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Vayeitze - Ascendent With Moshiach
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Why are the Jewish people blessed to be like 'the dust of the earth?' What is the 'water' that causes the growth of the 'dust' of the Jewish people? How are we compared to dust-earth in our relationship with the Nations of the world? Why are we trampled and how do we ultimately triumph? What is the concept of the expansion 'west-east-north-south' that is the result of this? What is the idea of the Shabbos observer being blessed to receive an 'inheritance without borders?' What is the analogy of the story of 'Yosef Mokir Shabbos' who had great regard for the Sabbath? Find out in this week's Parsha Podcast. Running time:
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you're listening to the weekly partial
podcast with our goldweight recorded
with hashem's never-ending assistance
in the ramaphism israel 57 81 2020.
this week's pressure is precious the
beginning of our parsha
yaakov avinu is leaving beersheva he's
leaving his father's home
it's the akami where shiva kharani heads
towards koran
to find his destiny to find his wives
with whom he would begin the 12 tribes
the jewish people and he stops in a
certain location by haloim
he goes to sleep there he has a dream a
famous dream vine sulum muts of artsa
there was a ladder was placed on the
ground
the top of the ladder was reaching up to
the heavens
and he saw the angels were going up and
down
on this ladder
hashem stood over him and god said and
this was his prophetic vision
i am hashem the god of abraham your
forefather
your grandfather the god of isaac
the land that you are sleeping upon
right now i shall give it to you
and to your offspring
this is chapter 28 verse 14.
this is the verse i'd like to focus on
god says to yaakov aveeno to jacob
your offspring shall be like the dust of
the earth
ufarat's the young of the kebab it's a
fine of an egg
and you shall explode for us that means
you'll spread out
to the west to the east to the north and
to the south
and all of the families of the earth
will be blessed through you
and through your offspring
that's the pasuk that's the verses
it's very interesting thing and we're
going to read the medrash we need to
understand what is the idea
that the jewish people are blessed to be
called like the
like the dust of the earth like the like
the ground
what's the idea we do find adam harishan
is made from the earth
he's called adam because he came from
the word adama which means
the earth interesting but what is the
idea here of earth afar
means dust why is the jew the jewish
people
the blessing of the jewish people is
that they shall be like dust
what is the idea behind that so the
message tells us as follows
this is in section 69
uh piece number five
the question that the manager wants to
understand is why why are we referred to
as
dust why don't we refer to we find other
places
you'll be numerous like the sand on the
sea
why afar afar it's the dust of the earth
the
the dirt so the matrix tells us a number
of different meshalam a number of
different
comparisons things that we understand
from the word afar
ma afar like the
earth enum is boris
what is it that causes the earth to
bring forth
living things what is it that causes
growth to come up from the earth
it's water when the water hits the earth
it's the dust of the earth the dust by
itself is dead
not long ago i was in a certain spot out
in nature
and it was before the rains for hashem
we've had some rain in earth's israel
the land of israel
so it was before the rains and the earth
was as brown as could be
a few weeks later the rains have come
the earth starts to turn green but the
earth doesn't produce
before we have that water
so in the same way it's an analogy
the torah god in revealing to yaakov
to jacob that his offspring shall be
like dust like earth
he is teaching him that they require
water as well
what is the water of the jewish people
the water of the jewish people is the
torah
because the torah is compared it's
analogous to water
so um i'm sorry before we get to that so
the idea is
that the jewish people also require
watering we're like the earth we're
malleable
we can produce all kinds of things but
we need that water we need that
life-giving force
which is the torah when we have when we
are inundated so to speak by the torah
when we fill ourselves with tara like
the water fills the earth
and therefore causes the growth to come
so too that's how we grow that's how the
jewish people grow
that's the first analogy of the majors
now we come to the the main point that
i'd like to discuss
says an amazing thing the earth if you
take a piece of metal if you take a
knife a metal knife and you put it in
the earth
so what happens it uh it rusts
so now um verizon valley is called clay
materials just like when you take
a metal object and you put it into the
earth it rusts
it gets worn out
but the earth itself remains it doesn't
get worn out so to speak
so there's an aspect here very important
that
when the jewish people the jewish people
we remain when we go through our gullus
yaakov vino is now on his way out
of eretz israel and he's heading into
gullis into a 22-year sojourn
in the house of levan will take him 20
years to return another two years to
return to his father's house
in the meantime he'll have all the 12
tribes of the jewish people
it's a tough time it's a time of
challenge he faces
off with love on tries to cheat him so
many times
so many tricks but don't worry
hashem is telling yaakov and in turn
telling the clock to
telling us israel don't worry
the jewish people undergoes difficulties
and challenges
but ultimately the nations of the world
they rust so to speak and the jewish
people remain forever they're like the
earth
like the earth that remains forever
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furthermore um
just like the earth is something that
everybody steps upon
everybody tramples upon the earth
so too your children will be trampled
upon
by the nations of the world
until a certain point we'll see what
that point is
this is what it says in the verse in
isaiah 51
ushaya no no aleph speaking about the
jewish people the suffering servant
the jewish people are the suffering
servant of isaiah 51
who has been trampled and who has been
treated so poorly and who died for the
sins
of the nations of the world
the verse says chapter 51 verse 23 the
samtia bead
i shall place her i shall place it i'm
sorry into the hands
of those who oppressed you it's speaking
about the casa tarela
there's a there's a cup of retribution
that god has waiting
for the enemies of the jewish people for
the enemies of good
for those who have oppressed the jewish
people throughout the millennia
there is a cup of retribution hashem
says i shall place that cup of
retribution
into the hands of your oppressors
says what does the word mean
is oppressors but what is the word
is these are your oppressors those
who cause you pain those who weaken you
those who trample you
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so they're going to get that which is
coming to them says the madrish says the
pasuk
affilo kane you should still know
who does this for our good the
challenges that we experience the
oppression
the terrible hatred the anti-semitism
the jewish people have undergone
the the forced conversions the
the take the cross or die all these
kinds of things that have gone on for
last
two thousand years
the difficulties of the jewish people in
egypt
for two hundred and ten years these
things clean us
off of our sins
when a person experiences the oppression
the us the
the result is
there's going to be a blessing upon
one's growth
the challenges bring about growth the
oppression the anti-semitism the hatred
for the jewish people for israel for the
people of israel
that ultimately spurns us to growth
the the message continues in that pus
again in isaiah 51 and it says
what would the nations do to us how
would they oppress us
viran carmel they would they would
bring us to the to the squares of the
towns
to the great to the great streets
and they would beat us up they would lie
us down and they would
they would bring their their animals and
and their plows and plow over us
that's what it means in the passage
they told us lie down and we're going to
pass over you
so what so what's the idea arabia zarya
bishop
he's it sounds bad right it sounds
terrible they're knocking us down
they're putting us on the floor they're
walking over us where they're trampling
us with their animals
with their plows ripping through us
it's a good sign because where are they
doing it they're doing it on the
on the rehava on these massive streets
of allah is
the streets that the that they are
bringing us to those streets
wear down the people who are walking
upon them the people who walk on those
streets
they get tired from walking on the
streets
but the street itself remains despite
the fact that it's worn out the people
so too the the
your children will wear out the nations
there are nations
they're busy they're busy knocking us
down
they're busy beating us up they're busy
with their anti-semitic hatred
they're busy trying to knock down the
jewish people in the u.n
the israel the the israel the israeli
people
the jewish people in the u.n in all of
the courts
of of decisions in your in the european
union
in in the in all these different places
trying to knock us down but ultimately
ultimately we're the ones who remain
forever
for us the yamaha kevin it's a fight of
an egg where the finishes off and
i'm not going to get into this next part
of the madrish
but it brings the end of the passage and
you shall spread out
to the north to the east sorry to the to
the west to the east to the north to the
south
now what's interesting is that this is
not the only place that this manager is
brought this matrix is also brought
by other people this is we're talking
here about jacob
hashem says to avraham
same exact kind of blessing hashem gives
to aram even to abraham he says
you're going to get this land all the
land that you see
and i'm going to make your your
offspring to be like the dust of the
earth
brings us all this exact mattress
wherever you walk it's going to be yours
now what is the difference between the
statement
that wherever you walk it's going to be
yours already was told wherever you walk
is going to be yours
to yaakov is being told for us
to follow you you're going to have this
entire land north east west south
this whole land is going to be yours
what's the difference between these two
statements
so i'd like to share with you a gemara
in shabbos
and of course
this gemara brings this pasuk and it
tells us something awesome about
shabbos and i believe that it's a hint
a really amazing depth to this
this what this major is trying to say
about the fact that the jewish people
are trampled and the jewish people
ultimately remain
forever and the jewish people ultimately
merit to have this amazing blessing of
yaakov what's the blessing
the difference between the blessing of
avraham versus yaakov
now listen up carefully first the
message talks about the fact
that if you want to be saved from the
challenges the difficulties of the
mashiach the time before mashiach is a
terrible time
we already experienced two out of those
three
goegu muggle wars world war one and
world war ii the jewish people had a
terrible time
there's gonna be a third one
what does a person do if he wants to be
to survive
the the birth pangs of the messiah what
do you do
says the madrish
it says the magistration of impossible
should believe me
need something whoever fulfills the
three
meals one is obligated to eat on shabbos
he is protected from the three
challenges that come
in times of mashiach
etc somehow shabbos protects a person
from the transition time
that's what we're talking about here
there's a transition time
where you go yakovino is about to go out
into gulas
but he's being told that there's a
transition the jewish people transition
from being trampled upon
to being the ones who last forever and
ever
there's a transition point in time which
is going to magic
where we go from klausov's state is
being downtrodden
to klauso state as being uplifted
a leader amongst the nations which is
what we're witnessing right now
in the middle east amazing thing
this is this is part of it shabbos is
somehow what is the idea of shabbos
special ocean it's a special covenant
a brisk between god and the jewish
people only the jewish people keep
shabbos on saturday
because it's something unique and
special to the jewish people we need to
understand
what is shabbos how does it connect to
mashiach
to the messianic age and how does it
what is the idea that if you keep
shabbos you're protected you're able to
get through
the birth pangs the difficulties the
challenges to the other side why is
shabbos
that special aspect
and here's the point
whoever enjoys the shabbos
you eat on shabbos you you you enjoy
physical pleasures on shabbos nicely
a person receives an inheritance which
has no borders
an inheritance has no borders
if you want to know what mashiach looks
like what the messiah
the messianic age looks like here's the
verse
isaiah 58 it says then you shall enjoy
god
and you the jewish people will be
ascendant upon all of the nations
of the world
and the verse refers to it as the fact
that you are going to receive the
inheritance of jacob
what's the inheritance of jacob
not the the inheritance of abraham
shikosa boy
right we brought that pasta it says go
walk upon the land
it's it's length and it's breadth
but that's limited it's you only get
whatever you walk on
it was defined i'm going to give you and
your children
all of these lands
for us something unique
in our parachute in these verses an
amazing description
what is what is it that yaakov is being
promised
if you keep the shabbos if you keep your
shabbos we'll have to understand what
his idea of shabbos
if you keep your connection to me
the connection which has to do with the
ink the enjoyment of god
the memory the awareness of that future
time
shabbos is it's a it's
1 60th of the world to come if you keep
that if you are waiting for that
you get the ultimate expansion there's
no
limit to how big your borders are
there's no limit to the borders of earth
israel the land of israel
when the shia comes when the messiah
arrives the jewish people
are ascendant expanded why
somehow because of shabbos and somehow
as we saw in the first part of the
madrid because of the fact that they've
been trampled
they've been trampled they've been
stepped upon but they outlived all of
their oppressors
they lived all of their enemies there's
a beautiful story the magist
i'm sorry the the gemara the cuff your
test very much a major style story
which i don't know if it's a literal
story but i actually believe
it could be literal but it could also be
a muscle
an analogy for the jewish people
the ma the measure says the isis of
there was a man his name was yosef and
he
was somebody who who would spend
whatever
money needed to be when he wasn't a rich
man but he would spend whatever money he
needed to be spent
in order to honor the shabbos
there was a certain gentile who lived in
his town was very rich
a particular necromancer said to
this gentile all of your money is going
to end up in the hands
of yosef mo kershabus this yosef
who who values the shabbos
he didn't want it to happen his gentiles
so what he did was he took
all his property all of his money sold
everything
he bought a gem
he put it inside of his hat and he
wanted to have it all of his wealth on
him at all times he bought this precious
gem
which had the value of all his wealth
as he was passing over a bridge
a wind came and blew his hat into the
water
bole cavra he was swallowed by a fish
escua meaning that the precious gem was
followed by a fish
a school i sewed a pani de monde shabbat
one one friday
that fish was caught by some fishermen
army man zavin hashta but it was late on
friday afternoon they said who's going
to buy this now
army luhozilo i'm to you oligarchy my
kashabi the rug of this oven
go just so someone told the guy who
caught the fish there's a big beautiful
fish
bring it to yosef mokashabus this yosef
who values the sabbath honors the
sabbath he's the only guy who would buy
it at this time
until the alley they brought him he
bought it
khari he opened up the fish to prepare
for shabbos ash
babe he found this precious gem zavni
bitte lacer
he lighted the dinner in the darva he
was able to sell this for 13
sacks full of golden dinarium
certain elderly person which usually
means elijah the prophet not him
yosev
whoever gives money whoever pays their
money to honor the shabbos
shabbos pays back
beautiful story interesting story
because he honored the shabbos therefore
he was paid back
i would like to say that this story
besides
for perhaps being a literal story is a
muscleton analogy to the jewish people
khalifa is sometimes referred to as
ephraim
the the one who's the son of yosef yosef
makashabi
what is the the identity of cloud israel
we are the ones
who keep the shabbos we appreciate the
shamas
there's a wealth there's an amazing
wealth it seems like we're giving up
keep shamans you can't work on shamans
it's a day that you give completely to
god are you giving up your wealth
no we gotta do what's right we keep
shabbos shabbos
is powerful shabbos is a day of
spirituality shabbos is
a day without gulen without it seems
like
we're constricted by all the rules and
allah's but it's really a day
of spiritual growth of such awesome
greatness
what happens when we keep in charge so
because kaiser keeps shamas
there's a promise in the future time all
the wealth of the world just like yosef
azadek
collected all of the wealth of the world
because of the fact that there was a
great famine
jewish people excuse me he collected it
all for egypt
the jewish people left mizrahim and left
egypt with all of that wealth that yosef
had collected
so too the world is collecting all of
its wealth so to speak but ultimately
who are the ones who will receive that
wealth
the opposite who it would seem it's the
jewish people
that's what i believe the message is
saying and i believe
that what is the idea there's a flip
around there's a turn around
those who keep shabbos are those are the
jewish people
we are the ones who are trampled the
nations say oh
we've got the sabbath some of them say
it's on their friday it's friday's their
sabbath
some of them say sunday is their sabbath
they've replaced us they think they've
taken the wealth
the spiritual wealth which rightfully
belongs to us and ironically they quote
the very verse
in isaiah 53 which is talking about the
jewish people
as if it's talking about their idol
but it's talking about us and the
messenger is telling us
and again martin shamus is telling us
that
the very thing that seems the very thing
that seems like we're giving something
up
we're being trampled we're giving up
perhaps our parnassa
for not working on shabbos
there's a there's a bittle
there's a bittle self-nullification
perhaps not even by our choice what did
i do wrong
that the nations of the world hate me
what did i do wrong to deserve the
anti-semitic bias what did israel do
wrong
but there's a point in time where it all
switches
and that's what the message is telling
us and and to me the message is
the message is first of all
we have challenges we have difficulties
those challenges and difficulties that
trampling
ultimately we will survive it and
we'll see an awesome expansion as a
nation
as individuals because of the challenges
that we've gone through
and also when i believe in mashiach
when i believe in the messianic age when
we will all
it will be revealed to the entire world
we will all experience that question
god's presence in the world when i live
with that
when what that's because that's what
shabbos is shabbos is a taste of that
the tiny gun shabbos is not just a
physical tainough of course we express
it with the food that we eat
but it's an expression of a belief that
there's a future time
where the truth will be revealed god's
presence will be revealed
and the people who represented him
throughout the ages
over the last 3 300 years 3 700 years
the jewish people who represented him
throughout the ages
we are the ones who become ascendant why
because we are dedicated committed to
we hold on to our belief that that time
is coming
time is so close the time is so close
close
we believe it and we know it we express
that with our observance of shamas
we express that with our the oink that
we do
the enjoyments that we eat on shabbos
that we believe that there's going to be
enjoyments
despite like we spoke about last week
despite all of the
proofs to the contrary all of those
all of the things that are going on in
the world that seem to be that great
mountain
it's gonna all turn around it's gonna
all turn around
the very fact that we were trampled we
are fired just a blessing
the fact that yaakov is going out into
into
regalis into exile no it's because he's
gonna
expand into the 12 tribes he's going to
return
back to israel with an awesome blessing
and his blessing is the awesomeness of
expansion expansion without any
limitations and that is the idea of
shabbos this is an expansion
an opportunity for expansion without
limitations
and when we keep it the shabbos keeps us
whatever we give away for shabbos
shabbos pays back
i want to bless you please bless me
hashem should help us
to be to merit to see that point in
history
where it all turns around where all of
the challenges all of the difficulties
help us see that moment in time where we
experience the nakhla bulimitsarim
the inheritance which has no limitations
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