Oorah's Torah Spot Live 10/16/12 - "Do You Believe in the Blessing of a Tzaddik?"

so welcome everybody i'm sure and i hope everybody had an inspiring uplifting yum tiff akovas dancing with the torah and to keep us going for quite a while listen hanukkah we're told that uh just like when we eat a good meal breakfast it lasts us to lunch we start getting hungry at lunch we get a good lunch we're full by the time it comes to supper get hungry again get a good meal satisfied by breakfast we're hungry again the same way when it comes to the holidays that god gave us every holiday for us to saturate ourselves with kedusha with holiness with purity uplifting experience and that has celeste us until the next holiday by the time the next holiday comes we start getting hungry again we need some vitamins spiritual vitamins to wake us up again and so foreign we fill us us up with spirituality and we want it to last to keep it going until the next holiday comes so right now we're really full of spiritual feelings and ideas and uh we try to keep it as much as we can so before we start our regular schmooze as usual we learned some laws first and i'd like to discuss tonight the lost philosopher i don't think we ever talked about before laws pertaining to the traveler it's a special prayer that when we travel a intercity not in the city itself but one city to the next a special prayer is supposed to be said called philos the prayer for the way traveling so the law is like this somebody who goes and travels on the way whether he's leaving his house or if he stayed over in the hotel overnight and he start continues his travels the next day or when he turns from the place that he went to originally he must say the prayer at philip is to say it over very quickly maybe the will from you hashem our god the god of our fathers that you will take us on this way on this path that we're going with peace we should step with peace we shall have the right not get lost we should go in the right there on the right roads and you should let us reach our destination with life happiness and peace if we expect to return the same day we should mention and should return us with peace also and you should save us from the hand of any enemy or ambush or robbers or bad animals on the way it's interesting story that some people were traveling one time with the great rabbi they were saying to us and they said well today what's the problem with bad animals on the way all of us now deer came in front of them bang okay now we don't have to pray for bad animals on the way also even today for any bad things that might come to the world save us you should send a blessing in all the actions of our hands and you should portray us with favor with kindness mercy in your eyes in the eyes of everybody who sees us i guess the state troopers should uh we shall shine in their eyes and find favor in their eyes not to give us any tickets and you should do for us good kind actions listen to the voice of our prayer because you listen to the prayer of every mouth blessed are you god who listens to the prayers so this is the thriller that we're supposed to say when we travel now we're supposed to say bolas and and the plural not in the singular because a lot of people are traveling so we pray not only for ourselves we pray for everybody who's traveling you don't say save me take care of me they say us lead us in the right path give us peace and simcha and faith and and and life you say in the plural including all travelers who are traveling that at that time it's only to be said if a person is traveling for a parso a parso is a amount of of of distance which is four mil it's called a mil is two thousand amish now to an ammo is considered like an arm breath alarm length the ammo means an arm exactly how big is that what oh no three feet there's one yet an ammo is a question exactly how long it is between 18 inches to 24 inches of different opinions how big an ammo is so it could be two feet some say 24 inches which is two feet some say 22 inches i mean 18 inches it's a question exactly how big an ammo is so for say a parasol which is 8 000 amish if you say that every arm is two feet that will be sixteen thousand so that would be about three miles so between two and a half three miles that would be the amount of distance the minimum a person has to travel we have to say this philosopher the prayer for the journal journeyer person who traveled for the traveler less than that you would not say the philosopher but it's talking about where there are no houses along the way so it's open fields and there's no uh civilization living there but any civilization on within that amount of space then you don't say those that's considered like still in the city yet go out of the city that's where we said it's roasted there and it should be said out of the city 70 amis which should be 140 but 120 feet leaving the city from last house of the city to white to site then if you're traveling for almost three miles so then that's when it should be set it's better to be said a person standing up and not going but if a person's riding and to stop will be a little dangerous or a person will be nervous that he's stopping and not uh going to his destination at the time he wants to so then the person could say well he's traveling even in the car or in a wagon or in a train so because we don't want a person to have his full uh thoughtfulness while he's saying the prayer if we get nervous that he's wasting time stopping on the way and we're worried about cars going by so if there's any any problem with stopping he could say the way he's going without stopping at all you only say once a day a person traveling a whole day he said in the beginning of the traveling but if a person stopped in the city with the idea that he's going to stay there overnight and then he decides to travel again before the nightfall then he must say it again because since he had in mind to finish traveling for that day and he stopped he went to hotel or at the place he's staying and then decided no i'm going to travel further today don't have to say it over again before a person travels you should give some charity because that is a way for a person to be safe sadaqa charity saves from death so it's a great mitzvah to give charity for a person to have more shemaya help from heaven not to get into an accident also a person should try to get a bracha from the special people in the city from the scholars of torah before they go for a trip together that they should have a good trip without any mishap also when the person travels he should learn some words of torah because words of torah are a very great protection for a person sadaka and torah great combination with philosophy for a person to be successful in this journey okay those are the main laws of the philosopher well we were studying voracious the first book of the torah genesis believe it or not we left it about a half a year ago came pesach we learned about pesach and then came us spear accounting the omer and then we got into that and then we got into the sarasota the ten commandments the ten we said not to commend us at that time the ten the bureau says the words the statements of mount sinai and we decided that in depth we didn't finish it well next show us we'll go finish involved with hashem and now we got into uh ello who came to the new year ella rosh hashonda and you have kipper so it's been a half a year that we went away from the regular terrorist study that we do every week i don't know if you remember where we left off so i'll remind you may you remind me some things also but we were talking about who remembers anybody remembers where we left off in the torah in the middle of the parachute while the ten the twelve children of yaakov avinu were being born the yacht ran away from his brother asava wanted to kill him and he went to padhana rum to the city of his mother where she came from well they all came from as a matter of fact abraham also came from that area and he went there for a wife because he was running away from aso he wanted to kill him because he took the blessings if you remember and he wanted to marry ruckle rachel that was his main partner in life and love on the faker and the swindler tricked him instead of marrying roughly married leia after working for seven years and what to love and why did you fool me for love and gave him this flimsy excuse because well we can't give a younger daughter before an older daughter so we had to give you layer first but now you can get raquel also work another seven years and you can marry rocco too so he did so so now he's married to rocco and talaya and rocco not having any children alaya so far had four children rouvey shemin levy and yehudah last time we mentioned the significance of each one of those names very special each child was a special child they were the future branches of the jewish people and rocco is feeling very bad she can't have any children just like sarah contemporary children rivka condeph children and now rahul couldn't have any children and she comes to yaakov avinu her husband a beloved husband and she says to him hoverly bonnim that's we're up to now number one hubble is give to me children number two and if you don't give me children i am dead do i have the power of god to give your children so we have to understand this we left off last time what is the conversation between rocco and yaakov she says give me children she didn't what he's god wouldn't give me children but since god can be children sounds from the simple explanation of what's going on here she says to him give me children you're like god give me children he said he's angry i'm not god what don't give me give you children well that's impossible russell didn't think jacob was god so what she's saying give me children so whether she means obviously she means pray for me pray for me to have children but hopefully give to me if you pray i'll for sure have children and you have to do that for me now the question is is that fair is that right is that permitted can you say to somebody come to a great person give me pray for me give me children can he promise to give children can a great sadduce that's the name of our schmooze tonight do you believe in the blessings of a of a tag of a righteous person can a righteous person tell a person yes i guarantee you that you will have children is that possible or not so i want to study now a section of the book of samuel shmuel and this section deals with ghana she's the englishes of the henna khanna who was a great woman a great prophetess she was and we have a story about her that she also couldn't have any children and we read this in rosh hashanah the first day of rosh hashanah we read this whole story from the first chapter of shmuel the book of samuel i don't know how many of you have studied this book it's a fantastic book of samuel schweil and we want to see what's relevant to what we're talking about right now can italic tell a family i guarantee you that you will have children he's not god can you guarantee it's said that a person without children if they get an aliyah and the torah on rosh hashanah and read this portion they have a segula that will be a reason that god will bless them with children so i can say for myself does happen to me my wife we first got married we couldn't have any children for a few years and they decided to call me up to give me this portion and i read it and my wife was crying in the that's this notion of course and nine months later we had a baby so it really works for hashem because it has come with prayer and so on it doesn't come by so easy and i want to say over in short this story to bring out our point that we want to say today and it says over here i'm quoting take excerpts from the passages over here we have over here number six which is a mistake over here it says ali malek so it's supposed to be el cana these are three people that are interacting in this portion of the book of samuel the man called alcona who had two wives one wife was called panina and one guy was called khanna penang those times people were allowed to marry more than one wife and so did he have and that man elkanah would go every holiday to you shalom to shiloh that was jelania he would go to the place of the holy temple because sheila before shalom the temple was built in they had the temple the city called shiloh and he would bring offerings to god into shalom and he would give out the meat of the offerings to his family he would give kind of double he wanted to make you feel good she had no children and neither he give one portion to khan he gave two portions and it's sora this penina would get hannah angry number seven she would say to her oh did you buy andy clothing for your kids today i just went and bought this for my son a nice outfit my daughter and i she would sort of make her feel bad so i'll tell her this she knew she didn't have any children but she would just say things to her to upset her there are those opinions who say that she didn't do it as as she wanted to be mean she wanted to get her to upset she should pray more some say she had good intentions but she was punished at the end because even though something for sometimes a person has good intentions but you have to know what to say and when to say it you just can't say well good intentions sometimes the person with the best intentions could could uh could do a lot of damage person rushing to the hospital with somebody can can kill somebody on the way they have good intentions but you have to know what you're doing good intentions themselves are not enough to uh to do what you feel like unless you really think of what you're doing so even though maybe she had good intentions to get kind of upset to dive and to pray more but it was a little too too much so every year he would do the same thing he would go up to sheila with his family bring offerings to god and give out portions to a family and hannah he gave her but she would cry and she wouldn't eat she would just cry he wouldn't eat she was crying she should never need children so he said to her why are you crying why are you not eating i better to you than ten sons i better tell them so good to you why don't you money why'd you cry so one time she got up and she went to the holy temple to pray and then that temple was a man by the name of ali ali had cohen eli was the high priest who was in charge of the holy temple of shiloh at that time and he was there in that temple watching what's going on with his responsibility to make sure everything goes correct in the temple over there and she was very bitter very upset as she was praying to god and she was crying and crying and she made a vow to god if you will give me children i'll give him to you all his life i'll bring you to this holy place and this is where he'll stay this will live and serve you if you give me a child once he gets old enough which is just a few years old i'll take him to this holy place and i'll give him in your possession that'll serve you that's what i'll do to the child please give me a child she's crying and praying and ailee was it i was attracted to this woman she's like she's praying and crying she started observing you looking at her and she was praying without any words coming audible from her mouth she was praying with her lips which is not the way people prayed they pray and the words come out from the mouth you can hear the audible you couldn't hear anything so this woman's crying and all kinds of emotions and she's praying in such a way he thought she's a drunken what was this long she said the way she's acting she doesn't pray like everybody prays and she's crying and she's carrying on so you thought she could we have number eight her lips were moving but her voice was not heard number at nine he thought that she said she comes out that drunken so he said to her for how long will you become drunk go and get rid of your leave over here go and get rid of all your wine sober up and then you come back and pray because it's not right i mean the holy temple with god's temple to come in when you're drunk and act like this you should go out sober up and come back again so she said to no my master i'm a woman who was very upset i didn't drink any wine i'm just pouring out my soul to hashem i'm just so upset i look like i'm drunk the way i made my acting maybe but that's not the case i'm a very sober person i'm just praying to god for my wish that i want from hashem from god don't think i'm an improper person it's only because of my tar and my anguish and my pain that i look like what i look like so when he heard this ali he answered he said if that's the case go in peace number 10 the god of israel will give your wish grant you your wish he promised her nothing to worry about you will have a child you will have a son and she thanked him very much and she bowed down to hashem and she didn't have any more tzar anguish she was happy because she knew if ailey the high priest promises her a child it's going to happen she had full belief that he so great so holy person that he can make it happen so we see from here that it's possible for a great sadiq to promise a person something to happen and they're able to do so and it will happen and we have a plastic a number five a plusic in the book of job eof that's a difficult book to study the book of eels it's a big big one and a very uh interesting book to study i hope all of us will have a chance to study one time in their lifetime to come to the book of eo of the book of samuel we talked about in the book of eve but it's a very famous expression that we talk about the words exactly being in number five is sigzar um yokom look and you will be able to decree and so it will happen god promises that there are people in this world that they can make a decree and god will listen to them it'll happen and this is what we're talking about there are people in the world who can't make things happen they have to know when to say it to whom and what the circumstances are but it's possible for great people real great people that they tell god listen i want this to happen god will listen to them we have an expression to gomorrah the tamil tells us number 11 caliber the blessing of a simple person should not be insignificant to you not only can great people give blessings even a simple person gives a blessing it shouldn't be insignificant because a simple purpose he can't promise some of us can't promise a blessing to happen but his blessing could cause god to listen and give the person what that simple person blessed them as the reason being because every jewish person has in the shama as a soul every jewish person is close to hashem close to god and the words that we speak are very significant the words of a person are very special we have the power of speech that differentiates differentiates between the animal and the and the human being power of speech and if we use that power of speech a person within the summer that can go a long way for god to listen to that blessing the person gives the great person we just read in the last parasha of the torah of zai sabraka this is the blessed says israel israel this is the blessing that murder the man of god number twelve passing is telling us the great coming to ramban inshallah kim is telling us why this blessing for sure was going to be fulfilled by hashem because he shall look him he was a man of god he was so close to god moshe albania the closest man to god that ever lived so therefore the greater the person the more chance he has and the more permission he has the more right that he has the more power that he has for his blessing to be fulfilled just right like i mentioned give each of a blessing to ruin their blessing to sheminable shemin was sort of a hidden blessing to levy to yahudah all of the tribes all of these branches of jewish people got a blessing from moshe albanu which was fulfilled because he was isha and kim so we have this definite possibility for a great person to promise to give a blessing and that blessed me you'll be able to make a decree give a blessing say i want this to happen and god will fulfill the roots and the will of that person that great person we're talking about ailee hakoen who lived thousands of years ago the great aliyah cohen the high priest of shiloh at that time over the generations there were great people who gave blessings and promised the blessings to be fulfilled but even in our time the famous story of the great sage of our time well so not a time anymore he passed away about over 25 years about moshe feinstein the great sage of our time of our generation maybe the previous generation by now you call it famous story the woman came to him in his house his apartment and she said don't have any children i want you to bless me with the child okay what's with it no i want you to promise me i have a child because no i'm not great enough and i can't promise you you have to have the great people of of of previous years it was so great they could promise but i'm not great enough to promise it no you're going to promise me a child because i can't well i'm not leaving the house she sat down i'm staying here until you promised me that i'm going to have a child i'm not leaving so guess what so emotions okay i promise you're gonna have a child nine months later they haven't had laid that child there's a famous story everybody was close to the situation knows that it happened and ramos with this great humility said it wasn't because my greatness because this woman was so strongly believing in the and the power of sadiq she with hers that's why she was able to have it not because of me because of her she was so believing she had such a strong belief that hashem could do what he wants and that sadhu can give him so she was worthy of having a child he didn't want to take the glory for himself he wanted to give to somebody else like all great people don't take any pat on their back they always say because of you because them whatever it might be not because of me so definitely there is such such a thing as a tsadik being able to promise so coming back to our kumish what we're talking about rahul said to yaakov give me children not that you're god but you're a big taddick who's bigger than alcohol you could pray and you can promise me to have a child just like hannah just like this woman came to her maisha she came to yaakov avinu hoverly born remind me so why'd you get upset well the simple reason is because he in his great humility felt that he's not in the same level of greatness of other people mostly of other people i can't it's not maybe he's great but who knows maybe he's sinned maybe he's not as great as he'd like to be as he should be like we'll come later on the next parachute jacques of avina was afraid asap came towards him i said the one he ran away from right he ran away for 22 years coming back home we'll see later on he was afraid i was afraid god said don't be afraid i'll take care of you but chemi market the righteous people always afraid maybe they did something wrong maybe i'm not so great maybe to something that i didn't do correctly i didn't did something wrong i didn't do the right thing whatever it is i was afraid maybe maybe maybe you're asking me to promise you i love you he prayed before that his beloved wife rocco naturally prayed for him i'm sure many many times that she's a child promise you say for sure you're not being practical and not being down to earth you you're just if you're putting me under pressure that i have to promise you i can't promise you you got upset it's not right to do that that's a simple explanation of his getting upset but there's a another idea here that rashi brings out that she said to yaakov avinu your father yitzhak and his wife rifka your mother they couldn't have any children and he prayed for her and she had children rifka was many years but finally she had a child and we find in the turtle that they prayed so why don't you pray for me also so he said to her there's a that there's a big difference between me and yitzhak yes didn't have any children not all i had children him leia he had child from children four children from leia already so he said to her if that's the case then since i had children everybody you don't have any children you are the man you have to pray more than i have to pray the one who has the problem has to pray more than somebody else why are you putting on me you're not doing the right thing if you put the burden of prayer on me then you're taking off yourself then you can't expect the prayers to be listened to as well the person who needs the yeshua the person who needs the help the salvation they're the main ones who has to pray just refined by ishmael remember ishmael was dying from thirst in the desert and his mother was praying for him and he was praying for himself and god listened to him because he's the one who was dying from thirst the one who's in the problem has the problem that's the one was the main burden of prayers on that person so he said to her you're you're coming to me i should pray for you you have to pray more for yourself than i have to pray don't put it on me that's not right so she said to him no it's not true because i've roamed your father grandfather sora couldn't have any children but he had a child from hugger he had ishmael and still he prayed strongly for her he saw how she was so so thorough in their thoughts and and ideas so she challenged him and said you see avraham that's not true it's not true because afraid had a child and still he didn't have a child from sorrow just our situation you have a child from leia but not for me i've ever had salt from from hogarth but not from sora and he took the burden of prayer and he prayed for sorry to have a child so then i have the right to put on you even i have a child from maya still not for me so he told him no it's still not right it's interesting to back and forth conversation between the two of them you know why sora was able to have a child because she took hugger into her home because sora told abramovino that i can't have any children you have to build up the jewish nation if i can't have so take somebody else in you'll have a child from her and she suggested you know it's not easy for a woman to take another wife into the house besides her one of the hardest things naturally he's not easy but she was great enough to say if i can have take somebody else god wants you to build up the jewish nation somebody has to do it if it can't be for me to be from her some people's people say no if it's not me i don't want anybody so it's too bad but she was above that sort of she said take hug her and have a child from so therefore and that's hus and that great mitzvah that she overlooked her own pride her own source her own merits of being the wife of her vino take somebody else into the house god said i'll give you a child for that just for that for being so concerned and overlooking your own desire their own feelings that you'll have for the other wife in the house so therefore god gave her a child so wrongless if that's the case take pillow so i'll take someone else into the house and take phil i'll do the same thing that's we have the right right afterwards he told me her maid servant just like hugger was the servant of sorrow bill was the servant of rocco so she took her into the house to have a child from her so history is repeating itself over here with the ideas going back and forth of how they were thinking how they realized the way god looks at them and to do what's proper what's necessary for the child to be born so she said this is the conversation going between rocco and jacob avino rochne mayno jacques she naturally like any woman who doesn't have a child wants a child very much russell more than anybody else that regular woman she has the opportunity and the responsibility to build up the jewish nation not just having a child every child is very important every very beloved to any family to the jewish nation but she had the extra responsibility and the and the realization that yaakov was building up the jewish nations with the with the 12 branches and she's one of his wives he wants to be part of it and therefore she's doing everything possible that she should be part of it to bring out what her purpose in life is to build up the jewish nation and she said if you don't give me children then i am considered like i'm dead what does that mean so here rashi brings the number 13 the startling words on the surface and then we have to delve into it of course a person who does not have any children is considered like you're dead so simple meaning means because when they die there's nobody to carry on afterwards to carry on their whole accomplishments of their life what they keep the name the name of the of the person going we have to understand in number 14. this week's parachute we're going to read and shul the passage of noah the second historian this week we're going to read noah the whole story of noah with the flood with the world being destroyed building the table building the ark and saving mankind it starts off with this week's portion these are the children and creations of nyach so expect to hear these children right these are the children was a sadiq a complete sadiq in this generation so the question is you said telling saying the children the creations of noah so you should say shame come in yeah and then it goes off like a tangent he was a great complete saddiq hashem so what does that mean so rashi tells us from our rabbis from the bedrish in number 16 told the same satikim the main creations of a person of a tsar or his good deeds a person with good deeds that is what he leaves over in this world person who doesn't have children if he's not exotic that's true he's like amazed like he's dead because he has nothing to live over he didn't leave of any good actions he didn't love any children what would be remembered by but the main purpose of a person in this world is his mitzvahs his actions his kindness he's serving to god he's being good with people that's the main purpose of coming to this world having children is a gift from god some people might have children some might not have children is that really what we're here for to have children we have a mitzvah to be fruitful and multiply naturally to mitzvah to have children but that's not up to us it's up to god he wants to give us children what is up to us is our actions are we fulfilling god's will that we have that we have free will for that's not a gift from god that's up to us we have the free will that we can do what we what we choose to do if we want to be righteous people and do mitzvahs and do hashem's ruts and what he wants us to do so then that's considered we're not dead that will go forever every action that we do will stay in the world forever because we will be able to enjoy every action the person does in this world besides helping other people and people remembering him what he did but every action that a person does is nitri it's eternal because every action that we have is written down in god's book so to speak and in the future eternally we will be able to enjoy the fruits of our laborers in the world to come and this world will enjoy and the world to come for sure everything that we do is eternal every action that we according to the kabbalists every action that we do every word that we say every thought that we have is not lost it's eternal it makes a impression on the higher spheres of god's creation it has an oppression and it sticks it stays there just like a depression something you you you write something down or you engrave something engraved in in metal that stays forever you keep that medal there it'll stay there forever and ever everything that we act we say we think is engraved it makes an impression in the world in the highest fears of god's creation and those actions stay forever and we will be able to enjoy the the the the the the fruits of of our labors have we said fruits over actions in the world to come that's something that's that's that's eternal so children are sometimes they could be good sometimes it can be bad we don't have the children we would be we don't know for sure they might turn out some people sometimes rather than have children some people have children that are that are just not what they should be that's not up to us it's up to them but we don't know what we're children what they're going to be and we don't know if persons have any children does not mean that they're dead not by any means but we say that that the actions that we do that's what makes the person that's what we have free will to do children we're not free it's not god's gift but that's what they say elo told us these are the children the creations the offspring of new york what were they not shame because that was the main offspring of noah that was the main accomplishment of having children his main eats he was a righteous person he went walked with god he did god's will he saved the world because of him the whole world was saved he was able to build the ark and save the world so that's something that that the tyre is telling us this is the main action of a person this is the main purpose of a person this main eternity of a person his actions his good actions between man and man with man and god we have a pussac in the navy ishaya isaiah the navy the prophet isaiah that those people who can't have any children god promises them if you'll keep my laws keep said specifically says shabbos and bruce mila circumcision specifically over there because there are all the laws i'll give to them ashamed that's the famous judge of shame and earth israel's based on that prosecutor is better than sons and daughters i'll give you a future a purpose a eternal existence forever and ever god promises typing tight better than children if you'll listen to my laws and keep the laws of the torah and to go in the way of god and and and we should we we live for the purpose of of of doing god's will god promises i'll give you a a a name and the power and strength for eternal remembrance better than the children and but that prophet isaiah is says so this is something that rahul is saying again rachel didn't realize how great she was all the great actions that she did yaakov felt he's not great enough to promise children rahul felt if how many children may sound like my actions who knows my actions are good enough maybe god will think that i should be much better than i am she's saying if i don't have any children who knows maybe maybe i'm not worthy enough to be considered eternal my actions maybe are not up to par no matter what god wants so therefore she's afraid if i don't have any children what's going to happen but just to end off our schmooze tonight we know that we'll see soon that rocco after many things happening which we'll discuss next time we get together she finally had one child you're safe and then she had another child benjamin but she died at that time she died at childbirth the second child in yemen that she died at childbirth and as he was about to die the midwife that was helping her have the child said altiri don't be afraid you're having another son don't be afraid so the question once said don't be afraid don't be afraid of what what was she afraid of afraid of dying she'd say you're not going to die she knew she's dying so what's don't be afraid and the answer is rocco the great rocco arm the mama rocco are great matriarch rocco she was a great prophetess and she knew yakumi will have four wives and she was going to be part of that and she was destined to have two children leia had six billa had two silver had two and she was asked two if she'll leave the world with only one that means she did not fulfill her purpose and and and they're being born in this world because each one after leia had six children and the other three wives were there each one supposed to have two each and therefore ruckel was supposed to have two of the two of those children she had one so far and this would not be a son or be a daughter it would not be part of the 12 branches of the jewish people she would not fulfill her purpose in life she came to this world amongst many other things but to have two children to set the foundation of the jewish people 12 branches of jewish people yahsef and benjamin if she would leave the world without having the second son that means she did not fulfill her purpose somebody else would have to have it one of the otherwise would have the other one she for some reason was did not merit it was not great enough for her to fulfill this purpose in her life therefore you'll let this midwife told don't be afraid you're leaving the world you can leave the world with a good feeling without being upset you have fulfilled your purpose in life she was pretty young still wrong they weren't married so long people think that jacob and russell they had only a few years but now you're leaving the world and you pur and you were able to fulfill your purpose of life that you have the second son and you can leave without having any worries i'll tear it off don't be afraid this is the son you had joseph now you have been yamin and now you know you go back to god and say god okay i did what i had to do i brought this this second center to the world so this is what rahul was afraid of she wanted to say that she has to have children because she feels she won't be fulfilled her purpose in life and therefore she said therefore you have to help me out so these are some of the thoughts that go into these just few words that we've covered tonight but the the back and forth of broken yakov and seeing their greatness their humility and their belief in greatness great people and we have to learn from them to realize what a toddler is what a great person is what their closest hashem is what they can they can accomplish and uh to learn that what we have to do in this world is that we have a mitzvah of be fruitful multiplied but we have to guarantee our eternity to our actions our good actions that's how the real eternal life of a person so now you can turn over the floor to anybody like to ask any questions or any comments thank you um rabbi what's significance of exactly 12 children why not 18 why not you know different multiple i mean is there something significant about 12 well there is the significance of 12 not as a number but as a complete schlemos of the jewish people each of the branches of the twelve swatim each one had their own uh talent uh their own greatness their own contribution to the jewish people just like moshe verbeno when he blessed them each one had their own blessing because each one had their own nature and their the significance of each other was different together to make a shameless a a complete claustral completely jewish nation yaakov having the blessed each one separately and most of them blessed each one seven arashi says that each one of the blessings of moshe bangla was similar to the blessings of yaakov because each sheban itself had that special outstanding uh purpose in life and friends yehuda is known for the malchus all the kingdoms came from yehuda levy came it was served hashem the best each one had its special power and significance which altogether gives the jewish nation a so you have to have 12 different uh separate greatness to make up a double sholem a a full complete cloudy thrill that said those are the 12 you have to have you have uh the twelve schwarzen and you had the twelve stones in the uh ocean the coin god of war 12 12 stones a lot of twelves but they're all boil down to the same thing that you need these twelve to make a complete jewish nation that makes them complete and whenever we're missing one of them we see through if there's a danger of one of the schwatzman being wiped out for some reason that was very very upsetting to the jewish nation it happened at one time but it was because we give why don't we go into the whole thing but they did everything possible to make sure that uh there was an existence of all twelve because many as many was missing then the whole nation is missing something and we're not complete right and the god still didn't give him children till the heavy smile it's a little puzzling to me still so what is the question it's hard till they have a smell first right so you know if you want to uh understand that it's a deep idea you there was a very good question why did sarah have to have yitzchak after abram had ishmael from hugger and the answer is according to the great cabalist that avraham avinu don't forget when he was young he was in the house of terrach and they served idols and he served idols when he was young later he came to the recognition that this is a bunch of ridiculous service that they're doing and he broke the idols and he went away from it but there was some time of his life that there was something not complete in him and that became part of his being and that part of this called the evil within him was given out to ishmael shmuel came first to get rid of the evil in order when he has a a child from sorrow who was the great sorrow who she was by that time by having ishmael and giving out this evil part of him oil he was able to have yitzchak who was much more conducive if he would have he could first get someone to be so great as he was because he was the son of avraham who had this in him of idol worship so therefore by having ishmael first therefore yitzchak was greater but yesterday don't forget is because there's still even though ishmael went out from avram to get rid of that that evil part of him into hugger after ishmael still yitzhak had something of residue a little bit left and therefore we have the nasa that got rid of episodes a7 and yaakov yaakov already was shoulder all the twelve sons of yaakov were also by that time all the evil went out and yaakov was able to have taser slam it's called his children were totally so from ruvain until bin yaman all of the the uh children of yaakov were children were pure and holy so that's a very good question but that's the answer yes well leia also had two children from her mate service because we're going to study that when we come to that that leia uh when once rahul had from her maidservant two children leia who saw she's not having children as as yet she had two later her own children but through billa ruckel is building up herself it's building up the jewish people so they say okay so i'll i'll give jakob my mind made servant also and also you have two children so even though it wasn't directly from her it was her maidservant so it's considered also to a certain extent like her children because she brought them up that was her maidservant so she said that if russell did it i'll do it also so therefore if i can't have my own children just like rocco said i can't believe i'll i'll have it from the maid servant she said the same thing i'll have them for my main servant children second best even if she had their own four children unless you had another two children afterwards their own children by biological children but to like they'd like to like adopt the children through her through her maidservant which is also to a certain extent considered like her children said she brought them up so therefore she she can't have the first best now so far after the four she'll take the second best it's also building up which great people came out from them naturally from these maidservants i don't know if it applies to our to the what you were talking about but how come the people that intermarry and live the faith our faith have outcome how can people get into marry the people that intermarry into america yes yeah and live our faith they don't have just one or two children many times they have even more than two children you know uh how do you explain that well i don't understand what the question is animals have children non-jews have children everybody has children doesn't mean that uh people not jewish can't have children i mean what stops them from having children well because they don't follow god's laws they lose they live their faith i mean well people have people have free will yeah god allows us when it doesn't force us to marry within the judaism we have the free will to marry whoever you want if you're not allowed to do that according to torah law but a person does it so they uh no because here we learn that people thought they didn't have children because they did the wrong things like no no no no no no i said no i didn't mean that i said that rocco even though she was a great zodiac she did great things but she felt if she won't have children she's dead because she in herself was suspecting maybe i'm not so great who knows it was like they're afraid that maybe they're not great that it's him but to us but they themselves are afraid maybe not just because that's a great humility they're afraid that maybe they're not doing everything they should be doing so they themselves suspect that maybe i'm not so great and then maybe not doing god's will like he wants me to do so therefore she's saying i have to have children because i'm considered like i'm dead i'm not actions i don't have children i don't have what's going to be but she might be thinking that we know she was great she she would have died without children she still would have been a great person anyway then the rocco may know that she was well you find many times throughout that the great people are afraid and not so great we know they're great but they're afraid not so great that's the humility that they have oh i see because i feel there's quite good a lot of good people among the jewish people that can have children and here you have people that just live their faith their home and they still have that blessing of having children well if you call that a blessing sometimes sometimes it might not be a blessing sometimes children will not have well and to have children and well it depends if a woman gets married to a non-jewish person children aren't considered jewish right if the wife is non-jewish not considered jewish so if the woman has children and the jewish they have that's up to them now to uh decide to say what they want to do but what most cases they live the faith you know it has to do with the environment so maybe maybe we can't blame them for it maybe they don't know any better that's up to god to decide whether they did the right thing or not maybe you can't expect more if they put the blood of intermarried and they were not trained or taught anything about judaism so maybe god won't even have anything against them sometimes we can't decide these things exactly if they should have realized they're jewish and and kept the torah together up the laws only god knows that in our time we have great rabbis that like woman that doesn't have children can go and tell him i won't have i want to have children isn't something like that so great today how can i say i don't know anybody might be some people like that i don't i don't like everybody yourself like you can go to him and try it feel that she had to tell yaakov to pray for you know give me children to pray for her didn't she didn't she know that he he would want her to have children he would be praying for her definitely definitely but she said promise me that give me children without praying for me but i want you to tell me for sure that i'm going to have a child that's what you're talking like the commentaries bring out this point that you're saying he certainly was praying for ruckel was his beloved wife rocco that's that's he that's the main wife that he worked for he wanted to he certainly was praying the whole time but coming to say make sure promises have trouble that's what she him that was the news of the new things she wanted to do that's something that's uh that we're talking about the whole back and forth okay any other comments or questions going once okay oh another question okay good how about we spoke about now i know like if you fly you have to say when when you come back you have to say because right it's something else i said yeah yeah i know it's something else so i want to ask about bakata komen i know like if you drive very long drive a very long way you still have to to say also about catacomb and this is right no you driving the car yeah but very long way let's say if you have 12 hours no so you have to save a category no okay there's four the four people say berta gomez number one well poor regular once somebody was sick very sick somebody who went to a desert and those times when the caravan of the desert somebody goes on the uh on the yum it goes in the under on the on the voyage on the on the on the uh on the ocean somebody who was why when you come back when you get there also you might come back when you go to when you go to the first time at the same time come back you have to say when you go there and come back and say it again some what oh oh that's on the cruise i think if you go to a different country you get to your destination then you have to say you're saying if you go on the cruise and come back then you come back when you come back yes or somebody who was in the jail there used to be jails that were very dangerous maybe today also very dangerous they have to drink that going bill somebody in the accident was saved from danger so when you're driving there's no these things don't exist but you have in a plane so that's a consider because moshe feinstein passkin that in the plane is like ring and the sea then you see there's no way to you're out of touch with civilization you're in the danger with nobody to help you you know midbour in the in the in the desert there's no there's no people there's no civilization you're up in the air in the sky it's like being in the arms being in the mid boy so therefore he uh made the ruling that you say to a gumball goldman but if you're driving on on the on on land then you don't have that situation so phil said there'll have to say but not break that government okay i don't need to base it on okay so uh goodnight everybody nice to see you see you again soon