"Prophecy against Egypt" Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz Va'eira

hi everybody and thank you for coming and I want to talk a little bit about the hepatoma and then swing over and connect it to the to the parsha again these are the hospitality these are the Parsee oh so BTS with ryeom the Rambam calls the whole book of schmoes safer huh gula the book of redemption and of course it's interesting the English word or from the Greek is Exodus which is only one facet Exodus refers to leaving Egypt but in fact the Rambam points out that Samos is not only about leaving Egypt most is about Mactan Torah and it's about the Mishkan in which the Shana comes into the world leaving Egypt is only the first step in what is redemption so the truth of the matter is safer Google la is not synonymous with Exodus Exodus is focusing on only one part of the story where you get out of but where you get out of isn't necessarily where you're supposed to be going and the book of schmoes is concerns not only with where you leave but to where you're going towards in fact even then how servants that's why we link pet socks and Shavuos as one long holiday through the counting of the omer as if to say freedom has a value only when it's connected to submission to God and living for a higher purpose this was beautifully stated by the Indian poet aghori who won a Nobel Prize for Literature again he I don't know if he even knew a Jewish person but he once made an observation he used a metaphor he said that a human soul is like a violin string in a violin string is a tremendous capacity for beautiful music but if the string is totally loose take a loose string and put it on the table you will not be able to get any music paradoxically counter-intuitively on some level it is only when it's tied down and restricted that the music within emerges and he said a human soul is very much the same way people think if only I would be free then be able to achieve everything I'm able to achieve but freedom without responsibility is like a loose violin string there is no music within it is the idea of submission to God that gives a person freedom and liberation and this is the meaning of what's because I'll say in therapy opposed ain't been calling a let me show Sigma Toa true freedom is only when one learns the Torah and lives by the Torah because then you have a structure within which the music of the soul can emerge that is why it's particularly true in affluent societies like United States or the like that the suicide rate particularly for teenagers is relatively high it's much higher than in poor countries because in a poor country where you have to spend the whole day looking for a piece of bread you don't have time to worry about existential angst and life crisis but precisely in a society where your material wants are basically satisfied at least on a basic level obviously people are not rich so at that point you get hit with the idea okay you know I have enough to eat and I have a roof over my head but what's the purpose of my life what am i living for and human beings in general and Jews in particular are hardwired to seek meaning and purpose in their life and when that meaning and purpose is not there that creates a tremendous turmoil some people try to crush that pain by workaholism or drug addiction or sexual addiction whatever it is but there is that pain that just doesn't go away and in a very extreme case it can turn into murder suicide everything else the violence turned inward and then turned outward and that is why in the Torah we never celebrate freedom unless it is coupled with responsibility and purpose Pesach and Shiva are joined by the counting of the owner because I'll make the point that the core bond of Pesa the sacrifice was a barley sacrifice and barley was commonly two animals at the time of the Torah and Shavuos we bring a wheat sacrifice which is what is fit for human consumption and the concept is freedom without Torah is simply animal liberation and only when it's connected to Thomas have become human dignity and that is why it's a very fundamental mistake when people say the purpose of life is freedom freedom cannot be a purpose freedom does not define anything freedom is the absence of restriction but then the question becomes freedom to be what and freedom to do once so freedom we could say is a condition for flourishing and a condition for the ability to achieve meaning but freedom alone cannot be a meaning freedom does not give you any meaning in life and that is why it has to be linked to something greater than than yourself and that's why you'd see us Mitzrayim the rem-pod says if the book of schmoes is not only about Exodus it is about not on Torah with the ultimate goal of bringing God into the world which of course is the idea of the the idea of the Michigan now a few words about the haftorah obviously precious for era is the story of the majority of the ten plagues seven of the ten are in this parsha and essentially we basically see that God is the true master of the universe he can change the laws of nature and he could even take away the free will of a human being who would otherwise let the Jews go because Pyrrha would have been broken event early but God wanted to play with him the way you play with the toy because there was a larger point here that Hashem is the master of all and therefore this parsha is aptly connected to the eventual downfall of mitzrayim now if we flash forward to the book of your festal once again we are dealing with the prophet festival and your fresco was a prophet whose prophecy spans the years between the first wave of exiles and the destruction of the base of make that you'll recall that when Babylonia conquered the Land of Israel they first exiled the aristocracy and the learning element to Bevelle but they allowed a small remnant to remain in Eretz Israel under the reign of Sitka Yahoo eleven years after that first exile sucio rebelled against the Bukit Merah and that resulted in the destruction of the base on mcduck and the gullets of the rest of em Israel so yes yes scale is the number for the 11 years there's already been a significant wave of exiles the basis of mikdash has not yet been destroyed yes s collinear Meo are literally contemporaries they are living at exactly the same time the difference is your head scale was a Navi in bevelle together with the Talmud a forum that went to barbell your mio is inerrant Israel and your Miya experiences the Corbyn in that sense the fresco is a quite great book because he is the only one of our naveen whose new votes are inputs laurits who's developed or in bhava and indeed we also know that his new vows are extremely elevated and sanctified he has visions of the Keisei Hawk about the throne of glory the divine chariots he festivals one of them the VM that had the greatest clearest perception of certain aspects of divinity that other prophets did not have and the fact that it wasn't hoods Lawrence was I've identified as an anomaly as something that was very strange but part of it was God comforting the Jewish people that even when they're in Duluth the Shekinah will be with them so yep ESCO is talking in barbel near me I was talking in Eretz Israel and both of them are giving Musa and talk akka - I'm Israel that if they just do Trueba the tremendous tragedies that are all set to come they can still be averted there is still time don't give up hope now the problem is of course it's not that the Jewish people gave up hope it's the other way around they were complacent they were arrogant although the book an answer had already conquered paratis rel and they're already exiled a significant number of Jews particularly the Tumblr comment but the Jews who remain thought that they were protected they had what you might call Piaget called magical thinking the magical thinking of a child and that is they said Hashem loves us we have the temple we have the base of McNish surely the nations of the world are not going to defeat us because God is on our side but you know the ultimate message of the divyam is a message very similar to Abraham Lincoln that's at one of the cabinet meetings during the u.s. civil war in the 1860s so one of the cabinet members in those days you know God was more freely invoked than maybe today one of the cabinet members remarked you know mr. president we shall surely win against the Confederacy because God is on our side and Lincoln said it's much more important to us that we be on the side of God then God be on our side people sometimes think that religion means I got God you know God works for me you know God listens to me God gives me what I want doesn't always work that way even the greatest tsadikim they were suffering in the world the whole mystery of theodicy Siddiq Varallo that the righteous suffer Russia the twelve whoa the Russia prospers this is a really fundamental difficult issue so the issue is not you know I get God to do what I want the issue is do I do what God wants I think they were the puppet time very similar thing that when the puppets high and died so they asked his son no cuz I'll say Sadiq goes there the righteous person decrees kirara macaé banished em listens towards it Sadiq decrease can you give us an example of your father doing that that your father gave a Baraka and it was fulfilled you know whether it's a shidduch or Panozzo or children whoever holla give us a good story if Sadiq goes there about College Park on wakaya so the carpets I am son said I am sure that there are probably many many stories like that but I can just tell you my father was much more concerned with Hakodesh Barlow goes there for seven metalia God decrees and the Sadiq fulfills instead of the Sadiq decrease and the rebuttal alone fulfills so this is what the Nepean were talking about the new vm are not really giving a message of hope because they're not speaking to a hopeless people it's the other way around they're speaking to an overconfidence people that are filled with arrogance and divert and a misguided sense see this is where the idea being the chosen people turns out to be destructive a sense of being about shows and people in the sense that God will give you a free pass no matter what you do and the message of the new VM is number one recognize that there's so many things that you have to correct the Buddha's are an interpersonal relationships and Shabbos and touch with all of these things but at the same time they do couple it with a message of hope by basically saying if you do turn attention even now he will forgive you he will redeem you he will take care of him in every way that you do that that you need but it's not going to be automatic now it is automatic in the sense that Shem will never destroy or allow the Jewish people to be totally destroyed that much is basically almost an automatic idea but the notion that we will be spared the ravages of Corbin and gods that's just not true unless we do unless we do Chula right so that's what the book of your Tresckow is about that's what you mean I was about but there's a second part of the book of your chesco in which if ESCO gives a number of new vote not about what will befall the Jewish people but what will befall the various nations that have persecuted the Jews now this is a whole section of developed that are concerning the other nations of the world in that region now yes esto has a section about them your mio has a section on you shall yo have is a section other words that's one of the characteristics of the voix is we have never out not only about I'm Israel but we have to go out about the you Motorola now there is a fundamental ambiguity exactly how do you understand Nouveau out to the you Motorola are these messages that the Navi was commanded to communicate through the Oh motorola was he said now we know one prophet was specifically said to the human soul but we only know one prophet explicitly and that of course was the Prophet Yona Yona the nabi was sent to the city of Nineveh to bring them to chuhwa however when it comes to all of these different prophecies there is no indication in the text that the number was told to communicate this to the nations of the world and as far as we know he never did so the question becomes what is the utility of prophecies concerning Assyria Babylonia Egypt if these are not going to be communicated to Assyria Babylonia and Egypt and the short answer is it is part of the comfort that the Navi is giving to our misra that part of the comfort is yes these nations will afflict you these nations will kill you these nations will destroy the base on victory but you should know that ultimately there is divine justice in the world and nobody ever gets away with anything and ultimately these nations that have afflicted you will eventually have their downfall so essentially the prophecies of destruction beezly the yumoto alum are considered to be part of the notes part of the comforts for ibiza they are not necessarily intended to be communicated to the Yuma now it is very interesting that the Cusco that's a number of nations study it that he talks about Amon and Moe of and mitzrayim but it's fascinating that the one nation whose downfall he does not discuss and I'm a fortune I have a lot of problem with this is the most obvious nation that he should have discussed and that is bevelle there is no nevada in the book of his rescue regarding the downfall of bubble even into Hillen we have with rocked oh there we have a sound that talks about the downfall of bubble that's the famous by the rivers of Babylon on Myra's bubble which how do you actually understand that either dove it rotates with ruach ha'qodesh or it was a later song that was inserted either one is theologically acceptable because we do accept that there were two himlen that could have been added later so it says barbell you know it would be destroyed but in the book of your SQL there is no neva regarding the map Allah of Bubba it's very very interesting so the before him give a pragmatic answer that since you're Cusco was living in Berlin and was under the control of Bevelle it was not would have been this Akhenaten the flesh out it would have been because nephesh to start talking about the downfall of both Bubba so your miios living in their richest travels at least at a certain distance was able to talk about it your Tesco is in the lion's den mixing my metaphor with Tamiya buddy's testicle is in the lion's den and therefore God did not give him the responsibility of a navoo regarding brother but the haftorah of iabour therefore is one of your testicles evokes regarding the downfall of a nation and quite logically the chapter that is picked is the downfall of Mitzrayim connection to the parsha is very very apparent even though they're separated by a thousand years that is partials for era the downfall of the material that enslaved the jewish people and this is later aids on the downfall of the Egyptian Empire at hands of the Bukit netzer who will conquer mitzrayim and the basic theme here is that the sin of mitzrayim now he does not refer to them enslaving the Jewish people because that's an old sin we're talking about the sins at the time to be accessible but the sin that existed of time ago tesco was a sin that existed all the way back and that was the sin of arrogance of hubris one has to remember the central role of the Nile in Egyptian culture the Nile was seen really as a God as a God and it was a miraculous process Egypt got virtually no rain at all and yet every year the Nile would swell and then through the overflowing of the Nile different tributaries and different irrigation ditches would be filled and every single year it seemed like almost a miraculous - well acting so well understood process but from their perspective it seemed like a miraculous process that this life-giving force of water would come every year and Egypt was a very fertile land as you resolved in Nile Delta covered thousands and thousands of square miles and pyro himself at various times in history including in the time of the Torah but in the time of the festival as well proclaimed himself the god of the Nile and God says because you have the Nile as your daughter and you are the master of the Nile so the analogy is I will take a fishhook and drag you out of the water the way you drag a big big fish and there'll be a lot of little fishes that'll be stuck to your barnacles and I will drag you out and throw you in the deserts and you will be left as prey for the beasts of the desert and the birds of the sky again the metaphor is it's like taking a big gigantic fish throwing it in the middle of the desert with a lot of little animals attached to it and totally vulnerable totally helpless losing its power this is the graphic description metaphorically of the fact that the book nets are shell he didn't like this is after the but this by the way is after the Corbin basin McNish it was a necessary break the Egyptian Empire and then there's an interesting reference and for 40 years the land of Egypt shall be barren and empty for 40 years and then you will return to its hidden God makes a promise on this kind of a kibbutz coleus from its Ryan but it's a very limited autonomous and after the 40 years you will come back and establish your mullets but it will be a mouth which if I allow to be a lowly mouths words no longer having an empire okay so there actually is kind of almost a semi quasi messianic promise that you will be brought back after the forty years but you will no longer be significant as a world actor now don't confuse this at a later point a jib became important but not because of the material it became important because of the Tomei of dynasty which were the Greeks from Alexander right so Egypt later importance was not connected to the ancient Egyptians the ancient Egyptians were essentially kaput after the book of nets are although they did maintain and then significant local presence now Rossi gives a very interesting metrics just a fascinating measures this concept of the land of Egypt would be desolate for 40 years what's the connection of the 40 years so what Madras says well the Egyptians indirectly indirectly caused us to wander in the desert for forty years although they didn't really cause it our own sins cluster but because of you'd see estimates Ryan we wandered away from our land for forty years so they have to go through what we suffered because of them that's one of the year forty years but then Rashi brings another metric which is very very fascinating then all the way back from the time of pyro in the time of Yosef when God remembered that Yoshi had dreams and there were seven years of famine by rights there should have been 42 years of famine decreed on Mitzrayim where'd he get 42 because the Torah recounts Pyro's to dream Paro had two dreams one of the sheaves of grain swallowing up the sheaves of grain and the other the thin cows swallowing the fat cows like seven seven so there are two dreams one dream involving seven sheaves of grain and the other involving seven thin cows so that's 14 altogether pyro had the dream Paulo told Joseph about the dream and then Joseph repeated the dream in explaining at the Bible so it turns out that the two dreams are mentioned the two dreams are mentioned three times in the Torah but the two dreams are mentioned three times in the Torah para dreaming it Cairo telling Joseph and you're safe telling pirate now each time it was repeated there were six I'm sorry they were there were there 14 mentioned because there were seven thin cows seven sheaves of brain so the 14 times three is actually 42 so there should have been 42 years of famine in which right now how many years were there actually so Rashi says there was only two because what happened was that when Yaakov Aveeno came to mitzrayim it was the famine already and Yosef told Yaakov there's another five years of famine but because I'll say in the merit of Yaakov Hashem took away the famine so it turns out out of the potential 42 years mitzraim only experienced two years so there's still 40 years that's hanging on them and a Kurdish burglar therefore uses the 40 years of abandonments of God looks from mitzrayim as a way of being much Lim the 40 years of famine that sera she understands this this situation but as I say the the overall message of the haftorah is not simply the downfall of metrium that would just be a historical fact that is no longer relevant but the concept that arrogance and hubris are hated by God because the attitude of Pharaoh is I am the master of the universe I control the creation of life and death I am the master of the Nile and that's hype of Anna - Anna College Park who ultimately hates the Gomorrah tells us that when there is Gaia when there is arrogance the Shekinah cannot dwell in this in this world so we have to look at ourselves in the same way you know human beings in this day and age are capable of accomplishing tremendous things we've conquered many many diseases we've drained the swamps we can control a lot of aspects of the weather control the creation of life in different ways with fertility technologies we've discovered the secret to unlocking the awesome potential of the atom which in one hand could solve the energy crisis of the world and that the other act could also destroy the world that's another way of solving the the crisis of the world so in a sense our skill our knowledge our ability our understanding of Science and Technology is really unparalleled now it may be true that in terms of moral and philosophical development we're not necessarily that much better than even the ancient world although no one could argue that have been progress in some aspects of morality the secular perspective but still the great great Messiaen of our time is that of arrogance and hubris and thinking that we are the masters of our faith because when one does not recognize that everything is beatiful it's possible that class for Shalom things happen which remind the person that they are not in control of things certainly in Aaron Israel this is what we learn almost every day and I don't want to be an amateur political theorist here but many people have speculated or they say often they say it I'd want to say anything with certainty that if you compare the aftermath of the six-day war in 67 with the mohammed yom kippur 73 which was largely a very very late six-day war the aftermath of the six-day war was one of euphoria one of joy one of amazement and then the aftermath of Yom Kippur which versus Shem we survived because Berkeley shut we survived but still there was a great great depression a great malaise a great sense that you know we just didn't do it some have pointed out that the aftermath of the six-day war in two different reactions there was a reaction among many of chuva of gratitude to a Shem like the whole about Reuben movements many say is connected to the six-day war in which there were people who saw but they regarded as Nissim glue em open miracles and the light but there was also a different reaction in which we are the most part we are the best army in the world which profession we are ok I thought acknowledge that too but the concept is we can beat anybody we can defeat anybody we can win over anybody simply because we're the smartest we're the best paired with the strongest most skillful one and although British and I mean a lot of things those positive features happen to be true but when the attitude is divorced from gratitude to a college board then what's often happens is a sham shows us okay you want to do it alone let's see how well you do it without me helping you to the same degree and then you get your Kapoor and you get your various other things so many see that Yom Kippur itself was regarded as kind of the the antidote to the arrogance and hubris that some felt sometimes in the aftermath of the of the six-day war and that's really the message of the haftorah that when one has the attitude I am the boss I am the master of my face I am the captain of my ship there can unfortunately be very very devastating consequences and particularly at a time in an age where we are so far advanced in so many different ways we have to remember this idea of humility modesty and recognizing our our limits okay so that's kind of the general message of the haftorah and it's connection again is taken from the novia Tresckow part two part one of your sets go pericolic terephthalate are the nouveau of about the Corbin basin make - part 2 of the SS kal from paragraph hey to brown men is the vote against the emotive love and the last part of a festival just very very interesting but it's not for this week is he actually gives us the detailed diagrams in in words of the third base on mikdash and how you shall I have a look so he is what you call a bricks-and-mortar Navi meaning unlike Yeshayahu whose messianic visions are abstract and universal he talks about peace and goodness etc if Cusco talks about buildings he talks about it'll be this listen listen and then she had a very very graphic pictorial image of whatever just show would look like so the whole our whole knowledge of what the third based on macness will be is based on your festival now obviously it is extremely difficult to describe buildings without pictures and since college parking for whatever reason does not include illustrations in kiss vehicle - so that's why the before should have many many different views about how would you draw a third based on Mick - based on the verbal descriptions but nevertheless in a different before she looks down so whether it's the malbim and thrown the gun are there other enforcement's about the arts go you know incorporates obviously things from different different proportions okay now what I wanted to swing back and connect to the parsha a little bit is this that the parsha begins with well the end of last week's Barcia really is one of very profound disappointment on the part of Moshe Rabbeinu as the burning bush Moshe Rabbeinu beg touch him over and over and over again really very excessively saying please don't give me this job I don't want it I'm not good at it he was using every muscle magnet I don't speak well they don't deserve it Tyra won't listen to me they won't listen to me I don't want it get somebody better he argues again and again and again and again and the chef says sorry you're the guy you're the person that has to do this so you know I know you're gonna speak well so Harvard will be or your speaker Aaron will be your intermediary etc so Moshe didn't want this job Moshe said I can't do it the chef said don't worry about it I'm going to give you the power to do what you need to do so motion goes to pyro and says Shem says send forth these people and pyro says who is this God Mia Shem look if I was like confused well that's a fake confusion me assure my sure asked remember call though who is this God you're talking about I have my list here of all of these different times I don't even see them on the listing and when pyro says is your people have too much time on their hands that is why they are agitating for freedom because when they have time in their heads you know what are you know you got to keep your mind occupied so I'm gonna make things work you're gonna have to get your own straw go into the fields gather the straw and then make your bricks with the straw and the quotas of the bricks are not going to be diminished in other words this apparently we don't really know exactly I would played out but apparently for the commissioners description this added to the rate of their work at a very very high level that's made life even much much more difficult than it was and this was at the pain of being beaten if the quotas were not meant so Moshe revena walks by the one who was supposed to be the great Redeemer and people are looking at him and staring at him and saying who needed you and Moshe says to Hashem long AHA erisa why did you make it worse I knew this wouldn't work he says but at least let me let me fail at the job but why does it have to be worse and from the time that I came to pyro all that happened was the suffering got worse and worse and worse that's how that was the parsha ends so the 8th March of Shem says how dare you not have faith in me I appeared to the Argos from it's akin Yaakov and I made many promises to them that I did not fulfill in their lifetime and they did not question it and they did not doubt and you doubt right away and you will say and then I shall just give them a promise of redemption say Sabina Israel I am the God of mercy and then we have for the show notes of redemption so it's a see I will take them out the salty I will save them figure out the I will redeem them for the costliest economy lemma I will take them unto me for a nation and then there's a 5th blusher and I will bring them here a theatre and will bring them along now we all know that Seder night love Seder there is a mitzvah mere abundance not minute hora to drink 4 cups of wine grape juice at various points in the sader now it's interesting everybody knows the reason but he's gonna point out that the Talmud Bavli does not give any reason for it at all in other words on the bubbly assumes there's a mitzvah of Dollard cows house it gives no reason at all the famous reason that everybody knows is actually from the Tom and you show me Rashi brings in our reproduction from the Tom and you show me that the four cups of wine correspond to the for LeSean note of gulab for Jose see the salty the girl T Villa proxy and to celebrate that we have for for soaked of wine what about the fifth from us shown of behave AC so here them a foursome explain now there is one month the armor in the kimono repeat our friend who actually says coast honey she connected very racing there is such an opinion and in fact there are gonna me either passed him like that or say it's a good thing to do and there are somehow see them that actually have a coast can be seen but we prosecute not that way because we basically say that the coast honey she is a reference to the ultimate to return to rarities Robbie about too much yet but even now even though a British a marriage Israel but clout kyboot Scalia has not occurred Langley toe and various criminal arrests is kyboots Kelly Oates Fish Lake motel that should be the months of my share this is the meaning of Kosovo Leo right Ashkenazim Spartan don't have it unless they borrowed from Ashkenazi which many many didn't discussed it but Ashkenazim have this fifth cup that they don't drink that is called Delia's Cup and why is it a yo stuff because Elio and avi is the one that's going to announce the coming of machine so essentially what we're saying is this is the extra cup we're gonna drink when Elio and nobody announces much here right now we don't drink it yet because he hasn't come yet but we're setting it aside like the Cubbies time used to have a special garment that he would set aside when was she have come so I have a special garment this cup we set aside for our machine that's the coast of Elio Hana V and the like so now so all of us know this basic idea that the four cups of wine are connected the our bow the show notes of guma but what is the meaning why are there four of the show notes of cool of UCS petroleum there was you see it with Ryan what is the for the show notes of guellen-- so let me share with you two different regression Metris number one says that the for the show notes of gula represents the idea that hashem redeemed us from for evil decrees of pyro AB though these are not all at the same time but in the course of our abducted metrium there were four you say route raw oats of Perales from which we were implicated what are the four Gaz I wrote well the first was the longest one that's obvious the Gazzara of being a slave the second Gazzara was his initial decree that the me adults the midwife Shiphrah and puah should strangle or kill every newborn Jewish male and they didn't do that but there was AG Isaiah that was supposed to do that so I should have saved us from that the third Gesserit was the caillou limb that his soldier should come in and throw the boys into the river we were saved for that and the last Gazzara was Kosh the Alaska's area of gathering the straw and these are forg is a rural outs of pyro and the four of the show notes of gula are connected the four guys a roads of para that is Madras number one metric number two says that the for the show notes of gula are not referring to miss ryeom at all they are referring to the four exile that will be after mitzrayim that cache aimed in a shed saves us from mitzrayim he will save us or he has saved us in some cases from the other goliad's what are the four goliad's there is the girl loads of bevelle that destroyed the first base of Mick Dodge there is the gullet of Persia where Hamid wanted to wipe us out there is the galoot of Yavin antiochos and Kanaka and then there's the galoot of Adam which we are still in this is the goblet of Bnei a serve the romans who destroyed the base emic - and we are still in covered that dome even today even though there are no Romans but they're going to still here again many have added a fifth guru the guru the Bhishma L and that deserves say a talk of its own I think you're gonna have a talk of its own on and that inion but cuz I do not speak of five goliad's cause I'll speak of four gallio's and they regard yeshua l as an a certain intensification that is added on and superimposed on the gullet of a dome so it turns out we have two different meat rushing are the four cows outs for the Shawna's of google or rather are they connect the four with a rows of para or are they connected the four lowly oats some of which we've already been redeemed from and some of them go with their dung we hope to be redeemed true so these are two different madras him but there's a very intriguing masiva from the sea douchey i rim the fiduciary is the first guerra Rebbe and he says the two Midrash shimmer actually connected because this is what he said ideally we should have been in mitzrayim for four hundred years that was the period of time the best Shem had told opera now we were only in Mizrahim two hundred and ten years we were not there four hundred years took us out 190 years early why did you take us out early because as it were we were at the 49th level of impurity and had we stayed even one more minutes whatever that means we would have been irredeemable the I result says that's the meaning of the statement we didn't have time to let our dough rise it has to be baked as matzah now how long does it take for dough to rise and become chametz it only takes 18 minutes but theory says if we would have stayed 18 minutes more in Mitzrayim that would have been the end I mean we don't even understand what that means but that's how closely it works so I'll cut each particle truncated the 400 meters it's only 210 but the initiator it says the following I'm gonna use a modern example he doesn't use this example imagine a person has cancer and the cancer has to be aggressively treated with chemotherapy but the chemotherapy could kill the patients so as a result the chemotherapy has to be discontinued because it will kill the patient but when the chemotherapy is discontinued there is still cancer within the patients that might grow and grow and grow and require a radical treatment later but there was no choice because at that time the patient would have died the judiciary rib says the same type of diet of dynamic applies to spiritual imperfections there were spiritual imperfections in our territory that needed 400 years of godless but that 400 Univ godless wasn't allowed to play its course because we would have died we'd have disappeared no we left miss Ryan with all of these flaws within us and because we couldn't last a hundred 90 years we need thousands and thousands and thousands of years of colors to get rid because the cancer grew and expanded therefore the condition rim says if we would have completed the four decrease of arrow over the four hundred years we wouldn't have needed the four goliad's we would have gone to every just row right away but never because those caused a routes were not fulfilled to their fullest extent that is why we needed the four goliad's it's very disheartening thought we've been in colours for more on over two thousand years almost two thousand years and if we would have lasted 192 at the very beginning that that would that would have been it right that there would be no no need for that at that point so I mean hundred other 198 not yet now here is the thing therefore the judiciary wants to do again this deserves more time than we have yes he wants to say each Gazzara of pyro when it was cut short corresponds to a particular drug loads the first Gazzara turned into goblet bhavam the second Gazzara turned into goalless paris the third Gazzara all jokes right now turning to God with Yvonne and the fourth Gazzara turned into Goths I don't now how is that so so some of these are easy easy to understand some of them are a bit more murky the first gazenga of pyro was simply slavery slavery is loss of freedom loss of sovereignty well that's goblets barbell because garlic barbell was the nation that conquered Eretz Israel and destroyed our sovereignty see after that the other goleo just conquered right persia just conquered Baba Yaga and conquered Persia and Rome conquered Java even though we considered mouth could crush Minori we considered to be a continuation of the other so the one that really destroyed the mouth would be Israel was bubble-like barbell destroying the mullahs so therefore the Abdullah paranoia which is the loss of freedom the loss of sovereignty the loss of autonomy that became government love him okay second Gazzara was an attempted genocide the miel dots were ordered to strangle to kill the Jewish babies Brooklyn chef chef red poor refused to do it so that didn't happen they will call the second Gazzara the attempted genocide of the Jewish nation well that turned into Garland's Paris because what did Paris want to do what did pursue do because they Rev come on and therefore because we that Isaiah of genocide was not carried out we became subject to Paris later okay no no that's the third words they say there the second one is the me L don't the third one yeah yeah the me that me are gonna be on the bills don't didn't do anything now we then come to the third now this already the thinking is much more symbolic it's less explicit the third is also genocide except instead of the me al Duds the soldiers pyro soldiers were supposed to throw male children into the Nile and here are some of the children were thrown into the Nile there were casualties now this corresponds to Yvonne now why is that so young because young man was not the genocide thing so here the cliche rim resorts to symbolic thinking metaphorical thinking we know that water what a Mayan represents Torah but in a more general sense maíam represents common wisdom it gives life it Clint lenses you etc now water is absolutely necessary for life but if you stick your face in the water for too long that very thing that gives you one can actually destroy you and kill you you will suffocate with the very thing that's the most important substance other than occupant water is the most and substance for life and yet that very substance can kill you if taken in the wrong way Yvonne represents a culture of great great wisdom the wisdom of philosophy mathematics science arts literature even the the the beauty of the human body in the human form young one represents karma and Hellenism in a positive way was an attempt to expose the Jewish people to all of this car but when the Kozma replaces observance of God's law it then becomes the water that suffocates instead of purifying so metaphorically the Gazzara of throwing the babies in the water became the gullets of the water of karma becoming suffocating and killing instead of enriching your life and that is why the destructive water became the Khazaria of the oven but we then come to the fourth and this may be the most important of them all but but because after all the fourth goal it is by far the longest gullets call it a job no other government is even 1/10 of this amount amount of time and yet the fourth gazai rod doesn't seem to be such a big deal the Gazzara of Tevon gathering struck it made life harder but why would that be connected to gogo dodo the answer is that the Torah itself describes the gathering of strong as by japhet saw the people have to spread out it is a piece or a half at South and half a table or piece or is a characteristic of goblet adult in a number of discrete ways first of all this converts by far is the largest geographical dispersion of the Jewish people think about the Goldberg barbell so the Jews were in Babylon they were in Babylonian you know that's what they all were in one country but the notion that there are Jews everywhere in the world that's really through LIGO looked at done because the Roman Empire ruled over most of the world and we were scattered all over the place there were Jews even in that article I know this because I saw an advertisement for every sucker friend who's a covered man in there so very very popular lecture and market share that my friend has listeners on every continent even Antarctica some kind the Army's listening to Shiori Torah now in a way the Gemara the Quran tells us this as a positive idea that God wanted there would be Jews everywhere in the world so that they would attract again that was interesting in one hand we don't proselytize but a Shem wants us to be around so that the souls that are attuned to Torah will have something to be connected to so geographically were dispersed but it's much more than geography the characteristic of God Lord Adam is Sinatra now polarization dissension disunity being scattered is not just a phenomenon of how far away you are but it's how far you are too emotionally to connect to other Jews that this is a gullet in which polarization and Sinatra Phenom is so dominant and this is on so many levels it's between Jew and Jew whether it's religious secular or religious religious see nakum snogging different types of proscenium different types of Masada there comes a point in which the differences are so subtle that one can't even articulate what the basis of the senate's freedom is but it exists the synapse phenom also exists on family limbs husband and wife lack of shaman bias parents and children all of this is peas or have fossa scattering but then there's another aspect of scattering that's even more interesting it's not just geographical dispersion and it's not just enough but the individual is scattered within himself because he is bombarded with so many inputs so many choices so many sources of information there's no way to prioritize there's no way to get a sense of where I should be going in life because every time I want to make a move in one direction I'm confronted with other alternatives I remember seeing an advertisement years ago for a delicatessen in now in Maryland in which they said we offer 300 types of mustard so I was thinking to myself you know let's imagine you know my wife would ask me Erev Shabbos I go to the store and pick pick me up some mustard and I'd walk into a store and I would see 300 types of mustard I might spend shoppers to the store like what the what do you do right life is easier in Romania you know just one one choice whatever it is for everything if it's even available whether they say be tell the story about the woman who came in one of these former communist countries and she asked for a hamburger steak roast B they didn't have anything so she left so when butchers tested the other that woman is a real nudge so the other guy said yeah but what a memory okay do you remember death okay so that's what happened but the point is being overwhelmed with joy no choice is a wonderful thing but choice can also be overwhelming and paralyzing sometimes and as a results you know even if you want to get as very tolerant the parsha in the intranet I think you ever tried try getting a direct reply or is it you're gonna get ain't know what you're gonna get like you know 10,000 pages of stuff now good and it may be 8,000 is not very science is worthless but so what how are you gonna know so the notion of peas or have fat son is Geographic it's interpersonal and it also reflects the confusion within and which were I'm able to focus and get a sense of what is genuine and finally it represents the split between the head and the heart it is said in the name of some Satan they were not gonna breathless and some say ashamed of Esau cilantro so it's interesting both shall see demand mr. Ogden claim the sentence does the statement that the biggest distance in the world is the distance between the head and the hearts the head the minds we know what we should do and how we should live but our emotions and our feelings are just not there that's also peace or scattering within yourself your mind knows but your feelings are not there where's the enthusiasm the gish mark the passion the excitement so this is the fiduciaries idea and that the fourth Galatz corresponds in many ways to the fourth jazeera of para okay so the first Gazzara louis of freedom is gullets Bevelle the second Gazzara attempted genocide by the BL dots corresponds to Persia the third Caesarea drowning in the water corresponds to being overwhelmed with the hakama of Iran that potentially is life-giving but can also destroy and the fourth is area of scattering and looking for strong corresponds to the a fossa and the peace or the scattered nosov Goulet adam in so many ways in terms of geography in terms of sonata phenom in terms of being overwhelmed and bombarded with options and in terms of emotional distance from what we know is right and we're not feeling but what our minds have embraced and the tragedy is had we been able to be Muslim before it is a relative peril within the four hundred years there would not have been a need for all of these TQM that have already been almost 2,000 years of business Yemen we hope we are coming to the end of the gullet and we Sheba's also to be as michiochi know and as the Navi Mika says he's not in our story this week he made st. are merits Mitzrayim Iran no new floods Hashem will show us the wonders equivalence is not greater than the days the wonders that he showed us when he took us out of out of the Train and that's also in the spider kedusha progressive hang all t of time I reached here a sheet that I will redeem you at the end of days as I did in the beginning of days and that is through the miracles of the revelation of my college workers readers