Shemos - 6th Portion

Join me as we learn together the for Friday Pares Sham the sixth Torah reading of Par Shamos chapter 4 verse 18. Yesterday we learned how for a week Moshe was trying to be uh was asked by God to go to take the Jewish people out of Egypt and God was trying to convince Moshe but Moshe with all those different excuses did not want to go until finally God told him you will be going. God got upset with him and sent our own who will be his interpreter and Moshe would be his mentor. Today we go as Moshe returns back home to the city of Midian asking permission of Israel to go down to Egypt and tell Pharaoh to let the Jewish people go. Verse 18 and Moshe went and he returned to his father-in-law and he said to him, "I would like to go and return to my brethren that are in Egypt to see. Are they still alive? Go in peace. Why did he have to go back to Isra's father-in-law? Because he took to take permission to have get permission because he promised that when he married, [snorts] he will not leave from only with permission. His father had seven names and this was one of them. Verse 19. God said to Moshe, "Now you can go back to Egypt. Because all the men who seek your life have already died." What does this mean? They died. We see are very well alive. Who are they? They were still alive. They lost all their money. And somebody that's poor is as if they died. Verse 20. Moshe took his wife as his children and he mounted them on the donkey was heading back to Egypt and he took with him that staff the God the staff of God in his hand. What does it mean? The donkey the special donkey. This was the the dunkey that took for the bind of Isaac. This is the same dunkey that Mashiach is going to reveal himself on it. As it says, a poor man riding on a donkey. Even though the activities happened first, first he took his his staff and only afterwards did he start heading back to Egypt in the Torah is not written in chronological order. So too the verse is not in chronological order. Verse 21. God said to Mosh, "When you go back to Egypt, see the all the marvelous miracles that I have placed in your hand. He'll do it in front of Pharaoh and I will make his heart hard, obstinate and he will not send the people forth. He will not and he would not like to send them. Verse 21, you should know says you have all these miracles this is the reason why you're going you should be strong in the message in the errand that I'm giving you. to do all the miracles before Pharaoh. Do not be afraid of him. I place them in your hand. I'm not talking about the three miracles that happened previously. He didn't tell them to do it in front of Pharaoh. He said he should do it in front of the Jewish people. That they should believed him. And we don't find that he even did them in front of Pharaoh. The miracles that I'm referring to is other miracles. that I'm going to give you to do. But in Egypt, Pharaoh's going to ask, "Give me a miracle." Don't ask them. Why does it say those that I've already placed when you will talk to Pharaoh? I already placed them. You have the ability to do it. It's not going to be something new. You'll already have that ability to do it. Verse 22. And you're going to tell Pharaoh so said God my son the firstborn my firstborn son. This is actually the first time that the Torah calls the Jewish people the firstborn son. And this is showing that God's love for the Jewish people has number one as a son and number one and number two the fact that they are great like a firstborn son. I'm sorry. Verse 22. You'll see how he's strong and adamant that he doesn't want to send the people as follows. My firstborn son they're great. I make them as a great son. That's a simple interpretation over here. God agreed and said it carved in stone and signed the deal that yes, the Jewish people are the firstborn. Though you're going to say, well, they only bought it. Yes, they bought it and it belongs to them as God says. Yes, the Jacob is the firstborn that he got it from Asaf. Verse 23, therefore I tell you, Pharaoh, send forth my son. In God's name, I'm telling you, send forth my son. they should serve me. And yet I know you will refuse to send them forth. I will therefore kill your first firstborn son. You'll have no defense against my threat. I'm telling this to you in the name of Hashem. This is the 10th of the 10 plagues. He's warning him at the beginning about the 10th plague because it's going to be the worst out of all of them. That this is what God was warning and is saying that when a person wants to say something to somebody, he may only reveal part of what he's saying and conceals what he's saying. He doesn't tell him everything his plans of what he's going to do that he shouldn't find a way to get out of the punishment that he's getting. God doesn't care to divi divulge his plans because there's no way you're getting out of it. There's nobody that's stronger than him. The only way you can get out of it is if you're going to do what's right through repentance. Therefore, you can tell him in the beginning what the plan is because he's warning him to repent. Verse 24 and Moshe was uh on the Moshe was on the on the way on the road. While he was on the road, he was in a lodging in like a hotel. He was stay he was he stayed over in a place and he was confronted by God and he sought to put him to death. What was going on here? Rashi explains Moshe was in a lodging in a hotel. An angel angel wanted to come and kill him. Why? He still did not circumcise Alzar's son. because he was delaying. He was procrastinating was going to be punished with the capital punishment. That's what says, "How can you dare say that Moshe would procrastinate to do a mitzvah?" He actually did not procrastinate. He said, "When the time comes, I'm going to circumcise and then I'm going to travel." How is that going to work? It's dangerous for the child. You have to wait three days. So therefore, why you want me to circumcise him and then wait three days? God told me go right now to Egypt. How can I delay it? Say if so, if he was doing it for the right purpose, why then should he be punished to be killed? Because he was dealing with things in his lodging first while he was in the lodging he could have circumcised the angel was like a snake. It started swallowing Mosha and then it started swallowing him again from the feet up until the place of the bris. So right away Tapora realized that the reason why Moshe was about to be killed because they didn't circumcise their son. Therefore, as we can see in the next verse, verse number 25 and Saporra took a sharp stone. She cut off her son's foreskin and threw it down at the feet of Moshe and she said, You are a you are my groom to bloodshed. What does this mean? Rashi explains, "She threw it to the feet of Moshe to get the angel to go away to show look the boys being circumcised and she said about her son, you made that my groom, my was almost killed because of you. you were almost I almost my husband was almost killed because of you because you weren't circumcised. And seeing that the boy was now circumcised, seeing the lacerity that Tapora had to be there right away to circumcise the child, the angel then released Moshe and then Saporra then Sapora said, "You are my croom of bloodshed by circumcision." Right away the angel let go of then she understood that it was because of the mitzvah of circumcision he came to kill him she said that my groom my was going to be killed because of circumcision the word means because of circumcision shame It's a noun. The is in place of the in other places we have it. God pharaoh said to the Jewish people because of the blood of circumcision verse 27. And God said to now go and greet Moshe as he's going towards the desert and he went and he met him by the mountain of God and he kissed him. Verse 29, I'm sorry, verse 28. all the things that God told him that he dispatched him and all the signs, miraculous signs that he instructed him went and they gathered all the Jewish people. You may wonder what happened to Mosha's family because why? Just as Mosha and Aaron went over here when Aaron saw Moshe and his family coming towards Egypt, Mo Aaron said to Moshe, "I don't understand. There's plenty of Jews already in exile. Why do you have to bring your children there? Let them go home and when we're ready to leave Egypt, we'll bring them back. So therefore, and the children returned home and Mosha Aaron went to Egypt. Verse 30. Verse 29, they gathered all the Jewish elders of the Jewish people. Now that they gathered them, verse 30 spoke all these words that God said to Moshe and they made those miracles in front of the people. And the people believed and they heard that God remembered them as the Israelites that he saw their misery and they bowed and they knew and they bowed and thanking Hashem that he remembered about the Jewish people. This concludes the sixth tower reading of para shamost.