The Hidden Message of the Exodus - Rabbi Yitzchak Botton - Rabbi Yitzchak Botton

for God to do Miracles not such a big deal God could do anything the bigger deal than the big Miracles that God did in the story of The Exodus is who he decided to do those miracles for so if you look at the art and how they title the second book what's the title title is Exodus what does the word exodus mean it's it's Greek or Latin for for going out going out Redemption right so how come if I look on the Hebrew side See Art I don't know if they noticed this but on the on the English side they put Exodus which means Redemption G going out and on the Hebrew side they put names so the Hebrew and English when it comes to the title of that book don't match why is there this inconsistency what's it based on so it's based on the Greeks that decided to name the books the way they wanted to name it so they chose to call the second book going out because they looked at the story and the climactic moment of the whole second book was the Jews leaving Egypt that's the the Pinnacle you know Spitz of the story the Jewish people with great Miracles splitting the sea 10 plagues that's where Hashem really showed the world whose boss he said this world I can do whatever I want with it and everyone in it so when did God truly show his greatness in The Exodus of of the Jews from Egypt and so the Greeks that are certainly are are certainly look at things from a external perspective they they they beautified the external body and they looked at things that's on the surface on the surface the correct name for this book is Exodus because it point to God's greatness and God's Miracles and what's what's what's the secondary names what is names who cares about the names the these are the names of the of the Jewish people why call that the whole book imagine someone presenting this idea in Hollywood I have the best idea it's going to make billions the the next Blockbuster better than Avatar what's is by the way is any what's the big movies lately I don't follow anym what's the the Avatar was a big hit anyway it's this the the billion dollar Blockbuster forget about fiction we have reality the The Exodus from Egypt 10 plagues splitting the sea you want drama doesn't get better than that so this man is pitching the idea imagine in the world that this never happened he's pitching the idea of this Exodus and the director the producers they're sitting there they're like wow this is unbelievable it's a bit too over the top no one's going to believe this ever happened but but it's a movie that's the iron because reality beats fiction every time you think fiction is is is out of this world reality is more out of this world Than Fiction anyway so they think this is a bit out of bit a bit over the top but hey we're Hollywood we we're all about over the top they're like great we're in by the way do you have a name for this movie uh it's funny you're mentioning do I have a name act the name of this movie is names they're like what name names what listen the idea is great we're in but the names got to go and they start thinking I got it Exodus and there goes the next big hit with what's that guy Russell Crow Exodus wasn't he in Exodus oh no he was in this Noah's Arc business that leave it to Hollywood to mess everything up the last movie about the splitting of the sea was even worse than the Charlton hon version all they do is play with games they again they think they're God there's a there's a Torah there's an exodus instead of just writing what was the real Exodus we have to make it better somehow so they always mess everything up but anyway that's the point the Hollywood director says what do you mean names names that's not a name for a movie like this we'll call it Exodus and that's the difference between the the the the sages which called it names verse how the Greeks which called it Exodus because they looked for the the bright lights and the the spectacular ideas of all the Miracles but now let me ask you now so we've explained the why the Greeks call it Exodus why did the sages call this book the book of names the entire book is just called a simple book of names what's so special about the names what's so what's so special about calling this book names is it because it's like the third letter third word in the in the book so they found the first word that's one answer is that it's arbitrary we just found the first unique word and we used it but Torah is much deeper than that and when the sages choose to use this name the word names to call this entire book by the word names it's it's deep and it's prophetic and it's part of hashem's Torah so what is the big deal about calling this book names so I'll tell you in one sentence sages understood that to do Miracles not such a big deal God could do anything the bigger deal than the big Miracles that God did in the story of The Exodus is who he decided to do those miracles for the point of the Miracles and the entire book is and these are the names of the Jewish people he did it all for us did All For You me the names what's unique about a name we have also in the same book right there Rashi talk talks about what was so special why God named us why we have names and why he counts each and every one of us each and every one of us he counts like the stars you know so he brings from kazal that God brings out and takes in the the Stars by name and by number every Star has according to this a name and a number who can count the Stars only Hashem who can count every single precious Nish of the Jewish people every single Jew we think he's not precious Hashem counts him by name and by number he might look like a sinner he might look like he's he's to us we can't see his Beauty he's beautiful and he's hashem's child and he loves everyone by name and by number so while we're on the topic of names and numbers let me ask you if if already Hashem gave each star a number so it's counted he knows where it is he knows what it is so why does it need a name or ask the other way if you've already given every Star a name why on Earth does it need a number a name is even more unique more specific than a number essentially if I'm numbering everything so it's it's it's it's Quantified it's it's it's it's it's indexed I have it I know my inventory if I'm naming everything by name for sure I know my inventory because everything has its unique name the answer is that the Jewish people have an aspect to them that is a number and an aspect that is a name and here we come full circle with with this idea from the perspective of the fact that we have a number so you can only number something that's of same qualities if you have something that's that's some things a group of things that share the same qualities so that unites them into a category and I can number I have a hundred of X I have a hundred people because they're people but if something is unique and it's one of a kind then I can't give it I can't count 20 unique things that's not a way to count 20 unique things if something is unique and nothing else matches it so I have to give it a unique identification tag which is a name so there's an aspect of every one of us that is unique we are all like a a God's only only firstborn child that's there's a level within each and every one of us that we're hashem's it says we are hashem's firstborn as a nation and each one of us is like hashem's first only born child but at the same time we're part of Cl Israel 600,000 root souls and offshoots which equals the millions and millions of people that have been born and that in that context we get a number because we're all the same saying