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0:00And in the name of G-d, we will do, and we will succeed. And that's the name of the portion in Shelach. A really interesting portion. Every portion is interesting, but here there are so many lessons that are relevant to the situation that we find ourselves in. With all the issues of the day's decision, with all the issues of many people who... It's really hard for them. It's hard for them with the issue of faith and bitachon in Hashem. And there's also a big confusion about what is really emunah, what is really tzidkut, and even what is Hakadosh Baruch Hu. People are confused because they don't learn a lot of Torah. And there are a lot of people who don't learn in their lives. So they think that if they... Believe that there is a Creator of the world, that's enough. Like the famous saying, I am religious at heart. So here, in the whole story of the Exodus from Egypt, there is a lot of study that we can see. I am not only religious at heart, I am not even religious on Yom Kippur. Yes, exactly.
1:13Yes, but with the help of G-d, we will bring people back to Teshuva. These lessons, thank G-d, there are people who see them, and thank G-d, it strengthens people. And also this week, we received some good news, that an organization of Bnei Noach, they also teach Jews, and also people who come, who listen to the Teshuva of Bnei Noach, they call them Netiv, so thank G-d, I talked to them, and they started to spread our lessons. גם שם, באינטרנט, And also, Baruch Hashem, Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi started to publish our lectures every day on his Facebook. So, yes, there are a lot of people coming, and there is some, like, good feedback. Really good feedback. People started to listen, love, and so on. So, Baruch Hashem, there is a lot of good news. And slowly, slowly, we are going to reach as many Jews as possible. The goal is to reach every Jew in the world.
2:15we can't, we can't go to something like that, like lower We really have to try to reach every Jew. And thank G-d for giving us the Internet. And it's possible. Because now, in the situation that we find ourselves in, with all the problems that are happening in the world, and the anti-Semitism in the world is in a very bad state, it's the biggest anti-Semitism we've had since World War II. One of the examples that happened... About two weeks ago, in every country, they have their own laws, and in Germany, they have the copyright of Hitler's book. So, they said that after about 70 years, since he wrote this book, which was a famous book in his day, with his brother's name in his memory, they sold 12 million books in those days. Even 12 million books today is a lot. So, you can imagine how much anti-Semitism there was. So, they decided that after 70 years, even if this book...
3:35We already know that after killing 50 million people... we know that... what is this book? This book is for crazy people. It's not a book for normal people. But this book, if a person, I know, thinks that he can learn something from it, then he wants to get it. For 70 years he can get it online. It's for free. Not... what happened, they decided in Germany to reprint this book. ...and see what happens. And unfortunately, not only did people buy the book, but all the copies they printed were bought within the first hours. What are you talking about? What? What are you talking about? And let's talk about the reality, because today, as it can be, Germany is the only country in Europe that can...
4:35Because he has a diplomatic relationship with Israel. Yes, on the outside it looks like that, but the truth is a little different. It's the same thing as what's happening in America. In America, from the outside, it looks like everything is good and beautiful, but in reality, you see that there are a lot of disputes and a lot of division. Between the countries and Israel, the government of Israel is really afraid of America, and the government of America. Everything they want to do, they can't get permission from them, and what's most amazing is that all of this is only for the 2 or 3 billion dollars that America gives to Israel. that it's not exactly such a big deal. But in any case, you see that the relationship between us... huh?
5:38No, the funding they give, but they also do business with them, in any case. The point is that the lack of security that the Israeli government has causes many soldiers, to our regret, to get hurt, because everything that happens, they need to get permission, and it's forbidden to see, and it's forbidden this, and it's forbidden that. So... The connection between a situation where there is no war and it looks diplomatic is nice, but it's really not true. The antisemitism that exists in the world today, even though it's relatively quiet, relatively outside of Europe and France, even though we have reached a situation where people don't want to wear a kippah because they are afraid that someone will attack them or something like that, But in most of the world, in America, in most of the world, we're fine. But the problem is that the war, the Third World War, has already begun. It has begun, but it's quiet.
6:39Everything that happens in Syria, there is a lot of nonsense there that is not so much broadcast on the internet or on television. There is a lot of nonsense there. Now, we already talked about it last time, that Russia sent the largest ship in the world with 200 atomic bombs. to Syria. And now, only this week, China, the largest country in the world, sent 5,000 of their most elite soldiers. North Korea also wants to join. So you see that slowly The situation is heating up, the world is burning, and the connection between America and Israel is not so good. And what really scares me about the Gog and Magog war, which if it's a Gog and Magog war, then a lot of people think that Gog is either from Russia, or from Iran, or from Korea, or from America. Or from America.
8:00So many people think that he can't be from America because there's only one year left for Obama. Why? It could be this year. Yes, but there's only one year left. He can't run again. Because he can't vote again. Because this year... Because now we're in the seventh year. Yes, yes, yes, wait a second, wait a second, I'll take one more point. So in terms of logic, people think, no, no, it can't be Obama, because even to enter the Gog and Magog war and all that, in terms of logic, it takes time. So he doesn't have time. Especially since it's the last year of the president, so usually we don't go to war in the last year. In the last year, you're on vacation. You're not... It's not that hard to work. But what I, my personal friend, he's a tzaddik, he's really wise, he knows how to think things through. He also told me something that I didn't think about. He said, what people don't understand is that there's a law in America, that if the state enters a war, there are no elections. There are no elections. The president that's there, you're not allowed to remove him. He stays until the war is over.
9:14So, like, now all the elections with Trump and Clinton and this and that, everyone thinks, oh, maybe this is better, maybe that is better. They don't understand what's happening here, that if Hashem really wants this to be now, like, the war will be really now, it's not just that it's possible, it's logical. What's happening, so we need to understand... No, it's not a matter of... A person doesn't need to be confused or something like that. Why am I mentioning this? I'm mentioning this because after the days, it won't be a simple situation. There are many reports of what will happen after the days, but it's not... In any case, we've talked about this before, but it won't be a simple situation. It's already known. So we need... The most important tool...
10:15that will be for a person at the end of time, whether he is religious since birth, or is now returning to teshuvah, or a few years in teshuvah, or something like that, or is thinking of returning to teshuvah, the most important thing that a person needs to work on now, it is clear that it is the Torah and the mitzvot, but the point is to work on his emunah. Why? Because one of the prophecies and one of the things that happens in ikveta d'meshicha, it will be difficult To hold a position in the end. When a woman is about to give birth, the end, the end of the birth, is the hardest. So even if a person is religious since he was born, learns Gemara from the age of two, It's not important. Why? Because if he only learns in books, but he doesn't learn about his faith, and he connects with G-d, and it's not only for the sake of wisdom, it really works on the faith itself, then it's... So this, with the help of G-d, is what we learn in the weekly parashah. This is what was mentioned earlier. Now, at the beginning, we see that at the beginning of the parashah,
11:29The parashah begins with the word "Vayehi." Vayehi sent his sheep to the people and did not save the people through Eretz Pelishtim. Because it was near, because the people were saved in Rephidim, the war, and there in Egypt. So Chazal tells us that every time a sentence or parashah begins with the word "Vayehi," it's a sign of a crisis. A sign of a crisis. But now if you think about it, why is it a crisis? We left Egypt, there needs to be a party, there needs to be joy, there needs to be fun, what's the problem here? So Chazal explains to us a few interpretations. One of them is that HaKadosh Baruch Hu woke up, Even when He took the people of Israel out of Egypt, HaKadosh Baruch Hu was surprised because the people of Israel—He knew, it's clear that He knew the future, the past, and what's happening. And He knew what was in the heart of the person, which is one of the 13 principles that a person needs to understand and remind himself of every day. He knew what was in the heart of the person; He knew what we think. So He knew that...
12:44Even when we saw all the miracles in Egypt, and He really destroyed the greatest country in history, we didn't have enough faith. So because of that, He decided... to take them out of the land of Egypt and let them go to the land of Israel in the long run, not in the short run. Because if we had gone in the short run, we would have met with the Philistine people. And if they saw us, they would immediately think that we were trying to kill them. So they would want to fight us. So that's why He says... He says, if they saw even the sword of the Philistines. And they killed them. Yes, the tribe of Ephraim. The tribe of Ephraim made a mistake, and they thought that the time for redemption had come.
13:58and they made a mistake. They left, and in the end, the Philistines killed everyone. And really, in the Tanakh, there is a story that Hashem brought the navi there and brought them back to life. But maybe 800 years after it happened. 800 years after it happened. Yes, but in any case... 200 years after the Beit HaMikdash. Yes, yes, exactly. Yes, exactly. So now... So now, we are in a situation where the Holy One will show us miracles and wonders, amazing things, will destroy, even without the makkot, even without the plagues, and all kinds of darkness, all the things we saw, this will destroy the Egyptian people, and they will reach a situation where they will liberate, The people of Israel, this is the first time and the last time in history that something like this happened. This in itself is enough to believe in Hashem. In history, it never happened that the slaves of a country left.
15:16If we talk about what happened in the last few hundred years, when the Kushim left Africa, when they were working there, they didn't leave like some kind of situation; someone bought them. People bought them, not that they left for fun; they were sold. It didn't happen in history, it didn't happen, and it won't happen. In history, like what happened in the Exodus of Egypt, this in itself is enough to believe in Hashem. But unfortunately, we haven't reached that yet. And one of the reasons, one of the reasons that Hashem is disappointed is because of this. One of the reasons that the people of Israel, another reason that, well, that the parsha begins with the word, is because the people of Israel were in trouble. Why were the people of Israel on the side? This is the second verse. And God will save the people through the desert, and the sea will be dry, and five people will rise up from the land of Egypt. Chazal explains to us that five people, five people is one out of five, came out of Egypt. Five people, like 20%. 20% came out of Egypt, and 80% were killed in the darkness. Why? Because they didn't want to answer back.
16:33They had already reached the 50th level of Shaarei Tumah, and it was impossible to redeem them. Those who came out, the best of them, were at level 49. Those who died were at level 50. Impossible. They didn't want to go back to teshuvah. They wanted to stay in Egypt. They wanted to stay and work, and keep the business, and do all the things. They didn't want to go to the desert. They were afraid. They were afraid of the desert. They didn't want to leave Egypt. They hadn't been working for six months. They said, finally, after 86 years, when we were working as shepherds, it was finally over. Maybe we can establish, I already have the house, I already have the friends, I already have the family, let me stay here. Why should I go to the desert? Who goes to the desert and returns? Leave me here. If you want to bring me something, bring me Torah, bring it here. They wanted to give Hashem their conditions. Hashem is not a friend of ours, so He says, if you don't want to fulfill the Torah, to receive the Torah, and to do teshuvah, I don't need you.
17:43So 80% were killed in the dark, and He did it in the dark, just to not show it to the Egyptians, who would think that maybe it's a natural thing, that the people in Egypt are dead, dead even from the Jews. They would think that it's not the Holy One, it's natural, as people say today, no, no, it's not natural, it's natural. But what's most frightening is that not even 20% came out. There is a Chazal, I just told you last time, that there is a Chazal, there is a Midrash that says that one of 500 really came out. But there is, from Rabbeinu Bachya, he says, that one of 500,000 came out of Egypt. One of 500,000. That's from Rabbeinu Bachya. I saw it in Me'am Lo'ez, a really great Midrash, Me'am Lo'ez.
18:48So there are all kinds of estimates, there are all kinds of, roughly, how many came out. There were 600,000 men, which is from last week's parsha, from the age of 20 to the age of 60. And that doesn't include the women, and that doesn't include the children, and that doesn't include the elderly. So, relatively, they say, like, the lowest estimate, which is, really, no one believes it, but, like, in order to be conservative, they say 3 million came out of Egypt. But, really, most people believe that about 12-13 million came out, about that number. And there are even people who say that there were even more. But the average is about 10-12 million, something like that. Which means that if 80% died, then it means that 40 million died. It was much, much worse than the Holocaust.
20:01And if in the Midrash the Sages say that one out of 500,000 came out, they say that really one out of 500,000 came out, and only 3 million, one out of 500,000 came out, that it's only 3 million, not 10 million, and that it means that almost 300 million died. 300 million Jews died. This is a Midrash, a Midrash, it's in the Me'am Loez, and he got it from Rabbeinu Bachya. It's from Hiltau; it's a couple of Midrashim that are well-known and famous. It's not just some person from our generation who recently started to study Chumash and wrote some commentary. It's from generations. So, yes, they say that there were 300 million Jews. And really, 99.9% died. 99% died. So that's the reason they were sad. And why is it worth mentioning this to people? It's very important, especially for people who haven't made teshuvah yet. Because in a normal way, a person who uses only his logic and not the logic of the Creator, he says, what are you saying? 80% of the people of Israel today don't celebrate Shabbat.
21:27And the Torah says that a person who doesn't keep Shabbat, and his soul is taken from him, is not considered a Jew. And this person, if he doesn't make teshuvah before he dies, he will go to Gehinnom. Poor person. Really, really, a poor person. There is no end to the terror that will come after this. So you tell me, what? That what G-d has done? Yes. So I say, this person says, What, you're telling me that G-d will destroy 80% of the people? Like that? What, He brought us to this world to destroy us? Because, in a logical way, it’s a good thought. But this is the place where we need to read in the Torah and understand that our logic, the logic of a person, is not the logic of the Borei Yitbarach. It's not the same thing. When G-d created the Torah, He created the Torah, He not only gave rights to the world and to the people of Israel, He also gave rights to Himself. He had to compensate for Himself. Exactly. This is what a person needs to understand, that G-d sent us here; He is already perfect, He doesn't need us.
22:49All the agreement between the creation and the Creator is only good for the creation. It's only good for us. We are the only ones who can profit in this situation, in this business. He is already perfect. If we do good or don't do good, He remains perfect. If we do mitzvot or don't do mitzvot, He remains perfect. If we are here or not here, He is perfect anyway. It doesn't matter what we do. He only created us because He is good, and good wants to do good. good, wants to do good. So, really, here, we're the only ones who can profit or lose. That's it. He can't profit or lose. He's already perfect. So, a person needs to understand that if He's already created us, brought us to the world, He brought us for some reason. And if we don't do what He wants, then He doesn't need us. It's like a person, let's say, I don't know, buys a computer,
23:49A good computer, everything is good, everything is fine. After a while, the computer stops working. Even if he spent $2,000 on this computer, and the computer doesn't work, it's impossible to fix it. It doesn't work. The processor is destroyed, the hard drive is destroyed, everything is gone. No, he doesn't want to, he's going, he's doing everything backward. It will cost you $4,000 to fix a computer worth $2,000, and it's not 100% guaranteed that it will work. So, HaKadosh Baruch Hu, it's a bit different from a person, but HaKadosh Baruch Hu sent the Jew into the world. וזה לא 100% שזה יעבוד. אז הקדוש ברוך הוא זה קצת להבדיל מבין אדם, אבל הקדוש ברוך הוא שלח את היהודי לעולם,
24:57To do his job, to perform mitzvot, to collect yahalomim. Not yahalomim like on 47th Street. Yahalomim that are mitzvot. Each mitzvah is a big yahalom. A yahalom that is worth billions of dollars. Each mitzvah. The smallest mitzvah is worth more than all the money in the world. The smallest mitzvah. If you put on tefillin in the morning, it will be worth more than all the money in the world that ever existed in history. We have no idea what a mitzvah is, what the purpose of a mitzvah is. Because of that, in the Gemara and in the Torah... The Chazal explain to us much more about the punishment than about the reward. Why? Because when we say punishment, we already understand what it is to suffer. Because you have to suffer in the world. A person has difficulties, he has a puncture, he has problems with money, problems with this, problems with that, all kinds of problems. A person understands what it is to suffer. At least he has an understanding of it. But good, we don't know what is good. We don't have a minimal understanding of what is really good. So to explain to someone what is good in the next world, it's like trying to explain to someone who has never seen how beautiful the skies are that are blue. He says, "What is blue?" You say, "No, blue is like green." "Okay, what is green?" He doesn't even see it. "Green, you know, it's a bit like flowers." "How do flowers look?" He can't understand it.
26:22He can't understand it. So we don't have a minimal understanding of what is really good. So the mitzvah... Exactly. So now... when we... If we start to understand the logic of Hashem, we understand that we are the only ones who can profit or lose in this business. If we do our job, do the mitzvot, do the minimum, the basis of the Torah, Shabbat, Kashrut, Niddah, Tefillin, all the Britot, all the main things of the Torah, and try as much as possible to talk to Hashem in a constant way, and to learn His Torah, then there is no end to the profit that you will earn from this business in the end, both in this life and in the next world. A person who did not come to do these things... I have a question. Yes, yes. Oh, You, God, You are the One who knows everything. What? What? Yes. Yes.
27:33No, every person has something to fix. Every person, both a woman and a man, has something to fix. Both a woman and a man. Even a woman needs to be fixed. I ask myself, I have an aunt, she has autism. Okay. She has autism. Not only autism, but also her mother died at the age of 40. We put her in a very strange place, in Eretz Yisrael. A very difficult life. Very difficult. I say, what is it? What is it? What is it? Every person who comes to the world comes to fix something. Even a goy comes to fix something. Why? Because every person has to have a purpose in life.
28:50If he doesn't have a purpose in life, then he won't exist. If a person comes to fix, let's say, he did, there's a story, the Arizal could really know, he knew what the person was like before his birth. So there was a couple that waited for a baby for many years, and one day they had a baby, they had a baby. And... After the brit milah... After the brit milah, the baby died. So they started crying. What a sadness. Something... Something... Something... Something... Something... Something... Something... Something... Something... So they say to him, "What?" He says, "No, you know, what right do you have? Your baby was the cycle of who? Who wrote Shulchan Aruch? Let's do this. Who wrote Shulchan Aruch?" "Rabbi Yosef Karo." "Exactly. He said it was Rabbi Yosef Karo. And he, when he was born,"
30:17He had a fever, so they didn't treat him properly at the right time. They had to take care of it. So when he came to this world, he came to a very high level. They told him, you could have come to a much higher level, but there's one problem with you, just a small problem. If you want, you can come back. What, what's the problem? He said, you didn't have a brit milah on the eighth day. If you want to go back in circles just to do this, you will reach a level that is above and beyond what you can do. So he went back in circles, and this couple remembered that they will have this baby that will only live for 8 days. So now, in a natural way, in a logical way, we think of poor, poor, poor. But really, when a person understands that this world is just a procedure, It's not the real life. So it's up to the person to understand that the soul is eternal. There's nothing more. There's nothing more than taking the baby to the father and the mother to the baby. There's nothing more. 100%. Until now... It's very, very, very difficult. But like you said, with the four political problems...
31:46Yes, they really believe in the Master, the Blessed One, in a constant way. Yes. Yes, what is the purpose of life really? Of course, it's not easy. What do you mean? It doesn't mean it's easy. It's not easy. I have a friend, his name is Meir Azulai. He is a wise talmid, also a chazzan, for many years. And he says a sentence all the time, it's funny, but it's... it's really relevant. He says, "It's not easy to be a simple Jew. Not easy." A simple Jew learns Torah every day, he does mitzvot, he lives his whole day—from morning to night—thinking about Hashem. Before he eats, after he davens, when he does business, when he's with his wife and kids, somehow, somehow he's in charge of his life. Somehow, he's managing his time. Of course, it's 100%, 100% of the time, from morning to night, there's no time, even when he's asleep. A Jewish man who's asleep needs to sleep on the left side. Why on the left side? Because it reduces the chance that there will be sexual arousal. No, what I know is the left side. What I know is the left side. It could be true, but what I know is only the left side. No, no.
33:11Yes, no, the belly or the back, you don't sleep on the belly or the back, you need to sleep on the left side. That's what a person needs to try to do as much as possible. Of course, if you sleep, you don't notice when you're in the middle of the night. It's not like you get a break from Shamayim if you're in the middle of sleep at 3 in the morning; you're already asleep. And you go on the back or on the stomach. But, when you go to sleep, you have to try as much as possible to sleep on the left side. So, the point here is that a simple Jew, as they call it, really needs to manage his life for 24 hours with a thought about the Creator. So it's not simple. So it's clear that it's not simple to... to be in difficult situations and to hold a position. But when you think about Hashem every day, and every day, because you are managing your life in such a way that Hashem is already part of your thinking, He is part of your thinking. You think, you don't think, "What do I want?" You think, "What does He want? What does Hashem want me to do?" So when you think like that...
34:21So in a short time, you can get to a situation where, really, the tzaddikim think so, that they get to a situation where the most difficult situation, they take it with love. And that's the goal of every person, that's really the goal of faith. So now, we'll conclude this point of the Chamushim, that the Jews who don't understand how it can be that HaKadosh Baruch Hu ya'ani, chas v'shalom, 80% of the people of Israel, if they don't repent, if the Mashiach comes and they don't repent, they need to understand that the first thing, the thought of the Creator is not our thought. And the second thing, He already did it. How many and how many times. He did it how many and how many times. Not simply. It's to show every generation that this is how He works. These are the laws that He gave to Himself. He can't ignore the laws that He gave to Himself because it would be, chas v'shalom, going against the Torah. He Himself can't go against the Torah. So now, this is the reason why the people of Israel were in sorrow.
35:43They lost a lot of their friends, their family, etc. After that, we understand that the reason there is a crisis here, really, for the people of Israel, is because they have no faith. Even though Hashem did everything He did for them, they have no faith. HaKadosh Baruch Hu gave them a few commandments before they left Egypt, just so that they would remain at level 49 and not go down any further. They had reached a point where, with one more descent, they would fall to the fiftieth level, and that would have necessitated the destruction of the world. You can't get them out of this situation. Now, even those who left Egypt weren't exactly the greatest righteous people in the world. They were doing avodah zarah. Many of them were doing avodah zarah. And that's what happened when we got to the Yam Suf. But after they left, HaKadosh Baruch Hu wanted...
36:51To strengthen them. So what, he gives them gifts. In the beginning, he says, let's strengthen them with something beautiful, with horses. Let's see, if he gives them horses and wonders, something beautiful, maybe it will strengthen them. I took them out of Egypt, not enough. Let's give them a bit of security. We'll make them a cloud and a pillar of fire. It will be so beautiful that now when they go to the desert, they won't get hurt, it will be as if they are floating. 40 years they don't have to wear a mask. Yes, exactly. They have a mask and they have light. It could be something amazing. And if that's not enough, when they get to the end of the world, what do people love? What is the love of a person? One of the greatest that exists, if not the greatest. Money. Money. So now, when they left Egypt, we already learned that in the hands of a man, they were enslaved. And even after, before they left Egypt, they took, how do you call it, they took the gold and the money of the Egyptians. So it was already a great property. But not enough. When they arrived at the end of the sea, there, oh, it broke. Ah, Baruch Hashem.
38:16Yetzer hara mitarev lanu. Ze k'var besorot tovot. Yes? Yes, mechila. So, when they arrived at Yam Suf, before HaKadosh Baruch Hu gave Moshe Rabbeinu the power to split the sea, and before the Egyptians came, They were there for a bit of time, and they discovered one of the three treasures of Yosef HaTzadik. Yosef HaTzadik really left Egypt; he put them on the map. They were millionaires; he made them trillionaires because all the nations of the world came to Egypt for food. There was hunger all over the world, not just in Egypt. So, he really brought money from all over the world. It was such a huge amount that he had to divide it into three places. One of them was in Egypt. One of them was near the Sea of Suf. And the Jews found the other one. They found it. It was a huge property. It was a third of the entire empire of Egypt.
39:36So he gave them a lot of money. And then, unfortunately, they still didn't come to emunah. They still didn't come to emunah. Because of that, he says, now he has to bring them... What does he do? With money, unfortunately, many times the test of money is not only that it doesn't strengthen the person, at least sometimes it distorts the person. Distorts the person. So in verse 8, Yehuda says, "And they said, what have we done? Because we sent Israel from our slaves." Like suddenly now, after Pharaoh was invited to Moshe and the people of Israel who took over from him, now he wakes up, he wakes up suddenly and says, "What is it that we sent our slaves?"
40:41Yes. And who really reminded him of that? Who reminded him that he made a mistake? Who are the people who reminded him of that? It says, and he loved the king. So someone told him that. Not that he was afraid of himself. Who were they? There are two people. Who? They were called Datan and Aviram. Datan and Aviram were called like that? Yes, their religion and their atmosphere remained in Egypt. They didn't go with the Jewish people; they remained in Egypt. This is the same religion and atmosphere that we cast on Moshe Rabbeinu 80 years ago. Yes. The Jewish people almost killed him because of them. The same reshaim remained reshaim. And they said, when did we... there was no answer, no shoes, no shoes, no shoes, no shoes, no shoes, no shoes, no shoes, no shoes, no shoes, no shoes, no shoes.
41:59Maximum yashir otanu chayim. No, no, what? So what? So he said to Pharaoh, what? What's going on here? What did you do? You made a mistake. You sent all your workers. After all, your country was destroyed. You need to rebuild it. Who will do it? You? So the Jews, the liberal leftists, these rebels, went to Pharaoh, Who is their father? Who is their father? Like, from which tribe did they come? Yes. From which tribe? Let me tell you the truth. I don't remember which tribe they came from. I don't remember. But they were Jews. They were Jews. In the end, they did half a teshuvah, but after that, they returned to the kashya. They... After... Now, now that... Paro, he comes now, he doesn't just have to come with weapons. He has to come with, like, with the shovel. When there's a war, if it's a war, like, with tanks, or if it's a war in speech. The most important thing, like, in order to win the war, is...
43:29What kind of thoughts do you give to the other person or to the other army to think? If you are now threatening someone, the one you are threatening, whether it is in a war or in speech or in any other context, the one you are threatening is more frightened than the war itself. The fact that Russia came... with a ship with 200 atomic bombs, more scary than what will happen to them. Because even in a logical way, if they use even 10, they destroy the whole world, even themselves. So you already know, but it's scary. It's intimidating. How do you say intimidating in Hebrew? מאיים. מאיים is scary. Like you're intimidating. So in any case, No, I know what intimidating is. Intimidating is something else. Intimidating. Intimidating. Intimidating. Intimidating. Intimidating is the same thing?
44:44No, no, it's two different words, but you understand the meaning. That's the point. You understand that you're trying to scare him before you recognize him. Before you recognize the person, you tell him, "Give me the money, or I'll recognize you." And many times, the person will give you the money before he recognizes you. What? Yes, exactly. So now, Pharaoh had to do something to be something beautiful. So what did he do? He brought not only his very big army, which the people of Loez also say that he not only came with their great property, but he came with an army of 9 million soldiers. 9 million soldiers. But here in the parasha, it says he came with 600,000. In the verse of Zayin, it says, "And he took 600 chariots and every chariot of Egypt." What does it mean, 600 chariots and every chariot? 600 chariots... How many chariots? Oh, a lot? No, not a lot. How many chariots?
46:05Not all of Egypt died. There were many who died, but not all of them. He left them enough so that not all of them would die. Now, when they left Egypt, when they came to attack... Oh, no, no, the animals didn't really die. The animals, none of them died. They left Egypt. Why? Because Hashem didn't want to kill the animals like He killed the Tzefardim. Why? Because if He had killed the animals, then all the Egyptians would have made money from it. They would have taken their livestock and made a profit from it. Understand? So He didn't kill them. But now he comes with... With 9 million soldiers. But it says 600. What is this 600? The 600 is like 600 leaders, 600 generals. Like 600 are part of his army. And like these 600, these are like the richest leaders, the strongest. And each of them has a part of the army, a leader of hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people.
47:32so they all came with all the property of Egypt, all their gold. Why did they come with gold? What do they need gold for? What do they need? So in a normal way, when you see a person in New York, sometimes when he is far from Hashem, and you see that he is an important businessman, a CEO who makes 10 million dollars a year, ובא אליו איזה הומלס, איזה בן אדם מסכן הומלס, בא אליו ומבקש עזרה. אז הרבה פעמים, ה-CEO הזה החשוב, שהוא חושב שהוא חשוב, הוא לא מתנהג יפה. He says, "What? I'm not talking to you at all. Do you know who I am?" This is pride. "I have so much in this and so much in that." And many times, the homeless person doesn't come back. The homeless person is afraid of him. Why is he afraid of him? It's not that he will beat him. Why is he afraid of him? Because all this money and this property are also scary. It's also intimidating.
48:40as they did not give them a series of people that day, as they did not have a lot of time on They used something else. Once they didn't have tanks and air force and so on. So what did they do? The strongest weapon, the most frightening, is the money. How rich are they? Ah, you don't know how rich we are. You are homeless. You were our workers a week ago. Where did you go without us? Look how much money we have. How much power we have. How much army we have. So because of that, they brought all the... את כל הכסף שלהם. ובסוף, זה באמת, הקב"ה, ברוך הוא, נתן להם לעשות את זה. למה? בגלל שהוא רצה לתת כל הרכוש הזה, הרכוש הגדול שהוא הבטיח לאברהם אבינו. זה היה חלק, אחד מהחלקים הגדולים. זה היה אחד מהחלקים הגדולים. שנייה, אני מחפש לך משהו, אתה, בויילס, לא בויילס, או אפידמיק.
49:47Okay, so because of that, it's written that 600 men, that was the 600, and all the men of Egypt, so like all their army, 9 million people, something really impressive and scary. Okay, now something amazing is happening, verse Yud, verse Yud, Yudalid Yud, 14:10 says, that he created, the city that he created for the people of Israel. The Chazal says it was better than a hundred or a thousand stones. Like a stone. Like it was better than that. That's exactly what happened with the man of the rasha, if I remember correctly. That he created for the people of Israel to return to Teshuva. Because of that, his critics, in the end, returned to Teshuva and, well, they were always wise.
51:16Yes, yes, his decisions are always wise. So they ask, how did Amalek get this idea? How did he get this idea? This is the fear he caused the people of Israel to return to Teshuva. So because of that, he says, here Pharaoh will destroy He called the children of Israel. He called, and they called the children of Israel. You see it clearly. He called them. He made a kiruv. And what happened to the people of Israel? When they received the money, they did not shout to the Lord. When they received more money, they did not shout to the Lord. They did not even speak to the Lord. But when Pharaoh came with his army and scared them, oh, the children of Israel shouted to the Lord. And they said to Moshe, the one without graves in Egypt, took us to die in the desert? What did you do to us, to take us out of Egypt? Wasn't there enough graves in Egypt? You brought us to the desert in order to kill us? You see, it's already... Even when they returned in repentance, they didn't return in complete repentance. Like now, it's... They started laughing at Moshe. What brought us here? To kill us here?
52:32Yes. So here, Moshe tells us a big secret that a person who really believes, he says, this is what will happen to him. And today Moshe says to the people, don't be afraid. Yit'yatzvu u'ru'u et yeshuat Hashem asher ya'aseh lachem hayom. Lo machar, lo machatayin, lo shevu ha'shvayim. She'odat t'fardu k'mo hamakot. Hamakot lakchu ad sh'hotzeit lachem miMitzrayim. Hayah shanah. Azu b'mefurash omer lahem hayom. Ya'aseh lachem hayom. Achshav zikru. Ad t'dagur. Ki asher re'item et Mitzrayim hayom, lo tosifu lirotam od ad olam. Achshav atem ro'im et Mitzrayim, aval lo tiru otam af pam. Zehu, le'olam. Yit'yatzvu u'ru'u et yeshuat Hashem asher ya'aseh lachem hayom. Lo machar, lo machatayin, lo shevu ha'shvayim. She'odat t'fardu k'mo hamakot. Hamakot lakchu ad sh'hotzeit lachem miMitzrayim. Hayah shanah. Azu b'mefurash omer lahem hayom. Ya'aseh lachem hayom. Achshav zikru. Ad t'dagur. Ki asher re'item et Mitzrayim hayom, lo tosifu lirotam od ad olam. Achshav atem ro'im et Mitzrayim, aval lo tiru otam af pam. Zehu, le'olam. Adonai yilachem lachem, v'atem tacharishun. HaKadosh Baruch Hu, if you really believe in HaKadosh Baruch Hu, fulfill His commandments, be ready to receive the Torah, and really, really believe, every person in the world, you have to understand this, that if you do the will of Hashem, Adonai yilachem lachem, v'atem tacharishun. You will not have problems. Your problems will be there, but He will give you everything.
53:54So it doesn't mean that a person doesn't have any problems, that his whole life he lives in a garden in this world. Why? It can't be. Why? Because a person has a purpose in life. He needs to reach a high level. In order to reach a high level, he has to go through hard things. He doesn't reach a high level without hard things. Now, a person who, let's say, wants to be rich, wants to be the CEO of a company, he can't get this job at the age of 20 at the beginning of the job. Okay, now he left college, or yeshiva, or something like that. He started, got the job. Okay, now you're in the mailroom, you're a stock boy. You're just doing a few small things, you're getting 10 dollars an hour. Okay, a few years passed. Now he's a salesman. A few more years passed. Now I'll be the manager. After 20 years, he can be CEO. Why after 20 years or 25 years can he be CEO and not after a week? Even if he's smart, even if he's smarter than the CEO they have, because his IQ is 200, like Einstein, and the IQ of the CEO is maybe 100, like Obama or George Bush. George Bush was a scientist?
55:11Why, after 20 years or 25 years, can he be CEO and not after a week? Even if he's smart, even if he's smarter than the CEO they have because his IQ is 200, like Einstein, and the IQ of the CEO is maybe 100, like Obama or George Bush. George Bush was a scientist? That's what an experiment is. An experiment is not an experiment, or "I went on a vacation to the Bahamas." Or, "I have an experiment, I went on a vacation to Australia." It's not an experiment. An experiment is that I lost everything and did everything again. Or I fought with this and that and won. Or I lost like this and built myself again. Or someone cried on me and, thank God, in a short time, I fixed my name. That's what a nisayon is. A nisayon is not, "I went on a vacation to the Bahamas." Or, "I have a nisayon, I went on a vacation to Australia." It's not a nisayon. A nisayon is that I lost everything and did everything again. Or I fought with this and that and won. Or I lost like this and built myself again. Or someone cried on me and, thank God, in a short time, I fixed my name. זה ניסיון, בעיות זה ניסיון. אז הקב"ה אומר לנו שאם אתה מאמין בי באמונה שלמה, אפילו הניסיונות שאתה חייב לעבור אותם, הבעיות שאתה חייב לעבור אותן בשביל להגיע לדרגה שאתה מאמין בי ב-100%, אפילו הבעיות האלה,
56:29You won't worry about them. Why? Because you have complete faith. You will know, already in a fixed way, that G-d will fight all your wars. It's really not in your hands. The trial is not in your hands. Effort is what you need to do so that it will look natural to you. But effort only depends on how much faith a person has. If it's an ordinary person, he maybe works 90%. So G-d says, okay, you work 90%, I'll do 10%. But if it's Rabbi Ovadia, Zekher Tzadik Livracha, or Rabbi Elyashiv, Zekher Tzadik Livracha, or all those, all the greats of Israel, if it's even 1% of the work, it's a lot for them. Why? Because they're already connected to G-d. They already understand this sentence, this verse, the verse of Yehuda. Exactly. So they already understand that it's not in their hands at all. It's not in their hands. They have complete faith. So they already understand that HaKadosh Baruch Hu, He fought the war for them. Whether it's a revolution, whether it's health, whether it's anything and everything, HaKadosh Baruch Hu fought their war, and they just need to be calm, to be in silence. What does it mean to be in silence?
57:51First of all, Rabbi Mizrachi said this in his lecture last week, in silence, in this verse. He says that they will not say the word of the Lord, that they will not do transgressions, that they will be righteous, that they will be complete with this whole process and everything that happens. So in the first verse... Yes, this is the point, this is the goal that we need to reach, that we really live in such a way that we know that Hashem fought our wars because we gave Him a reason to fight our war. We are doing our best. What does this mean? It doesn't mean that there is no army. No, there is an army, but we need to understand that the war, as it is written in the Torah, who wins the war? Hashem wins the war. not the army. So when Moshe, we'll talk about this in a month or two, when Moshe sent Bnei Yisrael to war, for every thousand soldiers that he sent with Yehoshua bin Nun, he sent a thousand who study Torah day and night.
59:12Why? Because he needs to make an effort. But in the same way, he knows that HaKadosh Baruch Hu really, He will win the war, so we need to give Him a reason. Why? How will he win the war? HaKadosh Baruch Hu. So what does HaKadosh Baruch Hu want? Why does He bring us to the world? To learn His Torah. So for every thousand soldiers, he brought a thousand wise students. There are laws at the end of the Torah, in the book of Deuteronomy, there are laws on how to go to war, so King David was very strict. He would say, If they would ask the soldiers, "Did you speak, even unintentionally, between the tefillin of the hand and the head? When did you take the tefillin, when did you put the tefillin on your hand? So you need to be quiet until you put the tefillin on your head, and then you're done. You need to be quiet. But if you spoke, it's a violation." What do you mean? You're not allowed to speak between the tefillin.
1:00:20Yes, this is the custom of the Ashkenazim, that it is accepted there, that... hand and head. Yes, they kiss on both. The Sephardim kiss on the... on the hand. Yes, they kiss on the hand, but if they speak, if they speak unintentionally, then they kiss on the head too. But now... David the King would say, did you speak? If one of the soldiers spoke in the middle there, he would say, make yourself go to war. Why? I'm a strong soldier, I'm a hero, I'm this or that, you will die. That's it. That's it. He says, this is a transgression. For this transgression, you've already put yourself in a situation where God can punish you, and you put yourself in danger, you're going to war. So this is, you put yourself in a situation where the transgressor can come to you and say, look at this man, he's coming to die. He spoke between the prayers of Yad Gevurah Rosh.
1:01:28So you put yourself in danger. And it's not only the danger of the soldier. You know that if a soldier dies, he causes other people to die as well, because they support him. He protects them. And now a person is injured, so he causes other people to die as well. So David HaMelech wouldn't have let him go to war just to do that. But now, after that, Bnei Yisrael are screaming, crying, scared, etc. Moshe Rabbeinu says to them that they need to have complete faith, but after that, he begins to pray to HaKadosh Baruch Hu. In the verse Tet Vav, he says, "And today the Lord says to Moshe, 'What will you shout at me? Speak to the children of Israel and they will travel.'" Now, there is a question here. HaKadosh Baruch Hu puts the people of Israel in a situation where they have nowhere to go. There is the sea, the end of the sea... And on the other hand, there are the Egyptians who want to kill them. We are in a very difficult situation. If we are now in such a difficult situation, then what should we do? Pray. So why does Hashem say to Moshe, why are you praying now? Why are you yelling at Me? So Chazal say to us something really scary here. They say,
1:02:54that what will scare the people of Israel the most, when they see the Egyptians, is that they will see the angel of the Egyptians. Every nation in the world has an angel. Everyone has an angel. So the angel, the angel of Egypt, they call him Mitzrayim. And they saw that he came together with the Egyptians. So they say, how can it be that the Egyptians also have an angel? So what, Hashem has left us? So why does this angel also come? Because this angel came to the shepherds of the people of Israel and said to the Holy One, "Ribbono Shel Olam, this is not fair. You now want to pass the people of Israel through a dry sea, to split the sea, to pass them, and to punish the Egyptians. But this is not fair." Okay, fine, the Egyptians come to them, they work avodah zarah (idol worship). But the people of Israel also work avodah zarah. They work avodah zarah, and they work avodah zarah. Yes. So why do You punish one and reward the other? It's not fair. It's not what's written on You, El Melech Ne'eman. Because of this, the Holy One said to Moshe, what will you give to Me? He said to Him,
1:04:14The bread cutter really has a good case against you. I can't help you. I can't help you. Really, the holy man says, he sets a law against himself, he says, what are you yelling at me? You have to speak to the children of Israel and Esav. What does it mean to speak to the children of Israel and Esav? Do something. Go ahead. Do something. You say you don't believe in me. But faith to say that you believe is nice. But in order to show that you believe, you need to do something. What is it to do? To correct a soul. That's what I heard from Rabbi Nissim Yagen, Zecher Tzadik L'Vracha, and he has another sermon, something amazing about this sermon. He says to you, we need to do, you need to do a soul mission. A soul mission. Rishon, do something already. Moshe continues to pray. He continues to pray. He doesn't hear, he says he prays and prays. Until the Holy One at least gave him instructions.
1:05:25He said, "Okay, give me instructions." Then he says, "And you will lift your staff, and he will give you your hand over the sea, and it will be split. And the children of Israel will come into the sea on dry land." Put out your staff, split the sea. So really, Chazal (our sages) say to us, when he did it for the first time, the sea did not split. The Mekatreg (prosecuting angel) comes and says, "No, they didn't do anything. What, what, what? What he does with the splitting, it's not enough. It's not, they didn't get to a situation where it's up to them to save them." So what happened? There were some from the people of Israel who said that it was necessary to return to being slaves. There were some from the people of Israel who said that it was necessary to fight a war with them until death. And there was a tribe of Jews who had a very great tzaddik, they called him Nachshon ben Aminadav.
1:06:26And Nachshon ben Aminadav, he said, if G-d has already done all that He has done for us, He will not bring us here to be killed. He says, speak to the children of Israel, and they will move forward. I'm going, that's it, that's the only way I can go. It's not back, it's forward. He wants me to go forward. I didn't take a course. When I was a child in Egypt, in Se'ah. He didn't learn how to swim, but he said to Esav, "Go ahead, I'm going ahead, that's it, what am I going to do?" And he continued to go ahead in the water until it came, it passed his stomach. He started to choke, he swallowed the water. He really went in complete faith. And now, how many of the tribe of Yehudah went after him? until the water reached his mouth, and in that minute, in that second, Hashem turned the sea into 12 pathways. Turned the sea into 12, and the people of Israel passed. So many people think that Hashem turned the sea into 2, as I said by mistake, and also as depicted in the old videos of the Exodus from Egypt, but really the Rambam
1:07:41says that it was really split into 12 parts. 12 parts. Each and every one of the tribes. And really, it returned to the same side. It was like half a circle. Half a circle. Yes. Yes. So now, after we crossed the sea, and the Egyptians... Now, wait a minute. Oh, there were a lot of mosques. There were a lot of mosques. Yes, there were a lot of mosques. Yes. Yes, yes. Yes. Snack, snack, yes. Everything is big there. Yes, yes, yes, everything came out, all the fruits, vegetables, all kinds of amazing things. Also, Hashem made a nest so that everything would be straight. You know that on the beach, at the beginning of the sea, it's not deep. Then it gets deeper and deeper and deeper. So Hashem didn't make another big nest so that everything would be straight. They didn't go to the bottom of the sea.
1:09:10Yes, yes, yes, everything came out, all the fruits, vegetables, all kinds of amazing things. Also, Hashem made a nest so that everything would be straight. You know that on the beach, at the beginning of the sea, it's not deep. Then it gets deeper and deeper and deeper. So Hashem didn't make another big nest so that everything would be straight. They didn't go to the bottom of the sea. Yes, yes. So, yes, there were many, many trials. There were many trials, Baruch Hashem. In this, they call it in Pesach, in the Haggadah. But now, yes, yes, also in Shabbat, but also in the Haggadah, they talk about all the trials. You remember that there is the division between the rabbis on how many trials...
1:10:10And how many makkot were in the sea? 50 or 200 makkot, 200 and so on. So they call it in the Haggadah, they count all the makkot. But there were many, many makkot. You should buy the... There are also very beautiful Midrashim on the Haggadah of Pesach, if you don't have them already. And there is also another book that... They call it... Yes, yes, in the name of G-d, He sent you this. Yes, yes, in the name of G-d, He sent you this. Something really, really beautiful, especially for the children. That's why I'm telling you this. It's also good for the parents, because there are very beautiful midrashim, a lot of wisdom comes from this, but he does it in such a beautiful way that your children will really enjoy it. Really, really beautiful. A beautiful work of his. Yes, a book that's really special. He sent you a picture of it and also the name of it, in the name of G-d. So now, I wanted to get to the issue of faith.
1:11:31There are two things, two things that I really want to say to them. After we crossed the sea, there were miracles. The Holy One will destroy the Egyptians. Not one of them will remain. As the verse says, not one of them will remain. Which means that only one will remain. Only Pharaoh will remain. Only Pharaoh. All nine million will die. Not one of them will remain. After that, in any case, because he crossed the sea in half a circle and really returned... Yes, he became the king of Nineveh. Pharaoh returned to teshuva, became the king of Nineveh, and then Yonah, the prophet, came to him and said to him, if you don't return to teshuva in 40 days, the Holy One will destroy you. And Pharaoh already knew who the Holy One was. He returned them in teshuva. They were ignorant, but they returned in teshuva. That's why the Holy One gave them the test, because He knew that they could pass the test. He sent them a Jewish prophet who didn't really want to do it. He sent him, forced him to go there. When he went to him, that's Pharaoh, he already knew who I am and what I am. They returned in teshuva. They returned in teshuva.
1:12:51And we also know that he is alive. Also, something very nice, a very nice midrash, that now, after all the reading of Yam Suf, we'll go back to it for a second. It says, the song that we sang, then the song of Moshe and the children of Israel, this song to the Lord. Now we say something every day in the prayer; we say in the prayer, also on Shabbat, it says, Mi chamokha, ba'elim Adonai, mi kamokha, ne'edar ba'kodesh. Right? I always thought there was a mistake here. I said, why? Kamocha and Kamocha, they both mean the same thing. It's the same word. But one of them is missing a point. That's why you call it Kamocha. And the other one says Kamocha. So the Midrash tells us that Kamocha, Pharaoh said. And Kamocha, the people of Israel said. Pharaoh was still in the sea. What is Kamocha? It's the same word. It's the same word exactly. But he didn't have the strength. Why does he say Kamocha? Because he didn't have the strength to speak. He was now, the whole sea fell on his head. When you say head to head and to the speaker, I hear better. Yes, like that? Better? Yes, to speak from the speaker to the speaker, I hear better. Okay, yes, so...
1:14:19So, he was in the sea, walking, and he finally knew, after all that happened, he already knew the Holy One, and he said the sentence, it's "Mi Kamocha," but he didn't have the strength to speak, so he said, "Kamocha." The Jewish people, of course, they had the strength, they were very strong, with all the... כל הקדושה שהם ראו, כל הדברים שהם ראו, נתן להם הרבה הרבה הרבה הרבה כוח. ומה באמת גרם להם להגיע לרמה גבוהה מאוד? בפסוק ל"א, שזה לפני השיר, אנחנו לומדים משהו חשוב מאוד שצריכים להבין את זה כדי שנגיע למצב שיהיה לנו בכלל אמונה. Because today there is a lot of confusion. What is faith? What is all the connection with Hashem? We need it to be in love, we need it to be clear, this, this, this, this. So you have a lot of confusion, unfortunately. You have here a verse that tells you exactly the process of how to connect with Hashem. Verse 31 tells you that it is 1431.
1:15:48Vayar Yisrael et hayad ha'gedolah asher asah Hashem b'Mitzrayim, v'yir'u ha'am et Hashem v'ya'aminu b'Hashem u'v'Moshe avdo. B'yado. Pasuk mefursam me'od. Achshav, omer lecha, achshav yesh lecha ta'alich, mamash, chidush nechmad. First of all, it says, the great hand that the Lord made in Egypt. This is the first part. What does it mean, the great hand of Israel? What, they didn't see? What, does the Holy One, blessed be He, have a hand? He doesn't have a hand. He doesn't have a body, and He doesn't have a bodily figure. What, in the end, did they pay attention? Yes. In the end, they paid attention to the blessed Creator and all the miracles He does for them. And they paid attention to the creation of the Creator. today, a person does not pay attention to the creation. He pays attention to himself. He does not pay enough attention to the Creator. He does not understand that every second that he lives, every second is a birth. Every second. If a person begins to understand, if he loves nature, for example, loves science, understands his body, how his body is built, that in the body,
1:17:06there is something called a protein. This protein, you have like trillions of these proteins in your body, and each protein needs to multiply; it's called a protein fold. It needs to multiply in a certain way so that the person will be healthy. Now, you have trillions and trillions of these protein folds. If one, one of these proteins, one of them, doesn't multiply, or doesn't multiply in this precise way, instead of being half over half, like a quarter, it multiplies like a triangle. Or even not 100% precise, the one, the only one, the small one, that you can't even see with your eyes, without a microscope,
1:18:06גּוֹרֵם לָאָדָם אֶת כָּל הַדְּבָרִים, אֶת כָּל הַמַּחֲלוֹת הָרָעוֹת בָּעוֹלָם. בֶּאָדָם לֹא יָכוֹל לִרְאוֹת, בֶּאָדָם לֹא יָכוֹל לִנְשֹׁם, בֶּאָדָם לֹא יָכוֹל לָלֶכֶת, בֶּאָדָם לֹא יָכוֹל לְתַפְקֵד, לֹא יָכוֹל לַחֲשֹׁב. בִּשְׁבִיל אֶחָד מֵהֶם, אֶחָד, אֶחָד, לֹא כְּמוּלָּם, לֹא כְּמוּל אֵיזֶה 20-30, או כְּמוּל אֵיזֶה הַמַּחֲלָה הַגְּדוֹלָה, הַשִּׂמְחָה הַגְּדוֹלָה הַזֹּאת, צַעֲרֵנוּ, וְהַרְבֵּה שֶׁיֵּשׁ. I'm telling you, a small protein, small, tiny, tiny, small, doesn't multiply in this precise way, a person can lose his life. He can't breathe anymore, what can he do? He can't see anymore, he's blind, he can't do anything, he can't function at all. Now, there was this scientist, whose name they didn't remember, who wanted to study, what, like, the statistics, that every protein... He said, that's already too much. So let's do a statistic of one protein. Not all of them, just one. That only one of them will multiply in this exact way between all the trillions that exist. And he came to the agreement that if he connects his computer to the biggest computers in the world, the best in the world, they call it a supercomputer, he says it will take time, just to think about it, just to reach an agreement, not to know, to reach an agreement, that what is it? 10 to the 127th power of years. As if, until the end of the world, it will not be enough.
1:19:30to the biggest computers in the world, the best in the world, they call it a supercomputer. He says it will take time just to think about it, just to reach an agreement—not to know, but to reach an agreement—what is it? 10 to the 127th power of years. As if, until the end of the world, it will not be enough. Like trillions of trillions of trillions of years, just to consider it. To consider what the chance is. So when a person understands things like this, how perfect his body is, he can see, he can act, he can work, he can talk, he can eat, he can go to services, then he sees the great hand of Hashem, and that's exactly The first process of Teshuva. The second process, after you know the Creator, you understand what it is. On the spot, you need to fear. Why? It says so. After the great knowledge of Israel came, which the Lord made in Egypt, and the people saw the Lord. On the spot, they had a yirat Shamayim. Why yirat Shamayim? Because you understand.
1:20:52The Holy One has so much control over everything that I have, everything that I had, everything that I will have. Everything is in His hands. I have nothing. Everything is from Heaven except for yirat Shamayim. Except if I decide by myself to be a tzaddik or a rasha, nothing is in my hands. So when a person understands this, on the spot you need to be afraid. After that, after you get to the point where you have yirat Shamayim, Then it says, a third step, you have come to faith. And the people will see the Lord, and they will believe in the Lord. Then you have come to a situation where you already believe in Hashem. You can come to the faith of Hashem; you can come to a situation where He is part of your day, and you can trust Him in a personal way, in a constant way, and fulfill the verse, as we said before, the Lord is with you, and you will be first. And after you have already arrived, you are afraid of Hashem, you believe in Him, then He says He is in Moshe Avdo. Why is He in Moshe Avdo? Because in Moshe Avdo are all the rabbis of generations, the leaders of the Holy One who come, all the holy rabbis, the good ones, that the Holy One sends to the world.
1:22:10If you see what I am doing for you, it is clear that you have a Heavenly city, and you believe in it. It is clear that you will do what my rabbis say. And work with them. Say, do what you need to do with them. Do what they tell you in the Gemara. What they tell you in the Shulchan Aruch. What is written in the Torah. All the Torah is written on the mouth. Without a doubt. And if you do step one, two, and three, then what happens? Verse one, Chapter fifteen, says: Then Moses and the children of Israel will sing this song to the Lord. then your life, then after you do these things, your life is like a song. It's very beautiful, it's sweet, it's amazing. Both in this world and the next world. That's why the passage starts with "then." It doesn't say, "If it was only about the song, okay, so Moshe and the children of Israel sang a song to Hashem." But it doesn't say that. It says, "Then Moshe will sing." After they had already reached a situation where they saw the great hand of Hashem, they had a heaven of heaven, and they believed in Hashem and Moshe His servant, then they had real joy, that they could live like that with complete faith.
1:23:36That's what a person has to do. Now, how a person—there's something that's also very innovative at the end of the parasha, in the parasha of HaMan, that we received. The Holy One complains to Moshe, after Bnei Yisrael did not listen to him, they went to collect the man in the desert on Shabbat, even though he told them not to do it. So the Holy One says to him, just a second, where is it? Here, verse 1. So the first thing we see here, that God gave us Shabbat,
1:24:52Before He gave us the Torah in writing, and also all the Torah Sheba'al Peh (Oral Torah). Why? Because He said, they are so bad, so bad, I have to give them some great commandments, which are the source of Judaism, the source of the Torah, so that it will reach them, and they will reach Har Sinai (Mount Sinai). But people don't understand it. People think that Shabbat is a kind of middle ground. They don't understand what it is. They don't understand that Shabbat is the source of Judaism. Now, the people of Israel, there were a few of them who didn't have complete faith. They went to gather the people on Shabbat. And the Holy One, blessed be He, said to them, "How long will you go against Me and not keep My commandments and My Torahs?" How long, how long, how long will we reach this time? How long will you go against Me and not keep My commandments and My Torahs? So here are two things we learn. First, we understand that Torah and commandments are two different things.
1:26:03Torah is not just to learn Torah and not to fulfill it. You can't be a slave to the Torah. You can't be a person who just looks for all kinds of things in the Torah just to wait. A person needs to learn Torah and fulfill the mitzvot. Another thing, we understand that there is proof that there are two Torahs, not one. A lot of people think that the Torah in writing is good and beautiful. But there is no Torah. The Torah she’ba’al peh, no. So if there was only one Torah, there was no Torah she’bichtav and Torah she’ba’al peh, it was, it said, Mitzvotai and Torah, and the Torah. Not Torah. So here it is, two Torahs. So now, HaKadosh Baruch Hu is here, the last thing we learn from here, that He tells us, this is really the purpose of life of the person.
1:27:05If a person wants to get to a situation where he does all the things we said, that he will get to a situation where he has complete faith, that everything that happens is guaranteed by Hashem, he never has a doubt from where he came from, he has no doubt if he has time or not to learn Torah, he has no doubt that everything will be fine, he has no doubt if HaKadosh Baruch Hu will fight for him, As long as he does what he wants. So he tells you exactly here what is the process. First of all, pay attention to the creation and His creation. You can't see the creation, so pay attention to His creation and see how much He gives you. Of course, you need to know where to go. You can't get to a high place if you want to be homeless. A person who wants to be rich, he doesn't look at the person next to him. He doesn't look at another person who works at the office. He looks at the CEO. Even if he works in the mailroom. Even if he's a stock boy who makes $5 an hour. He wants to be rich, he has to look at a rich person. He wants to be wise, he has to look at a wise person. He wants to be a righteous person, he has to look at a righteous person. They have to look at something high. That's why they say, shoot for the moon, and if you land on the stars or the clouds, it's okay too. Now, I'm telling you, the first step, first of all, pay attention to the creation of the Creator. The second thing, work on the sky. In our generation, the sky is already at a very high level. Really, a real sky, it's over us. We'll get to the point where we have a sky, like a person has a sky from another person, from a policeman, who stops him at 3 at night.
1:28:34shoot for the moon, and if you land on the stars or the clouds, it's okay too. Now, I'm telling you, the first step, first of all, pay attention to the creation of the Creator. The second thing, work on the sky. In our generation, the sky is already at a very high level. Really, a real sky, it's over us. We'll get to the point where we have a sky, like a person has awe from another person, from a policeman, who stops him at 3 at night. When he is speeding, he's scared of the police, not scared of HaKadosh Baruch Hu. A person is driving to the synagogue, but he's parking the car far from the synagogue because he doesn't want anyone in the community to see him. So he has a vision of a person more than HaKadosh Baruch Hu. Marbin. Marbin, marbin. So first of all, let's sum up this process and everything that's happening here. When he is speeding, he's scared of the police, not scared of HaKadosh Baruch Hu. A person is driving to the synagogue, but he's parking the car far from the synagogue because he doesn't want anyone in the community to see him. So he has a vision of a person more than HaKadosh Baruch Hu. Marbin. Marbin, marbin. And a person wants to get to complete faith. He wants to get to a situation where his life is turned into a song. Really a song. The best song in the world. Both in this world and in the next world. The first process: Pay attention to the creation of the Creator. The second process: Work on the heaven. The third process: Work on faith. And the fourth process: Work on Hashem. How do you do all these things? Exactly what the Holy One says to Moshe.
1:29:46And a person wants to get to complete faith. He wants to get to a situation where his life is turned into a song. Really a song. The best song in the world. Both in this world and in the next world. The first process: Pay attention to the creation of the Creator. The second process: Work on the heavens. The third process: Work on faith. And the fourth process: Work on Hashem. How do you do all these things? Exactly what the Holy One says to Moshe. Tishmor et mitzvotai v'torati. To do all these things without the mitzvot and the Torah is impossible. A person cannot reach the heavens without the mitzvot, without learning the Torah. Impossible, impossible, impossible. He can say that he is religious in his heart until the end of his life. It will not work. The only way, Hashem says it clearly, there is a process to get to a state that you have complete faith that your life will be transformed into a song, into a song, amazing, beautiful. And you, really, every day you live, and you just collect millions of blessings, every day. Your life is good, beautiful, you have no stress, you have nothing, everything that happens, you know that it's all in the hands of Hashem.
1:31:09The only way, Torah and Mitzvot. That's it. That's the process. Baruch Hashem. Baruch Adonai Le'olam, Amen v'Amen. Thank you, thank you. Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen. Amen, Amen, Amen. Thank you, thank you. Amen. Amen. Amen. Shabbat Shalom. Shabbat Shalom. Shabbat Shalom. Shabbat Shalom. Shabbat Shalom. Shabbat Shalom. in the best condition that the people of Israel have, and a lot, a lot, a lot of the people of Israel, not only will they rise, all of us will rise, and we will see the next world beautiful, but we will reach a situation where we have complete faith, and strong, and we have already done all this process. It is really not so far from us, it is not so hard, we just need to work. If we work, with the help of Hashem, we will fight our wars. Amen.
