Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan Parshat Beshalach 2

cool Crystal hallway verse 23 Egypt pursued and came after them now the morning came the cloud lifted so Egyptians saw that the Jews are going into the sea every horse of Paro his chariots and his Horsemen into the midst of the sea and in the morning Hashem looked down at the camp of Egypt with a pillar of fire and Cloud which means he sent his pillar of cloud the moisture to make the ground that the Jewish people just walked on that was dry to make it muddy wet the Egyptian boots and their horses and their chariots were deep in mud and then he sent the pillar of fire to harden the mud like in a kiln and it became hard as brick and their boots and the horses hoofs and the chariot wheels got stuck in the mud and he confounded the camp of Egypt he removed the wheels of their chariots how they got broken because they got stuck in the hard mud and caused them to drive with difficulties and as the horses tried to move without the wheels The Chariot was just bumping and the bones of the Egyptians were all shaking verse page 375 Egyptians said I shall flee before Israel now they realize instead of running after the Jews they better run away from the Jews and they further understood for Hashem is Waging War for them against Egypt they understood that they were tricked that God set them up Hashem told Moshe to stretch out his hand over the sea and the water went back to its power to its normal state as the Egyptians were fleeing toward it because they wanted to run back away from the Jews and they were met by a closing sea and Hashem churned Egypt in the midst of the sea they were shaken and they were brought up and down up and down the water came back and covered the Chariots and the horsemen in the entire Army of Paro there remained not a one of them and I say just say not a one except for one who remained Paro himself power in the last moment did to Shiva he repented and he said God is the righteous one and I'm The Sinner and Hashem said if so I want you to survive and go back to your country and tell everyone about what you saw and I want you to leave Egypt and go and become a righteous king of Nineveh and that's what Pardo did he informed his family and the country of the great Miracles that Hashem performed and he went and he became a king of Nineveh who later convinced his whole city to repent and to come back to God now the children of Israel went on dry land and the water was a wall for them on both sides on that day Hashem saved Israel from the hand of Egypt because Israel saw the Egyptians dead on a seashore until then they were concerned maybe the Egyptians are going to pursue us and catch us now Israel saw the great hand that Hashem inflicted upon Egypt and the people became afraid of God and they had faith in Hashem and in Moshe his servant they finally believed until now they were concerned maybe the Egyptians will follow us maybe we'll come back to be slaves and it's going to be even worse now they saw the whole Army dead now finally they can breathe a sigh of relief now we believe Moshe and we believe God chapter 15 Moshe and the children of Israel chose to sing this song to Hashem they're so inspired that they said we must thank Hashem for what he did yeah and on a page 377 we have this beautiful song that we read every morning Israel I shall sing to Hashem for he is exalted above the arrogant having curled the horse with his arrogant Rider into the sea the might and vengeance of God was salvation for me this is my God I would say just say that whenever the word this is used it means that you're pointing to something this which means the Jewish people saw through prophetic Vision every Jew saw God it says that the lowest Jew by the splitting of the Red Sea so more than the greatest Prophet saw through his prophetic Vision when he saw the spiritual the highest spiritual world so they said this is my God and I will build him a sanctuary the god of my father and I will exalt him Hashem is the master of War he fights a war without casualties and I will exalt him Hashem is the master of War his name is Hashem verse 6 your right hand Hashem is glorified with strength your right hand Hashem smashes the enemy page 379 in your abundant grandeur you shatter your opponents you send forth your wrath it consumes them like straw at the blast from your nostrils the waters were heaped up straight as a wall stood the running water the Deep Waters congealed in the heart of the sea verse 10 you blew with your wind the sea covered the Egyptians the mighty sank-like lead in water who is like you among the Heavenly Powers Hashem who is like you mighty in holiness too awesome for praise the one that does wonders with your kindness you guided these people now they're prophesizing about what is going to happen with your kindness you guided these people that you redeemed you led with your might to your holy abode to the land of Israel Nations around the world heard they were agitated Terror gripped the Dwellers of Palestine that the leaders of Edom were confounded trembling gripped the powers of Moab all the Dwellers of MOA of Canaan dissolved and now they pray for future success May fear and Terror befall them at the greatness of your arm may they be still as stall page 381 until your people passes through Hashem until these people you have acquired passes through the expression is repeated because Jewish people pass through water twice once through the Sea of reeds and then again through the Jordan River the Jordan River split also and the Jewish people passed on dry land now they again prophesies about the future verse 17 you will bring them and implant them on the Mount of your heritage in Jerusalem the foundation of your dwelling place that you Hashem have made the sanctuary my Lord let your hands establish this is prophecy that the bitmic dash will be built and further prophecy Hashem shall reign for all eternity there will come a time when the entire world will recognize God and everyone will serve him now verse 20 women also sing Miriam the prophetess the sister of Aaron took her drop in her hand and all the women went forth after her withdrops and with dances now from here we learned that man dance separately and sing separately women say sing and dance separately now verse 22 tells us that Moshe forced the Jewish people to leave the Sea of reeds and they went to the Wilderness of Sur why did he have to force them because after the Egyptians drowned the sea washed all the gold and all the clothing onto the seashore and the Jewish people were collecting all the gold and silver because the Egyptians decorated themselves and their horses because they were expecting a easy victory that is why Jewish people didn't want to leave this sea they could find jewelry on the seashore and Moshe drag them away and they went for a three-day period in the wilderness but they did not find water they came to Mara a place that later was called Mara but they couldn't drink the water because the Waters of Mara were bitter three days the drinking the little bit of water that they are carrying and they're out of it they come to an oasis and they think finally they can drink and the water is bitter and they lose hope the people complained against most to say what shall we drink page 383 so Hashem showed Moshe a special tree and he said throw this tree into the water Moshe took a branch of that tree and threw it into the water the the spring and the water became sweet this was a lesson that as long as you rely on God Hashem will provide you with everything you need he can turn bitter to Sweet he can make desert blue he can make an ocean into a dry land and there he established for the nation to decree and ordinance and he said if you listen to the voice of Hashem your God and do what is just in his eyes listen to his Commandments and observe all his decrees then any of the diseases that I placed in Egypt I will not bring upon you for I am Hashem your healer this is a an amazing assurance for the Jewish people that we don't have to be afraid of any disease we have to just fulfill God's command listen to his word turn to him and he will protect us and he will heal us and just a short distance later they arrived at Ali and there were 12 Springs of water and 70 date palms and they camped there by the water this is another lesson for them you don't have to complain all you have to do is just travel a little bit more be patient go a little more and you will come to salvation now chapter 16 they journeyed from elim and they arrived in the wilderness of sin on the 15th day of the second month which means it's already a whole month that they are out of Egypt and now another complaint verse 2 the entire assembly of the children of Israel complained against motion Aaron in the wilderness and they said we have nothing to eat we should have died in Egypt page 385. so Hashem says to Moshe behold I shall reign down for you food from heaven they think that it's the ground that gives them food they think that it was the Nile river that irrigates the whole land no I will give them water from Iraq I will make bitter water sweet I will create an oasis with 12 Springs in the desert and I will bring food for them not from the ground from heaven that they should believe in the total power of Hashem but it comes with rules and regulations let the people go out and pick each day's portion on its day so that I can test them they cannot take more than they did for today that is the ultimate life together with God when you know that God will give me whatever I need now he'll give it to me now he's not going to give it to me earlier he's only only going to give it to me when I need it and I will have total trust I will get what I need to get when I need it and now Hashem teaches them about Shabbat and it shall be that on the sixth day when they prepare what they bring it will be double what they pick every day they will pick the same amount on Friday they will come home and miraculously it will grow into double portion because on Shabbat you cannot go and collect there is no man on Shabbat the motion are on inform the Jewish people of this miraculous food coming from heaven and now page 387 Hashem Moshe tells them that Hashem is going to give you two things he's going to give you man and he's going to give you meat [Music] verse 13. it was toward evening that the quail ascended and covered the camp oh huge group of quail little birds delicious Birds started flying into the camp and they covered in Thai camp and the Jewish people had plenty of meat to eat and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp then there was a layer of mud and then another layer of dew so at first Jewish people didn't see mud they just saw something on the ground and the layer of dew ascended and behold upon the surface of the Wilderness there was something thin little balls thin as frost on the Earth the Jewish people saw and said to one another it's food they didn't know what it was they called it man man means sustenance provision food and Marshall told them this is the food that Hashem has given you for eating and the Jewish people went out and they gathered and when they came home and measured they were surprised to find that whether someone gathered a lot or someone gathered a little when they measured everyone had exact same portion and Moshe told them in verse 19 no man may leave over from it until the morning but they didn't listen they did not obey and they left some people left until the morning but they didn't benefit from it it became infested with worms and it stank now verse 22 preparation for Shabbat it happened on the sixth day that they gathered a double portion of food two owners about two gallons every day they gathered one gallon on Friday they gathered one gallon that miraculously turned into two gallons and they came to most a surprise Moshe who brought it home and it grew what happened and Moshe said to them yes this is what Hashem has spoken to me tomorrow is the rest day a holy Shabbat bake what you wish to bake today and cook what you wish to cook today and whatever is left over put for yourselves as a safe keeping till the morning and they did and surprisingly the next morning it did not rot it did not become infested and Moshe said eat it today for today is Shabbat for Hashem today you will not find it in a field it happened on the seventh day that some of the people went out together to gather man they didn't listen to motion also tell them don't go on Shabbat Into the Wilderness to collect man and they went and they didn't find any man and the midrash says that there were some people they took some man foreign from Friday and they scattered it in the field in the wilderness trying to prove that Moshe is a liar because they knew that on Shabbat man is not going to rot it's not going to be infested it will remain there so they said we will prove Moshe is alive but Hashem sent birds and they ate the man and now we have a custom to feed the birds during this week as a thank you for protecting moshe's uh dignity now on page 389 verse 31. we have a description of man it was like coriander seed in shape there was a little round balls and it was white in color and it tasted like a cake fried in Honey delicious honey cake foreign take one jar and put a full Omer about one gallon into the jar of Mana and place it before Hashem for safe keeping for your Generations and now we're speaking about the future because the Jewish people didn't have yet uh the ark of the testimony but the Torah tells us that in the future Aaron took this jar and put it before the Ark of testimony for save him in the mishkan in the Tabernacle in the kodashakodashim in the ark where the the tablets were they also kept a jar of man to show future Generations the miracle that the Jewish people survived in desert verse 35 the children of Israel ate the Mana for 40 years until they came to the land of Israel and the Omer is a tenth of an AFA about one gallon now we turn to page 391. they encamped in resedim and there was no water for the people to drink and the people again complained against motion they said give us water that we may drink and Moshe said to them why do you fight with me why do you test Hashem just be nice ask Hashem be patient and you'll get don't complain and the people became thirsty and they complained against Moshe and said why is this that you brought us from Egypt to kill us and our children and my and our animals through thirst and motion cried to Hashem saying what shall I do for these people a bit more they will stall me imagine they were willing to Stone Moshe himself and of course all the rebellions and all the complaints were started either by eres or the the the two troublemakers and Hashem said to Moshe don't worry pass before the people and take with you some of the Elders of Israel and take your staff with which you struck the river and go I shall stand before you by The Rock in horev horev is another name of harsinai and you shall strike the Rock and the water will come forth from it and the people will drink this is the first time that we mentioned that the water comes from Iraq the next time is going to be much later and that's when Moshe will be punished because second time Hashem will tell Moshe speak to the Rock and remembering what happened here Moshe struck he hit the rock second time and Moshe did that he hit the rock and water came out verse 7 he called the place Masa um which means test and fight because of the contention of the children of Israel and because of their test of Hashem saying is Hashem among us or not amalek came and battled Israel in refridim because the Jewish people are questioning is Hashem with us or not Hashem says you don't think I'm with you I protected you all along let me withdraw a little bit of my protection and right away amalek was able to penetrate the clouds and attack the Jews Marsha said to Yoshua choose people for us and go battle with amalek page 393. tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with this with the staff of God in my hand and the next day you sure when to fight amalek and three people Moshe went on a hill to observe and to Inspire the Jews and to pray it happen when Moshe raised his hands Israel was Stronger they were winning and when he lowered his hands amalek was Stronger so he had to keep his hands up the whole day and moshe's hands grew heavy it was hard for him so they took a stall and put it under him and he sat on it and Aron and supported his hands one on this side and one on this side so that mosheiken continue raising his hands and praying to God and inspiring the Jewish people and the Jewish people would look at Moshe with his hands up and they would be strengthened and fight amalek verse 13 yahushua weakened amalek and its people with the sword's blade they killed all their best warriors verse 14 Hashem said to Moshe write this as a remembrance in the book and recited in the ears of yahushua that I shall surely erase the memory of a Malik from under the heavens this is an evil Nation the opposite of the Jews the Jews are the concentration of all good and amalek is the concentration of evil who are they any nation that rises up against the Jews and against God at any point in history is considered amalek the Germans were amalek now we can say the people of Iran are amalek those they want to destroy the Jews and Hashem said there will come a time that I will erase the name of amalek I will erase the evil from under the heavens verse 15 Moshe built an altar and called its name Hashem is my miracle and he said for the hand is on the throne of God Hashem maintains a war against amalek from generation to generation there is a war between Good and Evil between the Jewish people and those that want to stab you the Jews from serving God and this war is what keeps us alive which means this world will exist only as long as there is the fight between the good and the evil in order to test people and in order to give reward to those that choose good but as soon as the purpose for the world will be fulfilled my Sheikh will come the evil will be destroyed there will be a period of time when people will live in Utopia when there will be resurrection and people will enjoy the perfect world that the god planned for them before Adam sinned and then the world will not have any more purpose and the physical world as we know it will disappear and it will be only the world of Souls of the shamot this concludes parashat bashalah thank you for listening have a good night shabbat shalom