Dvar Torah on Parshas Beshalach | Hit It Hard

Said, hit it, hit it hard, give it a good Z. The Jewish people, again, stuck without water[inaudible] then goes to Ash asking what to do.[inaudible] says, hit the rock, the yasu and water will come out from it.[inaudible] and the nation will drink que mo and Moha did this and the Jews got water. It's noteworthy that this is not the time that Mosha was punished for hitting the rock, because here he was actually told to hit the rock, not to speak to it. The words of the PA are[inaudible] bat, and you should hit in the rock[inaudible] and then water will sprout forth. The words of the paik are qui batur, and you should hit batur in the rock, visu, and then water will come out from it. A very interesting usage of the letter base. Batun literally means in the rock it should have said. Rahi wants to ask[inaudible] hit on the rock. Rahi explains to us what was really going on was[inaudible] that really it was a very hard staff[inaudible] staff was firm. It was rigid, it was[inaudible]. It was made of this stone that when Mosha would strike the rock, it would break it open and water would start to flow out. So no padding of the rock or dubbing of it would work. It needed to be specifically a striking of strength and a striking with the staff as if, if you would take one of those little league metal bats and walk over to a big boulder and take a big swing. Now we can all agree that ple, we're all on the same team here, that rocks don't sprout water. If you go around with your bat hitting rocks, water won't come out. This was a miracle, this was a special occurrence. It was miraculous. And the fact that there was enough water that flowed from this rock to quench the thirst of an entire nation, even more miraculous. So here's our problem. If a miracle was gonna happen, why did Moha benu have to hit it? Okay, so Hashem said, go and hit it. You'll tell me why did[inaudible] tell him? Then make sure to hit it hard. And there's another detail. You can't just hit it hard. You gotta hit it with the staff. It needs to be a hitting, it needs to be a hitting of it hard, and it needs to be a hitting of it with the staff. If Ash's gonna give us water, then give us the water. And if you will tell me that hasta, that doing your part needs to be done. So what's with these specific guidelines? Why these exacting specifications in order to make this rock start to flow with water, why couldn't Mosha have just walked over towards it and given it a little pat on the head with his hand? Why can't that do the trick for the rock? Just start flowing with water. The issue intensifies with the understanding that in our lives when we are trying to make parsa to try to get the blessings of prosperity start flowing, we all need to do Irish Douglas. You need to do certain actions in order that God should send the[inaudible]. So this story is personal. In order for Mosha to get the water, get the pza to start flowing. Very interesting and odd specifications were needed. Why these parameters? Why did Mosha have to hit it like this? What can we learn from this? The answer explains Ravitz, the great spiritual dean of Yeshiva SSIR during the roaring twenties, that that God created the world, ex ne hello. He created something from nothing. He runs the world. He is the ur, and he is involved in everything that goes on in our lives and in every creature's life. And in his never ending benevolence, he creates mamos. He creates places for us to follow the procedure and to give us the feeling of satisfaction and to give us the sense of success and to give people the feeling of triumph when they're successful. But we must remember something after all. The Hida, the parsa coming, the successful outcome is really a miracle from God. And let me explain. Our lives really are one big miracle. When we take a step back and try to examine the difference between water splitting and a nation walking through an ocean, through a river, and the fact that our hearts continue to beat is there really that big of a difference? They're both miraculous. One we are used to and the other we are not. What truly separates the idea of conception and a human birth of a healthy baby and somebody walking on water except for one we are familiar with. One is a norm, one is commonplace, and one we have never seen before. But both full miracles. Picture this. A child comes home from Keita Olive from kindergarten, they run in the door and say, mommy, mommy, mommy. You're not going to believe what I learned today. Now, this is a special family. This girl goes to school in base, mid bar. It's the[inaudible] that is open in the desert where the Jews are traveling. And this little girl is pulling on her mother's apron to try to get her mother's attention to tell her what she had learned in school from her teachers.[inaudible] Mora, Miriam. And eventually when she finally gets her mother's attention, her mother says,

I would love to hear what your teachers told you today, but you must make sure to eat your lunch. You must first walk outside, grab this magical food that has fallen from the sky called Munk. Have in mind whatever you think it should taste like. It will taste like. Make sure to eat your lunch and then tell me what you learned from Moer zPo. And when little girls finished with her lunch and she finally tells her mother what she had learned in school that day, she says, mom, guess what? In the future, people are going to put a seed in the ground and then food will sprout forth from the ground. Mother says What It can't be. Yes, yes. My teachers told me food will grow from the ground. A total miracle. They're having this conversation while eating this magical man that fell from the sky. There is no difference between the miracles. One we are used to and one we have never seen before. This idea is so integral to Jewish life that the place that we learn it from, from the famous Ram in Pius, at the end of par, a person should learn it over and over until he has it committed to memory and he has memorized it. And I[inaudible] and from the open, great miracles be a person understands and knows that the hidden miracles, this is the foundation of the entire Torah, that a person doesn't have a portion. And until he believes that his entire life in everything that happens to him, it is all a miracle. It is all miraculous Tek. It is not Teva. It is not just the laws of the world and the way that things go ba robin, whether it's a community, it's in public ba, whether you're an individual[inaudible] he continues. It's all a miracle. Everything is miraculous. So why then did Mok have to hit the rock so hard? After all, if everything's a miracle, Hashem, let me do my, and then make a miracle. Explains that we don't actually have a grasp at all on Hashem's infinite wisdom as to why Hashem set up our bodies as such and why the universe is created like so. These are things beyond us. We just know that we have to follow the guidelines of nature. This is the way things work for this is RA hash. And when you follow the ra hashem and you follow the Huke hat, Teva, you work with the world and do what you're supposed to do as God set up for you to be successful, then the reward for the fulfillment of following God's will and the laws of nature which God set up is water flowing forth from a rock. Why hit it hard? Why hit it with a staff? It's the same reason. Why do you have to wake up early or take a small business loan or invest it here or call this business client to make a buck? These are the hatte because this is the way that God set up the world. It's the way that God said, this is how you should do it. And once you do it and follow these steps, God makes a miracle and money showing up in your bank account. Miracle water flowing forth from a rock miracle. We just follow the special guidelines. I challenge you. Does it really make sense that if you mix up herbs, some chemicals, put it inside of a pill, you should swallow it and then your ankle should start feeling better. Does that really make sense to us or is it just what we're used to? Some people have a minhag accustomed to actually say a[inaudible] about how Hashem is really the one who makes us feel better. And we just go about the motions. We follow the laws of nature. But it all really comes from Hashem. It's a very tricky point. It feels so real. When we run an advertisement and something works and we make the phone call and something works, and while we are following nature and doing what needs to be done, we're hitting the rock as, as Sham said, hit the rock. But the[inaudible] is miraculous. It is nothing less than a miracle. Why did Mosha have to hit the rock with such a Z? Why did Mosha have to hit it with a staff? Because Ash said so. And we follow rat ash and the reward for following rat ash and is[inaudible] is success. Learn this from ban over and over and over. This was actually the custom of the great Mak and back fo color. Say it over and over again. Over and over. Let it calm your nerves. Let it relax you when you're on the grind of Parsa, that we follow the rules of the Tera. We follow the laws of the land. We do what Ru hash is and za Hashem by following the guidelines of the Tera, by keeping the laws of the world doing our[inaudible], doing it the way that God set up. Then Emir Hashem[inaudible] Thek should start flowing forth from the rock. Enough water to quench the thirst of an entire nation. Enough water should start flowing as if you would've removed the dam from the Hoover Dam. Enough water should flow forth that all of Claar should have an abundance of parsa and recognize that it's all from Hashem and it's all miraculous.