The Haggadah (10) - The Ten Makkos

Today's limud is shak and we are hashem holding at the 10th she the 10 mas. So just a little bit of an introduction and a little bit of context. In the previous shar we were the in when it discusses how one is obligated to fulfill the mitzvah of says that in addition to all the you have to in fact when he brings this he adds that clearly held that when said it means specifically someone that's paraz he's in the par ofi what exactly is the parish of kim in the it's forim tucked away or more accurately three and a halfim tucked away in the beginning of Paris. It's three and a half of the several that the navy burim used to recite when he would bring his bikurim to the to the mdash specifically it's the words and it concludes with the So the goes through every single one of these words and it's what they mean the when it concluded it's in what all these words mean had a as relates to the last there's another shot that you can say as it relates to what the lim what the dash of this para is. It's two words. It's two words says one word but it's thus it's two again one word but thus it's two. two plus two plus two plus two plus two equals 10 10 what says the and then the god goes and he's the 10 m. Now the truth is that really what's going to happen from here until the end of today's sh is going to be the balag talking a little bit about the makas 10 musim and then we're going to bring up that's going to discuss that maybe there were even more than 10 makis and oh by the way just like there were makis and mitim there were also makis at the yam and there were much more makis in the yam that there even were mitz bottom line is this is the makis portion of the program. The focus of this segment is very much the takus. Now pit just from reading that god it feels like the reason we're talking so much about the makus now is we're going to he it's almost even a little bit of a digression we have to be dish in the parish of that's critical that's a mishna the rama makes a huge deal about that and the last that was mentioned was and it's referring to the aloer makus oh we mentioned the makus definitely uh le seder So we're going to expound on that a little bit and for sure it feels like if you follow the paper trail that's what's happening but the truth is it's way way way deeper than that. If you take a look at the end of right in the beginning of the that deal with the sed says that one of the great the he used to recite and the reason he did it was it's interesting one of the themes of the but this great saddic says when he was sitting as he was a mb on that he dava went and he trained translated the and the reason was because as much as it's to be able to recite it in the authentic language but it's even more to be the mitzvah and it's even more for everybody to understand. So the he used to say the says that this is a very minig in fact he says that when the balas is reciting the hagada he has to make sure everybody is present so everybody is paying attention and he says even the masharsus so the infamous masharsus from back in the day. Even she should be present to the extent that she's a Yehudis. So like this she's going to understand everything that's going she's going to pay attention. This very critical and then the mash goes on and he says which parts of the aod is it important that you're going to say which parts of the do you have to make sure that the is going to be there? When are we worried and sensitive? See he's minor all the different parts and then says the we also call the when we come up to the says the one of the critical parts where we call theis and the is when it comes to the and the mission is so the is actually something that's very critical to the this sensitivity that we have that we want to make sure the going to hear everything includes this meaning when it comes to I don't think you have to call the masharis but when it comes to the is there it's critical that you're going to call the machars I think the is the says the tyra says by two of the 10 mak and the mak of says the reason I'm bringing this mak are I'm purposely bringing the mak so that one day you'll tell the story which means that ankor part of telling the story of mitzim is talking about the mus if the only thing you would have to talk about is the fact that we were slaves and that we left and even that they were nim so you don't need this dougish by of it's I think the that part and parcel of the mitzvah of is to also tell the story of the and that's why as quoted by was that the and the should be present at the time that you reciting the mak you have to say because we actually have to make a big deal about it and I think just from reading the it's not even enough to talk about the mak you have to bring out is this is part and parcel of the the reason those makis were brought was very much related to the idea that one day we'll get a opportunity to be able to talk about it. So again this segment of the hagada which when if you're just going through it feels a little bit digressionish in reality it's ankar as it relates to the mitzvah of either way without further ado again. So we already read this first part. It's so short. We'll read it again. The these are the 10 that are referenced in the says the used to make. So this is the second time we have in the we have the kadesh which we mentioned. There's only one of 14 different of that talked about. This is the second time where we have the the sim the sim of but this is a second time where we make sim and what would the and sometimes when you're learning a and you have a sim it's not so clear what the sim is. This is as straightforward as it gets. The is the isard. The end is really a kim. The iso the is the shin is the b is the alf is arab the is and the b is or the v is the b of also known as makas. So we have the 10 and we have we continue with a and this is mentioned in the how do you know that the had 10 but at the 50 m was that there were 10 m initim everybody knows that Right. But what not everybody knows is that when the mitz came to the they got makers and they got a lot more makas. In fact 40 more. There were 10 and they were 50 at the How do I know that? What does it say regarding the parro after that this is the work of the what does the say regarding the happened by the are described as The makam are described as how many makis were there meaning the mak each individual one was beta and there were 10 makers hence it's 10 makas in total well if it's 10 in mitz and the makas that they had at the yams was five times that why five times that because a hand has five fingers so as a result it's a 5x there must have been 10 makers and at the 50 m. Now before we see the next the rebel in his zees speaks out a few they're all posh but I think it's to mention number one when the told the were talking specifically about the ofan yeti seems to be defining all the mak as having been done at so the barnel says that the is the is when Mosha went and he did the first Makkah dumb and then he did the second Maka theum were able to replicate it and as a result they said I don't know if this necessarily coming from maybe this is Kishv we're good at this maybe he's also good at this he might have learned in the school of midy how to perform they weren't impressed but then when Mosha went and he did the mak of kenim so then they kim there's no way to do all must be that what they did prior was also spelikim. So Ken being wasn't just defining Kenim. It was really taiching the mafa what dare was now says darbell it wasn't only tiching what happened as being at but also what was going to come asim in fact makes a beautiful observation he says that by the first three makis theim tried replicating it but after the kim they never tried again because the minute they so what's the point anymore there's absolutely no so says the that it says by is a and it's a on just as much as it's a that's every single is one other beautiful thing that says what does it just mean is that said is doing this with hisana with his pinky it's so easy this is something proverbally speaking I can literally do with my pinky that's of what's the of the being done by and then al being done by the is that it was very easy what to do what happened in mit but what happened at the yams was a little bit trickier and I think this is says always talk about how again this is not something we can understand what does mean something's hard for created the world with so again what it means is obviously not something that could be explained and it's not something that we can understand on our but definitely said there's an Indian of being this where you see it because initim they were able to do it with anah but when it came to it required already a yad so you say almost cav couldn't just do it with the katan that suggests that there was some level of difficulty. Either way, this is the first of the three over here in the says. How do you know that every single under when they were in was made up of four because the Pix says now this P is in which by the way if you want to do some homework as they learn to there's a lot happening there as it relates to the story of Mitra but one of the there that described the Mak says These are all synonyms of each other. They're all haunting and scary. They're also describing on some level said I want to dash in this, right? anger and anger and sorrow and bad malim. So there's four adjectives. If that's the case, that means what do you mean? I bought makus. I thought it was 10. Yeah, but each mak was made up of and which means each one's made up of four. 4 * 10 is really 40. Now subscribes to the formula of Rabi which is that however many makis there were there were five times as many makus at the Yams based on the fact that the makim were done and the makus at the Yams were done with the but the bottom line is says if initim there were not 10 makers but rather there were 40 mis and the multiple is 5 to one as it relates to how many makers there were the yams of So it's not 10 and 50 but rather it's 40 and 200 is the 5 to1 ratio but the numbers are different. How do you know that every single Makkah that brought on was made up of not four but he quoted the same exact capital and said the words had four adjectives describing the makas in this I see five even though it's two words Again, this is the same formula as and the same formula as it's not 10, it's not 40, it's 50. The 10 we know about but you have the five additional that are referenced in that tom and he subscribes to the ratio of 5 to1 because was done with the expect as opposed to the was done with the so if it's 50 what's 5 * 50 it's 250 according to how many makis were there at the yams it was 250 so what's between the four one two four says what do you mean is one and then like be the other four. What exactly is the I saw Margarus in his says that the revel is one of the that you find in different and that is that's a so anytime there's a minion does the first one count or does the first one not counts so is just defining exactly what happened it's in the redundancy that already you're able to start dianing I think holds and if that's the case just like you the redundancy you can d the as well is going to be one of them. So what's the these last two we're already rolling our sleeves up and learning. It's how many makas were there in mit and how many makas were there at the yams. We're familiar with the 10 makas that happened in Mitakus at the Yams. Truth is it's a Mishna. It's a Mishna that there were 10 makis in Mit and there were 10 makers at the Yamsov. So really it's a Mishna. We should know that there were makers at the Yams. But in terms of how many this already seems to be there's that are ple in terms of the number 10 and 10. It's 10 and 50. It's 40 and 200. A it's 50 and 250 that is that there were more makis at the Yams than there were in Mit based on the fact that the mak are referred to as being done with the likeel says whereas the makis at the yams are referred to as being done with the yadak additionally the is that everybody agrees that it was done in a 5:1 ratio that the said that why this is and have a what are we trying to accomplish by saying it wasn't just 10 and 10 but it was could be as much as 250 Raka who is the symbol of Akiva he's the one that figured out a way to turn the 10 into 50 and to turn the other 10 into 250 what exactly was motivating these holy tanim to try to take the number and allow it to rise like the Isa to make it such a big impressive fancy number. So the go said it's based on a parish told you're going to go ahead and you're going to do and it's for that reason that knew that we have a that the gave the Egyptians. So if there's 10 makis that means we're going to be protected. We'll have from 10. But there was this big to try to throw in like this that list of what was of it's going to be a longer list that was said of what's going on in this. But again, the recap of what we just said is we have the 10us and then we have which is And then finally, and then finally we have the the talks about the number being perhaps a much much much bigger number. Additionally talks a little bit about not only the makus that happened to the mitzv but also to the makus that happened to the mitzv at the yams. Now as it relates to the makus raid this is something that as a kaburu we talked a lot about recently specifically in parishes and b this winter when we went through the parishes it wasn't so long ago and obviously the theme of those parishes are makis and as a result we delved into this a lot one of the things we talked about was the fact that you find that there were two din in terms of what the purpose of the makus were the inad And this is in he says that people make a mistake sometimes. People think that the reason who brought the makus on the mitz was because was trying to convince in a rather dramatic way parro to agree to send the yidden out. are slaves of mit and hashem sends go to parro and tell par to let them out and you should know I'm going to bring and then etc etc so it almost feels like the purpose of the maka is a way of persuasion it's trying to get par to sign off on allowing the Jews to go but Maragris said that it's mour that that's not really the case the reason there were makers is because had It was already predetermined by the Brisbane that one day are going to be slaves and if you take a look at says agrees that if you look in the reason they were it was a what's the beer it's par went and he committed a terrible crime. There's something called as a result he deserved anish and the was he got the 10karov said that it's that way also because the mishbah says of the mitim was what does it mean is a punishment that the purpose of the makis was to punish the mitz you find that all the makus and talk about how dam related to one crime and to something else is a sith in the when punishes it's a punished if the mus are not then doesn't make sense why would be if it's just a way of getting par to go out okay so convince par you want to convince parag me the means that it was an Irish said and he fears that the of the just a punishment for everything that had par had done in life we can't get off scot-free par did something very terrible as a result deserve to be punished just one that we didn't speak out in the and that is it's clear from the that had par let the yidden out at that point he would have been good to go. Doesn't sound like he would have gotten additional makers. That's what Mosha told him. Assuming Mosha is telling Py the truth, which obviously he is, sounds like Paris told, "Listen, if you don't want another Maka, let the Jews go. And if they go, we're going to stop punishing you." Now, if the purpose of the makus is to motivate Par to leave, well then it's move on. If Par lets them, he doesn't need the motivation. He got the hint. Wink wink. And as a result, now he's going to be good. But if it's an on the other means so why was it that had pari let the yidden out he would have been exempt. So you have to say and I saw this in the shim from ravik he said is had par let yan out it would have been considered truful and was always and he even would have accepted the parro. So even though parro based on all the years of deserved 10 makers but if he would have let the Jews out okay would have said you're not going to need any more makers. But the bottom line is the briskarov said and he said that of the mus was an for because of the years that he was mashab the yidden nothing to do with trying to instigate par to get the yidden out. If par lets the yidden out, it'll be considered he's going to be off the hook from any additional makus. But the objective of the Makkah was to punish for all the years that he was. But that's there was another objective of the read. It's to make it clear that exists that he created the world etc etc which then means that really although the basis said that it's posit that the makish for and the mitzvah for what they had done but really there was a a dual purpose that the mak served and that is it was also a kadesh's way of revealing himself to mankind so that the world would understand that exist etc etc. In other words, there were two demon that were operating parallel two purposes that the were coming to accomplish. It's the way of revealing himself to the world. He explained this a little bit better. There were two things that had to happen at this critical point, the last year of the Yidden's 400 years from the etc etc. One thing is the mit have to be punished. The second thing is has to reveal himself to mankind. Used the same vehicle to do both was to use a secular expression knocked off two birds with one stone. So through this one Mccah what did was went and he accomplished two things. Number one the he punished the mitim and number two he went and he revealed himself. In other words could have done it independently could have punished the mitz in a way where the world would not necessarily have seen the greatness of and could have revealed himself in a way that had nothing to do with punishing the mitz decided that this is the way he wanted to do it. In fact, in the we mention that in his says it's not just two plus two plus two plus two plus two. That's not what's going on. But that each one of the had two and the is very it's not clear what exactly these two things are. And we suggested It's these two purposes that the Mak is very clearly represented. that it's for the it's even more than that it was it was to create some level of could be that's the that's the is referencing in his but there's another that we spoke about in the this I think is to spend a minute on again and that is do what does that mean? What's the significance of this is the most famous simmon ever would I had a question but it almost feels like uh unnecessary simmon. You need a simmon to remember the 10 mus. Come on. When you're learning aug and you're dealing with a difficult bry and this in that shat in this bry, you need a simmon to remember who the are 100%. You need a simmon to remember what the 10 makas are. Every little kid knows what the 10 makas are. What was when he said that if you take a look at zees he brings many many that he was malak 500 years ago to be and to explain what the significance of was but after bringing all the he says that none of them gelm and as a result I'm going to tell you my shot and this that barbell says here in that barbell already says in his and this is an Indian that we spoke about in the but again I think it's and that is the barbell says together within came to for the first time they said this is the very first statement that tells par responded. He said, "Who is that? I should even listen to him to let the Jews out. I don't know who he is. And I shall not listen to this being that as far as I'm concerned doesn't even exist." says if you know how to read these carefully what you'll see is that when he said was telling par three things and when pari responded and he said he was refuting those three things the three things that Rabenu was telling par was number one there's a god who's the god of all gods. His name is Hashem. His name is V. Number two, I want you to know that V is he sees, he knows, he's attentive, he cares about everything that's going on in this world. Number three, he's that if he sees something that he doesn't like, he has the ability to do whatever it is he wants to do. He can destroy all there's no human being that can hold a finger next to them. Anything that wants to do, he has the capacity to do. And it was those three things said, "I never heard of this Hashem. He's not in my database of a deser paganism on planet Earth. I never heard of Aaya. mesh. And then he said, "You're telling me that this is Mashiach. Even if I were to accept that there's ana, there's no way in my understanding of paganism that there's a that knows what's going on." And even if you're going to be able to convince me that he really knows what's going on, but that he's absolutely not fake news. I'm calling you bluff moha. I don't believe that this exists. All three of the times that mobu came to par with par himself was mish and that the barbanel in a very dramatic way says that there were these three vikim that were going on between moh and par and literally for a year during the mishb of the mitz that lasted a year. This is what was playing itself out. Does he hashem exist? He exists. Does he know what's going on? And it's not that he knows what's going on. Is this could he do something about it? Would he even care to do something about it? And these were the three battles, intellectual battles that were taking place between Mosha and between Pyre says the Aarbanel. The purpose of the Makus we said were twofold. number one punish the Egyptians but additionally it was to reveal the existence of Hakadesh Barakuesh Barak who used the Makos to go and prove that Mosh Rabenu was right on all three of these ideas that they were debating first that exists second that is and third that is that is an Indian and says theel that if you know how to go through these carefully you're going to see that all 10 of the makas can really be divided into three groups there's the first three then there's the second three then there's the third three makas is its own we'll get to that in a minute but says that the first three makis damarda and ken the purpose of those makis were to prove that exist as a matter of fact by makis The very very first says this that you're questioning you're going to know that I'm this idea of was the underpinning. It was the purpose of not just Makazdam but Makamarda and of Kenim. As a matter of fact, after Makasenim, the Egyptians clearly got the message. I see there's God. I'm not even going to question anymore his existence. There's nothing to talk about. He definitely exists. So that mission accomplished. What the purpose of the first three makas were very much played themselves out. Now Mosha had to prove out the second of his three arguments and that is that is he sees everything that's going on and that was the purpose of as a matter of fact as the barbell if you take a look at the beginning of Makkah which is the first of the second threeu says that there's going to be but the land of go is going to be separated because that's where the Jews live. over there. You're not going to have the animals. It was But now already we have to prove out the next point. It's not enough. They already know that. So what's the purpose of the second set of and says theel that wasn't just the purpose of but it's endeavor and it's it's all continuation of this of then came the last set and what was the purpose of borrowed so tells Now you're going to know not only that I exist, not only that I'm big, but now already you're going to know that. Now you're going to know later. And this says that Barbell was the tas of of de and the first of the three makos of the first of the three makos. The first of the three makas are predicated with the second of the three makas are predicated with and the first of the last set of the are predicated with it's because really if you take the mak you can divide them into three groups with each group fulfilling an unique and individual purpose all proving out the same idea the amuna that the has to have but a different AND IT'S THE THREE THAT HAD WITH PAR WHEN MOSHA CAME to par that very first time he told him these three and par was all three of these and now THE TO PROVE OUT ALL three of these and that's why the language says that if you look carefully is very different it's the goes v and the barber Bernell says that when you understand that the 10 makas were really three, you'll understand a lot of dikim, there's a lot of shinuy between the different makas and if they're 10 disparate and individual makis, then the dictim are impossible to reconcile. But if you view them as sets of three, then it makes sense. Then there's a sequence. There's this set, the second set, the third set, and the when we were holding, it was more meaningful. And as a result, we went through these a little bit better. For today, we'll say both in the barbell and in the butel gave us a gift. He gave us a very clear understanding of the makis that although all the makis meets the second den were here to show the world but at the same time there were three individualises that were coming about from these different markets. There was the and then there was the says theel. This is what meant when it was the says that was not just a good way to remember the 10 markers. HOW COULD YOU FORGET THE 10 MARKERS? IT WAS TAKING THE 10 AND DIVIDING them into three with a tremendous. It's understanding that it's 10 but it's really three, right? and the multil from 10 40 and 50 and the two 200 and 250 Rhuda went the OTHER WAY. RAUDA TOOK from the 103 not mitigating the amount of suffering and torture that the mitz was subjected to but it's going and categorizing in a very clear systematic way the 10 m in terms of the purpose as the goes can be subdivided into the that's to prove out and then there's the and that's to prove out. The truth is that really this of the is is very much in the parish. By the way, when we learned the paras, we dedicated a whole to the rabban where we went through a good of the innovating because it's so fundamental. It's so when you're learning and when you're dealing with the mitzvah of so that's an in that we did already. It's not something we're going to go through now. But the they're abandoned and the parishes by this much we have to is that the reason there are so many mitzvah that is because the purpose of the mak the purpose of all the miracles that took place when the was to show the world that exists and it was to teach the world amuna and py needed it very much his needed it now it's interesting they didn't need this the says when revealed himself self to the yidden even before he went to par. So the yidden on some level already had amuna but for sure even but the bottom line is went and performed all these miracles but like famously says that they're not going to do this in every generation. So it's for that reason commanded us that we should always make a and we should put on and we should have a week of we should go all in in terms of remembering because like this will be and that's what's going on in that and if you go through his when he talks about that has to have just going to read a few lines. I'm going to tell you now a general rule that's many from the time that was in the times of all the days got messed up when it comes to those that were there were people that acknowledged the existence of Hashem but they were mish in the fact that is a micromanager and that he understands the details and he knows what's going on. They said there were those that understood that knows but but they didn't think that cares views man like he views the fish in the sea. But when he chose one nation and he made miracles on behalf of that nation all these days became why because great miracles it proves that there's someone that is pulling the strings of the world who's a ya And when the happen were foretold already by then you see more than that. Then you see that there's something called that's why throughout the it says that's by for to show what is capable of and that he should have done everything all these things. They either blatantly denied or they were just mistopian. They were agnostic towards it. these are in the and in the entire if you go through the Ramban is talking about all three things that that was talking about the purpose of all the purpose of all the mak was to be all the different that you find at going back to the times of there is no there's no god there is no being that brought the world into existence. Mayhem. Yeah. But is not there's other is not going to be able to take on those. And to disprove all of that, we had the there was the and then there was the which was broken up so beautifully by the but at the end all coming for the same parro his entire all the yidden Every single person at that world saw clearly that all these different of the were false and that's why we have an obligation to make for all this because not going to do this in every generation and as well we have to hold on to this message this message which teaches us what really are the of but just to end with one heres and that is so we have like the abnel said the we have the adash and then we have the or the the B the you know we're sort of coping out a little bit. Oh that's different. Now truth is it is different and we spoke a lot about that in was the beginning of right was because that's when took place. There's no question in the world makus is on an island of its own when it comes to understanding the 10 mus but all 10 makis were definitely here to prove out some in related to our our understanding and is that exist and the is that so what's the base what's the lesson that is is teaching us that already ackn acknowledges that it's a little different but he doesn't tell us what is different about it. What is the base coming to teach us? Here's the Haresh. The Harish is, you know, when you think about existing, knowing everything that's going on and being I don't know about you, I got a little spooked out. It's a little bit scary, right? It creates this image of as as being which by the way is what the is you know when we make a we say so if you look in these three that such a big deal about that are all tucked away in that in the end of we say that's what it is but the truth is our relationship with is not only that is our relationship with is also that is au that akadeshu is our father and that we're sons of akadesh bar when did clios that they're sons of akadesh bar I think it's posit they I'll prove it to you. Right in the beginning of this is emperic these that get overlooked is talking to by the snack. This is still by the burning bushes tells I want to go to parro and tell you you know WHO YOU'RE CHING WITH YOU'RE CHAMPIONING WITH MY firstborn child. And I'm telling you the following. I WANT YOU TO SEND OUT MY SON. YOU'RE HOLDING MY SON AS A CAPTIVE. LET HIM FREE. And if you're going to refuse, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to go after your son. You know why exactly happened? What's the you have to open up the and you have to be A LITTLE BIT. WHY IS HAPPEN THAT'S A IN THE IT'S OVERLOOKED cuz it's a little but it's in the was that said you're chaping with my child I'm going to chap with your child when saw I think the message was crystal clear said wow the this who just showed the world but for us he sees us as his son and even in this where we're in the ME that we're WE WERE TOLD WE'RE BORN IN WHEN WE WERE in this MAT IT'S NOT OH EVEN IN THIS MAT we're born WE WERE TOLD WE'RE BIM THIS IS WHEN WE GOT THE MEMO THIS IS WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN WOW I CAN'T BELIEVE it in this m that lesson that message that they were told that's the message maybe of that last vase and it's just like we have to believe in a like says likel says that is we have to believe that is also a and in a way it's harder to work on the amuna of au than it is the amuna of malo you look at the world with objective eyes and you say me ba it's very obvious that there's a a monik to the beer but that that manic cares about me that that manic even loves me and it could be even if I don't behave 100% perfectly still he has that feeling of that's of the and it's a lesson that was taught to the mish as they were leaving it's the and if that's the case it could be really there's The fourth lesson there's the and that is and then there's the B that's the B of the that's the fourth lesson that was supposed to take out of Rabbi Simon.