Yosef, the Baal HaTanya, and the 2017 Declaration of Donald J. Trump: Amazing History of 19 Kislev

Heat. Heat. [music] [singing] [music] [singing] >> [music and singing] [music and singing] >> of a very special shar today in honor of Inyana Deoma, the advent of a very special day on the Jewish calendar historically, 19th of Kisv, which we're going to explore a little bit of the history of it even until the modern era. I apologize if you might hear some noise in this video because there is construction bar hashem the building of the land of Israel outside my door especially um in the system of uh cover habrios where I have to make sure that everybody has what they need so that the plumbing will function if you don't have plumbing you don't have veritra so so there you go I'm going to we're going to share also a remarkable remarkable uh shot because the 19th of kisv which begins this evening Also, we have a Torah reading that is precisely of parv, which is spot on the sale of Yoseph and and we'll analyze a puk there that I think will be completely mind-boggling in terms of a special insight. So we want to do a little historical overview of 19th Kislv what its significance is to many people in the world including um pretty much uh the the world ofidim at large and those who are interested in the world ofidim and then also some special um detra that would be relevant and also the unique day of 19th kislave and how it relates to no a very significant event by none other than President Donald J. Trump has a unique and special connection to the 19th of Kislave that you won't believe. So we're going to see that too. So let's begin. What happened on the 19th on the se on the um 19th of Kisv? So a couple of historical events. First of all, it was the birth of the mag of Mesich. He was the architect of of he was the person who literally set up the nassent leadership. He assembled the great minds and hearts including the Balatana Rabbi um Schneer Zman Le of Leadi who was the who had become the author of Tanya one of the seminal books of Casidus um and it's which explains its theological and philosophical foundations uh and also the author of Shukarav monumental hahic work which was meant to be sensitive to the world the emerging world of and give them their own text that would be authoritative which is also remarkable it's it's regarded in all camps as a masterful work so those two great masterpieces were authored by Zalman and at the behest of his rebi the mag mezzich whose yort site is the 19th of kislev so that's number one so to speak they both had monumental events what was that in 1798 um it was November 27 November 16th 1798 thear ordered that Zman and all the must be uh would be freed from arrest. um and they had been arrested and this was the the charges against them were brought by of course challenges within the Jewish community itself. So how appropriate that we juxtapose and because essentially it sparks the idea of a major major philosophical and theological and social and unfortunately dangerous conflict as all conflicts between Jews are that took place um all the way back to the sale of Yoseph. Similarly on on the 19th of Kisv opponents of Casidus had made a petition to Thesar inviting that uh not so illustrious representative of Asav. I recent I just saw that there was an amazing amazing uh Jewish one per one Jew who destroyed the Tsarist regime almost single-handedly many years later in the times of World War I when there was the CenoRussian war. I think that was around 1906. And the ZAR at the time needed a tremendous amount of money, billions of today's dollars to fight against the rather sophisticated Russians Tsarist army. And who provided the money? a Jew named Schiff who came from a small community uh a ghetto actually in Germany and he was associated with the Rothschild family and he was devastated at how in starting with the late 1800s in particular the tremendous suffering of the Jewish people which really began in the early 1800s but culminated with the vicious riots and persecutions under the Tsarist regime that went on from from the 1820s all the way through the 1880s. It was mammish impossible, which which really is what caused mass immigration out of Russia to America, believe it or not. But as vengeance against the Tsarist regime, this this banker named Schiff loaned uh a huge amount of money to the Japanese banker, the banker, the Japanese banker who was procuring weapons of war for the the uh the emperor of Japan and he said this is going to stick it to the zar. So you have one Jew a yo a a yoatadic figure a banker you know who had all the money in the world like Yseph connected collected all the money in the world and put it under his storage. Well, Yahad the Rothschilds and this Jew Jacob Schiff I think his name was Jacob the Moram Shiff who's a very very well-known Afron commentator on the Talmud was his descendant and I think he was an observant Jew too this fellow and he almost single-handedly punished the Zar for the terrible antise-mitism but it goes all the way back and so here all the way back in the Balchtov was accused by of the following ing three charges. Number one, he was involved in rebellion and conspiracy. Number two, his companions were accused of leading a life of lawlessness, meaning that they had their own laws. Three, they were branded thieves and bribet takers. So the biggest suspicion was the fact that of seduct was actually sedaka. We know that it's so ironic but as the will of Hashem was that uh the Vil Naggalan himself uh whose uh adherence uh were the most vocal opponents of of the Zmen and may have been directly uh involved in this in this in these charges that were sent to Thesar that were then reacted to. um they themselves understood that it was time to return to land of Israel and that that return was going to begin with the revelation of the Baltov and and of the of the Vagan concurrently in the early 1700s 1733 1740 in that area there was already signal that this is the um year 5500 and we have to return to the land of Israel it is Friday of the last millennium of creation the last the last it was the uh midpoint of the final um uh the dawn literally dawn of the final 500 years of potential Jewish history which culminates with the year 6000 as represented by the Gammoras and Gomorra son and so on and it's taught by the tome and he said we got to get the move on to er Israel which peaked around 1781 just uh a few short years before um this event took place. So they were sending people back to Israel and therefore people like the alterbi were collecting money in Europe to support the Jews who were traveling trying to establish a life for themselves in the land of Israel. That community was the part of it anyway. And if you know in the old city there's two major synagogues. One was renovated several years ago and one was just really just about finished. I don't know if I don't know if I've been inside it yet, but we all know the synagogue was uh so to speak the the uh litish or the nonidic the students of vagon being the ancestors that started that community going back to the 1700s and had that synagogue up until 1948 which then was destroyed by by the Jordanians and restored not that many years ago. And then there the Ferris Israel synagogue which was the Hedic synagogue to which um the not thesar but uh we know the head of the Hungarian uh empire, the Hopsburg Empire, France Joseph who had his empire up until World War I and then he came to Jerusalem at the uh in 1869 um after witnessing the opening of the Suez Canal and he had a big tya to come to Israel. All all major monarchs and countries want to have a piece of Erit Israel and a piece of but he actually donated the roof to the uh to this synagogue which has just just been completed recently. I I don't know many of you may have gone there but that was the kidic hub of the old city. So here we had these dual uh so to speak communities living side by side in the old city but the source of the funding came from Europe all the way back and that's um Kell Cole Kabad by the way or mayor Balhanes charities that goes all the way back to then all right so but they were able to suggest that since the Ottoman Empire at the time was the tit were the titular heads titular owner ers of Arch Israel and they were the mortal enemies of the Russians are they were competing empires right then how could it be that the alter was sending money to support Jews who lived under the under the jurisdiction of his enemies the Ottoman rule and that was an argument that this was rebellion in insurrection of course nothing could be further from the truth it was stuck but um in in the in 17 in September 159 98 he revan the alterbi zatal was arrested with his books papers and taken to St. Petersburg during the first week of October of 1798 and he remained in prison until the interrogation finished having seen that there was absolutely no grounds for any of the uh accusations. He defended himself as follows on the on the main points of the interrogation. Number one that did not mean to start a new religion. Zazar could only recognize old religions. Judaism was a recognized religion but people accused him of starting a new religion. Um and he said no it's just restoring some of the ancient customs of prayer and kavana love and awe which were uh neglected over the years and now was was reclaiming the ancient ancient traditions of prayer and devotion to that had become lax in the last generations but it was nothing new on finances. He denied any wrongdoing. He said he had a modest source of income which was his wife's tavern and a grain business and a small stipend as a reba. So he didn't certainly wasn't uh you know funding major money but on the foreign connections but he said that this money that he sent to land of Israel was part of a small of a very widespread ancient fundra fundraising effort claiming Israel was limited to issuing request request letters. I never administered any funds and I never sent funds but I issued letters of appeals like many rabbis did given that they even have two famous stories during his imprisonment. One was that the Zar himself uh disguised himself and wanted to see who this man was. And then he walked into his prison cell and Reb Schlomman stood up immediately and said you like your your you know your honor, your majesty, whatever it might be and the the was shocked that he understood that who he was even though he was in this disguise. Another one is that one of his interrogators said what does it mean? How could it be that it says in in paras that Hashem asks Marisha where are you? Doesn't Hashem or the all knowing God know where Marishan is? And this troubled him. And the answer that he that he responded was this is not a question that ma God asked that man. It's a question that God asks everyone every living human being. Where are you holding? You have to be asking yourself. One of the questions that he asked people to ask themselves was to self-evaluate a where are we holding in life? Are we fulfilling our mission? Are we fulfilling our tough? Are we fulfilling our potential in the service of Hashem? And um so those two stories um are are you know a kind of I would say symbolic. Why? What do I mean? because you have one encounter. I I think both of those I think the first encounter was certainly with a gentile meaning the zar. The second encounter is not so clear who the interrogator was but it seems to be a gentile but it's quite possibly someone who wanted to understand the Torah. So the the the the issue here was twofold. Number one, we want to understand the concept of that a of a Jewish saddic of the idea that a a Jew could be a source a wellspring of wisdom for the entire world not just for his own inner community but could touch the lives of so many other people and would have what to share. We know that the successive rebies of Kabad, specifically the last rebi of blessed memory who passed away in 94. Um, and many of us were privileged to meet uh including myself that he often spoke to Gentiles and critically about morality about the seven noahide mitzos as a basic for basic human foundation for morality. So that first encounter with the Zar really is symbolic of that how shall I say unusual or new I wouldn't say new but I would say renewed renewed that the Jews would finally be entering an era in which they could speak to the gentile world. Remember emancipation had already happened in 1740. There was a there was Napoleonic wars um that went on exactly at that time 1799 and and the world was opening up maybe frighteningly so and very very quickly to the Jewish world. the Jewish world was opening and being exposed to the gentile world and there needed to be a way to present authentic Judaism uh as a positive in a positive sense and as a constructive sense and as a force for uh stability, peace, honesty, morality, values. This is a so that encounter with Thesar very very very set a tone for what the difference would be in Jewish world when we cross that rubicon of the period of time in which essentially the hidden parts of Torah opened almost fully. What I mean to say is thatus dared to pull the veil against basic ideas within the cabala as did the vagan in his teachings. He wrote the commentaries to all of the major cabalisim from whether it was whether it was say for um which was attributed to whether it was cifredus the central part of of the zohar which speaks of the 6,000 years of Jewish of world destiny there was a a how should I say a a a a renewed public interest which always was throughout the centuries but kind of exploded put it open uh with in the mid in the mid uh 1700s as the world was going a major change. Think of American Revolution, French Revolution, uh Napoleonic Wars, the opening of of opening of the of the ghettos, the Jewish mass migration from Russia to America and the Nassent communities in Israel starting starting starting to gain a little bit of traction. There's so much going on at that time. So that it's the story of the 19th of Kisv was taken by the as a vindication that they had every right to spread the teachings and that's the famous famous teaching that they say that the saw of Messiah and the Messiah he asked him when are you coming and of course he said when your teachings will will pour out like a fountain uh your mayanote would go I'm going to tell you a very very fascinating story. There is a yeshiva [clears throat] called Mayanote in Jerusalem which is celebrating a brand new build today as we speak at 100 p.m. They started a dedication ceremony of this massive gorgeous multi-million dollar yeshiva for Bali Chuva in the heart of Jerusalem not far from Mil. And my wife is there. Now why is my wife there? Because my brother-in-law, God bless him, uh from Miami, Florida, from uh Hollywood, Florida is um is an honored guest. Now, why is he an honorary guest? Because the the uh benefactor of this Yeshiva community, I'm not going to mention his name publicly, but it's public knowledge. Uh a a gentleman who was a a surgeon and brilliant man and brilliant businessman. They invested and created some a $30 million business empire, but then fell into illness and needed caretaking. and my my brother-in-law was engaged. He has a background in um and all these kind of you know medical stuff rescue and so on. They said we need someone to watch him as his health is deteriorating greatly and he actually helped him get to Israel despite incredible incredible obstacles. The man wanted to immigrate to Israel. uh there were many obstacles financially, business-wise, opposition, other parties involved in in his money and his interests and it was big big problems and somehow miraculously right here on Utes Kislv this man escaped uh the confines of America and was able to make aliyah [laughter] and he's sitting in his suite um in Jerusalem today a kind of a yudes today being And on the eve of your tesis, he's celebrating his aliyah and the dedication of this magnificent building and the devote and the dedication of his many many many millions of dollars to promote exactly what the um Messiah soul of Mashiach told Bashv according to the BMP was Mayanote we're going to send out the your teachings outwardly and that is what's going on today and my wife will bring back a full report and so will my brother-in-law. Uh, but it's also another important symbolic thing. So, what else happened? As I mentioned on the 17th of Kisv, the 19th of Kislv, we said the we said the Magid's yard site, the Mag being the architect of these Mayanote of these fountain heads. This go outward. I mean his collected selected group of included leans and many others who were the how shall I say the foundation stone of this movement. Of course this of course the Mazaman being you know I would say the shining star of the group who produced these two seinal works. Um not that cypher is also highly regarded but it's uh it's um it's a safer that is written for the elite group of sadikim whereas the tan is directed to the bayoni the every man okay but here's a connection to the sale of yoseph and m Donald Trump all right on 19th of kisv in 2017 Donald J. Trump made a proclamation as Jerusalem as the capital of the land of Israel. This took place I guess what is eight years ago now. Uh and this is what he said and I'm going to read to you what he said and I definitely think it's associated no by no accident. And we know that he he visited the the labbreal's graveside at his campaign as I've noted in my shurum as we had watched the events around us and I like to link them to what's going on in the Jewish world. Um from the moment that he visited his campaign began to be Matslah. He was in no way a favorite to win the election but there was a turning point from the time that he went after that visit. Somehow the polls and everything else started to go in his direction and then you had the various problems on the Democratic side. Go figure. But here's what he said on Utes Kisv 2017. My my President Jake Donald J. Trump's proclamation on Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Israel. My announcement today marks the beginning of a new approach to the conflict between Israel and Palestinians. New approach. no more international city. When when the state of Israel was voted into reality by the United Nations, um not that it needed United Nations impremature at all, it was voted into reality by Kajar who was promises to Marvinu, but they had a plan that Jerusalem would be an international city. It would belong to no one and everyone. There would not be a any dominion. would be a a um an international city, which is what Arabs really today still look at it as and hoping that it will be restored to, but at least it's better than having Israel control it. However, so he said recognizing Jerusalem on Utes of 2017, Donald Trump followed through with his promise to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Israel and has instructed the State Department to begin to relocate the US embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which is something that we know he followed up on. There's a beautiful, beautiful uh brand new uh US embassy to Israel uh not far from Karl by the way, which of course is which is appropriate to this week's para as well. Now, and uh this is the wording uh on President Trump recognizes Jerusalem, the ancient capital of the Jewish people as the capital of the state of Israel. So he's linking the idea of ancient Israel, ancient capital meaning David Aamelik and the various Judeian kings. In taking this action, President Trump filled a major campaign promise of his and many previous presidential candidates. It had been voted that way. This declaration was pending was had been passed in the uh the '9s and kept being suspended year by year by year by various presidents until Trump allowed the security waiver to lapse and the law to go into effect. The idea of the embassy being in Shalim had been legislated by Congress and by Senate by unanimous vote. I don't think that would happen anymore by the way ironically. um that happened 5 years ago. I don't believe it would happen anymore that the the um by 100 to zero the United States voted to acknowledge that the embassy of of United States should go to Jerusalem and this was the Jerusalem Recognition Act of 1995. Okay. and um fine. President Trump recognizes that the status of Jerusalem is highly sensitive, but he does not think the peace process is aided by ignoring the simple truth that Jerusalem is home to Israel's legislator, Supreme Court, president, prime minister, uh etc. And then he goes on to say, you know, how it's going to play out in terms of the peace agreements, but as we know, those are high and mighty ideas that we haven't seen um um materialize quite yet and hopefully will not see it in the form that's currently proposed. Let's move on then. So let's see. We know that the stories of Yoseph are always intertwined go also with the month of Kisv and the holiday of Kaneka. But I want to take a particular look at the sale of Yoseph for a moment. Let's begin uh a little bit of analysis um for the from the para to gain a humongous insight about what the sale of Yseph really is all about. Okay, they might not have thought of. So back to the back to the beginning of the para it's the Torah the Torah tells us butan told us Yakov Yoseph now we know that YaKob was worked 20 years to produce he produced 11 and then he he risk running away from Lavan rather than staying in to have 12th child and that 12th child was born just upon the just on the outskirts of Israel just on the outskirts of so we say here the following a told us Jacob of Yoseph Benvah is shah okay if you're telling me is told why don't you mention the other sons and also why mention his age why is his age important why is his age important well maybe because of the story of the sale but it says hayo of baton Well, let's let's break this down language-wise. To me, what this says is that he was shephering his brothers as sheep yet he was only 17 years old. And this would explain deal with this puk is a very very difficult pok someh cut it, slice it, dice it, change the order. I'd like to suggest a simple reading of it. He as it says he was only 17 years old. He was considered the primary tribe of all the tribes and he was delegated by his father to be the row son which meant his brother supervise his brothers in the way they handled the sheep but also shepherd his brothers. He was shephering his brothers. are one of the things he did and that was despite his youth and Kazal say here that he made himself look attractive and beautiful well if you want to be a leader and you want to be find favor in people's eyes you shouldn't neglect your and and whatever appeal you have you can draw he wanted himself to look appealing to his brothers so he could be mash on them and then it says What happened to Leia? Isaim. No mention of the children of Leia. So what does this mean? There were only four that were the children of Bilah and Zilpa, right? God and uh Naftali and Osher. Correct. And and um who else do we have? Don Don. So what what so so like what happened to the rest? And who are we talking about? So the simple shot in the puk is going on the ben zilp or is there another statement but let's look at the puk more comprehensively now is everybody all of his brothers and I'll prove it to you from the medish because the medish says that the report that he brought back was not only about those four but about the other brothers too. So let's let's assume in the broader reading but when it came to the four sons of the doner who nar he made himself pleasing to them. He didn't have to do that for his other brothers. Nar means he put on a little he he he he made himself look nice. He washed his face. He put on nice clothes. He put on a little coloring, a little hair styling. He wanted to be their, how shall I say, their big brother, beloved big brother. He didn't try to do that for the other brothers. Why? Why was he doing this to Bill and Zilpa? And what does it mean nish of? Don't I know that it's Nishiv? So here's the here's the critical point. Yoseph like Yakov understood that this was a group of 12. Okay? not subdivided into hierarchies. and the only person who could be trusted and secure the legacy of Yakov that there would be 12 tribes of equal I'm not saying equal stature but of equal importance as part of a undeniable and inseparable part of Claw Israel was Yseph and to that extent he was marhila niv Because in reality they weren't wives. You could argue they were slaves. They were the slaves. Bill and Zila were the slaves of and therefore their children should have been considered slaves. And indeed that's what Kazal suggests and suggests that this that these six sons of Leia treated the four sons of the of the as slaves. They did not see them as peers or equals. Neither would they accept the preeminence of Yoseph, son of Rael and the young Binyammen who was a non-factor at that time. He was the youngest. Remember Yoseph was born prior to the six years of service that Yakov added. The last six of the 20 years of service that Yakov did for his wives to Lavan and Beyammen is born after that. So Binyammen is born in year 21 and at that point Yoseph is minimally seven years old. Okay. So if Yos 7 years old, he's only 17 now. Then his brother Binyan hasn't even reached bar mitzvah. So he's a non-factor. He's really a non-factor. The others are considerably older. Haven't been born in in the years prior to the birth of Yoseph. Remember the the first seven years that Yakov was my love on he worked was not married. The second seven years he had two he had all four wives and produced 11 sons. Okay. In the second seven years but in the last six years he had no children. Okay. and um only Binyammen, the final final one of the being born in year 21 when they were all older than 17 with the exception of Binyammen who is now at this as at this advent no more than 10 years old. No more than 10 years old. Okay. Actually, what I would say even better to be clear, Yoseph again was was born prior to the six years. So he's seven when Yakov leaves and then Binyan is apparently born just around the time when Yseph is seven. So now we can only project that he was not older than 10 years old. Okay, that's my that's our calculation now. But if he wants to be close then why does it say it's not going back on the Ben Zil Zila and Benilha it's going back on the word the other brothers and Rashi confirms this Rashi says exactly that quoting he never brought any bad report about God because he was being macar of them because he wanted to show everyone that they were legit tribes, sons of Nish Aviv. They weren't slave moms, but they were full wives. They were full wives with the understanding that Yakoinu would not have relations with a slave woman, but rather had been encouraged by his two wives, Ra and Leah, to elevate them to the status of wives. We call them pelagim, but a legish remember is a wife just without exuba. So it's not uh it's not that she's a gentile that they were gentiles. They were not gentiles. They were Jewishes. Okay, that's very important. That's what it means of they can't be of unless they were they would be legitimately Jewish because the theos kept the mitzvah. Now what was the problem with the six tribes? It could only be something that wasn't just stam lashhara. It had to be remember according to the principles of the if you have an issue which is critical or dangerous then there's a mitzvah called you cannot stand by and let others people's blood be spilled. standing by and allowing there to be a distinction between the four of his of the of Donafashir and the six sons of Ruvane is not allowed. And could you could argue that he felt whatever he was saying by accusing of the six brothers of distancing themselves from the four or the other four was a necessary report because his ultimate objective as he understood from his father was to keep the unified unit of 12v follow me. So he had to intervene if there was anything going on that threatened that and what was going on that threatened that precisely. So as I'll tell us here something unusual but let's look at it a little bit more a little bit more um deeply they were tearing limbs from animals and eating it strange they were calling the other four sons slaves as we just said they seemed to be carrying on relations that didn't didn't look kosher But the reality is is that they weren't doing anything wrong. It just Yoseph perceived it as wrong. So, but that's because they each had a legitimate way of looking at things. Why was Yseph? What were the punishments of Yoseph? Abram and Aai. They tore his jacket and said he was torn like and they put blood of a goat. He was torn like a goat, so to speak, at least presenting his famous coat of many colors, his Pim coat. And and and Yakov and Yakov said, "Yese Yseph was torn apart." That's that corresponds to the accusation of Abraai. Um calling their brothers slaves. Joseph himself was sold as a slave and that there was a issue of sexual morality. He's he himself was involved in a terrible terrible problem with Asia Adonov with a uh the temptation of Asia to Okay, let's make sense of this. Either Yos's right or wrong, why does he get punished? Okay, if he's justified in bringing the reports, so why should he be punished? And let's understand what why in the world would the aim do what they did? So let's so let's pause it that the six brothers assumed that they were the quote unquote legitimate six tribes. They admitted the idea of 12 tribes but not that the other six would be on the same status because they would be born of the non primary wife. In essence, the six was a compromise that had to deal with the absence of of Asov in the role of creating. Ideally, there would have been six fraatim from Asav, sixatim from Yakov. There would be sixvatim that you know were ish and six more of the spiritual and that's it and that's it and the world of and the world of the 12 tribes would have gone accordingly. Yakov was forced by the absence of Asab in this process to assume the Borra to marry both of the wives and produce all 12 himself. But the six sons of Leia said we are the real Claw Israel. As of is the ancillary part of Claw Israel. We are the prime cut. We are the children of the real wife of Yakov Leia who would later be buried in Marusa. Now you understand why in this week's part para Ruvane goes out of his way to take Bilha out of the tent of Yakov or Yakov out of the tent of Bilah whichever way you want to look at it. uh question what exact what exactly happened and because he's saying no Bilha is associated with Rael she is not the first wife as much as Yakov treated Rael as such and gave Bilha who was the maid of Rael that preeminence it's really wrong because theologically realitywise destinywise wise meritwise statutewise the six sons of Leia are the cream of the crop And they will produce the leadership of Kai Israel starting with Ru and Shim and Ley. Okay. So the sons would argue listen Leia's argument is is in the end of the day it was me and if it was the end of the day is me means I'm the one who's Jacob's wife and you Rael were meant to be for Isa. In fact, Rashi echoes the fact that Rael was in great danger and she worried that because she didn't have any sons with Yakov that she would be relegated completely to the side of Asov and that would have been her destiny. And that was a reality that was happening. In fact, Yoseph himself shields his mother from Asov's vision when there's the encounter with Asov. And that is more than symbolic. It's because Yoseph's existence was the antidote or he's called uh Satano shell as he's the anti-ASV as it were and therefore as no longer services in building Claw Israel are no longer required. Okay. But Yoseph argued that there was no discrepancy between the children of Relo and the and the children of Leia. They were all on equal footing which means that they had not yet ripened and matured into claw Israel. There was going to be a bonding process. There was going to be a process by which they would be melded and uh trial by fire and in the Kur Habarzel in the in the in the uh searing heat of the Egyptian bondage, the greatness of the souls of the Jewish people would be forged a new uh as if purged of any like you you purge metal of of any um what we call um impure purities. So you want pure gold, pure silver. You can't really get pure silver. You can get 929. I think you can get higher than 929. I don't even know. But you need a little alloy in there. Gold maybe not. But the idea is it's a purification process of the souls of the Jewish people who had to go through some intense suffering and to be z to be elevated to the level of of a member of kai Israel. says Yoseph, we are the 12 progenitors of the future Claw Israel. We're the prototypes, but we haven't reached the status of Claw Israel just yet. And therefore, you have no right to start practicing Jewish law in the land of Israel and say, "We have arrived and here is our destiny." That was the mistake of the six sons of Leia. They said, "Look, we made it past as we made it past Lavan. We're here in Ar Israel. That's it. There is no need for further uh how shall I say refinement. We are here. We will grow in the land of Israel. We will eventually drive out the impurities within the land of Israel and we are prepared for our destiny. Yosher said no. We all know that the nevu of Abrainu was that there would be a 400year smelting process which the souls of the Jewish people would be forged from any previous sin. There are many opinions in the Zohor that the souls of the Jewish people were actually the souls of the Dorham were actually the souls of the tower of Bavl. They needed to go through a tikun a big time tikun. The problems that started with cayenne and he needed to be reformed with the brothership of Moshe and Aro. Yeah, it was going to take a while. And therefore, the laws of the seven Noahide, the seven Noahide laws were what was in force and not called Torakula, which was kept, but it wasn't yet in force. So therefore what that meant that if you slaughtered an animal using the laws of by cutting the two the the windpipe and the food pipe majority of which both with a knife which doesn't have imperfections and the proper motion and proper position that animal is considered halafically dead and you may begin to chop off its limbs and consume them because that's but if doesn't yet exist then we must wait for the death of the animal before you begin butchering. And it did not seem like the the children of Leia thought that was off literally off the table, off the butcher block. They wanted to do they said, "We're holding byita. What do you what do you want?" Whereas for a noahhide, if the animal's not quite finished twitching, okay, even though in the future it would be considered hahically dead and kosher, at that moment it was a problem of Abraai. And that's the distinction. If you're a noahhide, wait. If you're a Jew, you don't have to wait. You performed the mitzvah of and at this point, the animal can then be butchered, meaning into separated into different parts. But as Yseph says, don't you dare touch that animal until it is completely completely expired from all nerve movement and so on and so forth, any signs of life, because that's the understanding of what a Ben Noah would have to do. He says you're not allowed to jump the gun. You're not allowed to go ahead of yourself. You cannot claim superiority and say, well, maybe my brothers are going to be Jews at some point, but right now we're the authentic Jews and we will behave as such. No. And the hence the two dreams of Yoseph to show his centrality as the leader were were were shared not so much because he was foolish or trying to boast but he was making a case of something that everybody knew. Yoseph argued his point. We I I've been tasked by my father to help us progress and and survive through the gullus which is inevitable. And they would say, "We made it already. We don't need you, Yoseph. Thank you very much, but we don't need you. In fact, we view you as a danger. We view as such a danger that we're willing to excise you and we'll take our chances on us developing additional tribes and we'll get rid of you which was the core argument of the sale of Yoseph. They refused to acknowledge the other brothers as anything other than slaves. They refused to acknowledge that was no was not yet an option for them in terms of the the the women. So the medrashim said that they were able to create women or that they were how shall I say marrying uh women that would have been forbidden to them had they be a Ben Noah but permitted to them as Jews. I'm not going to get into the exact circumstances, but it was also re relevant to the idea that we've already reached this full status of Israel. That our father who started as Yakov and was promised to be Israel were there, which they were not yet there. Okay? They would take the the 400-year goals which would be backdated to the birth of to accomplish that. And Aram was already told that. Okay? So now I'll share with you Just by way of conclusion, what else was going on? This is absolutely mindboggling. And we'll bring the whole thing together with the kiss and everything else. You ready?I, which is tomorrow. Tonight is Kislip. It says as follows. They sat down to eat after they stripped Yoseph of his posum and threw him into a boar. here are visitors approaching. Now if you think for a moment for everybody who was exiled from from potential of being part of kai Israel we had many many people who wanted in but were gently or more seriously removed who was removed let's go historically lot was removed Elazar the the the servant of Aram removed as removed right who else was removed removed. There were um uh Lavan was removed. Okay. And who else? Yeshile was removed. Follow me. Right. So when they sold Yoseph, they looked up and they saw a representative of each of these nations as if to say, "We're going to try to do the same thing to Yoseph." except that Hashem wouldn't wouldn't allow it to take place. Listen to this is mindboggling. So it was a band of slave traders and they were Yeshites. Gilad was the place where he separated from Lavan. Nosimlim we associate with Eleazar who took the 10 Galm right with him no sorry they were carrying beautiful fragrance but look sorry actually kind of sounds like Noah so that could go all the way back to Shame and Yus and and also Shame and Aver who didn't quite make the cut of Kal Israel sorry that's of Hmon lotus which is here says the word lot that's a reference to lot on their way down to Egypt remarkable in this one puk you have a reference a hidden reference to every single one of the how should I say uh contenders to the to vi for the berkus of for representing to becoming the Jewish people and yet only Yoseph was the toa and Hashem and the brothers said let's try to get rid of him like we got rid of everybody else we got rid of Ishmael and we got rid of Lavanim Gilad that's we got rid of Lavan Gimalim that we got rid of Elazaros we got rid of the Noahides of Shem sorry of Hmon we got rid of we got rid of the son of Asov we got we're going to get rid of we got rid of lots They're on the way to Egypt. They're out. They're out of Erit Israel. So, Yoseph will be too. Ultimately, this puzzle reveals a tremendous secret that the real issue of the sale of Yoseph wasn't hatred and jealousy per se. It was a question of who was prepared to be the standard bearer of the name Israel. that Israel would actually be as the zoresh teaches and I heard this originally from my predecessor Rabbi Binle where I was the raven site after his tenure there contains all of the oinimos yud is and yakov sin is s ra is rik and rafel is a and lammed is lea and there you have all the others Israel's repres represented by the parents of all of the tribes with the being included under Leia. We need the totality of Kalai Israel. And therefore, in order to have Yushaim, we need the Malus of Yehuda together with the Malus of Binyam and Yoseph. And that was declared on your test. And if we're going to have a a an era that's prepared for Messiah and the reclaiming of Eric Israel, we're going to need that special stepping up of the great tool of the AOS, prayer, charity, and and uh a deep deep passionate connection to Hashem, which was began to be revealed in that era of the uh original test kislave with the birth of the mid the death of the mid and where both the Ilon and the the alterbi both said uh there's going to be pathways to redemption and they actually declared themselves Msiah Ben Yseph it's unbelievable so there you go they are Messiah and Yoseph who's tasked with preparing the Jewish people for their journey back home to clar clarity and clarification of each and every letter of the Torah and its and its truth throughus by refining the Jewish soul and elevating it so that the pineia Torah will will fire up our spirits or he used means double light the light of both to and that was championed by the and so so enhanced also by the teaching of who opened up the hidden branches of Torah to every man. And um and that's what Kisv is all about. It's a really remarkable remarkable time. It's incredible that the declaration on Jerusalem happened historically on that day. And we shall see what the next declarations are. Hashem should give us on this day of confluence where it all comes together. Um the identity of the Jewish people is the true heirs of Eric Israel, the true bearers of the message of Torah. We should elevate ourselves to be worthy of such and be optimistic that uh as Yoseph did we will emerge triumphant from all the trials that we are currently experiencing. Have a great and have a great shàu of paras. [music] [singing] [music] [singing] You [music] see your [singing] >> [music] [singing]