Rochel — The Quintessential Yiddishe Mamme

the yeshiva.net [Music] the year was 1995. yitzhak rabbin signed the famous or infamous oslo accords with the leader of the plo palestinian palestinian liberation organization or probably a more accurate acronym would be pathological lawyers organization and he gave over to the plot yasser arafat he gave him autonomy over much of yehuda and chamron judea and samaria known as the west bank he allowed him to create a palestinian police force which ultimately developed into an infrastructure of terror the daily launched terrorists and suicide bombers and it created horrific scenes of bloodshed and violence in israel and beyond and as part of these agreements of the oslo court was also the area of baseless base lefron which is an enclave of arabs was supposed to be one of the regions that would be given over to yasir or a fox authority for him and his organization to have their what was known as autonomy of course that included that unique site in jewish history known as cave the burial place of raha it was rabbi israel mayor laoshlita at that time the chief rabbi of israel a buchenwald survivor perhaps the youngest or one of the youngest jewish children to survive the holocaust and rabbi lao was saved came to israel ultimately became the chief rabbi of netanyahu and then tel aviv chief rabbi of israel and he was a friend of yitzhak rabbin who was a very secular jew a dedicated jew but a very secular jew and rabbi lao met the prime minister of israel rabbid i heard this and he told me it's he says you don't separate from your mother you don't throw your mother under the bus roccal rachel is the jewish mother you don't just say goodbye to a mother and give the kevin rahul to the foes of israel i read then that there was an old old kavraknesset he was a representative of the goddesses of yada satoru for decades the story is that he broke down crying in the office of the prime minister of israel he fell on the shoulders of rabbin telling him you can't do this to the jewish people you can't do this to jewish history and rabbid and his foreign minister shimon peres they caved in and they made a new agreement unfortunately baseless was given over to the palestinian arabs it became an enclave of terror but the area of kevin rachel remained under the complete authority of israel the problem was that to get there would be jeopardizing your life because of the bullets that were being shot and that's why unfortunately israel then created kevin rafa became like a military fortress but it remained in the hands of the israelis and jews were allowed continuously to continue to go pray and learn and spend time at the burial site from a mother you don't detach what is the appeal of kevin raha why did that burial place maintain such a sacred and lovable sentiment in the hearts of all the jewish people and it's been this way for hundreds of years for thousands of years it all begins in pouches by at the end of voracious yaakov avinu is about to pass away he's 147 years old he bids farewell to his son joseph he falls ill and he asks his son the prime minister of egypt he asks him for a favor he wants him to take an oath that he will not be buried in egypt after he passes away he wants joseph to transport his body to tavern to the mares of to bury him in the cave wherevrum and sorrow were buried where his parents yitzhak and rifka were buried and where leia was buried he asked joseph to do him this favor after his death to bury him inaudible then he blesses joseph he blesses his children he saves children and he blesses all of his children but in middle there is an interruption and his conversation with the ice if he suddenly goes back to a story that happened 50 years earlier he tells joseph his son in egypt when i was coming back from pagan around where i was 20 years in love with masala rahul died on me and jacob describes how we bury her in baseline the commentators wonder why does this verse come in this happened 50 years ago yaakov is discussing his pending death he's asking his son joseph the prime minister to bury him in heaven he's going to bless joseph and his grandchildren and his children why suddenly does he start talking about rahul her death and her burial in baseline the rambam rabbin the 13th century great talmudist leader physician philosopher biblical commentator from spain in his commentary on hummer yaakov says that joseph would be upset you asked me to take you from egypt territorial and bury you and everyone in the morrow with the others and they must why didn't you do this for my mother aha so yakima to explain himself at this point and say 50 years ago when your mother died i was alone in the world i had a bunch of little children little children but yeoman was just born he was a baby without a mother had a huge entourage of children of infants of cattle of animals i couldn't i couldn't go to heaven it's a half a day journey but it was too much so i had to bury her right there so i buried her in baseline the 15th century great italian sage and philosopher and rabbi and scholar in his commentary the sephorano gives a little bit of a different twist he says i was too sad i didn't have the energy the stamina to be able to carry her to heaven i was just so downstroked and there is a substitute for everything in life besides the woman you marry in your youth your first wife the woman you chose as your first wife there's no substitute for that russell's death affected yaakov the most powerful and devastating way the supernova since that day a void remains in my heart i simply did not have the vigor to take her to heaven therefore i buried her again right there but it's rashi's interpretation that really became entrenched in the imagination of the jewish people taught to every young jewish child rashi gives it all the interpretation rashford says that yaakov told you you might ask why i did not bring rocco to be buried in mauritius and she says told them yes i know that you have resentment in your heart against me so i want you to know that what i did was not motivated by selfish reasons goes on to explain that when the jews would be exiled from jerusalem after the destruction of the bay samikras hundreds of years from now they will be expelled from their capital city they're going to go on into exile they're going to pass kevin rocco and basil the outskirts of jerusalem they're going to pray there and rocco will then come out of her grave and she will weep for her children pray for her children plead for her children this is what the posix says and near me at the end of jeremiah and these tears are significant because to these tears god responds and he says stop crying your children will return to their borders it was important jacob said for russell not to be buried in heaven but they've been buried in baselift so that when the jews leave into exile they should be able to stop at her place she should be able to experience the gullies firsthand which she wouldn't if she was in heaven and she would cry for the jewish people and this would ultimately result in an ultimate ghoul and an ultimate redemption rashi gives a completely different interpretation why didn't rashi the pashtun the one who explains things literally why did rashid choose this madrashic interpretation rather than their abandon the sephora's interpretation would seem much more straightforward rashi was perturbed by the fact that yaakov had this conversation with joseph now 50 years after the event why did they not have this conversation all the years why did they never speak about this why did yaakov never explained to joseph why he buried his mother in basler rashford says jaakov said i know you have resentment. so why didn't you bring this up 50 years ago joseph was with yaakov till he was 17. then he was with him for 17 years in egypt they had 27 years to talk about the incidents around russell's burial it's not good to keep resentment in your heart you're upset at your father why don't you bring it up you know your son is upset at you talk to him about it why now suddenly he needs a favor he says by the way let me deal with that resentment why not speak about it 50 years today we live in the time everybody will tell you right you have resentment talk about it the rambam says talking about it is not the issue don't hate your brother in your heart don't keep grudges don't harbor resentment talk about it get it out there yeah why maintain this and his relationship with joseph was legendary and to his time in egypt it was time even before he was sold to speak about this when joseph was a sixteen-year-old boy a seventy-year-old yakubu should have explained to them what happened now the answer is i heard this myself i heard this when i was a yeshiva i heard this explanation 1987 86 or 87. it's very emotional joseph trusted his father joseph knew that if he loved rahul he could certainly loved rocco but yeah would have done anything to bury her in heaven if he did not bury her in heaven he had a good reason you always have trusted he did not think that yaakov was careless and clueless and selfish he knew that yaakov must have a good reason and there was no need to bring it up bring up a very painful moment but now when yaakov was asking yosef to bury yaakov i don't think that you have something in your mind against me you know that i would have done anything for i probably did what i had to do when it was the right thing but emotionally it's bringing up a trauma emotionally this event is triggering something very painful because justifications i may have but in reality i am going to be buried in mauricio march and your mother or not are you upset at me that i did the wrong thing no i know you're not you really believe that i did whatever i can but emotionally there's pain it's disheartening you're not content you're hurt there's ill feeling not ill feeling in a sense of resentment of a grudge that he would have spoken about 40 years ago it's just bringing up the pain of the reality it's not about judging me it's the reality but that's why it actually uses the word you were making calculations you did the wrong thing you don't care about rocco but no right but i'm in pain the contrast is triggering the pain my father yaakov was going to get his place in marcelo but my mama rachel never did she's not without wrong she's not with sorry she's not with yet she's not with rifka she's not with yakov and she's not with adam it's painful and this is what yaakov addressed this is what yaakov addressed to joseph and that's why rashid says he told them something unique if he would have just told them what the rambam says or what the sewfarno says it's a rational justification but the pain is still there i understand you're not guilty but it doesn't feel fear it hurts why was my mother deprived from the opportunity so that's where jacob told them something special what did yakov say if your mother was given a choice you knew your mother right you were nine years old when she died if your mother was given a choice option number one you could remain in the burial place roman sorry it's your husband yaakov and leia the other islama the matriarchs and the patriarchs who built the jewish nation and recovered the founding fathers and mothers of the jewish people whose divinity whose holiness whose righteousness is beyond human estimation that was option one option two you would be buried alone far away from them far away baseline a half a day journey although in your grave but as your children will be sent into exile and they'll pass your grave they'll find comfort they'll find solace crying on their mother's shoulders [Music] weeping in their mother's bosom feeling the embrace the tears the hug of the yiddish imam of rob which would she choose which one would your mother choose would she choose to be with the others for thousands of years of course knew the answer he knew his mother what made rocco that caris habias the quintessential jewish mother of the matriarch of clients she's called icarus rashes the foundation of jacob's house is that she gave up the schools the privilege for thousands of years to be in the very secret environment of avram sorry it's created by and it's not a grave of dead people the governor says above astra will be there in tightness you can already says of ram and sorry as well you're talking about the gophers the bodies of sacred people there's so much kedusha there in a way the soul is still connected however we understand that it's not for this year but it's not just you're going to argue some grave some cave this is a cave filled with godly energy for thousands of years much for two weeks just two weeks being a holy space but you're also happily enthusiastically would give that up to be there for her children and which children children who sinned children who betrayed the words of the navy children who betrayed iraq and hashem and therefore they were deserving of hurman they went into gaza because they rebelled because they broke the covenant that they made with your emotional oil and that's why they were expelled but for a mother that doesn't make a difference you tell a mother oh this kid is a rotten potato forget about him let him go deal let him go find his own life maybe some fathers would say that and even that it's very rare for a healthy father to do so but a mother a mother doesn't sever chords ever a mother's heart never detaches from a child even the greatest sinners of israel would enthusiastically embrace option number two just to be able to be there for the jewish people to give them that little extra comfort and solace that she could provide to them on their way to carlos when joseph heard this he was soothed the pain was eliminated because he realized that it's not yaakov had a justification it wasn't up to the evidence it was this was the schlichtas of rock this was the schools this is what rahul would have wanted and desired this would have been her greatest privilege it would have been much more painful for her to be in an environment of holiness and allow her children to be alone bereft in solitariness and pain and agony and she cannot be there with them maybe that's the difference between the hunger and rahu hug her source i'm dying from thirst and she goes away i don't want to see the pain either shaman says no no no i'm going to be there with my child and it's this dedication and this sacrifice of russell that elicits the response of the reborn to stop crying the shovel may errors with the jewish people they're going to come back to egypt and come back to shalom they're going to rebuild the base this is what i listen to that response until today till today especially from the yard site of mama jews come to rahul and they feel the embrace they feel the hug of the 20th century especially with the moistus the institutions that were built near queber that by now it's time for hashem to draw rahul's tears and indeed to see the ultimate this class is brought to you by the yeshiva.net please help us continue the classes make even a small contribution at triple w dot the yeshiva.net donate