Insights On Parshas Lech Lecha taking possession of the Land, Rabbi Yossi Paltiel - 5783

foreign [Music] because I have a website as I shamelessly remind you every minute that I can where I feed all my classes into and if I already did it then I'm doing it again I can't use it so I try to find new material finding a new material there's two problems number one it's hard number two it is likely that you're gonna lay an egg once in a while might have bust well I'm about to lay an egg I know before the class starts the class is no good ah but I'm stubborn luck was an interesting patch it's a Pack patch there are two patches most of that patch is finding a wife for Yitzhak and abramovine who passes away and sort of passes away are both a two parishes dedicated is an amazing man from the perspective of Torah he wasn't the greatest man who ever lived the greatest man ever lived is mashiach if you don't want to count mashiach the greatest man who ever lived is but has a property that nobody else has that puts him higher than anybody yeah God couldn't break him God himself could not break him and he tried if the abistair sits on you doesn't matter how old you are he's gonna trip you up if the apesh decides to pick on a certain person we know stories of Tariq him it's able to depict on them for reasons usually because it did something they shouldn't have done if Hashem decides he's going after a person sooner or less that person is going to fail then he's going to fall first and the little thing that a bigger thing and then a bigger thing and then it's gonna slip of a cliff Hashem tested avraham 10 times personally the Amish attacks of ram navinu 10 times and everyone passes all the tests now what were the tests what were the tests that the baby what were the tests they all came down to one thing Hashem kept on failing him or something and everything would go sour finally promises a kid the kid is now with 37 year olds okay now kill him and I thought oh never questions it's crazy if you think about abramovina's personality in real terms it's mind-blowing how especially in the area of a Muna in the area of faith in the area of whatever God does is good then I have no questions nobody comes close I can't say because then you're going to bother me again yeah nobody comes close because when it said when we say every day in davening says you found his heart to be loyal and dedicated to you unquestionably in this there's no clue he's in a Class by Himself unbelievable and because of this he's the father of our nation and like I explained to you the other day when the image just thinking about looking for another Jewish Nation the Satan tells them the Satan the Satan I told them some other people this morning that the abused was trying to say it went to the start again I'll fight another that's the story of the safety if the Book of Job where he finds a guy who's a very righteous man who starts to test him and he's hoping he'll pass all the tests he'll throw the Jews away because they're no good and start again and the Satan himself tells the abish that I give you a guarantee you're not getting another abramovino and that's exactly how it plays out good go ahead um obviously it was a combined decision first of all you didn't tell him he just walked with him and when he finally told him the question that you should ask is why we give avram credit you talk agreed he wasn't a boy he was 37 years old why doesn't even credit for it and the answer is because you took to lose his life avram stood to lose his legacy I've promised to lose all of history because YouTube was his future at that point to himself as a private citizen so even though Abraham had a lot to lose and you just kind of allowed to lose everyone was going to lose much more that's how it's understood I wanted he's a man I said in my last conversation with god I brought up the suggestion and God said excuse me I'm not that but don't ask me questions I do whatever I want so is that it you know when I asked another question he said but just don't tell them I'm not telling you finish you guys ask me questions that I can't answer what am I supposed to do go ahead right okay foreign so and of course because of this incredible foreign and he gives them all kinds of gifts Hashem giving all kinds of gifts I I I I learned kritos today this idea called Hashem has a power of blessing and Hashem bless whom he wishes he says here take the power of blessing bless whoever you wish that's crazy the able to God Almighty took the power of blessing which is his and gave it to a man and of course I thought that a baby they probably took itself the power of blessing that I have I'm giving to you bless who you wish curse who you wish it's yours do whatever you want avram gets many many maternas but the two gifts of gifts the two great things which I talk about every year because they they make me crazy they excite me every year abramovino got two gifts that are incredible they really are incredible and there are other novel facts that's the thing it's called bris hazera and princes which translates literally into English the Covenant for seed and the Covenant for the land if you live 3850 years ago and Hashem came to you and says I promised you in 3850 years they're gonna be people sitting in a room and they're going to be proud to call themselves your children what are the chances can you tell me any other human being on Earth that has that distinction that there are people alive today say my Zaid not from two generations ago or three that original but from 4 000 years ago his name was it doesn't even come close there are people who say I'm a descendant Napoleon maybe they say hi Genghis Khan well that's a our Suffolk you could assume you're the son of Genghis Khan okay but to say a man who lived four thousand years ago is maize and I relate to him as I carry his genes do I have his name I I follow his way of life it's an extraordinary gift Hashem promised that forever his children are going to be the agelessness but that's not the big gift that's not the big gift the big gift the gift which is truly Above All Else is Real Estate the ambusher gave us a piece of land three thousand eight hundred years ago and said I swear for what forever and ever and it's going to be called The Holy Land the land of the Jews the strip of land right on the coast of the Mediterranean flanked by the Mediterranean on the west I might just excuse me River on the East called the Jordan it's a tiny little piece of land and people have been killing each other with this piece of land for four thousand years for one reason not only one reason only for hundreds of years there were Crusades Christians and muscles killing each other because it's called The Holy Land and it's not holy because it's Christian it's not holy because it's Muslim it's holy because it's Jewish and the Avista made this promise more than close to four Millennium almost 4 000 years ago The English Department I'm going to give you this piece of land but the gift of the land and the gift of the seed comes up more than once later in our passion in shishir hamishi you have What's called the Buddhism the Covenant between the parts where Hashem repeats again these two promises and when Hashem promises children everyone believes him when Hashem promises prove it to me foreign but there's a much earlier circumstance where the event of the giving of the real estate to the Jewish people is mentioned and it's in tomorrow in Mondays the beginning of the patch now the scholars the experts the people who will know will tell you that Brisbane and platinum happens 75. laughs so the beginning of the pasture actually happened after the end of the pasture which is interesting and curious and very very confusing but be that as it may in tomorrow's heaters we have a story explain it how you wish in tomorrow's he does avram counts at your soul with light around comes out with lights and dimedrashim say light certainly thought that he is an old man he was 75 years old he'd be married his wife whose name is Jessica or swordai for a very long time huh later March this 86 hot light with Abram's nephew he's born he was an old guy Ishmael was born in when around was 86. this is 75. and light is convinced that he's the heir he's gonna whatever he's gonna get from God he's getting also believed that it's conceivable that light doesn't end up being his Heir in fact Russia would say that the Amish statistics putting his eggs into the light basket even though light was not behaving as light should be story is that light and ROM cannot live together there's too much politics for all kinds of reasons light is not honest light is stealing and light steals with the claim that the land is his because he's the heir of ramadino and who says it's not the right time it's not ours yet and you have to behave in Allah not a lot of Steel this becomes an impasse and light walks off light leaves like dolls and he joins the incredibly sophisticated and unbelievably corrupt civilization of Saddam his night's going to come up next week again when the whole situation of everything that saves his life when light leaves Rashi says Hashem speaks Savanna meaning when light was and he started to mess around he started to say now Hashem stop going to ramovina he's got a rush in his house he's letting him stay the midrash of described was trying to be nice to light and maybe she was disappointed how could it be nice to light he's corrupt and the image just stayed away from avina light finally had their big argument they decided to go their own separate ways and of course it actually says who planned to be close enough to Lloyd that if and when he would get into trouble he'd be close enough to him to help him which of course happened with the story of the Four Kings against the five Kings in next week's parisha but light leaves as soon as light gives leaves Hashem shows up again what do you want to say foreign I'm going to read I'm reading a couple of passages a little bible okay Hashem speaks his name is still avram e as soon as light departs for those who care it's it's Genesis that's what I'm reading please raise your eyes and look from where you're standing north south east west look around and he tells them key because that is called the artist I said I told you everything you see whatever you can see wherever your eyes can see I'm going to give it to you and to your children to your seed add oil until the end of time I promise you whatever you can see is yours forever then he says the next person I'm going to make your children like the sand of the earth I share that image of the father art is just as man is capable or not capable of counting how many grains of sand there are on the earth that's how your children can be your seed can be counted but there's another puzzle come stand up listen carefully everybody come and get up his Havoc walk around the audits in the land the articles for those who understood Hebrew and paid attention impossible it says look around whatever you can see is yours please stop that in verse 17 it says walk around whenever you step on is yours then it says the next project that if I'm moving who went to a lady now I got a good money this is your mother and second Shabbos and I decided I'm giving three classes on this command I have no idea how well find out how stubborn I am if I hit my head against the wall I don't know how to make three class I spent a lot of time looking there's not a lot of material on it but the Yamato says like this our claim to edit Israel is not like avram avinus because get up and walk around in other words the gamada says that the gift of land that Hashem was the most limited why because he only got what he stepped on I don't have to walk I have to create borders with his feet physically with his feet where he didn't walk wasn't here was limited where could he walk where could he Traverse where could he step with his feet that was the real estate able to give him beyond that he wasn't going to get now let me throw in a story because stories are always gevaldic was a very very big question I heard from one of my teachers and we focus told me personally that he was by a friend in Poland where the Freedia said quote as Miss you when you say small monkeys it's okay to say it small monkeys to visit him on a regular basis he was a big question lost his wife at a very early age he was a widower with one daughter of whom he raised basically himself and when she got married he was alone he was apparently quite long he became a listed he sort of went into hiding into reclusiveness so he lived in a certain place where he lived people know where he lived and he spent his days wandering in the fields he would wander into the forest and into the fields all the people who had Farms Jews and Andrews knew that whatever is stepson in other words if a guy had a tomato plant the best thing about tomato plants would step on it usually people stepping at the band Appliance is a bad plan but the small mucus something that's made Appliance it's a good plan so they used to make all kinds of tricks with the way they made their their Pathways going through the fields would have no choice but to trample on their produce because wherever he stepped was foreign you step on you're gonna get the land you see but only some of them what was Yankee's block has anybody know how to come on ends this is come out a thousand times that is the whole world wherever you goes yours seven arms real estate gift is the most limited he has to step on it the Xbox limited read as a gift is more expansive he has to look at it but only part of what he sees is going to become his Yankovic without any boundaries which is the concept we should ever bring many times in a secret that the Messiah comes the whole of the world becomes that is Israel which is which is hierarchically possible it's hilarly possible to to expand the borders of yushalayim to even expand the borders of the base of miktas and to expand the borders of antiso the khazal says you can do a ceremony the whole world doesn't become Israel and the whole world belong to the Jewish people so the problem is that the country with him took him impossible look around whatever you see is yours whatever step on is yours the second problem is and this is not going to bother you too much unless you're one of those lawyers in Yeshiva I don't have any lawyers we got to be a lot of psychologists a lot of psychiatrists many many many many politicians and almost everybody's professional sports actually but I don't know how many lawyers we have but the lawyers that will bother can you acquire Land by stepping on it is that a form of acquisition you acquire a lot by paying for it you require a lot by exchanging the document a legal document and you require making it means you have to change it physically you dig a ditch you put up a fence you break a fence down but you don't require a lot by walking around and the ability to become used by walking around the the mental catcher brings a whole pimple from badlys and yurushamis and madrasium half of which I didn't understand where he questions the possibility of avram avinas walking around being a form of a Kenyan and some people say it is some people say it's not there's different ways of looking at it Etc et cetera et cetera so there's two problems in one possible look around whatever you see is yours then it says wherever you walk is yours your talk is told whatever you see is yours part of it and Yankovic inheritance at any bounds so I decided I'm going to teach this but then I have to look for material once I decide what I'm teaching gotta find material guess what I couldn't find any at a very hard time finding a discussion they could explain to me I'm sure there's many followers speak about it I didn't look for them I didn't find them I'm guilty of not having enough time how do we understand this gift that was given the land he steps on YouTube has given some of the lands he looks at and Yanka was giving given an inheritance on Indian limitations when before all of that it says whatever you see is yours so here's what I came up with this is my shot this is my shield and I'm this is total invention total concoction which means if you don't want to take it seriously I honor you for it because this is just me making up a shuttle number one Hashem is giving of ramadina the gift of the land the gift of the land we got in three increments Abram got it on one level yes I got it at another level and you have to get it on the third level but I'm gonna have to physically walk it doesn't have to look at it and Yankovic it just hits it's all his just spread out Rabbi goes yours [Music] but before any of those things happen there's a Hashem tells him to look around bring this say that when Hashem to look around he made it as easy as possible but maybe look around there to climb a mountain that bring out different aspects of it but then a quarter is that when Hashem to look around that is sort of a preliminary step let's give an example okay you look at a painting what do you see you see a whole painting or a lot of details huh you see a painting or a lot of details you see a painting what do you see painting what do you see it depends on the person I think depends on the art some people see details some people see the whole painting right some people see the details and they forget then the minute they go away from the painting we look at a painting what do you see the totality of it or the details okay so we get a Jewish answer first you see the whole thing and then you notice all the details but I think we could all agree to the following statement there's an advantage in each if a person looks at a painting and he sees a bunch of colors if you look at a piece of art and you don't see the message of the artist you don't see the effort of the totality of that the artist invested you have no feel you have no hush I've told this to you before I have a former student I had a former student who a woman she had a PhD she was a she was a she was a scientist with a very high degree in in flowers in horticulture in in flowers she showed up in my class I mean over the years I've had some very very bright people in my classes so she introduced herself to me and she told me she was she didn't last very long she didn't stay for a very long time but she told me that she's a professional she's a professor she's a scientist and she studies flowers so I asked her what what are all the Tater Nick would ask a person like that I said when you look at a flower do you still see beauty as soon as I said those words the whole room started screaming everyone had an opinion and she was almost offended by the question of course I see beauty scientists are trained to look at molecules to look at little details to see how it's constructed when a scientist thinks of a flower that explains to you is this is the male flower this is the female flowers are not like people like animals right you either male of people they're both male and female and this is where this comes from where this comes from this is how the flower takes in its food this is how it serves its how it survives in the winter this is where its nourishment goes and this is how it produces power everything has a reason everything in defies a reason flowers don't do things for you to like how they look scientists will explain to you every detail of the flower including the colors and including the season and as they say in the real world blah blah blah blah blah everything makes sense but you know what flowers are still beautiful and if a person doesn't understand flowers look at the flower you see beauty and it would be a pity for a person to become so understanding of flowers if they look at flowers and they see a plumbing system instead of a beautiful flower but you know what the plumbing system is also true it's also important so you can all agree that there's an advantage of looking at a piece of art and seeing the beauty of the totality of it and there's something to be said about seeing the details of it and what I'm proposing is as fellows Hashem gave us energy so it's all the big place it's really ten lands it's not just one land it's ten lands and when you study this you study you study Toyota you learn the different lines a different character you know the Ghazal says living in certain places affects longevity certain places where people live longer certain places in the world people are smarter certain places in the world people are more talented supervising people are bigger idiots there's such things some lands have a certain character that affects people so every place is a little different it solves a complicated place so there is the total there's the picture of edges and all and then there's the details of energy so when Hashem is giving it is all to the Jewish people the first thing it tells look around and there's a madrish which I didn't tell you that the madness says look around and see if I can find it and I'll read it to you foreign that they saw from one end of the world to the next one of those avraham and he quotes verse 14. it's written see from the place you're standing so the emergency it's a very important medicine says that the Amish they made of Rome be able to see the whole world which means this rabbi isai in our pasture avram sees the land and pastures told us yes sees the land but it's not the same thing when Abraham sees the land in our passion Hashem makes it possible for him to see the whole world and of course you're supposed to ask me a question how could you the whole world the world of the globe the globe is it's round I don't know what the answer is maybe the answer is that light also curves but that ability the whole world whole world in other words what I'm proposing is look around he was giving him the brah of yankov IC number one look around and see the whole world is yours but then he says you acquire it in pieces because you can't just look around the world you have to work on it you have to relate to it the land has to relate to you you have to come close to it looks around the whole world and in some way takes possession of the whole world by looking at it says now take a walk and you're only going to get what you step on why because Hashem is saying I want you to have a personal relationship with the land you develop a personal relationship Again by treading on it so even though on the level of vision I gave it all to you now I want you to make it you in a more personalized way and as far as this is concerned the data tells us there's three steps step number one Hashem to somebody you walk you only get what you step on if you didn't step on it it's not yours you have to physically walk around the whole world and acquire the land and I want to throw in another message just for fun it's a method which I like I like this madrish avamina walked around and he saw all kinds of people he came to Mexico came to Mexico he came to Spain he came to all the South American countries to two o'clock everyone goes to sleep they were a couple hours in the morning because I said yesterday a couple hours in the afternoons right there I said yes to a couple after that then you have four weeks of vacation our problem is that these people are having a good time not my style came to the next land there were other problems he came to the land which is now Lebanon directly north of Mexico which was then Tire in English t-y-r-x is one of the most ancient civilizations or it's unangimulation it was later associated with phenicia which is a long story and they got into trouble with the the Romans who wiped them they killed them out wiped them all out right Carthage Carthage is the North African Coast they were aligned with Tire they were one civilization together they were seafarers they made a living travel in the oceans and he finds people working from morning till night they were not lazy they didn't FC yesterday they worked for more they were tired abramovina walks by and he sees these people he says this is where I'm going to settle I want to live amongst these people now I'm going to blow your mind with a piece of Chabad history in 1949 the future became an American citizen and the government made a new law allowing a citizen a person to become citizen in a private home rather than a government building two judges came to 770 with a couple of Clerks and they never had to sign in there's famous pictures there's a video and audio and pictures no audio pictures of it and then every spoke is here and he quoted this madridish he said went from place to place he checked out this country and checked out this country and he came to a place where people work hard and said I'm staying here and the feeder could ever said I've decided to make America my place I didn't say it clearly but it's very clearly understood why nobody in history of the world has ever worked hard like Americans thought it was a cool idea Albert o walks around he walks around he went to different countries the place that he walked with the same people Hashem tells wherever you walk is yours but whenever walks he sees the strengths and weakness of each civilization when he's looking he sees the whole globe it's all his but he sees it as a from a cosmic perspective from like a single whole picture then he wanders from a place to a place and he finds different kinds of people and he decides what he likes what he doesn't like wherever he walks is he is but it's becoming his with discernment it's becoming his with an understanding of how these places are different and his children are going to settle this land they're going to be different based on the lands in which they're going to live so Hashem says now that I showed it all to you you make it yours by traversing walking around is told by the English as follows and I'm now putting words into the story but this I'm telling it to you your father saw everything then he walked around on some of it he walked around on some of it I'm not asking you to walk I want you to look around you're not going to see what your father saw because your father saw the whole world you're going to see what your eyes can see which is a lot but not that much it's not everything and of what you see I'm going to give you a push of what you see I'm not going to give you all to that call out outside not all of them will give you some of them I'm not going to give the ball to you which means that what does your father got gifts for me and he unpacked each gift he knew exactly what he's getting he walked in each land he saw the people he saw how they lived he saw their culture he saw how the land affects the way they live and so on and so forth and he acquired each one of those lines I'm gonna give you these lands but you seeing them which means yes is getting the same lands of Rama vinugat and maybe some more but he's getting the same lines of Rama viragat maybe some more from a Less Direct Place Hashem walk around the temple saying look around and I'll let you have it because your father walked around before you and he's walking around allows you to get it to the higher level when yankovino comes along a sheriff says your grandfather walked around your father was given a limited number of lines based on what he saw because you come after them I'm giving the whole world to you it's all yours so for that story your mother came up it's a friend of an egg another what I'm trying to propose is chat and this is your mother is that is one gift got a second gift and yankovina got a third gift they got the same gift three times but it was three steps I said I'm gonna have to walk you talk had a lesser limitation and the abbots of the anchor Vino the whole world is going to become yours and when I Was preparing the class something dawned on me and this is a bit uh creative this is what I'm about to say you're not allowed to say because it isn't true but I'm gonna say it anyway as long as it's not true I can say it right no Jacob went to sleep and it actually says the abish that took the entire world and put the tires so put it on these dollars the land at which you're laying your children and then the next person is so which is it is Hashem yankovino I'm going to give you the little piece of land you're laying on or the Hashem I'm giving you the whole world by whatever you spread out it's all yours so now she says the coffee so the little piece of land yes so what's my hiddish what am I making up they're not gonna make up foreign because the Messiah comes the whole world is going to be at your throat and therefore by Yankovic there's two opposites on the one hand Hashem tells him um wherever you or your children will ever go is yours there's no bounds I'm giving you inheritance no bounds but this is under your face it's under your body so what I'm suggesting in this week's passion class and it's I I'm telling you myself it's a poor class is that the gift of it is not all happens in two steps number one Hashem at all number two Hashem walk he does see Italian it's all yours but all that is yours is underneath your feet and I want to bring you sort of a proof for this uh again a lot this is all made UPS all Bubba mises foreign Mountain calls Sade a field yankovino calls the base a house right which says so the Kubota brings this that the first base ability is bias and the question that's always asked is a house is a smaller place than a field it's a smallest place than a mountain so how does yankovino's House have greater significance than utrecht's field Thanos Mountain so it's explained philosophically what's a mountain it's a piece of the world that stands out it's special so what I'm saying is Hashem gave that he walked on it stands out and it's special what's a field a field with no place at any borders who was expansiveness whatever you can stretch out that's yours but a house is a small place and it says that the concept of a house is that you can have a finite tiny place and in that tiny place you can have the whole world or to use the fancy of the shyness in a tiny bites you could have the whole image that noise two opposites existing in one place and that's the brother and that's what I'm suggesting that when Hashem the whole world is yours he simultaneously tells them the whole world that is yours is underneath your daughter loveness so what's the take away from this pasture taking this passion it's all the holy place and we're holy people we have to do something to earn it or as the rabbit says we have to make the whole world in Terrace Israel and I want to thank you for listening and behaving foreign [Music]