasek is saying besides the silver that you have already i'm going to give you rows of gold what does this refer to rashi tells us in sharehashiram that god engendered a feeling into the heart of the egyptians that as they're pursuing us at the sea on the seventh day of pesach they said you know we can't just go out with regular horses we need to decorate our horses we need to put jewelry on them we need to put ornaments on them and they'd be decked and they bejeweled their horses with all of their valuables and all their gold and silver and then when the yam came crashing down on parai and his chariots it washed away all the gold and silver to the other side of the shore in fact the next day when the jews crossed maisha abanus said no let's go already what are you waiting for masha was trying to schlep the jews to continue traveling he couldn't get them to move he couldn't get them to budge the bus says moshe had to make them travel against their will they had no desire they had no want to travel they were just it was like you know a 30-second shopping spree the the yamcha had washed ashore so much gold so much silver so many valuables that the jews did not want to travel so ultimately god was not planning on fulfilling his promise to abraham avinu the night of khoishakh that was child's play the real vyakhwai khanied subhush gandal was not fulfilled until the seventh day of tesach when the yamsaf washed ashore all of the valuables therefore hashem thought like this i don't need to ask the jews to take the valuables out of egypt why make them schlep the valuables let the egyptians do the hard work let them carry it out to the yamsaf they'll put it on their horses the yamsaf will wash everything ashore and the jews all they they'll have to do is gather it up in their suitcases but they don't have to do any schlepping so the truth is hashem had no intention at all of giving the jews the valuables until the seventh day of pesach however what hashem was afraid of is avraham avinu looking down from shamayim and all he sees is the jews leaving egypt without any money without any jewels without any silver and what if abraham avinu for seven days says to god god i don't understand for 400 years you tortured the people and they left without the great wealth revenge them you only fulfilled half the promise now god was ultimately going to fulfill the promise at the end of pesach but so that avraham avinu would not question his ways for even seven days therefore the revolution tells muslims do me a favor just ask the jews to borrow some silver and gold now so that as the jews are going adam it's trying abrahavino doesn't shake his head god you know you only fulfilled half the deal now let me explain to you the words of chazal that describe this scenario in egypt you ready on the pasek the pasta is in number five tai reis that means you will make for yourself golden rose with silver circlets says rashi this is these are the the words of rashi the spoils the plunder of the sea was greater than the plunder of egypt you're going to have rows of gold now when you leave each when you cross the sea in addition to the silver that you already had when you left egypt meaning whatever you had until now is nothing compared to what you will have on the seventh day of pesach and i was always bothered by this khazal again the words are bizarre the plunder of the sea was greater than the plunder of egypt and i was always troubled what's the torah telling us the torah is giving us the financial portfolio of the jewish people they're giving us their bank account so two times in the torah we get a bank statement from hakalish the jews were only making a hundred thousand dollars when they left egypt and when they came out of the sea they were millionaires who cares uh what difference does it make how much money exactly they made when they left egypt and how much more money they made when the sea was split what is the deeper intention of hazal it would seem to be a trivial piece of information that they made so much more money at the sea than they made when they left egypt let me share with you another source and i'm going to bring to our attention an idea it's an astounding idea something we may not have uh picked up on the beginning of parshas bashar the torah tells us that as the jews are leaving egypt there were two options two ways to get into israel if you're familiar with the the topography of egypt and israel and the geography you know that egypt borders israel on the south and all you really need to do is walk out of egypt and go up the gaza and you're in and you're in israel that's the easiest way to go that's the most direct route did the jews take the direct route of course not they used waze or they used gps and they got farblungent right they got completely lost they went out the most circuitous route possible they went on the south of israel and they went back up north through the east side and they came through on the yarding why so the passage says him god did not guide them darach through the road eretz plishtim of the land of the philistines why ki karoypu literally even though it was close even though that was the closer route however twice this the das the canaanite balayatosis says a very interesting interpretation of the words ki kharifu even though it was close look at number seven says twice this kaloymar as if to say the reason why god did not want to take us out the direct route ki karov who he's our karoy what does karaoke mean in la sh he's our relative he's our karav shin nema how do we know god's our relatives to the jewish people his nation that is related to him since god is our kara if since he's related to us since he feels so close to us he's like a husband and wife it's like brother and sister it's like parent and child therefore derivan didn't want to take us that route because he's so close to us he's related to us you know with relatives like that who needs uh what does it mean what would the puzzle then mean that god did not want to take us out the direct route because he's related to us that would be a reason that he would take us out the direct route what do ghazal mean that the rewinder shalilam did not want to take us out the direct route because he is related to us so let me share with you a fantastic idea we all know that the jewish people have a very close relationship to the urban islam the apostle says you are the children of god and even though you might hear you know the all religions like to say you know after all we're all the children of god right it's not true we're not all the children of god only the jewish people are the children of god the nations of the world the gentiles are god's handiwork they're his masayadav they're his creations they are not his children and god is not their father this may sound prejudiced but it's the truth god is only the father of claudius the jewish people bonnim atem you are the children of god we'll see in perique voice chavez but man is beloved man all mankind is created in the image of god having israel only the jewish people are beloved so now let me ask you the million dollar question if we are the children of god when was that relationship forged when did we become the children of god when abraham is when did we become the children of god i'm going to point out these are words we say every single night of the year and it's something so fundamental and obvious that almost nobody's aware of please take a look at number eight the marav that we say every every evening god smote in his wrath all the firstborn israel who did he take out of egypt his nation what does ammo mean his people his nation listen carefully that means the knight of yates misrayam the ancient canister have formulated that what are the jewish people refer to ammo israel his nation where did we go eternal freedom of being he crossed banav his sons his children between the splits of the amsof wait a second but then the last stanza who did he take out of egypt ammo his people and who's coming to the amso of bonn of interesting we were promoted we were upgraded upgraded seven days earlier we were just his people as we go through the yams of were his children next sentence on that seventh day his children saw his might doesn't say that by makasdam his children saw his might or by maccas because his children saw his night by the way you know what it says on the day we left egypt look at number 10. who left egypt hashem god's army you know what we were the night we left misrayam soldiers of god we were not yet children of the rewind shall islam let's read further in the davening right at the beginning of the confrontation with para hashem tells moshe to refer to them as uh doesn't that suggest that the children there tell paris israel that doesn't necessarily mean they were that yet but maybe we're destined to become but at the moment it seems like from the dominating we had not been eligible yet not only not to be the bachara but not even to be banim yeah good question then the davening continues look at the splitting of the sea what are the jewish people referred to as your kingdom your children so meaning the night of yatis misrayam it seems like we were not his children yet we were just amoi we were just his army we were not one of we were not bonim until kriyasyamsov this is the observation of the cipher says we see from the tv that the madriga of banimalamakom was not achieved was not realized was not accomplished we were not elevated to until the seventh day of pesach on the first day of pesach let me remind you of a gemara do you remember the gemara that says that if an evid ivory wants to stay beyond six years then we bring his ear to the doorpost and to the door and we drill a hole in his ear and the gemara says why do we drill a hole in the air of the avid ivory at the doorpost what does the gemara say because the door and the doorpost in egypt when god freed us the night of macas beholds god proclaimed the following kili binet israel avadhim the jewish people are my servants that means the night of isis misrain god didn't say kilibine israel ban him we were not brought him yet we were not born him until kriyasyamsov the knight of yazidis was trying we were amoi we were at savai we were avadim we were not yet elevated to the title of bonim not until malchus not until the raubanim not this is the observation of that the madrega of banimala malcolm was not achieved was not accomplished until the great moment of kriyas yamsaf let's explain for a moment if you remember the first year i gave here on the first day of yamtif was about the birth of the jewish people yeah sounds familiar a few of you were at that chair let's explain if you remember the first day of pesach was the beginning of the labor and delivery of the jewish people which culminated finally with the birth of the jewish people at kris yamsev the seventh day of pesach was the birth of claudius sorel every birth creates a new relationship relationship of parent and child that is why we did not achieve the madriga of banim la until the splitting of the sea let me give you another uh substantiation another proof to this idea do you remember as the jewish people are going to the yam so if they turn around and para is chasing them and they look on one side there's parallel another side the sea para the sea what do they do the the khazal say it's like a bird who flies into the cleft of the rock and there's a wild animal on one side and in the hole there's a scorpion on the other side and the bird is stuck so too we didn't know what to do we turned around mitzrayim pharaoh all of his chariots the angel of egypt was chasing us on one end on the other end was the yam so rashi says what did god do he took the cloud that was in front of us and the fire that was in front of us and he moved it behind us says rashi the following analogy says rashi number 13 you know what this is analogous to a father and a son who are traveling together a robber comes a bandit comes tries to take away the kid the father puts the kid behind him a wild animal comes from behind the wolf comes from behind the father puts the kid from in front of him now you have the bandit now you have the wild animal what does the father do he lifts up the child so too at kris yamstuf you had the yam in front of us yeah the mitzvah behind us hashem lifted up the jewish people but what is the analogy that rashi gives look at the words the marshall the parable the analogy is father traveling with child that's because as they're approaching the yamsef a new relationship is forged while until now we were just god's people his army his nation now what god is trying to do is to elevate the relationship to parent and child this is what isis means that god did not want to take us out the regular route if he would have taken us out the regular route then we would have just marched into israel and we would have entered the land peacefully god took us at the circuitous route to have the egyptians run after us to force the situation where we would have to be carried by god so that he could create and forge the new relationship of kikarifu he's now related to us he's the tata he's the father and we have now become the children of the invalid shall islam interesting what's the first thing that god does after he takes us out of egypt he gives us water to drink he makes the month fall down from heaven you know very interesting we're in egypt four hundred years no water no food the moment korea after kriya samsuf all of a sudden he gives us to drink he gives us food what happened you know interestingly the meadows says there are five things a parent has to do to a child parent has to feed the child has to give the five child to drink the moment kriya syamsuf is over all of a sudden god says okay i'm not only your king anymore king doesn't have to feed the people the tata has to feed his child that's why the first event after kriyas yamsaf is god gives us water god gives us mon what's the next event after christian south we go to mara and what mitzvah does god give the jewish people at mara shabas what happened why of the sun is he giving us shabbos listen carefully one of the only mitzvahs that a gentile is not not allowed to fulfill is shabbos a gentile who keeps the shabbos is liable to me is liable to the death penalty why so it's like using i shall melech the scepter of the king shabbos is god's sign it's the scepter if if a mere simpleton comes and picks up the scepter of the king he's liable to the death penalty that's akin to murders that's rebellious against the king the only person who's allowed to pick up the king's scepter without fear of repercussion is the kid so you have the little prince running around the palace and also he picks up the father scepter he's running around there and there the girl said stop him kill him the king says what do you mean he's my kid he's my son he can do whatever he wants once god took us out of mitzrayim for seven days he can't give a shabbos yet we're not his children yet we're not allowed to keep the shabbos the moment after kriyasyamsof after he gives us drink he gives us food he gives us shabbos now for the first time we could keep shabbos and then comes which parsha after bashar israel and what does god give us torah very interesting you know there's a famous question the malware and malachim saw god about keep your glory up here in heaven give us the torah many suffrage rosh and brings us to many places say that the taina the question of the malachi was i don't understand god aren't you just aren't you straight there's a law in halakha called dina de barametra the law of the neighbor you know what dina de mara mesa is let's say i have a home and i want to sell my home halachically i am obligated before i take my home and put it out on the market i'm obligated to offer my home to my neighbor and to sell it to him before i offer it to anybody else it's called dina de bar mesra why because my neighbor stands to gain more by buying my home than somebody who doesn't live on the block because anyway i'll say my neighbor already has four walls around his house so to encompass my house he would only have to extend his already pre-existing walls therefore what is considered just practice is anytime you sell real estate you should try to offer it to your neighbor before putting on the open market it's called dino dividends so the malachim say i don't understand god you have a torah but you live upstairs in heaven we live with you up in heaven before you go downstairs and pawn your torah down there to the people on earth you should offer us the torah first what's the response that god gives to the malachim how could god give us the torah shouldn't he offer it to his neighbors first so the qidah writes you know why god's allowed to give us the torah because he very good even though when you're selling real estate you should offer it to your neighbor but there's some there's one person who preempts the neighbor who has adiphas who has priority over the neighbor who's that your child that even though you're required to sell the real estate to your universe but you're allowed to sell to the child or you're allowed to give it to the child as a gift therefore right after queen soft number one god feeds us he gives us to drink he gives us the shabbos and now and only now could he give us the torah he couldn't have given us the tire before give the offer us tara before the malachim are going to come and say we have first dibs we have first cracks now that god has established we are banima now he's authorized to present the torah to us so let me close with one idea this is a a matanoman the wealth that we took out from the sea was greater than the wealth we took out from egypt i don't think they only mean the money and the plunder and the spoils that we took out of the yam was greater than the money we took out of egypt what ghazal are telling us is that the level that we reached the level that we achieved the madrega of closeness that is attained at the yam was a much greater plunder and spoil than the spoils we took out of egypt you know what spoils we took out of egypt we became god's am we became his nation we became his soldiers we became his people but the spiritual spoils that we took out of the sea the madrega being considered god's children is a much greater value more valuable treasure that we took out of the than we took out of mitzrayim so it's very interesting there's actually a mahleikas in sas between ravi huda and ramayana whether are we always considered god's children or only when we act like it you know sometimes your kids misbehave so people who are these kids yeah i don't know i'm not related to them right but it's it's funny but you can't do that unfortunately your kids are your kids or your kids whether you like it or not it doesn't matter how they act they're always your children but somehow with the relationship with god rabbi hudo's opinion is bisman and mayor argues ramirez says we're always his children now typically when there's a machis for me and rambi huda we always pass can like this is the one exception the rajba writes and two chuvas simon kufx you have it on your sheets actually number twenty five simmon kuftali dalid sulan raish membes zarajba paskins that even though we always go like rev mayor or rabbi excuse me in this instance we pass can like remember bangkok or bangkok be resume when did we achieve this madriga when did we reach this level we reached the level at kris yamsov when we banished him so to speak lifted us up and we were elevated not only to be his people but to be his children this was madrega that this perhaps is the intent of hazal thank you everyone for listening i wish everyone i go to hashem uh enjoyable rest of yamthev thank you you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by 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