The Splitting of the Sea - Beshalach - Rabbi Dovid Kaplan - Weekly Parsha

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bottom of 370 mitake so we speaking yesterday about how if you expect to transcend nature you got to do something that that goes against nature there's a there's actually an idea the uh there's an idea that when a person is in a life-threatening situation let's say an anti-semite pulls a gun on a Jew says bow down to idols or I'm going to kill you or put you out of an airplane to throw you off a cliff or throw you into a fire or feed you to alligators or sharks or um uh any such thing. So then a per the there's a thing. So then a per the there's a statement that if a person at that moment you have to give up your life and you die it's a tremendous mitzvah to dieashem if a person is hoping for a miracle at that point the miracle will not happen. If a person is not hoping for a miracle, that means they're not thinking about Hashem saving him at all. He's willing 100% to die, then the miracle can happen. Why is that? I mean, the fact that a person's hoping for a miracle is pretty person's hoping for a miracle is pretty natural and you're still willing to give up. He's willing to give up his life. He's just like, hashem, you know, please, up to the last minute, he's hoping to he's hoping to get out of it. So, I mean, what's wrong with that? The answer is nothing wrong with it. But if you need a miracle that transcends nature, so then you have to do yourself something that transcends nature. The most natural thing a human being wants is to stay alive. So you have to get to a point where you're absolutely forfeited any desire to stay alive or any expectation to stay

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