Maharal on Parshas Vayetzei 2025 Shiur with Rav Simcha Bunim Berger at Scheiner's

to push this button. >> No. >> Okay. Good evening. Good paras [clears throat] on the he took from the which means he took many stones. And then it says, and then it says he took the heaven. What do you mean? It says he took a This is the famous famous which is a here in that says that the stones fused together and became one stone for many became one. Take a look at the gimra over here is going to be quoting this and then on the other end it says [snorts] so the gmorra is pointing out the contradiction make up your mind all those came together and they said then this should put his head on me says and they all fuse together as one. The Gmorra doesn't say how many stones there were. Kazal teach us that there were 12 stones. 12 like the children that he would have. as co Israel Jacu what happened to the stones is a symbol to what the kayak of clalos is all about the stones were not just stam a nest what do you have to make a nest for why is that necessary why is why do I need it. Is one nation. Everybody here is the Russian. When do we say that? Correct. One of the mile of Israel is we're known as a unified nation, right? We're a nation that when we fight, we say it's not right. It's another Jew. It's your brother. We're not happy. And we all know deep down it's not the way Jews are supposed to be. The standard of Jewish people the way we understand is that there should be aus and cla where does that come from? Which of the are responsible for that? Abraham or Yakov. The moral is saying this is and the re or the symbol is these 12 stones becoming one is the and the of this. He's going to explain that shows us they're called the shame and the fact that is one and the same. What does that mean? What does that mean? We'll see. The moral is going to explain. I'm going to skip a paragraph for a minute and we're going to come back. I'm going to explain to you says the why the mid of who he was and his position amongst the is the reason that he's the of and it's specifically because he's not the first not the second but he's the third of the and being the third of the he's the one from the fact that we know historically was from au and everybody was together with Jacob meaning not like and not like that both in the house of Abra and the house of ye there was pirid there was no a we had to send away some of them Jacobu's house was the only house that all of the entire house was one and like by his deathbed also they said we'll soon see best we'll come back to that but is to be that from the fact that he's a third of the why let's read the moral together and see what he says a fascinating verse I'm able to share it with you Because I heard from my reb without him I couldn't say a word is the first of you see where I am third paragraph what's the one and two are not special. They're not again I'll explain. He gathers and unifies and unites the therefore he is the We spoke about this once way back then, way way way many years ago. Now is the time to be mas the lumbest of numbers is teaching us like this. >> Every number has a function. It's there for counting. That's what it's there for. passed us by counting it organizes how many I have cups on the table right how I need to know how many people we're going to invite people I want to make sure everybody gets a cup so we have lots of cups over here for the number of people that I have I have to start counting one two three we go through the whole list and see how much I have man I know how much I can give to people I could be muda and I can know that everybody has that's what the function of numbers are but each number has a certain lumpus No. >> A lumbus. Gamatra is not a lumbus. Gamatra is a number. Number one is not a number. I just said number one is not a number. That sounds contradictory, right? If the function of a number is to count, when you only have one, you there's no reason to count. Some people they have one car. Some families have two cars, right? Some people have one car. Husband wife once upon a time was like that, right? There was one car. She used to give him a ride. He took it. Once upon a time back, wasn't so long ago. Family had a car. They had one car. Now what do you mean? Every person needs a car in the family, right? Once upon a time there was one car. So, you know, everybody had to take a So, do we go outside and count how many cars we have? There's nothing to count, my dear. You have one car. So, in that sense, one is not a number that you use to count. The first counting number is the number two because now I have this one or that one, right? >> I have this one or that one or this one and that one. But the of number two is that it's an alternative to one. Imagine if your car had emotions >> and you went into one, the other one would be jealous. Why aren't you coming to me? Right. >> Right. It would have happened was created was created and sheni divided the heavens and the earth and he didn't say because yeni is a day of because the number two is the number of of mis Biz. You didn't have two. You had one. There was just one. There was nothing to count. There was nothing to fight about. There was nobody to get jealous. There was nothing other than one. One and only one. Doesn't even say because there was only one. What does dod that's all the does. Why does the and the doesn't even finish his job on the finishes his job when he says now the water should come together. Let me see the land the vegetables the ground and then the things come out. And how many times does it say two times? Write one for it says one for correct and why didn't you say because he didn't finish his job right so finish your job kind of excuse that you're the mean you don't finish your job what do you mean you don't finish your job the doesn't finish what do you mean you don't finish I don't finish you don't finish right we're messups right we don't finish when we don't finish the doesn't Finish. What's up? The terret is on and shi the mitus the lumbus the reality of yeni is it's the day two the lumbus what's created and two it conceptually is that there is no longer one. There's a sitra a there's a zitra means there's another side and that's why there's genim on that day created why because now a person has a choice to take to take a side opposite of the aish in if you choose to do that but if you do then there's a place for that that's called ghanim so when there's a sitra when there's another side when there's a between and on the first day and there was no it was just one and hem was one and that's when the ra was created that's when the alternative now there's an alternative I don't have to go into this car I can go into yen car right this one will be unabloozen right I have a choice. What >> do you think it means? >> You have no even know. >> No means it's upset, right? Insulted, right? Like, right, right, gets married to Leia. After seven days, you know what happens? He moves on and he goes to Raul. Could you imagine that? Says, "Onite, that's it. I'm gone." What do you think of Leia? You think she was happy? That's called when that's why it's called right because one is a for the other that's why they're called so that's why all the are found on sheni what do you mean doesn't finish his job you know why he doesn't finish his job because it's sheni because yeni is meant to be a job he did finish his job the job was to divide because that's what yeni is on yeni he did exactly what he had to which is appropriate for to divide the world and create another side. Now there's a now now now one second you know there's a tless in doing that because you know what when the one and the two get together to produce something you get number three and in three is the tas of why one and two were separated. So the goodness of two the kto of two is found in day three. That's why what >> say again >> the because the sheni was there separate ultimately to be united with number one when you put one and two together what do you get three so it was good to separate two so I could get to three so I find the t of two when you get to three not before I can't have yet because in two it's only it's only separation you with meish okay it's not cup this is what's the lumbus of the numbers like the goodness of yeni finds itself in yimishi why because on y thanks to the fact that I had a two now I can the one and the two can either be separate or the one and two can unite together to make a three and when he does that it was good that I had a two because I wouldn't have a three so the of two is now revealed on yishi my rabbi used to say there's a thesis there's an antithesis and then there's synthesis one two three shal a thesis that's a aus an idea there's antithesis negi opposite right and then I make the two of them work that's three that says the moral is the that's [clears throat] >> is the balance between the and the that's what is that's the balance between that's the of The the third was the between the in the three that's these are the words of now look at it again one and two are not there to be that's not their job one is a one is an object a thing a thesis two is an antithesis But three is the lumbus of what three brings to the table is that three is between one and two and that because of that the name the identity is with the not with Abra. We're not called Ben Abraham. We're ben Abraham, but we're not called We're not identified as a nation. We're identified as Ben is. Let's fast forward wants to tell them what's happening when when Mashiah is coming. When is going to be the gula? What happens his yakavinu then is scared? Why? Maybe I have a Russia, an impostor. Maybe there's somebody who is part of citra. Maybe I have an asov. He's not together with me. He's he's not one of us. He's like my brother asov who was. You know what that means? >> You've been here for a year. Do you know Yiddish yet? >> I've been married in months in 24 years. >> Means he's making he's a liar. He's fooling him like as because the went away. I was about to tell you what was going to go on and now all of a sudden so what did tell him? They said, "We're on the same page with you. We're on the same page." The in your heart. That's why the alf is Jacob. The and the dalid is his 12 children. That's 13. He's the one. And the four are Raul's children. Rahul and Billah. The eight. The is Leia's six and Zilpa's two. That's the eight. She's responsible for eight. She's responsible for four. What is Yakov's children telling him? They're telling Abba, you think you weren't successful. All all along when Ysef was gone, Yago thought he's going to ganim. Why? Because one of my kids went off. My whole life is all about my whole life is about to make sure that all of my kinder are together with me to be if I lose one kid, if one kid doesn't survive. When those 12 stones came together and he put it under his head on his journey to to get a wife and a kid, he knew that this is my job. If I don't do this, I'm worth nothing. Then I'm I'm going to ganam then I didn't do my job. Those 12 stones were his symbol and that they're going to become and when they did he had a sim had the and the and then his kind he loses the so what happens they say sorry what do they say they say you know what they you know what they did they brought back toina and they found out when Mashiach comes when they're when we're when we're one he was megala the kates not by telling them but by but by not saying it by losing it and they were together and they gave the answer when the msiah is going to come when We're ba but really sometimes it takes an enemy to make us ba unfortunately like by hum when was fasting because they thought it was all over and Esther said at that moment we were really really really one. Everybody in Claus was fasting. Everybody in did chuva. And everybody in was and you know what they got? They got bayeni. They had a miach. And that ba could have become if wouldn't have blown it. It could have been the gula. could have morphed into the but it didn't happen right it will be but that's the [snorts] that's so those stones at the beginning that's what the moral says over here is these these are the words to be mitarif together these stones and make them one. The earth and the world was misin the pir of yeni that the orets had become a separate entity that the separated and it was lo but when all those stones unified together and became so yakina was megala how the orets he was megala He was in his around his neck around his head which it says they saw the face of the they saw the face at the bottom. They saw how that surah of the isit here on the bottom. So they saw the kto of yeni of bri in au the kto of yimi that's gala in yishi that it's okay to be separate you know why because eventually all come back together and it'll be worth it to be separate to show the key that was I'll finish in one when the world was supposed to be created Two Malim said the world shouldn't be created. Who were the two Malim? Ms. and Shalom. Ms. And what happened? What did he do with EMS? >> Ms. Ms. Right. He kicked them out. Right. Ms. Right. The world will show the MS. What was the me of Jacu? Jacob is mids. When those stones came together, you were able to see the of Jacu. It was that from the even theels to the his person is the mid of and I want to be connected to him. the orets itself the itself um merged into the of Jacu into the emac that's what wasg over there that was the ems of that the world would be the and that's the miracle of these stones we should be to that time should begal the that's within us then it'll be the one These kadash made up