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Vayetzei (5786) Shabbos All Week Long

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and welcome back to our one of the interesting stories that we find as Jacobu heads out of to go find a wife to leave and to run away from his brother wants to kill him. Yakabino encounters a well and he sees three flock of sheep standing around this well in the middle of the day doing nothing and Yakov begins to get involved in a conversation and they explain to Yakabino that the reason why we're here in the middle of the day is because we need to drink. We need to give to our sheep water to drink from the well. And until all of the shepherds come and together collectively lift the rack off the well, we're not able to go ahead and drink. And therefore, we're waiting here until all the shepherds come. Yakavino goes over to the rock, the heavy rock that needs multiple people to take it off, which is sitting on top of the water. And Yakavina, like Rashi says, pulls it off like a cork out of a bottle without any difficulty at all, allowing the shepherds to go ahead and drink. And then Yakavina meets Rakenu and Yakavinu is brought back to the house of Lavan. And the story continues. And the shila is exactly what is the story doing? Why does Yakabinu specifically see a beer a well? Why does Yakabu see only three flock of sheep standing around there? Why not four? Why not five? What does it mean that Yakabino goes ahead and pulls the rock off the well with with ease? Yakav is the Ishamoshalam. Yakavin was not the ish. He's not the one who's outside in the field. Yakov was the Yosha. What exactly gave Yakov and how exactly was Ya did Yakov have the strength that he had three shepherds standing there they couldn't lift it off and Yakovu who's sitting alerting his whole life has the capability to lift it off easily clearly there's something deeper going on clearly this is not just a story about sheep wanting to drink water from a well but clearly there are hidden meanings and hidden layers in this story as there are in every story and this has multiple ways to explain exactly what the beer what the well represents what the flock of sheep represent but in the He says a beautiful thing in the name of his grandfather. He said on what we say inab that the says in cherishim to go ahead and to greet to greet my beloved we're going to go out into the field and some have the mic they say to go out into the shabas to go greet the said this of is a reference to shabas why is the why is going out into the field which is the way theel himself physically used to go with meet them out to the field to greet the Shabas. Why specifically does aim use the idea of a when it's referring to Shabas says in the name of that the name of the in the name of Israel during the six days of the week the world is called a midbar it's a desolate place where it's not ready to to go ahead and to plant anything obviously to plant physical things a person can only plant during the six days of the week and not on shabas but when a person wants to plant those things that have a real key in those things that are able to last which The six days of the week is not a ripe not are not days are days which are not ripe and not ready to go ahead and to plant in a proper way. But Shabas Shabas is called which is meant to go ahead and to plant. There was a well bas means that that well is a reference to the water of Shabas and the water of Shabas is bas in the field because Shabas kesh is like a field which has the irrigation and is ready to go ahead and that a person is able to plant himself in a way in Shabas and to see real results both in his ding and his learning and in every area of a person's capable of seeing real results in the work that a person puts in on Shabas Shabas is a Shabas is a field and the field allows that which is planted in it to be able to wrote properly and that's the way the excuse me explained the idea of the now it's obvious what the gimmel ed what the three flock of sheep are theel says that there are three days after every shabas that it takes to come down from a shabas that a person still has some residual effect of shabas a person still connected to the on Sunday and Tuesday Wednesday Thursday of preparation and getting on one's ready to be of the next Shabas. And therefore says this is this gimmel ed there are three flocks of sheep represent the three days of the week. The three days of the week are represent before Shabas. The three days of the week that represent after Shabas those are the days that are there that are connected to Shabas. But they're called which literally means flocks of sheep. flocks of sheep has galad says this is those are days in which the kadusha is nether it's hidden the days of the week of course have kadusha inside of it the days of the week of course have an aspect of is an aspect of a inside of it but on a surface level it's gimmel ed on a surface level it's not the is still covered over there still a rock on top of the well of shabas kesh and during the six days of the week it's edge rate the connection that one has to kusha to shabas kadesh is hidden over with the hidden over with the Evan which as Fas explains in other places the Evan as the Gamar Suka tells us is a reference to the Yates Evan and therefore Shabas Kaidesh is covered over by an Evan Shabas Kaidesh is covered over by a rock and the gimble edge rate sign the three days are surrounding Shabas trying to attach themselves to Shabas but their edge rate sign they're not connected but says even though the kaduca over by those days are hidden nevertheless like these The says they were sitting there waiting to drink from the water. They were surrounding the well. They weren't just sitting anywhere in the field waiting for all the shepherds to come. They sat around the well waiting for the shepherds to be able to go ahead and lift the rock off the well so that they could drink the [clears throat] sweet waters of Shabases. says, "The more one goes ahead and attaches Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday to shabases, the more one's able to go ahead and live with the previous Shabas on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and prepare for the following Shabas on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. the more one's able to ensure that the flocks of sheep although they don't have the revelation of Shabas kesh the same way you have it on Shabas and they're in the place of the midbar but they're going ahead and they're sitting in close proximity to the well they want to attach themselves to Shabas the more one is then capable when the rock comes off to be able to drink from the water of Shabas in the proper way all the days of the week are all the days of the week get the from the well from Shabases as as the says is the it's the and therefore every day of the week needs to be connected and one needs to go ahead and to recognize and to uncover the kaduca of shabas that lies dormant inside of every day and therefore during the six days of week it's not revealed because there's a there's a large rock on top of the well but our job says is to ensure that we're sitting in close proximity to the well that we're not going ahead and just saying okay shabas will come when Shabas comes. No, no. Every day of the week, every day of the week, we're involved in the preparation whether physically or spiritually by preparing for Shabas by recognizing that our whole week needs to revolve around Shabas. Everything in life needs to revolve around Shabas Kadesh. We either are just coming off of a Shabas or preparing for Shabas. But Shabas Kadesh is not a one day a week, one day a week, one occurrence. Shabas Kadesh is every day of the week. And a person who's capable to recognize that even though the may top and even though maybe nevertheless I'm Shabas, I need the waters of Shabas. I can't survive during the six days of the week without the waters of Shabas and I wait the whole week for Shabases and I yearn for Shabas and I sit in close proximity and I try as much as possible during the week to attach myself to Shabas because I want to drink from the waters of Shabas. And the more one does that during the week, the more one is able to attach himself during the week to Shabas and the more the Shabas Kadesh is able to have its proper effect. This is why Jacob was able to walk over to the rock, walk over to the rock, walk over to the well and be able to take it off. The zeresh tells us that during the six days of the week is on the level of Shabas Kadesh. Saddic doesn't live in the world of weekday. A sadic lives shabas kesh all week long. The same way every one of us is obligated to go ahead and to connect Shabas to connect every day of the six days of the week to Shabasic is able to actualize that idea and is able to live Shabasik every every day of the week. The way we live on Shabas that sadic lives during every day of the week. Obviously his Shabas is even higher than us. But the saddic lives shabasik the whole week. And therefore Yakavinu comes and in the middle of the week without all the edit there without everybody there says it doesn't matter what day of the week it is. I can take the rock off the well the off of Shabases and I can reveal Shabas during any moment of the week. And our job is being our job as being and being connected to what it means to be a sadic is to attach oursel to Shabas every day of the week. That Shabas becomes the center focus of our week. Shabas becomes the center focus of our life. And the more we revolve, the more we allow our weak to revolve around Shabas, the more we stay in close proximity to Shabas, the more we yearn for Shabas Shabas, we have a for the of Shabas, for the sweetness of Shabas, the more that rock is able to be taken off even during the six days of the week and the more when it's finally taken off and are able to say that we're able to go out into the field of Shabas Kesh, the more we're able to appreciate the sweet waters of Shabas. Hashem should help us to attach oursel every day of the week to Shabas Kadesh to recognize that chabas is this focal point of the week. We're able to do that and able to uncover the rock even a little bit and to drink a little bit from the waters of Shabas during the week then Hashem will be able to to drink from the proper waters of Shabas on Shabasesh to Shabas. had a great choice.