Turning to check out the 🔥 thornbush

are you funny doing good yes yes yes thank god so much happens in this torah portion it spans almost eight decades maybe even more translated as exodus but literally means names because it starts with recording the names of our original ancestors who came to egypt in the first place finally the second book of the five books of moses and in it we meet moses we learn of the pharaoh of egypt deciding what to do about this jew problem in his land and hence starts the slavery that was the most tyrannical and oppressive exile of our nation in our long history of oppression and eventually the jam-packed torah portion comes to a close with maisha's wife sipoira saving his life maisha meeting pari and pari making things unbearably tougher upon us and maisha demanding a justice from god the type of justice that human beings can understand and see and the beginning of god's reply is recorded at the very end of this parasha and then continues on in the next upcoming tour portion today is the anniversary of the passing of the first chabad review now that was my phone case that just fell out of my pocket the first club i remember the altar rebbe rabbi schneider zalman of lyadi the author of the tanya and he also made a sholhonar a code of jewish law a lot of which we do not have anymore however anyways let's not get off topic and let me tell you this he was once disputing right a proper disputation was taking place between him and the self entitled miss nagadim which means opposers these opposers were in opposition of the approach in general of hasidis not even specifically but especially but anyways they took issue with two major themes of the balshempto the original teacher of khasidis who brought it to the masses really and these two things were that he gave far too much attention and love and respect to simple jews respect is reserved for torah scholars these people felt what are you giving so much uh attention and love and talking about how precious simple unlettered illiterate jews are that was one issue another issue which in a way was an extension of this was that the basham tip was saying that righteous men torah scholars need to do teshuva what the illiterate people needed to shiva torah scholars were at the top among the very many explanations responses and refutations that the altareba had for those who opposed the approach of qasidhis dr ebba said this these two things that you take tremendous issue with god himself shows that this is his approach at the very beginning of our exodus when he reveals himself in the burning bush to moses a thorn bush was on fire the word for flame the flame of fire is the word for the flame is bilabas which is also the word which means heart signifying the passion the fire that's inside of the heart why a thorn bush the famous rashi explains because the prickly thornbush was god's way of saying that i am with the people in their pain in their distress and the word for pain is zara which can be rearranged to be the word sohar which means like a window a way for light to come in the passion in the heart is also painful because it is an intense longing for god which can go unquenched in the illiterate specifically in those who don't have a mastery over the torah those who know so much torah and can learn more torah can quench that thirst that passion with their torah study but those who cannot cannot and god is saying that inner passion that inner longing is so dear and what did meisha do when he saw this thorn bush aflame he says let me turn and investigate what's going on with this fire let me turn let me redirect myself let me do teshuva which literally means return because the great maisha who was also the most humble person on the face of the earth even he said there's something about this passion there's something about this longing this simple passion that one has for hashem that i need to change my place from where i am right now and go there i don't know how to make a practical lesson out of this because we already have that passion inside of us however as we'll learn soon if you're following the daily study of the tanya of the alterabi we just have to activate it and i would say that the maisha of today the maisha rabbenu our leader has told us we are already free pharaoh slavery egypt still exists albeit internally differently and yet in the same way but so does maisha and we need to activate mashiach mode stand behind maisha with the attitude of freedom increasing joy in your life increase in love do another mitzvah study more terror and the universe will experience freedom in a way that human beings can see it