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Vaera: So That… | Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi

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Rabbi Ariel Mizrahi

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Okay, good morning everyone. Thank you for joining us on this beautiful Wednesday morning as we are studying together and our par deals with the uh it begins with Mosherenu after complaining to God that he um you know he went to par he he asked he requested that the Jewish people should go free. Po responded not only by saying no, but he even intensified the labor, the work. And so intensified the labor, the work. And so Moshe goes and he complains to God, why are you doing this? Why'd you send me? This is all feudal. And Hashem says, you'll see, don't worry. And he promises he promises Moshe the and he reveals to Moshe the four expressions, the four say to the Jewish people, I am God. I will take you out from the um is the uh burdens the from the um is the uh burdens the burdens of Egypt and I will save you from their avo from the work and I will redeem you with a with an outstretched hand and I will and I will take you as a nation and I will be for you as a god. and I will bring you to the holy land. So really it's four but there's also five these are four expressions of redemption and we know that on pes as an example because of these four what do we do? We have four cups of wine. Rashi writes in that this is the reason of the four cups is as is as an expression to correspond to the four expressions of redemption. So this week's he goes into that a little bit. What exactly does that mean? What exactly are the four levels of redemption

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  1. 0:00Okay, good morning everyone. Thank you for joining us on this beautiful Wednesday morning as we
  2. 2:33that we were like a fetus in the bowels of the mother. It's like a child
  3. 5:11explains in shalom that bondage means uh physical bondage actual physical hard work. Okay, this is
  4. 8:18our own our own uh strengths. Often we're only focusing on our weaknesses. So the Jews,
  5. 10:56only taking but it represents betroal. The puk says when a man takes a woman it's
  6. 14:03forget about now what do I do with the ball? I took the ball away from
  7. 16:39my car with gas so that I can then do what the car was meant to
  8. 19:13Why? Why am I not doing X Y and Z? Why don't write? Don't don't uh
  9. 22:21Think about uh how about in the the time of the month that a husband and
  10. 24:57progression. And ultimately we enter the union with the culmination of Shabbat is really in the

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