Learn From Egypt? HaShem Is NOT Kidding!!! (7 Minutes)

0:00right now to leave Egypt. Why? Because just a few weeks ago, 80% of Am Yisrael was killed by Hashem. Only 20% left Egypt. Why did the 80% get killed? Because they didn't want to do teshuva. They didn't want to leave the material world. They didn't want to learn Torah. They didn't want to do mitzvot. They didn't want to do it. So I said, okay, if you don't want to do it, you have no purpose in the world. At least the goyim, they have a purpose. Some of them have a purpose to help the Jews. Some have a purpose of going against the Jews. So, I'm not going to kill them, whether they're from Greece, or they're from Rome, or they're from America, or they're from all over the world. Can you do that? I don't have to kill them because they're not doing Torah. They're not obligated by the same level of Torah as you are. But you are a Jew. You are obligated to follow it. You have no choice. It's not free choice like people think. It's a choice: you do it, you get a reward; you don't do it, you get punishment. It's not like people think that free choice is that if you... It's something like when you can do whatever you want, then Hashem is just going to deal with the consequences. He's going to forgive you. If you do what He says, He loves you extra. If you don't do what He says...

1:20Okay, don't worry about it. That's what people's mentality is. And it couldn't be further from the truth. The choice that Hashem really gives us is that if you do what He says, you get a reward. If you don't do it, you get a punishment. So it's just like, for example, if somebody says, come to work and I'll give you $100. But if you don't come to work, I'm going to send my hitman, and they're going to beat you up all day. That's the choice that we really have. It's reward or punishment. There's no nothing. There's no "if you don't come to work, you get nothing; you could just take the day off." So Am Yisrael here is very, very upset because only 20% survived. As a matter of fact, some of the sages say that only 1 out of 500 actually left Egypt, meaning a half of a percent. Not even a tenth of a percent. A... 1% of 1,000 is 10, so I guess 2 out of 1,000 actually left Egypt. One Midrash I actually read, where is it? Oh, here it is. In Me'am Loez, this is really mind-boggling. I never knew this. Even though I read it and I took notes on it, I just never noticed it.

2:39or remembered it, is that actually one sage, there's a couple of sages in Mechilta and different Midrashim, that say it wasn't one out of five, it wasn't one out of 500, it was one out of 500,000 that survived. So you're talking about one out of 500,000. Just too little. That pretty much means that Hashem nearly annihilated the entire nation. Why? They didn't want to do teshuva. So, the estimate that they have here is that if the number of Jews that left Egypt was 3 million, which is the lowest estimate there is, the number is probably much higher. The original number that was in Egypt was somewhere around 300 million Jews. Obviously, this is a much larger number than the Jews have available today. Some numbers are even higher than that. But nonetheless, when the Jews left Egypt, we found out something very, very important about God. He's not kidding. He's not kidding. He's not like mankind where he says to do something, you don't do it. He says, okay, you know what, no big deal.

4:06We talked about last time I was here, when he constantly mentions in the last few parashot and in this parashah again, I'm Hashem. I am G-d. When he says, I am G-d, he means, I am G-d, I keep my word. I don't change my mind. I'm not like mankind where I say one thing one day and I change my mind the next day. I don't break my promises. I don't forget. If I say there's a reward and punishment, there's a reward and punishment. if you don't want to do what I brought you to this world to do, I don't need you. So when people say, listen, but it says in the Torah, God is merciful. How is He merciful if He killed, according to this sage, 499,999 Jews out of every 500,000 and only let one survive? How is that mercy? Now, on one end, you can see, no, wait a minute, maybe that's not mercy. But in reality, it is mercy. The fact that so many were bad, and He still didn't just give up on the whole nation like He did with the times of Noah. He technically had 499,999 reasons to destroy the whole world. Forget just the nation of Israel. And He only had one, maybe, a reason to keep it. And even the ones that survived, it wasn't like they were tzaddikim. But in reality, it is mercy. The fact that so many were bad, and He still didn't just give up on the whole nation like He did in the times of Noach. He technically had 499,999 reasons to destroy the whole world. Forget just the nation of Israel. And He only had one, maybe, reason to keep it. And even the ones that survived, it wasn't like they were tzaddikim.

5:32they were still at the 49th level of tumah, 49th level of impurity. They were just one level away, one sin away, from getting to level 50, which means they're part of the 500,000. He has to destroy them. They're one sin away. So even the ones that are left are not exactly in good shape. So technically, He had all the reasons, Hashem, to destroy everything. So the mercy in that time, you see, is that He didn't destroy it. Where's the mercy in our time? It's even more today than it was back then. Because, number one, Jews are not exactly all doing everything He says around the world. Many of us are not. But He doesn't punish us the same way. He gives us time. We violate Shabbat. No one's dying. You don't see people all of a sudden, you know, the guy drives, you know, turns on the car on Shabbat, the car blows up. You don't see that. Someone smokes a cigarette on Shabbat, all of a sudden his head blows up. You don't see that either. He's not punishing you. Or someone eats pork on Yom Kippur with some cheese on it. You don't see him choking to death. Nothing.

6:55You don't see him choking to death. Someone even says things against Hashem. Lightning doesn't strike him. He gives him more time. More time to eventually wake up because this is the last chance. There's no second chance. This was the first chance here in Mitzrayim. That's why the punishment came right away. Here He's giving us more time. He even has more mercy on us now. Because this is the last chance. The Moshiach is around the corner.