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ladies and gentlemen anytime someone
passes away it obviously takes a
tremendous toll on the family
and there's a tremendous thought of
suffering
pain and agony so
the one thing that they want is that
hashem should be able to bury the
deceased
in a peaceful fashion i think says a
person should pray that even his burial
should be done right and in peace um
with that being said we're going to read
about the famous story of jacob avinu
when he is about to be buried in maratha
marpella in the city of havon
together with his parents and
grandparents
he's about to be buried in their burial
plot
comes along his brother isaf is his twin
brother
and the tremendous rasha he comes along
and he wants to put up a fight and claim
that that is his spot
that is his place of burial and we all
know
the back and forth that milan tells us
about and eventually
one of the grandchildren of yaakov
who was deaf and mute he
got very disturbed by the situation and
he came along
and chopped off the head of isaf
he killed him on the spot and the head
of himself rolled
into the grave together with the akov
and his body was eventually buried
elsewhere
this is obviously a very uh intense
situation
our sages ask ultimately after the fact
what zaku what merit did isab have
that his head was able to be buried
amongst
them
to be buried among these greats and they
explained as follows
estab as we know was very very
knowledgeable until
his head was full of wisdom he knew
a lot of information but his body
very very corrupt in his ways so in
essence
his head had a merit to be buried
amongst the greats because he knew a lot
but unfortunately because his actions
didn't match up with his
knowledge his body was obviously
put elsewhere you know the torah tells
us
if we walk in the ways of the torah
then there'll be so many barakota we get
and rashi tells us what does it mean
to walk in the rays of the torah says do
you have a limit or you have to be
amelia tutorial in torah and the obvious
question is one second
uh walking in the rays of torah and
twirling into all two different things
twirling means you're sitting over your
book
you're analyzing you're not moving from
your spot
and walking means walking so why does
rashi tell us
walking the ways of torah means to
actually learn
and toil over the torah and the obvious
answer is
it's not enough to sit and learn torah
it's not enough just to get the
knowledge but you got to live it you got
to walk it you got to breathe it you got
to actually conduct in that fashion
that's how you know there's many people
that could have knowledge in torah
but their behavior their manner of
speech
they don't represent torah judaism they
don't represent the values of torah
and this is something we have to all
strive for to make sure what we learn
is going to be seen into action this
applies to people of all ages to men and
women
you go to shioli many times you hear
musa about how to conduct yourself at
home with your spouse
how to keep certain meets vote how to
control your anger your jealousy
we hear it but it's it doesn't really
penetrate
or we don't act upon it really our goal
should be
not to just hear things and have
information and no
different telecot but it's actually to
live it
let's not be like a sav that knew a lot
but didn't live it rather we should be
the type
that we have with masin we have
wisdom together with actions as well
