More ‘conspiracy theories’ from the Torah

Who’d have thought that Moshe Rabbenu was such a big ‘conspiracy theorist?!’

Who’d have thought that Hashem would have let him write all these ridiculous ‘conspiracy theories’ in the Torah, of all places?!

The blueprint of the world, and the very word of Hashem?!

I guess the atheists with kippahs, the atheists who like shabbos, are either not reading this stuff, or not believing it….

Tov.

With that introduction out the way, enjoy the next tranche of translated comments from the Rav, below.

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Excerpt of a shiur given over on motzae shabbat, Parshat Chukat (July 13th 2024)

(Translated from Shivivei Or 368.)

We read about the ‘Be’er Miriam’ (Miriam’s Well) that Hashem…

The Chatam Sofer explains[1] that Hashem wants that it should be known that all the water in the world, this is Be’erah shel Miriam (from Miriam’s Well.)

Miriam masrah et hanefesh (she sacrificed herself).

“Pharoah commanded his entire people, saying, “Every son that will be born – into the River shall you throw him![2]

“When you deliver the Hebrew women, and you see them on the evanim (lit: stones, fig: birth stool) – if it is a son, you are to kill him”.[3]

Look at the evanim during the birth, “if it is a son” – so, when he sticks his head out, immediately suffocate him, “on the evanim”.

On the stones, where the woman giving birth is lying down, say that he got suffocated during the delivery, immediately choke him.

“[O]n the evanim – if it is a son, you are to kill him, and if it is a daughter, she shall live.”

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So, they said:

“Because the Hebrew women are unlike the Egyptian women”[4]they give birth within a second! By the time we come [to deliver them…].

[The midwives] lived far away, it used to take them an hour on foot [to call them]. And until they got there, this was another hour. And until the merkavah (carriage, but also refers to a deep concept in Kabbalah) came this was another hour.

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So, Sforno says [on the verse that Hashem ‘made them houses[5]’]:

He made them houses. He said: ‘From today, you are going to live within the hospital.’

He arranged a room for them inside the hospital, and he built a ‘Children’s Home’, the first thing, in order to enable them to strangle the children, so that they wouldn’t have any excuse.

[But the midwives still said:]

Until we got out of bed – the baby was already born!

Until we got woken up, we were sleeping, until they woke us up and said ‘Now, someone is giving birth! Come quickly!’ – within a second, the baby had already slid out!

(In Shuvu Banim, all the babies slide in a second. Everyone slides. The boy is already sliding.)[6]

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So he [i.e. Pharoah] saw that he couldn’t get along with them, so every day, he sent someone to kill them.

Miriam was three years old, she was 86 years old, when they left Egypt. So from the age of three – 83 years, 83 years is exactly 1,000 months. It’s exactly 1,000 months…

So every month, a male baby was born, and most of the male babies were drowned. Those who were saved were only the unusual ‘segulot’, [who belonged to] the mothers who prayed.

All the mothers who prayed, so she ran to the field:

“[M]ay [people] blossom from the city like the grass of the earth.[7]

“I made you as numerous as the plants of the field.”[8]

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The Egyptians saw a pregnant woman, who weighed 100 kilos, and they ran after her, to see where she was going to give birth.

Where is she going to lie down?

Until they got there, she already weighed just 20 kilos. Where did the 80 kilos disappear to?!

She told them:

No, I had a type of strange illness, and now I got an injection, and I was healed!

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So, they brought ploughs – the children had been absorbed by the earth.

Other mothers didn’t manage to run to the field, so came….

The moment they went into labor, angels came and kidnapped the children. Came angels, who kidnapped the children!

They took them over to the other side of the Nile. And also those who were swallowed by the earth, they swam over to the other side.

“He would suckle him with honey from a stone, and oil from a rock.[9]

They drank oil from the rocks, they had unlimited oil, and no end of honey, and unlimited milk.

“[A] land flowing with milk and honey.”[10]

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And the babies grew up, 60 myriads of babies grew up, and these are the ones who received the Torah.

This was all in the merit of Miriam. Miriam saved them.

So all of these babies, she saved all of these infants.

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And there were mothers who didn’t merit to have their children swim across the Nile.

The Egyptians kidnapped them, and stuck them in the walls, inside the bricks. So whoever is under the wall, underneath the bricks:

“I made you as numerous as the plants of the field.”[11]

There were flocks and flocks of them!

All of them at the age of 13, 14, returned to their homes, they met their father and their mother, they got to know their homes.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] See Chatam Sofer, B’midbar Chapter 20 verse 1.

[2] Shemot 1:22.

[3] Shemot 1:16.

[4] Shemot 1:19.

[5] Shemot 1:21.

[6] Anyone who comes to pray on Ido HaNavi can attest to the number of small children on bimbot, roller skates, scooters and bikes who are ‘sliding’ all over the place. The Beit HaRav is located at the bottom of a sharp incline, that functions as an impromptu skate park.

[7] Tehillim 72:16.

[8] Yechezkel 16:7.

[9] Devarim 32:13.

[10] Shemot 13:5.

[11] Yechezkel 16:7.

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UPDATE:

Scan from Shivivei Or with the excerpt on Be’er Miriam from the Chatam Sofer:

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The Rav’s style is to give perushim on sources that often ‘hint’ at far more deeper things that are going on.

I appreciate this can be hard for ‘super-logical’ types to get their heads around.

But if you make the effort to engage with the Rav’s words, you will learn way, way more than you bargained for, on a number of levels.

And the ‘key’ to unlocking all this is prayer – asking God to help you understand what is being said.

Rebbe Nachman’s teachings work in the same kind of way.

And that’s why the ‘super-logical’ types also find his teachings hard to engage with – even if they do actually believe in Hashem and His Torah.

 

7 replies
  1. JR
    JR says:

    “The Chatam Sofer explains[1] that Hashem wants that it should be known that all the water in the world, this is Be’erah shel Miriam ”

    The חתם סופר doesn’t write that.

    Reply
    • Rivka Levy
      Rivka Levy says:

      1) It’s the Rav’s perush on the Chatam Sofer.
      2) I will put up the excerpt from the Chatam Sofer in Hebrew, as a scan from the Shivivei Or.
      3) My view of what the Rav is saying is that he might be alluding to the Torah ideas now coming via R Elmaliach and ‘Rivka HaTzaddika’ on the ‘Be’er Miriam’ channel.

      Torah is often equated to ‘water’.

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      • asd
        asd says:

        Rivka, don’t you see JR is only here to attack the rav & try to undermine his credibility? Why r u posting his comments? ignore them.
        If someone “asks” where the source is for something the rav is saying, or wants to “understand” what the rav meant to say – if it was literal or sarcastic or something else – we can try to help him, but why engage with someone arguing & attacking? you stated several times that the one thing you don’t tolerate on this blog is attacking the rav, well, trying to show that the rav is saying things that aren’t that way, is attacking the rav. It’s not worth your time & energy. [also I think JR has a past track record here on the blog already]

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        • Rivka Levy
          Rivka Levy says:

          You are totally right.

          The reason I’m engaging with JR, still, is because other readers can learn a lot from watching JR in action – he’s the voice of the ‘yetzer’, that can also be whispering in the hearts of other people, just they wouldn’t say it.

          There is nothing to hide with the Rav and his teachings…. so as long as it’s not an outright ‘attack’, I continue to answer the questions.

          Sadly, both JR and Nathan of Gaza don’t respond in kind.

          Whenever I challenge them on the stuff they say, they go quiet and ‘disappear’.

          I’m still waiting for Nathan of Gaza to come back on the controversy around R Getz and the cohen….

          And I’m still waiting for JR to admit that the three thousand comments he left attacking me over calling the Pnei Yehoshua ‘Yehoshua Falk’ seemed to have been running interference for the fact that the CHIDA specifically names ‘Yehoshua Falk’ as the father of the Samuel Falk of London, the black magic practisiing FIL of Jacob Frank, who nearly got burned at the stake for witchcraft in Poland, so he ran away to London.

          I don’t know if JR is paid opposition, and knew that fact all along and was trying to ‘deflect’ away from it, or whether he’s just vibing with the evils, and so knows where to ‘deflect’ on some subconscious levels.

          Either way, whenever JR starts up, that’s the first place I go and look. And we’ve already covered on the blog the Chatam Sofer’s very tight ties with the Sabbateans who were funding the ‘Eretz Yisrael’ project from Holland.

          And the Chatam Sofer’s own family tree is also really, really interesting….

          So, it’s all from God – and even ‘safe and effective’ people can sometimes be helpful.

          Without meaning to.

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          • JR
            JR says:

            ” he left attacking me over calling the Pnei Yehoshua ‘Yehoshua Falk’ ”

            The Pnei Yehoshua’s name was “Yehoshua Falk”, but “Falk” was a nickname commonly attached to Yeshoshua, it was not his surname. This is well documented.
            What you did was speculate that the פני יהושע was related to “Dr” Falk based on nothing more than a nickname.
            Now, you claim that the חיד”א identified “Dr.” Falk’s father as Yeshoshua Falk. This tells us nothing, because there were many people with that name.
            Of course, the פני יהושע took R’ Y. Emden’s side in his dispute against Y. Eyebeschutz.

  2. JR
    JR says:

    So, Sforno says [on the verse that Hashem ‘made them houses[5]’]:
    He made them houses. He said: ‘From today, you are going to live within the hospital.’

    The ספורנו doesn’t write that. Look it up. He doesn’t even comment on that פסוק. Maybe he writes something like that elsewhere, or maybe it wasn’t ספורנו and the person who transcribed the talk misheard.

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