Vayeitzei - 6th Portion

Join me in learning for today for Friday the six to reading of parishes fet today's class is for speedy recovery or fu for a bengilka yesterday's we discussed at length the difference and how yakov We've gained great wealth in Lovven's property and for working for Lavan in which the speckled and spotted and striped different sheep and goat and how Love changed what the payment should be for Yakov. However, with Hashem's blessings, he protected him and he was able to amass a great wealth. At this point, Leakov turns to his wives and tells them that it's time to move on, especially that an angel comes to him in a dream and says, "Time for you to return home." Today we continue with Yakov leaving property and land and returning back to Israel. Verse 17 and Yakov got up and he took his children and his wives almalim and he put them on the camels ready to go. Verse 17 by he mentions the males before the females meaning he says the children before the wives. However, by he talks about and he mentions the females before the males as we see later on took his wives and his children. And over here we see the difference and the reason why Yakov because by Yakov the purpose of getting married and having the wives that he should have children by Asov his purpose was getting married for his own need and the children were just a byproduct of him having to be with those wives. Verse 18 and he led away all his livestock that's called and all his possessions that he gathered that he amassed his property that he acquired while he was in he did this all to go to his father in the land of what is the word of the possessions that he acquired the acquire ired possessions if you already mentioned about his flock. So what is this referring to? So therefore says whatever he bought because he had lots of flock flock like we mentioned before in the previous aliyah that he p that he went and sold all the uh flock that he had and he was able to gather with it many much camels and servants and everything else with it. And with he bought it and with that he bought the servants, the maid servants, the camels and the donkeys. Verse 19. Meanwhile, love and went off to share his flock. And stole the idols that belong to her father. He tells us verse 19 because he went to share the flock which he gave to his sons and they were a distance away. How far away as we recall we said that is a journey of three days between love and Yakov and during that time because he went away Jacob is able to run away without love and knowing and stole the idols. Why did she steal the idols? Because she intended, she intended that this way maybe her father will stop serving idols, idolatry. Verse 20, and Jacob duped the lie by not telling him that he was fleeing. Verse 21. And he fled and with everything that he owned and he went and he went over the river. He crossed over the Euphrates River and he faced and he headed towards Mount Gilot. Verse 22, you got to love and on the third day it was told after Yakov left it was told to love him. That Jacob ran away. Says why was it on the third day? As we mentioned earlier, there was a journey of three days between Lov's flock and Yakov's flock. When Love went, it took him three days to get to his flock to be able to share the wool. He came back. It was a journey of three days. And that's when he found out that Jacob is gone. Verse 23 and took along with him his kinsmen, people that were like him and he pursued for seven days and seven day catching up with him at nightfall at Mount Gilad. verse 23 rashi we don't find anywhere that 11 had any brothers not before when Alazar came to get Rifka not over here as well so what does it mean his brothers people that were close to him kinsmen how did it get seven days if it says that he only found it on the third day why now is it seven days later that he catches up to because he explains as follows there was three-day journey that the person went to tell love that Jacob left Jacob continued traveling three-day journeys. So we have over here after three days Jacob was a distance of love and already six days journey the guy had to go back he had to go there three days come back and then travel three days to be able to catch up to him. Therefore, so on the seventh day he was able to reach we learn from here everything that Jacob traveled in seven days meaning that he was going for a long distance seemingly it seems like made it in one day because he was chasing him very quickly as it says that he chased after him he pursued him dead a journey which is usually of seven days. He doesn't say that he came after that he chased after that he ran for seven days but he pursued him for a journey that takes seven days. In essence it took him only one day but Jacob it took seven days the three days of the guy coming to tell him three days of coming back and then the one day that it took him the actual journey of reaching Yakov. Verse 24. God appeared to love in the in a dream at night. He told him, "Be careful. Be aware of speaking with from good or bad." Either good or bad. Rashi tells us he warned him. Any good of the evil is considered bad and is hated and is not liked by the righteous by the sadic because the sadic does not want to have any of your good has no interest in getting anything from the evil people as explained in the talmud and attracted of verse 25 and the next morning overtook yakov's entourage and he was able to reach him the yak took Yakov already pitched his tent on the mountain and loving along with the kinsmen that came with him set up their camp on Mount Gilot. Verse 26, what have you done? You duped me and you led my daughters like prisoners of war. Anytime there's an army that comes to war is called like a sword because they're that they're there to kill. So therefore he explains you took my daughters like captives of war. Verse 27. Why did you flee surreptitiously? Trying to steal from me and deceiving me and you did not tell me. Because if you would have told me, I would have sent you off with joy with song with drums and with a liar with the different types of instruments. Why you didn't you tell me? and I would have made a big party, a goodbye party for you to see you off. What does this mean? You stole me, you duped me, you deceived me. So he explains Rashi says, "You deceived me. You didn't tell me. You should have let me know that you were leaving number. And then he continues verse 28. He continues to say, "And you did not even allow me to kiss to my children, to my sons and my daughters, my grandchildren." He's referring to you have now acted so foolishly and because of that you will suffer the consequences. Verse 29. I have within the power to do harm to you. However, but the God of your father spoke to me last night told me saying be careful from speaking to either good or bad. What does it mean? What does this terminology mean? I have power and strength in my hand. to do with the kale. Anytime we find a terminology kale which is in aes which is a holy name and is referring to one of the names that Hashem has referring to the to the name of Hashem which symbolizes on the strength of Hashem. Verse 30. And now you departed because you were longed repeatedly. You really wanted to get to you long to be in your parents' home. I understand that that's why you went. But why did you have to steal my gods? says whether I understand why you wanted to go to your parents some I don't know but even if you did why did you have to take my idols with you what does the word mean comes from the word you long to be there we have the same terminology used many times in the verse like the words inim verse in chapter 88 I have a desire and my soul yearns longs to be with hashem where says says, "Does a person have a desire? Do you long for your own handy handy work that you make?" Verse 31, responds and answers, "Love, I was afraid. I said, I was afraid that you might take your daughters away from me by force. You might steal your daughter's back." Rashi 31. Over here you can see how Jacob answers love on on each thing first first and last last he answers them on the first things first. He tells him he has a complaint why you took my daughters like captives. So he says the reason why I took them is because I didn't want that you should steal them away from me. Verse 32. And anyone with whom you find your gods will not live in the presence of kinsmen. Identify. Hacker. I'm sorry. Identify for yourself. Whatever I have in my possessions. Take. He did not know Jacob did not know that actually stole them before they left. And because of that, as we know as because of this inadvertent curse that Jacob said, whoever took them should die. Because of that, Raul passed on later on. Let's see this in verse 32. Rashi explains should not live. Yakov didn't know me. from that inadvertent curse that Jacob said died a short while later by on the way back which means what's with me whatever I have with me take go look make a search whatever you think is yours take it verse 33 came in the tent of Jacob and the tent of the tent of the two bonds women of of Zilba the loy matzah and he did not find it and he went out of tent and he came in to Ra's tent and he went back after he even though it says this already as we're going to see Rashi explains as follows even though it already says that he went into the tent when he left the tent of he went back to search in Rahul's tent before he went to search in the inb was he searching so many times because when he walked into Ra's tent he saw that she was moving around she thought she was touching everything she looked a little nervous and therefore he felt that he should go check again because there might be something there that he should search for Torah then continues with verse 34 took the idols and she placed them in the camel's saddle and she sat on them. So love and rummage through the whole tent the entire tent but he found nothing. What does mean from the terminology of pillows and blankets, covers, cushions that we as the English translates it in the cushion of the the saddle cloth of the camel that is because the saddle is meant like a pillow. It's very thick that s that sits on the hump of the camel. We also learned this in the tract of if a valley that they put around it pillows to be able to create a barrier which those were considered the pillows that were used on the camels verse 35. And says to her father, "Let my lord not be upset, because I cannot get up before you because it's my time of the month." And he searched and he was not able to find the idols. Verse 36 was angered by this and he took up grievances against responded and he says to what is my crime? What is my guilt that you have hotly pursued me in such anger and thinking that I stole something from you? What does the word mean? Rashi explains that you chased me. you pursued me. We find a similar that is found in the mountains. They chased us from chasing after the verse 37. You look through, you rummage through all my belongings. What did you find? Anything that belongs to you, place it here in front of my kinsmen and you and let them adjudicate the dispute between the two of us. Find something that you found. You look through everything. Put it here in front of us and let us see and let's decide what happened here. Rashi 37. Let them clarify who is right and who is wrong. Appro maybe from the word approbate and decide how it should happen. Verse 38 continues for 20 years I worked for you. your oo and your she goats never miscarried the and your rams did not was never missing from your flock. Nothing was missing. What does the word mean? never miscarried like we find this in other verses talking about the terminology of a cow not miscarried what is these the rams of your sheep so [snorts] are they the same thing not the same thing the explains that from here from here the sages say a ram one day old is called a ram because if not if you're not going to say this what's the big deal about that he says says they didn't eat rams rams are so big but what about sheep and king then he was stealing because what happened to all the small sheep if they ate the small ones and didn't eat the big ones something's missing so therefore he's telling him over here even the small ones nobody ate from them he didn't eat them and anything of it I never brought you an animal named I would bear It's loss because you would you would exact exactly the value from my hand. You would say how much is missing. You would see what was happening whether it was stolen by day or whether it was stolen by night. I absorbed any loss of any animal that went missing. Rashi explains what Jacob's argument is. That means any sheep that was m through a lion or a wolf meaning that I made sure I filled its loss of like if somebody throws a stone at a certain target and he makes sure that he doesn't he gets it exactly bullseye and it's exactly on the spot. So he says the same idea is also my son and our sins were missing meaning I will take responsibility for what was missing. If one of the if any sheep was missing when it came the end of the day I deducted it off my pay and you would ask me for its payment. you would take it off my payment. Said if anything was counted, it was missing from the count. Like we find in other terminologies, the word means that there was no person missing. There was no nothing missing. What is he talking about? Anything that was stolen by day or stolen by night. All the thieves, all the thievery was my problem. Even if it was stolen by day or stolen by night everything I paid on my own. Why does it say with a at the end if it already says that it was stolen during the day? We find this in the same terminology in all these different terminologies. There's a yud at the end of the word and it really doesn't make a difference to the translation of the word. Yakov continues telling love that how does he have the audacity to accuse him of stealing about all the years that he worked for him and telling him how hard he worked for him in these 20 years. Verse 40. and frost at night and sleep deserted my eyes. What does that mean? So Rashi explains the eating. What does it mean? Eating that means was so hot very cold. He throws cooling coldness. Then he makes the hail come down. was freezing cold. Tarum or the Tarum says Galida like ice cold. Today Galida in Hebrew means ice cream. But Galida also comes from the word gulad from ice being cold sha meaning sleeping that he was not able to sleep because he had to watch the sheep all day and all night. Not only that, even after I worked so hard, Jacob continues verse 41 for 20 years I've been in your household. I worked 14 years for your two daughters and six years for your flock and you changed the conditions of my payment 100 times. I would change the deals that we made between ours. You could decide it today. You just said I get to speckle the spot of this the patch each time whatever started to have more of you decided that that's yours and each one of them whatever may be when you saw one was coming more from the ankled ring to the ones that have the belted no matter what it was whatever which one was be making more all of a sudden that became yours and you changed my payment a hundred times. Verse 42. If the God of my father, the God of Abra, and the dread of Isa and Isaac's dread had not been with me, I would have now left and you would have sent me out empty-handed. But Hashem saw my plight and the work of my heart, my of my hands. saw it and therefore he rebuked you last night that you should not do anything towards me. Verse 42 what does he mean the the he did not say the god of because as we mentioned in a previous par we only say it when a person passes away. that God does not put his name on the while they're alive. Even though we did mention before that did put his name on there gave the reason because he was blind. who was considered as if he wasn't alive even though previously he said I am the god of the god of because his eyes were he became blind and therefore was considered was dead because the evil inclination was not bothering him any longer still in all himself was afraid to say and instead he said the dread of what does the word mean He rebuked you. All say as well that he showed you. He came to you in a dream and he told you you should not come close or hurt my family. This concludes the Torah reading for Friday, the sixth Torah reading of Paras Viet.