Mishpatim - 6th Portion

Join as we learn together Kish for Friday the sixth Torah reading of Paras Mishbatim chapter 23 verse 20. In yesterday's Torah reading, we discussed and learned about the mixing of milk and meat as well as the obligation of the three major festivals and the sabbatical year and other mitzvah that the Torah mentions. Today, we continue about the importance of the land of Israel and the blessings that God will give us. Verse 20, I am going to send an angel. who this angel is, as we're soon going to learn, is the angel by the name of Matan before you to protect you along the way and to bring you to the place that I have designated that I have prepared for you. Verse 20. Why is God telling that all of a sudden that he's going to send an angel to bring them to the land of Israel? What happened? What changed? If until now God said before and I come to save you and I will bring you to the land of Israel. Why does he say now I'm going to send an angel over here? They were told that they may come to sin with the sin of the of the golden calf. Therefore, the the divine presence tells them that I will not be amongst you. And who is the one that's going to take you is an angel that I have prepared that I prepared to give you. That's a simple interpretation which is referring to the place of Israel, the land of Israel that God prepared to give to the Jewish people. The median explains to the place already prepared earlier. My place my place, my throne above is exactly directly opposite of where it's going to be. This is one of the verses where we can see clearly that the Torah tells us that the holy temple down here in this world is directly opposite to the holy temple in the world above. Verse 21. Be watchful of his presence and heed his voice. Don't rebel against him. He will not overlook your iniquity. because my name since my name is with him. What does this mean? The word comes from the word like to rebel. One who rebelss against what you say. He's not used to why he's sending an angel amongst you that he was not going to be one to forgive on your sins because he's not used to this kind of things. and he's from a group of people who don't sin at all and therefore he doesn't understand he can't fathom the fact that people might sin even more so that he doesn't have the right to forgive you he's only a messenger he does what he has to do he follows his messenger and his message is errand is not to forgive the Jewish people because my name is with him meaning this is not an explanation of what he said before why he won't uh forgive you. This is connected to the beginning of the verse. Meaning in the beginning of the verse where he says be careful and don't rebel. Why do you have to heed what he says? Because my name is attached to him. What does this mean? That my name is attached to him. So therefore, if you rebel against him, you're technically rebelling against my whatever I say. Omr. The sages explain who is this angel that God's referring to is an angel by the name of Matatran. The name Matatran that his name is similar to the one of his master of God because Matatran the name Matan is the same numeric value as the name Shaki 314 which is one of the names of God. Verse 22. And therefore you will diligently obey him. And thus you'll do all as I say, and I will be an enemy to your enemies. And I will persecute your persecutors. I will persecute. I will hurt those that try to hurt you. Verse 23 so that my angel for my angel will go before you and he will bring you to the land of the Amorites and the land of theites and he will annihilate and I will annihilate them. Verse 24, you should not bow down to their gods. You should not serve them. And you should not do like their actions and follow their practices. You should you must shatter them. You must demolish their pillars, their their things that they bow down to. To those idolatries and idols that they serve, you must destroy their pillars, their stones, the stones that they make as a monument that they bow down to them. Verse 25, and rather what are you going to do? You'll be serve me your God, God your God. And thereby, and because of that, Hashem will reward you for not serving the idols. He's going to bless your bread and your water and I will remove illness from amongst you from your midst. Rashi verse 25. There's no rash on verse 25. This concludes the Torah reading of Friday, the sixth Torah reading of Paras Mishbatim.