Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston: Life of a Ger and Jacobs confrontation with Pharaoh

[Music] good evening welcome to the given abatement jarash welcome home totora we have a fantastic plan you know outline to cover tonight chapter 47 in Genesis we're going to deal with again fundamental issues and I'm going to courage you I'm not sure you're aware of this but on our website we have the Hebrew sheets that you can follow so you could click on those and you can print them out it's this classes also to help us learn Hebrew right so I'll repeat certain words that are very easy but say very usable words right you'll hear them last night during the the SEMA shots I would say half of the speakers you know half half of what they spoke about was in Hebrew but it was I'm not gonna say easy Hebrew but Hebrew that is fundamental you need to know these words to follow a class to follow a shear to follow a lecture so it's good to hear them and then instantaneously hear the translation so that's what I'll try to do point out certain words so if we go to chapter 47 and we're going to verses 8 through 9 we're talking about when Yaakov and the brothers have now come down to Egypt to settle ok what does that mean we've dealt with this idea before about a guerre right we actually spoke about a few weeks ago I label this part 1 maybe we'll put we'll label this part 2 so Glen a tur that means no promises if I can remember I'll put the link in the description box below for that previous shear so you'll get a better understanding hopefully yeah go ahead I've got anyone there to do a saddle and up ah this is what we're gonna talk about tonight exactly hi and thank you so if you just read verse 7 for example we'll start there then Joseph brought Jacob his father and presented him to Pharaoh and Jacob blessed Pharaoh so this is already the fact that he blesses him and Pharaoh then said to Jacob how many are the days of the years of your life it's really that eighth verse we're going to deal with but let's just read the Hebrew the Ave o safe s Yaakov all these rights uyoku Joseph brought Yaakov his father young me day you lift Nate pero and he brought him to stand in front of pero Vallauris Yaakov s pyro and Yakko blesses pero viola pero el Yakko now this is the catch right Pharaoh sees this man and he says how old are you now let me ask you a question unless you were like you know 18 to 23 that question should bother you right so what got his attention why would that be the first question you ask somebody how old are you not like would you like a drink of water I see you came a long distance how are your accommodations did you get much sleep last night was the plane where the the caravan had a camera right pleasant how old are you that's the first thing the fairy asks them how old are you so he must have made an impression question is what kind of impression did he make and we're gonna deal with that so he says , you may snake Ayaka how many of the days of your years of life right how old are you that's really what he's asking and how many of the days of the years of your life and what did Yaakov say to him Yaakov says to Pharaoh the days of the years of my sojourn 'he's right so Jorns would like if you're meaning just English you never really get it right sin Hebrew it is migoo right he's telling him the years of his sojourn not the years of his life not the years of his settlement but the years of his gear the years of his wandering and it's more than wandering it's an uncomfortable being as being a stranger right that's what a gear means to wander around a little bit not knowing where you're gonna sleep tomorrow hey ash - whooshing boom ah China 130 years and then he says Matt Varon hi you Umesh neck hiya so not only in my hundred and thirty years old but the days of my the days of the years of my life have been few and miserable maybe just maybe this is why a pharaoh asked him right Pharaoh asked him how old are you because maybe there was something about the way he presented himself this was the answer he was looking for I mean this is something that he saw he was not looking good what does that mean he and it came out in his words his words were my days have been few and miserable and they have not reached the days of the years of the lives of my forefathers meaning what gets clock lived 180 I'm so right and he and Abram lived 175 and he's 130 and he's already reaching or feeling like he's towards the end how old did he live 147 right in the dungeon 47 okay but right now it's 200 he's 130 he's got 17 years left to go and he says below he Siegel SEMA snare hyah a voci the main leg or a hem again that word mid guru a hem so joints and they have not reached days they utilize my forefathers in the days of their sojournings again Yakko blesses Pharaoh so I'm not sure what it means that he fact that he blesses him twice but we're gonna deal with the blessing that he gave Pharaoh well we'll talk about that and then he left Pharaoh's presents the alaric Yaakov espero the Yeats a militant sniper oh okay so he blesses them again okay so the first thing the clear card is going to point out to us is lateesha who God the pyro since when we say how old are you since he already told Perrault Chikara boy Yakov how you got neelu's euler lira glove now we think he was looking bad and Pharaoh is like dude how old are you we're gonna see a whole nother level when Yaakov is in the presence of Pharaoh the Nile Rises everywhere Yahoo grows is a blessing and so now that the Nile has risen can imagine they don't have rain they just have the Nile and the Nile you have to dig these canals and then you could put water into wherever you want to go but if the water rises this is really lush it's that's like the best thing could ever happen to you so now he's asking how old are you he wants to know how long is this blessing going to be around so the Nile was going up and Paro felt blessed right he's blessed him so he felt very blessed me wonder how long this this bracha this blessing is going to be around for the apparel Sameach i was in my own in the right this fact this must be that pharaoh would be very happy that this happened correct Raja and what was Pharaoh thinking shackles March yeah Kukai that the entire time the yaku will be alive yeah Lenny lose the rug Ludlow alam that that always will be that blessing would sustain itself that the Nile would reach its peak and there would always be water the yashka at penny Adama and the fields would receive the water that they need the cashier or as Yaakov Oh however when he saw Yakko he may who doubt the kokosh the rock coat bizarre can mishmash zucchini he was looking very weak and thin and and skinny and scanty and not a whole lot of muscle and just like the way Oh older people are ok Michelle Paro so what was Pharaoh thinking Shiva died that certainly who move flag Bezique 'no he has certainly reached his peak that's it he's he's really old he ain't ain't got much more time left on this earth my young Womack are you MA yah moot and just a matter of days that's how old this guy was looking it was not very happy so now we have a contradiction if the Midrash tank Lumet tells us that when he saw him and he solved the water of the knee loose of the nile rose so he should be happy here it says he wasn't happy or how could he be happy if he doesn't expect this blessing to be around very long Liam came to my swamp calm it's rain that's the case then why would the Egyptians be happy which measure certainly implied keep a moisture yaxha and he loosely mikawa certainly if God forbid whenever Jakob would die the knee loose the Nile River would certainly go back to its original lower level so when he asked that's why he asked alkane say well calm me and make high yeah how old are you is exactly the reason he asked the hey she blow so this was his answer to him yeah Mase named agur i Ma'at variety the day right few and bad have been the days of the years of my life his key Russian Magoo ray hi I'm asked why does it say so joinings why is the word guerre or Gore being used to tell us Shalom muhammad rove yamim who cloaca Kosciuszko rosa jakka was saying it's not because i'm old per se that i'm looking old but rather kima kima's pocket of Megumi Saudis but rather it's on account of the fear that I had lived through in my life and had been wandering around living around as a nomad yet I share you go gigarth you go to ya' Valley it's one account of my being again being a wanderer not really settling down that this occurred to me this happened to me this physical state of looking stately and old the comet sorrows arose the UM Tahoe tie and how much meaning it's an expression of a lot of pain and suffering is in my saddlebag is in my backpack is in my purse that I've been carrying around with me a lot how you cool on ax comma six month low shioma China and all of that I carried around for a hundred and thirty years as we saw the versed Mahatma Roy my you you may Kyah below he cigarettes neck high elbows I write few and bad with the days of the years of my life and I have not reached the years the days of the years of my forefathers and it also says the words so joining the second time the ancient Leo Tikvah legee Lapera Kaaba but Yaakov had what's a hope he thought there's still time I could still reach to one hundred seventy five hundred and eighty years old I'm only 130 Shia high mana mama China as we know that Yitzhak lived on Giannini I thought P shegaon Hema Heil ahem Megumi sabi they also lived as garam they also lived as sojourners become Macomb high really yummy nevertheless they had a long life we're talking about 30 40 years long and then he was at that moment the Taklamakan la Shan that's why he himself mentioned the word ahem at the end of that verse I think it's verse 10 probably at the end of verse 9 and gham calpe abou tabh also regarding his forefathers as it says right they have not reached the days of the years of the lives of my forefathers in the days of their so joinings so he had hope he was also looking forward to living in long life perhaps of on June 18 so well you guys have asked and you've wondered so how could Jakov himself use these negative words to describe his life he said Sadiq right at the the famous stories of ROVs Usha right at Sadiq is never looking at his own life as miserable or painful or bad yet these are the words that Yaakov himself described right Maya the Rahim so I think and it could be the lessons that were supposed to learn from it meaning we're actually learning that we should not use these negative words right and the years were cut off because of this he didn't live as long as he could have perhaps right so this is a lesson for us to think positively and speak positively as one of my remain moist told me just because you think something doesn't you should say it and even if you say it doesn't mean you should write it down and even if you write it down it doesn't mean you should publish it so we very careful with our words so the lesson that comes out throughout the Madras in the modem is Rashi are telling us to be very careful with our words okay now we're going to skip to verse 21 because now we're talking about go ahead from Yosef no no way Sonny's okay look we did discuss this idea of the roguish or Yosef he was looking for a moment of shalva we spoke about this I mentioned already a few weeks ago and God does not want the sadiq should understand that this world is not about shava shava is tranquility peace and harmony we're talking about the world to come with only maybe the time of mashiac but in this world there is let's call challenges even the word you serene right I like there were challenges gonna be experiencing lots of challenges there's a battle right we have like you mentioned earlier before this year right there's a battle going on the jihad a internal battle with the 8th Sahara so the greater Sadiq the more righteous you are does not make that battle any less ok you're gonna always have it and may even be stronger but you're also stronger it's always going to be a 50/50 fight Misrata shell ok so now in verse 21 and he transferred the populace to the cities from one end of the boundary of Egypt to its other end so Yosef is in charge and why is Yosef doing this to the Egyptians right we know and we'll see it that he put the Jews in Goshen and then experienced I'm not gonna call tranquility but they experienced a ghetto lifestyle where they did not intertwine or inter mingle and therefore they could not assimilate with the Egyptians okay but the meanwhile Yakko you Yosef is the Viceroy and he takes we called the transfer of people he's transferring people from the different cities he's creating major chaos if you ask me why why would he do this so let's see let's look at the Rashi real quick Rashi says on this verse Joseph transferred them from city to city so that they would remember that they have no more share in the land we're talking about the Egyptians and he settled those of one city in another now scripture did not have to write this except to let you know about its a praise to Joseph this is somehow praise worthy Joseph did this what that why else would the Torah tell us that he intended to remove the stigma from his brothers remember they were living in Canaan they had no food right so they come down what would you call them refugees there's a status it's not a high status that'd be a and they weren't political refugees I think a political refugee is the higher status than a would call economic refugee right so they were economic refugees it's a very low status will even call them exiles okay let's use that word for the good steward he's going to use so that they the Egyptians would not call them exiles will see the Hebrew let's see how the clear car explains it parish Rashi is Rashi explains lasse Lasserre hairpomade Allah thief in order to remove the shame from the brothers he moved the Egyptians to different cities shallow ya'muru golem hema so the the Egyptians would not say to the Jews or consider the Jews exiles or refugees now guess what the clear car is not satisfied and you kidding me says the Rococo this is such a far-out idea this is distance from logic why shebar Vorta Elath Katan z ya baba Yosef color it's just for the benefit to the brothers so that the Egyptians might not call them refugees you're going to uproot the whole country of Egypt and make a billboard make such a mess and chaos everyone's uprooted it sounds crazy though shallow you carry gorillas the sewer Akemi Shahi learn Atlas utter the Karen the Gullah mayhem not only that the only Gullett that is gonna happen the only exile it's gonna really happen is gonna be for the Egyptians who had real property the Jews just got there what kind of proper did they have so they weren't uprooted so if all the Egyptians are uprooted and the Jews are not uprooted I mean let's just say before the idea of uprooting the Egyptians the Jews aren't even uprooted within Egypt so they didn't have real estate that they were uprooted from Morocco go ahead Toshiba summa Yaakov was not a solution not yet settled anywhere the Colorado's how you Goering in fact Abraham Issac Mitama Jacob all the avos basically were Goering they didn't really settle in an agricultural sense he Kivar who'd call hog a ruse Mishnah legit sock you know when this exile began already from the very day that guys ik was born okay Isaac was born let's say a Pesach 400 years before we left Egypt okay Philomath see no shikata shoe hobbles was that and even we already said before that the avos made sure that our forefathers made sure that they never settled in any place so that the code the obligation of being a foreigner in a foreign land or let's say Gary Wanderers in a land that wasn't theirs would come out as quick as possible the yo to knock on the fresh and it's more proper to explain call how bill bull has that this is the way the clear car is now going to explain why did Yakov sorry Yosef remember I asked you guys correctly everything why did Yosef make such a bill bull such chaos and craziness over this because you're clear cars convinced that's not really a good enough reason that they were let's say not enough at least at on the surface that the Egyptians might call them refugees and he's going to go deeper into it in Deuteronomy chapter 10 verse 19 this is one of the 613 commandments by the way it says you shall love the stranger for you were strangers in the land of Egypt via hoptimist hugger you shall love the convert the proselytize the the gear key Gary my eats embarrassments Ryan because you were strangers in the land of Egypt she called me she Loya gave me a month and there's gonna be a very strong statement this statement should never leave your minds ever ever and I think this is one of the reasons why and I'll say now many of our mitzvahs are tied in to the fact that we were slaves in Egypt and now we're free right not just Pesach but imagine the Shema right kiddush Shabbos how many more mitzvahs so many misses that we do our this is for you to do because you were strangers you were slaves in Egypt anyone this is the statement anyone who was not experiencing being a stranger in their lifetime Anil Marga SH bit sorry shall care cannot expect cannot him has never felt the pain that a Gare would feel as a no cost out nefesh hugger and that person would never feel he wouldn't have any pity towards the soul of a convert guys this is like fundamental right this is you get on say like I don't know maybe living in Israel we don't meet so many potential conference right we only meet them afterwards and afterwards you have to there the regular Jews guess what there's still an active Mitzvah there's an additional Mitzvah to love them why do we love them because we feel sorry for them that they were strangers or we have to be empathetic the real reason is because they made a major decision to enter the Covenant and they went from outside the Covenant and they now are protected by the confession inna by the wings of the Divine Presence they're their own parents are Abraham and Sarah we like sixty generations away we can call Abraham and Sarah our great great great great great great you know grandparents and they're like that's my oven that's my EEMA like they made a major decision right uprooted everything so that's really why but there's another thing we also have to love them because we have to somehow it's very important that we have to actually know what it's like and guess what let's say we were very not spoiled I don't know let's just say we had a really good upbringing I'll call a privileged and we never experienced anything you have to imagine what it's like you have to I mean he's saying anyone who never experienced it would never know how to relate to it I've ami Shia that's been the Oxbow gear but someone who actually did experience it being a stranger yo damn it's Irish Oh Garrett he'll know exactly what the gear is experiencing the code the I love sunny la Havre love ya babe remember the major principle Remmy Kiva said it love your neighbors yourself how do you fulfill love your neighbors yourself don't do when you don't like done to you don't do to someone else this is like this is like number one in derech Eretz that derech Eretz means manners character development right we have to always think if I was standing on the other side is this how I would want to be talked to right usually not I have to work on myself okay so this is what we have this is all about the work of being a religious Jew do not whatever you do not like do not do it to anybody else alkane how dare you say - I'm sorry this is why Joseph moved the Egyptians around from the different cities okay they should cool I'm Gary Barrett's Lola ham so they would all feel but don't let the Egyptians not the Jews the Egyptians should feel it commotion em are just like it says by us in the the the Brit bein avatar iam the covenant between the pieces it's in number four on the source sheets Genesis 15 verse 13 when God Satan said to Abram you should surely know that your seed will be strangers in a land that is not theirs they will be the and they won't slave them and oppress them for 400 years and we already know we were only in Egypt for 210 years as we said the avos themselves experience this this viewer this gear this life of a of a wanderer look at Rashi on that verse it doesn't say in the land of Egypt right God could have said you're gonna be a strangers in the land of Egypt the verse doesn't say that it says in a land that's not yours but it's not theirs so it doesn't say Egypt that's how we know also it's part of the if you can make the simple mathematics that was the from the time that Isaac was born and we see that Abraham was so joined he was a gear and also Yitzhak was a gear you have different verses in chapter 21 verse 34 and chapter 20 verse 1 and you can even look in Psalms it says Yaakov so Jordan in the land of calm right we okay so that's in 47 verse 4 okay so he had tórshavn you BA are at LeWeb that the citizens of Egypt will be in a land right in the cities that their it's not theirs but also we're talking about even when we're in Egypt today she our geese shoo bit sorrow shall hog air the whole point is that everyone should be sympathetic and understanding what it's like the yucca Leo chick I'm washing escabi Lisette it's very possible that was exactly what Rashi met Kazu he is careful xie xie carpool loma this is exactly the shame that Rashi was referring to the yeah that thing joseph was trying to save his brothers from the shame going at em that the egyptians would call the jews the israelites refugees or right wanderers velu hey Pizza Shem the tava em lama temple in so if the Egyptians if the Egyptians would say this doesn't God care about you he brought you down here right you're telling us do you guys have the answers to the world's problems you know God and look at you you guys are Goering you guys are in gut in exile in cane water Lahore Elohim then it would be permissible for them to treat us badly right because that's how they would think if God your God is so good to you look what he did to you so if he could give you harm we can give you on right this is the way and non-jew might think about the Jewish people if you're in gullies God but I think the Christians do this all the time I hate to bring it up but if you were cut off and excised X like rubbish like cut off from God and we have a relationship with God so we follow God so we'll do the same thing you deserve the anti-semitism you get but that's really not the case the cases that had when the Jews were promised that everlasting relationship and when you're good so then there'll be a brothel and when they're when you're not good I'm going to call it a withholding of the bra ha that's what the curse is it's a withholding of the brach okay so but that's a relationship that's still there that's what it is it says it's everlasting it's eternal okay there's no such thing as a New Testament that relationship you know how many people went through the Holocaust and said this is written in the Torah the blessings and the curses exactly what God predicted would happen is happening right now and they didn't leave their Judaism and there are unfortunately Jews who did leave because they saw it as a if that's what it is I'm not interested not not necessarily they didn't believe in God anymore they had a big problem with God okay and they have to work that out so that's what I did the Egyptians might say and this is why Joseph moved them around alkane of Euro Sam yo se fluorine that's why y'all so moved them from one city to another kadai show y'all Aloha she'll ahem so that we could respond so there would be a response to these people gamma Tam ha ha Latham kimono that you guys are just as let's a hill or the base as we are so there would be I'm not calling I don't know if it's sympathy at this point or you know the Egyptians are certainly not any better than us right if we would be considered exiles a refugee economic refugees so they also had the same experience and therefore we would not be the based okay so da varrock hair Lacock zero Tom Yosef lorry an alternative explanation now alternative explanation does not mean we're getting rid of anything we said before we're going deeper okay so if you look in Genesis 47:11 you also have settled his father and his brothers and he gave them property in the land of Egypt in the best of the land then the land of roms days as Pharaoh had mandated right the eating lehem a who's a baron Smith's Ryan barrage he says right away that is arid that's called Goshen this is where they settled so if you look in Genesis 47 verse 27 and Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt in the land of Goshen and they acquired property in it and they were prolific and multiplied greatly so that's the verse we're looking at oneself Kazu bow so Yaakov and his sons they settled me right they settled in Goshen Leo Klamath he serve in the holla Boris in order for them to have some type of their real estate hold and inheritance in the land the ation of hoosh keep a roth high you mean yaku melis now there is to be worried this is what Yaakov saw to be concerned Joseph saw to be concerned about he wanted to make sure that his brothers were going to be safe perhaps there would be a future tyrants such as a perro a Pharaoh would arise a Melek a Reese some type of the despot or pressing leader the year draws me I'll say for Deborah hi-yah me who would then look into the Chronicles what Chronicles return about the real estate office who owns what properties shall Cole ear the OSHA huh that had the register of all the properties in the cities and who resides there a shara aapke to Zekrom Cole kharka shall me who write it's written in there who the land belongs to well though you know the URL shown scoot and you'll he'll discover those Jews they're foreigners they don't really belong here and they don't have any merit to any piece of property from a long time ago Schiavo samba now hollow bid knock hollows right they don't own anything ain't a crime amulet to kakuzu show of asahi ISA and not one of the Jews can make a claim when in anywhere in the land of Egypt this belongs tossed came through our forefathers the guard showed me men and then the this despotic King would drive out or deport the Jews from their alkane via Coulomb lorry that's why Joseph went ahead and put them all the Egyptians in different places in their different cities to shoe mahatma ham low yay shave our who'sa Slava south so each one of them did not have a holding in their own family property well you Luis Rey okay I am and Israel the Jewish people would be just like them Kiku la my issue below Hozuki that all of them would also do well in the places without any let's say the power of possession they didn't have any deeds they didn't have any real holding so the Egyptians would also be in the same place and therefore if they evil king would arise trying to put the Jews in their place so you had asked a fantastic question right in a certain sense wasn't the Madrid in the text itself talks about it yeah Joseph sold all the existing food for property in other words it was a during the two years of famine there was supposed to be seven but an ended after two years after Yaakov and the brothers came down and we're gonna see a little bit more in involved in the the five exist the five existing years of non famine but during the years of famine those two years that when there was no food we remember Yaakov Yosef sorry Joseph had told everyone we're going to put away during the seven good years so during those first two years of famine he was able to sell people had nothing absolutely nothing he said I'll sell it to you for your properties but those properties were not sold to him it was sold to Pharaoh okay so that became like institutionalized state property and what didn't belong to so basically it was a scheme that was like genius idea and it always bothered me this Jew gives us a really bad name taking advantage so now we understand what he actually did that it was for the sake of not having the the his brothers be shamed so he moved everyone around they were not in these cities in their own ancestral plots okay so now we're going to go to verse 23 and it says like this Joseph said to the people look I have acquired you this day with your land for Pharaoh here is seed for you so the land now just imagine this for a second right we just got done speaking it out how yah Joseph convinced everyone all the Egyptians to sell them the land that in exchange for food right so now he has all their land right there now sharecroppers that's what the the correct terminology is and the the Egyptian economy is now going to make a big boom based on everybody being enslaved so to speak including the Egyptians themselves country in the world the whole world is coming yep yep yep so let's look at look at number seven on the source sheet and I'll read the next verse as well and there shall be concerning crops that usually give a fifth to Pharaoh and then remaining four parts shall be yours proceed your fields for your food for those in your houses and for those among and your young to eat so the Hebrew is ha Locke Eames era behold here he's giving well very nice he's giving us see that's so sweet right very nice so look at Rashi the word hey he says equivalent to her behold okay we're gonna see a bit different it's gonna be really interesting so look at the clear car not on lamb Sarah I'll hum a shiny my share are you really in the ocean a Roth he gave them enough for the five years so they could plant even though there was supposed to be a salmon remember seven years of plenty seven years of famine those seven years of family never happened two years passed Yaakov the brothers come and everything's flourishing even the Nile has been raised unbelievable how can you have a how can you have a famine there's so much water abundant water and there you have it so he gives them seed and he gives it to them for the enough for the five years okay oopah Sahaba scoot Yaakov and the famine ended in the merit of Yaakov because Yaakov came that's why it says hey look hem Zara the word hey is it hey olive but that's how you spell out the word hey it's in other words haze the number five correct so hi new I'll come nation in its in other words in the verse I'm giving you five years worth of seed hey is five years with the seat and the mokuba Amaru do you remember we spoke about the name you didn't hey right God's one of God's holy name is yeah dude hey the yurt is representative of the masculine God created right the world with yuta hey there's masculine aspects in this world and then there's the hey aspect that's called the feminine aspect and what is so feminine listen to what he says listen to what the agnostic say it's from the letter hey our owner should be shamed nimza who call a toll are those the cold over oh you see pre that everything I'm gonna call feminine right that every that last letter hey of the name of God draws forth from it or produce or all things that are fruitful and anything that can create more fruit and that is for sure women but we're not talking about women here we're talking about the fruit g'day leo da da world is iike our own this was or not one order that they should remember this she believed she knew hi mesh Lapera in order for them to give 1/5 that's what the verse says that they gave one fit to pharaoh kemar big adults I'm sorry one second I skip something I know you'll add whereas four parts would remain with them okay so look at the verse again and we're talking about chapter 47 verse 24 and you shall give a fit to Pharaoh and the remaining four parts should be yours the old remiz yes Oh trevin's is a further hint in this chicos their hiatus code Yakko we mentioned this was on the merit of Jacob our forefather ooh commotion Yaakov la aqua Nicola sure Loki marburg adult whatever Yaakov had he only ate himself four-fifths of whatever he had the hell Kamisha hip Richelieu Guevara and what he gave over was one-fifth 20% what do we know about the word tithing tithing is ten percent correct so listen to this idea you know when it's in ha'la'tha you're not allowed to give more than 20% if it's going to change your lifestyle drastically if you're a multi multi-millionaire or whatever you're you can give much more it's not gonna affect your life right but 20% is what is considered we call the GOG right that's like without having to ask questions or or manipulate the change of their lifestyle so if you go to chapter 28 verse 22 that's in Genesis number 8 on the sheet write this then this stone which I placed as a monument should be house of God and everything you give me I will surely tithe to you the whole I share t tamely I Ser I'll see Randall off though the word are ser which is the word ten or tithe is used double as a double language why is there's a double language Schnee Mastro's because you give the tithe twice the sura Basra here sir a comma dami the first tie then the second tithe are very similar meaning the double language here is to tell you to do it twice which is : H which is 1/5 which is 20% cough cold how are you claim the sciutto heat your leg am knit Tina's ooh maybe this is a general statement we're going to talk about specifically in the merit of Jacob but anyone who eats anything anybody consumes something in the merit of someone else would like to give something in his merit shelter Rock our be adult and therefore you'll consume forth its we are free sure highness you give away the the 20% the fifth to in the merit of the Haim b'stilla Haram that's why the very beginning the very beginning of the of the famine look in chapter 41 verse 34 it says over there let Sarah do this and appoint officials over the land and prepare we're going to see the word prepare the land of Egypt during the seven years of plenty what does it mean to prepare look at the Hebrew the MAS Eretz miss Ryan it's very strange language the T mesh what does it mean so almost my place here we are Sherlock achma Coulomb Haley honey she so we told my Joseph again he was taking and making sure they gave over 20 percent Keshawn thievish m/s abraha this is in general that God will command the blessing as it says in Deuteronomy chapter 14 verse 22 the double language hacer hacer you shall surely tithe in English when it says you shall surely do something look in the Hebrew the Hebrew is usually a double language and in other words when you see the double language there's an emphasis that surely should be done but don't come by the English if there's a double language of myself tithing it means a whole nation means 1/5 well Mutola naso is s hashem and guess what this is a place you know how to test God except here in giving more than the 10% you will be blessed it's a guarantee God says test me go ahead test me make sure to give and give a little more and you'll get and you can look in Milwaukee that's the last of the prophets chapter 3 verse 10 do I did I put it on here it's numbers launch a page for number 11 bring the whole of the times he the u.s. called Hamas there he says into the Treasury so that there be nourishment they may be nourishment in my house and test me now there with a new nina test name says the Lord of Hosts to see if I will not open for you the solutions of heaven what's a solution and my room boasts the windows of heaven and pour it down for you blessings until there is no room to suffice for it is that beautiful guys there you go okay now let's move on to verse 27 and this is interesting because right Israel settled in the land of Egypt in the region of Goshen they acquired property in it and they were fruitful and multiplied greatly and then the next verse says Yaakov lived keep that in mind Yaakov lived okay so the gate shaved Israel this is one of times original questions correct I am it says that Israel settled we're talking about the whole time you should be like a Gare you should have this attitude of not a permanence in this world this world is transient and it's not permanent yet yes all settled the land of Egypt in the place Club Goshen Copa sucks they are shmatte Venegas your element down there it's giving and a Tribune guilt to the Jewish people for what for settling because his bar hookahs are leigh.m member God promised them he decreed upon them at the Brit benefit our aim at the Covenant between the pieces that you will be strangers in a strange land a land that is not yours not just you also your seat that's in Genesis 15 verse 13 name a big shoe Leo shoving the muhkam shindig Saul am gay Ruth and what was the problem they Israel wanted to settle in a place that they were not supposed to settle in that they should have been strangers like it we dharshan doubt by Yaakov in the yeshiva cove in chapter 37 verse one which we discussed at length decays make shape is shava he wanted to dwell in tranquility coughs Allah brags of sha Yosef that the anger of Yosef whatever that means that remember Yaakov himself had not honored his own parents for 22 years okay so some now another when a cane push came to shove where he wanted to be and to sunako wanted to settle himself in tranquility all of a sudden now he's lost Yosef for 22 years Kaka possibly mushy mom are you Shiva zu so to this verse is attributing guilt because of this yeshiva because of this this permanent dwelling shamekh show akihabara it's below LM they wanted a strong all the real estate holding that the in a land that did not belong to them the low I'm rule I'll pyro but when they came down this is not what they said to peril look look in Genesis 47 verse 4 over there it says and they said to Pharaoh we have come to sojourn in the land I am when they came down they came as gray look in the Hebrew the armour apparel agora are its bono that's why we came only to be Gary Milad made what does this teach you she Motilal our yard oh gosh Takeya Shama when they originally went down they had no intent of ever remaining there and being drowning let's say sunken in into this outside the Land of Israel eligor but only to be like someone who's just sleeping the night Kimba dire bay dire Vyasa caused me leave Ram but they retracted they went back on their words they originally came down as Gabriel but now it's the Asia rule now they hold they changed all tune they wanted to be the most patriotic best Egyptian better than the Egyptians more than the Egyptians like an America right like everywhere we go the call cognition otaku Shama archila Russell it saves me miss Ryan they became so engrossed so embedded so sunken-in in Egypt until the point they didn't want to leave Archer who truck a college bar hula hoe GI mission beyond Kazakh until God himself had to take them out with a strong and that's we wanted to be Gyptians the OTL Russell it's safe Mason bish la Chimere Fela do you understand what happened here during the three days of darkness four-fifths of the Jews were killed by a plague Hashem makes sure that they didn't leave they didn't leave Egypt for fist if you want to just check out you go to Exodus chapter 10 verse 22 it's like we fell in love tonight but like the Egyptians would see us burying our dead correct so this was something beautiful in there yeah it's okay the regime is concerned just like Joseph was concerned that the Egyptians would you know look at us shamefully so took you imagine Hashem these Jews the stubborn Jews did not want to leave Egypt four-fifths never made it out so he takes them out and they've got the ninth plague of darkness okay and what happens so there it's dark that the Egyptians can't see anything if the Egyptians would have seen the Jews die and it's a significant amount they would never get the message they had no idea that four fifths were gone so if they would have seen the Jews died what do you think they would think about the ninth or tenth plague or they'll say the tenth plague exactly so once you take it the Mako's personally it was all about us maybe you get the message many meaning the Egyptians but if it's they're also being affected it would ruin the whole message so Shem took care of it during the ninth plague of darkness so I mentioned go to Exodus chapter 10 verse 22 what do you see there it says Moses stretched forth his hands with the heaven there was a thick dark darkness throughout the land of Egypt the three day period and Rashi over there says so so over there shall you be a shrub elected Medora sure that there are many Jews who were evil the lawyer wrote similar taste what's considered evil in God's eyes you don't want to leave Egypt whom a super slow sashimi Fela and they were killed during they died during these three days conditional euro mitzrayim then my flat top that the Egyptians wouldn't see their downfall the ya'muru and they would end up saying if they saw the Jews died same looking kimono they got lashed or the hit just like we did and then they would never but I want to show you something because the word VI mesh darkness is so hard it was so thick that it could be felt Bob I think you heard this before from me via mesh love can you add mention there's an olive missing Rashi points out there's an olive missing Aleph is the letter one correct so if you take this darkness is so thick it could be felt can you imagine how thick it was these for three days the Egyptians couldn't move they couldn't move it was so thick they couldn't seem it I couldn't move if you take one away from each one of these letters love you had mentioned what's love -1 Rashi says it's an olive that should be there he proves that all other places look Amish when it's new when it's the so thick it can be felt there should be an olive the olive is missing in this word he points it out very nice so he says it's hacer Aleph it's missing one what's love minus one hey what you add minus one tete what is man - one they vomit and what is shin - one what does it spell hey hey Tet la madre Oh yo yo it was fun that's what it spells say it spells Hitler your moksha movas it ro should rot his name's of the erase okay so now move on and in the end the end of that verse right the year of the Yoruba mode they were fruitful multiply trailing who's me clay and right away it says vehicle Yakov lived so what's going on in other words this is a closed parchment by the way right so you don't even have a space so and Yakov lived Ramez rama's what is this him to miss me cozy in this proximity lomasa I'm results is Yakov long mate says Yakov never died so you see that they grew they fruitful they multiply and then Yakov lived Oh moksha now there is a difficulty what's the difficulty was it Yaakov in bombed and mummified the tour itself says it right in Genesis chapter 50 verse 2 the peabody cannot - Hannah Toya the who right wasn't he mouths mummified thank you very much avatar 8 so the answer is micro an odorous if you look at Jeremiah chapter 30 verse 10 i'll tira o of the Yaakov right yet to look at the whole verse but basically don't fear my servants Yaakov for behold I'm saving you from distant places and your descendants there's a concept Yaakov's being safe this is Jeremiah Jeremiah he lived like a long time after Yaakov he's saying my servant Yaakov and his descendants he's going to say from captivity [Music] Mackey Shu Lazaro so in that verse there's a strong connection between Yaakov and his seed Mazda Rubik I am just as his seed is alive in the time of Jeremiah who became so to Yaakov is alive Oh Maxime Cod so true they make the connection here shallow teh rates low gloom all the people taken out the kind of talk right I'm sorry maybe this doesn't really answer anything by the fact that he was in bound by Lord of ikkaku chicag Mishima EF Bunning the real answer is like this anybody who leaves over children is dying the kilo a no mace when you leave over children it's as if you never died why is that Leticia uber Jarek EEMA who because the fetus in this case was no matter obviously afterwards the child is just considered a limb of the the parent so the parent will continue to live through the child through the lip the car raid the Abu and it actually becomes like a companion of the of the father of the parents the hay like mineral cool of a man and therefore we're talking about a portion of the child is living within the Latorre a portion of the father is alive within the child Shaban mcian as who gham Kay Lichtman all these Haku Baba kyon so when the son is alive then he's also like a portion of the father who's included this life and now why is it by jakub why do we learn this by Yaakov should call me Tata Lena that his entire bed every one of his children were considered tsadikim and kosher as it says in it says in the in the Midrash called Hammami Ben Sadiq anybody who establishes a child who's righteous te Luana mace that parent is never considered dead dr. Ben Sadiq that's if you have a childhood Sadiq I've uh been Russia but if God forbid the Sun is evil for shubik I of can mate so then even in his own lifetime he's considered dead in other words did evil people while they're alive or considered that righteous people when they're dead are considered alive and there's a verse in Isaiah chapter 31 verse 3 that the helper will stumble and the help will fall Casals ever now fellas or ain't Baraka's amazake ABBA so the son who's let's say is evil is not going to help or benefit the father in any way no fee cotton Rudovsky Yaakov Lena domains therefore they say specifically was Yaakov who never died about pichia cannot do Hanna Thea even though he was mummified and involved macomb accomplishes Arabic I'm nevertheless when his children are alive as gum whoo hey like momentum behind so portion of Yaakov is still alive the doors and ear mom's bus miracles ooh and this is the hint when it talks about the the children of Yaakov being fruitful multiplying right away the next two words are and Yaakov lived kyaaa day the Europe of the year burrowed through this great multiplication I use Arabic I and that's how the tonic stays alive Lathika the Afiya Cove Chicago back I am therefore we see so what do I sum this up at the end I want to wish everyone a fantastic Shabbos and a great coming year that we should what what should we do we should learn more Torah write that the SEMA shots that was a the crowd was alive that Torah is the Tree of Life we want to really so listen there's no guarantee with our children even if we had like let's say even the Mitzvah to have children people try as long as you try you get credit okay so if but now okay so what happens now you have children how hat you have to do your best do the best you can and I think the best way is being a role model right you have a Torah home you join a good shul right you treat your wife with respect what what can go wrong man if the kid goes through puberty and has some issues eventually he'll come around because you set an example that's all you can do do it up and pray a lot a lot of Prayer and whatever you can do at home this is my words of advice and I hope my kids are watching this and I love every one of you socially she alone [Music]