Bo: 5783 - Rabbi Shimon Zonnenfeld from Nachal'ah with a wonderful insight for the weekly parsha, Parshas Bo: "And Hashem said to Moshe, Go to Pharaoh" - why wasn't it written 'go to Pharaoh' (without the extra word)? The insight was transmitted…

00:00 Speaker 1 Rabbi Sonnenfeld, please.

00:03 Speaker 2 “And Hashem said to Moshe, ‘Come to Pharaoh.’” The Rebbe brings the Zohar’s question: Shouldn’t it say “Go”? Why “Come to Pharaoh” rather than “Go to Pharaoh”? The Zohar explains that Moshe Rabbeinu was afraid. When he went to Pharaoh, he was led from chamber to chamber, room after room, until he reached the room where the great serpent lay in its river. That was Pharaoh’s soul. It was such a powerful kelipah that Moshe was afraid of it. So Hakadosh Boruch Hu told him, “Come to Pharaoh”—Hakadosh Boruch Hu would go together with Moshe Rabbeinu. “I’m going with you. You have nothing to fear.” The same applies to every Jew, every chossid, who goes to a dangerous place on the Rebbe’s shlichus. There may be all sorts of concerns and dangers; all roads are presumed dangerous. But the one who goes with him is the Rebbe. They tell a story about a Jew who, after 120 years, arrived in the World of Truth. They showed him a film of his entire life—all the stages he had gone through, everything he had done. In the picture, he saw another set of footprints beside his, walking with him the whole time. He asked, “Who was walking beside me?” They told him, “That was Hakadosh Boruch Hu, walking alongside you. ‘Hashem is your shade at your right hand.’” Then he asked about certain periods in his life, the hardest ones. There, he couldn’t see the other footprints. Where was He then? They explained, “That was when He carried you on His shoulders.” “Hashem is my shepherd; I shall not lack… Even when I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.” Why? “Come to Pharaoh.”

02:05 Speaker 1 “For You are with me.”

02:06 Speaker 2 Hakadosh Boruch Hu goes together with you.

02:09 Speaker 1 Beautiful.