The Mystery of Yaakov’s Dream - Rabbi Dovid Kaplan

Uh at the end of the previous para um Rifka tells Yakov to go running away because Asov's upset about Yakov stole the braha. She goes to Yitzuk and tells Yetszuk, I don't want Yakov marrying any of the women here. So Yitsuk tells Yakov he should go away in order to find a wife in Kuran. It's an interesting that it seems to be that Rifka is still trying to perpetrate a deception. In other words, if she tells Yakov run away because Asov wants to kill you and Asa finds out, Assets to tell Yakov to he should go get a wife. So Asov is going to well go get a wife and I'll come back. So I'll wait till he comes back to kill him. So it seems like that Yakov is running. He's running for his life to get away from Asov. But Asov isn't aware that that's why he's running. Asov thinks because Asov's plan to kill Yakov was not something he announced in public. That's only something Rifkanu from Ra Kakotes said he wants to kill Yakov. So Yakov is running for his life. As thinks he's running for a wife. And then he comes back. He's going to come back. But Yakov now is leaving. page 144 Jacob leaves he goes to he in the direction of now uh the say first of all Jacob uh number one he goes off to a place called uh where lov is living but the word in Hebrew means angeraf means means wrath or anger So the say he leaves anger dissipates. It alludes to as anger's his wrath dissipates because Jacob leaves. Sometimes when a person it says it by when he gets upset with Hmon it says what what does it mean that his face dropped the say they covered over his face they covered Hmon's face with a cloth when at the at the banquet when Esther says Hmon's the one trying to kill us and Akash goes goes ballistic so they cover Hmon's face because sometimes in life if you're upset with somebody. The best thing is that they get his face out of there. When you see that that your face is irritating me just seeing you get out of you I mean did your mother ever say to get out of my sight you know that sort of thing you want just seeing you is getting me upset. Get your enemy out of here. So Yakov leaves Asov calms down. That's what the it alludes to. But you got a much bigger question here because it says that Yakov is going to get 22 years. That Yakov is going to be away from his parents. And because he failed to honor his parents for 22 years, that's why Yoseph is going to leave YaKob for 22 years. Yseph is going to disappear for 22 years. He's sold by the brothers when he's 17. And the reunion only takes place when he's 39. And that's a punishment to Yakovino. you were away from your parents for 22 years. You should have come back sooner for whatever reason that YaKob's taken the task for. But you're going to get you're you're taking the task. Ah, Gabe wants to ask that. >> How is it exactly that he failed to honor? >> So that's a good question. According to K, he should have maybe come back because when you're away from home, you can't honor your parents. You're away from home. You were away for 22 years. You couldn't you took yourself out of the situation. So your your son is going to be way that's the punishment for Yakovino. Why exactly you're punished? He had to run for his life and so on and so forth. You should have figured out a way to to get back home earlier or whatever the case. Oh, the problem is that he wasn't away for 22 years. He was away for 36 years because on his way out he stopped in the base medish and he learned for 14 years in base med before you so they say tongue and cheek. He was hiding in the base medish because that's the last place Asov is going to go looking for somebody as a gonna go into the base medish. So he was hiding for for 14 years. Not only that, he didn't lie down in a bed for 14 years. Took aender nap. Ever see guys in the basement collapse on a like put their head down on aender? So the you ever seen that guys sleep on aender? I I I I know some guy I know I know guys that could do it for about my brother could sleep on a stander for about an hour and a half to put his head down, sleep an hour and a half. my my record on a shender I think once I got up to 20 minutes I could never I couldn't take a good extender nap. I'm good much better much better sleeping in a bed but some guys could go down on a shender and they could sleep like like like there's no tomorrow. So the uh the uh the the uh Yakov goes for 14 years yet those 14 years aren't held against him. Those 14 years in yeshiva he was on the 14-year program. Hold on questions for a few minutes at less. He was in the 14-year program. So Jacob goes for 14 years. On the way out, he stops off a detour for 14 years. Then he goes off. So the question is, you know, why is he allowed to do that? His mother sent go off, go get a wife, and he stops off, takes 14 years in the basement, and then he's and then he continues, and he's not held accountable for that. Why were you allowed to do that? A heck of allowed to do that. The answer is that if uh uh if you were going on a trip, if you told me, let's say you tell your parents uh you're going on a trip to trip to Africa. You're going on a trip to Africa. It would be understood that on your trip to Africa, what are you going to do before? My parents once made it took a vacation to Africa. What did they do before they went to Africa? A lot of them. All sorts of shots against malaria, halaria, you know, every name. You name it, they took a shot. Personally, anywhere I got to go where I got to take shots to go there, I'd rather not go. The only shots I'd like to take is on a basketball court. I'm not interested taking shots to go on vacation. That's not a vacation for me. Took a shot. I just got a flu shot the other day. That's a shot because I had to take it, not cuz I wanted to take it. I'm not interested in going somewhere. Oh, by the way, just in case you get malaria, we're going to give you a shot. That's not a vacation for me. So, but it's understood that if you're going to Africa, you're going to get shots before you go. Yako Aino is leaving to go off to live with love one. What does he need in order to survive with a loved one with these people? He needs an inoculation. He needs to get a booster before he goes. He needs a tetanus shot. So, what's his tetanus shot? To load up on Torah, 14 years of Torah. But even more than that, the numerical value of Torah is what? Of 14 is what? It's a yudalid spells what? >> Yad. Now turn back for a second, gentlemen. Turn back to for a second to the braha that Yitz gives Yakov on page 138. Um, sorry, sorry. page 136. 136 five lines on the bottom. So, six lines from the bottom. Jacob approaches and touches him. The voice is the voice of Jacob. The hands are the hands of of Asov. The Gmorrah says, "We learn from here when the voice of Torah of when we're learning Torah, Asov's hands are weak. When we neglect Torah study, Asov's hands become strong. So what does Yakov need to do? What is it he's worried about? He's worried about the Yad of Asov, the hand of Asov. So what does he do? He goes for 14 years of Torah learning, which is the numerical value of Yad to counteract the yad of Asov, the fist of Asov. Yakov, you like that, huh? The the the yad of Yakov is going to counteract the yacht of Asov. That's the That's the what do you call it? That's first of all. Now Jacob is running. Yakov goes, the sun is setting and he's out in the wilderness and I understand he's heading up towards what we call modern day Syria out running through the wilderness from Beva. Where is this mo that he happened to hit? Haramoreia, the temple mount. And the stones that he's taking according to the medish are stones that were used to build the altar when his father Yitzuk was sacrificed. And all they was running and hey, an altar, right? And these happened to be the stones that he took. And according to one opinion, he took 12 stones which obviously is a symbol of the tribes that Yakov is going to have. He puts the stones around his head. He lies down in that place. Now over here we got a problem. And let's take a look. You see, take a look at Rashi. Takes these stones and he puts them around his head. Um Rashi is um this the right column of Rashi three lines from the bottom. See that everybody see if you see it print of a person show the person next to you. He made them like a a wall around his head. rose. He was afraid of wild animals. So he made for protection. He put the stones around his head. Anybody bothered by that? >> What do you say? >> What about the rest of the body? >> Yeah. What about the rest of the body? Yeah. You know, you're out in the wilderness. You put stones around your head. I You're talking about leopards and hyenas. You know, leopards leopards are uh you know, they also like this. They don't just go for dark meat. They like white meat, too. You know, it's not like, "Oh, my head's Oh, darn it. His head's protected off. Forget it. Let's go, fellas. Let's go get Let's go get something else. You know, we'll go look somewhere else. You know, there's some good thigh meat over there. You know, what what what good is that going to do? You're putting stones around your head. What good's it going to do? By the way, the stones, what does the measures say? The stones all melted into one. The stones melted into one. They we took separate stones and they all kind of one opinion is that they were fighting with each other. Who's which one of us is it sad going to put his head on? So this the stones all became united. There's another opinion that they Hashem's presence was there. They just kind of dissolved from Hashem. They were in awe. They just kind of Yeah. They they melded into welded into one stone. Whatever the case is, what is putting stones around your head going to help you? What's it going to help you? >> Keep the dreams locked in. >> Not bad. Keeps the dreams locked in. He hasn't gotten to the dream yet, though. You know, don't want to let those dreams escape. You know, you know, got gota put put the pillow around your head tight so your dreams don't run away. No, no, no, no. What is it stones put around that? There are a couple of ideas. Idea number one is it's a rule in life. The fact of the matter is that effort in general doesn't help us. Our efforts don't help. We have to make effort because that's a decree. From the time that Adam sinned, God said, "You're going to eat bread by the sweat of your brow." Do you really think that you doing it has any help? God can't give it to you without you doing it. We have an obligation to make whatever effort we could make in all areas of life to maintain our well-being to make parnos. So, we have to make every effort. You're out in the wilderness and what listen what happens when a ground ball is coming at you? What's the first thing you do when a ground ball comes toward you? A hard grounder comes toward you. You know, so you go like this. You protect where do you put your hands? Right up by your face. You protect yourself in front of your something's be coming at you go like this, right? That's the first thing you do. The first thing you want to do is protect my head. If there when a person is in a situation, you look out, you put your head put your hands down over your head. You don't you don't go like this. You go like this. It's instinctive. Yakov, you got limited amount of stones. There is one med put around them completely, but you know, things could get over. It's a form of It's a form of a form of making an effort. I'll make as much effort as I can. let take care of the rest because anyway I'm in his hands but the fact that we're in his hands doesn't mean we can do nothing do as much as you could possibly do that was no and the ta remember we said the animals can't possibly fit in but no builds the tava do as much as humanly possible and let take care of the rest sometimes maybe the animals from a distance they see the stone so they don't see the body it's only if they get up close that they'll see the body or whatever the case is but it's a form a it's a form oftus He Jacob uh uh goes to sleep. Now let's put this in the proper perspective. Let's put this in the proper perspective. He was in yeshiva for 14 years and he didn't lay down and now he's on the run for his life and he stretches. He stretches himself. Now have you ever been pumped by adrenaline? You know when you're pumped up by adrenaline it's hard to sleep. You really got the adrenal. It's very hard to sleep when you're pumped up. I think the easiest it was ever been for me to stay up all night. When do you think it's easiest it's been for you to stay up all night? >> What? >> Drink a lot. >> When you drink a lot stay up for a while, but then you crash. That's the easiest. >> Huh? >> Oh, I wish. >> When you're excited for tomorrow. >> What's that? >> Excited for tomorrow. >> When you're excited for tomorrow. The easiest it was ever for me to stabilize was when I was playing cards, an all night poker game. Never even yawned. Never even yawned. Night the whole night. When not that, as soon as I open up a gamarra in the morning, you open up a gamorra, you when you go in when there's a big piece of schnitle in front of you, no yawning, right? When you walk into an ice cream parlor, nobody yawns. Ever see anybody yawn in an ice cream parlor? Nobody yawns in a nice Wow, look at that. Wow, look at that whipped cream over your eyes. Sprinkling nuts on there, too. No, nobody yawns. And when do you yawn? Soon as you get to class, you yawn. That's when you Why? Because tiredness has to do with stimulation. Yako's running for his life. Okay, he relaxes. R. You would think that the adrenaline is cooking. I'm gonna lie down over here. When he's in yeshiva for 14 years, he's still pumped up. He doesn't even need to lie down in the bed. Takes a ner and he keeps on going. Takes a nap and he keeps on going. How come they don't have windows in casinos? How come they don't have windows in casinos? You better not know this, by the way. You should only know it because I'm telling you. That should be your source of information. But the fact remains, they don't have windows in casinos. Why not? Because people in casinos are, you know, you're there. No clocks. No clocks, no windows because you know time st you know as long as you're as long as you're what do you call it? That's that's we're good to go. The the the more stimulated a person is there was once a president of the United States who only slept four hours at night. They ask him why do you only sleep four? He says because when I'm sleeping I'm not the president. It's a good to be the president apparently because then you get to bomb people, right? And you get to make all sorts of decisions. Apparently, it's fun to be the president. I only want to be the president because I want to see what those secret rooms are down in the White House. You know, play hide-and-seek in the White House. That would be good. Plus, plus uh what's it called? The plane. What's it called? Air Force One. That would probably be pretty neat to have to fly to have to fly and not eat airline food. That would be good. But the other than that, apparently it's a it's you know, it's a rush to be the president. Yakovu is teaching us that Torah, you can get that rush from Torah. How do you like that? How do you like that? Did you ever see um uh uh the the world was created with three letters? Shinyud. Shakai. We pres pronounce it shiny. We don't say it. We pronounce it as a cuff. Shakai. And the gar says, "Why is it called Shakai?" Hashem said to his world, that's it at enough die sufficient. Don't expand anymore. And what that means is that the physical world is limited. Theoretically, theoretically, if you're a sightseeer, you could see everything there's worth seeing in the physical world. You could see everything worth anything that you'd like to see in the physical world. You could see which is obviously the Cubs, the Bulls, the Blackhawks, the Bears, and the White Socks losing. That's all you want to see in the physical world. Some people like Niagara Falls and the what do you call Victoria Lake Victoria and andora, but at the end of the day is it's limited. The only thing that's not limited is Torah. Torah is unlimited. It's unlimited. That means that a person can theoretically be so pumped with amazement that you can learn Torah to the point that there's no end to the amazement. The adrenaline, there's an adrenaline rushing to. How did Rabb Kinyki stay up all night, night after night learning Torah on one hour sleep or two hours sleep? It wasn't like his eyes were driven. He was just so excited about Torah. It's like watching it's like a kid watching a football game that you don't effortlessly cuz you've gotten to the point that you're so energized by it. You're so excited by it that you that the Torah that's what Torah does for you. That's that's what I don't know if you ever saw they had a they used to have a um what's it called? The uh uh >> before the the bigger this was a game boy. >> My kids used to play with the Game Boy. So they play there was something called Mario. Mario. >> Mario. Mario. Then they had something Mario. Mario. I just remember this little Italian kid and my kids would be playing with it. I didn't like it. I didn't like it because a I wasn't good at it. B I got I got dizzy. I got dizzy. So one time, you know, I know once in a while I'd fiddle around with it. So I'm fiddling around with Mario over. It's called Mario Worlds. That's what it calls. I'm fiddling around with this and and I'm doing better than I'm normally doing. And all of a sudden he goes through a door and all a sudden I hear like that like and he went through a door. So I called my kid. My son was 9 years old. I said, "You better get over here." "What? What just happened?" So he said, "You finished the first stage." I said, "That's it. I How many stages are they?" He said, "15." I said, "Oh my goodness, how am I ever going to?" Then by then this nine-year-old, my nine, he looks at me goes, "Daddy, is that the first time you ever finished the first stage?" I was I never touched it again. There's just so much a man could take, you know? You know, you know, and the kids are like like this. But I remember it was worlds. He started there, then he's underwater, then he's in outer space or something, he's in a zoo, you know, a million and one different things. When you learn Torah, it's the same thing. Didn't it ever happened to you? You're learning Gomorrah. Today, it happened. You're learning the Gabbor and then the next thing you know, you hear like a toos and you just go, "Oh, oh." And then you hear another and you go, "Oh, oh." And there's another level and another level and another level. That's the adrenaline that a person could get from Torah. Now more than that, >> I have a small question. >> Yes. >> 22 years got punishment because he was he didn't do >> right. Gumar says that I understand it so much because 26 years. >> Correct. Correct. That's what we said. >> That's right. to keep it >> saying that he when he finishes when he saw Paul coming back okay there is >> 20 years 10 years 12 years not 22 years >> good I don't have an answer I don't I don't have an answer for that that's what the Gumar says the says that he got 22 years that he got 22 I don't know why that's why I said earlier I'm not sure exactly why what the clay what what was he at fault for but that's what the Gumar says there's some sort of fault here that's what the Gumar says okay now Yakova goes to And this is a this is really a a remarkable insight. I heard this from Zev. Why? Why does he go to sleep here? Why does Yakov go to sleep? Now specifically, you're running away from Asov. You the answer is that sometimes in life, you know, uh we'll go back. You drink on Purim. As a minute, we get we you know, we get drunk on Purim or we drink on Purim. You drink more than you normally. A lot of people actually get drinking. I get to the point where you're inebriated. We'll call it inebriated. So what what's the point? What's the point of drinking on Por among other? What obviously we're supposed to celebrate? And it commemorates the fact that the miracle happened when there was a banquet with wine at Esther and Morai and so on and so forth. But I once heard an explanation. I think Rabbi Gotautle said this years ago. um you know a Torah Jew in the course of the year we're working on ourselves learning Torah we're learning Muser we're deting we're trying to work we're trying to grow as people when do you have a chance to test what's been genuinely internalized how do we ever test it I know I'm working on it how do I know what's actually been internalized so one of the testing grounds is when a person is is in ebria when a person's drunk. So then let's see what comes out. So if a person is drinking on purim and after he gets to the point where he's losing a little bit of mind control or his his subconscious comes out and all he's doing is talking about how much he wants to do Torah and mitzvah, so apparently he's absorbed it. If a person gets drunk on Purim and all he's talking about is money, so apparently he still hasn't gotten past that. Or he's talking about other things, he still it's a way of gauging what's been absorbed in the course of the year. >> And people who get drunk all the time, obviously it's not going to work. But for somebody who only gets drunk on Porim, so it re it's it loosens up, releases a little bit of that sub. We get to see a little bit where where we're holding in life. >> So what did you do, Alicia? What gesture did you make when I asked you when else do we see get to see it? You didn't live like this, right? >> Because when a person's sleeping, what you dream about is often a reflection of what's going on in your subconscious. Yakovina was just in 14 years in Yeshiva. Now he wants to see what do I really want in life? What have I absorbed in my 14 years of Yeshiva? Time to go to sleep. So Yakov goes to sleep and now we're going to see what I've really absorbed. And what does Jacob dream about? He has a dream. There's a ladder and the ladder reaches the heavens. The angels are going up and down the ladder. So Yakov who's on the run, he has a spiritual dream. Yakov Aino has a dream of Brooks. Now the the the the uh um the latter the latter is one of the most discussed this is one of the most discussed uh uh ideas in the entire Torah. The commentaries all weigh in on what this latter is and what's going on here. Okay. So, we're going to have to spend a little bit of time on it. The first thing is that the uh where is it? Okay, here we go. The first thing is there's a ladder of growth. It's a sula mutza. The feet are on the ground. Vera sham. The head of the ladder reaches the heavens. Rule number one in spiritual growth. Keep your feet on the ground. No matter how much we grow as Torah Jews and how spiritual we become, keep your feet firmly planted on the ground. We're realistic people. We live in this world. We want to grow as much as we do. We're not going to become flower children, you know. My name is Rainbow, you know, and here we, you know, that's not what we do. We we are very very normal. Keep ourselves firmly with our feet on the ground while we strive to reach the heavens. We're not going to go off and strive and reach the heavens and detach ourselves and go off into orbit. That's why we're not number one. Number two, it says there are angels going up and there are angels coming down. Now listen carefully to what I tell you. Judaism is a process of three steps forward and two steps back. There are going to be days where we grow and there are going to be days when we have setbacks. It nobody just goes straight up without any setbacks. You climb up and you drop a little bit. Today I dive in well. Tomorrow I'll dive in well. The next day it's as if my diving is dry as a bone. I'm not even in sh. I'm saying the words and I'm a miles away. O. Does that mean that I'm failing? No. It means that I'm growing and it's the normal process of growth. It's two steps forward. I'm working on not getting angry and I'm not getting angry. For a week I didn't get angry and then I snapped at somebody. Does that mean that I've lost? No. That means I'm working on it. And that's the natural process. The natural process is three steps forward and two steps back. Three steps forward, two steps back. And then a person continually grows. And it's like that with everything. It's like that with David. It's like that with Torah study. It's like with character development. It's like that in every area. My ego is out of control. Well, for two weeks, my ego has been under control. Then for one week, I had a bad ego week. That's okay because I used to have three bad ego weeks in a row. Then then you're moving it back and forth. There's a shifting. the scale is shifting constantly and that's the nature of it. If a person gets down in Yiddish because you're not doing as well as you want to, that also is the that's the that's the evil inclination is is working on you. Oh, I'm never going to get grow. I'm never going to get better. That itself is something you have to know. Be mature about it. None of us are perfect. None of us are perfect and we're certainly not perfect all the time. And even when we're growing, we're going to have setbacks. There are going to be setbacks. It's not that we're not going to be a 10 all the time. It doesn't work that way. That's the reality of it. A person has to has a person has to not get upset. You should know also. By the way, do you know that the Bali Muser they there there's a concept of ye aava and yeina. You ever heard that idea? >> Y aa means literally days of love and yeina literally means days of hate. And what it means is there are certain days where you just feel, you know, wow, Davening was good, learning was great. My interpersonal relationships, there's, you know, I just been at Sadic all day, smiling at people, I'm being nice to everybody. And there are certain days where I don't feel like getting out of bed. I certainly don't feel like dobbing. I'll push myself. I'm not really interested. I'm not interested in having anybody invade my space right now. I want my daladamas. Don't bother me. I don't and and everything is going everything is a drag. The whole religion is a drag. You should know that that's when we grow. That means like this there are certain days where everything is smooth. That means that what they compare it to is parents teaching a two-year-old a baby to walk. Ever watch parents say they hold the baby and the baby takes steps. Waddle waddle. You know, take steps. Then the parents let go. The baby takes three steps. that falls flat on his face. Then everybody in the room goes, "Yay!" Baby, poor baby's wondering, "Why are they clapping? I just fell." You know, everybody goes, "Yay!" Look at her. Yay! Poor. If the babies could talk, you know what the baby say? What's wrong with you say this? You know, "I just fell. What happened to you?" Right? Okay. What happened? Now, let me ask you a question. When did he progress more? When you were holding his hands or when you let go? >> When you let go, he had to learn to do it on do it on his own. Sometimes he holds our hand. That's when like that's when it feels good. Sometimes a Okay, let's see you do. Let's see what what they compare it to is where there's a uh a faucet. And the faucet is where we're being connected to Hashem is connected to us. The divine assistance is connected to us through a faucet. And sometimes it's turned on full blast. And sometimes Hashem says, "Look, I'm turning off the flow for a little bit. Let's see how you do on your own. and it doesn't feel so good. But those are the times when we really strengthen ourselves. When you put more weight on the bar, that's when you're building muscle. When it's easy, you're not building muscle. When you put more, right? That's when you're put that's when you're building muscle. And sometimes a coach says you've earned the privilege. You've earned the right to build. So don't get depressed by it. Don't be upset. You know, I don't feel like learning today. I don't feel like diving today. I don't feel like being generous today. Good. Now, let's see how you do when you don't feel like it. When you do feel like it, that means that is holding our hands. He's he's helping us along. But sometimes he detaches. >> Huh? >> Person himself making himself be excited to do the >> we have to work through and try to develop that. Sometimes if you work through then you'll get that sh >> we don't know. We still have to do the best we can under all circumstances. That's at the end of the day. Somebody once said to me now, you know, Mashiach is supposed to come in the 6,000th year. By the 6,000 year, somebody said, "What if what if he doesn't come in the six?" Now, it is the morning of the day after year 6,000 and Messiah is still not here. Then what are we going to do? I said the guy, we're going to get up and we're going to put on fillin and we're going to go to minion. We're going to do the exact same thing and we're going to just wait. That's what we that's what we would do here too. person has to just do the best you can with what you got under the circumstances. Okay. Idea number two. Idea number three. Why is there a ladder? Why not an elevator or a pole? The bat pole. You know why? Why is it a ladder? What does a ladder represent? >> What's that? >> Climbing one rung at a time. A ladder has rungs, right? Why is there a ladder? One. What's that? >> Improving. >> One. Correct. Improving. One rung at a time. One level at a time. Climb up one level at a time. Because if you if you climb too much, then a person inevitably falls. And a person has to be realistic about what their letter what their level. On the one hand, it's a ladder. On the other hand, it's a ladder. And it's a ladder of one rung after another rung after another rung. Now, here's where the one of the most common misconceptions. How wide was this ladder, gentlemen? What are you picturing the ladder? Let me ask you, what ladder are you picturing right here? >> Yeah. Like one of those firemen ladders that goes up real high. You know, they have it goes up real high in the air. Sometimes it's like those cherry pickers that they have the guys standing to fix the electric lights and that sort of thing. Looks like a ride at an amusement park. Up and down, up and down. And and now you got this ladder, this w fireman's ladder which has four different sections and when it opens up and opens up and opens up. Okay, that's sometimes how they draw it in the books also in kids book. Do you know how wide this ladder was? Anybody want to take a guess? According to the Gomorra, it says malimbo olim means two angels side by side are going up. Vim and two angels side by side are coming up. Olim is plural. What's the least plural? When you say plural, what's the least number of a plural? Two. So, olim is two are going up. Your de are two are coming down. Side by side. Each angel is 2,000 paraos wide. >> Um about 2,000 miles. Call it 2,000 miles that we don't picture angels like. We picture a little Tinkerbell, you know, coming in, you know, with the landing, you know, little angel fluttering in. The latter is 8,000 parcels wide. >> 8,000 parcels wide means it's it's wider than the entire world. >> What's that? Double helix. Yeah, that sort of thing. Yeah. Yeah, that's what we're picturing. The angel the the ladder is 8,000 parcels wide which the Gar says is wider than the entire earth. What does that mean? Why is Jacob see such a wide ladder? >> Why? >> Why such a wide ladder? We're not We don't picture ladders like that. What's that? >> He's the strongest guy in the world. Yeah, but his dreams his dreams aren't the strong. You know, he's having a dream over here. Why? Why a ladder that's 8,000 per so wide? Anybody got an idea? What does it What do you say? >> It shows us the stretch of God's reach. >> Oh, very good, Saul. The stretch of God's reach, which means what? >> It covers the entire world. >> You're right. Which means what? You're right. And therefore what? You're 100% right. And therefore what? Therefore, no one in the world has an excuse not to get on the ladder. Oh, >> that's right. Nobody could say it wasn't available to me because that latter like Saul says the stretch of God's reach is over the that what does that mean? That means that a man intuitively, instinctively can be aware that there's a God. Unless you're really opposite it. Unless you're really opposite it, you know as well as I do there's a God running the world. And since there's a God running the world, you should have gotten on that ladder of spiritual growth. And if you didn't, it's your fault. Don't say it wasn't accessible to you. Even even the the what do you call it? In the farthest islands, everybody knows, everybody senses there's a God. And you should have gotten on the ladder of spiritual growth. And a person can never come up and say, "Well, I didn't know. I You didn't know. Where did you live?" "Well, I lived in Pittsburgh." Oh, you didn't know. Didn't you see those funny Jews with the black hats? Yeah. Why come you didn't go and investigate? You went to You went to Tibet to investigate over there. You were off in you were off in Japan investigating a religion over there. What about those funny Jewish guys in in Pittsburgh? How come you didn't investigate over there? What about in Burough Park? What about in London? And in you didn't see you didn't see a bunch of Jews in Golders Green. You didn't see a bunch of Jews in New York and in Lakewood. How come you didn't investigate that? You could have if you wanted to. You could have. Nobody has an excuse. Nobody has an excuse of not getting have gotten on that ladder. Why didn't they get on the ladder? Because most people Why is it that you know when I was in high school? When I was in high school, so in sec the the non-Jewish teachers in my yeshiva high school the secular teachers. where we had lemur almost every non-Jewish teacher wore armaka when they taught us the secular Jewish teachers almost none of them did interesting why some did a couple did but most didn't why because for the non-Jew what do I care I'll put on a beanie I'll take it off when I leave it means nothing to me the Jewish teacher who's secular One second. If I if I put on a beanie, that means I'm conceding that you're right, and I'm not going to do that. I don't wear beanies. I don't wear yarmokas. That sort of thing. Wrong. It was available. You have no excuses. That's the latter. Okay, we'll stop here, gentlemen. Continue tomorrow. There's more a lot more to say about the