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Midrash Raba Shemot 5 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Madras rather share #5 parasite Chamot last one for the week,
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  says the Madras in a long piece. We're not going to get through
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  all of it. There were 4 decrees that Farrah
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  decreed against the Jewish people.
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  Initially he issued a decree in which he said to the
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  taskmasters, you've got to make sure that these slaves make the
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  same quota of bricks every single day.
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  As a consequence of that, the slave, the slaves were told,
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  don't bother going home every night because in the time it
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  takes you to get home and then come back the next morning, so
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  much time will pass. There is no way that you can
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  produce what we what we are demanding of you or from you to
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  produce every day. And in a disguising their
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  tactics of trying to reduce procreation regular Jewish
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  family life, they encourage the men to sleep in the in the area
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  of the building work and not to go home.
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  Vayu Yeshanim al Haaretz and the Israelites would sleep on the
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  ground where they worked. What was God's response to this
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  decree? Amar Lahan Hailo Kim, God says I
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  need Ammar Teal Avram Avin Aviyam.
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  I said to Avram, their father, Shani Maber Banov Kakavin, that
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  I'm going to increase his descendants like the stars.
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  And the verse from the Book of British is quoted.
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  And you, you the Egyptians, mitzvah Midlands lawyer Boo.
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  You're trying to outsmart them by telling them don't go home
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  because there's no way you'll be able to complete your work.
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  And if you don't go home, no kids are going to be created.
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  Ayush Ali or Shalakham. Let's see who is going to win
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  this discussion. Is it going to be me, God that
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  they will increase, or will it be you?
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  What does a Torah say, Bukasha? Yeah, I knew.
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  I'll talk. Can your Baba can your throats?
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  As much as they would afflict them, so would they increase the
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  rash. Rabbi Akiva.
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  Where? Akiva explained in the merit the
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  Nashim said kaniat and the merit of the righteous women.
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  Shahir bataha dart nigalo Israel the righteous woman in that
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  generation the people were redeemed because of them.
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  Mamazu but Shahir whole hot dish of mine when they went to get
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  water, small fish went into their their water jugs and when
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  they would then bring up the the jugs hot would be half full of
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  water and half full with fish. And Molly caught that cell by
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  Aleah and they would then bring them to the husbands in the
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  field. They would place two pots on the
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  oven for the husbands. One was going to be for water
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  and the other was was for the fish.
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  They would feed the husbands. They would wash their husbands
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  and and anoint them and give them sustenance, give them to
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  drink the Niz Tucker Cutler head bench for time and they would
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  then join them. They would then be aroused and
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  attracted to each other and what have the energy to then have to
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  be together. And that's where they did it,
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  between the borders of the fields.
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  So it says here in the in the commentaries, every field had a
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  raised border marking its boundary and that's they had
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  relative privacy in that space and that's where they were able
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  to then conceive children. So what happened next?
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  The key van should meet abroad. Once the women became pregnant,
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  they would then come to their houses.
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  Why is that? Because it was a time of
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  suffering. It wasn't appropriate.
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  And we saw this previously with Yosef and his children that
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  Yosef had. The text tells us he had his
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  kids before the famine started. And the idea is individuals
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  shouldn't indulge in their own pleasure if other people are
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  suffering. So their intimacy was simply
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  just to be able to get pregnant and not for their own pleasure.
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  So the women, once they discovered they were pregnant,
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  went back home and once they when it was time to give birth,
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  they would go and give birth in the field under under the apple
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  tree. What are they doing giving birth
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  under an apple tree? It's quite simply if all the
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  babies had to be thrown into the river.
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  So you go and hide somewhere to give birth again.
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  This Midrash is perhaps suggesting an alternative focus
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  in the story, Not necessarily just about the slavery and how
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  our people were whose lives were were embittered by your Maru at
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  high AM, but you have a real clash of wills.
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  The will of Pharaoh and the Egyptians to to oppress and the
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  will of Hashem to lessen the distress.
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  And then human initiative as well through the Nashim
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  Sudkanyot, the righteous women to play their part as well and
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  bring about the continuation and the survival of our people.
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  Have a wonderful day. That's it for this week.