Learning From Everyone - Rabbi Michael Hoenig

it's the reunion it's been many many years and yaakov was finally going to meet up with his twin brother asaph and he sends messengers to asa with the following message i've been living with love on i've lingered until now that's where i've been staying and rashi famously notes what was the message the word gareth bagamatria the numerical value of garthy is taryak 613 what was the message yaakov was trying to convey to asev imlavana rasha garthy i've lived with love on russia vitario admits of shamarti i've kept the 6 13. lola marti me masava rawing but i didn't learn from his evil ways simple explanation of rashi that yaakov was telling ace of i've stayed true to my heritage to my roots to my values i've stayed a starkey year i've kept on the path ramir shapiro of leblind says something so beautiful yaakov avinu is lamenting he's upseted himself what's he saying [Music] i didn't learn from lovan yes he was a crook yes he was conniving yes he changed my wages multiple times but i should have learned from him he had such passion he's such a lacquered in what he did i should have learned from him i should have taken his alacrity and his passion and applied it to my daily mitzvos i should have applied it to my life he's upset himself from not learning from love on what a powerful message we live unfortunately in such a polarized world if i disagree with you politically hashgraphically that's it you're done you don't mean anything to me i could write you off i disagree with you done i don't want anything to do with you i can't learn from you but this is a grave error yaakov vino is teaching us we could learn from love on we could learn from a russian we could learn from everybody [Music] who's the wise man says it says in prague hallow made me cola we learn from every single person so bizrat we should always have the fortitude and courage even if we disagree with somebody disagree vehemently with somebody till we're blue in the face we don't just write them off we could always learn from them gain from them and in the process we truly enrich and make ourselves much stronger much more dignified much holier people