The Plagues of Egypt Explained - An Attack on Heresy

the the law tells you that you have to be charitable you have to uh share part of what you have and help the needy that already puts you in a different perspective where you realize that everything you have is a gift from God it's not something that you earn because you have some special skill or because you have good timing everything is a gift it teaches you gratitude it teaches you recognition of the Creator and so on and so forth if a person looks into the 10 plagues the 10 plagues that Hashem put on Egypt you will see that these specific plagues were not just random plagues but rather there was specific attacks against idolatry against heresy by a where a person that looks at these plagues will really realize why hasem calls himself throughout the entire Tor and the tanak itself the god of Israel that that took them out of Egypt the god that took am is out of Egypt why isn't it that the god that created the world why is it the god that took them out of Egypt well easily said well you could say what the mid says initially well the creation of the world there was no Witnesses whereas taking am Isel out of Egypt there were millions and millions of witnesses sure but we can build further on that the god that created the world there are many many things that happen many everything is miraculous but these are things that didn't necessarily prove to any naysayer to any heretic to any disbeliever to anyone that's just simply ignorant that he's still here he's still the master of the world they could believe like the Greeks and some other forms of Heretics out there that God created the world but he simply left you know okay so he created the heavens he created the oceans he created the the animals the fish and so on and so forth but then he left that's what many people unfortunately believe in even to this day but the G that took am is out of Egypt tells you otherwise why Hashem gave the plague of Blood on the Egyptians to show us that he's the master of all of the waters because it wasn't just the Nile river that turn into blood and it wasn't just the oceans that turn into blood but even the water that was in the walls as you make the stones and use water in it even the walls bled even the water that they found that they took from the Jews as soon as the Egyptian took it it turned back to blood if he gave it back to the Jew it turned back to uh to water if they put two straws one straw the Jew is drinking from one straw the Egyptian is drinking from from the same exact cup the Jew is drinking water the Egyptian is drinking blood so here Hashem showed us that he's the master of all of the oceans then you have the uh the uh the reptiles the uh the the frogs some say it's it was crocodiles and alligators here hasem is showing us that he is the master and the creator of all of these different reptiles regardless of whether big or small regardless of whether they swim they jump doesn't make a difference he is the master of all of those all after that kinim all of the different tiny little insects to show us that he is the master of all of these different microscopic little animals these tiny little things that even the ones that know necromancy and different types of Witchcraft that were working for for Pharaoh says this isim this is the Finger of God why Finger of God because even one that knows Witchcraft and all types of uh uh things that are relevant to Witchcraft knows that they cannot have Mastery over these small creatures only God does so here hasem says that he is also the master of even the most the smallest creatures then of course you see the animals the animals are attacking showed us that he's the master of all the animals whether it's the big Eagles or it's the Lions or the bears but not only that their nature where they came from also came with them the polar bear came with the ice the kangaroos came with their desert the uh the the Lions the the uh came with whatever uh surroundings they had the tiger with his jungle and so on and so forth all of these different creatures came to Egypt to show us that Hashem is not only in control of the animals but also of what type of habitat they have and of course he gave the plagues the plagues that killed the animals the plagues that caused a lot of harm to the Egyptians and killed many of them here he's showing us that whether it's Corona virus or it's the vaccine that's killing people or it's the vaccine That was supposed to help people or whatever it is that's all in the hand of God Only God decides whether these things will work whether someone will be infected whether somebody is going to be saved not the uh uh fouchy not the government not the news not anybody else Hashem decides whether something's going to infect anyone or not he's the master of that too needless to say if you look at some of the other plagues whether it's a uh the barad the hail the Hail was one of the things that defied nature where you have lava inside water inside ice these two things cannot coexist if you take a huge ball of ice and you throw it next to a valcano not even inside the volcano in the air will start melting in the air will start melting by the time it gets uh close to it it'll already melt into Complete Water why because the two things cannot coexist Hashem forced the angels of fire and the angels of water to make peace in order for them to serve him showing us that he's also the master of this he's the master of these angels he's the master of all of these creations now of course if you look at the other plagues the plagues where he brought all of these locusts these locusts you would say wait but we already saw that he's uh the the master of all of these uh bugs but that's not what he showed us what he showed us is that he's the master of all the wind because he used a strong wind to bring and a strong wind to kick out all of these Locust from Egypt in such a fashion where so many of them came that it blocked the sun it blocked the Sun and so many of them left that it literally looked like the world was recreated see here hasem showed us that he's the master of the we we the weather system the not just the creatures that live or die in it and of course the plague of Darkness the plague of Darkness showed us that Hashem is the master not of just light and dark but simply he can manipulate nature to do whatever he wants with it in such a fashion where one person sees Darkness while the next person next to him not only does not see Darkness but he actually sees even better the Jewish people were able to see like X-ray vision to see everything of where the Egyptians were hiding their Treasures they were able to see through the walls they were able to see through the safes and that's why when they came to the Egyptians to ask him for uh for uh for different uh uh gold and silver the Egyptian couldn't lie about it because the Jew told them Listen by the way that gold that you have in the closet on the top right right when you uh you know behind those two cinder blocks yeah that's the gold I was looking for uh not the silver that's really next to because you only have a little bit of it I just want the gold and to literally give him exact details why because hem let them see it while at the same time the Egyptians initially were completely uh incapable of of of hearing of of seeing anything but then they were also incapable of moving they were stuck the way they were for several days and then last but not least we see that a showed us that he's the master of all not only the master of all of these things but the master of the most important important thing in life which is life itself life itself by determining who's going to die and who's going to live and also letting you know that he knows all of the details because in every house there was somebody that was dead now somebody would say wait a minute but he wasn't the first born the firstborn moved out he got married no no no he was the firstborn not to you the husband he was first born with with with your wife but with the guy she cheated on you with and you would literally show these people that their wives cheated on them because that firstborn wasn't his firstborn he was her firstborn with somebody else and these types of things were all shown as part of the destruction of Egypt but more importantly we recite them every single day as part of our sh is as part of our prayer as part of our as part of everything so we ourselves are not only connected to this great thing that happened many years ago but we're able to live through it today to understand that the god of Israel is not like a false god it's not like a god that dies after he gets hung on the cross and can't help himself he's not a God that talks to people in hiding in a desert that only one person can say talk to him no no the god of Israel talked to millions of us and when he wants the world to know he will make sure they know when when Hashem spoke to us he made sure that the whole world knew he spoke to us there wasn't Secrets there wasn't doubts and the Beautiful Thing here is that when a person has a connection to that God then they surely have much more interest in knowing what this God wants from us and this very same God is letting us know that there are two critical things that you need to do you have to learn the Torah in order to know the laws that are applicable to you now of course this means that you have to not only learn learn the written Torah but also the oral Tor that uh expounds on it and explains to you what it actually means because you cannot find all of the mitv yourself and understand them and how they're fulfilled regardless of whether they're the greatest mitv or the smallest mitv for example the observance of Shabbat there are 12 times in the T that hasem says that a Jew that does not observe Shabbat gets death penalty and goes to Gom now of course this is a very critical Mitzvah but yet in the written Tor there's no instruction of how to observe the Shabbat there's a lot on the line here so I need to know how to observe it how do I know we find out from the oral toah same thing with the Flores thein it says that a person that puts on a tein he's observing the Commandment he's observing the Covenant between us and God so a person needs to know what are these factories can I just you know imagine that some piece of paper that I write around my arm or maybe a tattoo or maybe uh some uh some uh you know PlayStation game how do I know what they are that's where the oral Torah comes in let us know what these are how to do it all of these details a person must know secondly a person needs to also know that one of the primary purposes of all of these mitv is to better you as a human being to be a light to the Nations to be a light to your family to be a light to The Descendants that come out of you and if a person uses these mitv to make make themselves appear as if they are better than everybody else and become more arrogant and become more conceited then certainly they miss the whole point amen amen