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Midrash Raba Shemot 4 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Midrash Rubber Parishat Shamot sheer #3 So many have got
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  familiar with the interesting discussion around whether Vayako
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  Melahadas and new king Garros. Was he a new king?
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  Was he a really new king? Or was he the same old king who
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  just changed his his, his views on things and acted differently?
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  There's a third opinion in the Midrash Rabbanan Amri.
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  The rabbis say Lamakura Melakhada.
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  Why does the verse say Melakhada?
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  And the point being here that we don't have any reference to the
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  king dying, which would be the usual formula in the Torah, X
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  dies and Y takes over. So why does it do that?
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  Vahala paratsmahaya, OK, it's the same.
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  It's the very same Pharaoh all along.
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  They also reject the idea that he just changed his way of doing
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  things, because there's no that. Why would you be called a new
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  king that doesn't? That's the language that doesn't
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  necessarily make sense. And if you follow it, it should
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  have said he should have changed his decrees and then referred to
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  him as new. But in the in the in the first
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  calls him a new king and then the rules change, which implies
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  that he was actually a new king. So why does it say it's the same
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  Pharaoh all along Allah Shah Ruha mitzrum.
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  Rather, it wants to teach us the following.
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  The Egyptian said to para, come, let us persecute this nation.
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  So that's fascinating. One opinion, the Midrash
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  contends that it was the whole bullying the Jewish people,
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  enslaving the Jewish people, changing the way they were dealt
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  with comes from the fact that this king didn't have any
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  awareness of them. They were irrelevant to him.
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  He came from another place and that's why he wanted to get rid
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  of them. He had no allegiance to them.
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  Then we had the stance that it was the same bloke and he's just
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  cruel and wicked and not very pleasant and I'm grateful.
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  And now we're having a third approach by the rabbis that
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  actually it all came through the people themselves and Marilyn
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  Hammer, Paris said to them. Shut him at him.
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  You're idiots. Now, until this point in time,
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  Adarshav MI shillahan anuragi, why are we alive?
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  We're only alive. We're only doing well because
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  this people looked after us. It wasn't for Joseph.
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  None of us would be here Kevan still or Shamalaham.
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  But when the Egyptians saw that Pharaoh didn't listen to them,
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  they removed him from his throne for three months.
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  I'd Shamalaham until he said to them, I can't give up Kumar Shah
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  Tamarotzi Maharani I maham, what an embarrassment.
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  Whatever you wish to do, I am with you.
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  And then they put him back on the throne.
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  The that's why the verse says by Yakon Melekhardash, a new king
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  arose because it was the renewal of the Kingdom after it had been
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  taken away. But maybe you're thinking, hold
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  on, that makes absolutely no sense because it's by Yama al
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  Ahmad. Pharaoh said to the people, let
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  us deal wisely with them. Let's put tax officers and make
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  things complicated. That's what the Torah says.
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  So how can the how can the Rabbi's in the Midrash suggest
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  it came from the people when the Torah makes it very clear that
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  it's cut that Pharaoh was the one that suggested things?
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  It must be that this opinion understands that the
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  high-ranking officers of Mitzrayim of Egypt were the ones
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  to suggest it initially and after power was reinstated then
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  he convinced the multitude of Egypt to agree to the plan,
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  which suggests something. He must have felt like an
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  imbecile because he was the one that said to the people, go into
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  this midrash, you're the idiot in being ungrateful to the
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  people that saved us. And now having knowing that and
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  feeling that and expressing that he didn't have to go back on
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  himself in order to secure his role and his job again.
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  A fascinating 3 way discussion as to how things change so
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  dramatically for the Jewish people so drastically.
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  And again, if you were charged with making a film of this
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  story, which one of these opinions do you think you would
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  engage with, you would employ in order to tell the story?
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  I'll leave that up to you. Have a fantastic day.