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parashat Va'era- Shiur for Mizrachi UK · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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So it's lovely to have been included in its illustrious list
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of his Rocky speakers. And I ask myself the question,
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what does it mean to give a name is rocket ship that?
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In what way is it different? Is it just simply that you're
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not quoting from the opponents of Mizrahi?
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Thought that could, that could know it would that without
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Express. What I'm is Rocky.
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She could be, is it perhaps the pronunciation?
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So it's the book of Chaumont, I'm not sure.
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Mice now, could that be what it means to give him as Rocky chef?
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But that it could be any of those things.
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So you're not quoting from the, the satmar and the Torah
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character, you're quoting from rough cook and rough goren or
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something along those lines. But now, I thought, maybe
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doesn't different about giving a share within a rocket contacts
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and that is It's something I'm really sort of grappling with in
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terms of if we're ever going to get ourselves out of Exile, of
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no living outside of our home than we have to think more like
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a nation are not like individuals.
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So, I've come to a mini conclusion that a rocket ship
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would be looking at the Torah on a national level, not on an
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individual level. So to that extent, what do we
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mean? We're not year, didn't or Jews.
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We are unused trial now in quite fascinating lie, when those who
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don't necessarily Re-subscribe fully to this ideology, talk
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about Jewish existence, it's very much individual based.
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It's your alarm hibari, your, your mitts Fox your, are Vera's,
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your gain, and whatever it might be, it's not but you don't often
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hear this term, the idea of a collective for sure.
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There's Collective responsibility and as a
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gazillion good mocking, that you could look in the advertisers.
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And yes, the community takes care of its own, but I still
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think it's in individuals, helping individuals.
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Rather than defining ourselves as a nation.
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Now it could be a nation in Exile and Nation waiting to go
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home and they are living in our home loan.
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But this National aspect, I don't think is part of the
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Lexicon Alberto bottle, the veldt and shuang, the
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philosophy, the world Outlook of people who don't who would fall
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outside. So what I want to try and do
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using a I think I quite a profound Tara lesson from ravu
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Muhammad. Ali.
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Hassan Mohammed from Israel to present a different perspective
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on what aspect of this week's cetera.
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But National, so we're looking at Zona is quite easy in the
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book of Schumacher's. If you talk about the
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relationship, spoke about the development of individuals that
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eventually led to, and we are nation building in the second
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book of the Torah and to understand what it means to be a
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nation and how God would react to Nations rather.
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To our nation, rather than to us as individuals and as a whole
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different concept of Divine Providence.
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And, and, or will see, it's quite it's quite an interesting
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approach. If it pushes buttons, that's
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fine, it means that you've engaged with it, it even on it,
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on it, on a negative level, and if you enjoy it, then that's
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fantastic. But it can do with my, I checked
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it out with actually with colleagues from the RIT
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department. So let me share with you a
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beautiful article in Hebrew that's very sophisticated, they
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enjoyed reading, the language just as a language and she liked
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the idea but said it could it could be used in an in a you'll
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see you also have it skirts on potential racism butter.
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You'll have to decide whether it does or it doesn't No reason to
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be pair of just now, be controversial.
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Very little remember the experience So, we're going to
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speak of the Jewish people of our Mishra.
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So where do we start the book at the sadder of shrimat?
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Dealt with the formation of the nation?
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Have somehow power, 05 know, right at the beginning of this
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book. No, we don't hear of a stroll
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beforehand and all of a sudden by Yama.
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LM, o says to his people, he met am vinay is rather interesting
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that aren't our enemies viewers on National levels.
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Before we have we self-identify as a nation, we were a family
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tribal unit going down to Egypt. We had grown, we had Become more
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numerous but nowhere in the end of the book of ratio or in his
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opening line to we ever see ourselves as anything more than
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the family of yahwah curve coming down to Egypt, that's
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faster than our other tractors label us, which is very true of
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anti-Semitism. You know, the term Orthodox was
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something that they had to come up with and there was reformed,
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you know, it's always the other that defines you, as rather than
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defining yourself which have, yes, there's always something
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negative about someone. Someone asked to find any rather
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you taking control of that definition.
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I think that's also part of nation, building of know,
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changing the way. Do you think we see ourselves?
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We have to take control of our own narrative as a Miss, amazing
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line that I've heard on a video from Robin Hood.
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Avner blessed memory. So, what happened in 1947?
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Two sets of coordinates in the book.
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One is book about, the president's said Jews stopped
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being objects of history and became subjects, then he
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elaborates the object. The things people do something
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to and he could Jewish history was being acted upon subjects
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taking. If our destiny, but I think it's
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most beautiful concept that shift.
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And there's a certain shift that we, that we need to make in our
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thinking and action are Judaism, how we see ourselves, how we
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relate to ourselves. If we want to make the next
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stage was that either at that cynical ironic piece where the
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mushy F comes and nobody wants him because got the wrong hat or
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no hat, the wrong keeper, you know, it we're never going to
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get in that stew that state of acceptance if we don't accept
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ourselves, first, and being. So, para calls us a nation.
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And that's what we become in the first set up.
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Looking at outside Through this Loop, instead of our era,
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something else takes place. We now have it the development
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of the of our nation but as distinct from everybody else.
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So, in the first chapter of the book of Schmaltz, we were a
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nation that perceived as a threat or perceived irrationally
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as a threat to Egyptian Society, in Egyptian stability, and
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therefore, the plan to enslave us and to keep us controlled was
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Unleashed. And this weak side row.
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We have the development of that concept but it's more about
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demonstrating the distinct nature and quality of our people
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as a distinct unit from the Egyptians.
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And that that's that's really important that we do see
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ourselves as just a because eventually we get to Mount Sinai
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and God then declared you are the chosen people.
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You are my treasure people. So we become distinct but only
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because we've embraced that identity.
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Otherwise we wouldn't have understood the identity and I
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think always we're looking at at the home after especially in an
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era where the so much. Available online and, you know,
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watch this movie, why? Because it tells you This
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brilliant idea. By the way, the tire has the
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same idea as well. Well, the Torah is really cool
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because the movie set it as well.
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Now we've got to recognize always the contacts, know what
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what made sense to our ancestor. 3,000 years ago.
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Not just words make sense to people today who needs or I
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explained in a modern context that the message had to make
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sense and therefore the concept of Distinction of chosen us
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would have had to make sense to the people as well.
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Otherwise, it was at what are you talking about?
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We just in the mix of people. This happens with two different.
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What so how do we have this distinctive nature of the
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Jewish? People happens in two ways.
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Number one through the plagues and number two through a change
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in the name of Hashem that's introduced in the opening, part
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of the perisher. And we'll see how that name of
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our 7:30, The Fallout to name tetragrammaton for those are
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like Posh English words, the gate, the you're the head of out
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the hey, or in English the was that is always will be, which is
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essentially the contract of how yaakov every year.
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That's who we praying to each time.
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Baruch Hashem literature says, is you, you've got all this.
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You, the was It is always will be, are the source of all
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blessings that the God's eternal?
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Hell, yeah. Was however, is you here will
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be. That's the God, we pray to
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that's why I called Eternal because he's always is and he's
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the first calls because he was, will never cease to be before
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God decides to hit and that's the word from the time, the tax
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Black Ops 2, Smite, the Egyptians, there's another
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hitting going on in our cedra. Well in last week's Hydra that
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is all that evokes. Go brings about in kabalistic
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language. It would be, we put effort in
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down below and goddamn response from from above.
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So what happened in last week's edra, most Revenue finally is
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growing up in the Egyptian powders, which is all very, very
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lovely and I ate Taylor I thought he goes out to his
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brothers, but yeah, perceive or time you see how difficult life
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is for them. But yeah, ishm.
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It's free market issue every Mac or PCS, but only going to deal
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with the literal reading of the text?
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No Madras joke. No, no commentators, just
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looking at the story, he sees an Egyptian, an issue Schmidt's,
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through Egyptian, Man hitting an ish, every a Hebrew man.
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Now these terms I'm going to suggest on this article are not
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indicative of two individuals but are actually Screaming on
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the national level. This was a fight between Egypt
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and the Jew. This was not just one Egyptian
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slang to beat up a Jew. This has National implications
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for what happens. Next, what does ma chere Dubai?
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You find Kovac? I looks both way checked.
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No one's watching. But yeah, PA - she's no one's
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looking right by ya cat time. It's three smites the Egyptian
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and buries him on the second day he goes out as well as watching
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muscle for hate getting out. The palace is quite a crazy
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experience levels. It's fighting each other and
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now, schnee and machine ever into Hebrews are fighting.
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And it makes that point are attacking each other about to
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attack each other by your Miller.
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I showed says the wicked one, the matoke reaffirmed his
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Wicked. But why doesn't he punishing
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this had to give them a muscled, Russia, they stopped giving a
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shit why you hitting him should be hitting him.
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So nice to him. So, with the Egyptians he didn't
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say their judgment. Hey, my Egyptian, comment below.
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Cam. Brady, let's not fight.
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Let's sort of talk it over. There's an issue.
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We could have conflict. Resolution, we can sort it out
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so much. His response was very
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disproportionate the first time he goes nuts and kills a guy.
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The second day, even though the timing is very clear that the
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one who was about to hit is a wicked person.
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And therefore, presumably deserving of some sort of
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Retribution, some sort of punishment, he still Wicked.
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I'm also just talks to him rather than does any rather than
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polishes. Says Rob.
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He said, how does what's going on?
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We've got a net National concept and there's two types of Divine
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Providence. There's hanhae calculate, this
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is General Providence where God watches a nation and interacts
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on a national level and then the individuals do this with quite a
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powerful concept than individuals, don't matter.
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So, individual rights just individuals in a wicked Nation.
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Get punished. And we'll explore why that would
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be why, that's a fair concept for the reference later on or
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there's Hannah, God protected on an individual level on an
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individual asset level, that could be a clash when the good
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gets fucked up with the bad or the bad.
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All the bad people get, get some benefits and life goes, well, if
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God's blessing the lines of the nation because the majority of
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the nation are worthy of blessings, and of crops, being
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fertile, and rain falling. But even the wicked people who
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are stealing land, Happened with our ancestors throughout the 8th
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Century BCE. They were pretty nasty, are our
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ancestors in Israel. They used to steal Land from the
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poor Jews and then make the Jews pay to rent their land back
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bills total corruption and perversion.
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Eventually they got Exile. But no, these Wicked people,
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presumably benefited from the blessing for the nation had and
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they were able to them Harvest crops didn't really belong to
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them. Hike up, the price isn't make
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life miserable for the poor weak juice.
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Much ask, no questions. Last week surgery, just goes
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about and does what he wants. You got an Egyptian or Egypt are
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humiliating the juice and we are God's people.
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God's says to Masha. They are my nation.
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You're going to bring them to this mountain.
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You're going to serve me on Mount Sinai.
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Look, I want you to really dig in to leave servitude of
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pharaoh, they're going to come to me, we are God's distinct
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nation. And when you've got our nation
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versus their Nation, they have to be different, deaf, be gotten
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rid of, and we have to survive. So much of doesn't sit down with
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Egyptian. Have conflict resolution chapter
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About why are not? You should be beating up a Jew.
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It's Egypt. Versus the Jews.
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Egypt has to Die. The Jews.
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Have to survive. No.
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Why do you have to interpret these vehicles?
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Never there's no Compass. There's never any type of
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condemnation. Emotions Behavior.
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God doesn't condemn Moshe the text doesn't condemn Russia also
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because I mean probably what you said because it was an Egyptian.
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Well it's not going to kill one of his own and he knew by now
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that he wasn't pharaohs daughters.
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Yes. So maybe that's why well I can
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kill an Egyptian but I'm not going to kill one of my own one
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of my own. Brethren sort of thing.
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Someone said there is that beautiful interpretation that I
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had many years ago on a tape from rubber Bernstein, who used
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to give a share in London, when I was at, when I was growing up
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and he from want to know why you find Kovac.
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I looked into himself and you saw there was no ish.
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There was no identity. Like, who am I?
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Am I Egyptian am. I Jewish.
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Is the verse is actually worth it to come off, says own sense
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of at search of identity. There's no one here.
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I'm identity lists. As a what they must have
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thought, who am I? Gyptian, I'm a Jew but I had to
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admit. Sorry, he's slaughtered inside
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of himself, the Egyptian identity and decided to be
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fully. This would be for him to have
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beautiful psychological spin on this particular verse different.
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What we're saying here, but I think it's still the sort of yes
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I still had sense of I need to identify with some National
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Group here and I'm identifying with the with the slaves of my
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people rather than with them with the Egyptians.
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Correct. You can kill in war, you can
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kill in self-defense. Yes.
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And whilst actually seeing an expression of that that the law
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halacha actually changes when we go to war because what muscle is
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wrong, when we go to war, we lose our individual identity as
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soldiers, we will no longer an individual.
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We don't exist on an individual level.
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We Exist with a national identity.
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And we as a nation certain things are permitted on a
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natural. So yes, I can't kill you now
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because I'm in his very own individual.
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If you're my enemy or attack, you mean under soldier in a
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different and National soldier in it for our nation.
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I can end your life because that's allowed on a national
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level for self-defense. Is it?
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What is? It is true?
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It's allowed on us self-defense with individuals, but the lock
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will see expressions from the rambam.
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How that changed her life could change.
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It depends, what your name is Odie out of here.
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Our spare toldja, but hurry up for Sherry us today.
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Yeah. So I guess from this point of
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view individual would be of based on the idea that you're
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being pursued and you've got the right to self-defense when we're
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talking about a national level, know it's a different mindset of
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how the soldiers perceived as different set of rules then
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start to apply or give it some old later on more examples.
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I was quite I didn't Notice this rum bum in the laws of other
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desirable for, and it's quite amazing how things that would be
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forbidden to individuals are permitted on a national level.
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If you're in the Army, not just because of peacock method, but
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because possibly your identity is change and no longer to say
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and we got different different status in society.
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Does that mean that strategy of World War 1?
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When you had German Jews and the British Jews and they were
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shooting each other and you got a little cheer, an idiot?
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Yes, for sure. There are.
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That's part of that tragedy. Correct.
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I think it can go wrong. Yeah.
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For sure about the ocean. So they would use of cute.
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You probably end up their lives. Having murdered other killed.
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But what I found. Yeah, I'm also thinking with
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this, when he kills the mystery, that's distinctly the enemy.
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He is that the one with all the power you don't stop and have a
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conversation if there. Somebody there with a weapon.
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But when it's to Jews, you don't want to demonstrate to Jews that
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were just as violent with each other.
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We can work things out in a better method.
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We can work things out through Talkin at some time, but the
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fact that he doesn't kill the bad one.
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Yeah, here's somebody tonight. Leaving the island, they talk a
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lot 984. Correct.
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And arousal over the over, the winter holiday in a little
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traveling on buses, looking out the windows because it's always
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told us you if it's God's lad and deposit says in a cave God
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don't stop. Looking at the land of Israel.
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I'm happy on a bus. You can't go to sleep.
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You got to keep looking out the window because God is looking
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out the window all the time. And I saw the motor, I kept
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coming back in my mind in a way. This came from just like this
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Epiphany moment of Golda Meir in my brain, know that line from
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Golda Meir. That we can, we can forgive
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They're for killing out sold, our sons, but we can't keep
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making us and killers and I looked around the country.
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And I thought The tour has described as its ways are ways
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of pleasantness. I meant to have no, not that.
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We're just these Shepherds running around Fields every
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house and there is, you know, but I think life has brutalized
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our people and corrupted, some of our core fundamental
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teachings, the trial. So, full of look, after The
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Stranger, be sensitive towards the stranger, your meals, not
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complete on a young Turf. If there's a widow and off
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another some, you know, person that has no connections on their
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own, it doesn't matter how many obstacles you've got our food.
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Your food is wrong, if someone's lowly and that's sort of super
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sensitivity to the other. I think, is really part of
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Judaism when you come and travel around and these psychos in
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Jerusalem hooting before there's a reason to hurt, it's the most
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noisy City. It's there.
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Are you it drove me nuts after a while like the stop this, and
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this anxiety. And this deranged way of doing
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thing this stress or something. Someone's, always out to get
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you. Yeah.
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You can absolutely become. Yes.
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Now, you could become very active submitted, very easily on
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something about street drugs here, which is a huge problem.
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But anyway, actually I think so. You also see us, right?
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So we've got this over there, Masha.
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On a national of gets would get bumps off the Egyptian.
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Now, God does the same thing in two weeks time at the plague is
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the firstborn know, all these firstborns of dying.
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Even the babies who for sure, did nothing wrong.
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So where did where's the moral? Ethical theological, whatever
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justification for these babies, losing their lives and being
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bumped off by God. But comes back again to this
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idea that it's Egypt versus is Schmidt's.
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Read Egyptian Collective versus the Jewish Collective.
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We're being taken by God to be his people, they have to make
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space on the world stage for us and therefore rules that would
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apply individually. So yes, as if individuals were
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judged for being righteous or being Sinners and God's got an
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account on a way of processing, our individual lives but on a
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national level, different rules, apply, and the wicked.
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So that the righteous can get swept along with any punishment
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or flip it on the Jews. Now, why did all the Jews leave
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Egypt? Now, some Jews were bad.
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Some juice. Come out.
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The prophets, talked about, they come up with the lydell's.
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Little statuette to they were worshiping the one or
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monotheistic and thank you Hashem.
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Loving juice there. You know, thank you.
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I will thank you, this. Thank you.
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That old concept. The golden calf came from
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people, who presumably had been steeped in idolatry idolatrous
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culture and you instinctively what image, they Wanted to make
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up for idle because it was part of their that their experiences.
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So irrespective of pirated vigil pi/2 or otherwise, Egyptians
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died. Death of firstborn all Jews, got
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out a sock notes. Yes, the rabbi's do tell us in
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the mad rush that plague the plague of Darkness forfeits died
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and they read. And other with the words come
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with shame, which literally means armed or came up with
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certain weapons to protect, which would make a lot of sounds
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going to a desert, you would need some sort of protection.
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Some shom Rim squat rack, after the rabble that will make
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logical sense, but they want to read it as 4/5, which is again,
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it's not literal reading of the text.
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So when they emerge after the mutts are evening and the death
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of firstborn, they're all coming out.
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Hashem says again the yacht la la he wants us to be his people.
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Mr. End of level, the Egyptians or the counter foils of the
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Jews. If we live, we live, they have
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to perish Now that's a concept, let's apply it to another case.
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Back in the book of Galatians, avraham's turns to God In
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Prayer, about the people of Sodom No.
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Why? Why know what about the Sadiq,
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in the end of the righteous people?
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Why are they not being spared? I don't understand.
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I wouldn't hit and used of earning and screaming.
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So what did he want? So the answer will hold them.
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It seems to be a nation. So a nation.
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We've just established the right.
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Just get swept away with the way they're Wicked.
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Doesn't matter who you are as an individual, you're part of a
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collector. That's part of your broader
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identity. You have to go what was other
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I'm asking for. So presumably, we have to
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conclude if everyone was asking for individual righteous people
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through whose Merit, the wicked could be saved, Saddam mustn't.
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Have must have must be viewed not as a nation.
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This was a collection of They hadn't coalesced around the
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national identity. So up to this point, I always
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thought Saddam was a nation and God was punishing them and my
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working interpretation was because that is beautiful.
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I think also rubber bands here when I was a child he it's hum
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assumed study, Kim, 50 righteous, but aha are not in a
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cola on a Mountaintop, you know, praying and worshiping all day
22:00
but 50, guys living, but are high in the city people that
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will inspire others through their example, not All in Ivory
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Towers at a disconnect from society.
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You want to know people to engage and have those
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conversations are being more righteous.
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Presumably? This approach has Merit, I think
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it does. Saddam is now viewed not as a
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nation, but it's a collection of individuals individuals could
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have saved themselves. That's why I was looking to save
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The Righteous people. And individuals could have saved
22:29
other people. Others could have been saved in
22:30
the mirrored Merit of the good person called we're talking
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about here not about a nation but about individuals.
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Why did you go to save New Jersey Nation, but they repent,
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they repent. So, why did he want to?
22:46
So, that's, that's the big mystery that the book of Jana is
22:49
one of the big mystery books, whether on a literal, Evan
22:53
Drake, it mean, yes, Miracle stories happened throughout.
22:55
So once you account for miracles that anything's possible, even
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existing in some sort of fish, think they can, we were stress.
23:01
It's called, it's not a whale, it's a Doug, God doll and sort
23:04
of alphabet, and it would just drive the kids, and that's from
23:06
primary school because, well, it's all show them that.
23:09
That they could look at the taxes cause a Doug guard off the
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big fish. You could be, it could be
23:13
another big fish. Where does most because well,
23:17
the big fish about feedback. Whales are mammals live in a
23:21
fish. So then you get to get the
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die-hard animal lovers. Man is not even lose, the will
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of that point is to do, but never a were given a chance and
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to go back to Geneva. Why did Ian I'm not want to go?
23:35
So there are a gazillion different perspectives and they
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had been Ezra actually. As 3.
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Interpretations because he's not really satisfied with any of the
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things he offers up because they each have a potential weakness
23:47
if you assume that your honors reticence to go to the bit of
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member was that he was embarrassed for the Jewish
23:53
people that if I get was a Jewish prophet.
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And they listen to me and they go and repent.
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Then how often is it for the Jews who who've been sent so
24:00
many prophets and they're still stubborn?
24:02
Don't listen like it's a bit of a bit of an embarrassment.
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So I'm gonna take one for the team.
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I'm not going to get 0 and therefore, they'll be no
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National humiliation, and eventually die.
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Does get around to going and they do repair than that.
24:12
Then leaves onto Ian has depression and Suicidal Thoughts
24:16
because potentially his really humiliated by our people's lack
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of repentance and then invites desire to repent and God.
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So in God, maybe wanted to demonstrate that.
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As Rabbi sacks asked one of his turret sheets or left with her
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many years ago, he asked a profound question.
24:34
He had did God or has God lost interest in everybody else
24:39
because the Torah starts off beautifully Universal first, to
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cedra's, then, from laka laka onwards.
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It's avraham. It's like Jack of the Jews that
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the rest of world of Errors, attackers know that by their
24:50
stories. Don't really get a mansion God's
24:51
interaction with them, doesn't really take off till we get to
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the prophets and then suddenly Israel's with all the nation.
24:56
So it, but for the Tara Narrative of a fact has no
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obviously God doesn't lost interest.
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And what God's doing in this narrative is saying well here's
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your role model. His other hand, the role model.
25:06
Follow him. Like the nectar know, the whole
25:08
world couldn't live with God and that you want to do it.
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This is your specific example. Read his story, anybody on the
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planet and he'll be the example of how you can all have a good
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relationship with God. Following my role models, who
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are doing it for me. Yeah, yes.
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The rabbi suggest that Paris somehow lived.
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Hundreds and hundreds of years and I responded I don't I don't
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know. The, the scriptural context or
25:43
making that link. I would find it funny to assume
25:46
that if you imagine that too literal, interpretation the
25:49
saying of stigma to somehow we had longevity for hundreds of
25:52
years, which what? Ever.
25:54
Now the kind of thing that you then then it's been, it's
25:58
always. So then there's who doesn't
25:59
drown. So the posture can be Charlotte
26:01
where he were the seed, splits Lonnie shaver him a deferred.
26:04
Now, art is a very complicated word in Hebrews and two letter
26:08
word. But what does it mean?
26:09
I did Lonnie shaver other until one or not even one.
26:13
So, they're not even one would say that para drowned as well.
26:17
If you say only one that drowned, a has left to witness
26:20
the destruction of his nation and part of his punishment is
26:22
seeing Drowning himself big left.
26:25
Now alone with nothing and everything's really washed away.
26:30
So it's literally that the transfer that he is the same
26:34
fellow. Then imagine the poor guys,
26:36
stress. You know, we live for years
26:38
without seeing a Jew. Other one day, this frosting,
26:41
kind of fish smelling Jew walks in a too much Herring for
26:44
breakfast. Yeah, out the sea and he's like
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start speaking the name of the was that is the always well be
26:50
like ding, ding, trigger trigger moment.
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I just, we're all got to repent because I've done this before
26:56
hundreds of years ago, and it's just too, it's just this, just
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listen to me. We're not doing this one again.
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I've done the frogs in the lights and all that business and
27:07
that I've not come across anything.
27:09
Sort of to explain the can why they want to make that
27:12
connection other than perhaps grappling with.
27:15
Why would mean that the question is, why would a non-jewish pagan
27:19
polytheists King want to, suddenly believe it?
27:23
What is it about this? Holy man, that would have
27:25
distinguished him from any other.
27:27
The holy men even the the Charlotte that I know who they
27:29
were now, the guys are going screaming in the name of some
27:32
did some Daya T that you know, calamities coming.
27:35
I once got accosted on the on the train and London going to
27:38
the south of the river. So not a comes on a Sunday with
27:41
a megaphone and he comes on eloi eloi and whatever.
27:44
Thinking speaking Hebrew, unfortunately, I was only do on
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the trade, so he made a made a beeline for they start telling
27:50
me that only, you know, who was the only person ever to be
27:52
crucified. If I do not know the Romans did
27:54
that to lots of people that was their punishment, maybe read
27:57
history and eloi, eloi was his attempt to ravish, you actually
28:01
quote from chapter 22 in, to him, which sounds similar.
28:04
But not identical. Ailee Ailee.
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My God. My God lover, as of tiny, which
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is once which he, which they want to claim, is what he said
28:11
on the cross, which I said, well, if he was God, who was he
28:14
talking to? Why would we talking to him?
28:17
If you can't save himself, then whatever.
28:20
So, but they're pretty of these types of people that what's want
28:22
to know when you get going. To town and get these,
28:24
especially if I'm not with anybody who gets embarrassed,
28:27
when I start talking to his fellow, I have a lot of fun, a
28:30
lot, a lot of fun. There's because now they start,
28:32
I can follow now. So the it will comes to Saddam
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their seen it in. So as a different to mitzrayim
28:41
who are in nation and therefore ham huh gak I lit.
28:44
This General Providence over the nation that they are just
28:48
individual swept up with everybody else.
28:50
They Saddam were individual people righteous people.
28:54
Therefore could save themselves in their Merit others.
28:57
Could be saved. As a Nick, is your connectivity
28:59
little bit like in a dampening. We said at the beginning at.
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Okay avraham. Okay, it's Michael.
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Okay, yeah, go and interpretation is Is.
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Hey, God, I'm about to talk to you.
29:08
I'm not that great that I really can talk to you.
29:10
But identified, these are my grandparents.
29:13
So in their merits, correct, identifying with the
29:30
nation, but also without great slime can, if I'm connecting to
29:33
them that I'm worthy of something because I Den Many
29:36
Jews don't know that they ever existed and don't have any clue
29:38
of who they were and therefore, there's no identity and we're
29:41
saying we have this identity. Does that ha and a more obscure
29:49
Madras, midrash rivini quotes are teaching that lots of you
29:52
have her but it's not any of the other of the ordinary midrashim
29:55
where the angels are claiming to share, how can you save the
29:57
Jews? Because they also worship idols,
29:59
the Egyptians worshipped either. What makes this group better
30:02
than that group. And so it says eight have Del
30:05
there is no difference there. Mitzrayim Lee is throw open the
30:08
Egyptians on the Jews but because Archie thrill of written
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they're Crossing and they're not Crossing.
30:13
So why are they drowning wife? But that's the point that we are
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God's people and they are the counterfoil to us.
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We have to be the world cannot exist without the Jewish people
30:24
and that would be our conclusion as well and the Egyptians do.
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We work. Okay, we were Nation.
30:34
I guess waiting to have the current hated that, the climatic
30:38
moment of receiving God's law, but we were enough of people
30:41
with that. We've done carbon per stock,
30:43
which was a national sacrifice weed, marked ourselves as
30:46
distinct from, from the Egyptians with the blood on the
30:49
doorpost. The plagues in.
30:51
Also Drew this week, the first three places, fascinating
30:54
different from primary school, where the kids come home with a,
30:58
with a picture with the blue and the Red Jug know that the Jews
31:00
had Lots of the Egyptians have read in the blood and they will
31:03
learn that other interpretations, actually
31:06
suggests that the Jews suffered along with the Egyptians for the
31:09
first three place. And one of the proof text for
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that, well one does of philosophically explain why that
31:16
would be the case because if God was punishing the Nile and Niall
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was worshipped as a God, then had to be a total punishment.
31:23
All those Egyptian will said, look your God is powerful but
31:26
I've got fought back because there's a bit of water there.
31:28
No so it is blood for everybody. Then God is totally dominant
31:32
over the Egyptian god of the night.
31:34
But philosophically potentially, the other is the positive
31:37
etcetera says, by the fourth plague of what our of our of
31:41
which we always learn its wild animals.
31:45
No, that was the other interpretation makes way more
31:48
sense. We never learn.
31:49
Even that's in a mad rush, swarms of insects are of is a
31:54
mixture. Now, if you've got swarms of
31:57
insects flying, it doesn't make sense for the next peg, in the
31:59
death of the animals. So they bringing disease and
32:02
sort of tons of a scientific, or it sort of a flow of lot that we
32:05
needed to be scientific, but it makes sort of it leads on to the
32:08
next one naturally. God uses, there's no God then
32:12
with any contracts and God uses the natural world to bring about
32:16
punishments and messages to us. But also says, in the verse that
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will that that the houses were full of our of Your house is
32:24
have you got my channels in your house stop full it's crowd but
32:27
there's pockets of space where there are no animals because
32:30
their bodies take up space and there's gaps between them.
32:32
But if there are millions of looking locusts flying in into a
32:36
house, your house can be full of e-card move.
32:39
But this is one that's Senate is a midrashic explanation along
32:43
the other ones long but and it's very rarely taught, but just
32:46
having your mind as others, wild animals that everyone learns but
32:49
could be swapped mixtures because at that are obvious from
32:52
loud baptism. Mixture of swarms of different
32:55
things and that anyway, but in that particular play, get then
32:58
says the very first time God, separated the Jews from the
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Egyptians. Are we ready?
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Be emerging in this week's cedra as a separate and distinct
33:05
Nation for a purpose. That purpose is always to be
33:08
God's people. Remember that the line?
33:10
Let My People Go was only use because it rhymes with no, let
33:13
my people go so they can serve me doesn't really rhyme in a
33:16
cartoon. I'm in a movie and the idea of
33:19
servitude to and into an invisible God doesn't come over
33:21
too well on screen. Okay bye.
33:23
Got no motion never demands power to let them go.
33:26
It's always to serve. God is the next part of the
33:28
sentence. It was never never freedom for
33:30
no purpose at all. Why is though, right?
33:34
So why did individuals want to Nationwide?
33:36
You have to get swept. I think about bodies, if your
33:38
leg hurts, go to bed, your head, probably hurt because we want
33:40
organism. We're connected different parts
33:43
of the body heart and the whole body hurts.
33:45
It's unusual just have localized paid.
33:46
You know, the whole will be grumpy and everything will
33:49
suddenly start to ache. Now, that's true of our bodies
33:51
that true of the organism of the Jewish people of the nation Were
33:54
Meant to see ourselves as distant as this nation and
33:57
therefore a righteous person living in a bad country.
33:59
It's connected to the fate of the Bad Country.
34:01
I completely Your head is connected to your foot, in your
34:03
foot to your arm. We're all cooked and to see
34:05
ourselves as connected in that way, for Better, or For Worse.
34:09
Now, ultimately, we have to believe in God's Divine Justice
34:12
which would say they have a person is really righteous, even
34:15
the death swallowed up in a nation, because there's this
34:17
organism concept, and we're all connected in the deepest
34:20
possible way. They, as individuals must
34:22
receive, the reward of, that's where you get the doctrine of.
34:24
Well, I'm all I'm Harbour and wherever, all the accounts must
34:27
get fixed righteous person. Can't leave this existence.
34:32
Not receive the reward that was due to him.
34:34
Even if any of his death is miserable because he was swept
34:36
up in a nation, which is partially, why King David in the
34:39
first chapter? The Book of Psalms tells us
34:41
don't hang out with bad people because, you know, don't sit
34:44
with the scoffers because you're looking at it being a scoffer
34:46
and oats down the path of those who go in the wrong direction,
34:49
for Katya him, which we subtract as Sinners, because that's about
34:52
it, because the church word, but a sin that hot air is someone
34:55
going in the wrong direction, which makes sense.
34:57
Don't stand on the path for someone going in the wrong
34:59
direction because you're going the wrong direction and then
35:01
don't NG up with a wicked wicked in the tech context of to
35:05
helium. All those people.
35:07
Not who don't keep shambles and only kosher, but we could have
35:09
people who intentionally abuse the weakest members of society.
35:13
So where's the orphan the Widow? And the poor know that do that
35:16
category of people who are defenseless, who are, who are
35:18
vulnerable? That's who Wicked people are
35:20
within the context of the hilum. So if you don't, you didn't hang
35:23
out with them. You're going to be okay if you
35:25
make job place with such no miscreants, then you're going to
35:28
end up getting swept away with the punishments that affect
35:31
that. Now, let's get almost finish.
35:33
A do goes to war and gives us y, forget classically.
35:37
That's either a real get or get on a condition that if I don't
35:40
come back and retroactively, we are divorced and it solves the
35:44
problem of a changed woman of an eye gonna and solves, a lot of
35:47
problems, but what is it? What is happening?
35:49
Psychologically, forget the legal aspect for a moment.
35:53
He writes is a person is disconnecting from all the ties
35:56
That Bind him to individuals. His life as an individual
36:01
vanishes, when you go to walk, his identity is, as a soldier of
36:05
a Nation, there is no more. I there is now the we the
36:09
collective, What happens, how? Luckily, it's quite fantastic.
36:13
But fascinating, we're not allowed to worship idols.
36:16
We're not allowed to have for building relationships and other
36:19
radical not have to kill someone in a war.
36:21
When the end when the I vanish is the, I gots forbidden to do
36:24
these three things, a new Collective, identity emerges,
36:28
and these sins become permitted in certain aspects of their
36:31
sins. A soldier can kill an
36:33
individual. And what you can take that sort
36:36
of very disturbing scenario of taking a woman who you've
36:39
captured in war, you fall. In for, and you can have a
36:43
physical relationship with her. Yes, that's your fault.
36:45
Tell her, and you can do that within the context of War, get
36:49
them the rules. Then once you've got the urge
36:50
out of the way, then the other roles are played at 30 days and
36:53
then you got to reconsider. But now we've got some kids in
36:57
school and took quite a lot of non-jewish kids joining us all
37:00
the moment and we've got two boys who are yazidis the, what
37:04
mood are the ones that Isis know?
37:06
I think about what, what Isis did to their womenfolk, you
37:09
know, that's what war does it brutalize.
37:11
Sometimes men into animals or potentially turns men into
37:15
animals and Tara's got this this you fucked our system that deals
37:19
with the desires and the urges but then hopefully rains in the
37:22
brutality of what how walk and corrupt, and ordinary balanced
37:26
person. And finally, I've owed Azara.
37:29
We're not allowed to drink. Yeah, in NASA wine.
37:31
That was poured out in worship of an idol.
37:34
Not allowed to do that, but a soldier can, if you're thirsty.
37:39
So that the concept here is that is run by a chapter of the laws
37:41
of a desire to eat. Yeah, that's how that's the
37:44
halacha. So why?
37:45
Because the eye that has the rules on the eye level is
37:48
vanished. You're now a different identity
37:51
because you've gone to war and therefore certain laws have
37:54
changed, there's a v you because you're not the, I another part
37:56
of the collective. Therefore I see.
37:58
Em says begin this week's editorial are famous for the
38:00
last part and Marley of knees, run the ash until the Jews and
38:04
the, I'm the, you're the head of update.
38:07
Now previously all the names that are Patriarchs had for God,
38:11
indicate some sort of limitation because we are an El Shaddai
38:16
which we had in the book of beret shit.
38:18
And rabbis say Shaddai is shyamala Allah mode.
38:21
Either. God said stop to the world that
38:23
was creating and made barricades are sort of effects board,
38:27
whatever. That means in space, but there
38:29
were limits to the world. That was created this word, that
38:32
I is attempt, is, is infinite Infinity.
38:35
There's no boundaries, but what was that?
38:37
The always will be is the name that deals with infinity.
38:41
Does it matter how righteous you are, individuals, can't deal
38:44
with infinity. Only a nation in for a nation
38:47
that's infinite. Can deal with the god?
38:50
That's if we are God's people, we are God, the Epic conclusion
38:52
is stunning. I've actually written down the
38:54
Hebrew from because it's the way he writes.
38:56
It's so beautiful. He writes.
39:01
Yes, deposit says, Keith in their book attended the volume
39:03
key. Hey, let kashama we are a part
39:06
of her. Shall we?
39:07
Hashem Nation nation of the Jews is an act of God, just as God is
39:11
infinitude an eternity. So the nation of Israel will
39:14
always be. We Can't Stop existing because
39:17
the world will stop me. It doesn't, it doesn't work to
39:19
know. That's why we're still here.
39:20
Now, everyone's tried, and we're still around.
39:23
So there's something in it that we only turn on the ocean.
39:25
That doesn't go away. Come on Chef shout just says
39:29
it's not possible should tipped by tell me it's your Tasha.
39:32
I got the sparkle that God's existence can be vanished and it
39:37
be nullified career shall never done it but L am in Harlem.
39:41
Similarly it's impossible that the world cannot have the
39:45
Jewish. People ain't along.
39:47
There's a concept of God levad for a mistrial of God.
39:50
We are not separate from God. God always was, is always will
39:54
be. So that's true of us.
39:57
We say Shabbos morning. This is going to change with a
39:59
boy named David and maybe he's saying Chopin out before you
40:03
shower him. And then we say in the mouths of
40:04
their of those who are upright barachit from um, whatever the
40:07
different muscles are and then we say over matte color to
40:10
revolt. I'm habit, you, throw, we praise
40:13
God. As a, your people individuals
40:16
have one level of Praise, but on a national level, we are God's
40:19
Nation expressing God's Eternal nature.
40:22
We have to at that time National Destiny, buttock flesh cut its
40:27
Shrine from the depth of the darkness of Egypt.
40:30
Derek a tip volume. Hello came through God's
40:33
interventions, both through Masha, getting rid of the
40:38
Egyptian concept of. Then God continuing the hit, the
40:41
hating, the smiting through the 10 plagues and through this new
40:46
name of God, that was given to us on a national level.
40:48
Derek have product Hamas, it surely astronomy with strain,
40:51
through separating physically separating the Jew from the
40:54
Egyptian in the plagues we were spared.
40:57
Our animals were spared, a lead, they have my coat feige lawyer
41:00
will connect with the plagues that with this revelation of
41:03
this new spiritual concept of the name of Hashem.
41:07
You've now Met Gala slavka Dash and you, and you stage a new
41:12
platform is built. The hit putts.
41:14
Go Tasha. I'm used to run in the
41:15
development of the Jewish Nation.
41:17
So initially developed in last week's cetera through our
41:20
enemies defining who we were and seeing us as a threat to their
41:24
stability and never wanting to harm us.
41:26
In this week's sodra first, starting with mushrooms.
41:29
And continuing with Hashem, we really developed an Ascent to
41:32
our own independent identity of who we are our Eternal Nation,
41:36
our Eternal nature, and the fights.
41:38
The fact that we have to be others, don't have to be through
41:41
this concept of how I got Claw at this General Providence, that
41:44
Hashem running Nations individual gets works right
41:47
away, or Hanukkah Pratt it or individual Providence.
41:51
So on a national level we have certain asked reality is
41:54
individually and nisshin. Ultimate is built up through
41:56
individuals, but we need to identify as a nation to really
42:00
fulfill our national mandate be God's people.
42:06
Of course.