Why Frogs Ran Into Fire and Dogs Didn’t Bark — A Kiddush Hashem Moment

As we all are familiar with the second plague known as fara but we are familiar with modern Hebrew as being frogs and the truth is the evra and most of the learn that aa is actually a frog ribet as we are know for quoting but you should know the also says that it is referring to a crocodile and it could be both are true could be one but they both seem to be but the real word fora he says is a crocodile which is a reptile And he learns it out from a uh midrash which seems to learn the fact that he is a very highly intelligent creature which is known as cipurat and has intelligence how to capture birds and eat them sort of to speak using his intelligent stealthy capabilities of of of pouncing on them when they get close to the river. Uncle Panim there's an important idea to learn from the frog which most interpret it as of course a as a frog it's far is that in Shira it is said that he says he's the one who's singing the praises of the oneness of Israel and that is as we know in this maka that he was the one who jumped into the into the ovens he was the one who's willing to jump into a piping hot burning cauldron. Why? Because the PK says that I'm that when told he said it's going to go we're going to go into the food which is in the oven which means while it's hot and he went and was in order to go ahead and do what's right the and on that he sings every day the praises of why because my nature is to stay alive. But if the rot of Hashem is to die, then that is considered what nature is, what what my nature is supposed to be. We find also in Gar where he was that was actually the one who took a scorpion across the river. Why? Because Hashem wanted the scorpion to cross the river in order to go ahead and and and sting another person. To go ahead and sting another person and kill him. And he was across the ocean. The scorpion didn't know how to get there. So again, the frog is the one who is servicing the ratsen of a or in this case the crocodile, but he's the one who's going and doing ruts in order to do what's right. What does he get? So in the midr it's brought that the ones when all the frogs died at the end of the plague, it says in the bay that they all died, but the but they darian in the midrush it says the ones that stayed alive were the ones in the oven. They got to stay alive. That was their listen to an incredible question. There's another animal that did an incredible feat. The dog went ahead and didn't bark at us when we were walking out with sticks and and and we're walking with animals and food and chasing out all the animals just all the dogs went and escorted us as opposed to right. That's that's what they went and and took care of us. As a result of that, the kumar says they will get for all generations. That dog is man's best friend. They always remain dogs are always the ones who will receive food from us. We always give them food. They always dependent on man. We always have a close relationship buddy buddy with our dogs. Sometimes unfortunately instead of children people have them. We see that that relationship was developed by the exile of Mitim and from that they received for all generations of doggy doggy doggies and puppies they received this that they will receive food and the question is asked and they say from nephesh I don't understand the guy who went ahead the dog the frogs who went ahead and gave their lives up in the ovens they got to stay alive and they went back to being frogs. his little tadpoles and to and and toads went back to being normal run-of-the-mill frogs as opposed to the dog. He didn't do UPSET OR HE DIDN'T BARK. HE RESISTED. He held back from barking. But he's going to get scar for the rest of his generations. He gets to be man's best friend forever because of that. So the is an incredible one, a fantastic. And that is you have to know to die on is not necessarily the that's not the hard part per se. The It's much harder to live on in the words of the that to to live on is much harder than to actually die on because when a person dies on it's a one time thing should never we should never be put to such a test. But as opposed to someone who lives on Kdashem, every morning he has to push himself to wake up and make it to minion even though he could sleep an extra half an hour instead of just and just go straight to work and just dab in quickly at home quickly with his trillin. No, he goes ahead and he pushes himself out there. A guy pushes himself out at night or a long day of work and he pushes himself out to go ahead and go to the shear instead of just picking up his feet and watching the TV screen. No, that's the guy who gets car. I barely am able to make the month and I'm going ahead and giving taka and I'm going ahead and giving taka and giving from my own thing. That's an incredible thing. That's something that is much more difficult. That's living walking down the path and walking down the street and someone passes you and not to turn your not to turn your head to make sure you don't push those wrong buttons on the screen even though you're all alone in the room. That's living keshashem much higher level. That's a place where no man can reach. That's a place that shows you are human. That's a sh place that shows that you are also connected to and that's why the kev who refrained himself the dog who did an act of refraining himself from doing something was living. It was much harder. He got for all generations as opposed to the frog ended up d was killing himself. died but that was a one time off and he didn't receive the scar for all generations. Let me just bring it out from a levy in par that says an incredible thing had 10 10 tests. One of them as we all know and the prime one giving up is one second. Who's the who's the test? The test is fork. Why doesn't it go on his roster? It should go on his book. He should be the one who gets the check underneath his name in it's not easy to kill a son of Ramu but was giving up his life. But we go back to the same was doing a one-time event. But if Ramavinu, you know what's going to happen the next morning? He's going to wake up and pass by. Yeah. He's going to wake up and pass by his son's bed and see it empty. And he's going to go, "Oh my, I don't believe this. It's it. It's all over." And then the next day, he's going to see people walking with their kids to school. And he's going to go, "But where are my kids? What am I going to live for?" He's going to see the next day and realize how old he is and realize there's no chance of him having another child. That's living alashed when it's painful. when I don't understand why when I have questions and I still resist and I doem but I do it because that's what wanted for me there's no greater than that that is what we call realm the what the Arabs do that they go ahead and they die and they go ahead what they do they don't it's not even written in the Quran the amount of killing just leads to anarchy to chaos there's absolutely nothing behind it and they're swimming in gehenn because of it because it's a one-time thing of giving living up their lives. If they want to know what re true true gura is, real reality is living in reality. To be alive and to go ahead and do it while you're still alive. I'll end with a quick story of a Russian boy who is in a school. He was in school and the teacher was calling out and said, "Okay, children, it's time to when we're just they were discussing the idea of part of of course uh you know equality, communism, partnership." And they said, "Okay, so when you go ahead and buy a house, who does the house belong to?" And the boy called out and he said, "50% belongs to me and 50% belongs to Mama Russia." And they said, "Great. And when you go ahead and buy A CAR, WHO DOES THE CAR belong to? 50% belongs to me and 50% belongs to Mama Russia. And when you go ahead and have a tarnit, when you have a rooster and you have a few hens, who do they belong to?" He said, "No, those belong to me." What about what? They belong. No, those are all mine. So the teacher asked, "What are you talking about? Why what happened? Why is the rooster more yours than the car in the thing?" He said, "I'll tell you the truth, teacher. I don't own a house. I don't think I'll be able to afford a house. They're too expensive. A car, I can't even imagine to be there. But a rooster and a chicken, that's my parta. That's my whole way. That's my whole sustenance. That doesn't belong to you guys. That's all mine. To live ones, to live by it when it's there and that's my survival point. to give that up for this is the beauty of our religion and this is the beauty of our people.