Parshas Vayeitzey: Live in Yerushalayim {Yeshurun} - Delivering the Final Knock-Out Blow To Eisav

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com thank you so much for that very enthusiastic introduction I want to thank Mrs Herman who has arranged a number of different shurim for me today and throughout the trip and for her enthusiastic support and promoting the shoe RAM and I want to wish her and her family I'm really honored and humbled to speak at this August Gathering I've given Sharon for ladies in New York but I think this is by far the largest sheer that I've ever participated in for women call out kavod and business and afterwards his brother came out and his hand was holding on to the heel of asaph and he called his name yaakov obviously the name yaakov comes from the fact that he's holding on to the heel of asab as if this is some momentous occasion in the life of yaakov that really sums up and captures the essence of who yaakovino is who's yaka if he's Mr Heel what a complementary name he's a heel an achev was that the most significant thing that yaakovino ever did that now for all eternity we're calling him yaakov because he held the hail of asab why is this such an important event in yaakov's life why don't we call him La maid he learned in the Yeshiva shameda last night we were in svas we were in the parking lot we talked about Arizona and somebody comes Running On The Bus by the way look to the left that's the Yeshiva shame the Evac you know in America they would say look in the look on the left that's uh Burger King and in our tutorial you accidentally are parked next door to Yeshiva Shame by Eva so why don't we call yaakov La made why don't we call him no he's called heal of all names heal doesn't a name isn't a name supposed to capture the essence of who an individual is it's supposed to because I'll tell us that the Malachi hashares could not understand the depth of wisdom of adamarishine who is able to look at every single creature and say was able to in the depths of his wisdom look at a creation and capture the essence of it in one word and the essence of yaakov is heal by the way it's interesting just as an aside Why does yaakov hold on to the heel of asaph when I was a kid if you want to post that you would pull them by the ear you know why is he pulling him well because a sub is not really that Holy of a guy he's compared to a pig but the pig has one kosher symbol he has split hooves so yakovina would not dare touch anything about ASA except for the kosher Simon of Asaf his split hooves that's why he holds onto the hill actually says just the opposite because yaakov held on to the heel of ace of that infused kadusha into Aesop's heel so Ace of at least has one kusher Simon he has the split hooves but there's a deeper meaning over here and this is just by way of introduction so yaakov is kodiakov after the heel so call him where does the yud come from how did he get the yud you know in the Torah real estate is very expensive every letter is very significant where did the yield come from conversely let's take a look at the word Ace of Rashi says why is he called asov because he's a soy he's made he looks like he's completed he was all hairy he looked like an adult the rashbam said he's called Ace of soy I in sin why does Asaf have an extra yud he should be where where did the universe of go he should be called asoy not Asaf says originally asab's name was asoy I in sin vaviar and yaakov's name was a cave ayen cuff vase and yaakov grabs the hills the tail letter of asaph he grabs the unit of asuly and he adjoins it to a cave to make yaakov so what's the heel of esav is now the head of yaakov namely the letter yud now what's the SIM Sim of the letter yod what does the letter Yoda mean God created this world with the Yoda hey because not everybody makes it to the desired place it's only the select few the righteous and observant Jews so the world who comes with the yield this world is a hey because the letter A has an opening on the bottom it's very easy to fall out but there's an opening on the top you could come back in through chuva Ace of does not value the is the afterthought to Ace of the land iteration phrase is the last part of his name for yaakovino it's always the primary consideration what Asaf considers his heel yaakov considers his right what to Ace of is the last letter of his name tiakov avinu is the first letter of his name explain on a deeper level what is so significant about the fact that Jacob avino holds on to the heel of asab to try to pull him down what is the meaning of this so actually usually I come to Earth as well January time and this year I came for patches tall dice because I have one brother that lives in arts Israel and he has one jinji beautiful boy who became bare midst of this past Shabbos and I went to my nephew's bar mitzvah and you know it's interesting whenever a bar mitzvah boy would be brought to Abrahim kenyevsky so they would ask him okay I understand the bar mitzvah boy has to keep all 613 Mitzvahs but is there one Mitzvah in particular that a bar mitzvah boy should be focused on should work on should put his strength into more than any other Mitzvah and said sure of all the mitzos in the Torah tell the bar mitzvah to focus on says if you accept upon yourself one Mitzvah to be proficient in kegon for example keyboard of I'll tell you an amazing story was once invited to give a test to the boys in the class so the Khazana starts asking the boys uh questions what's shot in the choices what does Rashi mean and there's one kid in the back and he's raising his hand and the rebby tries to motion to the kid you know this is the Nish he asks you the questions you don't ask him the question but the boy would be it was Unstoppable he was raising his head he's jumping out of his seat notices him he says look I'll be happy to take your question after this year so when the sheer is over the boy asked probably the most difficult question kazoinesh ever had to answer the boy asked how did you become [Music] do you have that you became the Khazana and this was probably the longest the Khazana ever had to think about a question is answered because he was a mother not his Eon not his amelos he was his father and mother so what's so significant what's so special about the midst of kibirava aim that would tell a bar mitzvah boy focused on Kiba aim attributed his greatness to the midst of the AIM Steinman observed a very unusual phenomenon in our times robaron Libs Diamond observed let's say my parents generation my parents grew up post Holocaust my grandparents were Holocaust Survivors my uh my parents my father did not have grandparents he didn't know his grandparents they didn't survive the war but I grew up with grandparents I grew up with great grandparents there's a very interesting phenomenon that we experienced today that really in the history of the Jewish people we never enjoyed and that is while in past Generations sometimes it was a rarity for someone to have grandparents who were alive in our generation sometimes you have grandparents who they themselves are caring for elderly parents reminds me of the story you know here I'm in Israel you know you know the story of the guy who went into uh you know in the the yemenites in the early days of the state of Israel they had these Tales of very very old ages that they claimed that they would live to some said they were 130 140 100 70 years old so the guy goes into this yemenai goes in to buy a life insurance policy the lady says sir how can I help you are you sure you're in the right place yeah I came to buy a policy he said sir how old are you said sir there's a hundred and swansig but we can't sell your life insurance policy said what my father came in on last Tuesday and you sold him a policy so what your father how old is your father my father was 123. what we saw no policies to check the records sure enough they checked the records and last Tuesday they sold the father policy he was 100 so he said sir if we sold your father possible sell you a policy come in uh next Monday so next Monday I can't come in next Monday why can't you come in I have a question to go to who's Hasina my grandfather so your grandfather is getting married how old is your grandfather Grandpa's 157. see 150 is getting married no it's not him his parents are forcing him into it a generation where we have often extra opportunities in the Mitzvah of aim and said that this is designated we're going to talk about the converse sometimes people don't have such opportunities and the advantage perhaps the other way around said because we live in the generation right before the coming of mashiach and in order for Michelle to come we need to give that knockout punch to ASAP when yaakovino encounters Ace of in the coming weeks was very frightened when he was going to encounter ASAP what was Jacob so scared of asaph is a Russia he's a murderer he's an adulterer he's wicked what is yaakov scared of encountering ASAP tell us that as wicked as asaph was there's one Mitzvah that Ace of is the Paragon of that there's nobody in history who is as great as Ace of in this Mitzvah and that is Ace of excelled in the Mitzvah of keep it away in fact Gamaliel said that I don't hold a candle Taste of in kibet of aim because Asa when he honored his father he would put on special begotten to honor his father he would take off his regular Street clothing he would put on honorable clothing to honor his father Andrew would say I am not on that madriga I'm not able to do that so I don't come close to ASA in the midst of him so as wicked as Ace of was we know khazal tell us that if somebody performs a mitzvah perfectly that is almost that's something that you can't overcome and Ace of reached perfection in kibet of him and therefore it says in the last generation before mashiach comes in order to give that final knockout blow to asaph we need to combat Ace of measure to measure the Republican gives us extra opportunities but still why is keep it of aim such an important Mitzvah that that's the nikuda that is the main point of contention between yaakov and Asaf that the way we're going to uh overcome him is through why is this the central mitzvah do you remember this past Shabbos masquerades as Asaf and he comes in and he says what's going on here Hashem wow what a beautiful Aroma what a fragrant Aroma it smells so delicious says Rashi what do you mean it's goat skin there's nothing more disgusting than goat skin who remembers she says imai Raya canadan is this working the scent of the Garden of Eden accompanied yakovino why did the scent of ghania then accompanyakov avinu do we find anywhere else in the Hamish that somebody smelled like Daniel do we find any other good deed that scented like on Eden why did Gane then accompanyakovina what's the meaning of this the adversary of asab who destroys asaph who is the counter Force to ASAP if you take a look on your sheets if you look at number three fatigash if when Rahel gave birth to your safe okay it's been really nice knowing you we I've had a blast in your house I had ruvane shimmine Levy Yehuda it's been real I'm out of here when did yaakov leave the svar in this figure when Joseph was born I mean that's a very long stay by the in-laws in most people believe it a kid or two but Ruben Shimon lady Yehuda Hadid Yakov what was he waiting for says Rashi because he needed to face asab and who's sitting who's the adversary of Asaf who destroys asav we know yaakov is like fire and Yosef is the flame and Ace of a straw so not until Joseph is born could yaakov go and return to asab and encounter asav so asov is the force of evil and you always say somehow destroys asav in fact do you remember when jacovino gets the good report that Yosef is still alive he says a very unusual phrase he says and number seven rashi's bother that this Superfluous expression either say hi what's there's only one person in the whole Hamish who's called RAV the only Rose in the Hamish is asaph where is he called RAV oid the older brother will serve the younger brother in fact who is a rebbe and then a student of ram Khal he says is the Illusion in the Hamish to Christianity the Wrath the older brother yavoid will worship Sawyer a Jew that's the prophecy of the religion of Christianity the RAV elder brother will worship yah avoid the lesson of worship is called wrath Israel yakovino announces until then he was very scared because without you always if you thought Yosef had died if Yosef died who's going to overcome asaph but now he sends word RAV asav watch out Joseph's still around you're in big trouble now let's just pause for a moment who's the mother of Joseph why do you think Raquel was to have the one who will destroy asaph very simple do you remember Rachel was beautiful Leia's eyes were very tender why was it why were Leia's eyes tender she was always crying because in seminary she went to the same seminaries and over Raquel's bed the Seminary friends put a big picture of this big Sadiq yaakov who her future husband was and over Leia's bed they put a picture of this red khayara and they said this is what you have to look forward to so she would cry herself to sleep every night until that fateful night where she ended up marrying yaakov what happened to Raquel Raquel can't have a kid so Rashi says that when raqqa was in akara everybody thought yaakov would dismiss her and she would have to marry Asaf so look what Raquel did she gave up yaakov to Leia and she put herself in a situation where she might have to marry as of rewarded her not only will you not have to marry asav you will be to have Sitting the one who will destroy asav you know that the vulnergan writes that we have two Machias AFE Ben David is called hamar because he will take us out of golus Ishmael who's compared to a hamar on Ibrahim is compared to a power Bihar ashar baharoi he's going to take us out of golos edim who's also compared to ashar because you're safe overcomes asab foreign so the first question we have to ask ourselves is if a sub specializes in Cuba of aim does your safe specialize in keep it away and the second question and this really troubled me is if the two great forces in the world are as safe if those two men ever got into the boxing ring and the two Titans were at each other that must be the confrontation of the universe did Joseph ever meet asav anyone remember did you always safe ever meet ASAP yeah one seemingly innocuous meeting yaakovino is coming back with his whole family and if you look at number one after after bilha and her children and after zilpa and her children and then lay on her children and now she's bothered why you safe and then by all the other imahis it was the mother and then the children Why by yoy safe was it him and then and then the mother of she says that Yoshi didn't want okay that's the whole thing that's the gansage that's the big encounter between Joseph and Asaf where Yosef said ASAP I don't want you looking at Mom that's the whole thing I mean we just set it up that the battle of history is between your safe and ASAP and they only meet one time and they don't even talk to each other he always safe just sort of stands on his tippy toes and black saysav that's the big confrontation I would expect Joseph to unleash his sword and they you know they they battle it out and maybe Yosef should be the one who knocks off asap's head and it goes rolling to Mars if you want to join us Tuesday to see Uncle asov because we still have spot on the bus foreign [Music] why is that so essential so friends fasten your seatbelt these parachutes are literally the central battle throughout history between Jacob and again say stuff asaph would honor his father with special begottam so now let me tell you an interpretation of apostle you may not never have heard it this way but this is also a legitimate interpretation the Israel Ohio himself special to goddamn because he knew he needed to destroy as of and if you're going to destroy Ace of you have to stand up measure for measure to ASAP so he needed to make himself a special suit to honor his father to be able to destroy as of says the shaved mussar the only thing is you know Ace of really specialized in kibirov does anybody know why Ace of sold the bachel he said I'm gonna die because why did ASAP think he's gonna die says thought he would die because Ace of risked his life daily for his father to go hunting to make he went into the forest into the jungles and he endangered his life not because he loved hunting because he excelled and keep it up and mysterious so ASAP said I'm gonna die anyway through keep it out of aim what do I need for do me a favor can you get me some meat today I'm gonna die what word does ace of use I'm ready where have we seen that word before ASA was about to perform an act that would have destroyed the Al Qaeda he would be my sir nephes to serve his father there's a safer somebody brought Mike to my attention it's called nephesh David tevel a student of the village a student of a student at a guide he says what was the greatest that avraham was willing to shut the that's not a big deal at all God came to him he said avraham you know me remember me from so I just want you to go and check your son so what's happening supposed to do no God told him there's no choice foreign God told you could you do you have that on tape you have a video of that we're you have recording you look said if the Tata says then I'm going says I don't see a sheep and yaakov said well if it's not the Sheep then God wants me to shut you yes says look over there a distraction and he should have ran away foreign Brothers hated him one day Yakov comes to Joseph and he says go check on your loving caring in that dangerous neighborhood on your own without any security you want to go do me a favor and what word does your safe say hinene I'm gonna one-up asaph a had his favorite his sign is passed him what was your safe wearing when he went to check on the welfare of his brothers he was wearing the sinus pass him measure for measure the central battle throughout history seems to be the Mitzvah of aim on the other hand we find an exact opposite situation we have Esther hamalka who's selected to be the Redeemer of the Jewish people and the Apostle says she has no father she has no mother and the murderer says God swears that the Redeemer I'm going to set up for you must be someone who has no father and no mother why listen to this because since there's no way really to stand up to that there's only one way to match a sovereign you ready for this there's a great principle if someone can't do a mitzvah and wishes they could do the Mitzvah but circumstances prevent them from fulfilling the mitzvah there's a great principle called mitzvah venenas somebody thinks and extenuating circumstances prevent them Hashem considers it as if they did the mitzvah now when Hashem will grant you the Mitzvah you wished you could perform what kind of midst of do you think Hashem is going to give you a low-class Mitzvah a low-grade Mitzvah God's Gonna Give You a Mitzvah that he considers the most perfect mitzvah so the only one who could stand up to a Haman who's bolstered by the keyboard of aim of asav is someone who has even greater keep it of aim and that's someone who never saw their father never saw their mother wished yearned pined to have the opportunity to be mikaim that mitzvah and then God reckons it as if they fulfilled the Mitzvah and that Divine gift of amitsua is the only thing that could overcome the great keep it of ASAP so actually it comes out that whatever circumstance a person is in life it's a very great opportunity if someone is blessed to have parents to have grandparents and they could actually fulfill the Mitzvah in our times you should know it's this that you have to get us to the finish line and if you don't have the opportunity and you're limited by circumstance and you wish you could be Makai limits in a way that's even greater than being makaiman that's going to get us to the finish line sometimes it's the Esther who can't do it sometimes it's the ice safe that could do it and each type of has its own special Mala and it's a separate Shear unto itself that we'll be having at one o'clock when this one is over no just joking goes up against theyself how will your safe overcome asab foreign there are a few little things that you could find fault in Ace of number one Ace of only honors his parents when they're alive is dead Ace of throws him out the window in fact Ace of the saying I'm waiting till for Dad to die so I could kill yaakov but you're safe after yaakov died he was so kind to the brothers because he was a but there's one major area of fault in the keeper of asav and that is as much as Ace of honored his father but he didn't honor his mother actually Ace of hated Rifka when rivka died ASAP didn't go to the lavalia the ramban says ramban writes why doesn't the Torah tell us about the death of rivka not to embarrass her because why didn't asaph go foreign but he was lousy and keep it aim and therefore in the one encounter between Josef and asav you want to see what kind of knockout punch yoi safe delivers to asav doesn't have to say one word to ASAP and the one encounter in the tire that we find between Joseph and ASAP you're always safe without saying a word stands on his tippy toes and say you gum of the Earth you might be great and keep it up but look at the care and concern I have for my mother I don't even want you to lay your dirty eyes on her and in that one moment asav is destroyed by the fire of your nothing about what Josef said but how Yosef demonstrated that it's the concern that he had for his mother that will destroy Asa where did Joseph learn this from you ready for a tysis I bet you never heard this why was yaakov holding on to the heel of asab says tices he was so righteous that he said my mother is about to have twins she's gonna have to open up her womb twice it's going to cause extra Tsar let me hang on to Ace of's heel so that Mom only has to open up once once to protect my mother from any excessive son what's the name of Jacob what's the essence of yaakov what's the definition of yaakov [Music] that's not only a great act in the life of yaakov that is the act that defines yaakov and the Jewish people that became the very essence of who Israel was and therefore when yasef was born what is your saves name I will cover over the shame of my mother that's the name of Jacob that's the essence of these are not just random names they Define their entire essence an incredible idea all the mitzos in the Torah are very beloved they're all very important we observe all of them but in a certain sense there's one Mitzvah that is the most powerful of all the mitzvahs you see there was a man by the name of Adam Arisha and God put him in the Garden of Eden and God said eat all the fruits pears plums apples tangerines other made from eight sadas he downgraded the whole world he destroyed the whole world all the the whole universe and all creation was downgraded Not only was creation downgraded man's life cycle was shortened now everybody has to worry about Sarah sargido Bunnings Misa says even the even the Torah was downgraded even the midsifice were downgraded even the Torah so to speak is not in the same pristine form it was before the hate there's only one Mitzvah that retains its primordial state of before the sin of other Mari shine and that's the midst of kibet of because didn't have a father and didn't have a mother and therefore he was not able to Sully the Mitzvah of Kevin there's one mid kadam Smith and if someone fulfills that mitzvah [Applause] you know what's going to smell like then and while ASAP was special in Cuba River come a come here my young man my young son ushima because you're gonna overcome asav by listening to my voice now you ready for this lumdus yaakov was trying to uproot this is whoever gets the bracha is considered Zara Yitzhak whoever doesn't get the bracha loses the status of Zara of stealing the bracha Ace of is no longer the Zara Yitzhak and all the honor he brought to you is now not even keep it up because youth looks not his father anymore that was if someone takes a nether I'm not going to get Hannah from Zara yet only the descendants of Jacob you can't get benefit from you could get from asaph because once ASAP has been rejected all of his service of his father is a nice kind act of said and is no longer even keyboard of and therefore Friday night we know as Shabbos approaches because what Shabbos is for the days of the week for the history of the world that's why in Kabbalah Shabbos we are yearning from a shiach we're asking to rebuild you shall I am because what Shabbos is for the weak you shall I am is for in place and therefore the minute of that Rizal to be Makari of the Rizal always was Friday night because that is what is Makai of the Gula because esav comes with the strength of Kiba AV and he always safe comes with the strength of keyboard aim as well and what everything I'm telling you is black and white and tube sukum in the end of last week's parasha Smith [Applause] the next is there you have it that's the difference between yaakov and ASAP and as the sashem Hashem should give us opportunities to deliver the final knockout punch I mean you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com