The Golden Calf: What Were the Mixed Multitude Thinking? with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] everybody welcome back to the event midrash we were gone last week as a purim what a fantastic time we all had um anyway we are pashas i want to give a warm welcome a warm welcome to everybody home to torah at the gibbon at bay midrash we're going to start in chapter 32. so we're not starting the beginning of the parsha but we're going to deal with the golden calf the sin of the golden calf and this may be quite enlightening to many of you who are not familiar with many of the details because it is true the jewish people are in a big way still responsible for that sin until this very day to a certain extent okay so let's begin sorry just plug in something here okay we're good to go so of course moses was delayed in his return right after she was where we call it matantara the torah was delivered so to speak by hashem to us verbally and we were waiting to concretize this relationship on the 17th of tammuz we were supposed to receive the physical tablets which of course we know they were broken right that's why we have a fast day we've fast on the 17th automotives but these days will turn into what festivals as the prophecy right describes that our fast days will turn into festivals in the meantime maybe who knows i shouldn't say the meantime last year we fasted this coming year coming the seventh time as we may not be bizarre okay so in chapter 32 verse one when moses saw the sorry when the people saw that moses was late now i want to describe in fact there's one way to do that i want to show you when we go into karshak balak i just want to give you an idea that many many many ver many words can be used to describe the jewish people and i'm sorry it's taking me so long okay go to numbers chapter it's number 18 on the source sheet but go to in your humish and numbers 22. and i don't want to start with verse 4. i will refer to verse 4 later so balak the son of super so all that israel sees called the jewish people called israel had done to the amorite moa became framed because of the people we are called what israel we're called the people which is in hebrew ha-am and then it says because they were numerous moa was discussed in the face of the children of israel that's the third adjective or whatever name pronoun perhaps and then in verse four mor said to the elders of media now the congregation i'm going to continue reading because this is a little bit of an insight we're going to get into then now the congregation will lick up the entire surroundings as an ox licks up the greenery of the field now we're called a congregation here it is pronounced okay so israel the jewish people are described more than one way now in our verse just to go back in our verse it says the people saw so who are the people and that's what i want to focus in to start with in other words to lay the groundwork for the sin of the golden calf what does it say first of all when the people saw that moses was late we're going to read the hebrew and coming down from the mountain the people gathered against our own and they said to him come on man right like the president united states he says come on man they said come on make us gods that will go before us because this man moses who brought us up from the land of egypt we don't know what has become of him now let me give you some insights as we read the hebrew slowly it's the people we're going to describe the people as either the heir of rav the arabs the mixed multitude the mixed multitude are egyptians egyptian gentiles who came up and joined the jewish people and became full converts but that's what rashi will say is either referring to at any given time whenever you see the word it's referring to the inferior ones is those who are either the heir of rav which are inferior or the wicked amongst the jewish people okay so it wasn't the whole jewish people it was when the people saw that moses was late hear the hebrew boshesh now we're going to see a piece of gamora that's going to describe the word beauchechas be ashesh as in the sixth hour sixth hour okay moses was six hours late loretta's mid haha and coming down from the mountain so the assembly they gathered the people towards aaron against aaron and they make for us elohim make for us what they had a special connection the arav had a special connection to moses what was this special connection they had with moses are you aware that moses on his own decided to bring up six million non-jews out of egypt amongst right along with the three million jews why how do i know there were three million there were six hundred thousand men between the age of 20 and 60. they all had wives bizarre hashem right over the age 20 maybe they even had more than one life but let's just assume they all had one life how many kids were there below the age of 20 well we know they all had like six at a time okay so we're not gonna we're gonna give them the number three million as a low figure right maybe two and a half million to three million is a low figure so you had a hundred and twenty one million two hundred thousand adults between the age of twenty and sixty and then you had of course older people also they're also older people so count the older people i don't know the amount but you can guess then the children again you can guess and uh so you have two-and-a-half to three million and then the madras tells us that there were twice the amount of erev than there were jews so therefore you have instead of three million i have another six million so you have six million erev three million jews it's nine million people incredible but anyway what happens is they wanted some kind of replacement right if if mocha is late they're the ones who initiated a replacement because they had a very special relationship with motion again it was moses who decided on his own he didn't even ask hashem hashem obviously acquiesced right moses did it it happened and what did they say they said we well let me just one more point that brought us out of egypt not out of it's not what it says that brought us up see the jewish people went out of egypt the aravrav went up from egypt what's the difference we'll find out because there's going to be a difference if the jewish people are described as those who went out of egypt and the heir of rav are those who went up from egypt keep this in mind we're going to figure this out together but what did they say we don't know what has become of him that's an english translation again you have to learn hebrew english translations are not very what's the word true to form right that says in hebrew lo you don't lo we don't know what there was to him that's i would translate that like that lawyer donna we don't know mo hoyolo what was to him what has become of him think about it like this we were not aware of the power the power that moshe had i'm going to leave it at that and we're going to see what their issue was look at rashi right away that moses was late the word boshesh the oculus translation is muharr it means delayed that's fine um there's a whole discussion how we know it's six hours but i want to go into another idea which is incredible the explains that these that the 15 days of the holidays that we celebrate we have seven days of pesach seven days of shibuyas i'm sorry one day of shibuyas seven days of sukis so that's fourteen at seven seven and one it's fifteen days not including shimini and serious which is all obviously not part of this equation his claim is and it's based on khazal of course that these 15 days are there to mataking are there to help us fix the sin of the golden calf because of the six hours that moses was late he's going to say we basically served we served the golden calf for six hours therefore to nevada to get rid of something that's forbidden in other words we're not talking about it for those who understand what i'm saying but when you're negating the evil or that that that which is not kosher in kosher laws 1 and 60th is the equation one of one of not kosher involved in 60 that is kosher makes the whole thing kosher okay so there's a concept of medvatel it gets rid of the isser through timesing it by 60. so if you add up those 15 days 24 hour periods it comes out to the number 360. 360 is 60 times 6. so you have those 15 holidays are there to metacame to fix our sin part of the fixing obviously it's not the entire fixing uh this was one of the ideas that i saw this week and um i thought it was absolutely fascinating and we're in this rashi besides the first one that i want to show you anything no i think that's enough for now now we'll go back into the clear card now let's see what the clear card has to say we use the clear card as the basis for our discussion and i encourage everyone look in the description box below there's a link to the ibana website you just have to find the right book in the right parsha but there's a general link and you can find the actual the actual hebrew sheets where you could hopefully learn a little bit in hebrew and see it for yourselves so the clear car on top your design begins based on this verse that and the people saw that moses was delayed the clear car begins with just a fascinating introduction i have seen i have surely seen kirobo foreshim hanigashim luvoir that many of the commentators have approached to explain call any idea that is closed that is somehow secret that is not clearly explained in the torah bikshu limso divre kravitz they have gone out of their way their desire is to explain these words in a positive way in order to remove from the seed of abraham this holy seed of abraham lazuza fatah the color bisha any type of slander which there's a lot of right a lot of fake news a lot of slander about the jewish people and bad reputation assure you so regarding the action of this specific disgraceful behavior we will describe now just to as another is part of the introduction if you go to number three on the source sheet song of songs sure shireen chapter 1 verse 12. the theory of heart brings this down as an example while the king is still at the table the party table well the king is still sitting at the table nidre not on reiko my spikenard gave forth its fragrance but this is a positive expression of something that really was very negative that while god was at mount sinai that's his that is his hasanah married the jewish people we were engaged and we got married this is a wedding ceremony with mount sinai over our heads okay while we were at the party table while hashem the king is there the jewish people were doing something evil listen to what it says in the rashi the congregation of israel replies and says all this is true meaning while the king was still at his table you bestowed good upon me but i repaid you with evil for while the king was still at the table of his wedding banquet therefore what happened next was the spikenard gave forth its fragrance really it should have said gave forth its stench right while we while the sheena divine presence was still in mount sinai the jewish people sinned with the golden calf so we do see this obviously we know the incident happened 40 days after the mata torah after the great revelation this is pretty bad it's true so this kimura forcing however at the same time oh he doesn't say oh he says a vast majority of all the commentators lit lost that the commentators placed the blame on the shoulders of the heir of wrath who were the arab rock they described them already they are the egyptians that came up out of egypt with the jewish people by moses's own initiation these people are the ones who have ex they're well experienced in evil let's say like that they might israel they are the troublesome ones of the jewish people they're the ones that always caused trouble and therefore to rishona they were the ones who sinned first they initiated the sin the acharyan too god israel following them israel did also they were following them they they influenced the jewish people al qaeda base israel therefore in order to give honor to the jewish people to the house of israel rita little bader kitsara i have found fit i see that it's proper to write in a very brief fashion of the main points that majority most of these commentators speak about the sham so i'm also going to bring there i'm going to bring also my own words the clear car is speaking he's going to bring his own words in order to resolve shave deep do colossal this is the beauty of the clear car that he'll take hazard whether it's rashi or anybody else the gemara and usually it's madras russia's that are not clear but it's clear in our tradition but there's nothing that isn't hinted at already in the torah and he'll use the the the specifics of the um the um i'm looking for a word uh the the differences in the in the text anomaly that's the word i'm looking for the anomalies within the text words that are spelled incorrectly i.e not incorrectly because god is the one who commanded it but the fact that it is not spelled the way we know how grammar it should grammatically should be spelled we know that there's a message and it matches up perfectly with the medrash that we have that this is where a source or it's a anomaly either in the the fact that this word is used instead of another word or there's a missing letter or there's an additional letter right there's something of an anomaly in the dictu so use dictu colossian in order to resolve using the dictu colossian le vire today i skip something below escher libby el cucios stegosa neutralian supports that but i'm not going to dwell too much time on all the different questions and dilemmas that will arise regarding this idea that's told over in this story the only thing i want to do is get the main points across there is volumes to be spoken about and i'm not going to spend all that time resolving every issue i want to just we talk about the main points the far same taharis israel to to publicize the purity of the jewish people the zephyr now we're about to begin all that was as an introduction we're on the last paragraph of the first page i gave you tattooed zion the yarham it says that the people saw and he claims right now he goes into this explanation every time you will see in the tanakh the word the inferior ones as i described either the arab mamish or the sinners amongst the jewish people kimochi rashi like we already saw i think it was numbers we didn't see it yet look at numbers 11 1. huh 11-1 numbers 11 1. it says what is the word as the they were complaining complaining right and the people were complaining my translation says the people were looking to complain right and it was evil in the eyes of the of ears of the lord the fact that they were complaining the lord heard his anger flared and a fire from the lord burned among them consuming the extremes of the camp so rashi says right there what is the word i mean it's number four in the english store sheets the people is used only in reference to the wicked and he gives just i want to read this because um god is going to be speaking to moses and saying your people and when god says to moses your people he's talking about the aravrav the people that moses brought up from egypt when god says on me my people he's talking about the jewish people israel look at rashi similarly it says in exodus 17 4 what shall i do about this people you see it's talking about these evil people also in jeremiah chapter 13 verse 10 it says specifically this evil people now when it's talking about the virtues the virtues of my people god's talking about my people for example in exodus chapter 8 verse 16 it says right ah me my people god is calling the jewish people my people and also nikha chapter six verse three my people what have i done to you again on me okay let's go on so he says like this now back to the words ki boishesh moshe when moses they saw that moses was delayed because it was known to them who's them what was known to whom to the arab rav the era of abnew shalom israel they knew they did not go up from egypt by word a command of god alamosha may osmo but it was moses himself that brought them up that's all never even asked hashem like it says now this is in um this is in our chapter chapter 32 verse 7. it says rape this is in number five on the english shoresheet and the lord said to moses go descend for your people that you have brought up from the land of egypt have acted corruptly look at rashi first of all it says the hashem al-mosha the adabir is a language of harshness the difference between laymore and the ada bear again we see one of the most um we say popular one of the most repetitive uh verses in the torah's hashem of moshe lamore the adapter and what's the difference god spoke to moses saying in english you wouldn't get it the adobe is a harshness truth be told it's like concrete and it's written in stone that's the written torah lay more to say over it's a command it's a softness and that's the oral torah you have the concrete the harshness whenever you dab air is used and lay more is a softness and that god is to moses say over speak out what i'm telling you to them that's called the oral torah but the main point here is one is the adapter is the harshness and that's what rashi brings down the ada he spoke to them harshly and they look in genesis chapter 42 verse 7 where it says it actually says and he spoke to them harshly so we have a connection there the ada bear the latter part it says your people have acted corruptly it doesn't say that people acted corruptly it says your people god they could have just said the people he says moses it's your people those are the mixed multitude whom you accepted on your own initiative with and whom you converted without consulting me you said this is going to get a little bit controversial but okay we might as well get into it this concept you said meaning god says to moses you said to me it's good that converts cleave to the sheena it's true we invite right anybody who wants to join us we welcome them home to torah right guys of course but they have acted corruptly and they even corrupted others so we do have issues with converts okay we have 36 times the torah tells us to love the convert okay but there is a gamora that tells us that even converts and we're going to get to it so i'm going to save it okay let's save it for later so it means you can't put it on pause you can't just go to bed no okay you do whatever you want just continue listening and we're going to get to this very interesting idea in fact it's three lines away so we're gonna get to it quite quickly now besides the fact that god says raid go down because your people have acted corruptly the low on me it doesn't sing but in spite of this contradiction to this how does moses respond moses says in chapter 32 verse 11 it says right moses pleads before the lord is number six on the english store sheet moses pleaded before the lord his god he said why oh lord should your anger be kindled against your people in other words moses saying don't take it out on the jewish people whom you have brought up from the land of egypt so that's what it says in english but you have to look at the hebrew it says it says which you brought out so trust no translation please right i mentioned the difference between the erev rav is going up and omnistral is going out no we didn't tell you why yet so you have to hang in there but there's a difference so here we're talking about moses is saying to god why get angry at your people not my people your people the jews whom you i'm gonna just have to not use this english translation look at the hebrew lama which you brought out with great power and strong hand so look at three lines down from the bottom of this page based on this the what was the erev thinking what were they afraid of what were they concerned about the word right they were concerned that they feared what was on their mind shameless shama if moses does not return remember he's only late if he doesn't come back hashem would likely throw us out it was we were like moses baby right we were if we were the heir of rob we owe everything to moshe he's the one who does he didn't even speak to god he's our power that brought us up i only recognized him i'm an heir of roth guy right i see that moses on his own did it perhaps because he wasn't on his own they do recognize another power unfortunately it's not god it's a calf and that's why we have the golden calf but let's not jump ahead of ourselves let's continue so they thought that if moses doesn't return then hashem himself is going to throw them out of the congregation lest they cause them to sin with idol worshipping like the egyptians did because these were egyptians they were idol worshipers we were idol worshipers right when we were in egypt but who says they came any any much further than we did now this is the controversial statement and i'm going to spend just a few minutes to explain it it says concussion game so in your vamos 47 you can find this number eight on page three in english i'll translate the words first and then we'll go to the gemara difficult is our converts for the jewish people like scabs like open source now i will explain this first the nice way meaning the way i believe it means and i'm not the only one that says it everyone says it which is one level of what it means that when someone converts to judaism they take it seriously they give up a whole hell of a lot right their country maybe their language maybe their parents who knows whatever they're giving up a tremendous amount they're giving up their seafood they're giving up things that they are familiar with right getting a lot of laughs okay converts we're done with converts we're not talking about born jews right people who you know had mixed dancing you know growing up you know what i'm saying they gave this up to become throne to become jewish so what happens is they put us to shame why is it difficult for the jewish people to have converts around because they make us look bad not you know this is tongue-in-cheek of course in in hashem's eyes these guys are serious they mean business and how does it look when you know i don't go to shul or i don't keep shopping so strictly and these guys are like you know doing everything right okay that's how i understand it and that's how most people understand it but there's another level and we're not even going to go with the push-up shot we're just going to go another level the good morning talks about look what it says in gamora yavamos 47b the gomorna analyzes this brysa the master set in the brights with regard to a potential convert who comes to a court in order to convert the judges of the court say to him what did you see that motivated you to come to convert the the judges want to know the motivation right only god knows but if you get them to express it you can tell if they're real fine and they inform him meaning the bastion will tell the person some of the lenient mitzvahs some of the harder mitzvahs and the gomorrah says why is it what's the reason to say this to him if any way right the reason is to find out once you tell them there's there's some light myths and heavy misses if he wants to withdraw and you know what if he wants to withdraw hate have a great life you should be blessed as a righteous gentile and going your way no big deal no big deal we didn't it was no loss to us per se you know that's how the idea is we shouldn't try to convince him to continue okay there's no this is very different than all other religions right as far as i know i mean there's a handful that don't look for converts besides the jewish people ezra elbow says and this is our line converts are as harmful means difficult to the jewish people as a leprous scat because is one of the um one of the different words used to describe the different types of leprosy on the skin but this is really the key because if you just look at it from pashupsha isaiah chapter 14 verse 1 it says and the convert shall join himself with them and they shall cleave to the house of jacob the word cleaving like a scab is stuck or attached to the skin as we all know when you know if you pull off a band-aid the scab comes off with it or even just playing around and you don't realize you weren't fully healed yet and you took the scalp the scab can hurt taking it off so that could be what it means here as isaiah chapter 14 verse 1 like this that again i'll read it and the convert shall join israel here's the important word vanilla land that will associate will join up the convert with them the nisfachu albays israel misfacho join cleve there's nothing wrong with that and that's what it means that basically this eludes the fact that the cleaving of the convert to the jewish people is like a scab not in a there's nothing negative it's a positive thing it's a joining it's a healing okay let's go on the last line um now what were the error bra thinking you know we were not driven out from the jewish people until now why because of moses moses the one that brought us out now what happens he's late he's not around maybe what are we going to do we turn the page vote the whole reason that they were not excluded and pushed away from the jewish people was because of the honor of moses and by the way we had this discussion this week that the soul of moses is the same as the soul of the meshiach and the same as the soul of david and the same as the soul of the meshiach the mashiach has to come from a type of person who's going to be able to relate to all mankind just as moses was maybe sympathetic attached himself felt to bring these six million souls up along with the jewish people from egypt therefore they felt they thought let's make a program a scheme some kind of effort to bring another type of of leader in place of moshe if motions is in here we need another so what did i tell you i already alluded something about a calf obviously this is what came out of the fire right if a calf came out of the fire this was on their mind this is what they desired in fact our own maybe this is also a shocking to many people that our own didn't actually make the calf okay we're going to see the words the actual words that will into this idea but he threw the the the gold into the fire and it came out as a calf and tell us that the sorcerers amongst the aravrav used some witchcraft let's just say negative thoughts let's just leave it at that in order to bruise the cat so why how did they have these ideas where did this idea of a calf come from and that is going to be absolutely fascinating so hang in there here we are the next paragraph we're on the top of takeoff i already alluded to the fact when it says for this man moshe who brought us up right out of egypt we did not know what he possessed let's say like this we translate what happened to him we don't know what happened to him wouldn't it say mahalo what was to him what was to him you could translate is what happened to him but what was to him what did what did he possess what powers did he possess what was to him how did we leave egypt it was because of him and if it was in him we need another leader he should have the same powers something similar something that he possessed so let's look at the clear card this verse is telling you lo you don't we didn't know what great power or what source of power he had given to munat aids this is how many people pagans will call them uninitiated this is how people think that certainly he must have had some kind of images or some kind of of a star some kind of the heavenly power uh that was able to guide him and help him create miracles i mean how else is he supposed to do all these miracles the new how to make or recreate these stars and images if he had stars or images which he was able to tap into now he's gone who would know we don't know ah maybe aron would know aaron is his brother he's the other leader like their tag team right they're the ones that brought the jewish people out these are the leaders moses is gone maybe arrow knows so they approached aaron and said you his brother you absolutely know there's no doubt mahayana what vessels he used in order to create all these miracles that's why they approached arrow alkane and so therefore what we're requesting from you what we desire from you what we want from you is that you should make for us some kind of image that will play a part as an intermediary us and these stars or these powers the saturn the sun deceived them the moose mata so moshe being shamayim what did the sutton create an image a storm maybe it was cloudy they didn't really realize the time but they also saw what appeared to be moses's deathbed floating somewhere between the heavens and the earth because again they saw him as an intermediary the idea between heaven and earth fits that projection and you can see this in gemara shabbos and 89a not going to go there right now as if moses was that intermediary between the heavens and the earth akin wrote so so moses is not coming back they wanted or desired her career seemed to need ratsu they wanted a different um an intermediary to replace motion gazelle tell us in the morning sanhedrin a sh actually they they desired many gods they they they sought they lost it after many gods but these surah youth karu because they didn't know which one to choose in other words if you really i'm not talking about the regular jew i'm talking about someone who is an idol worshiper and you want to worship the highest level but you don't know which it is so obviously this is what they do they choose a whole bunch maybe one of them is it okay so that is an introduction to idol worshiping now we're on verses two and three that was all so far just verse one so now let's go verse two and three where do we have that on the source sheet um okay i'll just look here around said remove the rings of gold i think that is yeah it's just it's number 11. i just didn't label it right uh aaron said to them remove the golden earrings that are on the ears of your wives now i just want to focus on that part obviously also it says your sons and your daughters and bring those earrings to me so what was our undoing around was trying to delay aaron was not a participant at all he said oh you want a gold in something you want you want gold you want gods go get your gold from your wives why did he say that because the women were righteous the women did not participate they wanted nothing to do with idol worship the righteous women and why we even left egypt and why we're still around today hashem for the righteous women okay all those and all those others that i know are going to be watching this later what does rashi say actually let's read the let's read the rest right and the people strip themselves didn't even go to their wives the wives said get out of here they were going give me your earrings we're going to build some idol they were like no wait no how they tore their own earrings out listen to rashi that we're on the ears of your wives aaron said to himself remember ours have a conversation with himself the women and children are fond of their jewelry perhaps the matter will be delayed i mean this was his thought all right i'll go tell them go go get the go get the jewelry from your women the women are going to say no way no this is a good delay tactic in the meanwhile aaron said moses will come back obviously he believed moses wasn't dead but they did not wait for their wives and children to give their earrings and they took off their own earrings you could see it in the verse itself right all he says was go get the earrings remove the earrings from your wife's ears like no way they took their own earrings off okay let's go on and it says like this in the clear car it's the second major paragraph down the omro leimaron parkou nisme hazaha bashir bahasnay nashiken maybe they'll be among some of these men the women misers [Music] where some of the women will be very concerned particularly about their own jewelry the yemnu s balaya militane and this will prevent the people from giving but they went around around they deceived arab because as the verse continued the parkour all of the arm all the people they removed the nisme hem they took their own jewelry off of themselves shelhanoshin the men themselves the amrio killer kahu min but they said they took it from their wives okay so they they went around they didn't do it aaron said i don't use it as a delay tactic it didn't work okay verse four the yatsar otto the heret now what if well look at the whole verse i'm going to translate a little bit differently says he took it from their hands right the yikas he took from their hands she took it the yachts he fashioned it with an engraving tool i'm going to translate differently to sirashi that he bound it up into a handkerchief or into a a bag and made it into a molten calf it sounds like aron made it into a molten calf we're going to see another verse going to say differently that he didn't have anything to do with it upon which they said who's they the cleocard's going to point out it can't be israel because why would israel say these are your gods israel he's going to prove it has to be it's going to have to be uh the arab rav who brought you up out of the land of egypt because remember they're projecting they're the ones that went up out of egypt we went out the legion they went up that they went up from egypt we went out from egypt for those who just came in late we'll get to it look at the rashi over there um if you look it on your own but basically we're talking about this idea in the beginning that he tied it up in a handkerchief and later on the molten calf came out as a molten calf listen to arashi says as soon as they cast it into the fire he says as soon as they cast into the fire it doesn't even say he as soon as they ha as soon as they had casted into the fire of the avid the sorcerers of the mixed multitude who had gone up with them from egypt came and made it with sorcery um now this is very interesting it says that moses where was moses during the 10th plague right everybody went to their neighbors and asked for gold keep this in mind gold this is what the people were going okay god said go ask your neighbors for their goal so all the jews the israelites went to their neighbors their fellows and asked for their goal what was moses doing moses went down to the nile and he brought up the bones of whom of yosef joseph made his own children swear that they will not leave egypt without his bones think about this a second crazy stuff we're about to talk about here moses goes down to the nile while everyone else is asking their neighbors for gold and he takes a piece of clay and he writes on it or he says these words ascendo ochs ascendo here in his hand was a plate upon which moshe had inscribed ascend oh ox ascend oh ox there's a certain power this looks like similar describing yosef as an ox a calf is a baby ox keep this in mind now that the arab rav believed besides moses the power that brought them up was the power of an ox if moses is gone he was one of the powers that brought us up out of egypt and we need a replacement and we don't we can't figure out what's what kind of image or picture acts as an intermediary it must be the ox because we could not have left egypt no would have nobody would have left egypt without joseph's bones joseph is going to be compared to an ox not only here but we're going to see it later on where two places later on one listen to this when moses bled when moses blesses them in deuteronomy i think it's chapter 33 we'll get to it he refers to joseph as right an ox and also in numbers by balak in bilum when they're about to go to war against the midianites actually we did discuss this already in that verse four it was uh 224 i think it was that we described them as a kahal kahal very interesting the word kahal and an ox okay because yosef had two sons menachem frying and they're called kahal they're called kahal we'll see and therefore the children of yosef from like an ox so what would the midianites at that time be so afraid of and fearful that the jewish people are going to take revenge for what for the salaf yosef for remember that ver there were a couple four verses we described we said yes one of those words was describing the fear of the midianites specifically the fear the midianites had because joseph was sold down to egypt okay keep that in mind okay let's move forward with this like i said we're in the now the third beginning of the third large paragraph the yatsar autotech and he formed it into a mold or he placed it into a handkerchief and they threw it into the fire to melt it down on the motion but what did aaron actually say to moses in the mistaken in verse 24. this is what aaron himself you think he's going to lie to moses he says i said to them who has gold he didn't even he didn't even ask them for the gold he could have said remove the gold from you right he said i said to them who has gold they immediately took it off they were so eager i said who has gold they took it off and gave it to me now he said i threw it into the fire and out came this calf but you have to see let's just go on to let's let's read the clear car he says like this blisa fake there's no question that he told the truth whatever he's saying now he also it's true the um aram what did i he told them that after it would melt down he would make a form for them that's what he originally had in mind shalom but he was using delay tactic after delay tactic after delay first i said he told go get it from you your wives right they wouldn't give it all gave it all to him from themselves he says i'm going to make a mold i'm going to make a mold and that takes time and once i make the mold then we'll melt the stuff down and we will what then we'll create the actual thing you want the mosha he thought this was all just buying time as they say that moses would come back in the meantime but guess what the erev rav asu aide mccash foot right um kishu the word kishoff is wit is is a witchcraft so it's makash from sorcery this is what the arab rav did they made it come out on its own the lawsuit aaron did not make it now let's look at the verse four again it says in verse four and the assailant it says the ah say who you see in the englishes and made it it says he took it from their hands fashioned it with an engraving tool a tool but in hebrew it says and they made it into a molten tool molten calf look at the hebrew the ah say who they made it the verse says they made it into an ego hello if he made it it would have said and he made it but we already saw a verse that says he made it right so how do we understand listen to this lethi since they were involved in the melting of the i'm sorry since yeah since he was since aaron actually was involved in the melting of the gold mahalo if the verse somehow alludes as if he did it but the proof is go now to verse 20. verse 20 says then he took the calf they had made the yi okay so i just want to go back and correct something when i said originally it says the ah say who it is true you read it as he made it okay so all along he did verse 4 says he made it but in verse 20 it doesn't say that at all it says and he took the cath they had made a sue is they had made okay were you referring to right after you say who is so we see clearly in verse chapter 32 verse 20 and he took the calf they had made look at roshi i just want you to know let's read the rest of the verse he took the cat this is moses had taken the calf ground it down and made them drink it but we know there were people who died people who died how some died what by drinking some died by the sword and some died by plague look at rashid let's look sorry keep with the verse then he took the calf they had made burned it in fire ground into fine powder scattered upon the surface of the water and gave it to the children of israel to drink let's look rashi he intended to test them like the women you know the salta a woman who is um suspected right the jealousy for her husband she was alone with a man not her husband and she's brought up to the temple mount she's brought she's brought a drink uh to drink and if she's guilty she buy so this is like a test like the women who are suspected of adultery they're tested like i just will give you the verses in chap in numbers chapter 5 verses 11 through 31. so here we see three different penalties death penalties are meted out one if there were witnesses to the worship meaning someone who worshipped an idol and had witnesses and of course winning warning had been issues had been issued so they get the sword and we know the sword killed many of those people three thousand that applies to this people of the city who have been led astrayed by many people we're not gonna go into that right now but you can find that in chapter 13 of deuteronomy verses 13 through 18. the other way those who practiced idolatry with witnesses but without warning so there were witnesses but you didn't have the full warning then they died from the hand of heaven called through a plague as verse 35 says the lord struck the people with a plague and so we know that people were struck with the sword we know people are struck with the plague and number three those who practice idolatry both without witnesses and without warning they would die from a a stomach illness like a plague okay so let's go on with the clear car and we're coming to the end zone at some point here we are um just to clarify the last thing we said was that he took the ego they made it doesn't say i share a say which he singular had made but which they had made so let's go on the yomro the um this is what um yokong is pointing out they said these is these hello your um your god israel but because el is plural these are your gods oh israel nikon raya here we have proof that it was the arab rav that said this to the jewish people because how is one jew to say to another jew these are your gods israel who ain't no israel aren't they israel doesn't make sense to speak like that it obviously has to be that the arabs said this to the jewish people now this is where it gets interesting why specifically did they want to make or lead them astray by the image specifically of an ox we already said earlier on in chapter 30 verse 13 when the jewish people were going out on the 10th plague to collect their gold that's they desire gold god was giving it to them fine by the way it wasn't just when they left egypt the night they left egypt but seven days later right it's amazing what happened when we were by the seashore the seashore the the the the sand whatever the the end the edge of the sea of reeds where the egyptians drowned all the gold came up now just imagine that hashem did for us amazing think about it if we would have had to carry all the gold with us when we left egypt would have taken us more than a week it would take a real long time and maybe more than 40 years i'm it's a tongue-in-cheek there but it's a lot of gold right the first talk about the first week so so what happens like this ups they had special storage places you know and there were also people who lived outside the cities we didn't get their gold we went to our neighbors and that was a lot of gold to carry but the question is they brought it to us and not only did they bring it to us they even went to their story houses because when they went to war one of their idols one of their you know desires was to have more gold and they had a they had a idol that was basically gold that their power was gold wealth and so they would take their chariots and put fill with gold uh on their horses and on their chariots so when they went to wood there was only 600 chariots they were filled with all the rest of the gold of egypt so not only do we leave egypt with a lot of gold but we couldn't have carried it all through this first seven days for hashem we did take whatever we could the next 39 years but that was a hasset that hashem did for us that we didn't have to spend so much time going out it ended up coming to us okay but we're talking about here the very fact that we said they said to us these are your gods oh israel it obviously had to be them not someone else but what exactly was it that it had to be a i'm going to use two words golden and a cath so golden is because we even the jewish people love golding and silver leo duzer we know this because of the the the spoils that we took with us not only out of egypt but also by the sea akin amish israel you've had sura zoo now this is why they chose the image of a calf so far we know why it was gold why ready for this kimi meno can this is why it came out like a calf so now we're going to get into the calf part this is actually going to answer what we said now in verse 4 we said how lucha meredith was trying when the arab rav said right let's go back to four again he took it from their hands and bound it up in a cloth fashioned into a molten cap and they said this is your god of israel who brought you up from the land of egypt that's how they translate it we're going to look at the hebrew once again and say that right that's from their point of view that they went up out of egypt but moses says in verse 11 30-11 why would hashem why hashem were you unleashing your wrath against your people who you brought out see the difference we we spoke about this in the beginning now we're going to get into the nuts and bolts one you brought up and one you brought out what's the difference it's true when you go up it's it's a usage you use those words of going up in terms in terms of loftiness and greatness right you're going up this was a great trans um transformation for those egyptians called the aravrov they went up in status in this world because what were they saying the arab wrath shakomalas israel that all of the positive attributes all the advantages the jews have actually occurred made them and made them rich michelle tribe all that wealth came out of egypt also as kola kavoda zed and it came from the egyptians and that is what made the jewish people so honorable this is what they were thinking the era so therefore the arab route said we already know they thought that about gold but what about the ox they figured it was taurus taurus is the shore tour shore okay tour and sure the same word aramaic aramaic and hebrew two are short they all felt that it was the power of the mazel the constellation of taurus of arizona that brought them up and elevated them above through with the wealth by gaining this wealth from egypt we're now talking ted just two paragraphs three paragraphs short ones the principle what did he say to moses we said in verse seven raid ki go down because your people become corrupt that's what god said to moses we said that's the heir of wrath near the pharish we can now explain that's why it says in verse i think it's also the same verse ryan which you brought up god says which you brought up from egypt that the as a result of this you elevated the era above you raise them up in greatness above all the other egyptians but for the jewish people wasn't necessary when we think about aliyah we're talking about going to erect australia not leaving egypt leaving egypt is not aliyah per se i mean maybe it is but we use aliyah of coming to the land of israel here all they did was it's a plane right they went across they weren't yet in israel so that's why moses said in verse 11 why are you unleashing your anger on your people meaning to god about the jews i share hopes a submarine to try which you took out why furthermore she is right fusing the base of surin when the jewish people were the israelites were in egypt we were like prisoners we were constrained in a prison sheik had some you'd see it that's why the language of going out is appropriate to use when you're in prison you get out that's what they call it getting out not going up although i'm sure it is an aliyah for most people unfortunately many people go back but anyway masha inc came to erupt so the yitzya is not the same language used by the arab rob okay now we're going to get into some really interesting things yay show me we don't exclude everything we said we're adding another level some say this idea that taurus that the calf was what really took them out of egypt the vicious we know that the jews they couldn't go out on their own only yosef only by the extraction of the coffin of the bones of joseph because joseph made them swear where do we see this look in genesis chapter 50 verse 25. it's number 15. it says joseph adjured a jew is a oath the ishmael joseph espine israel he had his own children's swear saying god will surely remember you and you shall take up my bones out of here right for god youth code of elohim he made them swear now deuteronomy chapter 3 33 verse 17 when moses blessed is joseph it says to his firstborn ox is given glory his horns are the horns of the rain you mean with them he will gore peoples together throughout all the ends of the earth these are the myriads of ephraim and these are the thousands of menashe what does it mean the first born ox why is joseph called the first born ox before shuro and because bahor is of course firstborn here listen rashi before showroom in addition to the simple meaning firstborn there are some instances in which the word before has the meaning of greatness to majesty as it is said i will make him a great man the highest of the kings on earth look in uh psalms 89 28 also in exodus 4 verse 22 is israel is my son my firstborn son um okay so what is how does he end this paragraph first we're just beginning from the very aspect there was an oath there was a an oath right they got to swear the mosha tas what did moses do during the ninth the sorry the tenth plague he took a plate the allah and he engraved on it a lay sure raised up ox raised up oh ox vasako benilos and he threw it into the nile river alkane joshua so what did the arab rav think they felt they thought maybe right i don't know mistakenly that the whole going up from egypt was due to or hanging on this first born ox called yosef the nikra before sure and he's called the first bornox because all of the powers that yosef had was tied up within taurus within this month so they thought this is exactly why moses took his bones they took bones of joseph with them that he actually actually thought that it was the pair the two of them the power of moses and the power of joseph the power of the sure it's very interesting because there is mashiach not going to go into that now but it's worth discussing another time and that's what it means plural which brought you up this is the gods of israel which brought you up brought you up as plural meaning the two gods the two powers both moses and i.e joseph slash taurus last three lines and then i'll let you go the yar arrow and arun saw what did he see he saw that the satan was very successful in convincing these people that moses was dead so he thought a great way is to push off and delay the building of the altar because they wanted to make some kind of um uh sacrifices to gods in this book low below his back he said well they're not going to do any kind of sacrifices without an altar so delay them we need to do an altar and that's why he says the shema i'm sorry he said this is what he says we will um he called out or proclaimed that we'll make a festival to hashem the uk tomorrow why tomorrow another delayed tactic lola egel not only to hashem not to diego right as a delay tactic but only to god not to the ego but only to hashem what did they think of but the saturn got them up very early the next day below him tinu kama showed allah they didn't have he didn't allow them but they didn't wait the the x amount of hours during the day they started worshiping right away the alu olos and they started bringing burnt offerings and that's where we're going to end tonight i know there's still a lot more to go but that's the good stuff about these total classes they never end right what is the truth about wisdom the more you know the more you know that you don't know right so there is so much to learn we just encourage you to keep coming back keep learning get into the words of torah meditate on them day and night don't let them leave you right review them i'm pretty much i'd like to stress about review but review means that you're going over it a second time so look on the webpage for the original hebrew try to learn hebrew right learn hebrew it's the whole i should say lush and hakodesh learn the holy language it's part of your the shama right adam marichon spoke adam the first man spoke to god in a unique language god created the world in a unique language and it will touch you it will it will reach deep into your soul anyway we're going to sign off tell everyone i'm going to tell everyone have a great life a great shabbos and a great summer and we'll see you next week [Music] foreign