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Gevurot Meyruach Hakodesh 7:1-36

Gevurot Meyruach Hakodesh 7:1-36 TOJB2011

And the Kohen Gadol said, Are these things so? And Stefanos said, Achim and Avot, hear me! Elohei Hakavod appeared to Avraham Avinu while he was in Mesopotamia before he lived in Charan. And HASHEM said to Avram, Depart from your country and from your people and come to the land which I shall show you. Then having departed from the land of the Chaldeans, he settled in Charan. And from there, after the mavet of his Av, he was settled by HASHEM here in this land in which we now are living. And HASHEM did not give to him a nachalah (inheritance) in it nor AD MIDRACH KAF REGEL (even enough to put your foot on); and yet, even when he had no ben, the havtachah (promise) of HASHEM to him was ES HAARETZ HAZOT E'TEN (This land I will give) to him and to his zera (seed) after him. And HASHEM spoke thus, that GER YIHIYEH ZAR'ACHA (your seed will be strangers [aliens]) in anotherʼs land and them they will enslave and they will mistreat them ARBA ME'OT SHANAH (four hundred years). V'GAM ES HAGOY ASHER YA'AVODU DAN ANOCHI (And whatever nation to which they shall be in bondage I myself will judge, said HASHEM,) VACHAREI KHEN YETZU (And after that they will come out) and serve me in this place. And he gave to him bris milah. And thus Avraham Avinu became the father of Yitzchak and he did his bris milah on the Yom HaShemini and Yitzchak became the father of Ya'akov and Ya'akov of the Sheneym Asar HaAvot. And the Avot had kinah toward Yosef and sold him into Mitzrayim (Egypt), and HASHEM was with him. And HASHEM delivered Yosef from all his tzoros and gave to him Chen v'Chesed HASHEM and chochmah before Pharaoh king of Mitzrayim (Egypt) and he appointed him his grand vizier to rule over Mitzrayim and over his whole bais. Now a famine came over all Mitzrayim (Egypt) and Kena'an and tzarah gedolah (great tribulation) and Avoteinu were not finding okhel. And when Ya'akov Avinu heard that there was grain in Mitzrayim (Egypt), he sent Avoteinu there pa'am harishonah (the first time). And on the second visit Yosef was recognized by his Achim, and Yosefʼs mishpochah became known to Pharaoh. And having sent, Yosef summoned Ya'akov his Abba and all his mishpochah, SHIVIM (Seventy) nefashot (souls). And Ya'akov Avinu went down to Mitzrayim (Egypt) and he died, as did Avoteinu. And they were brought back to Shechem and were placed in the kever (tomb) which Avraham bought for a sum of silver from the banim of Chamor in Shechem. Now as the time of the havtachah (promise) was drawing near, which HASHEM promised to Avraham Avinu, the people grew and were multiplied in Mitzrayim, Until over Mitzrayim there appeared a MELECH CHADASH ASHER LO YADA ES YOSEF (a new king who knew not Yosef). This king exploited by his shrewdness our nation and mistreated Avoteinu so as to make their ollelim (infants) exposed in order not to keep them alive. And at this time Moshe Rabbenu was born and he was well pleasing to HASHEM; and he was nurtured for shloshah chodashim in the bais of his abba. And after he had been exposed, the bat Pharaoh took Moshe Rabbeinu away, and brought him up as her own son. And Moshe Rabbenu was instructed in all the chochmah of the Egyptians and in devarim (words) and pe'ulot (deeds) he was given ko'ach. But when arba'im shanah of his days were completed, it entered into his lev (heart) to visit his Achim of the Bnei Yisroel. And having seen one of them being treated unjustly he retaliated and brought yashrus (justice) for the one being oppressed by striking down the Egyptian. Now he was assuming that his achim had binah that HASHEM by the hand of Moshe was giving Yeshu'at Eloheinu to them, but they did not have binah (understanding). And on the next day he came to them as they were fighting and Moshe was trying to reconcile them in shalom, saying, Anashim, you are achim, why are you injuring one another? But the one injuring his re'a pushed Moshe aside, saying MI SAMECHA L'ISH SAR V'SHOFET ALENU? (Who made you ruler and judge over us)? HALEHARGENI ATAH OMER KA'ASHER HARAGTA yesterday ES HAMITZRI (You do not mean to kill me in the same manner as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?) And Moshe Rabbenu fled at this dvar and became a stranger in eretz Midyan, where he became the father of shnei banim. And at the fulfillment of arba'im shanah a MALACH appeared to him BELABAT EISH MITOCH HASENEH (in flame of fire from within a burning thorn bush) in the desert of the mountain Sinai. And Moshe Rabbenu having seen this, was nispoyel (standing in awe) at the chazon and, as he was approaching it to look more closely, there came the kol (voice) of HASHEM, I am the G-d of your Avot, I am the G-d of Avraham and the G-d of Yitzchak and the G-d of Ya'akov. But Moshe Rabbenu was trembling with pachad and was not daring to look. And HASHEM said to him, SAL NE'ALECHA ME'AL RAGLECHA (Take off your sandals from your feet) for the place on which you have stood is admat kodesh (holy ground). I have seen the ONI AMMI ASHER B'MITZRAYIM (misery of my people in Mitzrayim [Egypt]) and the groaning of them I heard and I came down to deliver them. And now come that I may send you to Mitzrayim (Egypt). This Moshe whom they denied, having said MI SAMECHA L'ISH SAR V'SHOFET? (Who made you a ruler and a judge?) is the one whom G-d sent to be both SAR (ruler) and GO'EL (redeemer) with the help of the malach having appeared to him in the thorn bush. This one led them out, effecting moftim and otot in eretz Mitzrayim (Egypt) and in the Yam Suf and in the midbar arba'im shanah.

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