Parshas Vayishlach: Yisrael's Eternal Battle with Esav with Rabbi Jay Yaacov Schwartz

[Music] all right welcome everyone this week is Paras it's a very very significant paraa in the sense that as uh was told that whenever one a representative of the Jewish people or leader of the Jewish people was asked to confront the Western World the Christian World known other otherwise as Edom in our rinic lit lure going back a thousand years that they first review this week's para and this advice was even given to manim Bean when he made his way to Camp David as we know didn't have the greatest result there uh but it did um it is a is a guideline of how to deal with what we call today the Western World so there's a lot of lessons there but first I want to comment on the fall of Damascus the fall of Damascus and its significance what really is the significance from our perspective of the events of these last really several days um in which we see the sudden and dramatic collapse of the Syrian regime which had lasted over a half a century and suddenly disintegrated let's understand that this Syrian regime has been in battle in a civil war for since I think 20 2011 which represented the following conflict the Syrian dictator um Bashir Assad I think that was the name he's an alawite he's a different kind of Muslim he's a minority Muslim most Muslims are either siia Sunni or Shia if you want to know really in depth from our perspective the real yesim that we speak about are Arabs meaning Islamic Arabs who follow Islam there's many many billions of people who follow Islam today but not all of them other words are are Arab there's very few countries that have the identity as Arab which would which would qualify them in our understanding as the contemporary B is and it even has AIC application because as we Pas in if you want look and say for you can verify this that the children ofur who are who is Hagar if they can be identified as ethnically uh biologically uh pure zoto they can trace their roots to AAR and uh the the wife of arrau are obligated to do bris MAA on the eighth day of their life and the Hala is since that the the isim the general Arab population absorbed what we would call the benur the the um Arab let's say even Islamic if you want to call them that but biblically hereditarily connected to aam and Hagar and since they're all mixed up today the is within that all Arabs all B Ismael from the I call it from the Arab um hybrid ethnicity the Arab ethnicity what does that mean Egypt Syria Syria when it was founded after World War II was known as the Syrian Arab Republic I think it still might be I think they want to call it that now again but there Arabs Jordan Arab Saudi Arabia Arab some of the uh you know that the Arabian Peninsula Arab as opposed to when you go further north and you meet Turks and Asis and Persians and all circassians and all sorts of other ethnicities that are not Arabs in fact I saw that the sis who are pure Arab and usually the pure Arabs are sunnis that's a sect of Islam which is much much more monotheistic than shiism is which is what what Iran is which is what is both of them that they are akin to a hybrid between a little bit ofar and Islam what do I mean by that the sunnis will not allow any representation any Idol any um shrine at all at all because in their monotheism is pure would and in that sense they're far closer only in that sense they're far closer to yahadus than the Shiites are who believe in all sorts of shrines and and and uh quote unquote uh Saints of some kind and if you not if you remember several years ago when and Isis who are sunnis overran Iraq Etc they were destroying Shia shrines as they went along because these people are are are sunnis they don't tolerate any any uh forms Idols statues because this smacks of more of Christianity and idolatry so right now it is the more ideologically closer to us sunnis although our mortal enemies as is is always our mortal enemies I explained in previous weeks because of their contest against us for dominance in AR Israel but once they give up that quest for dominance then there can be peace and it seems what's happening now is an extraordinary thing that these sunnis have Allied themselves against the alawite Bashar assads which is a minority and the Shiite minority which is based back backed by hisbah which is Shiite and Iran which is Shiite so this is the battle that has gone on for Syria in the last just really since the uh quote unquote ceasefire agreement what's happened is is that the sunnis have come back and they've taken Syria and especially Damascus what we call DC from the hand hands of the Shiite which is which is essentially Iran andb why do I bring this to your attention other than to bring you uh history because of its significance from a Torah perspective now what this really means is in theory that the real Arabs are have re retaken Syria it is now truly a Syrian Arab Republic as opposed to a Syrian half Iranian half other mixtures which bull onto the Shiite umbrella so that is significant if the following will take place and that is if that population will make peace with Israel by accepting the fact that Israel has dominion over the land of Israel and they do not seek to conquer ER Israel from us then what we have in place is a potential peace agreement which will the which could by the way last and not only that it will mirror what has happened with Egypt and Jordan and soon Saudi Arabia and the other countries the Emirates by who who would say Israel can be Israel put the Palestinian question aside that's the only that's the only uh problem but as long as we let Israel be Israel then there is peace and there is more than peace I saw somebody shared a clip with me just this morning that if you scramble the the the letters of DC what Hebrew word would you get mikash and some Spar have claimed that when DC BS okay into how shall I say non opposition to Israel which you know for the most part it wasn't for the most part it wasn't I mean they didn't try to conquer Israel since 1973 that was a true attempt to conquer all of AR Israel but that was by the same Dynasty that was in charge until a day or two ago the Assad regime did try to conquer Israel had Israel as his main opposition and formed a moral threat I mean the stories of the 1973 yipper War are harrowing how miraculously a a handful of Tanks managed to stand up against Syrian forces and of course there's the story the famous story about Ellie Cohen the uh legendary Israeli spy who posed as an Arab businessman infiltrated and became I think was off for the job as as as um Secretary of Defense of Syria right before the sixth day war and he came up with the brilliant idea that he told them plant eucalyptus trees I think they're eucalyptus trees plant trees everywhere where you want to position troops so it'll be nice and Shady for them why should they roast in the Sun and Israel had that intelligence and therefore during the 70 67 War 67 War they were able to bomb every location where the soldiers were gathered because Ellie Cohen revealed to them that if you look for a tree that's where they and I think that even carried over to 1973 if I have my facts correct that it still wasn't discovered and Israel was able to defend just miraculous miraculous stories I'm G to take this so so what am I saying a contemporary significance of the fall of Damas Damascus to a non bashash alawi Shiite regime May signal and and if as Arab Muslims I.E Sunni Muslims want to keep on their side of the Heron right this could be a very very significant step towards not only peace there Isel Shalom but Yus because DC is an direct opposition to mikdash and if that opposition to mikdash is now um taken care of or alleviated to whatever extent we are now clearing a major major obstacle for the Bas of migdas to be rebuilt and now we see that put that in context with the calls from the new incoming government of America many of the advisers to Trump have actually called for the restoration of the base house M and I'm referring to Senator Tom Cotton who spoke about it this week um and also I think the embattled nominee for Secretary of Defense if I'm not mistaken Peter whatever his name is Seth SE I don't know how to pronounce his name but he's right now really really in battled because people are attacking him for being a a bad guy or an abuser abusive person towards his uh in his personal relationships with women and so on but other than that I mean he if this man survives and is confirmed that's another strong person personal voice in the idea that yeah there's no reason in the world that the B makea shouldn't be built because the primary opposition to the Bas M this remains Iran and what they call their Palestinian proxies okay Shia and Palestinians if the Shiites and Palestinians have taken a boo that means a good strength of the of the claims against Tarabas are now dissipating now don't get disturbed by what you hear in the United Nations United Nations of course is a desperate organization and they just declared that they to ironically right before the right before the fall of Syria they declared that Israel should surrender the Golan and specifically Haron back to Syria which they conquered in ' 67 so you know what what happened in reality was is that Israel Now controls all of the territory it ex when when Damascus fell Israel I think quite wisely it's last week last several days has retaken the other side the Syrian side of Mount Kon this is a very very significant development the land that they lost in the 73 war in other words they conquered the whole thing in ' 67 they they had to seed to concede some of that back to Syria in 73 which raised the risk of attack from there now they've gone back to the other side of the Syrian side of the permon and they now control it so someone was saying urat yma they showed a picture of the of singing that song this is again a positive progress towards a secure Israel and when they're secure Israel and less opposition the the the uh possibilities of the restoration of harabas go forward so in other words the Gula meter has just taken a few points in the right direction okay they it was well known that the Great sapharic cabalistic Master Mor of Moroccan descent neb there was a terrible tragedy in Morocco this week were four uh uh I believe went to Davin by the graves of the Holy abua Family in Morocco where I have personally been and traveled to and then they had a terrible car accident and four of the the all four of them perished and they're being brought to burial as far as I know today in erel and we should dedicate our learning very very interesting that there would be this horrible horrible uh crash of people coming back from the highest K sikim again these are kaparos people of the highest ilk and nature and like I spoke last week about the young man who fell from our neighborhood here in bees his name name is Amir Pinas Burke and I wanted to tell you that this past shabas since we last spoke since we last learned together uh the family sat Shiva here in bees and I was approached by our by the family who lives down the block from us if they could have a daving on chabas morning and chabas Min with our safer Torah here in our base medish which you see our B medish here on 104 haard we we D in 10 to two every shabas they said can we make a minion this chabas morning uh and of course I consented and we we comforted the family and my wife God bless her made a beautiful ksh in their honor and uh and time the father isai Burke was able to get nah and recite for zir and these extraordinary individuals that like zamir means to cut have been Shor from us so violently so dramatically um it is no doubt in my mind that they serve as carbonos on the benefit of all CL Israel and we must Comfort the families we must doin and we must do rededication to Torah Mitzvah in their honor do more and also to acknowledge that hasem with the sudden protesting every step of the way keeps moving the Gula meter forward do not underestimate the events of this week I'm going to go back a little bit all the way to the and then to MIM and Trace some of the significance of the city of DK and of that whole region which is known as Syria which of course is named after the ancient Kingdom of Ashu okay ashua uh is the Assyrian Kingdom that would be the ones who would destroy who eventually would destroy the 10 tribes the northern kingdoms which have been under such attack so let's go back to the very beginning to the origins of Syria the Syria the the Fallen country the first reference that we see in Kish to Ash comes from braus yud and it says that user separated himself from the evil company of nimrod Nimrod who came to defy Hashem and uh it says as follows that he was a Kush he was of course of African descent from the Ben as we've explained so he would became a his main kingdom was Iraq andad with the acadians come from kalab shinar Shar is going towards Iraq and Persia that's where he made his capital and you know that he threw arino into the fiery furnace in urum which is all the way in southern Iraq very close to Iran so that was his original Kingdom but there were some good people who did not want to deel uh rebel against Hashem and they would and they parted company with Nimrod even though he was organizing all the nations of the world in Rebellion against Hashem there was one group that left and that group was Asher as the PK says um meaning from Southern Iraq the area of B and aad and orim Y as asure is an individual person who is a descendant of Shem Ben Noah all right n and he builds the famous city of ninv now what do we know about the city of ninva we know that the city of ninva was the city that did Chua when approached by yahi why did they be Chua so some of the for explain that it was a city that was based on Chua in other words since they remove themselves from Nimrod who was a kofar and they listen to Shem listen to this med it's actually comes from the tahu Zuta on this P he says he was cognizant of Hashem he hadn't forgotten about Hashem okay was recited here and but he didn't oppose nimr he's stuck in his uh quiet opposition why that for all of his good intentions something very terrible would descend from him and that was s Mel Ash who himself and of course his uh his um representatives were they cursed God they turned they turned away from the tradition of Shem and even from the tradition of ashua and the City of ninv and they became Rogue they went rogue and and this fellow SV we know Was Defeated at where in miraculous fashion right the navi speaks about it and um and and this was part of the uh great mapola that they suffered but previously they had been more sikim and eventually the city of ninv would also turn against Israel and become the the source for the Exile of the 10 tribes so there was however a resistance to evil they weren't that strong in it as CLA Israel was and would be but they had a listening they were Ben Noah they were Ben Noah they were righteous Gentile there were some righteous Gentiles there right righteous Gentiles and these righteous Gentiles did not forly oppose the god of Israel and if the god of Israel came and told them to do chuva and they listened to the Jewish of yonah look what yonah did he was with a bunch of Gentiles on a boat right and when they threw him overboard what did they do they all made narim and the Doos they made pledges to to give carbonos in the name of the god of Israel so they represent those people in the world out there in the Gentile world who are they're they're willing to accept Hashem that's the type of people that we can actually work with Okay so way back to the times of Shem and Nimrod Asher emerges and as it says in the PK right there and then he builds another city called Ren and that's it so so um that's the history of ashure now as much as the history of ashure started out okay but ended up terribly similarly the idea that they were more aligned with ptim who are the Eternal along with amik eternal opponent opponents to malus and Israel so the Romans named that area Syria palestinia Palestina and we have the torus from them that this is the the the Romans active denial of Jerusalem as a Jewish entity which of course continues vehemently all the way back from the times of espian and Titus and hadrien and so on particularly Hadrian so and of course the church sadly by the way in my personal opinion notra Dame was rededicated today you know that notra Dame in in Paris was rededicated today believe with and um that was the very self-same place where the tud was burnt where the the first Crusades were launched causing Devastation to Torah to Amy Israel complete utter destruction it burned you know it burned five years ago and now suddenly it's restored and I just you know I just felt that it's not it's not something that the world should Rejoice certainly not even though all the world leaders were there which lends of curiosity including President elect Trump were all there because it does represent the Catholic World the ancient Catholic World from the times of cor B mdash and little the next Generations thereafter the early Roman Empire and those are our mortal opponents and if it strengthens that means opposition to Israel's strength and so on the one hand we saw Simon of d/ mikdash going over to hands that are more not looking necessarily to conquer Israel if you look at the quotes from these Rebels they said something very simple we see we cannot defeat Israel how do we see it because look what happened tobah and look what happened to Hamas who were convinced that they could destroy Israel we have learned our lesson even from Iran they cannot destroy Israel right therefore we're just going to concentrate on our area here called Syria Hali if that is the case then it's a remarkable remarkable victory that uh that we have seen and a big vanquishment of evil in our world and against and hatred for the Jewish people on the other hand we see the strengthening of of the notam which is the same idea as the Vatican they almost see France was was the second country to become Catholic in the world right in the even in the first century of of the um you know Mish around the time of the Bara Rebellion there were already Catholics there they're the number two after Italy so that's the core of the sinel in fact on its face there was a picture of of you know uh of a a woman whose eyes were blinded and kneeling on the floor and another figure towering over her that was the idea that Christianity had overtaken blind Judaism that did not wish to accept their uh their Distortion and their uh rapacious um Twisted concept of of being the continuation of okay so I think that's just a very very significant thing I think we should take on the one hand take encouragement that something is happening and things that fell into place are a sign of encouragement really we have to be greatly thankful to Hashem we have to notice these Miracles it's not just a random War these are significant developments P continue to give strength and victory in the proper way to to Israel to the supporters of Israel and to the Friends of is kodes uh and that is really um what I want to uh emphasize today in in the first part of our sheer okay so this is part one [Music] oh