Rabbi Michael Mansour | Parshat Vayishlach | CHAZAQ

[Music] very very the biggest fight and the biggest war is in this week's par like the writes somebody that went that came back from war from a physical War he told him you came back from a physical war from the smaller war and you're on the way to a bigger War what's the bigger War says what they're doing in Israel now is it should be finished very quickly today they will had to go in unfortunately again because the the bunch of liers the the Arabs they they don't know if what they have where they have they don't know nothing they just wild man but the biggest is what we do every day which is called could we wake up in the morning could we come to sh could we pray could we do what Hashem wants us to do that's the biggest challenge that we have in our lives and the first one who really had that war was yov ainu yov ainu was transferring his wife and kids and all his utensils across the river the M the yabok river and when he was transferring the little items the items he forgot some small things he forgot the little little items and he went back and at that time he was vulnerable and we're going to discuss why he was more vulnerable at that time and the sad the leader the governor of asav came to say hello to him and not such a good format he was trying to destroy him he was trying to beat him up it wasn't a physical battle it was a spiritual battle and that spiritual battle is still going on till today that the side of asav is trying to destroy anything Jewish that we have to ourselves any K that we have any loyalty any anything that trying to destroy and he saw that he couldn't get him and he gave him a beating on his thigh and he was limping and because of that we know there's a of the we can't eat some people over here are familiar with that concept that it's one of the veins in the thigh and you have to clean it out and when you clean it out you have to to be very meticulous the olden the oldtimers know how to do it now where a lot of butchers they just throw out that whole piece of Meo they give it to the people they give it to them and they give it to them that's how they don't lose their money but during the fight the Tells your name should not go from it should only change to is why because you made a fight you put up a good fight and you won We Know by they say from the that every father that gives a name to a child it devel it's a cause and it reflects the nature of the child reflects the of the person Gabriel a Mal he did things it's not a name now why' your father give it to you you think that it's because of whatever there was AES that you are your name has to be Gabriel and your name has to be is why Isel because you're a fighter you should be a fighter like got that name is why to fight to do and that only also means that if you're going to fight you're going to succeed so some people don't want to fight it's easy street to sit back so we're going to ask two questions and going to discuss it a little bit the concept when hasem changed Abraham A's name and he said your name should not be abah only Abraham Mar says that anybody who calls once hasem changed the name done his name is now it changed his it changed his being a lot of times people they're sick they go change their name they go to Rabbi they is for a different name it's a different person that's why when a person dies even after if they change the name and a person still dies they don't keep the second name but if he lives on then they leave the name because that the reason he got better is because instead of his name being his name is so Liv not lived so that that develops a character of the person because now his name is a different name anybody else I don't know what his name is and also there was another six P this morning for that what yeah it is crazy and but you should know something by us learning here it's it's important it's important now that everything we do we should do that they should be successful because every little extra learning that we do spares them you got to believe it you coming to learn you coming to that it it has an effect on the world so Abraham ainu his name was changing I to call him Abraham only abrahamov his name was changed from the tells him is you should change your name from to is what's that mean you should change your name okay what happened says the G you still call yov yov and sometimes is why because if the Torah still called him yov that means we could keep his name as yov Abraham's name was changed from abah to Abraham that he's the leader of the Jewish of the nation we never could call him again abov we changed his name but he still has both names sometimes yov sometimes is but very strange the Mal wanted him to change the name totally from yov to is and we didn't follow the Mal question is why the brings down that from this situation this occurrence that happened to that he had a fight with the it says he should not walk out by himself in the street think that a person should not a should not go out in the street by himself why because when you go out by yourself the you're more vulnerable for the Satan or the side of to go after you so if you're going go with a friend or stay home well probably staying home is the best idea or going to the BET way can you just put H one in thank you and but so what would you say it seems to be that going out a loan this whole ordeal that happened with yov seems to be an ordeal that's not positive because the says you should never go alone so going alone is some sort of not the correct way for a person to be but then the G says that we are like God when Masia comes there's a song what do mean Hashem will be exalted by himself that means when everybody Rec recognizes Hashem he's going to be le he's going to be by himself the glory of God is going to be so great that it's going to be of Le and the mid says over there that also live is something that the Jewish people have like the way it says that was by himself he had a a character of that he was able to stand on his own ground same way we're similar to God the same way God stands on his own ground the Jewish people could stand on its own ground so if I if you would ask me based on this mid this that was able to fight by himself is a benefit not a detriment and the other G says that it's a detriment that why is he going by himself in the streets he has to go with somebody so is being by yourself an advantage or is being by yourself a detriment I'm going to discuss this concept what is the character of yuu is comes from was trying to be the first born you know when we were little kids if you wanted to dock on somebody and wanted to make him trip was crazy you knock his foot like a little bit you're not realizing it uh you say you know what I'm talking about you still try to do it KS why oh he still does it to his kids who was the first one who tried to trip somebody with holding his his ankle what else what else did do he had a fight with asav asav was a smart guy but what did he do he got him at his moments that he was vulnerable and he smashed him the first time was he went abam a died he went with a woman he went with a he killed somebody he he did a so he saw that now is not a good time he's on a down mode he says okay I'm going to give you a few dollars can you give me the he got it the next time he tricked into the his father came he went he brought it before he went through shory and he was successful he made he became be right and he got the blessings from only how because he was a tricker he took away the blessings also he was SM guy everybody thinks each you sit in stupid oh no very smart person but he did it he he was the he was that one able to manifest to bring it out he did it I could tell you to do tricks you won't know how to do the tricks you're too honest but he he know how to do it the way to work with the really is to trick him not to goe on collision I'll give you another thing a guy is in a good environment that's a way how to overcome yet he goes to sh he prays he sees people he learns he's fighting the we're tricking him why is he telling him I'm going to Sho for breakfast I'm going to Sho because I like the company and once you're in the Sho you sit and learn and and and you and you uh pray you learn you pray you have sh you pick up some knowledge but what brings you there sometimes a good breakfast sometimes a good friend brings you in there you like you like the rabbi's personality you're like gby saying Hello Alex coming over and messing with you right your everybody every what but then there's another time when you're away sometimes people when they go on vacation they forget about uh their environment and when does the hit harder by the buffet Station buffet station what's that sending me I one when does the come to really destroy a guy when he's on his own when he goes away when he's by himself that's when the comes to attack him he comes to attack him when he's on his own when he's with a crowd he doesn't we have the way we're supposed to want to live is we say every morning don't put me through challenges who ask for challenges no who else who challenge got into trouble DAV DAV said that I asked hasem to test him right and Hashem said okay I'll test you but you're putting yourself in trouble you're putting yourself in Jeopardy and what happened was he successful or not no he wasn't successful because when you have to go fight on your own it gets a little bit hard so we don't want hasem to put us through challenges and even if we're going to go through challenges we want to go through challenges that we could win through easy trick trick the but if we can't trick the and we're on our own we got to fight and not just fight easy Fight Hard is kept both names they kept the name of yov and they kept the name of Isel we really want to be yov we want to be yov we want to go through yov but we really deep inside we have to be able to be is too and the is like this we don't want the hot Challengers we don't want to go be Fighters but but we got to be on the alert to be able to fight a real good army is not like the army that they had on that everybody's sleeping a good army is when when as soon as the enemy comes to fight you're there to attack him we don't want to fight does anybody want a war nobody wants War but if you going to be ready for war you're not going to have War remember if you're ready for war you won't have War we rather deal with the yet easily he comes up to you did that you know what I it's my routine I have to go I'm embarrassed if I'm not going to come to scho the people are going to start complaining where am I why didn't I show up that's not good I mean that's the best way how to live that you don't have to face the challenges but you always got to be on the alert we is are fighters fighters especially when it comes to the and if we're not ready what happens when we're not ready October October 7th or every day every day is the same thing we have to always be on the alert Jewish people have to be on the alert and the S of as knew that and I would like to add one more thing Rebel brings down that the is or the said the side of didn't have to do with when was born the S of was already around before abah a even why didn't he tried to fight with abah a why didn't he fight with why did he only come to fight with and say from I think it's BR his book he brings that from the says to you you want to do with somebody go do you want to do g g show strength and leaders ship and helping people go what is represent T you know the says go go do G but one thing don't learn don't learn because it says in the should always try to make the and what is the say what's the only way that you win the by taking very good I will over here you take him into the only thing that makes the lose the bottom line is coming to sit and learn you see people that could pray and sh for 30 years they don't change our odor and people want to know why they they're religious people why don't they get better the reason is one reason they don't go learn learning becomes makes you with a different person and you know who knew that side of he's trying to destroy yobu and he fought and he fought it's more than learning it's more about sitting dedicating yourself to learning it's learning tighter already the more you do the better you're off that is a true statement but the is the learning says the but he did hit us so you the there are that say theat is that he hit the people that supporters of Tor Tor doesn't stand right Alex without supporters he made sure sure that the supporters shouldn't be delegated to Tor he wants the supporters to give he wants the supporters to give organizations but the last thing he wants him to give to is learning what is stand for learning Torah he said that I don't want you to give money for what are the people that support come from the word of is the th no no food no T so he said you know I can't hit the guy who's learning but I'll hit the supporter and once the supporter is hit then I'll already hit him that's why got but the that we have to know is to try to not put ourselves in situations that we can get into trouble I would start off and I think I know this person myself the Kish heard about one of these boys you know in the days of the world after World War II when Puna was opened there a lot of kids that came they were called Yan you know where tan is where smling kids from Poland right how many our Persian tadic is over here to tell us so the Y they came a lot of them came without their parents it's famous that Rabbi Herzog the chief Rabbi of Israel wanted to get them out and they were in a Christian Monastery also and they didn't know which ones are Jews and which are not he said is and by them saying Shay said they realized they were Jews song whaty song maybey song but I know that they had a a demonstration in Washington they couldn't say shay is Rabbi Herzog made sure that they didn't know Shay is but in in in um Washington they can't say sh but that's for that's for a different time so this person today he passed away I think recently I knew his kids they were Geniuses so the pun took him into the is because he was a genius mom is a genius but they told they were speaking to him you know what he used to do what do you think a genius does if he doesn't want to learn when you don't have phones what do you think a genius does come on guys you rushing you know what is something that at the change the mindess you got it us to play chess all day because anybody that's really intelligent knows that something like chess makes the Mind work and it's like when we used to have B we used to I wouldn't play chess during this man you know why game take five hours you have to take five sometime we used to sit remember I went we would make I had a friend he has man we would make wake up a few times the summer my wife comes one night 1:30 where are you still yeah gabri I should have sent the to you she go what are you doing so late I said we didn't finish the chest game yet so I don't get it you didn't finish the chest game you started after at 9:30 this is the second one I said not the second one this still the first games you didn't believe it it's it's it's very very um motivating so he he came from a vision background and he's learning the Yeshiva but he was really not learning the sleeping in the ISA and playing chess so they the pun sent somebody to the to tell him what should he do with this boy he says I can't lose this boy this guy is gold I got to catch him how do I catch him has told him that he should send the boy to him so the boy you know he he he went through the war by himself so he doesn't really need to impress any Rabbi he's he's that he says I'm a vision said what am I going to K where but the rabbi told him Rabbi Fran is said if the rabbi calls you go you should go so he went to the Kish Kish didn't say one word of reprimanding to him he just sat and learned with him for an hour sat and learned to out with him for an hour he walks away from the Rabbi says oh this Rabbi is making me nuts makes me learn for an hour and it's not like hour class now it's pretty good but if you're learning with K you know what kind of intense learning that is and he was a genius he was able to keep up to it but he's learning for now he learns with k k goes and tells him it didn't do nothing he came back took off his hat jacket chest a week later he the the the rabbi asks what's going on he says he's still playing chess all day says tell him to come to me now he was giving Rabbi Franco a hard time says I went there once please don't bother me with know rabbis I'm done I want to live my life come let me enjoy a lot of us say that a lot of times you know that don't bother me let mean what says the r frankly says if you're not going to come back to me I'm scared the Kish is going to be upset that if I blame it on myself if I blame it on you you know K is not the is not the grocery man he might have he might be upset at you and you know people that got said keep UPS said it didn't turn out well at the end pleads with him he says okay I'll come took him a few days till we got him to come back comes to K Kish walks in with him and he starts learning another hour K tells him I want to see you tomorrow again at 3:00 now once the rabbi tells you that to your face you go running remember K was he did did it for two weeks straight he learned with him every day for an hour says okay now you're on your own the guy never wasted a minute since that time why because once you got into Tor and you fought your way through that you're connected that's it it's done that's one thing that the Mal doesn't want us to do doesn't want us to connect to T do you know why a lot of people fell off the tracks before World War II because they didn't have Torah Torah is the anything that cannect the only thing that canect people talk about kids at risk it's it's very bad any kid that's at risk is bad but the percentage compared to 80 years ago dropped thousand times I'm not talking about the people that are reformed and conservative now the UK shba tin Shas have no I'm saying not their fault already it's their grandparents fault their grandparents fault early 1900s but today how many people do you know that are in the fold that leave the fold percentage very very very small very very small before 1950 it was a m it was it was a a plague there were 50% of families went off and guys you could have people that they that that their brothers cut off they hair and they no and they go and you have brothers why they look like you and you have brothers that have because the it was much more challenging they didn't have is like today and before in Europe World War II there's one fight we don't want to fight but we have to be ready to fight if you're not ready to fight you're going to lose we we rather do it under the Tish like they say under the table go trick the yeah I'm coming to breakfast I'm coming do me a favor my friends are there I want to go convince yourself once you're there you learn you do the right thing but sometimes you have to know that the is really have to kill you and he's going to continue fighting with us what is mean until the morning St comes up when's that going to be to fight and fight so guy says Rabbi I'm always in a battle you know what I'm also always in a battle we're all in battles but you know the way the the yet I want you to think that it's only your battle it's not anybody else's battle he takes you by yourself and said okay I'm fighting you you know what the big biggest problem for boys that that fall apart today because they think they're different everybody thinks they have bigger challenges than everybody else nobody has my situation and the truth is nobody has somebody else situation but we have the same situation you have a situation you have a situation you have a situation you have everybody because it's the same s trying to destroy you trying to destroy you trying to destroy you so by you we in a different different suit and by him he comes with a purple Soo with you he comes with a blue Soo with you comes with a black Soo over there comes in the form of a lady over there comes in form of a boat there comes in a motorcycle all go through it the same way right and you have to know that we're in this world to fight and you have to be ready to fight you got to pray to God that I don't want to fight but a real Jew knows how to fight and succeed like we're still fighting we should pray to we should stop fighting very soon we should have the we shouldn't do a physical fight that we're going through now and the spiritual fights the fighting in should have it should have what do you think they're trying to destroy they're trying to destroy T they're trying to destroy the Jewish people that's what they're trying to do that's what are they fighting for River to the Sea how many people do we have in that small country not new size of New Jersey we have 8 million Jews there 9 million Jews what are they bothering us you have billions of Arabs and you have B billions of of of of miles of land why are you bothering us for jealous what it's much deeper than jealousy there's a deepness that's the side of is always trying to destroy us they're trying to destroy us physically they're trying to destroy us spiritually and we got to keep up the fight we should pray to this to the rising of the beautiful Glory the Sun