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Rabbi Moshe Haber Perashat Vaera: The Architecture of Faith and the Freedom of Discomfort 1.16.26 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  We have, which was what we all did Wednesday night.
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  And it opens up with Hashem saying like the speech before
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  the launch of the real redemption.
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  And that is when I say real redemption, I mean say Moshe has
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  already been sent on his mission from Midyan to go back to
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  Messiah, take the Jewship out of Egypt.
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  He's on his mission already. And originally it seemed they
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  went to Pardo, I went to Amisel, they accepted Amisel did, and
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  then Pardo made the work even harder.
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  And at the end, Leslie Barsham, Moshe said, since I've gotten
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  involved, Lama, I wrote them, why do you make it worse?
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  Moshe is questioning to a degree his role and his entire position
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  of the of the Gila al Vaidal is a response and really the launch
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  of the real Gila. Hashem says I appeared to the
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  Raham until you talk of the archaic with the name.
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  I appeared with one name, I didn't appear with another name.
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  In other words, as she tells US1 name, that first one is the
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  terminology for Hashem says die. My world is going to keep
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  enough. In other words, God leaves the
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  world with some seemingly some flaws and runs the world
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  according to that along with those flaws.
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  And I'm talking to call witness such a world.
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  They never saw the full version, which means they did not see
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  anything come to complete fruition.
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  They were in Canaan, Canaan, Canaan, promise the future and
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  look at the land. Remember tomorrow.
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  But they never saw the development.
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  But you've gone my que motte at BET Tom and I made a treaty with
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  them to give them the land, the land of the dwelling Aaron.
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  By the way, I'm hearing as well the groans of the Jewish people.
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  Therefore I connect that 2 fulfilling my promise to
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  Abraham. Sabah's quark is quoted with
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  your tea, and therefore I tell you I am Hashem.
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  In other words, the full name of Hashem.
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  You will now witness the complete product and now witness
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  developed version. You won't just hear treaties,
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  you're going to see a treaty fulfilled and I'll take you out.
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  Then. Hashem says the four languages
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  of Gilda. So there's a classic question on
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  this opening point about Bhasha. What is the overall purpose of
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  telling Moshe to tell the Jewish people this whole speech?
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  It's a little bit in the middle of the Gulal.
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  That's a side question. But more importantly, this is
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  considered the doctrine, the plan, the future.
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  What's going to be what you about to witness in the broad
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  scope, you can witness these 4 languages of Gulal.
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  I said to you it's Alti, Kalti, la Kakhti, those that we we use
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  for the four cups. When it comes to the four cups
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  that have said that it referring to these 4 stages.
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  Why do we have to have this introduction, this speech
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  before? I shouldn't bring the Gila, Just
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  bring it. Bring the Gila.
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  We'll see it more appreciated. Why any of these 4 stages and
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  one need to have them worded out to more shut it down before it
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  happened. You man means before.
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  It's kind of like the Declaration of Independence
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  before we went to war. It's basically yes, No, but it
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  wasn't as if it happened already.
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  It was saying what's going to be.
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  But that's a similar point. The thought the mindset is a
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  similar point this related to be the Quran Hashem and that is the
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  Jewish people were going through a development stage.
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  We know they were in Mdsayim, they were in they were fully
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  enslaved and in that enslavement included a certain lack of
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  emunah and Hashem. That's just the way it was while
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  you're Messiah, while you're being enslaved, while you slave
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  labor. That mentality there for
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  centuries that becomes a little bit major disconnected al Hashem
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  and a lack of emunah. The goal of the year of Ezzsayim
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  was to develop, to develop our faith.
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  That's the ultimate goal. Hashem says it many times.
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  In order that you know that I am Hashem, in order that you know,
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  in order that the world sees. The goal was developing in muna
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  Anasa. OK, faith, are we good?
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  Miracles trigger faith, that's fine.
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  But real faith is developed when there's reliance, when there's
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  the word be tahun. What is be tahun?
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  It means to rely on. So Hashem says these are the
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  things I'm going to do. You'll see this stage 1, stage
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  2, stage 3, stage 4, and then you'll know I am Hashem.
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  You will witness XY and Z. And Hashem says this in advance.
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  Tsadamia cell knows to rely on them to whatever degree that
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  they're going to do. So rely on it.
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  And then when you do, when you rely on it, that is Vita Hon be
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  that konage trust. Trust means I don't know what's
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  going to come, but I know it will come.
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  I know I don't see how, but I know it will come.
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  That's trust. I shall be trying to build in
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  our people a new mindset, a new development of faith and really
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  ultimately trust. So he tells us in advance.
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  By the way, the ways of your forefathers, Abraham and
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  Sakharov, they were promised, but they didn't see the result.
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  That's trust. You have that in you.
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  You have the nature of trust. It's part of your forefathers
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  ways. It's you're in DNA have trust.
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  Secondly, what are you trusting? You are trusting that there will
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  be a promise and that promise will be fulfilled.
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  And let me play it out to you bullet point by bullet point.
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  So you know exactly what you're going to see.
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  And then Hashem goes ahead and carries out to a stage.
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  And so I miss all knows going in.
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  This is the goal. I mean, you know, go in is the
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  goal and you watch it happen exactly the way he says.
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  And he said, wow, he really can't be trusted.
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  Wow, he really has full control because if you say something and
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  then he able to keep the world your word and it's evolving,
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  controlling the world, that's an indication that you have
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  complete control, complete power.
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  It's one thing for Hashem to bring a miracle.
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  It's a far greater thing for Hashem to predict the miracle,
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  promise it and then carry it out.
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  Why? Because that means he has
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  complete control. If I tell you guaranteed, I walk
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  out of this building, guaranteed, my next handshake is
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  gonna make me $1,000,000. And lo and behold, it does.
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  It's not a bet. That's a guarantee.
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  And I'm saying my next conversation with the next
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  business venture is making me know I have a complete control
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  and complete power to develop results.
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  And when God makes that promise in advance, it's supposed to
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  bring about our reliance and when we rely some deliveries and
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  that's really the play out. That's really the purpose of the
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  process of the Gila, so we can have this mice and adapt this
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  way of thinking. That's why he did it.
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  And why stages, I don't know the answer to stages, but I think
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  one of the reasons are if that stages, if you do this step by
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  step, you appreciate it more. It would just be from one day to
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  the next, a complete turn around.
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  You'd be wowed, you'd be amazed, but you wouldn't see the end of
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  a sham in every detail when you see it.
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  Or. Oracles don't work unless it's
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  gradual. Spherical don't work unless they
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  they're exactly unless you absorb them and they happen
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  gradually as they just completely change over the whole
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  world. You're not really noticing
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  what's going on or running the details and they don't have an
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  effect. So you need to have the promise
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  in advance and the promise needs to come in stages.
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  Another detail on this point. And that the opening words are I
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  am Hashem, tell the Jewish, well I'm Hashem.
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  The first of the four words are I'll take you out.
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  Really take you out of the land. If you think about it out of
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  order. First I'll stop the slavery,
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  I'll have you redeemed total free people.
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  Then I'll take you out. Why is the 1st?
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  I'll take you out. Mittaghat.
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  Sivlot Mitzayev. The answer is the word sivlot.
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  Sivlot, the rabbi says compared to the word savlanut.
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  Savlanut is patience, which says last night.
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  Patience means acceptance. Patience is a beautiful thing,
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  but it's not a beautiful thing if you have patience for someone
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  who's a horror. It's not a beautiful thing if
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  you accept a life of mediocrity or failure.
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  That's not a beautiful thing. Having patience of being OK with
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  something in general is great Mida to not get frustrated, not
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  get angry, not lose your cool. Oh, great.
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  But if you're accepting not getting angry, you're not
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  getting frustrated. And that means a life of
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  mediocrity, a life of simplicity, a life of no gross.
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  That's not a good thing. So much I have been who is
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  opening up with the words of God.
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  I will take you out with Tahat Civiloth Messiah.
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  I'll break that mindset of acceptance of the world you live
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  in. I'm Miselle, we're in Egypt.
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  And they never once tried to rise up and everyone thought
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  about a different life and everyone thought about getting
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  free. You know they're after they.
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  That's not a good thing. In general, it's a fine thing.
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  But to accept a meda of mediocrity?
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  To be OK with the world that's limited and uncontrolled?
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  Is it more of a Stockholm syndrome?
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  We say about them that they had a slave mentality.
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  Stockholm's inability to change. Another example that you see
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  this concept now put on Shah is the most sentimental comes the
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  Jewish people with the speech, beautiful speech, the most
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  promising declaration you've ever heard.
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  And what do they do? The opening by Suk says Gulu
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  Shamu El Moshe make consulate welcome.
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  Albert Dakasha. They wouldn't listen to him
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  because of his shortness of breath and because of the hard
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  work and the Rabbi Sashi and others should even bring that
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  they didn't. They weren't willing to listen
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  because they didn't want to accept a change in the world
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  that they lived in one second. Your world is centuries of
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  slavery. Your world you don't control
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  your money. Your people are be it the
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  children at times were thrown into the water.
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  You want to accept this life and the answer is that is how this
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  mentality works. People are more comfortable with
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  remaining the same, even if it means that they're going to lose
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  out and even means there's no growth, no development.
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  They're scared for change. They're nervous about change.
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  They're embarrassed about accepting the fact that there's
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  a need for change. Even every one of us.
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  Whenever you hear a class, you hear a topic and hear a speech,
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  you say you said, well, I'm good in that area.
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  You're anger management speech, I'm good at anger.
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  You hear a have patience. I'm always patient.
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  Shalom Bayou. I'm the best husband, parenting,
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  I'm the best father. We all want to accept our
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  mindset because we want to believe that we're good.
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  That's the way we are. And Michelle Abando was coming
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  to them and saying you're not good, you ready for this, you're
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  not good. For them to accept takes a
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  little bit of looking in the mirror or even more, a little
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  bit of a willingness to go through the mode, go through the
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  process to create change. And these things are
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  uncomfortable, I may say, at times did not want discomfort of
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  breaking free. Literally those words, the
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  discomfort of breaking free, discomfort even becoming free,
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  right? It's true.
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  They have to run. They have to deal with the the
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  plagues they have the witness their, their, their masters, you
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  know, getting upset at them. They have to, you know, be at
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  risk of maybe you're not working on in their mind, there's a lot
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  of discomfort there. They're going to be in the
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  desert for years and a lot of travel.
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  And if you think that's a silly, in their minds it's hard and you
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  have to accept it. When you accept a world of being
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  free instead of accepting the world of being limited, how
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  Sham's going to deliver. But that's really the challenge.
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  And that's why we hired this process in the Alpha Shah that
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  they're willing to accept this change.
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  So there's a couple of themes over here. 1 theme is how beat
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  the horn works. It's reliance.
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  Reliance means you're told you lean on it and then it happens,
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  not waiting to see it happen. And then having beat the horn,
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  this is actually one of the challenges of the need for
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  stories and the need for happily ever after.
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  We know life is not happily ever after.
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  We know that. So why does every story work out
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  that way? Well, because I can't just
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  convince you on how to beat a horn.
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  I should, but I can't. No one can.
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  We can't convince each other. And that's what we have, these
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  stories. But really the truth is we
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  should be without the stories. That's the truth.
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  The parallel to the 20th century, we left Syria, we came
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  to America. They all left, you know, their
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  homeland. All the Egyptians that were
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  thrown out of Egypt had to go and restart their life in
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  America. Or we could talk about the
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  people from Yerba went to Israel, like all of them have
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  the similar problems and they all really took it in strike.
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  But during those years, I'm sure there were many kids and many
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  even adults say to themselves, I'm leaving my business behind.
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  The adults said I'm leaving my friends behind.
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  Even this, I'm changing on a boat.
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  What am I going to? I'm being American Israel.
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  But it worked out during that time all it can be relied on his
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  now word be told after the fact. You look back and you have a
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  foundation of trust now, but the process I may still dealt with
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  the same thing. This was literally our structure
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  for being a Jew forever. You hear something that they
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  pray like Sham or hear them pray.
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  Well the pastor says that Sham says I hear their cries, but
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  really right. She says at that time I might
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  not have been cries Hashem, I might might have just been cries
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  in general. There's different versions that
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  Amban is of the opinion. It makes a lot of things
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  clearer. He holds throughout.
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  I don't know if he says it's over here, but he says in the
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  mid bar and there were different factions of the Jewish people.
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  There was a stronger the weaker, the more connected, less
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  connected. So a lot of the contradictions
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  that you have play into these different factions.
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  You have people and. Two Jews or two different
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  opinions that. Happen exactly right, but you
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  know so we know what happens today but to say that it
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  happened in pre today is surprising that Amban is of the
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  opinion that it happened then also based on that a lot of
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  things easier to understand apparently this is one of the
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  things that I've got Shawn like we said beat the horn and this
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  acceptance of discomfort over accept for freedom.
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  That's the theme. Acceptance of discomfort for the
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  sake of freedom is a true theme. There's not many more and then
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  we of course have all the plagues and actually witnessing
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  this process of freedom and witnessing this skill without
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  being debated. All right, these are ideas.
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  We'll stop at this.