Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan - Parashat Shemot

[Music] good evening today we are learning parashat shemot this is the the first parsha in the new sephir shimod exodus so um we are using our scroll homage and we are on page 293. last week the the torah portion told us that the jewish people came to egypt and members of yaakov's family are listed and this week again they are listed but this time only the um the 12 tribes and um commentators ask why list the tribes again haven't we heard their names many times in sephir bereshit and just few lines above in their names are listed as well as their children and some of their grandchildren are listed and the rashi encoding the the midrash says that jewish people can compare two stars and just like stars each one has its own position in the sky each one has its name um each one is huge and precious so to each jew is like a star a whole star a whole system a whole solar system every jew with uh just like in joseph's dream the the father and the mother are compared to the sun and the moon and the children compared to the the planets so just like every star has its name and uh and place so too hashem considers every jew precious and important and therefore he loves to count them we see that hashem counts the jewish people many times throughout the torah just like he counts the 12 tribes many times so too he counts the uh the jewish people as the nation six hundred thousand um right after they left egypt then a little bit later again and then a little bit later again and before coming to the land of israel in particular again multiple times jewish people are being counted just like someone who counts his money his riches or just like a lady looks at her jewelry again and again and she appreciates it and and every time she looks at her jewelry she is happy so to hashem we are considered his precious jewel we are his uh children and uh he loves to count us and by the way it's not considered a good thing for people to count other people because it's as if you're putting iron around them as if you're putting a limit on them they're only such a number of uh the jewish people and not more shalom however for hashem to count us that's for sure no uh it's only for people we don't count others but rather we count objects that may be associated with people for example each person gives a donation of a coin and then we count those coins and we know how many people there are so 12 tribes come to egypt and their children and um joseph who was already there with his sons all together are 70 individuals 70 individuals we started with and uh he told us that jewish people um were very productive they reproduced and they had a lot of children and grandchildren and this is where we begin this week these are the names of the children of israel who were coming to egypt with yaakov each man and his household came this also tells us that every man who came to this new country this hostile country full of people who don't share same values the reason why jewish people survived is because each man came with his household they did not did not come as individuals but rather as families and that's what preserved them seventy people verse five uh verse six yourself died which means many years pass yosef passed away when he was 110 years old the jewish people came into egypt when joseph was only 37 years old so many years passed jewish people lived peacefully and all his brothers died with the oldest being levi so that's that's another 22 to 30 years past and that entire generation the sages say not only yosef and his brothers died but all their children all that generation all their children all the 70 people who came into egypt they died so for that there had to be approximately 120 years that passed already since the jewish people came into egypt now if you remember jewish people stand in egypt 210 years and for entire generations to die out including the young children who came with them you need about 120 years and that's what our sages say happened how many years passed until the uh until the slavery began approximately years passed only when joseph and all his brothers and all their children died only then the egyptians felt safe to enslave the jewish people they no longer had in front of them a figure that saved them that would make them embarrassed or uneasy to be ungrateful but once those individuals who reminded them of the kindness that they did for the egyptians that they saved the entire egyptian nation once they died now egyptians don't feel gratitude anymore now verse verse 7 what happened during these 120 years the children of israel were fruitful they seemed they increased and they became strong very very much so so the torah uses six expressions of how jewish people multiply and the land became filled with them so our sages say the torah doesn't waste words why use six expressions of multiplication must be the jewish people multiplied six times faster than usually if usually a woman gives birth to one child a year the jewish women in egypt gave birth to six children a year whether each pregnancy was shorter or they had six children in each room at the same time six twins whatever you call them were born in one shot now verse 8 a new king arose over egypt who did not know of joseph some say he was really a new king because as we said 120 years passed it makes sense that new pharaoh arose some say it was the same one who was there recently it could be it's not the original one who was there when jose became the king but it is the same one who knew joseph but why does the torah call him a new king because he pretended he does not know joseph as if he is a new person so again according to uh pasha prashant simple reading of the verses it refers to a new king perhaps a new dynasty of egyptian rulers and that is why they were not aware of the of of the kindness that joseph did for them and according to midrash he just pretended not to know and as if he is a new person and he said to this to his people to egyptians behold that the children of israel are no more numerous and stronger than us than we are so he found an excuse to persecute the jewish people as if excuse was necessary we know that uh the non-jews never need an excuse to hate the jews because there are plenty of excuses any whim any any reason can be used to go against the jews and if we go through the the the centuries we see that yes every possible excuse under the sun was used to to persecute the jews someone is asking a very good question um and by the way remember that whenever question is asked before you answer it you have to analyze its assumptions and if you find an assumption that is wrong then the question doesn't start so somebody is asking a question um your head that we're going to speak about soon she is the third generation from yaakov yakov gave birth to levy his son and levy had a daughter your heaven so the question is how is it possible that in just three generations the jewish people went from 70 people to 3 million people so number one the assumption is that the jewish people right now are three million and we have to test that number two the assumption is that only three generations passed so speaking about both of these assumptions number one the three million of jews that we speak about that happens by the exodus and therefore it's not time yet you have to wait another 80 years because um right now we're speaking about the time that moshe rabin was born at the end of the parsha he comes to save the jewish people from egypt and that's 80 years later so don't look at generations but rather look at years it's 210 years from the moment they came in until they came out 210 years the second assumption is that it's a third generation yes for your heaven it's the third generation but she happened to live a very long life um she gave birth to moshe rabino when she was 130 years old if i'm not mistaken so in that time if you assume that each generation is only 20 years old 20 years because that's how people get married so in those 130 years already five or six generations passed okay but with this mate let's continue paro finds an excuse but midrash tells us that he really needed an excuse even though generally non-jews never need an excuse they just say i i hate the juice for this this is this and that's it it's permitted but para needed a valid excuse because in egypt it was a very similar government as in the united states they had the pharaoh paro who was the ruler but he did not have total control over the land they also had something similar to a senate a congress and congress or senate had power they could they could uh remove parole and paro had to uh explain his actions he couldn't just do whatever he wanted number two paro also was very concerned about his image in the eyes of the nations so he couldn't just look like a cruel king so he had to give a valid excuse why am i persecuting the jews because they seem as a danger for our nation they are very numerous and they are foreigners so it's very possible that they will attack us so that is why keeping that in mind will understand why paro does certain things is in fact midrash says that para originally did not want to persecute the jews but his advisers uh convinced him and then he changed his mind and then the congress said that if you don't persecute the jews we got we are going to dethrone you and when he refused to listen he they actually removed him from power for some time and he thought about and he said who am i protecting why am i protecting the jews so he said okay i'll do whatever you say and they reinstated him um okay now paro used the fact that the jewish people are numerous to convince his people to enslave them and he said in verse 10 come let us outsmart it that it shouldn't become numerous more numerous and if a war will occur it might join our enemies and wage war against us and go up from the land now here again there is a simple reading of the verse he is worried that the jewish people should not abandon the land they'll use the opportunity during the war and they'll escape and the question is if they're free people they're not slaves why why what's the problem they do leave even without the war why is paro so worried that the jewish people are going to leave egypt if he is scared that there's so many of them let them leave then it's going to be safe if you are scared of somebody and he wants to leave let him be my guest and leave why is power scared that's one shot and we have to answer that question the second uh interpretation of this passage is that paro it refers is referring to himself when he says they will wage war against us and go up from the land he knowing that words have power he doesn't want to say it about himself he doesn't want to say and they'll force us to leave this land he says and they'll go out he is saying the negative thing about his enemies he teaches us a great uh lesson that you should never say anything negative about yourself always speak positively if you want to say something negative speak about someone else so according to this shot that that part is referring to himself he is afraid that the jewish people are going to rebel and kick him out so that's understandable why he wants to um prevent them from growing further but according to the simple reading of the of the the pastor he's worried that the jewish people are going to leave the land what's the problem let them leave the land and here the stages give us uh a an interesting um view into paro's mentality and they say that paro was very concerned about his cell image and the image of the whole country of of egypt and he said imagine what will happen if a whole nation will leave egypt everyone around the world will speak about it the newspapers will write about it and they will say that jewish people did not like the conditions in egypt and they decided that the land of kanan is better for them it's going to be such embarrassment for paro that a whole nation escaped from his country for united states as an example the more immigrants want to come in the better we feel because if they want to come to us must be it's good by us must be we're a good country and as another example soviet union they made the exact same rules as egypt that nobody is allowed to leave soviet union because if they do it will look bad on us on soviet union that as if the socialism coming is is not good so they said no one is leaving so too para he said i cannot afford the the the whole nation of the jewish people should leave the land and i know they came from the land of canada and eventually they will want to go back to their roots that's where their ancestors are buried and uh i guess he heard that that that was pro that land was promised to them by god he said i can't that i can't let that happen because it's gonna look so bad right now egypt is the the greatest empire in the world everyone wants to be in egypt and we have to put guards not to let them in we have to build a wall but imagine if someone wants to leave egypt that's going to ruin our reputation so he said we have to enslave them and we have to make sure they don't leave no one moves out of this country now we turn to page 295 so they appointed taskmasters over the nation in order to afflict it with their burdens and they built storage cities of pittoman ramses but surprisingly as much as they would afflict the nation so it would increase and it would spread out and they became disgusted by the jewish people as much as they try to suppress them the jewish people just grew more and more and that answers the the first question that was asked how's it possible that in such a short time jewish people grew so much and we see that this was miraculous as a direct response to them we have to control the growth of the jewish people and hashem says yeah you think you're going to control the growth of the jewish people the more you oppress them the more i'm gonna bless them verse 13 egyptians enslave the children of israel with crushing hardship harshness they embitter their life with hard work with mortar and with bricks and with every labor of the field and that wasn't enough the jewish people were not giving in god was supporting them so paul now goes further in verse 15 the king of egypt said to the hebrew midwives shifra and pua when you deliver the hebrew women if it is a son you are to kill him before he is born and if it is the daughter let her live so he sees jewish people continue multiplying the the slave labor is not stopping them so he said let's kill kill them ourselves but the midwives feared god and they did not do as the king of egypt spoke to them and they caused the boys to live and the king of egypt brought the midwives to him and questioned them and they found an excuse they said hebrew women are very agile they are very lively and they're experts at giving birth even before the midwife comes to them they already gave birth and once they gave birth we cannot kill the baby we can kill the baby while he's coming out and we can just say he was still born god forbid but after he's born again you see that paro is still trying to hide his um his agenda so he's trying to kill the jewish infants secretly so god benefited the midwives and the people increased and became very strong and it was because the midwives feared god that hashem made them houses either physically he made them rich or houses he referred to households that they produced great families one of them your heaven produced moshe and aharon from which the living the levites and the kohanim came from and one of them married into the family of yehuda and she produced those that will be kings however there's another interpretation that says who made them houses paro for whom did he make houses either for the midwives which means he imprisoned them he said you're not doing a good job you're not listening to me so he imprisoned them or according to some he made houses for the jewish women to give birth in that means he created first birthing centers paro said if jewish people are allowed to give birth at home home birth then they will be hiding the infants they will be giving birth and we cannot kill them after they give birth what do we have to do we have to make a new rule all people have to from now on give birth in the hospital it's unsafe unsanitary dangerous to give birth at home therefore start giving birth at the hospital and we will punish anybody who goes against cdc rules and gives birth at home everyone including egyptians must give birth at the hospital and of course once the woman is at the hospital they can do anything they want with the babies and that's what they started doing now we turn to page 97 para saw that this also doesn't work so he increased the severity of his decree and in verse 22 he says power commanded his entire people saying every son that will be born into the river shall you throw him and every daughter you can keep alive and our sages say that the reason why he made such a decree even for his people was because his astrologers told him that around this time the one that will bring the jewish people out of egypt is going to be born and they told him we we are confused we're not sure if he's going to be egyptian or jewish because on one hand the stars show us that he's going to be jewish but on the other hand the stars show us that he's going to come from an egyptian household in fact he's going to come from your palace so therefore he said since the it's it's there is uncertainty let's kill all male infants who are born this year so even egyptians were were forced to throw their babies into the nile now chapter two the birth of moshe a man whose name was amram got married to a daughter of lady whose name was your heaven and our stages say this was there um that this was not a new marriage this was a remarriage they were married already and they had two children and aharon but once paro said everyone must throw their children into the nile river he said no more children why should we give birth and then kill them so he divorced his wife and then miriam came instead dad but maybe you'll have a daughter and uh and at least you'll have some children so he said yes that makes sense so he got married again and the woman conceived and she gave birth to a son now he and it's a good question is being asked why did egyptians rebel against paro and a possible answer is that for egyptians at that time it was not a big deal to kill their children because if you remember um in in the non-jewish nations it was accepted to do human sacrifice and very often they would sacrifice the first born male as a good luck sign for the rest of the family just like the jewish people but the jewish people said the opposite they said don't kill the firstborn dedicate the firstborn to the service of god so the mitzvah of bihor is to counter act the common practice of of the heavens of the idolaters to sacrifice the firstborn and so if egyptians heard that we need to sacrifice the the child that is born this year if he's a boy for the greater good of the country egyptians would do it they are familiar with it okay so the the woman gave birth and i would say just say she gave birth prematurely at six months so she gave birth three months early and uh because she gave birth three months earlier she is able to hide the child for another three months she saw that the child was good and because of that she called him tuvia one of the names of moshe rabin is tuvya means the good one from god how do they know he is good because midrash says that when he was born he number one was already born with the britmailla number two he his body was shining spiritual light was was emanating from him from him so she hid him for three months and she couldn't hide him any longer why because egyptians had records as soon as um amram took his wife back they said okay nine months as often a blessing is given unto the chupa in nine months we're gonna meet again for the brittanila so egyptians would write down the date and in nine months they would come to check and because she gave birth at six months they didn't come to check until three months later so she was able to nurse and take care of her own baby for three months so she was forced rather than let egyptians come and kill him she was forced to take him and give him up in the hands of god so she took a weaker basket smeared it with clay and pitch and place the boy into into it and placed the basket among the reeds at the bank of the nile river and miriam stood and followed the basket as it was flowing um in the nile river verse five paro's daughter whose name was pitia now we call jewish girls yeah she went down to bathe by the river and i would say just say she went down to immerse herself in the river for conversion for some reason she decided that she doesn't like the egyptian culture she doesn't like her father's household and she decided to serve one god and for that reason she decided to immerse herself in the river and she saw the basket among the reeds and she sent her maidservant and she took it and according to midrash she extended her hand and the hand extended many uh feet until it reached the basket she opened the basket and she saw a boy and he was crying with a cry over over youth within a with a already mature cry she took pity on him and said this is one of the hebrew boys she realized number one he was circumcised number two he was in the basket and in the aisle so she understood that he must must be a jew also if you remember we said that egyptians were were a different race they were hermitic race jews were semitic grace and therefore their features and the color of their skin was different and miriam his sister ran to paro's daughter and she said should i call uh a jewish woman to be a wet nurse for this boy to nurse him and the para's daughter said yes and miriam ran home and called her mother and paro's daughter gave the boy to his own mother and she paid her the mother to nurse her own baby imagine such a such a miracle god performed not only didn't the egyptians kill moshe but they paid very well to moshe's mother to take care of her own baby and taro's daughter gave moshe a second name until now his name was tuvia now she called him moshe [Applause] and that um comes from the root of drawing out from water okay now we turn to page 299 and the the good question is being asked why did patie agree to take a jewish nurse and midrash says must be she tried to give him to a non-jewish nurse to egyptian lady and he refused to eat and she tried a different one and a different one a different one he refused to eat and then miriam came and said try a jewish one and they tried the jewish one and it worked because it was his mother okay now a good question is being asked how did potter allow btr to um and by the way the word bt means the daughter of god beca and that supports our statement that she bathed in the river in order to convert because she accepted um upon herself one god so she became the daughter of god so why did power allow his daughter to bring some baby random baby from from the street and more than that a jewish baby did did she did she tell him that this is a jewish baby and that says yes paro knew that this is a jewish baby so how's it possible that para allowed his own daughter to raise a jew in his palace and the simple answer is what wouldn't a father let his daughter do right it's very difficult for a father to say no to his daughter that's the main answer but but also we see that the whole story is miraculous that the fact that johad was over a hundred years old 130 years old when she gave birth that's miraculous and the fact that moshe was was born premature three months premature and the fact that he didn't drown in there in the nile oh and that some other egyptian didn't see him and just kill him uh and that miriam convinced paro's daughter to hire have to to to nurse him and this is just one additional miracle that paro allowed uh bhatya to raise moshe in his house okay now a few years pass moshe grew up and some say he was 12 years old at this point and he he went out and he observed his brothers he knew he was jewish because for the first two years he was raised in um um paros uh not paris in your heavens house your heaven and they told him hebrew they told him about one god they told him about judaism and only then he came to paro's daughter so he knew he was jewish everyone knew he was jewish but they were hoping that he'll forget about the jews and he'll become egyptian one more reason why para allowed his daughter to to keep moshe was because she didn't have children she was married some say she did have a husband but he was crippled and they couldn't have children so in any case she didn't have children and paro needed a uh an heir he needed someone to become the next pharaoh again this is uh this is uh according to midrash yeah again all these questions are good why why didn't para realize that the prophecy of astrologers that uh it will be a jewish baby coming from his own house is being fulfilled yes all these questions are good and the simple answer is that that a person only realizes things that god allows him to realize even ideas that we have in our mind are implanted by god what's up to us is only to make decisions but the ideas the thoughts are inspired by god so paro didn't have any any children who can become the next pharaoh he the the only descendants that he had were either girls or crippled so he needed he needed someone and he saw moshe was a beautiful child a very smart child and he thought it's not going to be a big deal to convince him to drop the the the slave family and adapt the royal family he thought he'll be happy to do that he didn't know who moshe was that moshe is a very um committed to the jewish people he loved the jew people and now it's starts and moshe saw an egyptian man striking a hebrew man so he looked around no one is watching so he struck down in the egyptian and hid him in the sand and the next day he went and he saw two jewish men fighting and he said to one of them why are you why are you hitting your your your brother and they got upset they so who put you a judge over us are you gonna kill us just like you killed egyptian moshe said oy the matter is known and that's what happened these uh two jews even though moshe was on their side they went and they informed egyptian authorities that moshe killed an egyptian partially because they were jealous of moshe why is this jew living in the palace we need to take care of him and uh so they they complained and paro tried to kill moshe that was enough for power enough that midrash says that one time moshe wanted to um not want it he actually did he took off paro's crown and put it on his own head paul was shocked he thought that's it the prophet is being fulfilled and the miracle again happened and uh moshe was forced to pretend as if he is not smart he put took a coal and he put it in his mouth so um paro said okay you know it's just just let him live but now when moshe goes and kills an egyptian that's it that's rebellion he wanted to kill him and moshe escaped miraculously as well and after many years now moshe is about 75 years old from 12 to 75 we jump 63 years moshe was traveling around the world some say he was in ethiopia and he rose to the rank of a king until he didn't want it anymore he gave it up and he came to median when he is 75 years old and there he met daughters of idro by the well and they were being harassed by the shepherds and moshe protected them and she and he uh watered their sheep now turn to paige actually on the same page uh hitra offered moshe to marry one of his daughters because yitro who was the leader of mediyan spiritual leader of media he had seven daughters and so he was so happy that moshe came and at least somebody's going to marry his daughter and uh moshe married sipora now we turn to page she gave birth to a son and uh they named him gershom signifying that he was a gear a stranger in the land that was not his some years passed about five years past moshe is now 79 around 80. the king of egypt died a new king arose even worse than than that one and children of israel cried out to hashem and god heard their moaning and god remembered his covenant with abraham and god decided the time came to save the jewish people chapter three moshe was shepherding the sheep of he throw his father-in-law and in his shepherding he arrived at the mountain of god which will later be called mountain of god mount mountain mount sinai or mount khorev and the angel of hashem appeared to him in the blaze of fire from amid a bush and moshe saw that the bush was burning but it wasn't being burnt up even though bush is a dry little thing should be burnt up it wasn't and hashem spoke to him now we turn to page 303 and he said i'm the god of your forefather god of avraham and moshe turned his face away and hashem repeated the promise that i promised abraham is will give them a land of kanan land flowing with milk and honey and i will fulfill my promise by taking the jewish people out verse 10 and now go as and i shall dispatch you to pharaoh and you shall take my people the children of israel out of egypt and moshe replied who am i that i should go to pharaoh and i should take the children of israel out of egypt and hashem said don't worry i shall be with you yeah it's true you're just a human being might be insignificant in your own eyes but i'm going to be with you what can be greater than man with god next to him and uh not only that i'm giving you a sign that i will help you page 305 when you take the people out of egypt you will serve god on this mountain the greatest sign will be when you come back with the entire nation to this same place this mountain and i will reveal myself to them and moshe continued arguing with god our sages say he argued with him for seven days and he said when i come to the jewish people and i tell them i came in the name of god they'll ask me what's his name what will i say and hashem enter answered my name is i shall be as i shall be which means i'm unchanging i shall be has sent me to you tell the jewish people and say further hashem the god of your forefathers has dispatched me to you this is my name forever and this is my remembrance from generation to generation in this cryptic sentence hashem told moshe that there is a name of god that you cannot pronounce and there is a name of god that you could pronounce hashem taught moshe different names now we go to page 307 come to para and say to him hashem the god of him the hebrews happened upon us and now please let us go on a three-day journey in the wilderness and we will shall offer bring offerings to hashem and then we'll come back they knew that if they just say to paro let us go forever that's impossible and god doesn't give a test to a person that he cannot uh pass as we mentioned before it's impossible for paro let jewish people go forever so therefore they said only for three days at least that's within within his um choice but i know that the king of egypt will not allow you to go even for three days except through a strong hand only when i show him my strong hand i shall stretch out my hand and i shall strike egypt and eventually he will give you permission and you will not go empty-handed but rather you shall empty egypt now chapter 4 moshe continued to argue with god but they will not believe me and hashem said don't worry i'll give you signs number one is a staff throw it down motion threw it down and it turned into a snake and then he grabbed to it and it turned back into a staff number two we are now on page 309 verse 6 hashem said to moshe put your hand under your garment and take it out as soon as moshe took it out it was white like leprous with sarak and hashem said put it back in moshe put it back in and he took it out and it's healthy and the third sign in verse 9 take blood from nile river and throw it on the ground and it will turn into blood these are three signs that you will show jewish people that they should believe in you these are besides the miracles that moshe is going to show in front of para and moshe said another excuse but i'm happy of mouth and heavier speech i have a speech impediment and hashem said i shall be with your mouth and teach you what you should say don't worry and moshe said no please send through whomever you will send send someone else and the wrath of hashem burned against motion he said moshe you lost a little bit now instead of being the leader and the cohen now aharon your brother the levite he's gonna take some of your glory he's going to be the calling and he's going to be your helper i know that he will surely speak for you he's going to be like your representative your loudspeaker you shall speak now on page 311 you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth and i shall be with your mouth and with his mouth and teach you both what you are to do he shall speak for you to the people and it will be that he will be your mouth and you will be his leader verse 18. so moshe went and he returned to he drove his father-in-law and he said to him let me go back to my brethren who in egypt and heathrow said go to peace so verse 20 moshe took his wife and sons now we learned that he has a second son but he was just born he didn't have britt melaye that's why he doesn't have name yet he put him on the dunk and returned to the land of egypt ultimately not yet and he took the staff of god in his hand and hashem again cautioned motion i shall strengthen paro's heart and he will not send the people and you shall say the famous words to para benive jewish people are my first born son send out my son that they may serve me and if not i shall kill your firstborn son if you don't send out my firstborn son i will kill your first born son so hashem is already telling potter was going to be at the end he's giving him the final warning don't tell me i didn't warn you the end is going to be that parrots or the entire egyptian first born children are going to be killed now one more question if paru doesn't let anyone leave egypt why would they did why did they ask to go for three days would he let them go for three days so going for a visit for a vacation that's a different uh story just like in soviet union they didn't let people move out of the soviet union but under certain circumstances they allowed people to travel as tourists to europe or other countries because they needed to show that yes with freedom we allow people to travel but temporarily they would leave some of their family in soviet union and allow only some members of the family to leave never their entire family slo to paro we'll see later para will say oh yes just the man should go or men and women but leave the children and elders or you go and leave your possessions here he start making conditions to guarantee that they will come back so going uh for three days was was a possibility now verse 24 moshe is traveling to egypt on the way he stops at the lodging and hashem encountered him and sought to kill him what's going on why is hashem trying to kill moshe who is going to save the jewish people and the sages say because moshe did not do brit milan the covenant between us and hashem that that that hashem made with avraham all jewish people have to keep and moshe is running to egypt yes hashem told him to go thieves but do the brit mila first and then go moshe said no but i will not be able to travel because it's dangerous for the child so let me take him like this i'll do brit mala later so hashem said and leave the child with his mother by your father-in-law don't drag him to egypt so hashem sent the snake and it swallowed motion until his brit mila and then it spit him out and swallowed moshe again from the head until his breed milan support understood page 313 so took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son so the the snake released him and she said well i was about to lose my husband because of circumcision okay now with this behind him we go to verse 27. now just let me address one more question yeah it's a good question who is the new part and i don't know as we said before paro the only the only uh son or grandson that he had was uh crippled was not really fit fit to be a the son but then again already um 80 years passed since moshe's birth so it could be then that more than one power um was was switched okay so hashem said to aaron go to meet moshe in the wilderness so aharon went and encountered him at the mountain of god and kissed him and you may ask another question how did aaron leave egypt we said nobody is allowed to leave egypt so either because aharon was a levite and we know that levites were not enslaved they were free to travel or because aharon was the leader of the jewish people he was like the the the president of the jewish people represented the jewish people to egyptian government so he has certain privileges or the third answer is that it was a miracle god allowed him to go through the border wall unseen and unharmed so moshe told aaron everything that happened and they went together to the jewish people moshe and aaron went and gathered all the elders of the children of israel and aaron spoke to the people and the people believed and they bowed down and they prostrated themselves to god chapter five afterwards moshe aron came and said to paro so said hashem the god of israel send out my people that they may celebrate for me in the wilderness but para said who is hashem i don't know hashem it's not written in the book of my idols so i'm not going gonna send the jewish people so they explained to him you might not have him in the book of idols but he is the true god of the hebrews and he happened upon us and he commanded us to go on a three-day journey and if we don't he might strike us with with a plague or the sword and um why do you disturb the people go to your own burdens now on page 315 on that day para ordered the task masters over the people saying you shall no longer give straw to the people to manufacture the bricks let them go and gather straw for themselves but the quota of bricks you shall impose upon them do not reduce it because they are lazy therefore they cry out saying let us go and bring offerings to the god let their work be heavier upon them and let them not pay attention to false words paro said let people be involved in their work and forget about spiritual pursuits so there were two levels of uh supervision first he had egyptian um task masters and then they had uh four men who were jewish so the egyptian taskmasters would command the four men the jewish poor man and then the jewish four men were supposed to relay the command to the jewish people and make sure that the quote is fulfilled so verse 12 the people spread out through the entire land of egypt together strong and the taskmasters pressed saying complete your work verse 14 the four men of the jewish people were beaten the jewish four men were beaten by the taskmasters why did you not complete your requirements to make new to make bricks as yesterday and before yesterday the four men of the jewish people came and cried out to power saying why do you do this to your servants you don't give them straw and you require them to make the same amount of bricks and powder said you're lazy lazy that's why you speak about god now we turn to page 317. now go to work straw will not be given to you but you must provide a quote of bricks so the four men went out in distress and they had to tell the jewish people you have to produce the quote of bricks verse 20 they encounter motion aaron verse 21 they said to them may hashem look upon you and judge for you have made our very scent abhorrent in the eyes of paro to place a sword in their hands to murder us why did you come why did you go to paro you made life harder for us moshe returned to hashem and said my lord why have you done evil to this people why have you sent me from the time i came to power to speak in your name he did evil to these people and you did not rescue the jewish people moshe complained hashem said to moshe now you will see what i shall do to paro this was just a test now the show will begin for through a strong hand will he send them out and with a strong hand will he drive them from his land i will force powder to beg the jewish people to leave this concludes the torah portion thank you for listening shabbat shalom all the best