Chazaq on the Parsha: Vayechi - Rav Ilan Meirov

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