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3:19 Rabbi Moshe Chagiz. Why does it say, 'The children of Israel were fruitful and swarmed, and the land filled them'? It should have said, 'and they filled the land.' Right. What is this - it says 'and the land filled them'? That's the answer of the Maharam Chagiz - that's it. You don't know this? You haven't heard this? So I will tell you. Right, Rabbi Eliyahu? That's the answer, right?

3:45 Here is the answer. There - I found you the answer. It is written in the name of Rav Chagiz, he asks: 'And the children of Israel were fruitful and swarmed and multiplied and grew very, very mighty, and the land filled them.' He says: it should have been written the other way around. What is 'and the land filled them'? What, the land filled them? It would have said - he writes - 'and they filled the land.' What is 'and the land filled them'? What, the land goes into them?

4:10 Right or not? That's a question, right? 'And the land filled them.' So he says - he answers - that the trait of earthliness and coarseness, and the enslavement and the yoke of the Egyptians, and the distance from Hashem, and the way of the Egyptians, and the earthly trait of the Egyptians, and what there was in Egypt began to fill them, and they did less Torah. And already the tribes had stopped learning Torah; only the tribe of Levi still held on to the way of learning Torah.

4:40 And because of this the Holy One, blessed be He, began - began here to... 'With all your me'od' - that is money. That is what he says: 'with all your me'od' - that is money, and the land filled them. I think that is the answer. And then, because of this, the Holy One, blessed be He, had to rebuke them and take them out, but in the end He took us out with great wealth. And where is there a proof from the Torah that the sea was destined to be split for the Jewish people?

5:10 There is a hint to this in the Mechilta, Parshas Beshalach. What? No, in a verse in the Torah - the Mechilta brings the verse. Where do you think - Beshalach? - I don't know. - And it was before Parshas Beshalach. I'll tell you. Not something the Rav always talks about? Something the Rav always talks about, always. No - not to add. Not to shame [unclear].

5:36 What? Okay, but no, no. Ah, okay, yes. But no, that's not it. So what is the answer? So I'll tell you what the answer is. But where is there a verse in the Torah, before Parshas Beshalach, that already hints that the splitting of Yam Suf, the Red Sea, was going to happen, so that whoever reads it can understand that there is a hint here - the Mechilta says this.

6:05 Okay, never mind. Let's say it. Yes, yes, fine, yes, certainly, certainly, yes - but I just simply think it is much more correct than what the Maharam Chagiz says.

6:31 Okay, so the verse is like this: It is written in the Mechilta, Parshas Beshalach: 'And your seed shall be like the dust of the earth,' Nu, 'and you shall burst forth yamah' - westward, toward the sea - this is a proof that the sea is destined to be split before your children and [unclear].

6:59 You see how beautiful? 'Upon my back the plowmen plowed; they made their furrows long.' One can say that too. Nice. Very nice. Very nice. That's against what he asked - against: why did He hand us over into the hand of the enemy, if He loves us? Okay, no, but that's very nice, that's very nice [unclear]. You see?

7:25 So we see from here: 'u'faratzta yamah' - you will burst through the sea. The sea will no longer be able to stay a wall; you will burst through it. That is a hint that the sea is destined... 'kedmah' - and you will go forward, yes. Nice, right? Nice, right? No matter - it's a wonderful chiddush; this is our Mechilta. How many wonderful things there are in the Mechilta - the treasures! So now you have a riddle, whenever you want to ask: you have a riddle: where is there a proof from the Torah, before Parshas Beshalach, that the sea was destined to be split?

7:53 Where is it hinted in the Torah, and where else is it written? And the Mechilta - people usually don't learn it, so you can't expect it. People always learn only Gemaras, Gemaras and so on. Okay, so something more to finish? But 'And Miriam answered them' - What did we ask her? Who asked her? You need to answer. No - 'And Miriam answered' means that she answered in response to the song of the Jewish people. Just as the men answered in song, so Miriam also had to sing. The women too had to take part in this song. So the song she raised was as if she answered with their voice, because of the ways of modesty.

8:27 That is as the Malbim explains. Yes, and the Malbim explains: because of modesty, [unclear] - so that there should be no mixing in the singing. Okay. What I'd suggest: [unclear]. You can't hear? Okay, so let's read out the miracles.

8:54 So now, like this: From Midrash Vayosha, also Midrash Vayosha, Hadar Zekenim, and the Yalkut Me'Am Lo'ez, Parshas Beshalach. What his honor's son - It is all the same thing. Now, there were pillars of cloud and a pillar of fire, right? They accompanied the whole Jewish people in every situation since the Exodus from Egypt. How many is that? [unclear] That is one miracle. After that, Pharaoh decides to chase the Jewish people, the changes in the pillar of cloud and fire - Hashem, blessed be He, made all the changes: the pillar of cloud would catch the arrows, with the pillar of fire that burns and [unclear] the Egyptians, each time the Egyptians advanced, the Holy One, blessed be He, sent a pillar of fire, so that they could not advance in front of the camp of Israel.

9:37 The protection of the pillar of cloud over the Jewish people from all the arrows of Egypt - I'm reading this really briefly - the splitting of the sea itself is five. Twelve parts is 6. All the waters in the world split - 7. All the breaking there was, that I told you about, with the noise in the wheels, that we talked about before, [unclear] - that's 8. These tunnels we talked about, with what was inside them, we counted that - 9. As you remember, we counted even more - we were already at 20, since we had already got to the frozen walls; and now I am counting for you what there was.

10:13 The tunnel there was - that's nine; the seabed that dried up - that's ten, there was a floor of paving that Hashem made for them, with beautiful mosaics, that's eleven, the walls were transparent, so they could see what was in the sea, that's seventeen, they had something like - they walked inside the sea, so they did not have - now, water dripping on them from above, and wet - everything was dry, a floor and frozen walls, and it covers over them as they walk, like - seeing everything inside the water - that is [unclear].

10:47 Twelve paths inside the sea - that is an astounding thing. No, in all the waters of the world it [unclear]. Only in half. Only in half, and only at Yam Suf there were twelve. You know that Rav Kahn - Rav Kahn - he isn't here - the Kohen, who was at the sunrise minyan in the morning - at the prayer he told that his father - his father - he was with his father, when he was a little boy, at the previous Rebbe of [unclear].

11:23 He told us this - that he was there, and there was an old woman there who told that she had been at Rebbe Elimelech's, that he would take, each time at Parshas Beshalach, a bowl of water, put his hand in, and they saw how the water split. The Rebbe told that this old woman said she saw it with her own eyes, and then he told that the Rebbe of [unclear] asked for a bowl of water and did like this, and the water split.

11:49 Okay, now - the food and the drink: Hashem, blessed be He, gave them the food and the drink; sweet water came out for them - that's another miracle, so that's 13. 14 is the water that turned from salty to sweet, 14. After that, that Hashem closed the source of the water, so that's 15. The women of the Jewish people were pregnant, after all, so they did not miscarry - from fright one can miscarry too.

12:13 Because it is frightening. So they did not miscarry; Hashem, blessed be He, said that they would not miscarry. There was a level plain so they could walk from side to side - that's 17. The speed at which the Jewish people crossed - that's 18. The height - 19. The 20th is the vegetation that was on the seabed for the animals. The 21st was when the Egyptians chased after them. The 22nd - there was mud for them when the Egyptians went in.

12:40 The pillar of fire caused all the horses - they could not stand, they overturned on them. The wheels of the chariots: from each one, Hashem, blessed be He, made the wheels fall off his chariot - that's 24. 25 is the chariots and the horses, that they dragged them into the sea against their will. 26 is that Hashem, blessed be He, took this mud and hardened it again, so that whoever had already gone in would be [unclear] - it is like concrete after that, and then they could not get out of it.

13:11 The raining down of hail, coals of fire and stones from the sky. And of course, the Jewish people had - there were smells of dead carcasses for the Egyptians, smells of dead carcasses from everything there was, and for the Jewish people, the smells of Gan Eden. The sea, which the Holy One, blessed be He, froze, somehow melted at once when the Egyptians entered; for the Jewish people it stands frozen; the Egyptians go in and it melts. That's 29. 30: the Egyptians drowned - 'they sank like lead in the mighty waters.'

13:37 Each one according to his wickedness, the Holy One, blessed be He, let him [unclear] in that same way. Whoever fled - there were the sorcerers who fled and managed to stand in the air. All these sorcerers - the Holy One, blessed be He, sent waves, breakers of water from the sea, and they caught them, brought them back, returned them into the water. Everyone who fled, they returned them into the water. Yanus and Yambrus, the sorcerers, and more like them who were learned in sorcery, after all, when he took the 900 million and brought them in, he also brought very, very many sorcerers together.

14:11 He said to the sorcerers - all these sorcerers who would come, these sorcerers - this is every kind of sorcery in the world - to try to kill the Jewish people with the sorcery. Yes, [unclear]. Now the sea - that's 32, lamed-beis - the sea returned to its former state. The Jewish people came out of it. The water and the wind pulled the Egyptians into the sea. The Egyptians moved from side to side, the way people are tossed about on a ship - they moved inside the water.

14:41 That's 34. The horses and the riders could not come apart from one another; usually the horse and the rider - Hashem fastened them together. The Holy One, blessed be He, took from the upper waters - brought down upper waters, together with the lower waters. He brought on them water from above and water from below; together that is - what number is that? 36. The height and the depth: He raised them and lowered them, raised them and lowered them, up and down - that's 37. The covering of the Egyptians who died by the sea - it is another miracle, that He covered them afterwards - that's 38. All the Egyptians who were there, and also those who were anywhere in the world, were struck.

15:21 They received lashes and received a share of their suffering in their own way. 40 is the sea spitting out the bodies of Egypt - after which 'Israel saw Egypt dead on the seashore' - that's 40. The survival of the Egyptians: after all they went through, they came back to the shore so that they would be seen, so that the Jewish people would not be distressed, that they would say: maybe they disappeared, maybe they escaped, now they will catch us. So the Holy One, blessed be He, sent some of the Egyptians, by surviving despite all the blows they [unclear], until they reached the shore.

15:52 Pharaoh took that army we mentioned at the beginning, that he took from all the 900 million - he took some from every country, and the Holy One, blessed be He, saved some of them so that they would go back to tell their places what they saw, and where they had been, and what they were saved from. So that is another miracle: that the Holy One, blessed be He, saved those mercenaries; the Holy One, blessed be He, saved some of them. We'll tell them why.

16:29 Yes, but there is also another reason for this: because when the Holy One, blessed be He, does something, He changes the element. He changes the element in the whole world, because the whole world is His, like pressing a button: you press the electric switch here, and the electricity shuts off everywhere, right? When the Holy One, blessed be He, acts on the element, the water - He splits it, so all the waters in the world split. He rules over the element. Blood was not in the whole world - blood was not in the whole world, right.

16:56 But the might of Egypt, and His people's going out - this is no longer the plague with which He strikes Egypt. There He struck; here He does not strike - here He shows His wonder; it is a different thing. In the plague of blood He struck the Egyptians; here He did not strike the sea; He merely [unclear] and let His children go out. So it was a wonder to show the created beings, and therefore here it is fitting that the whole world should see this miracle. After that, Pharaoh survives - that's 43. Also those who sinned - the Holy One, blessed be He, forgave them, did not punish them - that's 44. The treasures of Egypt, and all the [unclear] - that's 45. The Egyptians were spat out of the depths of the sea - that's 46. The earth opened itself for the burial of Egypt.

17:40 The revival of the Avos [unclear] the miracles - that's 48. The level of prophecy - that's 49. And the song of the infants - 'Ozi v'zimras' - [unclear] inside the womb, that they said song. 'Ozi v'zimras.' So the tender infants - that is the fiftieth. - Which fifty? How? - Each one said song. That is why we say, 'With a new song the redeemed praised' - this teaches that each and every one of them said song together.

18:05 Today we want to sing - [unclear], that's how it is. They say: together they said song, and that is what brought all of us, with Hashem's help, to the complete geulah. So may we all have good tidings. Amen. I was glad to be with you this whole Pesach; there was much Torah, and wise questions, and beautiful things, and we will miss you very, very much. Amen. With Hashem's help, may Hashem, blessed be He, watch over you. Amen.

18:29 May you be given a good life, may you be given good tidings, may you be given salvations, may you be given joy and gladness, Amen - festivals and seasons and gladness, amen. May the Holy One, blessed be He, give you success in all matters, amen. For much blessing, for joy, for salvations, for good bounty, amen. With Hashem's help, we will continue more, with Hashem's help, in more festivals that come toward us in peace - all the pilgrimage festivals, Shavuos still to come; with Hashem's help we will merit.

18:55 Amen. May everyone have only joy, with Hashem's help. All the blessings and the good bounty. With Hashem's help, basically, so we have just the days of the Omer - what? Yes, tzaddik? - Where is this found? As for the Haggadah, we are slaves, [unclear], and then there will be... So okay, so I'll just answer this.

19:22 Basically, freedom - freedom is when a person merits to feel the joy; that is also the reason for the [unclear], the reason for the wine, for the four cups. Freedom is so that we feel that we sense the festival, sense the time, and we reach a settled mind, a higher level. And [unclear] that we need to drink wine, to eat meat, to rejoice - because how will you reach freedom if you do not keep these things?

19:47 'There is no joy except with meat and wine.' When you eat meat and you drink wine, then you fulfill the freedom, and the freedom of the mind, and the true joy. And so it is fitting that one eats throughout the festival and drinks, eating meat and wine, and even on Isru Chag, since tomorrow is Isru Chag - know this: that is, the Maharitatz, siman 139, writes to eat meat and wine on Isru Chag too. Isru Chag is called 'bera d'mo'ada' - in the Yerushalmi, Avodah Zarah, chapter 1, halachah 1.

20:12 And that is the reason the freedom of the mind continues even until Isru Chag. To the end. Freedom of the mind. It's not that the festival ended and so the Holy One, blessed be He, says, 'That's it.' He also makes Isru Chag for us, so that this freedom continues from the beginning of the time until the end of the... - Of the time? - Of the time, yes. - So there's no point now, next week, just drinking wine and eating meat?

20:37 - That is not the way of freedom. - Ah, okay. - You can continue it if you are - you know, if you are attached to Hashem, and all the time you think about Hashem, blessed be He, yes? But being occupied in Torah, yes? Being occupied in Torah is called freedom of the mind. But basically, know that this is a chiddush of the Maharitatz, he writes to eat meat and wine on Isru Chag too. And it is called 'bera d'mo'ada', the son of the festival, so therefore one should also conduct it like this, with joy and good?

21:08 Also music? Music, music, yes. One may have music on Isru Chag; everything is joyful. Isru Chag - one may have music, joy, meat and wine. There - did you see these great ones that we see? No problem. To be in joy always, to think good. May the Holy One, blessed be He, bless you with all the blessings, the good bounty, salvations, wondrous miracles. Glad to be with you - missing you very, very much. May you be only in joy, always. Amen. Never to be broken by anything in the world. Amen. To be with vitality, with enthusiasm, with joy, with hope, with lights, with victory - and the Holy One, blessed be He: 'Behold, I will redeem you at the end as at the beginning,' may we merit the complete geulah speedily in our days. Amen. Amen.