Vayeitzei Zevulun Supporting Torah learners; bringing converts to Yisroel, Rabbi Yossi Paltiel 5783

foreign [Music] that I'm doing this year I did revenge and honestly I didn't think I'd last this long I'm very proud of me that I saw it through so far and I did zooland I prepared to give the class nine minutes Hashem and I I have the notes the uh this is the the texts that I'm doing using as my basis that's at least my plan I guess the thing that I want to say first talking about zulon is you know there are 12 some of them are like very famous you know everybody knows about Yoda everybody knows about Joseph certainly in Hamish I guess everyone knows about Levy God even your soccer is not one of the Chic you don't hear about him so much so what happens is I have this is this is my stack this is tonight's stack right here I have a series of fun that I it's not a complete collection I have a lot of Spotify because I used to get past your classes years ago um it's not my whole collection because I never finish but it's a considerable portion of my collection of him and reshine him and each week I sit down I sat down this afternoon my computer I started reading and started typing notes you know with Russian and I'm doing I'm not just doing patches I hate it I'm doing my AC I'm doing my ish lock I'm doing the Eva yigash I'm doing give I'm doing schmoise I'm doing titsava where you have the 12 schwartam and their connection to the 12 Stones of the question I'm doing by midpoint then of course so I'm researching many places in the hummus where all the 12 mentioned together I'm trying to collect information that will allow me to develop a full picture of each shave it and I'm always surprised I always find things that I didn't think of that are exciting that are surprising that are wonderful that are special but zavulan this today almost as soon as I started I said oh there is so much to say about so many interesting things to say about zavula and you must understand we develop a class based on details right this medicine this shot this shot but our purpose and our intent is not to give you a whole Smorgasbord of me first our purpose is to use this Morgan as a medium to flush out who is the villain you know meet the villain if you wanted to know what is the character of the mans of ulum and in a real way therefore what is the character of shavids of Olives you do all this research you collect a lot of facts a lot of interpretations a lot of insights that have shot him and you put it all together you mix it all together and say so what comes out so from all of this what do I know about the personality of zavulan and what I found was wonderful a lot of the things I knew but to speak the essence the the essence of zavulin as I understand it as I'm going to share with you now came to me as a very big surprise and it's a wonderful surprise it's a very beautiful it's a very beautiful story Mr zavulan rabbis villain it's a nice story it's a beautiful beautiful story because I'm going to share with you now now of course the beginning of the story is Leia Leia keeps having children she's supposed to produce three she's already produced five and she has another baby's ruler and when zabulin is born she says she now my son my husband he's going to live in my house with permanence because they gave him six children he calls them the villain the Woodland has many interpretations the one that's most frequently used at zavula means a house the base I make dish is called base zavula house so hapami is balaini ishi he's been he's gave me a good Relic and now my husband is gonna have to live with me why because I gave him six Sons of the words of Woolen denotes whole permanence a bias the base I make this is called base of wool so Leia says I'm gonna become Yankovic I'm going to become his bias his home because I gave him six children that's what that actually says that's the simple chat okay and it's his ever David actually translates as you have a good Mazel and I still wonder that he shine him I think in this partner who adds that your soccer was born because [Music] foreign because of layers good behavior she feels the able she gave her another's ghost and that's also included in the paste that's what Leia says okay [Music] I'm saying this at the outset because we're going to go off to a whole nother world and I just wanted to First say what Leia said because Leia is the mother Leia gave him they gave him his name and of course Leia gave him his name superficially for reasons that were imminent at the time that Leia named him but Leia gave her gave her son the name and this name reflects the whole personality was Woolen throughout history so here's what I discovered zavulon is a partner with yehudanya the three are a Triad they go together they had this horse to be situated in front of the mishkan their neighbors next to them as Rashi says the mother says when it's good for Italian neighbor the direct neighbors of were Mason added and his children so you hold the soccer and swollen were deeply affected by a Toyota culture the Toyota culture the Toyota culture of yahood of Maisha and his children and as a result of this in some ways more than other shave it were steeped in Torah and the eleven took him we find by yehudah and certainly as we discussed last week and even by shaving civil and he brings the apostles safer the civilian also had a certain expertise in China but that's how it's supposed to be that's not how it works out zavula is supposed to be steeped in Tyra but the reality is it doesn't work out that way and the question is why and the answer I'm about to give you is based on what says but I'm making this answer up Jews come to Israel and the land is divided amongst them each division each tribe each piece of real estate that was divided I'm going to each shave it affected the quality of life of that particular shave it in other words the kind of land you were given would determine how you would make a living um and many of the swatham in the North many of them were given very fertile ad the land they were given was very Lush a lot of moisture it's very fertile and they made a very wonderful living selling figs selling grapes producing oil like shave and Usher and on and on and on and on and on now this woman is up there with all the others but the volumes on the coast and because of all those on the coast the villain finds that he's right next to you he's right next to naphtal he's right next to Usher who all have wonderful pieces of land that are very fertile that allow them to make a living with relativities The Village land is mountains it's Rocky and it's water it's ocean cannot make a living without being labor intensive in other words the vulner's put in a position where his brother is given the kind of land where he doesn't have to work particularly hard the land will provide the volume is given a very difficult piece of land and it says had a right to protest you give yasaka my brother such a wonderful fertile piece of land which allows him to to earn a living to support himself with relative ease so he's free to learn Taira for me to make a living have to work incredibly hard I mean if you look at it very simplistically when the woman comes to Israel what are they going to make a living are they going to go fishing they're going to fish for hilozone for that snail or whatever animal it is that produces the blue that's used for the titsis the trailers they're going to fish there was crystal in their land there was a certain fish that that swam in the ocean near where's the wooden lived but the Woodland was put in a position where to make a living would have been very difficult and the direct issue is so the volume saw themselves and the Amish makes it impossible in other words if you want to learn title and the age that puts you in a position where you need to work incredibly hard to make a living the fact of life is you can't I recently told the boys in the room over there in my base I'll start with an uncle of mine my grandfather had a brother I'm talking about my family members you know it's like what the whole world has to hear about them hopefully it won't go back to them my uncle's name was moisha life Uncle moisha live in The Grandfather's brother he was a small little man he was five six was a small little man and he was a butcher butchers in those days not like today tell your butcher you just your meat comes into the store you put it in the shelf and you sell it it comes in in cellophane and uh those little trays of styrofoam I mean I remember butchers cautioning I would go into broad you see a massive table with a pile of chickens 15 feet in the air with salt on them a butcher Kash of meat he my uncle worked my great uncle my mother's Uncle looked very very hard and he he wasn't big in Moscow he came home at night exhausted he had four children he has four children they're beautiful children they were Bene Tita his two of his sons people and he he was he he was one of the few who had this he fought in the second world war as it were and he would come home at night I was at his funeral his children all told the story come home at night exhausted and he would say to his wife my Aunt Esther who's she's got to be close to a hundred I'm going to look in he would go to he had an easy chair so he would take a safer he would sit down and eat the chair five minutes lady was asleep the book sat on his chest two o'clock in the morning his wife would wake him up and said why should I come upstairs his kids grew up seeing this night after night for their entire childhood it didn't happen once was how they lived he would fall asleep she would leave him on the couch two o'clock in the morning she'd wake up my life come to bed so his kids said the guy never learned we can't quit London he was and the tragedy was he retired and he was planning to sit and learn as soon as he retired he had a stroke and he lived with that stroke for many years and he was always I was always happy in other words Amy said push it didn't give him that opportunity so his kids who are probably gonna come and were saying Daddy never learned how about he knew and the conclusion that they reached was that the book would sit on his on his chest that's how the Taylor went in the point is villain villain belongs to the same camp as yehudanya the abuse to put them in a position we can't learn the kind of terrain the land he was given is not going to provide for him but not so easy to have to work hard so the medran said instead of complaining he took the bull by the hoods if this is what God wants is what I'm going to do instead of being able which means he's living on the coast so he can go fishing he can find he can find the Trias some fish and I don't know what Trias is maybe somebody can help me with that and uh I don't know what hookers must be Crystal he becomes a seafood they go into the business of trade and I saw one of this forum that say that he lived on the coast but he had two advantages lived on the coast but he also lived where there was a Port oftentimes coasts have Cliffs he lived on a coast which was scaled out to the Sea so he was able to build a port he lived on the coast he was able to become a traveler who made a living through trade and Zola became very successful they lived on the Mediterranean they traded with all their neighbors in the Mediterranean they're famous Traders with the Phoenicians which was in the coast of of North Africa they they traded with the people of Tire directly to the north side which is not what we would call today Lebanon and they made a good living in other words zavulum's aspiration zavulan's Hope was to be able to sit and study Taylor and the apishness simply took that opportunity away from them by giving him tough Terrain and civil and could have fetched they could have complained they could have said INF it's not fair but instead they said if that's what God wants what God wants and they took the opportunity they were given and they became Merchants I mean Jewish people are probably more than anything else Merchants I mean Jews are incredible you don't need to tell you that right in every field we hold some of the most important ranks in medicine and in in all areas of Science and philosophy and in Psychology and in the Arts we ever looked as Jews but historically there was a very very famous King named Charles Charlemagne who built What's called the Holy Roman Empire at that time the whole of Northern Europe was one big Empire he imported Jews he brought Jews in from the south and he imported Jews not because he wanted to learn he imported Jews because he wanted business and Jews are business people they buy and sell and by buying and selling they they make money and they import and they export it every country needs trade yidden are incredibly good at Handler at trading they know how to buy and sell and to be a middle man you know and that was a woman became and became very very wealthy and the woman said if I can't learn myself will learn from me and they made a deal you saw her satellite day and I decided to do anything for that paid the bills you saw her Satan learned and twice in the homish you saw her result and always the schwattengo in order right in the in all of the Birch moisture the shotgun go on order but in both cases both when yaakov gives they put the volume before even though why because in other words given lemons and they made from it lemonade the volume was given what they didn't want they were put in a position where the land the terrain the territory that they were given the Peace of land they were given was not going to provide for them but not so easy which meant that their dream of being able to sit and learn and have an easy pranasa was deny them they turned it around and they made it into an opportunity and um they they supported yourself and Terrace we always say that the credit for yourself and I mentioned this to you last week in class that we say every day we do this is a tree of life for those who were hold on to it I mean I I don't I'm just gonna say it even though it may sound so nuts if any of you by some miracle or by some great effort to spend your life in Toyota like I do my life is tighter like Gold Rush yeshiv is like almost like people if any of you is that you don't finish Yeshiva and get married and do whatever but you can actually spend your entire life learning Tata it's the best life I'm not saying you should do it but if you'll do it you'll be the happiest person it's a tree of life but then it says those who support the title are very fortunate they're very lucky so on the words [Music] desire says move the letters around which means from his head meaning that the supporter of Torah is a higher than the student of China who turns his disappointing lot around and uses his opportunity to make a lot of money and to support you is even higher than zavula there's a story a long long story in addition for the future which is printed and saved from amongst but as I Was preparing this class this story was just ringing in my head there was a couple that had no children that no children and the belsham dev took them to a town and he took them to akhaidu and he asked the children what's their names and all the boys had the same names and all the girls had the same names so into a different grade all the boys had the same names so the vashem asked the people how is it that all the kids in town are the same names they're not old blood relatives so they told me that there was a couple that had no kids and they paid for Allah so everybody names their children after them turns to this couple and says you see there's ways to have a legacy there's ways to have a Hampshire even if it has to show up the image does not give you children biologically I'm just telling you the nucleus but this is a long long story Indonesia but this is what the fulan does zavulon turns around its inability to personally learn Torah to support Taira and he becomes greater than the Tata itself and then we say of course right on the right side you have long life the right side is left side you have wealth and you have honor says that Horizon if you want to be smart I'm live in the south where the sun shines if you want to be wealthy go to the north where it's cold the left side the semen is represents tables on the right side and the show Khan which represents panasas on the left side shows on by default ends up being on the left side you saw her ends up being on the right side and the villain turns around the challenges that the Amish they gave him to become the ultimate supporter of theta and as a result of this he's considered higher than yourself I saw also one of them that he was given he was given the blessing of the sea and the Sea when it gives when the sea takes it takes a lot as they say Lord the sea gives the sea gives a lot and that there are certain gifts which shavings of woman has it says in one of them in that over the course of history there have been thousands and thousands of shipwrecks and all kinds of treasure was lost at sea so it says in the message that all those shipwrecks are going to turn up in yamasha in the small little ocean which is off the coast of where the woman lives and it's outside it's a treasure which the abuse has put aside for shepherd's rule forever for the hosted loving now I want to add and I'm now only going to mention it I'm going to come back to this later but this is not only that they're going to be very rich it means that they're going to have the opportunity premius of gosh musical wealth the inner dimension of physical spiritual physical wealth is called Peter you're elevating physical things if you use it for the services it becomes he lived in the north on the coast where yes okay so you meet the person and we're going to have to say that that person has a certain personality what is that personality that personality is that when things don't work out correctly instead of fetching and complaining he uses whatever opportunity is available to him in a constructive way and he makes it good and that this character played out in his descendants they would have loved to be coil people to sit and learn the ambition didn't give the opportunity so instead of complaining about it they spun it around and made it into something favorable so it's the whole shave it the woman himself but chavin's woman had land on the north west on the coast that's how they made it let me see Affairs the word oil is a very very big word but that was their that was their thing yeah okay now it's a funny thing one of them International says something which is a little sleeve it's a little bit of a shock that zavulon in addition to everything else also means Zello you know what level means fertilizer and that's a nice word that means a house that means fertilizer how do those things go together fertilizer makes things grow fertilize produces fruit Leia Leia can't believe she gets pregnant she gets pregnant she gets pregnant she gets pregnant she says I am fertile the abish has given me a bracha every opportunity I can get I become pregnant and have another baby and that's one of the reasons she names him zavulon so I did that she's very very fertile and it's associated with fertilizer he's very very fertile and as a consequence of that she builds yankovino's house but the idea that zavulum is connected to fertilizer is not limited only to Leia it's limited it's extends to that whole model that their purpose is to create fruit to create bracha to create abundance to create wealth and they do it by being involved in the world and and they're blessed with fruit so that's why they're called Zulan they they produce something very fertile so they associated with fertilizer there's another little madrish that says that this is so interesting one of the ideas of zavulan what are the days of zabulon it's connected to the base what are the different database how because the words of Allah means a house the base I mean this is called basaval Bonnie bunnies of and the volume has nothing to do with the base of English is Who provided a base I make this you may remember Usher Usher has a lot of oil and they provide the shaman for the base I make dish but you don't find any place in this foreign in part because the idea is always to build a home now layers has to build a home because Yankee levino is going to live permanently in her home but we understand that this means the base I make touch and there seems to be no direct connection between the volume and the base of vectors none so one thing that I saw which is interesting it's imagination actually that the Madrid says and when is the rule in the basement after the Mason was destroyed when yid went into this would Exile ten times right I have the list here I don't have the list here oh foreign [Music] has to go away the sun head and ends up first by shavings of Woolen before it ends up by shaving so the idea that zavulin is a base is consistent with the basic idea of zavulan you give him a bad hand instead of fetching on playing it he turns it around the base mix is destroyed things are not right zavulum builds the base that's one insight into why shavitz connected to the base offers a very weird thing was very mystical on you I love them he's just wonderful and very creative very original his words six is half and six is the letter of hashem's name says that the way the world works is that the presence of godliness in the world is always in the center shavidson is the sixth shave it which represents the middle of the and because the reason Hashem dwells amongst the Jews because he's the middle the center shave it we say that the reason the Amish that dwells among the Jewish people is because of him the fact that hashem's house is someplace else doesn't matter in other words there's the base I make the shall matter the physical base of English which is in yahood and which is near the center of itself towards the south of Mexico zooms at the very top of it Israel but the reason that Hashem should live amongst them is because there's a middle child the middle child is represents the center the basically to show my law the Heavenly based is in the center so the idea is shave is the Wilderness called the Woolen because they represent the house of Hashem they represent the source of the idea that the abuse the rest of the base why does Hashem physically rest in the basement which is because we have a middle child we have a child that presents the center which is a very capitalistic it's a very mystical insight and I uh I found it interesting okay let me speak to me huh now but I have another opinion okay I just gave you two reasons why zulin is called number one the debates after the qurban the house the Toyota the house the sun heading was destroyed the only place within is in is in is in Sanhedrin so this is number two it's a mystical thing there the center and therefore in their schools the rest of the Jewish people but I want to say a very simple thing foreign represents that you take the passion and the richness of an animal you turn that passionate richness around make it into a court for the age you take the LIE of the world then you make it into a keshet a Kadesh a board for the ABC and the base so the rules in the sense of a vegetable the house of God is not built by living in holy isolation or isolation of Holiness the house of God is built by element in the world shavings of becoming seafarers Shepherdsville going out and doing trade and meeting people and of course being honest and honorable in his business but profiting and using that wealth for the basement for the Torah and so on and so forth this is this is called elevating Sparks and that's the ultimate base so I just gave you three different reasons three different insights why zavulin is connected to the base amigdash even though they have nothing at all connected to the base image and I mean out of fourth the volume was responsible for many converts how so they did business with people right did business with non-jews and we do business with that with nine Jews you become acquainted you become involved you become friendly you become socially engaged so of course the rule and traveled overseas the villain traveled all along the Mediterranean Coast they were in Greece face where they were they were in Greece they were in Turkey they were in Lebanon wherever they went they were in Egypt but people also came to them and people came to the coast of Northerners Israel the the port of khaifa where the woman lives and they said you know we traveled hundreds of miles by ship to come and buy and sell and trade let's check these people out so they leave their ships and they go to Jerusalem which is not I mean I mean there's no great distances any place I'll take some a day or two they come to Europe they come to the basement she says word he sees coulomb they all worship the same God they are the same food and everything about them is uniform they're all the same in every way and they go here and say we like this people and they convert and they become Jews like it says that the volume was responsible for bringing many converts to the Jewish people now we're not in the convert business but on the other hand the kamada says one of the reasons for God is to find the Sparks that are embedded amongst the non-jews and bring them back into this is directly involved in making whether the Gated means people or the gator means it says that's the fourth reasons because they bring non-jews who have Jewish Sparks to the Jewish people and I want to say something else which out of source this are making up because this is my personal Obsession that it's very reasonable to assume that when it says that it actually from the medrish that zavulan made many converts because they interacted with people and developed relationships and they would come to edit his throw and they would travel whatever number of days it is from the northern coast to the base of and see what's going on and like how the Jewish people are living and how they're interacting and how they're behaving and want to join the nation of God you have to assume that gay the Muslim means gaditation foreign foreign but he has to keep the Chevrolet and in case you don't know it is if you see a Jew that's floundering and faltering you have a special gift not to let him fall financially a Jew has to help a Jew just as a Jew has to help a Jew a Jew has to help a non-jew who signed on for the shepherd mixes beneath he's considered a gave I mean the way that has the beginning of davis-memus in other words a Gloria says I'm not becoming a Jew but I'm going to keep the shepherd mixes in the neck and I'm not going to worship idols for him just like you have for a Jew a god who's not keeping himself this also didn't have stalker but that's you shouldn't create conflict but a guy who keeps Shava Mitzvahs who's against the same here of giving him the Jew and like I said there's implications and different sources that again is the beginning of again a guy who says but I'm going to keep the shepher Mitchell said I'm not going to worship idols I'm going to believe in one God is a part gate and I'm suggesting that zavulums effect on to make gate him extends to that as well so when you say that zavulin is the representative of the basamiktas bringing the world to the abistair is it may not be the actual physical building but in the language of Lubavitch it's the real base to make this whole world these are all characters character traits of zavulum so you get four or five reasons depending on how you want to split it of House of woolenism is doing things that make him the basal maker so in short and summation what I gathered was that the woman had a plan he wanted to be like his brothers and the Apes to let him know that he's not going to allow him to be like his brothers so instead of spending his life in self-pity he takes an advantage of the opportunity that he has number one he supports his brothers and in doing so he's placed before his brothers and number two he has unbelievable um in all kinds of ways including the idea of building a basement someone you want to say something yeah go ahead um okay so so the terrorism wasn't enough and again because it just says it's impossible to say that the reason for God says gated there's been so few gated in these two thousand years and therefore consider says that Gator means so it's it's a definition so in conclusion I have three more things to say the color of his flag the picture on his flag and the unique properties of his Stone okay the color of the flag of shavitz is white it's a soft white that's how it's described the nation why why because white represents wealth white represents openness white represents wealth um in casides in in physics is this white includes every color every possibility exists in white now but then it exists in white as a part of a plainness if you're familiar with the safer Taylor the safety has white parchments with black letters written on top of it says it is fire say potato fire is White Fire and the black fire the letters of the black Blackfire emerge from the white fire shavids of Woolen represents the white of the safety not the black of this every day turning lemons into lemonade and becoming the supporter of Taylor and really the portal the bridge between the yin and the world they lived amongst and the influence that all the Jews had on their goyum of the game around them based on Chambers of ulam makes them that entity that represents of simplicity that includes everything and that's my suggestion for why his flag is white flag is white now the picture on his flag was out of a ship of a boat of course the simple reason the flag of Chevy zone is a ship in a boat is because they made a living they were Traders they traveled on the sea the Mediterranean was their was their playground as they call it was their Pond and they were constantly traveling and so on and so forth but I want to give a different suggestion the mission is I've been talking about this Mission a lot lately foreign there's a mission that talks about different professions and tells you ahead of time if you're going to be a good person or a bad person and one of the worst things the mission says is that most doctors are terrible yeah but safonym that means sailors people who travel at Sea are hasidim that's what the mishna says so now she says why what is the safanim if you understand if you know how they live there's nothing holy about them um the reason Sailors is because they face mortal danger every day mortal dangers I mean today with the with the uh new kinds of engines and the new kind of locomotion and the new kinds of Steel it's a different world but the alternate ships are not nearly as big and they literally used wind sales and they were oftentimes the weather and the storms were stronger than they were and they had to use every one of their resources to survive I mean it was a tough tough life as a sailor so that as she says that today I can see them because people who live such difficult lives do a lot of praying they're very close to the abreston and I want to propose that this is why and the woolen's flag there's a ship it's not only because they were shocking because they were Merchants because they traveled but because their lifestyle didn't diminish their Jewish identity but to the contrary it enhanced their years Hashem because their lives were difficult and sometimes dangerous they're represented by the ship because people who are seafarers because of the risks to their lives are very close to neighborhood and that's how we're defining shape as well go ahead what does it say about people who go through desert like every day I don't remember we could look it's a staff whatever can cook an innovate I don't remember and finally his Stone and this I can't figure out the name of a stone is so he first of all says that it's a symptom of wealth and the stone is also white okay but then he has another thing the school of the stone of zululun is a special everybody drum roll please is it puts you to sleep the the the property the the medicinal the the school of property of this stone called Yahoo language then it puts you to sleep now how does that tie into edius so I have two interpretations the first is you have my modem a knee is as a kid this is one of the first time about to be learning Yeshiva as a 14 year old is this I am asleep and my heart is awake foreign I sleep in Exile the Libya but my pinterly and Aid is nevertheless awake in other words a Jew who is spiritually challenged not by himself but by his environment by his circumstance by his conditioning and as a result of this he's not able to sit and learn title all day long so on a conscious level there's a moment of sleep zavulin in the end was not as big because they had to support them and to support themselves but will he be Aid people whose conscious levels of the nashama are sleeping they're pintally their inner soul is even more awake than anybody else in other words the upside of sleep right that in the condition of sleep the very essence of the nisham is revealed and I'm proposing that zevulon's condition where the more conscious levels of the Soul which they would have loved to engage in data were unfortunate not fully developed because abish didn't allow them to which is the metaphor for sleep allows the emergence of the pintolete which is underneath it and number two pardon me I'm saying that you were going to say that I knew that someone's gonna have to say that uh um and the second thing I want to say is that this is a little bit more tricky that it says that when a person goes to sleep your soul goes on high and it draws life and you may know the story The before Martin data so you didn't went to sleep how could he didn't go to sleep the night before Matt and Taylor tomorrow how could you go to sleep so one of the answers that's brought us because they would rather sleep so that the shama goes to Garden at the able to decide what he's what the nashama is going to get if they stay awake the terrorists that they're going to learn is going to be on them if they go to sleep to tell they're going to learn it's going to be on the abished and the way the lab explains it is for them that was good and for us every yeshuas we stay up all night so there's another concept of sleep which is that the when a person is sleeping the trauma goes La Milian against all kinds of Brothers and what I'm what I'm sort of what I took out of shavings it's a chambers of Allah fish to accept the lot the abish that gave him or her and perhaps didn't get exactly what it planned did exactly what it wanted but as a result it was unbelievable that's the class and you are an amazing audience as always 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