Rabbi Avrohom Walkin | Powerful Shiur On Yesod & Greatness of Yosef (PART 2) | CHAZAQ

[Music] good evening everyone welcome to the weekly kabura um this week's parishes is par so I will actually be discussing a little bit from Vash and also obviously from V because there's a correlation between the things I want to discuss regarding ysf hadik uh last week we had actually gave a sheare on the greatness of yadik and I want to continue with that theme so I will call last week's share sheare one on Yik and today's share will be sheare number two and um like I always do I'd like to thank kazak and Tor anytime for everything that they do I would also like to dedicate this week's Shear to a good C of mine rakov recant who truly inspires me and whenever I meet with him to discuss Tyra we both I hope we both leave inspired um so I want to dedicate that this particular share to Yakov recant I also want to dedicated to a tal of mine who really has made a very big tremendous difference in my life uh the last four or five months in my this to and his name is Mansour who ising in arol and every week continues to grow more and more and uh it's a true inspiration to uh be able to learn with them and de with him on a daily basis so before we get into par I want to discuss something from par we know that in par um yov ainu is on his deathbed he's he's deathly sick and he calls ysf to to meet with him and The Messengers go out to Yosef and Yosef brings a Fryman manasha but like I mentioned in last week's Parish I just want to re re reiterate that for the 17 years that yov ainu was in MIT with Yosef Yosef did not visit his father one time not even one time which means that yov met yose that first time that he met him uh he said sh and you know he saw that ysf remained the sadic that he was from that day on for the next 177 years ysf did not visit his father at all and you don't see anywhere that it was questioned um from yov end why y never never visited him and the question is why didn't Yos visit him so kazal tell us that ysf was worried that his father would start asking him about what happened how he got down to MIM and therefore yose would have to tell his father of the selling of the m y and everything that happened transpired from that sale and yakob would be obviously very upset at the at the brothers and obviously maybe would even you know curse them if I may say something like that it wouldn't be good for the the brothers but you don't see anywhere that yob was upset at Yosef because yakob knew that Yosef didn't want to say and the rebi T relationship that Yakov and ysf had was being built at the same time YF never visited his father because he knew his father wouldn't want him to visit him so he wouldn't have to say on his brothers and at the same time yob was happy that yose did not visit him so that yoseph would still develop that great media that he had of self-control but anyway Yakov was on his deathbed and I want to go back a little bit something um brought down in last week's paraa that at the time Yakov was 147 years old and in reality yob should have lived to 180 like y lived to 180 and or to 175 likeu lived and reallyu is also supposed to live till 180 years but because hasem did not want AB to have to suffer to see what asov be what became of asov Hashem Rus took away 5 years of ab's life that he shouldn't have to see his grandson ASV become the rusher that he became and we do know that people when they come time to the father's age where they lived in the olden days at least people should worry kazal tell us that a person will leave during that period of time within 5 years before 5 years after so here yakob was only 147 he didn't live to the 175 and 180 of Y and abah and the question is why didn't he live so brings down medish and says that when Yakov Vu came to parro for the first time Yakov looked very old he looked very very old and some actually say that this was the sa aru of that time of when aru met with pyro so people say it was the same parro but whatever the case was parro thought that this old man that was before him who happened to be Yakov he thought he looked so old in his eyes that maybe it was ainu so he asked him how old old are you how old are you so I'm just going to say the the words of the how old are you how many years have you been living on Earth because you look so old the days my years and the days of my life M that I sured at that time was 130 years my years were troubled and they were difficult and therefore I looked um the way I looked now I just want to go back um a few weeks ago there was a meaningful minute that I that was posted of something that I brought down I was to to to reach the level of getting on a meaningful minute and I brought down how a person can do kir without even saying a word why because a person's face is the greatest Cur that a person could do what does that mean that that when a person walks around and he has a he's down he's down trotted and he shows that he's suffered on his face it shows that he suffered then people look and say ah this man was a bentor this man was a tam this man was very was very did everything Hashem wanted pretty much and look at him he looks worn out he looks torn looks like he suffered therefore I remember saying that a faces of a face is of a person has to realize that when walks in the street and people know that he's a bentor and people know that he serves Hashem or a Jew that serves Hashem into the outside world he has to show in his face happiness because people should not know that he's suffering because of his of what he's ghes through and over here yaku told parro that the years of his life was actually was actually bad and from that he lost 33 years Springs down because if you look at the answer of yobu when he answered um parro and you add the question that parro asked yov it adds up to 33 so says why was he punished 33 years why was he punished for the question so he answers because it was noticeable on his face that he aged and that's why that's why parro asked him how old are you so because of the question that parro asked Yakov was punished x amount of years for the question too because like I said a face is aim and someone on jakob's level and I'm not here to judge but this is what K tell us someone it should never have been noticeable that he even suffered that aged because of his suffering of course he suffered but he got punished for the question too not just for his answer so we see again the importance of a person's face being a Rin and therefore yob at the age of 147 knew that his days were numbered he felt sick he knew that he asked the abish that a person should get sick before he passes away he was one of the three the asked that a person should age asked that a person should suffer before so that he doesn't lose his his umab or or he gets more and he suffers more in this world and yov asked that a person should get sick before he dies so that a person should actually be prepared um before his Yuma so that he can do chuva he can prepare his family members and when he has to prepare them so we do see that Yakov vinu got aged at 147 and he knew that his days were numbered so it says that he bring he calls over yoseph he calls over you know ysph brings a fman manasha but I always like to say over the story which I did not say over yet so I will tell you a little a wonderful story that I think I once said before many many many months ago but I I think it's up for uh it's up for Renewal as we say um and it's regarding ausing in this week's paraa in this week's par after was it says went up to bury his father father and kazal teaches that y himself took care of the burial even though all the other brothers were involved and all the other brothers um took in you know got involved in the in the burial of Yosef but Yosef took special care that he should be the one that was involved with every detail in jakob's burial in and K tell us that because of that y was ysep was that mosu himself took care of yosef's burial later on many years when they left years later when they left mitay so because of the mid that y took care of Yu personally mosu took care personally of of the burial of yose after they left MIT and after the waters came up from the yamu from the ocean from the yardan from the N River so I want to mention a story a beautiful story that I remember like I said I said it months ago it has to has to someone that I was there many times to see many times times to visit not as much as I would have liked but enough times that he left an impact of course on me knowing that I visited such a big sadic such a big rashash like Rak and the story goes like this it's actually brought down of pesak Cron's book I think it's brought down in reflections of the maget if I'm not mistaken and the story goes like this that Rak when he was very old and he was already sick and he was he was towards the end of his life he called over one of his t one of his grandchildren I think it was being MIM and he said I need to go get my coat I need to go to a certain laeva I need to go to a certain laev that's in Kaa very important that I go his grandson the talud um tried to um disuade him from going because it was raining outside it was very cold and an earth you know when it gets winter and it rains the wind the wind chill somehow some reason it gets into the bones you know maybe because the apartments are made from Marble or from a certain type of stone but it gets very cold and this Tama didn't want Rak to go out in such a weather but Shak was very adamant I must go to this Leva anyway goes to L took an hour and a half to two hours to get to the Lev and there was maybe 10 15 people by this Lev and it was an old woman it was an old woman the Lev of an old woman so it was around 10 people enough for the minion And when everybody left of sha actually took time to stand by the Cav himself he told his people that went with him please go back in I need to stand a few minutes here uh Alone by the caver with the rain pouring on his on his clothing and you know getting him almost sick but he needed to spend a few moments and he said to Hill him there he said to Hill him for 3 4 minutes and then he went back into the car of course the people that went with ra including this tal this grandson was wondering what was going on and what was so important that raak would even almost you know give up you know put his life not saying in Jeopardy but can get sick from this why what was so important felt he had to be at this Lev begins to tell them a story and he said when he was 12 years old there was a certain Yeshiva that he heard his mother heard cuz his father passed away's father passed away and he was much younger he heard the mother heard of a certain Yesa that was that was opening up and it was looking for top T they were looking for U brilliant kids and rak's mother knew that he was a brilliant kid and she and she sent him she sent him at 12 years old to this Yeshiva and it was the type Yeshiva that you went you didn't come home for a year like in most yeshivas in Europe you went you didn't come home every few weeks you didn't come home there was only you off shab you stayed for the year till you got home maybe you'd come home PES time maybe you come home maybe even twice a year but Rak was there for a period of time and he got there during the summer time but it was a very very poor Yeshiva with Yeshiva that had no means like most yeshivas had didn't have the proper means that they should have that they should have been supported by and food was very scarse um and the people that SLE B that in the Yeshiva the top guy slept on a hard bench and the the younger bam slept on the floor which was a luxury to sleep on the floor was more luxurious than sleeping on a on a bench in the in the base medish and that was the poverty that was the poverty in the Yeshiva at the time so during the summer like I said it wasn't terrible but in the winter became very very cold and raak at the age of 12 and a half he it was hard for him very very hard for him he received a letter from an uncle of his that found out that it was difficult for him in the Yeshiva and this Uncle told him come to America I have a Prett good I have a parosa over there you'll work for me you'll be able to send money to your mother and even bring her back to America we'll all come together and come to the golden of Medina called America come to the golden of Medina called America and this letter came on a Wednesday ra replied and basically he said I'm coming it was difficult for him to be in the Yesa he missed his home the the coldness of the winter was very difficult for him and he decided he was going to leave the Yeshiva decided he was going to leave and go to America to be with his uncle and then his mother will come afterwards and he'll start a future thought of future a financial future that Friday he was supposed to leave on a Sunday on a boat that Friday FR a woman comes to the rashash her husband passed away at a very young age she was also very young she had no children and her husband used to sell down coats and down blankets but now that he passed away she was going to move back to her hometown to be with her parents she was very young I know 23 22 years old husband was trampled I think up but with a horse and buggy or something and she wanted to go back but she wanted to donate these blankets and pillows um to the blanket and coats to the to the BAM Ina soak was that he got one of the blankets and that Friday night he remembers he recalls R how well he slept and how warm he slept and he took it as a sign from Hashem that he should not go to America and become a balabas which is nothing WR being a balabas but considering who Rak was and what he accomplished for clol obviously it was greater what he did than uh than doing some other profession and he remembered the warmth that he felt and he felt this was a sign from Hashem that he should remain and he became R he became R and this woman was the Lev of that woman that gave that BL and heak was always finding out information how she was doing he was always involved in helping her she never remarried never remarried but ra felt that he needed to go and be at her Lev so why did he stand outside he said in order for me to have the proper Hur to that I should have he felt that he needed to be able to stand there in the rain and feel that cold that he felt when he was 12 and half years old sleeping on the floor in order for him that have that proper Cur of to he should have for this woman felt he would stand outside for two three minutes in the rain so he could get feel that cold in order that he should have the proper herur at to to this woman in order to have felt what he felt like in those days then he could appreciate what became of him and that Cur to that he has to this woman so that's the story I wanted to bring down now I want to get back now to to this week's Parish regarding yose sadik yose that was given the term sadic for all the self-control that he had especially with regarding the control by isus with um with with with women the way he controlled himself in M all the years that he was there and like last week we discussed a little bit into it um the greatness of yose I will want to mention something that I did mention in parak that when Moser Renu um brought um yose's bones with him to the to the yam the water didn't want to split for cl it says water didn't want to split then it says the PK tells us the waters saw and the waters ran away so the question is what does it mean the waters ran away it should say the water split like it says in Hollow the lust of that the water split what's that the waters ran away usually the word Baka is used on something that's not alive split cut in half you bu it split FAS means it it retreated it ran away which is used on something that's High that's living so tell us what's the soal tell us that what did it see the water didn't want to split for it said they did we are not going to go against our nature and split for the B unbelievable Hashem didn't didn't answer them say too bad I told you to do it you do it Hashem didn't say a word about it the water didn't want to do it Hashem didn't say a word so then what did MRA do he showed the Aron of Ys to the water what did it see vas it saw the vas it ran away what R what running away did it see it saw the V it saw that when y was was being attacked by's wife to to do something Ys ran out it says he ran outside he ran out doors therefore what did the waters see it's it's the that y went against his nature against anyone one's nature and he ran outside so the waters said we'll split also we're going to split because of the Aron but what did it see what did it see V it's all the vas of Y so yose's great great self-control is very evident in many many different aspects of the paraa and like I mentioned last week also that the fact that yov asked yose to bury him in this week's para he bring tells y bury me don't bury me in M bury me in but Rashi says I know it still bothers you till this very day that I never B I never buried your own mother I never buried her Mar where did I bury her on the side of a road but but Jakob tells ysep I know it still bothers you till this very day why I did it but you never questioned me you never questioned me and there again rebi T relationship Yos easily could have asked his father not with a with a not with a a question why how could you but just give me the reason why I'm sure there's a reason he buried his mother on the side of the road yob is buried r on the side of the road and yoseph never questioned his father because you see says I know it still bothers you but no I did it for a reason that one day she's going to be used K is going to go out in the gullas and they're going to stop over there and they're going to DAV over there but you see the great MAA that yov was still building Yos to the very last moment he was building him to the very last moment that what self control that yob that y if it still bothers him but we don't ask on a father he wasn't going to ask on his father CU he knew his father had a reason and if his father didn't tell him the reason then it wasn't meant for him to know the reason and therefore yose till the very last moment was being built and growing from his rebi his great rebi his father till the very last moment yob was building ysf ysf was building um um was being built by yob so why now did he tell him like we said in last week's um um Shear now he felt the contradiction would be too much for ysf he tells him to do something that he didn't do for his mother the contradiction even on yosef's level you can't ask somebody to do something if you didn't do it for that for that person therefore he felt that I can't ask yose to bury me if it's still bothers him which I know it does because I didn't do it to his mother so therefore we see how much import how important it is for a parent a rebi a m to not contradict his own words I've been guilty of this many times growing up with my own children that you tell them to learn they don't see you learning enough you tell them getting up for daving and maybe you don't get up on time the way you should don't give muser if you don't if you don't back it up with your own actions do as I do and not as I say very very important just don't do and expect your children to do if you don't do it yourself so therefore yov aino had to tell yose right now what happened why he buried her on the way but I want to I want to just go before I get into the ending of what I want to discuss about yadik I want to mention something that when Yos brings a Fryman Mas tells that you will Claus Ro bless their children in the future as you know when parents give their their children Bros Friday night AR Kipper before they always and where do we get that from to the Tells that should make you like so the obvious question is why why why not like other like mosha I mean mosha was living then but why do we bless our children like man not like mosha or not like and yov yose why because and manasha lived in a very very grew up in a very bad place they grew up in MIT very evil very teda Place contaminated filth a spiritually filthy place yet yet they remained a manha they Remain the holy people that they were therefore Yu tells Ys and in the gas bless your children CL should always bless their children they should be like a FR and manasha because just like a and man they remain sikim we bless our children in the Gus the filth of the Gus that we live in that we they should remain steadfast and strong like a FR minha therefore that is the a propo br to give to someone's children that in the Gus we live in in the difficulties in what we are faced the challenges we faced at the end of the of the gulas that we're in the challenges we're faced all around us through the internet through through walking in the streets through whatever it is the challenge is you should remain steadfast like a Fran manasha and now we're going to end with yose but I want to end with um two actual MIM one is a y Shimon and the other one is a med and I actually I'll tell you last Friday night I went to bed at 7:00 knowing that I usually have guests 7:30 I finished my meal quickly I didn't have guests but I knew my guests were coming around 9 10:00 cuz I usually have Friday night many many people show up they take rotations from 9:00 literally till 1:00 Friday night I have bun of I have many for my son we have for brain so I wanted to an hour of sleep maybe before before they come like from 7:30 to 8:30 so I went to lie down but I couldn't sleep because this Yak Shimon I needed to find this yon I knew I remembered it from for years I remembered it so I went to a certain sh next door to me they didn't have it so I took out the medis ra and the med Raba brings down something similar but not the yakon but we're going to do both quickly the med Raba and we're going to read it inside and the yakon and then we'll end with that and that we'll see again the greatness of yosik so it says like this it says there's a in the Torah that says like this about regarding Yosef when yob is blessing Yosef and telling him the greatness of obviously who yose was he tells Ys his son he says benat benat Al that what that a Charming son is y benat Ali benat Al and a Charming son to the son to the eye so the med on this goes on to continue to say on this P that it says Al sorry the PK says this but Al the daughters climbed Heights to gaze and that refers to when y yose would travel through the streets of of MIM and his horse and Chariot as the vice Roy the king women would throw ornaments women women would throw flowers at him just that he should look up one moment at them gaze at them and they should see his face that's how beautiful ysf was how tell us no one ever looked in the history of the world as beautiful as ysf for a man and therefore the greatness of yose was that they would throw things just for him to gaze and he never looked up k do that medish with the yimon in a minute the greatness of Yosef he torn away from his parents from his father torn away from the brothers to torn away from the yish kite that was the greatness of yose the Torah that he learned from his father stuck in a very sick Place embarrassed thrown into prison a slave yet never did he lose thought of who he was and who where he came from and sin even minutely so what does the med say says like this um it's it's the peace called and it says like this the women would throw ornaments and climb high mountains just to see when went out and he would be the ruler of and he would travel they would try to gaze upon him through through windows and through through through walls through actually standing on walls and they would throw on him to he should look up to be you know like almost like awoken to see what was thrown at him that he should see women in order that they should be able to gaze upon him and see him even though he would not look at them or gaze upon them told told him you did not lift up your eyes and to gaze by your life I'm going to make a complete para for you regarding inheritance which is the para of BOS an entire par which tells us about yusha and this telling us about yusha was all about what was given to Yosef as a Matana that a whole part was given for Y for the fact that he didn't look up that is the and now I want to mention the yal chimon and then we're going to end with that very powerful yal chimon I actually um say it over to my public school high school kids that are ready for it I've said it in a public school once before few times actually years ago but I think it's um very powerful and we'll end with that and will show the greatness of yose now but Al it says they wanted to see the face of and he never even looked at one of them and he never obviously saw them he didn't think of them he never thought of any of them he was to inherit two inheritances one in this world and one in the next World and kazal tell us that because of yose's not actually looking ever in MIT at women any of the women in he was that the iron raw is not SCH it on y that the iron raw the evil eye is not show it on y because he watched his eyes therefore no iron horor could be on Yik and his because he watched his eyes he was for the watching of the eyes now I'm going to go to the story ofas was a t in the Mish he's in the gar mentioned a few times but a very very holy T and he's called Benish the son of a blind person why is he called the son of a blind person a lot of times kazal will tell you a a name of a sadic a name of a tan and armora and really the name is not really the son of a particular individual but the son of an action or a behavior or a good MAA that this Tana had and he would be known as like Ben Sak there are many people that have names of people or or or um sag sag of your mayor that the certain person that was blind but he's given a title of something that he was and not actually a child of that particular name of a person so that he used to sit in the B and he would always be learning day and night and the the shine the radiance of his face was do to the Sun for clas upon of the image of his face whatever that means had the image of the why brings down he never ever ever noticed a woman that was not his wife obviously and I do think he did get married but it meant that he never saw a woman that was not his wife in his lifetime one time over Satan the Satan was going through his paperwork soal and was looking at the see different people that he needed to you know to to test to challenge to find out their information to see if what they're you know like judgment and over and was jealous when he saw his resume he Saw's resume he said wow this person never saw a woman in his life he said to himself is it possible for a person to be like that that never sinned in his life to look at something he should not see in his lifetime what is he to you how do you hold of him he is the complete complete package of a he is a so the said give me permission and I'm going to test him and I'll come with my my greatest arsenal of testing him said in in go you won't be able to you're not going to be able to get him said was made that no one could ever get him but he said go anyway that he that Su appeared as a woman that I can't explain what this is but a woman that never appeared as the beautiful woman in the world like this particular Woman except it was a woman I guess was the sister of right that was supposed to be very beautiful and no one was as beautiful as her in the history of of of of Judaism of life of the world and she and this s appeared like this woman that even the when they came down they sinned says when they came down before when they came down they actually sned says theim they sinned what did what did they s in they s they SN with this woman they they couldn't control themselves and yet she they just s and appeared like that when he saw the appeared as this beautiful woman he didn't know he turned he turned his face and he he turns his face this way and that way backwards he came to the left side he kept turning his head back and forth not to notice Amar he said said I am worried maybe the will get to me eventually if this continues to happen what did this do I have understand who this is but he called a certain that was being at the time that was actually taken care of him at the time give me bring fire and spikes and I want to spike out my eyes when the saw asked for fire in other words they shouldn't get infected and and with the spikes poked his eyes out the Su disappeared he was so shocked at this greatness that he disappeared goal he got up and stood before him the stood before asked who are you who I am this person I this s me to heal your eyes said no leave me leave me the way it is what happened happened and I saw that he was worried that the S would come again the because you'll see later what happens so he said leave it what happened happened leave it that way I'm worried that who knows what can happen if I get back my eyes said again went back to and he said to me this is what told me go back to him and tell him I will be your guarante I will be the one to make sure that this will never happen to you again that will never have permission to come after you again in that moment he got healed somebody doesn't look at women and obviously the wife of a friend of his in other words obviously somebody that he thinks he's close to that he's friendly with you know will not be and that's what it means and that's what it means that uh um that what it means to a person to be M on his watching of his eyes so ysep had a lot of great character traits he was a all of's was given through y he was to he was also on M call Adam he was the most humble of people he always had Hashem on his mouth never took credit for anything he did oh Hashem oh hasem did this Hashem sent me here sent me here he said it to power he said it to Slaves he said it to people always never taking credit for his wisdom for his greatness for anything he's done yet yet the trait that Kaz liked to talk about mostly was Yak was yosi's trait of self-control and we should learn as we make this week's Paras Paras is going to be par kazak the end of the book of Yar as it says of the righteous ones which is this of saer bous where we end the stories of the stories the the M of and we start a new era error of of of of with mosu we should take with us at the end the greatness of Y which is to one a person should be mid on his self-control in all areas all areas not just in in not just in things that are regarding is regarding womenly things but even in his daily life self-control and anger self-control in hisa self-control in his uh not doing things you should be doing at the right time you should be doing it and I give you all a that we should be that the should which is at its doorsteps I I do believe so who am I to believe so I'm nobody but I do believe obviously that every day approaches we are closer to the G and we should all come together and to celebrate um and and read the