Frameworks for Freedom - What appears repetitious is actually a dramatic change: from the problem in דיבור to the problem in שמיעה. Indeed the entire parasha has one point as its theme: לא שמעו and the marvelous contrast at the end of דבר where everyone takes in their cattle to ברד where it is officially prohibited only because Moshe suggested it! The problem of the caring human in an autistic world can lead to paralysis of speech, to despair, which is what Moshe suggested in denying the value of using אקיה אשר אקיה and demanding that “We want Geulah NOW” in הצל לא הצלת—for על דבר זה נענש משה . The response is the value of nested vision despite the fact that the only relationship is to the local, despite being incapable of handling it מקוצר רוח ומעבודה קשה. The very ראשית which is משה central point of being וירא ראשית לו is only קננ"י ראשית דרכו and thus nesting is of the essence for the correct space will bring forth the correct solutions. Even if one speaks only to oneself, one can establish the space of ראשית which is a function of awareזכרון and therefore in the הגדה של פסח we must even ask ourselves, שואל לעצמו! The גלות הדיבור is strengthened by accepting the non-Space of מֵצָרִים, constraints that can only be penetrated by דיבור and gradually the joke is on the ones who would laugh. This is precisely what Churchill did, and won, and insisted: Deserve Victory! Thus the question of לא היה צריך אלא להתחיל מהחודש הזה לכם is the question of Moshe himself! And the Ramban’s view of the answer is indeed that כח מעשיו הגיד לעמו is itself the solution to the actual ירושה in terms of the actual שמים וארץ just as the היוחל ארץ ביום אחד comes only of השמים כסאי והארץ וגו' and there too in the haftara of this ראש חודש came the response to Moshe: האני אשביר ולא אוליד. This שמים חדשים וארץ חדשה is not the product of one day though it may look so to one who goes from a concentration to the war of independence in a week. It is the result of vast forces of nesting that have created the space for גאולה. Just so is the parasha the description of freedom being a function of Space, where constraints destroy the possibility of moral options, and the broader the space the broader the freedoms. Ultimately the collapse of מצרים is the collapse of the space for מצרים created by Yosef, just as the collapse of the USSR came as a result of the same דיבור, of the same התעללות, of reducing all to lies. The combination must be ראשית ומדי שבת בשבתו with the חידוש as a spiraling upward in the nested reality of a nested גאולה where והוצאתי-והצלתי-וגאלתי-ולקחתי-והבאתי are not linear but nested visions which feed off each other as all do from החכמה מאין תמצא and its attendant ראשית.
(MY) This is the פרשה that changes the problem of משה רבינו from an incapability of speech to the problem of there being nobody to listen: הן בני ישראל לא שמעו אלי ואיך ישמעיני פרעהBut this as הקב"ה shows him is the whole issue: you are never limited in terms of דיבור but only in audience – which is true of the הגדה של פסח as well; wen there is nobody to talk to talk to yourself The solution has to be the expanded awareness and space that allows development of what ultimately is the תכלית to be achieved: השמים כסאי וארץ הדום רגלי, בראשית ברא אלקי"ם את השמים ואת הארץ, ברית אבות, מתחילה עע"ז – not only not irrelevant but מקור of everything! 
Insofar as that is gradually processed and understood – not as a linear stage of גאולה הוצאה לקיחה הבאה יציאה– but rather a nested גאולה so too we understand מעשה בראשית as nesting of החכמה מאין תמצא the deeper your connection to that the more real your responsiveness to the ultimate achievement–exactly in the same way that Churchill defined what it means to achieve victory before anyone would recognize him as anyone but someone as laughable as one who would do magic tricks in front of פרעה ”this is the last place to bring a cheap magic trick to Hogwarts” just as they were saying about Churchill
The end result is establishing more and more where this is really coming from -- all of a sudden the laughter of He who laughs last redefines everything – and they realize that it wasn’t about that, that משה ואהרון walked in not to perform magic tricks but to show that you do not need magic tricks! in the end that is what blows them away, and the recognition of their inablitiy to
All elements of גאולה: how space becomes limited in מצרים\מיצרי – the choices of פרעה -- the ability to live within the mileu that allows you to see things think about things to have moral choices about things – what it means to create that mileu which is why משה רבינו comes here from being a גואל to being רבינו ורבן של כל הנביאים – all of this is one single theme! which is why we begin with nested גאולה – רבינו בחיי: הש"ם קננני ראשית דרכו –and ends with גילוי of פרעה as being helpless to do what he knows is right: אשר התעללתי במצרים— הטרם תדע כי אבדה מצרים what an ass פרעה is This is the true source of גאולה
(BW) The problem of last week’s parasha – Moshe’s inability to speak – is here seen more accurately as a problem in having no one who will listen. The progression of the plagues is designed to highlight Pharaoh’s inability to respond which is the nature of his self-enslavement. As for the people, Moshe learns that it is not important whether they understand now what he is saying – his task is to construct the space that will allow them to understand his words over time. Ge’ulah is a not a linear, mechanical process, but a nested phenomenon corresponding to the nested levels of chochma which give rise to Ma’aseh Bereishit. As the universe was created with dibur, so too, is the nature of ge’ulah a function of language providing space for choice.

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