In the Merit of the Rightous Women We were Redeemed from Egypt with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] a warm welcome to the eubank madras welcome home to torah we are in partial what parties beau okay and uh we're going to talk about some very fundamental ideas as we always do and i just want to before we even begin right i want to tell everybody who contributed to the yibbanet end of the year campaign or those who give regularly thank you very much really um i'm going to i'm going to try to reach out especially to a few of you who donated beyond beyond how do i say it uh beyond expectations and you know who you are and the bizarre hashem i'll be in touch with each and every one of you um so we want to thank hashem right thank you and thank hashem um also for those who watch us regularly we try to learn a little bit of hebrew so you'll find in the description box below in the youtube description box a link where you can find the original hebrew source sheet so we're using and i encourage you to uh and i'm gonna now this is a very small piece but don't think that it's gonna take a short time all right there's so much to delve into i'm not gonna say to add we're not adding anything we're we're going to um unravel we're going to talk about like one word one word one concept and all of a sudden it's going to unravel into so many ideas and as those people learn with us on a regular basis um they know that we go on tangents and of course even though we're going to we go on tangents we try to stay hyper focused ultimately to come back to the point we originally said so here we go our verse now i want to look at chapter 2 um chapter 11 verse 2 but i might as well read three and point out certain anomalies and then we're going to go to exodus chapter 3 verse 21 and 22 just to see other anomalies that are seemingly a tangent but believe me it's important to know okay starting with chapter 11 verse 2. so in hebrew it says the barna ba'azn it's very interesting speak well the word the bars speak but the word na is please so it's translated as please speak god himself is requesting meaning like begging like employing like imploring please speak in the children in the ears of the people not only that we're going to see that what moses is actually telling the people is that he when he tells them he should say to them please so not only is god saying please but god is telling moses when you tell over to the people you should tell you should um request from them as well okay now how do we know that we're going to see hang in there it says and what each person each man is going to ask request from whom from someone else from his fellow it's very strange because we're talking about the egyptians when you're going to leave egypt you're going to leave with a lot of wealth so you should ask your egyptian friend the problem with that is rahu by definition always means a jew who is like you who keeps the torah and misses okay so it's a little bit of a a question here how can the egyptians who are at this point let's say considered our enemy or evil or they they owe us money for all the work we did as rahu and each woman the isha and each woman is going to ask her female friend clay casif uklay zahav all types of expensive vessels whether they're silver or gold now i just want to keep in mind we're going to read the next verse as well right now the ethan hashem the name it's rhyme now what happened was that the egyptians saw with favor they looked at the jewish people with favor well i don't even know it's it says let's just leave it at that at the people which is talking about the jewish people for now uh they looked they gave the people favor in the eye egyptians eyes we're going to have to discuss what that means as well now i just want to compare this now to exodus chapter 2 i'm sorry chapter 3 verse 21 which is really verse 22 as well so in the in in the english it says and i will put this people's favor in the eyes of the egyptians so in that again we're seeing that there is this favor this is a cain has used that they're going to look at the jews favorably and it will come to pass that when you go you will not go empty-handed we're going to leave at the we're going to leave the the exile we're going to leave the galoots with a lot of wealth and i want to tell those who are watching right now that this is also foreshadowing when we leave our final exile we will be leaving wherever it is i mean for those many in america uh hopefully everywhere else as well with a lot of wealth but anyway that's not for now right now i mean it could be tomorrow could be today but let's continue this is the interesting part so back in chapter three it just says that each woman should borrow from her neighbor and from the dweller in her house silver and gold objects so it's very interesting right in hebrew it says let's see where the verse begins here allah isha mishkanta and not only that the one she's living with beta so the woman is going to ask the jewish women are going then asking the neighbors the people who are in her hood as well as the woman that she's living with um these these expensive you know the wealth in order for us to go out i want to give a little bit of background back in chapter 15 of genesis right we had the brit bain of atarim the covenant between the parts and we know that god promised abraham that it sounds like a promise right that you're going to be enslaved and you're going to be afflicted that was the first part for 400 years but you know ah kane afterwards you're going to go out with great wealth so we're going to play this into it as well because this is the moment that god is fulfilling his promise yes or no we'll see so keep i want to keep all this in mind i want to go back to rashi on verse 11 a chapter 11 verse 2. so we said the word the bar not the word na is only an expression of request request is what it's like please right the verse is saying i ask you to warn them about this meaning to ask their neighbors for a vessel so the righteous man abraham will not be will not say that he fulfilled within him the promise as it says in genesis chapter 15 verse 13 in other words god is so demanding right that this he's actually asking he's pleading with moshe that this take place and not only is he asking motion this takes place but as we said the word na is going on both sides what came before what came afterwards that also moshe should request with great diligence that the jewish people should do this as well so they should ask go ahead and ask your neighbors for all this wealth so that what so that that sadiq who's that sadiq abraham doesn't have a complaint what would his complaint be his complaint could be was well guess what god you promised me yes that we would end up being servants or servant under servitude and oppressed but guess what we would come out with a great amount of wealth so you only prom you only fulfilled the first part thank you very much what about the second part and what god is so concerned about what abraham would say in the grave yet right avraham is no longer in this world and he's so concerned about a complaint by such a saddique okay these are legitimate questions you can ask i want to go straight to the clear car and he says like this right please speak into ear into the ears of the people and let them borrow right as we saw each man from his friend and each woman from her friend the silver and gold vessels believe it or not that the rabbis say in gemara brachos now that's number three on the source sheet right regarding this idea and i want to kind of skip through some of it but the word na according to the school rabbi yanai right the bait midrash of rabbi yanai explains the word na is nothing other than as an expression of supplication in other words like a begging okay an exp now the question is why would god employ this expression of supplication when he approaches israel first of all he's do he's using it on moshe and he's using and he's using the same word that moshe should say to the jewish people so the more explains that when hashem said to moses i beseech you meaning you should go and tell israel right and what should you say i beseech you again the same concept god's beseeching moshe and moshe is then beseeching uh the jewish people to go ahead and borrow the vessels of both silver and gold and what's the whole purpose in order that right that the fulfillment of the promise comes true that i made to abraham originally in genesis chapter 15 verse 13 so that god forbid that righteous person avraham will not say that god did not fulfill his pronouncement were that he only fulfilled the first part right they're going to be enslaved and afflicted but he didn't he didn't fulfill the second part and afterwards they would leave with great possessions so first of all god said originally to abraham right as you can read in the verse in genesis 13 chapter 15 verses 13 and 14 surely you shall know your descendants will be foreigners in a land that's not theirs and they will be enslaved and afflicted for 400 years and also that nation who enslaves them i will judge and afterwards they will leave with great possessions now there is a there is part of this gamora i want to share with you because it's worthwhile so ravioni continues that what did israel say back to moses try to imagine for a second somebody we're not saying who right because we don't know anybody in this position but if you were in prison someone was in prison let's say for a long time and the and the warden comes to and says i'm freeing you now you're now a free man but if you hang out just a little bit longer i'm going to write a check i mean the check might not come for a few hours i'm gonna write you a check and you can leave a lot of money now a lot of people might ask okay well how much is the check let's see if it's worth it but believe me you there's probably a lot of people who would say keep the check i'm free i'm out of here i ain't waiting around what's the point you just freed me i'm out of here right so this is a problem because if we were freed at a certain point let's say midnight let's just say so we didn't leave until the day we didn't leave until the day so listen to this the idea was that we would say back to moses if he didn't beseech us right if only we can get ourselves out so and the gamora offers a parable to the one who's incarcerated in prison and the people would say we you know meaning the prisoner the the authorities the prison what do you call it again the warden would say we promise we will release you tomorrow and give you much money so we would say back to them i beseech you release me today and ask for nothing right you might as well go now so too israel preferred leaving immediately empty-handed rather than leaving later with great riches with regard to the spoils taken from egypt is described in the verse interesting we're talking about that word cain grace in the eyes of egypt god gave this special favor in their eyes towards us and not only did they whatever we asked for they gave us double they gave us much more than we asked for now imagine we knew we were going out into the desert we were going to carry a lot of stuff so on one hand why would we take even more than we asked for that's a heavy burden we need that heavy burden so that's one idea the other idea is god forbid right if we're leaving and we have no intent on going back so why are you even asking to borrow borrow implies what that i am going to return to you and the jewish people believe me you were not it was a ploy to come to borrow and we have to discuss that what right did they have to ask and borrow when they had no intense intention to return first of all god's the one that told them to do it so maybe that's why moses was hesitant and we'll see that is one of the reasons perhaps moses was hesitant and on the other hand also the jewish people could be hesitant for the same reason but more than that why would we have to carry a big burden okay so the idea that that the nation graced us there was some kind of grace in their eyes it means that they gave them what they requested that's true but rabbi yami says no this teaches the egyptians gave them what they requested against their will well how can that be against their whose will against the egyptians wills or against the jewish people's will well guess what there's an argument in the gemara you have to hear both sides i don't know if we're going to get into it obviously if okay let's do it right if it was against the egyptians will then we understand why would they want to give up their wealth even if it was just to be uh borrowed maybe it wouldn't be given back that's one idea and there's a proof text for this um in psalm 68 13 and shu terry's at home divides the spoils but how about this one the one who said it was given against the will of the jewish people claims they didn't want the vessels because of the burden meaning we asked them for let's say five pounds of gold and they gave us 10 pounds of gold that's a lot to carry to the desert right so that would be they gave it to us against our will okay now regard to the continuation of the verse and they emptied out egypt ravami says this indicates okay i don't actually don't want to go into that right now let's move on um okay there actually is a proof text for this in exodus chapter 12 verse 36 it says the lord gave the people favor in the eyes of the egyptians and they lent them right the hebrew is the yash ilum now that was like causative they lent them they they caused to lend them look at rashi even what they the jewish people did not request the egyptians gave them they gave them more than we requested you understand that's called against your will if one said lend me something you know the egyptian said take two and go to you know take everything take take more than what you're asking for okay very very very interesting okay so let's go back into the clea car so we understood so far what it said in gamora brachas chapter page 9a that the word na is only a bakasha it's only a request but it means like i said a pleading so the question the clea car asks is why in the world is the whole request that god wants moses to do it and moses should want the jewish people to ask for the riches just hanging on that sadiq avraham why is that so important below amirato because even without the statement killoyaki mashem and vara khalila meaning we didn't need that statement of of what if avraham would have a complaint if god said to do it that should be enough hashem would certainly fulfill his promise to abraham we don't have to wait for any possible theoretical complaint from avraham venera liyashev al derek actually as the gemura went on and said the ashilum that means meaning it was even against their will okay the gemura went on and said that the jewish people were not interested they would have been so happy just to leave as it was as quick as possible but more than that baal klorkum the israel according to the mock locust was it against the will of the jews or against the will of the egyptians we're going right now against the will of the jews just because of the extra burden on the way it was a lot heavier it was a lot more to carry and through this according to this hashem was able to fulfill his promise that when god was able to show them a proof to them right in which he was able to fulfill his promise he made it happen meaning me perhaps like another way to ask question what would there be to them furthermore to do if on their own they didn't want to accept this in other words we already said it was against their will so all that was done in order to fill the promise and also it was seemingly against their will however there is to be concerned shallow yamaha right that's how the the rashi brought down that we're still god was still concerned about what abraham might say and we have to work that out first of all this is a little complicated first of all abram is a very righteous and straightforward guy and i'm sure he believed that they should be paid for their work there's a concept when you do a good you know what we call a full day's work you get paid well they worked for how many years okay there's different ways to make the cash bone but let's say approximately 80 some years was hard labor and they should have been paid for that or 210 years we were in egypt get paid for that or maybe the 400 years altogether but anyway let's just keep it to the minimum of 80 some years that avraham felt and certainly they should be paid questions still exists how is it how is it that that the jewish people would ask them to borrow with no intent to return al-qaeda law therefore it's still god said to him meaning he said to avraham at brit bainubatarim the akhirah kane yet subaru afterwards meaning after all is well is done however many years of servitude and um oppression the words of the acharya came afterwards what does it afterwards mean that in the end the jews would leave with their wages with actual payment they would take with them the payment from the egyptians al qaeda that's why it says because in that verse ah kane implies that at the end of the day and there's a concept in i couldn't find it it's about bastro 65a or in bubba cs65b i'll tell you i looked for i couldn't find it but i know this concept exists there's a concept by a date worker your obligated payment when the work is done or at the end of the day whatever or arrangement you made with him right usually it's the end of the day or at the end of the of the job but either way you get paid at the end of the israel this is a very difficult thing to deal with even though there was no preventing or stopping hashem from giving the jewish people a great amount of wealth without what without requiring them to take it from the egyptians by way of sha ilah which is requesting and ready deceit why this is a crazy idea i don't want to go into a little bit but never i want to just read two a couple more words mcconaugh also cain aloca mishpot nevertheless god acts as a we'll say a righteous judge or a godly judge right he acts in his capacity as a god of judgment in order to extract or obtained for them their wages that they they they did now i have a few ideas here that i want to share it's like this [Music] they were owed these wages but why would they ask so when there there's a concept in english called and how does it go that um possession is nine tenths of the law what does that mean you have a you have a claim against somebody but what you're claiming is in their is in their possession so if you have documents if you have photographs if you have whatever um evidence you need to withdraw so it's on you right in hebrew we say right if you want a yo say if you want to get something out of the other person the proof is on you but if you can convince them well let me take a look at it and now in your hands then it's really switching it around now they have to come with proof and this is a very interesting story and i'm not mistaken it's in sanhedrin 91a you're going to find it in number eight on page three so nakamura there was a um the people of egypt wanted their money back they how many years after this after we left egypt it was probably just over a thousand years after we left egypt right so alexander the great alexander the macedonian that's alexander the great he was the biggest uh you know ruler of the time we'll call him a big judge kings did judge okay and so the egyptians came with judgment uh before alexander the great and you know what they said you know what it says in the torah that yeah the lord gave the people favor in the eyes of egypt and they lent them says they lent them and also the torah says that they gave us right they the gold and silver they took from us so there was a certain i'm going to call him a sage he was quite wise but he wasn't amongst the rabbis apparently but he put himself forward and he said listen ready if you let me be the advocate right the lawyer on the like the defense attorney on behalf of the jewish people you know what if i lose you can always turn around and say who was this guy anyway he's like an amateur you know we should be there to defend and if i win i'm going to give all the credit to hashem so listen to this his name is gavia ben pasisa he came to the sages at the time he says give me permission i'll go and deliberate between alexander now if they defeat me so you can say you defeated an ordinary person from among us and until i'm sorry and until you overcome our sages it's no victory that's how you could present it if i lose but if i win you could say to them the torah of moses our teacher defeated you because anyway you have to realize the whole basis of the argument is based on the torah keep that in mind and so the sages gave him permission he went and defended the jewish people and given sisa said to them knew where you bring your proof anyway and they said from the torah so he said if that's true i'm going to bring you also from the torah and he brought back from the idea of in exodus chapter 12 verse 40 where it says the jewish people were in egypt for 430 years and which they were enslaved and they did all this manual labor so he said so you should give well it doesn't matter who wins the first argument how about the second argument right yeah we worked we were enslaved but in the end right um you have to give us our wages the amount of wages for 600 000 men above the age of 20. you worked for 430 years so um you know what alexander and alexander the great he told um he um he told the egyptians go and bring go and bring a response i want to hear your side in other words the prosecutor made their their claim the defense made their claim that was the jewish people through gadiya and now the the judge says back to the prosecutors they gave a pretty good um argument i want to hear what you have to say and you know what happened they pretty much ran away it seems like these people these egyptians were living maybe in gaza somewhere within the borders of arizona because of the the idea that it was shemitah it says they disappeared he gave three days to come back with an answer and they never came back in fact they their fields were left open now in terms of schmitt there's a shemitah year right so the idea is that when non-jews are living in the land of israel they don't have to keep shemitah but apparently they left they left and they left us with all their their their their the growth everything that was growing in their vineyards and everything they planted was hesker because they left and never came back they didn't leave a forwarding address or a phone number or an email address nothing so basically and it says that year was a sabbatical year so basically it sounds like if you really think about it not only did we win the the argument from a thousand years earlier and we don't owe all the ribus we don't know all the the the um interest but we even got an additional bonus for that year to take that which perhaps wasn't okay to take normally from a non-jew on a sabbatical year but in this case it became ownerless because they ran away now i do have on the english sheets there was recently and i say recently at least in 2003 and again in 2014 and perhaps through time immemorial that the egyptians have either going to the u.n league of nations or before that as we see alexander macedonia that they still hold on to the claim that we took all the wealth out of egypt and they want it back okay there's one more thing i just want to add the clear car says earlier on in exodus chapter 3 verse 22 he just mentions that the word is mentioned three times and i'll tell you where it's in 322 once uh it's also again in 11 3 and again in chapter 12 verse 36 the word cain appears three times altogether three times which is 58 is the gematria of 174 174 is the gematria of gold and silver which we asked for that what it actually shows was there's a a there was a favor in the eyes of the egyptians to give them the gold and silver in fact they gave them more than they asked for as we see but when it came to the garments it was a different reason according to the cliacar he explains because of the plagues especially of likes and whatnot all kinds of plagues that was happening that the egyptians were very suspicious that perhaps the clothes themselves were ruined and they didn't really care that much to give the clothes away to the jews in fact they thought well if the jews are going to go out to the desert and anyway who knows if we're going to go out after them or not if we ever get them back but at least while they're out there in the desert the the plague right the heat of the sun the you know the bleaching of the sun the heat of the sun will kill whatever infections are are on the garments so that was not necessarily um where god caused favor there was no reason for god to cause favor when it came to the garments because they were already it was already in their favor to give the garments away not necessarily the gold and hashem had to cause their favor in that regard i thought that was a very interesting idea now let's go back into the clear car okay so we just the last thing we mentioned was that hashem would what would would somehow bring forth this um this promise he would cause them to give up their their their gold and that would somehow uh be a payment for the jewish people for all the work that we did and that's where the clear card just mentions the gemaran sanhedrin 90 a 91 a by um ben sisa okay what did that mean the truth is the only way that avraham would be satisfied right because of the fulfillment of the promise was not just through any uh what's the word not just through any uh great wealth but a great wealth coming as a result of the payment from the egyptians themselves for the work and only in that way would avram be comforted through the harsh work that his seed was forced to do and then it says the accuracy yet sub as we know the jewish people went out afterwards with great wealth loki again the idea was that if um if we didn't get it that would be that that part was not fulfilled but it was fulfilled so that's why rashi brings the word ah kane in the end it's specifically for the work that was done and therefore avraham was satisfied now i want to i want to go through some of the some of the comments here that i have i want to go to sota 11b so that's number 11. and the reason why i mentioned at the beginning that in chapter 3 it mentions that only the women were going to ask their their neighbors about the wealth but in verse chapter 11 right it mentions specifically that you're going to ask the men and the women so what's going on here it's amazing idea and i want to mention that robbie rav avira taught in the merit of the righteous women that were in that generation the jewish people redeemed from egypt that's one statement but it goes on as well that it was because of the merit of the jewish women that we actually left with a greater amount of wealth as well so i want to i want to focus on some of the comments that i brought if we go to what i have here is the hebrew sheets for the back of the gemara and brachos there's some really interesting ideas here that i want to share this is a very important subject many people are not aware how we supposed to look at our women how we're supposed to treat our women okay um i'm not even sure where to begin and there's some just really good stuff here so you know what on the sheets i gave you there's a book called and the merit of the righteous women it's it's written by the biala rebbe actually it's probably his students the book is called mavasir tov by the way madasser tov means the good news right this is the good news and it's titled the convert within each of us so if you go to your english sheets in the very back okay on page 254 it's it's you know what i i figured this is really important because we deal with a lot of benenoch we deal with a lot of converts and borrow hashem we deal with a lot of women and we do a lot of men who deal with women right so we all have to know how important these subjects are so we know that bhatia converted who's bhatia that's pharaoh's daughter she's the one in other words let me let me go back to the gemara and try to resolve what was being done okay because i want to talk about that first and then we'll read this try to imagine for a second what god originally wanted to do was to have the women in their merit in the jewish women's merit they're the ones as we will soon read why we left egypt okay it's a fascinating concept it's because of them not only did we leave egypt but we left with the great wealth because of them and therefore they were the ones who were assigned the task as it says in chapter 3 of exodus to go and ask now who are they going to ask they're going to ask their neighbors true they're going to also ask the women of the household in which they were living okay and they would know where everything is women have a special knack for knowing things that men just don't know right like where's the towel where's the toothpaste where's the extra shampoo oh it's here it's there somewhere but the women know everything they know where everything is in the house and if they know where everything is in the house they're the ones to ask okay but happens to be that was all said before the ninth plague what happened during the ninth plague that was the three days of darkness and what happened during the ninth plague that's when we entered the houses and we saw it for ourselves with our own eyes we had light around us the the gentiles couldn't even move the egyptians couldn't move for three days and we were able to spot out where everything was and that includes the men and therefore when god actually commands them he also tells the men you know what you go and as well as the women it's not just the women anymore um also it could be that men could pull a lot more out meaning physically the women could actually know where things are so there's like a plus and a minus in other words there's a there's strength strengths and weaknesses another idea so there's another important point about the women themselves that they were only going to speak to whom they were going to speak to mainly the women and the men speaking to the men but one second if a man a jewish man was married so whatever his wife acquires he acquires what about the men who weren't married so you can't expect them to leave egypt without also the fulfillment of of god's promised abraham abraham being fulfilled so the women who went who were married and they went they acquired not just for themselves they acquired for their husbands as well what about the single men the single jewish men there were so so that would be in in chapter three that hashem wasn't thinking about them and all of a sudden again to make sure that all of the the jews walked out with the great wealth that even the single jewish men would be able to go around and ask as well okay with that in mind i want to go now to basia's conversion to judaism create the possibility for others to likewise convert in other words try to imagine and i don't want to i don't want to compare this to any other religion right but who's the mother of moshe not patya but bhatti adopted moshe and bhatia had such you know mercy and concern for moshe she saved him we're going to call her moshe's savior and i don't mean familiar other religion this is a jewish concept basis conversion to judaism created the possibility for others to likewise convert this came about through her connection to moshe robeno ultimately all the nations of the world will join together to serve hashem some will convert as basia did but even though right as basia did but even those who did not will finally come to realize of hashem's greatness there's a verse in isaiah chapter 49 verse 23 kings will be your lackeys and their queens your nurse mates they will bow to the ground before you and lick the dirt beneath your feet then you will know that i am hashem and those who trust in me will not be disgraced talk about the jewish people the servant of god the chosen one the chosen ones the very purpose of our exile ready for this do you know why we're in exile one of the reason is to bring about bring this whole idea about by attracting converts and similarly by uplifting the fallen sparks of holiness that have been scattered throughout the world everything i'm saying here is based on gemara's which this book brings down for this reason moshe urbana was raised specifically in pharaoh's own home in order to perfect whatever sparks of holiness were to be found there you know when the shimon astray note we pray for we pray for the righteous converts and for ourselves right isn't that what we say why are we praying for them and for ourselves and you know what the um the dialo rebbe says we're reading it wrong it's actually for the convert within us listen to this in truth we're all like converts we must constantly constantly renew ourselves through chula and i think bali trouba can especially relate to this even those who are born jewish have the ability to convert themselves into totally new people the change that a convert makes is a truly radical one we know that the jewish people being unique among the nations even our bodies are different as we've explained on other occasions the change that about suva makes can be equally radical therefore we beseech hashem we're begging to hashem to have mercy on us just as the torah commands us to love the convert and to have mercy on them and to be careful never to hurt them god forbid so too we're asking hashem to relate to us as converts meaning we have to really fulfill that position let us not interpret the tephila as for the righteous converse and for ourselves as if we're speaking about two different groups no rather we should see it as a prayer for hashem to have mercy on the convert within each and every one of us it's amazing peace here just as the converts are transformed into completely completely new people so to every one of us can raise himself from the deepest depths to the greatest heights when we fall we fall to the ground and when we rise we rise to the stars ultimately even our dissent is part of our success this reminds me of exactly what rabbi breiter would spoke about last in the world on this week's parsha a few days ago we say in chakrit hashem knocks the haughty down to the ground and uplifts the humble to the greatest heights this is the byala rebbe saying about his great uncle the irony this explains the shem's intention keep this in mind hashem's intention when he knocks down the haudi is really only in order to teach him humility the most noble of all traits the nature of people and especially of jews is to be humbled by misfortune through humility we can truly begin to grow and reach much greater heights than we had previously attained right exotic falls seven times but gets up right yaakov's dream of the latter spirituality requires you to always be moving up there's never stagnation and spirituality there it just doesn't it doesn't exist we can further explain the rescue of moshe rabbenu as a parable for the entire people and it was bhatya unbelievable basia saw a child crying in the river the jewish people are also like children what does it say in hoshai hosea 11 1 israel is a child and hashem loves him children are not set in their ways why they're always changing they're always growing and they can easily change like children we can also renew ourselves what did botsa say to herself she said this must be one of the jewish children and she had mercy on him now hashem responds to the actions of mankind i know this is something that other religions cannot fathom right we're talking about hashem wants us to change our actions and how we act is going to affect the mashpiya oh i want to stop here just for one second to carry over an idea one of the ideas i mentioned earlier was the word who is only about a jew right didn't we say that each man should ask from israel that's the egyptian wait to hear this in the name of the ville nagon the villenegon explains that it was because of the jews how they treated each other with cr great love and generosity and mercy okay they that that act of how we acted is why the egyptians had cain had ultimately had grace and gave us what we asked for in fact they even gave us more and that's why it's called re-ehu not that the egyptian is ye but the egyptian that's going to give you over the the wealth is coming because of the mashpia because because the influence that you caused by doing such great acts with each other this is an unbelievable concept do you understand what that means and i want to show you by the way larry if you look on race um zion look in this here look right at the enzyme on the bottom left the bottom left where it says okay and that explains this whole idea of why it says not that shalom the egyptians were not our friends they were not in the category of doing mitzvahs therefore doesn't apply to them but they're called re-elu only because of the hashpa because of the influence the jews had for each other metaphysically worked its way down and had an influence on the world and now i want to continue as it was saying here it's unbelievable ready for this so bhatia said to herself this must be one of the jewish children she had mercy on him hashem responds to the actions of mankind dealing with us as we deal with each other you hear that just as she mercifully rescued a jewish child from drowning hashem too had mercy on us and rescues us from the turbulent waters of life's misfortunes he extends to us his holy torah the tree of life and by grasping hold of it we merit as it says in michele proverbs chapter 3 verse 16 length of its days in its right hand and wealth and honor in its left as well as the divine blessings both spiritual and material now listen to this gets better we find a fascinating incident in the lives of our forefathers the midrash says it was abraham isaac um avraham sarah yitzhak and their son what were they doing what was abraham and sarah and isaac doing they were trying to convince people who were practicing idol tree to give that up to abandon their pagan ways and serve only hashem now when abraham isaac sorry they passed away right all the people that they converted where did they go they all returned back you think this was a waste of time no no way no hell this being the case it seems that the time and energy they invested in their studies students were fruitless no this set a precedent in truth the avos had another deeper agenda behind their efforts to convert the world ready for this the purification of the world that they achieved i mean at least at that time will be a temporarily served as the preparation for the conversion of the entire people at harsenai we are converts we converted our senate the ritual emerging immersion in the mikvah and circumstance and circumcisions that were performed there were established for all time as the necessary prerequisites for all subsequent of subsequent conversions just keep this in mind what we do has tremendous hashpaw whether on this generation as i mentioned earlier on the egyptians on the rest of the world but for all time although the banane israel were already jewish beforehand they underwent a process identical to conversion causing them to be created anew and i'll use the words born again through this they avoided the suffering that would otherwise have been necessary as an atonement because it's through death through their own death when you're created anew you're born again your old person is dead and it's through the death of that old person that you find atonement think about that and to purify them prepare prepare them to receive the torah since they were born anew their past became irrelevant now since there was already a precedent of mass conversion in the world it was much easier for the jewish people to also convert themselves and now listen to this the fact that moshe rabeinu was saved from the deadly waters as a result of bhatia's conversion process to be raised and nurtured in the royal palace and presumably safe from pharaoh's sword in her merit in her merit caused a permanent connection between moshe and the aspect of what we call convert that is with each and every one of us thus making this aspect that we call kabal sator receiving the torah even possible as every convert knows they they work hard they study they're coming from scratch they know they know they don't know anything right it's a double negative but it means you know what i mean they know very little and they're coming and they're accepting the torah like children right it's unbelievable the kabbalah they have so too in every generation we say like i said the prayers on the righteous gentiles and on us meaning on the righteous converts and on us moshe also owed his life to other righteous women okay so we're talking about the the scoop of the women why was it the women were originally the ones who were going to go in in chapter 3 and ask for everything because it was in their merit that we were even saved and it was in their merit that we even walked out with all of the wealth justice basia saved him from death meaning moshe his sister miriam what did she do she was also responsible for his birth to begin with remember that as the decree that all the jewish babies were going to be killed so amram and you'll have it they decided i don't know if it was one or the other that may but it doesn't matter let's say they decided then you know what we're not gonna have any more children and they got divorced they separated and it was miriam that came with this unbelievable cava homer she said you're worse than pharaoh see at least if you have babies let's just say chance that they'll be a girl i think it's even bigger i think might be 50.2 okay but it doesn't matter the point is that you say that you're you're you're worse than pharaoh because you're not allowing any jewish child to come into the world right okay so she's the one who convinced their parents to get back together so moshe's parents had decided to separate rather than have children who would be doomed to death at pharaoh's hands but miriam was the one who convinced them to remarry her wisdom her insight she said to them you're crueler than pharaoh she said pharaoh sentenced only the baby boys to death but through your separation you prevent even the girls from being born now furthermore when moshe's mother placed him in the river so that's your heaven what did miriam do she stood by me from a distance to watch him and to see what would come become of him what does it mean mayra hook from a distance this alludes to the power of prayer do you understand this this alludes to miriam's prayers for his well-being both in the river and also at a distance what does it mean in the future she prayed for his welfare now and for all emotions so moshe's unbelievable co-occ and abilities came about because of miriam's first intuition that their parents should get together and then she stood from afar and prayed and guess what happened basi is the one who reached out and pulled him out of the water she prayed that he would succeed in all the mighty endeavors that he would one day undertake thanks to her prayers he was successful and realized his tremendous potential utilizing it for the good of the jewish people so what do we what do we conclude in the merit of these two righteous women so the jewish people were able to convert themselves and receive the torah through moshe urbana the two women being so far we know is is bhatia as well as miriam therefore hashem first introduced deter to the women what does it say in exodus chapter 19 verse 3 it's unbelievable what it says over there right it mentions an order and it mentions how it should be told over so what it says was god moses ascended to god and hashem called to him from the mountain saying so shall you say to the house of jacob and tell the sons of israel in hebrews the very famous idea kotomar the base yaakov tomar yomar amar is a lush and rocket it's a soft language and that's how you spoke to the women base yaakov to the house of jacob vitage tageet is a harsher like gidhanashira kidim are these sinners that are very hard to chew and that is talking about the sons of israel and the just the comment on that rashi says over there khotomar you shall say it's a language is the language and it's in this specific order so you have to think about the order as well to the house of jacob ella nation these are the women with regard to them the tour says tomorrowland raqqa speak to the women softly kindly and what about the target living in israel when you speak to the sons of israel um tell the men all the fine details and all the punishments be harsh with them divari makashima kigidim matters as harsh as the bitter herb giddy okay so let's just finish up here with the last few sentences in the um in the scoot of the righteous women by the way i mean it's a very thick book it's a very fantastic book and i recommend everyone getting it um it is written by the ba the bailar rep by alareba and it's called look it up on google the merit of the righteous women um here we go and so obviously when it says you should you must say to the house of yaakov that's in reference to the women therefore in all future generations it's the preservation of the torah its study and its observance would depend on the righteousness and the sacrifice of jewish women what about rabbi akiva's wife rachel what do we know about her unbelievable so rabbi akiva himself he exemplified this when he said to his students they didn't they saw this woman she wanted to speak to him they didn't know who she was whoa he says this is my wife you have any idea all of my wisdom and all of yours all of my wisdom and all of yours comes from her and i'll tell you right now whatever you guys do you come and enjoy the share it's because my wife's you know besides the fact she makes you all dinner every thursday night you guys can come for dinner right but it's because of her that allows me to be able to study and prepare for this class while she's in the kitchen i'm in the study hall it's an amazing idea so we thank her so that's what rebecca said all my wisdom and all of yours comes from her the destiny of our people depends on their protective influence and their righteousness which stands and as an eternal merit for us all it's an amazing idea i know we just pulled it out of those verses but you have to understand the difference between the verse in chapter three that just the women should go and then finally there was a change up right that god wanted also the men to ask as well and with that i'm going to turn the camera off we're going to take questions but before we do i just want to say shabbat shalom god bless everyone and have a great life and we'll see you next week [Music] it's