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shalom alaikum everybody welcome back to
the gibbon of bate midrash welcome home
to torah a warm welcome
to torah and we use the clear car here
as the
outline for our discussion
um i encourage you to learn hebrew the
source sheets you won't get color
colored beautiful colored sheets like i
have here but at least on the website
there's a link below and you can follow
along with which i strongly encourage
you to do and of course those in the
class
get
hard copy sheets so they can watch they
can
learn and pay attention as we go along
we're impartials mase
now i wanted to give like a little bit
of an introduction to some of the ideas
here
that number one
number one
how would how do we stay this because
we're going to go a little bit order we
like to stay in order but i'm going to
give a very brief introduction
so there are 42 journeys they're 42
encampments
and one of the biggest let's say
misunderstood points
about the jewish people
is that and as
growing up not religious we make jokes
like the jews got lost in the desert you
know
they were afraid to ask directions who
knows you can make all kinds of jokes
you want but the truth is they weren't
lost
they were wandering but they weren't
wandering in the way that you would look
up the in the dictionary for wandering
wandering seems aimlessly
there was nothing aimlessly about what
they did
there was a point
to every time they moved and there was a
reason for every time they stopped and
it was only ap hashem in other words
when god told them to move they moved
and they went direction and to the place
that god wanted them to move to
now just as a background
so in the first year alone they went to
eight different um they went to 14
different places in with the first year
which is even less than a year we're
talking about the first
uh
40 50 days right but within the first
year really within the first 50 days
they went to 14 different places
and in the last year
you know at the 40th year i don't know
if you want to count that way the 39th
year the 40th year they went to eight
places
now
in between
you have 38 years
they were only at 20 places
and and those 20 places one of them they
were in one place for 28 years
they weren't aimlessly walking around
they weren't lost
wherever they moved it was alp hashem
according to the word of god
i want to get that across
interestingly enough because if somebody
does commit we'll call it manslaughter
right someone commits a inadvertent
murder in other words it wasn't
premeditated it was it wasn't accidental
either it was some negligence involved
there are going to be
there actually are 48 levitical cities
but they're 42 specific
levitical cities and then there's six
major
uh levitical cities so all together is
48 but significantly it's 42. remember i
mentioned there's 42 stations that we
traversed in the desert and that's
what's listed in our parsha
and so
i think that it's very significant
because also the 42 cities the the idea
of levitical the idea of inadvertent
killing and having to go to a
a
city of refuge
miklot
and another idea let me just mention
that those 42 cities
interestingly as i mentioned they're for
um that's where those levites levites
reside and i say levites including the
khanim
and then there are six additional cities
major cities of refuge three of them are
on this side of the jordan in we call
israel proper i don't know if that's the
term and then you have three in aver
hayardane which is also israel
but it's on the other side of the jordan
it's called israel prophet mine in my
mind but okay
there is a prophecy that there will be
an additional three cities remember
there's a concept that when mashiach
comes the era of the messiah that the
holiness of yerushalayim will spread
through all of heritage israel so israel
will have the kedusa of jerusalem
and all of israel will actually spread
through the entire world
so there's additional three cities i
don't know where
but not in israel and probably not in in
the jordan i mean avery yarding but
somewhere else in the world for these
if there's a inadvertent um killing
another idea behind the number 42
is how many words are there in the shema
now not counting the first verse
but the first paragraph there are 42
words
and the first verse there are six
so they in a sense parallel
these 42 as we're going to talk about
these 42 um
uh encampments
or let's say stages
so in the sephrate code dish in the holy
sparing they mentioned that every human
being goes through 42 stages in their
life
okay so it's not just individual it's
also national
but at least right in this part it's
national but in terms of a human being
going through different stages it's
progress life is about growth and moving
from one stage to the next keeping that
in mind
and then as i mentioned about the shema
the shema is where we really connect
with hashem in a certain sense as we'll
see also the leviticus levitical cities
where one goes if they are
i'm going to call it punishment but
that's not really what's happening here
when somebody inadvertently kills
it means they were negligent and they
need to learn how to be more responsible
and therefore they're forced so to speak
to
live amongst torah scholars
so they can learn how to be a more moral
person and take responsibility that's
the ultimate goal there's actually
another important
point and it also falls in the parsha
and that is the
death of arnold cohen no one nowhere in
the entire torah do you find the exact
day you can figure it out through logic
or you can figure it out through certain
sequence of the verses but the actual
date the only date of whoever passed
away in the whole tana in the
in the five books of moses is aaron a
cohen in this week's parsha
and by the way when someone goes through
this process of inadvertently killing
and having to be
let's say held up right
in a levitical city they will go free
when the cohen guttle dies
and it's there's seemingly no
coincidence here that in our portion and
not only is it our partial but has to be
tonight
the date given is the first day of the
fifth month
okay so that is rosh chodesh of and
that's arna kohen the high priests
yard site yard site for those who don't
know what it means the anniversary of
the death okay so that was just like a
brief introduction
so let's go into the nitty-gritty hebrew
where it says in chapter 33 of numbers
verse one
for those on the english sheets it's
number one
and i highly i highlighted the reishi
tables of the words ayla
massey ben israel
why did i do that let me finish reading
and i'll tell you why
i share yatsum they are trying listen
tom the odd motion the iran so these are
the journeys of the children of israel
who left the land of egypt in their
legions under the charge of moshe and
aron
i highlighted it because the aleph the
mem the bet and the yud are the acronym
or the um
that's what we say reishi tevus the
first letter of these words
symbolize the form
our own exile as a nation
and the truth is perhaps this also
relates to the individual going through
the different stages hopefully leaving
our own mitzrayim
right that's we should all leave our own
mitzrayim and eventually come to the
land of israel
and have a intimate relationship with
al-qaeda
so the aleph of elah is for adam
the meme of masay is
media or persia it's in other words
that's always the interchangeable name
the bet for baval bin israel but the bet
is bavel babylon
the yud in in the name of israel would
represent yavan
greece
okay so the first
thing is that the clearcar is
interested in knowing this we already
talked about it you may think that the
jewish people just wandered aimlessly
and there's no there's um there's
actually a reason why people would think
that way
because in last week's parsha when moshe
spoke to the children of reuvein and god
he actually said these words if you go
back to chapter 30 to verse 13.
it says like this
the the mosham lamala moses spoke to
them in chapter 32 verse 13 not right 32
el ga el bene god ubene revain he spoke
to them and he said look at number two
number three
the anger of the lord flared against
israel and he made them wander in the
desert for 40 years
so in hebrew the aim about midbar by
himself
that does give a
a sense that they wandered aimlessly
so there is an excuse for those who who
think that but our parsha is coming to
dispel that idea to to remove that idea
listen to the way the clear car
expresses it
you might have thought right it might
have come upon your mind to say that
they were actually just wandering
aimlessly
and you know he brings a verse that just
it just it's a poetic usage for someone
who is moving around without any real
direction and that's from proverbs
chapter 23 verse 34
where it says and you shall be like one
lying in the midst of the sea
and one lying at the top of a mast
now i'm not a real
you know boat goer myself but i guess
the higher the mask the more nauseous
you'll become i'm just using my
imagination
i'm sure people get seasick no matter
what
but when you're you know what i mean i'm
just using my imagination that the
higher you are off the
the the the seabed when i see the the
surface of the ocean
you're rocking even further uh uh
so that's
that's the idea and
so lo shakatu below nachu call arby's
so this is what you might have think
when whenever the term is falca dai
tahamina it means mistakenly thought you
might have thought to say mistakenly
that there was no quiet and there was no
rest the entire 40 years
alkane omar that's why the torah goes
out of its way in our partial by saying
a la masse these are the journeys
the journey there were specific journeys
to tell you what
to do
that the truth is during those 40 years
they only traveled
42 travels
and not only that
you shot martian ammo this actually
resolves miyusha responds and resolves
what or settles what it actually says by
saying ayla marseille it says these are
the journeys and you know what it
doesn't say what maybe you would have
expected it to say because the list is a
42 two encampments you have a list of 42
encampments
it says it doesn't say
these are the encampments in which they
encamped
it doesn't but rather you go through
verse 5 all the way to verse 37 where
the list is made and it's a consistent
statement they traveled and they
encamped they traveled and they came so
we know they encamped the whole
list is where they encamped which truth
is where they traveled from and where
they traveled to is also listed so these
are the journeys the journeys had
purpose
and it's actually coming to answer up
what the clear car originally said
you might have had a having and you
might have thought to say elisabella
pharish my mart's coming to answer up
what we said earlier in chapter 32 13
where it says
midbar that they were just wandering
about the desert kihatanua the whole
idea of traveling
is hamasos in other words the movements
were their travelings
the timeless seaport called massos and
the now this is
a fundamental idea the reason
for either counting or telling over the
story about each one of the journeys you
know what rashi says look at rashi on
that i'm talking about source number one
the very top few lines
why were the journeys recorded to inform
us of the kind deeds of the omnipresent
that we weren't just wandering around
that there was man and there was water
there was food in the desert that he
took care of us that he protected us
that he killed the scorpions and the
snakes on our way and he flattened out
the the roads and
just
he gave us the torah right i mean all
the things that we're so grateful for
and the wars that we won okay
now what you should not say
you should not say they were moving
about wandering from station to station
for all 40 years even in our own lives
we are going through these stages too
and everything in our lives has meaning
we just have to figure it out
meditation can help having a rebbe
having a good friend having maybe a
therapist who knows but you know
everything has meaning
okay so let's go on
um the last line i'll just read but he
basically says and it's interesting that
the the rambam in the mar nevuhim gives
a different reason for this and
avarbanel which i'm sure is fascinating
gives several reasons for this but he's
not going to go into it so this is just
like an introduction we're just
skimming the surface here and now we're
going to get into the nitty-gritty
okay so now we're going to move to verse
bet the second verse
and this is where we're going to get
into what the clear car will describe
three reasons
behind
what we're going to question we have
first come with the question and he's
going to give three ways to look at
different ways to answer it
so in verse two you'll find this on
number five on the source sheet
the yicht of moshe at mozzarella
hashem
that's how the verse begins
moses wrote down he recorded
now the word mozzarella
means from they're going out
this translation says from their
starting points
right
to their journeys
okay starting points for their journeys
al piashem
all their journeys actually are phm
question is why is the second part of
the verse
in reverse order and it doesn't say alpi
hashem
what's the next part of the verse
the elu maha saying lemozyem and then
these in other words they're going to be
these journeys that moses wrote
from their starting points or the place
they went out from towards their journey
that's literally what it said alpe
hashem
and then there are these
journeys
how would you want to say it to their
starting point
now you probably never noticed that in
the english
and if you did call it
but the clear card is pointing out to us
and not only that he mentions the second
part it doesn't seem to be alpi hashem
because ap hashem is not written
but we do know that they only moved
according to god's desire and wish
so how come the words of hashem only
apply
to going out from their starting points
to their journeys but when they're going
from their journeys to their starting
point what does that even mean and why
is it not ap hashem
with that he says i hold there are three
ways to look at it
the hinini mephara zebush losha panim
i'm going to give you three ways to look
at it
the first one is like this
shiba mitzas masaot
so some of the journeys
are headed or they're walking in a
forward direction
and some of the journeys they're
actually going in a reverse a backwards
direction
see in the very beginning we're going to
compare
actually when it says in the beginning
he's taking us back to exodus chapter 14
verse 2. he's going to give us three
examples where we walked backwards
okay look at number six on the sword
sheet exodus 14 2
right speak to the children of israel
and let them turn back
okay
and encamp in front of pihachi wrote
so in the hebrew is the yeshuv
let them return
and go back to to encamp in this
particular place rashi says right away
to their rear meaning they went
backwards in the backwards direction
another example he brings
well actually just rerashes
ryan they went backward in the direction
of egypt
devarim in deuteronomy chapter 2 verse
1. it says over there
the nathan the nisa hamidbara
right and then we turned and journeyed
in the direction of the desert
okay now rashi actually says they're
very interesting
because they sinned
because they sinned rashi said had they
not sinned they would have gone all the
way towards the land of israel towards
the southern end but it because they
sinned it was decreed upon them they
remain in the desert so they ended up
turning towards the desert so the clear
car says
rashi
i would translate as sin but it means a
a
a damage
a spoiling
a corruption
a disgrace a perversion
that you can use all those words but
it's because of sin because of het
okay
now
um and then there's a third example he
brings and that's from the impartial in
deuteronomy chapter 10 verse 6. now even
here you wouldn't know it from the verse
but only from rashi but
after you understood what the
talking about you would understand rashi
is correct it says in 10 6 in
deuteronomy
the children of israel journeyed from
the wells of
banayakan to masara
there aaron died
and there he was buried and elias elazar
his son eliezer's son served as cohen
in his stead i'm sorry lazar so what do
you have in rashi
rashi mentions over there
that this was like a continuation of
deuteronomy 1 1. deuteronomy begins with
rebuke moses lists all these different
places that we were at and things we did
wrong he did it in a hinting fashion but
it was all part of his review rebuke
i have it um
underlined in the middle if you actually
calculate it you'll find eight stations
from misaro to mount hor
however the answer is
this is also part of the rebuke
introduced introduced in deuteronomy 1 1
and it's continued here
okay so basically the clouds of glory
went away when aaron died and the jew
the jewish people were afraid of an
impending war
and they
appointed a leader to go back to egypt
which again
that
itself could be considered
a sin
okay when you have
such fear and not relying on hashem
okay so let's continue where we left off
we just gave three verses
three proofs where they went backwards
so some go forward some go backward
so
in rashi continue the clear card
continues
like we saw in rashi that they went back
eight stages eight encampments now
nymphs and means so what comes out what
do we see from all this
sharov hamasos for sure a majority of
their travels
they certainly went in the forward
direction and not backwards
and that was al-pi hashem remember that
part of the verse where it says from
their going out towards their um travels
that means in a forward direction and
that's alpha shem
and that's nikrim mode soya him the
masayam from they're going out to their
travels and you know why ki
nayem
because they turned their faces away
from the place they were leaving
and that's called from
you're going out
okay that's
mozaim and the pinnaem
el masayam whereas their faces were
towards their
journeys i shall you lift him which was
in front of them
that all makes sense
but
whatever they went backwards remember we
saw already three places where they
traveled backwards towards egypt
that was before
that's because of we say the sin they
damage themselves through sin
it's the sin itself that was lo hayap
hashem obviously their travels they only
traveled off hashem but
the sin itself is not according to what
god's will is and that's why
hashem does not appear
when it says they traveled backwards and
therefore we would call that ma emla
sayam they traveled towards their
starting point
shakhazra vidcom shi yatsumisham that
they returned and traveled to the very
place that they had just left from where
they had left recently shinikuru
motsuyam that means the part of the
place of departure
kihafku panayam with sad mitzrayim again
because they wanted to face or go back
in the direction of egypt which is also
itself a sin
okay so let's begin perish hashemi the
second um
description of what's going on here
according to the click car a second way
to look at it is kashini doc dick when
you really carefully examine
mouse
mr we're going to go from verse 3 and
verse 5 and carefully examine what it
says
in verse 3
take a look
where do you find this
number 9.
in number nine you have verse three and
verse five
it says they journeyed from ramses in
the first month
the yi su mei ramses bihar
it doesn't say who
they is inferred in the word the isu
right the yeast they traveled they
journeyed
now later on in verse five it literally
says the children of israel journeyed
from ramses
it actually says the yusuf and esram and
ramses why would you have who are they
i mean if they are referring to the
jewish people why repeat it in verse
five it's like not like in deuteronomy
or in exodus and we're dealing with
numbers we're talking about one verse
after another and you have they traveled
from ramses and then you have
been traveled from ramses would
you believe we're talking about two
different groups of people
it could could you swallow that idea
wait till you hear what the clear car is
saying
and he mentions right away below his
kirby israel right in verse 3
it doesn't say it's the jewish people
just whoever they are
however in verse 5 it comes and repeats
a second time almost word for word
except that's the jewish people
the subanes from the ramses
so what's going on here that's going to
be the first question
that's a good question so if we stop now
you're not going to sleep tonight no
and then he says
also written here in our parsha
in verse 3 it says
see i have it highlighted underlined as
well on the day following the passover
sacrifice
well the rest of the verses the children
of israel left the yad rama they left
very triumphantly their hands held up
high their
heads held up high but basically they
went out during the day as it says on
the day following the passage
well if in our in our
chapter it says they went out during the
day
clears mud
however
he brings down a verse
that says like this it's in deuteronomy
chapter
16 verse 1.
okay it says
hashem mean
lila actually it says
which means the lord your god brought
you out of egypt when what does it say
lila
lila means
at night
so when did we leave
did we leave during the day like it says
in our parsha
or do we leave at night
like it says over there
well
we have to we have to move on or else
we're not going to sleep tonight
i like my sleep
so the clear car begins by saying el
avadai
with absolute certainty
guys ever heard of what the era of wrath
the heir of robber the mixed multitudes
interestingly enough let me just give
you some background moses on his own
decided
these souls have potential they're
egyptian nationals
and
they
should come along if they want to come
along and he took them along never had a
discussion with hashem and i don't think
he even asked us
and the truth is they were the biggest
troublemakers and agitators with a few
other adjectives
but truth be told they did convert and
they're they're mixed in with us
however they were also twice the size
you know in in amount kamut than we were
we went to this according to the minimum
opinion
uh one opinion says there's 1.2 million
another says there were 2.4 million and
another third opinion is
3.6 million
that's a lot because that's only the age
of 20 to 60 of males so you're talking
about the same if we were 3 million they
were 6 million minimally
okay
so it's the air of rav
derek
the way the clear car is explaining it
which many before she explained it this
way who left at night
the air of rav
they left tonight we left
with our held heads held up high in the
middle of the day in front of the eyes
of the egyptians as the verse says so
clearly it was allahem namar and that is
referring to
in exodus chapter 14 verse 5. i want to
mention something else about the air of
the the clear car brings it down but
it's from
any time that the word
is used
means the people it's always referring
to the arab wrath
or
the most inferior or evil of the jews
okay so
um so look what it says in verse
exodus 14 verse 5
it was reported to pharaoh that the
people had fled
okay
that people had fled
so what is the word borac
listen to what it says it says in do in
exodus 14 5
the you got the melech mitzrayim right
his servants or his ministers
the officers came and told him
told pharaoh
ki barach
that the people had fled it's the word
haram is used the word barack is used
borath is not used borac is present
tense
elibor
barack miyagi
meaning that they left as soon as they
were free
faro actually said you guys are free get
the heck out of here there's no question
right he got up in his pajamas in the
middle of the night and he said
you're out of here i mean but we didn't
leave until the next day but who did
leave that night
the heir of rav
they because they really didn't have
much merit and therefore why wait around
if he said we're free we're out of here
right
so that's what they did
they left immediately in the middle of
the night
you cannot justify
to talk about the jews like this
the verse actually says they went out
triumphantly that's
rama means with their hands held up high
and it also says in front of the eyes of
the egyptians
so elevated with absolute certainty
that when the when pharaoh was told by
his servants it was referring to the
aravrav that they had
they had left in the middle of the night
shiniqua
they are the ones called um
when it comes to the children of israel
beyond rama
they went out
during the day
as it says
go back to verse three
it says
the usumi ramsay's behold a sharishan
right they journeyed from ramses in the
first month
okay we know that is the night of the
fifteenth on the first month
that part of the verse is definitely
speaking about the erev
however in the same verse towards the
end it sees it says
see in the same verse
it refers to the jewish people
as and it says that on the following day
of the passover sacrifice it was the
children of israel
that left triumphantly
now go back and now go towards verse 5.
where it specifically mentions that the
jewish people traveled from from ramses
the yusuf and israel ramses
it's got to be the jewish people why
because the erav had already left they
already went out originally like the way
of people who are fleeing
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when you flee you're in a rush you want
to get out as soon as quick as soon as
possible
ubuna israel
where the jewish people went patiently
afterwards and that's what it means now
we go back to our verse in verse two it
says
right we were confused by this idea that
they went out from their starting point
to their journeys i'll be hashem
we weren't confused really about that
but with the second part it caused some
confusion well this part is nisia's
beneficial that is clearly talking about
the jewish people uh share your son then
this is a fundamental idea
the assault the fundamental makeup of
the jewish people
and i'm talking physically
and spiritually
and perhaps more spiritually than
physically
the makeup is from the land of of israel
from the holy land
let me just go back to the beginning of
creation when hashem
created man
the the message explains that he took
soil
from all parts of the globe
and he brought that soil to the temple
mount we call the evaneshtia the
foundation stone and he created man from
there on there not from there
but yes because he also took soil from
there too and he used that for the head
the head the head obviously represents
the spiritual intellect as well as the
leader
and that is the jewish people
that's why we
have this connection this strong
connection to the land of israel
because like
avraham was told by god go to yourself
go to from where you were hewn from now
i say hewn in terms of like you know you
have like a quarry and you you hewn
rocks so there is a physical aspect to
human
but i think we're really referring to
the soul
the soul was hewn from jerusalem above
from that
that
i don't know what they say in modern
quantum physics you know a vortex or
some kind of uh an opening to the other
world but this is the ladder
to heaven to right to god right where
hashem created us from
in fact it says
in the rambam
that where does my own where does man
find his atonement
he uses some very interesting language
he says man will find his atonement
in the very place where she was created
from
now that obviously has many layers of
meaning talking about from hashem
himself but from a physical place that's
where the altar is
the altar is in that place where man was
created and that's where he'll find his
atonement but obviously it means a lot
more than that
okay so he says here i show you so the
mayor's kadosha
why are we trapped we're traveling the
jewish people israel is traveling to
israel because that is the sodom that is
the
fundamental makeup of who we are from
the holy land
alkane
min
mozairhem that's why our faces were
always turned away from the place we
were leaving let's call that egypt
the place where we left from
me mitzrayim obviously that's egypt
um
and always their faces are going to be
to their travels and where is that lavo
el haaretz
i share nishba hashem
to come and to arrive to go to the land
which hashem had promised their
forefathers
that's all true by israel
but when it came to the arab rav where
did i tell you their makur their source
was
egypt so they're always going to be
looking backwards
i can't make this up this is tremendous
here avala aravrav
makurami mitzrayim their very source
is egypt itself from egypt the loya
towards hashem and they never left egypt
hashem they left because moses on his
own decided they were going to come
along
believe me they had potential
many of them probably became very
righteous people
kimoshi midato ho
moses on his own
even when we sin with the golden calf
god says it's your people when god says
it's your people to moses your people
have sinned the word
used he's not referring to bene israel
obviously there were three thousand jews
that did
but never and we're all responsible
but it was the it was the arab rav that
instigated it we talked about that a few
weeks ago and where they came up with
this whole idea
so now we understand them abraham
regarding them the erev rav that's the
latter part of verse three where it says
these are their journeys
from their start to the start to their
starting points because they're always
going back to egypt they said appoint us
ahead and we're going to go back to
egypt we remember the free fish the
garlics and the watermelon and the leeks
you know you name it
because it was constantly their desire
and will to return back to egypt which
is their machor their source
and then there's a there's a uh midgesh
time chroma
um it's a little bit out of context but
look look at number 13
um
so it says basically when you throw a
stick in the air
where's the stick come to it comes back
to its original place
meaning
the ground right
so the same thing it's called a natural
consequence
the jews will return
they want to return it's in the dna to
return it's in the consciousness to
return of course there's a lot of
hesitation
and
i forget the word i'm looking for
resistance tremendous amount of
resistance but that is the direction and
when that resistance is removed
they'll come quite willingly
that's the way it is you're always going
to go in the direction of where you came
from
okay so that is the second explanation
okay and the third explanation peru
the third explanation is
israel if the jewish people had never
sinned and i recall larry mentioning
this
we would have basically
come
pretty much straight away right we would
have just made one long maybe 11 days
journey from kharev there's different
opinions but we would have basically
wouldn't have had 40 years within a year
probably within a year and a half we
would have been nurses trout
maybe we would have only stopped at
mount sinai
so we have this statement the moshe it's
him right the very first part of verse
two was moses wrote from their goings
out to their
journeys
kimin
that would have been from would have
been from their first exit
there would have not been to them
any other places to leave from
liso
if you look in exodus chapter 19 verse 4
which i believe i believe is
number 12.
um you have seen what i did to the
egyptians this is right before
this the um the giving of the the ten
commandments this is and during the
after the splitting of the sea you've
seen what i did to the egyptians how i
bore you on eagle's wings and i brought
you to me
so what does this verse mean
it's a very interesting rashi
um basically
when we were in egypt we were in many
places
albeit let's say near goshen but
nevertheless hashem took us we were
scattered through goshen he took us in a
very short period of time we were able
to to get out when we did leave
so this was done let's say miraculously
like
being born on the eagles wings
look at the bladder part of the rashi
where it says on eagles wings
like an eagle now we look this up thanks
to simon
he's not actually here right now but
it's not only eagles but there are other
strong birds that do this many birds do
not they carry their young on its wings
what all other birds do is they usually
place their young between their feet
because they're afraid of the the birds
flying high
would then swoop down and they don't
even see him coming and take their young
but since
eagles fly very high
they're not at all concerned about any
other birds flying higher
now
there are concern though about archers
you wonder how an eagle can know maybe
they've seen it happen
but archers people with bows and arrows
do take out
eagles right
so basically they're protecting
they have no fear of anything above
but they do have fear of things below
coming at them so it says like this the
ego however fears only man
lest he shoot an arrow at it because no
other bird flies above it
therefore what he does he places them on
its wings
and as it says
um i don't know where it says it it says
in exodus 14
19 and 20. see we were in 1904 but if
you go to verses 19 and 20 mentions
rather the arrow pierce me and not my
children
um i think that's
maybe the mercilet but then it's based
on the verse
then the angel of god moved and he came
between the camp right that the
the angel or let's say even the fire and
the the clouds basically were protecting
us from the egyptians as the egyptians
shot arrows and catapult stones the
clouds of lurie basically absorbed them
meaning
as if
hashem placed himself between us
and the ammunition that was being fired
at us
so that was that's what it means um but
in another sense what khleikar's saying
is this is also referring to hashem's
willingness from the very beginning as
he gathered us all over goshen
miraculously to bring us to one place so
we can all leave together
so too he was ready and willing to bring
us straight into earth australia and
that's what i believe he's saying here
but because and he says
we would have ended up in the in the
land of israel immediately but because
of our sin the ally day shall kill
but it was only because of our sin
referring even when we talked about the
erev this was referring to the erev in
the previous pesa
paragraph any time that word the words
used or refer to the aravrov it can also
just as well be speaking about jews who
are sinners and evil that's why it says
these are their travels to their
starting starting points
shinnasu el makomos
shisoitho lakso luvvillete michon
meaning they traveled to the places then
in the end they were going to
go back to and leave from there
lyot mutut
in other words to be
movables basically going from one
journey to another had we gone straight
into israel there wouldn't have been all
these journeys but now because of our
sin
we're going sometimes backwards some
right and therefore we're moving around
not in a total haphazard way but in the
way that it says even going backwards
the zed of our lawyer hashem and again
those travels were not a pashem because
of the sin
hashem never wanted them what he wanted
and desired was to bring us immediately
straight into earth's israel and now we
think back on that first rashi what are
all these
massot about ultimately it's about the
hashem because there's a lot of depth to
that even when we sin
hashem is the forgiver he he
he loves us and he gives us chance after
chance after chance and this is really a
plug for the series i'm giving on the uh
where we talk about the 13 attributes of
mercy that when we imitate hashem but
this is what god wants he created us in
his image when we actually imitate him
we draw down into the world
these these attributes from hashem so
notice we kick it off we initiate it by
our actions we draw forth his actions
these are called like ideas of his mercy
and his forgiveness that we bring this
into the world
and it's an amazing thing and you'll
feel it it's like substance it's it's
existence
and i also encourage people to listen to
rabbi kessin he spoke um last night so
you look at it it's called the divine
in-depth in the in-depth look at the
divine
plan
so
hopefully we'll uh all learn something
we'll grow go through our journeys
not alone but together
and misrant hashem will all grow and see
meshach soon and this year hopefully
it'll be the last time we
observe tish above the way we are
accustomed to
and as larry said earlier it is called a
moe aid fizrat hashem this should be the
last time or not even yet it won't even
happen
and i wish everyone a khodeshtov
shabbat shalom and a great life we'll
see you next week
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