The Children of Israel Are More Numerous and Stronger Than Us with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

Heat. Heat. [music] [singing] [music] [singing] >> [music] [singing] [music] [singing] >> Shalom everybody. Welcome back to the big madash. Welcome home to Torah. As we know we use the clear really the ear gioreim a safer written by a fry milunch the famous cleakar it's called ear goreim and it always begins with a medish of course this essay is 10 15 pages we're only going to do a page and a half two pages maximum and um we'll start with the the pik it's in parat it's chapter 1 verse one by the way just to keep everybody up to date if you we do encourage you to follow the original Hebrew sheets. So, there's a link below. Number one, you can follow the Hebrew sheets, if you go to the right year, the right um title. Also, if you want to be uh included in receiving the he the English source sheets, send me an email. Also, there's a playlist, so you can always look up uh past Shereim. Okay, here we go. Chapter 1, verse one of Schmos. And these are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt. Okay, the whole verse is now what is the first thing the cleart tells us is there were four things that the Jews did certain merits in which they did good acts good things that they did that merited them to be redeemed from Egypt and even though it's not the first on the list it's actually the last on the list but keep in mind these are the names of the children of Israel of the Ben uh Ben Israel that went down to Egypt they're the same tribes that left Egypt with the same names. So one of the things is they kept their names. Okay, so here's the list in the mid 34. Hey, it says in due to four things, the merit of four things that the Jewish people did. Were they Jewish? Yes. the Jews that Israel did while they were in Egypt that merited them to be redeemed from Egypt that they were what's the word they were guarded against sexual immorality. [clears throat] Okay. That they didn't intermar. They weren't um there was no gradation degradation of the family um unit. remember they all came married okay it was then the merit that they didn't speak lash now in the measures there's different midrashim with different languages but different expressions but we'll see that what what does it mean they didn't speak lashhara it means they didn't tell the Egyptians they were going to leave with all this gold otherwise the Egyptians would have held would have hid their gold even better than they And in the merit, they didn't change their names. And how do we how do we know? We have a verse in Genesis 45:12. You'll see that on number three on the source sheet when uh Yseph is speaking to the brothers. It's number three on the source sheets. Genesis 45:12. And behold, your eyes see as well as the eyes of my brother Binyamin that it is my mouth speaking to you. my mouth is speaking to you. What does he mean? Why does he have to say those words? Because he's telling them, or at least letting us know, he was speaking Hebrew. He was letting them know, I know the holy tongue. It's my mouth speaking to you. And Rashi says, [clears throat] not only am I showing you that I'm circumcised, meaning I'm your brother, but I'm also speaking Hebrew. Rashi says right besides the fact that I am circumcised like you moreover that it is my mouth that is speaking to you in the holy tongue. Okay. So the last thing on the list is that they didn't change their names. Ruvane went down. Ruvane went up. Ruin malk. Okay, as our verse says, really it's our verse this and the second verse and the third verse listing the names. Ruin Shimon, right? So you have all the names just like they went down with their names, they came up with their names. They didn't change their names. Okay. So that's how the clear begins by bringing this very important medish. By the way, you'll see in other classes we discuss the idea the clear card brings down that each one of the names is significant in it in of itself because each name represents some aspect of the hope for redemption like Ruim that Hashem sees the affliction that Shimon that Hashem hears our cries and so on and so forth. You have to listen to the other sharim how each name represents an aspect of hope for redemption and that is the reason why we were redeemed. We didn't change our language. We didn't change our names. We were guarded against sexual immorality and we didn't speak lash and harah or we didn't give over the secrets. Now the clear expresses in the other shear in the other um in his other book had they changed their names so obviously that alone would have been a problem because they represent hope but they didn't change their language as proof because if ruin means what it means in Hebrew ruin does not mean the same thing in in Russian or in Ethiopian or in you know English. that the Jewish people are not given over underneath the nations. Meaning the the non-Jews cannot rule over us except at a time that we're not doing God's will. And guess what? At a time where we are doing God's will, we are not in need. We don't need it's not necessary for us to have a sword or even a spear. This is a crazy statement. Do you have Do you realize how believable believable not unbelievable that whenever we're doing God's will, we're in no need of even defensive measures. Of course, we have to make we have to make every effort to stay alive. And we in Israel, we are developing constantly. I think the newest thing is a laser beam. Uh I I don't know who that lady is in the United States Senate or um or Congress about the Jewish laser beams, but here you go. So, we now have a laser beam that can uh can shoot out missiles in the sky. And instead of costing $60,000 for a ballistic warhead, I think it's about three cents. Anyway, so what exactly would we we need? What would we need if we don't need We're doing God's will. What would we need instead of a sword and a a spear? But rather, what is our what is our weapon of war? the Torah and the Tila, the prayers, that is constantly, that is always going to be our ultimate weapon. It's called a doubleedged sword. And we're going to see why in the Torah. It's called a double-edged sword vana that's in our hands in order to not just defend ourselves against the goim, but even take retribution when necessary. >> [clears throat] >> They're not really able to beaughty or proud or let's say be raised up against us or upon us except for the one braha that that uh that Yeetszak gave Asaf. Look in Genesis 27:40, which you'll see number four on the source sheet. And you shall live by your sword, and you shall serve your brother. Yeetszak is blessing Asaf. Yeah. You'll live by your sword and you're going to serve your brother. Who's your brother? That's Jacob. And it will be when you grieve. What does that mean? When you have a complaint, when you have a Tina, when when YaKob is not doing God's will, that's when you have an opportunity to break his yoke off your neck. Okay? Rashi says, right, the word that means grieve. It's an expression of pain. In other words, the Jewish people, Israel, Yakov got the bra, but he got the bra on condition. And there is a condition that there'll be peace and your brother will serve you. Asop will serve us when we're doing Hashem's will. When we're not doing Hashem's will, he has the right to make a complaint and break the yoke, so to speak. In other words, then he can rise above and either tower over us or I would actually say there's some justification, some justification for some anti-semitism. Certainly not right overdoing it like the Egyptians or like Rome or right this long exile 2,000 years but a limited amount of hatred of animosity. He would break the yoke off the neck and not serve his brother uh Israel, his brother Yakov. as I will read the rest of the rashi. When the Israelites will transgress the Torah, you and you will have a cause to grieve about the blessings that he took. Okay, we're not going to get into the whole idea. Did he steal it? Did he deceive? Okay, the idea is that he did buy it fair and square. He probably even deserved it. And Asov was not even interested in it. But nevertheless, Yitsak did give him a braha. And that braha would be by the sword you shall live. Nevertheless, you're gonna serve your brother. If only he would serve us properly, he would be defending us. But the reason he's not is not his fault. It's our fault because we are not living up to uh God's will. As it says, whenever we're doing God's will, we have no problem with the And when we're not doing God's will, there's this unleashing of anti-semitism. We'll continue. It says, Israelimur the Jewish people the Israel is called the first son of God we are God's firstborn and guess what even though even though Asaf got this blessing by the sword you shall live the Jewish people Israel got a double blessing meaning a double-edged sword, our blessing. And what is that double-edged sword? Prayer and Torah, which we'll see, okay? Because both are done with the mouth. Torah is transmitted by the mouth. It's learned with the mouth. It's reviewed with the mouth. Topila prayer is obviously done with the mouth as well. For those who don't know how Jews pray, it's not only it's not only inside your heart, but it's expressed with all your limbs and your mouth and your tongue and your cheeks and your vocal cords and everything that Hashem gave you to praise Hashem with. Okay, so the last thing we said that Israel is called the firstborn to Hashem and Hashem gave us a double portion. The firstborn gets a double portion. Therefore, even in the bra of the of the sword that Israel received a double portion and guess what God gave us? He handed us the mitzvah, meaning more than just seven. 66 additional mitzvah altogether 613 mitzvah. And they are compared to they're similar to um they resemble tactics. Toxicisi are strategy and taxi tactics in war in which we could defeat the um it's only through torail and these are the three pillars of our faith and that's how the clearar expresses it. Now he mentions that Torah and are both called in the Torah. Where do we see this? In Song of Songs chapter 3, verse 8. You'll find this on number eight. Number five on the source sheet. This if you you have to read the whole paragraph, but it's talking about the Torah. It say and theim they all hold the sword skilled in warfare each one with his sword on his thigh because of fear at night is alo rashi says what does it mean each sword each one with his sword his weapons what are his weapons it's the msora it's the it's the transmission of the oral Torah right even though we have a written Torah there's no vowel How do you know how even to read it? That's called the misora. In fact, it's called the maseretic text, right? And other pneumonics, whether it be ritios, whether it be any way that you can remember the Torah, different types of pneumonics. It could be by gamatrias, numbers by which they preserve the correct version of the oral law as well as the misora, meaning the maseretic text, the traditional spelling and reading of the scriptures. God forbid, let it lest it be forgotten. [clears throat] So this is the idea of Song of Songs chapter 3:8. They all hold the sword skilled in warfare. Each one with his sword on his thigh referring to Torah. So that's the clear card brings that down. And also where do we find that toil is called a sword? Look in Genesis 48:22 and we see that on number six on the English source sheet. And I have given you one portion over your brothers. Okay, this is the the the braha to Yoseph which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow. Now just think about it a second. Who took? It was Shim and Ley after the rape of Dina. And of course there was strategy and tactics in overcoming the people of Shem. Okay. But was Yakov happy? Was he did he give his blessings to Shim and Levy? I think not. And in fact, he he criticized them. Okay. But later on toward the end of his life and it says he's taking he's taking credit. It was with my hand that I took I took from the Amorite with my sword and my bow. He was not involved at all. Look at Rashi. When Shim and Ley slew the men of Shrem, all the nations around them, that means Yakov's other sons, they they assembled, they're to attack them. And Yakov girded weapons of war against them. Now, that's what Rashi says. That's okay. But the truth is, look at the end of Rashi with my sword and my bow. His cleverness and his prayer. So, what happened? Why was he a little bit critical of Shimi? Because they never consulted with him. They never consulted with Yakov. And if you're going to go and wipe out and start a war with the non-Jews, who knows? We have to be prepared. You cannot just have one guy or two guys start a war. The whole nation has to be prepared and ready to go. So I think that was part of his um hesitation to give them a braha. He was quite critical. But afterwards the the nations could have could have come to attack them. So they guarded themselves and defended themselves against any attack and they use cleverness and prayer. That's what it means when YaKob says that I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow. It means with prayer. Okay. And that's what Rashi says as well. And now what about the next statement? Now we're saying Torah and both Torah and so both Torah and are dependent on the mouth of man. Torah look in Exodus 13:E9 we find that on number eight on the source sheet and in in to fill in and regarding to fill in number eight on the source sheet Exodus 13:9 it's shall be for you as a sign upon your hand and as a remembrance between your eyes in order that the law of the Lord shall be where in your mouth hash Shem in your mouth. So that's the Torah. In your mouth. And what about that's Torah. What about Tila? It says in Psalms 145:21, number nine on the source sheet, King David says, "My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord and all flesh will bless his holy name forever and ever." P. Okay. through the mouth. My mouth will praise will speak praise of the Lord. Okay, top left. This is what it means in Deuteronomy 149 verse 6. So here we have the double-edged sword in number 10 on the sore sheet. Lofty praises are God in their throats grown and a double-edged sword in their hands. In Hebrewote, I know in English double-edged sword must mean where the sword has two sharp edges on each side. That's my assumption. That would be a double-edged sword. But why is it called? It's so interesting. Ptheio, it's mouth. The word pud p it's like saying two mouths that the double-edged sword that's in your hands is two mouths. The mouth that speaks praises called Torah and the the the the mouth that speaks praises is prayer. Let's just look at rashi. lofty praises of God of in their throats they will be for them a doubleedged sword in English double-edged sword but in Hebrew it's so much more interesting the sword is the the weapon of their two mouths that they have and the clear says it's double mouth two mouths it's a razer This hints to the two types of of swords that both of them are dependent on the mouth and that's what it means. Even though we translate as double-edged, it's so interesting. So too, it says in devarim Deuteronomy 21:17, that's number 11 on the source sheet. Rather, he must acknowledge the firstborn. Now this is where a person has two wives. One of them he hates the other wife he loves and guess what happens the first born is from the wife that he hates. So maybe he has some animosity towards the ch child. Guess what? He must give that child a double portion. Now what I'm thinking is this is like AmIrrael when Amnisrael is not behaving correctly. So we're not hated but you can say we're hated and therefore God never will relinquish that covenant. He will still always he has to also keep the Torah. We are considered his firstborn at the time we're not acting properly. Nevertheless, he will still give us a double portion. And what's that double portion in this sense? He still allows us to serve him with prayer and with Torah and bizm through truva and whatever. We come around and we're doing God's will again. But we're never ever uh put aside uh the covenant that he made with us is forever. We are his firstborn son. Even the firstborn of the hated wife is still going to receive the double portion. Very clear. rather he must acknowledge the firstborn in order to he's still going to get a double portion. So the clear card says these are the Jewish people. This is the the the the people of Israel who are called the first born to Hashem. He gave us a double portion two mouths two right two opportunities with our mouths which hints to these two things which are dependent on the mouth that being prayer and Torah. You know when when Moses goes to Pharaoh and he warns Pharaoh and he tells him in Exodus 4:22 and you shall say to Pharaoh, this is what God tells Moses. So said the Lord, my firstborn son is Israel. Okay. Now what does it mean firstborn? So Rashi says the lushian the language of firstborn is an expression of godlas of greatness. Okay. Now we're going to come upon that again later. So remind me that was the source and 12 Exodus 4:22. Okay. So what is that verse trying to tell us? That God that God told Moses to tell Pharaoh in a warning, don't mess with the Jews. They got a double portion. God is or Moses is warning Pharaoh, don't become hotty. Don't put yourself over the Jews. Don't be so proud against them with your with your weapon of war called a a sword because they're my firstborn and they have two swords against your one sword. You have a physical sword but they have the Torah and they have mitzvah. So too by do a melik when he goes in front of Goliath 1st Samuel 17:45 it's number 13 on the source sheet. David says to the Philistine, David is small, Goliath is big, and he says to him, "You come to me with sword, spear, and javelin, but I'm coming to you with the name of the Lord of hosts, God of the armies of Israel, which you have taunted." Right? So this idea he's called the god of the armies, the god of battalions. But the Hebrew word is marot means wellarranged. That's why it's it's for armies and battalions. They're very arranged well. So the the clear says why does use this word to describe hem that he's the god of armies god of battalions but it's specifically because the language of marot isra it hints to the Torah the service in the temple is called mara it's an arrangement it's a system it's an order. It's quite complicated, but nevertheless, it is called mara and therefore the fulfillment of the Torah through the avod through worshiping Hashem is called mara. So therefore refers to the Torah itself and we also find in 2 Samuel 23:5 that's number 14 on the source sheet where God is speaking about my own house for my house is not so with God. Right? In other words, David, it's not the same. My house is God's house for ev for an everlasting covenant he has made with me fully set forth and heeded for all my salvations and all the desire is before him for he will now sprout another on the throne meaning it's through the seed of David and Yehuda and David and that's where Messiah and the king of Israel lie it's very organized and heated in Hebrew guarded. So tell us in Gmorra this is referring to the Torah. Now he continues in it seems we can continue this thought in paral where it says in other words tell us that we're talking about the Jewish people where is where is the power of the Jew it's in the mouth that's where it is and we see in Bidaba 24 20 number four. It's number 16 on the source sheet. See, when the uh they wanted to um the the elders of Moab wanted to uh speak to the elders of Midian to find out what exactly is the strengths and the weaknesses of this guy Moses. He lived with you, right? They said to Midian, did he live with you? What is the nature of the presence of the elders of Midian here doing here? In other words, Moab's Moab is interested. It is therefore it is because they were seeing Israel achieving victory in an unnatural way. So they saw that the Jewish people were being victorious miraculously. So they said, you know, this guy Moses, he achieved prominence when he was in Midian. Let's go to the let's go to the Midionites and find out what are his weaknesses, what are his strengths. So the elders Midian responded his power is only in his mouth. Now that's already a very strange answer because Moses had a speech impediment. So how can it be that his mouth that's where the strength was? What he chewed well? He chewed his food. It doesn't make any sense really. I mean it makes sense what it says. So we they came back and said okay if the if the power is in his mouth they understood it mean prayer or or the power to bless then they went ahead and got bum who also has the power in his mouth. Okay. So it must mean they clearly knew that it was not a matter of being a charismatic speaker but rather a person who prayed and his prayers were answered. And that that is the uh basically the the summary of that midrash. Therefore, at the very last line on the first page, the did not have the power to be victorious over the Jewish people except for the time that the Jewish people are not doing God's will when we're sinning. I want all my Jewish friends out there who are not so observant. I need you to think. Listen to what it says. When the Jewish people are sinning, that's the only time the enemy has power over us. And we find I think it means all generations because it says tamid that we find that the umos the nations are always constantly trying and making every effort to negate from to take away from Israel the Torah and mitzvah. You know when our parents went to America great great grandparents they said oh yeah sure you can have a job but you have to work on Saturday. And many Jews unfortunately gave up their their observance of Shabbat just to feed their families. Okay, we could talk about their other ways, but um in the meantime, they do everything they can to try to get us take us away from doing Torah and mitzvah. Kimo Bum, just like Bum, he tried to curse us. He was not successful. But what did he do instead? Then he tried to cause us to sin. They abandoned their own daughters. They made them. They made them prostitutes. And they told them to seduce the Jewish men while we were in the desert. He gave this advice. He brought up this advice. Let's cause the Jewish people to sin through sexual immorality. And we some of us fell for it. Kimo came. So to all the nations, of course, they're individual righteous people, but the nations have an agenda. They're holding on. They're holding on to the ways of their fathers mitzvah. They're making every effort here and there, left and right, in order to get the Jews to give up their Torah and mitzvah. Now, regarding this, this council, this idea that Pharaoh had, right? He's also amongst the go. He had this tradition as well. Alro Pharaoh struck Pharaoh beat down when he realized there was no way that he could overcome the Jewish people as long as they were involved with Torah mitzvah. So he understood this as well and he would only try to come down after you know he would hit them meaning he would strike them he would come up with the same plan once he realized that he couldn't get them to uh to give up to mitzvah. But what did Hashem do? He frustrated the makova, the thoughts, the council, the the of Pharaoh. And he responded back with wisdom. Wait till we hear this. We're going to find out. When the Jewish people gave birth in Egypt, they were giving birth six at a time. The more they wanted to kill us, not they didn't want to kill us. We were valuable slaves, but to reduce us from becoming an army that could possibly uh uproot them or uproot ourselves. It's a different way of reading it, but they were afraid that we were going to actually kick them out. We were going to be such good Egyptians and so populous, right? Such a multitude that we would actually push them out. Okay, so they said, "Oh my gosh." Right? Pharaoh says they're multiplying so so much. If I give them much harder work, imagine someone who works today 10 hours, 8 hours, and if they're doing backbreaking labor in Egypt, maybe 16 or 18 hours a day. He added more work. They had to get their own straw. They had they had a quota to make. So the men were working double time. They didn't have any time to go home and cohabitate and make love to their wives. So that was the strategy that Pharaoh had. But we're going to see all this is not only did it happen the way it says it happened, but there are hints to the idea of increasing the strength in learning Torah. Let me just read the words. We were growing and becoming more strong in Torah and he tried to reduce that. And that's going to be hinted to in the idea of the verse that describes how we were he was afraid we were going to increase. So let's just keep with the words. So regarding this whole idea to come against the Jews and to take them away from Torah mitzvah this is the what pharaoh saw to do and he was the hurmau he actually frustrated the intentions the the the council of Pharaoh and he I don't know boomeranged but he basically re sponded back with his own wisdom. Hashem is very wise. That's another statement. So it says in right the says that Pharaoh was afraid lest they increase. And says, "Oh, that's what you're afraid of. I'm going to make it happen." Now, if that was true by the physical amount, as I mentioned, there were going to be six Jews born in every uh every birthing process. But guess what? We're also talking on a spiritual level. Just think about what happened October 7th, right? with all the disasters and all the heartaches and all the the pain. Nevertheless, the Jewish people I believe has woken is awoke and is constantly uh increasing in their Torah and mitzvah and it should continue. And that's Hashem foiling the plans. You wanted to bring them down. I'm only going to bring them that much higher. Israelitzvas that what does it mean when we said that they were afraid we were going to increase and God says let it be because Pharaoh saw that Israel was becoming mitzvah. They were becoming stronger. They were strengthening themselves in Torah mitzvahim. Even when they saw the idea of sadikim. If if a righteous person dies, it causes us not only to atone be atoned for but uh to do chuva to to improve our own lives. Right? When you go to the funeral and you hear the eulogy and you say to yourself, "We're missing this person. If only they would say these things about me at my funeral, I know I could be a better person like this person was." Okay, so basically through the death of the sadikim that were guarding us. Okay, but guess what happens? See there's these two verses in Exodus chapter 1 verse 6 and 7. Look how they are juxtaposed to each other. This is on for page four. And look at number 18. Let me just read the the the measures it mentions right before. Right. [clears throat] But the more they would afflict it, the more it would increase. And the more it would prol proliferate. And they were disgusted by the children of Israel. But the more they would afflict it, the more it would increase. And the more it would proliferate. What does that mean? The more they increase, the more they proliferate. It is not stated. It only says that it would increase and it would proliferate. So Rabishim bin Laksh said the divine spirit is heralding heralding them. Each of them will increase and will proliferate. Okay. So this is how we mention that even though they were afraid less we God made it so it would be. Okay. So what they're afraid of is going to end up happening. And if you look at Exodus chapter 1 now verse 6 says Yseph died. He was a sadic and all of his brothers were also sadikim and all that generation which we'll find out what that means as well. The next verse says the children of Israel were fruitful and swarm and increase and became very very strong and the land became filled with them. There are six expressions of increase. Rashi says they bore six children at each birth. Okay, you have six languages or expressions of increase. Very interesting. Okay, so based on these two verses that Yseph died and all his brothers and it says and that whole generation is we're going to deal with that verse verse seven in in detail. What does all this mean? Sheph that when they saw that Yseph had died and his brothers had died while they were still alive, the Shebu did not happen. We were not enslaved until after Ysef and the brothers died. So their merit of being alive was keeping us from beingcom enslaved. Mo dorvador actually sadikim are called mo dorvador it says in typo it's but it's um Isaiah 58:12 you see this number 19 and those coming from you shall build ancient ruins foundations of generations you shall erect moder okay so it's through the merit of those who had lived in the past the sadikim. Okay, that's the ancient ruins you're going to build. There's going to be a positive outcome even when they die because they're still um they're still guarding you in a certain sense and you're doing chuva because of their death. Then what happens? So when they die, we're going to experience the acceptance of muser. We are going to hear about their lives and change our own lives for the better. And each one of us is going to quickly go and strengthen ourselves in Torah mitzvah. And that's what it means in verse seven when it says Peru right they increased Peru this hints what does it mean fruits like be fruitful be fruitful in Hebrew is from the word fruit peru perote is fruit peru is to be fruitful what is the fruits of the Jews these are the offshoots of the actions the positive actions that we give birth to. It's not just our children that are called produce. But it's mainly the name, the good name that we make for ourselves, the Torah and the mitzvah that we create in this world, that we do in this world, that is the true fruits. And that's what it's referring to when it says that the Jewish people multiplied. and verb. So just like we're going to talk about implanting in a in this case a nail and we'll have to see it. Look in kaga. It's number 20 on the source sheet. It's a little bit complicated but it's definitely worth knowing. There's a verse in Ecclesiastes 1211. It's cohelis. The words of the wise are as goats. G o a ds. So the words of the wise are like stirrups. Somehow it steers the animal. It go it it goats the animal in a certain direction. And as nails which we're going to have to discuss. Nails well-fashioned are those that are composed in collections and they are given from one shepherd meaning God. God is the ultimate shepherd. He gave it to Moses and it's one Torah. Even though you see all the different disagreements in the Gomorrah, you should know that it all stems from one shepherd, i.e. Hashem through Moses. But the Torah is likened to a go, right? The words of the wise are as goats and nails. So let's look at what the Gomorrah says. Why are matters of Torah compared to a goad? To tell you that just as the go directs the cow to her pharaoh to bring forth sustenance for the life of the world. Right? That's what the steering mechanism of the of the cow does. So too the words of Torah, they direct those who study them from the paths of death to the paths of life. So what is underneath the cow and his plow? whatever is going to be um uh you know the seeding, the b the pharaohing and eventually the harvesting, it's called life. So too the Torah brings life. So the Gomorrah says, "Well, if that's the case, look at the f um you could possibly make a mistake because just as the goat is movable and it's not rigid, so too matters of Torah are movable in accordance with circumstances and are not permanent." But guess what? That's why the verse says, "Nails." Nails which are permanent. So the Gomorrah then asks, "Well, if that's the case, they're like nails." the nail diminishes. Now, it diminishes in size maybe as you're hitting it and it does not expand. It's it eventually rots and waits wastes away over time. So, too you might think maybe the matters of Torah are gradually diminished and they don't expand. That's why the Torah ends. That's why that verse ends. Just as this plant flourishes and multiplies, so too the Torah is flourishes and multiplies, which is the words we're looking at of pira vivian. The Torah also is fruitful and multiplies. Now, what about vishu? Vishu means and they swarmed or teamed. In other words, it's another language for multiplying. Tell us that they gave off six babies at one time from one from one belly. Caris is a belly. But we know what it means. It means the womb. That remember just think of the words. Concentrate on the words. Six babies, six fetuses came out. Six babies were born at each one at each time. Why six? Because the clear says that this hints to the produce of the good acts that come from the Torah. And the Torah is that the Torah is praised with six praises. Look in Psalms 19 8 and 9. It says [clears throat] toem. Now this verse connected with the next verse. There are six phrases that are giving praise to the Torah itself. The law of the Lord is perfect. Restoring the soul. The testimony of the Lord is faithful. Making the simple one wise. That's verse eight. Then verse nine, the orders of the Lord are upright, causing the heart to rejoice. The commandment of the Lord is clear, enlightening the eyes. Beautiful verse. Bor in Rash he mentions that the different names of hem there's one two three there's four times God's name is mentioned yud vav and there's five words including the name of hem in between each one of these phrases and so rashi says uh the law the testament the orders the commandments the fear and the judgments a total corresponding to the six orders of the Mishna. Now between each name of God are five words including the name itself corresponding to the five books of the Kish. And so the psalmist concludes true altogether just they are all together devised with kindness and truth. Okay, going back where we left off in the clear. It's [clears throat] the top on the left side. So we said that six were born from one stomach. One stomach. It says caris. It could have used the word womb. But there's another verse in Psalms 40:9 referring to the Torah is in your stomach. Oh God, it's number 23. Oh God, I desire to do your will and to have your law within my inards. Right? That's Psalms chapter 40:9. So there's this connection. And then what about the word and increased? This is also in that verse. We said the word increase. Well, we said to be a firstborn and he's going to get a double portion. So it's an increase. It's the word yerbu means to become great in Torah. Like it says in Deuteronomy chapter 1 verse 10. The Lord your God has multiplied you. Don't think of it only as physically multiplying. That God made us great that he increased, right? That he made us great. That's the idea here. And Rashi even says, well, he says Rashi says to make you great. I actually didn't find that Rashi. If anybody wants to put in the comments where those words appear at part of the the phrase is and to make us strong. We became strong in mitzv. Now in Gmorra 14a, it is um referring to a messianic verse. We're talking about the Jewish people being the messianic people shal. This is referring to the forefathers. So even though it says in 53:12 in Isaiah, therefore I all lot him a portion in public and with the strong he shall share plunder. This is the Jewish people sharing with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And that's what it means to toal. That's aavos. These are the forefathers who were strong in mitzvah. Now, it also says they're going to increase very very much. Okay. So, where do we ever see these words? This is almost like a code word for humility. We see in chapter 4 Mishna 10, [snorts] right? That the idea is that one should be extremely humble, very very act with humility. And the verse also says that the land was full with the Israelites. Now, you might have thought it meant the earth meaning Egypt. Well, the word eritz is a reference to we saw this before. The reason they're going to heaven, heaven means the world to come. Ghana bliss is because of their good and fine rec refined character behavior in this world. That's why they're going to heaven. Um, now chapter Exodus 1:8, we just got finished going through chapter 1 verse 7. Now, Exodus 1:8 says, "The Yakamel Khadash that a new king arose." Now, was it really a new king or was it the old king who established new rules? So, there's a mucklokus. You can see some of the sources, but we're going with the opinion that it was the old king who established new rules. the high commander that he made new decrees. Guys, you got to be sitting down for this. This is like this is counter missionary 101 here. that Pharaoh wanted to make a new religion and he wanted to make changes in the holy Torah or he wanted to make conversion of the holy Torah can mean to con convert or to change right when you're changing money he wanted to remove basically our Torah and replace it with a I'm going to use the word some kind of new fangled religion and that's what it means. He right the verse continues says you know not only was there a new king he didn't know Yseph how can he not know Yseph it's the same king the same pharaoh you know what he said to his people in Genesis 41:55 Pharaoh said all that Yseph says to do you should do even to circumcise yourselves. It's amazing. If you look up on Wikipedia, they make this claim that the Jews got circumcision from the Egyptians because they found circumcised Egyptians. But the truth be told that the Egyptians were circumcised by Yseph. What happened? They had seven years of plenty and they put plenty of the food away. And after the the the drought began, they started buying food. Y Jose Joseph was in charge. And they came and they said, "Look, we're running out of money. What are we going to do?" So Yseph in his ingenious, he says, "Okay, you have property, real estate. You'll sell it to Pharaoh and we'll give you food in exchange, but you also have to get circumcised." And they're like wondering, "My gosh, this has gone a bit too far. Us Egyptians get circumcised." Yeah. And Pharaoh said, "Do it. Whatever Pharaoh, whatever Yseph says to do, you should do even circumcision." So the old Pharaoh was not against circumcision. But all of a sudden, yeah, the new Pharaoh has all these to try to what? Listen what he says. Ail, listen to what Yseph says. Yseph says even to get circumcised, but now mitzvah. Now he wants to remove the Jews from all the Torah and mitzvah. They kept them. And you know what he said to his people? He is they are more and mightier than us. Because what he realized is they're rooted in Torah. They're rooted in mitzvah. So he says, "Come, let us deal wisely. Let us be shrewd with them lest they increase." The word lest they increase. This is where their head was at. We have to be um smart. Pharaoh is saying to his people, "We have to figure out a way. We'll be shrewd. We'll figure it out. We'll create Hollywood. I don't know. We'll create Save the Whales. We'll create, I don't know, vegetarianism, women's rights. I don't know. Whatever it is, let's create this distractions. We know the Jews are going to jump on board and they're going to be the best advocates for the vulnerable. No question about it." So that's actually part of how the slavery began. Pharaoh said, "Who's going to be most patriotic? Come and help dig and build these storehouses and whatnot." Everybody came and then he slowly de dismissed everybody but kept Jews. The Jews happened to be very very patriotic no matter where they go. Okay. I think we should be praying for our brothers and sisters in Iran. And you may wonder when you watch some of these videos, some of them, the Jews in Iran seem to be anti-ionist. It's not they're anti-ionist, it's just that they're very patriotic and they go with the flow of and I think that's happens to Jews everywhere. We we from the very beginning we have a lot of a lot of gratitude for the countries that we live in. Anyway, move on. This is a little bit of a rot. There's this idea of the fen, right? Even though Pharaoh uses the word fen lest, lest they increase. And the fen the word fen is used in Deuteronomy 29:1 17. Where is it on the sheet? It's number 31. this idea perhaps there's among you a root that produces basically you're talking about wormwood and rot. So this is like deep inside perhaps there's among you. So this fan that's what that's what Pharaoh is looking for. He's looking for the bad rot. Maybe he can affect the Jews that way. But aesh says no. We're going to make sure and the word can is used can. Yesly it shall be. They will increase. And the word we're going to see hints to mitzvah of Hashem. um these words hashem I'm not sure where it appears literally but in Isaiah 55:11 for example it's just an example so shall be my word that emanates from my mouth it shall not return to me empty unless it has done it has done what I desire and has made pro the prosperous the one whom I sent it in other words God's word it emanates from his mouth mouth and it's going to go out and it's going to make reality. It's not going to return back to him empty. If he says they say lest they increase and God says they will increase and they the increase doesn't only mean physical numbers but strength strength in Torah and mitzvah and therefore that's what it seems to be saying. He says is like the word right means proper and true. So that's what it means. Yes, it will be. It's true. The word of Hashem is true. And he says just like explained in Rebea on a certain verse. This verse is in um Genesis 42:21. This is what they said. This is what the brothers said to each other. And they said to one another, "Indeed, we are guilty for our brother that that we witness the distress of his soul when he begged us and we didn't listen." The the bottom line is that is why the trouble has come upon us. They understood when we sin, we're outside of the favor of Hashem and Piranios that bad things are going to happen. They realize it was because they weren't doing God's will in Hebrew. Alain, therefore, God's word came upon us. When we do the wrong thing, it's like a boomerang. It's going to come back and hit us, right? We do the right thing, it's going to come back and bless us. The word of Hashem is true. He understands the word it's proper. I'm sorry. Therefore, when the nations say less they increase that means they're looking possibly for the the the wor the wormwood and the rot that's within us. They're looking to trip us up. But what does Hashem do? Who is God will disturb. He will destroy their desire to destroy us. He'll destroy their intent, their he says yerb, I'm going to turn it around and I'm going to increase their the Jewish people's strength in Torah mitzvah, the time they spend, right? They're going to grow in tora. That is that is what is proper and that's what it means that it hints to doing mitzvah of Hashem. And this was only two pages out of you know 15 pages. I think it was very fundamental some of these ideas. We're not just grappling with them for the last 2,000 years or 3,000 years. We're this generation. We're grappling with these ideas today. We have to strengthen ourselves. Uh we shouldn't see any more sorrow. we shouldn't see any more troubles. But when we do and do they and if they do come upon us, we will know how to handle it. There's only one way and that is to strengthen ourselves in Torah and mitzvah. And with that, I wish everyone a shamat shalom and have a great life and we should see we continue to see in the wintertime the rains the right amount in the right time at the right places. And for those who know what I'm talking about know what I'm talking about and those who don't Have a great chabas. [music] [singing] [music] [singing] your [music and singing] shing. [music] [singing]