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Rabbi Hillel Shaps

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so para para illuminated for para's bow so the Jewish people have been uh enslaved in Egypt now for close to 210 years and uh and this is the paraa where we where we leave Egypt and uh it culminates with the 10th plague the 10th Maka makos the plague of the firstborn and and that's where I want to begin in and that's where I want to begin in chapter 11 verse 1 where Hashem says to Moshe if you have the sour it's the First Source if you don't it's okay I'm going to bring one more plague on pharaoh and on Egypt after this he will send you M from this after this he will send you M from this from here when he sends you Kal that's a word that is going to need to be interpreted Kal completely um like the word Co in all it will be complete he will drive you he will drive you out completely um and completely um and then kind of an interjection God says to speak please in the ears of the nation and they should ask each man from his friend or borrow let them borrow sh Hebrew also means to borrow let them borrow from their friends so each man from his friend each from her friend vessels of silver and vessels of gold and God gave the people favor in the Egyptians eyes was highly esteemed in the land of MIT in the land of Egypt eyes of the Servants of pharaoh in the eyes of the nation and then says around midnight I will go out in Egypt and the

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  1. 0:02so para para illuminated for para's bow so the Jewish people have been uh enslaved in
  2. 4:45place and Par comes to Moshe and he says it it should be like you said
  3. 9:56here says also clothes and uh you'll place them on your children and you'll empty out
  4. 14:34Scouts came back and said parro they're not coming back and then parro went and chased
  5. 19:44says that this was all God's plan in order to take revenge against parro and the
  6. 24:55thing was was a trick it's uh it's difficult to to wrap our minds around that
  7. 29:38he's playing with it right we say in the that that God was he uh he
  8. 34:44speed up the 400 years with intense labor for the last six months and then we're
  9. 39:22after all the Egyptians had been through and suffered and if the all of a sudden
  10. 44:28brilliant manner for three days their oppressors chained in blindness were completely heless helpless and all

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