Parashat Vayechi - Revealing the hidden - Rabbi Alon Anava

So first we want to dedicate the class to Mahuba Batyud who passed away yesterday. May her soul have an aliyah and also Kaya Friedman Kaya Bats who also passed away uh yesterday. Yesterday both Shama's heaven aliyah and this sh will be a merit for them to come to a safe and quiet place. is going to come and today is a veryious day to learn about Mashiach. Today is Yud which after this class we'll have a class about about the day of Yud because it's just another day that people pass on their calendar. Okay, another fast day. Most people even don't even know what's the significance of this day and why we made a fast out of it. So this day is very very connected to the coming of Mashiach and also this para. So about will be the next class. Now we do our weekly parasa session. How how we learn something from the parasa that we want to apply to our life and hashem we're getting very good feedback about this class from our viewers and the rest of the students that it's coming on time exactly on Sunday. So the point is to take the the message of the sh and to apply it for the whole week like a workshop. And if you actually apply every week what we learn then we kind of can proceed in a in a workshop style that you're working each time on something. So this parasa is called it's the last para in the book of bashit there's next week we're starting a new era and the last kabu parot was like a soap opera was a continuation usually the parasa ends and the next week comes a new story but we do have a few groups of parachot that they're going continuation and they leave you you know at the end with that to be continued, you know, and you know, sometimes sometimes a lot of the par they just end and next week you move on to a different topic. But the last couple weeks was a lot of action. The story with Ysef first of all started with how Jacob went out of Karan and the whole drama over there and then how Yseph was born and how he was taken and the whole journey with Ysef and finally Ysef comes to Mit then he's in jail then he gets released he's second to the king and now the whole drama with the brothers and finally last week we read that Yseph revealed himself and like a Hollywood movie everything was a good ending and Jacob was brought down to Mitim and everything seemed to be ended very very well and right on that point everything changes and we learned that now they're going to be stuck in mit for 210 years they're going to be in mit in exile so the ending was not as great as we would wish so in this week's paras there's one of the first hints in the Torah about the coming of Msiah if you saw my my lectures about the coming of Mashiach, I always quote that when I went to start researching the information about the coming of Mashiach. Then I found that the first place where it's talking about Mashiach is not that necessarily the books of prophets rather in the Torah itself. It's talking about the coming of Mashiach and giving dates. And the first time it's talking about Mashiach is in the second verse of the book of when it's talking about so says Mashiach the spirit of Mashiach but in a very revealed way it's also talking about the coming of Mashiach when Noah opened the ark right after the flood. It's giving a a very precise time where it's saying that Noah sent to the dove and he's mentioning he sent the dove and he's saying a word is towards the the evening but also has in it other letters that it's saying this is you can go look in my in the lecture I'm talking about it and in my book about the hints already in lev but the next time It's talking about the hint about the coming of Mashia is in this para with Jakobino when he comes to rebuke all the all the tribes. So you probably know the famous story that one time the bentov had what's called an aliyama aliat shama is a concept that is well known that usually it will only happen to a sadic not to simple people but alat is when the nishama ascends to a world above and it gets some type of a revelation and usually the sadikim they have this aliatama. So there's a famous story with the balto that onipur he sorry on he had a shama and he went up to higher worlds and as he's traveling through the worlds he finally approaches the chamber of msiach and he walks in and he sees all the shepherds of Israel there ofu and mosher raenu and David sees all the great sadikim and of course mashiach is in the center and he approach approach the Mashiach and he tells him three words when are you going to come and Mashiach answers him when your wellsp springsings of it will spread out to the world that's when I'm going to come so we see many times in history there were aspicious times that Msiah could have come and there are many places in the Torah in Tanakh in the in the that actually gives us times when Mashiah is going to come but before in fact we're still in exile and Mashiah still didn't come that's a problem in itself and in the class after this when we're going to talk about we're going to talk about why is such an aspicious time so we see in many different places that the Torah is hinting or sages are hinting when Mashia should come how it should come and all that information and in this parasa We see another hint in the Torah that Yakov wants to tell theatim when Mashiach is coming. Now I heard a funny story that there was once uh a father who was very rich and unfortunately came the day of his uh time to leave the world and he lives the world and he lives a will and of course two brothers are starting to fight who's going to get what who's going to get what who's going to get how much and a big fight starts and for years they're not talking with each other and the gap is becoming bigger and bigger and bigger and As the years pass, the the anger and the fight is going greater to a point that they they're already so bad into the argument that they already have kids and grandkids and nobody's inviting each other to the to the occasions and bar mitzvah. And after 20, 30, 40 years, finally one of the brothers, his first grandchild, finally got married. So he says, "You know what? It's time to stop this fight. It's ridiculous. So many years have passed. You know, I'm going to invite my brother. So he sends him an invitation and tells him, "My first grandson is getting married and I want you to come to the to the wedding. We should stop this fight." And of course, the brother doesn't know what to do. The brother that receives the invitation, should I go? Should I not go? It's been so long and what should I do? And then he looks at the invitation and he sees that the hole that they're doing the wedding is right across where he lives. Okay. After so many years of anger, he decides not to go to the wedding. Comes the day of the wedding and he's very upset. Maybe I'm making the wrong decision. Maybe I should go. He doesn't know what to do. His ego and his yet takes over and he decides not to go to the wedding. And he says, "That's it. I'm going to sleep. And I don't care if the world will turn around." 7:00 he puts on his pajamas. He gets in bed and he's lying in bed and the wedding is across where he lives. Okay. 7:00 was the time for the kupa. The other brother decided that the song at the kupa that we'll be playing is the song that the father used to sing every shabas. And he starts hearing the music, the tune, and he's his his his emotions is starting to get all aroused. He doesn't know what to do. And he starts crying. He gets remembers the their their childhood and he says, "You know what? I'm going to the wedding." He goes out of the house and goes straight to the Koopa. Okay. After the Koopa, the brother approaches him, gives him a hug, gives him a kiss, and says, "I'm very, very happy that you came to the wedding, but why did you come with a pajama?" So the question is that we've been waiting for Mashiach for thousands of years to come and Mashiach can come today. The question is if we're going to greet Mashiach with our pajamas, that's the question. Are we ready for Mashiach to come? If Mashiach is going to come right now, am I really ready? Am I'm going to show up with my pajamas or Mashiach is going to catch me in a very uncomfortable place or am I ready? Am I ready that if right now they announce that Mashiah is coming and if I'm pulling on my shabas suit and I'm saying I'm here I'm ready. Where is he? And that's a very big question that each one should ask themselves is am I really ready for the coming of Mashiach? And it says in the Talmud in the track of that there are seven things that are hidden so to say from us that we don't know and we will never know. The first one is the day of our death. Nobody knows. Nobody knows the day he will die. The second one is the day of what's called is when is he going to have salvation. I have now a problem. Somebody's suing me. I'm going through a lawsuit. When will be the salvation? I have a sickness and I'm battling a sickness and when is going to be the day it's ending. This is called when is going to my problem is going to end. I just gave two examples out of many but every person has some type of a problem. Our life is full of problems but we never know when is going to be the end. The third one is called Omeadin the the the judgment so to say where am I holding in the heavenly court. It says we don't know who's a sadic and who's a rasha. I can look now at a certain individual and think he think that he's a sadik and he's not. And I can look at a certain individual and think that he's a wicked person and he's actually not. He might be a sadic in the eyes of the heavenly court. So omad is I don't know how bad situations are. A lot of the times I think that I'm holding myself in a very good place and here I forgot to do something or I'm like giving myself a discount and I'm giving myself a discount. I'm saying ah I'm such a god-fearing Jew and I do so many mitzvah and I do so many good things. So this one I forgot. Okay, they'll forgive me up there. I don't know. They might not. They might look at me in a completely different way as our sages say. is particular with sadikim in in the len in the width of a hair meaning that if I'm holding myself in a very high level just by doing something small that might be a very big thing in sham so I don't know I don't know how I'm being judged from from shine now another thing that is not revealed to us is the thoughts and the feelings of my friend nobody knows what what each other's thinking about each about themselves. I mean, I can look now at a at my fellow friend. I don't know what they're thinking of me. They can pretend that they're like that they like me and they can pretend that they that everything's fine, but inside I don't know what they're thinking. I don't know if they like me, if they hate me, if they think good about me. So, we don't know what other people think about each other. Another thing is that not revealed to us that we don't know is how I'm making money. Nobody knows. I might think that I know that I have a job but I don't know what actually brings me my parnasa. Sometimes it's my prayers, sometimes it's my merits, sometimes it's my kids' merits and sometimes especially if I have a business I don't know where money is coming from. I can get fired tomorrow. So we don't know where money is coming from. This is another thing that is not revealed to us. I can now think that I know where money is coming from and in half a year I have a completely different job and my source of income is a completely different thing. So much more so when it comes to to a person who has a business, he doesn't know where money is coming from. And the sixth thing that we don't know is when the kingdom is going to return. Basically, the coming of Mashiach. And the seventh thing that we don't know is when the evil kingship, the is going to be removed out of the world. Excuse me. So these are the seven things that are hidden from us and we don't know when they will happen. In this para we see that Jacob has a prophecy when Mashiach is going to come and when do we see it Jacob calls all the theatim all the tribes and he starts giving them a blessing and then he tells them that he wants to reveal to them the coming of Mashiach. But first comes a different question that we see that he gave each and every one of the tribes a blessing that later on in history we see that the blessing actually happened. For example, he said that Zuloon is going to be very rich and sure to come became very very rich. He said that is going to be very learned in the Torah. Sure enough, we see that Isakah was the one who built all the yeshivas. And we saw that every blessing that Yakov gave actually came true. But comes a very big question is if he's such a good father why did he give each individual a certain braha why didn't he give all of them the braha to be rich and all of them the braha to have a lot of money to have a a lot of Torah and to all of them to be successful and to all of them you know that would make more sense that you give everybody the same braha why do you give each individual one braha and the other ones you don't I mean I'm sure all of them would want to be rich why only vul has to be So that in itself is a big question. Why did Jakov each gave each one a different braha then of course he comes and he says that he wants to tell them when Mashiah is coming. Now the reason why he gave each and every one of them a different braha is because a lot of people think that the sadic is the one who's giving the blessings and that's a very big mistake. The saddic is not the one who gives the blessings. The blessing comes only from the kadosh. You cannot get a blessing from anyone else but the kadosh. The sadic is the one who can actually release the why because he's in a much higher level. And I can have a certain braha for something and I can do a certain act. I can do a sin. I can do a certain negative act and it will cause some type of a block to stop the from coming. So the sadik can come and actually release it. But the sadik is not the one who produces the braha. He's not the one who's holding the braha. Rather, he can only be the one who's giving over transferring already the braha that already existed. And I heard a an interesting story that many years ago there was a couple that they they couldn't get pregnant and they went to the navrebi to ask for a braha and the rebi started asking them questions did you do this did you do that and then he asked them did you do all sorts of tests so the lady said we did this test we did this test and we did that test and when she came to a certain test the reby's reaction was like oh that's a very painful beautiful test. Why would you do that? And and she said, "Okay, that's what the doctors recommended to do this test." So says, "Listen, uh, you did enough tests. Stop the tests." And then he turned to the groom and he told him, "Uh, I'm very sorry I'm asking you this personal question, but did you had a connection with a woman before your marriage?" So he says, "As a matter of fact, uh yeah, I was going on a shid on a date with a certain girl and it didn't work out." So he said, "And how did it end?" He said, "It didn't end so nice because I just said to the matchmaker, I don't want to." So Rebi said, "Okay, go and find this lady and apologize to her and don't do it yourself. find somebody a mutual friend or somebody that knows her and send the apology through that person but just also tell the person to mention to that girl that if she forgives her problems will be solved too. Okay. So they knew a mutual friend. They send that friend with a message with the apology and the messenger said exactly what they said to apologize and that if you forgive then your problems will be solved and sure enough she accepted. She apologized and her problem was solved but she she was waiting a lot of years to get married and she couldn't get married. The other couple, the first couple they got pregnant at the time and the lady who was supposed to forgive forgave and she finally got married. So of course a beautiful story of a miracle. But the question is did was it the Rebi who actually gave the bra? No, the rabbi was just was able to see in his that there was something holding the ba a knot a certain you know like a when the drain is clogged something is clogging the drain he saw what's clogging the drain the fact that that lady was upset that she was not uh accepted by this man and she was holding grudge for so long. So that couple could not get pregnant and she could not find her other half. And the second that she let go right away she found her other half. So suddenly the other half appeared no he was there waiting. There was just a a block for the ba to happen and the sadik was able to release the ba just to untie the knot. That's it. So we learn from that and it's extremely important to know that is not the one who gives the braha. The braha only comes from the kadosh and we can go toim and and theadik in his level can can what's called to to be our our our attorney our our somebody who speaks good in our name and the ba can be released released and we see a hint of that that the word it sounds very similar to the word braka is a pool and a pool is a vessel that holds a lot of water and a is also corresponding to water. So a ba is holding like a pool that's holding a lot of water. The is holding what Hashem wants to give it to me. I just have to have the right connection to be able to pull this to me. And the the the moak the alter he says that comes from is to bend. That's why you see that the knee in Hebrew is because the knee bends. So comes from the word means to bend something down. So in order for me to receive the I have to do the motion of bending down. So to say I have to humble myself. That's how I get the bra. This is the source of the braha. So the fact that Jacob Aino gave each and every one of them a certain braha is not because he gave them the braha that was the reality and he just gave the opportunity for the reality to be revealed. So he really didn't give them a braha. He just says, "Oh, I see that you're going to be very rich. So I'm just helping the braha to come down that your money will actually re that this braa will be revealed and I see that you're going to have a a lot of Torah knowledge and you're going to open yeshivas and I'm just helping it to to happen which means that the ba is already decided by the khu and not only for them for each and every one of us everything is already is already written from above the kbhu decides who's going to be rich who's going to be healthy who's going be smart, who's going to get married and that is just to allow it to happen. So Jacob saw in each and every one of the what's their potential cuz each and every one of us has a potential has a certain wellspring of something positive. It just has to be revealed. And the point is is not to look at my other friend and say, "Oh, it's not fair. She has more kids. It's not fair. She got married. her husband is much more successful and they have a nicer house and her kids are more calm and I have this. The point is to look in yourself and say I have something. I have a treasure in me that the kadosh gave me and that has to be revealed and I have to be happy with what I have not with what somebody else has more than me. And that's the concept of the and that's what Jacob wanted to emphasize that each and every one of them had a certain quality. He just came to reveal it. But later on, of course, Jacob wanted to come and he wanted to reveal to them the future. And it says, "Come, gather together." And excuse me, Jacob gathered all them together and he told them, I want to tell you what's going to happen in the future. So of course of course he he he there's different commentaries the word that Jacob used is at the end of days. So one opinion by the rashbam he says oh no no no why are you taking it so to such level didn't want to reveal to them the time of msiachim is the end of their days he just wanted to tell them what's going to happen in the end of your days you'll be rich you'll be happy you'll be smart you'll be successful you'll live here you'll live there that's it so Rashi says no and rashi usually is the one who keeps it very very mellow rashi was the one who says no rash says says he wanted to tell them the end of days. Now of course the question where does Rashi come up with this bold idea and Rashi says there are two words that that that they teach us that somebody's gathering somebody. One of them is lead kabets and this is like what's called kibbuts to get everybody together but this is a big group of people but says when there's the word asu the word as aa is a meeting but is a very private and very small meeting and Raji says anytime there's a a very small meeting there's a very big secret to be revealed because it's only said in a very small group if it's kibuts Like we know that mash is going to come there's going to be a motion of it's called galot gathering all the exiles into so when it comes to that's okay a big meaning nothing nothing nothing says special is going to be revealed there probably most likely only going to be arguments there but when it's talking about the wordifa to gather together this is something very particular something very private and most likely a very big secret will be revealed What is the biggest secret in history is when Mashiach is coming. Everybody wanted to know. And of course there were many many sages and many many prophets who tried to pinpoint when Mashiach is coming. I mean that was the biggest thing in history. Everybody wanted to know when when Mashiach is coming. And we know the prophet Daniel was one of the first prophets that actually calculated the time. And it actually says in the book of Daniel and he says a number 1290 years. So of course there was a big question. What is this 1290 years? So the prophet says from the destruction of the second beta mdash the destruction of the second temple 1290 years which doesn't make much sense because it was about 700 years ago. So that wasn't a good calculation. But we see and I brought some of the examples in my lecture about Mashiach and you can find it also in the book with all the times whoever actually gave a calculation because we have many many calculations from the zoha from the ga with dates. So there are many many sages that actually calculated and and you know one of the calculations it's comes from the alterb from the balata and there's a very big hint it's one of in one of his mamar one of his discourses that he's quoting from the par and he's talking about the of the and he gives a number he gives a number and there's a story that he used to be a he used to read out of Torah on Shabbat and he was known to be something like out of this world to just listen how he used to read out the out of the Torah that there's a famous story that one year at the para of the clot of the curses he wasn't there so somebody else read it and his son got so sick from hearing the clarot from the curses and they told him every year you hear it he says yeah but when my father reads it it doesn't sound like curses and he became so sick there was a a a real question if he could fast a few months after that in Yamipur because he was mashik. So the alterbi was known to be of unbelievable balor and he was reading in the paras and every time he came to the word he read it with a kamat instead of with a he read it different and they kept correcting him. I don't know if you ever noticed in the sh when the bal says he and everybody's like who everybody jumps and and and screams for one little pronunciation. So the he said the the the letter a little bit different and everybody was like correcting him and at the end they came and told him what was going on. So he himself said that he had a prophecy when Mashiah is going to come and he says this is the amount of the these I don't know how you call it in English these metal things that they stuck in the floor to to pull the the cover of the Mishkan. I'm sure there's a name to it. When when you build a tent, you take like this piece of how rods rods. Pegs pegs in Hebrew it's called. You can look it on Google Translate. It's a piece of metal that you stick in the ground, you hammer it in the ground and then you take a a wire and you stretch the the the the tent. So when they build the Mishkan, it's talking about that they had a thousand 775. So the barre said that when Mashia is going to come is he is kamesh is five 5,000 775 which means two years ago. So that was already the prophecy that the the older rabbi had while he was reading the the the para. So like that there are many many many different prophecies and many different calculations. There's a calculation by the and by the going from vill and and by the also said hey so anyways there are many many dates that were calculated and again in the lecture about Mashia that I gave and in the book then you have all of them with the source and the the exact calculation but you weren't supposed to calculate that's exactly what I was about to say that the says we are not allowed to calculate But when it says that we're not allowed to calculate is is actually saying when the date is going to happen but to calculate to have some type of an a knowledge you're allowed to do that. You're just not allowed to come and say okay that is the date which unfortunately many rabbis in our generation even said that. There was a rabbi who last year said that onishvat mashia is coming and then of course he didn't come and now you know he looks like a joke this individual. So we're not allowed to come and say that's the date. We're allowed to kind of get a an idea but to come and say a date like now what I said with the batan it doesn't say a date. It just says in the year tsh and there are many sages that they gave a year or a time frame but not the actual date. This is what we're not allowed to calculate. But not to get sidetracked, Jacob Alino wanted to reveal to them the coming of Msiah. Now, of course, right away he didn't. As our sages say, and there's a different of opinion why that he was about to reveal it and he lost it. How many times you have a thought, you want to say something and you're like, "Oh, I don't remember what I wanted to tell you something. I don't remember this is called and I don't know about you. It happens to me many times that I want to say something and I turn to my friend or whoever it is and I want to say and I'm like I don't I wanted to tell you something. I don't remember what I wanted to tell you. I wanted to tell them the date when Mashia is coming and right away his his memory disappeared. So one opinion says that he was in such a high level that he saw Hashem revealed himself to him and he saw suddenly the and he understood from that and Hashem says no no no no don't don't reveal the exile. Another opinion says that he made a very quick calculation right away and he says what's going to happen if I tell them now and Mashia is coming. I'm going to tell them Mashia is coming in 4,000 years. There are two options what's going to happen. One option is that they're going to right away fall into despair by saying what we have to wait now 4,000 years and right away they'll fall into despair and they won't want to do anything. the other option that it will be like oh his mashia is coming 4,000 years let's party let's do whatever we want and in 3,999 years we'll do so says okay neither option is good I'm just not going to tell them and of course there's another opinion that says that he saw when the revealed him itself that that hinted to him not to reveal the the time of Mashiach. He thought that one of them is not so kosher that one of theatim has some type of a sin that's making him not worthy to know when Mashiach is coming. So he told them, "Is any one of you not kosher?" Not kosher means that you're carrying some type of a sin. So they all gathered together and they said Israel and they said Israel cuz Jacob's name is Israel. Oh, here Israel, we only have one Shem. This is where the source of Israel cuz all the tribes came and they told their father Israel is meaning Jacob. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Don't think one of us is not kosher. We have one God and we believe in one God. So, what did Jacob say right away? So he says he said that's where we get the concept that we say out loud. No, no, no, no. I don't have any god but Hashem. So right away we say the only reason why we say it quiet is because Mosherenu didn't put it in writing that we have to say it. So shalom not to be disrespectful to Mosher Rabeno. So we say quietly not to show disrespect to Mosher Rabeno. But the reality was that Jacob was afraid. They told him everything is good. So he said and then he continued. So the point was that he did not tell them the end of time. He did not reveal to them the cats. Why? because he figured it out that there's a good enough reason that they should want the exile to finish. Because if you don't want something to happen, you don't really yearn for it. And if you would tell them this is the day when Mashiah is coming, then okay, so what about why do I need to wait? I know it's coming. Why do I not I don't need to pray. I don't need to work on myself. I don't need to do chuva. It's going to come. And that's the attitude of a lot of people that they say I don't need to do anything. By the year 6,000, Mashiah has to come, let him come. And if he wants to come, he can come. And if Hashem wants to send him, let him send him. I'm not going to go out of my way. And that's the attitude of a lot of people. And I'm talking about religious people who are God-fearing people who follow the Torah and the mitzvot that I meet them and I try to arouse the excitement that Mashiah is coming and they're telling me, "Listen, he's going to come when he wants to come. In the meantime, I'm here. Everything is good. Leave me alone." And unfortunately, this is the attitude of a lot of people. Now, there's a story that they're tired of waiting. I don't know if they're tired of waiting. I think they're more comfortable in where they are. And this is the problem, and this is where I want to get to that there's a story that there was a certain Tana, a certain sage. He was, his name was Rabi Yeshua. And he was known to be Elia Navi's friend. And he told Leah, Elijah the prophet, he told him, "I want to meet Mashiach. You know where he is." So Leah answered him and he told him, "Yeah, you want to see Mashiach? He's sitting in the entrance in the gate of homie. Go and see him." So he told him, "And how will I recognize him? I mean, there's a lot of people there." So he told him, "There are a lot of beggars, a lot of homeless people in the entrance of the city, and he's one of them. He's sitting there." says, "Okay, so but how will I know which one?" So he says, "Every evening they all take off their bandages cuz they're all sick and wounded and they have also all these wounds and they take all the bandages off and then they put new ones." Mashiach is the only one who only takes one bandage off and then he puts a new one. Why? So if he gets cold to be revealed, he doesn't have to wait. He can right away put the bandage and and move on. That's the the the sim the hint that gave this Rabi Yeshua. So of course Rab Yeshua packs his bags goes to Romy and he comes to the entrance of the city and he sees a bunch of homeless people and all sorts of beggars and poor people and he's waiting for the sun to go down. The sun goes down. They all start taking off their bandages and he sees the one who only takes one. He runs to him and he tells him, "You're Mashiach." And he says, "Yeah, how did you know?" So he tells him, "When are you coming?" So he told him, "Today." He's like, "Really?" Wow. He got so excited, turned around, ran back home, and he came to everybody. Mashiach is coming. Mashiach is coming. Pulled out. He took out his shabas clothes. He prepared everything, cleaned his house. He bathed himself, went to the mikvah, started doing chaon, saying sorry to everybody. He went berserk giving everybody was he owes any running in the street. Mashiah is coming. The day ended and Mashiach didn't come. He got so upset. He goes to Ala and he tells him, "Your Mashiach is a liar." Tells him, "Why are you talking like this about Mashiach?" He tells him, "He told me he's coming today and he didn't come." So he told him, "Yes, he says that he will come today. If you really want him to come, if you're ready for him to come, he's ready to come today." But obviously you weren't ready for him to come. So the point is that the point is that Mashiach is ready to come any second. Any second he's ready to come. The question is if we are ready to come for his coming and that's why Jakobu did not want to reveal to them the coming of Msiah because if they would know they would not prepare at all. They would not do anything. They would just say here's the date. That's when he's coming and that's it. The point is with the story with Rab Yeshua and and Ela that Mashiach told him, I'm ready to come today, but you're not ready for me to come. You have to be ready. And the problem is why we still don't have Mashiach is because we are not ready for him to come. And that's why I started the class by saying the story with the man that invited his brother and the brother came to the wedding with a pajama. He finally came, but he came with his pajamas. And the reality is that all day long we're we're thinking about Mashiach. We kind of want him to come, but the question is, are we really really ready for him to come? And there are very small group of people that can say, "I'm ready for Mashiach to come." But the rest are, "No, no, I'm not ready. I still didn't finish my chuva. I still didn't get married. I still didn't don't have children. I still my business is still not making money. What if he comes now? I'm still not ready. I want to enjoy a few more things here. The sad thing is that if you're really looking at it, when we pray, the prayer, the from 19 requests, six of them is for the coming of Msiah that our sages put in our prayers that we have to ask, we have to demand, we have to want it to a point that six out of 19 of the requests that we have in our prayers are for the coming of Mashiach. But are we really focusing on the sidul when we're when we're praying? We're really focusing our mind when we say that. I don't know. The question is if how how much are we really want Mashiach to come and how much are we really ready? If I would know Mashiach comes today, how is how would my day look? Would I wake up at 9:00 or would I wake up at 6:00? probably at six to run to the mikvah and to pray in nets and to be dressed and the house should be ready and everything should be perfect. So if I would know the day that mashiach is going to come, I'm going to be very lazy till the day before and the day before I clean my house and clean myself and get ready. And that's why Jacob did not want to reveal to them when Mashiach is going to come cuz he wanted them to want the exile to end. He wanted them to pray for the exile to end. He wanted them to so to say suffer the exile so they would get fed up already. They they will come out of their way just just make him happen. Just make him come. And that's why it says that we're not allowed to calculate the the the the date because if somebody will come now and give a date assuming the date is right, h how would the world react? And what happens if he doesn't come that date? Because Hashem is the one who's holding the date? Nobody knows really the date. Hashem is the one who decides. And the thing is that Mashiach had apicious time to come already a few times. And for whatever reason, we don't know yet why he decided not to come. There were a few aspicious dates that Mashia could have come. One of them was about 500 years ago. There's a famous story that the famous Aliz already passed away. His student Vital was the one who stayed to be after him. And at the time there was a certain minister, a certain Caesar that had control in Yahusha. His name was Abu Cisi. And he knew that there's a certain rock. There's a certain river that comes out of it's called the Gishhon. It's one of the rivers that come out comes out of Ganedin. And they was sealed by a rock. And he knew that if they can remove the rock, then Mashiah is going to come. That's one of the sim that we know, one of the signs that we know when Mashiah is about to happen. And because we know that King Kingo covered the Ghon, he he blocked it with a rock and when Mashia is going to come, they're going to have to open it because that's where the water is coming out. It's one of the rivers that coming out of Ganedin. It's called the Ghon. And they say that from the Ghon, they take the water to do the to put on the misbeh. So this minister, this Abu Cisi was looking who can move this rock. First of all, where is the rock? Where is the Ghon? They don't know where it is. But he says if we be able to reveal it and move the rock, we can have the redeemer. I mean the nations also want Mashiah to come. Maybe they have difference of opinions who he is, but that's a whole different issue. But everybody wants Mashiah to come. So he came and he started asking, is there any wise man that knows where's this Ghon? Where's this river? So they told him, "Go up north. There's a certain rabbi. He knows where it is." Now he saw that they're coming to him. He said a few holy names and wh jumped to the mess to Damascus. Okay. Theal reveals himself to him at night in a dream and he tells him why did you jump to Dame? So he told him, I saw that this minister, this Abuisi is coming to get information out of me to open the Ghon. So I decided to run away. So he says, "But uh but why are you running away? But you know, you you you can't stop Abuisi." So he says, "No, that would require me to use some holy names." So the says, "But you just use holy names to jump to the mess. What's the difference? So of course did not have a good answer and the result told him just that you know this was an aspicious time for mashia to come this is what's called the gula the beginning of the gula that this abusi wanted to remove the stone wanted to find the revealed to he told him this was an aspicious time mashia could have come so says no problem I can say another few holy names and jump So he says no don't don't bother the time already have passed. So like this there are many stories that there was an aspicious time for mashia to reveal himself. There was another aspicious time in tapshin noon alf which was 1991 in the gulf war that everybody thought mashia is coming. There was a big campaign mashia is coming. There was a whole big gash. Everybody thought that the war in Iraq that's go and mashia is coming and he didn't come and it was a very big disappointment in many groups of people. They thought that's it and Mashiah is coming. So there were apicious time that the Mashiach could have come for whatever reason either we didn't have merits or something went wrong and he didn't come. That's why we're not allowed to calculate the dates because if I'm going to calculate now the dates and come in and say this is the date when Mashiah is coming and for whatever reason we're not ready or Mashia decides not to come I'm going to look like a fool and I'm not allowed to do that to calculate more or less a period and say it's an aspicious time for him to come now. That's okay because I can get everybody aroused and excited and ready. But the point is that we don't know. Mashiach knows only he knows the date is holding the date. And there's a reason why we're still not re redeemed. I mean, I don't know why. Nobody knows why. All the great rabbis in our generation are in a big wonder why Mashia did not come yet. I mean, it seems like everything is ready. My theory that Mashiah did not come yet, is that, and it's my theory, don't take it as a source, is that every day Mashiah is already here. That is a that's a given. We know that Mashia is already here. He's ready to be revealed. There's a question if he knows his Mashiach or not. That's a different question. Some say that he knows his Mashiach and some say that he doesn't know. He's just waiting. Like Mosha Rabenu. Mosher Rabenu did not know. Mosha Rabenu was 80 years old. He goes to to a walk with all his goats and and lambs and sheep and suddenly Hashem reveals himself and oh, he becomes the redeemer. So one opinion says that now Mashiach doesn't know who he is. He's just waiting and other P says he knows very well who he is. He's just waiting for the green light. But every morning he wakes up in the morning and he tells the kadoshu it's time I got to come and save the world. So Hashem tells him you know maybe wait one day. I looked on the internet and you know how many lectures I saw going to be tonight. You know how many classes are going to be tonight. You know how much uh how much outreach is going to be? How many CDs are going to be given? How many videos are going to be viewed? how many programs there going to be and how many people are going to do chuva today. Wait one more day and we have another 2,000 people doing chuva. Mashia says, "Okay, fine. I'll wait." And then the next day the same story repeats itself. So of course there's the contradiction, the the question that contradicts and then that will never end. So I'm sure that at some point Mashia is going to say, "Okay, enough is enough. I have to come." But again, this is my theory. This is not a source. this is not something to take and start saying that I'm saying that that's why Mashiah is not coming. That's just how I see it. And I actually heard a very interesting a very interesting same explanation about two big in our generation that a few years ago three sadikim got together and they decided that they have to make the redemption come faster. This sadikim is Raer Cook from and Berand and they had like the aliat and they went up to the heavens above and they understood that something has to be something has to happen in order for Mashiah to come. So they knew that one of them one has to be killed, one has to be exiled and one has to be humiliated. and they came down says I'll be the one who gets killed and a few years ago was murdered and of course took the the humiliation and the shame and got the exile and I heard from couple different places that the same theory what I'm saying that they're waiting mashia is waiting for mobile chuvas that these two particular sadikim are praying for every Jew to do chuva and that's Why the redemption is being pushed a little bit and pushed a little bit and pushed a little bit for more people to do chuva for the right for the righteous converts to convert and to have it done on time and whoever needs to do cha to be on board and to do it the right way. But again, listen, I don't have facts. I don't have sources. I'm just telling you what I think. So my thought is my belief is that Msiah is ready to come any second. We're just not asking for it to come enough. We're not demanding it. We don't really feel the absence of Mashiach in our life because if I have things that are good around me then I want this good to stay. I'm thinking that if Mashiach is going to come then I'm going to lose this goodness in my life. And unfortunately a lot of people are comfortable in some type of way or they're not ready for a change and they're not willing to risk something. But the reality is that each and every one of us has to ask himself every day, am I really ready for Mashiach to come? If I would have now a text sent to me, Mashiach is coming today, how would my day look? How would my life look if I know exactly when he's coming? What am I willing to give up in my life? What am I willing to do to sacrifice to make sure Mashiach is coming? The question is if you go out to the street and you start interviewing people, how many people are really going to tell you, "Yes, I am waiting. I have a suit hanging in my closet. I have a special dress for the coming of Mashiach. I have a special Shabbat suit from him. I have everything ready. Every morning I'm looking at the sky to see if the color changed." I mean, if you go to the streets, how many people are really living like that? How many people are really every day praying from their kishk? Hashem, enough is enough. We need the redemption already. We can't take this anymore. So lately, Hashem is making sure that everybody's twitched into a wall in some way or another. So one person loses his money, one person has a sickness, one person can marry off their kids, one person is battling depression. Every person is now pressed to a wall some way or another. So Hashem says, "Just beg for it already. I want you to want him to come." Jacobu said, "If I'm going to reveal to them the end of days, what good would it do? Would they really really fetch? Would they really pray? Would they really want?" No, they'll just lay back, say, "Okay, let me do what I need to do." And he comes when he comes. And that's the reason why he did not reveal it the redemp the time of the redemption. And that's what I need to take from this para especially on such an auspicious day of and the next class we're going to talk about why is this day so aspicious and why we fast on this day and why we even celebrate something on this day. There are many other things that happen that are equivalent to exactly what happened on and we didn't didn't do anything about it. So that we'll talk about in the next class. But the point is what I want to take from this week's parasa. It's the parasa that ends the book of berit. It's the parasa that ends the first book that up until now we're talking about history in this book. From the next book starting already the exile starts then the redemption then we get the Torah. Everything starts so to say in a few weeks we're getting the Torah. I mean in the parasa not not in Shabot. So Jakob Aino was a very smart individual and he knew exactly what he's doing. And what I need to take from that is first of all and most important that whatever wellspring of gems that are hidden in me are waiting to be revealed. And it's not about me changing something or manipulating the situation and something will change in my life. If my my place in the world is to be very rich, it will happen whether I want it or not. It just needs to be revealed. If I'm going to be a big to Torah call scholar, a scholar, then it's it's already in me. The ba is already in me. Just has to be revealed. And I can't come and now look at somebody else and says that's not fair. He has more kids than me. His wife is looks prettier than mine. His house is bigger than mine. No. Whatever belongs to me belongs to me. just has to be revealed by me and in many cases the tali can help the braha be revealed but not more than that. This is the first thing I need to take from that that you know they say the grass of the of the neighbor always looks greener and our mish our sages say in the Mishna who is the rich person the one that is happy with what he has not with somebody what somebody else has that's the real happiness that's the real richness to see what I have and to appreciate what I have and not to look everywhere else and say why does he have more than me why does she have more than me? That's kind of like really going against the kosh and saying, I don't care what you gave me. I I don't I don't appreciate that you gave me wisdom or health or or whatever talent you gave me or whatever you gave me. I want that. It's called jealousy. That's a very big sin to be jealous. People think it's not jealousy is a sin. Some people explains it enough not to commit adultery. That's in it holding the jealousy. Why are you wanting something that doesn't belong to you? It's also some some type of is to commit adultery. If I want something that doesn't belong to me, it's I'm going and trying to take something that doesn't belong to me. Doesn't belong to you that doesn't exist in your in your realm in your world. Hashem says be happy with what you have. And each and every one of us has an unbelievable wealth of of something of some type of an abundance. And that's inside of me and it needs to be revealed. And I'm the one who can reveal it by not looking around and desiring something else that I don't have. And in sometimes like in this case that Jacob revealed it to them. So sometimes I need the help of a sadic to pull it out for me. But I have something special. I'm unique. Our sages say the same way that their faces are different also their opinions are different. Meaning that our soul is unique. There's only there's no duplicate to our soul. The proof to that is that the soul gets into the body and it kind of creates a mold. The shape of our body comes from our nephesh. How the shape of the the face will be. And the proof that our souls are different is look at our fingerprints. There's no identical fingerprints. billions of people from other generations. Also, there's no such a thing as an identical fingerprint. Cuz in our generation, let's say there's 7 billion people. 50 years ago was 7 billion people. 100 years ago was 6.9 billion people. 100 You're talking about billions of people. No, one identical fingerprint to any human being. More than that, now they're finding even even more sophisticated is the eye. Now they're trying starting to do all the the the excuse me yeah but to to what's the word to identify people by the eye. They scan the eye and the details that are in the eye are much more in depth than their fingerprints. So that just goes to show to us that our soul is unique. There's no cloning to the souls. My soul is unique in its way and it has its character traits and it has its pluses and its advantages over other things. And I possess something that nobody else in the universe has. I'm unique. And when I'm saying I'm, I'm saying each and every one of you is unique. So maybe that person might be very smart and that person might be very talented, but I have something that is unique and I have to reveal it and and apply it and bring it to the world. And if I don't do that, then I'm doing a great sin that I'm not applying my uniqueness into the universe. And that's the blessing that Jacob gave the Shbatim. He did not give them a new blessing. He just looked at them, saw the potential, and he told them, "What's the potential? Now go and reveal it." And that's the first thing that I need to do is to try to figure out what's my potential. What's my my my wellspring of of abundance of wealth and to bring it out to the world because the world needs it. And on the second thing that I need to understand is that Jacob did not reveal the time of Mashiach because the same is not revealed to us because we really we want to get to a point that we want Mashiach to come and each and every one of us has to ask himself 50 times a day do I really want Mashiach to come cuz if I really want Mashia to come what would I do now to make sure he comes am I really doing what I'm required to do to bring the G and that's the question you have to ask yourself 50 times every day because it's all about bringing Mashiach because Mashiach is going to gather everything together. If my dream is to get married and I'm saying I don't want Mashia to come it because I need to get married don't worry Mashiach will come with your Basher and if my dream is to make to be successful somewhere Mashia is going to cause this success to actually happen. So I should not now pray for my business to work. I should pray for Mashia to come by by default it will work. If I'm battling a sickness I should pray for Mashia to come not for me to be cured because if Mashia is going to come by default I'll be cured. So my focus has to be constantly is how I bringing the gula. How is it to do with me? And the reality is that each and every one of us has the obligation and the ability to bring the gula. We don't need all the Jews. Of course, if we have all the Jews doing, then right away we get reveal redeemed says, "No, we don't need all the Jews. We just need one group, one strong group that really does. That's it. That's all we need. There's no chance we can get all the Jews together. We don't even know who all the Jews. You know how many Jews out there in the world that they don't even know they're Jewish? Probably hundreds of thousands. I meet them every day. Every day I meet somebody that doesn't even know they're Jewish. And you know how many people think they're Jewish and they're not even Jewish. So we can't get all the Jews together. Doesn't matter how many Shabas campaigns you're going to do. You cannot get all the Jews together because there always going to be at least one that says I don't want to. And hundreds of thousands that don't even know they're Jewish. But we don't need that. We need one strong group that follows the Torah, that desires Mashiach, that prays for Mashiach to come, and that is enough for us. And that's what we need to concentrate and to ask myself 50 times a day, am I in that group? Maybe it is maybe me now waking up and going to pray in a minan will kill the entire world to maybe me right now taking half an hour out of my day to help my neighbor. I really don't want to and I really don't feel like it and I want to sit and relax and I want to sleep an extra hour. Oh, I want to be on Facebook for another two hours, but maybe I'll not do that today and I'm going to go and help my neighbor for half an hour. Maybe that mitzvah is going to be the mitzvah that tilts the world to a point that we're going to be judged to. So, it's all about us. It's only depending on us. It's not the sadikim who are going to bring the gula. There were many years ago many different sadikim that thought that they can bring the gula and and they found out that no it has nothing to do that sadikim have no power to bring the gula. It's us that has to bring the gula. The redemption is depending on us. We are the one who have to do it. We are the ones who really want to desire and want the redemption. And since we're not doing it voluntarily and is pushing us to a corner that we will scream for it. So that's why each and every one of us is dealing with something. I might have a lot of an abundance from this here, but I'm lacking a lot here. And I don't believe that anyone in the world can now raise their hand and say my life is perfect. Nobody can say that cuz one person is lacking amuna, one person is lacking health, one person cannot get married, one person lost his money, one person is depressed, one person is sick. Everybody has something that Hashem is taking away. I call it like a father who takes the lollipop away from the child. You know, sometimes a father comes home and he opens the door and he screams, "I'm home." And you know, the kids are like that. And he's like, "I'm home." And he just wants the kids to come and give him a hug or a kiss. But the kids are just glued to a screen. So what does he do? He pulls out a lollipop. I have a lollipop. And then everybody comes to him and they take the lollipop. Thank you. And they move away. So the father wants some attention. He just takes the lollipop away. Then you see the kids jumping around him. So Hashem sometimes is taking our lollipop away. And he says, "I just want your attention. I want you to feel that you're lacking something because we are lacking mashia. We are lacking the gula." We don't know that. We didn't realize that yet. Maybe some of you did, but we are lacking it. It's something that is an absence in my life and any void that I filled inside of me and you have to be true to yourself at the end of the day when you're covering yourself with a blanket at the end of the day is over and there's this little void deep down inside. That's the void that Mashiah is not here yet because there's a spark of Mashiach in each and every one of us and Mashiach is going through suffering now because he needs to be revealed. So it's up to us. It's not up to the it's not up to the big rabbis. It's not It's us that we have to do it and this para comes to teach me that I have to take matters into my own hand. I have to take responsibility. I have to say that I have responsibility in bringing the gura and it's not a dream and it's not something that we've been hearing about it for thousands of years. No, it's the reality and the reality is that Mashiah is already very late and it can really happen any day. You have to program in your mind how will my life look if Mashia will come today if Mashiah comes today. Am I even ready? Am I ready now to run out to the street? You know Mashia is going to come through. He's coming through here and then he's going to go to he's going to get up a few up a few is going to wake them up and then he's going to am I ready for that? Am I ready to run out and say to Mashiach finally you here? I put the live stream ready. So the point is what I want to take from it and this is what I need to apply this week and and not only this week but to keep it is that it's all about the redemption. It's all about bringing Msiah and what am I doing towards it and what how much responsibility am I taking and what can I do to make it happen today? We're fasting. We're fasting because this is the day that came to siege to put a siege on it. It took three and a half years before they actually before they destroyed Jerusalem asm will do now about that. But it's the right time to think why are we fasting? We're fasting because we don't have beta mikdash. We don't have beta mikdash and bad things are happening every day and people are suffering and mashiach is waiting for us to demand from the master of the universe. Send us the redeemer already. And this is what I need to take from it from this week and this is what I need to apply especially on this specific day. If we have enough Jews and even non-Jews that demand for the gul to happen then it will happen and it's all about usem should continue having an easy fast if you're fasting and with our actions we should really merit to see the coming of Msiah and the and the and the k the date will be already revealed and open it should happen very very soon. Amen.