The Geulah Earned by Caring for Yesomim

So, the beginning of the parsha says that the Yidden left Mitzrayim vachamushim all of Bnei Yisrael mi'aretz Mitzrayim. So, they left vachamushim. What does vachamushim mean? So, Rashi brings two pshatim, they both come from the Mechilta. The first pshat is in chamushim ela m'zuyanim. It means they were babaufened, right? They were armed. They came out with all their weaponry. The other pshat is vachamushim, they left with only 1/5 of the Yidden that actually left Mitzrayim cuz 4/5 of them had died during Makas Choshech, during the shloshim yemei afeila. Why did they deserve to die? So, Rashi says they didn't want to leave Mitzrayim. These were the chevra that wanted to stay in Mitzrayim. They didn't want to go into Eretz Yisrael because they didn't want to go into Eretz Yisrael, they weren't zocheh to go to Eretz Yisrael. Something we've spoken about many times over the years. V'advar Hashem atikin d'ein kama makom l'harach. It's actually interesting if you think about it for a second. The visual in the Chayei Adam learns it's atzmi, there's they're completely different visuals, right? Vachamushim in vachamushim ela m'zuyanim, they came out with strength, with power, with force, right? They're coming out azoy. Vachamushim 1/5 they came out to shmatet, they left 4/5 of the chevra behind. They managed they came out like survivors. It's Nazi Germany, DP camps, 1945, right? That's more what the visual's like. It's fascinating, but so stark in terms of the contrast of what you're supposed to see in your mind's eye when you think about this part of the story of vachamushim all of Bnei Yisrael mi'aretz Mitzrayim. But there's a a dover nifla in the sefer Be'er Yosef which was written by the great Rav Yosef Salant, right here in the beginning of parshas Beshalach that I think is k'daida say over and we're going to end this first shiur with this. And that is if you take a look in the Targum Yonasan on this pasuk vachamushim all of Bnei Yisrael mi'aretz Mitzrayim. So, the Targum Yonasan says a third shot in the Hamisha. Targum Yonathan says yes I'm a brother Yamos Suf. Kodesh Baruch who made us evolve right they went on the parkway south as opposed to north in the direction of the Yamos Suf. The whole heart and every single year was in Hamisha Taflin. He had five children with him. And that's the way sleep when they saw my mitzrayim being left mitzrayim. So, what does it mean the Hamisha? Everybody had five children. I'm just clear. Everyone had five children. Take a look at the Targum Yerushalmi. Targum Yerushalmi says a fourth shot and what the Hamisha means. Udvarmema D'Hashem yes I'm a brother Yamos Suf. Mizainen so Targum Yerushalmi tightens the Hamisha as in Bavofent. But what were they armed with? Boiv the Tofa with Maisem Toifen. And that's how sleep when they saw being left mitzrayim. That's where they left mitzrayim. So, you know left mitzrayim with Maisem Toifen. It's also Maisem Toifen. What Maisem Toifen did they even leave mitzrayim with? I guess Don Pesach and Don Mila. That's what it's referring to. It sounds like it seems mitzrayim was right now with Maisem Toifen. Okay, maybe that's the shot. But the Beryo Yusuf says a Dover Nefa. He says that Chazal say the Hamisha all the nation of Israel mitzrayim means that the Yidden left with only 1/5 of the original population. What does that mean? 4/5 of the Yidden died. Now that's pasha that it was only the adults that died because the children of those adults what did they deserve to die? It's not mistaber and it's not you talking that they did anything to deserve to die. Which means there were a whole bunch of Yisomim and Yisomos that were in mitzrayim that when the time came to leave somebody had to take care of. So, after Beryo Yusuf who took care of them? So, it has to be that the 1/5 of Yidden that left mitzrayim THEY TOOK CARE OF ALL THOSE KINDELACH. BECAUSE WHO ELSE WAS TAKING care of those kinderlach? Says the Bnei Yosef, that's what the Targum Yonasan means. The whole Am Shisha Tafwin, EACH PERSON LEFT WITH FIVE CHILDREN. NOT FIVE CHILDREN, IT WAS FIVE FAMILIES. BECAUSE THEY LEFT WITH THEIR FAMILY, BUT THE OTHER FOUR FAMILIES, what about them? So he said they went They went together with the other mishpachas. And every single person took his corresponding four-fifths. And the Yidden are leaving Mitzrayim and going and they're taking care of their children. AND THINK ABOUT THE BALAGAN AND THE GERIDA, what's going on over there. But it's not only their children that they're taking care of. Said the Bnei Yosef, they were taking care of everybody's children as well. And he says, that's Yishayahu what the Targum Yerushalmi meant. He said the Yidden left mizuyanim. They left mizuyanim but of the tova WITH MAASIM TOVIM. IT'S NOT THE MAASIM tovim they did IN MITZRAYIM, THAT THEY DID IN MITZRAYIM right now physically as they're exiting the Rafah crossing. Literally as they're exiting the actual crossings, they're doing maasim tovim. What the maasim tovim is they're taking care of these yesomim and these yesomos. They're taking care of these little children. They're taking care of these kinderlach that they're taking with them. Says the Bnei Yosef, it's not rachok to say that the posuk shat of a Chamushim Al Bnei Yisrael Mitzrayim of one-fifth. And the psat of the Targum Yonasan and the Chamushim Al Bnei Yisrael Mitzrayim, which means Chamisha Tafwin, five children. And the Targum Yerushalmi's psat of a Chamushim Al Bnei Yisrael Mitzrayim, which means that they were armed with maasim tovim are all coming from the same place. Because it was only one-fifth of the Yidden that left Mitzrayim. It's for that reason they had to go with five families of children. They took their own children, and they took the children of those four-fifths of Yidden that never died in Mitzrayim. And that's what it means mizuyanim with maasim tovim. That was the way the Yidden left Mitzrayim. At the end of the piece, it's such a beautiful piece to see inside. At the very end he says, "V'chacham echad hoisif." Sounds like he told it over to a Hacham and the Hacham told him, "Maybe this is what the Navi meant when he said, Kodesh Baruch says, we say this on Rosh Hashanah. Kodesh Baruch says, "I remember the chesed Neuriah." I remember the chesed that you did in the midbar. WHAT WAS THE CHESED that the Yidden did in the midbar? Partially it was the chesed towards the Kodesh Baruch was the emunah and bitachon that the Yidden had towards Hashem. That they didn't question and they went ba'emunah ba'bitachon. But he said, "It could be there's another meaning over here. The chesed Neuriah was the chesed that the Yidden did with the kinderlach. That's the chesed Neuriah and Kodesh Baruch says, "That's chos." Of the way the Yidden left Mitzrayim was so profound that mamish thousands of years later and Ben Yakov and Ben Ephraim we talk about the chesed Neuriah. All of these pshatim of all Bnei Yisrael in Mitzrayim, they're all olin al konah echad. They all mean the same thing either way. Such a beautiful hergesh and a beautiful pshat from the Be'er Yosef again in the visual of the Chayei Adam L'Adam Atzmoi. We are going to stop the first shiur here.