Parshat Vayeishev: G-d's Plans Depend on Us - Rabbi Shlomo Schiller

I like to share with you an interesting idea that commentaries explain in this week's Pasha in the beginning of the pouch our guy is the main thing that is happening is the brothers selling Joseph right that's the most important thing that is going on so it's a very interesting guys it's two views here how we explain it we have a general idea that we believe in free will right man has a decision right he wants to choose to do good or bad and that's the basic idea right in Judaism that we believe that's why you get reward for choosing the good and you getting punished for choosing the bad now the is idea guys that is his idea the following you could have the big picture as we say the the the general plan Hashem decide let's I'll give you example guys a sham decided that jack is going to make this year a hundred thousand dollars okay that's let's call it that's the mega plan the general idea now how he's going to make the hundred thousand dollars there are many ways that he can make the hundred thousand dollars he could get a race in his salary he could won the lottery his uncle from Las Vegas casino him a nice check right who knows so meaning is a the mega plan is decided by Hashem this guy's going to make hundred thousand dollars then we come into the picture human being with the free will right and things going on for good or bad and that's how things are happening so if a sham decided that right the main thing right let's say that Jack was going to make on thousand dollars we live in space to us we come into the play where the players now in one way or the other he'll choose to he'll get $100,000 if his uncle is super a billionaire right he could decide one day you know what Jack is in Israel sitting and studying Torah I want to give him $100,000 and he could write them a nice check and give him a hundred thousand dollars so how did he get the hundred thousand dollars with the free will of his uncle deciding to give him a hundred thousand dollars is that correct yeah okay or if his if he's working and his boss decided you know what Jack is working so hard I want to give him a raise you know of whatever $5,000 $6,000 a month right so that goes so we'll get to him to the hundred thousand dollars okay so you get the idea guys meaning Hashem has a plan the general plan I want this to happen but how it's going to happen he's living up to us okay you okay so let's start and this is related to our powershot guys because of the question the big question is guys is it the idea of the brothers selling Joseph with the system of free will or maybe this is exception that God so to speak broke the rules exceptions and says no free will in this one because I need to Jewish people to get to Egypt so let's see step by step and I'll show you the two views okay so let's start in a very beginning in a very beginning guys is a plan the general plan is right over here guys chapter 15 verse 7 in the shop lift look up yeah Hashem is talking to Abraham right this is the Covenant of God with Abraham but yo Mary love Hashem Hashem says them right and Annie Hashem Hashem I shall hold see Atika who took you out me Oh steam from the forest yeah the we know that Abram was thrown in right by Nimrod so I'm the God that saved you Latika to give you a toilet result to give you this land Lehrer start to inheritance so ape so biome are other nice so Abram is saying Hashem Pineda how I'll know that you know this is a closed deal right that you're giving us the land right so they cut over there some animals right and they do this covenant this is called Breit Dana Peter in the covenant between the parts right the custom was that when two parties want to make a covenant agreement there is the kata animal tattoo and go in the middle so there was a well known thing back in the day okay so they cut here the animals we don't have to go into the details right and they're having this covenant jump with me please the verse 13 okay but you're Marilyn Avraham God is saying to ever yet duarte de what's your daughter da you should know very good the tour is a pin in it because when we say in a strong point we repeat it twice yet taught to die you should not you know he gay yes aha your descendants will be a stranger the edits in a land Lowell ahem they'll be living in a place as a status of strangers they don't really belong to the place okay the Alpha doom what will happen there they'll put them in slavery as slaves the other doom the ANU they're going to suffer Oh Tom right though put them they'll be in a lot of pressure of suffering Alabama China how many years 400 years okay verse 14 the gun at ago and also the nation a Sharia of do also the nation that will put them to work right I'll go pay the bill they'll pay but dan enoki and afterwards only after they suffered and after the own slavery I think any two boho-chic adult oh god they'll go out from that land whatever is going going to be in that exile with a lot of wealth right and money whatever okay so what is this guys what just what we just read Hashem is tolling Abraham this is the what's coming up this is the plan for your descendants I'm going to give them this land that you're here now but with before right before they conquered and settle in this land they'll have to go through a Exile they'll be in a place right they'll be in slavery they're going to suffer and only after then right they will come here right in the verse and verse 16 the davi only the fourth generation Yeshua a now come to here cuz the amorite still have rights to be here only when the Emirates don't have rights to be then the fourth generation will come here to the Land of Israel okay so he's telling him you know how things will happen right they'll get the land but will take time and they'll go they'll have to go through certain things but eventually the your descendants will make it back to here to Israel now right you see this is a good example guys Hashem has the general plan that the Jewish people right the descendants of Abraham will travel will be strangers they won't have the own land they'll suffer they'll be in slavery now for example does is it does it say where where this is going to happen which country which place no very good does it say how they will arrive to that country no just says that there will be in a place that is not their land though they'll be in slavery and pressure but does not mention how is going to happen you know guys how this happened in it how the Jewish people end up in Egypt Yosef in this week's Pasha Yosef is being sold and eventually he's going a few steps and he's been installed an end of the day to the Egyptians it happened to be is a famine in the whole world know food and Yaakov is coming down to Egypt okay so you understand guys so what was said right earlier to Abraham right that the Jews your descendants will make it strangers slavery suffering right is happening by the selling of Yosef okay that's what's really happening that's how the Jewish people arrived to Egypt okay so let's see now in details guys so this is in chapter 15 he saw that was the general plan that ashame Estonian Abraham this is what's going to be they have to go through the Exile right they have to be in a different plan that they don't have rights right and then eventually they'll make it back by yishuv Yaakov Jakov settled the edits makgulee Aviv Yaakov was settling in the land of his father which is a non now interesting some commentaries just an aside note guys some commentaries comment what's variation to settle in the maguey Aviv in the place of his father but in the Hebrew McCool a has another meaning like a gear like a stranger so you see Yaakov the some one of the commentaries are commenting over here and saying like this Yaakov was fit coming with the intention to settle for good peace quiet every enough in life right I went for a let me settle permanent and let me be comfortable confident easy right not like his his father by his father says his father understood that this world is only temporary you never settled here okay so Yaakov the yesh of Yaakov Yaakov was thinking to settle we're in the land that his father was a stranger his father knew he'd Scott knew that everything is temporary and he never settled a hundred percent okay so that's why the Torah switches from Valley a chef right to make gray using the word a stranger to explain us the idea that was a bit of a claim on Yaakov hey you had to be like your father to understand that we never settled here 100% okay okay so let's go on a little dot Yaakov this is the story life of Yaakov Yosef is 17 years old right okay y'all so for seventeen years old who was a to have he's a shepherd with his brother right the who now and he's a what's a now so okay a child or not an adult yet he's together with who with the children of Bilhah and the children of Zilpah the wife's of his father now okay guys you're with me in verse two via video safe and Yosef was bringing over it did but Pamela ah he was giving over the bad things that they were doing he's giving over to his father now I know we're talking guys who's doing bad things which ones so right we know that Yaakov had how many wives did Yaakov have four right henan now on a high level so to speak and the two maid servants that also had a status right of wife's right and that's Bilhah and Zilpah so it says that Joseph was with them the children of the maidservants the boys of the maidservants and he's bringing over the bad stuff through his father the bad stuff of who which ones made okay so slow-mo said the sons of lair you said you both said there they made seven you said also that okay you said the maidservants and what did you say good okay so guys yeah all right some commentaries and Hoshi is saying that he's bringing over the bad stuff of the sons of Leah that they are not treating well the children of the maidservants okay and if it's well in the verse cuz Yosef was with them with the children of the maidservants and he sees how the brothers of write his own brothers the children of leah are treating the the boys of their maidservants so he's complaining to his father and saying hey the children are there right are not acting in a right way they should be treating the children of the maidservants and a nicer way so that's one approach what you said is Rashi okay we're good you understand so he also feels constantly with them and actually Yosef maybe was trying to repair that because he didn't like how his brothers are treating the children of the maidservant so he was with them and he sees how they're being treated by the other brothers and he's giving that report to the father that's the approach of Rashi another approach is what the Owen said is actually the bad stuff of both all the commentaries explain that since that the brothers did not treat well the children of the maidservants they probably gave back a wall also right they didn't stay just like this so they're doing bad things also for the children of Leon so some intention going on there in both ways the children of Leia are not treating well the children of the maidservants but the children of the main to register didn't stay like this and they'll give me back a war and do nothing not nice things also so both ways things are not great and Yosef is giving that reported the father okay so that's okay so that's the he's giving over the report that bad things that they're doing is giving a little father right it could be both verse three guys VL I have right he said right Yaakov right who does he love Yosef he loves me Kolb enough from all children who Yaakov loves the best Yosef why he bends kunam who love literally the words mean a son that was born when he was old Zac any familiar with the words that can as I can is an old man he bends kunam who law he was born that he was old but over here is more than that guys the talcum says he is the wise son Bart Hakeem he was the wise son and ashy here brings and other brings that Yaakov understood and saw that Yosef is unique and special from the other brothers he saw that his wiser and understands more cares more and it says that Yaakov all the Torah that he learned by Shem forever in the 14 years that he was in a sheave option behavior he gave it over to who to Yosef right so that fits very well with the tulum saying why did he love yourself meaning he saw that he has a different job right in life he could be the leader for the brothers right he should be the leader because he's wiser and he understands more and he could carry on the responsibility right of continuing the tradition of Yaakov so Yaakov loves him for that reason right and that's why all the Torah that he gave that he was learned he learned in by Shem d'evreux right he gave it over to Yosef another explanation guys we see that all things that happened to Yaakov happened to Joseph right Yaakov is running away because who wants to kill him his own brother okay he's messed up with his father-in-law right okay so this all that right then he comes back again they want to kill him so all that is happening at one point similar things that happen into Yosef so that fits very well that we see that Yosef is special in you very unique right from the other brothers okay so that's why Yosef likes him okay guys Vassallo right and he makes for him tonot passing so what did Jakov do special for Yosef what kind of a garment tone it passing tone it is a garment Kassim is with lines okay so the commentary see how she brings down that was made from nice material tonot passing other brothers are happy with this or know what that created jealousy they who have his brother see Kyoto Ahava VN the brothers see that the father likes who the best Yosef mcculloch are from all other brothers the East Naruto that's why they hated him Volodya Luda the Shalom they saw that the father is loving Joseph more than the others and that were a big hatred that they hate Yaakov and they couldn't talk peacefully with yakov okay the commentaries point out guys and they say you see the ideas over here what happened over here now what this garment cause what happened now that they hate him so much and they couldn't talk piecing with him well what happened because of this garment so even a special garment that's well that's what's making the change the ideas like this guys up till now they could argue and say to their father father Joseph is giving a bad report about us right but they could argue and say explain but now that they see what that Yaakov is giving the special garment to Yosef what is that correct he says right I trust all what he says he's right right he's the son that I don't carry my Torah he's the son Toby the leader right and he loves the most so now it's a lost battle today brothers they see that Yaakov is loving Yosef the mouse that created the hatred okay so that's you understand so there's a garment right it's not only just the special garment that is here but that's proving and saying a statement from Yaakov's point of view this will be the leader this will be the man right and if up till now the brothers were able to say their opinion from now they know it's a lost battle because Yaakov is trusting a hundred percent Yosef okay to add to that guys what's happening via alum yourself how long Yosef has a dream okay via giggly a chav and he's telling his brothers what happens by gear sifu and they added or snow or talk so what that created more hatred okay so now if you guys in verse 5 it says that Yosef had a dream and he's told over the brothers and they added to hate and more did we mention what was the drain in verse five did we say why did what is the dream look carefully in verse five yeah it does what does it take no no no you jump to you in forward verse 5 verse 5 slowly I want to show you step-by-step verse 5 it does not say right max it just said he had a dream he dumped it over he says over there the brothers and dad at this to hate him right we don't know yet what is the dream that he had correct biomed and lehem so right so just look carefully in verse 5 he said he has a dream but we don't know yet what's the dream verse 6 verily me saying to them she moon AHA Coloma Sasha Kelantan listen to my dream that I had right and he's going over and he's telling them the dream that he had that they and in the field harvesting right and and but the other bundles are bound to his bundle so right we're not surprised that the brothers are not happy right what they say to him in verse 8 they did brothers told him had him locally no you think that you'll be a king you'll control us right and they added even more hey tree okay and then another dream that he has right with this Sun with the with the Stars and the moon right and they're bound to him so ok so now you might ask what Yosef is telling them the dreams like Harry's asking so they're few explanations that might be one is that he's telling them now if you look carefully guys he's throwing them the dream with details exactly and the commentaries explained that when somebody has a clear dream it means it's a message coming to him right dreams ever had dreams but it's very vague and not clear but when it's in detail exactly and you could tell the details exact that means that it's a message coming so the commentaries the hime is explaining Joseph is calling trying to tell them guys this is from heaven Hashem wants us to happen and he's giving them twice this I did this dream that he that he had write with exactly details that they should understand that this is from heaven that this is going to be that he will be the leader right and they'll be respecting and honoring him okay also it could be at this point or so Yosef doesn't realize yet how much is the hatred that the brothers are hating him could be that they hated him so much but he didn't realize yet he was not necessarily realizing how much is the hatred so he's coming to them to help them that they should help him sorry to interpret understand the dreams okay so those are the two approaches right to understand or that he's telling them it's a message message from heaven from shaman you know so don't be upset with the my father giving me this special garment right and don't be jealous just it's meant to be this is what it is right or that or their idea is it's actually he's coming to them as a good brother and it does say that guys in the town wouldn't track thetaba thought that if somebody has a dream he should go to the good people that love him that they can separate and explain the dream in the right way so he's coming to them honestly and saying this is the dreams that I have can you help me please okay okay now okay now yes so maybe yes maybe no maybe not necessarily so much okay so now in the beginning actually I told you in verse five he said he had a dream he didn't say what because they didn't want to hear it only in verse six he's begging them and he's telling them please listen well my lamb in verse six listen to what to the dream that I have because they refused they didn't want to he's begging them please listen what yes then he had a dream that he had a dream it doesn't say what's the dream correct correct he's only telling the brother had a dream he didn't say what and verse six he's begging them please listen Velma LEM she will not listen hollow magical anteed the dream that I had correct this is after the story that they already hate him for the soul for the battery foot that is given to the father and the special garment and his father especially for him right and now we add into this all these dreams that he has yes well okay so we have the bad report the special garment and these dreams okay so you see very clear guys you see what's happening he's begging them pink please listen to this dream because oh he's asking for help please help me out to understand the dream or he's reporting and turn down guys this is a message from heaven okay now the main thing that I wanted to share with you guys is what we started and here we go guys the brothers were going to look after the the goats the sheep in Shem in verse 13 please guys just let's jump and we'll go to the main point but your Mary said Yaakov is saying el Yosef hello ah hija your brother's or in bhishm M they went to look after right the sheep in the town of Shem let's go Vashem Kazan I'll send you all him go please to see what's happening within right now yo Maloney says let's not go the ish llama he shall go see if you your brothers are with peace if everything is okay right waha she they need a van come and give that returned to me and come back very shall hail and he sent him the emic Salam from the valley ahead of the want to go to look after the brothers well your vash Famer and he came to said so guys the brothers are way outside in the field looking after the Sheep right the goats and sheep the kettle and Yaakov want to send who to see how they're doing who Joseph he's sending Joseph here is Ray the two views that I told you one approach says like this right that it's still with the rules of free will the brother the father deciding to sell decend Yosef it's toll free will he decided that right and he's sending Yosef well if he knew that the brothers don't like him so much isn't it a bad idea to send Yosef servants or don't send you want to kill Yosef he know he knows already his father is upset with him if the dreams he says that in verse 10 guys he told also the father and the brothers very gab Aviv his father is telling him every buchen him hey man what are you dreaming here okay so guys right so one approaches say yeah it's still in the frame of free will the father sending Yosef knowing that so that the brothers hate him the father sending Yosef is still free will and it's though everything is working with the idea of free will and ended up the long story short guys he comes to the brothers they want to kill him they're hesitating how who what right and okay and they an end of the day they sell him so it's all in the frame of free will the malbim what I want just point out guys is the mal beam the mal beam says like this guys the malum says this is exception guys very interesting he's saying first just I want to mention something guys all what's happening after and it's then that the brothers were not hostile Shalom criminals that are looking to kill people they had a bad conclusion jumping conclusion right thinking not good and Yosef Yosef was only giving the bad reporter the father in that they should improve the behavior and know of intention no personal intention but they'll thinking that Yosef is pursuing them and just like guys Abram had two sons it's luck and Ishmael who carries the the descendants who carries the continuity of Abram it's not so we avoid Ishmael and the continuity is it's luck Yitzhak has two sons right it's a curse two sons Yaakov an ASA who's carrying the continuity Yaakov so the brothers realized oh not everybody makes it there's some that are left out they seem that Yaakov is honoring and respecting only Yosef so they're thinking that this is something that is going to happen here so something is a plan that is happening here to leave them outside and the only continuity will be Yosef okay that just explained the brothers now the mal beam says like this guy's it says that Yaakov sent him from the valley of heaven guys have one is a mountain it's not a valley you just there guys Kevon is a mountain it's hot it's not a valley okay that's a technical answer there's a she brings down oh yeah yeah yeah yeah you know why Yaakov is sent in Yosef because this is a decree of God this in a normal way guys by nature in a normal way Yaakov should not send Yosef he knows enough that the brothers hate him he knows enough that Shem is a dangerous place if he's concerned guys for 11 brothers with the animals he's concerned about them so he sending one son to check how they're doing right if you're concerned for eleven brothers that together strong guys see is sending one man to look how they're doing and that's what's happening guy he send them from the valley of the 1 means the valley did deep the deepness of Sivan that's referring to the decree that God told Abraham write in the Covenant of God of Abraham your children will be strangers in the land that don't belong to them they have to be an exile and only after then they'll come down - they'll come back to Israel so according to the malbim guys this is all a decree from Hashem meaning the brothers to come to such a conclusion to hate so much to hate so much a brother and to come to the point of selling him is all the decree of a shell in order to make the brothers the Jewish people to get to Egypt but really one thing caused another one the brothers are hating him the miscommunication they jumped in a conclusion that we got to get rid of him all of that is happening right only for one thing to fulfill what you saw in chapter 15 that the Jewish people have to make it a danger right so this was totally a decree of a Shem nothing to do with the free will it was not in a normal way that Yaakov should send Yosef to look after the brothers when he knows that they hate him so much and is that intention going on their stem is a dangerous place right so all of that was only to fulfill the degree of a shame that the Jewish people should make it to Egypt so according to the Malbin guys this is exception so his approach that is told with the free will that everything is happening according with the rules of free will but the approach of the malbim is very interesting that this is of the totally decree of a shank that this must happen and that's how I ended up that Yaakov is sending him even though he shouldn't send them then brothers meet him and they get they come to the conclusion hesitating selling email or no they come to him killing him oh no they decided to sell him and that's how the Jewish people make it age [Music] [Applause]