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Join me as we learn together
for Sunday paras
chapter 10 verse 1. Last week's Torah
reading in Pares Vera, we concluded with
the seventh plague of hail and how it
destroyed a lot of the crop of from
Egypt. And at the end, how Pharaoh came
calling and asking Moshe to pray to God
that the hail should stop. Moshe leaves
the city, prays to God, the hail ceases.
And today we begin with the warning of
the eighth plague.
Chapter 10 verse one. This is now the
15th of Taves in the year 2448
where God now tells Moses and Aaron to
announce what the eighth plague will be
on the last day of the warning period.
God says to Moses,
"Come to par
because I have made him uh I've made his
heart hard
and the heart of a servant
so I may demonstrate my miraculous signs
and of in his midst."
tells us what does it mean come to per
what are you going to do you're going to
warn him about the upcoming plague and
the pending plague
what does the word shishi means to
demonstrate
so rashi says the word shishi comes from
the wordi to place
that I am going to make and I am going
to place and I will show him what my
great miracles will be verse two well
So you may recount to your children, to
your grandchildren,
the mockery that I made of Egypt
and the miraculous signs that I
performed there.
You will then realize that I am God.
Verse two,
who are you going to tell it to? And
that's what you see. Rashi tells us
tells us
is to let generations the future
generations know.
The word is means it comes from the word
like to make a mockery to make a joke
out of it.
be the words that bum tells his uh
female donkey at the time that he hid
him that he made
or like it says in Samuel that he made
fun of them he mocked them
that said amongst those Egyptians when
we're talking about in the book of
Samuel when they took the ark and
therefore he tells them that Hashem made
mockery of them
it doesn't mean an activity or an action
that it's
Then it should have said why does it say
the word
so because I will or I have made a
mockery not something that he is doing
presently.
Verse three
came to parrom.
So said God from the god of the Hebrews.
Until when will you refuse to humble
yourself to subdue yourself before me?
Send forth my people so they should
serve me.
The word comes like the Targum
translates
to be subdued.
Refuse
me money to be subdued to re become
humble before me.
Verse five. Verse four.
For if you refuse to send my people,
I will bring locust into your territory
tomorrow.
Verse five,
and this locust will then cover the
surface of the land.
You will not be able to see the land,
and it will consume any remnant that was
left over after the hail
and will eat away all the trees that
have grown
that grown to you in the field.
What does it mean? The eye literally it
means
you will not be able to see the land.
One who looks will not be able to see
the ground.
This is a short type of tank terminology
that the Torah is using.
Verse six,
and this locust will now fill your
houses and your servants homes.
the homes of all Egyptians.
Something that your fathers and your
grandfathers have never seen
from the day that they appeared on the
earth until this very day until this
very day. And after saying these words
and with that they turned around and
left the presence of Pharaoh.
Verse number seven.
And the servants of Pharaoh said to
Pharaoh, the
How long will this continue to be for us
as a stumbling block
as a sneer for us?
Send these people
and let them serve their God.
Let them serve their God.
Don't you yet realize
Egypt is gone, is ruined.
Says the word,
don't you realize, don't you see of the
Egypt is gone.
Verse eight, Pharaoh takes this to heart
and with this he summons back Moshe and
Aaron.
So Mosha and Aaron were brought back
Elim and he said to them and now Parrot
tries to do a bargaining with Mosh and
Aaron
go ahead serve your god but first tell
me
who exactly will be going
verse 8 Rashi tells us
it doesn't say that they came back on
their own but they were sent through a
messenger that went to them and told
them to come back to Pharaoh.
Verse 9, Moshe replies to Pharaoh, who
will exactly be going
says,
"We will go with our young and we will
go with the elders. We will go
with our sons and with our daughters
with our flock
with our cattle. We will go
because this is a festival for us."
Verse 10.
So Pharaoh says to them,
"May God be with you
as when I would send forth with your
children, you and your children.
Watch out because you think you're going
to be able to go out.
Your evil intent will backfire. See that
there's something that will not work in
your favor." 10.
as if you think I will send you and your
children
though he doesn't mention the flock
if you think that I will agree to send
I don't even want to send the women and
children you think I'm going to send the
flock with you
like the explains that he sees evil will
be coming your way
but he explains
Med explains the med says
there is a star that its name is
said
I see with my astrology
that that star is coming to get you in
the desert
and this is a sign of blood and killing
and then later on we find out when
Jewish people sinned with the golden
calf
and God wanted to kill them.
Moshe then when he prayed and beseeched
on behalf of the Jewish people, Moshe
used the following terminology.
What would Egypt say? Saying he took
them out that look you see I told you I
see the astrology that that killed them.
This is what Pharaoh said.
This is the R that's coming your way.
Immediately
God was comforted and consoled and
recognized and saw that that blood
and he changed that blood dama to the
circumcision of of the blood of
circumcision Yeshua that right before
the Jewish people entered into the land
of Israel they all had to be circumcised
and that was the blood that was
referenced to that star that Pharaoh saw
Shanemar. That's why Yeshua tells the
Jewish people
today. I've revealed, I've taken off the
shame, the embarrassment that Egypt was
upon you
because they said, "We see blood is
going to happen to you in the desert.
And with this, I have removed it because
now you have done the blood of
circumcision."
Verse 11,
Pharaoh continues.
It's not happening. It's not at all.
If you want to leave, the only ones that
can go will be the men theem and go
serve God
because for what? For that is what
you're asking. The sacrifices children
don't do sacrifice. There's no need for
you the children to go
and he chased them out and expelled them
from Pharaoh's presence. Verse 11,
not like you want to go with the
children with you.
The only one that can go is the men.
That service of bringing sacrifices that
you're asking until now.
It's not usual that children should be
bringing sacrifices.
The Torah is saying it in a short way.
She doesn't say who's the one that
chased them out, who expelled them. But
this is referring to Pharaoh that
expelled them. If we look in the first
verse, the first verse of this Torah
reading tells us that God says that I
have hardened Pharaoh's heart. And the
Rebik asks the question, why does
Pharaoh get punished if God was the one
that hardened his heart? If you look and
you notice throughout the different
plagues and the different warnings, not
always does it say that God hardened his
heart. This was the first time that God
said that I specifically hardened his
heart. God says in the past that I will
harden his heart. So why is he being
punished for it? So one of the
explanations is number one that Pharaoh
the very fact that he was so in the
first plagues that he did not want to
let the Jewish people go. The first
punishment was that he lost his freedom
of choice. That his heart was hardened.
That even now he would not be able to
allow the Jewish people to go because he
had the choice until now in the first
five plagues. And because he did not let
the Jewish people go, his heart was
hardened. Even more so, the Rebi
explains that if Pharaoh would want that
means if he would push the envelope hard
enough, he would be able to go out of
Egypt. He would be able to allow the
Jewish people to go out of Egypt and the
plagues wouldn't have happened. The
lesson for this is as the Reb explains
is for every single Jew as that if
Pharaoh if he would like to push the
envelope enough he would be able to his
chuva his repentance would be accepted
how much more so the Jewish people who
are God's only child even when we do
something wrong we have the ability to
change course but even if we went that
far that we think we've lost our freedom
of choice that chuva repentance is
something far off and difficult here the
Torah tells us every single person has
that opportunity to repent no matter how
far they may have gone. This concludes
the first Torah reading of Parsha's
blight.