Vayishlach - Final Battle of Yakov and Esav

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in room up ishmael 5781 2020. this week's parties and our parsha has the cataclysmic showdown between yaakov avinu jacob and ace of his brother from whom he had stolen the blessings the brachus and departure two weeks ago and this showdown was waiting for 20 years 20 years to happen but the showdown is not just about yaakov it's not just about yaakov and asaf in those times but it's a showdown between yaakov and isa between the people of israel who represents spirituality and ace of doubt our very generation the western ideology and our ghazal is attributed to asev the rome rome is called edom and on through our times the whole west is called edom so what is this cataclysmic showdown about what is the bottom line of it and at the very end of the parsha in uh paraglimid above pasta about the kings of edon the kings who came from asava russia so it's not just the showdown between yaakov and asap but it's also going to tell us about what happened post post that showdown after the showdown because it's something that goes on through the generations as as yitzhak blessed both of them when one rises the other one falls when one falls the other one rises cloudy australia is ascendant cholesterol is strong so aesop is weak and when aesop is strong cholesterol is weak hashan the idea is also that when spirituality is stronger physicality is weaker when physicality is stronger so then spirituality can be weaker it gives a list of the eight kings in these verses who would rule over edom and the magic tells us a very important and interesting concept which i'd like to share with you tells us that these eight kings reigned before there was a king in khloe before the jewish people had a king the eight kings of ace of reigned what is the idea allah we have judges when they have aloof him which are it's not as great as a king but it's still on a higher level so we have to see him we have our princes we don't have the same level when they have power we don't have that power but what happens subsequently so let's look at the different proportion around here it's very interesting the emery yoshua says the way that it works is this is something we find in say from the end of when the jewish people have kings so the kings of adam they don't the ki the adam does not have kings anymore the jewish people start to have kings so then the people of adam no longer have kings remember and the immediate the safari issue says why is the tire telling us about the eight kings of adam it's for us to understand that zelu said the way that does things the way that god does things is this corresponding to that if they had eight kings you need not worry we shall also have eight kings as the hamster of the magisters we're not gonna read but it does say that israel the way that it works is like a muslim when this one rises this one falls when this one rises this one falls that goes back and forth and it's important for us to realize that if there's a power if we see that adam has power we need not worry we shall also the jewish people spirituality will also be ascendant we will also have power the acid says over here like this very interesting hey look look at the nations of the world we see that it's not true we saw that there was it there were still kings amongst the kings of adam but he explains no when the jewish people had a real king so then the level of the kings of adam went down their kings so to speak were not true kings but like for example the king of england the queen of england she's she's just a constitutional monarch she doesn't have the power she doesn't have true power she can't decide who's gonna live and who's going to die she doesn't decide she doesn't have the final say there's a parliament etc so too that's how it was when the jewish people began to have kings so then the the kings of adam lost their power they were just re like a regency like someone with a certain level of power not full power now listen to this came all along so the jewish people had their kings and even adam had their uh you know their constitutional monarchs but who didn't have full power but came he mixed everything up so both the kings of the jews and the kings of adam lost their power of harass that was the mukhanese he was able to cause destruction to the jewish people to the sons the children of avarmavinu now what happens later on there was a king a uh one of the kings i believe of of bavel perhaps i'm not sure i'm sorry i'm missing the history on this one evil there was a certain king of the nations of the world who gave power to you came and he gave power to haman very interesting and as we know and as the mahar zhou explains didn't explain us explicitly but but we see we know from the verses that this is the case that one goes up one goes down and it continues on throughout the generations throughout history very interesting thinking about as soon as the jewish people return to arts israel we have have our own state 1948 i don't know exactly the history excuse me if you do know but we know around world war the end of world war ii was when the kings the the british empire began to lose its power the many many of the different um sub-countries countries that were under its power gain their independence so as the jewish people rises the nations of adam the western powers fall it's very interesting so that's the madrish that's the first part of the magician i want to read to you another very very interesting and beautiful piece a beautiful analogy the measure says there was a certain field and the the the straw of the field the tavern the cache another aspect of the straw the mites and the chaff they were arguing in israel that this one is saying you know why they planted this field it was for me because i got to grow here zombies the one says no it was because of me that the field was grown it was planted so the grains the grains of wheat said to the to the straw to the chaff wait until we get to the granary and you will know what was the purpose of of planting this field bowler guaranteed i got to the granary the owner of the house came to get rid of the chaff the chaff flew off in the wind not allah said to heaven he took the tavern he put the straw on the ground then not allah used the kash other part of the straw to burn it so we see what did he do he took the grains themselves also ice on cree and he made a pile in a basket called misha roya minashkun whatever would pass by so they would kiss this the greens not the puzzles until chapter 2 verse 12 right doesn't mean here the sun as certain other religions would like to believe kiss bar means food kiss the food pena enough lest it be lost so what do we see we see that what's the main thing what are the people kissing they're kissing the food the food is that which is desired that which they wish to bring into their mouths that which is beloved says the majestic beautiful the nations of the world anu they say we are the ones who got created the world for we the muslims we the arabs we the we the persians we the chinese we the japanese we the americans we the christians allah the jewish people say hey sorry guys we're the ones who were created the world was created for israel people of israel say to the nations of the world you just wait until we get to the day the day of the of the granary when that glorious day arise we will know for whom the world was created that's why it says in a verse in malachi chapter 3 verse 19 the day is coming burning like a stove so that's the day chapter 41 verse 16 the all of the nations of the world will be blown away like the chaff and he doesn't bring the plastic but it also says this week that the jewish people will be like a fire base ace of the cash the the house of asa will be like this very uh chaff this very straw that we're speaking of the dulce of column the jewish people as we spoke about previously are the cause of the destruction hitler lost the war because he was busy trying to kill the jews perhaps at some point in the near future the the the west will be drawn into a war with iran because of the jews the jewish people are the fire it brings about a destruction a destruction why because they're the essence they are the essence of what this whole thing is about the the chaff has to fly away the chaff has to be removed the the straw needs to be burned i'm talking about what's the verse say in isaiah when speaking about the nations of the world that will be blown away in the end what happens what's the end of it all you shall rejoice in hashem the holy one of israel will be the one who shall be praised so we see an amazing thing a beautiful thing that klaus which represents spirituality the jewish people represents all that is good is the wheat it's the wheat all the other things the nations of the world all of their ideologies all of their great accomplishments all of those things that they value and they say are awesome they're just commits they're like the chaff that gets blown away they're not really why the world was created the jewish people spirituality the torah that's why the world was created it's an amazing important point and like and as i mentioned before i believe that this whole face off with yaakov which is monumental which is awesome which is cataclysmic it's huma it's humongous it's all for us to understand something that each and every one of us has inside of us a yaakov we have a part of us which is the spirit which is the nisham of the soul that which is that which is good now which is connected to god and by the same token we have inside of ourselves a physical body we have a physical reality we have physical needs and physical desires and it's so easy for those things to take charge to say i'm what counts this is what's important but as we go through life you know we got to think about the end we got to think about the end what's really important what's really at the end of day at the end of our days right each of our each one and every one of us has a certain amount of time that we're allotted on this earth 120 years how levi we should have but at the end what's left all of the chaff blows away all of the straw blows away just like at the end of time all of the false ideologies fall away no flucolamas all of the levels fall and all that's left on the bottom all that's left is claudia's real it's spirituality it's kyra kim is godliness that's what's left you know one of the challenges that i personally face thinking as a thinking person reads stories about people who are no longer with us with a story like all for the boss about a great sadiq you hear about the altar from the verdict these are people who i'm interested in reading about read about my great grandfather who i share with you stories about rabbi yes like streisand and those people lived and here we are living and their story is over it's a little it's sobering but it's also disconcerting like that's it the person lived i have a few stories i could show you for about my great grandfather you know but that's all that's all that's left he had a whole life he lived 80 years something like that had a whole life that's all that's left so what's with my life what's with my life what's the significant what's the significance of my life what are the significant acts that i'm doing and the answer is and the answer has to be and we need to we need to focus on this and that's what this magician i believe is teaching us is that there are so many things that vy for our attention so many things that are important they really are important it's important for me to support my family it's important for me to pay my mortgage it's important for me to pay the electric bill but ultimately what's really important is this and i i believe i might have mentioned this in the past but i actually got a hold of it if you can i don't know if you can see it let's see if it focuses in on it yes it does this is a receipt from yeshiva lublin and it's dated er tough rich sadique 1935 may of 1935. it's written to my greek grandfather rubios of streisand in the city of bergen and i have a whole envelope full of the receipts that he left inside of his set of khumasum which my father has and so what do we have that's left from us what do we have that's left from us after 120 years after our lifetime that's what this measure is saying it's a muscle it's true about the world as a whole you come to the day at the end of the at the end of days you come to that moment in time which is which is the end which is the end of the world as we know it and what's left is cloud israel all everything else blows away what's left at the end of our lives what's left is the missus that we've done the us a liking the closeness to god we've acquired the tsudaka that we've given the charity that we've given those the the tire that we've learned the money that we've given so that tyra could be learned that's all that's left and that's sobering that's boring because it's so easy to get stuck in the chat this this nation of the world is saying hey the world was created for me this nation in the world is saying hey the world created for me the the chaff and the and the straw they all get burned in the end the body lies in the ground and it decomposes all that's left is the soul all that's left is the soul and the accomplishments of the soul that's all we have that's all we have yaakov face off yaakov face off and yaakov bows to a7 and he says here take it all take all the blessings take all the money take all the animals take take it all because that's not really what it's about you know yeah and asus says okay i'll take it i'll take that i'll take this world that's what asap wants is this world because all yaakov really wants he wants his wife his wives he wants his children because those are his spiritual heirs those are the ones who will continue the message will continue the awesome accomplishments of the jewish people which is all about spirituality which is all about shechina connecting to god's divine presence which is what yaakov saw as he bows down to asap as he says here all that i have is yours all the physical wealth that i have it's yours he bows seven times and what does he see he sees the screen he's bowing to the screen because that's really what it's about that's really all he cares about it's really all that matters in the end and the end and that's the face off and we all face off with this very challenge with this very conflict between the a7 side and the yakov inside and we need to know now we need to know now wherever we are in life wherever we are in life ultimately what remains all the chaff blows away and what remains is the essence the wheat that which we have invested into our spiritual futures i want to bless you and ask you to bless me hashem should help us to be claustral to be real jews to be real and be able to acquire for ourselves to load up and eat grab and drink this world is like a dining hall it's like a place where you got to grab all the mitzvahs all of the commandments all of the entire learning that we can possibly get should help us to be able to focus on that to grab those mitzvahs to be able to come out of our lives with only spiritual all the spiritual things that we need thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.ariegoldwag.com or search on itunes ari goldwag