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color: black;&quot;&gt;A very young man or teen the son of my friend from the Yeshuv has colon cancer: Zvi Moshe ben Miriam Rachel please add him to the prayer list.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);&quot;&gt;Shlomo Zalman ben Rivka passed away.
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;This week’s Parsha – Yisro should be a joyous one for everybody with the establishment of a court hierarchy and the giving of the Torah but for me it is always the Parsha around the time of the passing of my father Felix ben Yitzchak Pauli on Chaf Gimmel Shvat. I thereby dedicate this Issue to his memory.  &lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;Error – Last week out of my usual learning of Shulchan Aruch with Rabbi Mimran I wrote Orech Chaim which is the path of a practical life. The commentary is Ohr HaChaim who was a holy Rabbi (see story below)
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;13: 20 And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness. 21 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; that they might go by day and by night: 22 the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, departed not from before the people.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;HASHEM’s plan vs. Pharaoh’s thoughts: At first it looks like the people are going out in the wilderness three days. Anyone who views the map sees the Bnei Yisrael leaving in one direction and then doubling back but further away in the next direction. That is of course based on standard interpretation. The recently has been archeological evidence of chariot wheels in a very narrow and not deep channel of the Red Sea between Sinai and Saudi with pillars on the Saudi-Side. It could very well be that the sea was lower in those days with more ice in glaciers and an earthquake and strong wind would make the sea part. That is going away from tradition and one must always take the tradition into account. The only problem is that on the traditional site there are no chariots and chariot wheels found at the bottom of the sea. This would make an escape route more directly north east from Goshen towards Neueva (between Sharm-el-sheik and Eilat.&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;  
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;Now Pharaoh’s plan was to give the Bnei Yisrael off three days for sacrifice and three days to return. Upon seeing that they have fled either by the traditional route or the other route, he amassed an army to bring back his cheap slave labor.&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt; 
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;Coming out a week later I had a chance to pick up the Drasha of Rabbi Yosef Y. Serbeyanski Shlita: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt;Creating a new system that does not harbor any of the corruption present in society or individuals is a daunting, if not impossible, task. People are yearning for change. When a new a system is in any way reminiscent of the former system, it is easy to slip back into old habits. A shift needs to take place that brings about the demise of the old ways. This is not easy an easy task as the system one replaces generally is of some value. It is necessary to cause a shift that result in the cessation of those things that would cause reversion to the destructive traits of the old system.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt;(Exodus 13:17) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;“&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;And it was when “pharaoh”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt; (the power that strangles people) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;sent out the people, and ELOKIM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10); font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt;(a power of boundaries) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;did not let them go out the way&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10); font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt;(direction)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10); font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;of the plishtim&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10); font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt;(those who lived without proper boundaries)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10); font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;because it was close&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt; (and might bring them back to their past issues in life).”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt;The systems we need have existed in the past. Some of their components still exist here at the present time. However, they have been hidden away by controlling people who fear seeing the truth exposed. Those people, who are in positions of power, constantly attempt to crush any voice of opposition.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt;Before the world degenerates to the point of where our society is completely destroyed, we must work together to evoke the power that can reverse that flow. Each individual’s “gift” and talents will add to the groups’ surge. By working in unison, they will be able to triumph over the opposition. Yet, this can only begin if we each open the door to the resurfacing of our individuality. Doing so will allow those who are connected for such purpose to emerge on the scene and make a definitive difference.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt;Understanding the vast problems that we encounter today can be depressing. Endeavoring to create a new system requires as much wisdom as it does heart. We must have a broad perspective of limitations and their effects; a comprehension of balances and imbalances, as well as an overall relationship to, and understanding of, movement, physical and spiritual, energy and emotion.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt;A comprehensive combination as described above will allow for movement to occur that can create the base for expansion minus the fears that have plagued society. This planet was designed with adequate resources to provide enough land, food and water for everyone. We need to restore the planet in order to insure that each person has his/her own resources and place that cannot be taken away from them. It is an issue of personal space – not ownership for profit.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt;We must take the lessons of the history of life on this planet with us as we move beyond our present situation. Each person must be prepared to actively resist those who attempt to control things in accordance with the old system of power. People who are not able to accept and adjust to a system based in truth will die out, never having experienced ultimate freedom.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt;At some point a central figure may appear to guide us to the future. The occurrence of certain drastic events will be the impetus for people to react to that person and to push their existing leaders to recognize truth and make proper changes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt;We are preparing the groundwork for the future. Working together we can practice the principles of pure love within society’s boundaries. It allows individuals the right to grow and express themselves openly without fear of judgment. Once the fear is erased more of mankind will learn to go with the natural flow of nature, enabling us to come together as one.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(227, 108, 10);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;Change can be made if it is positive and helps the people and education is there. Unfortunately it took 40 years of education to produce a free thinking nation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt; &lt;!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--&gt;
&lt;br /&gt; &lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;Now the nation left armed and Rashi comments: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;armed: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;Heb. &lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;חִמֻשִׁים וַחִמֻשִׁים&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; [in this context] can only mean “armed.” (Since He led them around in the desert [circuitously], He caused them to go up armed, for if He had led them around through civilization, they would not have [had to] provide for themselves with everything that they needed, but only [part,] like a person who travels from place to place and intends to purchase there whatever he will need. But if he travels a long distance into a desert, he must prepare all his necessities for himself. This verse was written only to clarify the matter, so you should not wonder where they got weapons in the war with Amalek and in the wars with Sihon and Og and Midian, for the Israelites smote them with the point of the sword.) [In an old Rashi]) And similarly [Scripture] says: “and you shall cross over armed (&lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;חִמֻשִׁים&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;)” (Josh. 1:14). And so too Onkelos rendered &lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;מְזָרְזִין&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; just as he rendered: “and he armed (&lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;וְזָרֵיז&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) his trained men” (Gen. 14:14). Another interpretation: &lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;חִמֻשִׁים&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; means “divided by five,” [meaning] that one out of five (&lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;חִמִֹשָה&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) [Israelites] went out, and four fifths [lit., parts of the people] died during the three days of darkness [see Rashi on Exod. 10:22]. — [from Mechilta, Tanchuma, Beshalach 1]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;14:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 &#039;Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal-zephon, over against it shall ye encamp by the sea.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;A bewildering command based on faith alone for the natural tendency of a slave is to flee the master and run or 600,000 free men against 600 chariots to fight by sheer numbers. Instead of the slaves fleeing, they are told to turn back!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;3 And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel: They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;A great strategy to be trapped between the mountains and the sea and Pharaoh coming in from the other side so militarily, it is the biggest strategical blunder that one can imagine.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;4 And I will harden Pharaoh&#039;s heart, and he shall follow after them; and I will get Me honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD.&#039; And they did so.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;For a man it is a strategical blunder but not for the L-RD to avenge HIMSELF on Pharaoh.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people were fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned towards the people, and they said: &#039;What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;Please remember that there is no early or late in the Torah this action appears to be simultaneous with the movements of the Bnei Yisrael.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;6 And he made ready his chariots, and took his people with him. 7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, and captains over all of them.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;This was the equivalent to perhaps thousands of tanks in modern warfare terms. It was a massive mobile force for 3300 years ago.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;8 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh King of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;Pharaoh was still a god to the Egyptians and he was a threat in the mindset of the Bnei Yisrael. He was therefore being lured in to total and absolute defeat. The answer is in Pasuk 13 below:&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&#039;Fear ye not, standstill, and see the salvation of the LORD, which He will work for you to-day; for whereas ye have seen the Egyptians to-day, ye shall see them again no more forever&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 16pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;. &lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(192, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;RECENT MIRACLE ALERT:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;It has to take the greatest of all prophets to calm down the nation. If you think that many of us are not worried about what the Iranians, Syrians and their surrogates can throw at us you are mistaken. Our Sages tell us do not rely upon miracles but we really have nothing else to rely on. The only thing we have to go on is 10,000 or more missiles and mortars hurled at the Negev with very few casualties and the same with the 4000 missiles and exploding bombs with screws in population centers in the north. The rockets attacked the Arab, Druze, Bedouin, Christian and Jewish settlements indiscriminately but we get blamed for war crimes by the UN biased report. For as the Gemara in Sotah 49B writes “We have no one to trust but our father in heaven.”&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt; 
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;9 And the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;Pharaoh is now rubbing his hands together shouting “Got you trapped now back to the Pyramids”,&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt; 
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were sore afraid; and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;600 Chariots and some foot soldiers and task masters all coming at once a formable force. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;(See below for Egypt’s arms request from the USA)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;11 And they said unto Moses: &#039;Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? Wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to bring us forth out of &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;?
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;This is the mental thoughts of a weak people without real faith and trust in HASHEM. Miracles as I wrote can strengthen a person’s resolve if he is a believer it is something that goes in one ear and out the other of the non-believer.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;12 Is not this the word that we spoke unto thee in Egypt, saying: Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.&#039; 13 And Moses said unto the people: &#039;Fear ye not, standstill, and see the salvation of the LORD, which He will work for you to-day; for whereas ye have seen the Egyptians to-day, ye shall see them again no more forever. 14 The LORD will fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.&#039;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;15 And the LORD said unto Moses: &#039;Wherefore do you cry unto Me? speak unto the children of &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, that they go forward.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;Why do you cry out to Me: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;[This verse] teaches us that Moses was standing and praying. The Holy One, blessed be He, said to him, “This is no time to pray at length, when Israel is in distress.” Another explanation [of God’s question (Why do you cry out to me?) implies]: “The matter depends on Me and not on you,” as it is said further [in Scripture]: “Concerning My children and the work of My hands do you command Me?” (Isa. 45:11). — [from Mechilta, Exod. Rabbah 21:8] &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;Speak to the children of Israel and let them travel: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;They have nothing to do but to travel, for the sea will not stand in their way. The merit of their forefathers and their own [merit], and the faith they had in Me when they came out [of Egypt] are sufficient to split the sea for them. — [from Mechilta, Exod. Rabbah 21:8]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;16 And lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the sea, and divide it; and the children of Israel shall go into the midst of the sea on dry ground. 17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them; and I will get Me honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen. 18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten Me honor upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.&#039; 19 And the angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud removed from before them, and stood behind them;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;and the pillar of cloud moved away: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;When it became dark, and the pillar of cloud delivered the camp to the pillar of fire, the cloud did not go away as it would customarily go away completely in the evening, but it moved away and went behind them [the Israelites] to make it dark for the Egyptians.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;20 and it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness here, yet gave it light by night there; and the one came not near the other all the night. 21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. 22 And the children of &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. 23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh&#039;s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen. 24 And it came to pass in the morning watch, that the LORD looked forth upon the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and discomfited the host of the Egyptians.
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;It came about in the morning watch: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;Heb. &lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;בְּאַֹשְמֹרֶת&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. The three parts of the night are called, &lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;אַשְׁמוּרוּת&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, watches (Ber. 3b), and the one [watch] before morning is called &lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;אַשְׁמֹרֶתהַבֹּקֶר&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, the morning watch. I say that because the night is divided into the watches of the songs of the ministering angels, one group after another into three parts, it is called &lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;אַשְׁמֹרֶת&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, watch. This is what Onkelos [means when he] renders &lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;מַטְּרַת&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;looked down: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;Heb. &lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;וַיַּשְׁקֵף&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, looked, that is to say that He turned toward them to destroy them, and the Targum [Onkelos] renders: &lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;וְאִסְךְתְּכֵי&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. This too is an expression of looking, like “to the field of seers” (Num. 23:14), [which Onkelos renders:] &lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;לַחִקַל סָכוּתָא&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;through a pillar of fire and cloud: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;The pillar of cloud descends and makes it [the earth] like mud, and the pillar of fire boils it [the earth], and the hoofs of their horses slip. — [from Mechilta] &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;and He threw the Egyptian camp into confusion: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;Heb. &lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;וַיָּהָם&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, an expression of confusion, estordison in Old French. He confused them; He took away their intelligence. We learned in the chapters of Rabbi Eliezer the son of Rabbi Yose the Galilean [not found in our edition] [that] wherever it says &lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;מְהוּמָה&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; [confusion], it means a tumultuous noise. And the “father” of them all, [the best example of the use of &lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;מְהוּמָה&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, is [in the verse:] “and the Lord thundered with a loud noise, etc., on the Philistines and threw them into confusion (&lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;וַיְהוּמֵּם&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;)” (I Sam. 7:10).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;25 And He took off their chariot wheels, and made them to drive heavily; so that the Egyptians said: &#039;Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians.&#039;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;And He removed the wheels of their chariots: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;With the fire the wheels were burned, and the chariots dragged, and those sitting in them were moved to and fro, and their limbs were wrenched apart. — [from an unknown source, similar to Mechilta] &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;and He led them with heaviness: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;In a manner that was heavy and difficult for them. [This punishment was] in the measure that they [the Egyptians had] measured [to the Israelites], namely “and he made his heart heavy, he and his servants” (Exod. 9:34). Here too, “He led them with heaviness.” -[from an unknown source, similar to Mechilta] &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;is fighting for them against the Egyptians: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;Heb. &lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;בְּמִצְרָיִם&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, [is like] against the Egyptians. Alternatively: &lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;בְּמִצְרָיִם&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; [means] in the land of Egypt, for just as these [Egyptians] were being smitten in the sea, so were those remaining in Egypt being smitten. — [from Mechilta]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;The Archeologists have found this evidence in the Red Sea in a narrow and shallow part. However, by the Torah calling this area Yam Soof or the sea of reeds we go back to the traditional way.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;26 And the LORD said unto Moses: &#039;Stretch out thy hand over the sea, that the waters may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.&#039; 27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black;&quot;&gt;I received another true story based on Lenny’s story last  week.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black;&quot;&gt;Reminds me of a story that happened in NYC a while ago: Told to me by a  doctor, now at another hospital.  Some old guy comes into Sloan  hospital and asks where can he make a donation.  So the information  person&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black; font-size: 10pt;&quot;&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black;&quot;&gt;sends  him to the head of donations, and the guy, seeing this little man poorly  dressed, calls over one of his aids to handle the gift.  The aid asks the  man how much he wants to give, but the man is shy.  Instead, the man asks  the aid how much for one of those placards on the wall?  Which one?   The little one, so the aid tells him.  The man says he can give  a little more, so what do those larger placards cost.  So the aid  tells him.  The man asks what types of larger donations are given.  So  the aid tells him, you can donate a room, or a hall, or a wing.   What&#039;s a wing, the man asks.  So the aid tells him and it&#039;s cost.   So can someone give a larger donation?  Yes, the aid says, you can  donate a building but that costs a lot, and he tells him the cost.   So the  man takes out his checkbook, writes a check for a donated building, and then  asks if his name can be put on the building. The aid doesn&#039;t know if he&#039;s being  confronted with a hoax, or a senile old man, or if its real. It was real, and  the aid took the finder&#039;s fee to the bank.  And the doctor telling me the  story wondered what the head of donations thought, having pushed off the old man  onto his aid.  So we can honor the suit or the man.  In the army, they  honor the suit.  While not in the army, we should honor the man. Shalom and  Shalom, Laib&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;I know I mentioned a  vacation by making the Drasha by-weekly as I have to gather IRS info and 3000  plus photos waiting photo-shop and a learning curve for Win-7. I guess Rabbis  only find time in the next world: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;Dearest  Rachamim, You do deserve a rest, however, the Jewish people can&#039;t afford to  do without your Torah and articles.   We thank you deeply for printing  so many of ours.   Good Shabbos.  All the very best, Gail  &amp;amp; Manny Winston&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);&quot;&gt;Steve wrote me  regarding Haiti: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);&quot;&gt;&quot;I was with Ed last  night at the DC Works For Us meeting in Coral Springs. He spoke about what he  and Robert saw in Haiti and was quite emotional. Karin Hoffman read a letter  from Robert who was at a fundraiser for Haiti. She was getting choked up reading  Robert&#039;s account of the conditions and the incredible leadership that Edward  showed while they were there. I&#039;ve never been so proud to know two men as I am  of Robert and Edward.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(232, 76, 6);&quot;&gt;Shona wrote on the  same subject: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(232, 76, 6);&quot;&gt;Did you see the video  I posted last night on what Curt Price and Joe Bud did to Ed while he was in  Haiti this week? Just despicable! Both men took time off from their campaigns to  help down there in any way that they could and these two charlatans take  advantage of Ed not being here to defend himself and slander him! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(0, 204, 0);&quot;&gt;Essentially in  politics you suspend your campaign to help the people of Haiti and the other  side tries to run you over – filthy stuff is politics that was one of but not  all of the reasons that I chose not to run this time around.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(0, 204, 0);&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black;&quot;&gt;Bat-Zion sent: Anyone  who believes that Saddam did not have WMD is detached from reality.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;This  msg. was supposed to be about Tony Blair but it goes well for those who blame  Bush for false information. I have heard from very reliable sources that they  did have WMD.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black;&quot;&gt;Parsha  Bo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black;&quot;&gt;Repeating  in small letters from last week.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(0, 204, 0); font-size: 10pt;&quot;&gt;Idol  worship vs. Bnei Yisrael Monotheism: The ideas here came from Image Magazine,  the OU and Chabad which was the magazine’s source. The form of worship of  Idolatry was what Pharaoh was used to. Idolatry consisted of a priest (hood) and  the worshippers would come. Most worshippers were male except in fertility cults  and in any event children did not participate nor the animals in this endeavor.  The worship of Yacov was one of prayer with education for future generations.  Thus in Judaism each Jew when he starts saying the blessings becomes a  participant and anyone can lead the service if he knows well enough the prayer.  This means that a school boy in Heder could lead the prayer of the small things  that they say each morning by heart. Thus from pre-kindergarten the children  learn prayer before they can read. Every once in a while, I will see a child in  Schul or my grandchild take a Siddur and pray whatever he thinks the prayer is.  In short Moshe was talking to Pharaoh about our way of prayer and he was talking  his version of worship. To this day, Judaism has private confessions and no  intermediaries between HASHEM and the Jew.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(0, 204, 0); font-size: 10pt;&quot;&gt;With  this type of thinking in mind, we see what Pharaoh and his advisors through of  Moshe wanting all the Bnei Yisrael to leave Egypt.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(0, 204, 0); font-size: 10pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;10:1 And the  LORD said unto Moses: &#039;Go in unto Pharaoh; for I have hardened his heart, and  the heart of his servants, that I might show these My signs in the midst of  them;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;Bo means come and Lech  means go in Hebrew. Chabad.org translates this as: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;coversetext&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;The Lord said to Moses: &quot;Come to  Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, in order  that I may place these signs of Mine in his midst, &lt;span style=&quot;color: green;&quot;&gt;This means essentially – come as I am already with Pharaoh  and I await your arrival do not fear for no harm will come unto  you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;coversetext&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;2 and that  thou may tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son&#039;s son, what I have wrought  upon Egypt, and My signs which I have done among them; that ye may know that I  am the LORD.&#039; 3 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him:  &#039;Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews: How long wilt thou refuse to humble  thyself before Me? let My people go, that they may serve Me. 4 Else, if thou  refuse to let My people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy  border; 5 and they shall cover the face of the earth, that one shall not be able  to see the earth; and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which  remains unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out  of the field;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;And no one will be  able: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;Heb. &lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;יוּכַל&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; lit., and  will not be able. The seer [will not be able] to see the earth, but [the text]  speaks briefly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;This supposedly according to our Sages was surpassed in the days of Yoel  HaNovi when the locusts hit Egypt in force. The fact that billions perhaps  trillions of locusts attacked the remaining crops literally ruined the complete  harvest for all of Egypt for the coming year. Egypt was not an orphan because  they had grain stores from the days of Yosef. This was also a hint to them to  remember Yosef and his origins but they did not. The Sages wanted us to know our  history well as they wrote: “What happened to the fathers are warnings for the  sons.” (Anybody remember the Jerusalem of the west aka Berlin of the late 1890’s  which became the Berlin of 1933 to 1945 – this makes me wonder about the current  presidential administration and the Jews in the USA.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;6 and thy  houses shall be filled, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of  all the Egyptians; as neither thy fathers nor thy fathers&#039; fathers have seen,  since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day.&#039; And he turned, and  went out from Pharaoh. 7 And Pharaoh&#039;s servants said unto him: &#039;How long shall  this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their  God, know thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?&#039;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;At this point Pharaoh’s advisors who have not had their hearts hardened  turn to Pharaoh. Since Pharaoh is now beyond Tshuvah, he has his heart hardened  by G-D see that the women are not to be included. IT IS TO NOTE THAT JUDAISM HAS  ALWAYS AND WILL ALWAYS CONSIDER THE WIFE AND DAUGHTER AN INTERGRAL PART OF THE  RELIGION. ALBEIT DIFFERENT FROM MALES, FEMALES HAVE THE ROLE OF HALF OF JUDAISM  FROM A DIFFERENT STANDPOINT. For men and women are purposely created by G-D with  different functions, emotional make-up and logic to complement one another. The  man/woman as written in Beresheis is not whole without the other. A woman is not  expected to pray three times a day if she is a mother any more than a man is  expected to suckle an infant. That does not mean that if one of them is ill or  passes away that the other cannot step up and fill in the gap. It means that  under normal circumstances each fills complementary functions. The will often  tell the husband what to purchase for Shabbos and the husband will bring home  the goods. Sometimes the cooking is split or the husband helps hang out or fold  up the wash. To each household a different task.&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt; 
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;8 And Moses  and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh; and he said unto them: &#039;Go, serve the  LORD your God; but who are they that shall go?&#039; 9 And Moses said: &#039;We will go  with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our  flocks and with our herds we will go; for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.&#039;  10 And he said unto them: &#039;So be the LORD with you, as I will let you go, and  your little ones; see ye that evil is before your face. 11 Not so; go now ye  that are men, and serve the LORD; for that is what ye desire.&#039; And they were  driven out from Pharaoh&#039;s presence.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;12 And the  LORD said unto Moses: &#039;Stretch out thy hand over the land of Egypt for the  locusts that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the  land, even all that the hail hath left.&#039;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;G-D says OK Egypt take this and see what happens to those who defy and  anger the L-RD. (Let this be a lesson to us all. G-D is very patient. It took  210 years of slavery before HE freed the Bnei Yisrael. The same with Germany  which ended up with Dresden and Berlin in rubble for their behavior towards the  Jews – as for Iran and many Arab countries draw your own  conclusion.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;13 And Moses  stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east  wind upon the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the  east wind brought the locusts. 14 And the locusts went up over all the  land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of  Egypt; very grievous were they;  before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be  such.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;As I mentioned before  concerning Yoel: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;and after it, there  will never be one like it: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;And the one [the  locust plague] that took place in the days of Joel, about which it is said: “the  like of which has never been” (Joel 2:2), [from which] we learn that it was more  severe than that of [the plague in the days of] Moses-namely because that one  was [composed] of many species [of locusts] that were together: arbeh, yelek,  chasil, [and] gazam; but [the locust plague] of Moses consisted of only one  species [the arbeh], and its equal never was and never will be.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;Although I am uncertain  what these four forms of locusts were they could have been large and small  locusts or grasshoppers, katydids, crickets and locusts – the question remains  unanswered.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;15 For they covered the face of the whole  earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land,  and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left; and there remained not  any green thing, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of  Egypt. 16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said: &#039;I have  sinned against the LORD your God, and against you. 17 Now therefore forgive, I  pray thee, my sin only this once, and entreat the LORD your God, that He may  take away from me this death only.&#039; 18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and  entreated the LORD. 19 And the LORD turned an exceeding strong west wind, which  took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea; there remained not one  locust in all the border of Egypt. 20 But the LORD hardened  Pharaoh&#039;s heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;21 And the  LORD said unto Moses: &#039;Stretch out thy hand toward heaven, that there may be  darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.&#039;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;and the darkness will  become darker: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;Heb. &lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;וְיָמֵֹש חֹש&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;, [signifies] and the  darkness will become darker upon them than the darkness of night, and the  darkness of night will become even darker (&lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;וְיַאֲמִישׁ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;).  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;will become darker:  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;Heb. &lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;וְיָמֵשׁ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, [should be  interpreted] like &lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;וְיַאִמֵשׁ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. There are many words which lack the  “aleph”; since the pronunciation of the “aleph” is not so noticeable, Scripture  is not particular about its absence, e.g., “in and no Arab shall pitch his tent  (&lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;יַהֵל&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) there” (Isa. 13:20), &lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;יַהֵל&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is] the same as &lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;וְיַאִהֵל&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;; “For You  have girded me (&lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;וַךְתַּזְרֵנִי&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) with strength” (II Sam. 22:40) is like  &lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;וַךְתְּאַז ְרֵנִי&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (Ps. 18:40). Onkelos, however, rendered it &lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;וְיָמֵשׁ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; as an  expression of removal, similar to “He did not move (&lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;לֹא-יָמִישׁ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) ”  (Exod. 13:22): [Onkelos thus understands the verse to mean] “after the darkness  of night turns away,” when it approaches the light of day. But [according to  Onkelos] the context does not fit with the “vav” of &lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;וְיָמֵשׁ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; because it  is written after “and there will be darkness” [and the darkness will turn away,  and there will be darkness]. The Aggadic Midrash (Exod. Rabbah 14:1-3)  interprets it &lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;וְיָמֵשׁ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; as an expression [related to] “grope about (&lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;מְמַֹשֵשׁ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) at  noontime” (Deut. 28: 29), for it [the darkness] was doubled, redoubled, and  thick to the degree that it was tangible. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;It should be noted that  Onkelos is the Hebrewization of Achilles.&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;  
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;This was no ordinary  darkness it came out of Gehenna (hell) and had awesome and fearsome qualities  about it.&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt; 
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;22 And Moses  stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all  the land of Egypt three days;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;and there was thick  darkness… for three days, etc.: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;Thick darkness in  which they did not see each other for those three days, and another three days  of darkness twice as dark as this, so that no one rose from his place. If he was  sitting, he was unable to stand, and if he was standing, he was unable to sit.  Now why did He bring darkness upon them [the Egyptians]? Because there were  among the Israelites in that generation wicked people who did not want to leave  [Egypt]. They died during the three days of darkness, so that the Egyptians  would not see their downfall and say, “They too are being smitten like us.”  Also, the Israelites searched [the Egyptians’ dwellings during the darkness] and  saw their [own] belongings. When they were leaving [Egypt] and asked [for some  of their things], and they [the Egyptians] said, “We have nothing,” he [the  Israelite] would say to him, “I saw it in your house, and it is in such and such  a place.” -[from Jonathan; Tanchuma, Bo 3; Tanchuma, Vaera 14; Tanchuma Buber,  Bo 3] &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;three days:  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;Heb. &lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;שְׁלשֶׁתיָמִים&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, a  triad of days [a group of three consecutive days], terzeyne in Old French, and  similarly, &lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;שִׁבְעַתיָמִים&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; everywhere means a seteyne of days [a group  of seven consecutive days].&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;Supposedly the Egyptians were blinded at this time but the Bnei Yisrael  could see where the gold and silver of the Egyptians were&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;- a nice Midrash but does not coincide  with reality for the land of Goshen was at least 101 kilometers from central  Egypt as we know from the Yom Kippur War. Rather I prefer the Rashi which states  that 4 out of 5 aka 80% of the Bnei Yisrael were not worthy of redemption and  they perished during this plague, were buried and mourned and the Egyptians  never knew of the Shiva so that they could not say “Just as we were punished –  so too the Bnei Yisrael.”
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;23 they saw  not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days; but all the  children of Israel had light in their dwellings. 24 And Pharaoh called unto  Moses, and said: &#039;Go ye, serve the LORD; only let your flocks and your herds be  stayed; let your little ones also go with you.&#039; 25 And Moses said: &#039;Thou must  also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt-offerings, that we may sacrifice  unto the LORD our God. 26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not a  hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the LORD our God; and we  know not with what we must serve the LORD, until we come thither.&#039; 27 But the  LORD hardened Pharaoh&#039;s heart, and he would not let them go. 28 And Pharaoh said  unto him: &#039;Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for in  the day thou see my face thou shall die.&#039; 29 And Moses said: &#039;Thou hast spoken  well; I will see thy face again no more.&#039;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;You have spoken  correctly: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;You have spoken  appropriately, and you have spoken at the right time. It is true that I shall no  longer see your face. — [from Mechilta on Exod. 12:31]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;From this I learn that as Moshe ascended to the heights of heaven he  passed by the gates of Gehennom and saw Pharaoh neither in the gate or out of  the gate standing there until the Moshiach comes to Judge him and crying “Moshe  Emmet u-Torato&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Emmet.” (Moshe is  truth and his Torah is truth.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;11:1 And the  LORD said unto Moses: &#039;Yet one plague more will I bring upon Pharaoh, and upon  Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence; when he shall let you go, he shall  surely thrust you out hence altogether. 2 Speak now in the ears of the people,  and let them ask every man of his neighbor, and every woman of her neighbour,  jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.&#039; 3 And the LORD gave the people favor in  the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the  land of  Egypt, in the sight of  Pharaoh&#039;s servants, and in the sight of the people. 4 And Moses said: &#039;Thus says  the LORD: About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;At the dividing point  of the night: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;Heb. &lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;כַּחִצֹתהַלַיְלָה&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;,  when the night is divided. &lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;כַּחִצֹת&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is like “when the meal offering was offered  up (&lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;כַּעִלוֹת&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) ” (II Kings 3:20); [and like] “when their anger was kindled  (&lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;בַּחִרוֹת&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) against us” (Ps. 124:3). This is its simple meaning, which fits  its context that &lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;חִצֹת &lt;/span&gt;is not a noun denoting a  half. Our Rabbis, however, interpreted it like &lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;כַּחִצִי  הַלַיְלָה&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, at about midnight  [lit., half the night], and they said that Moses said &lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;כַּחִצֹת&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, about  midnight, meaning near it [midnight], either before it or after it, but he did  not say &lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;בַּחִצֹת&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, at midnight, lest Pharaoh’s astrologers err and [then] say,  “Moses is a liar,” but the Holy One, blessed be He, Who knows His times and His  seconds, &lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;בַּחִצוֹת&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, at midnight. — [from Ber.  3b]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;Rashi explains the difference between G-D and man. The  astrologers/astronomers can estimate even within a precision of a split second  but HASHEM can be 100% accurate. Thus Moshe uses about midnight even though  HASHEM told him exactly midnight.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;5 and all the  first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that  sits upon his throne, even unto the first-born of the maid-servant that is  behind the mill; and all the first-born of cattle. 6 And there shall be a great  cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has been none like it, nor  shall be like it any more. 7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not  a dog whet his tongue, against man or beast; that ye may know how that the LORD  does put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel. 8 And all these thy  servants shall come down unto me, and bow down unto me, saying: Get thee out,  and all the people that follow thee; and after that I will go out.&#039; And he went  out from Pharaoh in hot anger. 9 And the LORD said unto Moses: &#039;Pharaoh will not  hearken unto you; that My wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.&#039; 10  And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh; and the LORD hardened  Pharaoh&#039;s heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;12:1 And the  LORD spoke unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying: 2 &#039;This month shall be unto  you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;Now it is time to recall  the first Rashi on Beresheis 1:1 - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;In the beginning:  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;Said Rabbi Isaac: It  was not necessary to begin the Torah except from “This month is to you,” (Exod.  12:2) which is the first commandment that the Israelites were commanded, (for  the main purpose of the Torah is its commandments, and although several  commandments are found in Genesis, e.g., circumcision and the prohibition of  eating the thigh sinew, they could have been included together with the other  commandments). Now for what reason did He commence with “In the beginning?”  Because of [the verse] “The strength of His works He related to His people, to  give them the inheritance of the nations” (Ps. 111:6). For if the nations of the  world should say to Israel, “You are robbers, for you conquered by force the  lands of the seven nations [of Canaan],” they will reply, &quot;The entire earth  belongs to the Holy One, blessed be He; He created it (this we learn from the  story of the Creation) and gave it to whomever He deemed proper When He wished,  He gave it to them, and when He wished, He took it away from them and gave it to  us.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(102, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;3 Speak ye  unto all the congregation of Israel, saying: In the tenth day of this month they  shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers&#039; houses, a lamb  for a household; 4 and if the household be too little for a lamb, then shall he  and his neighbor next unto his house take one according to the number of the  souls; according to every man&#039;s eating ye shall make your count for the lamb. 5  Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year; ye shall take it  from the sheep, or from the goats; 6 and ye shall keep it unto the fourteenth  day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel  shall kill it at dusk. 7 And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two  side-posts and on the lintel, upon the houses wherein they shall eat it. 8 And  they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread;  with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with  water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with the inwards thereof.  10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which  remains of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. 11 And thus shall ye  eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your  hand; and ye shall eat it in haste--it is the LORD&#039;S Passover. 12 For I will go  through the land of Egypt in that night, and will smite all the first-born in  the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will  execute judgments: I am the LORD. 13 And the blood shall be to you for a token  upon the houses where ye are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you,  and there shall no plague be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the  land of  Egypt. 14 And this day  shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD;  throughout your generations ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever. 15  Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; howbeit the first day ye shall put  away leaven out of your houses; for whosoever eats leavened bread from the first  day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;The concept of Kares* Neshama – the cutting off of the soul for eating  Chometz, violating Shabbos, having relations with a wife during her period and  close relatives is a fundamental one. For not bringing a Korban Pessach  (sacrifice) when one had the ability also leads to Kares and is closely related  to the other ones. Eating Chometz is vile defiance of G-D and HIS commandments  the same goes with Shabbos. Today we see that so many people violate Shabbos it  becomes the norm. When I was a child and being beat up by older kids, I was the  only Jew on the blog so they called me a sissy a fag. The terms fag, faggot,  queer and homo were so derogatory that it kept people from one of the two things  in Torah in Vayikra 18 and 20 called an ‘abomination’, G-D did not put the say  words in with somebody who had relationships similar to husband and wife between  parents and children or siblings as an abomination. Instead we are hit with the  term ‘gay’ – when I was young it meant happy and the Flintstones on TV had a  ‘gay old time’.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;Thus we have to think of eating bread and other leavening on Pessach and  violating Shabbos as a disgusting perversion. The Vegans and Vegetarians along  with our Medical Doctors will tell us that “ALEYA” and “CHELEV” the tail fat and  forbidden fat of the beast are dangerously unhealthy today so most people will  not eat these forbidden items. The idea of not bringing a Korban Pessach or not  observing Kosher because staying home or eating at the Big Mac instead of going  to the supermarket and eating along the way canned goods, fruits and vegetables  is a matter of laziness and in the eyes of the L-RD just as disgusting as brazen  acts within the family. There is no excuse because a Ben Noach is permitted  Lobster and Shrimps that a Jew has to eat them. Most of the non-Jewish recipes  except for Vegan mix and milk together so must we do the same and continuing on  our cousins the Arabs kill their sisters at a drop of a hat pin for ‘family  honor’ – does that mean we should do it?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;In short, the cutting off of the soul not only occurs in this world but  in the next. Remember whomever observes and guards Shabbos, the mitzvah will  guard you. The visa versa is also true or you lose your merits in this world  from other Mitzvos.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;(*In Israeli Hebrew it is pronounced car-rate but since the majority of  my readers are outside of Israel, I use the Ashkenazi intonation and often have  to change some of the writing I pick up from an eastern European Chassidic  pronunciation to that of have Israeli and half American.)  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;16 And in the  first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a  holy convocation; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every  man must eat, that only may be done by you. 17 And ye shall observe the feast of  unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your hosts out of the  land of Egypt; therefore shall ye observe this day throughout your generations  by an ordinance forever. 18  In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at  even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the  month at even. 19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses; for  whosoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the  congregation of Israel, whether he be a sojorner or one that is born in the  land. 20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat  unleavened bread.&#039; . … 29 And it came to pass at midnight, that the LORD smote  all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat  on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon; and  all the first-born of cattle. 30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all  his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in  Egypt; for there was not a house  where there was not one dead. 31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night and  said: &#039;Rise up, get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of  Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye  have said. 32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be  gone; and bless me also.&#039; 33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, to  send them out of the land in haste; for they said: &#039;We are all dead men.&#039; 34 And  the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being  bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. 35 And the children of  Israel did according to the word of  Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and  raiment. &lt;a name=&quot;36&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;36 And the LORD gave the people  favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked.  And they despoiled the Egyptians.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;37&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;… &lt;a name=&quot;41&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;41 And it came to pass at the end of four  hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the  host of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt. &lt;a name=&quot;42&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;42 It was a night of watching unto the LORD for bringing them out from  the land of Egypt; this same night is a night of watching unto the LORD for all  the children of Israel throughout their generations.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;43&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron: &#039;This is the ordinance of the  Passover: there shall no alien eat thereof; &lt;a name=&quot;44&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;44 but every man&#039;s servant that is bought for money, when thou hast  circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof. &lt;a name=&quot;45&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;45  A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof.  &lt;a name=&quot;46&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou  shall not carry forth aught of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall  ye break a bone thereof. &lt;a name=&quot;47&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;47 All the  congregation of Israel shall keep it. &lt;a name=&quot;48&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and  will keep the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then  let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land;  but no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. &lt;a name=&quot;49&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that  sojourned among you.&#039; &lt;a name=&quot;50&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;50 Thus did all the  children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.  &lt;a name=&quot;51&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;51 And it came to pass the selfsame day that  the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their  hosts.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;Essentially now the first commandment that the Bnei Yisrael received  after their liberation is below. The Parsha of the firstborn is one of the four  sections of the Tephillin and the rest are the three paragraphs of the Shema.  This and the laws of Kares are two features that distinguish Am Yisrael from the  rest of the Goyim. For physically the Goyim have stronger and taller people than  us. But morally we are “The light unto the Goyim”. We have Kares, Shabbos,  Kosher and Family Purity for we are an Am Kodesh (holy  people).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;13:1 And the  LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 2 &#039;Sanctify unto Me all the first-born,  whatsoever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of  beast, it is Mine.&#039; 3 And Moses said unto the people: &#039;Remember this day, in  which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of  hand the LORD brought you out from this place; there shall no leavened bread be  eaten. 4 This day ye go forth in the month Abib. 5 And it shall be when the LORD  shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the  Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which He swore unto thy fathers to  give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shall keep this service  in this month. 6 Seven days thou shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh  day shall be a feast to the LORD. 7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout  the seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither  shall there be leaven seen with thee, in all thy borders. 8 And thou shall tell  thy son in that day, saying: It is because of that which the LORD did for me  when I came forth out of Egypt. 9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thy  hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the LORD may be in  thy mouth; for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt. 10  Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;11 And it  shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanite, as He  swore unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee, 12 that thou shall  set apart unto the LORD all that open the womb; every firstling that is a male,  which thou hast coming of a beast, shall be the LORD&#039;S. 13 And every firstling  of an ass thou shall redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then  thou shall break its neck; and all the first-born of man among thy sons shall  thou redeem. 14 And it shall be when thy son asks thee in time to come, saying:  What is this? that thou shall say unto him: By strength of hand the LORD brought  us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;From here we see the importance again of our children and the emphasis on  all fathers to educate their children. In heaven forbid absence of a father, the  mother must take over the education of the  child.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: green;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;15 and it  came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go that the LORD slew all the  firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man, and the first-born  of beast; therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that opens the womb, being  males; but all the first-born of my sons I redeem. 16 And it shall be for a sign  upon thy hand, and for frontlets between your eyes; for by strength of hand the  LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.&#039;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black;&quot;&gt;Beshalach  Part 1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;Am Yisrael is a free people. Rabbi Mimran Shlita reminded me that the  Orech Chaim writes that because Pharaoh sent the Jewish people away, he felt  that it was his provocative to take them back to Egypt.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;17 And it  came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not by the  way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said: &#039;Lest  peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt.&#039;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;Runaway slaves with their slave mentally are not built to become  warriors. (On the other hand free men that were enslaved by the Nazis upon  becoming free were ready to fight for their  freedom.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;18 But God  led the people about, by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the  children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt. 19 And Moses took the  bones of Joseph with him; for he had straightly sworn the children of Israel,  saying: &#039;God will surely remember you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence  with you.&#039; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;Promises are meant to be kept even over 200 years later. The people who  promised were long gone but the promise was not forgotten. Also all the tribes  had their coffins carried for burial in Eretz  Yisrael.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;I AM STILL BEHIND IN MY ADJUSTING BACK TO ISRAEL AND HAVE A TREMENDOUS  ABOUT OF WORK – RATHER THAN PUT OUT A WEAK IN QUALITY DRASHA THIS WEEK, I FELT  THAT I WOULD HAVE TO BREAK THIS PARSHA UP INTO TWO  WEEKS.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt; \&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black;&quot;&gt;Mitzvos and  Halachos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;It&#039;s a Mitzva  to not do Melacha (certain types of work) on Shavuot. Work involving food  preparation is allowed, within certain parameters. Lighting fires from an  existing flame as well as carrying without an Eruv is allowed. Outside Israel  this applies to both days of Shavuot, by Rabbinic decree. Applies to everybody,  everywhere, always
&lt;br /&gt;Verse: &quot;This day shall be called Holy&quot; (Vayikra 23:24)  Source: The Chafetz-Chaim&#039;s Sefer HaMitzvos HaKatzar; Positive Mitzvah 28&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;; color: black;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;One is forbidden to ask  somebody to repay their loan if one knows they do not have the money to do so.  In such a case, one is not even allowed to purposely walk by him as a subtle  reminder. Verse: &quot;Do not insist on the money&quot; Shemos 22:24 Similarly, a debtor  may not tell the creditor to &quot;come back later&quot; if he already has the money to  pay, as it says in Mishle (3:28) &quot;Don&#039;t say to your friend return and tomorrow I  will pay, if you have what to give.&quot; It&#039;s also forbidden for the debtor to  squander the loan, for if he doesn&#039;t repay it he is called &quot;wicked&quot; as it says  in Tehillim (37:21) &quot;A wicked debtor who doesn&#039;t repay&quot;. Applies to everybody,  everywhere, always - Source: The Chafetz-Chaim&#039;s Sefer HaMitzvos HaKatzar;  Prohibition 52&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;One is  forbidden to be involved with a loan between Jews that will incur interest. This  includes being a witness or guarantor for the loan. Applies to everybody,  everywhere, always Verse: &quot;Do not be involved in charging him interest&quot; (Shemos  22:24) Source: The Chafetz-Chaim&#039;s Sefer HaMitzvos HaKatzar; Prohibition 53&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;One may not  lend anything to a fellow Jew if the repayment is larger than the loan. This  includes money, goods and even services. The lender transgresses 4 sins. Applies  to everybody, everywhere, always Verse: &quot;Do not charge him interest&quot; (Shemos  22:24, Vayikra 25:36; Vayikra 25:37, twice) Source: The Chafetz-Chaim&#039;s Sefer  HaMitzvos HaKatzar; Prohibition 54 &lt;span style=&quot;color: green;&quot;&gt;There is an  exception with a business loan and money invested in the bank, stocks and bonds  a special Heter Iskar is used in these  cases.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;One may not  borrow anything from a fellow Jew, if one is expected to repay more than the  original loan. This includes money, goods and even services. Applies to  everybody, everywhere, always Verse: &quot;Don&#039;t borrow with interest&quot; (Devarim  23:20) The borrower also transgresses &quot;Do not put a stumbling block&quot; (Vayikra  19:14), since he causes the lender to sin. Source: The Chafetz-Chaim&#039;s Sefer  HaMitzvos HaKatzar; Prohibition 55&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;A father must educate his  children to do all Mitzvos (Torah and Rabbinical) that are appropriate to their  age. One also needs to prevent a child from doing any sin which he is capable of  relating to, starting with telling the truth, eating only Kosher and not  carrying things on Shabbat (where there is no Eruv.) A child who stole must  return the theft, if it exists. If it no longer exists then he needn&#039;t return  its value even after he becomes an adult. However, in heaven he will be required  to account for the theft, so it&#039;s recommended to make amends. Source: Kitzur  Shulchan Aruch 165:1-6&lt;span style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;Our Sages  have designated the 15th of Shvat - Tu B&#039;Shvat- as the boundary between one year  and another, since most of the rains of the previous year have already fallen.  Any new growth of fruit after this day, is the result of the blessing of the new  year. It is customary to pray for a beautiful Kosher Esrog on Tu B&#039;Shvat Source:  The Book of our Heritage, Vol I, pages 346-349&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;Shabbat will  be Tu B&#039;Shvat, and customarily lots of fruit will be served. Which fruit should  you choose as the one to hold and make the Bracha on? - If one has a favorite  fruit and it&#039;s being offered, it should be used to make the Bracha on. - If one  has no preference, then one of the &quot;7 species&quot; has preference. - If there are  none of the 7 species, then one should pick a whole fruit, as opposed to a cut  one. - A Boreh Pri HaEtz has precedence over Boreh Pri HaAdama (e.g.  strawberries and bananas) The 7 species are (in order of Bracha-precedence):  Bread from wheat, cakes from wheat, Wine, Olives, Barley (baked or cooked),  Dates, Grapes (in solid form), Figs, Pomegranates
&lt;br /&gt;Source: Kitzur Shulchan  Aruch 55:1 – 3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;This year Tu  B&#039;Shvat will be on Shabbos. Tu B&#039;Shvat - the 15th of the month of Shvat - is the  New Year as far as tithing fruits is concerned. Fruit from trees that blossomed  before Tu B&#039;Shvat belong to the previous year&#039;s Truma &amp;amp; Maaser quota. Fruit  from trees that blossomed after Tu B&#039;Shvat belong to the current year&#039;s Truma  &amp;amp; Maaser quota.
&lt;br /&gt;Since we do not say Tachanun on Tu B&#039;Shvat, we will not  say &lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;צדקתך צדק&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on Shabbat at Mincha.
&lt;br /&gt;Source: Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 22:8,  139:26. Rosh Hashana Mishna 1:1.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &#039;Arial&#039;,&#039;sans-serif&#039;;&quot;&gt;House pets or  any other animals that depend on you for their food must be fed on Shabbat.  Animals that do not rely on you for their food may not be fed on Shabbat, and  you may not even throw them leftovers, with the exception of stray dogs. One may  not feed pigeons as they are capable of fending for themselves. &lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(112, 48, 160);&quot;&gt;The custom to put out grain for the birds on Shabbat  Shira (this week) is incorrect as birds do not rely on humans for their  food.&lt;/span&gt; (One may put out grain for them before Shabbat.) Source Kitzur  Shulchan Aruch 87:18&lt;span style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;"
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She might have lasted a year or two longer, but she simply lost the will to fight to live when her husband passed away, my friend Yacov passed away on Vav B’Elul.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;Reviving Prayer List: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Asher ben Malka, Avraham ben Devorah, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot; lang=&quot;NL&quot;&gt;Zvi Yechezkiel ben Leah, (Yehuda ben Chava Rivka, Raphael Avraham ben Golda – both until the end of the month of Shevat) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Shemayahu Yosef Chaim ben Peshiya Miriam, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot; lang=&quot;NL&quot;&gt;Ahron Yehuda Lieb en Gittel Feige, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot; lang=&quot;ES&quot;&gt;Zev ben Miriam, Shalom Charles ben Gracia, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot; lang=&quot;NL&quot;&gt;Chaim Pincus ben Yaspa, Avraham ben Leah, Bentzion Michael ben Chaya Zipporiah, Mordechai Tzmach ben Mazel, Eli ben Merel, Chakel ben Frumet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot; lang=&quot;NL&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot; lang=&quot;ES&quot;&gt;Keren Neshama bas Esther Ruth, Chaya Melecha Rachel bas Baila Alta, Zviah Simcha bas Devorah Yached, Sarah bas Yehudit, Bryna bas Gina Sarah, Rachel bas Chana, Fiege Rachel bas Taube, Nurit bas Mazel, Miriam Rivka bas Adina Leah, Chana bas Simcha, Fruma bas Rachel, Perachiya bas Yalkut.
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot; lang=&quot;ES&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 204, 0);&quot;&gt;What Miracles don’t influence the average Jew?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 204, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 204, 0);&quot;&gt;Last week Rabbi Edward Davis Shlita in his Drasha wrote to the effect on why the Bnei Yisrael did not recognize the miracles. A miracle can only add to ones belief and faith it cannot make one believe. I have seen war correspondents and others who covered terrorist attacks, traffic accidents, etc. they would declare events a miracle here and there but this did not make them religious. The same person would be out working for the press on Shabbos!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 204, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 204, 0);&quot;&gt;Some of my favorites were the Scud that fellow in Tel Aviv went down three stories on top of a Tanach and did not explode – recorded on film, the Scud that fell in the middle of the oil tanks in Hertzelia and did not do much damages and a leaky oil pipe the night before caused the joining pipes to be shut down and just avoid explosions near the natural gas tanks which would have killed between 10,000 to 30,000 Jews and knocked out our intelligence Corp training base also caught on film, or the Scud that hit the empty locked shelter and destroyed Beit Danny and missed the shelter where the people were crowded into. Last year was the photo of a Katuysha that hit Ashdod and damaged three floors on either side of one house. The house that was not damaged had a sign on it “Guard the Shabbos and the Shabbos will guard you” or “Shabbos is the day for HASHEM” something to that effect. I recorded this last year. I could ramble on and on.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 204, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 204, 0);&quot;&gt;It was not that the Bnei Yisrael did or did not see the plagues and the Egyptians the same. It was either you accept that HASHEM takes an active part in the running of the world or not. Thus those who believed in HASHEM and Moshe his servant were saved at the sea and redeemed and those who did not believe died in the plague of darkness.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 204, 0);&quot;&gt;The Israeli doctor this week when asked about the health of the boy pulled from the rubble in Haiti this week after 8 days said: “The boy is alive and well maybe it was that G-D wanted him to live and perform a miracle.” He was not wearing a Yarmulke or surgical hat so the miracle had zero influence on making him religious but he did recognize the miracle.  &lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 204, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;Parsha Bo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 204, 0);&quot;&gt;Idol worship vs. Bnei Yisrael Monotheism: The ideas here came from Image Magazine, the OU and Chabad which was the magazine’s source. The form of worship of Idolatry was what Pharaoh was used to. Idolatry consisted of a priest (hood) and the worshippers would come. Most worshippers were male except in fertility cults and in any event children did not participate nor the animals in this endeavor. The worship of Yacov was one of prayer with education for future generations. Thus in Judaism each Jew when he starts saying the blessings becomes a participant and anyone can lead the service if he knows well enough the prayer. This means that a school boy in Heder could lead the prayer of the small things that they say each morning by heart. Thus from pre-kindergarten the children learn prayer before they can read. Every once in a while, I will see a child in Schul or my grandchild take a Siddur and pray whatever he thinks the prayer is. In short Moshe was talking to Pharaoh about our way of prayer and he was talking his version of worship. To this day, Judaism has private confessions and no intermediaries between HASHEM and the Jew.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 204, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 204, 0);&quot;&gt;With this type of thinking in mind, we see what Pharaoh and his advisors through of Moshe wanting all the Bnei Yisrael to leave Egypt.
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 204, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(118, 146, 60);&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(237, 18, 1);&quot;&gt;This week for the first time, I slept well on the plane returning to Israel and then between a wedding and another meeting that I had really could not find the time to produce a quality Drasha. I also wanted to take a hiatus next week which I shall put off for the future. The rest below are Halachos and Mitzvos as well as a small piece that I wrote and the usual stories. I hope to do much better in the future.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(237, 18, 1);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;Parshat Bo marks the first time in the Torah where the Jewish people are given a significant number of &lt;i&gt;mitzvot&lt;/i&gt; - commandments. Throughout the first book of the Torah, the Book of Genesis, and up until this point of the Book of Exodus, only three mitzvot have been cited: to have children, to perform circumcision, and not to eat the sciatic nerve in the hindquarter of an animal. We are now introduced to the first significant grouping of commandments and they deal with many details associated with the Passover offering and the many eating restrictions on that holiday. Anyone who has celebrated Passover is familiar with the tremendous effort involved, not only regarding the food constraints, but in the preparation of the Seder on the first night(s) of Pesach. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;And this is just the beginning; there are 613 commandments that God gives to the Jewish people outlined throughout the Torah. When one considers the sheer number and breadth of mitzvot it is no wonder that Gentiles have not historically flocked to us &lt;i&gt;en mass&lt;/i&gt; to convert. The amount of detail and involvement that the Torah demands of us in everyday life is unparalleled in any other religious system. The mitzvot deal with business, how we speak, what we eat, how to treat others, even working their way into many private aspects of our lives. This could be viewed as being intrusive and constricting, but when one learns about the mitzvot and begins to understand them, one begins to appreciate that they are not about restriction but about guidance. The word &lt;i&gt;Torah&lt;/i&gt; literally means &quot;Instructions&quot; and this is the main purpose of the mitzvot - to provide instructions for living.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Just as any electronic devise requires a manual to properly take advantage of all of its features, the Torah is the guidebook to get the most out of Life. Life is certainly more complicated than your new cell phone, and after a year or two you may even finally figure it out (your cell phone, that is). Of course, by then your phone is obsolete and you must get the next latest model, and the process starts all over again. Fortunately, life does not become obsolete and whereas it takes more than a couple of years to get the hang of it, the manual will last forever.
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;The &lt;i&gt;Sefer HaChinuch&lt;/i&gt;, The Book of Education is a 13th century work that lists every one of the commandments and gives their rationale. In doing this, the author has a recurring theory behind the observance of the mitzvot. He tells us that our inner selves are influenced by our outer-selves, meaning that our actions define our personalities. What we do, how we behave, what we say - all of it shapes our soul,  our personality and our very being.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Modern psychology often understands life from the opposite perspective. Work things out, think them through and this will lead to change. This is true but sometimes it can be counter-productive to constantly mull over and over the same issues. There comes a time when thinking too much becomes draining and counterproductive and a person has to bite the bullet and take action. You don&#039;t feel like being charitable? Tough - donate on a regular basis anyway and once you do, you will experience giving and thereby become a charitable person. Rabbi Noah Weinberg zt&quot;l always used to say, &quot;if you do not feel happy, act like you are anyway&quot; and you will be surprised at how often you will become truly happy in the process of faking it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;As parents we train our kids to do their homework, clean up their room and brush their teeth whether they feel like it or not. It is for their own good and hopefully one day they will appreciate that, but right now we don&#039;t care if they do or not, we know that we need to get them into the habit of doing good things. So too the Almighty gives us instructions for life to get us in the habit of leading the most productive, meaningful and good lives possible.
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;A good salesman will always attempt to have his customer try on the clothes or jewelry or test drive the car. They know that once the person experiences the product, there is a greater likelihood they will buy. So don&#039;t think too much and don&#039;t excessively contemplate your navel regarding a mitzvah. Take it for a test drive and who knows... you may just leave the showroom with a brand spanking-new mitzvah.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;Rabbi Tzvi Nightingale
&lt;br /&gt;Aish South Florida&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(237, 18, 1);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(237, 18, 1);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;Mitzvos and Halachos by Danny Shoemann&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;It&#039;s a Mitzva to tell the story of the Exodus from Egypt on Seder night. The story must be told at a level appropriate to the child&#039;s age. Even one who does not have children has a Mitzva to tell the story. Applies to everybody, everywhere on Seder night Verse: &quot;Tell your children on that day&quot; (Shemos 13:8)
&lt;br /&gt;Source: The Chafetz-Chaim&#039;s Sefer HaMitzvos HaKatzar; Positive Mitzvah 24&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;It&#039;s a Mitzva to not do Melacha (certain types of work) on the first day of Passover. Work involving food preparation is allowed, within certain parameters. Lighting fires from an existing flame as well as carrying without an Eruv is allowed. Outside Israel this applies to the first 2 days of Pessach, by Rabbinic decree. Applies to everybody, everywhere, always - Verse: &quot;The first day shall be a sacred Holiday&quot; (Vayikra 23:7) Source: The Chafetz-Chaim&#039;s Sefer HaMitzvos HaKatzar; Positive Mitzvah 25&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;There&#039;s a Mitzva to count 7 week from the time the Omer sacrifice was brought in the Bet Hamikdash. The Omer is counted every night, starting from the second night of Pessach - 16 Nissan. One needs to count both days and week. The counting should be done standing, and a Bracha is said beforehand. Applies to males, everywhere, always -
&lt;br /&gt;Verse: &quot;Count 7 complete weeks&quot; (Vayikra 23:15) Source: The Chafetz-Chaim&#039;s Sefer HaMitzvos HaKatzar; Positive Mitzvah 26&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;It&#039;s a Mitzva to not do Melacha (certain types of work) on the last day of Passover. Work involving food preparation is allowed, within certain parameters. Lighting fires from an extinguishing flame as well as carrying without an Eruv is allowed. Outside Israel this applies to the 7th and 8th days of Pessach, by Rabbinic decree. Applies to everybody, everywhere, always Verse: &#039;The 7th day shall be Holy&quot; (Vayikra 23:8) Source: The Chafetz-Chaim&#039;s Sefer HaMitzvos HaKatzar; Positive Mitzvah 27&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;One who curses their mother or father using the name of G-d get puts to death by Beth Din by stoning. This is true even if the parent is no longer alive. One who curses their mother or father without using the name of G-d gets 39 lashes by Beth Din. Applies to everybody, everywhere, always - Verse: &quot;One who curses his father or mother shall surely die&quot; (Shemos 21:17) One who belittles or denigrates a parent - even if not explicitly - is cursed by Hashem, as it says &quot;Cursed is he who belittles his father or mother.&quot;
&lt;br /&gt;Source: The Chafetz-Chaim&#039;s Sefer HaMitzvos HaKatzar; Prohibition 46&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;\
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;It&#039;s forbidden to overcharge or cheat when doing business; buying or selling. One who overcharges - even inadvertently - needs to reimburse the cheated party. Applies to everybody, everybody, always - Verse: &quot;Do not cheat one another&quot; (Vayikra 25:14) Source: The Chafetz-Chaim&#039;s Sefer HaMitzvos HaKatzar; Prohibition 47&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;One is forbidden to say things that cause another to feel bad. Examples include reminding a repentant how he used to behave or asking somebody a question that you know he cannot answer, in order to cause him to feel stupid. Applies to everybody, everywhere, always - Verse: &quot;Do not be nasty one to another&quot; (Vayikra 25:17)
&lt;br /&gt;Source: The Chafetz-Chaim&#039;s Sefer HaMitzvos HaKatzar; Prohibition 48&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;It is forbidden to be nasty to a Ger - a convert to Judaism. This is in addition to the prohibition of being nasty to all Jews. Applies to everybody, everywhere, always -
&lt;br /&gt;Verse: &quot;Do not be nasty to the convert&quot; (Shemos 22:20) Source: The Chafetz-Chaim&#039;s Sefer HaMitzvos HaKatzar; Prohibition 49&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;It is forbidden to overcharge a convert. This is in addition to the prohibition of overcharging all Jews. Applies to everybody, everywhere, always Verse: &quot;And don&#039;t cheat him&quot; (Shemos 22:20) Source: The Chafetz-Chaim&#039;s Sefer HaMitzvos HaKatzar; Prohibition 50&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;                                                                                                                                                                &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 204, 0);&quot;&gt;The prohibition does not per sec apply to idol worshippers but that does not give a good reason to go overcharging them. One should make a reasonable profit to cover stocking fees, purchasing a replacement for stock, taxes and overhead (accountant, maintenance, etc.) but not exorbitant prices. My son often sells items at cost, with little profit or even a slight loss if they are dead stock just to get cash flow. Be honest and you will make a Kiddush HASHEM. The Chofetz Chaim’s wife used to sell salt and would add on a little more just in case the salt had eaten up the measuring scale and she would closed the store once they had earned enough money for the day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 204, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Besides for the prohibition of being nasty to all Jews, there&#039;s an added prohibition of being nasty to widows or orphans. Even wealthy and famous widows need to be treated with extra care; one must speak extra kindly to them and be careful about squandering their money. The Torah warns us that one who strikes or is nasty to a widow or orphan will invoke Hashem&#039;s anger &quot;and I will kill you by the sword and your wives will be widows and your children orphans&quot;. (Shemos 22:23) An orphan - even one who lost only one parent - is considered an orphan until they grow up and become financially independent. Applies to everybody, always, everywhere - Verse: &quot;and don&#039;t be nasty to the widow and orphan&quot; (Shemos 22:21) Source: The Chafetz-Chaim&#039;s Sefer HaMitzvos HaKatzar; Prohibition 51&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;One usually says Tefillas HaDerech only once a day. If one arrives at one&#039;s final destination for the day, and subsequently decided to take another trip, then one says Tefillas HaDerech again. One who travels through the night says Tefillas HaDerech on the second day without the final Baruch Ata Hashem. Even if one sleeps part of the night, if it was not in an inhabited place, one says Tefillas HaDerech on the second day without the final Baruch Ata Hashem. Source: Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 68:5&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Even while travelling one has to pray at the correct times. Men need to put on Tallis and Tefillin even when praying in transit. When travelling by foot, one should stand still for the first 2 verses of Shma, if possible. (Shma Yisrael and Baruch Shem) When travelling in a vehicle one should stop, alight and stand for the Amida. If one is in a hurry, then one should do so at least for the first 3 and last 3 Brachos. If alighting is not an option, one can daven the Amida while seated. Source: Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 68:8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;If you ate while walking, you may say Birkas Hamazon while walking. If you sat while eating you have to sit while saying Birkas Hamazon If one didn&#039;t eat in a house - or one ate in the house of a non-Jew, one replaces the 6th הָרַחֲמָן with: הָרַחֲמָן הוּא יִשְׁלַח לָנוּ בְּרָכָה מְרֻבָּה בִּמְקוֹם הֲלִיכָתֵנוּ וּבִמְקוֹם יְשִׁיבָתֵנוּ עַד עוֹלָם
&lt;br /&gt;Source: Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 68:9, 10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Before leaving on a trip one should give charity. Since one should learn Torah or say Tehillim while traveling, one should remember to take along a Sefer. One should never go on a trip - even a short one - without taking with food. Men should also take with spare Tzitstis in case the one they are wearing rip and become Pasul (unfit), as well as Tefillin if there&#039;s a chance they won&#039;t be back home before the morrow. Source: Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 68:6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;It&#039;s appropriate to accompany somebody who is leaving on a trip - even if only for a few steps. One should then wait until the person leaving is out of sight before returning home. The farewell greeting is &quot;לֵךְ לְשָׁלוֹם&quot; and not &quot;לך בשלום&quot; We learn this from Yisro who said to Moshe &quot;לֵךְ לְשָׁלוֹם&quot;&quot; and he succeeded, whereas King David said to Avshalom &quot;לך בשלום&quot; and he got killed. Source: Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 68:6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Even when travelling, one needs to wash both hands with a cup of water before eating bread. If there&#039;s water within 4 Km in the direction one is travelling, or 1Km behind one, then one has to go wash one&#039;s hands properly. If one is scared to leave one&#039;s travelling companions, or if one cannot find water to wash before eating bread, one can cover one&#039;s hands or wear gloves. Source: Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 40:14 &lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 204, 0);&quot;&gt;In the modern world we travel on buses, planes, trains and wrap up our sandwiches in plastic or have a handkerchief in our pockets. My friend Jeremy at College heard from his Ruv that one holds the plastic outside his sandwich and blesses the bread and then eats without touching the bread. This is a practical way. On Air flights the meals are generally made with Mezozos Bread.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 204, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;The &quot;five grains&quot; are wheat, barley, spelt, oats and rye. Grain that was planted and started taking root before the first day Chol Hamoed Pessach may be eaten immediately - and is called &quot;Yoshon&quot; (old). Grain that took root thereafter is &quot;Chadash&quot; (new) and may not be eaten until after the 2nd day Chol HaMoed Pessach of the coming year. In Israel, Chol Hamoed Pessach starts on 16th Nissan, in the Diaspora on the 17th Nissan. The Torah prohibition of eating Chadash applies to grain grown on Jewish land, according to all opinions. There is a minority opinion that Chadash does not apply to grain grown in the Diaspora on non-Jewish land; the custom is to rely on this opinion in emergency.
&lt;br /&gt;Source: Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 172:1-3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;In the time of the Bet HaMikdash, they would sow barley today - 70 days before the Omer sacrifice - so as to have fresh barley to harvest for the Omer ceremony. The barley was harvested on the 2nd night of Pessach - even if it was Shabbat. On the 2nd day of Pessach a handful of the Omer sacrifice - barley flour with oil - was sacrificed on the Mizbayach (altar) and the rest was baked and eaten by the Cohanim. In Israel it is forbidden to start harvesting before the Omer. Grain that took root after the Omer-barley was harvested is Chadash and is forbidden until the following year, as we learned yesterday. Source: Tosafot in Menachot 85, Rambam, Hilchos Temidim Ch. 7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;It&#039;s a Torah prohibition to braid threads or hair on Shabbat. Twisting 2 or more threads together is also forbidden. One cannot braid hair on Shabbat - nor untie hair that is already braided. On Shabbat one is allowed to gather loose hair and tie them into a ponytail or hold them in place with a headband. Source: Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 80:44, Shmirat Shabbat Kehilchato 14:52 Shabbat Shalom - Danny&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: rgb(237, 18, 1);&quot;&gt;I love this because the rich Harvard snob got what he deserved. Teach you not to judge people by their dress.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard and probably didn&#039;t even deserve to be in Cambridge.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&quot;We&#039;d like to see the president,&quot; the man said softly. &quot;He&#039;ll be busy all day,&quot; the secretary snapped.&quot; &quot;We&#039;ll wait,&quot; the lady replied. For hours the secretary ignored them, hoping that the couple would finally become discouraged and go away. They didn&#039;t, and the secretary, growing frustrated, finally decided to disturb the president, even though it was a chore she always regretted.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Maybe if you see them for a few minutes, they&#039;ll leave,&quot; she told him. He sighed in exasperation and nodded. Someone of his importance obviously didn&#039;t have the time to spend with them, and he detested gingham dresses and homespun suits cluttering up his outer office.
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&lt;br /&gt;The president, stern faced and with dignity, finally strutted toward the couple. The lady spoke, &quot;We had a son who attended Harvard for one year. He loved Harvard. He was happy here. But about a year ago, he was accidentally killed. My husband and I would like to erect a memorial to him, somewhere on campus.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;The president wasn&#039;t touched. He was shocked. &quot;Madam,&quot; he said, gruffly, &quot;We can&#039;t put up a statue for every person who has attended Harvard and died. If we did, this place would look like a cemetery.&quot;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Oh, no,&quot; the lady explained quickly. &quot;We don&#039;t want to erect a statue. We thought we would like to give a building to Harvard.&quot; The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at the gingham dress and homespun suit, and then exclaimed, &quot;A building! Do you have any earthly idea how much a building costs? We have over seven and a half million dollars in the physical buildings here at Harvard.&quot;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;For a moment the lady was silent. The president was pleased. Maybe he could get rid of them now. The lady turned to her husband and said quietly, &quot;Is that all it costs to start a university? Why don&#039;t we just start our own? &quot;Her husband nodded. The president&#039;s face wilted and fell in confusion and bewilderment.
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford got up and walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California where they established the university that bears their name, Stanford University, a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared about.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; color: black;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them.
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&lt;br /&gt;When her husband heard this he said I must ask her about the box, so he quickly went to the closest and brought down the box. His wife knew it was the right time to tell him.
&lt;br /&gt;He opened the box, inside was two handmade knitted tablecloths and an envelope with $25,000 cash! He did not understand what’s this is all about.
&lt;br /&gt;Her husband looked at her questionably.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;She said.
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;“When we first got married my grandmother told me the secret of successful marriage, to not ever get angry and if anytime I feel like getting angry I should be quiet and start knitting tablecloths, and that&#039;s what I did&quot; The old man calmed down, wiped his tears and said, “there is only two tablecloths here? This means that you only got angry at me twice in all our years of marriage! he ended happily. But then what is the meaning of all this money?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;His wife replied: This is the money that I made from selling all the tablecloths!!
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;Binyamin Jadidi&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(255, 0, 102);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font"
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Esther bas Chana has a few days to live so keep praying until further notice and &lt;span style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;Rivka bat Shirin Rachel (pancreatic cancer) passed away.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;Nach Nafsha D’Rav HaGadol Mori Rabbi Yechiel Yehuda ben Spritza and Sturya London Zal
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;Behind the Scenes, the working of the Rabbi and his brother&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;The &lt;st1:city st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;London&lt;/st1:city&gt; Brothers formed Jewish &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Boys&lt;/st1:placename&gt;  &lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;High School&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; in the 1940’s and eventually expanded it into Yeshiva Haichel HaTorah. Rabbi Yechiel was 16 years old at the time and taught people quite a bit older than himself as well as the younger fellows. They inherited a reasonable sum of money from their father and poured that into buying the apartments for the dormitories and the school building. They took over an old convent, the defunct 149&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; Reform Synagogue and an apartment building in the upper west side of &lt;st1:city st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Manhattan&lt;/st1:city&gt; that became in the course of time Spanish &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Harlem&lt;/st1:place&gt;. It was right near the uptown branch of &lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;City&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; &lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;College&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; of &lt;st1:state st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;New York&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt;. The Yeshiva functioned mainly on donations as the brothers took in Orphans, Jewish School drop-outs either due to financial problems or religious conflicts in the child with a modern society. They took in children from mixed marriages, broken homes and myself as a senior in College with essentially no money for tuition.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;Rabbi Yacov Zal had an MS in Mathematics from &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Columbia&lt;/st1:placename&gt;  &lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;University&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; and could have gone further in secular studies and teaching. Instead, he gave that all up to become the Rosh Yeshiva. Rabbi Yechiel Yehuda Zal whom we called Rabbi Yehuda for short was the Dean of the High School. It was his job to wake up the boys because once Rabbi Yacov tried to wake up a friend in his Yeshiva Days and got a shoe thrown at him. When I came there, I had volunteered to work to pay my tuition through substitute teaching (I did that only once), working in the office, helping with Bingo and waking the boys up. Of course the Rabbi had to first wake me up at 7 AM with the “Modeh Ani” (I thank THEE for restoring my soul unto me). The Rebbitzen told me that the Rabbi woke up at 5AM daily and worked until 11 PM. The Rabbi’s job was not an easy job in keeping 9th to 12th graders under control and even we College aged fellows sometimes sort of laughed under their breath at the younger ones antics. The Rabbi could not allow these silly antics to disrupt a Torah Shuir or prayer.
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;Another fellow slightly older than I named Rabbi Aaron Vachss Shlita taught in Haichel and also learned in CCNY. He was in charge of keeping the Morning Prayer. Sometimes one or both Rabbis were going to morning Minyanim to raise money to pay for all the Yeshiva. The Yeshiva had a few cars that was donated to them. One was the famous Ford disaster called the Edsel which somehow ran and transported bread and cakes a day or two old from a Bakery from &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:state st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Washington&lt;/st1:state&gt;&lt;/st1:placename&gt; &lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Heights&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;. They also donated Challos for Shabbos and rolls which were a plenty – yet most of young fellows never appreciated all this.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;Sometimes the Rabbis educated young men whom were older than themselves like the late Rabbi Moshe Stewart Zal who passed away many years ago at the age of&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;79 and a man whom I met 40 years ago who was 54 years old at the time. During the 40’s they were the only baal Tshuvah Yeshiva perhaps in the world. The previous Lubavitcher Rebbe also took up the flag to help people from assimilated families and he opened up Hadar HaTorah in &lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Crown&lt;/st1:placename&gt; &lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Heights&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;, &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Brooklyn&lt;/st1:place&gt;.
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;The main cook of the Yeshiva was the mother of the Rabbis who was still going strong while the Rabbis were working on Russian Jewish Immigrants to the States in the 1970’s – 1980’s in Brooklyn NY. My daughter was just around &lt;st1:metricconverter productid=&quot;8 in&quot; st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;8 in&lt;/st1:metricconverter&gt; 1982 when we visited the States and the Rabbi got mattresses and put us up in an apartment. My daughter like some of the Haichel Boys who were picky got angry when Mama London said, “Eat your eggs and drink your juice it is very good for you.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;The Rabbi and his Torah&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;The Rabbi had the unpleasant job of disciplining the boys. This might be paying a quarter for coming late to Torah Shuir, and when a teenage did something nonsensical to we adults, he was on the scene and would say, “I just don’t understand how you could do such a thing.” Being in College at the time and just past my teens, I sort of understood what the fellow had done and his illogic. But after I became a teacher and father, I understood the Rabbi’s question much better.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;The Rabbi did not really rest on Shabbos. While the older Rabbi usually asked around the evening dinner table for the boys to explain the Parsha, each ending of one of the books of the Chumosh meant reciting the names of the Parshiyos of the Chumosh we have just finished and the names of the Parshiyos of the next Chumosh. For some it was easy as they were Frum from birth but for others like me it was quick memory that saved me from embarrassment. The younger had to look after his own little children who were at the table or riding a tricycle around the dining hall but also that the boys sang and were quiet during the meals. Most of the boys were well behaved but there is always an exception to the rule. A fellow whom we called &lt;st1:state st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Iowa&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt; was always wild and out of order perhaps he had an attention deficiency order one day in front of everybody dropped the F bomb at the Rabbi. The result was immediate suspension and the usual spectator situation turned ugly when he tried to get physical with the Rabbi. We older fellows jumped to our feet but the Rabbi said that he could handle it alone.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;Being a Dean did not mean getting much teaching time in as somebody had to check up on maintenance workers, order the heating fuel worry about boys that took ill or in my case visit a mourner like myself less than a week into my Yeshiva learning. The Rabbi was running around preparing exams and meeting with and hiring secular teachers. He had to break up fights among the teens although reasonably rare at the Yeshiva. On top of all this, the Rabbi had to be a father to his children and a husband to his Rebbitzen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;Each week we would hear the Parsha from the Rabbi and he would step in and substitute for teaching us from time to time if our Rebbe could not be there for the Shuir. The Rabbi knew back and forth all the Yeshiva Gemaros. However, we never had a chance to hear him without his brother who eclipsed many a Rabbi. It was only when he came to visit his brother and sister-in-law in Eretz Yisrael did we get to hear him by himself give him speak for about 45 minutes Torah. Suddenly, I saw him on a level with the Roshei Yeshiva of &lt;st1:city st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Grodno&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; and Ponovez. He was able for once to enlighten us by himself. He continued to give shiurim right up until he became ill about a month plus ago. I received this notice for this week: G-d willing, the Wednesday shiur of R&#039; Yechiel, Zal will be in session tonight right after Maariv (at 1750 E. &lt;st1:metricconverter productid=&quot;18 St&quot; st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;18 St&lt;/st1:metricconverter&gt;, &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:city st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Brooklyn&lt;/st1:city&gt;, &lt;st1:state st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;NY&lt;/st1:state&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;).  The topic will be shigagas tumah &amp;amp; shigagas Mikdash in the beginning of Shavuos.  Your attendance &amp;amp; participation are requested.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;The high school boys did not appreciate the 24/7 of Dean, Principal, Guidance Councilor, Purchasing &amp;amp; Logistics, Maintenance and the one who worried where the next few meals of the boys were coming from – most fellows took this for granted.
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;Now the rewards in this world for the Rabbi were not financial but able to see some of his students become ordained in the Yeshiva, some go on to Lakewood and the large amount of students who went on to Eretz Yisrael. Some of the students of the Rabbi have produced after themselves two or three generations of Torah Scholars with daughters and granddaughters who are teachers or some other profession and raising frum children. If we consider that over 69 years the Rabbi worked with untold number of boys and young men, the influence is of his is in the thousands of people and their children learning Torah. His work in this world has come to an end but his nephews and son are continuing to further Torah among many. He told the doctors all throughout his hospitalization that he had a lot of work to do so he hoped that they would cure him. He passed away at the age of 85 but looked much younger than his age as his passion for Torah was that of a young man.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;One of the older Talmidim of Rabbi London was interviewed by 5 Towns Radio:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;Rabbi Dov Wolowitz, a close Talmid of Rabbi London, spoke with Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the 5TJT on Motzei Shabbos.
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&lt;br /&gt;YH: Reb Dov, what can you tell me about Rabbi London’s earlier history - before he opened &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Nefesh&lt;/st1:placename&gt; &lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Academy&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; for Russians?
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&lt;br /&gt;DW: Oh please, Nefesh was the last of his accomplishments. He goes back 60 years ago when kiruv was not popular at all. There was no one doing kiruv except for Lubavitch.
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&lt;br /&gt;YH: Just to clarify, we are talking about Reb Yechiel London, and his brother who was niftar (passed away) a while back. What can you tell me about them?
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&lt;br /&gt;They were brilliant. They were students of Rav Dovid Leibowitz Zatzal in Chofetz Chaim on &lt;st1:street st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:address st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;South Ninth   Street&lt;/st1:address&gt;&lt;/st1:street&gt;. I was a Talmid of them, at Yeshiva Heichal HaTorah maybe 55 years ago. We were on &lt;st1:street st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:address st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Howard Avenue&lt;/st1:address&gt;&lt;/st1:street&gt;. The neighborhood declined and they used an old shul in &lt;st1:city st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Brownsville&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;. I remember sitting there once; they must have had at that time 50 people in yeshiva. There was no heat, we were all sitting in the Beis Midrash bundled up, and Rabbi London walked in and he took off his jacket and rolled up his shirt sleeves, the aish of the Torah will warm us up. That was the fire.
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&lt;br /&gt;YH: Tell me more about Rabbi London.
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&lt;br /&gt;DW: He had a special bren (fire) that no one else had.. I have been around for many years and have seen many people, but Rabbi London had a greatness that I never saw in anyone.. He had an untiring motivation to do for Klal Yisroel - all he though about and worried about was his lost brothers and sisters - assimilation. This was a fire that nobody else had. Nobody.
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&lt;br /&gt;YH: How did he inspire people? How did he get people to come?
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&lt;br /&gt;DW: We had a a camp in Mountaindale called Machane Torah we called it &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Camp&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; &lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;MayTo&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; for short. We would get Talmud Torah kids. In the old days, every shul had Talmud Torahs where kids would go after public school. They sent their kids to Hebrew school. We went around targeting these kids for the camp. Every summer we’d get 100 kids or so, and run a camp. We called it a Talmud Torah camp..
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&lt;br /&gt;YH What was your involvement in this, you were a student of Rabbi London and helped him out?
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&lt;br /&gt;DW: Yes. I went there at 15 years old. From public school I went to Rabbi London’s high school and then I went to &lt;st1:city st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Lakewood&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;. I came back and helped him recruit boys for his high school.
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&lt;br /&gt;YH: You went from public school to Rabbi London and then to &lt;st1:city st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Lakewood&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;? That doesn’t happen!
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&lt;br /&gt;DW: Well it did with me. There were a lot of other people too, now Roshei Yeshiva. Many went onto the other Yeshivos, the Mirrer, Chofetz Chaim, Rav Moshe Feinstein..
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&lt;br /&gt;YH: When did Reb Yechiel’s brother pass away? Rabbi Yaakov London?
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&lt;br /&gt;DW: About 4 or 5 years ago. They used to go out at 4 or 5 o’clock in the morning and go to &lt;st1:state st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Washington&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt; market. They would take the back seat out of the car and bring the sack of potatoes, vegetables, etc. Their mother was the cook. It is not like today’s day and age.
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&lt;br /&gt;YH: What can we learn from them now?
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&lt;br /&gt;DW: Nowadays, they just don’t do this. Try to get a boy from public school into a Yeshiva high school. They just don’t do it. No one even wants to do it. Well they did. Yeshivas could learn how he worried about people. He would say, “Five percent of Klal Yisroel is frum. 95% is not. Imagine if a person weighs &lt;st1:metricconverter productid=&quot;500 pounds&quot; st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;500 pounds&lt;/st1:metricconverter&gt; and he loses &lt;st1:metricconverter productid=&quot;10 pounds&quot; st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;10 pounds&lt;/st1:metricconverter&gt; do you see much of a difference?”
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&lt;br /&gt;YH: What was talking with him like?
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&lt;br /&gt;DW: There was never small talk with him. You would say how are you? He would say, “Tell me a vort…” (a word of Torah)
&lt;br /&gt;There was always munning - demanding of you to do and perform. He would say, “Are you learning??”
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&lt;br /&gt;YH: Tell me about his efforts with the Russians..
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&lt;br /&gt;DW: When the Russian Jews were coming to the &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;United  States&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, some came to &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, but many came here to &lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Kennedy&lt;/st1:placename&gt; &lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Airport&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; in the &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;United States&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;. They were in the airport. I got calls from Rabbi London at the airport. There were hundreds of Russian Jews sitting on top of boxes. They had no place to go. He was there with a table giving cake and sodas. Calling people at night erev Rosh Hashana to take them in. They called families in &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Brooklyn&lt;/st1:place&gt;, putting them in taxis to take them to frum homes.
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&lt;br /&gt;He was at least 85 years old.
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&lt;br /&gt;He came to my office tzubrochen - either arthritis or Parkinson’s. He would just pop in and say, “You don’t know what is going on in the college campuses. Yeshiva kids are falling like flies. They become unfrum. You have no idea what is doing there. They take off their Yarmulkes and become completely irreligious. They stop davening. They don’t even put on Tefillin! He made in his basement and built a wing with rooms. Every Shabbos he had a Shabbos Yeshiva from the college kids. One Shabbos he had boys. One shabbos he had girls. He would learn with them and said, we got to keep these kids frum.
&lt;br /&gt;He did this at 85 years old. Can you imagine?
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&lt;br /&gt;He was in the hospital the last seven weeks. I went to see him. He could barely speak. He said, “Dov you got to promise me, we have got to build more rooms, to take care of these frum people.”
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&lt;br /&gt;He was a giant. There was nothing but Kiruv. Everyone used to laugh at him back then. Nobody did it. He was the only one that really cared. His wife was by his side every step of the way.
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&lt;br /&gt;YH: Any other thoughts?
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&lt;br /&gt;DW: I must tell you that there was nobody like Rabbi London. There was no such thing as batala by him. He was the greatest inspirational force in my life. I admired him I looked up to him. He was a gavrah rabbah. A giant. People did not appreciate him.
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&lt;br /&gt;Yehei Zichro Boruch...By Rabbi Yair Hoffman - Published on 09/01/2010&lt;/span&gt;                             &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.5tjt.com/news/PrintArticle.asp?Id=5584&quot; title=&quot;http://www.5tjt.com/news/PrintArticle.asp?Id=5584&quot;&gt;http://www.5tjt.com/news/PrintArticle.asp?Id=5584&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;P.S. - regarding the Russian Jews, the Rabbis took in the boys and educated them with secular and Jewish studies. One Shabbos they invited the families to stay over in the Yeshiva. The parents came with pens &amp;amp; paper and carried umbrellas. The Rabbis said nothing about these obvious Shabbos violation. They only talked in Yiddish about the wisdom of Torah and the Holiness of the Day. Gradually some of these whole families became Frum. Whoever saves one life is as if he saved the world as Adam was created single. The foundation to my own Torah learning was cast by both of the &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:city st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;London&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; Brothers who worked tirelessly for us, the students.
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;Rav Dovid Leibowitz Zatzal towards the end of his life was a frail man in his 80’s and could not make it up the States either in his house or the Yeshiva. Rabbi Yacov carried him up the stairs. From this I learned the honor one must accord to his Rosh Yeshiva. Yacov Glicksman Zal used to say, “My parents gave me life in this world; Rabbis &lt;st1:city st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;London&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; gave me life in the next.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: red;&quot;&gt;Reminder to all – Shabbos is Rosh Chodesh and a special version of the Mussaf Prayer and the Shabbos Maftir and Haftarah is read not to mention Hallel and grace after meals. This is the only Halacha that will appear this week: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Rosh Chodesh Shvat will be on Shabbat. One has to add Ya&#039;aleh Veyavo into the Amida and Birkat Hamazon. One should add an extra dish to the Shabbat meals in honor of Rosh Chodesh. After Hallel we will read from 2 Sifrei Torah; the second one for Rosh Chodesh, followed by the Shabbat-Rosh-Chodesh Haphtarah. In Mussaf one says the &quot;Ata Yetzarta - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot; lang=&quot;HE&quot;&gt;אַתָּה יָצַרְתָּ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&quot; version which talks about both the Shabbat and Rosh Chodesh sacrifices. (The last time we said &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot; lang=&quot;HE&quot;&gt;אַתָּה יָצַרְתָּ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; was 9 months ago!) Ya&#039;aleh Veyavo is not said in Mussaf. Source: Shulchan Aruch 525:3, Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 97:3 Shabbat Shalom and Chodesh Tov, - Danny&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Parsha Vaeira&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;The preparation for the making of a Nation separated from the native land in which the Bnei Yisrael grew up and lived for 209 years is taking place so that when the 210&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; year occurs which is the 400&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; year of the anniversary of the birth of Yitzchak, they shall become a free Nation. If we look into the making of the United States where the men were free, it took from the 18&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; of April in 1775 until the 2&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt; Continental Congress and the inauguration of George Washington as President on April 30&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;st1:metricconverter productid=&quot;1789 a&quot; st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;1789 a&lt;/st1:metricconverter&gt; 14 year process did the United States as we know it become a nation. Am Yisrael was to make the transition in one year but to really mold a free-thinking people it would take 40 years in the Midbar to complete and remove the slave mentality.
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;6:2 And God spoke unto Moses, and said unto him: &#039;I am the LORD;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;and He said to him, I am the Lord: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;[Meaning: I am] faithful to recompense all those who walk before Me. I did not send you [to Pharaoh] except to fulfill My words, which I spoke to the early fathers. In this sense, we find that it &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot; lang=&quot;HE&quot;&gt;אִנִי ה&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is interpreted in many places [in Scripture] as “I am the Lord,” [meaning that I am] faithful to exact retribution. [It has this meaning] when it is stated in conjunction with [an act warranting] punishment, e.g., “or you will profane the name of your God; I am the Lord” (Lev. 19:12). When it is stated in conjunction with the fulfillment of commandments, e.g., “And you shall keep My commandments and perform them; I am the Lord” (Lev. 22:31), [it means: I am] faithful to give reward.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;This is a very import principle. If you are loyal and loving to ME then I shall be the same to you and the reverse heaven forbid is true as stated in Parsha Behukotai.
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;3 and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name YHWH I made Me not known to them.
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;I made promises to them, in all of which I said to them, “I am the Almighty God.” but [with] My name YHWH, I did not become known to them. It is not written here &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;torah-heb&quot;&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;color: purple;&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;לֹא הוֹדַעְךְתִּי&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, “but My Name YHWH I did not make known to them,” but &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;torah-heb&quot;&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;color: purple;&quot; lang=&quot;AR-SA&quot;&gt;לֹא נוֹדַעְךְתִּי&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, “I did not become known.” [I.e.,] I was not recognized by them with My attribute of keeping faith, by dint of which My name is called YHWH, [which means that I am] faithful to verify My words, for I made promises to them, but I did not fulfill [them while they were alive].&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;Last year I wrote: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;NOTE THE FOLLOWING I HAVE TRIED TO BRING DOWN TO THE LAYMAN’S LEVEL:&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;The NAME Yod-Kay (Kay = Hay but we do not say it or write it so according to modern custom) and Tetragramation Yod Kay Vav Kay, the three 42 letter NAMES and the 72 letter NAME were unknown in the past. The Patriarchs and Tribes knew Kale Shadkai which one can translate as ALL MIGHTY or OMNIPRESENT.
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;With the full NAME(S) of the L-RD, Moshe learned about other things about the physical and spiritual universe around him. First he learned that what we see with our eyes is only a fraction of the spectrum. The spiritual world is capable of seeing the Gamma Rays, X-Rays, Ultra Violet and infra-red spectrum and with that many spiritual things on the same plane. With ones eyes closed or on a physics graph one can imagine this. The same for sound, smell, taste and touch. (The amazing thing about all this to me is that long before science caught up, the children of &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; knew about these extra wave lengths.) Then HASHEM taught Moshe how he ruled over the four forms of matter Air (gases), Fire (Plasma), Earth (solids) and Water (liquids). For everything on earth Moshe learned there was a spiritual value. If we were to break down the four forms of creatures or things that are on this planet we would start with the lowest such as inanimate. Thus metals like gold, silver, iron and copper have different grades of spiritual values. (Moshe was not shown the periodic table but only the known metals of his time). I might add that the properties of each stone of the Ephod of the Cohain Gadol were shown to Moshe at this time and then repeated later on when the placement and tribe to be inscribed were made known to him. The next level is the plant kingdom where oak, cedars and other plant life were shown for their spiritual levels.&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Then came the animal kingdom and lastly the “Midaber” kingdom or mankind. The basic principles of reincarnation were made know to Moshe and he learned that in most cases a Bnei Yisrael will reincarnate depending on his merits as another Ben Yacov either as a Yisrael, Levi or Cohain depending on his Mitzvos and Avairos. A blind person we might look on as a poor person but he might be a big Tzaddik who had a Yetzer to go after his eyes and traded them in for the short time of 120 years in this world so has not to be tempted and then he could go to heaven. Of course for greater sins (when HASHEM told Moshe of the 613 Mitzvos) one might become a non-Jew so as not be tempted to violate the ban on pork, chelev (forbidden fat) or creeping things. [Recently one of the Israeli TV stations had a survivor type program where they had to eat these things – being ignoramuses. However uneducated as they were the program planners and the participants violated these negative commands. Since they were so boorish the sin was by shogeg (unintentional) and they will have to bring a Korban (Sacrifice) when the &lt;st1:city st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Temple&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; is rebuilt speedily in our days. ] …&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:100%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;I began thinking deeper into the reason for the full name vs. the simple name. Avraham, Yitzchak and Yacov were simple shepherds with honest to goodness simple faint hence the ALL MIGHTY was good enough for them to protect them, prophesize and live by. However, a nation with artisans, craftsmen, salesmen, traders, merchants needed a more awesome, fearsome, judging and merciful manifestation of the L-RD.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;4 And I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;land&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;  of &lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Canaan&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;, the land of their sojournings, wherein they sojourned.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;And also, I established My covenant, etc.: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;And also, when I appeared to them as the Almighty God, I established and set up a covenant between Myself and them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;give them the land of Canaan: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;To Abraham in the section dealing with [the commandment of] circumcision (Gen. 17), it is said: “I am the Almighty God… And I will give you and your seed after you the land of your sojournings” (Gen. 17:1, 8). To Isaac [it is stated], “for to you and to your seed I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham” (Gen. 26:3), and that oath which I swore to Abraham was spoken with the [name] “Almighty God.” To Jacob [it is said], “I am the Almighty God; be fruitful and multiply, etc. And the land that, etc.” (Gen. 35:11, 12). So you see that I vowed to them [many vows], but I did not fulfill [My vows yet].&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;5 And moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered My covenant.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;And also, I heard: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;Just as I established and set up the covenant, it is incumbent upon Me to fulfill [it]. Therefore, I heard the moans [complaints] of the children of &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;, who are moaning. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;whom the Egyptians are holding in bondage. I remembered: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;that covenant [which I made with Abraham], for in the Covenant between the Parts, I said to him, “And also the nation that they will serve will I judge” (Gen. 15:14).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;I love them and they love ME and I am faithful to whom I love and MY word.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel: I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments; 7 and I will take you to Me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning which I lifted up My hand to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for a heritage: I am the LORD.&#039; 9 And Moses spoke so unto the children of &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;; but they hearkened not unto Moses for impatience of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;… 13 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. 14 These are the heads of their fathers&#039; houses: the sons of Reuben the first-born of &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. These are the families of Reuben. 15 And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman. These are the families of Simeon. 16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon and Kohath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty and seven years. 17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families. 18 And the sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and &lt;st1:city st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Hebron&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;, and Uzziel. And the years of the life of Kohath were a hundred thirty and three years. 19 And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations. 20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father&#039;s sister to wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty and seven years.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;Jochebed, his aunt: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;Heb. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot; lang=&quot;HE&quot;&gt;דֹדָתוֹ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; [Onkelos renders:] his father’s sister, the daughter of Levi, the sister of Kehath.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;In places like &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;India&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; this could mean cousin. However, it does not matter if she is his aunt or Yacov married two sisters because this is before Matan Torah (giving of the law) and therefore they were subject to the laws of Noach only.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;21 And the sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. 22 And the sons of Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri. &lt;a name=&quot;23&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;23 And Aaron took him Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, to wife; and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;24&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;The sister of Nahshon: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;From here we learn that one who contemplates taking a wife must [first] investigate her brothers. — [from B.B. 110a, Exod. Rabbah 7:5]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;24 And the sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites. 25 And Eleazar Aaron&#039;s son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers&#039; houses of the Levites according to their families.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;[one] of the daughters of Putiel-: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;Of the seed of Jethro, who fattened (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot; lang=&quot;HE&quot;&gt;פִּטֵּ ם&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) calves for idolatry (see Rashi on Exod. 2:16) and [who was also] of the seed of Joseph, who defied and fought (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;RTL&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot; lang=&quot;HE&quot;&gt;פִּטְפֵּט&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;LTR&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;) against his passion [when he was tempted by Potiphar’s wife]. — [from B.B. 109b]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;Because this was also before Matan Torah marrying a non-Jewish convert would not reduce the Kahuna status of Pinchas as the nation went according to the father.&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt; 
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;26 These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom the LORD said: &#039;Bring out the children of &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; from the &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;land&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; of &lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; according to their hosts.&#039;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;That is Aaron and Moses: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;Who are mentioned above [verse 20], whom Jochebed bore to Amram, [these two] are [the same] Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said, etc. In some places, [Scripture] places Aaron before Moses, and in other places it places Moses before Aaron, to tell us that they were equal. — [from Mechilta, 7:1]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;This is the whole purpose of this whole section of the Torah.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;27 These are they that spoke to Pharaoh king of &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, to bring out the children of &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; from &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;. These are that Moses and Aaron. 28 And it came to pass on the day when the LORD spoke unto Moses in the &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;land&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;  of &lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;,
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;29&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;At this point something should be bothering everybody. The Torah explains all these tribes and leaves out Yehuda onwards so me only have 25% of the tribes mentioned here. Obviously G-D had a reason or two for this. The reason for three tribes is the order and also to show that each tribe was equal in the eyes of G-D. The reason of stopping at Levi was just to establish the lineage of Moshe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;29 that the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: &#039;I am the LORD; speak thou unto Pharaoh king of &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; all that I speak unto thee.&#039; &lt;a name=&quot;30&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;30 And Moses said before the LORD: &#039;Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?&#039;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;7:1 And the LORD said unto Moses: &#039;See, I have set thee in God&#039;s stead to Pharaoh; and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet. 2 Thou shalt speak all that I command thee; and Aaron thy brother shall speak unto Pharaoh, that he let the children of &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; go out of his land. 3 And I will harden Pharaoh&#039;s heart, and multiply My signs and My wonders in the &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;land&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;  of &lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;For the first five plagues, Pharaoh was given the chance to repent. The magicians could duplicate with hydrochloric acid and phenolphalic solution that the ‘water’ turned to blood and with the frog they used witchcraft. However, the lice were too small for the Shaydim known in other religions as Demons, Genies, etc. to move them. Then it was ‘the finger of G-D’.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;A bas Noach named Colleen asked me “Why did G-D harden Pharaoh’s heart?”
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;1) Because a normal human when he realizes that he is up against G-D chances his ways. (2) To work more miracles to sanctify HIS NAME. (3) The first 5 plagues were sufficient but each time Pharaoh hardened his own heart so that G-D closed the gates of repentance to him.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;It would be improper of me not to bring down what Rashi says on the subject of hardening of Pharaoh’s heart&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;: &lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;But I will harden: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;Since he [Pharaoh] behaved wickedly and defied Me, and I know full well that there is no delight among the nations to make a wholehearted attempt to repent, it is better for Me that his heart be hardened, so that [I can] increase My signs and My wonders in him, and you will recognize My mighty deeds, and so is the custom of the Holy One, blessed be He. He brings retribution on the nations so that &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; should hear and fear, as it is said: “I have cut off nations; their towers have become desolate… I said, ‘Surely you will fear Me, you will accept reproof’” (Zeph. 3:6, 7). Nevertheless, in the first five plagues, it does not say, “And the Lord strengthened Pharaoh’s heart,” but “Pharaoh’s heart remained steadfast.” -[from Exod. Rabbah 13:3, 11:6; Tanchuma Buber, Va’era 22; Yeb. 63a]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;4 But Pharaoh will not hearken unto you, and I will lay My hand upon Egypt, and bring forth My hosts, My people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt, by great judgments. 5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth My hand upon &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, and bring out the children of &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; from among them.&#039; 6 And Moses and Aaron did so; as the LORD commanded them, so did they. 7 And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spoke unto Pharaoh.
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;Since G-D is above time, HE knows the future as well as the fact stated in the Yom Kippur Machzor “HE knows what goes on in each kidney(s) and heart(s) (of mankind).” In the Machzor since it is the individual praying it says kidneys and heart – the purpose in my train of thought is that we can have 6-7,000,000,000,000 people on this planet and countless animals and insects, each one lives by the will of G-D and HE knows what is going on.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;8 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying: 9 &#039;When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying: Show a wonder for you; then thou shalt say unto Aaron: Take thy rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it became a serpent.&#039; 10 And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so, as the LORD had commanded; and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a serpent. 11 Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers; and they also, the magicians of &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, did in like manner with their secret arts. 12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents; but Aaron&#039;s rod swallowed up their rods. 13 And Pharaoh&#039;s heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;This is Pharaoh hardening his own heart and G-D did not do anything to harden his heart. It is only later like some narcissus politicians refusing to admit that they were wrong that G-D hardens their hearts. (Can anybody think or a dozen or more in &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;United  Kingdom&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; and the &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;United States&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;) Sometimes G-D gives us a pat on the rear like a loving father and it is time to wake up. I can guarantee you that if Stephen Hawkins or Albert Einstein were politicians that the other side of the political spectrum would question their intelligence. About 900 years ago the Rambam was questioned on his philosophy by the religious establishment. Today we have the Zoo Rabbi approved and then rejected by the establishment. So in this vein of thought Pharaoh pursed his goal blindly and stubbornly.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;14 And the LORD said unto Moses: &#039;Pharaoh&#039;s heart is stubborn, he refuses to let the people go. 15 Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goes out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river&#039;s brink to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thy hand. 16 And thou shalt say unto him: The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, hath sent me unto thee, saying: Let My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness; and, behold, hitherto thou hast not hearkened; 17 thus says the LORD: In this thou shalt know that I am the LORD--behold, I will smite with the rod that is in my hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood. 18 And the fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river.&#039; 19 And the LORD said unto Moses: &#039;Say unto Aaron: Take thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in &lt;u&gt;vessels of wood and in vessels of stone&lt;/u&gt;.&#039;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;Their ponds: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;Water that does not spring [from beneath the ground] and does not flow [to any other place] but stands in one place. It is called estanc [in Old French], pond. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;Throughout the entire &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;land&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; of &lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;even in the bathhouses and in the bathtubs in the houses. E&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;ven in wood and in stone: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: purple;&quot;&gt;Water in wooden vessels and in stone vessels. — [from Onkelos, Jonathan, Exod. Rabbah 9:11]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
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He was rushed to the hospital in  critical condition and for quite a while was between life and death. Prayers  were made for his healing. The boy recently regained consciousness and told his  Rebbe who is my grandson’s teacher what happened. “I saw on one side the Malach  HaMavet (Angel of Death) and the other side Avraham Avinu. It was a toss up  whether I would live or die. I mentioned that I had registered for Yeshiva  Ketanah (youth Yeshiva) so and so and that turned the tide in my favor and the  Malach gave up his claim on me.” The boy then described medical procedures in  the ICU that occurred when he was in a coma.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Editorial with Mussar&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Sometimes a Jew has an ethical dilemma – should I go to Nick’s Restaurant  to meet with other people in my group even if I will only drink water as it may  look like the veal parmesan is kosher? Two other problems are with Xmas and New  Years. Rabbi Nightingale Shlita wrote two years ago about a fellow from the  Minyan who has $400 in Xmas gifts stolen from his car. The congregation began to  collect money in an Orthodox Schul for this. The Rabbi wrote, “Didn’t anybody  besides me see something wrong with this picture?” I was reading the Israeli  American paper circulating in FL. half is in English and half in Hebrew. Last  week they were advertising a mixed dancing News Years Eve Party and this  bothered me. For in Judaism we neither observe a Nativity Day and our Rosh  Hashanah is silent meditation of Repentance, Prayer and Charity preparing for  judgement on that day. I am curious where we went wrong that we are celebrating  a non-Jewish event.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Last week it just happens that I forced myself to stay up to finish the  Drasha and Blogspot until almost midnight. One call to Eretz Yisrael before  sleeping and then it was close to midnight. So I watch from my home 180 degrees  of fireworks from many small towns within &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:city st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Broward County&lt;/st1:city&gt; , &lt;st1:state st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;FL.&lt;/st1:state&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; I enjoyed the fireworks, rockets and  flares which were larger and wider than a real military theater that I saw  slightly over a kilometer from me inside &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Lebanon&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;. Our  flares were white and theirs was yellow and the battle was fierce with tracer  bullets but not a wide 180 degree one. I think only in the Yom Kippur war was  the battle that large. At least this was a peaceful display but I could hear  fire trucks on both sides of my apt racing up and down the streets.  &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;I think as a conclusion one should read this opinion from an Israeli  Newspaper:&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3826381,00.html&quot;&gt;http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3826381,00.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;The terrorist have succeeded!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;I cannot say that stupidity has not prevailed too with the political  correctness. So instead of profiling because of one shoe bomber everybody takes  off their shoes. Because of one underwear bomber people will be body searched or  put through radio waves which shows our bodies like in Gan Eden before we ate  the fruit. The terrorist have essentially one this round. The have terrorized  the TSA and all of &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:city st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Washington&lt;/st1:city&gt; &lt;st1:state st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;DC&lt;/st1:state&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;.  All the scared rabbits who would not attend town hall meetings are shaking in  their boots now. A simple un-politically correct profiling of terrorist could  save a lot of Daughters of the American Revolution grandmothers to be scanned  and searched and Congressmen too not to mention my wife and I. Until my wife got  a green card and a FL license, she was searched every flight because she had an  Israeli passport. Everybody knows that Israeli Jews are the majority of  terrorist in the world especially a woman past 50 traveling with her American  husband. That was politically correct profiling. Because each airplane terrorist  was a Jew in the last years on and since Sept. 11&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;.&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;I don’t 100% agree with the residents of some  communities in the Shomron who don’t have a fence around them but they refuse to  give into terror. Who is correct – I just presented ideas you figure it out for  yourself. (Also see the commentary by E. Winston and Nitsana Leitner below about  the &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; High Court of  &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; giving the terrorist a free  hand on the 443 road)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Don’t bite off more than you are capable of  chewing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;If you notice that some weeks I bring down more commentaries and some  weeks a lot of the material is from my teachers and my own Pshat. The main  reason is that it is impossible with my schedule to do everything all the time.  I have had a number of non-Jews come up to me ask me for prayers for their  relatives and friends who are ill. Even had somebody ask me to pray for his  dying dog. I can’t pray or everybody and every creature on the planet. In fact I  wanted to discuss and question if we have global warming, an onset of an ice age  or just plain temperature glitches on a geological time scale. Perhaps in the  future I will cover this.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;One baal  Tshuvah came up with brilliant films on the internet for Jews. He then began  debating messianic Jews. However, he is very young and has not mellowed. As a  result of his immaturity he started insulting or making fun of Yeshu. I saw that  this was upsetting many righteous Gentiles and friends of the Jewish people and  Am Yisrael. We have enough anti-semites; we don’t need pushing friends into  becoming anti=smites. I ended up writing the fellow to leave the messianic Jews  alone. My reason is as follows: When the Moshiach comes, beyond a shadow of a  doubt, these people will accept him. However, Reform, Conservative and Atheistic  Jews may not necessarily accept the Moshiach and some bigoted Orthodox Jews also  may not accept him if he is not of their group or socially-educational  philosophy. Hadassah wrote me unrelated to this piece that she could not see but  I will add it as it is appropriate to conclude this piece.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;We Jews  must wake up and eliminate the skin color problem among us. We need each other  to fight our enemies the JIHADISTS.  The rabbis need to retract Lashon Hara  against Jews with skin color.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Those who will  understand will understand and for those who don’t it is nearly impossible to  get a human with preset thoughts to correct his/her mistake and admit that  he/she was wrong.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Shemos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;25&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Both  Rabbi Lustig and Rabbi Belinsky Shlita spoke about Beresheis ending on a sad  note contrary to the usual happy ending we experience with a happy note.  However, is this really the end to the story? It appears that the real ending is  in Shemos 7 which is a happy note. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;50:25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of  &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, saying: &#039;God will surely  remember you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.&#039; &lt;a name=&quot;26&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;26 So  Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him, and he  was put in a coffin in Egypt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Here is the  continuation:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;1:1 Now these are the names of the sons of  Israel, who came into Egypt with Jacob; every man came with his household: &lt;a name=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; &lt;a name=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;3 Issachar, Zebulun,  and Benjamin; &lt;a name=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. &lt;a name=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;5  And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; and  Joseph was in &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; already. &lt;a name=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;6 And  Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation. &lt;a name=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;7 And  the children of &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; were fruitful, and increased  abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled  with them.  &lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;This is the link  continuing Beresheis with Shemos and at this point the Creation to the  generation of the founding fathers through the fathers of the tribes end, but we  still have not gotten up to the purpose of creation. Below we start out with  Egyptian Citizens who are a minority but yet an Ethnic Nation within the entire  Nation of &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;. What is the purpose of  creation – we learn the purpose from the first Rashi in Beresheis when the  Nation of &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; comes into being. However, we  do not see the purpose until 50 days after being freed at &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Mt.&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; &lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Sinai&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;. The 40 years of receiving the Torah  ends that purpose.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;8 Now there  arose a new king over &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;, who knew not Joseph.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;A new king arose:  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;[There is a controversy between] Rav  and Samuel. One says: He was really new, and the other one says: His decrees  were new. [From Sotah 11a, Exod. Rabbah 1:8] Since the Torah does not say: The  king of &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; died, and a new king arose, it  implies that the old king was still alive, only that his policies had changed,  and he acted like a new king. [Rashi on Sotah 11a] &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;and who  did not know: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;[means that] he acted as if he did not  know about him.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Since Yosef actually  punished his brothers by sustaining them from the Egyptian treasury one thing  was the original 70 families but they grew and grew and became instead of a  privileged class a liability or welfare cases as we say. Some people asked me  years ago if the &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;United  States&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; was to make war with &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;  which side would you be with? It did not make sense in the ‘60’s that the  &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;US&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; would declare war on  &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; but with whom is who in the  white house and on the staff it seems more feasible now. This also scares me  that the Commander in Chief is a Muslim pretending to be a Christian. He  attended a church where the Pastor cursed the &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;USA&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; in G-D’s  name. (See the Prohibition 45 below in Mitzvos and Halachos of this  week).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;In any event, the fact that the welfare is  growing was a shock for the Egyptians and the fact that these people did not  fully speak Egyptian and the term “coming” is used when they came to  &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; and now “coming” is used  several generations later like they are still outsiders and not loyal citizens.  Therefore the following accusations make sense:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;9 And he said unto his  people: &#039;Behold, the people of the children of Israel are too many and too  mighty for us; &lt;a name=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;10 come, let us deal wisely  with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there befallen us  any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and  get them up out of the land.&#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;11&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Get ready, let us deal shrewdly with  them: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Heb. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Arial;&quot; lang=&quot;HE&quot;&gt;הָבָה&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. Every &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Arial;&quot; lang=&quot;HE&quot;&gt;הָבָה&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; [found in the Torah] is an expression of preparation and  readiness. That is to say: Prepare yourselves for this. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;let us  deal shrewdly with them: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;With the people [of  &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;]. Let us act shrewdly  regarding what to do to them. Our Rabbis, however, interpreted [that Pharaoh  said]; Let us deal shrewdly with the Savior of &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;  [thus interpreting &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Arial;&quot; lang=&quot;HE&quot;&gt;לוֹ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; as to him] by afflicting them [to die] with water, for He has  already sworn that He would not bring a flood to the world. (But they [the  Egyptians] did not understand that upon the whole world He would not bring [a  flood] but He would bring it upon one nation In an old Rashi manuscript.) from  Sotah 11a] &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;and depart from the land:  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;against our will. Our Rabbis, however,  interpreted [i. e., depicted Pharaoh] as a person who curses himself but  ascribes his curse to others. And it is as if it were written: and we will  depart from the land, and they will take possession of it. [From Sotah 11a]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;This is a  mistrust of strangers as seen in each country. Russian Jews and Goyim make  trouble in Israel and after a few wife murders, mafia crimes, drunkenness by a  group that composes of 1/6&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; of the population of &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;  is higher than the Israeli average; the good apples are often forgotten and the  bad apples stand out. The vast majority are good. When the Moroccans came in  mass the Rabbis and good people were forgotten and a few criminal groups and  murderers were remembered. Nobody thought that the older eastern European Jews  were bad – because they were already entrenched in &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;. Since  the Ethiopians are generally quiet the only thing that bothers ignorant people  is their color and the Yemen &amp;amp; Indian Jews somehow look more Swedish to the  old timers. Locality is questioned of Kahana followers but not ultra-extreme  left Kibbutzniks. Guess how many of the former has spied against  &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; while more than a handful of  the later have done so. This was the main problem with the Bnei Yisrael in  &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;11 Therefore they did set  over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for  Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Rameses. &lt;a name=&quot;12&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;12  But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they  spread abroad. And they were adread because of the children of  &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;. &lt;a name=&quot;13&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;13 And the Egyptians made the children of &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; to serve  with rigor. &lt;a name=&quot;14&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;14 And they made their lives  bitter &lt;span style=&quot;color: green;&quot;&gt;The Gezara (decree) was for them to go into  &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; and become slaves and serve  with rigor. The making of their life bitter was an addition that the Egyptians  added and therefore they received the punishment of the plagues. &lt;/span&gt;with  hard service, &lt;span style=&quot;color: green;&quot;&gt;Working as a draftee for Pharaoh, the  Army, etc. is one thing and making the service especially hard is for the drill  Sergeant. He can make the drill tough to strengthen or to very hard to accept.  &lt;/span&gt;in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field; in all  their service, wherein they made them serve with rigor. &lt;a name=&quot;15&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;15 And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives,  of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah;  &lt;a name=&quot;16&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;16 and he said: &#039;When ye do the office of a  midwife to the Hebrew women, ye shall look upon the birthstool: if it be a son,  then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.&#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;17&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;It is most  uncharacteristic for a ruler to speak to ordinary midwives unless he is touring  a hospital and enters the gynecology area. The answer can be found in the Rashi  and Medrash in that his astrologers told me that the Bnei Yisrael will have a  Moshiach born unto them in the Age of Pieces and he will lead them out of  &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;. This explains why only the  males should be willed and only between a certain age  group.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;17 But the midwives feared  God, and did not as the king of &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; commanded them, but saved the  men-children alive. &lt;a name=&quot;18&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;18 And the king of  &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; called for the midwives, and  said unto them: &#039;Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men-children  alive?&#039; &lt;a name=&quot;19&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;19 And the midwives said unto  Pharaoh: &#039;Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are  lively, and are delivered ere the midwife come unto them.&#039; &lt;a name=&quot;20&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;20 And God dealt well with the midwives; and the people  multiplied, and waxed very mighty. &lt;a name=&quot;21&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;21 And it  came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that He made them houses.  &lt;a name=&quot;22&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;22 And Pharaoh charged all his people,  saying: &#039;Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter  ye shall save alive.&#039;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;The late Torah  Giant Rav Yosef Ber Soleveichik Zal looked over the above section and attributed  to the classic and basic form of anti-semitism. The Bnei Yisrael are different  than the average Egyptian they believe that Pharaoh is a god and they did not  settle in one place and only marry among themselves. The bnei Yisrael were on  the borders close to Yisrael and therefore the excuse of Homeland Security was  raised and the question of their loyalty seeing that their professions, language  and dress were different. How dare they not conform to the standard herd mode?  How come they do not consent to group conformity vs. individuality within the  context of the group?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;2:1 And there went a man of  the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;This is a  strange round about language here. Usually and Adam knew Chava, Yitzchak &amp;amp;  Rivka, and in the morning Yacov saw that it was Leah, and Yacov married Leah,  etc. so why not use Amram and Yocheved?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashititle&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;and married a daughter of Levi:  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;He was separated from her because of  Pharaoh’s decree (and he remarried her. This is the meaning of went, that he  followed [lit., he went after] his daughter’s advice that she said to him, Your  decree is harsher than &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Arial;&quot; lang=&quot;HE&quot;&gt;פַּרְעֹה&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. Whereas Pharaoh issued a decree [only] against the males, you  [issued a decree] against the females as well [for none will be born]. This  [comment] is found in an old Rashi), and he took her back and married her a  second time. She too was transformed to become like a young woman [physically],  but she was [actually] 130 years old. For she was born when they came to  &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; between the  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;rtl&quot; style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Arial;&quot; lang=&quot;HE&quot;&gt;חוֹמוֹת&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span dir=&quot;ltr&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and they stayed there 210 years. When they left, Moses was 80  years old. If so, when she conceived him, she was 130 years old, yet [Scripture]  calls her a daughter of Levi. [From Sotah 12a, Exod. Rabbah 1:19]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: purple; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Now you can take this or leave it. The  fact that a woman could give birth after the age of 130 would have made sense  before the flood. However, after the flood, the life span decrease very much and  things would not be so. Was it a miracle or Amram married a cousin that was in a  more conforming age group? The fact that she was from the Tribe of Levy; there  are plenty of women born into this tribe whom Amram could have married. So  either we accept the strange language because of an extra-ordinary circumstances  with the birth of the Moshiach (Moshe) or we do not. It is a matter of faith vs.  logic.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;corashitext&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;2 And the woman conceived,  and bore a son; and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him  three months. 3 And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark  of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child  therein, and laid it in the flags by the river&#039;s brink. 4 And his sister stood  afar off, to know what would be done to him. 5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came  down to bathe in the river; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and  she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;The  Commentaries call her Batya meaning daughter of god as Pharaoh was a god and  henceforth the name when translated into the Hebrew. There are various Midrashim  here from the simple Pshat to the miracle of her arm stretching like the fellow  from the fantastic four of the Marvel Comics fame.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;6 And she opened it, and saw  it, even the child; and behold a boy that wept.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;He was an  infant and wept like an older boy and she saw this as a good omen. She was also  childless. (it is unknown if she had a relationship with her father like many of  the daughters and Pharaohs had throughout history and in breeding. Hence Pharaoh  might not have&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;thought  differently.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;And she had compassion on  him, and said: &#039;This is one of the Hebrews&#039; children.&#039; 7 Then said his sister to  Pharaoh&#039;s daughter: &#039;Shall I go and call thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that  she may nurse the child for thee?&#039; 8 And Pharaoh&#039;s daughter said to her: &#039;Go.&#039;  And the maiden went and called the child&#039;s mother. 9 And Pharaoh&#039;s daughter said  unto her: &#039;Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy  wages.&#039; And the woman took the child, and nursed it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Moshe refused  to nurse from a non-kosher mother according to our commentaries. Halachically  there is nothing wrong with this any more that eating a tomato grown in pig or  camel fertilizer. I am only the messenger of the Sages on this one. THE MAIN  POINTS TO NOTE IS THAT G-D HAD THE MOSHIACH THAT PHARAOH FEARED GROWN UP IN HIS  OWN HOUSE AS A PRINCE. THE MOTHER OF THE BABY RECEIVED A SALARY FOR NURSING  HIM.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;10 And the child grew, and  she brought him unto Pharaoh&#039;s daughter, and he became her son. And she called  his name Moses, and said: &#039;Because I drew him out of the water.&#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;The question  arises how does she conceal the child from the Egyptian soldiers? The mother has  a ringlet given her by the princess, perhaps a papyrus and maybe even a military  guard to protect the new prince. With this the soldiers had no reason to  question the existence of a baby. Also as soon as Moshe had been taken out of  the &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Nile&lt;/st1:place&gt; by Pharaoh’s daughter, the river  turned to blood and the wise men told Pharaoh the Moshiach had been thrown into  the water and was no longer alive in the water. The decree was rescinded at this  point.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;11 And it came to pass in  those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and  looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his  brethren. … 18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said: &#039;How is it  that ye are come so soon to-day?&#039; 19 And they said: &#039;An Egyptian delivered us  out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered  the flock.&#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Two points  that I want to make at this time. 1) Note the name of Yisro here is Reuel. 2)  Moshe is known as an Egyptian. When the ingathering started in Eretz Yisrael  over time, Jews were called by their country of origin. He is a Canadian, a  Polish Yid, A Yeke (German), a Litvak, Russian, American, British, Irish, etc.  What is funny that often in their country of origin such as &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Algeria&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Tunisia&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Morocco&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Romania&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;, etc. did not want them or  called them names if not out and out pogroms on the Jews and now the Jew was  treated as if he was the Ambassador from that country.&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;… 3:1 Now Moses was keeping  the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Second name  and standard name given unto Yisro is mentioned  here.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;… 19 And I know that the  king of &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; will not give you leave to go,  except by a mighty hand. 20 And I will put forth My hand, and smite  &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; with all My wonders which I  will do in the midst thereof. And after that he will let you go. 21 And I will  give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. And it shall come to pass,  that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty; 22 but every woman shall ask of her  neighbor, and of her that sojourns in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of  gold, and raiment; and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your  daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.&#039;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;… 4:18 &lt;span class=&quot;coversetext&quot;&gt;Moses went and returned to Jether, his father in law, and he  said to him, &quot;Let me go now and return to my brothers who are in  &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, and let me see whether they  are still alive.&quot; So Jethro said to Moses, &quot;Go in peace.&quot; &lt;span style=&quot;color: green;&quot;&gt;Note the third name of Yisro given in this Parsha and all  in all, our Sages tell us that he had seven names as the Medrash  indicates.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;coversetext&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;and said unto him: &#039;Let me  go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren that are in &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;,  and see whether they be yet alive.&#039; And Jethro said to Moses: &#039;Go in peace.&#039; 19  And the LORD said unto Moses in Midian: &#039;Go, return into &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;;  for all the men are dead that sought thy life.&#039; 20 And Moses took his wife and  his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;land&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; of &lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;; and Moses took the rod of God in  his hand.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;He starts his  journey with Tzipporah and the boys and somehow she returns home sometime  between his meeting Aaron and the entrance into &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;21 And the LORD said unto  Moses: &#039;When you go back into Egypt, see that thou do before Pharaoh all the  wonders which I have put in thy hand; but I will harden his heart, and he will  not let the people go. 22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Will the first  born son of G-D please make yourself known. Actually, the L-RD provided this  knowledge. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Thus says  the LORD: &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; is My son, My first-born. 23  And I have said unto thee: Let My son go, that he may serve Me; and thou hast  refused to let him go. Behold, I will slay thy son, thy  first-born&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;.&#039;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;-- 24 And it came to pass on  the way at the lodging-place, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him. 25  Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at  his feet; and she said: &#039;Surely a bridegroom of blood art thou to me.&#039; 26 So He  let him alone. Then she said: &#039;A bridegroom of blood in regard of the  circumcision.&#039; &lt;span style=&quot;color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green;&quot;&gt;It seems to be that Moshe postponed  the bris because he was traveling through the desert with Tzipporah and  therefore wanted to do the bris at the first acceptable spot where he could heal  for a few days as Moshe knew the tradition about “on the third day” as Rashi  mentioned with the bris of Avraham.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;27&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;27 And the  LORD said to Aaron: &#039;Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.&#039; And he went, and met  him in the &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;mountain&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; of &lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;God&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;, and kissed him. &lt;a name=&quot;28&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;5:1 And afterward Moses and Aaron came,  and said unto Pharaoh: &#039;Thus says the LORD, the God of &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;: Let My  people go, that they may hold a feast unto Me in the wilderness.&#039; 2 And Pharaoh  said: &#039;Who is the LORD, that I should hearken unto His voice to let &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;  go? I know not the LORD, and moreover I will not let &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; go.&#039; … 22  And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said: &#039;Lord, wherefore hast Thou dealt ill  with this people? why is it that Thou hast sent me? 23 For since I came to  Pharaoh to speak in Thy name, he hath dealt ill with this people; neither hast  Thou delivered Thy people at all.&#039;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;6:1 And the LORD said unto Moses: &#039;Now  shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh; for by a strong hand shall he let them  go, and by a strong hand shall he drive them out of his  land.&#039;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Mitzvos and  Halachos from Danny Shoemann&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;It&#039;s a Mitzva to eat Matza on the first  night of Pessach. Matza can only be made from the &quot;5 grains&quot;, traditionally  translated as &quot;wheat, barley, spelt, oats and rye&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;If a child is old enough  to eat Matza, there&#039;s a Mitzva to educate him in the Mitzva and feed him some.  By Rabbinic decree one is forbidden to eat Matza on Erev Pessach, in order to  have an appetite for it at night. Applies to everybody, everywhere on Seder  night. Verse: &quot;On that night you shall eat Matza&quot; (Shemos 12:18)&lt;br /&gt;Source: The  Chafetz-Chaim&#039;s Sefer HaMitzvos HaKatzar; Positive Mitzvah  23&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;A husband is forbidden to deny his wife  her Torah-given rights: food, clothes and conjugal rights. One who denies his  wife any of these has transgressed. By Rabbinic decree a husband owes his wife  another 7 rights, as needed: Her Ketubah, medical attention, redeeming her from  captivity, a decent burial, the use of his estate as long as she&#039;s widowed, her  daughters&#039; use of the estate until they get married, her dowry get bequeathed  only to her descendants. Applies to husbands, everywhere, always - Verse: &quot;He  may not deny his wife her food, clothing and conjugal rights&quot; (Shemos  21:10)&lt;br /&gt;Source: The Chafetz-Chaim&#039;s Sefer HaMitzvos HaKatzar; Prohibition  42&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;It is forbidden to hit another Jew. This  is learned from the prohibition of Bet Din to give more than 39 lashes. One who  strikes another Jew needs to compensate him. If the compensation is less than a  Peruta (a few cents) then Bet Din give him 39 lashes instead. One who lifts his  hand to strike a fellow Jew - even if he didn&#039;t strike - is called &quot;wicked&quot;.  Parents and teachers, who hit their children and students for educational  purposes when appropriate, do not transgress this Mitzva.&lt;br /&gt;Applies to  everybody, everywhere, always-Verse: &quot;Do not strike him more&quot; (Devarim 25:3)  Source: The Chafetz-Chaim&#039;s Sefer HaMitzvos HaKatzar; Prohibition  43&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h3 style=&quot;margin: 12pt 0in 3pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;uistorymessage&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:180%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;It is forbidden to strike one&#039;s father or mother. One  who strikes a parent and wounds them deserves to get put to death by Bet Din by  strangulation. Drawing blood for medical purposes from parents is forbidden  unless there is nobody else competent available. This prohibition is besides the &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;p&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;textexposedshow&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;rohibition of striking any Jew - even without wounding  them. Applies to everybody, everywhere, always - Verse: &quot;One who strikes his  father or mother shall be killed&quot; (Shemos 21:15) Source: The Chafetz-Chaim&#039;s  Sefer HaMitzvos HaKatzar; Prohibition 44&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:Times New Roman;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Cursing another Jew is forbidden; even  one who doesn&#039;t hear the curse or who cannot hear the curse. One may not even  curse oneself. One who curses another using the name of G-D - even in English -  deserves 39 lashes from Bet Din. Applies to everybody, everywhere, always -  Verse: &quot;Do not curse the deaf&quot; (Vayikra 19:4)&lt;br /&gt;Source: The Chafetz-Chaim&#039;s  Sefer HaMitzvos HaKatzar; Prohibition 45&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;One must stand up for a Torah Scholar  even if he&#039;s young. One must stand up for people over seventy years old even if  they&#039;re not Torah Scholars, so long as they&#039;re not wicked. Even non-Jews over 70  deserve some show of respect. Source: Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 144:  2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;It&#039;s a Mitzva to review the week&#039;s Torah  &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:city st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Reading&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; by  reading it twice in the original and once with the (Aramaic) Onkelos  translation. One who doesn&#039;t understand (or appreciate) Onkelos may instead read  Rashi or even an English translation. One may already start on Sunday, and one  should finish before the Torah is read on Shabbat morning. Source: Kitzur  Shulchan Aruch 72:11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Tefilat HaDerech - the traveler&#039;s prayer  - cannot be said before one has left the city limits; defined as 70 and ⅔ Amos  (~35 meters / &lt;st1:metricconverter st=&quot;on&quot; productid=&quot;115 feet&quot;&gt;115  feet&lt;/st1:metricconverter&gt;) after the last house.&lt;br /&gt;Preferably it should be  said one &quot;Miel&quot; (~1 Km / ~0.6 miles) from the city limit. 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Preferably  Tefilat HaDerech should be said during the first Parsa of the journey. If  forgotten, Tefilat HaDerech can be said as long as one still has at least one  Parsa to travel before one&#039;s destination city or overnight resting place.  Source: Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 68:2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;If possible, one should not travel more  than 3 Parsa on Fridays, unless one is sure that Shabbat preparations are ready  at ones destination. &lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;(A Parsa is either  ~4 Km or the time to travel ~4 Km by foot, which is assumed to be 72 minutes.  Thus on Fridays one should not undertake trips longer than 3.5 hours unless one  is sure that Shabbat preparations are ready at one&#039;s destination.) It&#039;s  important to plan one&#039;s trip such that even with unexpected heavy traffic one  arrives at one&#039;s destination long before candle-lighting, so that one has time  to wash up before lighting. Source: Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 68:11 &lt;span style=&quot;color: green;&quot;&gt;ONE MUST TRY HIS UTMOST TO PLAN A FLIGHT IF SCHEDULED FOR  ARRIVING EREV SHABBOS THAT THE ARRIVAL TIME IS MORE THAN 6 TO 8 HOURS BEFORE  SHABBOS IN THE CITY OF HIS DESTINATION AS FLIGHTS CAN BE DELAYED OR DIVERTED TO  OTHER AIRPORTS AND THEN ONE MUST HAVE TIME TO TRY TO CONTACT ANOTHER JEW FOR  HOUSING OR PURCHASE FOOD FOR SHABBOS.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: red;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;==&gt; Rosh Chodesh Shvat is next Shabbat.  &lt;==&lt;/span&gt; Shabbat Shalom uMevorach, -  Danny&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h1 style=&quot;margin: auto 0in;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;h1 style=&quot;margin: auto 0in;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;Military rabbis:  Refuse orders that go against Halacha:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;text16g1&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;Senior  retired military rabbis release unprecedented statement calling on soldiers to  refuse orders that go against Jewish Law; say such refusal is legitimate, rooted  in IDF commands&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;text16g1&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;  &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Senior ranking  retired military rabbis have called on &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; Defense Forces soldiers to  refuse orders that go against Halacha. In an unprecedented statement released  Wednesday, they declare their&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;loyalty to the stand of  former Chief Military Rabbi Shlomo Goren, and call on serving rabbis to follow  his example and instruct soldiers in their units to do the same.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt; Signatories of the  statement include former Military Rabbis Harel Yosef (deputy chief rabbi),  Haniel Farber (Education Corps), Avshalom Katzir (Air Force), Shlomo Graverchik  (Home front Command), Yosef Wasserman (Ground Forces) and Meir Kaler (Navy), who  asserted that they spoke for &quot;all rabbis and religious  officers.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;The document,  distributed by the Lahav Fund for Strengthening Judaism in the IDF in which the  rabbis are involved, claimed that &quot;there are clear guidelines regarding orders  that go against Halacha.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;They quote from the IDF&#039;s standing  orders, noting, &quot;A commander that gives an order that desecrates Shabbat  (clearly this means any order that goes against Halacha) must coordinate this in  advance with the military rabbi. If it has not been coordinated, the soldier  must clarify with his commander if failure to carry out the command could be  detrimental to security, and if he is convinced that the command goes against  Halacha he must not carry it out.&quot; &lt;span style=&quot;color: black;&quot;&gt;&quot;Otherwise,  carrying out the command that goes against halacha is recognized to be just like  any other illegal command,&quot; the rabbis conclude. They also assert that advisors  and other professionals such as doctors can take a similar stand, and that  doctors&#039; orders are binding on commanders. &quot;It must not be thought that there is  a contradiction between a doctor&#039;s order and that of a  commander.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;"
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rabbipauli.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;More prayers needed: Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu Shlita took a turn for the worst last week. Mordechai Tzemach ben Mazel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;The next time you send out a list for Mishabaracks, would you please include my friend&#039;s parents, they are both in Tel Hashomer hospital (Tel Aviv?) - Chanan ben Mazal Rachel (chest pains) (this week only) and Rivka bat Shirin Rachel (pancreatic cancer). A non-smoker with Lung Cancer: Chana bat Simcha. Also for this week only Fruma bas Rachel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;Recovered People: Yulia aka Julie bas Naomi Sarah and Bracha Zehava bas Baila Leah have B”H recovered.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;Mekeitz
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;The original Bnei Yisrael continued the Noahide tradition of having the tribes and people coming from the father. Esav – Eliphaz – Amalek or Moav makes Ruth a Moaviah and only after the Bnei Yisrael become a separate nations does the Jewishness go through the mother. Recently I corresponded with a woman raised Protestant who is Jewish and her children are Jewish and this week a Roman Catholic woman with the same story. There are many hidden Jews still out there. This does not mean that either woman has stopped going to church but I have the feeling that I have not begun to find the tip of the iceberg yet.&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot; lang=&quot;EN&quot;&gt;In 5766 I brought down this commentary: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: navy;&quot; lang=&quot;EN&quot;&gt;Every Rabbi commenting on Mikeitz asks the following question: Why didn’t Yosef send a message to his father after he became ruler of &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;. Out of the 22 years that he was away from Yacov, the first 11 he worked as a slave/servant of Potiphar and then he was two years in jail. Now as a leader, what happened to his memory of dear ole dad? We know that the reason he fled from Mrs. Potiphar was that the face, truth and purity of Yacov appeared before Yosef. So what about the other 9 years? I can only guess that Yosef knew of the Cherem (edict of excommunication) that the brothers had placed upon anybody who revealed to Yacov the truth of what happened to Yosef. There is a possibility that Shimon &amp;amp; Levi might intercept and kill the messenger to Yacov. It could be that Yosef did have some restrictions placed upon him by Pharaoh as we saw with the funeral of Yacov. Whatever it was, Yacov did not receive communications from Yosef for 22 years.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: navy;&quot; lang=&quot;EN&quot;&gt;Rabbi Pinchas Winston (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: navy;&quot;&gt;Perceptions, Copyright © 2005 by Rabbi Pinchas Winston and Torah.org.- google Torah.org or Project Genesis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: navy;&quot; lang=&quot;EN&quot;&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: navy;&quot;&gt;Thus, when the brothers threw Yosef into the pit back in Shechem, they threw him into an even deeper spiritual pit when they took him out and sold him down to &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;. And, it was obviously not something Yosef saw coming, and therefore, it had not been something for which he could have consciously prepared himself for.
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&lt;br /&gt;Yet, all of that was part of the prophecy Avraham Avinu had of the future exile of the Jewish people. And, though Yosef told his brothers that he
&lt;br /&gt;had been sent down to Egypt ahead of them to save them from famine, which was true, the deeper and more profound reason for his being sent down to Egypt, and in as an abrupt manner as had been the case, was to save us at the end of history.
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;The story of Yosef is the story of Moshiach Ben Yosef, and what he has to be to do his job at any particular point in history, but specifically at
&lt;br /&gt;the end of it. The brothers were made to be jealous and to hate their brother, for this is part of what Moshiach Ben Yosef will have to endure
&lt;br /&gt;in his role as Savior #1. They were made to misunderstand his intentions and abilities, because this will be true of Moshiach Ben Yosef, whoever he will be, at the End-of-Days.
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;Likewise, like Yosef HaTzaddik, Moshiach Ben Yosef will be &quot;sold&quot; by his own, and like Yosef, ultimately this will not benefit those who sell him,
&lt;br /&gt;but will only benefit Moshiach Ben Yosef. It will put him in a better position to lead the nation as he is destined to do. It will also put him
&lt;br /&gt;in a position to sanctify the Name of G-d while so many of his brothers continue to profane the Name of G-d. Indeed, the prophet Yechezkel warned that G-d will be &quot;forced&quot; to bring the Final Redemption just to end the profanation of His Name. Moshiach Ben Yosef will do that.
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;And, the most remarkable thing will be, that Moshiach Ben Yosef will become what he will need to be, just like Yosef HaTzaddik before him, in
&lt;br /&gt;the last place you&#039;d expect him to be able to do so - in Egypt, or rather, Mitzrayim. In Yosef&#039;s time, they were one and same thing, but in the
&lt;br /&gt;generation of Moshiach Ben Yosef they are not. Mitzrayim will be another nation, or perhaps even several nations, that live by the same rules that the Mitzrayim of Yosef&#039;s time lived by.
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;And, from amidst the counter - Torah philosophy, and perhaps for reasons known only to G-d, Moshiach Ben Yosef will not only strive in such a
&lt;br /&gt;society, but thrive in it. From amidst the darkness, he will be the light that will grow ever stronger in intensity until it conquers all impurity,
&lt;br /&gt;paving the way for Moshiach Ben Dovid to provide the final stability to Creation.
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;Like G-d Himself, Who shone light onto the chaos that preceded Creation to order it into a beautiful and elegant universe, Moshiach Ben Yosef will be that light at the End-of-Days, once again turning tohu into order, leading the path to the paradise it is destined to become.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: navy;&quot;&gt;What happened to Yosef’s Torah during the 22 years, first as a slave and then as a leader? During this time, his 11 brothers were learning Torah with Yacov Avinu. (Note the Torah here is not only the creation story, mussar, halacha, but also the fundamentals of Kabbala.) Yosef was a very busy man. Sure he could recall, reflect and review his learning in the jail similar to Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in the cave. Rabbi Winston comes and brings down the following:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: navy;&quot;&gt;According to the Arizal, he got that miracle:
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&lt;br /&gt;You can also understand what Chazal wrote, based upon the end of the posuk, &quot;(He appointed it as a testimony to Yosef when He went out over the &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;land&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; of &lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;) when I heard a language unknown to me&quot; (Tehillim 81:6): That night, Gavriel came and taught him seventy languages (Sotah 36b). What actually happened was that, Chanoch or Mattatron &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;known as Enoch by the non-Jews&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: navy;&quot;&gt;, the minister over the Seventy Nations, who knows the seventy languages, entered him b&#039;ibur. When, that night, the Neshamah of Mattatron entered him, immediately he knew the seventy languages. (&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:city st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Shaar HaGilgulim&lt;/st1:city&gt;, &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Ch.&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; 31)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: navy;&quot;&gt;This week we see sort of what looks like a confrontation between the Moshiach Ben Yosef and Moshiach Ben Dovid in the meeting between Yosef and Yehuda. Yosef at this point is on top and Yehuda is ready to do anything to save Benyamin. When Yehuda sees that it is not him that Yosef wants to make a slave but Benyamin at all cost, he sees that Mishpat (Justice) and Tzedek (Righteousness) is not on the side of Yosef so he is willing to fight. Suddenly the redemption and reconciliation comes like a scorpion out of nowhere in the blink of an eye. Rabbi Winston Shlita writes about this concerning the future redemption.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: navy;&quot;&gt;&quot;If the redemption is not far off, then why hasn&#039;t Moshiach revealed himself yet? If he&#039;s Moshiach, wouldn&#039;t he know it by now? Wouldn&#039;t we
&lt;br /&gt;suspect it of him already?&quot;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;Appointing Moshiach is not like voting in a President of a country. Presidents rarely come out of nowhere, no matter how qualified they are.
&lt;br /&gt;Usually they have a political career trailing behind them, and eventually they have to run in the primaries and first become leader of their party.
&lt;br /&gt;By the time they take office, we know quite well who they are and how they got there.
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;Moshiach, on the other hand, can be unknown until the last moment to everyone, except for Heaven. And, even after G-d revealed to Moshe
&lt;br /&gt;Rabbeinu a year before the redemption that he was the man for the job, he refused to accept the tap on the shoulder until compelled to by G-d
&lt;br /&gt;Himself. And until Yosef was whisked out from jail to interpret Pharaoh&#039;s dreams and then miraculously made viceroy over &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, he probably had little faith in the direction his career was heading.
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;A politician has to be trained to become President. There are so many things to know and have experienced, and there are few short cuts.
&lt;br /&gt;Politicians plus short cut usually equals scandal, or failure, or both.
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;And, although Moshiach will probably have had to pay his dues in terms of character refinement and Torah advancement, he won&#039;t be just any leader. Whether we are talking about Moshiach Ben Yosef or Moshiach Ben Dovid, he will already have been born with a special soul, one suited to the task he is destined to fulfill. The task that each comes to fulfill is so primordial, their souls will be likewise.
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&lt;br /&gt;However, just look at the world today, and try to imagine what it would take to transform it into one in keeping with the Torah&#039;s version of
&lt;br /&gt;perfected Creation. It&#039;s like trying to mount a wagon being pulled wildly by a team of horses running in the wrong direction. Take control of the
&lt;br /&gt;horses, slow down the wagon, and change its direction - a daunting task of unbelievable proportions for any Torah leader, especially when the world doesn&#039;t listen to any of them.
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&lt;br /&gt;But that&#039;s okay: when it comes to the Final Redemption, Heaven will spare no expense. There are some very powerful souls down here, but they pale compared to the souls of Moshiach Ben Yosef and Moshiach Ben Dovid, which &quot;sit&quot; in waiting while the vessel (the appropriate body) is prepared to receive them. The preparation to become that vessel can take a lifetime, as it did for Moshe Rabbeinu, or less, as was the case with Yosef HaTzaddik. However, when the moment is right and the soul descends to enter the body of the chosen recipient, the transformation will be instantaneous.
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&lt;br /&gt;Everything they will need to know, they will instantly know.
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&lt;br /&gt;Everything they will need to have experienced, they will instantly have experienced.
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&lt;br /&gt;That is why redemption can feel years away, but in fact, it will come at a moment&#039;s notice.
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;May it be so in our time.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: navy;&quot; lang=&quot;EN&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;41:1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. &lt;span style=&quot;color: green;&quot;&gt;It is obvious that a King’s dream is not like that of a simple man as it concerns the affairs of State.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, well-favored and fat-fleshed; and they fed in the reed-grass. 3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill favored and lean-fleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river. 4 And the ill-favored and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well-favored and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke. 5 And he slept and dreamed a second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good. 6 And, behold, seven ears, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them. 7 And the thin ears swallowed up the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;In Talmud Berachos around Daf 55 and 56 there is a talk of morning dreams and dreams that repeat themselves similar to the one I had before the Yom Kippur War which came in two dreams and I mentioned it a few years ago around the Chagim.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;8 And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;, and all the wise men thereof; and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh. 9 Then spoke the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying: &#039;I make mention of my faults this day: 10 Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in the ward of the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker. 11 And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream. 12 And there was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret. 13 And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was: I was restored unto mine office, and he was hanged.&#039; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;Watch the events here. Yosef is in a Dungeon in Egypt, he is elevated to appear before Pharaoh even though a slave, foreigner or youth could not be prime minister. However, Pharaoh was a god and gods can change laws of countries. Also Yosef now as 30 years old and less of a youth but that still would not elevate him from down in the Dungeon to being even a free man. Yet as we see below, Yosef is elevated to 2&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt; in command in all of &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;. This is how it will be when the Moshiach comes. Yisrael will be rescued from the dumps when people like me will become very disillusioned with the coming of the Moshiach as much as I talk about it. So you can imagine the non-observant Jew at this time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. And he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh. 15 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: &#039;I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it; and I have heard say of thee, that when you hear a dream thou canst interpret it.&#039; 16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying: &#039;It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.&#039; 17 And Pharaoh spoke unto Joseph: &#039;In my dream, behold, I stood upon the brink of the river ... 24 And the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears. And I told it unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.&#039; 25 And Joseph said unto Pharaoh: &#039;The dream of Pharaoh is one; what God is about to do He hath declared unto Pharaoh. 26 The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one. 27 And the seven lean and ill-favored kine that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind; they shall be seven years of famine. 28 That is the thing which I spoke unto Pharaoh: what God is about to do He hath shown unto Pharaoh. 29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;land&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; of &lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;. 30 And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land; 31 and the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it shall be very grievous. 32 And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice, it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass. 33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;land&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;  of &lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;. 34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;land&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;  of &lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; in the seven years of plenty. 35 And let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it. 36 And the food shall be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;land&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; of &lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;; that the land perish not through the famine.&#039; 37 And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. 38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants: &#039;Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom the spirit of God is?&#039; 39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: &#039;Forasmuch as God hath shown thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou. 40 Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled; only in the throne will I be greater than thou.&#039; 41 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: &#039;See, I have set thee over all the &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;land&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;  of &lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;.&#039; 42 And Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph&#039;s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck. 43 And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him: &#039;Abrech&#039;; and he set him over all the &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;land&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; of &lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;. 44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: &#039;I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;land&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; of &lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;.&#039; 45 And Pharaoh called Joseph&#039;s name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him to wife Osnat the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On.
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: blue;&quot;&gt;5757: Yosef supposedly married the daughter of Dina who was adopted by Poti-phara. The commentaries do not explain why Dina would give up her daughter to a non-Yisraeli for adoption or how Osnat got down to &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;. I find this Medrash very difficult to stomach for my own logic. I will be happy if a reader could come up with an explanation for me other than an attempt to make Osnat Kosher from the start instead of converted by Yosef.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: blue;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;And Joseph went out over the &lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;land&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; of &lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt.--&lt;/st1:placename&gt; 46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt.--And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;land&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; of &lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;. 47 And in the seven years of plenty the earth brought forth in heaps. 48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities; the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same. 49 And Joseph laid up corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until they left off numbering; for it was without number. 50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Osnat the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On bore unto him. 51 And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: &#039;for God hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father&#039;s house.&#039; 52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: &#039;for God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.&#039; 53 And the seven years of plenty, that was in the &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;land&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;  of &lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;, came to an end. 54 And the seven years of famine began to come, according as Joseph had said; and there was famine in all lands; but in all the &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;land&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; of &lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; there was bread. &lt;a name=&quot;55&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;55 And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians: &#039;Go unto Joseph; what he says to you, do.&#039; &lt;a name=&quot;56&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth; and Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine was sore in the &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;land&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; of &lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;. &lt;a name=&quot;57&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;57 And all countries came into &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; to Joseph to buy corn; because the famine was sore in all the earth.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;Corn in English is Gain. The American corn is called maize in English.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;Again this year I received another Dvar Torah from Rabbi Pinchas Winston on the Redemption of Yosef and our own Redemption:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-bottom: 12pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);&quot;&gt;When will the redemption come? I mean, enough is enough already. It is so frustrating how we have gone from losing 6,000,000 of our people in the Holocaust, to re-building our nation over the course of the next 70 years, thank God, and after being away from our land for 2,000 years returning there, and in spite of several terrible wars, becoming a leader in so many areas of life, only to be pressured into dismantling so much of what we have accomplished. What a pain in the historical neck! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);&quot;&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;I mean, for a while there everything looked so redemption-like. Now it often feels as if we are slipping back into the depths of exile once again, God forbid. We seem like a pendulum that has reached the top of its swing, and is now getting pulled back down by gravity. The energy of momentum can only override gravity for so long. Hey, did the chance for redemption come and go, God forbid, and we missed it because we were too distracted by other, more worldly things? I sure hope not. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;That&#039;s the way it sure seemed to Yosef in his time. One day his life was just perfect, and the next thing he knew he was being kidnapped and sold into slavery by his own brothers! Overnight, he was thrown into the depths of exile, only to be redeemed shortly thereafter by Pharaoh&#039;s chief butcher, Potiphar, who made him the head of his household. Things were certainly looking up once again. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;But, again, disaster struck. Of all the households over which to become head, his happened to have a mistress who wanted him, putting his life back into peril once again. As a result, everyday he came to work his life and future were at risk, and it wasn&#039;t as if he could simply quit his job and look for another one. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;As to be predicted, his situation deteriorated once again. His previous redemption led to further exile after he rejected his master&#039;s wife&#039;s advances, and was forced to bear the brunt of her false accusations. No stranger to incarceration, he found himself back in jail another time, once again falsely accused, once again in a pit as a result. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Then, all of a sudden, redemption seemed to knock on Yosef&#039;s door once more, after Divine &lt;st1:city st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Providence&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; had Pharaoh&#039;s chief baker and cup bearer thrown into the same jail as Yosef. They dreamed dreams that disturbed them, but which seemed to lack interpretation by everyone except for Yosef, giving him an opportunity to enter their lives, and perhaps, for one of them to become his ticket to freedom. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;But, apparently, it was not to be. Though everything had worked according to plan-the baker was executed and the wine steward was returned to his post as Yosef had foreseen-he was not recalled. There was no mention of his deed or his innocence before Pharaoh, and though the wine steward returned to his previous life, Yosef remained in his present one. Days become months, and months became years, until two of them, with little hope for freedom, had passed. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Then, all of a sudden, there was a knock on the door, and faster than Yosef had been put into jail, he was removed from it. Not only was he freed, but he was pampered until he was fit to stand before the king of &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, who, within a short while, made him Vice President of &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;. The transformation from being powerless to powerful happened so quickly that he must have thought he was dreaming again. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;All of a sudden, it all made sense. Not every piece of a puzzle is crucial for seeing the bigger picture, but some are so important that without them, it is as if nothing had been done to assemble the puzzle until they arrived. That had certainly been the case in Yosef&#039;s life, until the most important piece of his puzzle finally showed up, 12 years after his world had begun to fall apart: mikeitz. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;History works kind of like DNA. Most people do not look everyday in the mirror for gray hairs, or aging features. Rather, one day, while looking in the mirror, they may happen to notice them. They just sort of spring up, all of a sudden, and very often, ahead of schedule, as far as we are concerned. But not as far as our body clocks are concerned. Amazingly, from conception, when we are still too small to be seen even through most microParashas scopes, our body clocks start ticking with instructions that will be fulfilled throughout our physical lives, including at what age our hair should turn gray, or our faces should wrinkle, etc. It always happens right on schedule, our DNA schedule, though early for us, because we do not desire to become old, and certainly not to become feeble and die. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Personally, I still think young. I was always athletic, and barely gained a pound of weight, no matter what I ate, for about 20 straight years. Then, around the age of 30, things started to change. My metabolism, which was always about average, began to slow down. I remember standing around one day with some colleagues of mine as we all bemoaned the fact that our eating habits were becoming more apparent by the month in the form of extra weight. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;So, I started to exercise once again, and sure enough, most of the weight came off over a few weeks. However, I began to notice that if I did not keep up my exercising, the weight came right back, especially if I ate well over Shabbos, week after week. It was pressure I had never to live with before, and it was becoming a little frustrating. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Ten years later, the situation did not improve, but got worse as my metabolism slowed down even more, and gray hair began to appear. YIKES! I have never been overly concerned about my appearance, not more than the halachah and Mussar says men should be, but gray hair meant something: I was getting old! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Furthermore, no longer did exercise do very much to take off the extra weight. And, though I could work myself up to a pretty good exercise schedule, I usually paid for it some time later on, like the next morning getting out of bed. Not only was I losing hair, but I was losing flexibility as well, and things began to hurt, like my back, for example. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;The old gray mare, she aint what she used to be, aint what she used to be, etc. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;All of this comes to me as a surprise, until I recall my age. Unlike with most journeys in life, this one did not come with a pre-printed schedule of events to tell me where to be and by what time. The journey of life seems to be a secret to everyone except to God; the best we can do is approximate what will happen to us and by when, but you can be sure that when it comes to bodily changes and aging, there will always bound to be surprises. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;As Yosef found out, that is true inside the body, and outside the body as well. Every event that occurred to him from the moment he was conceived until the last one he breathed on earth, was carefully orchestrated by Heaven, to occur at a precise time, to have a precise affect on Yosef, the world around him, and all the generations to follow him. It&#039;s just that no one ever gave him the schedule to follow, for that would have been a violation of the laws of free-will. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;And, each time his life turned a corner, it was a keitz, a predestined moment in time by which his life was meant to turn a corner. He might have thought to keep walking straight, so-to-speak, and that is why the event caught him by surprise or seemed abrupt. But, had he seen the script of his life, he would have been ready to turn that corner in concert with history and Divine &lt;st1:city st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Providence&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;. He would have ready for each keitz. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Of course, we rarely are. This is because, for the sake of free-will, we are not shown the scripts of our lives, and therefore, we tend to be impacted upon rather than be impactful. The average person works very hard to maintain status quos, and then has to do a lot of fancy footwork to recover from situations that upset them. If they don&#039;t, then they end up living out of sync with reality, and there are plenty of people walking around doing that. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;This is not the Torah way. The Torah way teaches that the only status quo there is in history is the will of God, and His masterful plan for Creation, of which we are just one of billions of parts. Whither goes the will of God, goes man as well, and history after him. Knowing this makes all the difference in the world, and the next one as well, for the will of God is extremely dynamic, and we have to be as well. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;Let me give you an example. Recently, someone of relative prominence where he used to live decided to make aliyah. As to be expected, even though it was known that such a decision was destined to happen one day, when it was finally announced, it seemed to come earlier than most people had expected, so it caught the attention of many. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;This led to a local interview, during which the person expressed his opinions about the importance of making aliyah, and of not remaining in the Diaspora too much longer, especially given the direction of the current American government. In retrospect, some comments might not have been appropriate for such a wide audience, but the gist of the message was that the exile is coming to an end, and we Jews had better watch out and be ready to leave. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;BOOM! As you can imagine, the person&#039;s comments were not warmly welcomed by much of the community he was leaving behind, and the reaction was swift and furious. If anyone took the person&#039;s comments to heart in a positive way, they were not the ones responding, because the feedback was quite negative, including from rabbis who addressed the issue from their pulpits, basically condemning the comments. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;In reviewing the entire episode, I can&#039;t help but to relate to the person&#039;s comments, and to be nervous about the reaction. Personally, I might have been a little more diplomatic about how I would have said the same thing, but the basic content is what I believe in. But, the reaction? All I hear are people who are really saying: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 0.5in;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);&quot;&gt;&quot;Look, if you want to make aliyah and reject the &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;United States&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; as your home, then that is your problem. But don&#039;t make it seem as if you are doing it for reasons that affect us too, as if by not following in your footsteps or worrying about the future, we are endangering ourselves and our families! We have a status quo to protect!&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);&quot;&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);&quot;&gt;That may be. But what about the keitzin? If you are so committed to maintaining the status quo of exile, and insist on running history your own way, then how will you not snap when God makes history turn the corner, and quickly. Isn&#039;t that what happened in &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Spain&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; in &lt;st1:metricconverter productid=&quot;1492, in&quot; st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;1492, in&lt;/st1:metricconverter&gt; &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Europe&lt;/st1:place&gt; in 1942, and just about everywhere else in-between? Will we ever learn not to dig in too deep in golus? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;I think that is one of the reasons why Yosef was put through all that he went through, and his father, Ya&#039;akov as well. It was to make precisely this point. When it comes to the will of God, and how He exercises it through out history, you have to be what we say in Hebrew: gamish-flexible. Exile is exile, no matter how comfortable it can become. Live it as if it can end at any time, and in the worst of ways. It&#039;s the only way to safely navigate those historical changes of direction, and to be impactful, as opposed to only being impacted upon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);&quot;&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;58&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;42:1 Now Jacob saw that there was corn in &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;, and Jacob said unto his sons: &#039;Why do ye look one upon another?&#039; 2 And he said: &#039;Behold, I have heard that there is corn in &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;. Get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.&#039;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;Do something about it. If one does not like the policies of the Israeli or American governments then work out a change through democratic processes. Convince the people about you to do something. Fire them up and possibly run for office. It is apparent that while I was traveling to visit my children and during the last two weeks, the quality of my Dvar Torah has gone down a little. Just like it says in Perkei Avos “In a place where there is no man be a man!” I have been putting out feelers to possibly make a run for Congressman in the 20&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; Congressional District of Florida. It entails like Yosef leaving Eretz Yisrael during the bid and taking away from some of my Torah time. However, I was speaking Motzei Shabbos with Rabbi Yacov Lustig Shlita and he said, “So people can make a bigger impact on Am Yisrael not learning but supporting the nation in times of need like Yosef did in &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; as we see in the \following Pasukim. I have not made up my mind because as usual in life things are not black and white but grey and I am in need of solving other problems before making a run. Yes sometimes a person has to be like Yosef to sacrifice his chief joy (Yerushalayim) and his fruit trees in Eretz Yisrael or in my case also the myrtle branches which I smell on Shabbos in order to remember the words “Shomor V’Zachor “ to observe and remember the Shabbos.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;3 And Joseph&#039;s ten brethren went down to buy corn from &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;. 4 But Benjamin, Joseph&#039;s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said: &#039;Lest peradventure harm befall him.&#039; 5 And the sons of &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; came to buy among those that came; for the famine was in the &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;land&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; of &lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Canaan&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;. 6 And Joseph was the governor over the land; he it was that sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph&#039;s brethren came, and bowed down to him with their faces to the earth. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;Yosef is now somewhere between 38 and 39 and perhaps with a shaved head and certainly not looking like an Orthodox Bnei Yisrael. He has some symbol perhaps around his neck and no where near the 17 year old teen full of Chutzpa whom they knew. The brain is tricky and they were expecting to look for a slave not the prime minister of the country.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: green;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);&quot;&gt;Rabbi Aaron Kotler ZTZAL on Chanucha as told me by Rabbi Yacov Lustig Shlita &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);&quot;&gt;When Rabbi Aaron Kotler came to the &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;United   States&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, he wanted to open up only a Yeshiva Kodesh without any secular learning. The Rabbis told him that he would never succeed as “This was &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;America&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; and not &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Europe&lt;/st1:place&gt;”. However Rabbi Kotler thought outside of the American box and within HASHEM’s box. He said regarding the Chanucha Candles something similar to “We have not right to use the candles but to view them only” and in the end G-D took up his case and out of the many American Jews, he received enough money to buy some land and open up a Yeshiva/Kollel with a handful of Jews who later became the Rabbis and Teachers of America. The &lt;st1:city st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Lakewood&lt;/st1:city&gt; Yeshiva became THE Yeshiva of the &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;USA&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;. Today over 5,000 young men learn there which most likely is larger than the famous &lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:placename st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Torah&lt;/st1:placename&gt; &lt;st1:placetype st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Academies&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; of Sura and Pumpaditha of Bavel which produced the Talmud. These are the men that build Am Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael and they are the people who really cause the rains to come to Eretz Yisrael to fill up the Kenneret. Don’t forget to support your local Synagogue and Yeshiva.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot; lang=&quot;ES&quot;&gt;Chanucha:&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot; lang=&quot;ES&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ou.org/jewish_action/article/the_maharal_his_approach_his_innovations_and_his_position_as_a_teacher_of_p/&quot;&gt;http://www.ou.org/jewish_action/article/the_maharal_his_approach_his_innovations_and_his_position_as_a_teacher_of_p/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;&quot; lang=&quot;ES&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: navy;&quot;&gt;The Maharal: His Approach, His Innovations and His Position as a Teacher of Posterity By Yehoshua Hartman, Translated by Yocheved Lavon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: navy;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: navy;&quot;&gt;The Maharal says of himself that his objective, in all of his numerous works, is purely to explain the aggadot of Chazal. This objective, to demonstrate the depth of our Sages’ thinking, underlies all of Maharal’s works.
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&lt;br /&gt;Thus, Maharal writes:
&lt;br /&gt;. . . The truth of the Sages’ words has been clarified for you, and in their words is nothing but Divine wisdom, very elevated . . . for our intention is to show the common people a small portion of the dignity and splendor of the Sages (Be’er
&lt;br /&gt;HaGolah, Be’er HaSheni; see comments 262 and 266).
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&lt;br /&gt;But perhaps the quintessence of this idea is expressed towards the end of Be’er HaShelishi, where, having explained a dictum of the Sages, the Maharal gives ardent expression to his wonder at the Sages’ wisdom:
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;And now, if you comprehend the words that have been explained here, and you understand for yourself that not everything can be written down, your heart will marvel at this sight, how they interpreted Scripture in such great depth, and did so with truth and extreme precision . . . and every wise and understanding man will wonder at how closely their words embrace the peshat, with such astonishing depth. And a man to whom these words of wisdom are alien will wonder at their distance from the meaning of the text, and their words will not seem fitting to him. . . . Similarly with all the words of derash found in the Talmud and all the rest of the midrashim there is not one of them, great or small, whose words lack the depth of Scripture in accord with its true meaning; when one delves into the meaning of Scripture one finds it. For this is why it is called “derashah,” because it is a process of demanding, with extremely insistent interrogation, until the deep level of Scripture is reached.&lt;/i&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;Indeed, we find much pain expressed in Maharal’s works over his generation’s failure to show proper respect for the words of our Sages.
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&lt;br /&gt;An Approach to Studying Maharal
&lt;br /&gt;In only one place does Maharal tell us what sources he draws upon for his elucidations of the Sages’ words. At the beginning of Be’er HaChamishi, he writes:
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&lt;br /&gt;We shall find some points of interest in their words that might seem far-fetched; they are indecipherable in their context, but their secret is clearly revealed elsewhere—for example, the Midrash on Sefer HaZohar, or the Midrash HaBahir by Rabbi Nechunya ben Hakanah, and other books of wisdom that are kept hidden in the libraries of the wise. And these works reveal concealed aspects of Torah that the Sages spoke of in hints.
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&lt;br /&gt;Only in one place does he mention his teachers (albeit without naming them), and that is in his sermon for Shabbat HaGadol, where he explains the Blessing of the Kohanim. And finally, in only one place do we find Maharal addressing his reader directly, and instructing him in the proper way of approaching his works (Be’er HaGolah, at the beginning of Be’er HaRevi’i):
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;I prostrate myself with arms and legs stretched out before the reader, and ask two gracious favors: one, that if he should read these words and find that they do not enter his heart, he should go back, read them again, and contemplate them some more, for these things will only enter the reader’s heart through much study. So it is with all words of truth and rectitude; they seem distant when one first begins to ponder them, but eventually they are revealed, and they shine bright as the noonday sun. My second request is that if, after all this, these words still do not enter his heart, let it be as if they had never been said at all. And although an explanation has been stated and it has not entered the heart of the one who has studied it, let it not be said that there is then no reasonable explanation, and that, God forbid, some lack in the words of the Sages is to blame. For in that case, my purpose would come to ruin, causing the reader to think badly of the Sages’ words . . . and therefore I ask and plead that he grant me this, that if after consideration he still does not accept these ideas, he should let them go, and let them be as if they had not been said at all, and let the Sages’ words be like a sealed book to him, just as they were before these things were said.&lt;/i&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;A Classic Disagreement
&lt;br /&gt;Maharal thus became a “Geviha ben Pesisa,” a spokesman for the Sages, and, as a result, he came to disagree fiercely with one of the great Rishonim who had a different approach, namely, Ibn Ezra. In the introduction to his commentary on the Torah, Ibn Ezra explains that he does not intend to incorporate midrashim of the Sages that are not in line with his way of interpreting Scripture. This led Maharal, in a number of instances, to disagree sharply with Ibn Ezra. One classic example of this:
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&lt;br /&gt;In Otiot d’Rabbi Akiva, the Sages say that when the Holy One, blessed be He, was about to create the world, the twenty-two letters of the Alef Bet came and stood before Him. Each one requested, “Create the world with me.” Eventually the letter bet came forward and said, “Master of the Universe, is it Your will to create Your world with me? For with me those who come to the world offer praise before You every day, as is said, ‘Baruch Hashem l’olam, amen v’amen’; ‘Barchu Hashem melachav,’ and so forth.” The Holy One, blessed be He, immediately accepted this argument . . . and with her, He created the world, as is said, “Bereishit bara.”
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&lt;br /&gt;The simple explanation of the midrash is that since “baruch” starts with the letter bet, this letter indicates blessing. Ibn Ezra, however, objects to this. Maharal quotes him as follows:
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&lt;br /&gt;Harav Avraham ben Ezra of blessed memory forcefully questioned this midrash, saying, “How could [Hashem] begin [Creation] with bet because it contains blessing, when ‘bohu,’ ‘buka’ . . . and many other words denoting quite the opposite of blessing also start with bet?”
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&lt;br /&gt;To this claim, Maharal retorts:
&lt;br /&gt;Begging his honor’s pardon, it seems as though he did not understand these words of the Sages, [which mean to say that] bet itself is the blessing, for it is the beginning of increase, which is the essence of blessing. And the most decisive sign . . . [of this] is that its numerical value is two, the first plural number. . . . For the root of the word berachah is berech, all of whose letters represent the concept of two: bet in units, kaf in tens, and reish in hundreds, and thus bet itself is a sign of blessing.
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&lt;br /&gt;It emerges, therefore, that the word “berachah” is not the reason for the importance of the letter bet, but rather the word indicates the importance of the letter due to the word’s special composition. Maharal’s explanation is an uplifting example of his advocacy for the preciousness of the Sages’ every word.
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&lt;br /&gt;Four Basic Principles of the Maharal
&lt;br /&gt;1. Asking Simple Questions
&lt;br /&gt;Maharal poses simple, straightforward questions in his commentaries. Indeed, often when one studies them, one wonders why he didn’t ask them himself.
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&lt;br /&gt;For example, in Gevurot Hashem (chap. 60), we find:
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&lt;br /&gt;One must ask the following: we have seen that Hashem, may He be blessed, gave a command concerning the Pesach offering “because He passed over” [the homes of Children of &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; in the plague of the firstborn]. And yet we have seen that none of the plagues struck &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;, so why should this plague have come upon &lt;st1:country-region st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; any more than the others? To strengthen our question even more, they [the Sages] said that when a Jew and an Egyptian drank [from the same water source], one would drink blood and the other, water.
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&lt;br /&gt;Throughout his writings, Maharal poses such questions.
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&lt;br /&gt;2. Viewing Events from a Divine Standpoint
&lt;br /&gt;The Torah tells us, “And a man went forth from the house of Levi, and took a daughter of Levi. And the woman became pregnant, and she bore a son . . .” (Shemot 2:1-2). Why aren’t the names of Moshe Rabbeinu’s parents mentioned?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: navy;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;According to the Gur Aryeh on Shemot 1:19:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:130%;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial; color: navy;&quot;&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;One will see that Scripture does not mention Yocheved, Miriam and Aharon by name until after the birth of Moshe, for in the subsequent passage (below, 2:1) it says, “And a man went forth from the house of Levi, and took a daughter of Levi.” [The Torah] did not want to mention the father and mother of Moshe by name until Moshe’s birth, to tell you that Moshe was prepared for the redemption from the Six Days of Creation—ancestry was not the essential thing in his case, and if a name had been given to his father before [mentioning] his birth, it would have implied that his parentage was the essential thing, and that for himself [i.e., Amram] and his unique identity, the Holy One blessed be He gave him Moshe, like any father who, as an individual, is the direct cause of the son. Accordingly, [the Torah] did not mention [Amram’s] name, for in the case of Moshe’s birth, the father was not the particular cause, only in terms of the natural order, whereby any father brings a child into the world, but there was no cause peculiar to him in this case. In the case of all other children, if this man were not the father, this son would not come into the world, but this is not true of Moshe, for although Amram was better prepared for Moshe, in any event it was necessary that Moshe come into the world. . . and if it h