Parshat Vayishlach 5784 by Rabbi Baruch Taub

um I just want to announce first that last week's Shear uh I neglected to announce although I think it was posted that the shear was sponsored by Valerie B uh in memory of her sister the yite of her sister K basa Coen um the Y site uh for her y site there should be a sh and I want to announce that today Shear um is being sponsored um by braa Goldman uh in memory of um macki Goldman her husband macki morain Goldman Z on the sixth y site which isim there should be Al and our learning should be in the of Al for for him okay um I have a number of um interesting pieces here next half hour or so let's get started number one on the sheet Ron okay okay number one on the sheet um we par VL so uh a lot of things happened in Vish there was the a meeting of Yakov and ASV which was a moment of great uh fear for for Yakov yakob was very very much afraid um of being conf confronting asov he didn't know what was going to happen we know that in fact it's repeated V vit he was he was doubly afraid um there are many interpretations by the way why it says v v what was the second fear v v he was afraid and he was afraid um the the Fus says a beautiful magnificent idea and really dovet tales on some of the things we're going to talk about um he was afraid because he was afraid I'm supposed to have why am I afraid that's Theus right why why am I afraid um there there are other answers um uh okay but we're not going to go there I just want to that's the first episode then we go to the um the mea of of Dena the whole story of Dena and Sh that the killing of an the taking the kidnapping of of of Dina U reverberates reverberates uh today's today's events um and um finally we we come to this this p go to and stay there and set up a give a Corb to the who appeared to you when you when you escaped from your brother as you you got out of there you got out of there so um the question really is uh why why did he wait until why did ronam wait till now to tell him to offer the Corbin why didn't he do it right after the Misa with Asa why did he wait now to to till the um till after the episode with Dena which was also challenging for him um and that's what we're going to deal with a little bit so the am this is the naluda Berlin rash Yesa and he really I just I need the last three lines here but I'll read I'll read what he says here um this is you're going to set up an offering corbon to the god um right to Theon you were in an A S you were in a time of of S of Crisis and you doed for the future that's what I want you to do now that's what yov did he didn't put up at that point he waited because another tragic episodes in the par is the death of uh of his mother of Rifka the death of dor right and the burial the of the of dvor and RKA he did what told of sh sh now so what did he only after all of these events okay only after all of these events after the the the meeting with Asa after the event of Dina and after the burial of of Rifka and Andor now so he tells him to make a and offer a Corbin so what's the lesson here the says says something very very important that if someone is confronted by a Sor by a tragedy and he is he is escapes he is saved from it he has to bring a Thanksgiving offering Corb to that's what we do today is we we without the bikash we bench go right we we say a special BR we're all familiar with that instead of giving a Corb but but maybe something else will happen right one should not bring his or make the until the next episode happens one has to be very careful in Benin that Benin is when it's all over that's that's the idea of of thanking the Ron Benin we can do other things until then but the actual BR as to or the Cor has to be given only one for example someone we you know someone has a very serious operation lawu and the operation is a success but that's not a time to bench Gill one should wait for the recovery period and then bench Gill right that's that's the lesson that he is teaching us and it's based on many other comments This na there's actually a brisker ROV the brisker ROV um Dar the I trusted in your in your grace in your love um you know uh I'm confident that everything is going to go good but but the song The when everything is is completed when the is completed that's that's by the way why we say Moshe that he's sang in the future waited till everything was done now in number three uh interesting uh comment of rosev in his commentary on the gamor in R where he he brings this idea in and the gorah the title of this is we don't say right why not so the gor sayson is sitting in judgment and we should sing songs say Hal that's time to do Chua so but he's asking a now is asking a question because on rashash there is um a a dialectic on the one hand we're very serious we do CH but the is we go home we eat a suda we're we eat we make Kish that we are we are we have we have trust in the that our din will be favorable so why not say Hal so he points out I want to say something based on what Sal said which is really I quoted you from his son this is just from be brisk on this I I trusted I I trusted in your love the end of the is when it's all over right I have confidence I I I'm Rejoice I'm I confidence things are going to go well but the end of the P only until the end of the PK so so it's stages first is the and then then I'll say the when we're sure that we've gotten to that point the end game we don't sing sh we don't sing until the Yeshua the Salvation is over at time when we are we're trusting in Hashem and we're doing in him we're demonstrating our trust that things are going to be good NE it says I am confident my heart is confident and and joyous in in in the the coming salvation but I singal only after it's all over right and that's why Yakov was commanded by the by the Ron to establish the the the Corban to offer the sacrifice only after all of the events in the par now it's very good so we had a question R is a dialectic it's it's it's serious but also we go home we no no no but this is a separate din this is an idea in Hal in the actual mitz of saying Hal not withstanding the fact that we have we trust that the is going to send the Yeshua right we still don't say the BR until it is all over right now I want to point out it's interesting that you see here he he has in parenthesis shal if you look in the shal um he talks about this now I didn't put this on the sheet but what the shal says that shal disagrees the Shah says we make the we make the BR at the time it's about right so this is really Aus between Caba and according to we wait till the end there is a sh and that the of the of cabala that the shal brings that we can even make the BR at the time of the even before before it's over okay um the main thing is everybody agrees that we continue doing and hoping and just to to make some uh some comments about what we're going through right now we're familiar today the awful tragedy in yush uh number of people were were killed at the entrance coming into yusim um every one of them were kosim as it happens one of the one of the victims was uh was a very U well-known Dian Diane waserman who was on his way to the batin in ashot uh one of the senior Dion of the bod of very tragic every for all all of them was really a tragedy you know there are a number of dangers that we we run into spiritually here um when when the the tragedies keep increasing it kind of the Yer horor the human human nature is to be hardened oh somebody else it's terrible it's terrible you know but we begin to be hardened you know u in fact it's a very interesting idea about the P um and I remember like yesterday was actually in 1967 54 years ago that I was sitting and having breakfast with rol gold zel in Yeshiva in the Yeshiva dining room and he asked a question it was before PES and he asked the question why is the Hagar question that you must have heard many times uh there's a whole safer ofos why is the haod based on one almost obscure P of arami oi right why that one p one person's death however you want to learn a Rami it's translated understood many different ways but we focus on yako we focus on one tragedy so he said that a person you know when one when one person suffers a tragedy you hear about it it it hits us but when you start hearing about 600,000 Jews and whatever you know we get a little hardened it's it's human nature it's wrong of course of course it's wrong and we have to work it's part of the a today for us to to not fall into that trap right um but also the second the second idea this idea that we're not it's not over till it's over and um it was very important that the Prime Minister the rush M shal announced again yesterday to all of the wonderful our wonderful friends in the world who are really uh this seems to be a plan to to have a complete ceasefire here that this is not a ceasefire and it's not going to end it's not going to end until we do what we have to do right we we're both we're doing what we have to we do but the actual Yeshua is going to come at the end okay the idea here of the okay the next p number four is a beautiful piece from rosha Feinstein and um he asks a question so everybody knows rash the famous Rashi right Mish that he sent real right the med says there's two opinions one is that they were real angels right they were they were um they were not Angels they were regular Messengers that he sent but we seem to go on the fact that they were they were angels that were sent right why would Yakov send Angels which is a miraculous thing we're not supposed to rely on a miracle so why would Yakov take the chance of sending uh miraculous individuals and assume that everything is going to be okay we're not supposed to be we have to make our own right we have to do every our effort so let me send some some people right you know yob himself was worried from all the Miracles all the miraculous things that happened in his life you know maybe my I'm losing my for all the all Miracles that you've done for me was worried about that for himself so why would he go ahead and do this even according to the opinion the regular Messengers even if you want to say they were regular people these why use the term Mal why are we playing with fire here something that we shouldn't we shouldn't do so he says something really beautiful in my humble opinion is telling us a trem tremendous tremendous idea about real right and and and real elevation in spirituality the someone who is pure someone who is worked on his someone who is solid he doesn't see a difference between the miraculous and mother nature right to the believer to the isuna it's it's a tremendous Miracle the nature everything that we see you know R hutner once said I know many simple people who came to me many times that actual miracles happened to them and they were they were in in such a high high from that but the truth is everything is a miracle the birth of a baby is a miracle everything right we something that is so obvious to us in this faith community of there's no difference between a miracle a real Miracle a nce and mother nature and tea right it's all miraculous we see the in everything now we're talking about since we know that nature is created by Theon right out of nothing there's no bigger Miracle than the creation of the world and everything that he created in this physical world do at any given time what he wants to do and he believes in that even he doesn't see a miracle right someone who is praying because of an act a miracle happened to him that's a a a lesser degree of a right the point is that yaku n not a he said why not it's all everything is a miracle there's no difference sending a right so for sending I'm not doing anything yov on his level was not really doing anything wrong right everything is on a there's a a Level Playing Field between what we understand to be a nce and what we understand to be tea natural right so it wasn't unusual for Yakov it's all the same so even if it was malim Mish that he just not even if he sent regular he was still sending Mal it was still the whole idea of what was going to happen here was was miraculous a tremendous um faith that we have to have in everything that is going on everything that is going on that as we we've been saying for the last month that the Rabon the Ron runs runs everything and um and let me tell you a story with so many stories you might have seen this there were a group of Kim I just saw this uh they they were sitting and they were eating out in the field and in Gaza and you know the soldiers get these cans of tuna U it's not exactly um chicken of the sea tuna well you know the tuna is not the greatest right and so what they do it they would they would light a fire and light it up because the the oil to get it to get it generate the the oil in the tuna and they would put a they would put a match in that's how they that's soldiers all eat this they get this can of tuna that's what they do so they were sitting there and one of the guys threw a match in and it exploded huge big fire so what did he do he took the thing and he threw it as far as he could right and they sat down and a minute later they heard an explosion and they turned around and they saw an explosion and they grabbed their guns and they went and they saw um men coming out holding White Flags right right was the enemy terrorist what happened they hit that thing hit a tunnel entrance where they were coming out to kill these Phim right and they were surrendering the ones who were left were surrendering right so yeah it is a miracle no question it's a miracle right there bunam sends Miracles every day right that was a pretty obvious one but our point is that everything he does for us and will continue to do for us is um is going to be is going to be miraculous you know I I would say you know as I pointed out the bottom line for us as a faith community is is that we have to we have everything depends on Theon the last mishna in talks about M talks about the end of days the of the M before M comes and the mission list a whole bunch of terrible things that are going to happen right I'll just list a few of them there'll be a lot of a lot of this you know the way Society functions today there is no um quot people the the lack of of proper interaction amongst people um talking to each other it doesn't you know we see what goes on between nations and so on fo people have no respect the Market's going to go up we'll have a lot of things to eat but the prices are going to rise uh lot of people are not going to listen to rebuke right there's no Torah is is on a lower level I can't hear it can you hear me someone they can't yeah you hear me yes okay um there will be hidden the youth will have no respect to for adult for elders the older people will rise for the younger people it's a youth generation that sort of discarding the the Elder uh part of society Ben a son will be dismissive of his father but a daughter A daughter-in-law will have no respect for a mother a mother-in-law um goes on and on and on finally the last thing that the M says right and we what do we have to we only have to rely on the Rabon and that's really it all of the political theories everything that's happening we don't know what's going to be we have no idea what's going to be we have to rely on the ronam however that's the bottom line and that's what we have to strengthen ourselves to do but there's another interpretation to this and that's from ran who we we quoted earlier and he translates he says this a little differently that this is one of the lists this is the last item on the list there'll beah there'll be no respect for mother for father for Authority Torah will be on the deine and the final thing is everyone will say we have to rely on the Rabon shal let's rely on our father in Heaven so it some to use that as a as a okay you know I'll rely on the reion that's not the way it works to understand that everything depends on the Rabon and we have to deal with it in other words he he tells us what we have to do right and he'll do what he has to do but but we have to do what we have to do okay let me go to the final piece on the next page um and this is from R morai Dro who was a a famous muggy in yush and uh he he's going to ask he's going to bring first of all ra who Aon uh the confrontation with Yakov and ASV he he tries to impress ASV he sends the he sends all the animals the flock and so on his I have oxen I have donkeys I have I have rather I have I have cattle donkeys I have sheep have servants he instructs his Messengers go and tell this to ASA my brother this is what I have I'm sending to you it's a h that's what they're he's going to see all this coming and he's going to ask them what is this and they're going to tell him this is this is yakov's wealth the shore theore the son right the cattle the donkeys and the son the Sheep now here's y ET whenever the Torah mentions these three kinds of animals generally son comes first right the goats the Sheep come before theim and the and the in the cattle because the Sheep is the most of the animals for example became wealthy had son and Barak right he had sheep and he had cattle he had son and he had right right he had a lot of sheep enormous amount of sheep and servants and camels so the the was mentioned first why did he why did he do that right why why did he that's the answers here a very nice answer remember why didn't he want to open up his message to as when he was going to see him now it was because of the sheep the goats right the say that that whole episode where Rifka had him go out and find two Rams to Lambs to shef for yov that he got the B and took the B away from from asov he didn't want to remind asov of that moment he didn't want to bring it up he didn't want to give give over to he wanted to create a positive um milu an environment when he came to face to face with as right the next paragra he didn't tell him I have right right they're called the word of flock is from the word and they make a person wealthy right he didn't want to he didn't want to get his his get his goat so to speak if we can say get his goat and get him get his anger going son to mention it was through that he took away the BR which which RKA asked him to bring in she made for for his father for however RR has another [Music] approach I have I have a problem with this I have a there's a big problem if you go further in the par when he sent the gifts to him that's how he first told him how he's coming so this is the presentation of the camp of the Army in the camp of Yakov come but when he talked about the gifts that he gave him later in the par he mentioned theim first he mentioned the ashar the the goats the Sheep right the the Rams so here would seem that at this point he's he's going to anger ASV why would he do it according to what what changed he say something beautiful I'll tell you what there was something something what happened in between right before this is before before he died he didn't want to he didn't want to anger and after he was so at peace with himself because why because of his his trust in the the power of right because of the ding right he was not afraid to put the on first for our after after doing it was a done deal when they do it's it's it's going to happen it's a done deal what I'm asking for Theon is going to do it he saw his his conquering his victory over as it was a done deal hour of and he gives just two more examples here and then we'll we'll close right points out one of the Aram right when ysep was born says that he was born in padam right this in our parar talking about B right the second son toar he wasn't born in why does it say he was born in he wasn't born she DED for a child in safely Ben safely Ben please give me another child this was in P where she said so it's as if he was born P was born in P because the was at that point it was a done deal they knew with a Clarity that their would would come come to fruition as if he was born in the power of final example by Moshe Renu not in our but eventually right famous story that he sat on a stone he sat on a stone and while the Jews were fighting the Mish says there's a if you are at a place where an actual Miracle took place place where Miracle took place for CLA Israel a special br blessed is Theon who performed miracles for our forefathers Mak in this place by the way there there is in the same sim in that that a person had a miracle in his own life when he goes there he should make a rightone uh the example that the banura says on this mishna yam right going if you see yamu other place the crossing of the of the and if you see the stone we we don't know which one it is but if you would know what stone Moshe was sitting on when he doed and prepared for and we were successful in the war with amik right when we were fighting with a so is that where the miracle took place on the stone where Moshe was sitting there the the chief of staff Moshe rabenu right the miracle took place in the in the battlefield IM the the turning point of the war the success what's going to happen in the field is just going to happen but the miracle was this this is the miracle took place in on on his Stone so we have to realize that the miracle of getting through this Ace sov this aov which we're going to get through because but the battlefield is not just out there in Gaza uh or in the Galil the battlefield is in the b midash in the sh where we do that's the battlefield and if we do we do with with kavana we work hard at our doing and we say till him with cavana then the battle is over we're going to win that's the battlefield the battlefield is where we do tremendous idea from uh R Brook the r