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Midrash Raba Yitro 2 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Midrash Rabba parashat yitra share #2 So there is a puzzle,
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  chapter 3, chapter 35 of Mishley of Proverbs that reads Kavod
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  hakamim yin halu. The wise receive honor and this
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  is connected in this Midrash to Yitra.
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  Yitra heard and he came along ZE yitra the Shah Shabbat al masha
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  Nah kavod naha. This phrase is an allusion to
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  Yitroff. When Yitro came to Moshe, what
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  great honour he received, because Moshe came out to greet
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  him, which was a big honour for Mr. Yitro, his father-in-law.
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  So before telling us what honour Yitro received, the Medridge
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  wants to understand why it was that Moshe went to greet his
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  father-in-law. So again, it seems from the text
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  that Moshe went out just sort of on his own.
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  However, the Madras is going to tell us that there was a
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  prestigious entourage that followed Moshe going out to
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  greet Yitra, and therefore the Madras wants to know why would
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  Moshe compel all these people to go out to meet Yitra.
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  So the Madras continues by Yoma El Moshe.
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  Yitra said to him, Anil khatan khayitra baila Khayitra, your
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  father have come to come to you with your wife and her two sons
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  with her. Rabbi Ashura says shala, he sent
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  a message via a messenger boy to tell him that tell Moshe that he
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  was coming. And Rabbi Eliazal now he said no
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  Shalakhla E Garret, he sent a letter.
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  So let's first understand the Torah, what the problem is so
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  that that pasuk Vayyama al Masha, I'm coming.
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  How could Yatra have told Masha that he had come if it's only in
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  the next pasuk that we know that Masha goes out to greet his
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  father-in-law? Because he was.
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  So he wasn't there in that pasuk.
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  So Rabi Assur says he sends a message and Rabi Aleda says it,
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  it's a letter. Why?
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  Because he says Ani Khatamaka Yitrak is in the first person
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  and that could not have been spoken by a messenger, but
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  rather must have been communicated by Yitrak words
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  that he said. So someone says, oh, your
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  father-in-law is coming. He wouldn't have said I, your
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  father-in-law am coming. So we've got to understand both
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  sides of the Midrash Vannar. And what was his message?
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  I say, but Guinea act for my sake, come forward, greet me and
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  honor me. So let's digress.
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  We've learnt, we know from other sources.
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  So we've learnt it in school in our in our childhood that Yitra
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  was this big priest of idolatry and that he gave it all up.
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  And that's why his daughters at the well were finding a tough
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  time to get water. The shepherds were being
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  horrible to them because he had pretty much been made persona
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  non grata in that area. And now.
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  So Yitra went through paid a huge price for his new found
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  religious belief and experiences.
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  Once a respected leader of Midian, his embrace of the truth
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  caused him now to be ostracised by his fellow so his fellow
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  Midianites. So what's he doing?
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  He was prepared to undergo this humiliation for his faith in
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  God. And now he's saying to Marshall,
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  I want you to honour me. What's going on?
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  It's the 11 approach is as follows.
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  Yitro did not seek honour but rather sought to avoid
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  humiliation, the pain of which the righteous feel as well.
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  It was the common practice to go out and greet arriving guests.
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  Certainly it was to be expected that Musharraf's own
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  father-in-law would be received warmly.
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  Were Yitro then to be denied this courtesy, he would suffer
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  great embarrassment. He therefore said to his son,
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  Law, please come out to greet me so I would be spared.
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  It would really for Yitro any further embarrassment.
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  But Yitro continued. According to the Midrash, VE may
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  not have said bikini. If you don't want to honour me,
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  then I say begin. Ishtar, I do for the sake of
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  your wife. Then einat I'll say begin out
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  and if you don't want to do it for her sake, then do it for
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  your children. So what happened next?
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  Rabi El azar omeh hakadosh baruah marilla.
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  Hashem said to him, say you go out, but you're male Musha.
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  So what does Hashem say to Musha and me?
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  I am the one who created the world, I am the one who brings
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  things close and distances. I am the one who drew yet ronier
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  and didn't distance him and therefore a dumb that Shabbat to
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  leave this person who came to me.
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  Lord by Allen the shame Shabbat, he did so for noble purposes,
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  the Lord by El Alit Gaye, he came to convert.
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  So Hashem says to Moshe al Fatih Karve, you bring him close, our
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  Tariq EU, don't distance him. And immediately if I hate to say
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  Moshe Ali Kraut, no Moshe went out.
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  So what was the motivation for Moshe going out?
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  Differences of opinion in the Midrash.
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  We will continue this thought Bezrat Hashem next time.
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  Have a great day.