Friday, 4 January 2019

Parashas Va'eirah

Our Parsha this Shabbos. Is Parashas Va'eira.
HaShem Tells Moshe That He Appeared To our Fore-Fathers As El-Shaddai, Now, HaShem Appears In Mercy And Compassion With The Name HaShem .
HaShem Assures Moshe that He Will fulfill His Assurances to us , To Bring us To our own Holy Land . HaShem Gives us the Four Reassurances of Redemption, which gives us the Four cups of Wine on Pesach .
HaShem Warns Moshe, that Pharaoh will not heed.
HaShem Instructed Moshe to perform the signs before Pharaoh.
Moshe came to Pharaoh ( in this Sedra ) at the age of 80 ,with Aharon, who was 83 . Pharaoh asked for signs to be performed, for that was the physical level of Pharaoh and his people, needing physical signs and proof .
Moshe commanded Aharon to cast down his (Moshe's) staff and it would become a snake . Pharaoh mocked this as his own necromancers were able to perform this too . Bilaam was there at the time and mentioned how this 'Ben Amram' (Moshe) comes to a place filled with negative magic , and dares perform magic to prove hiimself . Bilaam said that to turn a rod into a snake , which the Egyptians did here including Pharaohs' own wife , is easy. Let them show how the rod that returns from being a snake before , can devour other rods . HaShem turned the snake back into a rod, and as Torah points out , the staff of Aharon, devoured the other staffs of the Egyptians , as staffs.
And so the Plagues began .
The 10 Plagues took place in a specific order, with every first two coming with a warning to Pharaoh to give him an opportunity to do the right thing , and the following one ( each third one ) came by surprise.
HaShem Knew Pharaoh came early in the morrning to the Nile as he didn't want people to know he was human , in order to perform certain humanly functions . HaShem set the time for the First Plague , and so Sent Moshe early to Pharaoh .
HaShem Told Moshe to instruct Aharon , to stretch out his hand over the Nile and the waters of Egypt . Moshe did not want to start this Plague himself , by smiting the water, for the waters in the Nile had concealed him as the Waters of the Nile held little Moishe when he was a child.This was exactly how HaShem wanted Moshe to respond , and so Aharon did it for Moshe . Thus for seven days , every type of Water Source became 'Dam' - 'Blood,' in memory and punishment for staining the Nile with our baby's blood , when our first-born were cast into the Nile .Our Rabbis say that every baby that was cast into the Nile , HaShem Had the Nile spew out and they were kept alive by HaShem's Miracle. For Seven Days, Egypt had no clean water. Their water reservoirs, the Nile , and other containers of water , became blood . If a Jew and an egyptian would share a bottle of water, the Water for us was pure, but for them, it remained Blood . Blood came out of every orifice and even down the the Walls of Pharaoh's palace in Egypt . This was in lieu of what Egypt did to our babies . 
The Second Plague from HaShem , came in the form of Frogs . Frogs in Hebrew is "Tzefardeah, as Adam Ha Rishon called it , as he foresaw that these frogs would 'fit into ' Egypt's ovens as a punishment to Egypt and so , called them this word, Meaning ' to fit in,' which is exactly what the frogs did, going into ovens, food , and even the people's bodies. 
This Second Plague started with a massive Frog coming out of the water and opening its mouth, to let out many thousands of little frogs.These frogs walked straight up first to Pharaoh's Palace . These frogs made noises all night , even from within the Egyptian's bellies . This Plague too, Aharon was the one who HaShem Gave to start it . The Egyptians were able to replicate this Plague too as they did with the Blood .
This Plague was due to the fact that The Children Of Israel were forced to handle all kinds of vile things and creatures as a sport to the Egyptians .Pharaoh begged and pleaded for the Frogs to be removed, but when they were, Pharaoh again hardened His Heart . The land of Egypt stank.
Plague Three came with no fore-warning .
HaShem Told Moshe to tell Aharon to strike the dust and it became Chinim - Lice . Moshe didnt start this Plague either via HaShem as Moshe remembered his debt to the sand in Egypt , which had concealed for him the Egyptian taskmaster , he had killed , that was beating his fellow Jew Dasan . This , the Egyptian necromancers , could not copy or make, as negative forces cannot act on anything smaller than a barley kernal . Here the Sorcerers had to admit that ' This is a Finger of G-D .'
Pharaoh's Heart was hardened . Yaakov Avinu had foreseen how the sand would become lice in this Plague and this was thus one of the reasons that he did not want to be buried in Egypt . The reason for this Plague was for how Egypt had forced our people to build bricks, and once the sand was turned to Lice, there could be a halt on building .
The fourth Plague came with a vengeance, after Moshe gave Pharaoh a warning. This was a Plague of the Swarm of Wild Beasts that made havoc in Egypt . These attacked Egypt without mercy . This was sure a representation of how we have been attacked by wild Egyptians . Pharaoh was prepared now to let us do sacrifice , but only in Egypt, to which Moshe refused as we would offer the fake deity of Egypt , the sheep.
Pharaoh again hardened his heart ,
HaShem Warned through Moshe , that the next Plague would be an Epidemic - 'Dever' that would attack livestock and even those on the livestock at the time . This was Middah-Knegged -Middah a punishment for Egypt for Jews were forced to work till late hours with Egypt's livestock . 
The Sixth Plague , came like the third plague, with no prior warning . This Plague of ' Sh'chin ,' - ' Boils ' was a Plague brought about by HaShem and Moshe and Aharon . Both Moshe and Aharon were to take handfulls of furnace soot in front of Pharaoh , and it was miraculously to go into Moshe's Hands alone and was miraculously thrown 'Heaven-ward' and the results were hot blisters and hot boils over man and beast over the whole of Egypt. These Boils were not like any other as they had a hard crust and soft inside . Thus they were hard to treat . This was a sore reminder for the Egyptians who had made us do back-breaking labor in the hottest and most burning of heat . Pharaoh's heart again was hardened . 
The Eighth plague of Barad - Hail , came with a vengeance , putting two completely oppossing forces of nature ( fire and water ) to come together to work for HaShem .Moshe warned that livestock must be taken indoors away from the Hail . The hail fell with fire and ice . 
Pharaoh summoned Moishe and Aharon, to stop the Plague, and admit he'd sinned and that HaShem Is The Righteous One . Moshe requested and the Hail stopped in mid air and was suspended. We read of different battles in our Biblical history, where that hail and thunder , from the time of Egypt , came down on our enemies, like in Elisha's Time .
But after having the Hail removed, Pharaoh continued in his stubborn ways, for his heart was hardened . This Plague of Hail came about , due to our harsh treatment and being forced to go out in all kinds of conditions . So ends our Sedra .
This Sedra is called ' Va'eirah " - "Appeared ." For now , HaShem is going to show Himself by His Changing Nature and its Natural Laws , in bringing about the Plagues . 
It was now, in this Sedra that HaShem's Workings would be openly shown . Thus HaShem " Va'eirah " -now " Appeared " to us , by His Miraculous Love and Caring of the Children of Israel .
Before, to our Forefathers , HaShem "Va'eirah " - " Appeared as " El Shadai ," where "Dai," - " Enough " shows that HaShem Created the World with all its Laws and Limits , for that is 'enough' , but now , HaShem Would Bring new Mercy in Saving His People , the connotation of HaShem, for this Name shows HaShem's Name Attribute of Mercy , where HaShem Would here Show Mercy To our people and Set us Free, by Going Beyond the Level of Completeness and , out of mercy, make that which goes above Natural Law Take Place in a Miraculous Manner .
HaShem's Attribute of Yud Key Vav Key , shows that HaShem Is Also Master Over Creation and Does With His Creation Whatever Is Necessary .
In " Va'eirah " - "Appearing ," HaShem Sheds His Light on the World , for within the word " Va'eirah," is the word "Ohr," - " Light ". HaShem Constantly infuses the World with Light and it is for us to use that Light to lead Creation in the direction HaShem Wants it To go .This will lead Creation into Olam Habah , The World to Come . 
If we look at the word " Va'eirah," in Hebrew the 'Eirah ' part spells the same word both ways , with the two Alephs surrounding the Reish . This shows, How HaShem's Light is not just from above, but from below too, for every Creation of HaShem , Has a Purpose To Help Bring the Ohr Light oOf HaShem . What and how we handle What HaShem Gives us is left up to us , as is being good or bad left up to us to choose . We see this too in the word 'Eirah,' which backwards or forwards , can read Ohr - Light , or Rah - Bad . The choice is ours , but we must choose wisely , for HaShem Appears to us all the time, if only we would look close enough . This Appearance - Va'eirah also references the Appearance at Har Sinai, when HaShem Gave us the 10 Pronouncements - Better Known as The 10 Commandments . So Interesting,that the word 'Va'eirah,' comes to 10 Gematrically , so keeping HaShem's Commandments leads to HaShem's Revelation and " Va'eirah " - " Appearance ."
We are all in this Creation together . Let us all work together to bring HaShem's 'Ohr ,' - ' Light ,' and so , Let HaShem's " Va'eira ," - " Appearance ," come soon in our days .
I wish HaShem With Deep Love , a very Special Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with Love , and to all my fellow Jews , a very special beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love .

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