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- 0:00I'm going to try to pull out a few.
- 0:02I'm sure they'll come out throughout the course of Shabbat
- 0:05because of the same. But let's, let's start with a
- 0:06few #1 the opening by the souk opening 1st, 7th Basukim is the
- 0:15introduction to the parachat instruction to the book.
- 0:17It has its thought. It tells you the Ellis Shamot
- 0:21and these are the names of the Jewish people Habbaiim Mitzrima
- 0:25who are coming to Mitzrim. It's Yaakov Ish Oberto Bauer.
- 0:30They came with Yaakov, each man in his family and then it tells
- 0:33you to avenge more on the leave you die repeats those names.
- 0:36It's a House of woman. I mean done enough to leave God
- 0:39that I share. It says the total of the family
- 0:42was 70 and says 5 figures over the words via save by Yaaba
- 0:46Messiah. You save was already in Egypt.
- 0:50That's the completion of the family 7 the people and then it
- 0:52tells you how they passed away. So there are many points in
- 0:54these opening position. Let's pull out a couple #1 the
- 0:59fact that we are repeating the names.
- 1:02We already know the names. We dealt with them.
- 1:05Even that last hope passed away, even after they all pretty much
- 1:08all passed away. We're repeating.
- 1:09Yeah, corporate show passed away.
- 1:10We're repeating. It's a new book.
- 1:12It's new chapter in Jewish history.
- 1:15Why are we mentioning names? They tribes again #1 #2 the
- 1:20terminology that we use, Habayim Mitzayima who are coming to
- 1:25Egypt, they already came. They already passed away.
- 1:28Why are you using the words they're coming, They're coming
- 1:31three. It says ET Yakov along with
- 1:34Yakov ish, ube tobao. Each man came with his family.
- 1:38What are you emphasizing with saying that they came with their
- 1:40family? What's your point?
- 1:42So the overall theme again, the many details of this theme, the
- 1:46overall theme to open up up a Shah is she tells us that Hashem
- 1:52is listing them again like stars way guard sends out the stars
- 1:57every day and then takes them back in and he counts them when
- 2:00he lets them out and counts on every Zach and that of love.
- 2:03So Hashem was counting on naming these people when they were
- 2:06first. What did you say that stars,
- 2:08stars, God let's out into the world every night and brings
- 2:11them back in, asked them. Hashem counts them as she writes
- 2:15every day when he does so the same way God counts the stars,
- 2:19He's counting us. Mentioning our 12 tribes, our
- 2:23special people was the point, the beloved aspect.
- 2:27That's the point, that's the opening point.
- 2:28OK, so it's showing Yama Tashem loved these 12 tribes and I
- 2:34loved the uniqueness and the special element of these people.
- 2:38That's alright. She opens up, that's all.
- 2:39Opening up this book with mentioning these names again.
- 2:42The only question is why here? Why now?
- 2:45Why are you telling me this at this point?
- 2:47How does it connect to the next step in the parisha?
- 2:50What is the Goliath of the sign? How does it play in?
- 2:54There's a saying that you can't go forward unless you got to
- 2:57know. Where you can't, where you came
- 2:58from. Good, good.
- 2:59That could be. So that'll play until I get
- 3:01there in a second. The first.
- 3:03Penetrate into our heads. Good.
- 3:06It's very good. The idea is they about the
- 3:08usually we're about to go into one of the darkest points in
- 3:10history. The Lumen time is our first
- 3:13exile. We just became a nation with 70
- 3:16people, which is the creation of the nation.
- 3:18And then immediately we're in exile.
- 3:20So maybe you can add to your point, which is that right
- 3:23before Amisa goes into exile, they need to know that Hashem
- 3:27loves them. They need to, they need to know
- 3:30that they're appreciated by God. They need to know a little
- 3:32deeper that this, that they're going through.
- 3:35I'll be with you. I'll be with you the whole time
- 3:37and I love you through this time.
- 3:38And Hashem is saying so. So he's counting our tribes.
- 3:42He's pointing out as she mentions the love that he has
- 3:45for us right before we go into exhaust, we realize this is
- 3:49coming from a good place. It's coming out of love.
- 3:52It's not going to be that we lost.
- 3:53It's going to be that has with us.
- 3:55That's opening point IQ with that point today that Hashem
- 4:00loves us. Now if you go and take that
- 4:02concept full circle, you say that's how we say stars of all
- 4:06choices of examples of something that someone loves.
- 4:09Why do we use an example of stars?
- 4:11Because stars. I saw this stars going to the
- 4:14night, so the Jewish people were going into the dark of night.
- 4:18Hashem is saying to me, you still represent that beauty.
- 4:22I'm going to compare it to stars, that even though the
- 4:23stars going to the dark of night, you still shining
- 4:26through. So I'm going to put you through
- 4:28exile and your way will still survive.
- 4:31Your status will still remain. It might be a little bit of a
- 4:33difficult time, but you're still shining through.
- 4:36Hashem is pointing out His love of us.
- 4:38On top of that, he's pointing out our ability to shine into
- 4:41the night. All right, that's why you,
- 4:44that's why Rashik is the example of stars.
- 4:46And that's how we open up by pinpointing and identifying the
- 4:5012 tribes and our uniqueness right before we go into this
- 4:54galut to recognize that Hashem loves us even as we go into the
- 4:57dark introduction to our pressure.
- 4:59Go ahead. Is Hashem showing us
- 5:02unconditional lock? Was it because the quote on
- 5:05what? Hashem see me going through the
- 5:07shot. Hashem showing us love so we
- 5:10recognize all we are in the eyes of God before we go into
- 5:14discovered. That's point number one point #2
- 5:19on this, on this aspect of mentioning these names, there
- 5:22are many points to this. Additional point is we want you
- 5:25to know that the Jewish people will go into exile, and one of
- 5:29the main aspects of exile will be that we lose much of our
- 5:34unique style. We kept our names and our
- 5:37language and different things, but a lot of our unique
- 5:39qualities are gone. Before this happens, we need to
- 5:43recognize what will help us survive.
- 5:47The fact that we had such forefathers, the fact that we
- 5:50came with Yaakov and our families, the fact that Yaakov
- 5:55originally was at the helm, the fact that we had the 12 tribes,
- 5:59all very special people. That being our introduction to
- 6:02Galut will also be our survival of this exile because we
- 6:06realized where we came from, who we came from.
- 6:09And even if we're going to lose some of our weight throughout
- 6:11the exile, we're still going to hold on to that unique aspect
- 6:16and that'll allow us to survive. So two points to explain this
- 6:21identification of the names. One, Hashem's love of us, as you
- 6:25say. Why tell me this now?
- 6:28Because as you go into the dark room, night 1 needs to know that
- 6:30God is with us and he expects us to shine through the night.
- 6:34And secondly, our own personal identity, which if we hold on to
- 6:39the identity of our history can help us, can help on miselle to
- 6:43the Galuta there and for us play a place in our lives.
- 6:47It can help us to our gut if we recognize where we came from,
- 6:50who we are always our special traits and that helps us along.
- 6:55As you recognize para OK, the pasuk says we multiply.
- 7:00There are a lot of other points and pinpoint one more in this
- 7:04piece of came the pasuk says the words Vyama to yourself,
- 7:07yourself died and all his brothers died and the whole
- 7:11generation passed away. The Samh died, his brothers died
- 7:15and his generation died 1-2 and three.
- 7:18And then it says Jewish you'll multiply.
- 7:21And we became very big. What is that idea?
- 7:25His Samh died, his brothers died, whole generation died.
- 7:28Listen to this order Chaim. Order, Chaim writes.
- 7:32Pador wanted to enslave us. Pardo had something holding him
- 7:39back that would make it impossible from his point of
- 7:43view and from our point of view to ever turn us into slaves,
- 7:47always holding him back. Our stature.
- 7:52We just said we were stars in the eyes of God.
- 7:54We were the stars in the eyes of ourselves as well, which means
- 7:58we're the sons of Abraham. It's Abnaku.
- 8:01We have the 12 tribes. These are 12 of the most
- 8:03important people in the world in the world.
- 8:06Abraham was world renowned, so was his cocks, so was Yakov, so
- 8:09was Yosef, and his brothers were very significant people.
- 8:13There's no shot Paro can enslave us.
- 8:16And to that, the fact that Paro was not really using an iron
- 8:21fist. He didn't pull us into slavery.
- 8:25He didn't directly come with decrees that would directly be
- 8:28tricked as enslave. However, on the track of my law,
- 8:31let me trick them. So because of that, we had no
- 8:34shot to enslave us so long as something remained and this
- 8:39needed to go. Or was that something?
- 8:42Our significant identity, our pride, so long as we were proud
- 8:47of who we were, where we came from, he can never enslave us.
- 8:50Who wouldn't work? Says the Basu by Yamat Yosef,
- 8:54The king, the vice of Egypt, represented us.
- 8:57He died. Dignity went down a drop.
- 9:00His brothers died. Dignity goes down further, the
- 9:03generation dies so nobody remembers who they are, and the
- 9:07whole unique element of our people is gone here by the while
- 9:11is a chance. Even though we multiply like
- 9:13many, many people, it's not about the quantity, it's much
- 9:16more about the quality. So even though we multiply 10 *
- 9:191,000,000 times, doesn't matter. We can be 12 people and we can't
- 9:22be enslaved, and we can be 1,000,000 of people and we can
- 9:25be enslaved. All it depends on is our own
- 9:28personal recognition of who we are or we came from and who we
- 9:32stand for. Once that's, that's all we're
- 9:35saying. That's still till today.
- 9:37So it's automatic. The course we multiplied, that
- 9:39we became slaves. No, it was because the keyword
- 9:44is the word oppenaeus cell. To this point Paru ayeshitzu.
- 9:49Ayeshitzu is a word for bugs. We multiplied like bugs.
- 9:53Very nice word to use to explain the expansion army cell says
- 9:57it's so no, you know I use the word bugs because we multiply
- 10:01and mentally we didn't really carry ourselves like anything
- 10:05significant rule. We lost our identity come in and
- 10:10you soup over us. It's all you needed us lose our
- 10:12identity and it's all over. The same thing is true today,
- 10:15this very day. What's holding us strong or
- 10:19keeps us connected? The fact that we know where we
- 10:21came from or we identify as or we are proud of or we consider
- 10:26important. And one of the most important
- 10:28things you need to, you know, and put it to your family, as
- 10:31you know, is that sense of pride.
- 10:34And people think pride is Gava, that pride is something that's,
- 10:38you know, making ourselves Floragant.
- 10:40No, no, no. You need to have a certain
- 10:43aspect of the Ava. You do need to know what your
- 10:46family stands for. Used to know where your family
- 10:48came from. Here's the community you're part
- 10:50of. He's one of the basics.
- 10:52Because the more you know that, the more you want to stick to
- 10:54that. The less you know that, the more
- 10:57we are prone to lose our identity.
- 10:59And that's what the issue comes up.
- 11:01That's the part I was waiting for.
- 11:03And that's what I this is part of the opera shop.
- 11:05Go ahead. Invention is is.
- 11:07Bugs like shadows. It's interesting this juncture
- 11:11and in their in their lives is think of a bug that you step on
- 11:15it. Yeah.
- 11:17The Egyptians wanted to step on us.
- 11:18That was what happened. Once we look like bugs in their
- 11:21eyes and our eyes, it was all the very best.
- 11:25The rest is history. Mass is easy.
- 11:27To enslave us is easy. They go always find ways.
- 11:29The hard part is for us. That's it.
- 11:33Same mentality. The hard part.
- 11:35The hard part is for us to accept it.
- 11:37Oh that's really true. How are you showing multiply
- 11:42arts movement? Mighty as in many people, not
- 11:45mighty as in many should make strength.
- 11:47That's the idea at least. That's how he had to spend the
- 11:49coin to his wife. And so Pardo tries to enslave us
- 11:52and he does a slow job in saving us.
- 11:54And to me, this message is 1 should be very proud of his
- 11:57identity, one should hold down to his identity, and one should
- 12:01influence his family with this pride of where he came from, who
- 12:05his grandparents are, the bachayas in his life.
- 12:08All that you say to yourself, that's not a Jew.
- 12:11Jew is humble. You're right, humility is very
- 12:13important. And it's a different speech
- 12:15about humility, true. But at the same time, you need
- 12:18to be arrogant when it comes up against the world.
- 12:21You need to be humble up against your own people.
- 12:24That's the big difference there. Arrogant against the world,
- 12:27humble in its own people. You following me It also says
- 12:30very strong at the same facult. So I'm saying strong means in
- 12:34size doesn't mean going to this child doesn't mean strong in in
- 12:37physical minds, or at least mentally not as an empano goes
- 12:41and enslaves us as this happens. One interesting point as we talk
- 12:45about the unique identity of our people.
- 12:47We stick in the words yourself, Hayab and the same yourself part
- 12:51of the original family was in Egypt.
- 12:54Or she writes, who yourself, the same yourself who originally was
- 12:59a shepherd of his father was the same Yosef who became the leader
- 13:03of Egypt, where she says he was in Egypt, means the same.
- 13:06Originally Yosef was in Egypt. She points it out.
- 13:09So I wonder why you point them there at this point.
- 13:13He's telling me about the family.
- 13:14He stayed the same and that's our point.
- 13:16He stayed the same. But what was saying in a sort of
- 13:18humble way, which is he remained humble like a shepherd, like it
- 13:23was originally a shepherd, his father's sheep.
- 13:25He's now the vicer of Egypt. The same humility.
- 13:28It's interesting as we're telling you about the identity,
- 13:32the uniqueness, the star quality of our people.
- 13:35Also in I'm telling you that yourself was humble.
- 13:39It's like I said, I, Jew, used to be both arrogant and humble
- 13:42at the same time. Sense of confidence toward the
- 13:45outside world, sense of confidence toward those who are
- 13:48living life the wrong way. By the way, even within our
- 13:50world, you need to have that Gava, that pride that I don't do
- 13:54like them. We don't act like them, but at
- 13:56the same time a sense of humility, which means it doesn't
- 14:00mean I'm better than anybody else.
- 14:01It doesn't mean I want to put anyone else down.
- 14:03It just means I'm trying to live life the right way.
- 14:07The goal of this fusion of arrogance and, and, and, and
- 14:11humility is that your goal is you live life the right way.
- 14:15How do you do that? You give your children your
- 14:17sense of pride of who you are. Self esteem, same idea.
- 14:21Exactly. Self esteem.
- 14:22And the same time not putting anyone else down.
- 14:25You just say we're not like them, we don't do that.
- 14:27That's not our way, that's not what we do.
- 14:29And you create a path forward, which is one that your children
- 14:33are proud to follow and a path to not follow on the size of
- 14:38you. That's the combination of the
- 14:39artists and the humility. All right, one of the point.
- 14:42That's a major theme in Al Prasha.
- 14:44So yeah, that leads to the decree and the whole exile.
- 14:47Within the the original points of Al Galut, we have two
- 14:52interesting points. It'll lead to our salvation.
- 14:56One, other midwives who were told by Parov to kill the
- 15:02babies. Again, I told you that Parov did
- 15:05not do anything outright through as a king.
- 15:07He had a certain sense of regular civilized life.
- 15:11And he couldn't give us a flat out decree that we're going to
- 15:14be slaves, not until the end. So Parov has said it was being
- 15:17creative. All the while everyone thinks
- 15:20maybe he even likes us. All right, that's how far away
- 15:24he might even like us. So one of his decrees was have
- 15:27the midwives kill the Jewish boys.
- 15:30Always a decree. How did they kill the Jewish
- 15:32boys? And the bazook says that he
- 15:34spoke to two women. One woman's name was Shifrah,
- 15:39other one's name was Puah. Really.
- 15:43They're in Europe who have it in media.
- 15:44Why they change your name? Why they change your name?
- 15:46So they had these names your, your heve was chiffra because
- 15:50she used to straighten out the baby when the baby was born so
- 15:53his limbs grow straight. And Miriam was Pooh because she
- 15:57used to say Pooh Pooh to a baby as baby cried.
- 16:00That's what they got these names like that little Pooh Pooh
- 16:04'cause I got the names. So think about this for a
- 16:06second. Why they change the names?
- 16:08So there's different lessons and different concepts of 1 concept
- 16:12that I believe in, which is Torah doesn't care about your
- 16:14name, cares more about your action.
- 16:17But it is more significant significance is that these women
- 16:22are credited with saving our race, our people.
- 16:28And because of them, the Pardo's decree, he tried to have the
- 16:31Jewish midwives. These two women were the
- 16:33midwives for all the Jewish people.
- 16:34He appointed them as the main midwives for all our women and
- 16:38the goal was to kill all the boys, which technically
- 16:41speaking, these people had the power and had a decree above
- 16:44them and they had to kill everybody and they would have
- 16:47ruined our race. And they are credited with
- 16:49saving our people. So you would think that their
- 16:53names, Lisa Tudah, in hindsight should give them the name Hero.
- 16:58Saviour. No Shifla.
- 17:01She's the woman who is a strain on the baby.
- 17:04Pooah. She's the woman who used to say
- 17:06Pooh Pooh to the baby and the baby cried.
- 17:09Why not Hero? Why not Saviour first of all?
- 17:12We should bless our our daughters Friday night.
- 17:15To be like that too, right? Here's the answer to Mesquiac of
- 17:20the Mirror would say this is a lesson.
- 17:23How to be a good person. What's the lesson?
- 17:26Do the small things. Do the little things.
- 17:29You want to know where these women got the character and the
- 17:32and the dedication and the Masood nefesh to be willing to
- 17:36stand up to Padua to save our people because they were
- 17:40dedicated to small things. Nobody that you know who does
- 17:43big real has real has it, does it without being focused on
- 17:49small people's problems and small little feelings and small
- 17:54emotions and recognizing what people are going through and the
- 17:56little things. If all you say is I want to take
- 17:59over guys says I want to take over that area in the community.
- 18:03I want to address that problem. He hasn't got anything done.
- 18:05He needs to be a person who individual by individual feels
- 18:09and recognizes and notices they're little issues.
- 18:12Someone's always so don't buy a problem.
- 18:14Someone's always a kid is struggling.
- 18:15Someone's always having a hard time business.
- 18:17Someone's always having a hard time finding a house.
- 18:19He's having a difficulty in summer camp.
- 18:22Tiny things if you are aware and you're open to small things and
- 18:26that allows you to be open to much bigger things.
- 18:28It starts and builds on the violation of small.
- 18:32So the names are Shivaram Pua, which recognize and identify the
- 18:35smallest of things because from there they were able to spread,
- 18:40to have a dedication to be able to save lives and stand up to
- 18:44the ruler of the world for the sake of saving lives.
- 18:47As the paszuk says, these women were Mossen Efish.
- 18:51They were the words of Paszukar, the urea lekim.
- 18:54It's a very high praise, feared God, and God gives them the
- 18:58merit of what they've done. They have batim.
- 19:00What's Batim? They become the mothers of kings
- 19:05and the mothers of the Levine, the Qanim.
- 19:07They become the mother of our leadership.
- 19:09Where does that come from? All they did was we should want
- 19:15our choice to be like that 100%. This is another theme from now.
- 19:19But I said so far 2 themes with multiple.
- 19:21But so far we pointed out the aspect, the need to retain a
- 19:25pride of where you came from and secondly the recognition of how
- 19:29do people do great things when they are aware of the small.
- 19:33It is true and festive. It is true in your family.
- 19:37It's true in every area. If you keep your eyes open to
- 19:39the small, you can then eventually spread to the big.
- 19:43If you don't, you'll never get to the big.
- 19:45That's the two seniors. How come?
- 19:47Parole. Didn't kill them when they kept
- 19:49keep our babies. Alive because these midwives are
- 19:51very small, These midwives are very small, he said to parole,
- 19:56he said Our woman give birth so fast.
- 19:59In fact, I saw this one of the reasons that they kept the name
- 20:03Shifran Poua. Which are not really nicknames.
- 20:07Even if you can nickname a name for a midwife, you should call
- 20:10them Deliverer Nurse number one. Why do you consider them Baby
- 20:16strainer and Poo poo lady? These are these are things that
- 20:21you do after the baby is born. They kept these names I saw
- 20:25because they clear God, I believe says this because they
- 20:27wanted it to seem like they're not involved in delivery.
- 20:31Jewish women have chosen too fast.
- 20:34So instead we're going to keep names and say all we do is we
- 20:38come after with the pediatricians.
- 20:39We're not the deliverers because there is no such thing as a
- 20:42Jewish OBGYN in those days. There's nobody is involved in
- 20:46delivery. They said it happens too fast
- 20:48and this was a trick. Back up against Paddo.
- 20:51Paddo instead shoved that decree and then the outright said throw
- 20:56the Jewish boys into the order and move on to that.
- 20:58How'd that work out? Or should have been, Was born
- 21:01and saved to the order and was raised in his house.
- 21:04OK, so so the so the midwives told Paro that the.
- 21:09Jewish woman out to fail, we get the even exactly so he could
- 21:12have told them. Kill them anyway.
- 21:14They can't because again, Paro wanted to hide what he was
- 21:17doing. He wanted it to seem like he's a
- 21:20very civilized person. So you can only kill the babies
- 21:23the moment they're being delivered.
- 21:24The mothers won't even know the mothers we shouldn't even know
- 21:28and a bond rights so because it. And why?
- 21:30Why didn't they kill the the girls?
- 21:32Why don't they kill the girls? Why focus on the boys?
- 21:35So another theme of Irina Parsha is that Parella's goal goal was
- 21:39to destroy our identity. And the way you destroy a Jewish
- 21:42identity is by blending in a goy with a Jew.
- 21:46How do you do that? Make the Jewish girls marry
- 21:49Jewish guys, non Jewish guys, and then the children will have
- 21:53a forget the forget the halacha. The Jewish people forget that
- 21:57their father and their home was going to be a good home.
- 21:59And then therefore influence. Padol wanted to blend.
- 22:02He wanted to destroy our uniqueness.
- 22:04That was the idea. Like Greeks, like the Greeks,
- 22:07like every single one of our main enemies.
- 22:10That's all for me to think. All right, these are some of the
- 22:12points. There are many, many points and
- 22:14some of the points from Appalachia.
- 22:15And the two other themes in Appalachia are the theme of how
- 22:19Moshe Adebul was born and saved in the water and the whole story
- 22:24of how it happens under Padola's nose.
- 22:27Incredible concept, all right. The beauty of it is just in
- 22:30short, is a predominated decree. The Jewish boy should be thrown
- 22:34into the water. That's all it was.
- 22:36Moshe had actually was placed into the water and turns out
- 22:39Moshe is saved by his daughter and raised in his house, which
- 22:45is in his palace. Unbelievable indication of how
- 22:48Hashem works. You think you're in control?
- 22:50Pardo had a good lead. He had the charges that told
- 22:53him. The Jewish boy is going to be
- 22:55born to him. He had the charges that told him
- 22:58they even dined with two order. He had everything going for him.
- 23:01He made a decree which pretty much a shoe in and the decree
- 23:04was followed. And Even so, the baby was born
- 23:08put into the water and raised by his daughter on his nose and
- 23:12probably even appointed him to eventually leave his house to
- 23:14show you how far it goes. And second real that's what he
- 23:17already what he eventually appointed Moshe to run his house
- 23:22grew up. Plus who tells us yes.
- 23:27Then Madar shows us that he was raised and he was appointed to
- 23:31become the leader of part of his house.
- 23:33Secondly, but. That that that was also
- 23:37foundation for him to be a leader.
- 23:39Sure, sure, you're blessed. And when you're blessed and as
- 23:41Shim's with you, you, you go to the, you go to the.
- 23:45Unbelievable thing, right? This is some of these.
- 23:49It's unbelievable. By the way, keep me over.
- 23:53And the other point, the last point is Moshe La Banos.
- 23:58Very great. I was up at these points.
- 24:00These are all points of fashion and hopefully over the course
- 24:02Shabbat will develop them throughout the spread.