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Beshalach - 3rd Portion
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Join as we learnish for the third Torah
reading of parasalak Tuesday parasak
chapter 14 verse 15. Yesterday we
learned as Pharaoh was getting closer to
the Jewish people. The Jewish people
turned to Moshe and say what do we do?
Are there not enough graves in Egypt?
They got panicked. Moshe tells them the
way you see Egypt today you'll never see
them again. Today Moshe turns to God to
know further instructions how to
proceed. Verse 15
and God says to Moshe, "Why are you
crying out to me?
Speak to the Jewish people and let them
journey for forth."
Verse 15.
From here we learn
that Moshe was praying.
So God tells him
This is not a time for you to take your
time in
while the Jewish people are in danger.
Another explanation.
Why you screaming to me? It's up to you.
I made it your responsibility.
It's on my responsibility.
You don't have to worry about it.
Like it says,
"I'm my children and what I do."
So all the Jewish people have to do is
just travel.
All that they should be doing is move
on, travel on.
They don't have to worry about the sea
standing in front of them as any uh
issue.
It is worthy. They are they are worthy
to have the sea split for them because
of the faith that they and their
forefathers had in God. Verse 19 verse
now you raise your staff
and then stretch it out over the sea and
split it
and the Jewish people will then go into
the midst of the sea in dry land.
Verse 17. And I
I will make the Egyptians heart hard.
And they will come after you
and it will harden the heart of Pharaoh
and all his army in the riders and the
chariots and all the horsemen that they
will then follow you into the sea. Verse
18.
And the Egyptians will know that I am
God.
And I'll be glorified through Pharaoh
with his riders
and with his chariots and with his
horsemen. They will all come to see the
greatness of God because of it. Verse
[snorts] 19.
And the angel of God had been advancing
that was leading the Jewish people that
was going in front of the Jewish the
camp of the Jewish people. And instead
of going in front of the camp
He went behind them.
So too, the pillar of the cloud was
moved from in front of the Jewish people
and it went behind the Jewish people.
Why did he go behind them? To make a
partition
between the Egyptian camp and the Jewish
camp as well as the Egyptians were then
shooting rocks and stones and arrows at
the Jewish people. And these clouds
would accept them
to accept the slingshots and the arrows
of the Egypt
because in every place when he talks
about an angel
over here he calls it
uses the name of
whenever the name is used because it
means discipline of judgment
that teaches us that the Jewish people
were in judgment. at the time.
That means it was a case against the
Jews. Should they be saved or should
they be destroyed like the Egyptians?
Because they were the very fact
that there were some Jews that were
complaining and saying, "Are there not
enough graves in Egypt?" Those Jews were
putting themselves in jeopardy. Maybe
they should also drown like the
Egyptians.
When it got dark
and the cloud went instead of the fire,
the cloud of did not leave
like it used to do
that it would leave in the evening
completely.
What happened was that generally there
was the purifier was in the front and
then during the day was the cloud. This
time the cloud by night went in the back
and it made it pitch black for the
Egyptians and also accepted all those
arrows and stones that they were
throwing. Verse 20.
What did this cloud do?
And the cloud positioned itself between
the Egyptian camp and the Jewish camp,
the Israelis, the Israelites camp.
And there was darkness because of it.
Because of the cloud, there was cloud
and darkness.
And for the Jews, it had the pillar of
fire and it lit up the night for them.
Neither camp came near each other
throughout the night.
It's their example. A person's going in
the road
and his son is walking in front of him.
So robbers come and try to attack him.
He takes him from before him and puts
him behind him. B then a wolf comes from
behind him to try to catch him to try to
attack his son when his son puts him
before him.
So what happens now in the end?
Now he has wolves in the front behind
and thieves in the in the behind thieves
front of him and wolves behind him.
You see carries him in his hand and he
fights them. So too when the God says
that he put the cloud in the front and
in the back
it says that God says and I took a frame
and I kept in my arms when I was waging
war against for you.
It was dark for the Egyptians and it
gave light.
However, the pillar of fire gave light
for the Jewish people
was going in front of them in the usual
way
to go throughout the night
and the darkness that was on the side of
the Egyptian
the two camps did not come no close to
one another.
Verse 21.
And Moshe then raised his hand over the
sea.
And God made the sea.
And God drove this back the sea through
the night with a powerful wind
with a powerful wind throughout the
night.
And it turned the sea into dry to dry
land
and the water split
which is an eastern wind
which is
which that is the strongest of the
winds.
That's the wind that blows from the east
that God uses to punish the evil as it
says
with a eastern wind I spread them out.
So to we find in other places in
that the eastern wind of gods
the eastern wind that's in the heart of
the seas that talks about as well as
says
that God wants to bring punishment on
the evil. It uses the eastern wind
and the water split. It doesn't say only
the water of the sea
all the waters everywhere a person had a
bath. Whatever it was the water split in
every sea and that's why later on we
find that Jethro says that he heard
about the splitting of the sea. How do
he hear about it? There was no news
media. There was no television was he
knew heard about it because he saw that
his water split and people spoke about
it and that's how the news went that the
Jewish people went through the the
splitting of the sea. Verse 22.
And the Jewish people went into the
midst of the sea on dry land.
And the water formed a wall on the right
side and on the left side. 23
and the Egyptians pursued the the Jews.
They came after them.
All of Pharaoh's horses,
the riders of Far and the chariots in
the midst of the sea.
Why is it a singular term? Did Pharaoh
only have one horse?
Did he only have one?
It teaches us that all of them were just
like just one. Everything that God
destroyed, it was like if killing one
horse. Verse 24.
And it was during the watch of the night
during the third watch of the night.
And God looked the third watch of the
night which was already means the
beginning of the morning. So that's why
it says the morning
and God looked down upon the camp of the
Egyptians
with a pillar of fire and with a cloud
and he confused and he threw the camp of
the Egyptians into confusion.
What does it mean?
So Rashi explains as we translated the
thirds of the night
there are three thirds three parts of
the night each one of them is called a
watch
the one that's right before the morning
is called is called the watch of the
morning I say why is it called
because the night is split up to the
different watches according to the
angels that each one
each group comes to say different song
in front of God. Therefore,
therefore he calls it ashes like shifts
comes from the word mish and we also
find mish different shifts of angels
that's what translates
which means the shift of the morning the
word says means he looked he looked
towards them to destroy them as the
translates
this also means to look closely like the
word state
The clouds would come down.
It made the earth of the water like
cement
and then the pillar of fire would make
it really hot. because it was so hot it
would
and therefore the um the horseshoes that
were on the horses were then falling off
and that caused the horses to be able to
uh be in a lot of pain because of it.
When they become in a lot of pain that
their nails were coming off and their
hooves were coming off because of that
it became very confusing. He mixed them
all up.
He took away their ability to control of
what was going on.
Anytime you find the word confusion
means there was a loud noise and they
were making all different kinds of
noises. And therefore we find also later
on in the book of Samuel where he uses
the same terminology about the
Philistines that there was a loud noise
which confused them all of what was
going on at the time. Verse 25.
And we removed the wheels of their
chariots
and therefore the Egyptians had then
were had a hard time were were trying to
lead it heavily. We treated it heavily
and the Egyptians then said,
"Let us flee from the Israelites
because God is fighting for them against
Egypt."
What does it mean? He took off the
wheels
because of the fires that was there. The
wheels burned
and therefore the chariots were being uh
dragged on the ground.
The people that were sitting inside the
chariots were because of they were so
shaken by it. They were all their limbs
were falling apart
and it was difficult. That means God led
them in a way that was difficult and
hard for them.
This same punishment was measure for
measure because the very fact that they
were hard on the Jewish people and so
too it was difficult for them as well
meaning against the Egyptians.
Another one in Egypt
that the same way these people that were
in the sea were being punished and
they're being drowned into the sea.
Even those that were left in Egypt also
were being punished and were being
plagued upon them at the same time. This
concludes the third Torah reading of
Pares Shalak.