Vaeira - 3rd Portion

Join as we learn together for Tuesday parishes for chapter 6 verse 29. Yesterday's Torah reading the Torah told us who Mosha and Aaron are and how they where they come from, who their family is, and how they were appointed to be the messengers of God to take the Jewish people out of Egypt. Verse 29. And God spoke to Moses saying I am God speak to Pharaoh the king of Egypt everything that I will speak to you. Verse 29. This is the same statement as we mentioned before in verse 11. Come speak to Pharaoh the king of Egypt because he interrupted by telling us who they were telling us about their family. The Torah reviews it again to tell us where we're up to. I am God. I am God. What does it mean? I am. You can trust me. I am worthy enough. You can trust on me. You can depend on me. That I am the one that sent you following my commands and that it will all work out. Verse 30. Over here Moshe replies to God before I have observe I have made over here he says I am a man of blocked lips and how is Pharaoh ever going to listen to me verse 30 this is not that Moshe said it again but the Torah is reviewing what would happened previously that Moshe responded to God that the Jewish people they're not going to listen to the Torah reviews it here again because it was interrupted. This is what you will find again like when a person speaks and says okay let's review what we just said before because we were interrupted. So let's recap what happened and this is what the Torah is doing as well. Chapter 7 verse one. And God says to Moshe, "Observe, I have made a master for you over Pharaoh." However, Aaron, your brother shall be your spokesman. You are a master over Pharaoh. You will have the ability to give him punishments which is plagues and make him and make him suffer. Will be like your prophet. He's going to be your translator when you use the terminology prophecy or speaking is a man who announces and tells the people words of rebuke and comes from the word from the lips uttering say words in predigger and in old French it's called pger preacher it comes from the same word preacher if you take the dal gimmel preacher. That's what a is that he will be called a preacher and therefore he calls him over here preacher tell somebody who rebukes verse two you will speak everything that has to be told and Aaron your brother will then will say it to Pharaoh will repeat it to Pharaoh only then will he let the Jewish people go from his land the explains You're going to say once everything that I send you to do in a short language and your brother will interpret it. We'll make it sound nice and articulate it. Make it sound good in the ears of Pharaoh. The Reb explains why over here do we need that Moshe and Aaron should speak. If Aaron was the one that's going to say it to Pharaoh anyway, why does God have to tell it to Moshe? Let him say it to Aaron and Aaron will say it directly. Why does Moshe have to say it to Mosh? Not only that, why does Moshe have to say it to Pharaoh and Pharaoh not understand? And only afterwards Aaron make it sound nice or why does Moshe have to make it sound strict as God says he will be a master to give you punishments and then Aaron will make it sound nice. Now here the Reb is telling us that there's two modes for us to combat the evil. There's the Moshe mode and there's the arrow mode. And one has to remember that there always has to have motion in the background. Meaning Moshe has to say it as it is the severity to be able to give the punishments to show the authority the authority that God has. However, at the same time, the Torah is a way of pleasantry. The Torah is a way of making things sound nice. And that's what Aaron's job was to make it appealing to Pharaoh as well. And that is the duality to combat the evil of the time. Number one, to always remember that the authority we have over evil, but at the same time look to transform it, not only to subdue it. Verse three, and nonetheless, I will make Pharaoh's heart abstinent. And therefore, I will increase my miraculous signs and the marvels, the land of Egypt. Verse three, now that Pharaoh will be considered evil. disconnect will tell him the words because pharaoh is going to say who are you that I should listen to God it's revealed by everybody that he there's no interest in listening but that they don't have any interest in repenting on what they've done but now it's time for me that I can make it in a way that I will make him hard meaning that I will make that he shouldn't want to listen and he will become obstinate about it said I can make my miracle And the Jewish people will come to recognize my strength. This is also we find the attitude and the behavior of God that maybe that he punishes the nations of the world that this way the Jewish people should learn and repent to God. As it says God says I have destroyed the nations. I have destroyed the people and this way the Jewish people can learn lesson from it. Still in all you'll notice something unique as we continue into the plagues by the first five plagues. It doesn't say that God made his heart abstinent but the heart that Pharaoh himself became obstinate and did not want to allow the Jewish people. He himself his heart was hardened and didn't let the Jewish people. And only after Pharaoh became hardened and did not want to let the Jewish people, then the last five plagues, God says, "You made the choice and now I'm going to take away your freedom of choice." As we'll get to it when we learn those plagues, verse four, Pharaoh is not going to listen to you. And then I will put my hand upon Egypt and I will bring forth my hosts as my nation, my people, the Jewish people from the land of Egypt with great with great uh wonders, with great judgment against Egypt. What does it mean? My hand literally my hand. What is my hand going to do? To hit them, to punish them. As God says, as we say in the uh on Passover, not through a saraph, not through an angel, with God himself that smited the Jewish people, the Egyptians verse 5, and Egypt will know that I am God. When I will raise my hand over Egypt, and I will take the Jewish people out of their midst. Verse six. and did as God commanded them. So they did. They followed exactly what God told them to do. Verse seven, Moshe at the time was about 10 months short of 80 years old. And was 83 years old par when they spoke to parro. This concludes the third Torah reading of