Shemot: From Staff to Snake, and Back Again | Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Okay, good morning everyone and haz. Thank you for joining us on this beautiful Thursday morning as we are studying together pashat our para is jam-packed a lot going on. Of course, we are introduced to the Jewish people in Egypt in exile and the slavery that the and the oppression that the Egyptians um oppressed the Jewish people with and how Hashem comes finally to tell Moshe that it's time to redeem the Jewish that it's time to redeem the Jewish people and the Jewish people are in exile for a long time. unfortunately may be already used to their predicament. And so look at the conversation that takes place on the mountain. I want to read the sukim to you and obviously as you're listening or following along uh ask yourself what questions do you have? Try to listen to it through a uh analytical critical lens. And I want to share with you today a And I want to share with you today a gem, a gem, and I mean a gem from the famous the Shalom, who we've quoted yesterday and we've quoted in the past. We're trying this year to do his uh uh beautiful on the Okay, so here we go. He uh reads the following pukim. And again, as you're following, try to ask some questions. Tukim are as follows. God appears to Moshe in the burning bush. The bush is burning in fire, but it's not being consumed. And says, "Let me turn and see what's going on over here. Why is the bush not burning up? And God saw that Moshe was turned to see

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1. 0:00Okay, good morning everyone and haz. Thank you for joining us on this beautiful Thursday morning…
2. 3:09turns back into a staff. And so miracle number one that Moshe experiences is this interesting…
3. 6:13Goes back to a stick. What happens to the uh hand after it turns into white?…
4. 9:19we're still here and yet they're still Jews and yet we still have in the window…
5. 12:25are still holy that they are still redeemable? that they are still worthy because they're going…
6. 15:30world and you got filthy from the world and now the world and look at look…
7. 18:35stories of great rabbis. And these great rabbis, they portray their lives as if they were…
8. 21:38know did everyone a disservice and he let them down and eventually somehow through relatives he…
9. 24:41down I'm good. And even if I fell to Egypt and I fell to the lowest…
10. 27:48the the gods of the Egyptians, so to speak. I will judge and I will do…

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