Parashat Beshalach Emunah Test

[Music] so is in essence continuing the story uh that am Israel has left Egypt but is now in the final stages of The Exodus uh where uh am Isel is now being tested with whether they truly believe in hem or not where even though they saw one Miracle after another uh in Egypt one plague after another whether it was AEM taking uh revenge against their Idol uh worshiping of the Nile River or destroying them in a because of their immorality with the frogs the mid says that uh the uh the frogs one of the things that they did in order to torture the Egyptians aside from entering their sandwiches and their ovens and their inner uh stomachs was also uh the the frogs actually spoke they spoke to the Egyptian telling him I'm about to punish you for all that you did to am is when you didn't allow them to be to to be together to be clean for them to be able to be intimate and produce more children and then the Frog will jump and bite off the part that uh the Egyptian would need in order to reproduce uh and in essence made many of them uh unable to uh to reproduce children Soh with every plague took revenge against the Egyptians uh in order to sanctify his name and after all of this uh and eight other plagues uh we have being you know leaving Egypt and now tells us that it happened when par sent out the people that hasem did not lead them directly towards is by the way of the land of the Philistines because that way was near and from it uh one could easily go back to Egypt so here the par tells us that the par is already clarifying that is although they had enough Faith to leave the uh the ashz to leave the uh Bergen bellson to to leave the the Holocaust of Egypt they didn't necessarily have enough enough faith in hem to Simply do everything and anything without asking any questions as we see from the par because sent him in a specific path that was the long way rather than the short way because if they would if it was too short as soon as he presents them the next test they could easily uh you know justify turning around and becoming slaves again so took them on a specific path to make the return to Egypt much more difficult so with that we then see that uh speaks to M he says speak to the children of Israel and let them uh turn back and encamp before p uh kiraa the umasa is mentioned here uh between the m and the sea between what are these places why do we care about the address I mean obviously it's a one question a person can have is uh did the desert have street addresses did it have roads what do we need to know the names of all these specific places anytime you see names and numbers in the toah you should know that there's certainly things to learn learn there's always things to learn but there's specifically things to learn in these places where these names and numbers represent entire events many times they represent entire events and not necessarily just a location like in this particular case the belon uh was a uh name of an idol a name of an idol which is out of all the idols that Egypt had this is the last Idol that left standing and he left it standing specifically in order to uh magnify his name even further by having the Egyptians see this uh statue and using it logically as a justification that perhaps this false god that they have is stronger than the god of Israel because all of the other gods that they had were demolished but this one is not so surely this means according to the idol worshippers logic that this God is even stronger and therefore we should go for force and go capture the uh the and this is a great example of uh number one how in essence uh in a language that a person can understand takes risks takes risks in order to prove a point in order to bury his enemies in order to sanctify his name as the 4 a I believe uh says that if a person did not s sanctify K's name simply they have no reason to live and we're not even talking about if he didn't sanctify hashem's name in his life the is referring to every day K is an obligation for a person each day or else there's really no purpose for a person to live so of course there are many different ways to sanctify K's name one of my favorite ways to do so is by doing kiru by helping people do CH this is certainly one of the favorites but there are other ways to sanctify aem's name but if a person doesn't take into their daily account uh then simply the says they have certainly no purpose to live because that's what you came here for so here ising showing us just one small example of how important it is to sanctify his name uh not because he needs itom but rather because this is what the purpose of the world is to sanctify and glorify aem's name as we say in the uh in the song of the sea later on uh where it's a this is my God and I will glorify him uh uses that also to learn that we glorify through beautifying the MIT getting a better atog that's much more expensive but certainly much much better getting much better quality despite being more expensive we know it's better it's it's a better way to sanctify aem's name a more beautiful Suka a more beautiful lulav a more beautiful all of the mitv a person should do exert as much effort and resources as they possibly can in order to fulfill the Mitzvah above the mitvah there's the Mitzvah of the there's the mitvah of the there's Mitzvah of the Suka and everything else but then there's the additional Mitzvah that's the the biblical mitvah which is to glorify name through the so here in essence is glorifying his name by taking a risk giving as a a road that's much longer than releasing the the the uh the Wolves uh to chase after them and then giving the Wolves the uh the perception that maybe they could win this battle finally since they found one of their Idols is still around so here we see that is using nature to lead people to where they want to be led says that someone that comes to become pure ified wants to do chuva wants to sanctify themselves wants to become Holier Hashem will help him give him a hand someone that wants to become more impure make more sins do more bad Hashem will also open up the door for this person go ahead do what you want but eventually you're going to have to pay the bill why would Hashem help the wicked it's free choice not free in a sense that you can do whatever you want but free choice that you can choose to do what you want and in essence have the uh uh uh the the the the consequences for that actions just like you have consequences for doing things that are wrong in the regular World regardless of where you live in the world every country every neighborhood and even every household has rules that you simply cannot be broken when a person breaks them they know that uh they're going to have to pay the bill so here is in essence showing us a little bit more of how critical it is to follow in the path of hasem to learn his to and understand that every single word that he put in to has a uh a much bigger detail behind it honesty help countless people get closer to because For the First Time in their life they hurt honesty honesty that's brutal but is effective is effective