The REAL Story of Yosef & His Brothers: The Dreams That Changed History - Rabbi Dovid Kaplan

We got the story of Ysef and the brothers over here. And the first thing is that again I told you put away Yseph and what's it called? The technicolor coat and all that other nonsense that you've uh probably been exposed to at one point or the other. We don't even know that it had a lot of colors by the way. It doesn't say only one of the commentaries mentions that the code was a code of many colors. That that's how it's always taught. But it doesn't most of the commentaries don't don't even mention that. So let's take a look. Jacobino is dwelling in the land of his father, the land of Kanan. And uh Rashi brings down over here that um uh uh that Yakov Aino is dwelling in tranquility. Now look what has just happened to Yakovino. He has survived Lavon. He survived Asov. He survived Lavan. His sons wiped out the entire town of Shem and all the enemies were neutralized. It says none of them attacked him as the Jewish people passed through. Even though the midair midrussian that they went to war, but the but the plain meaning is nobody. They had no with all this trouble around him. He made it through. Where does his aggravation start? When there's jealousy in the home in his own home, it starts with the enemy from Asov an enemy of love and an enemy of of what do you call the the anti-semites all around him in all that he manages to get through unscathed almost unscathed except the incident with Dena and he gets through it and all of a sudden when there's jealousy is unleashed in his home that's when the trouble starts which is like no there's no fight like a good like a good domestic fight you know there are certain families that are always involved in drama there's always somebody who's not talking to somebody and without that without that they can't they just can't get along. [laughter] Think of that oxymoron. They can't get along unless they're not talking to each other. So So they they the trouble starts in the home. That's what causes the home to to deteriorate. So it says a told us Yakov Yoseph these are the gener the the offspring of Yakov. Yoseph Rashi brings down the reason Yakov has offspring at all is because of Yoseph meaning that he went off to love on in order to get married in order to marry Raul which would have produced Yoseph and in the end it got sid sidetracked as Ala and as a Zulpa which is where everybody else came from. So really the this the the offspring of Yakov is indirectly related to Yoseph Yseph. He's 17 years old. He was a shepherd with his brothers and he was a companion of the sons of Bah and Zilpa. Ysephim Ysef brought a negative report to his father. Now, you know, you got to understand Yoseph is Yoseph is 17 years old. He's basically uh you know, he he's he's caught between the brothers. He doesn't have a mother because Raul has died last week's para. And what what's interesting is that you're going to see that he's he's a he's a nar. Now, what's a nar? What is how does the Hebrew word na or >> snitch? >> No, that's not a snitch. That's a boy. A nar a nar is is what we would call an adolescent >> you know a lad an adolescent in England they call them the lads right and in uh where we come from we call him we call him adolescence which has which carries by the way a negative connotation adolescent simply means a teenager teenager is like teenager when you hear the word teenager you think just you know a little mishuga when you hear the word adolescent you think a little criminal activity that that's what that's how but neither of them means It just it's just a word just describing describing an age. So Yoseph is a nar the word nar comes from the word liner. Ler means to empty out. Ler means to empty it out. A young person is empty still. A young person is empty. He's not he hasn't got wisdom. He hasn't absorbed wisdom. He hasn't. Now Yseph is a very Yoseph is Yakov's main disciple and he's absorbed the Torah. The commentaries even say that that when it says that he was shephering his brothers, it means Yakov taught him the Torah and Yoseph taught it to the brothers. That's what the measure says. But he's at the end of the day, he's a nar. We'll see what the significance of that is in a second. And and it says, now watch this. And there are three questions in this P. First of all, Yose brings a negative report about the brothers. What is a negative report? Number one, he says that the brothers are involved in what's called a min they're they're they're taking the limbs off of a living living animal which you're not allowed as one of the Noahide prohibitions. Number two, it says that they're involved in immorality and number three that they are tormenting the other brothers, the uh the sons of the uh of the of the maidervants that they're calling them slaves and they're tormented. He brings these three reports back and there's a whole discussion about there's a whole discussion about uh uh uh exactly what he saw and why he said it and what was really going on here. Now uh it's just very interesting. There are three problems in this puk. A once he tells us he's 17 years old why does it have to tell us he's a nar? We know when by definition if you're 17 you're a nar. Number two, why does it say uh uh um Yseph sum? Yseph brings a bad report. Why does it say vapper? [snorts] Vapper means he tells over. You bring a bad report. I'm bringing you a bad report. I'm giving you verbal information. You would say somebody brought you the information or somebody told you the information. Somebody told you the information. Why did it say why did it say you understand you say not right? Why would it say v he brought it? And number three it says to their father. What's the problem with that? >> His father too. Why is it his father? Why their father? He brought the bad report to their father and brought the breath to his father. Okay. So uh uh one of the forums says like this. You see, Yoseph kept all He's got to bring a bad report. You know that when it comes to lash and horror, when it comes to lash and harah, are you ever allowed to say something negative about somebody? There's sometimes where it's a mitzvah. Sometimes you have to say it. But there are rules about saying something and bring a negative report. Uh you're not allowed to just gossip and slander people for no reason. That's called lashenhor. That's a severe aa. But there are certain times where if it's very clear, you there it's what's called letollis. Ellis means that it's for a benefit. There's a clear benefit. I'm telling you this because you need to know that you need to know because you'll be able to do something about it and correct them. So is bringing a report to Yakovino in order to be able to correct the brothers. So there are rules. Number one, you're not allowed to exaggerate. And number two, really you have to tell people off yourself unless you feel you're not capable because they won't accept it from you. And number three, there could be no benefit in it for you. So the first thing it tells us he's a nar. He's a nar. The emphasis is that Yseph is telling us that why didn't Yoseph tell his brothers off himself? Because he felt they won't accept it from him because he's a nar. Number one. Number two, there was no exaggeration. Vov he brought the information exactly as it was. by yapper means well you know he told it over and then you might throw in a few details over there but people call you know people call embellish a little bit and number three to their father in other words if it would have said he brought it to his father it's maybe wants to get in good with his father which makes it look like there's personal benefit it's avi he's telling it to their father so their father could do something about it that means yseph is fulfilling all the criteria necessary in order to bring in a to embellish [snorts] or exaggerate You know people ask is it permissible according to to exaggerate? Are you allowed according to exaggerate? >> So what does it depend on >> what >> you for certainly to maintain peace but it's also depends if you're changing facts or if you figure of speech. I don't know if I ever told you guys I was uh about four years ago I had the I there were two Arabs started up with me and I managed was I put them both in the hospital. So I'm just exaggerating. It wasn't four years ago. It was two days ago. It wasn't two Arabs. It was one little old lady and I didn't put her them in the hospital. She hit me over the head with her purse. Right. But I just embellished a little bit. Right. So when you embellish it's a lie. That's an absolute lie. If it was if it was exa figure of speech, we even find that in the Gomorrah. But I told you a million times. Don't exaggerate. So you know that when I said a million, I didn't mean a million. That type of exaggeration is permissible. It's figure of speech exaggeration. to embellish and change the facts is not true. And if you do that when you're speaking negative about somebody, even for a beneficial purpose, then you shouldn't have been speaking. And if there's something in it for you, I'm going to say, "Hey, really, this guy did something wrong." And I'm going to tell I'm going to tell the boss because this guy's this guy's been, you know, I see that he doesn't come to work on time and he's cutting corners over here. I'm going to tell the boss. But the really reason is because I want this guy to lose his job because I want that position. Then I'm not allowed to say it because there's something in it for me. And I certainly not allowed to exaggerate. Yeah. Go ahead. >> What if uh the exaggeration is uh to make it seem better? Say you have to tell your boss about somebody, but you don't want to make you don't want him to lose his job. So you make it seem that he's doing it a little bit >> that that is a very tricky thing because that comes up in all the time. And in shidim people tend to exaggerate. And the problem is that if you exaggerate, you could create trouble by exaggerating something good. If let's say let's say there's a girl uh uh a guy a father calls up this happens all the time. He asks about a certain boy named Yeshiva. Does this boy do in does he make it to minion on a regular basis? Now you know for him a regular basis is about 12% of the time. You say yeah yeah he's a regular miniongoer. Then they get married and the girl who is expecting a husband because he get up and go to minion every day and now he's, you know, he's missing minion and then they have a big fight and the big fight could spiral out of control. They can end up getting divorced. Whose fault is that? Whose fault is that? That's the fault. I even know of a case true case. A guy calls up a rashish shiva. This happens all the time. Rashivas rebay him. they're called and he calls up the rashish shiva and he says to the rashiva um see you're allowed to soften it a little bit. You don't have to use it's like they they the famous story they say is uh they asked the does the boy smoke they smoke cigarettes >> they they smoke they smoke cigarettes so you say well listen let's put it this way if I needed to bum a cigarette he's not the first guy I would go to okay so then you told him he smokes but you know you're trying that a little bit of that you could do in should that sort of thing but to change the facts is very very dangerous so this guy calls up to Russa and he wants it about a certain He's a good learner and he says they got he says I got one quis father says is he honest is he straight is he a straight what they call er so shiva starts heming and hoing he goes well you know he's you know I wouldn't say that it's necessarily his strongest feature [clears throat] so he says listen my daughter we're talking about is he an honest boy I says well to tell you the truth he's kind of koi and deceptive actually he's actually very deceptive and he's very he's cunning and deceptive so the father goes Great. Cuz my daughter is cunning and deceptive and dishonest. I need somebody who's going to run circles around her. And the couple got married, lived happily ever after. Right now, what would have happened if the should have said, "Yeah, he's straight. He's Oh, that's not free." You just blew the up. You understand? So, you have to Yeah. The the when it comes to you ask a direct question. If it's a general question, so you get a general answer. So, hey, does the boy go to minion? Yes. Because that's true. No matter how many times he goes to minion, does he get there over 85% of the time that he'll give you a direct? No. In my estimation, I never had problems with my kids asking direct pointed questions. I got direct, clear, very clear pointed answers. But you have to know how to ask it. Here, Yoseph obeys all the rules. Now, watch this. You know the story, right? You know how the story unfolds over here. There's going to be a the brothers are going to get jealous and they sell him and he goes off to Egypt. Now, watch what happens here. Hold for one second. Just hold Alicia. Hold do me a favor. Hold the question till about a quarter or two because I want to get through. There's a lot of stuff to get through here. The there the there the if you can understand how the story unfolds. Yseph brings a negative report on the brothers. Now how did the brothers take it not well? Okay. The brothers take it not well. They make a mistake. Yoseph makes a mistake by bringing by by sorry Yoseph brings a report with best intentions but he made a mistake in reading what they were doing. He had good intentions but he didn't understand what he thought was the limbs off the living animal and immorality and and he didn't understand he made a mistake in judging their behavior but he brought he had good intentions. They made a mistake because they thought he had bad intentions. Yakov Aino made a mistake because he gave him a right he gave he favored him among the other brothers and then Yoseph made a mistake by telling his brother the dreams and then the brothers Yoseph then Yakov makes a mistake by sending Yseph off to the brothers. So there's one it's a comedy of errors. It's one mistake after another mistake after another mistake and after another mistake and then what ends up happening? God's plan comes out exactly the way he wants it to. >> After one mistake, another mistake, another mistake. Yet God's plan comes out. The brother Yseph goes to Egypt. The brothers go to Egypt. They bow down to Yseph. The Jewish people are going into exile, which is called God's plan to begin with. And the lesson over there is that God's plan is going to come out one way or another. That means he'll try to get me. I told you God could try to get me from here to that door. Now, the first thing he tries is I see a $1 bill lying on the ground by the door. [snorts] I'm not going to get up in the middle of year to get a $1 bill. Do I hear five? I'm not going to get up this year to pick up a $1 bill. So, but Hashem wants me by that door for some reason. So, next thing happens is I say, "Tamid, could you open the window over here?" So, Tom opens up the window. And the next thing I see is that there's a German Shepherd crawling coming through the window. You think that'll get me to the door? Oh, boy. You wouldn't believe how fast, right? So, one way or another is going to get me to the door. >> The God's plan is going to work out even if you make a mistake because you make a mistake, he'll just make an adjustment and move you over here this way and he'll move it there. Well, one way that plan's going to come out. There's an unbelievable, it's a remarkable Gomorrah. The Gomorrah says, remember I told you the Gomorrah says with Schol Hamel, King Saul, listen carefully. King Saul before he became Shaw Hamel. So he was he was his father lost some donkeys, you know. So maybe we could we should open up get a little bit of air now we're speak just make sure there no German shepherds there. The uh just just a little bit of air. So the garban says like this the garra says the the story in the story in the is that king scholik thank you king scholik he uh his father lost some donkeys. This is before he was the king. So Shaw goes, he takes his attendant and they go searching for these donkeys for about three days. And at a certain point, they haven't found the lost donkeys. So they go, they realize they're in the same town. They're very near where Schmool Hanovi, the prophet Samuel lives. So they decide to go ask the prophet. Those days you could ask the prophet was good. You know, you go to a prophet, get a tip on the market, find out what's going to happen in the bears game tomorrow. You know, these are it's a good thing. Get the point spread. you know, you go to the Novi. So, he uh what do you call it? By the way, the Bears are playing the Packers. Davin Bearsben Chicago, right? They should wait. So, the uh the what do you call so he's going to he's going to uh what do you call them? The Packers are like the White Socks of football. The Packers are the are the villains of the NFL. So he's going to to to the Nvishal and uh they on the way they see a whole group of girls comes walking past. So they said to the girls where does this prophet live? Where is the this the the the ro the haro? The row is the seer the nvi. They say to this group of girls there's a whole group of girls. Where is the where's the prophet? So the girls instead of giving an address and saying yeshar yashar yamina the girls it takes them three sentences they well on a certain day he goes up there they have a sacrifice I got give him a whole drussia and the gmor says why did they have to go on so why so long what took them by three sentences to go you all he had to say is 6508 why did they why did he give a whole three sentences so gives three reasons theor says number one Women are talkative. Nim dabio saying women talk. So whatever a man says whatever it takes a man to say in a word will take a woman three sentences. Number two because Shaw was tall and handsome and they wanted to extend it a little bit so they could look at Shaw. So they took their time. And number three, because up until remember when he gets to what's going to happen is going to say to him, "Forget about the donkeys. They were already found. I got different in news for you. You're king." And then he's going to anoint him with oil. He's going to anoint him as the king of the Jewish people. That anointing has to take place at exactly 11:00. If it gets there at 1 minute to 11, not time yet, because up until 11:00, it has been predestined that Schmool is going to be the ruler. Not a king literally, but he's the leader of the Jewish people. The new leader doesn't take over and one leadership, one reign does not encroach on another reign. The Gomorrah says, not even by a hair's breath. [snorts] It's not not one, not one minute to 11, 11:00. So there's got to be a delay over here. What's the delay? These girls draining them out. >> So the question then becomes, so which one is it? Is it because they're talking to him? Because they want to look at him or because they're going to because because of the you don't want one rain encroaching on another. So which one is it? Why do you need three reasons Gabbor? Here the question. Which one? Well, which one is it? Why do you need three reasons for one reason is sufficient? The answer is that there are three different what's the word uh what's that >> zones >> not time zones three different mechanisms in the running of the world >> there is nature what we call nature there's free choice and there's hashgap is God's supervision now nature kicks in over here because women by nature are talkers. >> Free choice is they choose to look at Shaw >> and God's supervision is to make sure that it doesn't happen before 11:00. So it always looks like everything's work operating independently at the end of the day with all these different mechanisms of the running of the world but God is having everything it come to one result. That's what happens over here. You have a mistake and you have another mistake and another mistake and another mistake and at the end of the day there it is. So it says Yoseph would okay and then four lines from the top is loved more than the other sons because he's a Benzunim is a son of his old age. one opinion. One opinion is that he's a he taught him the Torah. There's another opinion that they looked alike and that everything that happened to Yakov happened to Yoseph. He had a brother who hated him. He had brothers who hated him. He had a what do you call it? He had Rashi brings down three or four examples here. Um, >> he does 17 years in. >> Wait, one second. >> Where is it? One second. >> One second. One second. One second. One second, Delicia. One second. I get actually I actually get paid for this sometimes. Um, here. Uh, uh, look at the top left column. Look at the top of left column. Second second second line from the top. See that? Everybody see that on page 198. Left column second line from the top. Left column 198. Everybody got that? >> Okay. What happened to Yakov? Happened to Yosef. If you see it, please show the person next to you. This one was hated and this one was hated. This one's brothers wanted to kill him. There are a lot of other comparisons between between Jacob and Yseph. Okay. So, so that's what and Yakov loves Yoseph. And the Gomorrah says that was a mistake. says, "Never play a favorite one son over the others." Because as a result of a small amount of fabric that Yakov gave to Yoseph over the other brothers, the wheels were turned and they ended up going into exile in Egypt. All because he favored him with a certain amount of material. And therefore, a father, parents have to be careful to never play favorites. Even though it's not so easy because sometimes there's one kid you love all your kids but some kids are more likable than others. Sometimes kids are obnoxious. You get one kid who may be the sodical kid. You may got sometimes the kids are you love all your kids. You never favor you never favor one kid over the other. That's that's do me a favor. Hold all the questions for a few minutes. If you have questions write them down. We'll take it. I want just a few there a few more points here then we'll take the questions. So the brothers get upset. Um sorry, sorry I skipped something vital over here. Now take a look at the passen he made him exonus pass top of page 200. Okay he makes him this. How does the arts go translated? >> Oh fine woolen tunic. You see the art doesn't translate as a cloak of many colors. And really pasta means stripes which one of the commentaries says but it doesn't say was cloak of many colors but it's a it's a very there's one opinion that it was such a fine type of silk that you could fold it up and hold it in your hand. >> It was such a fine material that you could actually hold it in in a pass the hand the palm is called a piad. You could actually fold it up. That's why my raincoat over here. Where is my raincoat? this raincoat which I have. May as well do show and tell today. All right. Here's my Sonus Pass because the benefit of this raincoat it's like it's like one of these things that looks like it's got that priest hood that they wear. You ever see the guys? They're specially made for from guys. It's got a big hood that goes over the hat. You ever seen these? >> Yeah. >> You ever seen these? That's what the special special from design. But the benefit of it is that it could actually roll up and fold up very very very small. And I actually put it in my briefcase when it's not too cold outside. And this is actually a Sona's pos. Now it could very well be that this is what Yoseph looked like. Not. But this is you see how small this could become. So Yoseph was a fine silk that went right into the palm of his hand. That's as passive. So take a look at Rashi and this gentleman is an important life lesson. Rashi says on the uh uh it's um on on page 200 right column third line for the top 200 right column third line for the cop. Do you see where it says ALF? That's um Shagod. That means he's quoting a medish alsh. It's called Pim because of the troubles that Yoseph is going to encounter. Shenimar potif in the end is right. Potifir in in Egypt. It's the payarim is the merchants. That's a sam villa. That's the yudim and the medidionites. So you have pay that's cool. >> Okay, that's what it goes. It's not the order that it took place because was the last on the chain, but at the end of the day it stands for but you know so so what so they so there so that's what I Okay, it's very nice that that's what it stands for, but what does what's one thing got to do with the other? I mean I what's the what's the connection here? What's the connection? Okay, that's what it stands for. What's the connection? So, the plain meaning is, well, that was the cause of what happened. He ended up by all these with all these people because of that cloak. Okay, there's a there there's a different lesson here. And this is a lesson that goes to jealousy. Goes to jealousy. I'm going to give you three examples. Would you like, you know, there's some rich people who own helicopters. Would you like to own a helicopter? >> No. >> I But if you're rich, if you're rich, it's not a problem. And there's there's never traffic in a helicopter. [clears throat] No traffic. And the day that the guy bought a helicopter, everybody was jealous except if his name was Kobe Bryant. Because if you know what happened in the end, then you realize, boy, am I happy I don't have a helicopter. That means jealousy. Wasn't didn't Steve Jobs? What happened to Steve Jobs? Didn't he go off a cl who was the guy who's the guy who developed the the the the little the things you stand on and and drive around? What's it called? Segue. >> Segue. Yeah. Who was the head of who who did Segue? That wasn't Steve Jobs. Oh, never mind. Uh, >> Mr. Segue, do you know what happened to Mr. Segue, who was very rich? >> He drove off a cliff on his own property on a Segway. >> You didn't know that, did you? You didn't know. So, Michael Jordan once said, people people would wonder people wonder, I'd like to be Michael Jordan for a day. Michael Jordan once said, but it isn't Michael Jordan for a day. It's Michael Jordan all the time. You can't go anywhere without beingounded and without your security crew and everything else. I'm not I don't feel bad for Michael Jordan. I don't feel bad for anybody who's worth $3.2 billion. I don't feel bad for him. But there's a point he's making. If you were the brothers, you're jealous of Yoseph. You're jealous of Yoseph because you saw his son passim. If you knew in advance what he's going to go through, would you still want it? You want to be sold? You want to be beaten? You want to the medra says that you're just selling him. They were beating him. They were hitting him. You sure you want that? It's a lesson in life in general. You see somebody's got something. Why I'm so jealous. Wow. Guy just came up with a brand new Lamborghini. Woo. A Lamborghini, right? I could get used to one of those, right? So this guy's driving his Lamborghini and three weeks later gets hits a tree at 150 mph and gets killed. You still jealous of his Lamborghini? If you knew that, would you want it? So when it comes to jealousy, just keep it all. There's a whole picture here. We're always jealous of one aspect of something. That's unfair. You want the whole package. No, no, I don't want the whole package. Oh, no. No, no, no. I don't want that whole package. So the brothers, they're telling you you're jealousy. If you knew what was going to happen here, you sure you want that? That's so that's what you're jealous of. Look at how these un look at how this how this plays out over here. It's like these two ladies are sitting on a plane. I heard this story years ago. Two ladies are sitting on a plane and one of the ladies looks over and the other has got a beautiful diamond ring, a big diamond. She says to her, "Wow, that's a nice diamond." Says, "Yes, it is a nice diamond." [clears throat] She goes, "No, no, I mean it's a really nice diamond." She says, "Yes, but it's it's the famous Platnik diamond, but it comes with a curse." She goes, "Really?" goes, "Yes, Mr. Plotnik." [laughter] A lot to that story. A lot to that story. And in life, you see, you're jealous of something, you know. What was the name of the guy got arrested in jail? The guy uh um Rubashkin, remember Rubashkin was he got he got he was arrested, he was in jail for seven years and Donald Trump pardoned him. And you know the story with Rubashkin, he was running the uh the slaughtering house in Iowa. was a crumb guy and he was in jealousy. He was in federal penitentiary for seven years and then Donald Trump pardoned him and he got out and I remember when he got out and there were crowds of people dancing and singing. I'll tell you the truth, I was jealous. That guy's getting a lot of attention. This guy's very very famous. Everybody knows him and everybody's dancing and singing and I stopped and thought to myself, would you want to be in a federal penitentiary for seven years in order to get that attention? No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. I'll pass. So, what do you think? What are you jealous of? You jealous of that or you jealous of the whole package? The whole package? No. No. I'll pass. That's what the Torah is teaching you. Very important life lesson, gentlemen. That's one of the best ways to fight jealousy is when you're jealous of something, think of all the other things that are with going on with this person that you're not so jealous of. the um okay take a look at the brothers saw that Jacob loved him more than all the other brothers they hated him they couldn't speak to him peacefully so Raji points out well that's a good thing at least they weren't two-faced they hated him. So they didn't talk to him at all. They didn't pretend that everything was okay. It wasn't that your mouth and your heart are not the same. You hated him. So he knew that you hated him. At least he knows where he stands. So you're at the breakfast table. Nobody's talking to him. So Yoseph knows where he stands. What triggered the hatred over here? So obviously the Yakov gives him the the cloak. But you see the say is very subtle because you'll notice the puss says they hated him. Mikov of all the from all the brothers Jacob loved him the most. So the brothers were thinking let's see why does he love Yseph because Yseph is a son of Raul and Raul was the beloved wife that they could live with. But then they realize one second he loves him more than all the brothers which includes who >> but Bidy comes from Raul also. So why does he love Yoseph the most? And Byammen is even younger than Yoseph. So why does he love Yoseph the mo oh one second. So it must be it's not RL the factor. What is the factor? He's been snitching on us. Ah that's why they hate him. The hatred is now because they realize he's been snitching. If Yakov loves him it's because of the bad report. Because if it was only Raul say he would love By as much as Yoseph. But the Torah says from all the brothers. Then Yoseph now makes a mistake. See the brothers are also making a mistake. And now Yoseph's mistake. Yo, so he has a dream and he tells the brothers, "Hey guys, I had a dream." Right there was a mistake. My wife came into the room the other day. When was it? On uh I think Friday morning. I was sitting in my room learning. My wife had just woke up and she comes into she says, "Oh, I had the funniest dream." So I just kind of looked at her because you're supposed to say, "What is it? Yeah. What is it? So she starts talking and I [snorts] She No, no, no. Listen. I said, listen, this week's para, somebody has a dream and gets a lot of trouble for it. Yseph Yoseph had a dream and he got in trouble. So forget about it. Martin Luther had king had a dream also. He got in bigger trouble. So So nobody wants to hear about your dreams. So Yseph comes along and Yoseph says, "I had a dream." He hasn't even said the dream yet. And he hasn't even said the dream. And it says they they it added hatred. Why? He hasn't even told him what the dream is. Wait till he gets to the dream. That's got to be a real winner. Why? Because a dream is generally shared them before. So say, "Who do you share your dreams with?" If anybody ever you ever Yeah. only your intimate friends. It's like Yoseph's coming, guys. You know, we're all we're all good. Hey, you didn't get the message. You didn't get the message that we hate you. What do you what do you playing chummy mummy over here? Even though even though we've already tried to communicate to you that we hate you. He says, "Listen to the dream that I dreamt." I mean, you can imagine the look on the face of brothers when he's saying this. were binding sheav out in the field. My stack of grain stood up and it stood up straight and all of your stacks bowed down to mine. Can you imagine? He's getting all and the brothers are just looking at him exactly like you're looking at me right now. Y [laughter] what happened? So what is it? So the brother the brother say wait you're going to rule over us going to dominate us they hate him even more. You see the the the what's what is it that triggers them off here? There's something bothering them. And the answer is that dreams are often a result of what you're thinking about during the day. >> It could be a result of what you eat. It could be a result of your thoughts. It could be a result of experiences and often a combination of all three. That's why we put no emphasis on dreams nowadays. At one point, dreams could contain some sort of pro something about the future. We put no emphasis on dreams nowadays. But at the end of the day, the brothers are bothered by something here. What are they really bothered by? If you stop and think about it, they were shepherds. They weren't farmers. Why is Yoseph dreaming about about stalks of wheat? >> That's not something you experience or talk about there. These are all shepherds. That means you must have been dreaming about being a king. You must have walk around all day thinking about being a king. And since you're walking around thinking about being a king, that's why you have a dream that shows something about agricultural agricultural submission. But that has nothing to do with our life over here. So why would you even have a dream? Unless you're promoting that dream. It's your idea to be the king. That's why they hate him. That's why they hate him. Oh, one second. And by the way, the commentaries say that Ysef was trying to communicate them. You all have bundles of mitzvah. >> A bundle is a bundle of mitzvah, but I'm going to have one big mitzvah that is going to get your bundles of mitzvah to submit to me. >> Oh, >> that means I have one bundle. I have one going to do one mitzvah which is going to make your mitzvah as big as the mitzvah are, but they're not going to compare. What's his one mitzvah? He's going to run away from Mrs. Potifer. He's going to pass a test which is the most grueling test any male has ever faced. And that mitzvah over there is his stock of wheat which the brothers have to submit to. >> Dang. He has another dream. Now he has another dream and he tells it to his brothers. Pay attention carefully. The subtleties here are remarkable. O, I have another dream. Just one second. I'm missing something over here. I'm missing where is it? There's a double. I'll find it later. What is it? The sun, the moon, and 11 stars are bowing down to me. The sun, the moon, and the stars that they certainly not involved with. They're shepherds. He tells it to his father and his brothers. Father scolds him. What kind of dream are you having? I mean, your mother and your brother's going to come down to your mother's dead. How could your mother come and bow down to your mother's dead? I mean, the Yakov understands the sun and the moon represents the father and the mother and 11 stars is your mother's dead. Rashi points out, yeah, but he was raised by Bilha. It's referring to Bilha who was the stepmother. Yakov is trying to diffuse it. Yako is trying to play it down and say, "Come on, Yseph. I kind of dream this. We all know." But the brothers are watching. They're smart. They know what's going on here. Now, look at the next pan of his brothers are jealous. And his father kept kept track of it because his father knew at certain point it's going to come true. Anything bothering you about this? Anything bothering about that? >> What is it? The last puzzle last P got page 200 his brothers were jealous of Shamar. Anything bother you about that? What do you say Michael? >> So I noticed that in the previous two >> no anything about this puss bothering you? >> It says jealous not hatred. >> Yes. Excellent. Here it says just the brothers were jealous. >> Earlier it said hatred. What happened to the hatred here? Why is there no hatred here? Only jealousy. The answer is the sun and the moon represent Yakov and Billah, right? Represents representation of your father. >> You might, no matter who you are, you might walk around all daydreaming about your brothers bowing down to you. >> But no one is a low enough person to think about his father and mother bowing down to him. Nobody would dream about that. That means if you have a dream that the sun and moon are bowing down to you, that wasn't something you were thinking about. That means here they sense that there's a reality that that this is a premonition of something that's going to happen. This Yoseph can't be blamed for. That means they understand that this is some sort of prophetic insight of something that's going to happen. We can't hate you for that. I'm jealous of you for that. We can't hate you for that. Now it's not your fault because because the sun and the moon is obviously the father and the mother. The father is the son, the mother is the moon which reflects the picks up the hashah the energy and but so brothers I can imagine that you've been daydreaming about us bowing down to you. You know where you're sitting in shear and you're thinking about your brothers bowing down to you. But nobody is going to go and have think about the father bowing down to him. Nobody's that low. And if you are thinking about it, that means it's obviously Somebody had a question. Go ahead. You had a question before. Alicia, you had a question. So you got what do you got? >> My question was um I've got another one. I've got two. The first one is why were two dreams made? Why not just one? Why not just the sun 11 stars? >> Okay. >> Why the sheets as well? The sheav represents that he's going to be supporting them with produce that when he becomes the king in Egypt, he's going to be pres he is going to be supporting the family. We're going to that. Then there's going to be the idea of the submission of them bowing down to him. That one is they're bowing down in other words to they're submitting to him because they need his his his material support. The other is that they're going to be bowing down in order to accept the the the uh the authority of Yoseph, which is going to allow for down the line in Egypt for that influence to keep the Jewish people strong while they're in the exile. That's one of the reasons why the dreams have to come true because it's the only way the Jews are going to stay strong in Egypt. >> But that we're going to get to later on when we get to the when they go down to Egypt. What's the other question? The other question was in the in the beginning and uh why does it to say Israel? >> That I can't answer. Uh the general rule for that is that when he's in a in a heightened state, it's Israel. When he's in a lower state, it's Yakov. But then in each situation, you need to figure out why they're a heightened state or lower state there. that I don't have a I don't have a good answer for that for for I I haven't figured out the I tried once tracing the pattern but I didn't figure out in each case why it's right now he's in a heightened state because he's sitting in tranquility but you see it starts with Yakov the public starts with Yakov then turns to Israel I don't know I don't know yes Alicia >> Joseph grew up with Rael died of >> don't get to know who is >> correct is more obligated to show more is obligated to show more love. >> So which one you said obligated? Which one is he obligated? >> That's that may be that that is that may be. But you said the word obligated. Do you mean obligated? Do you mean what would naturally be? Okay, so you're probably right. What would naturally be? But the brothers didn't read it that way. >> I didn't say obligated. You did. >> So who would you be obligated to? >> He's not obligated to any. He's obligated to love everybody the same. >> Michael, thank you very much.