Parshas Vayechi (2) - ברכת יעקב

This week's para is parasi and we have holding at the second cheer of parasi perk meas. So parasi really discusses the final moments of Jacobino. What we saw up until this point is that when Yakabinu realized that his end was near, he immediately called for Ysef and requested from Ysef that after he die, Ysef be in charge to make sure that he's going to take his body and he's going to bury him in he's going to bury him with Leia. He's going to bury him in the and he required not only but to ascertain that this was going to play itself out. The P continued and said that when Yakov realized that it was the very very very end, he was already sick. He couldn't get off his bed. Yo came together with his sons Ephraim and Asha and had this final encounter together with Yakov and a lot of things happened. It's PK after Pusk after Pusk. All of it is famous. When you try to put it together timelinewise, it seems that the first thing Yakabinu told Y was that you know I had this very very unique and very special brah that the gave me when I was in route from back to Kanan who told me that were going to come from me told me that my descendants would have anam in the land of second thing he tells him is frame of manasha which understand was the moment that Jacob took the from Ruv and gave it instead to hence Y would have a double portion in the world of specifically in the but it was neg so that Y is not one shvit he's twovatim through his two sons of Fry and Manasha what about Ysef's other sons if he would have other sons said for sure. What about Yseph's other sons? No. But that was something that Ysef got then started giving. He gave Ysef. What was the he gave? Then he gave. What was the that he gave? [clears throat] Either way, the Tory went through in great detail that final encounter between Yakov and Yseph. By the way, we skipped the Vani. That was also part of the equation. The very famous one Pik, but the very famous Vani. Either way, now Yakov Aino again, he's on his deathbed. It's literally the final moments of his life. He now is going to turn his attention to his other sons. So, one of the themes of the story of Yakavino is favoritism. And the truth is Manish the final moments Yakavinu is doubling down. First, he meets with Yseph and he gives him a special brah y's children, a frame of mana. Now, Yakov is going to go to the rest of the family. He's going to call them together and he's going to give them as well. What we're going to learn today is what's famously known at least in as the and we're going to go through now chapter and verse literally p after p the quote unquote as we'll see that Jacob Au gave his children says the vikra. So called his sons and he said gather together and I want to tell you what is going to happen to you in the end of days two things number one says that didn't just call his sons he called his sons the rashbam says heyu means gather if all he was calling was his 12 sons it wouldn't be an aifa right what's an aifa uh where you have uh a big ballroom and people are coming and you have pares and you have outside telling people make a left you can't make a right VIP barking right that's what anifa is it sounds like says this was anifa and the reason is he said because the 70 people that was the family of Jakavu when they descended upon mitzim had turned into it turned into this very very large nation and who says wasn't just calling his children he was calling the everybody is there and that's the it's you don't have to gather a small group of people says the you have to gather a large group of people but either way he calls the entire extended family together and he says I want to tell you what's going to happen to everybody knows Rashi Rashi says When said, "I want to tell you what's going to happen." He meant it literally. He wanted it to be going to be the day that it's that day that he wanted a reveal. However, but he lost his and instead of being the he started saying other things. In other words, is about to give the but it was plan B. It wasn't plan A. Plan A was all of a sudden lost his capacity to be able to be of the Kates. So instead of revealing the Kates what was the what we know as the is an idea that we're going to get back to the Eyeway he continued. He said he shim the shim. This feels a little redundant, right? He again come together and listen to what your father is, but your father Yakov has to say. We're going to get back to this PK in the raid as well. Either way, Yakov goes to work and he's going to single out each one of his sons and he's going to give them parting words. Who does Yakov begin with? Hisar. He begins with his oldest son Ruf. says you're my strength, voracious and you're my first strength. Rashi says means. So really and are synonyms of each other. What does it mean that Ruain was he was he was his first strength. He came from the he was the in fact says you see from the was never carry. So Ruv was literally his gracious because of the fact that you're the so you were entitled to more and more us literally you should have gotten more you should have gotten more strength says yes is also uh kinoi for kahuna what does have to do with kahuna because one of the things that a does is and is a reference to Malos the says so what Jacob is telling Ruain is that you're the and because of that you should have gotten more than your brothers you should have gotten kahuna you should have gotten malus but you're not going to get it because you acted in haste you acted with a says Rashi it's for that reason that you're not going to get more than your brothers what was the thing that Ruain did in haste what he did was is he engaged engaged in the of is again code word for the story of and when you went ahead and you did the of you defiled Allah this is a little bit of a tricky word so Rashi says what it means is that theina used to come on my bed so the in that was Allah als which is the you went ahead and defiled you and it's for that reason you're supposed to be the and as a result yes you're going to get you're going to get out these are things you're not going to get so ruin is the first one who's waiting to hear his bra and he gets anything but a bra what he got was patch that's what he got Jacob doesn't give him a braha there's no braha that yakov gives ruin to the contrary what he tells him is you're going to be punished The punishment is that you were supposed to be the one that's going to get more. You were supposed to have a skuna. You were supposed to have you're the right but you are not going to get that. And the reason you're not going to get that is because of the story with Bill. So just a few things. Number one. So you see from this that Ruin was supposed to have kahuna. He was supposed to have malas. Now ultimately kahuna came from Ley and Malus came from Yehuda. But really both of those things were supposed to come from Ruv. That's interesting. Additionally, this is something we spoke a lot about yesterday in [snorts] Ruain lost the also. So to have the like ultimately got he lost that as well. So if you think about it, Ruven really lost three things. He loses the that's obvious. He loses the kahuna and he loses the malus and they all go to different people. The goes to Ysef, the kahuna goes to ley and the goes to. Now why did lose these things? Because of the story of which in it of itself is very interesting say. So really you have to reconcile this a little bit. Again the plastic says so in the clearly something happened but we spoke about the and the dream and the right this is an Indian that we talked a lot about in but you see that the story of Bill whatever it was comes back to haunt he loses everything think about what he lost out because of this is definitely something that is interesting. Either way, Ruvane did not get a bra. To the contrary, what Ruvane got was rebuke. He got and Ruvane was told not what he's going to get, but what he's going to lose. The next in line was Shim. Now, it's interesting. Yakov doesn't just talk to Shim. Yakov lumps Shim and Ley together. Shim. He says, "Shim and Ley, you're one and the same." Aim, right? breas literally but you're literally one and the same says Rashi says Raman each one in his and as a result I don't have to single each one of you out because you're literally so he turns to and he tells them number one means weapons says it means your weapons are gan weapons what does that mean it's because Jacob was immediately alluding to Shim Levy that he was very disappointed at them for two things that they engaged in. Number one, the fact that they wiped out the city of it was not okay. Remember Jacob was very very stark with Shim and Levy. Shim Levy responded. We mentioned that Jacob didn't say one word. He waited until the he waited until to tell Shimy what he thought. And it's happening now in real time. is saying he says the fact that you went ahead and you used literal weapons you were you killed that's who did he steal it from means to steal who did they steal it from they stole it from as this is and the fact that you're going ahead and you're using it's like a gam business I'm very disappointed at you what was the second time the second time was with that the brothers that engaged the and this is now over He continued, he said, "When you're going to get together and you're going to talk discreetly and you're going to conspire, I don't want my name to be mentioned." And when you're going to gather together, I don't want my to have any over there. I don't want to get any shout outs when you're going to be doing these things. Rashi says this is referring to two things that were going to happen in the future. One through the descendants of Shim and one through the descendants of Ley. Again, we're lumping them together, but one through Shim, one through Ley. Shim is Zimri. The whole story of Zim. Zimri was the shim. And is referring to who of course came from Ley and Yaku said that when the story of Zimry is going to be mentioned, I don't want it to be oh Zim comes from Shim who comes from Jacob. Please leave me out of it. And the same should be true. He continued and he said with your anger you went ahead and you killed an ish. That's referring to and with your will and your desire you went ahead and you uprooted a it's referring to who's the because of what you did I'm not giving you I'm cursing you now says that even though it says but at the same time Jacob only cursed I'm cursing your anger he never cursed the anger which is very hard additionally I'm going to spread you out amongst and you're going to be spread out dispersed amongst the Jewish people says what it means says is that what was telling is because you're brothers and because you've banded together to do bad things it's for that reason I'm going to separate you can be I'm going to separate you how so because Ley we know is separate they were counted separately Right delineates in the end of Ley doesn't do a lot of the things that the rest of and vice versa. What was the of taking Ley and separating Ley from the rest of Israel? It wasn't so much separating Ley from all his brothers. It's separating Ley from Shim. And that's the look at the Ramban learns that way as well. It's one of Rash's. It's the way that Ramb learns It's beautiful. I feel like you're brothers and bad come from it. I have to separate you. So right now I'm lumping you together. In the future you're not going to be lumped together anymore. This is a separation I have to make. If you remember Rash said in par when Ysef knew he had to take one of the two brothers and he had to incarcerate him, right? To take him as collateral before they bring who did he take? He took Shiman. Rashi said why? Because he wanted to separate Shim and Levy. He was being that's what he was doing. This was the of his father as well that shim and lady can't be together because there's a synergy that comes together you know when brothers come together but sometimes it's a negative synergy and in this case to separate them has another is more like a good oldfashioned and the is that whereas all the brothers are going to have a le is going to not have and even shim shim is going to be anim and they're going to have to spread out and they're going to go teach but the point is they're not going to have and this is all part of the punishment that are going to get so shim and ley are up second and third and like ruin do not get in the what they get is why they getting they're getting it's interesting but two things that they did and two things that they're going to do right so the two things that they did is and the two things that are going to happen in the future that get a shout out here. Uh the story of Zimry and the story of Kak. What's the punishment? Number one, just the word. Wow. That's the antithesis of and that is the fate of Shimi over here in the Yakov. So now Yakov shifted his attention to Yehuda and he began he said Rashi again if you learned in yeshiva every one of these rashies is famous but we'll say it again famously says that when Yehuda saw that Ruven instead of getting brahas got and Shim and Ley instead of getting brahas got clawless so Yehuda said uhoh this is not really working the way we thought this was going to work. So as soon as Yehuda ceased what happened to Ruven Jim and Levy. So Yehuda started going backwards. He says, "You know something? I think I have somewhere to go. I just realized I have a meeting. I'll catch you a little bit later." Right? Let me know how this goes. He starts walking back. So Jacob calls him back and he says, "You're different. You're different. You right. Your brothers are going to praise you. You're going to be so strong. Your hand is going to be at the nape at the neck of your enemy. All your brothers are going to bow down to you. Yehuda, you're going to be like a lion. Now, Rashi says a gur is a cub. It's like a baby lion. An area is already a fully developed lion. And Rashi says that they're both references to David who when he was younger, he was already a prodigy and then eventually of course he became David. But Yehuda is compared to a gore and he's compared to an So there's an interesting Rashi over here. Rashi says, "What does it mean?" So is referring to the fact that Yakov thought that his son Yseph had been trampled. But ultimately, Alisa, you got out of it because you were the one that said and it's for that reason you absolved yourself from having any blood on your hands with regards to the story of you are going to lie like a a lion is a female lion. A lion is then no one's able to get up. So again, the theme is gulvi who is compared to a lion. First a cub, then a lion, and then even a lioness. What's this idea of you're a lion? The lion is the king of the animal kingdom, right? He said, "And this mus that you're going to have is something you're always going to have are always going to be from your family." And this is something that's going to be true until Msiah is going to come who's going to gather together all the nations. Additionally, tree and roy you're going to take your donkeys and you're going to tie them to a a vine, a grape vine. So what does this mean? Sarashi says this means two things. The first thing that it means is that the grape vines are going to be so big and so strong that if Yehuda's shave it is going to want to take their donkeys and tie it to a grape vine, you're going to need one grape vine for a donkey. Usually you think you would need more. grape vine is uh flimsy, but no, it's going to be very very strong. Additionally, a donkey carries things, right? That's what you do to a donkey. You load the donkey. So, if you're going to load a donkey, one grape vine per donkey, cuz they're going to be so big. So, means both things says Rashi is the branch that comes from the grape vine and the is referring to like the smaller donkey. So the bigger donkey is going to attach itself to this ge and the smaller one to the lasso. It's the same thing. You're going to have so much wine in your like that you're literally going to do the laundry with wine says is a type of begot. Again, you're going to wash your beet with the blood that comes from again the grape juice. Your eyes are going to be bloodshot from all the wine that you're going to drink. will eventually and your teeth are going to be white from all the milk that you're going to have. So Yehuda is the first one of the brothers that actually gets a bra. And the braha that he gets is incredible. Right now, if you break it down, it's it's really made up of three things. Number one, he's told that you're going to be king. You're going to be like the lion. The lion is the king of the animal kingdom. You're going to be the king of the Even is going to come from you which of course we know the came from Yehuda was additionally he was very very strong right so he's strong which by the way is also the mshel of the lion the lion is the king because he's the strongest I mean the two are really what the point is you're going to be king additionally you're going to be very strong and then at the end he's also told that you're going to produce the best wine in the country and also good milk which is a very big part of wine and milk is going to to come from you as well. So again yehud is the first one of the brothers that actually gets a bra. It's interesting. It's interesting. You see from what we learned already up until this point that at the end of the story knew what had happened with the now this is something that we could have spoken about in par something we could talk about maybe at the end of maybe we will but I think you have to give it a shout out here because it's a recurring theme in these rashies and that is did Yakovu ever know what really happened to to Ysef I mean from Yakov's or maybe Ysef was on his way to and he got kidnapped and he ends up in Mitra. You think told Jacob what happened? You have to learn and it's not that he would have done that. Did the brothers tell maybe they had asked him right this is a little reminiscent of the right maybe he owes him remember that was there. So it could be they felt as part of their cha they had to tell Jacob it's not but it is clear it is clear from here that Yakob knows everything that happened. He knows Shim and Aliy are the primary instigators. He knows Yehuda said right before Shim and Ley are the ones that get this tremendous Rashi keeps on saying it's related to the story. By the way, we spoke out this Ramban in Parish when Rashi went through. So Rashi straddled a whole bunch of ideas and then and then if you go through the Ramban the Raman says no sorry he says I take that back. He explains the whole parish related to every aspect of it was related to that was the wrong part scratch. But the bottom line is is that you see that he knows and are the primary instigators, right? And then when it comes to Yehuda, the way that's like a shout out to the fact that I know Yehuda, you're okay. I know you're fine because you're the one that said even though when you said it's again that we spoke about already but the bottom line is that it seems like Yakov is very in tune to what happened over here. The question is who told him like how exactly did this play it? It's one of the fascinating postcripts to the stories that are going on here in the end of St. fiberious. But either way, [snorts] so it's shimud. Who's next? Right. It's nope. Says the instead of turning to right will get to you in a minute. Now it's And he says, "You're going to live by the ports, right? He's going to literally live by the ocean. He's going to be by the ports by the shore where all the ships come. goes until where right goes until where goes until that's a place. So doesn't get right. He can breathe his fool because no one's sure how this is going to play out. Now he's not told he's going to be the lion and he's going to rule and everyone's going to bow down to him and everyone's going to give him hidah. That wasn't what he got. even get this uh land that's going to produce amazing wine. He gets a one. Now, I think if you ask the man on the street, what was told? Oh, was told that he's going to go on, right? That's what he was told. He's going to be he's always going to be traveling. That's why, you know, is always coming. He's going, right? That's usually the way you think of Zoolin. Truth is Rashi doesn't say one word about Zoolin ever going on a boat. It just says that he lives on oceanfront property. He has amazing views. It doesn't say anywhere that he owns a yacht. Doesn't say that. It's not part of the story of Zul. In fact, Rashi says means that because of where he lived strategically, see where all the importing and exporting was going, right? I think in the old world where you know you didn't have planes everything came and through boats and and by the boat it was a shook there was a huge marketplace over there and because of the fact that he lived there he lived by the port he's doing he's doing business over there never says that he goes on the boat if you look at already says he's going to go on his boats and he's going to conquer cities and not just that the spoils of the sea like they're going to be pirates almost. That's something that they're going to benefit from. But if you look at Rashi and we're learning this Rashi Rashi doesn't say a word about him ever going on a boat. He's just doing business with the incoming with the boats that are coming. He's in a strategic position to be able to to transact with them. But in short, what was the braha that Zoolin got? Zoolin's braha was that he's going to be a businessman. And it's actually interesting because we're going to go through now obviously all the different uh brothers and no one else got this braha. He's the only one that gets this braha. Zulu's brah is he's going to be a and really the story of being a it lends itself into the next that was about to give and that's to his brother. So Jacob then turns his attention to and he says your brother's vulen he's gonna be a let me tell you what your is going to be I hope I get this rightel right you're going to be a donkey that's going to have broad shoulders a donkey sleeps sometimes you know between the between the that's what you're going to do rashi says what does it mean that is going to be a donkey right I mean to be a lion we we understand the what does it mean that he's going to be a so says that what it means that he's going to be is he's going to be a is someone that can carry a very very heavy load you're going to carry the load of the oil of is heavy and you're going to have the shoulders you're going to have the plates to be able to carry the of what does it mean says it travels by day it travels by night doesn't have a comfortable home to necessarily go to. So what does he do when he wants to sleep? He just he finds a little place and that's where he puts his head down is going to fall asleep by theenders. He's not going to go home to some comfortable abode but rather and that's going to be the so this Rashi already says is not related to saw he saw his portion init that it was good and he saw the land that was sweet he's going to be a a topic he's going to be a saw that whatever he's going to get is is going to lower his shoulder literally to be says he's going to be like an to the his brothers he's going to be there for them he'll be teaching them he's going to be pasating sh for them giving them and that's going to be that of so is told that he's going to be he's going to be by the [laughter] and was told that he's going to That's what he's going to do. The say that why was mentioned before really was older than it should have been the other way around. It's because at the end of the day, how's able to just sit and learn? I mean, it's it's a very idealistic way to live your life. But it can't work. The terret is he's able to do it because he has a a brother and that's why mentioned before because to is there being a zoolin is the one brother that's told he's going to be a businessman he's going to be a big executive he's going to be the one that's he's going to support this is the beauty of and EVEN IS MENTIONED BEFORE BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE day and that's why Even when he gave to all the so what did he say and because at the end of the day without there is no either way now turns his attention to done and he says done. So what does yen mean? So if you don't look in Rashi you're going to say y he's going to judge his nation that's not what it means. says means he's going to take revenge. When is Dun going to take revenge from the push? That's a pos. The word y can mean to judge, but it can also mean to take revenge. Says over here means to take revenge is going to take revenge and he's going to be says what this means. One is that all the Jews are going to support Don. Another is he's going to be this wayers also. He's going to be like the He's going to be like uh Yehud is going to be like a snake that travels on the road actually says also means a snake which means what means also on the road the snake is very small right but it bites the heel of the sauce and it causes the rider to fall backwards and finally throws in I'm waiting I'm hoping ing for your redemption. I'm waiting for you Yeshua. If you take a look at Rashi, Rashi from the beginning of Don until the end of D. It's few rashies. Rashi says that the entire of Don was referring to one person that was going to descend from Shvadon and that is Shimsha. And this is all a reference to Shimsha. Shimsha Gibber was a Gibbar came from Shvadon. He took revenge from the Pishton [snorts] and he was like a snake. And Rashi goes and you talks about weird the nimch in the story of Shiman is that he was said he said that's the mentions over here. But this was all avu for something that was going to happen in the future. It's all in a vu of what's going to take place with just to mention one line in the says anyone that explains this whole he doesn't know about had to mention that and he's talking about who of course he was a mikin who's the not but we know he had this with he talks about in the beginning of parishes about how you learn and how you learn. So the Rashbam threw in a pretty sharp fog over here as it relates to Dun. But the truth is I think it's Kadai to mention something again. It's one of the themes of the instead of mentioning all the themes in one shot with dispersing them a little bit. But just to mention one of the themes that repeats itself here and that is the PK began when was giving his he said and then all of a sudden but you see throughout the there are a lot of things in the future that was talking about right there's there's no question about that he mentioned Zimry he mentioned Kak He talks about he talked about right now you have the whole done is something now it's [laughter] not it's not being the case but don't think that lost he lost his there's intense heavy going on over here was talking about all these things that he has no business knowing about or talking about so there's a lot of being megala that's happening it's just not the Kates that nudo being mgal the kates that's something that yakino lost his capacity to do either way. Next son god god we're not going to tighten your dish cuz I forgot how but gudenu okay one of the great tongue twisters of all time but either way in English which I didn't know many years ago the word gdud means troops. So God is troops who will troop and he will troop backwards. Something along those lines. What is this referring to? Rashi says it's also referring to one specific episode that's going to happen in the future that's going to come with the of God and that is when the are going to cross the yard. They're going to go into Canadan. So God is going to lead the way. He's going to lead the way and it's because God and they wanted to be and they made the together with and what was the deal? The deal was you want to settle and that's fine but you're going to have to lead the way and then you're going to be able to come back. So who sees this and he mentions it he says that you're going to lead the way and by the way that's the end of the end of the deal is going to play itself out. YOU'LL BE TO GO BACK TO and say you're going to be you're not even going to lose one fighter. So God was on the front lines when the yidden entered also casualties. from the land of Usher the bread is going to be very very fat fatty and he's going to be presenting delicacies to the king says what this means is the food the fruit specifically the olives are going to be very oily and very fatty so that whenever you're going to want to give a gift to the king where you going to take the gift you're going to take it from usher says that when he gave the parish he spoke Usher he said this idea that she and the good oils came from usher actually quotes. So coming up is around the corner that the best came from this was in the was in the well. What about soy is a female deer. So is going to be like a female deer that right it's sent out. It runs very very fast. And it it gives a good tidings. That's literally what this means. Rashi says that what the is referring to are the per that grew [clears throat] specifically the of that talks of that in different places that was the fruit used to ripen very very quickly like da that runs very quickly. So what's the mush of da? It's not that the of know how to run the 40 in 4.3. That's not what this means. What it means is that the pay were pay that used to grow very very quickly and it's similar to the Asher was told what was told was you're going to have good pay what does it mean says take a look what the says the says that these will be that people are going to praise they're going to give they're going to give on these Paris. We have a raid bite from once upon a time from my good friend Leamsky. A terror that he heard from Rome in his here live. But the point is that you see from here a little bit of a remor said that even though similar to that said even if again this is that we spoke about in the past either way. So Yakov went through the brothers Ruv Shim and Ley together Yehuda Zu six if you're counting Don Gher and Napali. So we already counted 10 who's left the Ben Rahul. Who's left is Y and Byam. So Yakov turns his attention to Yay first and he says Benus Benus actually says what does it mean Benus right Ben it means Ben he said you have a tremendous amount of Ben anyone that looks at you sees how much you have in fact there's a lot of rashis here but Rashi's main shot is that the girls the daughters of Mitim they used to climb to the top of the wool just to get a glimpse at you to see how handsome you are. Right? So just to see how handsome you are. This pik is a little bit of a postcript to the whole story of right. It's you see how handsome was stating that there were people tells him that gave you a very very bitter life. There were people that fought with you and there were people that hated you. Who are these people? people that spew hatred with the arrows that come out of their mouth. Stating that you were able to stay strong. Not only were you strong but what you merited was Rashi says this is a reference to the fact that parro took his tabas remember in parasik and he put it on the finger of of so not only did you stay strong not only didn't you fall and crumble because of all these people that were hating on you but to the contrary you were strong and not only were you strong you rose to how did this It came because of it was from that you not only were able to find strength but you became a roy you became the shepherd you actually became the me you became the one that took care of everybody and Evanro you became like the the Evan the cornerstone of this entire family. So not only did you not crumble and fall because of what happened but to the contrary you became the you became the and how did you become the it was it was from [laughter] you got it from the god of your father now he gets says he should help you the shakai it's because of the fact says you were with [snorts] that you got what you got and should you get listen to these you should get right and you should get you should get the of the from the the highest to the high that's to the lowest of the low that's so what do those words mean says And so Rashi says that this was a that you should get the of children that this will be right. That's the you're going to have the children and everything is going to go smoothly. I want you to know Ysef. Yakov says that the bra of your father the brahas that your father received. So who's Ysef's father? That's me, right? That's Jacob. Jacob is talking. Now there's the that I got were bigger and stronger than the that my got says what this is referring to is that was told as opposed to and they weren't told that got that you're going to get this and got that you're going to get that but the of were more encompassing give My went without as opposed to my father and my they didn't get like that. So again the your father got that I got were bigger than the my father and my got. So what does this mean? Rashi says means our mountains meaning my bra go all the way to the mountains that are on the other side of the world. Now here's the punch line. I'm taking those I want them to go on your head and I want them to go on the the forehead of who? The one brother that was cast aside by his brothers. In other words, you so Yakob then turns his attention to Ysef and not surprising he gives with he he he goes and he starts elaborating and embellishing this in an incredible way. I mean the first thing he says is you're special. You're al you had a very difficult life but because of the fact that you stayed close to you were able to be strong. Not just strong but you became you were able to become you able to become the is is you I give you a that that helped you gave you what kind of mean bench with kids also and then he says you know the I got from Hashem was bigger than the my father got and I want those to go to you those that I got again not surprising completely lays it on when it comes to right compare it to what Usher got usher said he's going to have fatty food is going to have very very good fruit at the end of the I'm giving it to you and by the way already it's not THE FIRST TIME Y GOT HIS PRIVATE BRAHA. BUT IN ADDITION TO THIS PRIVATE BRAHA IN THIS COMMUNAL SETTING, he gets this incredible. Either way, the last last last had to give was toyam. So he turns to he says you're going to be like a a wolf. That's right. That tramples its prey. In the morning it eats its prey. And then at night it divides the sh that it caught during the day. That's the bra that gets says what does it even mean? Byam is a wolf like what does it mean that Binyaman is a wolf so this is again it's a reference to strength it's even a reference to leadership and even mal to a certain degree that says that this was a reference to three great great Jewish leaders that came from came from and Esther who obviously were related they both came from Byam as well so this is a reference to that Indian soy is a little on the Yehuda spectrum right But Yehuda is mal as opposed to bin he's the he's the leadership of of also this whole came from them. Just one one one last. of the affformentioned are the 12 and what we just said now was the gave them and each person each person got his own unique braha. Rashi says that everyone got a braha not everybody got a bra. So Rashi says that you see from here that even though Ruvane didn't get a braha and Shim didn't give get a bra and Ley didn't get a bra but at the same time there was one general that incorporated everybody theam and that's not something they were excluded from that's something that they were included from as well either way this concludes this concludes the so just to do like a little bit of a right what happened just now by the soak went to each one of his sons he singled them out and he gave them a ruin well ruain actually didn't get a braha. Ruain was told all the things he's not going to get. You're not going to be the you're not going to be the cen. You're not going to be the melik. Why? Because of the story of Bellah Shim and Ley, you're one and the same. That's why they're lumped together. I don't even have to single you out. But as far as Shim and Levy goes, no brahas for you either, right? And the reason that you're not getting bra is because of the story of because of the story of and by the way Jacob says I even see in the future that history is going to repeat itself. There'll be a story of Zimre there'll be a story of and please keep me out of it. I don't want to have anything to do with that. What's their fate? So their fate is that not you're losing the you're losing the kahuna you're losing the mus. They were never supposed to get that in the first place. Ironically ley at one point will get the kahuna but that's because of something ley is going to do in the future. doesn't get any mention or shout out here in the which is a little bit surprising right but the bottom line is is that what's their punishment number one she says but additionally first of all you can't be anymore we have to separate you number two you're going to be spread out you're not going to have you're not going to have a proper Yehuda was the first one of the brothers that got a braha what was his braha he's the lion Right? He also gets uh a kino. He's also compared to one of the animals, but it's the animal, right? The king of the line of the animal kingdom. So, he becomes the the king. You're going to be strong. Your brothers are all going to bow down to you. Not just that, good wine and good milk are going to come from your territory as well. Is going to be a is learning don is going to come from don the interesting that you're going to be. So also on the spectrum of Yehuda, a little Yehuda dig and he too is compared to an animal. He's compared to a snake. Yehuda is the lion. He's the snake. But uh somewhat gdad God is going to be Gdad. But God is going to lead the Jews into when they cross the yard. Then he's going to come back safely. That's the one shout out that God gets that. What is that? But that's the one maybe the fact they're going to all come home safely. That's the one thing that God is told us is going to produce fatty food specifically oily olives good fruit people are going to give on his fruit. Wow. Yseph gets everything, right? Gets my best. He gets everything incredible. And By compared to a wolf who's going to fight, he's going to rule specifically and Esther are going to come are going to come from. It's interesting. Five of the were compared to animals, right? When you talk about animals, it's five of the was compared to a lion. Isa was compared to a a donkey. Dong was compared to a snake. Napali was compared to a female deer. Abama was compared to a wolf. A lot of on all these things, but the bottom line is this is sort of the story of the just a few. The first is that the Pik says calls all his kids. We said the rash says the entire extended family, I want you to all come together. I want you to all come together and I want you to now be here while I'm going to go and I'm going to give brahas. I saw in the shurim from Ram Allevi he brings that the briskarov asked that why did Yak give everyone [snorts] the brahas in front of everybody else should have been a private braha ysef in the beginning of the parish gets his private braha it's my private braha right you would think a father was lying on his deathbed and he wants to bench his children so each child comes and he gets his braha you'll get your braha you'll get your bra why did Yako feel that the right way to give the bra was to do it in a public way. So the said something he says we know is really one unit. We're oneh we're really one g we're made up of different limbs and theim represent the respective limbs and they represent the different and the different that we have as a nation. But let's be honest, said Marin, you the fact that Yehuda is a lion doesn't just affect Yehuda. It affects all the I'm part of a an um that has a limb that's a lion. The fact that is IT AFFECTS EVERYBODY. I'M PART OF A nation that has a limb that's a so as much as the brahas are being tailored to each individual but really then they affect all the every single member of is gbenched by virtue of the specific that each one of the got so if that's the case said the prriskarovto that really the shv got is was neg single member of you see if we see each as an individual the fact that he's a has nothing to do with the me AND THE FACT THAT HE'S a big well what do I have from that and the fact that he's ach but when you see as one nation and then you appreciate wow there's going to be a of that's going to be and you know what they're going to do with their money there's going to be another of is going to sit and learn and they're going to go ahead and they're going to support that of so you appreciate that every member of this great nation JUST GOT GENCHENCHED BY THE FACT THAT this is and this It's all a for everybody said the brisk and it's for that reason it's for that reason every member had to be there because really these were for every single the truth is this brisk is it's the last that we learned. So, what was the last poss talking about the individual that each got so each got an individual. So, it should be what does it mean? You would have thought. So you would have thought that Yehuda is only the andy is only the z and only is the but you would have thought that is not an and is not a that really the everybody got affected everybody else. Now you learn this rash. It's a very sesome rash. It's not clear what Rashi is saying. This brisker is the beer. It's the Hezb this rash because really all the are every single year. If we can appreciate the fact that we're that means any that any member of our nation has is really something that's all of us. It's for that reason. I want everyone to be here cuz all the that we're going to tile right now are really really going to be everybody. I saw another beautiful bay. So we mentioned it's a redundant heimu and then truth is if you look at rash look at says like this he so what does mean in Aramaic it means means the tes the two words differently the first is the second vishimu is why would the uncleus touch the two words vishimu differently because the tag of is bothered with the why does it have to say he once you say vishimu you said vishimu already why do you have to say it twice must be one vishimu means to listen and the other means to be by the way what's the precedent for this listen right those are the three tes of the word shama that you're supposed to have when you say the word but the bottom line is if you look at uncleas touches the two differently it's because he's bothered otherwise it's going to be redundant but still what's these two things so the said half of a fellow again this parish is known as the but the truth is it wasn't 100% brahas as a matter of fact ruen didn't get any brahas what ruven shim levy got was they got in other words really the was made up of and it was made up of so the says if somebody gives you a what do you do you listen listen but you listen to the if somebody gives you the is not to listen to the you HAVE TO BE YOU HAVE TO INTERNALIZE IT was doing two things he was giving AND HE WAS GIVING HE shimu his listen listen to the I'm going to get there's going to be going on here also and that's something you already have to be that's something that requires internalizing that's these two listen to the and be internalize the you're going to get but I saw a third I saw a third in the sh for a mayor al mayor asked rashi He says that prefaced. So what's the story? Everyone knows this is very old. He's on his deathbed. He says, "I want to tell my descendants when the bit is going to come to an end." He says, "Everybody come." Everybody's hovering over the bed. The visual according to the Rashbam is way more dramatic. Standing room only, right? And uh everyone's trying to listen and they're squashed and the is about to be the and then all of a sudden and instead of Mal the he started saying different things. So Ram mayor asked that it sounds like Yakabino knew when the Kates was if he knew when the Kates was why did he wait until he was lying on his deathbed now all of a sudden he's going to be Mal the Kates and he missed it by a minute rightu should have been Mal the Kates when he had an opportunity to be Mal the Kates [snorts] in the words of mayor if Jacobu feels the right thing is to be Mal the Kates AND BE MAL THE KATES WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE the last second of his life this is when you the gates if you are tapped and you know when the cates is and you feel that it's an appropriate piece of information to go ahead and share with your family. So share it again. You know, we get caught up in the dramatic visual. But why? If you know the gates by the next shoppers table the gates and it wouldn't have BEEN IT WAS ONLY because it was mish it was. So what's going on over here? This was al just want to be alo and that is so rare goes asked that why did yakabu wait until the last second to be malic. What was Jaku's plan B? Jaku called the why called the to be the case didn't work. So because it didn't work instead he says okay everyone's here well we're not going to waste a goodifa we have to be about something right we got to come up with some something we got to do. So you KNOW WHAT INSTEAD OF BEING THE CASE LET ME give instead what's the the flow I it didn't work to be Mal the case. So instead of that I'm going to instead give brahus maybe you could say and and maybe it's it's and for sure maybe this is and it's really based on an id that we've spoken about over the years just like yakino gave brahas here in the end of gives braas in the end of of right the says and the says when describes giving at the end of his life in says what does it mean? It's because at that moment that was he was he had achieved a very very harm. He was able to be mass at that moment. SOMETHING THAT HE WASN'T ABLE TO BE massive his entire life. I'm skipping a little bit and the wanted to bring out this point when is giving now you should know he's and it's happening right before he's dying is always not you know what kind of madrega he's going to be on because you're going to be on a madrega that's greater than any major you've ever been on. And it was then he chose to give the because he understood that if I'm the now because of the he was on those were going to be so says what's the point the point is that he's an isim it's an isim is on such an incredible major and it's for that reason he decided That's the time to give the because the truth is this is says as follows we've taught at the time that a person is about to die and the den is residing over him to be taken out of this world He gets a special something that he never got during his lifetime. As soon as that and it cleaves to him, he's able to see things that he was not able to see during his lifetime. And the reason is because of that that's on it. And when that comes on him and he starts seeing the things that he wasn't able to see during his life that in of itself causes him to leave this world says desire that's what the means when it says it's the IT'S THAT descends upon a person at the end of his life that's what causes him to die that's why he leaves this world additionally That's what the means when it says nobody could see me and live. You can't see me and live. You could see me and then die. And before dies, he sees he sees. He's able to see things and he's able to know things that otherwise he couldn't see and he couldn't know. That's the happens. That's but at the same time while a person is dying at that moment he's able to see things. This is the that is talking about that a person is able to achieve and that's why gave the bra because he knew because of that he had because of that incredible major that he was on he was going to be able to give brahas and he was going to able to give brahas braas that were going to be he has a on this it's actually on the was the last day of of life said and he has a beautiful with different related to this idea which is rooted in aes that when he all of a sudden he achieves a incredible incredible major one of the things that tells Sue is that when he was masked his great rebi he said quote I wasn't to shed tears on the ca of this I wasn't to be with him had I been there who knows what It could have been he's referring to this because when a person is with you from is unbelievable he says that with this maybe you can answer that saw and he's saying he saw the he saw the fact he's going to die and Frank why you singing You should have said what's the loss in it doesn't say he saw death he saw the a person can achieve incredible madregas and because a person's able to achieve incredible madregas so it's for that reason when a person finds himself IN THAT SITUATION WOW IT'S NOT he was going to be but to die and he knew that one day he's going to see the So when he what's going to be one day he's saying he said this gives a different says when was passing away he said and says what does it mean all of a sudden he had an why have an right before he's dying it's because it was he was able to see things that he was never able to see the says inj right? Remember he said some right before he died actually says what's going it's this because able to achieve a tremendous tremendous madu maybe would have loved me the kates during his lifetime but I don't know if yakinu knew the kates when was already When Yakabino was already lying on his deathbed, this was the last moment, the first p of the next sh is going to be the mis of Jakavino. Yakavino is literally gasping his final breaths. At that point, it was it WAS AN IS AT THAT MOMENT HE WAS ABLE TO SEE WHAT HE WASN'T ABLE TO SEE IN THE PAST. ALL OF A SUDDEN, HE SAW THE CATES. SO HE SAID, He lost it. He lost it in one second. And the reason is because we weren't supposed to have a mess of when supposed to come. We're supposed to wait and we're supposed to wait. But the bottom line is it could be had he known it earlier. He would have been aged earlier saw the butu realized that it's and I lost my capacity to see the gates and to reveal it. But it was still so what's the second thing you do? He did what was going to do in the future because these are the two you're able to see these are the a person the initial reaction was let me be the plan B is not like instead of doing this let me do that it's there's a right now that's what's going on with Jacob and Jacob was tapping into that and says let me be the case what was the plan B what was the second the second was give it's a barel I didn't see I was looking but it's says as follows gave him is quoting that zya that we mentioned earlier. I'm skipping two pages. You find wanted to give brahas before he died because he knew that then his nephesh would be very do if his nephesh is so do well then his are going to be more effective like the said was masarov So to despite the fact that he was so weak and he was so sick because of the ultimately took his life. First he gave a to and then he gave to the rest of his children and he told them at that moment opened up and all the secrets of the world were revealed to him and he wanted to be them to children of didn't end up working out. He wanted to be Mal the cates that didn't work but at the same time he took advantage of the like his father did like would do in the future he went ahead and he gave the he's says because when a person's lying on his deathbed the words that come out of his mouth are not pit there's an of that's coming out of the person's mouth and you have to listen to what the person says because it's not a push the thing it's true for everybody everybody. That's true for every single person in the world. But either way, this is this the is that was right now but at the same time when a person's dying then already he's able to see and he wanted to use that to what to comfort his children that even though there's going to be of gulas and by the way the gullus is about to start right now right right around now says right at the beginning of understood that right now that was about to begin and he wanted to comfort his kind and he wanted to give them a little bit of so he said let me be to you I could see right now but it wasn't meant to be it wasn't meant to be because is to be in g and not to know not to know when the end is going to come it's to wait like father like a zeda. He wanted to throw us the ultimate bone. He wanted to give us this we could have a date circled on our calendars like this. We know when when the k is going to come that wasn't meant to be. But at the same time what he did do was he gave his children. He gave them brahas. He gave us the kas. He gave us what we need to be able to survive through that galas to survive through the sashiba that was about to begin to survive and to persevere. Either way, we're getting towards the very very very end already of safer, right? When you finish, when you finish, it's not. So, we could feel it already. Either way, we're gonna stop here and we're gonna finish safe and boracious in the next