With THIS You Will Know That I Am The Lord! with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] Shalom everybody welcome back to the mid although we are in transit we are presently during the war at the mid we want to give you a warm welcome a very warm welcome back to Torah and uh tonight we're going to be in Exodus 7:1 17 but before we begin and by the way so we're going to deal with the 10 plagues the makot um I just want to encourage everybody who's watching this this is a very uh heavily text oriented class and I want to tell you something about the clear himself so you should just know he was known as a great orator and not everyone who speaks writes well and not everyone who writes speaks well but apparently he was both okay so keep that in mind and Scott if you could just mute yourself that would be great and so I want to encourage you you could find the links below to find the Hebrew Sheets if you want the English Source sheets that you would have to make an email to me privately and I add you to a private list the English Source sheets are just um it's in other words the CLE car is what we're dealing with but since he gives over certain sources instead of having to fetch a book and look it up I try to make it as easy as possible at least that's how I do it for myself everything is prepared and I'm I'd love to share that with you second thing is previous classes on each para are also o linked Below in the description box they're very easy so you don't have to go fishing around on the website um another idea is that last week we discussed the names of hasem right the parot it's not just the names of of the Jews of Israel but it's also the names of Hashem and one of the one of the names is yud and and hasem as God will say in this week's para and that name repres presents many different things first of all the names of Hashem are not his not are not his Essence what they are are the way he characterizes himself the way he manifests himself in this world there is a name a a job and the name Y which we're going to be dealing with today is that he is trustworthy as we spoke about this last week to pay reward for those who deserve a uhar a reward and an ish he to trust me he is trustworthy to pay the punishment to the wicked and that I'm bringing up as a u an introduction here because this is the week in fact very the day itself roses shat that was the day of infamy that was the day that Israel was taken to the ha for genocide I hope we don't get uh blacklisted here on YouTube but that's is a fact that South Africa has taken Israel to task uh for alleged alleged genocide and um what we're going to see like I just mentioned about the name of Hashem what we're going to describe today with these 10 plagues I will guarantee you right I don't know I don't know if I want to give too much away here but the 10 plagues are a way of God sending a message not just to Pharaoh not just to the Egyptians but to the world To The World At Large that he is Hashem and that uh he's trustworthy to give reward to those who are righteous and fear Him and to punish those who remember God says you bless the Jews you bless Israel you'll be blessed you curse us you know the rest of the verse okay so let's get into things without uh further Ado in chapter 7 of Exodus chapter verse so it says like this my sheet here that's with this you will know that I am the Lord now I just want to give a little bit of a introduction what the clear is going to do and we all know on pesak seder right we dip our finger into the into the uh the wine and we say each one of the 10 plagues and we dip the wine and put on the plate then there should be 10 uh drops but then we go back and we do this again with acronyms in other words there's a grouping of three the first three it's called dat dat that's blood frogs and Ken which is lice so that's doad then we dip another time for adash the acronym of a ro de and shin and then the last four which are barad which is um hail oh did I mention what the uh iron is the wild beast AR the de is pestilence and the is the boils then the last four we did one more time with the bet is for barad the Locust is y AR and then and the last okay so in what the group the clear card is going to do is not only do we know that these are three groupings these were like three groups of warnings with a central theme for each one in response to whatever claim Pharaoh himself had against Israel or against God okay so here we have it the very first source is Chap 8: 18 well it's not the First Source the Second Source so the First Source we just saw chapter 7 verse1 17 where God Says with this with these plagues at least the the first three you will know that I'm AEM okay and that is by the plague of blood which is the first of the first three then in chapter 8 verse 18 right we're talking about the arov by the uh by the wild beasts the mixture of noxious creatures that God says at the end of that verse in order you will know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth so in Hebrew it is in order that you shall know that I am the in the midst of the Earth in the midst of the land and the clear brings down in the first of then okay so like let's do this again blood was the first of the first three the plague of De of arov sorry of the wild beast was the first of the second group four five six so it's number four so you have blood is number one you have the wild beast is number four and then the next group would be 7 89 10 so the seventh plague the seventh plague is barad and uh here we have in chapter 9 verse 14 it says at the end of that verse in order that you will know that there's none like me in the entire Earth in order you should know there's nothing like me in the entire world that's how the cleart opens up this paragraph by not just trying to explain the blood where God says this through this will know me but as the first of each one of these categories of groupings of three three and then four of the plagues and then he's going to quote the abarbanel he says gam is third line down gam even theel comments on this and notes this idea and makes a comment that Pharaoh was arguing he was disagreeing with three major Concepts in Judaism what are they let's start with the first the first is the is there even a God okay whereas Pharaoh was he was a denier right we could say he was in the denial he was in theal denial okay so he was when he said in chapter 5 verse two in the sore sheet it's number number five Pharaoh said who is like the Lord that I should heed his voice to let Israel out I do not know the Lord he says so he was clearly in dispute he doesn't agree that there is a YK therefore by the first by the blood by the first plague as we read already in chapter 7:1 17 that's our verse says with this I am God okay what about the second philosophical or theological concept did faraoh disagree with or argue on he would argue to say If there really is a god let's assume maybe I'll give you the benefit that that he says maybe there really is a God that exists but you know this God is extremely limited limited why cuz he's so great he is he doesn't deal with the details he doesn't deal with the small people he doesn't deal with the lowly creatures like us that meaning well he considered himself a God he considered himself having a relationship with his Idol and God but not the the god of Israel we'll talk about that surely the god of denial the god of denial so what does it say in chapter 8 verse 18 right I'm the god who's like within the midst of the earth that's the lowly creatures in fact we could look at Rashi on that it's number two in the source sheet at the very bottom it says although my is in heaven this is what God is telling us through Rashi right in order you should know that I'm the Lord in the midst of the earth meaning although my is in heaven a certain aspect of his presence my decree is fulfilled in the lower world and that's a translation through analis meaning this is the message that Hashem dwells so to speak also in the lower world and is involved the word he's actually involved in the lower worlds back into the clear what what's the third dilemma or third theological problem that Pharaoh Egypt and perhaps the World perhaps South Africa that he he argued or disagreed on the abilities of Hashem lar what was he saying that he has no uh ability to change nature he's beyond that right he doesn't deal with the little things and he doesn't deal with nature he doesn't have the abilities he's not even capable and that's why God says in chapter 9:14 where not only did we see that already it says where you should in order that you should know what that there's none like me in the entire Earth now we're going to deal with these more in depth it's going to be another page and a half so hang in there he will clarify everything we just spoke about so the clear continues the the clear is adding to the explanation already given by Theo and it's going to clarify certain things basically what he's doing he's grouping them together each one of the mcos let's say 1 two and three together into a philosophical argument okay into one category to answer Pharaoh's claims then he's going to take four five and six and do the same thing and then uh 7 8 n and 10 and that's what his statement here is it's the last line on that page for those three first plagues the first three plagues they actually came to clarify to certify to substantiate that there is a God since it was the Egyptians themselves that said certainly certainly H Pharaoh shur the yur is the Nile River that that was as we turn the page whooh that was their God just imagine God told us we're I'm taking you out of Egypt to a land that has no real natural water sources that everyone can access the only way you're going to get a water and have a healthy crops is through prayer terrain we are in the mountains in in Jerusalem most of us right most of the uh the most fertile areas is actually by the Sea it's in the lower lands it's all because of the runoff from the mountains and the aquires the mountain aquifi and the lowland aqui aquifers and so it's all through the rain okay I have a friend a rabbi actually a friend Rabbi who whose father was a big scientist in Israel in the early years and they did everything they could to figure out how to make ssts reservoirs work and no matter what technology they came out with even from America nothing worked they were not successful in making reservoirs I mean today we actually have um desalination but and we have a great way of taking the water from the caner and spreading it through the rest of the the the rest of the land but the land itself does not allow for natural Reservoir we actually are dependent on the blessing that's falling from the sky itself meaning the rain meaning prayer we're dependent on hasem so if you were living if you were living in Egypt and perhaps even the way it is today I don't know but those who are closest to the Nile certainly all they had to do if they wanted water was to dig a channel a small little canal and irrigate their land and they would have water there's no need to look up to the heavens and request from Hashem and he reigns so they considered that they God and not only that ain't mil I mean this is in our in our Torah in Deuteronomy 4:35 that's what we consider Hashem there is nothing but him well this is how they looked at the N that it was their God aimim that's why Hashem made judgments on their gods look at Exodus 12 verse 12 you'll find this on the sore sheet number 7 Exodus 12:12 God says I will pass through the land of Egypt on this night and I will Smite every firstborn in the land of Egypt both man and Beast and upon all the gods of Egypt I will wreck judgments I the Lord okay so hasem will wreak wreck will hold accountable the Egyptians and their gods okay Laos and for what purpose to show to teach that hem is the almighty that he is the power of all powers that there is no power except for him the so too you'll find in Braes Raba I just want to read it real quick I don't have it on the sore sheet but it's 894 braid Raba Pharaoh was dreaming well the the M don't all people dream astonishing no the point here is that it was the King's dream and if it's a King's dream it's certainly pertinent to the entire world now faroh was dreaming rokan said in a very important point and I'm I'm I'm going to extrapolate a little bit it says that the wicked stand over their gods that's what it means because it says that he was standing by the river one second where do we have that look in Genesis chter 411 it came to the end it came to pass at the end of the two full years that Pharaoh was dreaming and behold in Hebrew made he was standing by the Nile now the word omed doesn't just mean standing it also means to prop up right to hold up to sustain it's these are man-made Gods that's what I want to that's what my extrapolation is because the med says that that's what the wicked stand over their gods meaning they established their gods they're man-made Gods but over here the midus is telling you with the righteous the righteous concerning the righteous their God stands over them to protect them as we see in Genesis 28:13 where it says by y by yakov's dream behold the Lord stood over him okay you can see that in Hebrew right the whole verse was and behold the Lord was standing over him and he said I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and God of Isaac the land upon which you're lying to you I will give it and to your seed Rashi says what does it mean the Lord standing over him he's going to guard him our guard Our God guards us you know the famous story of ankus ankus the famous convert so he was a high up officer in the Roman army and he came to Israel to the land of Canan at the time land of Israel sorry and what did he want to do he was there to fight to do whatever whatever the uh the Roman guard was supposed to do and he got in a conversation with somebody he like the Jews and he decided to convert so theasian or whoever whoever was over him at the time the Caesar basically said to him but said to uh his said to other guards go to the land of Israel bring my nephew uncle is back and uh you know what happened they got in conversation with him they all converted and nobody left he sent another group of guards to go and bring uncle's back to Rome and the same thing happened so the Caesar basically said nobody talk to him just drag him out of there and on his way out of the door he kissed the muuza and they all it aroused their their curiosity and they said what's going on here what's going on here so he that was an opening and he spoke and they listened and he said you know the king the Caesar right you send guards to watch over the king in our religion because they knew he converted the King Watches Over Us the guard right so he guards us so this was that last group they also converted and the Caesar never sent another group to try to bring ancas back again okay anyway let's go on where do we leave off we left off somewhere near the beginning uh on the second page and we quoted fine so what was the point over here the clear says that it's actually the evildoers who sustain who establish their gods as we just read in Genesis 411 that the Pharaoh in his dream anyway but he was also actively involved with the the anal in a certain way I don't want to discuss right now because it take too much time but he was standing over the Nile in the dream so what do we see from that that's he established it as their God he considered it to be their God therefore by the plague of the river which we're talking about the blood in our verse which we started with chapter 7 verse 17 B with this you will know that I am Hashem now that's the first of the three what about what about the frogs regarding the subject matter of the frogs obviously they swam they swarmed the rivers that's where you find frogs so too what is this teaching us that it was the very um River itself that will swarm with things that will verify and certify that there is AEM since we know that Faro was the one who desecrated and denied hashem's existence where in Chapter 5:2 he says I do not know I don't knowem as a result the river made known the river itself through the frogs that it's actually fitting to sanctify God's name the river itself because what did the frogs do constantly croaked I don't know if croak is the word they made noise like frogs make noise and just imagine almost an unlimited amount of frogs making all this noise to drive you insane well guess what that's what happened so they were croaking they were actually letting the whole world know that there is a God you know perak Shira which is the description of all the different animals and how they are singing Glory to the god to hashem's so anyway also it's brought down in now let me just read in English the Hebrew clear and I'll translate and then I'll go back to the actual gor itself he's quoting that right during the time of Daniel there was these three great sages that went into the um into the ovens they went they they sacrificed themselves so to speak they gave over their lives in order to sanctify Hashem they learned the a logical argument from the frogs the frogs went into the oven they're not obligated to serve hem and yet they went into the ovens so we I'm sorry we understand that they the ones that went into the ovens didn't die those frogs that jumped into the ovens didn't die like it's men mentioned in the medish but I'm going to quote for you here the gor 53b coming here this was also taught by theodosis of Rome what did Kan mishel and aaria see what did they understand that led to moer na to deliver themselves into the fiery furnace for the sanctification of the name of God this was during the rule of NE rather than worship idols under duress so there was a a aori inference on their own they thought about this from the frogs of Egypt with regard to the frogs which are not commanded concerning the sanctification of the name of God as we see it's written in chapter 7 of Exodus verse 28 and your River shall swarm with frogs which shall go up and come into your house and into your bed chamber and into your bed into the houses of your servants upon all your people then it says and into their ovens and kneading bowls why are the kneading bowls right next to their ovens when are the kneading bowls next to the ovens when the oven is hot that was their understanding that since we know the frogs didn't die when they jumped into the hot ovens so they made a argument that we also should we are obligated to serve Hashem and to sacrifice ourselves for the right thing right it's one of the three big cardinal sins not to worship idols so too when when are kneading bowls found near the oven you must say that it was when the oven is hot if in fulfilling the command to harass the Egyptians which was the frogs the frogs entered the burning ovens so all the more so we who are commanded concerning the sanctification of the name of God should deliver ourselves to be killed in the fiery furnace for that purpose and we know theod was a great man he taught Torah in public which indicates he was a great man because it was forbidden at the time to teach Torah in public and he was moer neish as well okay now we're entering the third of the first three which are Li K remember in verse chapter 8 verse1 15 H you'll find that number 12 so it says over there uh so the sorcerer set to Pharaoh it is the Finger of God now before we get to that he wants to mention that you know he says right away who said this the very Sorcerers themselves said this and I'm just going to give you what is a I don't know what a sorcerer but it could be like a magician an astrologer a wizard but that's what sometimes they translate as Sorcerers sometimes as astrologers but anyway these are those advisers to pharaoh who either spoke to the dead or spoke to the use the Stars okay so this Maca of of Li they could not replicate so the issue was like this either they tried to replicate and succeeded in some of them or they explained it from a natural point of view but if they could not do either one and which they couldn't at this point they chalked up to it must be God so that's what it says here that sh they actually admitted they actually crowned or claimed the sovereignty of God in this matter lar basically saying it's actually from God and that's why they said this is the Finger of God they admitted defeat that's where we're looking forward somebody admit defeat here right I'm talking to Kamas you know enough already how much ruin are you going to put Gaza through and it's time to rebuild and I looking forward I have to say to the rebuilding of Gaza in a good and healthy way where maybe I don't want to say I don't want to get discounted on YouTube but I told my wife let's move down south let's be Pioneers I'll leave it at that so the last statement the clear says right when you have a defendant who admits uh who confesses right that is equal or it's just a phrase equal to a thousand Witnesses right you bring in Witnesses against the defendant guess what you know you have to really think hard and go through all the examination of the evidence here when you have in Mission and here I'm using the word submission in terms of defeat that is worth there's no there's no amount right a million W it doesn't matter it's okay it's equal to a thousand Witnesses okay now the next three right four five and six right um so we have the ion doin which the arov the de and the so this hints the s the actual s hints that what hasem is doing the word Mash means to observe but we're using the term of Providence it's it's not just observing meaning knowing what's going on down below but involvement in what's going on wetit individual personal Providence so that's what he said say this is the lesson which we said anyway the second problem was that if there was a God he wasn't Mash on the lower worlds well guess what he could have been more wrong and this was all in order to remove from the hearts of those who would be making a mistake by saying the only thing that hasem is really concerned about meaning observance and involvement in terms of providence is only the general aspects of species like the humankind he's not involved in our personal life he couldn't Pharaoh couldn't have been more wrong and for anybody who might believe in God but doesn't believe that God is involved in every personal aspect is making a mistake but they might say that he's not involved in the the ways of man so according to their words lefem ah this is where Hashem brought in the punishment so to speak the Maka nikasia when you have this understanding that God is not involved everything runs by random and by absolute confusion because that's what random is it's there's no set order now the word buia I in R bet he's playing on the word of aov arov means the mixed the mixed um wild beast the mixture of wild beasts so that is all about confusion and Randomness so those people mistakenly think there's no difference between me and the next guy there's no difference between the one who fears God and serves God to the one who is a evil person and doesn't serve God everything is just random that's why God brought them and hear the words the AR which is the wild beast beia in such a chaotic fashion because that's exactly what they did they caused absolute chaos as we see didn't happen by oh by the way whatever one any of these 10 plagues none of them I'm saying this like almost an AB almost as an absolute none of them affected the Jews I'm going to make one exception and that's Mara number nine but it didn't affect them in the way that it affected the the rest of the he put it like this when the water split I'm sorry when the when the uh when the water turned blood so if I was there I had a cup in my hand and I was an Egyptian the cup in my hand the water would turn blood it didn't even have to be part of the water of the river at the time all the water turned blood but if I was a Jew holding a cup an Israelite in in Egypt that water would not have turned blood so we were not affected by the any of the any of the 10 plagues the exception I said is in the plague of Darkness during the plague of Darkness we all could see it was dark it was so dark in fact there's even opinion was six days it was three days of darkness and another three days that was even darker but the point here is that there is four fifs of the Jews did die but not because of the plague that was a whole different reason why we di so ultimately we were not affected okay so look in chapter 8 verse 18 chapter 8 verse 18 so that we have to go back to the beginning and that is uh Source number two God said I will separate on that day the land of Goan upon which my people stand there will be no mixture of noxious creatures there so we were not affected in order that you should know so there is this separation okay during that plague it became clear that there was a difference in Hebrew God says I will separate on that day right the people in go which is my people that's where they're that's where they're staying the there won't be any noxious creatures there and the clear says this is clear proof that there is a difference in this world and the next World between people who fear Hashem who are called righteous and those who do not fear Hashem who are called evil that the truth isem see he is involved or there wouldn't be a separation there would just be pure Randomness like by bam right nope that's not the way it works and God made it known and that's why it says in chapter 8 ver8 where where the end of that verse that it says over there right that he is um within the midst of the land meaning down in the lowly the lowly parts and as it says L again to say that my my involvement is in the details also in the lower worlds now the next is M the pestilence and God also says in chapter 9:4 that there's a separation look what it says in 9 verse4 it's number 14 on the S sheet and the Lord will make a separation between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt so God is involved D in a personal level for the reasons of humankind not for just the general uh existence of the species of human but involved in each person's life doesn't matter whether you're righteous or not he's involved and so by the de we just read the verse chapter 9 verse4 God was invol differently with the um with the flock in a certain way hu what's the point that hasem is involved in the details on the lowest level what about is the boils and that's going to be the last of the second grouping this is like dust that's spread out through the entire Land look at Exodus 9 verse N I wonder why I put 911 we'll read that shortly um so it became dust upon the entire land of Egypt and it would become boils breaking out into blisters okay those are the blisters even though dust how can you separate dust from this area to that area unless you have like hermetic hermetically sealed uh safe rooms you can't that's we see that God separated the Jews were not affected therefore ah now we go to 11 that's why as a result the necromancers could not stand before Moses because of the boils Moses was standing right in front of them and he was not affected Aon was standing there too he was not affected they were affected they couldn't even stand there anymore because of the as the verse says okay so what does say they couldn't stand there in order to argue they couldn't even up keep their argument going uh they were having with mosha now in other words in addition to them being being affected the very argument they were having fell apart I want you to listen up heg right you got no argument there what in chapter 9: 11 we just read fine they couldn't stand before Moses for every um plague they the necromancers the Wizards whatever The Magicians they gave reasons they either said it was due to magic or it was due to natural sources natural reasons here they couldn't they were speechless they could not answer because each Mak came all at once on all of Egypt and the Wizards themselves were included in the plague but when it came to guess who were affected first I couldn't believe this you there was this video of some Islamic Guy saying whoever stands with Israel the world should fall underneath them and the stage collap at that very moment okay if you didn't see it it's worth seeing and I'm sure that it was meaningful meaningful to me nevertheless the sh came first on who the first people to be affected that's what it means over there in chapter 9:1 the necromancers couldn't stand before Moses because of the boils the boils affected them as it says in the rest of the verse for the boils were upon the necromancers and upon all of Egypt right it says they're listed first and then the rest of called and that's what the CLE says as the verse we just read there's an order it first affected the and only afterwards all of Egypt therefore they had not they couldn't stand to continue their argument because what was Moses claim that their sin the the necromancers themselves were Sinners you understand they were fooling around with either the dead or false gods um that's what actually caused those Wizards to be affected first because they were themselves Sinners and not only that listen to this up until now up until this point who was causing pharaoh to have a hardened heart it was those very necromancers those very uh uh Sorcerers themselves because right because they were full of lies they were I mean the word is sorcery here um because of their magic and their lies this they were aiding and a bedding is that a good word they were aiding and a bedding and causing pharaoh to to be what's the word h misong goated with the truth right if they would have advised him this guy Moses and Aaron these guys they're the real deal you know there there really is a god Perhaps Perhaps who knows we don't know maybe Pharaoh would have listened but from the very fact that these guys were aiding and abetting the lies so this caused not only the downfall of pharaoh but their own their own downfall first now the last paragraph is describing the last four of the maros and he says banel remember the barbanel said it was coming to what it was coming to verify the abilities of Hashem so the clear wants to add once again according to the clear he's saying it seems to me that what was parro's claim hold on one second I think okay we'll continue the claim was there's more than one God that was Pharaoh's claim mean means that there's there's at least two deities there was a a du Duality we said it was right therefore the first of the uh the first of the last four right we said was barad was in chapter 9:14 what do we see over there we saw that that was on page one in order that you shall know there is none like me none like me that's a little bit different number one is I'm AEM the second one is as we said that um the midst of the earth and the third one is there's none like me so how does that work it says like this what does he want to what does he mean to say there's none like me there is no other God like me there's no power like me it's just me everything extends from me literally there's nothing but God any other uh Power okay again because since far claim since he was of the understanding there's multiple gods these words certainly seem or we can look at and we examine them that this claim was regarding the at least there were two minimum of gods that believed in and and that we know Aries it says over there twice it says uh in in that when Yakov comes down to Egypt sorry right when Yakov and the brothers come down to Egypt ysep tells them when Pharaoh ask you what you do for a living tell him you are Shepherds because it's an abomination in their eyes what they wanted to do ysep yov they wanted to ensure they did not assimilate so therefore if you tell pharaoh your Shepherds he's not going to want you into the general population it's like being a cowboy in India okay that's one statement that we know that this was their God meaning the the Sheep Aries Ram is an adult sheep and there's another instance where um when Moses is granted okay you guys can do your sacrifice but do it here in Egypt Pharaoh said to them and their response was how can we sacrifice your God in front of your eyes you guys will come and stone us okay so that was another hint that the ma ma which is Aries which is Nissan Nissan Nissan remember that's the first month the main reason it's called the first month is we count our calendar begins with the time we became a nation and left Egypt however there is a m Locus between rabu and RAB elzar when did the world actually begin and even though we observe and celebrate what we call New Years in the seventh month there's actually many New Years right the the the mishna mentions there are four New Years but actually and why am I mentioning this today is coming up does Aus shamai and hillo when is the New Year's for the trees so shami says it was today it was the first ofat we pass like H that it's going to be on tuat the 15 and you're all invited if you're in to our run by RAB ytz anyway the point here is that the first month we actually um make a broa every 28 years on the sun and the moon when they were created on the fourth day of creation when they go back to their original place we make a special bro at Sunrise and it's always in Nissan and it's in Nissan because we actually p and the world was created in Nan so the point here that I want to mention is that their observance their their belief in the Aries which by the way this we were taken out of Egypt on the full moon and their firstborn were all killed even their firstborn God as we will see shortly right so the um the ma is the day we were we were taken out to show your gods are nothing okay but since Pharaoh had this claim and he was also a son wor worshipper so that the last three in other words we're talking about a category of four we we will show you a reason for the boros for the firstborn but at least the barad right what are the first three we said it's barad the Locust and the the thir the the ninth plague which is kosek 789 so they all darken the sky the barad obviously they have clouds thick clouds that darken the sky the Locust covered the whole earth you couldn't even see they covered when they fly they cover the sky like a big cloud and is obviously K okay BOS was obviously at night which is also dark but he metion these three so let's go back into the clear it's the last line and he says um we find that those last three I mean I shouldn't say the last three out of the last four the first three 78 n they were preventing the light they themselves prevented the light and the sheemish as well as the constellations you couldn't see the constellations either even at night when the hell comes down we're now in the last paragraph really the first paragraph of the next page M that they closed up the Heavens the heavens themselves became darker and the clouds darkened everything you couldn't even see the sun the whole time that it was hailing you couldn't see the sun okay so that's number seven what about eight the ARB the Locust so look in chapter 10 verse 15 that you see that number 17 they obscured the view of all the Earth and the Earth became darkened and they ate the vegetation of the earth and all the fruits of the trees so obviously this was during the plague of locust so what does it mean it in Hebrew it covered the eye of the entire Earth how did they translate it here they obscured the view of all the Earth because the word in refers to the sun it's basically the eye of the earth that's what the um the the sun is like now what about the ninth plague the ninth plague of Darkness sorry that's also part of this one sorry this the these last few words are part of chapter uh chapter 10:1 15 referring to the Locust okay now what about the the plague of Darkness he just has to say simply obviously you don't have to explain anything and then he does say and the the plague of the firstborn was at night the keriah and all this he claims as proof remember he said there's more than one what power and what was his power emanating from the stars at night and the Sun during the day which I have explain I have an explanation how it's all one really but maybe we won't go into it we'll hear it another time so he was claiming that the par was claiming regarding the sun Su and the constellation of Aries that it was a very great power that's why it says chapter 9 verse 24 um and this was regarding hail and there was hail a flaming fire within the hail which already doesn't work normally right you have water and fire usually don't go together but because it was so unusual the likes of which have never been this is remember we said in verse sorry yes here in the very first verse uh I'm sorry it was chapter 9:14 uh because in order that you know that there's none like me loon Aon and so in in in plague number seven and plague number eight it says was so unusual there was nothing like it the very same words look again as I mentioned in 9:24 a there was nothing like it and similarly in chap 10:14 when um we're talking about the Locust which would be number eight of the last three before them there was never such a locust plague in Hebrew Le of AR see when God says k k there's this it's synonymous with this idea that it's unusual and it's Unique and that God there's only one God okay so now if I can find my place he ends by saying like these words how much more so when it comes to the last plague of first born shall that is actually the sign clear-cut sign of the submission of the Maka of the Aries as I mentioned it was in Nissan which is the first which was when the world was born if the world was born in Nissan that means the Bor the first born of all the constellations is the Aries and that was obviously When God says I'm going to take out all the first born it included Aries the CLE claims in his humility that this is much more clear than the original statement of the abarbanel in other words he expounded upon it he explained it and he says the actual words within the verse itself clear clarify and prove because he it sayson that there is no one like me and therefore we understand that the three groups like we do in pesak we dip our finger in and we say the acronym right and we say the acronym that we're all familiar with which is dat and so there's a reason for this separation um and that is to get across to us the three answers that God is giving to Pharaoh's claims Pharaoh's claims again we said that uh maybe there isn't a god at all and that number two was because even if there is a God he doesn't have the ability or invol interest to be involved in the lower worlds and we said the third one is that Pharaoh claimed that he doesn't have the abilities and clearly God is saying I am the Almighty I can certainly do what I want and I feel very bad for those who are unaware who have not yet awoken I'm using that word in my sense to the truth of the god of Israel this war is bringing to a Forefront many people are thinking deeply about the meaning of life and I'll just tell you I mean we just know for Jews I I can't speak I do know many um Gentiles who are also going through a metaphor metamorphosis um but Jews who have been um separated from their Heritage maybe most of their life or all of their life out of ignorance have awoken feel a strong sense of belief in God in in connection with the Jewish people and it's uh it's amazing you know as an Outreach Rabbi uh this is I mean I hate to say it's like a dream come true but we have to set up the infrastructure that we have but we have to strengthen the infrastructure that we already have in order to educate the Jews who are banging down the doors so to speak uh to come back and learn and I know as a fact there are many Gentiles out there that are banging down the doors the rabbis things are available on YouTube on all kinds of social media just through the phone learning on the phone so anyway I wish everybody uh dictory of course only through atus through Mish camaraderie through really feeling and understanding that we're all one and BM a uh we should see the victory not just for Israel and this war but really the healing uh and the the re I call the return of the hostages and the healing that they going to have to go through um and they're all going to have to go through as a people and perhaps even as a world um but anyway B we'll see you next week so have a shabbat shalom and uh we'll catch you on the rebound have a great [Music] life [Music] oh