Parshat Vayeishev: No Rest for the Righteous - Rabbi Yirmiyahu Abramov

[Music] in Paris by a chef it says variation of Yaakov and as I'll dwell on the significance of a yesh of Yaakov and as I'll give it a much deeper interpretation it wasn't just a lack of dwelled and the Torah is telling us this seemingly insignificant fact but it's coming to tell us for yes aviacode be cash Yaakov they shave Michelle VAR Yaakov wished to dwell the rest of his days in peace Jakob who had a very very trying life life with many many obstacles many challenges for a major part of his life and it says very shocked over now Yoko finally he's built he's accomplished what he set out to do what his mission was and that was to build the name Israel he's had his children and they all outstanding individuals and they're going to constitute the very formation of a mural his name was now Israel and it says variation Yakko because she wanted to go into retirement he said ok let me sit in the rest of my days they'll go back to my early days where I was completely involved in a pursuit of spirituality because the Torah defines Yaakov in his early days it says Yaakov ishtam your chevre or a limb he was a pure sincere naive individual that his entire life was just centered around spiritual growth he sat and he learnt as I'll tell us he said and learnt in the famous academy of shame forever and that's what Yaakov did for his for many many years while his brother ASA Esau was out hunting and out living it up in the world and getting up to a lot of serious sins and doing some very committing serious crimes interacting with people in a very very underhanded manner Yaakov was sitting valet of Yaakov Yaakov was sitting in his early days he was ishtam yeshiva alum a pure fellow who sat and was growing spiritually in Yaakov after a tremendous life of of challenge at the end he asked because Yaakov lay chevre salvo he says I want to sit down on peace and cos I'll say no Yaakov you are the Tara's idea Shem responsed him you are a great pie estatic you have a tremendous mission to fulfill there's no rest in this world for people with all the likes of you and immediately because he requested this so he was plunged into the very painful circum situation of Joseph Joseph being sold as a slave and him thinking for many many years the latter years of his life thinking that his son had been devoured by an animal in tremendous pain in confusion not understanding what had taken place because he knew that you're supposed to have 12 sons and here how can yes if Joseph who was the the Prince of of the of the whole clan and Yosef has been killed and Yaakov was plunged 4 years into suffering in into mourning for his son Joseph we can have a in-depth insight into this whole concept if we go back to the previous parsha it says that Yaakov just before his great famous dream of the ladder ascending up to heaven it says he arrived via via Van Macomb and he saw to speak encountered the place and that's where he set up camp and that's where he lay down to sleep and that's we had this famous dream of the ladder and as I'll explain Rashi explains what is this concept of McComb what is the hamakom he encountered the place and Rashi says hey Eve God is a another word for prayer at Fela he prayed and Rashi says by McComb he prayed to Hashem and from here as I'll establish that one of the names of Hashem is hamakom Yaakov encountered hamakom water then one of the names of Hashem is hamakom what is this concert McComb literally translated is the place wise a Shem get this strange name hamakom so the morale in his interpretation of the agador has all in my scepter at the end of us after Shabbos Shabbat the morale says the following inside what is this concept why Shem is called hamakom so he gives several insights one of the insights is that macomb is from the LeSean of cume if you drop the mem so you left with calm qiyam that hashem one of his name's is from the lotion of cume of existence the very essence of Hashem is that he is constantly injecting into this world as creation this world that he created the spiritual energy which keeps this world alive if we take the Stender here's a stander here is a lectern now there are atoms which are forming this and keeping this in the shape and that where it is now if for whatever reason these atoms will cease their functioning this Klee this piece would just disintegrate cause I'll tell as the morale tells us this brought down in many different ways that Hashem is the very essence of everything he is the king of everything everything exists by virtue of the fact that he wants it to be there the RAM caller moshe haim lutz Otto in the beginning of the ciphered era Hashem brings this principle also and he elaborates upon this principle and the principle being that everything that exists in the creation is there by virtue of a shams ongoing constant will that it should exist that it should be in existence the Shem is done we don't say this is a mirage that brought down Roth who never ashamed of a me says that a college boy who is a commercial or lamb the a Knorr lamb become or winner-winner the terror refers to a shame as hamakom it doesn't mean that his place is in the world as though the world is his place if Hashem is infinitely fashioned is omnipotent Hashem is completely beyond our ability to fathom Wharton who there's no there's no place that governs him that cannot be that uh Shem or lamb or is macklemore that the world is his place but what is the chata macomb Hashem is macklemore shel olam Hashem he is the place so to speak makuu more solemn in accordance with the Merrill's interpretation he gives energy constantly to the world the world is here by definition because Hashem wants her to be and if at any given moment FASFA shalom should assume decide that there is no justification for the existence of the world and he started speak pulls the plug everything will disintegrate cuz i'll tell us that's brought an immense for him that i'm israel by the fact that i miss all a learning torah it's the terror witches which is mac i am a towel um it's the Torah that Jews learn and that's one of the reasons why Jews are always far flying all over the globe because at any given moment when Jews are sleeping in one continent they're awakened another continent there's always Jews learn ly there's no such thing as the world being in the world being in existence without a Jews learning terror somewhere we give the very out through our terror give the world the very existence to the world so that's the in the interpretation hammer comb now there's another interpretation and this interpretation will give us an insight into Yaakov's into yakko's life and that is macomb that from the LeSean hashem is called the macomb because he is constantly mimicked m people he is constantly positioning and repositioning people you see this is based on a principle that every every individual has a unique mission we've discussed this before in many occasions he has a completely unique mission and he is born with such a mission his neshama is suited exactly to the unique mission that every individual has when hashem created the world he created the world with the entire scoops scope of history in front of his eyes and there was a certain game plan and is that a certain divine plan spanning the entire existence of the world and a mural would feature centrally throughout the ages each one of us from the time of Avram Avena from the time of Adam addition Hashem had a game plan and every Jew ever to be born into this world throughout the ages has his little unique role and his unique position in this world and Hashem as the macomb he is constantly guiding people and bringing people into circumstances into situations into interactions into challenges in two trials and these will push him closer to his mission so Hashem is constantly he's the maqam he's mimicked em he is constantly guiding he's constantly navigating people orchestrating different things in a person's life and the person just flows along with Fatah Shem guiding him through and this will guide him towards his mission because we don't really know exactly what is our unique individual mission true we once did know because the Moriah mastectomy that tells us that when a neshama was inside the soul was in the mother's womb before birth so the soul a Malik would come an angel would come and teach the soul the entire Torah that's fine we know that it's well known concept and when they the child emerges into the world he gets a tap on the mouth and all the terrorists forgotten now go and learn it again but there's another element to that Kimura another mullah takes this child this neshama and shows him the entire world safe as all from cuts a Ellicott see from the one side to the other side not only the entire world geographically shows man exactly the whole divine great game plan watch em and chosing where he is going to feature in this massive puzzle of the world what's his little piece so a person is informed and is told what his role is going to be in the world he doesn't know because when he comes out and emerges in the world he gets a tap on the mouth and everything gets forgotten and the going movie owner says that when a person leaves this world and is accompanied to the next world an angel will come one of the angels angels will come before him one angel will say to him what's let's see the account of your mitzvahs another angel will come and take the account of his I've errors and you'll come to his great great judgment but since the go and we will know there's a third angel this angel was the one that showed him his role in history his unique mission and this angel comes before him and says to him hey hunter Roscoe by in the sky maybe at home what have you fulfilled the mission you remember me I am the angel that showed you what your mission is did you in fact fulfill this mission and a person doesn't know but what we have to do is hammock um Hashem guides us through life and guiding us anning we encounter and we go through and we roll along life being guided by a Shem and if we do we conduct ourselves in a proper manner we exercise our freedom of choice in a proper dignified manner then a sham will bring us towards and he will take us an orchestra that will find our mission that's why it's called hamakom he's constantly positioning us macomb for the LeSean of position mamak m he positions us so now Yaakov Avenue let's get back to Yaakov Jakob Avenue was in a this glorious situation sitting for his early years all he did was he will he was ishtam Yasha varlam he was sitting in a hollow shell Torah he was sitting in the tents of terrorists uh deaiing and this is what Yaakov did in his early years that's all he did in suddenly by Eve Garba macomb Yaakov suddenly encounters a whole new reality this reality is the reality of being attacked by Elif as and then fell and then having to encounter with a South having to go through all the years of torment in the house of lovin and Yaakov suddenly is so to speak introduced into the real world he's no longer this pious scholar sitting and growing and developing and learning turin and developing spiritually he suddenly interacting with the world and with a lot of lot of challenges which are being sent his way by EF Garber Macomb he suddenly encounters the Macomb this aspect of a gym where shame will start guiding him because a sham sang to Jakov when Yakuza's BK Schley Cheverus Alva he said contests go on can I just now settle in and just go back to those early delightful days when I said to not pursue Torah and Hashem says no no Yaakov you have a great mission you are the forefather you have many things to accomplish you have to encounter and struggle and wrestle with a South you have to do many things which will become cornerstones for the future of Israel so therefore because ya call a shave we shall value on a certain piece is no such thing you have now encountered the element of Shem we are Shem functions as hamakom whose area Kadosh tells us that the different names of Hashem the names differ in accordance with how a Shem conducts himself at that given time with a muse role or with the world so now Yaakov encounters our shame as a McKown now it's interesting to note that as far as I can fathom I know three places where this word hamakom is used with the connotation of meaning Hashem and the one is we say on the Passover Seder on the Seder Pesach baruch hamakom bar whoo-whoo Shanna tanto el amor Israel Hashem is referred to as hamakom because he the he giving a mistral Torah is now telling a miss well and you are miss Oyl are gonna go through many many trials and tribulations and travails throughout history but will always bless him we always know with the total confidence it's all for the good even though sometimes a person or people or I mean so we found ourselves in very vulnerable very dangerous very very trying circumstances and situations we know it's hama calm how McComb is there borrow who is there his two other places where we use the word of Macomb am a community miss him but oxalates young yerushalaim it's the ashkenazi min egg when someone comes to comfort a Mona and when he gets up to leave in the morning sitting he gets up and he says her Macomb meaning Hashem will comfort you in nationís room he will comfort you why in that connotation because a Mona may feel that boy someone was taken someone dear to me was taken was a shame really present at the time was was there not a vacuum in Hashem jajaja prat it in ashamed divine guidance of the matters of the world why was this young person taken from me so a Mona feels in his tremendous sorrow and the person the comforter gets up and says her Macomb bein a a medium no it's a Macomb it's a shame positioning us moving us through our lives because there's always a good purpose that's ultimately all for the good and the final place we say in our prayers in our sha trip every day we say oh hey Nicole Betty Sue Ellen Estonia but Oliver Sevilla we we pray or I'm Israel could be in too in dire circumstances and then we end this prayer and say Amukamara himalayan may Hashem in this cook in his functioning as Hama calm may have mercy view HCM it's our ally Rafa let him take us out of pain and suffering left me she would Laguna to take us to - from slavery to to salvation it's hamakom Hashem is the guiding hand who is constantly moving I'm Israel throughout history and that's what Yaakov was now informed but you've got Macomb no Yaakov you have a great role to fold you have a mission just flow with it Hashem and he's functioning as a Macomb will take you through history [Music] [Applause]