Parsha Post: Nesivos Shalom

Exile and redemption hold a major place in the Torah and in the Jewish People's reality. it starts at the Brit Bein HaBetarim - The Covenant Between The Pieces. During the first moments of G-d's establishing that the Jewish People will be chosen, G-d tells Avraham that they will be strangers in a strangle land. Before this moment a darkness falls upon Avraham and tradition has it that in the darkness all of the future (4 major) exiles that Avraham's children would go through were revealed to him. But isn't exile a punishment? So how is it announced before the Jewish People exist to have done anything wrong? And could the positive purpose of the first exile of Egypt be, given that they entered holy, and left on a low level? And why doesn't Avraham pray for his children to not have to go through this exile? After all, he prayed for the wicked people of Sedom to not be destroyed, why didn't he pray for the annulment of this decree against his children? And why do w

  Moshe asks G-d (Elokim) - I’m approaching the Jewish People, when I say to them the G-d of your fathers sent me to you.  What should I tell them? And He said, Tell them that E-ke-yeh (aleph - keh - yud - keh) sent me to you.  Hard to understand. They were told who was sending him - the G-d of their fathers, so why question this, asking his name. Why does the name matter? In their dire situation they’re concerned with the name? Further, why does Moshe himself ask what to tell them? What is the meaning of G-d’s answer and why does it put Moshe at eve?  Via Arizal - Moshe thought the redemption would come via the known 4 letter name of G-d (yud -keh - vav - keh).  If that were so the galus would be 260 years, which is ten times that name of G-d. Moshe thought redemption had not yet come because 210 years had passed. That’s a meaning behind it saying that G-d saw that he was SA”R lirot - samech-reish, which is 260, what Hashem saw that Moshe thought the number of years would be. Hashem t

 The Rabbis in Pesachim 51b comment on Yaakov saying, "Gather and I will tell you what will happen in the end of days/" They explain, "Yaakov wanted to reveal the end of days and the Divine Presence was removed from him.  The Zohar asks why we are told that Yaakov set out to do something if in the end he didn't do it.  Rather it must be that his will was at least somewhat fulfilled, that he revealed what he needed to reveal and hid that which needed to be hidden  The Zohar says that the words of the Torah are never flawed, meaning that if the Torah tells us that Yaakov said the words,הֵאָֽסְפוּ֙ וְאַגִּ֣ידָה לָכֶ֔ם אֵ֛ת אֲשֶׁר־יִקְרָ֥א אֶתְכֶ֖ם בְּאַחֲרִ֥ית הַיָּמִֽים then these words were fulfilled and |Yaakov did reveal something, just that he also concealed something. We can explain this based on the Beis Avraham (may his merit protect us), citing R Shmuel of Kaminka (circa  1771-  1830): The words for I will tell you -  וְאַגִּ֣ידָה לָכֶ֔ם - ca also be read to m