Parshas Vayishlach: Preserving Rebbe Meir and His Wife Bruria {& R' Akiva} For the Darkness of Galus

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com Network parashaslach we have a very amazing subject this morning relevant to Paris ayerslach and to our whole existence in the Galas the pasok is describing the encounter of yaakov avinu this long-awaited encounter yakovino is finally returning back to Earth to so after 22 years and he knows he has to face his arch enemy his brother was very frightened and he was distressed he divided the people that were with him via satsoin And The shipyas Have bakar and the cattle of hagamalim and the camels into two camps so yakub was very afraid and he was distressed and he divided the people into two camps says Rashi what was yaakov afraid of well she says he was afraid lest he be killed sir Loi and he was distressed if he were to kill others so Jacob avino was uh very afraid lest he have to lest he be killed by his brother and he was distressed lest he kill others this is a very difficult Rashi we understand that yako was afraid lest he be killed but what does it mean he was afraid if he have to kill others who exactly are these others presumably the others are Ace of harassa and but the question is so just say asav why is Rashi couching the the name of Asaf as others as akhiram Rashid should say as the goraria why is Asap being referred to as he should be called his actual name that's question number one question number two is the question of the Mizrahi and uh the mizrachi says that Shema Yara says he was afraid maybe he would kill kelesa V cataleno other than his father would curse him but just to say that he was afraid he was going to kill asov why would he be afraid he would be killing isaf so what we know that ASA was coming out ASA was coming to kill him and the Torah tells us like we learned out from someone who's that if someone is coming to kill you then you gotta save your skin you gotta save your own life foreign so really there are two questions on this Rashi question number one is why is Rashi referring to asaph as akhiram and number two so what if he would kill ASAP why is he worried he would have to kill Aesop but Aesop's coming to kill him so he would be he would be required to collaceov these are the two questions on Rashi so there are a number of approaches over here we'll start with the approach of short-lab discon there there was a prophecy that both Jacob and esove would die on the same day like rivka yumenu says until your brother's wrath we is uh restored is is removed from you and and um he forgets what you did to him and I'll send to you and I'll take you from there why should I be be bereft of both of you on one day and Rashi says what was Rifkin menu saying so Rifka says because you know how she knew that they would both die in one day in other words because he's going to try to kill you you'll kill him and his kids will kill you in other words rifkanu that if either one of them were to kill the other so the children of the deceased of the murdered will take revenge says there was a spirit of divine um the Divine Spirit was uh thrown into her in other words she was speaking prophecy Nissan she prophesied that they would both die in one day foreign in other words there was a certain prophecy that rifkanu the yakovanisha would both die in the same day therefore says to be sure laid this skin when Rashi says that yaakov was fried unless he have to kill asav what's wrong with killing Ace of Asos coming to kill him so remember distance as well because yaakovino knew the prophecy of his mother namely that they would both die on the same day so so yaakovino knew that if he were to kill asaph then on that very day he himself will die so lest he be killed Sarah if he were to have to kill asov and then he knew that would end up bringing back his own demise that's how a visual labe diskin understands Rashi ETS that would mean his own demise you could ask honorable then it comes out that it's all the same thing he was he wasn't really worried he would have to kill asaph he was worried that he would die on the day that he killed Asaf and therefore I'd like to share with you another incredible shot now this sounds somewhat like a drush but this drush is so widespread it's found in so many Classics forum this um and the range and the gamut of sarum that this idea is found in really spans the entire spectrum of Safra Israel it's found in the safer penina mikara which is basically a collection of very sharp divetaira it's found in the safer Paradise which is a collection of like uh polisha uh the very Tyra and then it's in the safer Miana sheltera Diana shelter is like the classic collection of the return of Alexander zizka Alexander zusha Friedman who's actually a harusa of my altazeda in soccer and it's in the modern which is a safer of lamdus and he says this is a widespread in the bate hamedrish he says and this is also quoted by the um closenberger River in the sephiscum where he says that the world um isarshim s dvarov shalyakov so in other words this is a very classic shot and it's based on a gemaran githan tells us that the Romans sent the Caesar neron Caesar to destroy the base of miktash so he wanted to see whether ominously his uh his Siege would be successful so he sends an arrow to the right it lands toward Jerusalem it's he sends an arrow to the left it it lands toward uh Jerusalem he's in every direction he sends his arrows it lands toward Jerusalem and he figures okay he'll be successful so he meets he meets a child and he asks the child um he asked the child uh what do you think um what do you think God says about my Siege so the child quoted him the following Israel basically the child told him that God will take avenge against him so the Nero caser said God wants me to do his dirty work then he's going to wipe his hands with me by the way this Kamara boyade bahugavra is quoted by Rashi in this week's parasha to demonstrate the meaning of the words okay be it as it may very interestingly so the gemara tells us what a Nero Kazar do the gemara says araki fled the azal and he left the agaya and he converted mayor and ramayr came out of him so this gumar is telling us that rev mayor was not a descendant of shaved rubain was not of the seventh of shivit Yehuda he was not a koihen he was not a levy no rev mayor was a descendant of edoim it's an amazing thing by the way um I'll share with you a very interesting idea from the Alvar benel the barbarinoivadya comments on the gemaran Sanhedrin the mountain number 36 over here says on the prophecy of ivania Hashem is the one to testify about the downfall of adjoin of of edoim so tomorrow says who grew up among tourism and he did not learn from their bad ways testify about Asaf who grew up among uh to tsadiq him and he didn't learn from their good ways says gamara Omar ephraimide ephraimaksha student Ramirez said in the name of a mayor oivago was a Guerra doimi and therefore since he was Agera do I mean he's the one who testified about the downfall of edoim this illustrates the concept narga so the barbarino points out it's not a coincidence that rev mayor was the one who highlighted how did with mayor Noah vide was a girl doing me because Romeo is from edoim Who would know about the history of edoim better than ramayr as the gemara and giten says that we just learned they're a mayor descended from Nero Kazar okay so so far we learned that Romero is a descendant of asaph so we are descendants of yaakovir is a descendant of asaph fine let's get a gamar in hurry ice you'd give them in base tomorrow tells us the story because walk into the room they would stand up when when Romero would walk in the room they would stand up when ravnasin would walk into the room they would stand up and gamlio said what kind of ridiculous practice is this there's no difference between the Nazi and the and the abbasden you can't have a rabbi an assistant Rabbi an associate Rabbi that's a recipe for disaster we can't have every we can't have all the rabbanim treated the same and therefore made a takana on the day Ramirez nothing weren't around and the takana was basically you stand up for me you don't stand up for them remember ramayan ramnathan didn't like that so they wanted a sort of put roshingamli on his place and they knew that was not an expert in uksen so they figured that tomorrow he'll come into the base matters we'll ask him to give a share he'll say on what topic we'll say oxen he'll show he doesn't really know the subject and we'll depose him meanwhile reviakov benkarshi overhears the whole plot and he says this is going to lead to embarrassment so that night Vivian benkarshi is sort of learning on the top of his lungs and oxen and using them over here as he figures I better pay attention in the morning uh news they'll give her give sheer he says on what they say oxen he starts giving shiran oxen like nobody's business and um and he said look I figured out your plat I know what you're trying to do you guys are out of here from now on you can't be in the basement anymore and the gemara says an incredible thing that rev May that nicknamed named rev mayor and ravnas in a special name ravnasan is called mayor is called so whenever you see in a mission or no braisa Reb mayor that was the takana of Roshan gam Leo that from now on rev mayor is called say the penina mukaram says the parades following me and I hear nothing says the closenberger Reba the deeper meaning of Rashi is he was afraid lest he be killed he was distressed that if he would kill asav then there wouldn't be remayer so what does akhiram have to do with it that is the name of ramayr a mayor is called ahiram that's kavanoso Rashi Shema Yara he was afraid if he would kill Asaf then there would never be a Tana rev mayor now this as we mentioned this the vartira is so widespread is so common give me one second that everybody says it it's this is like the most well-known drush and shot in this Rashi shama Yara sahiram is referring to the great Tana ramayr which I'm sure you know is one of my favorite subjects but ain't based hamadresh and we want to um investigate Marvel why dafka at this interval in time was yaakovino worried about the preserving the Tana rev mayor I mean rev mayor is a great Hannah and yakovino certainly at any time in his life could have made sure to preserve this great Tana but why specifically now at this juncture is jakov avino so worried about Romero by the way just in terms of the subject why is Romero that Ramirez called ahiram the monkacha brings in a safer different Torah that it says in Michigan if somebody is worried he should tell it to others literally it means if you have something on your chest don't keep it on your chest talk it out speak it out and to the idea that if someone is in trouble their misspellish if someone is worried okay my brother both sides we'd like to offer um a very important approach which will really open up new vistas of understanding of parashas vayishlach in general we're all familiar that remayers shita his well-known cheetah his famous cheetah that we've discussed many many times is Rev mayor holds as we learn in kadushan daflamev that regardless of how we conduct ourselves regardless of how we behave we are always considered the children of Haka de Sparkle the gamara conditions says when we act like children we are children I like to say that would be a very convenient Arrangement if we could have with our own children for example you take your kids to the store my kids of course always behave under all circumstances and it's very even hard for me to relate to the idea of children not behaving but they tell me there are some people that sometimes their kids act up so wouldn't it be convenient to say if somebody says who are these kids you could say actually I don't know who they are I uh I rented them for the day I'm I'm hired I'm their babysitter for the day but I actually don't know where I got them from you know that would be very convenient and when they're let's say if you catch them on a good day when they're behaving then you say well these are my these are my kids that is what Rabbi Huda says our relationship is with God that when we're good boys when we're good kinderlach we're his children when we're bad then we're not as children we are always considered the children of Hashem and mayor Marshall's Forbes silken to support his view he quotes the Posse and we've discussed in the past and we have a humble safer on the subject that there are a number of reasons why even though we never passed in Agra mayor in this we pass can like him one reason the Roswell writes in the number of chuvasadi dalid and race van base is because mayor Marshalls took him to support him and therefore we pass anagram says we passing like we're mayor because usually remayer is quoted as the tanakama here he's quoted as the latter Tana others say the MS liaakov says we possibly like Ramirez because the reason we don't pass galaikum mayor usually is because the rabbis didn't really understand what he was talking about but since this is relevant to our relationship with Hashem therefore certainly God is and therefore we pass again like Ramirez there are a number of reasons why we pass in like a mayor in this and if you look in our humble safer in Paris Bays which is Page you gimmel we offer a number of to amim of why we poskin Liker of Mayor in this particular case today I would like to discuss the following subject namely rev mayor seems to contradict himself in a number of places in Shas where there are a number of gemaras that seem to indicate that rev mayor did not subscribe to the opinion that Bangkok Bank for example let's take a look in the gamaran avoidazara andaf Zion the gemara says this number 33 on the sheet by the way if you're on the zoom then you could access the sheets it's on the screen if you're if you're uh not on the zoom or even if you are and you want to see the actual Mario mccormos rub your straw maskowitz um has them swell is uh the uh Royce of the aggregate of queens and I'm sure he'll be happy to send it to you uh also if you go to our site Rabbi dg.com you could access the mara McCoy mice where you could also um log on to the zoom okay but the gamara says not available and rev mayor is of the opinion that their chuva will never be accepted as opposed to ravihuda who holds under certain circumstances their chuvas accepted but remayer is the most strict of all the tanoim where mayor holds there are certain Petty crimes for which the offender can never ever do chuva does that sound consistent with hashita that bank that God always loves us and we're never too far gone and Hashem always considers us his beloved children why would a mayor that would not seem to be consistent with Ramirez General view that um is very harsh on those who on those who are gaslan and romeroes they are not able to do chuba so that is a question that a number of that Ramirez is not consistent with his uh General shita um this is raised in a Torah Journal called call Torah number 25 on your sheets this is also um raised by Ramon surreal in number 24. they're a mayor is not consistent with Ishita let me show you another gemara that which seems to indicate that a mayor was very tough on Sinners this is a famous gamara brother you're number 22 on the sheet the gemara tells us that there were bandits in the neighborhood of ramire and they annoyed him they played very loud music doesn't say they plow they played um Gentile music it could have they were playing Jewish music but loud Jewish music is just as infuriating as uh as other cultures it's it's no better but anyway that's for this different discussion but there were the bandits they were annoying around mayor sir mayor prayed that they should die you know you don't want to get in a fight with them he didn't want to be on bad terms with them so he just dabbing that they should die said Hashem please kill them and by the way if his filos would have been accepted that would effectively and did any aggravation he would have received because as it is well known people who are dead can play loud music so that's what Romero did he Daven that they should die and Breya his wife was a tough lady the gamara tells us that broya once saw a student who was learning in his mind without saying the words she kicked him so she said you're going to forget your learning you can only remember learning if you say the words Sabria was not a pushover and she tells her mayor what do you hold it says does it say Sinners it says sin sin the end of the Apostle once there's no more sin they won't be any more wicked so Ramirez says what should i dub in she said domination foreign now but but mayor at first his approach was you have a sinner God kill them what do you mean kill them but they're they're tired of Mayor say that even if somebody who is even if somebody is foolish even someone who doesn't have any amuna he's called a child of Hashem not only is he called the child of Hashem he's called a good Noble admirable beloved child of akadesho so how is that consistent with the Romeo and avoidazara that people commit petty crime can never do chuva how is that consistent with Ramirez that he doesn't should die that's a good question in other words okay we know Rabbi gladstein we've heard this share before about red mayor and akhiram yeah but I have some new information for you because we're at Mayors Bank he is not consistent with that cheetah throughout chess so let's offer two possibilities you know mayor Holtz were always the children of Hashem and in fact in others he says foreign now says that although all of men are beloved that they are created in the image of God only claw Israel are enjoy the distinction that we're the children of Hashem so I was just in England last week and I learned a lot of very important things when I was in England for example when you come out of the airport you meet your host in a car park not in a parking lot there's no such thing as a parking lot you meet them in a car park and then you take your suitcase and they put it in the boot not in the trunk they put it in the boot but I want to teach you one of my favorite English phrases and it goes as follows you ever hear people say oh mankind we're all the children of Hashem so I have a new expression to teach you it's a bunch of rubbish it's not true we are not all the children of Hashem only Cloud Israel are considered the children of Hashem that's what it says in perkiavais all of mankind are created but Solomon like him only Claudius Royal that friends is the statement of Robbie Mayer but here's the question but I remember in parque Iowa someone else made that statement Ravi Akiva look at number 19. so I have a question for you why Imperial Voice who is it let's make up our mind who's the Bala memra is there a mayor or is Arabia Akiva so the Binion says Maybe Akiva said it and who is a student of the Akiva rev mayor was the student of rabi Akiva so mayor learned it from him and her mayor gave it over and obviously it's not astira ramayr was a student of rebecciva okay so then it comes out that rev mayor did not naturally say I'm like he learned it from his Rabbi comes the safer davash to say foreign that we are not always the children of Hashem and if we sin we're his avadim and perhaps we can lose our Eternal connection to the Republic we're not always considered but that's before he was macabil from his rebi Rabbi Akiva khabibin Israel that people commit Petty crimes can't do chuva that's before he was macabo from rabikiva the gemara in broccoli is before but once he was macabo from abiakiva foreign so he changed his view he changed his uh world view and he holds we are always considered the children of Hashem there's another way to answer up the stira and Shas between the various opinions of uh and this is a humble suggestion that I later found in the safer nachlas davash and that is Rev mayor originally started off that if you're a sinner then the rabbi shadaban you should die because you've forfeited your connection to ibanishan because you're only considered a child of Hashem when you do but you know who influenced him that this is not the correct attitude not his Rabbi rabi Akiva a different rebby of his her name was Robinson Brewery influenster mayor in other words it's not that rev mayor changed his shita because of his Red Rabbit keeper amerita because the Brewer and it's mavour and brachois at first Ramer DAV in the Russian gave it to him he said why it says hell that we cannot accept the chuva of petty crime those commit petty crime that's before Brewer taught him the real mahalak but once boria came along Rob Mayer changed his world view and Romero held bangkoko bangkokia is responsible for shita so mayor so either he got it from ABIA Kiva or he got it from Breya now we're ready for a more full understanding of Paris because the ramban teaches us in a few places on the parasha the ramban says in the opening of this week's parisha the parisheslaq was taught look at number 16 to teach me three lessons number one that God saved his servant yaakovino and redeemed him from someone more Mighty than him and Satan sent an angel to save him number two it's to teach us that yakovino did not trust in his righteousness and he made Regular his status and efforts be it through Warfare beard through to try to save himself and third of all this parisha was written as a portend for future Generations that whatever happened to yakovina with asav is the Paradigm and the pre-enactment of our interactions with the descendants of Asaf namely with Rome and that is why the ramban says later on in the parasha that when the Great tanoam ever had a deal with the Roman government they would always study parashaslach to learn out the proper course of action in their interactions with the Roman Empire and the ramban says in paraglama that there is a tradition from the sages that parisheslach is the Parsha of golos the partial exile and yaakov avinu is dealing with asav is the Paradigm and pre-enactment of how a Jew conducts himself in the golos and interacts with Ace of and interacts with Rome and that is why rabbianai before he would go to the courts in Rome he would always study parishes by islach and remind himself never to allow any Romans to accompany him like yaakov avinu and ASAP said you know what I'll I'll go ahead to Sayer and I'll leave you some of my men and you'll travel with them until you catch up with me and Jacob said no no you guys you all go ahead and I'll catch up with you later please don't send anyone with me by the way the story goes the Panama was once on a train and he sees some hoodlums they were eyeing him they looked like they're up to no good and they looked like they were going to get off at his stop and cause him some trouble so the train arrives at the stop and the doors open and the pun of acharov was a very shrewd man and he sees these hoodlums they're about to follow him so he turns to them he says after me friends and these hoodlums get off and a part of itself jumps back into the train and he goes to the next stop and they asked him you know Rob where do you learn this Asa from he said I learned it from Jacob avino ASAP said I'll send some guys with me with you and Jacob said no thanks you guys go ahead catch up with you later so anyway one time the ramban says ravia and I forgot to study parisheslach and he took some Romans to accompany him and sure enough they try to extort His Garment from him and he had to sell his coat of golos so whatever happens is the Parsha of the Exile the Jewish people and the gra adds further not just the Exile but the very end of Exile powershella is called as we know wrote a whole word called and a lot of it is based on parishaslach and he even says that the manner in which dealt with Asaf is the Paradigm of the way things will be in the end of days and the fact that first yaakov position the schwachres followed by their children followed by Leia villadeha followed by Rachelle and yoi safe that is a portan to the end of days where the leaders of the Jewish people will be the air of RAV followed by the hamoinam followed by the tamide Once Upon a Time the Torah Scholars led the Jewish people it's the air of RAV that leaves the Jewish people and then the regular people look what does the air of RAV want and then they tell the rabbis what they should say not easy being a rabbi because they don't have any say the air of Wrath leads the people where do we learn this from from the fact that when Jaco avino encountered Asaf first came the schwachre then came then so basically is the Parsha of golus but not the Parish of Galas parishasach has 2021. the very end of Galas the heel of Galas by the way ramosa Shapiro once commented on this terminology the heel of meshiach see on the one hand the heel is the thickest part of the body it's the most coarse part of the body it's the most rough and insensitive part of the body and the heel needs to be that way because the heel is stepping on the ground sometimes it's cold sometimes it's hot sometimes it's Rocky sometimes there's glass the heel is very insensitive and callous and jaded and that's the way we are in the end of days it's very hard to inspire someone it's very hard to move someone we're callous we're jaded and we have to be we've suffered so much we don't have an alternative but in a certain sense the bottom of the foot is also the most sensitive part of the body that even though it's calloused but there's that little spot that you could give a little tickle to and it's almost the most sensitive part of the body so too in our generation even though we're calloused and even though we're thick and even though we're jaded but that we we all have that little spot and in a certain sense we are able to be moved perhaps more than any other generation in history so that's just a very keen and important observation be it as it may I think this sheds a lot of light on why yaakov avina was so concerned to preserve the Tanner of Mayor because we've learned in the past from rabiaco Shelton then the end of days when God wants to bring the mashiach he's gonna he's gonna dispatch mashiach but the nations of the world are going to say you can't send mashiach for the Jews they're not better than us they're not that more righteous than us they're not more deserving of us and God is going to have a very difficult time arguing with the nations of the world because they got a point are we really better and the only winning argument says of why the Republican could actually bring mashiach at the end of the Galas is because we pass in like with mayor Bangkok Bank and the reason why Hashem will redeem us is not really because we're deserving or because we're worthy but because we are his children and therefore yaakov avinu in Paris he's living through what is known as there is one individual who more than anyone else must be preserved for these end of days and that is very afraid and he was distressed he was afraid lest he be killed but he was even more distressed kills as of there won't be a remayer and without a mayor we don't have a chance for gaula as the Ben yo Yoda writes there's only one individual who's buried standing rev mayor because his shita stands up for the Jewish people until the end of time and that is why it is specifically at this juncture of time the yakovina was so concerned Shema yaharaj he needs to preserve shita mayor for the end of days so you'll say but wait a second but it's not really shoots us to a mayor because ramayr originally held that we're not the children of Hashem and that people who commit Petty crimes they can never do chuva and that you should Dive In For The Wicked to die it wasn't really his idea he was influenced by someone so who is he influenced by he was influenced by his wife bruria oh guess who yakovino after he says now goes to rescue watch this who's broya the camera says the daughter of ramayr excuse me Bria was the wife of Romeo Bartender the daughter of Robert o Nissan says brorio is the daughter of rabbi khanina the wife of Ramirez and watch this in parishesla jakovino comes to the city of and they make a deal because he's interested in Dina so they make a deal they say no I know is the earth behold it is of wide hands before you what does that mean what does it mean the Earth has wide hands says and he brings that the nashama was in the Clipper of and through this kayak he took Dina the daughter of Jacob and that's why he was killed that's right was killed to be purified bottom line is the archaima kadash also says likewise sometimes when a holy nashama connects to a kayak of Tomah he's able to extract a soul and that is what happened through Dina basiako if she drew the nashama of ravihanina benchradion the remnants is so friends yaakov avinu is not only concerned and therefore he has to preserve the holy Tana rev mayor but more than that jacobinu knows that it's not rev mayor per se that he has to preserve it's the bank and therefore to orchestrate and arrange that not only would re mayor be preserved but Romero's wife who's really the author and the BAL hamemra of this shita is preserved in the aftermath of yaakovino's encounter with Asaf harassa we could perhaps add one idea I want to tell you that we put in a footnote in our humble safer on page Sadi and that is an astounding idea of ramsham we mentioned before another possibility that you know where ramirezita from Bangkok Bank he got it from his that's why Akiva is adopted it from rabi Akiva by the way rabbavatio safrites another reason why we passed in like Ramirez even though we never pass like we're mayor is because Rabbi Akiva holds bank and by the way you know how we know Ravi Akiva holds that says that when tornus Rufus says that when aju gives sadaka it's really in a it's an illegal act because God decreed that this person shouldn't have money so if a king decrees that someone shouldn't have money and someone that comes and supports the the criminal the king will be very upset with them Rebecca says no bad analogy we are not hashem's where hashem's and therefore even though Our Father decreed we shouldn't have food but if somebody secretly feeds the kid the father will be very pleased says rabbavatya from here we see rabi akiva's of the opinion and therefore shita as well Bangkok Mega and therefore even though we don't normally pass something like a mayor but we always pass in like ravia Kiva therefore we're going to suggest as follows yaakov avinu knows we need to preserve shitas but where did Romeo get it from Romero got it from his ribby Rabia Kiva and that is why impartial not only does yaakov rescue Rabbi hanina Ben the father of Buria yaakovino rescues Rabbi Akiva foreign was a nitsuts of shechem Ben hamar the remuses when Ravi Akiva says more now obviously these are dwarmouth who could have ever imagined any connection between hamar but says in fact the parshps the end of days the final takufa before the when it says that more than anything else we need to be soy Mech on the shita of ramayr and rabi Akiva Bangkok therefore yaakovino is afraid rescues Aviv shaburia the author of Bangkok and therefore yagavino make sure to free the soul of rabi Akiva who is released from none other than hamar and therefore as yaakovino is marching toward asav and he sees vallarez Ace of means he's seasoned to the Farah future the state of the Jewish people in the end of days jacovino understands what he has to do he has to ensure that no matter what we do in the end of days we will always be connected that we are able to solidify our relationship thank you everybody for joining us uh this afternoon hope to see everyone on next Monday at 11 40. if anybody wants to join every um Monday Tuesday and Wednesday now at 5 30 p.m on the same Zoom we learned for 10 minutes 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