Unlocking the Secrets of Sefer Shemos

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com good morning everyone I just had this to speak here uh the shabus before last so it's so wonderful to be back and we begin with saer SH sa for sh is a new chapter in our history and whenever you want to understand the essence of something you always have to look at the name the name of something captures its Essence and if kazal are searching and looking to attribute a name to sa you could be sure that the entire essence of the saer rests in this name so let's begin with the words of the ramban the ramban in his introduction to say for shim dubs sh a new name a name that we don't find in the gar a name that we don't find in kazal first Raman tells us about saer Bas these comments of the ran Reserve deserve a treatment unto themselves but today we're going to focus on sh the ran says now that we've completed what the ran calls let's discuss that briefly now that we've completed sa the ran creatively this is the ran refers to barus as the book of the book of creation and ran is troubled is y really the appropriate word to use for the entirety of saer Bas after all only Paras Bas talks about creation why refer to the entire saer as says well the book begins by describing the creation of the world but then ran goes on to tell us his famous principle that really the entirety of basus creates the history and the destiny of the Jewish people through the principle of M Simon that every footstep every movement that AB andov made was a pre-enactment was a portent created the future the history of the Jewish people therefore the entire book is called SE it occurred to me few years ago I was standing at the mar and I came out and if you come out of the mar and you go to the edge of the wall and you make a left there there is a Mata for the ran now the ramban actually has more than one Mata there's a Mata for the ran in K others attribute a different location to the ran but there is an official mat of the ran right at the footsteps of the so it occurred to me perhaps the ran whose commentary on the is predicated on the it's appropriate that ran should be at the footsteps of the but says R now that we finished we we move on to what ran calls saer the book of Exile and Redemption the beginning of sh therefore the raan says even though we already know that CL went down to but the T reiterates that CL went down to MIT because this is the book of Galos and now the obvious question is okay so the book should really end in after all we're redeemed from Egypt in okay so maybe you'll throw in maybe the Redemption is not complete until we accomplish the objective of the Redemption which is but for all intents and purposes the book should end after after says a very important that that sh does not end let's look at the words of ran inside if you have on the number one on the seventh line the Gus does not end until we revert back to when we get to our original Place what's the original place the objective of is to go back to the m and when we left MIT even though we were freed from bondage we were still considered go because we were in the midbar we were confounded in the midbar but when we come to Har so just end there says raan and we made the Mish we built the Mish and returned to us and he rested his amongst us and then the ran says a principal I remember when I was a B I don't know you know I grew up here in Flatbush On Em and 31st but as gave me at least a little good that I used to walk to Miller for three years I'm not going to say every shabas but many shabas from M 31st to rev Miller rev Miller would always say that this these words of the ran that the has in the mishan and by the way if you know R Miller and you know that house you could get a little feel for this just knowing the house where rev Miller lived rev Miller would say the has and the Mish was only a semblance in a of the hash in the tent of Abraham and Sarah the purpose of the mishan was to bring back the that existed in the home of Abraham and Sarah the ran calls this the secret of the divine presence upon their tent in other words if you want to know what's the climax of SE sh the last in sh is the resides on the mishan symbolic of the and the home of Abraham and sah so therefore the ran learns that sa is basically bringing the world back to the way it was in the times of abrahamu when the dwelt on in the home of Abraham and Sarah this is the approach of the ran to sh sh is basically bringing the world back to the MGA of the that's the ran but let's take the approach of the ramban one step further because the ramban is learning that the objective of sh is to bring the world back to the way it was in the tent of Abraham and Sarah the only thing is barus did not begin with par barus began not with the hash hash in the tent of Abraham and Sarah barus began with the hasas hash in Ganan in fact if you look in the m in the medish you look at number two the the medish par tells us that when the Mish was completed it says the word v says the medish what does V mean he implies that something is returning back to the way it once was that when originally created the world the rested in this world like it says and then the Departed and other midash go on to say The Departed step after step after step seven steps until finally comes down and he gives a and the comes back to the Mish so the the Mish was basically bringing the world not only back to the Madre of the in the tent of Abraham and Sarah but the Madre of the in Ghan so in that sense the full Redemption is not accomplished until the world comes back to the voice of in so this is just extending the argument of the ran one more step let's take this a little bit further there's an interesting gamar sa did you know the gamar invented a new name for sa sh this is a name that you won't find anywhere besides one line in and it's codified by the we know is called calls it is either or comes you want to hear a novel you want to hear an original name you know sometimes you hear names you know like you think what are the parents thinking where did they come up with that one listen to an original name for says the book two book two the gar calls it the gamar does not refer to it as sh the gamar refers to it as book two and this is going to be uh a subject of what we're going to try to focus on this morning did the gamar run out of creativity when it got to the book of sh that has no better name than book two even the ran came up with a name saer call it book two the asks either call all the books one two three four and five or give everyone a name why did sh sh is not momentous enough that you could come up with a name for sh why book two comes the nvv says is a beautiful beautiful verbiage the expression of the is worthwhile to learn from in other words if the referred to sh as book two you could be sure that Laden in this terminology is the essence of sa says something amazing in fact sa for sh is not a separate book it's part two of barus basus talks about the creation of the world however upon the conclusion of basus if you were to look at the world you would see the world was not really fully created yet why not so let's let's introduce this with the following lambdas it was just the yard side of you know by the way the wrote three classic these are the all like the crown jewel of L so they asked why was he his opinion to write these three said three times in his life he couldn't fast Kipper and he had such now you know the lived in such poverty it was so cold in his house that he had to sleep with his ink well under his arm under the blanket so that the ink wouldn't freeze that's how he wrote three times in his life he wasn't well enough to fast on yum he felt so terribly that he wasn't able to fast that in the the of the that he couldn't fast he feels he was write these three you know very often in life we think that our greatest accomplishments are the things that we do and the things we're not able to do we feel bad we're not able to do that you know it's a it's a source of pain sometimes but sometimes the greatest is the feeling the longing of wishing a person could do maybe more than they're able to that thebut was that he was able to write these far the brings down the following question buys the from as what does he buy you with he buys for a pot of beans what was the the right to do it's a famous of brings the r says before the Torah was given before the Torah was given you could be M something that's on the world so the ask what difference does it make before the Torah was given and after the Torah was given what's the reason you're not you can't be because you can muster up the Das to formulate an acquisition on something that doesn't exist yet so what difference does it make the Torah is here the tah is not here you can't make a Kon on so one of the great my grandfather's grandfather was AAL mik he helped mik publish the saer we're going back to Poland in the 1860s he writes that before the tah was given the whole world was like that until the world gave the the world was mly the world was suspended in midair it had no stability not until the tah was given did the world actually exist so how did they make K before the tah was given it must be they had K worked on after the Torah was given so then it went back to reasonable acquisition that only on you can make a but before the T was given the whole world was says in it bacius is the book of creation but the world's not created yet because until the tire was given the world doesn't really fully exist the world may not exist if claa doesn't accept the Tyra it's mly t it's dependent on so bous is the book of creation shim is book two of creation so you'll ask okay but that doesn't explain why the entirety of SE is book two that only explains why until it's considered book two so let's bring another important yite the the next eite is that until the mishun was made the world also did not fully exist the L of the medish is if you take a look in number five the it says doesn't [Music] say is coming to include something else was erected on the day that allowed us to build the mishan that along with the mishan the world was built because until the mishan stood the world was roith the world was royes the world was wobbly the mishon gave stability to the world so this gives us further understanding of the words of the N that until the mishkon was built the world did not fully exist so bous is the book of creation and Sh is book two of creation but the creation of the world was not complete until a the Torah was given B the mishan was built which now we understand why tell us say that knew the letters with which hasem created heaven and earth you know good for him glad that he knew that you know why do we need to know that knew the letters with which hasem created heaven Earth the answer is because you would wonder how could Bal build the mishon but by building the mishon he was building the world because the world didn't have stability until the mishkan stood the answer is don't worry don't sweat it but Sal knew the letters with which created heaven and earth he knew how to build a mishan with which it gave stability to Heaven and Earth so let's discuss briefly some of the ingredients of the mishkan and we'll have a new understanding of perhaps why some of these ingredients were needed because what we're learning is saer is one thematic saer by the way I'll share with you a little trivia we're going to take a little break a little trivia question here okay does anybody know how many par are 11 right in his says why are there 12 par in I didn't say 11 I said 12 barel asks why are there 12 par in sa he says because think about baras how many par in BAS 12 Paras inas baras speaks about Abraham speaks about y speaks about and speaks about and the four of them get 12 talks about and himself gets says that's last January now don't do this at home for many years I I had a big to visit the K of fi I had to go to the K of I got very into thei anybody know how manyi wrote 72 and by the way after he wrote many of the his house burnt down and he he lost the original manuscripts and he he was so suben he couldn't get out of bed and his son came to him and started trying to remind fagi he had to rewrite many of theum from memory fi wrote 72 the way I remember it is he was that has 72 by the way R hutner would say the yard side rant is because always focused on D hez you know many people people are M and all kinds of things people have all kinds ofas you know would say you the most important thing to be is not stealing money or damaging other people you know they wanted to see what didant do arer here sad what did he do on AR Kipper he probably woke up very early and he went to the Mikvah and he was tal many times so they followed him around yipper after ding he went straight to the kitchen oh he's probably very M to eat no he went straight to the toolbox and he took out a hammer and he put it under his jacket and he proceeded to go to the first shol and check every single chair that there were no Nails sticking out so that nobody would tear their suit and the owner of the Sho would go up to shamayim on leam Kipper having 5 cents of damage on so he knocked in the nails of every chair and then he went up to theas and he knocked in the nails of every chair and the E and he proceeded to do so to the nine shes in the city and then he went toid would say it's a big mistake to learn aravin you don't learn shot that way why not says brus our old maybe except is where should you start because a penny that doesn't belong to you is always the r said that's why we start that's theik would say so just saying is would say so I like to think is so I wanted to go toi's luckily I went before October 7th because he's buried in turkey and I was at r fi's c next to fi is the B and I'm walking around over there and I see a Kev it's says it's covered in Weeds we clear it off we clean it UPI the son ofi I didn't know anything about him I never heard of him that week I'm looking for sh have to say a share on Wednesday I need a good topic wasis so I was interested in a she I was interested in the topic is there in when you do a Mitzvah let's say a person does a Mitzvah he's it's is there any of when you do mitah it get into the subject of let's say mat which was so the were broke because it was very public so i s there's a chuva fromi so open up the Chua says actually this subject if you want to know about this subject my son RIT was an expert on this subject and he codifies an entire Chua from his Soni I had never heard of him I came back to me asks on you know what does he mean that has 12 commensurate withas it's not true has 11 so there's a descendant today descendant maybe a grandson or great-grandson of the the originaler he's a very big far he brings something very interesting does anybody anybody ever look at we know the is that before every he gives you based on Mish he he explains a mish he gives an exposition Onish and he uses that as a to the has two right before him there's a break and there's a new introduction from likewise in the when he counts the he breaks it into two so says there's no doubt that is going with and and if you look in the they maintain this then indeed there are 12 in that's also an interesting on it's not really we're not no that way but fundamentally there should be 12 in sh let's examine a little bitum if you go to uh your second sheet we're going to examine in light of what we learned a few par a few ingredients in the Mish we know we have you have the where did the Bri come from where did they get this piece of wood to go through the entire Mishka we know miraculously the was flexible it went in one wall it curved it curved it it was one long stick that attached the entire mishan what so look at T was the tree thatu planted in the Shell of Abraham fine we're familiar with that what about the where did the planks come from say what's the designated wood planted it in Egypt he said is going to redeem you make sure you have this together make sure you take it out so the was from the crush was from what did contribute the M was complete on so said no let's let's inaugurate said no we need to wait for the birthday of so it's interesting that the contrib Ed to the to the why do you think the contributed to the says according to the ran according to Ran's understanding of that it's the book of G but we're not redeemed until we revert back to the Madre of so now we understand to get to back to the level of Abraham y and yov we need some help from Abraham and so therefore some of the main ingredients of the Mish the was from the Tree of Abu and the crush were from the trees that yob planted and it was erected on the day that was born because the purpose of the mishan was to bring the world back to so we need some help we need a boost from the but didn't we added that the purpose of sh is not just to take the world back to the madrea of we also want to get back to what marish so let's examine this further because not only were many of the ingredients not only did they come from the aice but we know kazal tell us that there were a number of ingredients that had a very remarkable place of origin look at number 13 the stones for the the stones for the so we're all familiar we know rash that theim were delayed partici ipating in the donations to the mishan they said when everybody brings what they need to bring we'll fill in the rest and everybody brought so there's nothing left for them to bring so rash says they brought last but if you look in the word doesn't mean the princes T venel says it means the clouds the clouds brought where did they bring it from so says they went to peine they went to Egypt and they took out and then the clouds went to ganen and they took Shem and lar so according to Shem lar came from Ganan but moreover learns that the clouds didn't take the from from they got them from ganen as well so it comes out came from came from the came from G then by the way there's an amazing says you know if you remember in you have [Music] what do you mean Shemar what happened to the V why did we stop with the vs we V it all the way through why inuma does the V stop also wants to know what do you mean are you giving it or I'm giving it is very simple according to what we just learned there're two chumas some you bring some I send you through the cloud yeah not that cloud through the cloud right the cloud will bring you so the first couple that's all going on that's what you give but now I'm gonna tell you what I'm gonna give you know what I'm gonna give I'm gonna give that's me that's that's myuma that's my contribution why do you think friends elements of the mishan came from Ganan you don't think could have made it that why did the elements of the mishan have to come from Ganan cuz the entire purpose of the mishan it's book two we're trying to bring the world back not only to the Madre of ab and yob in the beginning of we're trying to get back to the very very beginning of bous we're trying to get back to G so it would help if we could get our hands on some of those relics from ganen said I'll give you a hand you do your part you want to get back to G I'm going to send you Shar I'm going to send you all of these are items that Mish came from Ganan Here's the Clincher I don't think most people even um thought of this I I certainly did not know this when first of all the is my favorite by the Way's great great grandfather was now he always refers to him as his grandfather and somebody ask the stop calling him your grandfather is your great great-grandfather so the wrote a chva why he's allowed to refer to him as his great great grandfather even though he's only his grandfather by the way while he refers to him as his grandfa you know the had a very job after he was a Ron he was a rabbi in Gaza yeah he was the Rin AA also rabar the author of kib he was the r AA he's buried in AA his K is in AA the was the great great grandfather of uh the by the way it's interesting are you allowed to take Ona I'm reminding because I was just here the day after kanaka are you take eight candles melt the bottom and like stick it on a table or do you need a CLE does it say anywhere you need a Mana the Mish is Mas you don't need a Mana the Mish talks about be careful if you if you stick the candles on the table the table doesn't burn down well wait wait a second don't you need a Mana I mean thear didn't give him a Mana how's that possible Right what happen is he Jewish he doesn't have Mana apparently maybe you don't need a Mana that says somewhere you need a man there's an indion of a it's and he's he he establishes fifth MRE of CM for the Mana gold silver copper but the inan of Mana is the it's not that you have to have a man writes very interesting that when Hashem put marish in Ganan so why did he create the rest of the what did he make New York for I mean New York existed why did Hashem make Ganan and then the rest of the world so says something very interesting you have it on the sheet it's to see the holy words of once in a while number 20 on the second booklet he says that when created he put him in G so what was the rest of the world for was the bik forish to serve hasem the rest of the world was where ad marish did his other mundane activities when chased out from okay this is revolutionary probably we think of it the way we learned it inem made these you know and they're standing there with a sword you know going like this making sure doesn't go back into Ganan but the L of T is comes G wasik G wasik and the g we on the there a in ganen ganen was the first bikash andam dwelt in ganen on to him and the put before the world was created Asim meaning if you want to know what did the world look like before adish sinned there was a place called the bikash what was its name ganen what were there there two crew where was the he resided on the twoim andam was thrown out of ghen in the same way now we understand what does Hashem tell Adam when he's when he does the A and the medish finds a commonality between the word a and and all are wondering what's the connection between a and it's very clear it's very simple Adar lived in an actual bash it's called GH there were two Kim there there were there there were aam there there was sh lar over there the dwelt there and Adam was thrown out of Ganan that's book one book two book two is we need to bring the world back to the way it was not only in the tents of which we do through the because the we know that when married RKA so it says that the three special n that were in the tent of SAR were in the tent of Rifka let's think about those three n the was on the tent of Rifka like it was on the mishan the N lit from chabas to chabas that was reminiscent of the nari that never went out the kala stayed fresh that's the tent of ab and SAR was no less than the Mishka but the purpose of safer sh is not just to bring the world back to the tent of ab and Sarah it's to bring the world back to what do we say at the end of so we all think of me make bring it back to the way it was when the stood no bring it back to the way it was in ganen where there was the first mikdash where Hashem dwelt on the twoim where they were Shem and lar where they were um a andu this is the function of book two book two is we didn't do the job in book one take two the bahag did not have a better name for Shem than book two and finally in the closing of the comes down on the Mish and we're back toes comes says the M tells us in look at number 26 the Mish tells us there were 10 in theik let's think about these 10 no woman ever miscarried no no meat ever rot no flies were found over there says theit the common denominator of all these Miracles was there there's no decomposition there's no death life is the way has created you see what the Mish and the mikdash is it's a microcosm it's reverting back to the original state of Bri what a beautiful what a perfect original name for sa sh book two take two this time we got it right I want to share with you another very interesting uh theme of based on R tells us in a number of places that every human being has five senses associated with five organs the eyes see the ears hear the nose smells the hands feel the tongue tastes why do we have five books ofish says you could see the importance of the five senses realizing that gave used the five senses each sense corresponds to another one of the five books of the now it's interesting the order that says is sight hearing smell taste touch but fagi sort of plays around a little bit with which sense corresponds to which book the first book corresponds to site in fact writes bous are the letters of vision that's how you could hook the end of the Torah back to the beginning the main theme of bous everyone is looking or not looking look atash hasem is looking at everything Ria is the predominant theme of saas people are going blind in s they're going blind is going blind the eyes of Y are still shut you could look and bra you'll be astounded you never paid attention before you'd be astounded dozens and dozens and dozens of I who's the first child Ru and then sh is troubled doesn't come before according to no this's the book of seeing every the focus is on seeing says the book of is is all about the man tasting it's listening and he says touch because the reason why to come out of is because they were n they were they were fenced in they were they were I couldn't help but think that if you if you take the order that ruay says of the five senses the way he orders it is sight hearing smell taste touch and it's you could make a very strong case that the book of shamise is the book of listening why I hope I was happy you asked that question good so if you look on your sheets I wrote down 50 examples 50 of how the entire first of all that's like the if someone were to ask what do you think are the most prominent two words in say by the way I just saw you know says sh we say every day sh right sh what does sh mean it means listen it means understand it means accept so there are a lot of words we could have used why do we use the word sh says because is gave us the we said thing is right after we made the agal so we ruined the NASA the one thing that we always have in our back pocket is the nishma says hang on to the nishma you if you need help invoke the sh part that you still have from the a you ruined the nas you said you ruined the but the you always have it's invoking by the way it comes out very beautiful you know the says there's six things the Jew has to remember every day that mam spoke to destroy the six besides which is surely what's the sixth now when are you supposed to remember it I'm I'm here to help you today by the way I'm I'm going to save you two minutes okay people think after at the end of DAV you have to say the no that's not what you're supposed to do the says the are in you know that that brings when you say it's in get the you should get the beautiful it gives you in how you supposed to remember which it gives you there are a lot of good features in that s but one other thing it shows you is we in the So when you say you're supposed to think that when we destroy am's name will be God when you say you say gave us a mouth to thank him and not to speak like and when you say the word you're supposed to think now loves us but now when we made the AA every day you could I'm giving you a free every day when you say the words writes you should think now hasem loves us but not by the a so it comes out very beautiful we say oh but don't worry hashm we still have sh we still have the the the nishma part even though we ruin the nas we immediately show the re we still have something left from the okay but you ready said in the first time why do we say the word b there the Torah actually talks about that yeah okay so if you look in say for sh you'll see look at number six dozens and dozens of examples par will listen to you par didn't listen to you CLA will listen didn't listen You'll see it didn't say even the entire book is predicated on now it's very interesting so that means the book ofus is the book of sh is why do you think that is I want to share with you an amazing you know in sh it always says T come here tou comeing here in the come and see in why cuz in it'ss you're in darkness so you don't see clearly you need to infer you need inference it's you have Clarity you're able to see that's why brings the is called called the represents the is the is so it comes out very beautiful sa is in is it takes place in is the whole book is in is so it's the book of R say for sh the whole book for the first time is it's say you say what do you mean but the end of we're not anymore exactly so our eyes started to close but the book ofus is the book of let's end with the following calls book two this is perhaps the most important principle to bear in mind when we learn we began the that the book ofus was the pre-enactment of the future history of the Jewish people you seeu goes down to so raan says so CL will have to go down to MIT they take s so they make they is Afflicted with brings Mak par gives ab and Sarah gifts so CL leaves MIT and all the events of braus were a pre-enactment of the future events that will happen to the Jewish people whatever happens to us today it's because something happened in sa facius that created it there is not a shadow of a doubt that what happened on October 7th has something to do with an episode in saer braus that took place in Gaza by the way you know the rashbam writes it's a frightening rashbam I'm not commenting I'm just going to tell you what he says the rashbam says that if you look in the sequence of the right before theu makes a treaty with a he says I'm not going to fulfill the Mitzvah of we're going to be at peace together says rash said I didn't give you is to make peace treaties you're making peace in Isel go take your son and kill him that's rashbam without any editorial I'm not adding taking away simple says that the was a punishment to but there you could be sure whatever took place it's ous but you should know that is also what's the tells us all the Miracles of are a preenactment of the Miracles of the says all the Mak will repl replay themselves before mashia comes will replay itself before mhia comes R writes that if you look in the theim you have three dates given 210 400 430 210 from when we entered M 400 from the birth of 430 from the bris says if you look and say for Daniel three dates are given they correspond to the three dates of says if in were we knew 210 400 430 and we still couldn't calculate how it would be reconciled until it happened nobody knows how the dates in Daniel will be reconciled until it happens every Last Detail in safer sh was practice for the Gula whatever will happen in the future will be on a much grander scale than it happened in sa sh when your children ask you why are we remembering something that happened 3,000 years ago you say no you're making a mistake we're not reading this to remember ancient history we're reading this to understand that they're coming attractions for the Jewish people everything we're going to read now is to remind us and that to inspire us that we should Aspire and yearn and pine that every single word in safe will replay itself right brought many on the has a 63 if you add up the 10 and the 50 and the 40 and the 200 and the 50 and the 250 plus the 10 and 63 6 and how many words didem say to bring those Mak two words two words and in two words brought 613 says and with how many words that promis us that they're going to be by the thousands and thousands of words yes and the trar the Miracles that are upcoming for cl will be on even on a grander scale than what we're going to 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