True Greatness - Rabbi Daniel Glanz

a person's status how important is it genealogy is status it's seemingly something but on the other hand we find sometimes it could really sometimes be a disadvantage after all if we look at for example cayenne and Heaven kind is the older one heavil brings the carbon kind brings the carbon hevels is accepted kinds is not we know later on in the relationship of avram's children Ishmael is the firstborn yescox the second born yet is the one that's chosen to be the genealogy of avraham after that we have ASA vinyako we obviously know the story and the fight when it comes to the bahor but ultimately yaakov is the one who carries on the name ruvin is the firstborn of yaakov yet Yosef gets the scuyot gets the merits for the Bahar ultimately and in this week's Parsha we have Menasha and Ephraim Menasha is the oldest one but famously yakovino switches his hands and yes that we have the frying comes first and then finally we know we have the bahorim who originally was had to serve were going to be the ones to serve in the Mesa miktas But ultimately due to the sin of Diego it was the kohanan the question is it seems consistently to be the case that the baharin that the firstborns lose out what's essentially the message of this phenomenon I think in order to answer this we have to turn to the mishnah and the gemara Allah says there that although we know Cohen called him the Levi a calling comes before a lady a ladyly astrology etc etc but the gemara says when is this true the mission says he must say what is this true bism when they're all equal if a man the coin got it wow what a message that a momzier who is genealogy is a terrible situation for him but nonetheless say mom comes before a coin bottle amharitz in theory that is the way it should work in fact earlier says that if there's multiple people in captivity and is a Melody's Royal a king of the Jewish people in captivity and at the same time there is someone who is a Thomas comes before the comes before a manohistro essentially the message of the gemara is that although it's true that genealogy certainly means something and Status certainly means something but it kills in comparison to actual growth and although there might initially be some sort of Advantage if all things are considered equal but at the end of the day what I call this considers to be cautious and important is a person's true growth and true achievement maybe look at the challenges in our lives or the things that disadvantage us and I think this is the message that we might necessarily not be born in the greatest situation with the greatest opportunities necessarily or with the greatest Fanfare but with enough work and enough achievement a person can have the greatest hashibos the greatest achievement the greatest importance and the greatest respect as a result of ultimately what real growth is and what is really harsher than important in the eyes of Hashem and real achievement is a person's true internal growth in Taran mitzvahs