What Can We Learn From The Frogs

[Music] says in the book of daniel chapter 2 verse number 38 daniel translates dreams foreign says that he was the son of the grandson of america but also destroyed the better mikdash as a measure for measure punishment from hashem for the mistake that made marrying the queen shiva but nonetheless nebuchadnezzar was given a prophecy in a dream that the prophet daniel told us told him what it is that he'll be the most powerful king until the mashiach now nebuchadnezzar did not like it why didn't like it says why only until mashiach why on the other hand why can't i be the strongest king ever sign up to control the whole world while i'm alive i want to control the whole world even after i'm dead forever wasn't nothing so what did he do see in the dream i dreamt at the top of the idol was gold and then silver and so on and so forth but it's different material representing different kingdoms that would follow me so this is what i'm going to do to fix this prophecy i'm going to make an idol that's all gold and when we make all of the nations bow to it and in chapter 3 of the book of daniel the test of all tests is given where this enormous monstrosity of an idol is golden idol enormous enormous idol that nebuchadnezzar had built is raised and as a celebration he commands all of the leaders to come of all the nations and bow to it or die now everyone knew everyone knew nebuchadnezzar doesn't joke around including am israel who are also called a shadrach avendigo he called them different names to fit the uh culture of bavin of babylon they were given a test why they were the ones that had to bow to this idol so they went to the prophet and they said to the prophet is hashem going to make a miracle for us or not meaning if we don't bow he's going to throw us in the fire is hashem going to save us for standing up for him or no hashem says to the prophet tell them no if they want to die in kedush hashem they're welcome to do it i will not save them prophet tells them and they all walk away from the prophet with complete intention that they're going to jump into the fire they're not going to bow to this idol they're going to die in kitchen in chapter 3 verse number 19. the vucaniza sees that these treats refused to bow to the idol and it says it was filled with fury and the formers of his face became contorted at shadrach says that his face physically changed as a result of his anger that's how angry he got because of the public desecration of his face public desecration of who he was these three jews they're not going to bow to my idol when all of these powerful kings are he got so angry his face changed and he commanded them to throw these streets and he came into the fire who of course saved them as he intended originally and when the prophet right after the three tadikim left the prophet asked hashem how come you're not going to save them hashem says i am going to save them i just didn't want them to know that i'm going to save them because i want them to get to meet smart of kidus but if they know that i'm going to save them anyway there's no mitra there's no free choice so it's not going to change his mind he just wanted them to get the mitzvah and already from the beginning he told the prophet i'm going to save them let's read the torah so now the question says where did these three sadiq get the strength to do this now you can tell me you love god until you're blue in the face come on now you're jumping into a fire you're jumping into a fire it's not an easy decision even if you're a righteous person many righteous people have failed in the past to jump into a fire it's a big thing you know i know it's a big thing it's written in a tanakh it's not written in some story book the training is not a it's a big deal so now the question is where did they get this strength where did they learn this from the gemara says they learned it from the frogs in egypt frogs in egypt why the plague of the frogs after pa said enough i'm gonna let you go bennu prayed to hashem and said for the fa ship commanded for these frogs to leave egypt to leave this place that place this place that place and go into the water go into the fire go into the ovens go just go waste so now that says wait a minute hold on a second you're saying that they learned they got the courage they got the douche the inside to go jump in the fire because they learn it from the frogs why because the frogs after caddosboro who commanded them to leave what happened some of them jumped into the fire they jumped in the fight why because the frog said okay i can go and jump in the water i can go and run away but that will take more time and hashem's will is not going to be fulfilled for those extra few minutes it's better that i jump into a fire and serve hashem now then let hashem wait another two minutes the frogs thought this but wait a minute but that means that hashem did command him to jump into the fire because he said jump into the fire so comes robbie track of neyman and he says yes you see it's not just that they learned from the frogs they could have easily said why is they learned from the frogs because if you look at the sukim in several says shem said go fire water this place that place meaning you have a bunch of choices you're going to the fire or you go into the water or you can run away or you can go all types of places just like they also had multiple choices the fire wasn't the only choice they could have simply ran away they could have hidden they could have done a lot of things they could have committed suicide but they chose the fire why because that's messi with nephesh is when you have multiple options but you choose the hardest option because that's the will of hashem yeah i can serve hashem and pray at 11 o'clock in the morning because praying at six in the morning is hard that's not messing with nephesh let's see what nephew is it's the prayed sakes yeah i could i could go to a shield but i'm only going to stay for the first half hour why because two hours is long and i got to wake up early okay so it's good to learn for a half hour but it's not messing with that fish no messing with never staying till the end and sleeping less as a result why because i want this to work i can give a hundred two hundred dollars easy because i have it in my pocket a thousand two thousand i also have but that's gonna hurt my pocket a little bit no problem a hundred dollars a mitzvah two hundred dollars mitzvahs not a problem i'm not saying it's a sin but it's not eve the shem every hashem is i'm gonna do more why it's the hardest option it's the will of hashem that's what i do it's a hard life met a frog one time to meet rashes and the frog tells him i'm more important than you says why are you more important than me he says i you just think that i'm just like making noises all day what you don't realize is that every word that comes out of my mouth i'm sanctifying hashem's name all no one doesn't like me every day we get a test to be like the frogs we get the easy choice mediocre choice hard choice easy learning go learn a five minute clip how you're learning read the first part of the weekly perisha with some commentary hardest learning learn some serious gama break your head break your teeth learn for five hours straight without eating drinking or wasting your time and then finish the five hours and you don't even know what you learned and continue again the next day hard that's what you're you have the choice you could learn if you could watch right by your own reuben five minute clip oh wow rabbi you're the best you changed my life it's great it's cute thank you thank you i have more skills thank you nothing don't you want to be in heaven hashem you have to add some kamara to it you have to add some sugar to it you have to add for scheme you have to toil you have to sleep less you have to do this you have you have to change your life why everyday we're very excited to offer you the new 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