Feb. 19, 2025

Unwavering Faith: Timeless Wisdom from Moshe's Battle with Amalek

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All right, here's a pencil.

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You go ahead and play Rashi, explain this Pasek, and let's see what we get, because it should lead us to this incredible climax of an idea that will help us in our dark times.

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The Pasek says Translate, play Rashi.

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What does that mean?

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You should have probably translated or explained it.

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And Moshe's hands were heavy.

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V'ichu Evin.

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They took a stone.

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V'yassimu Tachtav, they put it underneath Moshe.

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V'yeshev Aleha, and Moshe sat on it.

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This is all to give some context.

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When the war with Amalek is happening down below, moshe is up on top and he is watching the battle transpire.

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Moshe is sitting upon a rock, the pasta continues and let us continue our Rashi experiment.

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Ve'aron ve'chur, tamchu biyadov, mizeh echad, u'mizeh echad, aaron and chur.

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They are tamchu Moshe's hands.

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Well, just to give you a little spoiler, it means they supported his hands.

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This is when Moshe Rabbeinu's hands are outstretched while the battle is happening below Each one, moshe standing in the middle, supported by Aaron and Hur holding up Moshe's hands.

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And here comes the real kicker that will challenge us Holding up Moshe's hands.

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And here comes the real kicker that will challenge us the Yehe Yodav Emunah, adbo Hashemesh.

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And Moshe's hands were Emunah until the sun rose.

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What does that mean?

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That Moshe's hands were Emunah?

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Comment on that, if you will.

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If you are someone that came up with something fantastic, please share it, swipe up, send it or reach out, but Rashi, he defines it with his pen.

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What does it mean that his hands?

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They were spread out with faithfulness, they were spread out to the heavens in prayer, ne'emona, u'nechona, that is confident in its firm prayer.

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Rashi's using emunah here in the form of prayer, in the mode of prayer Ibn Ezra, tells us something, though that's different than maybe what you would have thought.

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I'd like to show you just how incredible this commentary is.

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The emunah, what does it mean?

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Moshe's hands were emunah, the first understanding, or the second one?

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It is b'aihi omen as hadassah.

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It's like he reared, he brought up, and that Mordecai reared, he raised hadassah.

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That is ki'ilu umnimheim.

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That these two people raised up Moshe's hands, that's one.

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But this, what does it mean?

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His hands were Emunah.

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Zokta Ebenezer Dovar, omeid V'kayim.

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His hands were Emunah, they were steady and they were established as eternal.

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They were permanent, that's a good way of saying.

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They were standing and they were not faltering.

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Emunah means, according to this definition, that you are something, or Moshe's hands were something that possessed the characteristic of being permanent and being something that lasts.

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What an incredible understanding of what it means to be someone who now possesses the attribute of Emunah.

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It means that, no matter the circumstance we see here a new uncovering of the word you don't falter.

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You do not let your hands slip in a time of pain.

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You remain permanent.

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Your metal has been tested and you can be be tapped upon boom, boom, boom to see if you're really.

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Your metal is strong, but you stand firm.

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And as those hands become very weighty, moshe Rabbeinu's hands want to slip.

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Moshe Rabbeinu holds them there with the help of Aaron and Hur, the Yehudah of Amunah.

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Think about Moshe's hands and the Ebenezer's definition of what it means to have and possess Emunah To remain strong, to remain steady and to remain permanent.

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That's what it means to have Emunah.