Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan Parshat Shemot 2

and fromon and leim from Moshe and as well as the Kings because y married um someone from the tribe of Yehuda and from her eventually kings came from the the descendants of David now there is another interpretation because midwives feared God he made them houses who is he parro because he saw the midwives fear God too much and they're not killing the Jews therefore parro came up with another um trick and he made them houses he put the midwives on their house arrest and he said I'm not going to let you protect the Jewish people and he sent Egyptian midwives to oversee killing of the babies another interpretation is that yes parro made houses for whom not for the midwives but rather for the Jewish ladies who are going to give birth he forbade the Jews to give birth at home he created birthing centers parro was the first one who created hospitals and he said it is illegal because it's unsafe to give birth at home he was the first innovator of Public Safety of course for the wrong reason and uh surprisingly every other child in that hospital died and surprisingly they were all boys now turn to page 27 29 97 a new command comes out parro commanded his entire people saying every son that will be born into the river shall you throw him and every daughter shall you keep alive some say that this command was even to Egyptians as it says par commanded his entire people that even Egyptians were not allowed to keep their babies why because his astrologers told him that we see in the stars that around now a baby boy is going to be born who is going to take the Jewish people out and he's going to cause a lot of trouble for you so until now par just tried to kill Jewish babies because they shouldn't multiply but now his astrologers are telling him we're not sure who this baby is going to be we seen the stars that he's going to be from the Jews but at the same time we see in the stars that he's going to be Egyptian we're confused so par said in such a case I'm going to kill all the boys that are born in this time Jewish and non-jewish and therefore even Egyptians threw all their babies into the Nile River and of course the astrologers were confused because mosha was both he was Jewish but he was raised in parro's house and he was taught all the Egyptian culture and philosophy and now we learn about moshe's birth chapter 2 verse one a man whose name was amam went from the house of levie and took a daughter of Levy y the woman conceived and gave birth to a son she gave birth prematurely at six months and therefore she saw that he was good he was able to survive even though he was a a prey and she hid him for 3 months she took a risk and she said the Egyptians know when I got married and therefore they're going to come in 9 months which is in another three months let me enjoy my baby for 3 months she could not hide him any longer so she took for him a basket placed the boy into it and placed the basket among the reads at the bank of the River Nile she said the Egyptians are now going to come check for the baby they'll find him and kill him I would rather give him to God let him be in the river and let God take care of him and protect him his sister Miram stationed herself at the distance to know what would be done with him and now by the way if they just got married and this is their first baby where is his sister coming from and the answer is this is their Remar Mar they were already married and they already had and Aaron but then because of this harsh decree they got divorced because they said what's the point of being married if we're not allowed to have children and of course the midash tells us the story that Miram convinced her father to marry again because she said at least you might have daughters and let them live or maybe par will cancel his decree by the time you have the baby so Miram is walking along the river and watching how the basket is Flowing slowly between the reads verse five paro's daughter who we know her name is B went down to bathe by the river and her maidens her servant girls walked along the river while parro's daughter was inside the river they were on the bank protecting her she saw the basket among the reads and she sent her maid servant and she took it she opened it and saw a boy a youth was crying she took pity on him and she realized that this is a Hebrew boy and the midash tells us that that she tried to feed him she asked one of her maid servants and mosha would not take and he was still crying so she realized yes he's hungry why is he not eating and one by one she tried many many Egyptian ladies and mosha would refus to drink and at that moment verse seven his sister said to Pyro's daughter shall I go and summon for you a wet nurse from the Hebrew women let me invite a Jewish lady this boy is Jewish maybe he'll drink from a Jewish lady para's daughter said go the girl went and summoned the boy's mother and now the baby and the mother reunite paro's daughter said to her take this boy and nurse him for me and I will give your pay and imagine now moshe's mother is feeding her own baby and she's getting paid for it so the woman took the boy and nursed him the boy grew up after 2 years and she brought him to the daughter of par and he was a son to her so for the first two years of his life mosha lived in his Jewish family so paro's daughter called his name Moshe for because she said the word Moshe means drawn out for I drew him from the water so what was moshe's original name his name was tuvia his Jewish name was tuvia his Egyptian name was Moshe now we're on page 299 when mosha grew up he went out to take a look at his people he knew he was Jewish he was raised well and he believed in one God he identified as a Jew and therefore he liked to visit the Jews and observe them he saw an Egyptian man striking a Hebrew man he looked around to make sure nobody's watching and he struck down the Egyptian and when he killed him he hid him in sand the next day he C he went out again and he saw two Jewish men fighting he said to the wicked one meaning the one that was the guilty one why would you strike your fellow and that Jew got upset and he said who appointed you a judge over us are you going to kill me also like you killed that Egyptian and mosha realized that someone did see mosha knew that someone saw because the Jewish people were there the Egyptian was hitting a Jew and Moses saved the Jew from the Egyptian but now he realized that these these Jews who were fighting they're not good people that's why they were fighting each other and he realized that they will inform Egyptians of what mosha did and therefore he became scared but he didn't do anything yet he decided to wait and power heard about this matter yes these Jews and they were dat a th those that caused a lot of problems to Moshe they right away informed parro and parro tried to kill Moshe and midash explains how he actually caught him and how he sentenced him to death and it was not an easy decision because he was the son of his beloved daughter adopted son and as the Executioner um swung his sword moshe's neck turned to Marble and the sword bounced off and killed the Executioner and many miracles happened and mosha ran away from Egypt and he settled in midan and he set by a well now midash also tells us that many many events happened in moshe's life between he's leaving Egypt and he's coming to midan and that is because mosha left Egypt when he was 12 years old and he came back to Egypt when he was 80 The Exodus was when he was 80 which means he came to Egypt when he was 79 what was mosha doing from 12 until uh so midash speaks a lot about it but the Torah tells us briefly he ended up in midan he is about 77 years old he's not married yet he said by the by a well the minister of midan had seven daughters and they came to water their father's sheep sheep verse 17 the Shepherds came and drove them away they um did not treat the girls properly they took advantage of them so Moshe got up and saved them he chased the Shepherds away and watered their sheep so when they went back to their father the father was appreciative to Moshe and he invited him and he even gave his daughter Tora to Moshe as a wife we're on page 31 she gave birth to a son and he named him G so let us assume that Moshe is now 78 years old for he said why name g I have been stranger in a foreign land g means a stranger sham means there during those many days it happened that the king of Egypt died again from the age of 12 now mosha is 78 79 many years pass the king of Egypt died and the children of Israel groan because of the work and they cried out because the new par came and he was no better so they lost their C until now par was old they thought he's going to die we're going to have it better now the new par came and it got even worse their outcry because of their work went up to God God heard their moaning and God remembered his Covenant with the forefathers now verse three Moshe was chapter 3 mosha was shepherding the Sheep of yro and eventually he arrived at the Mountain of God toward this was har sin Mount Si which eventually is going to be called the Mountain of God an angel of Hashem appeared to him in a blaze of fire from amid the bush sometimes in a desert there is spontaneous fire so mosha saw and behold the Bush was burning in the fire but unlike a normal Bush that's burning in the desert this bush was not consumed he was just burning and burning and he realized this is not Earthly fire mosha thought I will turn aside and look at this great side why is the bush not burned and God called out to him and said Moshe Moshe and he said here I am and he said don't come closer take off your shoes because the ground is Holy page 303 and he and God said I'm the god of your forefathers and Moshe hid his face Hashem said I have indeed seen the Affliction of my people that is in Egypt verse 10 and now go and I shall dispatch you to parro and you shall take my people the children of Israel out of Egypt so God appoints Moshe as the savior Moshe is very humble he doesn't believe that he can do it doesn't believe that he's worthy so he says who am I that I should go to par that I should take the Jewish people out of Egypt and Hashem says yeah you're right maybe you're not so great you're not all powerful but I shall be with you page 305 verse 13 Moshe again argues and says when I come to the children of Israel and they tell me what is God's name as a proof what should I say so Hashem answer Moshe I shall be as I shall be which means this is the name that you will tell them it's a secret name that the Jewish people know and they will believe you I shall be has sent me to you you should say to to them God whose name is I shall be which means god is eternal he will always be sent me 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 now we turn to page warns Moshe in verse 19 I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go except through a strong hand I shall stretch out my hand and I shall strike Egypt and eventually you will leave and you will not go empty-handed you will empty out Egypt chapter 4 Moshe continues arguing the midash says that they they argued like this for seven days but they will not believe me Hashem said what's in your hand oh a staff throw it down mosha threw it on the ground and it turned into a snake Hashem said stretch your hand and grasp it mosha grasped the head the snake and it turned into the stick again now on page three 9 Hashem said put your hand under your jacket and as soon as mosha took it out it was white white like the like my shirt and mosha put his hand in again and it came out normal and Hashem said take the I will give you one more sign take water from the river and when you pour it on the ground of Egypt it will turn into blood so God said I will give you number one my name my holy secret name that will be the code word and if they don't believe you perform three Miracles with the staff turning into snake with your hand becoming white and with water turning to blood and Moshe again argues I'm heavy of mouth and heavy of speech and Hashem again reassures him I shall be with your mouth and teach you what you should say and again Moshe argues please my Lord send through whomever you will send just send someone else and now the wrath of Hashem burned against mosha he said is that not Aron your brother the levite I know that he will surely speak don't argue anymore just go and I will be with you and Aon will be with you you don't want to talk don't talk I'll send Aaron to speak on your behalf but you have to be there you will stand in front of parro and Aon is going to talk behold he's going out to meet you I appeared to him in a prophetic vision and Aon is now on his way out of Egypt to meet you now we're on page 311 verse 16 Aaron shall speak for you to the people and He will be your mouth and you will be his leader Verse mosha returned to yro his father-in-law and said to him let me go now back to my brothers who are in Egypt and UT said go in peace that's a good question someone is asking when Moses said to par I'm heavy of speech why didn't he just say God I'm heavy of speech if you heal me I'll go why didn't Moshe ask Hashem to fix his speech uh that's a good question one one of the answers that's given in um um our in our sources is that Hashem wanted mosha to have speech impediment Hashem wanted mosha to have hard time speaking because he said throughout history there will always be people who will be good orators who will convince many to follow them just because of their Charisma and I don't want people to say that mosha was just like that I want everyone to know that the reason people listen to Moshe was because Moshe was saying words that everyone recognized were from God not because he was able to weave Beautiful Stories and impress people and hypnotize people no he couldn't talk normally um so the the speech impediment actually added to the strength of Mosa's prophecy and Leadership now verse 20 mosha took his wife and his sons we didn't hear about his second son but apparently his second son was just born and he wasn't circumcised yet and he returned to the land of Egypt and Hashem said to Moshe I shall strengthen parro's heart and he will not send out the people and eventually after all the Miracles I shall kill parro's firstborn son and tell him that and here Hashem said to Moshe famous words tell par that Jewish people are my firstborn child Hashem loves the Jewish people and he calls us out of all the nations of the world we are his firstborn baby now verse 24 it was on the way in the lodging that Hashem encountered Moshe and tried to kill him why because he didn't circumcise his child because said I have a command from God to go and save the Jewish people they're suffering at the same time I have a mitvah to circumcise my son on the eighth day what should I do if I circumcise him I will not be able to travel for three days I will be delayed so you know what I'm not going to circumcise him and Hashem said no you should have circumcised him and left him with his mother and brother in midan I didn't tell you to bring him soora realize what's happening she took a sharp Stone and cut off the forkin of her son someone is asking a question did mosha know that he was born circumcision that doesn't matter because we're talking about moshe's son um mosha himself was circumcised when he was born but that was 79 years earlier and um now when the Tora took the for skin and she touched Mosa's feet with it so he released him there was a snake that was swallowing Moshe and as soon as the forkin touched Mosa's feet the snake withdrew okay say saved the life of Moshe Hashem said to Aon go meet Moshe so Aon went and encountered him at the Mountain of God which means Moshe get went to yro to ask permission and then Moshe uh traveled back to the mountain that he saw God at and as he was passing it Aon met him there and Aon told mosha don't bring your family to Egypt send them back and that's what Moshe did verse 29 Moshe comes to Egypt they gather all the Elders of the Jewish people and Aon spoke to them about what Hashem told Moshe and he performed the signs in the sight of the people he performed the Miracles and the people believed chapter 5 afterwards Moshe and Aon came to par and said send out my people that they may celebrate for me in the wilderness we only need to go for three days to serve God and we'll come back since they knew that it will be uh a challenge a test that par will not be able to pass if they tell him let us go forever so they presented him with a small test just let us go for three days and Par still refused par replied who is Hashem that I should he to his voice to send out Israel I do not know God I do not know Hashem nor will I send out Israel now we're on page 3:15 verse 6 on that day par ordered the the task Masters over the people you shall no longer give straw to the people to manufacture the bricks let them go and gather straw for themselves but the quote of bricks that they were making yesterday and before yesterday you shall impose upon them do not reduce it because they're lazy that's why they're crying to say saying let us go and bring offerings to our God let the work be heavier upon the the men and let them engage in it and let them not pay attention to false words one way to remove spiritual um thoughts from a person's mind is to occupy him with physical labor with a lot of worry with pressure If a person wants to be spiritual means he's not working enough and the opposite if you want to become spiritual you have to limit your physical involvement with the world if you work less you will be able to learn more and pray more and do more MIT so verse 12 the people spread out throughout the entire land of Egypt to gather straw and the task Mas Masters press saying complete your work the four men of the children of Israel whom paros taskmasters had appointed over them were beaten which means the Jewish people who were supervisors over other Jewish people they themselves were bitten by Egyptians saying why did you not complete your requirement to make make bricks the the Jewish um four men were merciful and they didn't push the Jewish people so much and because of that they got beaten by Egyptians verse 15 the four men of the children of Israel came and cried out to par the leaders of the Jewish people came and they said to