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- 0:00SPEAKER_01: Two housewives, two moras save Claudiusrael.
- 0:06SPEAKER_01: That could be very much the headline of our Parsha.
- 0:10SPEAKER_00: Shifra and Tua are their names.
- 0:15SPEAKER_00: The story?
- 0:17SPEAKER_00: The background?
- 0:19SPEAKER_00: We're at the beginning of Parsha Shimos.
- 0:22SPEAKER_00: The Jewish people have grown.
- 0:28SPEAKER_00: They've multiplied.
- 0:32SPEAKER_00: Mothers give birth like insects.
- 0:37SPEAKER_00: That's a positive thing.
- 0:39SPEAKER_00: Six tuplets.
- 0:41SPEAKER_01: Six children.
- 0:45SPEAKER_01: As a Shunarishona present for the mothers in Mitsrayim, you already had to buy them a Honda Odyssey or Toyota Sienna.
- 0:53SPEAKER_01: The growth of Claliusrol unmatched, unparalleled.
- 0:59SPEAKER_00: But this sent chaos.
- 1:24SPEAKER_01: We gotta come up with a Jewish solution.
- 1:29SPEAKER_00: A solution to the Jewish problem.
- 1:34SPEAKER_01: We can't let them continue to increase their numbers.
- 1:38SPEAKER_01: They'll outnumber us when they're partner with another nation and take over Egypt.
- 1:45SPEAKER_01: Take over Mitzraim.
- 1:47SPEAKER_01: They asimu alov sorry misum lamana no so sobis of losum.
- 1:52SPEAKER_01: Let's enslave them.
- 1:55SPEAKER_00: Let's set over them taskmasters.
- 2:00SPEAKER_01: Let's impress upon them burdens and force them to build store cities.
- 2:06SPEAKER_01: Pithum and Ramses.
- 2:23SPEAKER_01: They seemingly grow.
- 2:37SPEAKER_01: You can feel the tension in Mitzraim and all of the Congress meetings of how they're trying.
- 2:45SPEAKER_01: Sir Paro, the the expert and wise counselor speaks up.
- 2:50SPEAKER_01: We have we're trying to solve the Jewish problem, but they just keep multiplying and growing bigger.
- 3:00SPEAKER_01: The fear is mounting.
- 3:02SPEAKER_01: Things are going downhill and they're backwards.
- 3:16SPEAKER_01: Crushing hard mortar, brick and mortar type of work in the field.
- 3:23SPEAKER_00: It's not working.
- 3:25SPEAKER_00: The Jews are still winning.
- 3:29SPEAKER_00: The Egyptians are losing hold.
- 3:32SPEAKER_00: Pyro losing grip on his metropolis.
- 3:37SPEAKER_00: So they have a meeting.
- 3:41SPEAKER_00: What should we do about the Jewish problem?
- 3:44SPEAKER_00: The higher taskmasters are not working.
- 3:51SPEAKER_00: We need something more intense.
- 3:53SPEAKER_01: I know.
- 3:58SPEAKER_01: Lami Yaldis Ha Ivrios.
- 4:00SPEAKER_01: The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives.
- 4:05SPEAKER_01: Asher She Mo Achas Shifra Vashema Shane is Puah.
- 4:10SPEAKER_00: One of the Hebrew midwives' name was Shifra, and one of the names was Puah.
- 4:20SPEAKER_00: Kill the babies.
- 4:22SPEAKER_00: Any baby boy, kill him.
- 4:28SPEAKER_00: Don't let there be any hope for the Jewish nation.
- 4:33SPEAKER_00: Stomp out.
- 4:36SPEAKER_00: Any bit of spark.
- 4:39SPEAKER_00: Any future savior.
- 4:45SPEAKER_00: But these midwives.
- 4:48SPEAKER_01: They refused.
- 4:50SPEAKER_01: They said no to Pyro and they stuck up against him and they feared God.
- 4:55SPEAKER_01: And they didn't kill the babies.
- 4:57SPEAKER_00: They risked their lives.
- 5:01SPEAKER_00: And run a little counter-terroristic operation.
- 5:07SPEAKER_01: Hiding the babies, protecting them.
- 5:10SPEAKER_01: When asked about why the plans of killing the baby boys wasn't working, they wiggled their way out of it, Shiffra and Pua.
- 5:20SPEAKER_00: They saved Klyister, all these two women.
- 5:22SPEAKER_00: Who were these two women?
- 5:26SPEAKER_00: You know.
- 5:28SPEAKER_00: If you've been to Jewish day school, you know.
- 5:33SPEAKER_00: Rashi tells us who they were.
- 5:37SPEAKER_00: They were none other than Moshe Rabinu's mother and Moshe Rabinu's sister.
- 5:47SPEAKER_00: Their names?
- 5:51SPEAKER_00: Yocheved.
- 5:53SPEAKER_00: Joheved.
- 5:55SPEAKER_00: The mother of Moshe.
- 5:57SPEAKER_00: That's Shifra.
- 5:59SPEAKER_00: She just has that nickname.
- 6:01SPEAKER_00: And Bua?
- 6:02SPEAKER_00: That's also just a nickname.
- 6:05SPEAKER_00: It's really Miriam.
- 6:08SPEAKER_00: Rashi tells us.
- 6:10SPEAKER_01: Quote Shifra Yochheved, I'll shame Shef Mishaperes Es Havlad.
- 6:15SPEAKER_01: She was just called by this nickname, this sobriquet.
- 6:20SPEAKER_01: An old French word for a nickname.
- 6:26SPEAKER_01: Shifra is because the Hebrew word Schifra means to bathe, to swaddle, to groom and adorn adorn a newborn baby.
- 6:39SPEAKER_01: That was Shifra's job.
- 6:41SPEAKER_01: Her nickname was Shifra because she used to Shifra a fi, she used to clean the babies, swaddle them.
- 6:49SPEAKER_01: Her nickname was Swaddle.
- 6:51SPEAKER_00: In Hebrew, Shifra.
- 6:55SPEAKER_00: Zum Miriam.
- 6:59SPEAKER_00: Shapua Umidaberes Vahogalavlad.
- 7:08SPEAKER_00: Is because it's also a nickname.
- 7:10SPEAKER_00: Her real name is Miriam.
- 7:13SPEAKER_00: But she had this surname.
- 7:18SPEAKER_00: This action-oriented moniker of hers.
- 7:23SPEAKER_01: Because she would poet umida berisvahogel of Lod.
- 7:27SPEAKER_01: She would croon the baby, speak to it, talk out loud.
- 7:33SPEAKER_01: Shh shh shh there, little one.
- 7:36SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be okay.
- 7:38SPEAKER_01: Mommy's here.
- 7:39SPEAKER_01: That's what it means, poa, to poo poo to the baby.
- 7:44SPEAKER_01: So that was why they called Miriam.
- 7:47SPEAKER_01: Pua.
- 7:48SPEAKER_01: And it's interesting to note, don't you think?
- 7:52SPEAKER_01: These two Moras, these two Jewish saints, these two holy Hebrew midwives aren't called by their real names.
- 7:59SPEAKER_01: They get monikers, they get sobriquets of crooning and swaddling.
- 8:08SPEAKER_00: And the person's name in the Torah is significant.
- 8:14SPEAKER_01: Every shame has a meaning, it is intrinsically who the person is.
- 8:22SPEAKER_01: Moshe is intrinsically Moshe from the water he was drawn.
- 8:26SPEAKER_01: We remember his humble beginnings.
- 8:27SPEAKER_01: Menasha, Yosef's son, is to commemorate how Yosef forgot his troubles of his past and how his brothers forsook him, forsaked him, forsakened them him.
- 8:42SPEAKER_01: Yosef.
- 8:44SPEAKER_01: Simcha was added, Yehuda, Hapam Oda Sashem, everything, Re'u, Vain, Ruvain, every name is part and parcel of Raham, Abraham, Abhamon, Gaiim.
- 8:56SPEAKER_01: So what is going on here?
- 9:00SPEAKER_00: That we don't get regular names, we get their nicknames.
- 9:06SPEAKER_00: Because it's what we always talk about.
- 9:09SPEAKER_00: It's what Musler preaches, and the lesson here is on full display.
- 9:17SPEAKER_00: There is no such thing as something small in the world.
- 9:23SPEAKER_00: There's no such thing as something large in the world.
- 9:29SPEAKER_00: Every item except for God and Torah and Mitzvos is what you make of it.
- 9:43SPEAKER_00: It's dependent entirely upon the person and your mindset.
- 9:51SPEAKER_01: No matter how menial the activity is, how childlike the exercise, something as small as swaddling a baby, burping a child or taking out the garbage.
- 10:09SPEAKER_00: If you're a guggle, if you see the world for what it truly is, and you live an uplifted and exalted life, well then godless that activity is considered.
- 10:29SPEAKER_01: Isn't it unbelievable?
- 10:31SPEAKER_01: Look at this godless here that all of a sudden we have in the Torah the baby burper, the baby clother, and the baby shusher.
- 10:43SPEAKER_01: But that's what they're called instead of Shifra, that's what they're called instead of Miriam in Yochaven, because that's a godless dick of action.
- 10:51SPEAKER_01: Because anything that you do in an effort to live an exalted and uplifted life, if it's something that God wants you to do and it's the right call, then it's godless and it's included in the Torah, and you're praised for it.
- 11:08SPEAKER_00: These powerful paragons.
- 11:13SPEAKER_00: They lived as Gidolim, they saved Clayastral.
- 11:21SPEAKER_00: And they're godless, included in it was the burping of babies and saving Jewish babies and swaddling Jewish babies.
- 11:28SPEAKER_00: That's godless.
- 11:31SPEAKER_00: And now for the rant.
- 11:35SPEAKER_00: For some honest introspection and digression.
- 11:42SPEAKER_00: There are so many things in our life that we either look at as bad things or good things, and we're wrong.
- 11:54SPEAKER_00: Because they're neither, neither.
- 11:58SPEAKER_01: They are what you make of it.
- 12:00SPEAKER_01: And let's start with that dirty paper that you hold that's green, and maybe has the picture of an American president on it.
- 12:10SPEAKER_01: We call it money, we call it kesef.
- 12:13SPEAKER_01: Money is a dirty word.
- 12:20SPEAKER_01: What it causes people to do.
- 12:23SPEAKER_01: What sins people commit because of this dirty paper?
- 12:27SPEAKER_01: What lies they tell so they can amass more dirty paper?
- 12:35SPEAKER_01: Thieves gunove him, chakron him, just so they can amass more money, more wealth.
- 12:44SPEAKER_00: Money's a terrible thing, it seems.
- 12:50SPEAKER_00: But wait.
- 12:52SPEAKER_01: Doesn't the Pusak say, Thou shalt love God?
- 12:56SPEAKER_01: The ahavta loka, becholvcha.
- 13:00SPEAKER_01: You gotta love Hashem with all of your heart.
- 13:03SPEAKER_01: Uvechol Nafshekham with all of your soul.
- 13:08SPEAKER_01: Uvechol mecha.
- 13:11SPEAKER_01: Part of the three-prong trifectic loving of God is made up with the serving of God me'odeka with your money.
- 13:23SPEAKER_01: Money is how God wants you to serve him.
- 13:26SPEAKER_01: It's part of the Derech Hashem.
- 13:32SPEAKER_00: How can this be?
- 13:33SPEAKER_01: How can this poisonous dirty paper that is so many people's Achilles heel?
- 13:41SPEAKER_01: How can it also be part of the same biblical verse of thou shalt love Hashem with all of your might?
- 13:47SPEAKER_01: Which is translated by the Mesachta Brachos, Khazal Talas Bahoma Odecha means all of your Kesef, all of your money.
- 13:54SPEAKER_01: How can it be?
- 13:55SPEAKER_01: Because whether you're a banker, a newspaper delivery boy, a baby swaddler, a baby cooer.
- 14:09SPEAKER_01: Money's not bad.
- 14:11SPEAKER_01: Nothing's bad, nothing's good.
- 14:13SPEAKER_01: It is what you are and what you make of it and what you choose to do with it.
- 14:19SPEAKER_01: If you're a guddle, if you walk like a Jewish giant carrying yourself proudly as an obedient servant of Hashem, well then every dollar that you make, every dollar that you donate, every single deal that you transact ethically and with integrity, that's godless.
- 14:42SPEAKER_01: You're like Miriam and Yocheved whispering to babies that you make it into the Torah as the baby cooer and baby swaddler.
- 14:54SPEAKER_01: If they're writing a new Torah and you were in it and you're a guddle, maybe you would be make the final cut of the Torah as this person who was the garbage taker outer.
- 15:06SPEAKER_00: I'll prove it to you.
- 15:08SPEAKER_00: I'll prove it to you that this lesson is true.
- 15:12SPEAKER_01: Because just imagine watching the great Rab Khaim Kaniewski's wife, Rebitsin Kanievsky, who would walk with trepidation and with fear and with a smile.
- 15:24SPEAKER_01: She was one big ball of Yura Shomanyam and Avasaklia Surel.
- 15:28SPEAKER_01: Just imagine if while her husband was learning and while she was giving advice to somebody, she was humbly taking the garbage out of the metal can that was lined with this inner black bag.
- 15:42SPEAKER_01: She picks it out of the trash, out of its garbage pail, ties it up, and walks it out.
- 15:49SPEAKER_01: You'd video that.
- 15:50SPEAKER_01: You would say, wow, look how Rebitzin Kanayevsky takes out the garbage.
- 15:54SPEAKER_01: That's godless.
- 15:56SPEAKER_01: Look how she's doing it with such swiftness.
- 15:59SPEAKER_01: Look how she's doing it with such humility.
- 16:02SPEAKER_01: She does something so great.
- 16:03SPEAKER_01: She does something so small.
- 16:06SPEAKER_01: See, friends, it's what Rebitsin Kanaevsky is that makes her taking out of the garbage godless because she's a goddamn.
- 16:16SPEAKER_01: Imagine Rivmosha Feinstein between Kavrusas.
- 16:20SPEAKER_01: After he's finished with his eight-hour morning seder between 4 a.m.
- 16:24SPEAKER_01: and 10 a.m.
- 16:26SPEAKER_01: Is that eight hours?
- 16:27SPEAKER_01: But either way, in the morning, now settling down for a bowl of Cheerios, pouring in some Hull of Israel milk into them.
- 16:36SPEAKER_01: Wouldn't you stare at the way Rabbi Moses Feinstein?
- 16:40SPEAKER_01: The Baldibris Moshe.
- 16:44SPEAKER_01: Wouldn't you stare at him as he as you commented, look how the sage, the luminary, pours milk into the Cheerios.
- 16:53SPEAKER_01: Godless! You would watch it in instant replay.
- 16:58SPEAKER_00: You'd sell the footage.
- 17:01SPEAKER_00: Because it's worth tons.
- 17:05SPEAKER_00: It's just somebody pouring milk.
- 17:07SPEAKER_01: No, it's not because it's godless, because the person is a goddamn.
- 17:13SPEAKER_01: If you elevate yourself, then you elevate every item around you.
- 17:18SPEAKER_01: Even baby cooing and baby swaddling.
- 17:23SPEAKER_01: That's godless.
- 17:25SPEAKER_01: Let's talk about the next area where this idea needs to be impressed into and deeply impressed into our psyches.
- 17:37SPEAKER_01: It's about kadusha's habias, holiness in the Jewish home, the conjugal relationship, the mitzvah of Onah, the sacred marital connection, Tashmish Hamita, intimacy, however you call it, the Ruchnis, the deep soul part of anyone's relationship that's at the heart of a Jewish family.
- 18:00SPEAKER_01: The world is stuck, stymied, and mired in a cesspool of filth of immorality in this area.
- 18:15SPEAKER_00: How many people, Jewish and not Jewish, have been harassed by the Eight Sahara in this area?
- 18:27SPEAKER_01: The Eight Sahara cucks, he fights to break down Jewish barriers, to ruin homes and distract people, to run after things that nobody really wants.
- 18:44SPEAKER_01: But for the momentary pleasure, this one Nakuta, this one aspect, the misgole, they call it, the intimacy that the Yetsahara holds in front of people, it seems so tume, so impure, but yet how can you make sense of the following Gemara?
- 19:07SPEAKER_01: How can this Tashmish Hamita be so impure and so disgusting?
- 19:16SPEAKER_00: A bad thing.
- 19:19SPEAKER_01: If the Gemaran Kadushin thirty B says that there are three partners in a person Hashem, his father, and the baby's mother.
- 19:32SPEAKER_01: The father gives the bones, sinews, nails, brain, and whitenesses of the eye.
- 19:38SPEAKER_01: The mother donates the flesh, blood, hair, skin, blackness of the eye.
- 19:42SPEAKER_01: Hashem gives the breath, the soul, the nashemah, the facial expression, the vision, the hearing, the speech, the walking, the knowledge, the understanding, the wisdom.
- 19:53SPEAKER_01: You hear this?
- 19:56SPEAKER_01: You hear how ruchneistic, how spiritual This action is of intimacy.
- 20:05SPEAKER_01: This action that we've ranted about, how it's been such a point of struggling for so many people.
- 20:13SPEAKER_01: It's gotten in the way of their spiritual growth.
- 20:16SPEAKER_01: It's wrecked certain spiritual havocs on certain Jewish homes.
- 20:23SPEAKER_01: The world in some areas abstains from it because it's impure, they'll say.
- 20:31SPEAKER_01: But yet here we have a Gemara Masaktikadution that says you're partnering with God.
- 20:37SPEAKER_01: Could you imagine a partnership like that?
- 20:39SPEAKER_01: It's Mr.
- 20:41SPEAKER_01: and Mrs.
- 20:42SPEAKER_01: and God LLC.
- 20:44SPEAKER_01: You hear that corporation?
- 20:45SPEAKER_01: You're a shut of with Hashem when you're Osake in this action with the proper intentions.
- 20:52SPEAKER_01: Rob Boysa Dea, hear it.
- 20:56SPEAKER_01: It is not about the action or the entity or the item.
- 21:03SPEAKER_01: It's about you and about what you are, what the person is.
- 21:07SPEAKER_01: If you're a Godl and you fear Zuk and you carry yourself like a Goddle, then even this Tashvishamita and the marital union, the Kadush's abaisse becomes the most sacred, holy, uplifted, and perfect.
- 21:25SPEAKER_00: Romantic, spiritual, ecstasy.
- 21:35SPEAKER_01: But if you're lowly, if you're shallow, if you're pathetic, if you live life for its simple pleasures, if you only are interested in yourself, if you care not about what God wants of you, but you're only interested in self-pleasing, self-gratifying endeavors, well then you've taken this incredible partnering with God type of action and you've reduced it down to like consuming a bottle of Coca-Cola, drinking a beer, or the simple and gross pleasure of smoking a cigarette, you're eating a bag of chips.
- 22:22SPEAKER_01: Because if you're pathetic, then even the holiest things are pathetic.
- 22:26SPEAKER_01: And if you're a guddle, if you're a baby cooer or baby swaddler, then you're shifra and pua, and you're an absolute gudgle and you're praised in the Torah.
- 22:37SPEAKER_01: Because it's about what you are, not about what the thing that you're interplaying and using is.
- 22:43SPEAKER_01: One more final source, one more maki patash hitting the nail, attempting to hit the nail on the head to drive the point home and build a binyan here about how we see that it's about what you are and how you live, and not about what it is that you are doing or touching.
- 23:02SPEAKER_01: Rambam, Shmonaprakim, chapter five, concerning the application of man's psychic faculties towards the attainment of one singer goal, says the Rambam.
- 23:16SPEAKER_01: Tsorek La Adam, hear how he says this concept so simply and so perfectly.
- 23:54SPEAKER_01: And it is Hasogas Hashem Yisparach.
- 24:01SPEAKER_01: The attainment of the knowledge of God, may he be blessed.
- 24:15SPEAKER_01: The Yasempula sav, Kulan every single one of your lives' action should have the same strand running through its center.
- 24:26SPEAKER_01: Tanu Aisov, uminoi chusov, the khaldivarov, me vian lazua tahlis, and shalo yeah so far me poil a hevel, achmanaletzlan, apoil shalom tahlas, every aspect of your life, every single tenuwa vitanua, should be all pushing forward to this sacred and lofty calling of a sogas akadeshbarakhu, of recognizing and connecting to the divine, of the otherworldly, of the holy one, blessed be he.
- 25:03SPEAKER_01: The Rambam, he lists all the different ways that you can go about this life in the exalted way.
- 25:12SPEAKER_01: Eating, drinking, cohabiting, sleeping, waking, moving, resting, preservation of bodily health, all of it should all be so that you are ready to acquire the wisdom of Hashem to gain moral and intellectual capabilities and understanding and virtues.
- 25:31SPEAKER_01: He elaborates.
- 25:33SPEAKER_01: If you get melancholic, listen to some music.
- 25:37SPEAKER_01: Instrumental music wakes you up, and now that's uplifted when you sit down and listen to a Yassi Piamenta, Yassi Green, Yehuda Green, Yaakov Shweki, anything that's uplifted Jewish music because now it's uplifted, it's sacred.
- 25:52SPEAKER_01: If you're a Godal, if you're a Godd, if you're using it so that you can bring it to the tahlas, which is more relaxation.
- 26:01SPEAKER_01: So now I have the ability to be open and relaxed and think and contemplate and study and pray and do bedtime, bedtime's godless, bathtime's godless.
- 26:11SPEAKER_01: If you're a goddamn, listening to music is godless, it's significant, is great, is lofty.
- 26:18SPEAKER_00: If you are, but if you're not, then you're wasting your time in your music.
- 26:28SPEAKER_01: If you're lowly, then your intimacy is lowly empathetic.
- 26:34SPEAKER_01: Your eating and drinking is lowly empathetic.
- 26:37SPEAKER_01: If you have nothing more to attain in life except for self-gratification, well then you've taken the most beautiful aspects of life and you've pulled it down.
- 26:48SPEAKER_01: It's now worth nothing more than a recycled cardboard box.
- 26:55SPEAKER_00: It's nothing, it's pointless, it's empty.
- 27:01SPEAKER_00: And that's our USOD.
- 27:03SPEAKER_00: And that's our lesson that we see from Chef Rampua.
- 27:09SPEAKER_00: That the swaddling and crooning is how we refer to these holy moras and midwives that toppled the tyrant and saved Klyasra.
- 27:28SPEAKER_01: They're not called Miriam and Yochaved.
- 27:32SPEAKER_01: They're called the Swaddler and the Krooner, Shifra and Puah.
- 27:37SPEAKER_01: These are our holy Jewish Moras, our holy Jewish mothers.
- 27:42SPEAKER_01: They feared the word of God, they said no to Paro.
- 27:46SPEAKER_01: They feared the word of Hashem, and they stook up for what was right.
- 27:51SPEAKER_01: What a powerful lesson.
- 27:53SPEAKER_01: That life and everything in it is what you make of it.
- 27:59SPEAKER_01: It is what you are.
- 28:00SPEAKER_01: If you're a godl, then it's godless.
- 28:03SPEAKER_01: And if you're a katan, if you're full of shiftless lowliness, then everything around you follow suit.
- 28:09SPEAKER_01: These are the lessons from Shiffer and Pua.
- 28:13SPEAKER_00: Who amassed a whole lot just for being baby nurses and moras for the Jewish babies in Egypt.