Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan - Parashat Bo

[Music] good evening welcome today we are learning parashat bo this is um the the third parsha in sephir in exodus last week we learned in that paro is being tested with tan makote and seven of them were in parashat all for the sake of the jewish people so that the jewish people can realize be aware that hashem exists that he's in control and that he loves them and he fulfills his promises to the forefathers because after 210 years of slavery in egypt they may have forgotten about hashem and perhaps they gave up that hashem will ever redeem them so now hashem has to retrain them that they should be devoted to hashem like our forefathers and the second reason why hashem is performing these great miracles even though he can just smash uh the egyptians or he can change paro's mind and take them out easily hashem is not doing it so that the nations of the world and egyptians in particular should also be aware of the existence of hashem and in fact it did have a tremendous effect on them because when the jewish people left egypt multitudes of converts came with them as the the torah says imam that even together with the jewish people the three million jews that came out of egypt there were and the torah doesn't give the number but it was a huge number of converts majority of them were egyptians but there were converts from many other nations as well why because they saw the miracles and they were convinced that god exists that god is the ultimate true power in the world and that he is still in control and that he loves the jewish people so they decided to join the jews and in this week's parasha the makkot continue we have three makot in this uh torah portion as well as many myths vote about the corban pesach the pesach uh offering so we are on page 341 of the r scroll humash chapter 10 verse 1 the 8th plague locust hashem said to moshe come to paro again to the palace to warn him for i have made his heart and the heart of his servants stubborn so that i can put these signs of mine in his midst why did i make hash one why did hashem make part of stubborn for a purpose so that hashem has a chance to perform miracles if par would say yes right away it would be too easy no miracles and therefore the conviction of the jewish people would be weaker and so that you may relate in the ears of your son and your son's son that i made a mockery of egypt and my signs that i placed among them that you may know that i am hashem that's another reason that hashem performs these miracles so that jewish people have what to teach their children and grandchildren not only that the jews should be convinced but the tradition and the transmission of the events that happen should continue from generation to generation and until today we fulfill this uh mitzvah every pesa when the when we get together and the the elder uh the eldest member of the family relates the haggadah relates how we were slaves in egypt not because we were slaves but because our parents said it and their parents said it and their parents said it all the way until that generation that actually came out of egypt and by the way there are 20 myths vote in this week's torah portion nine of them are positive and 11 are negative and we're gonna enumerate them as we get to them moshe and aharon came to paro and said to him so said hashem god of the hebrews until when will you refuse to be humbled before me send out my people that they may serve me because if you refuse to be hung to send forth my people behold tomorrow i shall bring a locust swarm into your border that's the warning locusts are coming it will cover the surface of the earth so that you will not be able to see the earth and it will consume the remaining residue that was left to you by the hail because if as you remember hail broke trees and it broke a grain that already grew but grain that did not grow yet survived and now a month later that grain is is ready to be eaten and it will consume all the trees that grow for you from the field whatever was not broken by the hail will be consumed by the locust verse 7. paro's servants said to him how long will this be a snare for us a trap for us power servants their hearts were not hearted by hashem so they are thinking logically and they're saying paro our country is being destroyed we are being destroyed our property is being destroyed don't you realize that the god of the jews is serious that he means business how long will this be a trap for us send out the men that they should serve hashem their god do you not yet know that egypt is all lost but he doesn't listen to them instead he makes a mockery or motion argument he calls them back and in verse eight he says motion aru were returned to power and he said to them okay go and serve hashem your god who is going now we're on page 343. paro knows that moshe already said that the whole nation has to go but paro is pretending to be benevolent but he puts such restrictions that it's impossible moshe told him with our youngsters and our elders shall we go with our sons and with our daughters with our flock and with our cattle shall we go because it is a festival of hashem for us but paru can't understand that what do you mean you're going to serve god why do you need your wives and why do you need your elders why do you need your children that's not how we serve our gods we don't bring the whole family along it's only for the priests and for the men of nobility he said to them so be hashem with you as i will send you forth with your children you think i'll send you with your children look the evil intent is opposite your faces and here there are two explanations what does he mean evil intent is against his opposite your faces either he means that i recognize your evil intent you're pretending that you want to serve god really you want to run away that's why you want to take your children and wives paru doesn't understand why would the whole family serve hashem in by by um other uh religions families stay home only men visit the the the temple of their idols the second explanation when he says look the evil intent is opposite your faces he refers to what his astrologers said that there is a star rising in the sky and soon it's going to achieve its highest point in the sky which means it will be the most powerful and what is the name of that star is called which means evil and power is telling the jews i want to give you advice i don't recommend you to go out of egypt now it's dangerous my astrologers said that the the stars are showing danger in the desert the stars are showing blood i don't recommend that you should take your families because there might be death waiting for you and verse 11 not so and verse 11 fits into both explanations let the man go now according to the first explanation children have no business serving god women have no business serving god elders have no business serving god let the man go serve hashem for that is what you seek and according to the second explanation he said don't take the vulnerable members of your community just let the healthy adult males go don't take women children and elders because it's a dangerous time um and by the way why did hashem take the jewish people out in the month of nisan and here there are a few explanations on a simple level the month of nisan the beginning of spring is a very pleasant time in egypt trees are blooming there are flowers the weather is excellent it's not hot it's not cold it's perfect weather so hashem wanted the jewish people to enjoy not only he is taking them out of slavery but also he is giving them pleasure that's explanation number one explanation number two is that month of nisan is the constellation of tele of of iran the the constellation of of the the sheep and egyptians are serving it the main god of egypt was the the lamb or the ram and therefore egyptians felt that out of all months they are the luckiest the strongest in the month of nisan and hashem wanted to show them that i am in control of the entire universe all gods are nothing before me even your your highest god of lamb in its best month of nissan on its strongest point in the middle of the month is nothing for me i will take out the entire nation on the day that is the luckiest for you and for your god and not you and not your god will be able to stand against me so that's the second explanation why specifically nissan he took them out so therefore the fact that this star called evil was rising up meant nothing because hashem is in charge of stars as well he created the stars astrology witchcraft black magic whatever it is hashem created it and he is in charge nothing can have any effect on a jew or on anything in the world unless hashem allows it unless hashem wields it so hashem wanted the jewish people to come out of egypt at the worst possible time when the the idols of the non-jews claim the power when the stars foretell evil befalling the the jews hashem says nothing to worry the jewish people will come out and they will be safe under my protective wings and our sages say that the blood that paro foresaw really was the blood of the brit milan of the circumcision that jewish people did before partaking of corbin pessah and the blood of corbin passer itself the the pesach offering that every jewish family had to slaughter in their houses and they had to put the blood on their lintel and on the two doorposts that's the blood paro saw as well as the blood of his own soldiers that drowned in the red sea so that's another powerful idea that before hashem destroys our enemies he raises them to the top because hashem wants to show not only i destroy your enemies when they are weak but when they are at the peak of their power to show my might if i destroy them when there is a crisis and they're on their way down anyway that doesn't show my power but when they are on top of the world and that's when i destroy them that shows that i am in control of the of of the entire world so too here he took the jewish people out in the month when the god of egypt was the most powerful that's what they believed in when the stars predicted downfall of the jews hashem said don't worry i'm above stars i'm above all gods and so too in our times before collapse there is a rise and in fact the talmud says if someone wants to rise to power what should he do he should declare a war upon the jews because such a person hashem will use as a tool to show that enemies of the jews will not survive so whoever wants to go against the jews hashem will bring him up he will become the president he will become the chancellor he will become the king the emperor and then hashem will punish them they will not last just like it happened to stalin and to hitler and to paro and to all our enemies they rose to power only to fall down like soon we will learn in the megillah of esther in the story of purim the same thing happened to haman he hated the jews and therefore hashem brought him to become the highest in power next to the king akhashvirosh and as soon as he achieved that highest power he fell down and was was hung now let's continue hashem says i will not let everyone go if you want only the men go but of course this is uh not something we can accept verse 12 page 343 hashem said to moshe stretch out your hand over the land for the locust swarm and it will ascend upon the land of egypt and eat all the grass of the feet of the land everything that the hail has left so moshe stretched out his staff over the land of egypt and hashem guided east wind to bring the the locust the entire day and the entire night the strong eastern wind blew and in the morning there was a locust swarm across the egypt the local swarm ascended over the entire land of egypt and it rested in the entire border of egypt egypt only within the border of egypt the lands that were outside of egypt were not touched very severely before it there was never a locust swarm like it and after it there were will not be its equal it covered the surface of the entire land and the land was darkened and it ate all the grass of the land and all the fruit of the tree and the hail that the hail left over no greenery remained the entire egypt paro hurried to to summon motion out on himself i have sinned to hashem your god and to you quickly changes his mind and now please forgive me my sin just this time and intrigued hashem your god that he removed from me this death so moshe left paro and he prayed to hashem and a very powerful west wind blew and it carried the locust swarm and hurled it toward the sea of reeds not a single locust remained within the entire border of egypt but hashem still hardened paro's heart and he did not send out the children of israel now on page 345 hashem said to moshe this is now the ninth plane and there is no warning stretch forth your hand toward the heaven and there shall be darkness upon the land of egypt and the darkness will be tangible so thick that people will not be able to move as if they're covered they're they're submerged in dark liquid first three days it was just dark they could move the last three days they were like in a viscous liquid moshe stretched forth his hand toward the heaven and there was a thick darkness throughout the land of egypt for a three day period no man could see his brother no nor could anyone rise from his place for three day period but for all the children of israel there was light in their dwellings surprisingly there was unusual light not the light of the sun because the entire land of egypt was dark there was special light that hashem sent that the jewish people should have um light and not only in the jewish land but it says in the midrash that everywhere jews would walk a circle of light would surround them and even if a jew would walk into an egyptian home around the jew there would be light the entire house would be submerged in darkness now we go to page 24. paro again summons motion says go serve hashem but there's another condition only your flock and cattle shall remain behind i allow your children to go as well now he makes another strange condition everyone can go all the people but your possessions your flags and your cattle have to stay behind and of course moshe says no such thing even you will place in our hands feast offerings and elevation offerings and we shall offer them to hashem our god moshe says not only are we going to take all our animals but even you paro will beg us to sacrifice for you and our livestock as well will go with us not a hoof will be left for from it shall we take to serve hashem our god and we will not know how much hashem will require of us so we have to take everything and hashem again strengthened paulo's heart and he did not send them out and not only that paul got angry and he said go from me do not see my face anymore on the day you see my face you're gonna die powder threaten him and moshe said you have spoken correctly i will never see your face again which means i'm not gonna come to you again next time when paro sees moshe it's when paru himself runs to see moshe or according to some he sends his servants because paro even though he's suffering but he's embarrassed now we turn to page 347 uh chapter 11. hashem said to moshe one more plague shall i bring upon paro and upon egyptians after that he shall send you forth from here but before that please speak to the in the ears of the people of the jewish people let each man request of his fellow and each woman from her fellow silver vessels and gold vessels hush and ask them to borrow why borrow for the same reason they're only telling egyptians that they're leaving for three days we're gonna come back don't worry but really hashem wants the jewish people to empty egypt verse 3 hashem granted the people fever in the eyes of egypt moreover moshe was very great in the land of egypt now moshe speaks to potter for the last time before leaving the palace verse 4 so said hashem at about midnight i shall go out in the midst of egypt every firstborn in the land of egypt shall die from paddle himself to the firstborn of the maidservant behind millstone and not only that even the firstborn of animals will die there shall be a great outcry in the entire land of egypt such as there has never been and such as there shall never be again but for the children of israel no dog shall bark against neither man nor beast so that you shall know that hashem will have differentiated between egypt and israel now we turn to page 349 verse 9 hashem said to moshe will not listen to you so that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of egypt now chapter 12. this is the first mitzvah the first commandment that the jewish people were commanded as a nation and that is a positive commandment to establish a calendar system that is based on the sighting of the new month the new moon it used to be that the the jewish month began when the the witnesses come to the debate didn't jewish court and they testified that they saw the new month the new moon and uh the baby and the court then proclaims the new month started and if the the witnesses don't come then this month is extended by one day and the new month starts tomorrow um the jewish month can either be 29 days or 30 days that is because the cycle of the moon is 28 and a half days so one month is could be 28 days one month could be 29 days uh now we have an established calendar but but that is only because there came a time when the jewish court was not allowed to convene and therefore the the jewish stages established a calendar for us that we have been using for the last almost 2 000 years but in the olden times it was upon the paid deen the court sanhedrin to declare what the new month starts which means the jewish people were even in charge of time we decide if we want the new month to start or not okay now the mitzvah is in verse 2 this month which is nissan shall be for you the beginning of the months it shall be for you the first of the months of the year until now everyone counted months from rosh hashanah which is in tishrei that's when the world was created now hashem says i will make a separate calendar for the jewish people and for you for you the jews the the first month is going to be nissan why nissan because that is when the jewish people came out of egypt that is when they became a nation so rosh hashanah in the month of tishrei is supposed to be celebrated by the whole humanity it is the new year for the entire world for us we have another new year one is the universal new year in tishrei rosh hashanah and one the jewish new year and that is the first of nisan from which we celebrate the exodus from egypt now we turn to page we have some laws of corbyn pass the the the pesach offering verse 3 on the 10th of this month they shall take for themselves each man a lamb or a kid a goat for each father's household and the reason is they are planning to leave on the 14th um on the 15th of nissan but they're planning to slaughter this lamb or kid on the 14th of nisan the night before exodus but before you slaughter an animal as a as a corban as a sacrifice as an offering you have to make sure that the animal is kosher how do you check you have to wait four days and observe it if you see that the animal is behaving uh in a healthy manner you can then offer it and in fact in beta mikdash in the temple there was a special chamber a special room where they would have constantly a few lambs that were there for four days and they would have shifts they would have a few lambs then they would renew them every day they would use two lambs one in the morning one in afternoon on shabbat they would use additional two lambs so on shabbat they would use total of four lands and so that chamber had enough in it um for whatever day it's it was uh it was supposed to be so they would check the animals for four days before they were slaughtered in the temple so hashem says the same thing here each family must choose a lamb or a baby goat and obs and observe it for four days verse 4 tells us that an entire family must be counted and signed up to eat this land on the night before pesa and if the household will be too small for a lamb then he and his neighbor who is near his house shall take according to the number of people everyone according to what he eats shall be counted for this young animal which means in order to participate in the offering of pesa you have to sign up but more than one family can sign up for one animal if you have a small family an animal is uh even though it's a baby animal but 10 20 30 people can can partake of one animal you're not just eating meat you're eating also matzah and and greenery herbs vegetables so you can have 10 to 30 to 50 people per animal and if your family is small only 10 15 people you need a few families to eat it um what is the significance of of four days i don't know but that's what the torah says how long you need to determine without slaughtering the animal to determine if the animal is healthy because for consumption our consumption we can slaughter and check its internal organs but and and if if we realize that the animal is unhealthy we'll just discard it feed it to dogs or sell it to non-jews but if you are offering the animal to god you don't want to take the risk if you slaughter the animal as a sacrifice and then you find out that the animal was terefa was non-kosher the offering will be invalid and the person will not receive atonement therefore you have to observe the animal and make sure the animal is healthy before you slaughter now we continue in the laws of pastor now there are two kinds of pesa there is the pastor offering in egypt and there is the passive offering in future generations so as you see this pastor offering was different why first of all they didn't need to get rid of hamets they were allowed to possess hamets all they needed to do is to eat matzah with the corban as long as on your table you have matzah and the meat and the marour the bitter herbs you're good even if at home you have comments later we also have a mitzvah to get rid of hametz now comes another mitzvah that is different in verse 7 they shall take some blood of this animal and place it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they will eat it we don't do it anymore but on the night before exodus they took the blood and they made like a letter um russian letter pe or like the hebrew letter hat the door post the lintel and another door post now verse 8 they shall eat the flesh on that night roasted over fire you cannot cook it you have to roast it and massage with bitter herbs shall they eat so here we have a positive commandment to slaughter the pasta offering on the 14th of nisan and we have the positive commandment to eat the meat the roasted meat of the corbin passer on the 15th of nisan we slaughter it on the 14th afternoon and we eat it at night which is already 15th and now we have another restriction in verse 9 you shall not eat partially roasted or cooked in water this is a negative commandment that one is not allowed to cook the pesto offering or to eat it not fully roasted it had to be fully roasted only roasted over fire and it has to be all together it's had its legs and with its innards now we're on page 353 and we have another negative commandment you shall not leave any of it until morning and if it is left you have to burn it in fire so this is true even for future generations that the pesto offering that was slaughtered in urushala had to be eaten that night and that is why by pesach said by us when we eat the last piece of matzah what we call afikoman which represents the the the corbin pasta we have to eat it by midnight why because the sages made the decree in order that people should not postpone eating of corn passage till later in the night and they might miss the time and it will be day and um they will transgress this mitzvah they said we're going to put a limitation and that is to eat corbin pessah by midnight [Music] so in in the in yerushalayim throughout the generations jewish people would try to finish their pascal before midnight if by mistake you leave it over you can continue eating it until the morning and so we do the same with our passover matzah we try to finish our pesach cedar by midnight okay now we continue verse 11. the torah teaches us the signs that the jewish people have to do uh to show that we are about to be redeemed your loins girded that means you have to be fully dressed with the belt your shoes on your feet and your staff in your hand you shall eat it in haste it is a pestle offering to hashem they have to be with shoes with clothing with a their belt and even with their walking stick while they're eating to show that they they're still in egypt they have not been granted permission to leave but they're behaving as if they are free they've been granted permission as if they're about to leave now someone is asking a question if shabbat is before pasa when do you roast it and if passage is on shabbat when do you burn the leftovers these are good questions technical questions uh basically if pesach is on friday then they have to roast the meat on friday as well which means by pesach we mean the 14th of nisan according to torah there are two holidays one is called pesach which is the 14th of nisan that's the day when we slaughter the the korma pesa and then there's the second offering uh the second holiday that is called the hag hamatsot the the festival of masat and that is what we normally call pesa and that is from 15th of nisan for seven days so really what we call pasta is not pesa pesach is 14th of nisan so if 14th of nisan falls on um friday we can slaughter it on friday and we have to roast it on friday but we eat it on shabbat friday night if however pasta fourteenth of nissan falls on shabbat itself then we slaughter it on shabbat surprisingly but we don't roast it until mod say shabbat until after shabbat finishes we roasted at night and we eat it at night now someone asked the question when we roast the corban pasta do we just look at it or we eat it so again the original mitzvah is to roast it and to eat it in its entirety all the meat what we do now is just memory of it we don't slow a roasted piece of meat bone on the carrot on the center plate to remind us that right now we don't have corbin passa but in order not to make a mistake that someone might think oh they slaughtered a sacrifice no we're not allowed to sort of sacrifices outside of jerusalem outside of temple and while we are impure so not to [Music] make make it look like it we don't eat it we and we don't eat roasted meat at all by the cedar we just look at it we don't even point with our finger we just look at it and that reminds us of the pasta offering now verse 12 describes the plague of the firstborn i shall go through the land of egypt on this night and i shall strike every firstborn in the land of egypt from man to beast and the god against all gods of egypt i shall meet out punishment i am hashem and the blood shall be a sign for you upon the houses where you live i shall see the blood and i shall pass over you and there shall be no plague of destruction upon you when i strike the land of egypt however i will say just say that god can know who is a jew and who is an egyptian without the blood rather what the blood represented was that the jewish people listened to hashem and because they listened to hashem they deserved to be saved now verse 14 some laws of pesach for future generations this day shall become a remembrance for you and you shall celebrate it as a festival for hashem for your generations verse 15 for a seventh day period shall you eat matzot now we have the positive commandment to eat matzah but the passive commandment extends only for the first night of pesa we eat monster for seven days because we cannot eat hamets but the obligation to eat months is only the first night and now we have the positive commandment on the previous day you shall nullify the 11 comments from your homes this is uh the positive commandment to get rid of all comments in in your possession now verse 16 on page 355 on the first day shall be a holy assembly and on the seventh day shall be a holy assembly for you no work may be done which means from here we learned that on yom tov on a holiday festival we're not allowed to do work just like shabbat except for what must be eaten for any person only that may be done for you so here briefly torah tells us all the laws of yom tom that the the work may not be done just like shabbat except for what is necessary for food on yom were allowed to do food preparations now someone is asking a good question how could the jewish people not listen to hashem didn't they see all these miracles weren't they impressed and the answer is that unfortunately not all the jewish people listen to hashem we know that only 3 million jews left but our sources say that there were 15 million jews in egypt according to some historical sources there were more more jews in egypt than egyptians and that explains why paro was so alarmed he said if we allow them to remain free they will conquer us there are more jews than us and despite being slaves they continue to multiply where are all those jews and uh four-fifths of the jewish people did not leave egypt according to some they were killed in the plague of darkness according to some they chose to remain in egypt they did not want to leave so why would the jewish people listen to god because even though they saw all the miracles there were still non-believers among them they were still those that were not convinced that though they were still skeptics and all the miracles did not change their mind people still had freedom to choose if they want to follow hashem or not now we continue um verse 17 [Music] you shall safeguard the massot from here we from here we learned the concept of matsashimura as it says you have to guard matsuot why do you have to guard my against leavening which means you have to bake it quickly not to allow it to leaven now someone is asking a good question aren't you aren't you not allowed to break bones of the pasta offering and the answer is yes we're not allowed to break bones of the pasta offering not to crack them not to saw them not to even make a hole in them so how did they eat the meat so the answer is they had to cut it between the bones and um and eat the meat um like that now we are in verse 19. for seven days 11 may not be found in your house this is the negative commandment not to possess leaven not to possess hamitz and verse 2 now it gives a punishment for somebody who eats comments for anyone who eats leavening that soul shall be cut off from the assembly of israel verse 20 you shall not eat any leavening seems like it's a repetition but in fact the sages say that this is another negative commandment not only you're not allowed to eat comets you're not allowed to possess hamas but also you're not allowed to eat mixtures of khamens even if hames is only a minority of a mixture the mixture becomes forbidden verse 21 moshe called to all the elders of israel and said to them draw forth or buy for yourselves one of the flock it means a lamb or baby goat for your families and slaughter pesto offering and how do you apply the blood to the lintel take a bundle of hyssop and dip it into the blood that is in the basin and touch the lentil and the two door posts with some blood that is in the basin and as for you no man shall leave the entrance of the house until the morning we were now on page 357 that was another mitzvah for that particular generation that on the night of pesach they had to all stay home behind locked doors now somebody is asking a question why can't we process comments and simply not use it i'm not sure what you mean by process um possess oh why can't we possess because the torah says seb may not be found in your houses which means in your possession so really it can be found in your house as long as it doesn't belong to you so that's why we keep the comments in our house but we sell it to a non-jew and uh simply it's because the torah said so not allowed to possess humans but we understand a person eats hummus every day we eat bread every day we're used to it if we're gonna have bread around us we might forget and put it in our mouth that's why hashem puts a precaution and says get rid of it i don't want you to eat it it's poisonous for you spiritually on the days of pesa okay now we are on page 357 verse 23 hashem will pass through to smite egypt and he will see the blood that is on the lintel and the two doorposts and he will pass over the entrance and will not permit the destroyer to enter your homes to smite and now again for future generations verse 25 it shall be that when you come to the land that hashem will give you as he has spoken you shall observe this service as well and it shall be that when your children say to you what is this service to you you shall say it is pesach feast offering to hashem who passed over the houses of the children of israel in egypt when he smalled egyptians but he saved our households the name of the holiday pesach means skipping over jumping over and the english name passover is the exact translation literal translation of the word pesa passing over jewish houses verse 29 the 10th plague it was at midnight that hashem smote every firstborn in the land of egypt verse 30 paro rose up at midnight and there was a great outcry in egypt so there was not a house where there was no corpse he called to motion around at night and said rise up and go out from among my people go and serve hashem as you have spoken now we turn to page 359 why didn't para die as well that's an excellent question paru was first born why didn't he die and uh hashem says because of this i kept you alive to see all my miracles and to admit at the beginning you said i don't know hashem i want you to stay alive until you will admit that there is hashem and not only that hashem kept paro all the way until the splitting of the lead sea and according to some when all paros soldiers and chariots died paris survived he went through the dead sea he went through all the the the turning churning of waters and he came out alive why to go back to his nation and to say yes it was true god is righteous everything that he said happened that is why paru is still alive verse 34 take even your sheep and your cattle as you have spoken and bless me as well now powder says please bless me i want to live and egyptians push the jewish people and they said we're all dying please leave our land verse 34 the people picked up it's though before it could become leavened their leftovers bound up in their garments upon their shoulders and the jewish people requested from the egyptians silver vessels and gold vessels and garments precious garments and hashem gave people favor in the eyes of egyptians and they granted their request so they emptied egypt the question someone is asking did hashem reword paro later so according to some yes paro was rewarded that his children eventually survived and some of them even became converts and became jews now verse 34 the exodus the children of israel journeyed from ramses to sukkot about 600 000 men on foot aside from children and women also a mixed multitude of converts went up with them and flock and cattle very much livestock verse 40 the habitation of the children of israel during which they dwelled in egypt was 430 years this is from the time when hashem made the pact made a covenant with avraham at the brit benapitarin this was 30 years before yitzhak was born when avraham was 70 years old so counting from then it was 430 years when that's when hashem first said to avraham you should know that your children will be slaves in the land not your their own and eventually they will come out with great wealth and i will punish the nation that enslaved them and finally after 430 years hashem fulfilled his promise it was at the end of 430 years and it was on that very day that all the legions of hashem left the land of egypt it is a night of anticipation for hashem to take them out of the land of egypt this was the night for hashem a protection for all the children of israel for their generation now we have some additional laws of corban pesa number one no alienated person may eat from it this is page 361 verse 43 that means that any jew that became a convert to another religion is not allowed to partake of corban pesa anyone who is not jewish or is not a jewish slave is not allowed to eat corbin pesto that means any hired worker is not allowed to eat corbin pestle verse 46 tells us another negative commandments in one house it shall be eaten you shall not remove any of the meat from the house to the outside so whatever house you started eating it you have to finish it in that house you're not allowed to take some of the meat out or one person is not allowed to eat a little bit here and then go to another family and eat some there you have to eat it in one place and another negative commandment you shall not break a bone in it and one more negative commandment in verse 48 at the end no uncircumcised male may eat of it anyone who didn't have circumcision is not allowed to eat corbin pesa now we go to chapter 13 and we have a positive commandment hashem spoke to motion saying sanctify to me every firstborn that any firstborn animal that is born in a jewish flock has to be sanctified and it is brought to beit amigdas offered as an offering and given to kohanim for the first issue of every womb among the children of israel of man and beast is mine as well as first born boys that are born by jewish people are sanctified to hashem we call it now verse 3 remember this day on which you departed from egypt now go to page from the house of bondage for with a strong hand god removed you from there and therefore we have a negative commandment comments may not be eaten and then we have another negative commandment verse 7. no comments may be seen in your possession you're not allowed to possess comments as well as you're not allowed to see your own comments in egypt they were not circumcised so how were they eating carbon pests a very good question uh that is why three days before eating the kobo pasta they made they they made circumcision that is why when paro said i see blood in this in the stars he saw the blood of the circumcision now on page 363 um by the way this paragraph that we just read starting from the first verse of of chapter 13 is one of the portions that we have in tiffin and now we come to the another portion that is interfering and and and this is because in verse nine it mentions the feeling and it shall be for you a sign on your arm and as a reminder between your eyes so that hashem's torah may be in your mouth for with a strong hand hashem removed you from egypt now in verse 11 that's the another the fourth paragraph of tiffin it shall come to pass when hashem will bring you to the land of the canaanites that he swore to you then you shall set apart every first issue of the womb to hashem every firstborn male that is of your livestock has to belong to hashem you give it to kohanim who offer it in betamigdash and they then they either verse 13 every first issue of donkey donkey is unique among non-kosher animals that the firstborn of donkey also has sanctity and we have to redeem it with a lamb or a baby goat and if you do not redeem it you have to kill it by axing the back of its neck and you shall redeem every human firstborn among your sons that's another positive commandment one is for firstborn of a donkey to redeem it with a sheep and another positive commandment the firstborn of people you have to redeem them with with five coins and another positive commander that if you don't redeem the donkey you have to kill it now verse 14 page 365 and it shall be when your son will ask you at some future time what is this you shall say to him with a strong hand hashem removed us from each from the house of bondage which means when future children will ask their fathers why are you wearing to fill in that's going to be the answer or sorry or they will say why are you eating matzah why are you celebrating pesa that's going to be the answer verse 15 and it happened when para stupidly refused to send us out that hashem killed all the firstborn in the land of egypt from the firstborn of man to the firstborn of beast therefore the answer concludes i offer to hashem all male first born and i shall redeem all the firstborn of my sons and each and again um the torah speaks about tiffin for the fourth time it shall be a sign upon your arm as and an ornament between your eyes why for a with a strong hand hashem removed us from egypt with this the parsha concludes thank you for listening may you have a good shabbat shabbat shalom have a good night thank you for listening [Music] you