The Wise Among Women – The Daily Chizzuk with Rav Eliezer Berland Shlit”a

THE DAILY CHIZZUK WITH OUR REBBE RAV ELIEZER BERLAND SHLIT”A – “PHARAOH DECREED AGAINST THE BOYS – YOU ALSO DECREE AGAINST THE GIRLS – SAY THE TIKKUN HAKLALI AND THE DECREE WILL BE CANCELED.”

SUNDAY, 30 NISSAN 5782 – “IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO UNDERSTAND THE SPEECH OF MOSHE.  ONLY MIRIAM UNDERSTOOD.”

These are his holy words:

Now we learn from Miriam the prophetess that she didn’t fear her father.

From when she was a little girl, five-and-a-half years old, she didn’t fear her father [Amram], who was the Tzaddik of the generation, whose way the entire Torah was passed on.

Amram was younger than Yocheved by a month or a year.  Yocheved was 130 years old, so he was 129 years old.

She didn’t fear her father.  She said to him, “Know, that you are worse than Pharaoh.  Your my father, true, but your worse than Pharaoh.”

What did Pharaoh do after all?  He said, “I’ll throw the boys into the river, but not the girls!”  The girls he kept alive, he left them.  He wanted to marry them, that the Egyptians would marry [them].  This doesn’t make any difference to them.  Each one could take four, five wives – 50 children, this is 500 grandchildren, 5,000 great-grandchildren.

Miriam said to him, “What is this?  How can you throw everyone into the river?  You’re worse than Pharaoh.  Pharaoh threw the boys.  You also throw the girls!”

So what is this?  The girls are more important than the boys.  Everything is from the girls.  The woman gives birth, and the baby is with her for nine months.  After this, the baby receives everything from the mother.

She said to her father, “One Tikkun HaKlali and you cancel all the decrees.  Usually, the woman is right.  She is more responsible.  He is her baby.  She brought him into the world.

She said to him to bring back the mother to the father.  What to do?  She’s in a rock.  It’s forbidden to see her at all.  Suddenly, she sees that all the maidens of Batya are dead.  All of them died there, one after the next.

Now Batya descends to the river.  She was totally [inflicted with] Tza’arat, full of wounds, full of boils, full of scratches.  She descends to the river, she just immerses, she touches the basket [of Moshe] – all the Tza’arat disappears.  All the wounds disappear.

She understood that there is a child who is a Tzaddik here, a child who is holy of holies.  She brings him to Pharaoh.  Pharaoh sees that he is circumcised.  “What!  This is a Jewish child.  Why did you bring him to me?  Why didn’t you suffocate him?!”

She says to him, “No, this is an Arab child.”  We’re already 320 years in Egypt after the birth of Yitzchak and Yishmael was born 14 years earlier.  “The Arabs already circumcise themselves.  Two billion circumcised Arabs.  Half the world circumcises themselves – two billion Arabs.  What do you want, Father?  I didn’t do anything against you, G-d forbid.”

Then Moshe removes the crown from him.  He plays with him, hugs him.  Pharaoh began to love him and plays with him, puts him in his lap.  Moshe removes the crown from him.  The astrologers said, “That’s it.  This is already a bad sign.”

They reached a conclusion to place two bowls – one with golden dinars and the second with coals.  Then he [Moshe] puts his hand out to the golden dinars.  Gavriel comes and diverts his hand to the coals.  Moshe mamash took a coal into his hand and put it in his mouth in order to cool it off.  Then he became heavy of speech [e.g. a stutterer].

Because the Tzaddik is heavy of speech.  The Tzaddik is impossible to understand at all -- outside of Miriam.  The Rebbe says that it’s impossible to understand the Tzaddik, because explanations of Torah, the Be’ER (well) is the Be’ORim [“O” here is Alef, like the “E” in Be’ER] explanations of Torah – this is only through Miriam, because only Miriam can understand Moshe.  No one can understand the Tzaddik outside of the woman – only her.

Therefore, the wife of On ben Pelet understood.  “The wise among women, each builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her hands” (Mishley 14:1).

“The wise among women” – this is the wife of On ben Pelet.  She said to him, “Why are you meddling with Moshe?  Have you gone out of your mind?  Have you gone crazy?  Drink a bottle of wine.”  She brought him a bottle of vodka and had him drink it, and he fell asleep for 24 hours.  He got up – already everyone had been swallowed up in the earth.

But Korach – his wife was wicked.  Because everything is dependent on the woman.  If the wife is wicked, he husband is wicked.  If the wife is righteous, the husband will be righteous.  It’s dependent on what woman they receive.