Parshas Mikeitz: Rebbi Akiva's Soul Catapults To The Highest Echelon In the Universe

in progress okay friends one last thought thear tells us that at the end of the life of RAB AA when they were taking him out to rake his flesh with Combs of Steel he was being and his said even at A Moment Like This said his soul departed his soul departed with the word you know it's very interesting says why did Raba suffer this fate say said because Raba made a mistake says Raba said the famous gar in there was a debate on the tells us you need to fear Hashem and benur was of the opin excuse me shim was of the opinion and that every s in the T has meaning but they could not fig fure out what could possibly be the meaning of the word s who else could you fear other than Hashem and the gar says until Raba said it came along and he said what what's the issue s comes that there's an entity in this world that we have to have reverence for besides that and that is the entity of so innovated wases that aside from theam there's a reverence that we have to have for says made a mistake by offering thisas how could you compare to the so therefore Raba was punished reaba was punished by the way repeats this notion say that Hashem showed every generation Hashem showed Adam the leaders of the generation the wise men of the generation and when Adam got to the door of Raba Adam rejoiced in the T of Raba but then Adam was saddened by his death says theam was joyous about the T of Raba because the T of Raba allowed a person to have ambition to be similar but he was saddened by his death why was he stand by his death says in his opinion Raba in fact died because he was mistaken in making this how could you compare anyone to so in two places the was the great the author of The in two places he says there's a criticism on for offering this but they challenge theak how could you say that a and the gar is not correct asks could you say Raba made a mistake and furthermore if RAB AA made a mistake then the should not be like RAB AK then should be that there is no in honoring and yet throughout sh sh maintains that honoring Tam is not safe you look in where says the againsts what do you mean RAB made a mistake to compare with and therefore it's generally assumed that no Not only was RAB AKA not punished for making such aasha but this DHA is reality of the T that the tah teaches us and this is the Innovation Raba that there's a certain esteem that the genuine of have to have in our eyes and that is you know in this week's paraa we know there's an idea R brings on the final P of the par there's an idea that the brothers for selling y had to come back to this world another time and they were punished quite severely in the guise of the it's a well-known idea it's the focus of the and that we say on Tish and that we say on Yumer there's an idea that the were a kapar for the sale of Y and there's a lot of discussion in the more mystical works of which one of the was corresponded to which one of theim and there's a lot of talk about RAB AKA because the question is really there only nine brothers involved in selling y y wasn't involved in selling y and what about ruin wasn't there and bamin wasn't there so there's only nine so comes of sham of asapi and Sh ASAP says amazingly that in fact the 10th one of the the theim is not one of theim but it's God himself the rebish himself was responsible in part for the because they were they joined in whatever this means they joined in in the sale of Y so now the question is who corresponds to says again this is not like the you know who corresponds toes corresponds is none other than RAB AKA why doesa correspond because Raba was the one who dared as so was the one who created the reality that literally to some extent in some semblance there's a commonality with the therefore is the suitable corresponding entity toes these are the words of R shamshan of ashra and um he says this is the meaning of the P we know that rabba was a Shepherd so the PK says if you want to know why did RAB AA the shepherd die the answer is you know why because everyone who dies and passes on from the world they each one of so it comes out that there were nine but why did why did the 10th die if there only nine involed in the answer is the 10th one he is he was in the place of now what's interesting inter in to me is that RAB AKA didn't always have this respect for Tam not only did RAB not always understand the greatness of Tam not only were not always on such a high pedestal to R buta says you know in his previous life but when he was he would say who would give me a who could give me and I'll bite him like a donkey very interesting SOA didn't always have this respect for so how is it how is it that RAB AKA started off with so to speak a vulnerability and a weakness specifically in this area in the area of appreciating and he catapult himself and he propelled himself to such a high level that not only did he overcome his challenge he took his handicap and he made it his strength there's no one in the history of the world who appreciated as great as reab in fact if I could segue for a moment you know this seems to be at odds with the well-known teaching that the schl kades brings down that Raba was not in place of Hashem but rather Raba was in place of Y and Y needed Kap because he sort of in a way incited the jealousy of his brother so he had a certain culpability in the m so is that a in the place of by the way the SCH says that that's why he's called AK it's not that his father's name necessarily was y but it's a remise to the idea that he's in place of Y or is Rab in the place of hasem so thees writes that it's not a contradiction REI AA was both and that's because Y in his role Asad sadic is the to the and as a to the RAB AKA was able to be simultaneously in Le of Y but Y is the sadic he's The Chariot of the so he's both in place of Y and he's in the place of the by the way this um I can't help but think because says in this this week's para it's the very same words it's like is saying you need to know who I am is giving he's giving a little clue you want to know who who I am so one thing that's important to recognize as K teaches us when look to include something besides in this world meaning who is that personality who should be on the highest pedestal in our life Kaz don't say it's thead kazal don't say it's the M kazal don't say it's the B kazal don't say it's the uh many many great personalities uh Grace the Jewish people but of all those great uh personalities the one should be held in the highest esteem in our eyes is the but besides that I think it's worthwhile to think how RAB AKA took a weakness in his life and he transformed it into his greatest strength and that's a very inspiring liod very often there are things in our life we say you know I'm not really good at that that's not my strong point or you know I get along with most people but I can't really get along with so and so and I think what Raba did should give us the motivation that and it should challenge us that there are things in our life where if we're not successful at them we don't have to on the towel but moreover we could take them and transform them and make them our the greatest strength we have in our life reab aa's weak point was the esteem in which he held but he took it and he worked on it and he studied it and he's into it and he worked and he worked and he worked until he catapulted himself from being on the level of to be able to equate and ultimately says that's that he was that his soul departed in of himself and we might not be able to uh reach the lofty levels of RAB AKA but we should use use it as a motivation and inspiration that there may be things in our life that we find challenging and we should challenge ourselves not only to work on them not only to try to overcome them but challenge yourself that maybe transform that into something that could be your greatest strength rabai have a wonderful chabas recording stopped good Jas everyone