Parshas Toldos: The Observance of the Mitzvos By the Avos

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay welcome everyone good evening the says because listened to my voice he kept my guard my Commandments my statutes and my so what do you mean my there's only one t what does it mean that Abraham kept the Ty there's only one t the word is a very interesting word what does what does akv mean it says AEV because but usually if you wanted to say because it could say what's a the heel why does the so there's amazing says was the whole everything he kept everything because Abraham listened to my voice soar asked how do you know Abraham kept the whole toyra maybe he only kept uh some of how do you know AB kept the maybe only kept the you know he listened to my voice okay Hashem never told him to keep the T so maybe he only kept say no obviously he kept more than because he did so once he did the and of course he kept all 6113 so says no maybe say no that can't can't be cuz then what's why what does that come to include so therefore kept everything he kept he kept he kept everything he even kept a okay that's interesting that of all the things that we could say that abam kept we say AB kept everything even like why are we picking on it's amazing says how know says the gria of the numerical value of the words is the same as obviously I'm sure you all picked that up just by looking at the right they say the Stifler has you know Gus in the back of the so s said it came to him during obviously you know um so so the that's what the Batum says the Batum says that to in the G in fact the says that the reason why Abraham had an added hate to his name is the five added to abah's name is conned say actually the B says that the med says the same thing we know that we have a tradition that at 3 years old Abraham recognized now by the way that's not unanimous the raham doesn't say that the ramam says older some say 40 some say 48 some say 52 but be it as it may the B brings down the opinion that Abraham understood had age three and the proof is that AB lived 175 years and a is G 172 so for how many years did Abraham keep the T for a of years Abraham kept the T for 172 years Abraham kept the T so I'm looking around like what's this indan thatu kept a of like why do we pick on a of so I still quoted in many that if you look in he says the following now I already knew off the bat I smelled something here I smelled a misquote you know you could smell a misquote from a mile away what do you mean it says in the sh which Chua like why doesn't anybody say which Chua it is if you see somebody quot a chuva and nobody say what chuva is you can almost take it to the bank they're misquoting it and the reason why they don't know what chuva it's in is because it's not in there so I did a search if I I searched the sh until I was confident it was not in the sh so I'm saying how could you just blame something on the it must be there's another collection of so I checked in there and of course it was in there so they quote child because somebody probably once said said it but nobody ever traced it back I can't even tell you how many quote sh because the way it goes is the last one quotes the second to last quotes but you could always trace it back to the first uh anyway it's in the actually and says the following we once said it over here on a the goes like this the ran says you know we know what's an allows you to cook from y to shabas why because you're not how to prepare from from yab so the question that's raised that the raises is why can't you prepare from is more lenient than there's no violating y you should be allowed to prepare from y to shabas that's the why you not allow to prepare from y shabas so there's a in the ran that even though shabas is more than y in a way Y is more than chabas and that's because the Kad of Y is a man-made kadus shabas is shabas kadha is steady the shabas the kadha comes down from shamay and then it leaves when shabas is over that's why when chabas is up there's nothing you could do to hang on to the kadha there's no is shabas that's why you have to smell bmon when chabas is over cuz the second chabas is over the vanishes but y you don't smell says because y it's manmade and you could hang on to it that's why you don't have to smell that's why there's a concept of so since the one dimension is greater than chabas namely that it's man-made which is actually the ran says greater than coming down from shamay therefore you need to make an a to prepare from y to shabas but since they have that's our Y in one dimension is more than chab but what about in general is moreen than chabas and Y is not a manmade Kad because there's no yet is only the making it is like a shab but shabas is so he didn't have to make there's no IND for to make whole reason we make is because y has one advantage over shabas that it's manmade but y was not manmade therefore didn't even need to make so even that didn't need to do he did it anyway that's how we pick on says okay what's interesting is that the medish seems to have a different interpretation than the gar the gar says kept even if you look in the look at number five even kept not but even in fact the in he brings down that look that he changes the from and somehow he explains that is somehow is symbolic of's control over the Bri he doesn't explain I don't really understand what that means I'm just telling you his words but says in my opinion it's not a of and it's not a it's a ru now why from we very says why does the of implies the heel a Mitzvah connected to the heel what Mitzvah is connected to the heel a in fact the quoted in the the says that the original G the was with two and then you had some printers who read the as but says the no that's not correct it should be a notu okay he he kept all three a and yeah multiple times right so it's not just asking any time well not necessarily you have in there means reward right the reward if you listen but here it seems like a what does AEV mean even like what what does it mean sometimes it can mean reward does it mean reward here it would it wouldn't fit in if it meant reward says gave to Abraham maybe you should say what do you me reward okay I don't want to get into this but if you look in the tarum on tarum says the TA reward the reward it doesn't really fit in if it means reward will be because that you listen it will be because you listen now the truth is what makes this complicated is the tarum on this week's par translates the word akev the exact same as he does in par which is reward so I know I said it can't mean that and it doesn't mean that that's what I said in the sheer but uh it's a separate discussion in other words how could the tarum say that a in the para means reward okay okay that's that's some of the in other words the tarum definitely translates the two aavs consistently whether whether the gamar is learning it that way certainly the G doesn't learn the gamar that way okay but let's leave it at that so learned so the question is who taught him the T who who is his Rabbi who taught it him where did he get it from incredible Med say like this says the his father never taught him the he didn't have a from where did he learn Tyra God designated his two kidneys like two rabbis God turns his kidneys into Ron they Flo and they taught him this is what says I will bless God that he counseled me even in the evening my kidneys instructed me so Abraham had this inner resource of his kidneys as a concept of the kidneys could advise in fact ab's kidneys advised him and taught him I once saw an AER from Razer Ginsburg he has an English book on um bris Milos I remember he writes there's a Kasha that um writes in a CH that if the father is not around to make the know the grandfather can make the why because even though the grandfather is not to do but the grandfather is to teach and a kid cannot understand without a that ConEd theas that by cutting off the four skin it opens up the heart so in order to learn T you need a and therefore if the grandfather has to teach T The Grandfather's to give a so he had a Kasha Ginsburg had a Kasha so Abu how did he know to before he had a mil if you could only understand T if you have a so how did AB understand the T so he uses this med I remember that ab's kidneys taught him the t t his La couldn't teach him cuz his La had Ana but you know most people they learn and ab learned through his CL okay what I really want to um share with you tonight is I think we're all familiar with the concept that the a kept the T before it was given so I think one thing we learned from last week is what do you mean we're all familiar with the concept who says it yeah of course the kept the Torah you know we all know I heard everybody says it so at least one thing you should get from the shum is just because everybody says something could be true that's all I'll tell you just because everybody says something it's possible that it's true so let's examine this in fact did Abu keep the T what does it mean he kept the T did all the other keep the T did keep the T did yob keep the T who who taught them the Torah so we just learned the possibility his kidneys but what does it mean even that so Rashi let's start with rashi rashi takes it literally Rashi says AB listen to my voice the he kept my he kept my MIT are items that had they not been commanded then we still would have kept like Gaz like he kept my these are about and he kept my we're all familiar with rashi rashi takes it you know black and white literally Abraham kept the toy he kept the whole every every every every comes Rak the Rak says it's not true the Rak says not true AB didn't keep the T it's not Pak says where does it say AB kept the because he listened to my voice what hasem tell him to do tenis he told him to do whatever hasm told him to do he did says he kept all the obvious ones so what does it mean of the in other words what you're allowed to do with an animal of an animal the says for a go to graft a tree it might be from the's opinion is it's part of the how would any go know not to stick an apple into an orange tree but it's one kept that but there's no indication necessarily that AB kept the T why do you have to say he kept the T where does it say he kept the tah oh the gamar okay that's the gamar the radak says but it's not what is called now this is something over years we've explained many times the Rak is not arguing on the G the gamar is correct and you must believe in the gamar and if you don't believe in the gamar you're called the full-fledged heretic however means there's a level of understanding the that doesn't come on to the tradition of the doesn't mean you don't accept it if you're it you're a it's just there's a level of learning called and on the level ofat you don't have to say that kept the T he did keep the T and you must be M that he kept the T but you don't have to be M on there is a level of understanding t meaning a Jew should believe that there is a way to understand the T there's a way to read the T and understand it on a level that it's not necessary to say that AB kept the tah even though he did we have a tradition he did he kept it but it's not the in thees nowhere in thees nowhere in the Kish does it mandate that we accept that AB kept the does it say anywhere he kept the T it says he ate matzas doesn't say that said he ate Mar he did of course he did we're not denying that's that's how the Rak learns theak even quotes the gamar he says the gamar tells us he kep we're we're not questioning it we're not we're not challenging it it's just important to understand I'll give you a very important M very often rash will say the ra the ran will blow it out of the waters the ran will ask five questions on it and will say it's wrong and you look it up Rashi got it from the med the med tanum how could the ramban say the medish is wrong the answer is ran is not saying the medish is wrong the ran saying it's not it's Ms and it's D and it's it's one of the sh it's one of the four fine that's a she of the red there's a ran probably we're all familiar with the ran let's review the she of the ran the ran asks on Rashi really kept the whole T now it would seem to be uh substantiated by the fact that when y revealed himself what did y send back to yov AAL why cuz the last thing that yakob was learning with what do you mean learning with him you mean learning with there's no TOA obviously not only did Abraham know the tah yakob learned the T learned the T yes they went to Yeshiva just because you would go to Yeshiva doesn't mean people learn right but but they did okay they they were not only did they they learned in so but the ran has the following question raan by the way not all the went to we find went to no went to I don't think soob went toob was but was it I don't know if we have a riot to that but the r has the following question God hates we're not talking about talking about a monument of service yov made yov married two sisters you're not a married two sisters says ran and according to kazal he married Four Sisters am married his aunt mha made 12 mon save us how in the world could you say that they kept the tah especially if the tah is saying that hasem rewards Abraham because Abraham kept the tah so even though maybe they didn't have to but after Hashem tells Abraham I'm rewarding you because he kept the Torah you would think the a would want to keep the Torah as well and then the ran says doesn't the Torah say that hasem loves ABR because He commands his children after him now we do find that Yakov kept shabas it says yob was says that doesn't mean anything it could be because since they were specifically m in shabas and we do find that gave s because we find that measured and he found how much and say why did he measure just because he gave Saka doesn't mean he kept the T they were generous people but says ran in my opinion the kept Abraham andov married two sisters they only kept the T in you know why because who tells you you have to keep the Tyra God wrong God never told you you have to keep the Tyra says you know who tell you have to give the T El the god of is so if you live in says ra now this is RA we have to give a on this holds keeping is only practice for there's not a real fulfill keeping is only practice for it's not that you're really fulfilling the T it's practice if one day you get to that's ran therefore the ran says the never kept the look at he married two sisters of course in outside you eat kosher I eat koser so yakob also yakob married two sisters and guess what he got he was lucky one of them died before he got back but the rest of the made says the truth is that when it comes to God used to like it because the says now I hate it but once upon a time God liked and did it when he was um before Hashem hated it but the of the raan is that the only kept the in not you ever find eating mat eating no allowed to talk by according to the no before the Torah was given right what shab so the ran says thatt shab in because shab but the rest of the MIT they only kept it in that's now there's a a very interesting so it says is lost and they said was devoured by a wild animal and it says all of yacob's daughters came to console him so tus asked what do you mean all of his daughters he only has one daughter Dina yeah so so tus brings down Twins were born with each one of theim or it means his daughter-in-laws who were cananim so T says the the the married non-jewish women the canites so T says um no it does doesn't mean they were canites if they were Merchants it's a of merchants but then tus asks they married their sister but I thought the kept the whole T so listen to t you wouldn't you flip out the so how could the marry their sister how could yob married two sisters listen to this since they weren't commanded they kept what they wanted to and they didn't keep what they want what they didn't want to keep like most people says says the tus the a did not have to keep the T they did when they wanted to and when they didn't want to they didn't it's like uh when you say I always always means like at least one out of 10 times right you ever hear how people talk I always or I usually usually means like never always means like once in a blue moon right so the they kept the when look at says they kept some and they didn't keep some so you know who's going to be there will be there you know you know that song his son and so now the question is who's going to bench who's gonna bench so they give the so somebody asked me they should give it to it doesn't say IR was there so it could be if there's no you know the Ley doesn't have but there's a so oh but they offer it to Yakov and Yakov can't do it because he married two sisters sois but he was allowed to marry two sisters so to says since the to was destined to it there will be a little bit of an o that he married to sisters so why did he marry them say it's worth it to marry women like ra to build it was worth it to do a little a now don't try that at home okay don't try that was they kept what they wanted to they didn't keep what they didn't want to it was maybe slightly improper but it was K I would call it it was a so should you keep the answer is as long as uh it's worthwhile you know imagine I'm going to be M I'm going to lose three hours of learning if you be so now you have to decide if it's worth it or not so they made a it was to live with two sisters to build CL this not if this is not what I'm I'm just telling you to that's they knew that in the future for them they knew the future would be us yeah but not for them yeah for them no not for them they didn't they'll never get the Tyra no they'll get to earth okay so the truth is no no no that's the ran the ran say they only kept the tah is yeah so what does is they only kept what they wanted to and what they didn't want to they didn't keep yeah now rakov keski has a very uh complex way of understanding the ran I was going say very quickly ROV learns like this ROV learns there's no yov can marry two sisters you know how he married two sisters he married um he married Leia because uh he got tricked and he married ra because he said he would he told ra I'm going to marry you so oh so now he has a sh he married Leia so now he gave ra his word he gave Rael his word on the other hand the tah says he can't marry Rael so now he has a big sh what's more important to keep my word to keep my word or to keep some of following the T before is given it's more important to be honest than to keep a so so what's ran bothered by why did God have it that why did have it that yob should be in a of live living with two sisters and the answer is because hem knew that one of them would die before they got back to is there's no Cas on yov yov of course had to marry two sisters ra he married and um Leia he married and ra he said says what's the in of not breaking an engagement why you know how to break an engagement where does it say says cuz you committed to marry them can't break your word that's how learns the of an engagement okay V let's go to the Raja it's Ms yeah yeah the Raja this Raja is one of the hardest rajas to understand what was was excuse was an excuse um give away before her before herself why was she allowed to yeah now we're up to too you know maybe we'll get up to you know we'll ponder that for a few weeks okay the Raja how could yabu marry two sisters says the Raj there are three types of Mitzvah some Mitzvah are governed by time some mitel are governed by place and some mitel are governed by item time place items oh if you understand that you'll understand how AB yob can marry two sisters obviously says uh the I cannot explain more all mitas are governed by either time place or item and that explains how yov can marri two sisters and I won't tell you more so the r says it's Al okay so therefore I cannot reveal more than that because I really don't know what he's what he's referring to okay I will share with you um an incredible that I think the r is is being Malala theas I think is um uncovering a little bit of the secret that the reason you're now how to marry two sisters why you not how to marry two sisters what's wrong with marrying two sisters the truth is that when one sister dies you're allowed to marry the second sister so why you not to marry it can't be so Terri it's not like a different it's not like a mother or a daughter cuz it's the answer is you're now to use the scepter of the king and if you look at the when it talks about the designs on the it says the designs are the designs of the called a woman and her sister and therefore you're now to make use of the scepter of the king God's scepter and Throne so to speak is described as two sisters but is on the he is the so yov can marry two sisters that's what the r says okay supposed to marry both sisters he was supposed to marry was going to die of course it got switched around he had a marry her before otherwise he would never been able to marry her if he right okay so last year we had a right you're right yeah we discussed that he could have married raal first raal would have died but it didn't work out like that okay that's how the r is ma the r okay get a little of this is how could yob marry two sisters Sayes what's the problem whoever said Yakov kept the whole Tyra AB kept the Tyra didn't keep the Tyra yob didn't keep the didn't keep the kept it says the is nobody kept the but that's follow that they would say that they did I would have said what do you mean who said yob said he kept the T if the first is bar what happens there then um can marry another you can marry another wife what married a second woman you have up to 18 okay if you're a king and if you're not a king you have endless okay you know rev Miller used to say you know people got all hooked up about marrying their uh their um no people always say am I marrying my Bash bash everyone's worri if they marry their bash would say look you're allowed to marry 18 wives M right so chances are you got you got one of them chances are you got one out of that's but ra used to mock people worried did I marry my bash he wasn't into that okay now the maral says uh also very interesting idea the maral says the other kept those that were to them that they had a special connection to that they a special that their mid was similar to so the the opinion of the mar is thatu was the first of the and since he was the first of the kept what do we find that kept he tells asov in um this week he tells asov you know um pick the that we find that was on why was is like connected to specialized in what do we find that yob shabas because yob has a special connection to shabas the says that that chab is specifically connected to but then the maral says the truth is they all kept all of them but there was a special those mitz that they had a a specific connection to there's another maral the maral in the gar the maral anwers this question very simply how could Yu marry two sisters how could yob marry two sisters Mar says what's the problem yob was Jewish okay maybe did he have to keep the tah he didn't have to keep the T so he kept the Torah voluntarily like a g now that means we could look at the wives that Yakov kept also as if they would be GM now if they were GM he would be allowed to marry the two sisters when somebody converts they're like a Newburn person and all all previous relations fall away and therefore yobu was allowed to marry two sisters because the the method with which he kept the Tyro was as gam and as G all Corva all Corva Falls away and that's how amam was able to marry his aunt amam also kept the toyra as a g that's the sh of the maral in the gar and then you have says why in the world are the keeping the tah God never told them to says that aside from the fact that when you're Mah you're fulfilling the command of hasem but even if Hashem did not command you specifically are connected to all the upper all this uh you know superal worlds all the upper worlds all the and when you do a Mitzvah you create worlds you're Ming worlds you Rectify worlds when you do you destroy worlds so and despite the fact God never told them to do it recognize the power of their recognize what their actions accomplish and they kept the T in order to rectify various however when they sawes that a greater tick would take place by not keeping a specific mitzvah for instance y realized that by marrying ra and Le he would create a CL and that was more worth more worthwhile than whatever T he was doing he forgoed fulfilling that mitzvah for the sake of building CLA so now we're not entitled to do that because we're commanded by Hashem specifically but they weren't commanded and therefore under their circumstances where the tick that they would have achieved by violating was greater than by keeping they let it slide okay and finally um let's say over the explanation of the brisar the Grizz very interesting Griz in on the Grizz asked the famous question we know AB the gzz right he asked a famous question we know that but there's one mitvah that clearly was very laxing for at least you know 99 years you know at least 90 years and what was that bris bris you know here he's an old man and hasm says to do a bris oh he does a bris what's he waiting for he's you know sits in the Suka he ate matah he kept Kula what's he wait why did he waits so long right so then he what okay there are many answers to the question right or the says that you can only do so all the other MIT he did and if hasem would command him he'll do it again but mil you can only do it once if you do it right right you can only do it once but says a Brisk it's not even a question to begin with who do you do Mila to can you do is there a mitah of mil on a no what do you have to be to have a Mila you have to be an RL so I I would have thought an ARL is someone who has a forkin no it's not true says the Griz an ARL is someone who has a ARL how do you become when God gives the and he says circum ANL that creates status of ANL to whom do but before the Torah is given there's no such concept of the status of an RL you can't do it it's not you could do the you're not doing anything likewise says the brisar it says if you married a woman you can't live with her sister yeah if you married a woman but before the Torah is given there's there's no concept of kadush you can't marry a woman that concept of kadan was created with the giving of the Y didn't uh he didn't marry two sisters no such thing as marriage the is is don't live with a woman after you've married their sister there's no no Kad before the Torah was given now does this assume that the Kadin that Yu gave to Leia was not a Kad I guess so I guess so does that mean was not a is he was is even if he was is but it doesn't mean he necessarily had kadas um kadushin that being the case as brisar yov was allowed to marry two sisters so let's go through some of the Shas very quickly you have Rashi who takes everything literally like the gamar that literally the a kept everything the radak learns no they only kept kep the Z learns they only kept the tah in is the says they only kept what they wanted to keep the says a cabalistic the says you can live with two sisters the learns only AR kept the Tyra nobody else kept the Tyra the maral says they specifically kept those Mitzvah that were um applicable to them and and connected to their then says they kept so long as ultimately that would bring about the greatest tick but if their violation would bring about a greater tick then they took that path instead and the brisar says specifically when it comes to marrying sisters it's dependent on Jewish marriage which was not invented and created until the Tyra was given but the good news is that we live in an era after the Tyra was given so we have to keep all 63 MIT and 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