"Which Haftorah do you read?" Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz Shmot

[Music] to everybody and we are beginning of course the second commission the second series of observers and the flemish the book of schmoes it's very interesting that you know cuz i'll gave a separate nickname to every flemish so safer braces because i'll called safer how your short the book of the uprights the stories of rock music and Yaakov seifish most I'll hold off for a moment safer viagra is called Torah scholar named the laws of Kohanim because it gives you the sacrifices safer but MIT Bohr is called Kamisha because M the book of numbers the book of census which corresponds to the English because the beginning of my mid Bohr is a census of the Jews who locksmiths ryeom and the end of Monmouth Bohr is the census of the Jews that are entering Eretz Israel the book of Devoran is called Mishnah torah the repetition of the torah because so much of it is Moshe Ave no reviewing the Torah before his death so everything has a nickname so what is the nickname of the book of schmoes the bookish mouse also has a nickname but it's a very blase mixing it's called Thomas a shiny the second book that doesn't sound guys the impressive well of course it's the second book I mean at least call it Exodus that would be you know something so then it's M explains in his introduction to say first mouths that the concept is it is really part 2 of Genesis safer Bridges is about creation of the world shrim created the world but why did I Shem create the world so the second Rashi tells us Hashem created the world because of those things that are called race sheets at the beginning and those things those things in particular are the Jewish people and the Torah Hashem created the world so that there would be a Jewish people that would accept the Torah so consequently if safer braziers tells us how God created the world safer schmoes now to explains to us why God created the world so who Misha Shanee is a very good title from Shanee simply means part two of the book of creation because it is the TOC lists it is the purpose of Bria that there be an army Israel and that there be a Kabbalah cetera and that is why the three themes of sabers most are number one the exodus from its ryeom number two of the accepting of the Torah and number three bringing Hashem into the world by the construction of a Michigan and the Michigan intern is symbolic of the Shekinah that dwells in our presence because how was the Michigan introduced the US only mikdash make for me a mikdash a sanctuary FishHawk Antibes is so calm so I will dwell in them it is not in the sanctuary that I Shems Wells it is in the heart and the soul of every Jewish person it really every person not just Jewish person even that seeks a connection with our Kurdish world so that is the foolish Mouse and indeed we are moving further and further away from the universal history of the world focusing on the unique relationship that a color Sparkle has with on Israel now it's interesting that for the house tourists for this week we have three different views as to what the October is the old joke about to juice of three opinions well here we have three Jews and three opinions and that is we have the haftorah of the Ashkenazim is from the Navajo the haft IRA of the Spartan it's from an of a year me oh and that taurah of the yes M&M is from the w testicle so each of the three major prophets are represented by oh you're me yellow you tesco it's interesting I would have to if I were if I were to award who has the best of Torah the one the one that is stee matically most obviously connected to the para I would give it to the table him I hear so if anyone is Timoney you know I think that they got it perfect here but you want to explain the choice of the house of each of the three men hugging and why that is so let me start with the tail on him first because that is the most obvious the same on him choose chapter 16 of the no VFS KO that's a very very long chapter and it is actually a bitter bitter bitter denunciation of the sins of the Jews before the Corvin Basin macness just do we aren't orient you in your history yes yes Cal was of the first wave of exiles from marriages relative bevelle and this was 11 years before the Corbin the Corbin was 11 years after that Mordecai was also in that same godless that's why it says in McGillis s there right can we read this with the tune of Asia I would think for you but I'm a little hoarse I shared had la mouche a lion Mordecai was exiled from Jerusalem M hago la Sierra blue saw with the exiles that were exiled in Lithonia with Kenya Hanyu mela hugh de and that was 11 years before the Corbin because your hunger was then replaced in Eretz Israel by his uncle Sid Keough who was the very last thing so yes s kosnov olives are wrong in this 11 year period between the first dollars and the Corbin base of McNish and the first 24 chapters of your festival are all about bitter denunciations and loser of against the Jewish people from a Shem but the strongest of all is the 16th Parekh which begins with the phrase ho de su shall I am esto awasa make known to Jerusalem her abominations and after they talk to them when the Gemara Magilla lists the Parata minami that you're not allowed to use for October it actually says this Parekh one does not use because it is too bitter too strong it would demoralize us however what's interesting is in the middle of this bitter denunciation there's a beautiful charming part of comfort this is the same running shows for the photographer's I smell and I'll show you how you get from the beautiful comforting part to the bitter denunciation act it's quite logical progression but to say money I'm cut it off before it gets into the bad stuff and essentially how the sparkler starts off with the following Marshall a college boy who says that the Jewish people were like an abandoned baby imagine a baby whose mother didn't want the baby and the baby is simply lying in the streets and in his mired in filth and blood and God says I'm the day of your birth you were a child whose umbilical cord was not cuts who has not washed with water was not salted now this is actually an interesting custom that I'm not aware of apparently they used the salt babies to drive different fluids from the body so say that you saw the piece of meat it says you weren't salted you were not swaddled my swaddling was a kind of practice no one cared about you no one looked at you you were thrown into us into the fields and you were living a life of repulsive disgusting and then a chef says and this plastic I hope will be familiar to I'm going to read the bus again Hebrew forever Elias and I passed over you for array miss possesses but the Maya and I saw you besmirched in your blood beyond our luck and I said to you it's a my hie in your blood you will live the Omer luck with the Maya ke and it's repeated twice so when we repeat this this pressing is recited at a bris and when we say it twice it's not that we're repeating it the Nabi himself repeats that phrase rights that people don't always realize that the overlock - I'll come back and interpreted now the next project might also be familiar to you from the pace of Haggadah revolver kits mi casa de nos attic I made you as multiples multiplicities as the grass of the fields viterbi and you grew up particularly and you matured but so baby are the ADAAA man you acquired charms should I am the hon oh this is a very sexual Liberty your breasts were filled as her estimate and your hair was growing the us our room a room area but you were naked so what the Navi is describing is the following mushroom it's really describing in CS with trying according to the thought you were a slave nobody cared about you you were despised you were like an abandoned child that no one cared about and I passed by you precisely when you wearing your lowly estate of filth and dirt and blood and I said by your blood you will live by your blood you will live what is Casals famous interpretation that the Jewish people in with Ryan we're on the 49th level of impurity first of all they should have been in Matera him for hundred years but a sham has to take them out after 210 years because if they would have stayed another few minutes even the amount of time it takes for dough to become comments we don't even know what that means they would have hit level 50 there would have been a redeemable so God had to redeem us because he loved us and because he loves our music in Yaka with whom he made a covenant but we are naked meaning we don't have any Mitzvah we are a remember area we have no Zach listen so because of this Hashem gave us two myths folks connected to blood which gave us a redemptive potential that is bris Mila now of course the Jewish people were given the bris Mitzvah Prince meal of the time of our Brahma vino but for the 210 years in Israel except for shaiva claiming the Jewish people did not circumcise so before the carbon Pesa they were commanded to and of course the corporate peso itself where the blood of the carbon peso was smeared on the door that was very dangerous because the lamb was the God of Egypt and we were publicly proclaiming we only worship Hashem and that is the double repetition Bassam is ie you will live with your blood you will live with your blood dump essa and Dom Mila and this is a response to Piazza a room area because you were naked of the mitzvot I want to redeem uhm says I want to take care of you but you have to earn it on some level so I Sheng gave us those mitzvahs that put us over the top so that is why to this day the prusik but the Maya kayi is recited a vaporous Mila and that's when the baby is also given some wine at that point to ELISA crying and and the light and Republicans mi casa de is in the pace of Haggadah now what's interesting is I want to point out though a very very fascinating point in this verse oh yeah one other thing so what's the metaphor is describing is that the time of love has come that's really the next verse eta is a Snowden the time of love has come and God describes himself as marrying us finding an abandoned child and raising the child and then forming a loving union that is the avatar and obviously it's very connected to UC estimates right this is the prophetic imagery of VCs Messiah we were lowly we were despised we were repulsive we were discussing we were disgusting even in the eyes of the Egyptians that's what the firmest says for your couch sermon a B'nai Israel by the way just to give you an example of slave is often disgusting in the eyes of a master this is why they invented the back stairs I read that you know the Serpent's entrance because if you were an English noblewoman you didn't want to see your servants they were so lowly your eyes didn't want to even set sight on them and Hashem says I took you out of the film and I married you and I showed you love and I showed you fencing and then the rest of the parrot which is not in this observer and indeed cause I'll say we're not supposed to read it I mean you know and we learn it we don't read it in show as I've Tara it describes the Jewish people as an adulterous woman that was unfaithful that made herself available to every type of prostitution meaning every type of a God every type of Idol every type of nation every type of fat okay but that's the set now that's the sad part of the story that we're not focusing on this time with him are simply taking doctora that looks like you'd see us with Ryan not simply as a historical event even the pivotal historical event but looks at it as an act of love and that God loved us and God wanted to be connected to us and God took us from the gutter literally to for us to become his become his people but there is a very interesting point here first of all I'm the presip which is in the face of Haggadah I have made you as multitudinous as the grass of the field now the Haggadah uses this when they're her mother says that I shared no he only came to meet Ryan with 70 people and Hashem multiplied strangers and you know every smell met where we throw mayor Lao who is the former chief rabbi of recognizing chief robbery emeritus realm and now he in retirements he's the chief rabbi of tel-aviv and now he works for his son that was neither a per se although I I have a suspicion that maybe being she probably intelligent jump that even grab for a Shia of now but rabbi Lau around 15 years ago made a trip to Cuba to visit the Jews dark juice in Cuba and you know Castro was relatively okay to the Jews but you know the Jews lived as lousy life is everybody else in Cuba and he actually had a meeting with Castro and Castro was very before some for very very long speeches capture Castro could talk you know ten hours straight didn't bother him and grab a lot was kind of stuck with Castro in like an eight-hour speed no bruza and what was Castro so interested in Castro was fascinated by the demographics of population growth Castro was looking at the Bible he said well they see there's only 70 Jews and they were in Egypt for two hundred ten years and they left with six hundred thousand and that's only the men from age 20 and up which means with the women and the children and people below 20 conservatively you have three million and remember lost its lucky I didn't tell them the metrics that four-fifths died so there would have been 15 yeah okay but with three million so tester I was trying to figure out maybe because he wanted population growth in Cuba how do you get from 17 to such a large population and he says he was keeping there for four hours I mean Lau had issues he wanted to talk to him about know the Jewish population in Cuba etc Human Rights that's Castro was fascinated with population growth and demographics we were doing charts and statistics and he was comparing other countries etc but be it as it may that is the simple meaning like the grass but Simha fortune offer another insight in this bus ik and they say that's grass at least it was believed maybe it's not necessarily true that's the more you cut it the faster it grows back they say by shaving the same thing although may not be true but but nevertheless the metaphor is based on what is commonly know the metaphor does not that even a biblical metaphor does not have to be factually true it could make a spiritual point by a common belief that people have and therefore the concept this the Torah itself says the more the Jewish people were oppressed the more they grew and that is the comparison to the grass the more you cut it the more it comes back and that's actually true throughout history if not numerically spiritually we come back in all sorts of ways now it's interesting the Rambam has a very interesting observation the Rambam points out that when you look at the census of the jews that the left summits running you know that add up to six hundred thousand six hundred and three thousand the men from age 20 and up you will find that the tribe of LaVey was extraordinarily small the next smallest tribe is more than double what the tribe of lady is and the question is shape it Lavery was the one righteous tribe they were the one tribe that didn't worship idols in Mizrahim there were the one tribe that practice bris Mila even though the rest of the Jewish people did not so why would it be that shaven lady the master say kale the faithful servants of God Moshe Rabbeinu stripe they weren't oppressed right so the Rabanne gives two reasons rather unban says one reason might be that perhaps when they left me through I am they were of great number but since they were carrying the our own so it's a dangerous thing when you carry the Arland without the right tool on ax that could kill you sir perhaps they were killed they died in the mid floor because of the great sanctity that was attached to their job but the second answer he gives is exactly that Shaima claiming reproduced at a normal rate the broker of extraordinarily extraordinary fertility was only as a result of those who suffered and since shaven lady were not subjected to the mandatory slavery of mitzrayim they didn't have the bracha - Ariana oh so 10-year Bev a saying your throats the more they are afflicted the more they will increase and that is why the Navi accessible uses the imagery Reviva cuts Emma I said that no such if I made you like the grass the more you will be afflicted the more you will flourish the more you will prosper religiously this is also true I mentioned I think a number of times before that during the Napoleonic Wars against Russia and this was at at the beginning of the 19th century and this was a time in which there was tremendous oppression of Jews in Russia life was very very hard there was poverty there was religious persecution there was the hated cantonese draft system in which children as young as 8 were simply basically kidnapped and forced to join the Russian army for a period of at least 30 years and after they taught that parents would sometimes physically mutilate cut off the finger fingers of a child in order to get him out of this and like and unfortunately they were even Jews that were participating because the way the countenance system worked was every Jewish town had a quota and sometimes rich people would hire coppers they were called trappers or kidnappers to kind of kidnapped poor kids to meet the quota so they would be exempt from it was that type of situation now Napoleon on the other hand promised the Emancipation Napoleon promised civil rights Napoleon promised collapsing of the ghetto walls so if you're a Ksyusha Rebbe and you have the coercive prayer who should you pray for in the napoleon vs. desire should you pray for this ira pray for Napoleon so this was a maloca tween many Cecina sure Epis most to see that you Rebbe said let's pray for Napoleon because desire is so awful we need freedom but the Apple Tanya the first Obama sure everywhere saman apply they said we will be better off with desire than will be with Napoleon because the Tsar will oppress us but we will always know that we're Jewish and we have to turn to action Napoleon will give us so many opportunities that people will forget about a kovash ground and they will simply embrace the pleasures of the world and indeed it is it is very interesting that in the aftermath of Napoleon and the remember that earlier the French Revolution which was little earlier there was indeed the phenomenon called emancipation in which Jews were given rights in many many countries and in a number of the European countries the ghetto walls collapsed although not in Russia because Russia remains getalife and what happened was you had things like the challah you had the reform movement you had wholesale assimilation to a very large degree so indeed in many many ways what the alter rebbe prophesied turns out to be true in modern life as well in fact his great great grandson the last lubavitcher rebbe used to say it was easier to be from in Siberia than suburbia suburbia made it more difficult because every person has the unfettered freedom to be what you want and when you have the freedom to be what you want unfortunately people might choose to simply abandon Yiddish guys of course what the Holocaust reminded on Israel is that even if you think you can escape being Jewish there will be somebody out there that's going to remind you and sometimes not in the most pleasant way Germany was the most assimilated of all of the countries in which they were Jews and yet it was precisely from that assimilated place where the Jews were the most integrated into the host culture that there was a holocaust again that's a complicated issue I know when people talk about this the immediate angry response sometimes is oh you're blaming the victims you know classic Rosh Hashanah certainly that the richest of the Nazis is not being condoned obviously it's not being accepted it's not being Jenna mated in any way but the fact that a college bar who lets it happen also has messages to us as well meaning you always see in Judaism in the aftermath of every tragedy whether it's the Corbin base on Macduff whether it's the Crusades whether it's the pogroms and whether it's even the Holocaust or even the Terrorism that we face today that on one hand there has to be a total condemnation of the evil that people perpetrate and an imperative to fight against it of all the hard to trust someone tries to kill you you go out and kill them right nobody is saying turn the other cheek and nobody is saying be a pacifist so at the same time that we condemn the evil that is being perpetrated against us and we actively fight that evil in all ways at the same time it was always the the Haga of Kali Israel to also allocate look into ourselves and say you know what can we do to become better to do sugar to church what other Sparkle the Torah itself says this is what a Jew does when they are confronted with suffering and and dislocation and and and alike so this idea that the more you persecute the better we become happens to be an unfortunate truism of Jewish history but there's something else I want to point out those I think it's very very interesting in this busing when the Plesac says I passed over you and you grew and you became a person of great charm but you were naked now here's the problem if cuz I'll understand nakedness as being bereft absolute then what was the great charm that God saw there it's when God was looking at us and he saw our nakedness meaning that's before we did those mitzvahs then we had nothing if we had nothing was the great charm that I Shem sign us right you know there's the implication is very clear that there was something beautiful about the Jewish soul that predated the myths vows that God gave us to do and here you see a very very important idea that God saw the inherent goodness of the Jewish soul even if as a result of persecution and assimilation we're worshipping idols we're doing improper things but in a sense that's not the real us the real us is something beautiful something good sometimes that goodness is not visible to the outsider sometimes it's not visible to us but it's there and it's your reality and the Kurdish Brooke who saw the roots of that neshama in particular the Gemara says insight that the following and the list is that there is varies a little bit from source to source that although the Jewish people in the 49th level of two month there were four merits they had and this is before they got the Corbin vessel now there's you might call these pre-qualifying merits these were the merits that qualified us to get the carbon pestle and milla that took us over the town and what were the four merits we didn't change our name we kept our Hebrew name we didn't change our language we spoke Russian occultation and according to the list there we didn't intermarry outside of the faith and we didn't speak Lashon Hara against each other now you have to understand that these are not an indicia of from type these are not indicia of being religious after all if you're an idol worshiper you're obviously not keeping us gems mitzvahs and when it says they didn't speak loshon Hara it doesn't mean they were learning two paragraphs of the hobbit I am everyday and calling the schmira solution hotline rather it really refers not so much in fact among themselves they may have gossiped it's not really a reference to what they said among themselves but it means they didn't turn against each other by informing the Egyptians of whatever was going on one second one second I'll dress that in a moment in other words we know even in the Holocaust superimposed on the the awesome tragedies of the Holocaust was the fact that occasionally they were Jews that were involved in informing and other Jews they they thought they could save their lives they thought they could protect their families the ghetto police for example were the Jewish ghetto police a number a number of them were involved in atrocities against Jews of course at the end of the day it didn't really help them very much most of them armed up getting killed as well but what Gazala myrrh homage to when they said they didn't speak loshon hora means that there was a sense of group identification now people say you can ask well wait a second dozen via me around right there Moshe Rubino sees just being whipped by the Egyptian and Moshe kills the Egyptian with the shame on the forest and they go and tell and Moshe says oh I see their barley loshon Hara so here let me remind you that there's a counter Agartha time why was the son being beaten by the Egyptian duster the veeram were the taskmasters over the slaves among many other people and they were supposed to report if somebody didn't meet their quota of bricks Dustin's a veeram were supposed to report that to the higher zone and they did not they did not inform on their fellow even though they got whipped as a result and that is why in spite of the fact that the severan were in veteran troublemakers because Moshe Rabbeinu and Chloe sell much much grief until they finally died in the correct rebellion they did make the 1/5 trust when four-fifths dies because they were most certain that fresh from Israel now if you're gonna ask me so if they were so meticulous and not being Mullin and not informing then why did they inform on Moshe I may know the short answer is that they didn't look at Moshe Ravana was one of them Moshe Rabbeinu may think they knew he was Jewish because Moshe identified himself to be able to do it but they see him as part of the royal house they're slaves they're being beaten here is this rich guy coming down from Pyro's house who wants to know how we are one could understand just from a simple emotional level that they looked at him as part of the enemy they didn't mind tearing him down and indeed that may be the psychological resentment that they harbored even into the desert after the template aftermath of Torah at the Asiya Smith's Ryan they remembered Moshe as the comfortable aristocrats in Pyro's house in a sense in a perverted way they could look at him as a traitor I mean although it's unbelievable that they could do so after everything Moshe David they say you know what should we respect him for so the lush and harm against Moshe is not the same as leshner against a fellow Jew so imagine this scenario you have a guy in Tel Aviv and he's in a discotheque I don't they still have this context and you know he's wearing them again w around his neck and his name is Rafi and he speaks Hebrew so is that worthy of any type of admiration what am I supposed to admire about it no shot that's no Contras no God no domine notes fill it buddy has a Hebrew name he speaks Hebrew you know what is the big deal does that count for something and the short answer is it does count for something you know I lived in Chicago many years ago and those of you that are familiar with the Midwest may know about Devon Avenue which used to be a totally Jewish Street now it's mainly Indian although it's adjacent to the Jewish neighborhood so I remember on Devon Avenue there was a restaurant maybe it's still there and it was a kosher style restaurant that's a peculiar American invention of a momager traif restaurant i mean it doesn't have any pretense of any other culture but it serves Jewish really Ashkenazi Jewish Ashkenazic food which is totally trace and but now corned beef and bagels and with a brisket or whatever chopped liver whatever however you define Ashkenazi Jewish food so I remember walking by on Shabbos aftershow and there was a sign in the window that said we serve chocolates on Saturdays then they said another sign that said we will give a free glass of wine for every Friday night order so think about this some guy comes in he goes to the bagel and he you know he wants to have Shantz right sure so the challange is straight he's buying something on Shabbos the wine is Drake you know everything is not kosher and he you know he's going to a restaurant on Shabbos so what type of value is this I remember thinking then then I was I was a very young man I was just like 20 26 35 and I was taking my solo this is what they call gastronomic Judaism the Judaism of the stomach superficial it's not connected to anything but dad as I get older I begin to see that there's more and more value in it because yeah the person doesn't know what he's doing he doesn't know anything about you this guy doesn't know anything about sobra but maybe he remembers his grandmother making showman's on Friday and he remembers his grandfather making kiddush Friday night and he wants to recapture that feeling and he wants to recapture that connection so he doesn't know what to do he he's embarrassed to walk into a shell he won't know what's going on and maybe people are not gonna be so welcoming something to think about as well so I'll go to the bagel and have challon's and wine trade show verts and trade fine because that way he'll connect somehow to the spirit of his grandfather and grandmother now it's yes with ryeom was very much a similar phenomenon the Jews were very menu talk from a chef they were very very far from my brother's bar they were Idol worshipers they weren't practicing bris meal but they wanted to be connected to each other they had a sense that they were Jewish let's keep our Jewish name let's keep our Jewish language while showing I show this it reads let's not even marry outside crispy I mean by the way you know we talk about those were those were the level of the Jews that were in the forty ninth level of impurity go through the listen see how much of those we keep most of the Jewish will keep we find that now maybe we're forty nine and a half and thinking so the point basically is that although the purpose of the exodus was Matan Torah but the route of the Exodus was Jewish identification meaning to say it started off BVB capacity for redemption starts when you regard yourself as part of army Israel you rejoice in their choice and you suffer in their sufferings and you feel they are my nation is that the ultimate purpose and then don't know it isn't remember you'd see estimates ryeom was for the purpose of not on tour but without that sense of identification with on the is around nothing can happen that's why I remember that the you know where Symantec has we have several times a year we have groups of largely non-religious college gets coming to know spend some time in usual I'm and delight and yeah number of them a number of them become observant some don't become observant but but most of the time there's at least a heightened interest in Judaism and the life but I'll tell you the hardest case I ever had I ever had because they referred him to me because nobody could reach this biscuit was somebody who said I don't know why we make such a big deal about having Jews together why you know in other words if a kid says I don't know why we keep Shabbos I don't know I have no proof that God gave the Torah but I liked hanging around Jewish people you can do a lot with that because he wants to be part of the Jewish people even if he doesn't want to commit smus but when a guy says I just have no particular interest in being connected to the Jewish people I think it's racist and I think it's a disgrace that's what he was talking I think it's a disgrace that you think you're so special that you have your own things you know you're stuck you're stuck you you have hit you have hit a wall you have hit a wall because without a sense of being connected to the Jewish people you can't go anywhere and I hope again I mean we were not able to do it I hope that somewhere somehow someone will be able to at least give him a sense and again I don't mean to say put it putting down other people Cosby shamans I don't mean to say no you have to show him Jews are better than other people that's not that's not the Abunda so to speak and it may or may not be true in any given case but simply to be proud of being a part of the Jewish people without any negativity towards anyone else again I want to emphasize that so if somebody left that that team is actually frightening to me I don't think I have ever met someone like that because even the reformer we know the moment he was a very very assimilated person well we'll at least say I'm proud of being Jewish you know something like that someone who doesn't have that what do you where do you go with that uh you know so that's exactly what happened in miss Ryan it was the sense of being part of cause so that's why even though it personally irritates me but the truth is I want to think about it in a more kind way I'm sure you always encountered this you're in an airport you're somewhere and we're in a store whatever it is if you're conspicuously in North and xjo almost always some guy or some woman will come up to you and say hey you know I'm Jewish to go see my muggins of it and I personally hate it just as it as a personal an idiosyncrasy but in point of fact that is a noble gesture that is basically saying I'm on your team I want to be connected to you I have no idea what you do and what you do is not what I do but we are together of some level and that is something significant that is why the Jews Mary didn't to leave mitzraim so I'm gonna try to get over my irritation with that because it is actually coming from a very good place okay so this is the haftorah of the timonium and as they say it's very very beautiful because it embraces the must shovel of the abandoned baby that was raised lovingly til she became a charming beautiful person that's the end the benefactor actually married to make his make his beloved wife as they say the rest of the parishes Oh Dowdell after that but at least at that point that is what the authorities chosen and that is the connection to you see as much on man this is a rapport of course of the idea that after the Pesach Seder we read Shira Shira which is the romantic love song which is a Michelle between the passionate love that God has for the Jewish people because you'd see us with trying him is seen as an act of love okay and that is how one should envision it God is showing his love for us and two the imagery is frankly romantic and even even sexual in that way so it is interesting that there is a mix of metaphors between what you might call the parental and the spousal because it starts off with I find the abandoned sham says I find the abandoned baby and I take care of the baby so it starts off as parent-child his dad turns into husband wife it mixes the the metaphor there okay and of course the chef is referred to as both assembly's lover assume is parents etc okay okay so now so as they say this is probably the strongest connection to the parsha let me mention the two other half stories Ashkenazim focus on the novena shaiiaja and the number you see on largely describes well it's it when you say yo is the earliest of the three major prophets when I call the major on just me I don't mean they're more important than the other prophets but their books are the largest books yow-yow lived at the time of the exile of the ten tribes which was more than a hundred years before the Corbin base of integers so it's fascinating that although you show you is the great prophet of comfort he is giving us the Messianic prophecies of the ultimate redemption he lived and prophesied before there even was a Corbin based on the country and he is the great great messianic prophecy all of the famous verses lo ye Sugoi yogorov one nation will not a sword against the other nation of elbow that is mauricio gore-ism tevis the the wolf shall live with the lamb and all of those prophecies Fabio similar catchy I will bring all of the nations of the world to my holy mountain ki beti base - fela iike a column in my house the temple will be a house of prayer for the whole world all of this is to show you and one of the interesting characteristics of each AO is of all of the new VM yo-yo is the most universalistic of the prophets by that I mean he does not envision this man of mushiya as good for the Jews he says good for the world all of the world will benefit from the blessings of peace and the blessings of understanding and all nations will have access to God and all nations will come to the temple come to the base of make this right so certain the VM focused much more on the particular istic aspects of God's relationship with ami Israel yo-yo does that too but he is the most universalistic of all of the prophets and of course Christians have used the number of verses to argue for their situation and we we simply disagree for example the famous verse about the Virgin shall give birth is a absolute mistranslation the Hebrew word for version is batula and the world the word that is used in the nabhi is OMA alma just means a young woman married or not married and it's not talking about ma she upstairs talking about the birth of Chris Keogh it's referred to the birth of a one of the kings of Israel but in this of Tyra this is a messianic prophecy how in spite of all of our suffering there shall be a redemption there shall be a messiah so why is this connected to schmooze because if if the Navia tesco what did you see a Smith trying to be understood as an act of the love you say you always taking it in a different direction although it's the same thing but ultimately and that is you'd see us mitzrayim as a precursor and a model for all of the future redemptions that we will experience meaning to say the following we are reading the Torah and we are living in gullets even in our just route we're living indoors and call home and when we're not in the register we're living in colors we don't have abate Samak - we don't have Messiah we are surrounded by war and terrorism and nuclear threats and a world of materialism and decadence a world that is very far from a sham so we are in exile we are in gulf and the godless has lasted so long that sometimes we give up hope you know there was a beautiful powerful speech by robert omen dr. Robert Aumann V Lucey never to Shirley who had won the Nobel Prize was it academics I guess for game theory claims a man was it means the game theory yep but economics was that would feel and he made their speech nothing to do with Nobel Prize he made a speech at one point that's being a Jew is sometimes like being trapped in a blizzard you gotta keep walking no matter how tired you are because if you let yourself fall asleep you're not gonna get up again that's what's gonna happen you fall asleep in a blizzard I'd say that's it you've gotta keep going so he said they do sometimes feels that they're in a blizzard it never ends but you gotta keep going so as a result this is where memory and history give us encouragement in life that's always the case even in small matters you know you have a difficult test that you're taking in school so and you know you just feel you're not gonna be able to make it so how do you overcome those obstacles by kind of remembering other times that you had those challenges and you were able to surmount that's the idea of memory you link to the memories of the past and they give you a strength I've done this before I've experienced this before so I can do it again redemption is the same thing but UCO is doing and without stories trying to do is don't look at UCS miss Ryan as a singular historical event of the past it sets the precedent that a sham will take you out of your goals just as he took our forefathers out of what's right so if you Cesco is telling us that the exodus is the story of love yo-yo is telling us the Exodus is the story of ultimate Universal redemption you don't look at it as a singular event now remember that this has been inspiration for many people the black slaves in the United States many of the black spirituals connect to the Jordan and the promised land and because what the consequence it was understood that you see us miss Ryan is a paradigm for God liberating people from their enslavement in fact you take it even further dibala Tonya writes a very fascinating thing the Haggadah says each person must regard himself as if they themselves were liberated from me miss Ryan and the bottle of Tanya asks what does that mean I was not in with Ryan is that a make-believe thing I make believe I was liberated I was not liberated so he says miss Ryan has a double meaning mitzrayim is of course the name of ancient Egypt but mitzrayim also refers to limitation and constriction deborah de Mello says men are made sir from the narrow confining places I called out to God and above all Tanya says every person has their own inner mitzrayim I could have a mature Allium of arrogance egotism selfishness laziness depression lack of self esteem these are constrictions they blocked me they enslave me and the pilot Anya says when a sham took the Jewish people out of Miss Ryan he put into the world a color to be liberated from whatever it is that enslaves you thus that the pace of slated for example there's a double story that's going on there is the historical narrative of Hashem taking the Jewish nation out of Israel that's a pivotal historical narrative but then there is the secondary idiosyncratic private narrative that a Shem is giving us the spiritual power to be liberated from whatever it is that enslaves us and although that power is primarily manifested around Pesach but it is brought down that during the reading of these partials we also experience it see azmuth right so that's what the nubby Shah was doing is universalizing the Exodus to refer to the concept of redemption as a whole in fact there's one famous pasta here I'll just read the prusik and this person has been set to music but it's also incorporated in the Russia shine examining for hire by Yo Ma who he talked up a chauffeur Godot behold on that day there will be the loud chauffeur blast from Hashem heralding the coming of the Messiah who bow over dim the Eretz assured and those who were lost and abandoned in Assyria those are the ten tribes but the ten tribes they will come back from Assyria those lost ten tribes Haneda Haman those who were pushed off into the land of Egypt those were the remnants of the Babylonian exile who ran away to Mitzrayim and they too will be gathered phish tahko boom ah Shem but hi Rocco - and they will once again be able to worship Hashem and the holy mountain be Rousseau volume in the city Russia life began there Nakota for this etc and that is the idea of the astronauts right so the the fresco so this is the chamber name have the imagery of your Tesco the ashkenazi used the Universalist Redemption motif of Yeshayahu now the regular sparked of the non Tammany's for them have a bit of a difficult choice they choose the first half Tyra I'm sorry the first Parekh of your me Yahoo now the first perk of me now actually is they have Tyler the first half tired of the three weeks it's interesting according to everybody asking Azam's why the demon in the first half terror of the three weeks in the summer is the gibbering Mao which talks about the Corbin base of mixers and the like so this would be a bit of but not this is kind of a downer there's really very little comfort in this of Tyra and this would be an odd choice for a half Tara for Schmucks especially since it's already used why used to the gun so here though the foursome explain that this was chosen because of a secondary theme and that is the unwilling Messenger of God one of the interesting things in Parsons remotes is that when a Shem appears to moshe obeying them in the burning bush and wants him to go and redeem the jewish people moshe rabbeinu is a very very reluctant prophet he doesn't want to go he says I'm not deserving he says they're not deserving he says I'm not a good speaker right he was like that he was a stutterer he says get somebody else get better people my brother Alan is better than me etc and of course this is really from us although ghazzal were a little critical of this motion remain who should it should not have argued that's him so much but obviously he's arguing with Hashem comes from his humility he did not feel worthy for the task and in fact that itself may be the greatest sign that one is qualified unlike political officials who devote all of their energy to show you why they're great and why they should be given the power and why they should be given the position an authentic Jewish leader is one that says I really am not worthy if people need me I will try to help them but there are better people around and even Moshe Rapinoe had that at that attitude now in the in the nother year we oh you see the same thing you're me oh did not want it either so some say the association is a bit weak but it's simply that in both cases there is initially an unwillingness to take on a responsibility but then a recognition that this is your job and as Pirkei avos tells us low alarm low colleague Martin it is not upon any one of us to finish the work that a sham has in this world via Taub and Corinne liebe tell me Menna but you are not free to abdicate but what's fascinating is that Moshe was given Ashley choice of redemption go and redeem the Jewish people yo-yo is given a message of destruction in fact everything medicine actually has you me I was saying to a channel that you know Moshe urbane who got to take the Jewish people out of miss Ryan I get to be here when the base omit this is destroyed so the juxtaposition is not only one of similarity both are unwilling prophets who assume an awesome responsibility but it was also by way of contrast because Moshe Rabbeinu comes with the good news and your mio comes with the and your vo experiences that bad news in his own life and maybe by the juxtaposition by way of contrast the lesson is that a Shem gives each and every one of us missions in life and sometimes those missions we feel are beyond our capacity but we have to understand that if God gives us a mission he gives us the ability and the tools to carry out that mission and sometimes the mission may be pleasant and wonderful and sometimes the mission may be bitter and difficult but the common denominator is one has to assume the mission that God placed a lot of it and therefore it is not unusual that often in the haftorah it is not only the similarity of the haftorah to the parsha that is highlighted but it is also the contrast and you Ryo had a very very different mission in life than did moshe rabbeinu but in both they executed that mission with faithfulness and integrity in fact there's an interesting understand here there's an interesting little pointer because I'll say that ruach ha'qodesh the divine spirit can rest on a prophet only when he's in a state of simply so that's a little out that means an art affaire mio to receive these prophecies of destruction he has to be per simply because if he wasn't per simcha he couldn't receive the prophecy so how exactly I supposed to be the symptom when you're writing a her lamentations then you have all these problems and I don't have a complete answer but but on some level the answer is that when you are doing what a Shem one to be doing that itself will give you a sense of simcha it's not the Simca of dancing you know on top of the table but it's a simpler kind of a quiet determination I am doing the right thing at this moment it's difficult as it is and that itself can give a person a sense of inner simcha and inner contentment now most of us are not profits to be sure most of us don't have a voice talking to us and if you do have such a voice I would urge you to check it with that a psychiatrist or or or or whatever but nevertheless on a much lesser level you know Hashem has put responsibilities in our lives tasks in our lives and we are sometimes overwhelmed but we have to realize that we do have a responsibility to live up to those tasks and do the best that we can and again low a lot from what'll link more the act of inherently but we matter so 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