Vaeira - 2nd Portion

Join as we learn together for today the second Torah reading of paras for Monday. Yesterday's so reading we read as God rebukes Moshe for the very fact that he asked why are you mistreating the Jewish people and mo and he appoints Moshe and says you are not like your forefathers that you start asking who am I but now your job is to go and take the Jewish people out of Egypt as we concluded yesterday's rashi by telling us that over here now the Torah would tell us about the lineage of Moshe and Aaron who they are where they come from and that they were given this responsibility of taking the Jewish people out of Egypt that's where Before we begin today's verse 14 chapter 6, these are these are the heads of the paternal clans of the first three tribes that are going to talk about the first and as well as here he tells us as the sons of Ruv are the firstborn was then we go to and these are the families of Ruv. Why does he start with as Rashi mentioned yesterday? Because he's going to have to get to the tribe of Ley and where Ley comes from because of the greatness of Mos. Therefore, he begins first to go according to the order of their birth from to give respect to Ruvane. And then he continues with and explains as follows. Why doesn't he say only the first three tribes? Because when before he passed, the only three tribes that did not get a direct blessing was Ruv, Shim, and Ley that they were rebuked by their father. Therefore, here's the Torah continues to count them again to show that they are special as well. And the children of Shim was the son of the Th. These are the families of Shim. These are the names of the children of Le. He told according to their birth in the years of the life of Ley was 137 years. Why does he tell us over here the lifetime of Ley only? What about the other ones? Zashi explains and says as follows. Why does it mention the year of the years of Ley? To let us know how long the Jewish people were enslaved for. Because as long as one of the tribes were still alive, the Jewish people were not intense slavery. says, it says that Yseph died and all of his brothers and only afterwards does it say a new king came along. The Ley Ley was the one that lived the longest. So therefore, by knowing how when Ley died, do we are we able to make the calculation of how long the Jewish people had intense slavery. Based on this, it comes out to about 116 years was the slavery of Egypt. Verse 17, the children of live according to their families. Verse 18 and the children of the lifetime of was 133 years verse 18. And then continuing to the which is going to be in the next verse as well. And he says as follows why does he tell us these families and these peoples how long they lived because from this we're able to uh understand how we get to the Jewish people settling for 400 years that the Torah says that they will be there for 400 years because not only the land of Egypt were they there for 400 years it was counted from the time that was born because here's the calculation was from the children that went down to Egypt. He's counted from the 70. Now count of all the years of kahass and the years of that he's going to tell us in the next verse. So you have Kahass was 133 Amram is 137 then 80 years of Mosha because that's how old Moshe was when the Jewish people left Egypt. You're not going to have 400 years. You have 133 plus 137 plus 80 is 350. Where do you have the 400? Many years were counted into the years of the forefathers meaning of those 350 years. It also won't be correct because since there's you have 100 though Kahass lived 137 and Amram 133 but Amram and Kahass were still alive while the others were alive and while Moshe was alive. So you can't count directly 137 plus 133 because they weren't 350 years. It was 70 years when they came down into Egypt and Amra was alive while Kahus was alive and Moshe was alive while Amra was alive. So it's not exact. So it must be that therefore we counting from the time that Yitk was born would then be 400 years because from the actual time that the Jewish people came down to Egypt until they left was only actually 210 years. Verse 19 and the children of this is the families of Ley according to their birth. Verse 20. And took Amram married his aunt as a wife. That means was a daughter of Ley. His father was Kahass. Kahas and Yv were brothers and sisters. Amram was a child of Kahass. So Amram married his aunt. Loy is for a wife and he gave she gave birth to him. Moshe and the life of 137 years. So explain what does it mean? His the sister of his brother because was a daughter of Leyah which is the sister of Kahassu. Now continuing with the rest of the children of the children of and Aaron married the daughter Alisha the daughter of Amad she was the sister of Nan which was also a son of Amad Le is to him as a wife and she gave birth to Aaron. That means had the following children and Isomer. Verse 23. Why does it tell me who her sister was? From here we learn one who marries a woman should see what the brothers are like because most of the children follow what the brothers are like. And therefore he says who is Aaron marry Alisha who or her brother was the leader of the eventual leader of the tribe of Yehuda and the children of Korak was this is the family of the banar now this is already the grandson of the son of Aaron he married one of the daughters of Putiela as a wife and she gave birth to him as these are the heads of the paternal families of the Levites according to their families. What's this fellow Rashi tells us and why does he tell us he's not the other names that he's mentioned in other places? He is from a child of Isra before he converted he used to fatten the cows the calves that they should be nice and uh eligible to be brought as idolatry. He was all according to some as well he was also from the children of who was able to conquer his evil inclination and did not allow himself to be seduced by the wife of biferah and he was called both one and why over here do we call patiel because he had one from his father's side one from his mother's side that she was also a basiel and the daughter of patiel as this way she was uh referring to yoseph and to Israel Verse 26. Who are this is Aaron and Moshe that God said to them take the Jewish people out of Egypt according to their tribal groups. Rashi 26 who meaning these that we just mentioned before that were born to it's the same that God tells them to go take the Jewish people out of Egypt. Now Rashi adds over here and says something interesting is you will find places sometimes iron comes before Moshe and there are some places that Moshe comes before iron. So which ones first? This is teaching us that they were both equal, that they were both just as great. And therefore at times the Torah is going to use say Moshe first and at times it's going to say uh Aaron first. What does it mean? according to their tribal groups. Meaning that means the way that they would gather together. Meaning explains every one of the families according to their tribes. Yes, we find this also in other places in the verse using the word can also be changed to by one using a one letter in the beginning of the word changing it. for example that he would live by your sword and he changes it sometimes with your sword as tells so to and he changes it to so sometimes the word al can be replaced by just one letter before the word verse 27 these are the ones that spoke to par which paral the king of Egypt to take the Jewish people out of Egypt. Who this is? They were Mosha and Aram Rashi. Hey Muhammad Abram. What does it mean? Hey Mhammed Abram. They are the ones that spoke. These two people Mosha that we mentioned before were commanded. But not only were they commanded, they kept and they did what they were told to do. The told the Torah now again repeats it. This time putting Moshe before Aaron. But Rashi explains They stood by in their errands and their jobs that they had to get done and in their righteousness from the beginning from the beginning until the end from when they were told to take the Jewish people out of Egypt until the 40 years later that they took the Jewish people into the land of Israel where in their eventual going into the land of Israel they were righteous and kept to what they were told to do throughout that time. Verse 28. And it was on that day that God spoke to Moses and Aaron to take the Jewish people out of Egypt. Rashi tells us that this verse is connected to the following verse of what's going to happen in tomorrow's Torah reading. This concludes the second tow reading for Monday Paresa.