Parshas Shemos: Origins of Royalty - The Malchus of Yaakov Avinu

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David it says he approached dying his father lived 400 years and he only lived 70. so we see off the bat that there is a comparison between Jaco vavino and David neither of them quite made it to the lifetime of their fathers however the balatoran points out that only twice in the Messiah do we have the expression one here and the either and the other one by David Lamas so we find in the mirrors who says to David you made 147 MS moiram like the life of Jaco vavino you made you made a hundred and no problem you made 147 Miss moiram like the life of Jacob avino and you were therefore like him in other words with valaturum is saying an amazing thing that how many chapters are there until then we uh usually understand their 150 chapters but there is a way to calculate that in fact there are 147 chapters if you make ashrayaish and Lama rug shoe you make that one you make possibly other chapters into hilum you combine them so there are 147 chapters of atalam in communion the years of the life of jakovino so David was you made 147 like the life of David of yaakovich that what what was just like you and your son ruled together just like yaakov and Yosef they were both rulers together they both reigned together so to you David will become king in your lifetime now this is a very interesting teaching just like yaakov and Yosef both were malachim together so too David and were both Kings together now Yosef we know was a king but was yaakov a king where do we ever find that yaakov as a king the balaturum seems to behadesh to us the Yakov in fact was a melach and just as he and Yosef both ruled simultaneously so too David who made 147 chapters of to him like the life of yaakov to rule together with his son by the way the balotuma adds just like yaakov like Rashi says just like Yakov did not reach the age of his forefathers so too David did not reach the age of shall by the way this idea that that David amalek said the number of tehilim of the years of Jacob avino uh we find in um the writings of Moshe of shaversk he says he said to him in another comparison between yaakov and David is yaakovino loimes David king of Israel lives and indoors okay so we're being introduced to an idea that yaakovino was a melach he was a king now we find earlier and voracious avraham avina was a king and this is a subject that's very interesting to me I would like to work on something on the malchus based David I mentioned this but we find if you look at number 18 over here it says that um in the war of the Four Kings and the five Kings they went to a place Rashi brings the murder sagada emek it was a valley almost all the nations of the world gathered together and they proclaimed Abraham as their King amravino was designated as the king of the world so we find avraham avinu had malchus and here are the balaturam is saying that just like to Reign at the same time as the sun is safe David was a Terrain at the same time as his son they both remain simultaneously but what is the source what is the real Makar of this concept of this teaching that Jacob avino was a melach so this comes from the voracious rabba by the way we could point out that this idea that yaakov said that David said 147 chapters of tehilim like the life of Jacob avino comes from okay if you look in the Madras when Yehuda tells foreign you are like Pharaoh says the gracious rabba my Paro I goizer just like pharaoh decrees and doesn't fulfillment you two decree and don't fulfill my power Lord came just like paroi is lewid and that he runs after relations with male you also do that Triumph just like Pharaoh is the king and you are second Tim in the land of Egypt so too is my dad the king of Canaan and I am second in command if I unleash my sword first I'll knock you off and then I'll knock off your master pharaoh so more of our buddy side here we have it explicitly that Yehuda is telling you is safe and I believe this is also enunciated in the targam you xiaomi in the beginning of parashas that Yehuda says you think you're a king my father is the king and I'm second to him and I will knock you off and Paro so here we encounter an idea that yaakovino was a melach and Yehuda was second in command I believe we see this idea in the ramban in last week's parish as well we spent two Sheeran last week both Wednesday and Monday speaking about a Wednesday night and uh we spoke about this on Friday as well that on the possible you also the ramban says this pasok is a illusion he appointed as a King David Yehuda and his brothers dominion over Israel David this is what King David said be God the god of Israel selected me because Avi from all the household of my father Leo Islam to be a king over Israel is because he selected yehudah the nagid as a prince Huda and the house of Judah based Avi my father's house Israel so the ramban uses a language that yaakov was he appointed as the king broida explains who was he's selected in other words be God selected me Yehuda yaakov selected Yahoo then Hashem selected based of it says from these words yaakov had the permission the ownership he owned to be moirish dominion and malchus to whoever he wanted meaning if yaakov was this is actively appointed you as a king and God selected of it yaakov selected yahudah and God selected David now I want to elaborate on a point that we mentioned we discussed the sort of the battle of the monarchs of Yehuda who the murderer says was the second in command to yehudu was second to command to Yakov and Yosef was second in command to paroi now you know one of the things that Jacob avino did was he sent Yehuda to your safe to establish Yeshiva and rablib boxed asks why would he send Yehuda this is quoting tells us in Yuma that the POI scheme of Khali saw were from yasaka or Levy so yaakov should have sent you sakhar or Levi boxed he says that even though you saw her or Levy are worthy to be Russia Yeshiva but they're not necessarily worthy to establish a Yeshiva because to establish a mockery of Torah you need malchos to establish a strength and the Eminence and the power of Yeshiva that should be able to stand up to the Winds of the times and the tides of the times you need the kayak by the way I believe we spoke out in the Sharon Valley from the mams then so why couldn't Jaco safe so the mams says well because Josef did not have foam alchas he was second in command to to paroi as opposed to Yehuda perhaps at this point in time yaakov appointed Yehuda as the melach but I would add this the reason why yaakov avinu didn't send yoi safe is because Joseph was not a real Mella Yosef is the middle of yasoid he just consolidates the people and unifies the people but Yehuda is the real melach but in any event the uh says that this would explain an interesting tradition that we have that when opened up the Shiva in villages benched him that he is to continue the chain of Torah in his children and his grandchildren until the coming of mashiach why exactly did the gra give this bracha specifically at the installation inauguration of the Yeshiva so the capital points out something very interesting historically there have been many great Russia shivas in our history from the times that we showing him and then continuing into times of the the achranean two of the greatest all-time rashishiva were reviewing who even uh by the account of his detractors taught more than 20 000 students in his lifetime but there is a very big difference between the yeshivas of before and after you see before learned from Arabi the rebbe happened to be an Yeshiva when the rebbe was nifter the basement was bottle and they went to learn elsewhere or if the rebbe went elsewhere they followed the rebbe the Yeshiva was not the makum kavua they learned from arav something new never ceases and if the ra the Wrath dies someone else stays in that mockline so this the place is not created because the students learn from a specific Rabbi there is a inherent distinction in the place and the makkahim and to establish a mockahim you need the karachos and that is why was given the bracha that he should be able to continue this dynasty this Royal Dynasty for many generations that's why the grass said that you should be zoika to many generations of Torah because in general Tyra is not a yerusha Torah does not get passed down from one generation to the next a father could be at the child may not be a Tamil says that often the children of Tami are not Tami to teach Russia however is something that gets passed down from generation to generation the brachov that the doyers should continue in Torah not the inherent Torah in it of itself but the mauchos of Torah of establishing which requires the that a rosh hashiva has two components to it there's a component of Tyra and there's a component of malchus for example on the end of hariyoi says rabba ruled as rosh hashiva 22 years and then in his letter that he says Russia of malachas even in tanzan there was such a concept Surah but in the times that we shine him the concept of Yeshiva was Battle they learned from Arabia and that is what the gra benched that he should be zoicha to the mauchos of Torah but what we're learning is yaakovino Had A din of a melach he had the status of amelach yehudah was so to speak second in command let's take a look at a very interesting question of the Taz in parashas and this this year is sort of in a way a dealing with a number of issues at the end of safe voracious and that's the sashama will segue us into safer shimais um the Taz has the following question sure you mentioned that Yehuda was second in command so so yourself also second in Command right so when Yehuda was talking to your safe in the in the conversation beginning about yigash so yahudah tells you I'd say who do you think you are you're a second command you're a king my father is also a king your second command almost a second in command but possibly when yaakov sends Yehuda to establish the Yeshiva maybe as ramban said yaakov was so we we usually understand that means he was possibly in the establishment of Yeshiva maybe he gave it over to him completely but look now in the Tas in archives he says the rush says encounters Josef for the first time what was Jacob avino doing he was saying did yaakov interrupt for Christmas no why not we know you're allowed to be map sick when you say creation and certainly yaakovino ode covered to Yosef because Yosef was a king and we find the Yakov certainly lent kind lent kavo to Joseph as we know when Yosef came in yaakov bow down to Joseph and parishes and Rashi even says me Khan this is the source that we Grand covered to the king so if yaakov treated Yosef as royalty then why when yaakov sees Yosef as he's saying Shema he should have interrupted in middle of the Shema he should have interrupted um why didn't yaakov interrupt to give his son covered like Rashi says well maybe he was in the middle of the first pasok and in the first pasok you cannot be map sick even when they are covered so I'm not sure how satisfying that is because so let yaakov interrupt after the first possum but that's the answer that has comes to say for Olivia's Empire and he quotes the question of the Tas and he says the Taza asks and we know I'm some who you're afraid of like a king why didn't yaakov interrupting malchus we know that yaakov gave Yosef honor so it says Olivia and I'll tell you why because we say in Chicago that what if both people are the kingdom or Tamil then one does not have to honor the other so even though yaakov odiosef covered because Yosef was a king but Joseph odia of Honor because yaakov was a king they were both Kings so this end the thousands culture was why didn't yaakov interrupt Shema to honor Jose says don't you know the Madras yaakov's also a melach and when the two people have equal footing and covered then one does not have to honor the other middle of Shema image uh if they're both Kings foreign then why did yaakov honor Yosef by bowing down on the bed to Yosef because Joseph was a king but Jacob's also a king this is not a good answer we if you look in parishes because Joseph's the king that means yaakov wasn't the kings of yaakov wasn't the king he should have stopped him of Krishna and the answer is you know why because that's when yaakov was dying and when a person is dying there's a principle the Ain be I'm her mothers there is no Dominion on the day of death on the day of death one cannot be a king is because this was at the time of yaakov's Patera so at that time yaakovino was not crowned with foreign commercial customers and the days of David were approaching to dying you know it always says it's the first time it just says because there's no power Dominion royalty on the day of death therefore yaakov on the day of death wasn't the king Yosef was a king so Jacob had to Accord honor to Yosef so but the question is Rabbi Sai if now when yaakov is meeting Yosef yaakov is a king so he doesn't have to honor Yosef then why does Yosef have to honor yaakov if they're both a king so in the footnotes on the say foreign interrupted even though he's also a king because yo saves the king but yaakov's his father so they're not equal they're both Kings yaakov is his father so yaakov doesn't have to show honor to Yosef Yosef has to show honor to his father so this is a very beautiful answer to the taz's Kasha the Taz wanted to know why didn't yaakov interrupt the middle of Shema you're allowed to interrupt them they are covered the answer is yaakov's also a king by the way in this in the saferi in the section called in the safer xiaomi he says maybe that is why yaakov was afraid to come down to Canaan why because we know foreign that one royalty cannot infringe on the or on the other even a hair's breath we know that two kings cannot rule simultaneously was afraid that if he would go down to mithrayim and yosef's royalty would be recognized and realized then his would be unrealized and he would die or josefodai and therefore Yosef says Eli that come down to me that I will go down in my madrega because I'm only second in command and you will be the king well says he says it could be and he quotes that is why Joseph says which is a different land and we're not mishtami's because you live in your section I'll live in my section and now we'll both be malachim now so there's this idea that yaakovino was a melach that might be why he was afraid to go down to Egypt that might be why he was allowed to uh why he did not interrupt the middle of his Karishma this would explain something else which is very interesting to me by the way and this would also explain how yaakov was able to be mama how did Jacob write to Imam you Yakov owned malchus that he could give it over to Yehuda and says yes yaakov was the king and he gave it over to to who he saw fit to continue Yakov lived in Egypt 17 years Rashi says that this parashah last week's Parish of the Parsha susuma because when yacovino died the eyes and the Heart of the Jewish people were sealed up because of the Sara of the shebad that they began to be mashabadas another shot is yaakov wanted to reveal the Kates and it was hidden from him Yankovic is bothered by Akasha when yaakov died the end was fueled up from the tsara of the shibud what does it have to do with the death of Jacob it was because of the shibud it's just that the Sheba didn't start before in other words what sealed up the hearts and and the eyes of Kali Israel The Shield now the Sheba didn't start until yaakov died but it wasn't the death of yaakov that sealed up their heart in fact there's no mention of she but in Paris at all in fact the mafarsham asked that as long as one of the were alive well the uh burnsen says you know there are two institutions in Claudia Israel of leadership there's the Sanhedrin and there's the marchus the sanheden are the eyes of the people and and the melach is the heart of the people well the eyes are the Israel we know in Baba when hurdles so he was advised you extinguish the eyes of the world on the other hand to carry the burden of the Jewish people and their travails is the heart of Kaliso like the rambam says the heart of the king is the heart of all of Israel was on the madrigo the Sanhedrin the eyes of the people to know how we act he was also the melach the heart of the people when yaakov was with them he was able to guide them and he was their eyes he was able to carry their burden he was the melach and he was their heart when yaakov avinu died the eyes of Israel in other words the rosh Sanhedrin yaakov the heart of Israel the Melech Jaco Vino died who else was a king Abra mavina was a king as we said that amen all the peoples of the world gathered together and they appointed avrahama King I want to offer an interesting I want to point out something I don't think we find anywhere that yitzclock was a king avraham we find explicitly amen Carmela they appointed him as a malachiakovino he was the king of Canaan do we find that Yitzhak was a king I do not believe so so you say you know yitzclock was blind he was confined to his tent but there may be a deeper reason by the way who else was a malach on was a malach I says that God passed to other Marisa in all the generations and Adam saw a man by the name of David whose life was established for three hours So Adam said to God this this man has no Takara so God said what do you mean that's what I decided So Adam said how long do I live so God said A Thousand Years So Adam said are there gifts in heaven is there Zell PayPal in heaven God says yes Adam says eight to seven years of my life I want to give to this person Adam brought a star and he wrote a star Matana and God matachron and other mauritian signed on it um I'm giving and I'm giving David points out in his commentary to the mendrish that that's why only David was authorized to sing shirat Hashem so to me it's very interesting that it was not sufficient for Adam to give 70 years to David he had to give him malchus because if David was a melach he had to get it from somewhere he got it from other marisine now has a completely different account of where David got his 70 years from foreign says where did he get it from he got it from avraham yaakov and you're safe Abraham lived 175 years he should have lived 180 years like Yitzhak he gave five years to David yaakov also he lived 147 he should have lived 175 like avraham he gave 28 years so we have five from avraham 28 from yaakov that's 33 and then you're safe lived 110 years he should have lived 147 like Yakov and he gave 37 years what about didn't give anything and desire says a kabbalistic explanation Yitzhak came from the side of Darkness David came from the side of darkness and someone who is in darkness doesn't have any light and he doesn't have life and yitzclaw could not give yours and it comes out Yosef was the most magnanimous and that's why he's at Sadiq he gave 37 years is it possible based on the yako shimani that Adam had to give now by the way all the mask if Adam gave 70 years then why did uh avrah Mitra from Jacob and Joseph have to give 70 years so the Schleich other says that Adam after um some say excuse me that other reason after the sin of the itsadas his years were sullied so um now Devon had to get 70 good years from the others or some say The other reason retracted after he offered the Matana so yeah uh so Dublin had to go get the years of avram Jacob and Yosef and some say that since David did not sleep at night so in effect he lived 140 years he had to get daytime years from Adam and nighttime years from the others okay but I was perhaps thinking maybe another additional reason why yitzhakavino did not offer years to David and that is not because he didn't want to but it's not enough for David to have years he needs royalty he needs malchus and therefore they could give malchus to David as opposed to Yitzhak who was not a melach and let's try to offer one last an explanation why in fact Yitzhak was not a Mella and this I think is uh could be found in the Zion parashas Nayak that we spoke out in our Sheeran parishes Sarah and that is we find two times every Sadiq has two one for this world and one for the next world but not yet why because when yitzclak was offered on the miss bayach his soul left his soul of this world left and when avraham said he got the soul of the next world and in that case Yitzhak was already like in the next world he was already mace that's why his name is Yitzhak Kate's hi he lives in the end he's alive even when he's in the next world that's why the only one who God says while they're alive is Yitzhak God doesn't say like says the Zaya because begin this considered like he's dead oh a few sucks to consider like he's dead he can't be a mellow we said in the beginning of the year that that's why it always says but it says because the same way Rabbi says Olivia said that at the end of yaakov's life he had an honor you say because Jose was a king one but Jaco was also a king not on the day of his death Jacob wasn't the King on the day of his death even though yaakov did not have to interrupt his Shema because he was a king but he did have to honor Yosef on his last day because on the day of death you're not a melach by the same token Yitzhak was always considered like a mess and therefore he did not have the status of amelach so you want to know why am I giving a shiramis the answer is because uh I couldn't let this pass that's the real answer but the idea that one is not a Melech on the day that they die is actually learned out from this week's Parsha number 21 it says the king of Egypt died and the matter says he didn't die he was a matsara and he would Slaughter Jewish babies to bathe in their blood and the matsiro is considered like they're dead and the girl asked how does the mattress know he didn't really die maybe it's when it says he died maybe it means he died why is the murderous dreying that it means that no he didn't die he became a matsara you know why because it says king of Egypt and the matters kahela says close to 52 times it says but when David was about today it says why does it say the days of David were approaching to die what do you mean the days of David to say Melody No Angels when somebody's close to dying they're not a mouth there's no malchus on the day of death and in this postage it says the king of Egypt died therefore hazal no he didn't really die he became a messiah because if he was really dying he wouldn't call him a malach by the way it's the same thing derived by King uzia it says in the year of the death of King was the only the year of the death of King Ozil if he died he's not a melach so from there hazal derived that uzia did not die but instead he became a matsara oh coming back to the beginning of this year we said the Kash of the division many ask how did yaakovino have the right to take away the bukhoir from ruvane but it's alive in the terrible Vaca comes the holiga kleisenberg and he says he quotes the question of his capacity to give the bahara to your safe but part of the Bukhara Islam it's actually that's not his cautious Kasha is you can't take away the Bahar it's a love in the Torah but the way the closenberger ever asked the kansha the Kasha is this is something that's not come into the world yet and the beneo is safe who would go into Arts and the closenberger ever says uh lulay if not for the holy words of maize I would have answered as follows that the post can say the seabor has a uh an extended capacity that the sibor is able to be machina so you could say says the customer the same thing by amalek he could be Pirates get there and nobody protests he has the dinner with sibor and his Matana is a matanu even and he says yaakovino was a Melech like the matter says Yehuda said to you is safe my father is King in Canaan and um and your Master's King so therefore since yakovina the status of Amela he had an extra legal Powers he had he was able to supersede the law and be Magna even the way we have the division's conscious how is he allowed to be mavera maybe this would also be an answer in other words when it comes to monetary law the king could be Pirates together okay marvelous Psy these are a few thoughts on uh parashas vayigas based on the idea that we learned out from this Powershell in Shelton says Hashem on Wednesday we're going to investigate the idea that moistura binu was a melach and until then wishing everybody a great day because we're working on a safer on voracious if anybody wants to participate um please let us know and they're wishing everyone a great day and we'll see you tonight 5 30 igara sagra wishing everyone a great day Carlton you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com