Parshat Vayeshev By Rabbi Baruch Taub

so par vev some interesting pieces that I want to learn with you so we'll start off with the leako Rak kineski and he um he brings a famous Rashi and really want something's what's he wants to know what's bothering Rashi in many cases that's when Rashi gives you an an interpretation something is bothering him is something out of out of out of out of whack so the Torah says that he loved Ys because he was right he was benim he was his baby son right Rashi doesn't say that purish Rashi is tar he brings unus the tarum ofas now you have to know the tumim are perim we're going to see that in the next piece I want to go through with you a little bit to show you something very special about how the tarum changes when it CH the meaning changed but the tarum says he was his his why did he what's that he like a is a is a word that's used for a so he he loved him because he was a right how so how so um that he he he took yoseph because of his extraordinary uh intellectual capabilities for learning he taught him not only the regular Torah that he gave all the other but he taught him the Torah that he learned remember he was 14 years in the yes of sh a which in itself is a is a Pella right he took a he took off and went 14 years to study and shame he was already 60 years old right he had been learning with his grandfather he learned with his father all of a sudden he went and took a detour and learned for 14 years I mean enough go to work right so um but he taught him everything he learned what was unique about shame vavor M purish what does that mean sh what bothered him is so the point is this by the way that's another story about what the Torah of sh a was was a totally different Torah it was a Torah of survival in Gus right the other brothers didn't need that ysep needed that because he was going to take us into Gus so he had to learn the Torah of Shan how to survive not in your Ivory Tower but how to live in the world right okay but we're not going there he discussed that another parti someday we'll do that but what was bothering Russia that he came up with this benun hello he was not the youngest son B was the youngest son so you know that's what's bothering Rashi right so therefore he has a different a different that makes sense now we understand now that it was bothering them that he was he he was favoring yose more than the other Sons if he was the baby wouldn't bother them right wouldn't bother them they wouldn't be jealous this is the way it goes at right the the little baby is always the favorite right so but since he was not the and their father still was more attached to him more than the rest of them so that's theot that why that's that was the different that's what it means so they were jealous he's getting this extra attention and learning de this extra leadership development and the says the brother saw that he loved him more than them knew and they hated him however this idea that he taught him um actually he's gonna say it here you know this is what he's gonna say now so what was it so I really gave it away why D what was unique about the Torah of sh learned by his father he learned by his grandfather there was plenty to give over to we have to understand he didn't give this over to yob to the other brothers he only gave it over to Y right so basically he's going to say what we said I explained this somewhere else in it was unique Torah was the Torah of G living in the in the diaspora only sh who lived in a generation of of Thoroughly evil people but nonetheless they they were successful spiritually to remain in their piety they were the ones that could give over to yov had to learn how to live with right 20 years not to learn from Lo's evil ways the Tor was not enough for that they were not influenced from the the environment it was pure Torah right they had a tradition from Abraham that they were going to live in mitom and they would be they would be to serve they they oppress themov had to prepare his children for this gos and in fact this was this message was given over to abam by theit the bris the famous Covenant that that made with you know that you're going to be a stranger why did he have to know this he told they had to prepair themselves for this this uh unfortunate turn of events this necessary turn of events in in Jewish history was the one who was in the real thick of it he had to stand alone he was all alone in upon Him fell the the O the Yol to repair the place for them to come down to so therefore had to Da necessarily give it specifically to Y right t t the Torah sh the the tribes yob they didn't know the reason why yakob was teaching yos this extracurricular Torah right T so therefore they were they were jealous and they were him they're GNA come out with great wealth from Egypt he says but what the great wealth means they're going to head to and receive the Torah they knew that the Torah was coming they knew the bris with they knew the Torah was coming so therefore when they saw that Yakov made him maybe only is gonna have the Merit of not the rest of them it's going to be a private Affair just like he had these private lessons with his father he's going to receive the all right but the truth is they had theor that's really the reason what this is why this is all about right okay very special idea from Rak now let's go over the page to number two this is from theab now theab was we've seen him in past par was y mberg he was a um an unusual he did the Saab is an unusual work the idea he had to he was dealing with the Bible SCH B Bible scholars so he created a a a work which combined T and T to show the Nexus between t you can't make up you can't go in certain direction with this T without T and he put the two together and there there's enormous kushim here particularly inat in justat in in the in the words of the Torah that you see the Torah shabal in the words of the Torah and in the words of the tarum also it's like we pointed out within the last piece that he's going to show you here that one word in Hebrew could be translated in the tarum in different places two different ways and that's what he's going to show you here okay so let's see what he says Shalom right Shalom right the brothers could not speak the beginning of the par they couldn't speak to him B right they could that's the word he's GNA deal with they couldn't they couldn't Deo speak to him Shalom peacefully and the tarum translate doesn't usually the tarum translates Y is y but the tarum translated here is a different word savan savan means something else savan means they didn't want to right so let's see what the difference is right um they couldn't they couldn't speak to him why why couldn't they speak to him right usually means in general you know um you didn't have the strength I just can't do it but there's also not I didn't I didn't I can't I'm not able to do it I didn't want to do it I don't want to do it according to the Torah that's another another that's what he's saying here that's another translation of the word y so what is what does it mean they didn't they didn't want to do it right what's they him no on the contrary in other words when when there's two reasons either um you know either it's can be that I didn't do it because I'm not able or I didn't I didn't do it because for some mus for some religious reason some spiritual reason I didn't want to do it it's a I I I I I want to resist it because you're not supposed to do it um this is another P he's just bringing bringing an example um for example um they they couldn't eat the this what's that para with the PES sheni the Jews who were to T and they couldn't share in the PES sheni so they came to Moshe help us they couldn't eat the Corb PES why couldn't they eat the Corb they couldn't they weren't allowed to they didn't want to because they were T so you got to help us right so can be either they didn't want to or they weren't able to right if the reason is that um I I can't do it I don't do it because they hate him right they couldn't speak to him right they couldn't speak to words of shom right but but they just couldn't you know I don't have the strength to do it I don't want to do it right but here but if there's a spiritual reason why shot rash says this right they didn't want to be from the people they didn't want to be they were honest Shalom because they they couldn't be Hypocrites they they felt they really they they were sadik they pin that he was he was deserving of death he was wrong or whatever but we're not going to get in there but they pin that he's he's no good and he's excluding us and it's wrong and and and there but they couldn't speak to him balom because that would be fraud that would be they'd be faking they'd be phony they'd be speaking him kindly and that they they couldn't do that right that's why it says Shalom right is sa they didn't want to right not they couldn't they didn't want to shom this is what the rabis say when they tell us that the Rabbi say it's a gor rash quotes this the of the of the they couldn't speak you know say one thing and think another thing right two changed the translation the which is an Aramaic word for they didn't want right this is the emphasizes their hatred it's not about their hatred right they didn't they did not speak to him because they hated him because of their this was a pck thing this is an internal thing right what he refers to it as muser right it was their internal internal was an internal thing not to go against this spiritual idea this concept to speak you know one way and think the other way right V so but you have another example I'll show you in a minute V but how do we know that how do you know the difference where do you see the difference in the words of words of the Torah in other words where does enas come to tr to discover this different translation right and therefore change the translation what is the giveaway in the in the words of the itself the tum the could be they want they desire or they they don't want mean for example the word he says does mean I I want I really want to do it and he quotes for this is in the end of gim that he he wanted he pined forom right he wanted him right he's giving we don't need all the examples skip to the next line even though if you look at this if you look at the without this I I would I would if I would ask for a raising of hands without this without seeing Rashi and just reading the words of the P you would say they couldn't speak to him because they hated him right that's what you would say right they're gonna kill him they wanted to kill him but that not that was notwithstanding the rabbis wanted to explain this to their credit they just they just couldn't do it right they didn't want to do it nearly she now how do you get this how do they see this in the words of the okay right usually you have Deo the verb and the pronoun usually the verb and the pronoun are separated right but sometimes the verb and the pronoun rarely are put together right so when the when it's that's what he wants to say here when the verb and the pronoun are put together there there's a synthesis there's something there's something internal at play here it's not external deoo to speak to him right nothing emotional but de but de bro where you're putting the two together there's something much more there's something deeper there that's what he's saying right so so he says how did this come out speak to him to take the pronoun with the verb is is put in one word didn't say spoke to him separate words but that the pronoun is separate right there's a tremendous difference da right when you separate the two you're focusing on you you know I I just can't speak to him him me two separate things but when you put together the person the pronoun the object and the verb put it together skip down to the next line in the middle of the next line then it's something else he gives other examples but I want to go to next one something very different if the Torah really wanted to tell us because he hated them they hated him they would have said you and me have nothing to do with you that's it that's the point that they didn't want to speak to him in one word perforce we say to include everything they did need to they meant well right Shalom it was all because they couldn't they didn't want to they didn't want to sacrifice their the their their piety right Shalom for example for example you you um I going to give you two other examples here that you see just the opposite next week when yo we could have done this piece next week also when ysep the he's with the brothers and he's about he can't take it anymore he runs out of the room right he could he he ran out of the room ysf right what does the P say right so once he revealed himself right it says so I forget the exact suim over there um but uh if you look in in Vash you'll see I'm sorry I don't have the I don't have the Kish here so but you see that it separates it separates that he had when he couldn't speak to them he couldn't speak to them but it was separate it's not one word it's two words right and when the brothers were nto when they couldn't take their response was also separate was a separate thing right they they just couldn't they couldn't they were they couldn't couldn't he couldn't he couldn't do it and they couldn't do it right okay one one example another example I'll give you when last week was it last week when when ASV um when ASV uh kissed um yov right one word not vako what is Russ she say there he was motivated with real ra he really felt there was a moment of Love That ASV actually felt for uh for Yakov so V it's one word this is the dots on top right yeah yeah right right there's another so he changed his tune I guess right okay um how do you explain that shot maybe he wanted to but you know but he didn't L say he didn't okay good good Okay the third and final offering for the day is um from the Sham ismo okay the bottom of page two and over the page I know it looks wordy said you know Rabbi Isaac Bernstein's that s used to say when he gave sh it's long but it's not long winded okay he would say about thees it's long but it's not long with it so it moves it moves it moves so the sh is um gets at the beginning of the par why why did they hate him why what was the whole business here because of the dreams right so you see that there's a tremendous um strained relationship between theim and yose because of his dreams and in the first Dream so he he he's going to talk about something in the first Dream he said you know you were all standing around me and my sheaves of grain and my my my she was Rose up and it stayed there it stayed in the standing position right so that's what he want so he quotes one of the great Masters the K right in the he says now why does it say that his his it Rose and it stayed up right so the the k who's going to go up to the who's going to stay there right it's one thing to have a moment of inspiration right to elevate yourself spiritually but to maintain that level that's a that's the real challenge so there's a there's a dual message here in um in spirituality and here there's a dual message here in his dream that not only will I I'm standing I'm the middle I'm standing up but I'm going to maintain this position against you of leadership right that's what they saw right there's a dichotomy here two things in the even though a person got up to that you have to stay up on the mountain and don't and don't fall don't fall down um that's the k the based on that interpretation our physicality is we we're we're made up of Nish and goof the Goof is very wishy-washy right the Goof we we we are we we live with all of the the material things around us and our our our tyers and the body is weak Alan T so we're we we go we is we vasolate our because we're human we're human but a person who has person who has spirituality um he acts based on his right his is in charge of his body not his body in charge of himself but the Nish is working out right that's the the other element k k over the page she quotes from the so refers to the when a person does the right thing it's his that's that's working with life is is our life we it's with with with life and and passion passion right with all his power and his that comes from the that comes from the when we do the right thing physically it's the is talking to us sometimes you know you make a decision to do something and and you know it's the right thing and it's the Nish the Nisha talking you know um so because the doesn't change does not change with there's no change comes from the perfect world of the heavens so you have two things you have and you have right so amid is physically I can stand have the power to stand up I have the power to climb a mountain I have the power to do something but the to keep it going that has to come from the and he he brings a so that's what that's what was going on here right what was our our original Point why does it say that yoseph told and that was the two things that bothered them about the dream not only is he standing up he's Superior over you but he's staying there you know you're you're GNA what happens to your you're going to rot right the wheat doesn't stay right I'm going to stay right so he brings an example of medish it's actually gamorra um well Hees from the med RAB RAB you know rebbi and antonus were very close friends rabenu hes right the author of The mishna and antoninus the Greek king was very they were very ruler of the Roman ruler they were very close right so and he was a brilliant person onus he studied with rebi right so and anus asked rebi when does give the soul to man right when the baby's born or when it's still inside right SOB answered him says when the is when when you leave the body say you're wrong you're wrong I give you a M below if you leave meat 3 days without salt perhaps not in the refrigerator right uh M who must R right it rots right that's that's the Nish without the body without the Nish right so once the B the infant for nine months is going to be without the Nisha cannot be right in fact we say you know the so the guests you all when people are excited when guests come but after the third day already you know okay to get the picture so but here he's saying that's that's theot so it's impossible for nine months to shouldn't be in says no right and this is a hint to The Wonder of man this symbiosis symbiotic relationship of and if there's no there's no you're dead mate right right your dead mate right and Y was K the cabalists speak about yoseph as Kai he was the Fulfillment of life he was he was that's what he was if you think about it just on our simple level he provided life to Egypt he provided the world he he was high he was life Joseph was the P Persona of life he gave life to the entire world he he dispensed food to the entire world from Egypt he brought CL Israel together to come back into into MIT and and so on so he was so it makes sense what the Mist call him K right behu what's what's K is that Sy that synthesis of right everything he did was completely full of life therefore therefore somebody's phone no problem okay Al this is this is what we're saying here so therefore yoseph had both amida and K he stood up right and am and he it was M he kept it it was consistent he was constant and consistent right that's my Aluma will stand up and it will remain fresh it'll stay where it is that was in what what does this tell us he was in MIT right in other words you know there's a famous um it was a famous Napoleon's Rabbi was of um Yosef David sinim he was the head of you know Napoleon you know the history Napoleon made a Sanhedrin and he appointed this Rabbi sinim to be the head of the Sanhedrin right so you know everybody thought what kind of he was a rabam some Chief Rabbi he doesn't know anything you know um you know they say the bigger the sh the bigger the Amor it's the rabbi is he has a little has a little he's a big T right um so people thought that this the chief RAB this sort of soall Chief Rabbi of the son was a was an Amor when he died the fact of the matter is he was a tremendous godor he wrote a onim that is used today in all yes when you learn but theur umur eulogized him he died in par Mikes and in par mik he quoted from par Mikes that he tells him go down to my Vash rather he died Vash so in the he says this was his hpit for him he said you know when you go down to my father tell him I'm the president in Egypt right so he says what's that all about yoseph wanted to tell Yakov that he was the president you know my son the President right right you know the old joke right you know everybody knows the joke right the Jewish president you know that joke the new the Jewish president and his mother comes uh mother comes and she's sitting there by the inauguration and they're telling oh you're such a special lady Mrs Goldberg your son's the president yeah but my other son's a doctor right so so the Sam S writes here just getting back to this he says what was he telling yakob he's telling yakob that Yosef is telling his father I'm ysf and I'm a president of of MIT whatever I the vicey MIT M but I'm still y it didn't affect me that's was that was the message he was giving to his father right and that's what he says here he's the same in the head of sitting in the palace in Egypt the same y was son who was the shepherd for his father who he remained he maintained his level of piety because ysep was K in fact many times faram have the name ysep Kai anybody know people Nam ysep Kai it's a name that's faram give where did that come from where's the name ysep Kai come from it comes from the zor this idea that YF was with theid of so you have y okay and he gives an example another Med says you collect your fruit you farm your your your fruit and I'll Farm my fruit your fruit is going to rot if you don't come with me that's was the dream if you don't come with me if you don't follow me you're going to go your own way you're not gonna you're you're going in the wrong direction if you come with me your fruit will be maintained because every one of theim had something very special so if you join together with where I'm going where the Rabon is taking me your fruit will also be omade if there if whatever the are going to do is with life it's because of the power of he gave over this idea he was he was The Cutting Edge of spirituality right okay and that's the here your that your that's the the med says that's the the that your your sheaves are gonna B bow down to me everyone's gonna bow down to me right when they sold him so they they separated themselves from the N of thep themselves from the lifeline of of the J was went into MIT and left them alone they didn't have that didn't have that right Al where am I um that's the med that's the medish so this makes sense that's why all the trouble happened right to them they were without Yosef right and they had to go search for yoseph they had were searching for yose was searching for the bringing together that fulfillment again of CLA Israel yoseph joining CL the necessity of they're coming together okay so this is idea says brilliantly this is the idea they all he collected all the perro he he in before the famine Yosef collected all the fruit fruit right he had all the fruit y had the fruit right so their fruit rotted by the in is is is right they right he had to come to Egypt had to come to Yosef right because yosef's perro were mam right so had to come to to Y to get their food NE so that's his idea now he just he says a kind of a we have a few minutes yeah we have a few minutes so he has a kind of PS here the last paragraph is a mistake I took too much out on the on the from the from this piece but this piece he Compares this to chabas he say this is what chabas is right he says shab is called the day of the in know words six days of a week that's like goof right we take care of our physical business but but chabas is but the goal is to put shabas into the week day right person who has is mer keeping shabas righty properly he'll have a right it elevates him spiritually but he'll keep it right remember on the shabas every day of the week and all the days of the week are both shabas you know that's why we say right ramban tells us you know we don't have we don't have names for the we days of the week right it's what's that all about say in the morning right now by the way it works both ways it's the past shabas and the next chabas there's a there's a kadua to the past chabas and the next shabas [Music] soat that that we left and it's the first day towards the next chabas you need the past because the past is air of chabas that's the preparation for chabas so this is the first day of my preparation from my preparation for shabas I'm going but you need you need then right that's a shabas that's all six days before that's why a of chabas is so hectic right it's so hectic it's like you know the had a marshall about you you know you write a postcard he said how this life is it goes life goes by very quickly so you go away and you remember postcards we know what this some of us know what po postcards are they don't exist anymore so you're going away and you have to write a postcard to your family you didn't write them right so you go into the store you buy a postcard start and you start writing in big letters dear Mommy and Daddy right and then you start thinking you got there's more to say and you're writing and writing and it's getting smaller you're writing is getting smaller and smaller and smaller because you're running out of space you're running out of space right so that's air shabas right no matter even come at 4:30 comes or 4:15 or if it comes at 7:30 it's we still run into that same same problem right so but that's why did you ever wonder why in kiddish what are the first two words of kiddish what are the first words in Kish y y y is the F the first words of Kish for shabas what's that all about and the sixth day we we don't say the whole P right we quietly what's that all about because that that is that is the shabas it's all shabas everything is chabas that's the the Kum of shabas is is right we're weab physically we're in chabas right on the seventh day but it's really all the whole week that's why by the way also that you say in Friday night in m a you say twice um Shabbat and Y there's a repetition a redundancy in the of in mug Friday night why is there two what you say shabas and Y because they're two separate things right shabas shabas is that's it that's the amid that's it the kadus we've arrived it's our point of arrival and the y means it's the journey the journey to the arrival right so you need both you need the journey and the arrival right okay zo pleasure