The Late Parsha Show! Vayeitzei!!

welcome to the labor Dzhokhar shot [Music] last week's torah portion ended with jacob our forefather being informed that his brother a sub wants to kill him it's a long story and this week's portion opens with Jacob fleeing from his brother to a place called hara hara and there he hoped to find a way he ended up with four but once again it's don't ask productions no I'm kidding you're more than welcome to ask just there's no time in this video so ask your local rabbi point is when he was on his way there to harem he stopped over to rest and when he laid down he put stones around his head it was the purpose of these stones 11th century commentator Rashi tells us that it was to protect him from wild animals and cake it was worried about animals harming him while sleeping in the great outdoors and these stones were meant to protect him why do you only protect his head the Rev explains why she doesn't mean the regular physical roaming wild animals cuz then he indeed should have covered his whole body rather he means wild animals in the spiritual realm spiritual wild animals spiritual wild animals now makes sense Jacob was leading a very holy place the future Holy Land of Israel leaving his secluded and solely spiritual life Jacob realized the potential dangers he may encounter spiritual wild animals things that can distract or prevent his service of God fleeing his brother and hoping to build a family Jacob who has to contend with what people call the real world the real world is the world of Cara but call it what you want leaving the holy place he was and going to her he was going to support a family he would have to work hard Jacob understood the potential danger and risk this post his work and distracting from service of God and the regular struggle of serving God is itself hard this is why Jacob put the stones around his head dealing with physicality is a good thing I mean that's why God put us in the world but everything we do should be based on how the Torah tells us to do it how God wants us to do it however it is possible that we get distracted and even prevented from doing the right thing due to the circumstances that we feel were in or we are in and this is the lesson we learn from Jacob think i was making sure to protect his head make sure that his head stayed in the place where he was coming from a place of learning Tara doing mitzvahs and overall bonding with God his head would stay protected the rest of his body his external elements would get involved in working doing whatever he had to do to support himself and his family but a state of mind would be a godly one this is why the Torah described work as the toil of your head pursuit of livelihood and whenever the way should be with only the external elements of you but save your mind to be occupied with holiness being in the world is a good thing we should make sure we have our head in the right place a place where we know that the right thing and being in the world it's deserved God have a great week speaking of supporting a family every say Mazel Tov to my friend mental has the cussin that means groom my cousin and good friend Louie I'm endures a cousin as well loi I wish you on your Colorado and mendeln your Kalavati Mazel Tov Mazel Tov Mazel Tov's owes an opinion on the odd hey great news for everybody Messiah is coming he's actually here but there's still some sort of thing we have to do to actually see him so make your life a little holier and we'll see him today hey buddy boy you know him mikado girl in the following mahi mahi mahi makarov in the father good boy boy a cutter cut up in the following my my