Vaeira - 6th Portion

Join as we learn together for Friday Pares Vira Chapter 8 verse 19. Yesterday we learned about the plague of lice and wild animals. Today we continue with the next plague. But in the middle of the we're in the middle of the plague of wild animals where God says that the difference you will see a clear difference between where the plagues occur in the city of Gan. They will not occur as the Jewish people are there. Verse 19. I will make a redemptive distinction between my people and your people. Tomorrow you will see this miraculous sign come to be. which will make a clear distinction between my people and your people. Verse and a very huge mixed horde of wild beasts came upon the people of par the home of parad and the home of his servants in the entire land of Egypt. was devastated by the animals who came upon them. It was devastated, destroyed because of the animals that came upon it. Verse 21 called go serve your god in the land. Go bring your sacrifices in the land. That means in the land of Gan. Why do you have to go out into the desert? If the thing you want to do is bring sacrifices, do it here. Don't go to the desert. Verse 22 said, "It would not be proper to do it here. Are we going to take the deity of Egypt and bring it as a sacrifice to our God?" Our God. If we will to go and sacrifice the deity of Egypt, lay name in front of their eyes, they will not stone us. You think we're crazy to be able to bring your god, your thing in front of them, deity of Egypt, the what the people fear, their idol worship. The Jewish people call it something disgusting. However, it's what the Jewish what the Egyptians use as an idol. It's also said in other ways. It's something which will be hated by the Egyptians to something that we're going to bring a sacrifice because we are taking their idol and bringing it as a sacrifice. And that is something which will be disgusting by them. Bit like in question mark. Do you think that we can take their idol and bring it as a sacrifice and they're not going to kill us? Verse 23. We must take a three-day journey in the desert will bring the sacrifices to God as God will tell us. 24 I will send you forth you'll be able to bring sacrifices in the desert but don't travel too far don't go too far and pray for me verse 25 said I am now going to leave your presence and I will pray to the sorrow of And he will remove the wild beasts from Pharaoh from his servants from his nation tomorrow. However, don't only par but let parro note by saying, "Oh, I'm going to not let and not letting the Jewish people go again to bring the sacrifices." What does the word mean? Sarashi explains comes from the word like to say lies to say different to change his words. and Mosha left Paris presence and he prayed to Hashem. M verse 26 he prayed really hard. So a lot of prayer now that he uses the terminology that he did goes on the fact that he continued to pray in an immense way. Verse 27. God said, God did as Moshe said and he removed the wild animals from Pharaoh from his servants from his nation. Not one was left. If you look over here, something different. When it came to the plague of frogs, all of them were just left in herds there in piles. However, not one animal was left here. They didn't die like the frogs did. Rashi explains because if they were to die, what would happen? The Egyptians would then get a pleasure that they can take and make beautiful alligator skin and hides from all the different animals that were there, the beautiful things that they would get. So therefore with their skins and because of that and they make nice garments, nice clothing or nice tools from it. So therefore they all left. So they should not be able to get any pleasure from it. Verse 28. But this time as well as Pharaoh's heart was hardened also as he did not send forth the people. What does this mean also at this time? Even though even though Pharaoh said clearly send you out did not keep to his promise. Chapter 9 verse one. We now continue with the fifth plague. God said, "Come to love and you will tell him." So said the God, the God of the Hebrews, send my nation and they should send and they should serve me. Verse two, because if you refuse to send them, and you continue to detain them, verse two, holding on to it, detaining, not allowing to let go. Verse three, God will then be directed against your livestock in the field, the horses and the donkeys and the camels and the cattle and the sheep. A very serious epidemic. Verse three, what is the word will be will be pronounced will be directed This is also the terminology how it could be said in a female uh a feminine connotation and something that happened and what will be in the word and something that's current with a anytime I use a feminine connotation was with a at the main word verse four And God will differentiate when it comes between the cattle of the Jews and the cattle of the Egyptians and nothing of the Israelites will die. Verse will make a difference. Verse five and God made a fixed time saying tomorrow God is going to do this thing in the land of Egypt. Verse six and God did this thing which was now we're at the time is eth of what happened was and all the cattle of Egypt died from the cattle of the Jewish people from the livestock of the Jewish people not one of them died. Verse seven was still not sure if this really happened and he sent and inquired and discovered And not one of the Jewish people's cattle, livestock died. Not one of them. Still in all pharaoh was heart was hardened. And he did not send forth the people. Verse eight, we are now in the sixth plague of would on the Egyptians. This is now the 15th of they were God tells Mosh take for yourselves two handfuls of where you going to take it from a kilos throw it up to towards the heaven in front of Pharaoh's eyes what is this telling me what's meaning the amount that fills two um two handfuls. Something that flies, the dust, you see the the comes out of the coals that are burnt in a kil. The word comes from the word that the wind makes it blow, which is the you'll see the black stuff that's all over. And over here anything, why doesn't it say that he will send it or will throw it? He says you have to really throw it anything that you have to use power to throw the way you throw something with one hand. You're going to throw it well. So we see from here many different miracles that happened. Number one that one handful of Moshe held two handfuls. One of his and one of Aaron's that's one miracle. Number two. And another miracle that this little handful of soot that he threw up into the air went all over Egypt. Verse 9 and it will become dust all over Egypt. I'll call it time all over Egypt will go on the man. The animal is it will cause an inflammation erupting into blisters in all of Egypt. as their explains blisters, boils that can have big blisters in it that they're going to continue to grow into blister become blisters and inflamed on the individual to making boils comes from the word warm because the uh the type of boil becomes very warm on in the person's skin. We find this a lot where the word comes to mean warm like a year of the lunar the solar year the more warm year I'm sorry it's which talks about in the tract of verse 10 so what did they took they took the of the kil and they stood before threw up to heaven and it caused an inflammation that erupted into blisters on man and on the beast. Didn't he just say in the previous plague of pestilence that all the animals died? But there were only ones of the animals died only on those that were out in the fields as it says on the cattle that would be in the field. And as we see later on, the one who feared God made sure to remove cattle to the homes and not leave them in the field. So too, we learn in that when Pharaoh takes cattle and he wants to chase the Jewish people when they leave Egypt, where does he get them from? Those were the ones that were in the home and they were protected from the plagues. Verse 11, and the magicians couldn't even stand before Moshe because of how difficult it came. because of the inflammation because the inflammation attacked the Egyptians and all the people and all of Egypt and therefore they were no longer able to try or to expose Mosha as a magician that they themselves were affected by it. That means even after they acknowledged that the lice was from God still in all they tried in other ways to see if they can make and copy all the plagues that happened. Verse 12 a slave and God hardened the heart of Phy and he still did not listen to them as God said to Moshe that Pharaoh would not listen to them. Verse 13, God says to Mosh, "Now we're at the seventh plague." This is now the 15th of a month later. As we mentioned, every plague took about a month. God says to Moshe, "Wake up early in the morning. stand in front of Pharaoh and tell him. So said God, the king of the Hebrews, send my nation so they shall serve me. Verse 14, for this time now will send all my other plagues together to your heart, against your very heart, and to your servants and your nation. So you will know that there's nobody like me in the entire land. What does it mean? All my plagues. So, Rashi explains we learn from here that a plague that causes a hunger that there is no food is as bad as all the plagues. Because when it come to the plague of boil of hail as we're soon going to see that destroyed any food that they had and when they don't have any food that was considered almost as death verse 15 because of now I've stretched my arm and I've smitten you nation with pestilence. and you have been obliterated from the world, from the land. Verse verse 16, however, nevertheless, I have speared you. I have speared you. I let you stay so that I should be able to show you in order that I show you my strength and that you can tell my name and that you my name should be resound throughout uh the land throughout the world. Let's see. Rashi, what is God telling? What is telling Pharaoh? Because if I would like, I could have killed you like I killed all every animals of yours. When I had my hand amongst your cattle when there was when there was pestilence, I sent my hand. I could have killed you and your family with the animals. meaning the world would have would have been obliterated. Everything that you had would have been gone. You would have been gone as well. But because I wanted you to see the great miracles, I let you stay. As we see again the idea over here of the plagues was not just to punish the Egyptians but to transform the Jewish people and see that the greatness of Hashem. This concludes the sixth Torah reading of Pares Vira.