Parshat Vayishlach: The Other Struggle By Rabbi Ari Kahn

so as we ended last week's para and we know something we know that you know sometimes we uh we make observations regarding the chapters and we talk about the Archbishop and so on but uh laav and you do have to say laav laav also the division of the parot or not something which is necessarily organic it's something which was uh the function of a particular custom what we call the min Isel versus the of B so we the par that we have of the Min of B so I'm going to ignore it for a second because when you divide things a little differently they look differently towards the end of last par it says so here we have the the separation and the leaving and L goes goes back home L gets up early El and he then bumps into now what's interesting is that when we started last week we also had that you have and that's where say oh that's yob was doing so I don't know why we don't say this is ding of course it's the phrasing phraseology is different and mohim then creates another similarity to last week in last week in the very beginning when yob leaves Isel he sees the he sees theim so over here again you have this and you have theim now there is a hard stop over there which means that I'm making it look as if it's you know just continues from Pim that's not that's not really true and and again don't get upset with me that we kind of ignored the division of the pario instead we adopted the Archbishop but I'm just showing you can read read it that way I'm not even saying that as a I'm much more interested in the and then we start so here rash says that Rashi is saying that it's that it's Angels because Rashi seems to be reading this as the continuation of the previous section and just like those were Angels these are angels of course you can counter and say but there's a difference because those are called Mal Elohim and these are called MIM so maybe that's the difference and unclea sees these as being Messengers and he sends Messengers and he say tells him to go to and we are a little troubled as far as what yob then does now a lot of us know that which is actually a little difficult because he didn't necessarily keep mitz for example he may have married two sisters which may not have been uh accepted in terms of laa I I saw I didn't track it down before this year I did see once a discussion that that part of Rashi love and gy tar right sharti is not part of the original text of Rashi the original manuscrip of Rashi did not have that line it somehow it entered at some later Point as I said I have a recollection of this but I did not go and try to track it down but but let's move a little bit more towards Pat what is Yakov saying he's not talking about the Tyreek mitzo what is Yakov saying in terms of Pat he's trying to explain to asov or send messages to asov what has taken so long where he's been so let's go back a second Yakov ran away for one I'll say he ran away because his mother said that ASF wants to kill you and she said that when ASF comes down I'll send for you so as far as his mother's you know instructions and his therefore running away we have not heard from her again we never hear from her again we don't know if ASA is still upset in fact we have no reason to believe the situation has changed so that's Point number one as as far as his father goes his father said go and find the sh so presumably you know Yakov yov according to thear was a very attractive man one would think he wouldn't have such a hard time finding a sh don't I don't know why this should have taken over 20 years for him to uh to find the right person so when I'm saying that you know and I know it didn't take him so long but y said to find the and presumably come back afterwards it's taken so long so now and as far as the the journey that his father sent him on that should have ended a long time ago he should have come back now there's another factor in all of this there's only two more factors asov and then there's God but asov I don't know if he said goodbye before he left presumably he didn't and now he has to explain to asov where he's been till this point he says oh I've been living with lovan I've been hanging out with Lan right which is actually interesting he doesn't say I got married there he doesn't mention you know his father sent him I mean one could have said our father sent me to go there because it doesn't seems to make so much sense cuz your father said get a wife and come back why has he been there so long so he says I've been I've been with Lov one okay then and as I said God is in the back of all this because God said from the very beginning that was the beginning of last week's paria he said that I'll take care of you you're you're protected and I have your back and so on so now yakob does something else which I think we could question I have all I have accumulated all of this stuff now if you're asov and you're listening to this message that's coming toward you you may very well be saying ah very nice that you have all these things you know that all this should be mine that you stole my broa you stole the Bounty that I should have had and therefore all these blessings are are mine so so it is a little strange that on the one hand he's saying where I've been I've been love on the other hand he's say oh yeah by the way now I have all of this stuff and of course you note along the way that he tells him specifically to uh say Ad back in and so he's trying to recalibrate the relationship as such where Yakov doesn't benefit from the braa where the person who the will be the master of the other one so Yakov sounds on the one hand to try to be to undo the the hatred that ASF may have based upon who is superior right right I'm only your servant on the other hand he mentioning all the the gifts that he has so then what happens then we're told that the Mal come back who came to as and as is coming for you and he has together with him some 400 men and that that should most certainly be a cause for concern that ASF is coming with all of these I'll call the mercenaries for back lack of better term right now then that should that should frighten yov but indeed says by the way rash here famously says he was afraid that he that he would be killed by and but it Disturbed him that he would kill others Rashi writes he may kill others so first of the K says what does he mean all over the means who it says one may in the shame in the name of so therefore rer was a convert so if he would have killed asov the neille would have been a r and then therefore the never been so so that that that's the kater the Kut is very clever but uh if you look at the if you look at the gurar right the maharal in his commentary on Rashi it very much sounds like he's saying that he's afraid he'll kill some of these 400 people and they may be innocent but what do you mean they're innocent they're together ASA wants to kill them he goes but we don't know about the the 400 people maybe they're just there and he ends up getting towards a situation of perhaps you know you have the you have the terrorist and then you have the uh the other people who are they living together or coming together or traveling together with him so therefore are they really uh innocent or not and uh you can look at the G because it may be quite timely so Yakov then articulates something else along the way so let's pay attention one is he says he takes upon a strategy divides the people and and all the possessions into two camps that was now his fear is that they're a by the way does not necessarily only mean to hit it means to kill and again is if ASA goes and kills Slaughters one of the camps so what's in y's mind is really clear if ASA is coming 400 mercenaries then that could be the end and therefore he's saying at least let's try to you know do something strategically that at least there maybe we can salvage something and now God gets you know involved in this The God Who had said to go back and it'll be good for you and I I want to stress something there may have been a time lag between the time that God says to go and between the time that Yakov goes I mean he gets busy in the middle about the making some money leaving with some money afterwards and the and the flock and the stripes and the spots and whatever but um God said to go back but did Yakov do this in a perfect way but we'll leave this because we don't like to pick on victims which is interesting because Yakov may be saying that maybe I'm undeserving but God said I'll take care of you which again ironically may not be that good that that's part of the straty to survive save me from my brother save me from as now he says it again that lest he comes and kills mothers and children together so with again all of this considering where we are right now is all very very frightening and uh but Yakov is very clear but but then again he turns around to what God had promised and and all of this is the promise that took place by the latter that's when God spoke to him by theam but and you said everything's going to be good you said that there going to be so many of us that one we can't even be countered so essentially yakob over here I'm going to say it again he articulates you know this interaction with asov where he is on the one hand trying to disassociate himself from the Braha on the other hand it sounds like he's not so that's you know a little strange but then theoretically ASF is going to you know come upon very soon and see what he has so him giving some to ASV right now sounds like it's a uh again a strategic plan in order to preemptively give ASV some of the things give as of the honor and give him some of the of the things as well but he turns to God In Prayer saying but you said you're going to protect me but Yo's fear is articulated a couple of times that he's afraid that they will be killed and that's why he separates and that's why that's part of the prayer as well you look at this number two in the it says so he understands the difficulty of what we just now read that that ASF could be looking at all this and saying that you all the stuff you're giving me should have been mine in the first place it's like you're rubbing asf's face in it so he's so he's saying no and I hope you you're with me on this that this is not such an easy commentary no all this I got out of my wages CU I worked so hard and not because of the braa and then it goes into a little nuances about the Braha you have to be mic the Braha said this and it didn't say this and therefore this couldn't be from the Braha so I hope you you you realize that he's working hard but my my point is not if his solution is satisfactory or you find it satisfying my my point is is that there's a problem the problem is is that you know how do you deal with asov and by showing him all the stuff that you have is that really the right thing and in three and four is the T so now you realize what this this is so go back and look at the so what did I say bothered me about that isn't that you know the bra so now you see that the on the one hand no it's not the it's something else on the other hand in the no I didn't get as much as the Bro should have I did not really benefit I did not get benefit from the from that particular so again it's interesting because he realizes you know that I don't want say the elephant in the room the shamor in the room he realizes that this is difficult Yakov is bringing this up when this exactly could be the thing that could get as of upset um you'll when you look at Rashi in five you you see that Rashi also is trying to disassociate kind of like what we saw before the all this is just kind of incidental and this is not really and and then he throws in at the end and I sent a message to you and that's why I said the message let you know I'm coming home let's have this uh let's have this reunion I have saying going to Rashi I have nothing in my heart against you I only I'm just looking for your love and uh and Brotherhood so again you realize that all this is interesting because one could have read this somewhat different and we're not sure why not to you see the r goes in that same uh same direction also goes in this dire but he ends up I didn't go because I had anything against you mean you haven't hurt me you're my brother you haven't heard from me for a long time I only have have love and Brotherhood for you and and and so on so again you know you can you could fix up the narrative you know as much as we want but nonetheless the things that are staring at us there's an interesting turn of phrase that is that that the mothers shouldn't be killed with the children and the children with the mothers so that and I mentioned this couple months ago that this does remind us of the Mitzvah in Source number eight in it says it just brings it right together just like we had sensed and God this goes against your moral Torah because you said that that that that we are not allowed to take the mother and the eggs together and and the birds together we can't do this so how can you let us be killed together which goes again back to speaks absolutely the fear and then it says you gave us a rule that we're not allowed to kill a mother when it comes to animals you can't kill the mother and the child in the same day how can you let us die in this particular way which is really a plea and a prayer of desperation but it's interesting that that in this midrashic tone that it gives to the to the yakov's voice it's saying is that this would be immoral on your part that you can't let us die this way but can't can't die that the text itself said he can't let us die because you made a promise and we then get to this point that Yakov and SAR asov have their struggle andov and the key word here is they wrestle it's wrestling it causes the dirt to rise up the dirt the the avak to to rise up then again he hurts jakov's inner ey is hurt when they wrestles and at the end we're told oroh nonetheless we're told that yakob was Victorious against people against Elohim whatever it means in this context yov is Victorious and at the end we get this whole thing about the ganha the ganha creates a situation where there's all kinds of meat that in America you can't eat because you don't have yemenites to go and to take out the G while uh they are very available over here my uh my my my yite M said that when they were kids living on the MAV all the kids know how to take out the GHA it was one of the things that all the emite kids know how to do he says he hasn't done it in 50 years but uh we'll see we'll see what we can do but the butcher I go to has somebody that does it so now to remind you about the Advent we have the wonderful in in Udo he struggled or is interesting here because there he's grabbing on to the ankle of his brother but this is a wonderful play on words it sounds like he passed by his brother it sounds like the struggle that went by yov was Victorious no but when he was of strength when he grew up Sarah at Elohim then he battles with this Force this power but continue to the next and he was Victorious over the angel so by the way that's better than any medish because here you have a PK Ina that's telling you that shot and what happened again he was Victorious and then the angel started crying and begged him to let him go which also as I said is a great interpretation of what went on because who was saying I got to move so here Yakov beat up an angel that that that's great and I'll say it again in in the story begins when Yakov leaves there and then he sees these angels going up and coming down and over here when he comes back he has this more interaction with various angels and here's an angel that apparently wants to go back up but uh is not so we're going to leave it at that and this phrase of Yer Yakov right he hurt his thigh so I took it right away the way the takes it and that is to the gasha right the that part of the animal that we can't eat because yob G was was injured and every year I say the same thing what is it everybody remember I said he didn't break a rib I say that every year so that uh because that would be catastrophic anyway yes I appreciate those who appreciate this so there you go now you got a Tor to say by the table and maybe something want to cook look at look at now Source number 12 and you see an interesting uh use of the word of which means it took theob straight to this concept which is much more in terms I don't I don't want to use the word sexuality but I do want to use the word which word should we use instead progyny that the yak of is progyny which you say okay even though I don't want to say sexuality there may be some kind of a correlation over there that you need some sexuality in order to get to progyny and but the point to the Yakov is what the way that it's understanding it is that it's understanding it in terms of uh it just one second it's understanding it in terms of yakov's having children and therefore yakov's inner thigh being hurt the part that again remember when the evid goes on Mission from a to find it says and there Rashi tells us the medish tells us that the that's where Yakov sorry that's where aam had the Brit the Brit was by the Y so over here again it's using slight what we call L Nikia it doesn't want to spell it out so over here the yakov's Yer gets hurt so later oner yov is the children so the medish also goes in a similar Direction 13 that this talks about during times of persecution when even righteous people are being killed by uh and again that's that's that was yakov's thigh being hurt it's the progyny being hurt sometimes even righteous progeny being hurt based upon the the timing and based upon the the persecutions and and so on so I'm going to leave at that for a second but I I do want to tie it up to what we've already seen Yakov already had articulated that we can get wiped out which means there won't be a continuity there won't be progeny the people will be killed and he he seems to say this multiple times along the way here including Alim including when he said say just if you want to go back and we could see saying we're going to be killed there's there's going to be keep people killed yakov's children will be killed there will be no continuity there won't be progyny so yeah I think yakob is being very clear over here on what his concerns are and now you see the various midashim picking up on that in various ways and again the text itself understand what is thiser yakob that's heard so as much as Yakov is concerned while you know the day during daylight about what could happen now and then he has this in the middle of the night he has this I don't know how do you want to call it I mean if it's an angel appearing to yo I would actually call it an epiphany even though that would not necessarily be the word that you want to use but something significant happens over here during this this episode and as much as yakov's again you I always you know would say that that this is very dreamlike this whole episode and I think the rim would go in that direction as well there's something very dreamline so then you could tell me so what do you dream about you dream about what you're worried about during the day what is Yakov worried about during the day he's worried that he's that they're going to be all killed so what happens so then then his thigh his upper inner thigh gets hurt so that is understood very much as Yakov is the children the progyny and so on and that leaves some kind of a of an imprint of a rosem or some kind of uh of damage moving uh moving forward yacob's concern about being killed is actually articulated a little bit further in the same para after this episode and that's in Source 14 and that is after the whole episode going to which means this fear that Yakov has that we're small in number are going to be killed we're vulnerable it's the vulnerability that's the issue that yakob is is articulating the vulnerability that seems to be the the the constant going on and that's my point that even after the a the as of episode comes to an end Yakov hasn't finished with this so I just want to now wrap this part up I'm not finished there's another side to all this I want to get to and yakov's fear his fear is being killed his prayer is that God when he said I'll protect you God really will protect him he's afraid that ASV and his 400 mercenaries are going to come and kill all of them he's afraid that that's it this is the end of the AL of dream and uh and all the blessings that he took and the first born that he took and so on no none of this is going to help because the the story is about to come to an end [Music] okay I want to go backwards now to peric Lam to chapter 30 this is SSE number now now the only thing so far that you can tell me that this has in contact or in connection with what we were're reading about now is that there is a concern about children of course you'll tell me now it's very very different because yakov's concerned about the children that already exist are going to die and R's concerned about the children that don't exist because they haven't been born okay so so far that's the link it's children and Ra was jealous of her sister her sister has children and she says to so we discussed this a little bit last week we compared her to when y does pray for Rifka and she gets pregnant which is how Yakov comes into the world in the first place and instead y's response here is he gets upset am I the one am I God am I the one who took away from you the ability and and by the way noticed over here so so in the previous episode which again right now at face value has nothing at all to do with this we did have Yakov struggling you know with Elohim and over here yov is struggling with his wife and says Elohim and he uses the same word which again you could tell me is completely unimpressive and uninteresting but to so he says here B is over here please take B but Al but that's now interesting the bar is is interesting Al of course is the same letters as as uh as as right Al so she's essentially saying that I will have a surate child but a surate child in the old didn't sense that her giving birth I I I will have a child I will have a child to raise and as a result of this yov agrees and then yov is together with B now yov is another child so again what we were troubled with in this week's Parish Yakov is troubled with is about his children disappearing and over here we have the inverse and that is children appearing right God is judged and God listened to my voice and just interesting again with the whole Cole Yakov in the background then Yakov refused to use his Cole Yakov refused to pray right don't we say that the co Yakov is a Cole of of learning and yov doesn't want to pray he does want to use his voice but goes no God listen to my prayers but and she sees this that I have a son another son El I want to get rid of the yeah I just have one question what in the word do these words mean elim so one translation right here which I gave to you it says ra said Mighty struggles have I struggled with my sister and have also prevailed and she named him naali which therefore would indicate this struggle so why is that interesting it's because over here she is not articulating the problem in terms of her own fertility per se she's not putting the problem in terms even of her and her husband she is framing this in terms of her and her sister which is that point about her sister and uh her jealousy is interesting but she says I've struggled with and I've struggled Mighty struggles I struggled with my sister I've also prevailed now notice first of all the word g and I prevailed I don't know how far back I have to go to show you that that was used a couple of times already if you will go back and in in sequence going backwards we could uh note where was the well we could note when it says that Yakov just one second didn't want to go that far back yeah then if you look at a 11 again Ina it says it uses the the term if you go look back inour 10 where it says over here of course it's very different because it's you have a you have a a wrestling taking place of course I'm going to ask you so what is the difference between wrestling and struggling and we'll give me a second then we'll see something interesting on the other hand the tum in sour 16 if you want the English if you like that better Rachel said God accepted my request it's essentially looking at the word and is seeing somehow inside that word I know you could tell me the letters are a little inverted but it understands that that she pleaded Sal and as I prayed that God accepted my prayers and Rachel said God accepted my request when I pleaded in prayer desired that I would have Offspring like my sister it had to get the sister back in there why because it says and she said because orist was also given to me she therefore called his name so essentially you have one way of reading it which is 16 the uncle is telling you the whole thing has to do with yakov's sorry with rael's praying and the other which is the co Rael which is and the other way of looking at that is that no I I've struggled but now let's take a look Rashi writes first of all he says from he says means that now that is so interesting Rashi moves away from that I don't want to move away from that so quickly cuz what is what is he suggesting that together with my sister look what we did you know as much as we read it a moment ago as a struggle but the struggle would sound like it was the two of them and especially if I suggest that somehow this may be similar to Yakov okay Yakov struggles with as of and Udo Yakov strug struggles with the sosal ASV yakob was afraid of asov and his 400 henchmen but over here we what is suggesting is that it means no we work together it's a group it's a group effort together United together we worked on something which was holy in order to bring children that I worked very hard and this goes back towards prayer and I struggled in order with God which is interesting in order to try to become my sister's equal God agreed and then he mentions that other approach so it implies by the way that that had also prayed Leia pray so now I had to pray and now it became my sister's equal The Source 18 is not going to be so simple so what does the word ninfa mean so the answer is that you have absolutely no idea what ninfa means correct that's because it's not Hebrew so I have over here in front of me I don't know if you can see I have a an addition of braid rabba which I'm very happy I bought years and years ago that has an explanation of the various midashim so over here I'm going to read a little bit from the from the commentary so we are in to see exactly where we are okay so it says as follow that she had to really work to get to the same spiritual level as her sister and then he writes in parenthetically by the way those are the words we didn't know what they meant he writes and he tells you to look in that I would put on all kinds of uh beautiful clothing and and and perfume and so on to be with Yakov then he continues and he explains a little bit more and I'll just say in the footnote here he explains that this phrase is actually Greek and it's from the word nymph meaning a goddess or a semi goddess as it were or a beautiful young woman right that's the word and therefore I try to make myself as attractive as I possibly could to uh to Yakov but but again I want to read a little bit further just that was just to understand the words a little bit so what's he saying in this mid he say it goes back to that point that we work together and she said she understood that she couldn't have children and yov needs to have children the the the the family of a the family vuk needs to continue and she said therefore I worked in order to bring the two of them together Ella Amar so therefore it's going to be necessary for yov to be with my sister and should we read anymore or that's enough for right now but but essentially what this is saying is is that part of her argument is look look how much I was concerned again together we made sure that yakob will uh will have children what's my point so far I'm going to say it a little bit clearer as we move on is that when we're reading in in this week's paraa about yakov's struggl taking place and the general theme is that Yakov is concerned that all of his children are going to disappear as will he and therefore quote unquote the Jewish people come to an end what we have is Rael articulating almost the exact opposite it if you look at uh we'll look at uh yeah look at midan to be together with my sister so again this may be a little different that I want to be like her but let's let's continue Source 20 goes along the same like the mad that we saw it's that I fooled him and therefore she's going back to that point that I wanted you know I did want to embarrass my sister and I worked together with my sister which means again we never were told what happened that night when lovan goes and tells Leia to go instead of Rael all these mid and you know there more of them all these M are saying that ra is turning to God and saying you know I I work together with my sister to uh to bring these uh to bring these children if you look at source number 21 now this is really interesting because everything is in this in this part except for one word it says that uh that we struggled that we struggled to see who is stronger by the way there's another way of saying that what's the other way of saying that we wrestled look at the ezar in Source 22 so by the way I I now I just have to stop for a second and and make an observation you you see right in front of you that there are Reon who say that what ra and Leah are doing in this verse is they wrestling with one another if you want one more you look at the in 23 and then he quot then he tells you what it is in Arabic again quoting him directly and then he goes and he says a little bit more about about the and if you go on there's more and more people who say this which to me is actually shocking that I didn't see anybody who then draws this comparison and says hold it a second Yakov is wrestling and you know right over there with this SAR ASV and over here Rael is struggling or wrestling together with Leia so what in the world is happening or what is the connection between these two or what is he trying to say to us and it's at this point that we're stuck because I didn't find anybody saying it to me it was just so obvious that now you just have to take one more step and say okay or interpret what is the message OB here but at least I want you to just see that there's a parallel because it wasn't just the Elohim in both sources and it wasn't just the in the same sources it was this other suggestion that there is in the word Nai that there was this struggle taking place which a number of R say yeah they they they were wrestling with one another but again there is this other way of looking at it when it comes to the Two Sisters which again takes us to this possible inverse I've said a number of times that it always strikes me that Yakov when he wakes up in the morning and realizes out its Leia that he doesn't just run away and say these people are absolutely crazy and I should not stay here for another second they're insane and instead it again this idea struck me that Yakov may be looking and saying well this is unbelievable that two siblings can care so much about one another that one can step aside and put the other one in their place and I just came from this functional family where one sibling wants to kill the other sibling and that's why I have to run away and look how these two sisters get along with one another so now we get to this point about about Rael saying no I want a child also I want a child so is this in again she's jealous and therefore what exactly is she doing are are they working together or they working separately are are they struggling with one another or are they struggling with one another I'm going to say I'm going to say it again are they struggling against one another or are they struggling with one another in order to try to build something which is bigger so what what may be Sur and by the way if that's the case if they're with one another then we have just a complete inverse which is taking place I'm going to say this a number of times where yakov's whole concern is about the children disappearing and all the future disappearing where over here you have somebody else who's concerned about building that future and let's make sure that am is going to grow then make sure that that that you know God says you're going to be as numerous as okay you know what it means to become as numerous as the sand it means a lot of people got to get pregnant and a lot of people got to carry children it doesn't just happen by itself I don't know half the people over here listening don't know don't realize that the other half I think do realize that that it doesn't that it it's it doesn't just happen by itself the there's people that have to make it happen and uh and it's just very interesting now to think about how the concern of Yakov over here is the same concern of Rael over there but it's again just a complete inverse over here so I'm going to say it again how exactly are we reading this there is this attempt or or desire to read it that they're wrestling with one another but I'm going to say it again is that what it means or or or they actually struggling together so I want to show you a couple of more sources now that you'll see we we we just you know naturally they they just think it has to go this other way Source 24 is one of the now notice something it's the word elim which is interesting because the the struggle over here is a struggle with the Divine there's God in the struggle I've struggled with God what does it mean to struggle with God I've wrestled with God so as as as much as you could say oh Yakov was wrestling with God wrestling with man wrestling with God struggling with man struggling but that's exactly what Rael is saying here that's the name yes you know to be victorious I think it's a parish of the of the by the way the rush brings the same commentary again that's what we saw Rashi quoting but he explains it more why that the building of the Mish is a Divine merger between the children of Leia and Rael B Salo coming from Yehuda coming from Leia and Dan who now comes from bilha and and he only came into the world because of rael's insistence it's as if to say I've struggled with the Divine to create something Divine and that would seem to be if ra were still alive to know oh yeah by the way your experiment worked out very well because this son of Billa merged together with a son of Leia and they built together the mishun then she would be absolutely delighted and that that's exactly way that he's reading it and then he says and moreover what does that mean when it comes to there's no descendant there of Yehuda who build it although you could Sayo but it's interesting it ignores that so therefore these children of bilha end up building the mishkon and then end up building the bet mdash which is the way that he wants to read this success of this experiment as far as Rael is concerned and that's what she's praying for we'll go a little bit further I I've I've practi I restraint and self-control until this point in order for my sister to have what she has and then he continues and he talks about p and uh and so on the as well he he sees this the is the it's this thing which is woven together it is this Divine taking place and she's saying both me and Leia we brought in more women into the family this is B and zela in order to bring children to create clel because CL Isel doesn't get create it by itself again that that's of less importance to me but she's saying again the will go back to this language of the struggle of the the it's a Divine struggle that I was concerned with building the spiritual aspects of this home and that's proven when she gives over B because I did all I can that we can build up this family and therefore by extension build and she said this will be a surrogate child because I need to give my my capabilities as well in order to help build uh this people and the goes in the same direction when Le stopped having children so essentially ra is at that point yob needs more children right God said God I'm adding this in God said there's going to be as numerous as the sand so therefore we need to uh we need to continue okay also goes the direction of the struggling and so on and I think we'll uh so he gives this other side read to this that even though Yakov may have loved Rael more it looked like God loved Leia more and now we an emerges that rael's plan is coming to fruition and bah Zila having children so now SP and and eventually Rael as well so now it seems that God loves her as uh as well I'm going to read just a couple of more things and then we'll uh and then we'll stop in the med sha in Source 31 the sequence of the of the it's and then so now we've left B's children we've gone to Ra's children and it says that God's house is in the portion of ysf by Shilo and afterwards in bamin in which means the house of God ends up in the portion of Rael that's important and it continues and it says aot now in order to switch Kat with a carrot it's the same letters you just have to inverse the sequence of the first two letters a now I just want to put the two parts of this midash together and and point out something which is obvious one is a calls Rael the real wife the primary wife and of course Leia or reene Leia can argue with that but this midash identifies the but but it says it in two different ways one is it says it in terms of the K in terms of the mikdash in terms of the mishan that she was the one she was theat Hab her children are the ones where the BET mikdash stands that's bamin and that is B on the other hand it talks about the relationship with Yakov that she is the real wife that car to BU it now we we keep in mind in the back of all of this when Yakov did run away and when Yakov did have this Epiphany and he does see the suam and he does say I'm going to build a bem so I don't know if we ever imagin that that bem is you know yob does he build a bem the B Lem is eventually going to be built but who whose family is going to take responsibility or whose portion will it be built on if a b Fromm is going to be built then it needs to be built by the by the by the place of of Rael CU she's the to B it but it's interesting because it just took this in a slightly different way and I know that you can start arguing with me and say no the bet mdash is really by yehud but no it was by bamin yes it's connected to Yehuda which is exactly the point that that it becomes a place of ofor it becomes a place of unity that's exactly the point is that Unity takes place and that's what it said earlier about Bala together with uh one of the children of of bilha the AL over here tells us to in Source 32 to go and to keep in mind of this midash which I didn't quote for you but it's the midash that maybe some of us should have been thinking of it's the midash which is the beginning of which talks about during the time of thean where it's ra who's now the people that are leaving are not necessarily the children of Rael that's what's so important over here it's not that Rael is crying for her biological children she's crying for clly Israel which means you know some people would say mama Rael right or or raeli Mayu raeli Mayu becomes the mother of all of K Israel she is that she is the mother and all the children look to her and and people who go to Pray by kevel assuming it's keval we won't debate that but people who go to pray there they don't go and they start thinking well is she really am I really from that tribe but not from that tribe no Rael becomes this figure who is the mother of Cl Israel I mean that's exactly what the M was saying but in in back before in terms of the aay but this midra says that when all the other arguments didn't work Rael is the one who stands up to God during the time of theban when that bet mdash is destroyed and she turns up and she starts crying and says listen you know I I don't know why you're jealous of idolatry I wasn't jealous of my own sister and I do what I I could do to bring CLA together and look what you're doing to destroy clausel and essentially God responds says that you were married I'm going to bring them back and and but but again if is what destroys the it's ra over here there is this by the way you can notice here in this Al you can just you know scan how many times the word which means that he understands this whole thing of and Leia really working together and this kind of struggle with and here's of course the whole verses in uh in it's all of because these are her children because she is the because she is the one who created all of these children to take place she is the one who facilitated Leia to be with Yakov and therefore for Leia's children she's the one who brought Bill's children in terms of the arms race that took place then she's the one who caused Leia to respond by build by bringing Zila into it which is she is the aay she's the one who goes and takes it upon herself to create clel and uh by the way at the very end over here I did run a a scan and do a comparison between the whole section here with naali and and Rael together with Yakov struggle so you can look at the color coded afterward if this interests anyone I sent you out the sources including this page but I do want to move much more towards the conclusion what what I what I've discerned over here is that the language between the birth of naftali together with this implied struggle which is taking place and this Victory this V and then the struggle that takes place in Yakov and the fear and then the Yer of Yakov being hurt and the children are all going to disappear seem to be two two sides of the same coin but they seem to be this fear that yakob has of all the children disappearing and then the concern that Rael has with bringing all these children into the world which means that yakob is worried about am is is not going to continue and R is worried that am Isel is never going to start and what we have over here is yakob then struggles but Rael also struggles and what I I see over here again I'm I'm afraid to say mirror images of one another but I see especially if you read this the way that the alsek and others wanted to read this that y that ra and Leia are working together that this is a struggle they're working together as opposed again again are they struggling with one another in terms of they are helping one another in a common struggle or are they struggling one against the other and and again I'll say you can read it two ways but if you go back and look at the sources that I brought you'll see some are reading it one way and some the other and that's right away with Rashi he was telling you oh you can read it like this or you can read it in the other way and that's what becomes so interesting over here is that again I didn't see absolutely anyone who then said hold it like the ezzar this means let a don't we have Yakov being afterwards with the power of his brother and she's being M and she's wrestling with with the power of her sister Nobody Does this I I I I I don't even begin to know what to say nobody brings these two together so no it's it's compassion by the earlier authorities who were concerned that I would have nothing to say which would be uh which would uh be original and it could be by the way if you if someone's going to come and say oh I was looking and I found it and somebody says it I'm not going to be surprised because somebody has to say this what do you mean nobody says this they have to say this but but the issue is is not so much the connection to me it's clear that they're connected the question is the Nuance of how you put them together but what you have then is again if you look at this larger picture especially where the AL goes and takes it to that Med and then it takes it all the way you know the that you have Rael being concerned that am going to exist and then you have Yakov being concerned what's going to happen because we could during times of attack we could disappear and then when the B when the worst does happen and the B mikash is destroyed and Isel does get carried away then it's Rael once again that's the point it's not Rael for the first time doing it it's Rael once again coming back and saying to Kadesh what are you kidding me what are you doing what are you talking about Army Israel has to continue what what what are you where are you carrying them to and MDES has to continue and we have and this is thear which means she is the truear and she absolutely refuses to accept a possibility of that b it not being complete of that family not being complete of that Nation not being complete and if you the a cared aay it you're the one who's in charge of the family you want to make sure everybody gets along together CU that's that that's what it really means to be the mother in the family you want to make sure that everybody gets together and once you understand that's really who Rael is so of course she gets along with Bill and she gets along with Zila and she gets along with Leia and she's concerned about Leia and she's concerned about B and she's concerned about zela she's concerned about all of these people and she's concerned even more about all the children because that's what mothers are concerned about and and Rael is the iar to BU it so now you see that once you stretch this a little bit broader and that that is seems to be what kazal understand it's exactly what they understand I just added one more element to it I said that's the struggle which is taking place even before we started this whole story this is the one who puts it together together this is the one who builds the home and that is where so I think that all of jakob's concerns over here we understand his concerns but Rael had similar concerns before any of this happened to help clol to come into existence and then she has these concerns after we run into some trouble to make sure that God is going to keep his word he's going to keep the Covenant he's going to protect us and am Isel is going to continue and this this concept of this people right every family has a mother and that mother is Rael and Rael is going to make sure that God's that the people are going to continue and God is going to keep his word and as they say I'm that's it I'm done we have comment here is get connect to the name Nasha maybe maybe it looks like it sometimes any he thought of how Yakov subdivided the family into two camps we back down from that afterwards he he he two camps was till he sent Messengers when he sent Messengers I think he was afraid that The Messengers got beat up and threatened and then they gave over the information about the two camps so then he goes back from two camps to one Camp so then when he goes back to one camp they're going to be looking for the other Camp so therefore you've just now doubled the size of what you think that your power is very clever military tactics okay everyone have a good Shob is