Yisro - 4th Portion

Join as we learnish for Wednesday parishes Israel chapter 19 verse1. Yesterday we learned about Israel giving the advice to Moshe. Moshe implementing the advice. Once the advice was well implemented, Yro returned home to convert the rest of his family. We now rewind as we saw in the beginning of the Torah reading that was after the day of the uh giving of the Torah. We now go back to the Jewish people standing at the foot of Mount Si to receive the Torah. Chapter 19 verse one. We are now at the third month in the year 2448. The first day of the month of Sivan where the Jewish people third month from the month of Nissan triumph of the Jewish people's exodus of Egypt on this day. They came to the Sinai desert. What does it mean this day? It was actually the day of really it should have said on that day. Why does it say this day? to teach us as the Jewish people come to Mount Si and they're awaiting the giving of the Torah. So too, every single one of us when we study Torah, we should look at always look at it as this is something new and exciting, not something that has happened thousands of years ago. Verse two, they traveled. They left and they came to the desert and they camped in the desert there and the Jewish people encamped facing the mountain. Why does it have to repeat itself and tell us where they left and how they came? Didn't the Torah just tell us that they were resting in them? know that if they were previously encamped in and now they're in Sina desert that means they left to compare and to show that they're leaving of was just like they're coming to Mount Si just like when they came to Mount Si the Sinai desert it was with absolute repentance even though so too when they left though they did a sin testing God with the question and the quest of the man and the quail they repented on their sins. And the Jewish people rested. If you look at the words, it is a singular term telling us what does it mean? They were like with one people with one heart. But at any other time that they encamped there was with argument and animosity facing the mountain to the east of it. Anytime you're going to find the word negot which means facing means that their face was to east because the east side is always called the p side that you're facing and their back was towards the west. Verse three verse Moshe. Now this is the second of Moshe went up to God of Hashem and God came to them and onto the mountain and said from the mountain saying so you should tell the house of Jacob and you should relate to the Israelites on the second on the second day anytime Moshe went up the mountain was early morning as it says that Mosh got up early in the Morning. This same terminology. And according to this order, why does he split up to the house of Jacob and to the people of Israel? The house of Jacob. These are the women. You have to tell it to them in a softer way. And then tell the word is a different type of terminology to tell the Jewish people. More of a strict and severe terminology. You'll tell them the punishments and the details and the intricacies. You'll have to tell that to the males to the men. And the reason why you have the terminology because it's telling them severe words which are strong and which are severe like which are veins or things which are bitter. It's a type of vegetable which is very bitter. Meaning that you're telling them strong words and punishments that come with it as well. Verse four, you have seen what I have done to Egypt, and I've carried you swiftly on the eagle's wings and I brought them to you and I brought you to me. What does he mean over here? This is not something of a tradition that you've gotten from previous generations. And it's not something that I'm sending you in a letter that I have to uh tell somebody else. And it's not through witnesses. Am I telling you a testimony? You yourself seen it. It's a firsthand event. For all the terrible things that they've done and for the enslavement that have happened to you. You saw the terrible action that the Egyptians did before I dealt with them to punish them and therefore the only reason why I punished them was only to show how much I love you because I love you. Therefore I says and I brought you to me that's when I brought you to Ram says the Jewish people were scattered all over in the land of Gan. And for one moment they all gathered together to come to Ramsees to leave Egypt explains what this means that I took them that I made you travel that the Torah is talking that in a way that God made us travel in a very respectful way. Uses this nice terminology talking about a God taking the Jewish people out of Egypt. What does it mean on the wings of an eagle? Like an eagle that carries its little birds on its wings. What's the difference between the eagle and all other birds? All other birds carry their little chicks between their legs because they because they fly lower than all the other birds. So they're concerned about a bird that comes higher than them is going to snatch the bird from them. So therefore the way they protect them is carrying them between the legs. But the eagle is not afraid only because of only from humans. Maybe they'll shoot an arrow and try to shoot it down. Why the eagle flies the highest? It's not concerned about any bird that may come higher than them and snatch their chicks. They're worried about the arrows that might hit them. Like So too he puts them on their wings. Therefore God says the same idea. I'm sorry. The eagle says rather let the arrow go into me and not to my chicks and therefore he protects them. So too, God says, "I did the same thing that God put himself in between the Egyptian camp and the Jewish camp." And the cloud of glory accepted all those arrows and rocks that were being thrown at the Jewish people that God intercepted and accepted them to protect the Jewish people. The aesthetum said, "He brought them to me that they should be able to serve me." Verse five. And now provided that you will viligently heed my voice and you will keep my covenant. You shall be for me as a treasure cherished from all the nations of the world for the entire world is mine. If now you're going to accept upon yourself, then things are going to be sweet from now onward. Yes, we had a hard start off, but all beginnings are difficult. And yes, things were difficult, but from now things will go smooth sailing. I make a covenant with you that you will keep the Torah. What does the word sigula mean? A treasure. A treasure. The treasure of kings, special cherished vessels and important and treasured stones, precious stones say that the kings hide them in their treasure chests. So too you can be for me like a treasure chest, a cherished people is from all other nations of the world. They shouldn't say that. What's the reason? You're going to say, "Oh well, you know why we're cherished?" because there's no other nations. And what else do I have? What else can I do? What else can I show? Meaning, you think I've gotten you and I've taken you out of Egypt. There are other nations in the world that there can also be some type of treasure and shown some type of love. I have the whole nation. I'm able to choose from any nation I want. But still in all, all those are to me like nothing. And I chose you, the Jewish people, to me, my cherished treasure amongst them. Verse six, and you shall be for me a kingdom of nobles, the kadesh and a holy nation. These are the words that you should tell the Jewish people. Verse six, what does the word mean here? doesn't mean priests like working in the holy temple but nobles like it says in the book of Samuel and the children of David were they were nobles these are the words why did it say these are the words not more and not less this concludes the fourth Torah reading of parasra