The Meeting of Yaakov and Eisav PT 1 - Vayishlach (Rabbi Dovid Kaplan) (Weekly Parsha)

page 170 par. Okay, just as an overview, so just a a uh a basic overview of the para which I'm going to start doing I think on the first day just a basic overview what happens in the para. So you have you have uh um that Yakov Aino is coming to he's leaving Loveven's house and he's heading for he's heading for a a meeting with Asov which he's not excited about and then they finally they finally have their meeting and then they're going to have the episode of right before the meeting that Yakov is going to have the wrestling match with the angel the with the Malik. He's going to have the wrestling match and then he's going to come into the land of Erit Israel. Then you're going to have the uh the episode with Dena and with with Dena and Stone where Dena is going to be violated and then uh uh what do you call it the uh uh that's going to be the that's really the overview of the para. I don't think there's anything else. What else is there over here? Um and then oh right is going to die. Rahul is going to die in this part. Oh, I forgot about that. And uh then it just goes on and tells you the the it gives the end of the para with the with the family of Asov. It tells us who Asov is. So you have you know the para is going to extend from the time it picks up in what do you call it chronologically this is from the time that Jacob is leaving time Jacob is leaving Lavan's house. Okay. Now sends angels ahead of him off to Asov messengers which says he sent the actual angels to go let to go to to go to Asov. Now Yakov to a certain extent is according to the sources of source Yakov is criticized for this. We go well let sleeping dogs lie you know go back there. So what do you have to go tell as of? In other words, you're anticipating trouble. So logo, let me since you're anticipating trouble, so logo to take the step for what happens when there is trouble? Yeah, but who said there would be trouble to begin with? So Yakovino should have had why did you have to go go get Asov riled up? Now it turns out Asov was on his way to him. But Yako for his part should he didn't know that Asov on his way to him. So for his part, why are you maybe Asov is back home. What do you have to go and tell him for? >> Huh? anxiety. Yeah, back in those days they except they didn't have therapists in those days. Now, you know, they they would have had a therapist, you know, but they now so Yakov Yakov, you know, he's he's what do you call? So, he's he sends a message on to Asov. Now, what you have over here is really the the uh the the the epic meeting between the values of two societies. What does Yakovu represent? It represents the Torah family. So, Yakov is a family man with wife, children, that sort of thing. Asov is riding at the head of an army where he stands for power, glory, conquest and and and that sort of three prestige. That's and this is the meeting between Yakov and Asov. It's really the the the the the conflict between two worlds. That's a world that we live in. And it's interesting because if you would ask anybody, [cough] what's the most important thing for you in your life? If you could if you could ask Hashem for anything, if you could if you could have any one thing right now, what would you choose? Any one thing in life that you could have to help you live a fulfilling, happy, content, redeemable life, whatever it is, most people would tell you they would want a good family life. But if you look around the world, are most people living with their focus on that? are most people living with their focus on other things which are often diametrically opposed to successful family life. They work too hard then they don't spend enough time with their wife and kids. They don't work on developing and nurturing a relationship with their wife with their children even though they said they said that the most important thing in their life but they don't treat it as the most important thing in their life and in Torah Judaism it is in Torah Judaism it is the most important thing and therefore there's a lot of emphasis on it. So that's the that's where you have this meeting starts with between between Jacob and Asov. Now Jacob teaches us how also this para is the para that teaches us how do we deal with the as of world? What is the role of the Jew in exile and what is our what is our attitude meant to be when we in dealing with the as of world and the answer is that we are supposed to lower our head and be very submissive and very humble in the face of asov. We're not meant to provoke him. And we're going to see from Yakov Au's behavior, there's a medric that says Rhurahanosi every time he went, he was very much involved with dealing with the Romans as an advocate for the Jewish people. And says that Rebanasi every time he went to meet with the Romans, he would review this para first as a reminder of how am I supposed to deal with these people? And one time he didn't. And the measure doesn't say how but it says and he got himself he found himself he got into trouble because he forgot to he didn't review the para first he didn't use yeah you understand that one time the measure says one time he didn't review it he went and had this this this meeting and he ended up becoming very uh he got he got it says he end up in danger doesn't say what happened to him so we're taught over here how we're supposed to deal with the ace of world you see that even Israel with with Israel talks tough But at the end of the day, what do they do? Exactly what America tells them to do, which is how it's supposed to be, except with the talking tough. Don't talk tough either. Don't don't even talk tough. Be very very submissive. You are in gulos. We're in exile. We're at your mercy. And that's the that's what it's going to teach us. Look at his terminology. He tells them, "This is what you should say to my master." So he tells page 170, [snorts] "So says your servant Jacobi, I was lived. I've lived with and it's a I've been delayed until now." Garti Jacob is emphasizing, listen, way you hated me because I got the brahas and you thought I was going to become very prominent. I lived there as a Rashi says I didn't become an important official. I was just I was living with him as an ordinary person. On the other hand, [snorts] if you rearrange the letters of Garti, what do you get? Tarag. Garti is Tarag. And Yakov is sending a subtle message. We're going to see that there are all sorts of subtle messages here. And one of the subtle messages is the most basic subtle message is tarak. I kept the tarag mitzvah. I was with love. Now you have to I kept the mitzvah. So on the one hand if you remember as you got nothing to be upset about because after all the braha was that I'm going to become prominent and that hasn't happened. On the other hand, the braha is also that you're only going to have the upper hand when if the Jewish people mess up. >> So, by the way, Garti Tara, I kept all the mitzvah. We didn't mess up. So, don't get too confident. >> On the one hand, I'm being submissive. On the other hand, there there's there's a little bit of a message over here that that we didn't that you know, don't don't don't get carried away. Now, take a look at Rashi's terminology. A very important lesson over here. Um, it's the right column of Rashi. Two lines on the bottom. Dalifer, you see that? Two lines on the bottom. Right column. Gartiatria. Garti. Not only is the gumatri of it's the exact letters of Clomari. I lived with love on Gizanti. and I kept the I kept the I didn't learn from his evil ways. So there are two approaches here because the first question is I mean if you're living with a loved one how do you avoid how do you avoid learning from loved ones like I mean you're in that environment how do you how do you stay strong look at the very first words of the next puzzle ax donkey sheep slave servants he's telling love one I have an axe and a donkey which is just a fancy way of saying many, right? We say many a time, many a day, right? That sort of thing. It's a fancy way of saying it that he has a lot. So, we talk in the singular represents, you know, I'm just trying to just trying to win some bread for my family. I need more than bread. I make, you know, you're it it's a fancy way of talking, but but they say tongue and cheek. Tongue and cheek. How do you avoid read the whole again? I viewed him as an axe and a donkey. He was to me an ox and a donkey. That's why I didn't learn from his from his from his behavior. If I see him as an ox and a donkey, I'm not going to learn. Now I'll I'll realize that I'm slightly different. So I heard once there was a there that's a tongue and cheek. It's obviously not. But it's true. There's a lot of truth to that. If you look at the society around you is as having nothing to do with you. So you're not going to be influenced by it. So they had a rash shiva once was walking with a tot of his. >> [snorts] >> So in an old in old er in Israel years ago he's walking with a with a with a with a student and they see on a hillside there's an Arab little Arab shepherd boy with a bunch of sheep. So the Russa says to his his student he says tell me something. How old do you think that kid is? He says I don't know looks like he's maybe 12 years old 13. He says yeah about. How many sheep are there? takes a look and at least 100 150 right how many hours a day do you think he's out there says I assume they know they got to eat he's probably out there 8 10 hours a day he says right [snorts] now you would think that he's alone he's very easily influenced he's just a teenager he's an early he's 12 13 years old he's outnumbered 150 to one you would expect that at some point if he's outnumbered by creatures that are crawling around on all fours. So, he should be crawling around on all fours now also. So, why isn't he? No. He says, "Why? Why?" Because he looks at them and he says, "Cuz they're animals and I'm a human being and therefore has nothing to do with me." And he realizes who he is and who they are. So, if a person goes out in the society and you look around you, you say, "Hey, there a bunch of animals over. What's it got to do with me? >> It's got zero to do with me." say he sees love on his ashore. Again, it's tongue and cheek, but it has to do with for us. What's what's that behavior got to do with me? I see people who are running around behaving like like like cavemen, you know? They What's interesting is they always say the karedes we're accused of being primitivim. We're primitive, right? They call us primitivim. We're primitive. I don't know. The way people dress looks to me like they're the primitives, frankly, like, you know, they they more look like more of the cavemen and cave women than we do. So, so who's primitive over here? So, a person understands it's got nothing to do with me. So, I'm not influenced by it. So, Yakov isn't influenced by it. Number one, but there's another idea here, tongue and cheek. They they they they talk about a guy who decides a guy who's, you know, he's a firm Jew. And he decides that he's going to, you know, let's see what the other side is doing. You know, he's been in yeshivas his entire life. you know, he's raised in raised in Mear and and he's been from and the worst thing he ever did was he benched too fast, you know, and and he decides, well, let's see what's going on. I hear there's so much fun in the other world. Let's see what's going on. He decides to go to a club. So, he walks into a club and there's blaring music, a couple guys are shooting pool, and people are doing this or whatever it is that they're doing in the club, throwing darts at each other, whatever they're doing in, you know, whatever's going on in the club. They're dancing and okay. And the guy's in the club for a few hours. He comes home, he plops down into bed, he starts crying. And his wife says, "What are you crying about?" He says, "You know, I went to a club." She says, "Okay." At a moment of weakness, he says, "That's not what I'm crying about. I'm crying because I saw the enthusiasm that they had and I didn't have I don't have the same enthusiasm for Torah and Mitsus." He says Yako Aino is saying I lived with love one but I didn't love learn from his actions. That means I watched Love doing his aeras and he does his aas with such enthusiasm and unfortunately I didn't learn from that how to apply it in my life in my mitzvah. I guarantee again it's not relating to Yakovu himself personally but it's a lesson for us. Sometimes you look at people doing the wrong things with tremendous enthusiasm. So we have to try and apply that to ourselves. There's only one catch. It's not really there's one catch. You know, remember I told you the analogy of the airplane there. Sometimes the plane flies against the headwind. It's got a headwind. It's got tailwinds and it goes into headwinds. And from America, Israel to America I think takes 12 hours. Israel to New York is a 12-h hour flight. New York to Israel is about a 10-hour flight. What changed? What changes the direct? Are you flying into the wind or you flying with the wind? >> So remember, people who are sinning are flying with the wind because they've got theor behind them. people who are people who are doing the right things are going into the way because we're fighting the >> all right so so we're at a slight disadvant it's hard to be as enthusiastic it's hard to be as enthusiastic on the other hand we should learn that the enthusiasm is possible so Jacob says now watch this you see tremendous human tremendous amount of psychology here so Jacob sends to to Asov I have an axe a donkey Rashi says, "Many ax and donkey and I'm sending on ahead to you. I'm informing you of this so I find favor in your eyes." Why would Asov be happy to hear that Yakov has material goods? Remember I told you last week that Jacob Yakov accumulated a real pile over here. I mean Yakov had had according to according to some estimate he had millions. There other estimations that was less. What? What? But but look at the words. Jacob says, "I'm sending to you. I'm sending this message to you that I have cattle and sheep and he's got uh servants and maid servants which Rashi said the last week's par that from his sheep that he earned. He sold off some of them to buy slaves and to buy servants and that sort of thing." And now he's telling as why why would Asv be happy? I mean, my brother once called me up. My brother once called me up to let me know he just won $1,800 in a drawing. I was just oh so happy. I mean, you know, there could have been one better phone call that day. >> Did he give you any of it? >> No. Are you kidding? I took it. He He Not only that, the better phone call would be me calling him up. He didn't like see my brother. I used to I used to take money out of his drawer and leave a note. He didn't like that either. So So the the the what I paid him back though sometimes. So he calls me. He said he want what? I'm supposed to say happy because my brother won $1,800. I mean that's a better him than somebody else. But there's a third option which is best of all which would be me, you know, better. I I I wish I would have been calling him to let him know that I won $1,800 in a drawing. Oh, so what's a yak? Asov, I'm sending you a message. I have a lot of cattle. Oh, good. My favorite. I'm just just what Asov wants over here. Why? Why should Asav be happy? Why >> superficial? >> So what what would you be happy if your brother if your brother has cattle? What makes He's saying I'm sending it to you to to that you should be happy about this. So, one of the explanations here is there's going to be a meeting. It's like when you go to visit your grandparents. Well, you think your grandparents are stupid. All of a sudden, you came to visit them. What was the visit about? >> You're going to get something. >> That's correct. You're waiting for something. You're waiting for something to to to you know, you came to visit suddenly out of the clear blue. I once saw by the way that one of the queens of England her grandson which who was the queen before uh before Elizabeth there was a queen huh >> Victoria when when did she when she >> died in 1901 so 18 around 1850 >> who was after her >> uh >> I forgot we got someone >> I think George 6 I think >> and then after George >> uh Edward possibly Uh-huh. And then then her then Elizabeth, I think. So I think it was Queen Victoria. Sounds good. The But whatever it was, she had a grandson who wrote to her asking for some money. A son, a grandson asking her for some money. >> So she sent him back a letter. She said, "You have to learn to be self-sufficient." And it's not a what do you call it in life that she wrote him a whole letter. He said, "Well, thank you very much because I just sold your letter." He wrote back a letter. Your letter was I sold the letter that you wrote me and made a pile of money on it. That was all he wanted. More than more than the he got the he got the the the autograph. He got he got the signed letter that that was worth money. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. So So the one of the ideas here is when you're coming to visit somebody there, as I suspect sometimes I'll get a phone call. So I say, "Hi, how are you doing?" I said, "Yeah, can I help you?" Because nobody's calling up to call. Nobody's calling up to find out how I'm doing. And when I call people up, if I need something, I don't even say, "How are you?" >> I just say, "Hi, David Kaplan. Did you find out about the thing?" I don't say, "Hi, how are you? How's the how's I've even had people on the other end of the phone say hi, this is David Kaplan." I say, "Oh, Borashem." Because they expected me to have asked, "How are you doing?" Which the natural answer is hashem. So, so the way to car, hi, this is David Kaporashem, you know, glad I can make you happy. [laughter] I'm glad somebody's happy to hear my so because I know that I don't want to get dreed out. So I'm not going to dre you out. I got drama. Come over here. So say you say so Jacob wants of to know I'm coming to meet you. I'm coming to meet you because we're we're brothers. I don't I'm not coming because I need something. >> I'm self-sufficient. I'm that hopefully hopefully Why is it funny to me? Can you can you go and and I know there's one lady there. Huh? >> I can totally [laughter] >> the sometimes I get a phone call like some lady my wife's friends because some lady calls up say hi Rabbi Kaplan is your wonderful wife home. I said no but my regular wife is home if you want to talk to her. That usually gets that usually gets cut except I'm quiet on the other end of the phone like oh oh [laughter] I love doing that. You know how women talk. You have my camplin. Is your wonderful wife home? I said, "No, my regular wife is." Then one lady called me up recently. She always go, she said, "Hello, is your wife available?" I said, "She will be. Let me just unlock the chain, you know, and I'll release her, you know, and then [clears throat] she'll be able to talk to you." >> [laughter] [laughter] >> So, so Yakov is sending ahead a message. Jacob sending a message that there's what do you call there's no there that I don't need anything from you. That's the first thing. Now, we came to your brother. He's coming towards you with 400 men armed to the teeth. According to some, the 400 men are each one the head of an army. So he's coming with a massive army. >> Who? >> As of. So the and and and a massive army means he's not here. Now there is one of the commentaries interesting says that Asov was actually coming to greet Yakov happily but that that he's actually a welcoming committee but most the plain meaning over here is he's coming with a with a with an army because he wants to go to war and I told you that that number 400 always represents trouble. Number 400 wherever you see 400 there's always there something not good. The last time we had it was >> no that was 40 day that was 40. Arainu bought the K for 400 that Ephron is a no goodnick and his numerical value of Ephron is in which is 400. Ephron himself his numerical value is 400 and Asov is coming with 400 men. >> Who's he expected to fight with that much? We he doesn't know, but he's coming, you know, he walks around with his crew, you know, he's he's like the he's the gang leader and walks around with his crew. So that that'll keep everybody he'll keep everybody in order. >> Is related to Exodus who >> could be the 400 the original what do you call by Arau was that they're going to be in exile 400 years. How they counted is a different thing, but it's that number 400. Yes. And 400 represents trouble. Remember I told you there's a Gomorrah that says two men made a wager if they could get Hill angry. Another Goran Shabas says two men made a wager if they could get Hill was known for his patience and humility and two men made a wager of 400 zoos if we could provoke and antagonize Hill and the wager was for 400 zoos and the first guy knocks on a it was an air of chabas. Arab of chabas is always when things are tense in the house and people are busy and Hillow was taking a shower. He was bathing and the guy knocks on the door by by Hill. The guy the guy walks over outside the Gumar says it's a Gumar and Chabas and the guy says me hill me hill meaning anyone around here named Hill it's like walking over to the any it's like walking over to the to the white house laavdil going to the white house and anybody around here named Donald it's an actual show of disrespect and so comes out he turns you know how irritating is to come out of a shower >> right yeah the last thing you want to do is come out of a shower. And I don't know if about you, but sometimes in certain houses if you're in the shower and somebody else starts using hot water, >> so it goes cold. You ever been in one of those? And they always, you know, you go into the shower and you're like, you know, you know, just kind of kind of, you know, life is good. Life is life is good. And all of a sudden the that you even hear you first you hear it, there's a slight it sounds like a a change in the rhythm, right? And [laughter] then the next thing you know, you get hit by a blast to go. You know, it's like the warning before the storm. You hear the change in the rhythm and you're like, [laughter] no. At that moment, then you very pleasantly go, "Please don't use the hot water." Right? That what you do? No, I don't think so. [laughter] What does it sound? you know that so so comes out and then the guy says to him I have a question he says yeah what would you like to ask so first why do Babylonians have round heads that was what the burning question that he had to ask him on air of shabas to pull them out of the shower >> and then he does why do Babylonians have round heads then he did it again then he comes back and he asks him why do why does certain country have slanty eyes and he asked him why then he did a third time why certain people have very wide feet. So the commentaries talk about the depth. There was something he was implying with it. But the end of the day at the end of the day, how much was the wager for? And he loses the wager. Wager is 400. So Asov is coming with his 400 men. Now Jacob is very afraid and it causes him distress. >> Yeah. If we see that Yakov is afraid, um, why would we assume that Esau was coming to Gree? >> No, that's one of the commentary says that. I don't know. That's one of the commentaries says that originally. I think he says that Yakov it was the uh the theizuni or the soro. I think he says that Jacob knew he's coming to greet him happily, but something's going to change or something like that or along those I don't remember what he answers. He does say that he thought it was coming happily but that that that it would be not don't remember exactly but the standard approach here is that that he understands Aso's coming looking for trouble. That's the standard approach. Now Jacob is very afraid and he has a lot of distress. So what does he do? He divides up the camp into two. He divides them up into two camps. Now if you take a look at Rashi tap Rashi right column. So Rashi says Rashi says he's afraid that maybe he'll get killed and he's distressed if he'll kill somebody else. He's now stressed out. >> He's distressed. A he's afraid that he'll be killed and he's distressed because he may have to do some killing. Now the truth of the matter, what's Alicia? Hold hold hold for a few minutes. The the question here becomes if somebody's coming to kill you, are you allowed to take the initiative and kill them? >> Are you allowed to kill them? >> No. >> Are you allowed to kill them? >> No. >> Are you allowed to kill them? >> Yes. >> Inaccurate. Are you allowed to kill them? >> No. Inaccurate. Are you allowed to kill them? >> Depends. >> Inaccurate. Are you allowed to kill them? >> Yes. >> You must kill them. >> You must kill. Nice. >> Not allowed to kill them. You must kill them. It's a mitzvah to kill them. >> It's a mitzvah. I'm going to do a mitzvah today. Mitzah number one, put on my mitzvah number two, shake my lula. Mitzvah number three, I [snorts] kill. It's a mitzvah like no other like any other mitzvah. Guys coming to kill. You have to kill him. You're not allowed to kill him. You have to kill him. >> How do you know that? going to be killed like for sure >> assuming assuming an innocent situation assuming it's a situation where it's kill or be killed then it's a mitzvah to kill the person who's trying to kill you. So here Yakov it says he's afraid that he's going to get killed. That we understand. But Jacob is a for man. Why is Yakov upset that he might have if he kills somebody else? It's only you're only going to kill him because you have to. He's not Yakob is not an emotional person. Oh, I feel so bad I killed Asa. Oh, he's not emotional. If that's what you have to do, that's what you do and you're happy to do it. >> It's still his brother though. >> It's his but there's no emotion here. I might have to kill somebody, but but is it a mitzvah or sign? So, you're right. At a certain level, you're right. That sounds like the plain meaning is, boy, I hate to have to do this. I really hate to have to do this. But we're talking about a Yakovino. And talk about Yakovino. You're upset that you're going to have to do if that's what you have to do for Yakovino would be no different than than putting on fillin. So Rabusha Feinstein says what's bothering him is that he feels if he really was on the right level, if he really merited it, he wouldn't be in this situation to begin with. If he were really on a higher level, Hakuru has other ways to save him, not to have him go and kill people. >> This is why he's distressed. And that's why says that's why he's distressed because if I was really deserving I wouldn't have to be going through this. >> And apparently there's a flaw in me that I'm going to be in a situation where I might have to kill somebody. >> The plain meaning is again it sounds like again this way there's so much depth here because at the plain meaning it certainly sounds like boy I hate to have to kill you. You know they once had a terrible poster. remember saying they poster. They had a a poster with a picture of an Israeli soldier on one half of it and an Arab uh soldier on the other half of it. And there was a quote from Golden Mayor. We can forgive you for killing our sons, but we can't forgive you for making you kill yours. That's a complete distortion. We can't forgive them for killing our sons. And we're very forgiving if we have to kill yours. No problem if that's what we have to do. And that's a Yakov. That's what you have to do. That's what you have to do. That she's a great spokesp. That's very nice of her to go and go into what do you call it? It's like when they made the when they made the Oslo peace accords and there were still terrorist attacks. And Shiman Shiman Paris said, "Well, they're the corbanota shalom. They are the sacrifices for peace." That's what he called them. The people who got killed in the D. Yeah, but if you made a peace treaty, there aren't supposed to be any more sacrifices for peace. He said they're the sacrifices. He got a lot. He got people weren't happy with that. Corban shalom. He came up with that phrase. They're the cor they're the sacrifices for peace. We're not interest would wouldn't be going through that. Yakovino would not be upset if that's what he has to. That's what Mosha finds. He says, so what does he do? He divides the people into nothing. But remember this that he does this because later on we're going to find when he meets as they're no longer divided into two. And we're going to have to figure out why. The first thing is he divides the camp into two. Why? If attacks one camp and they're saying I'll obviously be with the whichever camp he attacks, I'll be with it. The other camp will escape. The other camp will survive. Why? because Yako feels that if even if Asov manages to kill him, he'll take out Asov also. And one of the camps is going to survive. This is a projection of Jewish history that the Goyam are never able to destroy us because we have always been all over the place. They can't get we're never mastering the blessing. I want to read you a Gmorra. See, this is why I don't like it. Because I got to and then I'm attached to it. I I feel like one of those cars. I feel like one of those cars on a remote control. Where's the uh [laughter] So, I feel like not only that, I think, you know, I used to go shopping. My wife would give me a list and I would go shopping. take a day, you know, I got go shopping and they used to give me a list and I do the best I can, which wasn't always very good, but I would do the best I can. You know, once in a while you mess up. >> Nowadays, nowadays I see that that, you know, guys go into the guy, the young guy, they go in shopping with their phone. They look like they remind me of their car on the remote control because you see that their wife is telling them what to get. You just see the guy shopping like this. He's picking it up and moving it into, you know, and every he can't do anything on his own. Okay. Now, I want to read you I want to read you an interesting Gomorrah here. So, Gomorrah says that uh one of the um it's a Gomorra. This is Gomorrah. Um one of the where is it? That's over here. I just trying to find the beginning here. What is meant by the seedcast? The puk says the righteousness of scattering the Jewish people, says the Gomorrah. Hashem did a favor for the Jewish people that said he scattered us among the nations. In other words, we had to go into exile. So he could have been all exiled to one place, right? We could have all been put in Cincinnati. But instead of doing that, he scattered us all over the place. Uh one mean the minim according to some were the early Christians. But the anti-semite, whatever it was, he was an anti-semite. And he said to Rabbi Kanan, you know, we're better than you. We're we're better than you. Like the old turn the other cheek, right? Turn the other cheek, which we don't see them doing too often. So he says, "We're better than you." Why? Because the Torah says that Yoo, when Yoo went and he attacked, Yo was David Aamelo's general. So he wiped out the enemy. He says, "And we you've been around us for many, many years, and we haven't done anything to you here. You live among us, and we we've let you survive. You when you had a chance, you killed the enemy, so we're better than you." Omar, they said to him, "Listen, uh, Reosia said to the guy, the reason is only because you don't know what to do with us. See, if we're not around you, so what'll happen if you would kill some of us and you can't get to all of us, they'd call, let's say, if you could kill, they would call you a deficient kingdom. You're deficient. You're missing one of your, you're missing your people. He said, you're absolutely right. You have no He said, you have no way to get all of us. So, what are you going to kill Saul of us? They're going to call you a deficient kingdom. You're lacking some of your population. He said to him, "You're absolutely right." What did say >> and remove >> start removed them and we he said we go down and we come up. We go to sleep and we wake up thinking about that. Well, how can we get at the Jewish people? We go to sleep and wake up thinking how can we destroy J and we can't get at you because you're all over the place. That's a blessing. Being all over the place is a blessing because even if they could get us if they could get the Jews in one country so then they don't get the Jews in another country. So Kesho did a favor and he separated us and scattered us all over the place. And so where does that come from? That concept of being separated for survival >> is right here. The camp that remains will escape. Not going to really blow your socks off. One second, Alicia. Take a look at the ha of this week's par. Where? What page is it? I don't even know what page I have to here. >> 141 >> 1141 >> 1141. >> Thank you. the in 1933 which was the year that he was nifter. It'll get better in a second. The Kafitim in 1941 in 1933 the Kafitim was asked when Hitler Hitler had risen to power 1140 1141 1141 in 1933 Hitler had risen to power it was 1933 right Hitler Hitler had risen to power and it was already things were not looking for Jewish people and they asked the are the Jewish people going to be annihilated And said, "No." He said, "How are you so sure?" He says, "Because there's a PK in this week's para that says that even if one camp goes, if ASV destroys one camp, the second camp's going to survive." So they said to him, "Where's that camp going to be? Where which camp is going where is the survival going to be?" So take a look at the haft. Alisa, please take a look at the haftra and turn to page uh 11:42 and it says which is it? One second. [clears throat] Zion post on page 1142. Six lines from the top. The remnants are going to be in heartion. The survivors are going to be in heartsion. This is the this is the ha of of who was a ro who was a convert from Edom. He came from Asov and he became a prophet and his prophecy was of the survival is going to be in hearts and in this very part para that talks about dividing the camps into two the mahtora says it's going to be if you know anything about world war II so the Jewish the Jewish uh uh the people the Jews in Erit Israel were panicking because Uruin Ramble the desert fox was the German general was coming up through the Africa with the Africa corps. They were coming up and then the second most famous Montgomery in history, General Montgomery who was the British general was the second most famous Montgomery in in history. Obviously the most famous is Mike Montgomery who threw the last pitch when the Cubs won the World Series in 2016. But there's a second this General Montgomery. his general Montgomery led the British and the Jews and Eric fasted I think for three days there was a panic there nothing stopping him and they had the famous battle of Elamain and that's where the Germans were stopped that was the turning point in World War II and the heart sea and the Jews in Israel they remained safe said that in 1933 >> 193 yeah that gets a dang >> isn't giving our place away >> huh [laughter] well I guess the Germans didn't read the haft tora. But the the at the end of the day at the end of the day what you see in the para over here is not just a story. The para is telling you what the energy what the spiritual energy of history is going to be. This is how the world's going to play out. We're going to see tomorrow more about how we deal with them and how it plays out.