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How Jews RISE above HATERS (Shemos)
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We are not victims. We're a resilient people, and this parsha insight will explain how.
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we are going to be free man we are going
to feel great we are going to be
confident passionate Jews we are not
going to care what anti-semites think we
are not going to care what other people
think we are going to be
unapologetically respectfully but
unapologetically Jewish so the entire
generation of Yakov and his 12 children
the 12 tribes who had finally made it to
Egypt to be with ysep and to escape the
famine that was taking place that entire
generation had finally died out and at
this point Pharaoh enslaves the Jewish
people many of these people had been
actually Born Into Slavery because the
slavery lasted 210 years now this was
not just a physical oppression but this
was a psychological and ideological
oppression they were slaves to labor in
Egypt they were slaves to Egyptian
ideology to the Egyptian culture to the
that in fact many of the Jewish people
were actually steeped into
idolatry the Egyptians had served the
Nile that was their idolatry especially
since their sustenance came from the
Nile river that was their irrigation
system they worshiped their financial
sustenance in fact Pharaoh instructed
earlier throw every ravy boy into the
Nile River steep them into that culture
of it's all about the money and that
money comes from work not from God the
Jewish people at this point are fully
indoctrinated and this is where mosha
comes into play what mosha represents is
the ultimate
Clarity mosha was born and hidden by his
mother placed into a basket into the
water Pharaoh's daughter came sees Moshe
floating in the river in a basket
rescues him pulls him out and names him
Moshe which means to draw out it's an
Egyptian
name this was three months after his
birth
Moshe was already given a name a Jewish
name at
Birth moshe's name was tuvia I've always
found it interesting that the Torah
always references Moshe by his Egyptian
given name rather than his birth name by
his Jewish mother why are we referencing
him by an Egyptian name God addresses
him as Moshe not the name that his
mother gave him at Birth he's receiving
the Torah at sin conversing with God
face to face God calls him Moshe the
name Pharaoh's daughter baa gave him to
me that's something that always did not
sit
well until I saw two commentaries that
gave really interesting Insight fono
says that he's called Moshe to draw out
from the water because Moshe had a
calling in life to pull people out of
water to pull people out of difficult
situations that was his calling that was
his job so he was always referred to as
mosha because he's there for the people
to pull them out of difficult situations
to free them from
slavery the alter DEA points out that
water
represents awareness of your true Source
fish are very aware of their Source of
Life they have to be in the water they
know that if they exit the water they're
not going to they're not going to live
they don't have a a sense of full
Independence but they have an awareness
of where their life comes from Moshe
comes from the water mosha has that full
awareness that full clarity that life
centers around God he is the life force
of existence and Moshe had this Clarity
had this spiritual
Freedom thean isra asks an interesting
question Moshe is the Redeemer and
savior of the Jewish people yet he did
not grow up in the Jewish Community
mosha was not part of Jewish life he
grew up in the palace because Bas saved
him Pharaoh's daughter saved him he grew
up in Pharaoh's home how is he the
savior of the Jewish people he never
even grew up with the Jewish people
obviously he was committed and
passionate about Jews he felt like he
was part of the Jewish people but he
didn't grow up there
so the Ezra explains that because he
grew up in a palace he grew up in a
palace of
Freedom he knew what Freedom was like he
was able to desire that for others in
fact when the Torah first
introduces Moshe to us the first thing
that he does that we know that he did
he's walking around
empathizing with people's
slavery the Torah
says he went to his Brethren he saw them
as
brothers and he saw the burden the pain
that he had Rashi says that he was
empathizing with with them he was
putting his eyes in heart to the pain
that they were going through the says a
different something else what
is not their burden but their tolerance
he was bothered by their tolerance they
were born into slavery so they were
tolerating it it was okay the IDE ology
of Egypt the ideology of
worshiping something other than God was
okay of
worshiping oppression of embracing
oppression as if it's just a normal part
of life because you're born into it they
were tolerant of this and mosha was
deeply bothered by this and because that
he was able to redeem the Jewish people
because of the clarity of sight he
had the Zohar says that every single Jew
has a Moshe within every Jew has a part
within themselves that has this
incredible
Clarity and although we at times find
ourselves enslaved oppressed whether
physically we're just oppressed or
bogged up by trying to pay bills we're
bogged up by ideology or philosophy that
perhaps in our heart of hearts we don't
agree with but this is just what Society
demands from
us social pressure but there is a part
of us emotion within us that has real
Clarity and understands that there's a
right and there's a wrong there's a
truth there's a bigger picture there's a
meaning and purpose in life beyond just
paying bills and Beyond the ideology of
our local
Society there is a motion within that
has that Clarity that is there to draw
us out from that water that is there to
help us and save us and if we can access
it we are going to be free man we are
going to feel great we are going to be
confident passionate Jews we are not
going to care what anti-semites think we
are not going to care what other people
think we are going to be
unapologetically respectfully but
unapologetically
Jewish and it's going to be beautiful if
we can access that
mosha the says chapter 42 that accessing
this mosha essentially means knowing god
that's what mosha did he got the Jewish
people to know God he inspired them to
know God and when we put in the effort
to know God in a very deep and
meaningful way pray and connect and
learn and study and understand his
values and understand how God is really
embracing us we are going to have Inc
incredible
Clarity it takes work Moses's job was to
feed us Faith but in Tanya says that the
Hebrew word for Faith and Muna comes
from the word Omen which means to
train it takes training it takes work
it's
challenging but if we do it we are going
to be free and boy it's going to be
worth it that's my story and I'm
sticking to it friends