Maharal Shiur Parshas Vayishlach 2025 with Rabbi Simcha Bunim Berger at Scheiner's Shul

Good evening. I can't say good night of Shabas because this is a Tuesday night edition but that's right. So on our we're ine we're going to do the fight of the says we touch the why why that part of the body says the mar we're going to start from over here then we're going to work our way a little bit backwards says, >> you know, we'll go a little bit right over here, please. They were fighting. When it says that they were fighting and the they were mala and kazal teaches who went up to the each one came with a over the other. The advantage of the malik over and the advantage of over the malik. What is that? He doesn't have a gof to hold him back. He's angel impure the he's got and angels do not have as it says we spoke about this says we explained this and save. So that a human being has is something that doesn't have the fact that a person is means that a person has a in him in a way that don't have therefore the malik cannot overcome him indeed between the Malik and Yakov Jacob has something that the Malik doesn't have. He has a there's no way the Malik as the Malik is but he doesn't have that Salom. So, but yet we do find that the Malik has some type there's an Achilles heel. There's something that Jacobu makes Jacob Ainu susceptible. What is that? There's one thing that the Malik has. We call it in as that he can touch. What is that? Pim the opposite of punim of the face. >> The punim. What's the opposite of the pun? >> That's what you say. >> I guess the says something else. >> Yeah. >> Why? Where is the of a person? It's on his face. It's on his face. Let's explain for a minute. Who is the one and only you know what there is something else in the world that's you know what it is every individual in the entire almost 8 billion people that there are in the world. There's only one of you. Only one. There's only one. There's only one that looks like you. Where do you see that? Not in your hand, not in your toes. You see that in the face. And the two is upon him. I They tell you, but there's somebody in the world looks Where is he? He's in China. So, he doesn't look like you anyway cuz he's probably a little shorter and his eyes look different. There's nobody looks like you. And there's seven 7 billion 8 billion people in the world today. And there's been billions of people. And when was created, there wasn't herds of men that came out like there was animals, you know, one and one and only. And ever since then, every human being that's born comes out. And that's the in >> just like the is one Just like the is one and one and only one. So do every single person. That's why it we don't do our job. Every single one of us no one can do it for us and the world depends on us and the world is a better place thanks to the fact that we do our job and when we don't do it it's not the same and there's no one else like us. So is the one and only and but we are in a certain sense because we have the that's also the one and only. And where do we see that? We see that with the surah of the person that's the most individualistic part of the person. What's the most individual part of the person? The most individual part of the person is his face. And that's the one thing you don't cover up. Every other part of the body >> it needs to be covered for one reason or another. The only thing that for the only thing that is revealed it's the which is gi which is which supposed to be even a person who's right. So you cover up your arms, your feet, we cover up different parts of our body. There's certain parts that don't meant not meant to be covered unless it's cold outside. So you have to wear a mask, right? [snorts] >> Right. >> They're not doing trust me. That's the and that's the the of that the opposite the which is he touched the place where the moral is about to teach us is pink the opposite of the punim. The opposite of the punim is the yer because that's meant to be bahalt. Where else besides for is the prominent and mentioned in the says that when this lady if she sinned and did what she wasn't supposed to do the says then although her entire [clears throat] body will explode. It starts off with the Rashi quotes in a way he made herself beautiful for another man not her husband. this. So now we're menav her. When they take her to the bikto they make sure that she looks not that they they disbify her. They make her go. So therefore they take they their megala they take off her she was meala herself. He says the Mishna he The is the part of the body that was the first of the a that's where she was she was that's where she blows up first says the next next paragraph That's the part of the person that's meant to be revealed. This identifies us as who we are. It's the honor and the respect of a person. It's our individuality. When we talk about what's the person, it's who you are. We say so many times from the that there are three relationships a person has. How does a person act when there's nobody else looking? That describes what do you do? There's nothing to do. I'm acting this way because Yenna kicked and the other person's going to say and even with the abishes forget about all that who are you what do you stand for D remember I told you over once a story I said it over many years ago said at a story I had to wait three months before he said over a story because oil would remember stories that's what he used to say he would sometimes say and the next week that's but Barashem I have a much better crowd I can't even say over a year later they already remember but stories the stories they forget but I told over this ma and it's for now [snorts] there was a fellow used to live here in Muny his name was David Brown he used to be a travel agent >> I knew David >> yeah you knew him too David Brown was a travel agent was from England back in the days before the computers were going about 30 years ago before there were computers Before you could book your own tickets online, David Brown told me the following story. So as a person from England, he had a a lot of shyas to British Airways. British Airways here in the United States of America was divided into two parts. North east west of the Mississippi and east of the Mississippi. The fellow who was in charge, the CEO of British Airways in America, west of the Mississippi, was a fellow who lived in Malibu, California. David was a good friend of his. They did a lot of business together. >> [snorts] >> One day they're talking and and he knew him for years and he that the fellow was a yeet. He had no idea that he was Yiddish. He that he was a ye don't know how that he was a ye that he was aided. So he says to him tell me your background. He says my background learned gates of yeshiva. He says you want to hear something interesting. He says to David, "I live in a big house in Malibu. Unfortunately, I married somebody I shouldn't have married, unfortunately." But at yeshiva, I've never forgotten my even though I don't look that way, you should know that yeshiva made a difference. The other day, I'm sitting in my I'm in my house. It's It's at night. It's must be 10 11:00 at night. I'm thirsty. My kitchen is four flights down and I'm gonna go downstairs and take a drink. And I think to myself, so I'm not going. Then I think to myself, Ed, you're an a drink. >> You know what that means? You're lazy. You know what I did? He says to David, "I went downstairs. I poured a drink and I didn't drink it." That's a certain surah that a person has, there's certain things that a person does or doesn't do. Forgive me for a minute. When people go swimming, I'm using that as an example. or when people eat places or how they eat, it's nobody else's business, let's say, but it's your own business. Are you careful to make sure other people shouldn't see the way you're dressed or be careful though you are dressed or not dressed or how you eat, right? The person needs to grow up. It's nobody else's business. But that's called surah. Sura means to say how a person fears with himself because of himself. And that's called the punim. That's the covet of a person. That's the respect. That's who the person is as an individual. That's the of the the opposite is the the opposite is the is that part of the physical body say refers to not him but his children because and all of his kinder was like we talked about many times Jacobu was the first person who was that his wereim with the right like all the names of the paras have a hey and a yud surrounding them the name yud k which finds itself by the ish and the isha and there are three a father and a mother why why because when withinu that's when it started and sor brought down kind they brought down too is not called he's not part of that so he doesn't have that as doesn't have that kakabu has was called when Jacob says to love it in last week's para [snorts] I want my wife I want my wife I want to live with her right you want to live with her says don't talk that way how do you say such a thing you wanted to have kinder so my okay want to You don't talk that way. You don't say explicitly why you want to live with her. So what is that? What kind of excuse is that? mind other than that's all and was every name was a expression of the everything you know let me give her a name let's look up in the book where we find the name no it was how they were miscasher with their in this child how was in this child. That's the name of the and from that all comes all the families the opposite of the was but the lowest part of the human being is when the human being acts like a ma just for lust without any respect whatsoever for the bond of a husband and a That is mishly opposite. Let's see the moral. That's the it shows me who he is. the this is the that's known as the is right that's that of a p of the the lower part of who we are and that was what the malik was saying you might be you might have but you're in a goof and that goof pulls in the other direction he couldn't touch he couldn't hurt Jacob but the kids are going are not going to be able to stay on that madrega and in the that's where a person finds himself deficient that's what kazal say was the fight between him and the ael and and excuse me and the angel of of the angel of that sen bas as we know Jacob stopped limping And then was he was but not for long. Eventually he ended up healing and all parts of which means that the whole deal back to that salame and that's the kaducious that's why in the we talk about we talk about the essence of being the right type of person and standing for something and for being holy that's the madrega of that we have that holiness. That's that's our identity and that's the name that we were to because we beat the Malik. And even though along the way we limp because the Malik has a but eventually we're to throw it away. We're able to heal ourselves and become that's why we take a zel comes from as we throw him what belongs to him and which is from and the mistakes that we make we could say is not to the to the it's the in us that's the one who's no with us and that we can get it rid of so should stop limping along Walk straight and proud and with its face and head held