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Midrash Raba Bo 5 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Midrash rubber. That's a final one of the week.
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  Parish shut blow. What should we learn today?
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  So let's jump from the plagues of the very first mitzvah given
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  to the Jewish people as as a nation Lama ain't no I'm AB
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  Mitzrayim. The Torah introduces the scene
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  that these were given, but eretz Mitzrayim the Madrid says why
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  doesn't it just say boom Mitzrayim?
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  Why? But Eretz Mitzrayim Ahmed
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  Bikanina says Rebikanina Amaha Kadoshbar, who Hashem said as
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  follows Kutir batora, it says in the Torah Bahut Tamal, where
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  you've got a creditor who wants to take collateral for a
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  outstanding debt, the turf forbids the creditor to enter
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  the debtors home. He must wait for him outside to
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  bring out the item voluntarily, because the guy in the the the
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  one who's got the debt is probably going to bring the item
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  that's the least valuable to him and if he gets that will cause
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  him less distress to get rid of it.
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  Afani ES akak. So Hashem says I'm going to do
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  the same thing, the Ehrats Mitzrayim, the law Bermitsrayim
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  to the Torres al Shamsat to motion Aaron in the land of
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  Egypt and not in Egypt. And it says similarly, Spekhein
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  Amar Moshe Khadseiti ET Tahir, when I leave the city, I'm going
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  to then turn to Hashem in prayer.
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  So before we make sense of Hashem's comments, that's the
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  very comment itself. This idea that's found
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  throughout the Midrash. The Midrash says no in Hashem's
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  to fill in what would be written.
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  It's an interesting one, as if Hashem it also adheres to the
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  concepts of the Torah to if someone who's collecting a debt
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  has to be sensitive to the needs of the person that has a debt to
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  act with certain leniency, so too Hashem wants to enforce his
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  punishments. But like the person collecting a
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  piece of collateral, he does so with leniency.
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  And Hashem entered the land, entered Egypt to settle the
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  debt, the punishment would have been much harder.
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  So after having given us quite an elaborate understanding of
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  the plagues and the depth and discussing where they came from
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  or what that darkness was like in the severity of the locusts
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  and how it broke the Egyptians, the Midrashic tradition is still
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  suggesting here that there was a measure of leniency in how
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  Hashem punished the Egyptians for what they did.
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  But what if the debtor refuses to bring out a collateral for
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  his debt? Then the court as a last resort
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  will go to the house and seize property.
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  So when the Egyptians refused despite everything to release
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  the Egyptians and Hashem had no choice but to enter the main
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  city of Egypt itself. As as if Hashem is going in, I
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  shall go through the land of Egypt on this night and I will
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  strike every first born. So that that parallels what
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  would happen in extreme situation.
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  I'm Robbie Shimon Gadolaki Batanche, Charlie's role.
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  How great is Hashem's affection for the Jewish people?
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  Shinigla kadosburg hubba makbim coma vodazzara.
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  God revealed himself for this, for our sake in the place of
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  idol worship. Egypt was full of idols, of me
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  of them calm teen offer and a place of filth.
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  OK, you had piles of frogs. Without stinking animals would
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  have been an absolutely putrid area.
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  A place of impurity as well because of all the death that
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  was there. But she really got aligned in
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  order to redeem the Jewish people.
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  So it's an interesting one. You've got a measure of leniency
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  directed towards the enemies of the Jewish people.
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  Which part I'm suggesting suggests I'm suggesting that
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  perhaps what we've been taught here is a teaching that we're
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  familiar with, with modern scholarship as well, that
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  everyone's made but Salaman or Kim in the image of Hashem.
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  And regardless of what you've done, you're still worthy of the
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  carrots of respect. And that's towards the Egyptians
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  and towards the Jewish people. Even in a place where they were
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  suffering, they were reminded ultimately of the love that
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  Hashem has for them, for us. Have a great day.