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Rabbi David Kaplan - Weekly Torah Portion: Vayeitzei - Part 2
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with the the feet around the ground and
the head is in the heavens
so yesterday we spoke about the latter
being the latter of uh which represents
spiritual growth
that a person is meant to be climbing
the ladder one rung at a time if you
jump too many rungs
and under cartoons when a guy would
climb up the ladder and he would fall
and he bangs his head on every rung on
the way down which is what happens when
people try to jump to you know bowing
for boing people try to jump too far too
fast and
that's not good you go up one one step
at a time but you go up okay now what
the commentaries say over here is
that
a person
the angels are going up and they're
coming down that means a human being
could surpass the angels and ultimately
we do ultimately we do because uh the
angels do not have free choice certainly
not as we understand it uh we are on a
higher level human beings are in a
higher level of angels because we were
put into this world to be tested with
our free choice
and uh
the uh the the uh
there's a source in the more that says
in the future world
the angels are going to ask the uh the
uh human beings
what's god doing in there
i mean in the world to come we're going
to be so close the angels are going to
be outside of us they're going to be
asking us what's going on in the inner
circle
so that's the human being we don't feel
it now because we're trapped in a
physical body
but uh that those are the facts the
facts are that we're in a higher higher
level and that's why we've been selected
for the test our neshama is on a higher
level even the angels
in the in the process of of spiritual
growth
i don't like to use the word spiritual
it sounds a little too too spiritual so
in the process of the growth in roches
as a person climbs the uh climbs the
ladder you could even surpass the angels
the angels start out above you olivier
dimbo they're up they're going up and
then you're them they're coming down
because you're going up you're actually
surpassing the angels number one number
two
and this is what we'll leave the angels
out of it for a few minutes uh
what does apply to us immediately is
that a person has to realize that in the
process of his growth in ruchnius as a
person tries to grow as a being a jew
you're going to have days of aliyah days
that you're going up
and days that you're that you have a
urethra where you feel that you're that
you're you're you're you're spiraling
downward sometimes very very rapidly so
a person has to know how to deal with
those two phenomena sometimes the person
feels there's certain days where you're
learning well and everything's going
well and you feel good you just feel
like jumping up on a table and shaking
your hand and saying yeah i'm from yeah
you know you feel like you know you
wanna you're part of the team there are
other days where you know you're on a
way down and it's just not connecting
and you're wondering you see the the the
the gates of gehenna open up under under
you and the angels with pitchforks and
so on and so forth and you're wondering
why am i doing any of this it's old
aramaic anyway
and that's natural that's normal
everybody has those types of days
everybody at every level has those types
of days even the biggest holiest rabbis
have those types of days even i have
those types of days sometimes so the uh
the uh that was the joke the uh the uh
you know the the uh everybody has their
days of aliyah in their days of ureta
everybody has the days that they're
connecting and the days are going down
that's the first thing the ladder tells
you that you have to realize that's all
part of the process it's a process of
three steps forward and two steps back
three steps harder than person when
they're on the way down they just have
to try to tread water
just try to maintain your level on the
way down don't do anything other than
try to survive and wait for the good
days when you can then break through and
push up higher to new levels that's the
idea
um
the other thing is that the arenas are
there's a purpose for a urethra when a
person has a down day one of the
purposes well why does guys remember we
spoke about the concept in the uh muslim
works or the concepts of
you may ava and you may cena they're
what's called days of hatred and days of
love that's a muslim council that's
brought down the classic monster storm
and what that means is remember we
talked about how a little child how does
a child learn to walk a child is one and
a half years old and the parents hold
his hand and he takes a few steps
and everything's going well then the
father let's go child takes a step or
two and he falls flat on his face and
everybody goes yeah
yeah everybody in the room collapsed
because he fell
send a child against he doesn't know
what said what happened now when did he
make more progress when he when the
father was holding his hands or when he
took those two steps
they're going to do steps the father let
go so
sometimes says listen you're great when
i'm holding your hand
you're great when i'm holding your hand
you're doing well the the uh what what
do we call it yesterday the pipe is open
the uh there was a word we used for it
the energy is coming in clear remember
we're talking about the shama yasera the
the the the the flow that's sort of the
flow is strong we feel the connection
then the control goes okay now let's do
it on your own a little bit but he's
doing that because number one you've
earned the privilege of trying to grow a
little bit more and you feel lousy now
let's see do it on your own a little bit
anybody could do it when they feel like
they're you know let's see you do when
you don't feel like doing it and that's
when you grow that's when you grow more
on the days when things aren't going
well and then things are going i had a
rebbe who said to us area to rebbe and
when i was in chevy uses eight house
anybody could learn when they feel like
learning
then it's fun
the trick is to learn when you don't
feel like learning trick is to learn
when you got a headache when you're
tired anybody could be nice and do
chested to people when you feel when you
feel good the trick is that when you
have a headache or you don't you got the
flu some people's attitude is i have the
flu and if i'm suffering everyone's
going to suffer right which is the which
is the atmosphere the trick is when
you're suffering to not show everybody
when you're suffering to be kind to
people and that's when you really grow
so so person when a person is having a
down day
often that shows you
where your area of work is
on a down day i still dive in on a down
day i still put fill in put on filling
on a down day i learned but on a down
day i growl at everybody in my family
well that shows me that on a down day
that's where my area of work is that's
why i really got to start improving and
therefore the ladder of growth includes
very much it's a very much a part of the
growth process is the concept of the
concept of of of having down days and
don't think you're the only one
everybody goes through it at every level
okay go on to the next page
uh iaco vevino wakes up
and yaakov vino realizes this is a holy
place
and then
somebody just pointed out to me if you
take a look at uh possibly
katsyakov so yaakov wakes up from his
sleeve top of page 146.
top line vayika it's yakov mishna so
yaakov awakens from his sleep
the word vayikats is related to the
hebrew word okitsu which is a thorn or
they get stung
when a beast stings it's called an
akitsa
katsyakov
that means jakov wakes up with a start
as opposed to you know how we wake up in
the morning you know with the snooze a
lot you know you take it you know i take
it easy waking up is a process just like
going asleep is a process sometimes even
a longer process
yucca is stung he jumps up because he
realizes that with this dream
he realizes he's sleeping in a holy
place
god is in this place
i didn't know i wasn't aware had i known
that god was here i wouldn't have gone
to sleep i didn't realize where i was
sleeping that's the plain meaning of
politics let me just tell me an
interesting spin on this
that the puzzle could be read as vaikats
yaakov so he woke up from his sleep
hashem
as i god's this place
and myself lu yadati
i don't know myself in such a place that
means that in the presence of god i
don't exist
i don't know myself as such
the attitude is that if you're in the
presence of god and we spoke about in
the laws of schweinsteiger we're
supposed to feel that we're in front of
a king and totally negate any sort of
sense of ego or sense of self that we
are totally and uh completely and
totally at the uh at the mercy of the
king okay now go down to the bottom of
the page
a bearcluff test
yaakov uh yaakov uh decides to start
continuing his flight he's off to uh
kharon
and then in possible
possible three lines from the bottom
of raglav valley
picks up his feet and goes off to the
land of the east
now uh
the commentaries see in this uh just in
in just one it is one pithy uh comment
that they make yaakov picks up his feet
that means there are certain people in
life who they carry their feet and other
people in life whose feet carry them
yaakov carries his feet that means jacob
is moving with some sort of purpose in
some sort of direction yaakov knows
exactly where he wants to go and he
takes his feet there as opposed to some
people whose feet just happen to carry
them we had a guy here once it was the
day after i think shivas are betamos
so we had a group here completely
secular guys came in for uh for uh you
know for a few weeks so the day after
shavasana thomas the guys were learning
about yiddish kite they know it was a
fast day so the day after shivers over
thomas i went around the room i said you
know ricky did you fast he said no i
didn't feel like fasting i said mike did
you fast he says yeah i fasted it was it
was gehenna it was the hardest thing i
ever did but i made it through i said
tommy did you fast so tom goes um well
you know i was going to and i really
started and then i was walking in
downtown new zealand and i passed the
falafel shop and then something happened
just like that and i remember and this
was the perfect guy for it this was a
guy who was totally unconnected totally
and i just remember the way he said to
me well well something happened you know
sure something happened you know if you
walk past a falafel shop and you're
starving hungry you know something's
gonna happen if you walk past a cemetery
when you're starving hungry then
probably nothing's going to happen so
well you know instead of walking past
the falafel shop go past the plastic
factory you know but you say if your
feet carry you
my brother told me my brother my brother
was in tulsa you ever been out to
telstra a little little place outside
your side about about about 20 minutes
from your slime
so one night he's walking on the street
he sees a guy walking towards him with a
suitcase the guy says with a thick
french accent he says him in hebrew uh
excuse me where's elio on novi street
so my brother says uh there is no
elianov street here he goes no no there
is there is
my brother says well i've been living
here for about 30 years
telstone is a small little town it's
about the size of malo dafna or
philadelphia or something like that you
know it's not not very big and uh and uh
say says to them i've been living here
30 years and there's no ileana street
here the guy says yeah yeah there is
they they told me i have to go see my
relatives on a leonardo b street and
binet brock and and i want to know where
it is
so my brother says to him uh well there
is an alien on obvious street in banay
brock but you're in telestone you're not
in benae brock the guy says what do you
mean he says what do you mean what i
mean you know you're in tulsa so it
turned out that the guy had gotten into
a cab he was a tourist a french tourist
he got into the cabinetry apparently
there's an arab cab driver he told the
arab that he needs to get the banane
brock they were picked up on him that
he's absolutely clueless so instead of
driving him the hour to benay brock he
dropped him off in till stone
and he said okay we're in benay brock
even pointed to the building he says you
know that's 107 nali on abbey street
right over there that building the guy
got out in the meantime to make that you
saw my brother invited him up to the
house
to
have something to drink till he could
get himself in order and it turned out
that while he went to the back of the
cab to get his uh suitcase
his jacket was draped over the front
seat europe helped himself to his wallet
as well so he was having a really bad
day and uh so you know they sent him on
his way to the the daybreak but you know
the lesson is if you don't know where
you're going
if you're if you don't know where you're
going you're getting messed up in life
yeah you better know you better know
where your head and what your direction
is so the first thing it tells us is
yaakov picks up his feet his feet don't
carry him he carries his feet there's no
such thing as well let's just go we'll
see what happens and i know guys who
have gone on hikes
guys go on these say these road road
trips or hikes or this sort of thing
where are you going to sleep i don't
know we'll find a place you know we go
out for hiking through the judean desert
you know where are you going to sleep i
don't know we'll find a place to sleep
you know you want to make your
arrangements beforehand so you don't
need a helicopter rescue when you're
stuck in a wadi somewhere you know
you're going to make sure you know where
you're going otherwise you get into
trouble so yaakov is a human being who
has direction and therefore he picks up
his feet and carries his feet number one
they are he takes a look vinay be airbus
so that there's a well in the field
v h some shlosha edward zone roof
simulator
flocks of sheep who are over crouching
around it kimina
and that is the main well where the
flocks are bordered
there's a big stone covering the well
it's a giant stone
venezuela adore him all the all the
flocks would gather the gala
they would roll off the stone they shiva
then they put the stone back in its
place so we started talking yesterday
about what that indicates now they're
going he's going off to lovin country
remember lovan is this sneak and cheat
in a swindler and everything else and
apparently the people of his place
the influences spread and it's spread to
such an extent that nobody trusts
anybody and therefore we are not taking
off the stone off the well till we're
all there to take it off and then we're
putting it right back on so nobody comes
and takes more than his fair share and
that seems to be the this needs to be
the minagamakum that seems to be dominic
of the place that nobody trusts anybody
else which is very very interesting
because there's a a a lovenonian
influence
they said yaakov says where you're from
we come from this place kharan which is
exactly where he's headed
do you know lovan the son of nachar
yadano yeah we know him
now i read the puzzle differently i read
the puzzle differently
do you know
we know him
all right we know him yeah yeah we know
him and that's exactly why we're
covering well over here with the stone
yeah we know him all right now you'll
notice what's the name lavan
white white what is white always a
symbol of
holiness holiness purity right he's
right a symbol of pureness it's
interesting the biggest swindler in the
torah his name is white
his name is whitey and i did which is
probably part of his charade
that to put out you know and i would
imagine that people saw him you know we
had a guy there was a i told you there
was a guy called the teflon don right
john gotti who was a teflon don because
his nickname was because it was teflon
nothing stuck
you know they couldn't get him on
anything you know love one i'm sure if
you looked at it she'd love it as clean
as a whistle right he's clean as a
whistle you'd never you'd never be able
to link him up to the al capone it took
him a long time to get the al capone
until they finally got him on where was
the income taxes or something you know
tax evasion you know they got them on
something you know but but you know you
can't trace anything to them a lot of
people are dead wearing cement shoes in
the bottom of a river and that's all al
capone is doing and you can't get
anywhere getting the name you know you
can try to find you know
you know do me something you know until
you can find him so lovin seems to be
this guy who keeps himself clean now the
word white love on
what does white tell you
what does the color white tell you
absent what's absent there's nothing
there's nothing there and the only
difference between absence and
non-absence is put on some black ink and
you've got a contract right
white total white means
that all possibilities are still open
and that's really a description of
loven's life
even after you put on the black ink
he still got all possibilities open i
mean never keeps his word he's white
he's everything is open everything is at
best a maybe everything at best the
maybe you make an agreement with him
we'll see how he violates agreements one
after the other and it's at best he's
the he's the uh he's the prototype
lawyer who's fighting over a comma
exactly what the comma means you know
lawyers sit down on the contract they
put in periods and comments and they
both got to look it over and even
afterwards there's an argument what
exactly did it mean lovin is that's who
lovin is because lovin represents total
deception
and the white is a symbol of all
possibilities remain open all the time
even after we've agreed all
possibilities are still open
and therefore uh it seems that they're
not very enthusiastic now
uh yaakov says
he says yeah here's rocco his daughter
is coming along with the flock
new man in town what's the first thing
he does gives him a mustard shmoose
because hey
you know what what are you coming in
here you're being paid to work all day
why are you standing around or go go
graze what are you doing over here
yaakov sees a certain dishonesty over
here now this is
you know let's put this in the proper
perspective what did yaakov just do
who's he running away from he's running
away from an ace of why
because he just swindled him out of a
birthright he just stole the bracha
and now he comes and thou says hey guys
little honesty over here
so what does that tell you
what to tell you about yaakov himself
we'll see that he'll tell russell right
away that i can match your father if he
wants to play not fair i'll you know
i'll i could play not fair with him and
i even have an advantage we'll see in a
second very good sasha we'll see in a
second but what does it tell you about
love yaakov's view of his swindle
he's very happy about it he doesn't see
any you know a guy who just robs a bank
a guy who robs a bank isn't going to
come to somebody else and say hey you
know you just sweat you know there's a
famous story about a jew
jew's walking this band that stops them
just got a big pile of caches a band
that stops them and he pulls out a gun
he says i'll hold you up i take your
money he's out in the forest somewhere
so you said said man look i got a
problem i'll give you the money i just
got a problem you know this is the
community gave me money i'm supposed to
be doing something with communal funds i
mean if i tell them i got robbed
nobody's going to believe me
right nobody's going to believe me
so do me a favor do me a favor at least
put a bullet hole in my coat
just shoot a bullet hole through my coat
so that i could i could you know tell
the people well i got held up here
there's a bullet hole the guy takes a
shot he says you know could make it look
a little better you want to put one over
here too so he shoots he shoots he
shoots he shoots he's got six holes he
says can you put another one here so
sorry i haven't got any more bullets he
says really punches out the bandit takes
his money starts heading the other so
bandit starts chasing you swindler you
cheat
you know so so yeah yeah yeah you know i
mean a guy most people in the world you
just swindled somebody you're not going
to see yourself as mr musser now to go
tell other people that tells you that
yaakov understood what there was there
was nothing wrong with what he did he
had to do what he did i had i had to do
that that was a mitzvah now you guys
what are you doing over here you got
you're being paid by the day you can't
go take a a a an hour lunch break where
the boss said 20 minutes you can't do
that by the way that happens in offices
all the time people take all sorts of
liberties which according to allah is
not acceptable so if you're being paid
to work you got to work not read news on
the computer and then hit the button
when the boss comes and uh uh you're not
supposed to be emailing your friends or
doing whatever else you're doing but
yeah if you're being paid by the hour
and if the boss gives you a break you
can't take liberty so well everybody
does it so you know it's a half hour but
i take 45 minutes that means you're
stealing because you're being paid to do
a job a certain way you also can't take
liberties and helping yourself to office
equipment which sometimes people you
know i'll take a pencil don't take a pen
i'll take a stapler home take a computer
home you know you know anything that's
not anything that's not tied down you
can you you could take home you know
people do this in hotels as well
when people go to hotels and you know
you take a towel home you know take it
out from holiday inn well they want me
to take the thoughts good advertisement
for them you ever hear that yeah it's
good everybody who you're advertising
for in your private shower at home i
don't know how many people take a shower
in your house who exactly you're
advertising for i don't know take an ash
tray take a thing you know tv came out
of the wall they want me to have it
obviously you know so you can any of
these liberties any of these are are
just that they're liberties and you're
not allowed to take those liberties you
know to help yourself to other things
just because everybody else does it and
one of the things people help us do is
their obedience they're they they take
liberties with the job they're meant to
be doing and you're meant to be working
a job properly the amount of time that
you're expected to work the job so
yaakov says to him yaakov says then go
out and great vayomar lonnuchao we can't
arasha yasuko hadore until all the
flocks gather
the goal of louis evan malpea bear we're
not loafing we're waiting to water the
flock and we can't do it until everybody
gathers vishkina watson odeno madabre
mom he was still tall he was the middle
of talking then barack obama saw la vie
aqui roy rachel came along because she
was a shepherd so we see in here later
on we're going to say they love and he
has sons
it's the sons of love and at the end of
the parsha who yaakov gets nervous
around love on sons because they're
talking bad about yaakov that he stole
all the money and the commentaries say
well lovan when yaakov arrived did not
have sons he only had daughters and it's
only because yaakov was there that he
was blessed with sons and loving himself
realized that yaakov was a source of
blessing not that boys are better than
girls but the boys are a blessing so uh
uh the the one
that one little girl
one right in yaakov and yakov that's
right right then one girl comes out with
the sheep by the way zachar which is
male
227 227 which is bracha
which is which is which is male which is
227 is the bracha now i'd show you while
we're on the subject i'll just show you
skip ahead for a second
now skip back for a second um
it um
take a look at page 158
the second line from the top this is
where yaakov avinu
wants to start working for himself he's
been working for love in the whole time
and alejakov says well i you know i'd
like to i'd like to uh uh what he called
i'd like to uh start working and making
my own money so look what love and says
i'm in the second puzzle
look at the translation
specify your wage and i will give it
now what is the word nakva is the exact
same letters as what hebrew word nikkeva
which is a female
the female
so
it's interesting because later on
in the torah when bilaam wants to curse
the jewish people what does he say
lo cabo quel
how can i curse them if god hasn't
cursed them the word ekov is the exact
same root as the word nekeva
that interesting is interesting now pay
attention very carefully we're on film
it's gotta be
politically correct here
zucker is
comes from the root of curse
okay now it doesn't mean that all wives
curse out their husbands it's not you
you got it you got it wrong sometimes
not all the time
but that's not what it means what it
means is what is the definition of
bracha
and when i tell you the definition
you'll see that this is exactly suitable
for why zakhar is bracha and the nikeva
is is is related to curse what does the
bracha mean
you know the word is related to the word
you know what a breikai is yeah there's
hot things a spring a spring they call
it a swimming pool in modern hebrew
is the hot thing what
no that's barack yes that's about it
here but that's miraculous those are you
mean no barack is a varicose is actually
i believe barack is is is a word rooted
i believe it's written in arabic it's
like it's like falafel those are not
what's that
libyan something like that yeah it's
it's an arabic and it's a it's an arabic
word it's like falafel
all that stuff those are all hair those
are all middle eastern dishes
a spring
a spring is a place where there's a flow
of water
broca if you say if you ask a guy how's
your business doing he says well we were
blessed this year what does it mean
you had a good flow what does it mean
good morning yeah i made some bucks
that's what it means you know we were we
were it went higher and higher and
higher bracha means
spreading out
bracha means that there's an overflow
bracha means that there's an abundance
that's what brach is even in modern
hebrew where they talk about the
religious families the secular refuge
and so calling them big families and
over populated families and their
kindness they call it
families blessed with children that's
what they call it
a big big from families
the bffs they call them
blessing always means abundance increase
that's the word i'm looking for
nakva when
says to yaakov
let's set a price
what is he doing really
let's get a limitation over here let's
get some sort of limitation let's set a
price so that we all know what we're
told let's get into the box over here
that's what nukfa means
a curse means putting on a limitation
that's what a curse is
the difference between males and females
i mean you guys are all males you come
from long lines of males so you should
know
that a male nature is always looking
outward more and if you have a husband
and wife have a discussion
one of them has an idea to take all of
the family savings
and go for the big one
invest it he's got it one of them's got
an idea to invest it and go for the big
one and the other one says no no let's
just save and be cautious now in
most cases who would you say is going
for the big one and who would you say is
saying let's be cautious
usually usually the male wants to go for
the big one and and and the female the
female takes away all the fun and says
let's be cautious and and what what that
is the definition of blessing the male
is looking for increase let's let's
let's get out there you know
you know let's do so you know if a man
works a job for three weeks he holds
down a job for three and by time he's
done it for three weeks he's looking for
a new job a woman can work the job years
and years and years and years in the
relationship what's a man doing he's
always looking over his shoulder he's
looking out you know what's that one
like what's that what could have been
what would have been what should have
been you know how much you know there
with that he's always looking over his
shoulder what's the wife doing
let's take it let's develop it let's
nurture let's communicate you know that
they yeah
let's let's develop something over let's
nurture something let's build something
probably the best two weeks of my life
the best two weeks of my life when my
older brother had his first kid
my mom left chicago she went to israel
to be with the new you know to help out
help out in the house area so it's just
me my dad my brother at the supper table
so when mom's home of course
supper means communication you know when
dad's home when mom's not home it means
a television a newspaper a sports
illustrated we're set that we're good to
go you know so i think for two weeks the
only thing anybody heard at the dinner
table was
past the meet that was it and that was a
long conversation you know the only
thing other than that was you know see
check what's on the football what time
of the football has that it was great
ten minutes before she came home you
know everything gets put away you know
scampering around like scared rabbits
you know okay let's communicate again
that's what she's into building and
nurturing that's the difference between
male and female there's nothing here
that in that there's nothing disparaging
here this is the nature of men and the
nature of women that's what the torah is
telling you over here the nature of my
mom uh when cal ripken
set the record for consecutive games
so you know i broke lou gehrig's record
so my dad and i were talking about it i
mean that's significant that's important
so we were talking about it and we're
talking my mom said well you know what
happened so you know he explained you
know some guy just set the consecutive
game record he's also a shortstop he's
not like a first baseman would stand in
one place this was impressive
so my mom was a nurse
so mom wasn't impressed she said
you know big deal so i went to work
every day i also go to work every day
so i said yeah but mom you don't
understand you're only a nurse you know
you save people's lives he is a ball
player he made a contribution to society
you understand so
so so the the wedding called the the the
the idea of consistency you find much
more by women than you do by men that's
uncontrolled
spells gematria disaster
i don't know if it's a gematria but it
should be you know
bracha that is controlled means it's a
controlled form of blessing a curse has
in other words neither one of them is an
inherent good or inherent bad each one
has a purpose a curse limitation could
be a very good thing sometimes you need
limitation in life because without
limitation we would hurt ourselves and
that's why you need the limitation most
men if they were not married if they did
not have their wife most men would at
one point or other i'm convinced of this
i mean i haven't done statistical survey
i've done a study most men would at one
point or other end up in prison if their
wife didn't control them i told somebody
when my wife when i met my wife the
first time
number one
so after we got engaged she said i said
you know what you know we're talking
about her first impression she said when
she walked in and she met me she said
she liked me
but she saw there's a lot of work to be
done
that's what she said which is true and
don't worry it's going to be true for
you as well right because there's going
to be limitation i know guys who are
absolutely growing up
build the highest out of control like
you wouldn't believe these are guys who
prison would have been too good for them
they got married and you know they're
just totalized now yeah because
everything is you know they say please
thank you all sorts of stuff that that
was never part of their minha growing up
you know all these things that's what
the job of the wife is that's the
difference between broken curse and it's
not it's again it's very important to
know there's nothing disparaging about
it it is the fact that is how they
relate to the world that's how men rate
the relator that's why they work
together in unison that's why the
combination works
um
okay so uh yaakov yaakov uh um
back back to where we're at i know when
i could okay
um so there's yaakov impossibility page
148 puzzle guide
by hikasha royako everybody see that
it's about uh eight lines from the
bottom
now realize he's been on the road 14
years the first relative you've seen in
14 years he was in yeshiva for 14 years
right when he left the atlantans he
hadn't seen a relative in 14 years
this song loving him and he sees the
sheep of love
who's his uncle
the yogales
now we uh
we spoke yesterday about the kinds of
viviaco in great strength the coco
guttal that the the strength that we
talked yesterday about it was the
strength of the muna the akko's belief
that god's running the world so it makes
a difference how heavy the stone is if
you believe god gives you strength for
anything little things so the big thing
makes no difference we spoke about it
yesterday
part of the symbolism here is the
commentary say two things
water always represents what
what is synonymous with water
torah torah is synonymous with water
torah is anonymous with water and yaakov
decides that you know the water here the
well water torah is the foundation of
life water symbolizes torah
the stone do you know that the gemara
refers to the evil inclination the eight
sahara is referred to
as a stone evan who if he is a stone
torah cracks them your only battle
against evil inclination is torah the
only way to fight the yetzer is through
torah torah gives us the fuel gives us
the energy there is no other way to
control the sahara other than torah the
eight sahara burns like a fire in a
person ever since that they ever feel
like he's burning like a fire
torah itself is fire torah is that white
fire written on black fire that was
given to mankind it's the fire that
counteracts the fire of the evil
incarnation not only that the word
voracious take a look at the beginning
of the book for one second
keep your finger on a place here look at
the very first word in the big blue book
take a look at the word voracious
page two
you got a word voracious look at the
first two letters what do you have
bayes race look at the last two letters
you'd
tough which spells what
bay's ratio of tough spells bris a
covenant
and look at the two middle letters
it's a covenant of fire the torah is the
cabinet of the fire the torah is
inherently fire
and the torah is the only way to control
the evil incarnation the stone is on the
well and yaakov vina goes and jakuben
says hey guys
why don't you roll the stone off the
well and yaakov goes and he does it
so symbolically there are two ideas here
idea number one
is that when it comes to torah you have
to do everything he can to fight that
stone get that stone off the well
there's nothing that the yetzer wants to
stop us from more than studying torah
because that's the most potent mitzvah
it's the most important mitzvah talmud
turkey coulomb and the evil in galatia
wants to stop us from learning torah and
he presents himself as a big stone the
first thing is we have to always
remember roll the stone off the well
number one number two
what else isn't it interesting where
does eliezer meet rifka
at a well where does yaakov meet rocco
where does mushroom meet sapora
at a well there are three times in torah
that we find husbands meeting wives and
it's always at the well
what does the well represent
water which is a source of life what's
the wife
she's the source of life that's where
the babies come from
and therefore the well represents the
source of life which is the wife
the stone and the well represents the
barrenness that russell is going to go
through
can't get to the water remember
russell's going to be barren
and yaakov avinu removing it from the
well is symbolic of how he will remove
her barrenness through his fila through
his prayer
but the wall the stone on the well
represents the fact that rahul is going
to be barren that's what the
commentaries say now
um the next posik everybody has trouble
with and you really shouldn't
um but everybody everybody wonders is
curious about this the next pastor
possible
um
raises his voice he starts crying so
rashi says he's crying because he sees
prophetically that she is not going to
enter burial with him
rahul is not buried in the moro
okay so everybody asks how could yaakov
kiss rocco
what a question what a what a bomb
question
so
uh
the most basic answer is that the
measure says there are different types
of kisses
there is one kiss which is a kiss of
family kiss where you see a family
member she is his family member and
yaakov gives her a kiss as a greeting as
hello there's a kiss of uh uh lust this
is not a kiss of lust number one number
two a little boy said a little boy said
in a certain remember he hasn't seen a
family member in 14 years
and he's just you know he's just happy
to see somebody now the commentaries do
not discuss this a lot like oh my
goodness what an average you know when
they talk about yaakov sin
yakov virus in and marrying two sisters
that there's a lot of discussion on
nobody discusses over here my goodness
how can he do such a thing so it's not a
big apparently it's not a big deal but
doesn't mean we could do it we can't
but a little boy said a little boy said
uh very interesting thing in the
classroom so somebody said you know this
came up in class and little boy said
well ruckle was so holy
if you see a safer torah coming past
what do you do you kiss the safer torah
jacob saw safer torah it's all living
safer torah so give it a kiss okay
that's very dangerous because then guys
guys are like you know hey well i got a
few safer torahs now you know here's the
number of my safer tour you know yeah so
see if that i'm just telling you what he
said it's a very very clever thing for a
for for a little boy to say bottom line
is that yaakov cries and then yaakov
tells her father the following
that he is her father's brother meaning
a relative
and rashi says he's telling her i'm your
father's colleague i'm a peer
that means if your father wants to play
dirty i could play dirty too he's
talking right away don't worry about me
being a frumion who came out of yeshiva
if we gotta if we gotta get to get get
if it gets to the point where he's gonna
start being deceitful and playing dirty
i'm his i'm his peer i know how to play
dirty too and then he says to her vichy
ben rifka and i'm the son of rivka
so the commentaries say not only not
only he's telling her not only i know
how to play the game i've got an
advantage
i've got an advantage over your father
because your father everybody knows is a
no good nick everybody knows your father
is a swindler your father knows me as
the goody-goody son of his goody-goody
sister rifka
so your father is gonna your father's
gonna think well he's going to wrap me
around his finger and he ride like he
did it you know well i'll get you know
this guy's this guy's you know the frumi
the son of the ferment you know and you
know you know she was always a family
goody goody over there you know he's he
he's fair game you know fair hunting you
know and he's telling ruckel don't worry
i could play the game too and now that i
got an advantage because he thinks he's
got me in his sights and he doesn't know
who i really am and in the end we're
going to see that loving gets him anyway
but torah it's about target la vida she
runs and tells her father
so when yaakov hears the name of when
lovin hears the name of yaakov his
nephew
by your hustle crossley goes to hug him
and i should go he hugs him and he
kisses
now why is lovin running out to greet
this guest
yeah the last time a guest came from
home who was it
last time it was it was the servant with
10 camels and you know all sorts of good
things yo well here comes the sun
we can make a sun a song out of it but
here comes here comes the sun and and
you know he'll he'll what do you call in
and and sorry uh and and he'll uh he'll
uh uh
uh you know he must have all these
riches and then by supper little oven
it's called melo he says
listen little darling uh there's a
reason i don't have uh any and any
riches over here and it's because loving
took them away from the elisa took away
from me the medrus says that asap sent
his son elifas
alifah's he sent them after yaakov and
eliphaz caught up the yakker he says hey
my past said i gotta kill you
so yaakov said to him uh
well i'd prefer not
and alifa's grew up he grew up in
yitzhak's home and he didn't really want
to kill yaakov so yaakov convinced him
not to kill him he says yeah but what am
i doing about my father's command
he's very very righteous elephants i
mean you know my dad said i gotta honor
my father and kill you there's some sort
of distorted righteousness which comes
from asap he says what about my father's
command he says they said take my money
the gummer says the poor man is as good
as dead
so you tell your father you killed me it
took all my money so it won't be a lie
and he left me that and he takes the
money and he leaves him penniless so
yaakov shows up penniless and loved one
is disappointed that after patting
yaakov down first he looks at him no
camels then he starts patting him down a
hug you know where's he hiding the
jewels nothing there you know the love
is a little disappointed the yaakov
comes in okay so uh what could they do
with this tomorrow mirza sham exactly
you