Jacob Bowing to Esav - Israel Leading the Nations - Jeremy Gimpel: The Land of Israel Fellowship

so last I I really feel like this week's teaching uh of tahila's um interpretation of yaakov and running away is a perfect um sort of filling in the full circle of my teaching last week of yaakov's transformation into Israel and you know there's one part where the angel says you know what is your name and the angel knows his name the angel is sent by God like go to Jacob and then yaakov has to sort of come to grips with who he is what his name is the sciatic nerve it's almost the same words goes all the way down to the echev down to the heel and then yaakov has to come to grips with that and this is no from now on you are going to be Israel and then the very next story Jacob meets Israel Jacob meets ASAP excuse me and the encounter there is pretty embarrassing it's pretty bad it's it's not it's not pretty and Jacob is the only one of the people in the Bible that gets a new name and then he's not always called by that name Abraham was called avram and then as soon as he got his name avraham he's always called avraham Sarai was called Sarah from that moment on always Sarah um yahushua got a new name before he goes into the land of Israel and from that point on it's the book of yahushua even after the Torah he continues to go by his new name yaakov is called Israel and then sometimes he just continues being Jacob and the message there is that listen inside every Israelite is it Jacob and is in Israel and sometimes you can act like Jacob and sometimes you can act like Israel and Jacob himself sometimes is manifesting Israel and sometimes he's manifesting Jacob somehow the other Patriarchs and Prophets of Israel when they got their new name they just manifested that new identity and Jake struggles and that is a blueprint that all of us are going to struggle and inside every Israelite inside all of Israel there's going to be some times where we manifest Jacob and sometimes that we manifest Israel and as soon as Jacob finally gets this name to struggle with God to be straight with God to face your problems straight on don't turn around don't go around it go straight on Jacob his response in the end of the last conversation with asab is just too insane to not notice and this is what happens here's what he says he gives as of all of those presents and then Asaf says to him listen um Jacob says to him I beg of you I have now found favor in your eyes then accept this tribute for me and as much as I have seen your face which is like seeing the face of God as and you were appeased by me please accept my gift which I have brought to you inasmuch as God has been gracious to me and isn't much I have I have everything he urged him and he accepted and that's beautiful Jacob forces these gifts onto ASA in some ways he was recognizing perhaps I took something that really didn't belong to me I really want to fix this thing that I've done wrong and I'm going to be straight now and then ASAP is so happy and asaph says travel on and let us go and I will proceed alongside you we're going to walk hand in hand together Jacob and ASAP the brothers together and then Jacob says to him something that is so troubling Jacob says to him like this my Lord knows that the children are very tender and nursing the flocks and cattle are upon me if they will be driven too hard for a single day then all of my flocks will die let my Lord go ahead of his servant and I will make my way at slow pace according to the gate of the drove before me and the Gate of the children until I come to my Lord at Seer you go back to saire and I'll catch up a little bit later you go on Asaf and Jacob lies the next verse is he goes to Sukkot he goes to Shem and it's like what Jacob you just had this whole encount after you were given a new name to be honest to be straight you're gonna face it straight on ASAP is telling you come with me and you're like okay uh you go this way and I'll be there soon and then he goes that way and lies to ASAP like how could he just get the name Israel goes for this whole transformational process and then the first thing he does is he lies to ASAP and goes the other way it's like what that how do we deal with that and so the sages of Israel say wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait something else is going on here and as Jacob prostrates himself before asaph over and over again the sages of Israel are like debt is not good every time Jacob prostrates himself his descendants will suffer many fold for that embarrassment he's embarrassing himself the children of Israel they're going to be embarrassed even more and all of the sudden the stages of Israel take this entire encounter and they see it in Prophecy and they say that this whole situation with asab until now we've talked about our own personal growth with God and that's what to the direction that tahila spoke but I want to talk about something a little bit deeper here that asav in the writings of hazal and the writing of the sages of Israel represents Western Civilization what represents the Catholic Church represents Christianity and we were talking all over Shabbat what should the Jewish response be to the Christian world and here we see something interesting Jacob is not referred to as Israel as he's approaching asaph he's constantly referred 2 is Jacob and he's prostrating himself and God says no that is not the way and here Jacob says go on into the future one day we're going to catch up one day I'm going to meet you around the bend but right now we're separating and the sages of Israel say that's a prophetic message that Jacob is giving ASAP one day there's we're going to come back together one day there's going to be a new Unity that's born but right now Jacob realizes I'm Jacob I can't do it right now I'm not ready yet I'm still struggling with Jacob in Israel I'm not yet fully Israel yet you go ahead and one day way in the future I'm going to catch up and we'll walk alongside each other and that message for us is there is so many different movements organizations things that are happening now between Jews and Christians and a lot of them they really bother me I feel like the Jewish people are not doing it right so I see so many different ads of people saying Christians please support Holocaust Survivors there's poor people in Israel and there's uh children that need support that approach to the nations of the world is Jacob bowing down to ASAP that's not Israel that's Jacob and that is not the right way to approach the nations of the world and definitely not people that are connected to Isaac connected to Abraham connected to God you have to be Israel when you reach out to the Nations and what does that mean that means 10 men among the Nations will grab hold of the corner of a garment of a Judean man and say take us with you for we have heard that God is with you when the Jewish people rise up to be leaders and say come with us we're going to lead the way not as Jacob but as Israel that's when you can be a sanctification of God's name in the world rev cook the first Chief Rabbi of Israel and this is used often very much against my work with Ari says do not participate anything with Christians don't take Christian money don't take Christian Sedaka it is it's a desecration of God's name and even if they're coming and they're saying I want to support you I want to help you I want to give you charity do not accept it it's wrong but you have to know when was Rabbi cook saying this rough cook died before the Holocaust and lived as anti-Semitism was rising and rising and rising and he's saying at this stage in Jewish history do do not reach out to the Nations asking them for charity you're desecrating God's name and so too nothing has changed if the Jewish reaching out to the Nations is from a place of weakness from a place of neediness what we can't take care of our own Holocaust Survivors what message are we radiating to the nations of the world but on the other hand there is a desperate need now a critical need now for the Torah to go forth from Zion for the Jewish people to be leaders in Morality teachers of Torah to be examples of what it is to live by the Torah in a modern world the Nations need us now but not as Jacob they need us as Israel and if the Jewish people would rise up and say Asaf we're brothers it's time for us to come back together now but this time not as us bowing down but not only even as equals but as leaders then anti-Semitism would disappear if I I find all these people on social media stopped you hatred stopped you hatred as if posting the words stop Jew hatred is going to stop Jew hatred what does that even mean the way to stop Jew hatred is for the Jews the children of Jacob to become the children of Israel and when we rise up and we are strong and we're leaders and we come and say join us come with us to the land of Israel come with us and learn the ways of God that is the final Vision that Jacob says one day we're going to come back I'm going to meet you around the Ben Asaf so he wasn't lying to asaph he was just speaking not now but in the generations to come and so may this Fellowship be an example of the way the Jewish people should be in the world reaching out in love and compassion but from a place of strength from a place of Love leadership and Torah and may that be an example for the world and may that bring the brothers of Abraham under the Covenant of Abraham together for um a Brotherhood of God under the fatherhood a Brotherhood of Man under the fatherhood of God that's the line all right my friends