Parshas Mishpatim | How Was The Chicken?

A Dvar Torah on Parshas mishpatim
this weeks parsha is parshas mishpatim
The end of our Po Tes in the 70 of the Elders of Israel ascended. We are now going to hear about Mosha and his companions in their trip up into Hashem's office, so to speak. This is obviously a very esoteric, in arcane concept, but let us listen to what they saw says the rock love, can I say Lak? And they saw under his feet was the likeness of sapphire brickwork, and it was like the essence of the heaven in purity. Clearly a tough po to understand, but Rashi comes and saves us What's going on here? Rashi, to explain this pasta quotes A in [inaudible] that what they saw was a vision of Hashem throughout the period that the Jews were enslaved in Egypt. That during that time God kept a sapphire brick at his feet as it were, as a constant reminder of Israel's servitude as the says. 

a fascinating insight on this weeks parsha

And under his feet, the likeness of sapphire brickwork. What this means, explains was being no, he wanted to feel the pain of the Jewish people and to commiserate properly with the Jewish people. Hash so to se kept a sapphire brickwork under his feet to remind himself the [inaudible] feeling for your friends, commiserating with them in their pain and celebrating with them in their syk. Their celebrations is an attribute so key, so essential to living as a Jew. Now we see here something different, something special. We see the way that KH commiserated with the Jewish people was no say [inaudible] explains [inaudible] that hash. In order to feel the pain, put bricks or sapphire or stones beneath his feet. We see that a person must really do in action, go out of his way to help himself, enable himself, to really feel someone else's situation we normally understand. No Seba Vero in the way of, I'm going to understand. I'm gonna think about what it means for my friend to be going through this. I'm gonna help him out. But what we see here is that I shouldn't actually went and did something to make himself, so to speak, feel it more. The normal practice is that when you hear sad news, God forbid. 

Speaker 2: (02:59)

So we take a moment, we feel bad, but we see the way that Hashem does it in order to properly commiserate, he keeps bricks by his feet to really feel it. He takes action to feel it. And furthermore, we don't know much about Mosha Ra, who's upbringing, but what we do know is clearly essential to the building of a great Jewish leader. And one of the only [inaudible] that's describing Moshe's upbringing, saysso, that Mosha went out and he saw the Jewish people's burdens. And Rahi explains what doesn't mean viso. He saw their burdens. Quote, SBOs Mak. He placed his eyes and his heart upon their burdens in order to feel it. He got into their minds what would this be like to have this pain? Now, we don't normally attribute his [inaudible] contemplation in the same realm of feeling for your friends. His is more for Torah, for medo, or for some elements of ash kafa. 

Speaker 2: (04:09)

But here we see not like that his spoon, us thinking, getting into what your friend must be going through, and from that spot, feeling it with him. To illustrate this new approach to feeling for your friends, I want to tell over a story from the great sat marba. There was a widow, there was an elderly al. She had the great fortune of finding a suitable match Ashi for her son, but she was struggling financially and she didn't know what to do about paying for the wedding. So she went to the sat marba for some help. And sure enough, the sat marba pulled together, gathered all the funds necessary to be able to help this widow marry off her son. And if the story ended there, that's already a pretty good story. But listen to what happened next. The day of the wedding arrived, and as the simko was going on, the sat marba after he finished his study session, after he finished learning, he went over to the wedding. 

What an amazing vort on this weeks parsha

He danced at the wedding, and then he came home too. Continue on with his learning, with his studies. And at about midnight that night in the middle of his Hausa, he asked his Shamus, his attendant for the phone, unsure why, but still listening to the Reba, he goes and grabs the phone and brings it to the Saba. The Saba picks up the phone and dials the number for this alman. When she picks up the phone a bit confused as to why the sat mareba was calling her this late at night. The Reba then asked her, how was the wedding? How did everything go? And she explained how everything went well, and it was a fantastic wedding. And thank you for coming. And then listen to this, this Hotman said, and how was the chicken? Was the chicken good? And 

Speaker 3: (05:57)

She says, kind. Uh, yeah. Was it well done? Was it not overcooked, I hope? And how was the band? Were they too loud? Did they play the right music? Answering all the questions and going back and forth. The conversation continued about the details of the wedding, and then the conversation ended and both went on their ways. The SHA is completely confused about why the Sarebo did this, asked him and said, Reba, why did you call her to ask her about the chicken and the band? And the Reba answered. Of course, it must have been hard to not have the funds for the wedding and to not have her husband at the wedding. But at the end of a simpla, a couple always returns home. And when they're lying in bed late at night, they always discuss the details of the sim until late at night. 

Speaker 3: (06:44)

And there was no one there for her to talk about the details of the wedding. So I called her so that we can discuss the details. That's what it means, Nocero, to really understand what your friend's going through. Then no one was gonna be there for the widow late at night to discuss the details about the chicken and the band. That's what we see great people doing in fulfilling what it means to be no. In fact, the me tells us that when Mosha saw the pain of his Jewish brethren, he went and picked up a sack and put it on his back to help schlep all of these bricks, the medicine, shamo, Raba, and no, put it on his back to help them out. And the altar of K explains it wasn't as much about helping out the Jewish people move bricks from one place to the next, but more about feeling tangibly for real, what it would be like to have bricks on your back, schlepping them in the hot sun. 

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And if we can say all of this to commiserate with your friend, well, how much more so [inaudible] How much more so for the good feeling, the [inaudible] for your friend? I know that I'm guilty that often when I'll hear about a sim of my friend, I'll text them Mazeltov, I'll quip back something as I don't know, easy as just mt as some acronym for Mazeltov. A little bit excited feeling for it. But what if we really put ourselves into their shoes? Imagine how much more happy we would be, how much more of a sim fulfilled life we would have when every time a sim happened, we really felt excited. Like it was almost our sim. That's what we see here. We see hash keeping his sapphire brick work underneath his feet. We see Moha Abk schlepping these packages with the Jewish people. We see the sat marba asking about the chicken and the band from this widow. We see how we're supposed to be noce. If you know somebody is going through the tough times of SKU trying to find the suitable match, yes, read them sku. But think about if they're in Sudoku, maybe they're not home, do they have a chaba meal? Think about on Muk [inaudible] or on any Muk fast day, 

Speaker 4: (08:54)

It's very hard to find a place for break fast when all of a family would be eating together. If you're in a person's shoes, invite them for break fast these times that if you were in their life, you could feel for them and help them out. You know, maybe someone's going through some financial time, so they're working double time. Go find their kids and take them to the park, be in their life. Feel for them for real. This is how Rev Roku clarifies what it means to be no. This essential and vital [inaudible] feeling, contemplating even taking action to feel the [inaudible], to feel the triumphs of your friends, and God forbid, even to fuel with them, their trials and tribulations. So let us really feel for our friends, be there for them to follow the path of mok and t