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Midrash Raba 4 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Madras robber parashat vaia shit #4 get told in the Torah.
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  Very sad. Pasuk Moshe spoke to them about
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  Velo Shamua Moshe. They couldn't listen to Moshe's
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  message. And the obvious question is, if
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  you're that desperate, why can't you listen?
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  What's wrong? They should be more attentive.
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  Haya Kashebbe Naham says the measure is difficult for the
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  Jewish people. They fresh met Avodah Sarah.
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  They couldn't stop themselves. So you have to understand that,
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  like we've learned this before, but other legitimized every
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  human urge and desire. It was exceptionally tempting.
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  Wasn't like we learned when we were kids that these know these
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  idiots worshipped a tree or a stone.
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  There's no joy in that. The whole vibe, the whole
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  community, the whole ambience of that world was it was enticing.
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  Bahenia Hezkal tells us in chapter 20.
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  It's a very famous prophet to know papar shot Vairava Maileham
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  ish. She could say a Naav Hashlik who
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  get rid of your idol worship, who they were told over Gillooly
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  Mitzrayim Altitamaru don't become defiled with the idols of
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  Egypt. They were battling here not just
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  slavery, but spiritual slavery stuck.
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  And what's what's it written? What's written?
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  The next pastor in chapter 20 you has Gal Apostle 8:00-ish.
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  And she could say they have low history, but they did not.
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  And they didn't get rid of the disgusting things from Egypt.
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  So what is it? They didn't listen to the low
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  Samuel Moscha is not according to this approach.
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  They didn't hear, they couldn't cope with Moscha Albania's
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  positivity and therefore, you know, it was a waste of time.
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  The Velosa Muel Moscha was, they heard, they believed that they
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  they would be redeemed, but it was the instruction to get rid
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  of the Avodah Zara that they didn't want to get rid of, that
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  they weren't prepared to pay attention to.
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  Or you could interpret it a little bit differently.
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  They ignored everything like nothing was going through.
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  They weren't. They couldn't hear any message.
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  It was more exciting, more tempting, more believable to
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  believe in the power of the idols.
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  And again, we have to assume, we have to accept that something
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  must have happened when they worshipped idols.
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  They must have seen blessings. They must have seen changes in
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  their reality. The things they pray for must
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  have come about. Otherwise they all have fallen
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  apart. So there must have been enough
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  there on also to maintain a balance of freedom of choice
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  between gods and the nonsense. They must have had that ability
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  to be LED into the belief. Potentially there's something in
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  Zarba dazar, but they had to recognise that there was nothing
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  in it. And then the medridge continues
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  with another Passo canal, that Beau de Belle Paro.
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  Go to Paro and tell him to send everyone out.
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  So how could Para be persuaded to let them go?
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  He had a great deal going on, all these people working and it
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  was all free. Hamashaal Ahmed There's a
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  proverb that says me shiitaya late hanaya ella min kitsaya
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  because it works much better in the Aramaic than does in the
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  English. There is no benefit to be
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  derived from Acacia trees. So me means she tired.
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  Acacia trees is no Hanaya. No benefit except from those
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  that have been cut down. What on earth?
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  So Acacia trees, in case you're wondering, do not bear any
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  edible fruit. The only benefit that you get
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  from them is the wood once they've been cut down.
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  The marriage is teaching us there's no benefit to be derived
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  from power except through punishing him.
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  All we can understand as follows.
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  Not that DA bear El para that daber means to speak, but
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  there's another formulation of those very same letters where
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  daber means to hit, as in the pasuk yard.
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  Bear amim tartenu Hashem will smite on smite nations instead
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  of us. You might recognize that
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  password from the chapter we say before the blowing of the
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  chauffeur. And after all, we read it up so
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  many times. Maybe there's words ring a bell.
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  So here it's via Dabeh Michelle, Michelle Dabehl Para that's
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  coming smite Para knock him down because that's the only thing
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  this fellow is useful for when he's smitten.
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  And what does Moshe Albania say? No one's listening to me like a
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  parent. No one listens.
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  No one listens, no one pays attention.
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  What is the point and what's the point here?
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  Like till at the beginning, if the Jewish people weren't
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  abandoned the idols and they've got a a cultural heritage of
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  monotheism, then how on earth is Para going to listen to you God
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  and free the slaves? But why would he listen at all
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  when he doesn't have that heritage?
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  But here I'm going to leave you the question and there is a
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  question and how to understand this midrash and how to divide
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  up the text. He said the reason why the
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  Benezra couldn't listen also because they were suffering and
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  they didn't believe in anything. Well, power wasn't suffering, so
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  maybe he could have believed that.
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  There is a question here about the the slur of the text in the
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  midrash and where to put a comma or a paragraph break.
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  But we'll leave that for now. Please join me tomorrow for the
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  last midrash of the week. Take care, have a great day.