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Shalom alaikum everybody Welcome Home to
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this is chapter 13 verses 17 and 18 in
shmos
the first thing oh by the way so we use
the clear car as the basis for our
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um in addition to that
um what I want to say I forget in
addition to what doesn't matter listen
we're going to try to follow the Hebrew
um that's what I want you to do and
without any further Ado it's it's
jam-packed of course always with
fundamentals of Judaism
and I'll tell you a little bit I like
spoon feed you a little bit of what the
clear car is bothered by I wouldn't even
say bothered he points it out he points
out in these two verses the word
is used three times obviously seemingly
allegedly describing the Jewish people
and then the fourth time this pronoun is
used called Bene Israel meaning the
Jewish people themselves and regarding
them they went up armed which is really
the whole discussion here what does it
mean that they went up armed and why is
it the Jewish people isn't didn't
Pharaoh send us out why are we called
the am when he sends us out and only
when it refers to us going up armed as
if it's almost like another sentence
another subject
let's see first we'll see in English
it came to pass when Pharaoh let the
people go that God did not lead them by
the way of the land of the Philistines
for it was near
but God because God said lest the people
reconsider when they see war and return
to Egypt so God led the people that's
the third time that peoples used around
by the way of the desert to the Red Sea
or the sea breeds and this is where we
begin this new description of the Jewish
people and the children of Israel were
armed when they went up out of Egypt you
have to hear the Hebrew
foreign
God didn't lead them by the way of let's
say it was the shorter route but they
would come to civilization quicker
kikarov who it actually is closer
it would have been closer but God saw
differently
lest the people
and
um change their minds or reconsider when
they see War
the shavu mitsarama and then return or
want to return to Egypt
and then what happens the yaseven
God then turns a circuitous root for the
people not the short way but a little
bit longer and in perhaps even in a
different direction altogether
and then there's like this last piece
rhyme
and it says they went up armed who went
up the arm who went up armed the binay
Israel the Jewish people may Aerosmith
Shrine out of Egypt
I just want to show you what the clear
what Rashi says
um when it says he didn't lead them so
Rashi actually says
hey he didn't lead the people
okay when you walk it shall lead he
gives another verse there are these two
verses Exodus 32 34 and in Proverbs 6 22
foreign
so basically that's the root of leading
for it was near and it was easy to
return by the road back to Egypt
and Rashi says when they see War
was even when they see War so if they
had gone a direct route they would have
returned now if when he led them around
and secured this route and of course
what did they say let us appoint the
leader to return to Egypt how much more
would they have planned to do this if he
led them on a direct route
and when it says Let It lest they
consider or reconsider the word
surashi says they would have second
thoughts about the fact that they left
Egypt and they will reconsider they will
think about returning
and therefore he led them around in a
circuitous route now what is most
interesting here is the word
she says can only mean armed
mizuyanim which is really the rudism
Zion
okay like cleizzion which is going to
play a major part of our discussion what
does it mean that they went armed
at the very end Rashi explains the word
hamushim means they were divided by five
meaning that only one-fifth one out of
every five Israelites went out while
four-fifths died during the three days
of darkness and you can see Rashi on
Exodus chapter 10 verse 22 and why that
was that the four-fifths of the Jews
died in Egypt they didn't want to leave
they were right it's easier to take a
Jew out of Egypt than the Egypt out of
the Jew
they didn't want to leave and therefore
actually we're going to call that evil
they were satisfied being in Egypt
anyway now let's go to the clear car and
see how he points out right away
so we saw the verse
and right after that it says
less right less the um the people
reconsider and change their minds so the
second time is used the third time the
yasevelo came god
um Turned the people around third time
is used
and then the fourth time we're
describing these people who left it says
went up armed so the clear car right
away says yes we should examine it we
should contemplate it we should dig
deeply and try to understand
why are they called three times the word
ham which means the people
and not only the Cabernet Israel but
it's related to
etzo meaning in close proximity to next
to the word hamushim that they went up
armed
this causes a great theological problem
number one who did Pharaoh send out
didn't he send out the Jews why weren't
benesha mentioned in the beginning and
if binay Israel went up armed
that like aren't we supposed to believe
and trust in God how is it that we went
up armed because again the Rashi
mentions CLE Zion that's what hamushim
right everyone knows what give out
ammunition Hill right you go into a
store you go into a hospital right where
they have a metal detector and they ask
you or if you are hamush have you ever
heard that being asked of you are you
armed you have a weapon
that's what CLE Zion means
now the clear Clark continues
fianira it seems
like the very fact that they're the
Jewish people why would they need
weapons at all this is a praise
not only that
Israel wasn't Pharaoh trying to get rid
of the Jewish people
then the opposite should have been said
meaning the very first time that that
Pharaoh sent them out it should have
said the word Venezuela that he sent out
the Jewish people
so the clear car says that nearly
yahshah panim
that there is a way to resolve this in
two distinct ways
two views
so we're going to begin with the first
which is the longest
part of the discussion
the first thing he does is he's quoting
the yokut he's quoting a midrash and I
think I have this on the
on the source sheet it's actually number
four
so it's in Yucca shimoni 227
the Hebrew says regarding the
khamoshiyanim similar to exactly what
Rashi is quoting and then there's
there's a certain verse but he teaches
us
that they actually had five types of
weapons
what does that mean we don't know yet
what does it mean they had five types of
weapons as we will see it could be that
each one each individual Jew out of six
hundred thousand of the men between 20
and 60 that means the age of uh of Army
service
each one had five weapons which the
clear car is going to find absolutely
fascinating
so let's begin with that second
paragraph
he's not quoting the um the Yoko shimoni
right it says
they went up armed again what did the
measure tell us
it can only mean that they went up armed
with five types of weapons
a great question he asked
is
it really true that the Jewish people
when they go to war it depends their
success is going to depend on the amount
of weapons that they have
it can't be we have a verse in shoaf
team you'll see this number three show
that's Judges chapter 5 verse 8. this is
a rhetorical question when they chose
New Gods then there was war in the
cities was there even was there seen a
shield or a spear when the Forty
thousand went up against Israel meaning
no you had 40 000 generals and heathens
come against Israel and we did not even
have any weapons of war
it would be a Boucher it would be a
shame to rely or depend our Victory on
the weapons of war
Ki Hashem is
Hashem who protected us
so this is going to be what he's about
to tell you is going to be like very key
here
the weapons of war ready for this
both what we call Torah and prayer they
are the clay zainam shaly Israel they
are the actual weapons that we the
Jewish people have
and he's basing it I mean he's not
really basing it but he's giving you a
proof in Psalms chapter three sorry it's
Psalms 149 verse 6.
uh 149 verse 6 says like this
I'll say in English first lofty Praises
of God is in their throats Roma moose El
begronam right these Praises are in
their throats Praises for the Lord
foreign right and the double-edged sword
is in their hands
I'll read the rest lassos nakama bagoim
in order to take Vengeance against the
tohos
um
and contentions against upon the
kingdoms
now Raj she says right there regarding
these lofty Praises that are in their
throats they will be for them a
double-edged sword it's actually what's
in their throats which leads us to
actually the word double-edged sword
a double-edged sword in Hebrew pithios
it's actually a play on words
like in other words it's like two mouths
two mouths but by using two mouths that
is our weapon called a double-edged
sword
um that's the Clear Car explains
based on this verse
what does it mean a sword that had two
mouths in their hands schnappios in
other words instead of using it
translating as double edged as Pepe two
mouths napiert Kish
both Torah and prayer are dependent on
your lips your throat
your mouth now if that's the case he
came
what
to Ferris what kind of beauty are we
attributing to Jewish people what kind
of you know Crown so to speak what kind
of positive attributes are we referring
to the Jewish people by saying that they
went up armed that's abusha like I said
because it's saying as if they were they
were not trusting in the Lord God
God forbid
right if they're trusting in their
weapons
now even if you want to say which this
is absolutely true what I'm about to
tell you
that a person is actually obligated to
do everything they can possibly do in
this natural world according to Nature
according to their own abilities to do
and then whatever's lacking Hashem will
make up the rest
whatever would be lacking from a natural
point of view
Hanes then God would fulfill and
complete through a miracle we don't rely
on Miracles outright God gave us a brain
he gave us the power he gave us big
things that we can figure things out
we're obligated to use all of our
abilities to do so and only when we
exhaust our efforts then the Miracles
will begin to happen don't rely on
Miracles outright
nevertheless this still leaves us with
our perhaps our original question
what was the verse in the Torah telling
us
that every single one of these six
hundred thousand Jews carried with them
five distinct weapons of war
um
the number the concept
naming five specific weapons what do I
need that for why should the Torah come
out and tell me that they each had five
weapons
very good question and not only that
he's not finished
furthermore vote
was this just happens to be a miracle
was it just a miracle that every single
one of these people carried five weapons
Obama or was it random
just a coincidence
the measures telling us every single one
of these six hundred thousand Jews had
five weapons how can that be
one didn't have four the other one
didn't have six we're talking about each
one had five that's what it says and the
clear card ends this sentence by saying
hello this is unusual this thing never
happens
and not only that
they weren't even trained they had not
learned how to use any of these weapons
okay
according to what it seems
they weren't knowledgeable in strategy
of work
they were slaves all they knew was how
to make bricks right perhaps other
things that slaves know how to do they
were busy they were involved with hard
labor their entire days when did they
ever have time to train who clay zionel
lamalam so what would they even need
weapons of warfare
they weren't experienced with them
you know what would have been better for
them to do walk with sticks and
slingshots what else could slaves know
how to use these weapons of war
alkane near lafarish therefore certainly
seems that we can explain it the
following way
this is actually coming to inform
Usain they didn't actually have in their
hands any weapons of war well doesn't
the Torah say they went up armed
Torah
they came up with the five books of the
Torah which obviously
how can that be we didn't receive even
the beginning until 50 days after we
left in other words we accepted the
Torah on shavuas the 50th day after we
left accepted it we didn't really
receive anything written who knows when
and for certain till the end of
Deuteronomy we did not have five whole
books so what can it possibly mean that
they actually
received they actually went up in their
hands with these five books that we're
going to call the Torah well I have news
for you
this idea if you notice in Numbers
Chapter 10
verses 35 and 36 there are these
inverted upside down nuns
and what we learned from that believe it
or not is that by mid bar numbers is
actually one particular book that's
divided into three books three distinct
books whatever came in by midbar from
the beginning up until chapter 10 35 is
considered one book those two verses
those two verses is a single book and
then everything after verse 36 onward to
the end of numbers is another book so
you have altogether seven books
interestingly those two verses
really deal with war in a great sense
look at the verse number 10.
in the source sheet numbers 10 verse
35-36 so it was whenever the ark set out
Moses would say arise O Lord may your
enemies be scattered and may those who
hate you flee from you meaning the Torah
was inside
this we called the Ark of the Covenant
The Ten Commandments and of course later
on
the actual Torah Scrolls themselves were
placed into this um
this Arc and that's what we used when we
went out to war after we came into the
land of Israel and when it came to rest
he would say Repose oh Lord among the
myriads of thousands of Israel I'll say
the Hebrew of the HEB and saw our own
The Omen Moshe Kuma adenoi the afuso is
that's the first part of the verse we're
all familiar with that
um
Rashi says right there so it was
whenever the ark set out he mentions God
he made marks for it this passage before
and after it as if to indicate that it's
not its proper place in scripture so why
is it written here in order to make a
break between one punishment and the
next meaning whatever came before and
what it came after and it says that this
is considered a book on its own
um now why seven right we have five
books of the Torah but referring to
number seven that there are seven books
so I have two interesting verses to look
at by the way it actually says Gamora
Shabbos 116a that this is considered a
book into itself
and it brings down two verses and brings
down the verse in Proverbs chapter 9
verse 1 where it says
wisdom it's talking about the Torah the
whole chapter is talking about the
wisdom of the Torah wisdom has built her
house she has hewn Her Seven Pillars
Shiva
however just to another verse
interestingly enough
it says in
one second it says in Psalms 119 164
it says over there Shiva Beyond Hillel
actually this is the verse the clear
card brings down
um seven times a day I Praise You
for Your Righteous judgments Rashi says
there in the morning twice before the
reading of the Shema and once after it
so we have three brachot in the Shema in
the morning and in the evening twice
before and twice after there are fourth
in the evening Shema so those obviously
three and four that's seven times we
make over the Shema and when it says
Upon Your Righteous judgments that's
referring to the actual reading of the
Shema itself which consists of the words
of Torah
okay so back into the cleat car the last
thing I believe he said was
actually I kind of skipped something but
let's go back where it says
um
okay we only read two lines of this
paragraph
um
the only thing the Jews had as their
weapons of war were the five books
farm that actually divide into seven
books Le mandarship
according to the opinion of the gemara
that says this is a book all on its own
those two verses in Numbers chapter 10
35 and 36. and that's brought down in
Shabbos 116a now we understand
now when it says
we understood that as mizuyanim
the root of Zion they went up armed clay
Zion
hakol Ram is the Torah this is all
hinting to the Torah itself meaning the
five and the Seven
the very fact we're going to call the
Torah are armaments but it's using the
word five is the root hamesh
the best way I can translate this is one
language one expression falls on top of
the other expression which means it's a
play on words it's a play on words that
the word
means
means armed
hamisha meaning the language of five
and the word Zion even the language of
seven
these are the language the expressions
of weapons of war
the etzel Israel and it's only by the
Jewish people meaning Israel
malatora right we asked why does it say
it was Israel that went up our
you can say the word
it is the five books of the Torah
karmore as we said mizuyanim are weapons
of war but what are the weapons of war
according to the other opinion is the
Fila is the prayer like we mentioned and
that's the verse I quoted in
Psalms 119 verse 164 Sheva Beyond
those are the seven Praises that we say
every day in the kriya
now the Clear Car ends this page we have
two and a half more pages to go
behold this is well known
everyone should know this
should already know this shallow hayu
Israel Royale Torah the Jewish people
were not ready yet to receive the Torah
I mean we were Idol worshipers we came
out of Egypt on below right below zero
we were at the 49th level of of impurity
we were down there and it took us 50
days the 49 day that's why I gave I gave
a whole Shear of noch Weinberg his yard
site was actually today and he helped
develop the famous
program called the 40 ways to wisdom
based on the mishnah the 48 ways to
acquire Torah
um so during these days that we left
Egypt we're going through a growth
process not just to come back to zero
but to come out on the other end plus 50
right if you leave Egypt and you're
minus 49 it takes you 49 50 days to re
to get there you would think okay you're
climbing a ladder to zero no we actually
made such a tikkun that we were on the
49th level when plus when we received
the Torah but there was a trans
transition there was something that
transformed us on the way and that was
the yamsuf and the entering the desert
which we're about to hear about
so Israel was not yet fit we weren't
ready to receive the Torah
's
we weren't really ready to receive the
Torah until we crossed through the
splitting of the sea and we walked on
dry land into the desert this desert was
where there was nothing growing
foreign commotion Mr and it was only
through at this point a week after we
left Israel after we left Egypt that we
came to what we're going to call
amuna schlam a complete faith in God
and in the prophecy of Moshe we believe
in the prophecy of Moshe and what did it
say in Exodus chapter 14 verse 31.
it says Israel saw the great hand which
the Lord had used upon the Egyptians and
the people feared the Lord and they
believed in the Lord and in Moses his
servants they are yes
listen
we came to believe in God
prior to that doesn't mean we didn't
believe but it wasn't a complete belief
it was unbelievable the Miracles that
took place why did God take the arm
which was let's say pre-israel
overthrew the experience at the
splitting of the sea we could have taken
the shortest route
he took us back around the circuitous
route in order to embed implant and
calculate this certain level of complete
faith in him and the belief in Moses's
Prophecy
at this point
and it was only at this point and then
when we crossed over into onto the dry
land and we sang a great song
okay
so
um let's continue where we left off
basically it was this
bringing us back through the yamsuf
through the splitting of the sea and
through the desert where we came to
believe in God and completely and in the
prophecy of Moses now
prior to us coming to this level of
faith
that we were not yet fit so prior to
this we weren't fit cause
at the right the whole time that we had
any doubts any spekot any doubts or
questions regarding the prophecy of
Moshe and the complete belief in God
wasn't we weren't ready to receive the
Torah the
akashu and it was only after that we
came to the yamsuf that we we came to
this high level of amuna and faith in
God may as from that point on how you
ruin the Kabbalah to Torah it was only
from that point onward we were fit to
receive the Torah but you tricking oh
lay lake permit Barbara Eric's lozzarua
and it was imperative that we actually
walked through the desert in which
nothing was sown I want to take you to a
pasig I believe it's in Jeremiah
chapter 2 verse 2.
right
go and call out in the ears of you shall
I am saying so said the Lord I remember
to you the love and kindness of your
youth the love of your nuptials you're
following me in the desert in a land not
sown
foreign
this took a great amount of faith and
what did we say when we were about to go
through the desert we didn't say what
are we going to eat
okay we we followed right God right into
the desert so to speak
so let's see where the Clear Car we're
now on page two are you three oh they
like the mid bar Lozier
obviously what was necessary after going
through the amsouf we needed to walk on
in this desert area
Shema
shama meet us
we needed there to acquire a very
important Meda which is by the way one
of the 48 ways to acquire wisdom
is his top coos means sufficiency
self-sufficiency or or minimum amount
contentment with little fragile
satisfaction with little as we know in
perkia vote it says
the way of Torah you'll find this if I'm
not mistaken
and number 13 on the source sheet it's
in perkiavo chapter 6 verse 4. this is
actually right before the 48 ways to
wisdom which you'll find in mishnah
chapter 6 verse 6 in the Percival
such is the way of
torahim
I'm sorry
bread in salt you will eat
and in a water in small measure you will
drink
and on the ground you will sleep
and you will live a life of deprivation
and toil and Torah
so this is his topicus being willing to
doesn't mean you actually live that way
but the willingness to give up physical
Comforts in order to acquire
life itself the Torah which is
instructions these are the instructions
for Life the instruction manual what
what you wouldn't be willing to give up
anyway so we understand Lo Newton
it actually says see the man was an
unbelievable food it was
angel food
first of all it didn't have any taste
but unless you had a good imagination it
tasted like whatever you wanted it to
taste like
and it fell at your your foot basically
it came to your door if you were
righteous and if you weren't so
righteous you'd have to walk out your
door and pick it up at the curb I'm
talking about here in the in the desert
I mean I didn't have curbs but you'd
have to walk out to the and then if you
really weren't righteous you might have
to walk around the corner and if you
really weren't that righteous you might
have to walk across the entire Camp so
everyone knew who was righteous and who
wasn't righteous it was so obvious it
was enough shame to do true of it right
so anyway this idea that not only did
you eat it you didn't need to go to the
bathroom it was totally absorbed in your
body there was no Solace there was no
excrement
um
you didn't even have to change your
clothes there was no sweat
uh you know your clothes it actually
your clothes grew on you you didn't have
to change your socks or your your shoes
that was it whatever you wore when you
left Egypt you were the entire time
there's no reason to change
um okay so the toad was only given to
that generation that ate the man we're
throwing an angel food what was the
point because really when it comes to
learning Torah you're not right you
don't need to work you don't need to
have any distractions because how else
you're going to eat people think that
they have to go and work in order to
feed themselves but no if you it is at
least life in the desert right when you
concentrate and you study the whole day
you will be fed you will be taken care
of all your needs will be taken care of
there's actually Gamora that explains
this and I'll just have to find it for
you
um
actually it's the middle it's number 16
on the source sheet basharlock 20.
I'll read it to you let them go and
gather straw for themselves that's what
Pharaoh told them they didn't really go
out to the Courtyard to gather straw but
in the wilderness you know when we in
the wilderness we gathered a portion
every day of this manner
and who gave it to us he who created the
Day created sustenance for the day
remember the Ezra of modaim stated
because of this
anyone who has sufficient food for the
day and yet asked what shall eat
tomorrow lacks faith that I may prove
them whether or not they follow me
follow my law this is um in right Exodus
16 4.
this is one of the reasons we were given
man to see if we we believed in God
um rub Yeshua held if a man studies two
laws in the morning and two in the
evening even though he is occupied with
his labors throughout the rest of the
day they consider him as a he's
fulfilled the entire Torah because it's
if he meditated in a day night as in
Joshua 1 8 meaning if you set a times
time set aside time in the morning and
in the evening to study Torah it's as if
you'll get credit as if you studied the
whole day
the son of Yeshua observed from this
verse that the Torah was given for study
to those who have sufficient Mana to eat
since they are not compelled to work or
engage in business indeed how can a man
sit and study when he doesn't know where
he's going to obtain his food and drink
garments and covering hence the Torah
was given for study to those who
possessed Manna you want to be the
worlds who partake of the Mana well
you're gonna have to you have to pray
for it and be righteous enough and
Hashem we should all Merit to be eating
mana and not have to toil
and therefore dedicate Our Lives to
studying Torah and teaching because if
you're not teaching you're not studying
okay I'll talk about that another time
so the clear clock continues
it's from the whole concept of the
coming down of the man Lam do Derek his
tapkus we learn this very special
character trait of satisfaction from
Little
for anybody who's ready to receive the
Torah has to understand this
and they need this the Noosa Falls and
now in addition to this
nishtashed
it became embedded it became implanted
right shoresh means rooted this amuna
became rooted through those Miracles
that were performed for them in the
desert just like the Miracles that
occurred to them by the yam suf right
when we read the we talk about the
Miracles and there's even opinions it
wasn't just ten plagues that happened in
Egypt but even more happened by the
yamsuf unbelievable some say 50 some say
250 right and on and on unbelievable
okay
Aloha Rose what is this all to teach us
that it was actually really embedded in
their heart it was given over for them
to really take to heart
furthermore because we have this concept
right the six days of creation
and then The Seventh-Day Shabbos match
up with three sets of two thousand the
first two thousand years of creation
then there was another two thousand
years we're right now in the very last
Millennium the 6 000th year right we're
in the sixth it's called the fifth
Millennium right
I don't know what it's called you know
what I mean we're in 5783 so it's the uh
we're in the 6 000th year right in the
and that's in that section the last two
thousand years
so there is a let me find it
so there's a quote from San Pedro 97a
and I did bring it down here in a town
of devel Yahoo right the school El Yahoo
taught that uh Shana are you Alma right
there's 6 000 years remember the six
days of creation match up with the six
thousand years of creation six days of
creation match the six thousand years of
creation the first two thousand of were
called tohu meaning chaos and void
that's because that's before Torah as we
know that was avram avinu born in 1948
and he came to believe fully in God by
the age of 52. so at the year 2000 that
was when chaos was over and the Torah
began but it wasn't in Ruden until the
26th generation of creation which is the
generation of the desert the door hadaya
the generation of knowledge that's we
call it
and that was like midpoint almost
midpoint towards the end
um towards the beginning of those 2000
years called Torah and the last two
thousand years the 2000 years we're in
now is called that the years of mashiach
okay that means that it's Roy and
fitting for meshiach to come during this
time
now let's continue where we left off if
I could just find it
and here we are
so he quotes like this
that because the first two uh 2000 years
are called tahu quoting it from
Sanhedrin 97a
main kamidbar that we say the first two
thousand years were like a mid bar like
a desert there was no real until avram
there was no real word of God being
um professed to the masses right there
were individuals that lived by the Torah
uh the Torah that we know existed before
but nobody really was going out there
and we'll call preaching it and sharing
it sharing the good news
okay so it was from avram onward called
the time of Torah
so
mid bar it was desolate like a mid bark
kosman shubalo Torah the whole time it
was without Torah akano
therefore it was so necessary for this
26th generation to accept the Torah in
order to complete whatever was lacking
in the world the world needed the Torah
then they called them yes
prior to the Jewish people receiving or
accepting the Torah
Ayub
that the Jewish people were called just
like anybody else we were
we did not have a special status until
Martin Torah or maybe we're advocacy
saying from the time we went to the
yamsuf a week after we left Egypt when
we left Egypt we were still what we were
still
we didn't receive the tour yet we were
no different than anybody else
that's what he's saying he naked them
we were like any other Nation the Lord
needs
we were not considered separate yet to
have unique completion or unique
perfection
okay
we weren't yet separated from the other
nations
therefore we were not called by this
name the Jewish people binay Israel the
children of Israel
it was only through the receiving of the
Torah now obviously you're going to have
a question we didn't receive the Torah
until 50 days after we left and we're
only talking about a week a week and a
day whatever it is
it was then right it was only then by
God separating us from all the other
nations that we became his special and
treasured Nation now I want to bring in
a story about race lokish just to bring
home a point the clear card doesn't
mention this but I think that this is
very um apropos and fits in well
what the clear card is saying that we
did receive the will and we accepted the
willingness to receive the Torah and
that was enough that was as if we
received the Torah itself that was our
weapon of War even though we didn't
receive you know the acknowledgment from
Hashem until she was 50 days later and
then we didn't receive or supposedly
received until 40 days after that that
the first set of tablets which we
obviously didn't receive we they were
broken because we were involved into the
uh the um
it was only on Yom Kippur
the right the following Yom Kippur that
we received the second set
and that would be really the cabal
satara but anyway there's different
stages of receiving the Torah well guess
what I think what the clear card is
saying is that when we cross the sea and
we believed in Hashem and we believed in
the prophecy of Moses that was an
acceptance a willingness to receive the
Torah that was coming to us and I'm
going to bring down and but see 84 a
famous story of raish lakish who became
the khavruta the the study partner
rabiokanan now this Gomorrah talks about
the beauty of he was very
healthy okay that means he was
overweight he was very healthy and he
had very pale skin and he looked like a
woman for some reason Ray schluckish was
the head of the bandits he was not a
kosher Jew at the time but he became one
of the greatest rabbis that ever lived I
want everyone to know you could be in
the the pits of prison you could be in
the the lowest place in your life and
you could rise to places like Rabbi
Akiva and race lukish there is no
barrier that's going to keep you back
Rachel was the head of the bandits I
think of him like Tarzan he swung from
the trees and attacked people and like
Robin Hood he took he took the goods
from people traveling through the forest
he was uh he was to be feared okay and
one day he saw rabiokana bathing in the
Jordan River Ray schlocker saw him and
leaped into the Jordan pursuing him
at the time Rachel was the leader of a
band of marauders
ravyokanan heard and saw reshlukish and
he saw this immense power and attraction
for beauty obviously because he knew he
was gorgeous okay he knew how
good-looking he was I don't want to go
into how he knew but he knew and he
understood that race lukish thought he
was a woman
so he says listen I see your strength
you could use your strength for studying
Torah
ish lucky said to him yeah you think I'm
strong I think you're beautiful your
beauty is fit for women
said back to him you know what in return
if you if you devote yourself to
learning Torah I'm going to give you my
sister you think I'm pretty wait till
you see her I'll give her to you in
marriage she's even more beautiful than
I am you know what happened at that
moment race luckish accepted upon
himself to study Torah he made a
decision yeah I'm going to do that and
you know what happened at that moment he
lost all of his physical strength he was
unable to jump back out of the river to
get his own clothes he was unable to
return there's like this transformation
there's a shift when you take all your
will and your
determination to go and fulfill
spiritual Pursuits that is a tremendous
amount of energy that is now being
streamlined in that direction
and he lost his physical strength as
this you know real Rambo kind of guy
probably had just normal strength he
couldn't jump out right so
what I think is happening taking the
story that the Jewish people when they
went through the yamsuf and started
through this desert there was a trans
there's a transcendental shift where
they began to believe in God immensely
completely
and in the prophecy of Moses and that
was as if they accepted the Torah at
that point and were able to eat the man
okay so that's how I am the clear card
does not bring it in I'm bringing it in
for this reason
let's continue with the clear card s
he's now going to
go back
through the parts of the verses that we
explained and tell the whole story from
beginning to end
so it goes like this when pharah
originally when the Torah says
originally the Hebrew
it was when Pharaoh sent the people
it's true they were still called we
weren't yet the Jewish people
we were not yet any different we weren't
separated yet from the other nations of
the world
and we didn't have weapons of war either
any weapons whether it was physical
nor spiritual he's going to describe for
sure we didn't have physical weapons we
already kind of described that already
low clay Zion hatavi they didn't have
physical natural
weapons
because we weren't even trained in war
we already discussed this low clezine
shall rather at that point we still did
not yet have the klzine shelatora so in
the beginning we didn't have any weapons
of war charay low-key blue or die in
atar because we had not yet accepted the
Torah
I think this is we weren't even ready
and prepared to receive the Torah
kilone
there wasn't yet this embedded
embeddedment this this implanting of
this kind of faith yet
therefore what is the Torah then go go
and say Lo nacham Elohim Derek Harris
police team God did not guide us by way
of this Civilization by the police team
I thought Pete even though it was the
closest way even though it was shikarovu
even though it was the I would I
wouldn't say the best way but you would
think it's the closest it's the shortest
but God was concerned lest the people
reconsider and change their mind
when they see War the fish should die in
Hema biklal yes because we were no long
we were not yet Jews we didn't have the
Torah we didn't have the the the the
weapons of war we were just like anybody
else in fact he says the dying him of
the cloud yes sir we were just like all
the rest of the Nations
then for sure we would have went back to
Egypt
because we didn't have any weapons of
war what did we what are we going to
gain by going in and seeing war and then
thinking we're going to fight it no
there's no doubt it's so obvious that we
would have been defeated if we didn't go
back of course we would have went back
therefore what does the Clear Car say
what the Torah says what did Hashem do
the yase
that God took us when the Security's
route could he take the arm
by way of the desert of the Sea of reeds
it was only through going through the
Miracles that occurred at the splitting
of the sea and going into the desert
that we were able to acquire Complete
faithura because then we were prepared
and ready
to receive the Torah
he and it was at that very moment yet
clay zaina malayam as if we had the
Hamish as if we had the seven books as
if we had the Torah as if we had these
weapons of war upon us
it was as if similar as if we already
received the Torah even though we
wouldn't really physically receive
physically receive it until Yom Kippur
but that point we're going to be called
the children of Israel
in order to distinguish us to separate
us from all the other nations of the
world
that's what it means at the end of these
two verses where it says
Israel it was the children of Israel
that went up armed it was it could only
have been the children of Israel
right the word hamushin which means
armed can only mean armed with the five
books with I'm sorry with five different
types of weapons of Wars we describe
that's so unusual they were actually
five
weapons of war what were those five
weapons of war they were the five books
of the Torah and the seven books
for him
or even if you want to say right this
pipio this double-edged sword is either
the Torah and or prayer like we said
come work
now the clear car claims
should rabba unfortunately I didn't have
time to look at it I'll trust that the
clear that the clear cards quoting
breakshied rabbit correctly that and
martinus that actually when we received
the Torah the the at Martin Torah
God
Hagar Hagar is like strapped up like
belted he right he um he gave us these
weapons of war on it like a belt so to
speak
um
now if you look in the ramban in parshus
kitisa there is a verse in Exodus
chapter 33 verse 5.
let me find it here on the source sheet
it's number 15 on the source sheet
and this is right after the benesrao was
involved with the golden calf
and the Lord said to Moses say to the
children of Israel you are stiff-necked
people if I go up into your midst for
one moment I will destroy you but now
otta
take off your ornaments take off your
finery what do we what are we
understanding that this the ornaments
the clean the clay Zion the ornaments we
had were the weapons of war it was I'm
not sure it's a punishment I think it's
called measure for measure
God wanted us to remove this now in the
targamonculus it says
which means remove your prepared weapons
from yourselves so these were the
weapons that we had prepared
according to the clear card he
understands this is a clear-cut proof
there's no question that the the weapons
of war we had were sure lead the Torah
our peace
even though at the time we actually did
leave from
Egyptian we did not actually have
weapons of war that we had bar
until we came to the desert itself
and that you know what happened in the
desert
the Jewish people did not say to God
word of Moses
how are we supposed to walk through this
desert Lo makum Zera there is nothing
growing there's no seeds
that is where they received they
acquired
the real true faith
at the very beginning of this
acquisition
it was already considered as if they
were embedded implanted with this amuna
with the Torah with therefore the the
weapons of war
that's why we understand
that the Israel the peninsula went up
armed hainu bismar sha'alum meaning when
they at that moment when they went up to
from Egypt
so in other words going through the Sea
of reeds was really like the border of
Israel they only left Egypt a week later
right they didn't fully leave the
clutches of Egypt until and maybe that's
even when I think about Hashem took them
all the way back in a circuitous route
almost back to the start almost back to
the starting point
um so he says
that the the the the the
Finishing Touch of acquisition of
acquiring this type of Faith all took
place by the yam suf by the uh the
splitting of the sea
okay now Derek Cheney we're going to go
into the second way to look at these
verses which is quite different quite
different than everything we said
Derek Cheney B sure
there's another way to resolve these
verses
we have to understand that when it says
the word is a code word for the air of
RAV
and or those who are the most inferior
of the Jewish people
um I just want to mention a few things
real quickly I have a lot of sources
here
um but I do want to take you
so let's go to Numbers chapter 11 verse
1. it says over there Hashem
the people were looking to complain and
it was evil in the ears of the Lord
okay I don't have to read the rest Rashi
says there the word
is used only in reference to the wicked
so the era of RAV are either the wicked
uh Egyptians
they're not so weird Wicked I mean we're
going to see the wicked compared to the
Jews but they're the best of the
Egyptians perhaps who really wanted to
become Jewish and they actually
converted with us when we converted
Mount Sinai and they're still with us
today they are the troublemakers within
the Jewish people we're not going to get
into name calling or anything like that
I have a lot of the explanation who they
are
Rashi says on chap on Exodus chapter 12
verse 38 it says also great mixed
multitude went up with them gam error of
Alita Rashi says over there this was a
mixture of nations of gerim of
proselytites
um
basically they were the Klingons right
the Klingons they saw the Jewish people
they had some Faith they had some let's
say um
vision of joining up with the Jewish
people and they clinged on they clung on
um and they ended up
converting along with the Jewish people
and they are now part of the Jewish
Nation but they always are like this
little
ah what's the word I can use
I don't know I'm not going to say too
much
um apparently the numbers the clear card
brings this down but the mikhilta and
rabieshmael brings it down as well that
the numbers they were twice the amount
of Jews
there were one million two hundred
thousand according to us we were six
hundred thousand that was the words of
reviews
says twice that two million four
which really means times three and Remy
Nelson says three million six either way
the the there's more of them than there
is of the banay Israel
maybe that's why I'm is used three times
Bane Israel is only used once but
nevertheless let's stick to what the
clear car says and not go too far I do
want to mention that it's very
interesting that Moses decided on his
own to bring these people out because he
actually saw the spark
of great potential these were probably
Souls that began to perfect themselves
and he saw they were well on their way
but they weren't perfected yet and he
won he took them along to help their
perfection along I'll leave it at that
okay I'll leave it at that
let's go back into the clear card where
he last said that the name of the
aravrov is referring to either the the
the most um Team should be the most
inferior of Jews and the Arab Roth
It's considered one name in other words
the Arab is either referring to these
non these Egyptians who just joined on
clinged on to the Jewish people
um or they're the the inferior of the
Jews so when it says
did Pharaoh really send out these people
as far as I know he didn't send them out
but he let them go he didn't chase after
them
the clear card is talking about that's
what her arm is means is consistent with
the air of Wrath
the very fact that Pharaoh did not
protest
he didn't protest or prevent it from
leaving it's
as if he actually sent them we find this
type of language in two other verses in
Genesis 24 54 and in Genesis 30 verse
25.
so in 24th 54
I think I think this is referring to um
Eliezer is wanting to go back to avraham
says they ate and drank he and the men
who were with him they lodged and they
Rose in the morning and he said send me
away to my master
sorry
send me away to my master the very
shalach send me means allow me to go
allow me obviously he he wants to go and
by asking send me it's not that
it's not that uh avram's family sent
Eliezer back but he let they allowed
them to go so this term when it says
is basically just saying that Pharaoh
didn't prevent them from going and again
we have it when um when yaakov wants to
leave lavon's house it says in Genesis
30 verse 25 it came to pass when Russell
had borne Yosef that yaakov said to love
and send me away and I will go
again not that Lavon was sending him
away but allow me to go and if you don't
protest it means that you sent me
so the clear card is saying that is
consistent with our verse regarding the
air of Wrath
so the word the first part is talking
about the Arab Wrath
now we're in for the final stretch here
it was because of the air of Wrath that
God took us in a circuitous route not
because of the Jews
God did not want them to return to Egypt
when they would see war of above
but for the Jewish people who had faith
in God according to this opinion they
didn't need to go and secured this route
because the Jewish people already had
not according to the first way but at
this point the Jewish people had Faith
so why did they have faith because
they're the sons of Abraham Isaac and
jacobini as we'll see shortly he says
the Jewish people went up armed with
their faith
they are the children's of those with
faith that they had Faith within them
they are the children of Abraham ising
Jacob children of Believers Believers
children of believers
these Israelites they believed and were
assured of the Salvation of God Zoo he
clay zainam that is their weapon of War
their faith
therefore they would they are assured
when a war comes that they will not lose
that they will be victorious they're not
afraid
has such an influence on us on the true
Israelites that it
wears away and Fades our true Muna
any diminishing of Faith came just like
who is responsible for the sin of the
golden calf only 3 000 Jews but who
instigated it the air of
I talk about that another another time
kikarov who listen to this because it
was close no because it was near because
it's new to them they're right we say
kirov bringing clothes those who are far
that's what kirov means bringing clothes
those to afar these aircraft were far
and we brought them close which means
they were new the Jewish people already
had this faith for Generations
but these people were new
of bow it's the new ones that are coming
close
and they had not yet had this sense of
faith that was embedded and implanted in
them perhaps whether it's through the
DNA or through the learning through the
watching your own forefathers uh have
right when you're watching your own
parents making brachot and telling you
about their faith and how they would
break ice in Siberia just to go to the
Mikvah and how they were beaten by you
know the whoever these anti-semites and
they capture their faith this embeds in
you that you're willing to be mysterious
nephewish to give up your life for the
true faith of God and these people were
still new so to speak and didn't have
the Moon it needed to be implanted in
them anyway so what I'm going to end
this it's a good review these are good
uh fundamental concepts and I wish
everyone a frailer schwat right we
should see our dreams come true because
two vishwat is really an opportunity to
touch the atsailus where everything just
Begins the very conception of our
thoughts should be positive and it
should be fulfilled through the seasons
and through the year and bizarat Hashem
the very seed of our thoughts should be
so the most positive and embedded with
our moon in Hashem and go from strength
to strength and I wish you all shabbat
shalom and
afraelica uh
and get back
everybody
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