{"id":2079,"date":"2015-12-17T02:13:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T02:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2079"},"modified":"2015-12-17T02:13:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T02:13:25","slug":"beshallach-5761","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2079","title":{"rendered":"BeShallach (5761)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Drash Cards for BeShallach (5761)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Why did the Israelites leave Egypt?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Ch 9, v13: To serve God, which is later (Ch 15, v 25) described as an established Chok. These include Shabbatot, the Red Heifer, and the treatment of monetary claims<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Rambam says that regulation was needed for the society living in the desert.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Reb Bachya that Moshe taught the science of herbs, sometimes like Chokim (defying reason) and sometimes like Mishpatim (understandable logic)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 But then the Israelites immediately get manna. All the commentators say that manna is about how to live with the proper outlook. \u00a0Regarding that: which is the greater test: wealth or poverty?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Wealth can lead to arrogance<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Poverty can lead to the destruction of individuality.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Rambam also said that The Torah was given only to those who ate manna, which implies that individuals who study Torah must be freed of the burdens of earning a living.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Alternatively, Ma&#8217;Asei HaShem says that the Torah was given only to those who are satisfied with what they have.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 After manna we have the battle with Amalek (Ch 17, v8) and see Joshua&#8217;s gift of leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Putting these together, we learn that before you can serve god 1) the people must have food and 2) they may have to fight evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drash Cards for BeShallach (5761) by Marc Mangel \u2022 Why did the Israelites leave Egypt? \u2022 Ch 9, v13: To serve God, which is later (Ch 15, v 25) described as an established Chok. These include Shabbatot, the Red Heifer, and the treatment of monetary claims \u2022 Rambam says that regulation was needed for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2079\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2079","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2079\/revisions\/2080"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}