Vayeshev 5786

Paras Vesv, the very unfortunate story of Yseph and his brothers and his brothers selling him to Egypt and the profound effect that has had on the Jewish people on Hayaz. So the posik says the brothers actually wanted to kill Yoseph. They deemed him as a rodeave as a pursuer in which Tal is. You're allowed to kill someone who's trying to kill you. They perceive Ysef as trying to do that as a rodeave. Therefore, they want to kill him. Ruven objected and said, "No, let's not kill him. We don't kill him. Let's go ahead. We'll throw him into a pit, uh, a well or whatever it is, and we don't go have to have blood on our hands." Yu's intention was that when the brothers would leave the pit, he would come back and he would rescue Yf and save Ysef. While Yosh Ru Alhabar, he comes back as planned. Yes babbor and somewhere or another Yisha is not there and uh by he rents his garments in the meantime they had come back and sold him down to Egypt. So Rashi over here comments and says he was not around when they actually sold him to the to the Egyptians. Why wasn't he around? Because the brothers had left Yakov back in in at home and they went ahead. Yakov was older. So they had us a rotation and every day another brother had to go ahead and to take take care of Yakov. And the day that they decided to sell Ysef was the day it was Ruain's turn to be with his father. Now no we know where was. He was in mourning. He was in sackcloth. He had rendered his garments. He was in the chuva process. What was he doing chuva for? He was doing chuva for the fact that he went ahead. If you recall the story from paras, he went ahead and how he switched the beds of Jakov. Yakavino was with one of his wives every night after Rahul died. Uh she was the favorite. Ruven assumed that now Leia would get uh in that that Rojo's turn as well, but that's not what happened. It was the the main sermon of Leia got instead. So Ruv was appalled by that, upset by that. You know, listen, uh, I understand maybe YaKob loved Rah more, but but my my mother Leia, she's a co-equal and she shouldn't be she she shouldn't be uh skipped over for one of the maidservants. So, he was and the Aquavina was very upset about that. You don't go ahead and intervene in their father's uh uh family life. So now he was doing chuva for that. The question is that happened a long time ago. That happened back in paras and all the interim until now paras many many many years now he's decided to do chuva what happened the answer perhaps is that now now ruain had an epiphany and now retroactively in retrospect he realized the bad thing that he did by going ahead and switching the beds and causing his father pain. Now, why did he have all of a sudden this revelation? Because he thought to himself, look, my brothers want to go ahead and kill kill Yf. Okay, they have their hashman. They think he's a roy, he's a pursuer, it's mut, etc., etc. But wait a minute, how is this going to affect our father? Why don't you take him to into account his feelings, his emotions? You going to go ahead and tell Yakob that was killed? I mean, uh, what are you doing? you're not taking your father's feelings into account. The answer is just that they were so convinced that they're doing the right thing that nothing else mattered. Which taught women a lesson. When you think you're right, you do things even though an outsider will look at this and say, "Hey, wait a minute. Step back a minute and look at the ramifications. Look at the implications. How could my brothers go ahead and tell their father that Ysef was killed? Have they no compassion for their father, feelings for their father, respect for their father? And then it hit Ruv. And guess what? Same thing happened to me. I was upset about the switching of the beds. I took that into my own hands and went ahead and intervened and upset my father. Why didn't I think how this is going to affect my father? How this may hurt him? And therefore now all of a sudden seeing this how the brothers are acting and their insensitivity to Yakavinu. He says I'm guilty of the same thing. Now it hits him and therefore now he's Isaac Baku.