The Proud Olive

[Music] following yakov's famous dream about the ladder and the angels going up and down the PK says that he built a Mata for Hashem this was a monument in memory of the powerful spiritual experience he had undergone there but what happens next seems odd he goes ahead and he reaches into his sucus and he takes out a bottle of olive oil and he pours it directly on top of this Monument until the very last drop you ever wonder what is the significance of doing that what is the significance of taking a bottle of olive oil and pouring it on top of a monument and it's not only yakob he was just the start of this custom throughout our history we have been anointing monuments and Kings by sitting them down and pouring a bottle of extra virgin olive oil on their heads and this seem to have spread to Kings and Queens around the world who appear to accompany us in this their anointing ceremony by pouring olive oil on top of their King's heads it's so strange why do we do this and why specifically olive oil why don't we use I don't know apple cider vinegar or red wine vinegar or red wine like what are we doing by pouring olive oil on top of a king's head so ROM H explains that there is a quality to oil to olive oil that is not found in almost any other sub substance and that is that oil does not mix with any other liquid no matter how how hard you'll try to force it oil refuses to mix it'll always flow to the top and this say pers is the lesson symbolized by the oil the noi sits the new king down and he tells him that his success is predicated on his ability to stay separate and to be proud and to rise above to resist the temptation of mixing with all the other cultures of the world to overcome the urged to be just like all of them pride in being a Jew is the greatest tool a king can have and we use oil to drive that message home Yakov was doing the exact same he was instilling into his very essence the need to remain separate as he was about to walk into lovan's house he would need to remain strong he would need to rise above it is the only way I was once standing online at Penn Station in Manhattan boarding a bus when an africanamerican man he walked up to me and he said sir you're Jewish right and I said yeah and he said I have a question for you why is it that all you Jews are always well dressed always in those white shirts with those breast suits or with a good-looking sweater on why is that and so as my bus began boarding the last passengers I turned to him and I said why do Secret Service agents always dress nicely so he thought for a moment and he looked at me and he he said well that's because they represent the president exactly I said and we represent God and with that I turned and boarded the bus [Music]