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Midrash Raba Vaera 1 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Midrash Rubber Parashat Vaira sheer #1 The opening midrash on
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  our parisha this week is both lengthy and fascinating.
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  Slightly bizarre, but it sentence centers around a subtle
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  shift. It's not so subtle.
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  It's there, but perhaps not many people noticed it in the opening
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  pasuk by Daber Elokim and Mushair Elokim, which is God's
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  mid AT Hardin. It's strict, it's harsh, spoke
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  to mushair and followed by the omei love ani Hashem udke vavke.
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  And that's mid AT Harakamin. That's mercy.
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  So what's going on in this shift between God's different names?
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  What if musha do the angered Hashem and then what placated
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  Hashem in the next moment? And as we know, Medridge opens
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  up with reference to another pasuk.
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  Now we don't go to Proverbs or to Tahilim.
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  We're having a little Segway into Kohelet.
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  Second chapter. Wonderful pasuk VE hole lot
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  vasilut Ki me. I'm sorry if I need to only
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  leave out the I turn myself to see wisdom, madness and folly.
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  For what can a man who comes after the king do?
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  It has already been done, says the Madras.
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  This Pasupa said concerning Shlomohamerak, who wrote the
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  book of Proverb, Proverbs and Coheret Ecclesiastes, and about
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  Moshe Rabaenu. What did Shlomohamerak do to get
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  God's wrath burning against him? So when Hashem gave, the Torah
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  says the member, she gave mitzvot, both positive mitzvot
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  and negative mitzvot. And some of those commandments
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  directly concern the role of the king in society.
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  For example, Loyaabel or Sasim shouldn't have too many horses,
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  but Kassar has 1/2. He shouldn't greatly increase
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  his gold, his silver and gold. The loyaabel on Hashim shouldn't
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  have too many wives. The Loya Sulavar that his heart
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  should not turn astray and get distracted and do the wrong
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  thing. Ahmad Shro Muhammad asking
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  Solomon arose and said, you know what, I'm a very smart person.
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  I'm going to work out the the rationale behind this mitzvah,
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  this mitzvah Loyabel on Ashima shouldn't have too many wives as
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  the king love Ishvil. Is it not as the pasuk says
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  Shalaya Sullivan that your heart shouldn't turn astray.
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  I need Arabela. I'm going to marry lots of
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  different women. And we know he married 1000.
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  But Philly Beliasu, my heart is going to be OK.
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  I'm going to stick with everything.
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  I'm not going to get distracted. And we're assuming here that the
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  wise he might have married and which he went on to marry would
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  have come from different cultures, introducing foreign
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  thoughts, alien attitudes and philosophies.
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  Shlomo was convinced that he would be OK Now wait for it.
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  Now the Madras introduces an interesting little segue.
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  Amber Rabotainer, the rabbi, said at that time the letter
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  yut. This is all a metaphor.
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  Don't get too excited. The letter yut of the word
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  Yarber, He shall not increase law.
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  Yarber ascended to heaven, or was like, imagine it leaving the
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  Torah scroll and flopping its wings up to heaven and it bowed
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  down before I qadosh Baruch. The letter yurd is very
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  respectful and said to Hashem, Ribbon haul AMI Master of the
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  world lokhande. Did you not say in your Torah
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  that every letter matters, That no Torah will, no letter will be
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  eliminated? Shlom Muhammad has effectively
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  through his decision, gotten rid of me.
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  How so? Because the word yarobe is in
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  the imperative, he will not do something going forward.
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  Take off the latigudes. The word would be rubber.
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  He increased in the past tense. So if I Shlomo saying he will
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  not do something and I'm saying you know I'm going to do it,
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  then the whole meaning of the pasuk, it's imperative.
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  Instructive content has been cancelled by Shlomo Hamana and
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  Marlona Kadoshburg. Who's the God said back to the
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  letter years Schlummer, the LF kiosk for Schlummer and 1000.
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  Like him, your battalion will be eliminated and not one single
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  letter of my Torah, which would effectively means not one change
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  to the context of the Torah will be will be allowed.
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  And how do we know that that's a true comment?
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  Because when Hashem said to Sarai, your name won't be Sarai,
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  but it'll be Sarah. So again, the letter Yud was
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  seemed to be disconnected from the from the from the text and
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  left hanging, going nowhere. And we know that when Yahoshua
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  was called Yahoshua, the Yud from Sarai went to her name.
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  So the no letters were eliminated in the process.
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  We had to come back for more because run out of time.
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  Have a good day.