What was the Yesod of the Makkos?

In the beginning of parshas Vaeira, parsha that we're learning right now, Vayeira Hashem el Moshe, Hakadosh Baruchu tells Moshe, "Re'eih nasati'cha Elohim l'Pharaoh. I want you to see, I made you an Elohim l'Pharaoh. Pharaoh anochi v'ein navi'acha." And Aharon your brother, he's going to be your mouthpiece. Like the Rashbam says, he's going to be your gabbah. He's going to take care of all the things that are not befitting for you to take care of yourself. But Hakadosh Baruchu tells Moshe that the role that you're going to play, the relationship that you're going to have towards Pharaoh is you're going to be an Elohim l'Pharaoh. Now, when you see the word Elohim, usually you think you shouldn't even say that, it's Elohim, right? You think of it in the context of kodesh. We know the word Elohim sometimes is belashon chol. And over here, the word Elohim clearly means God. But what does it even mean? So if you take a look at Rashi, Rashi says, "Shofeit v'roideh. L'rdoso b'makos v'yisurim." I'm making you now a shofet. You are going to be the judge and jury over Pharaoh. What are you going to do? What you're going to do number one is you're going to judge him. Additionally, what you're going to do is you're going to implement the punishment. You're going to sentence him as well. So you're going to be a shofet and you're going to be a roideh. And the point is l'rdoso b'makos v'yisurim, it's to ultimately implement the makos and the yisurim and all the terrible things that are going to happen to the Mitzrim. So the Brisker Rav, right here in parshas Vaeira says, "What's the oimek? Why did Hakadosh Baruchu tell Moshe that your job is going to be to be an Elohim, to be a shofet, a shofet v'roideh? What What does that even mean? It sounds like this is very fundamental." What's even the ta'am? So said Moreinu HaRav, "We spoke about this in the previous raid. And that is that really the whole story of Mitzrayim had been foretold by Hakadosh Baruchu to Avraham Avinu in parshas Lech L'cha by the Brisker Rav and the pasuk says, "Vayehi Avram yode'a teiv and we spoke at length like a half hour-ish in terms of understanding this possuk 400 years three things what's the next possuk nation you didn't tell me the nation is yet but the nation that is going to enslave the Jews I am going to judge the afterwards I going to leave if you take a look at the touch said modern that it's that the of the was a key of the have talk of done what does it mean to be done it means to judge and ultimately to sentence and to implement a punishment so the I told done on the midstream this is exactly what I told him right now what's the this is the flip side of the coin that was mentioned already in so the we know the mission that the lasted for how long you it's a mission if you take a look at the mission and you look a little bit carefully the is mission I was you base the mission of the mission is mission mission it was done there was a mission was a mission that's there was a show there was a roider. Hakadosh Baruch Hu had said that "Begames Hagoyim Avod Don Anoichi, I'm going to judge, I'm going to determine what the punishment is. Moshe Rabbeinu, you're going to be the one that's going to be that Elohim. The Don Anoichi, which is shoyfet veroyder, that's going to be manifest in this world through you." Now, it's not that it's not that Hakadosh Baruch Hu is the one making the calls, we know that. But, it's happening through Moshe Rabbeinu, and Moshe Rabbeinu's job is to be an Elohim lefaroh, to be a shoyfet shoyfet, connecting it to the words in the Brisker Rav's like only Martin Agronsky could. The games Hagoyim Avod Don Anoichi. But, the Brisker Rav has one point, and this is really what we're getting at. And that is, said the Brisker Rav, "What's the oimek in this? What's the oimek in this?" So, he says, "The oimek is that the objective of the makos was not a heich timtza for Paroh to let the Jews leave Mitzrayim. That's not what it was. If you ask the man on the street, "Why did Hakadosh Baruch Hu send makos to Paroh?" What do you mean? Because Hakadosh Baruch Hu wanted the Jews to leave Egypt, and Paroh would not just let them go. So, Hakadosh Baruch Hu finally said, "You want to do this the nice way, or you want to play hardball?" Paroh said, "Bring it on." And Hakadosh Baruch Hu brought it on. And 10 makos later, finally he wore Paroh down to the point where he said, "You know what? Just get out of here. Take the money." Paroh until he said, "You know something? What am I crazy?" And he goes running after them. Sham splits the sea, and the rest is history, right? That's for sure what you would think if you don't think about it properly. But, said the Brisker Rav, "That's really not true. The tachlis and the toyeles of the makos was not as a heich timtza for Paroh to go ahead and send the Eden away. Paro was going to send the Jews away. It was going to happen however it was going to happen. The reason that there were 10 markers was because Paro had enslaved the Jews and as a result he had to be punished for it. There's something called Din V'Cheshbon. And he's going to have to stand in front of the Kisei Hakavod. He's going to have to give Din V'Cheshbon. And so Rashi, what was the Din V'Cheshbon? It was the 10 markers. And that's where Rashi says in Parshas Va'eira again, "Re'eh Anochi Olam Lifnei Paro." Shoyfeit. We're going to judge him and we're going to determine the punishment for right there. Lirdoisai B'Makos. That's what the punishment's going to be. It's going to be the makos. The Yesod of the makos said the Brisker Rav, it was the punishment. Now, after the punishment said the Brisker Rav, a separate thing happened. V'Acharei Kein Yitzu B'Chodesh Gadol. The Yidden went out. They're not going out yet. First Paro is going to be punished. He's going to be punished in the Yisrael. After he gets punished, we're going to leave. Granted, the Yidden could have left first and Paro would have been punished second. The point is the makos, I'm not talking directly to the Yetzias Mitzrayim. The Yesod of the makos said the Brisker Rav was to punish Paro. V'Gam Ki Asah Goiyim Asher Avdu Don Anochi has nothing to do with the Jews leaving. Don Anochi, I'm going to judge them because of this terrible thing that they did. The Don Anochi is the 10 markers. And that's the Re'eh Anochi Olam Lifnei Paro. The the The Kadishbaruchu says that I made you an Olam I made you a Sar B'Shayfo. Just to read the words of the Brisker Rav. Ki Amarkos Lo Hoyu L'Matara Sheyishalchason. Rashi Kacha Nemar B'Bris Bein HaBesarim. V'Gam Ki Asah Goiyim Asher Avdu Don Anochi. B'Acharei Kein Yitzu. V'Yitzorach Lihiyos T'chilo Hadin Al Paro V'Al Mitzrayim. Like the Seder in the Bris Bein HaBesarim. V'Acharei Kein Hayitzia. V'Lo Kein Mina Kadishbaruchu Moshe Rabbeinu Olov Hashalom V'Dayan. The Shoyfeit. Lirdoisai B'Makos. >> Either way, this is the word he says. And at the very end of the stickle mar nagra says pasha. He's not even telling you anything that you shouldn't have already known. What I'm telling you is pasha. And the truth is if you think about it, just the word macka. What's a macka? It's a clap. That's what it was. The sword of the macka was a clap. Right? It's pasha. It's pasha. I rather don't think if you ask the man on the street what the purpose of the macka is that's what he would say. But like most pasha things after you hear it at least, it's pasha. You need a brisk rough to write it. But after you hear it is pasha. Jokes on you cuz it's really not pasha. As a matter of fact, it's a plea at suma and a plea and discover at the mighty. It almost has no pasha. And I don't even know how the brisk rough could say it's pasha. Marna grew said that the tackless of the macka was the tackless of the macka was what that it was done or not. Whatever macka. I knew that. What what I think it was called. It's not called the 10 mifes. It's called the 10 mackas. That's what the objective is. The pasha says how many times? You tell me. How many times does it say what the purpose of the macka was? Right in the beginning of all of this week's pasha. I got to spark it tells masha that I want you to go to pirate. You should know he's not going to listen. And because he's not going to listen to what I'm going to do is I'm going to make schlock and get the oil in. The yard do me try and The material I'm going to know that I am God. Right? Here. We have it again. Macka's done. Call your mama chef. You're going to know now that I'm a college park. By macka's for day. The pasha says that I got to spark it. Masha asked pirate like me to stop. You're the king. I have to give you cover. What would you like the macka to start? He thinks twice and tomorrow. Shmuel ben Chofni's by Yomel noch, by Yomel Kidvarecho, leman tedah. Ki ein ka Shem Elokeinu. You're going to know who Hakadosh Baruchu is by makos v'ei plasi by Yom who is Eretz Goshen. Asher ami omei d'lelo v'vilti hayoshim orev leman tedah. Ki ani Hashem b'kerev oretz. By makos oretz. V'haoretz lo yirah leman tedah ki Hashem oretz. If you take a look at the Rashbam, I found four places where the Rashbam says this. He says, "Why does Hakadosh Baruchu keep on telling Moshe, 'Go tell Paroh that I'm doing the makos leman tedah?'" He said, "Because Hakadosh Baruchu doesn't forget." What was Paroh's reaction when he heard about Hakadosh Baruchu? Lo yadati es Hashem. V'gam es Yisrael lo ashaleach. Every single makah, we're rubbing it in. You said, "Mi Hashem asher eshma b'kolo?" Lo yadati es Hashem. Zois tedah. Leman tedah. V'yodato. V'yidatem. You're going to know exactly who he is. He keeps on responding, says the Rashbam, to that original din. No, come on. I put it like, "I got it. Besides, I should have known." No. He tells you again. Every single makah there's another connection over here leman tedah. But here's the point. The pasuk seems to say that the reason Hakadosh Baruchu brought the makos was that the Mitzrim should know what's going on. Now, if you don't want to take my word for it, then you're going to tell me, "I could re-write all these psukim." I got don't think you could. But let's say you think you could, listen to the Lashon of Shelomo Even Ezra. The pasuk says, "V'yadu Mitzrayim ki ani Hashem b'hotzi'i es yadi al Mitzrayim b'hotzi'i es Bnei Yisrael mitocham." Right in the beginning of Parshas Bo, perek zayin, pasuk says Even Ezra, "V'hinei The pasuk is so clear why Hakadosh Baruchu brought the makos. Leman So they should know exactly So they should know exactly what's going on. And the truth is, if you think about it for a second If you think about it for a second, everyone knows the Ramban and then the parshas play. We didn't get there yet. Everybody knows it. The Ramban says that how many mitzvahs do we have in the Torah? We do you say to the mitzvahs to remember mitzrayim. The Ramban says every time you put on filling, he's remembering mitzrayim. Every time you kiss the mezuzah, you're remembering mitzrayim. Every time you put on tzitzis, you're remembering mitzrayim. The fraud when we go and we travel all the mitzvahs of Yom Tov, you make it How many mitzvahs do we do that are mitzrayim? And Ramban says because the miracles that took place by mitzrayim are fundamental to our belief. And it was a It was a preface to our emunah. We couldn't be a nation. We couldn't say nishmas unless we were going to know that really exists. And the of all the nishmas and the fraud that took place in mitzrayim, so is not only parshas you know, it was the mind that we should know. That means all these mitzvahs and all these miracles, all these Marcus, the Torah is The words they have in Ezra. In his Ramban and then the parshas play. Comes again the like only the could and he says you want to know what the Marcus was. It was key of nothing to do with mitzrayim. It's like it's mitzrayim. This is a seder. You need 400 years, okay, Jack. You need 10 Marcus, check. I'm not even talking to each other. The two have nothing to do with each other. And the says it's partial. How could it be partial? This for sure we shine them that have a whole different of what the Marcus were. To say partial? And the didn't even address it. Like he didn't even say I never even even anything. Which means that the answer to this kasha is pasha. And it is pasha. It is pasha. We're saying over a Brisker Rav, so we have to say with a Brisker nusach. It's much that there were two dinim in the makos. Again, it sounds fancy, but I think it's pasha. It's much that there were two dinim in the makos. The makah was a makah. It was a hakah. It was a punishment to the Egyptians. It's pasha, said the Brisker Rav. And it is pasha. It's called makos. Of course, that's what it was. The gam say "Avoidei done anochi b'es makos." Irrespective of the Jews leaving, staying, I don't even know what I'm saying. I don't even know what I'm saying. They need to be punished, they're going to be punished. And that's one of the jobs and one of the roles that Moshe and Aaron played. And that is you're going to be an Elohim l'Pharaoh. You're going to be a a service shofet. That's going to be your job to be shofet l'Pharaoh. That's one of the things that Moshe and Aaron, Moshe primarily, needs to do. But in addition to that, the makos was also a Kadosh Baruchu's way of showing Pharaoh who I am cuz Pharaoh, you know, "Lo yadati. I don't know who you are." Well, guess what? Now you're going to know. And it's also a way of showing Klal Yisrael "Da'u dem" who our Kadosh Baruchu is. They're both true. Now, how do these two things mesh? So, I'm not sure 100% but the havana in them both being true is so pasha. If our Kadosh Baruchu wanted to simply punish the Mitzrim, he could have just punished them. He could have just punished them. He could have just punished them with one makah. It didn't even have to be something sh'lo k'darko hateva. Didn't have to be spectacular. If our Kadosh Baruchu wanted that Pharaoh should know "Ani Hashem", Kadosh Baruchu could have opened up the heavens and said "Ani Hashem." It would have been game over. It didn't have to happen through a makah. If our Kadosh Baruchu wanted us to know who our Kadosh Baruchu is, see, he could have made mofsim and he we would have known who our Kadosh Baruchu was. We would have had the Ramban and then the parshas, but it didn't have to happen through the makah. Where this gets tricky where the lines cross a little bit is because really this is a she stain. That's what this is. This is one bird, right? Or one stone that's knocking out two birds. That's what's happening over here. Because what's happening is we're taking one of them and it's wearing two hats. What we know as stay demon. And really the market serves a dual purpose. On the one end, the market serves the purpose of Mona agrees is for God's sake you do me a favor this is the way the mid drive being punished. Regardless of all the bonus of the moon and the talking that came through the markets. Regardless of you have to be no they need to be punished. There's something called so they getting punished. Additionally the market is also serving a purpose being that it's happening through Nissan and the flies. So right now the market is going to end up being the way that who's going to reveal himself to the world. But at the end of the day the market is wearing two hats and you find the market associated with this and associated with that and our way to hear in the mission is just to learn the mission try to tease out and expose and uncover what we already knew in the subconscious mind. But just try to bring it to the forefront of our minds like this we have it with a little bit more clarity. And I think the clarity as it relates to understanding the markets is through a two demon in the markets. The market was a punishment for the mission done on the market was also a way for to show the world me on why did the two things have to happen through the same thing? But how did the law normally. But the bottom line is at the end of the day this is the way the market played itself out. Just to say it in a no such I don't think it's possible to go through the and the and not learn that the market was an like the said which is why the said it's possible. And I don't think it's possible to go through the and the and not learn that the and the purpose of the market was the mind you voted so the world should know what like the Evan Ezra said. I think they're both completely not negotiable. It's Claro is this, it's Claro is that, which is what always brings a good deed in them. Again, I don't think we're saying anything fancy. I think it's momish pasha. But maybe just to be moist of one knife but as Sasha is that is in the Haggadah shall Pesach so we talk a lot about the Marcus. At one point we say dumb the age the similar is awesome. Right? Very morbid when you translate that into English. The we continue and we say we are the two of them are the same. If you look at the what is that even mean? Right? So it says regarding the Marcus the two of them are the two of them are the two of them are the each one means two. So the we shall say this is the and the Haggadah that the two of them two. Okay. Two is two. Two plus two is four. Right? Hold that. We are the two. Four plus two is six. We are the six plus two is eight. We are the 10. It's like a remez. It's like a remez to the 10 Marcus. That's so no remez we're going to mention the so you have all these and these to the 10 Marcus. So here you have one. We are the two of them are the two of them are the two of them are the two of them are the two of them are the two of them are the two of them are the two of them But the five adjectives that were used to describe the Marcus were all used in the plural. The two words. The two words. But is a lot one word but it means two. The is one word and it means two. Why the that every single marker was really was made up of two. I saw in the has a whole Ricos on this ritual, to explain what a Hashem is. I shall be doing stuff in a repeat this rate. It's so positive. The markets were two hats. Me inside the kept of the market was it was a way to me chain the kept of the market was the mind you do. I have no idea what I have to do I never heard of him. Even they had to have a second like that and the kids just assume that I taste how do I know Moses real? How do I know 3000 years later the terrorist is it all comes from the place of the time and we got to live in that famous foundational you say this to the market served a dual purpose. It was the and it was this doctor that's what we say in the PR style each market which time and that's why every single time we describe the market doctor we always say it in the plural your two words. Why not do it two words two words even some of the words and the words and the words I make a difference because the markets were really and again nothing fancy stating the obvious but sometimes the more obvious something is the more we need to at the very least the more we have to just try to put it out there put it on paper speak it through talk it a door to the house like this we can get it a little bit more clearly and we are going to stop here.