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Midrash Raba Shemot 3 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Midrash Rubber Parashat Shamat share #3 This Midrash is
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  phenomenal, and I love the thought that goes into this
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  Midrash. So again, looking at the
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  beginning of this week's Parashatva ilah Shamat beneath
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  Israel, and then the Midrash wants to know, why are we
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  enumerating the names of the tribes?
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  We know them so well from the previous weeks.
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  It seems rather unnecessary. Now look, look what?
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  Look what the Medrash does. It's fascinating.
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  Our shame. Gulachi Israel.
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  Niskurukan. It's amazing.
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  In a verse that describes the descent of the Jewish people to
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  Egypt, which is the opening stages of slavery and all that
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  follows, the measure says the children of Israel are mentioned
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  in this pasuk by their name, because encoded into their name
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  is a is an illusion, is a hint at gula of redemption.
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  So a verse that speaks of slavery actually contains the
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  very hint of our exit and our salvation, which is fun, which
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  is fascinating. Ruvan, Why did you call him
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  Ruvan? Because we can think of this
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  pasuk raiti at Oni AMI, as it says in the pasuk Hashem said.
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  I have indeed seen like Ruvan, to see the affliction of my
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  people, that is in Egypt. And then the Midrash goes
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  through the different names. So just to go through a few of
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  the names, we don't need to go through all of them Shim on
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  because the verse says Vaishma again to hear Hashem heard na
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  khatam they're groaning Levi al shame shinit khabeh kadosh
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  barhool at Sarah Tam Levi means to accompany because on the
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  count that Hashem joined the people of Israel in their
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  distress. How?
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  By appearing to Moshe Arbeno from the burning Bush and it's
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  and the pasuka and Tahilim Imar Anahi.
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  But Sarah, I'm with him in distress.
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  We jump to the end of this particular midrashic comment.
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  We get to to naftali our shame Tarahum mitzvot on account of
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  the Tarahum mitzvot the Hashem was going to give the the Jewish
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  people after their redemption from Egypt.
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  As it says in relation to Tarahum mitzvot, Umat tukim
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  mitwash for nafet sufim. They are sweeter than honey and
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  drippings from the honeycomb. So what's naftali?
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  It's Noffet Lee drippings from me, the sweetness of the Torah.
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  And we get down to yourself because in the IT, it does the
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  Midrash al shame Shah al Tida Kadoshbar, who in the future
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  Hashem will once again loss if League olit she's from in Malkot
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  Harasha. Hashem will redeem the Jewish
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  people again from the wicked Kingdom of Asaf this time, just
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  as he redeemed them from Egypt as it says in the pasuk Vaya by
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  Omahu will be on that day. Joseph Hashem Shinich Yadah that
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  the Lord will once again Joseph will show his hand and the
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  entire matter that's written in the chapter there in the book of
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  Isaiah. It's worth looking up Chapter
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  11. What's really going on here.
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  There's an incredible insight from Rob Gadaliyaru Sharon in
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  the OR Gadaliyaru says as follows.
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  The Egyptian exile was designed to condition and purify the
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  Jewish people. It was to prepare them for for
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  our mission in the world. In order to achieve that
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  purpose, the trials of the exile would have to be intense, and
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  tragically, dreadfully so. The Jews in Egypt would be
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  severely stricken, and if they were to survive, they would need
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  to be fortified with an array of spiritual strengths.
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  In a sense, the situation would like a seed that goes into the
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  ground and falls apart, only to then grow something beautiful.
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  And whilst it's true that we were badly broken in body and
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  soul, but we were never totally at a loss.
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  And that spark, the name that emerged from them, would emerge
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  and be the secret of our survival.
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  So we contain a tremendous amount of inner strength and and
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  we can deal with adversity by remember remembering our names.
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  Our names are powerful symbols of who we are because it and the
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  point being that if you go down for what looks like it's
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  slavery, it's actually to refine you and to improve you, which
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  might help us understand another midriff from another place.
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  That by not changing their names, it meant that they
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  allowed that power, that potential encoded in their names
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  to accompany them and ultimately brought about that redemption.
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  Have a wonderful day.