Parshas Chayei Sarah: The Mysterious Disappearance of Yitzchak

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com Friday afternoon it's a short day with have a lot to do little time u in the past we uh sometimes say you know keep your socks on keep your shoes on today we're going to give uh a little warning try to stay right side up and you'll see what I mean the uh there is a common expression and uh many people probably think it's somewhere in ch a son are the legs of the father actually if I were to ask you know where does it say that person say Yeah in ch or somewhere actually it doesn't say it anywhere right here it does not say it anywhere where does that come from that's what everybody says but actually if you look in thear number two it says the inheritor are the legs of the father but there is such an expression a child a son are the legs of the father and what we like to try to explain is of all the parts of the body why is the son considered the legs of the father why not the why not the head why not the hands why not the heart why not the mind the legs of the father okay very interesting I'm going to ask you a a Kasha now you're going to think to hey how come I never thought of that question how old was Y at the AA oh wow7 how old was he when he married Rifka 40 40 he waited 10 years till right she wasan and then what and then 10 years until she was going to claim that K so so how old was y when yob and ASA was born 60 how old was Abraham when y was born 100 oh how old was yor when when he celebrated his son's barah 73 on that day they went off the right excuse me went off the D and what happened on that day when yob was cooking those beans Abraham died how old were as and yov 1 some say 15 but some say 13 according to those who say 13 how old was Yak at the time3 73 how old was abraham7 173 right because we know AB was 100 when y was born was 60 when so that means on the day of the Mitzvah of and abrah was 173 in the Torah tells us that Abraham died on that day what but I thought he was 175 but according to but our we just made is he was only 173 that before no no not not with me but again again here's the question the question is the Tyra says that Abraham was a 175 when he died but that doesn't work out he was 100 when y was born y was 60 when yob and as were born that would me make y 73 when when they became bar mitzah which was presumably according to many opinions the day that AB aino died but if Abra aino was 175 when he died but according to our calculations he was only 173 what happened to the missing two years okay let's turn for a moment to the end of of last week's para at the end of the AA okay and the question I'm going to ask you is a rhetorical one because if you know the answer so don't don't shout it out don't shout it out what 15 going to 15 that works out yeah correct at the end of theam Abraham returned to his who um who I have a question for you where's didn't come he went back he went someplace else remember the instructions before I asked the question don't shout out the answer right oh okay where is where is the Torah says abah returned to where's so some him say that he hid because of okay now this week's para died where's where did go finally in it should say told number six andov enters after yov already taken the BR and what does the say take a look in this is [Applause] inot made you wrote on the I mentioned that already yeah see the the scent of my son is like the scent of a field that God blessed Rashi said what ASA smelled so good ASA was wearing uh ASA was wearing right excuse me yob was wearing theob was wearing the garments of the goat goat skin says nothing smells worse than goat skin besides gasoline nothing smells worse than goat skin the scent of G entered with and commented wow you smell like an and the question is how would know what smells like how would know what not able to follow directions but but there's a there's a well-known medish that the medish tells us that actually at the end of the par at the end of the par it says that when RKA was coming back to and she sees the says was coming right take a look in the end of this is very important that you see this inside the P says the [Music] [Applause] says per returning from he was living in the South says where is he coming from one said he was coming from the and there's another opinion that was coming from GH now you ask huh what was he doing in there is a and source that to this opinion that came from G he was there three years from the day that he was tied to until the day of his what's the from the list by the of the says abah came to eulogize where was why does the son not master the mother after all the only child you know why couldn't make it to the not because he ran out of gas not because this flight was canell because he wasn't in he was therefore when saw she asked who's this guy understand Rifka sees a young man walking why is she asking who is this man what what she's you know looking around you know to spy out different men that could you know be compatible I mean why is she asking Rashi explains she saw his majesty the question was even stronger okay the seems to be bothered by the following question and I'll say it in the way I you know the way I see it and it is like this what happens to RKA when she sees yeah El she falls off the camel she was very startled yeah why was she very startled he was coming from what was I don't understand did you ever see anything in your whole life that startled you so much that you fell off your chair I don't know did you ever see anything in your life that was so startling that you fell off the chair rash she doesn't say she fell off the bow she bowed down she slid off she bowed down her head rash says but the simple meaning of the she fell I mean she's obviously very startled what was so startling about Y and somehow seems to be saying that because y was coming from ganen that was startling what was so startling what exactly was so startling that comes back from G I mean what he looked differently no no one comes no one comes after back from G how do you know Rifka how do you know she knew that he was in Ganan no one comes back did did you ever see anyone from Ganan I can't answer that question no we don't know that she knew he was coming from Gan he had an aura can I that he had an aura about him that was very really where does it say that he was Majestic he was very beautiful he's beautiful okay so let's start this way let's start with this Rabbi said probably many of you have heard that y was coming from ganen but this next part may come as a big surprise let's start this way the end of the PK says that was living in where I mean who cares he's living we know where y we know where they're living wa they moved they moved while in the one day it took to find the what they moved they didn't move so why does it have to say he lived the it's very interesting if you look in there's AER called and in it says about says like this says that when um the wife of asked to give her a field to make money it said she said like this give me because you gave me Rashi explains over there what does it mean you gave me a house that is it's dried out from any good because all we have is Torah so that could also be what the Torah is saying about this is what suggest in the that had just come from g g what was he doing there he was learning he was learning yeah and like the says if you want to learn tah go to the South so the Torah is commenting where was coming from coming from a place that was it was empty from anything other than Tyra now listen to this I'll bring you a couple more sources that was in by the way the should not be confused with the one of the one of the students of and he also writes was coming where was he coming from he was coming from ghen and he quotes very interesting Med that when when elzar came back Yak suspected elzar of uh some monkey business with Rifka you know a slave and this young girl in the desert who knows what happened y suspected him so Hashem wanteded to sort of remove the suspicion he said to the Mal what are we going to do to elazar so the so the Met says the same way went toen alive we'll do the same for elazar so elazar could rise above the suspicion and in fact look at number 10 R say why did he fell on the face of his de in order to arouse the crying but he didn't actually eulogize he wanted to but he did not now look a couple lines down I heard that's found in the reason he didn't bring with him because Abraham slaughtered the majority of you hear this even though Rashi seems to say that he didn't touch him that's rash's opinion that's the simple meaning of the says he did him yeah that's what the Mal said but God said to do it so who do you listen to so so they're saying that he actually did it that's what the Z says says but then the would said could already would told him stop don't do anymore don't do anymore don't do anymore you ready stop there what and why no no no no that's how you that's how you oh but when the came and said [Music] says they brought him to to recuperate he said you know it's pretty gack over here he stayed there for three days years when he came back they made a on him that's where he that's where he that's where he heard him that's where he held him also writes also writes that at the end of Thea the end of the ARA it says Abraham returned he hang yeah he hung out Years also writes the end of this week's that where was coming from comes I don't know if we've quoted him in a while right who's yeah the was a contemporary of yeah and he says like this rash says contemporary and like this we know when he smelled jakob's garments he smelled G how did know what G smelled like he remembered he remembered exactly what it smelled he spent three years there you don't forget such a smell okay now listen to this you ready then this is what I told you try to keep yourself right side up says Thea okay who's the r r is one of the balas the r writes that what exactly was so startling about when saw says she saw coming from G and in G what do people look like listen to this in this world we stand on our feet in G they stand on their heads okay that's a right in G says people don't walk on their feet they walk upside down and was coming back from G the way people come in G standing on his head turned around if he's back on no no no we can't ask he was going the way with their feet up in the air so you say does anybody else say this Rashi says this rash I thought Rashi says he saw his majesty no upside down like turned over that's what Rashi means you hear this says that means is she saw him Majestic that's what rash means means turned over but why would he have been turned over he's coming back from ganen he had he hadn't landed yet he had came out of G wouldn't he not yet it takes time to acclimate yeah to bring back he came up upside down yeah so show me that I remember okay so the r is saying a very interesting that in Ghan instead of right side up you have upside down so the question is why the question is why question is I he was going on a on on a unpaved Tri you know the we know that there's a fundamental difference between human beings and human beings are called people who go are called why is that because a Mal can't grow can't go down Remains the Same level all of its life a is called an a human being is a you're supposed to go from one Madre to the next next M always growing always growing it's very interesting there's a in Z this is from the also it says like this it says you go in my ways you keep my guard and you judge my house you preserve the justice I will give you between the says in his commentary to he says like this we know when a person passes away he's no longer a he's an because he can no longer grow he can no longer do mitz but if has or if somebody has sons who or daughters who do Mitzvah so all of those are accredited to the father and a person could continue to be a even after he goes to the right in general in this world you're a in the world to come you're an but if a person has a person has person has children that continue to do those are credit to the person this is what is saying after he dies he's no long because he is exempt from someone has many students or many children or many M any that they do have it's like he's doing them in this way a person could continue to move up and level level continue to be this what is saying to the I will allow you to be even when you're amongst okay so says is the of a very popular his name isman he is the head of the Bells and he writes in his yeah he says like this he says now we understand why and we ask why of all the parts of the body is the son considered the legs of the father is that beautiful because once a person goes to the he's no longer he's I made he's stationary but as said if a person has students a person has children that do mitz they allow theft to continue to be a even that they do are credit to the father so therefore the child are the legs of the father they allow the child the father to be a high very good they allow the child to be the father to be even after the father is an but if he has or if he has or he has children that continue on so even in the you could be a it's even better the because could be when you're alive good now we understand he says in so to speak a person can't be person has no rag what does that mean he has no rag he can't go he's stuck on the same rung of the ladder but a person has says so then he continue to be a comes along the safer who's the P fantastic saer ask quotes p in one of his Farms not this piece but he quotes a different piece but says like this where is why didn't come to he said well because he doesn't say that but he did make a brought him to to heal him but the P he wasn't there three years he was only there two years so that's the difference between who he says I'll bring you a proof the proof is like this we know that was 60 when the kids were born and Abraham was 100 when was born that would make Abraham 173 at the day of his death but we know he died at 175 what happened to The Missing Years says he's a reine look in the second line I'll prove to you spent two years in because it says it says count says like this the kids grew up with he was 13 and on that day died shouldn't see going off the we're missing two years the answer is even though the says was 60 when his kids were born he was really 62 what happened to the two years we only count the time that a person spends in this world we don't count the time that they spend in the is not counting them the truth is you want to know how old was really he was 62 really he was 62 but why does the Tyra say 60 he spent 60 years in this world does anybody explain why the if there was one where Thea had to be his recuperation had to be in as opposed to they didn't have good doctors they were smart then they take his insurance yeah they what they were afraid of Obamacare so they decided to go to geden but says theas says theas like this he says why is it in this world we walk right side up and they're upside down this is very P cuz in this world our focus is on shamay maybe it's to who says maybe this world were upside down and over there it's right side that's the way it's supposed to be maybe well we'll see about that but listen okay these are all good suggestions but listen to what he says like this in this world in this world our focus is on the heavens our focus is on serving where focus is on the that we have from sh but they're stuck once you get there you're an night made you can't once you've cashed in so that's it you're you're there's no uh there's no interest there's no residual income what are you going to do that's why their focus is on this world what have we left down in this world that we could still continue to gain from and the answer is if a person has children or had other people that is something that is residual income and that is why perhaps in whatever that means we don't know exactly what it means that their head is on the bottom and the feet are on top we don't exactly understand that but in some in some vein their focus is on because their only way that they could grow and remain is the focusing on what they've left in this world and says perhaps this is what the means in tell us was sick and he went up to and when he came back down Rua his father asked him what do you see up there what did he say I saw an upside down world so even though there many perim inar but based on what we just learned very simple what does it mean yeah it's an upside down world yeah everything's upside down literally people are standing on their heads so his father said no that's the way it is and that's the you saw in because in this world our focus is on sh our focus is on acting the but it's very frightening that once a person gets to can't do MIT anymore the villain going on his on his death bed right he was crying about the MIT of he said in this world for a few bucks you could buy a pair of and even you there's nothing more you could do you can't even buy a Mitzvah but that is perhaps why paid in all yeah you get what you getting but you're you're capped out there's nothing more you can do but if you have a big bank account then you plann appropriately but look even the said they said it's a long trip it's a long existence eternity is a long time yeah you need a good base for you're a nity but the focus of the people in the is on this world what have they left in in this world that they could continue to ACR residual income in the world to come wonderful you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com