Parshas Vayechi: Rebbi Akiva, the Sale of Yosef, and the 10 Martyrs

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remarkable information maybe the beginnings of it you've heard before but once we start get getting going this is uh we're going we're delving into areas that uh have been closed off and Seattle we're going to open up new vistas of understanding and all the history since then parashas me Kates parishes me Cates ends as follows the posix says that the brothers say to you so if you know whoever finds whoever is in possession of the Goblet he should die and everyone else should be avadim says heaven forbid for such a thing the one who the goblet is in his Handi of it Hoshi should be a Slave in other words I'm not going to kill anybody and you don't all have to be slaves the one who stole the gavia he'll be a slave Vietnam and you alula shalom people wanted to know you know I'm very against anybody having cell phones out in shul you know you're not gonna have a cell phone out in the show not during the day before the thing is not my show so do whatever you want no just joking you shouldn't have it out in any shawl it doesn't belong in a base like an essence you wouldn't walk into uh that they make this with it you shouldn't take it out in the show on off with the service without service anyway says to the brothers and you you go up in peace to your father what does that mean you go up in peace to your father so here we have the famous comments of Robin he doesn't mince any words he says that these words to the ten Martyrs we know that in the time of uh Roman occupation of Arts Israel they outlawed the learning of Torah and over the course of some time they convicted 10 of the great all-time tanoim for Learning and teaching Tyra and our tradition is the Ten Martyrs were punished as some kind of rectification for makira Joseph the ten sons of yaakov and the ten Martyrs and therefore Yosef tells the brothers that you guys will not be cleansed and purified until you go up in peace to your father in Heaven we know that when the brothers took the cloak of Yosef and they dipped it in the blood and they told yaakovino yaakov do you recognize this this was great cruelty this was something absolutely terrible and therefore they were punished physically bodily that as soon as Joseph died in the parashah they were subjugated physically and then years later they were punished by Asura harude Marcos therefore in this week's power shot and parishes me case actually instead of calling them instead of calling them binayakov what are they called says ten times that corresponds to the great tanon who are they safe Revolution and in fact raveena bakaya ends off what Joseph was telling the brothers was you go up in peace right now you're not going to be in peace because you're going to have to suffer a terrible fate you will not be in peace until you suffer in the times of that Sarah the ten the ten martyrs in fact the auschak says we'll see we'll come to that we'll explain foreign meets the brothers he kisses each one and he cries on them why does he cry on them says she cries on them because he foresees their murderous and brutal and grotesque death at the hands of the Romans that's why Joseph cries on them he sees what's going to happen to them in fact in the safer carbon haani he says they are destined to be the 10 martyrs now what do these 10 tanon got to do with the tenshmatim they're not related they're not descended they're not first cousins second cousins it's many years later repsender asked that he comes back and he's right in there so comes says that what is the juxtaposition of the sale of sadik with Yehuda the story of Yehuda and Tamara the answer is it's all about the Gogol the combination of gogulum just like when Aaron oinon died and then Yehuda lived with Tama and they produced parrots and zarach Paris and Zara were the gilgulim of Erin oil and how do we know that look impartials it says the seven these Souls that came down to misram it says that Yehuda had Erin and Aaron died and then Paris and zarak were born and although we shine a mask so why you say anything about Erin oinon they died they didn't go down to Missouri why are air annoying uncounted and those who went down to matraim the answer is of course they went down to matrahim Perez and zorak were Erin oinon through the secret of ibom we know that through ibom the child that's born takes on the soul of the deceased and it's the same thing with through the sale of Josef these ten individuals were nisgalgal reincarnated as the Ten martyrs everybody knows this already you didn't come here tonight to hear this everybody knows were a punishment for the ten sons of Joseph you all knew this or you should have known it this is basic information Joseph never know right there wasn't any uh so that's an interesting question did you always safe ever forgive the brothers you would think that if you always say forgave the brothers then they wouldn't have to come back it's not you would think right but it could be they had to come back maybe their chuva to God wasn't completed we don't know all the details it happens to be Ravena bakaya says personally holds that um yoi safe told the brothers I don't bear a grudge against you but he never said the words and because of that is that Yosef was never much other brothers the question that if you kiss someone does that mean you're Muslim and Joseph kissed the brothers so why isn't that mahila that's a separate conversation but for now we're learning they had to be reincarnated even though they were they were still alive right now but they were not atoned their atonement did not come until later on in history through the asara yeah you know it all if we knew the the here's the question here's a million dollar question of the night and the question is Rabbi Sai so you had 10 Martyrs the only thing is you didn't have 10 brothers who sold the ice safe so where did the 10 where do we get 10 from your safe's not counted yes if he obviously didn't want to be sold Reuben wasn't there Benjamin wasn't there so we have shimai Levy Yehuda ishar so why do you need 10 Martyrs to atone for nine shrutam that's the question of in his first answer he says no you're safe is counted why because it's his fault that he was sold he annoyed them he got under their skin he said ah you want to see my technical or dream technical or Dream Coat you want to see my colorful garment I'm gonna be the king over you I'm going to be the Melech I'm going to be the moisture I had a dream I had a dream and you guys bow down to me you you guys are a corn your wheat your grain you bow down to me and the Stars bow down to me and I'm gonna be the king and you're gonna be my subject so you're always safe inside it there are jealousy so he it's his fault so therefore he also needs atonement and he is the 10th shaved that needs to be atoned for through the ten Martyrs that's answer number one answer number one is no you can't you can't blame your safe for them selling him but rather ruvane ruvain's the tenth one I ruvane wasn't there now ruvain's being punished for something else ruvane is being punished for meddling around in his father's bed his father is Mita was in the tent of villa he took it out of billah's tenth he put it into Leo's tenth um so so we're going to throw roof in it Reuben's being punished for his hate and the brothers are being punished for the Earth was part of the Assad that's answer number two now here's an important idea and that is when it comes to kabbalistic tradition the primary source although he came later than the reshinam is of course the Ariza so let's examine this in the light of the Ariza now today's sheer comes from the safe air chevile pinchas this is going to be a four-part Shear it is so vast it is so vast so this year we're gonna do two parts that there are four different shites about what happened over here and this is uh talks about this in pasius so we're going to do PI one and two this year and with the help of the almighty we're gonna do part three and four hopefully next year he stood up for his mother he he honored his mother yeah it's none of his business you don't you should not have gotten involved he and you know what happened to him what happened at the end of the days he got demoted from everything he was ever given he used to be the king he used to be yeah he used to be the bukhar and then he's just like a regular person after that he lost everything we've got to move on otherwise part one and two will keep us here until next year Okay so here we go at first glance analyzing this in light of the arizal it would seem that in fact ruvane was one of the Assad as we know when Ruben came back to the pit he sees hey are you safe ain't here so what did he say he said basically what's going to be with me Cesar Rizal ruvain looked into the future he looked at the nine brothers he said you guys are going to pay big time for this he saw rabi Akiva being raked his skin with the coals and he saw being burnt in a safe attire he said what's going to be he said God's gonna have to take revenge for what they do for you you know what ruvane said kale nakamas Hashem Lord of Vengeance Is God lord of Vengeance reveal yourself that's the rashite Hashem Anna Sofia because he saw that 10 of them are going to be killed now the simple reading of the arizal in Paris Isha indicates that ruvane was going to be included in the assara that's why he said the pasokos Hashem however you're looking at me like come on that result can't hold this and you're right anyone familiar with the writings that I really knows that Ariza holds ruvane by no means was from the Asura Haruki malpos how do we know this first of all that resale writes explicitly in the shot and the safer how Golem see I knew Isaac you're going to like this year and the safer how Golem the Ari says that have a tradition says a tradition that rutherin didn't really want to be part of the Mercury safe he just said throw him into the pit and therefore ruvane was never reincarnated instead ruvain became the following Tana foreign looking number nine availability was taken Le Minos which means he was taken by Abby Carson to serve avidazara says didn't want to sell Ruben didn't want to kill yoi safe he just threw him into the pit therefore he's not part of that Sarah he just was reincarnated as a completely different Tana namely snakes and scorpions very comfortable very pleasant pit there were hundreds of snakes and scorpions very comfortable it's not like they wanted to kill him they just threw him to snakes and scorpions what Houdini was able to do something like that so why can't you I sift to it you know they're right maybe the Rabino bakaye would have said ruvain threw him into the pit so he tried to kill him but that result said no that's that's he's not part of the the deal the brothers wanted a shaktim and Ruben said we can kill him with our own hands let's throw him into the pit therefore he was punished he turned into a lesser hagado and why was taken by minim that Rizal said minim are like snakes and therefore since Ruben said throw him to a pit of snakes so a blesser hagoda was taken by minim it's medo can again the bottom line is according to that Rizal ruvain was not one of the asara Haruki mantas now the truth is please remind me next year we need to have an entire Shear on this subject that ruvain became Rebels now I'm just going to tell you a few ramazim but next year we have to have a sheer parishes I'll tell you a few reminds them first of all there's an incredible hagada this is the most amazing thing ever if anybody knows repentless Friedman they're a Muslim that he comes up with are from a really from other mice and the khadushimi comes up with there's only one safer that's similar to it it's a Haggadah called base avram base aaharain that has like three different Peru shim with Ramos Lim like you wouldn't believe so when I opened the safer and I saw that this was a godo who was killed in the Holocaust and he's the uncle of repentahus Friedman so a lot of things made sense he's the he's the the uncle of the Sile pinchas he says like this literally Reuben returned to the pit no it could be read ruvane returned to this world as Rebel Lazar hagodo whose praise was he's abortion of Ruben alabar Ruben came back as the bar Shane number 12. furthermore when Rebecca menzakai encouraged to learn Tyra he said the martial of a barium now listen to these gamatria ruvain turned El Bar Sid returned to the pit meaning he turned into the bar that's lime that doesn't lose a drop is Elias is don't try that at home okay when now when Ruben was born what did Leia say ah raw Hashem God saw my affliction so that is just a flavor that's going to be a topic next year so now we're learning that the first answer of Robin the second answer that the 10th person who needed atonement from is ruvane that we can say based on what we know from the Ariza because ruvain was not part of that Sahara we therefore have to say like the first answer namely that the tenth individual who needs atonement is your safe himself and that is basically the approach to the Ariza now watch this number 14. I heard some cavaless that Rabia Kiva was the gilgal of your safe because here's the thing friends if there are 10 schwatim and ten tanoim we need to figure out which Tana corresponds to with shaven and who corresponds to Yosef this is what we were discussing on Chavez which by the way there are three other shitas and it's for sure not unanimously held that the makubalum say rabi Akiva was the girl of yasef that is why throughout what is Rabbi Akiva called Akiva Ben Yosef it's very hard to call someone Ben Joseph when your father's name is not Yosef um that's my name that's what happens to be my father's name but akiva's father's name was in the ice so why is he called Ben Yosef the answer is because he was the Guild of Yosef is now who are these mikhubalum that the shla heard from Academia is number 15 he quotes that's why Akiva is called Akiva menu is safe because he was a Google of yourself and I re and the Ari is quoted explicitly as saying this in base now what what I mean why didn't that take care of the job the sin was so severe that he had to go through that and have a diva as a he doesn't touch it I'm just a reporter you know La Mesa did rabikiva suffer Ed now I'm saying did robikiva suffer says that um we have a tradition from the reshine of that when a person is Hashem it's not painful I don't know I don't have I can't answer I could just present these Makai rice but the Sam Cipher goes with the Ariza listen to the Sam Cipher yaakov meets your safe what does yakovino do say Shema why is Jacob saying Shema a man you know if you meet an important person and he comes over here it's a little bit insulting you know if you start saying Shema in a as an important person is greeting you so so why was why was yaakov saying Shema is not an important person he's just a Miller is uh it's just a melach but Jaco has to say Shima so why does Joseph not saying Shema say because yako yakuz also okay so Joseph should say Shema the answer is yakovino is the rebe of Yosef says he says rabbi is a webby's honor greater than a king's honor yeah there's one individual who holds that the honor of is like is so great it's like the honor of God himself who holds the honor of attack was like God himself there is a man by the name of rabi Akiva remember he was an S specialist he Dash in every single s in the Torah until he got up to the possible and he said can't be there's no one else in this world that you need to fear on par with God so therefore he gave up he abdicated his mission of darshaning or the essence and he said there's someone in this world you need to give reverence to on par with God himself why was it that was the only one who knew the greatness the answer is because you're safe and you're safe displayed the greatness when when he didn't say Shema when his father greeted him his father said Shema because it's learned from your safe that the great covet of that's your answer says the reason why you're safe no because covet of a father will not supersede Krish magic the only thing that could supersede krishma is over there he touched his eyes or something we gave a share on this so we gave almost 10 answers to this question it's a very big question but this is approach to the Samsung says the reason why he didn't say Shema is because how did because he is safe in fact what does yaakov say to yourself my blessings are greater than my father's blessings you know who you are ready this week's you ever hear that you know that in this week's parasha Yakov tells us if you know who you are that's the uh that's some Cipher fine so far so good and you knew you knew this already I know you knew this already you knew that you're safe was taking the place of radiakiva he's the Go-Go of Rabbi Akiva now why ravia Kiva should should suffer the worst fate of all that sorry when he is being the Scott bear to the one individual who's barely responsible for themselves that's why the mega is disagrees with this and he says Joseph was a girl of Shimon and that we're going to do next year but this year we're working with Ari okay and then Larry you knew already Akiva is Akiva Benya the srila pencres wants to say why is he USA busy with the gavia you know he's always busy with the gavia the gavia gavia he's he's putting the Via in their knapsack everything he's rubbing the gavia on their nose gavia is safe but that you knew already that's That's the basis of today's share here's the problem that result contradicts himself that's a reason writes in his car in his pair of jeans you ready for this we know that says remember we had a share a couple weeks ago that they why didn't anybody know what happened to yoi Safe why didn't how did how come yaakov didn't know and yet didn't say and binyama didn't say why hey RAM and we asked who was the tenth person in the harem God sarisa says since God was part of the material is safe Akiva was not the guild but Akiva was in place of the rebina the Rebellion needed so to speak if we could even allow ourselves to say those words but that's what that reason says the fact that the Ubuntu went along with it and he allowed himself to be associated with it that's how we bring a carbon on why God says I made the moon small I want you to bring a capara for me so I will put Rabia Kiva instead of me now why would rabi Akiva be instead of God cesarean very simple because all the other brothers had Brotherhood but God is all by himself so God needs a gear because Agera is not connected to the rest of the Jewish people there's no ahvah between the gear and the rest of Israel what once again a convert a convert does not have the same Brotherhood with the rest of the Jewish people so therefore that the garer would more be more appropriate to represent God because God is that's the meaning of the Gomorrah when rabi Akiva died doesn't just mean his soul left when he said the word his soul left in the place of echad in the place of God so the first question is this contradicts everything we ever learned we always learned Rabbi Akiva was an atonement for yay safe and now that reason I was saying he's taking the place of God but watch this there's a pasok you ready for this pasok let's see help me out here that the brother's not done what they did nobody would be saved because because of his dreams because of all the things that he did that he accomplished he put the food away for everybody right everybody would have been killed out so first Hashem that they did what they did well I had had not been for the brothers they wouldn't have soldiers safe and we would be in and you shall I am now bringing a carbon eating basar years of family and nobody wouldn't say getting you know getting and uh majority say the Posse says listen carefully you know this the last pasok you would think I didn't put on the sheet because I know you know by heart sign any tenth of a cattle or a sheep College anything that goes under the rod Siri the tenth one here right we know you open up the Corral the animals walk out and then tenth animal that says cattle and sheep says we know the ten Haruki makras are in lieu of the tens fatim because of the hate of the question is only nine brothers and ruvane wasn't there says and it can't be ruvane and it can't be Benyamin the answer is it's instead of God I'm done because they were and therefore who's going to be in lieu of God it has to be Ravi Akiva you ready for this I'm so excited I have to stand why Ruby Akiva because we keep as the only one who says Hashem so once he darshan the time so God said really okay so you'll be me foreign so of course he's in lieu of God that's number 22. this we have to read inside look at number 22 likute one of the great old time of Cubone he says in the middle of the piece the habe's last word on the word line is Hashem Isla writes you know what to be keep it because literally he means he came under the wings of the skin as the girl no instead of the screener why because he's the one who died maybe watch this says you know what's your table is a stands for look at these words a few lines down stands for them you know why he died or anyone who leaves this world from foreign he is in lieu of God himself now I mean that's mind-boggling to me the idea that because with God so now he's eligible to be in Louisville that's it made the trip down to this world worth it just to know that so he took because otherwise nobody else could he could take the place of ever but be Kiva whose whole Essence was now that you know there's a safer on uh on Christian or in yaradea he wrote or Charles he also wrote the eonyakov the classic commentary and the enyak of ionakov listen to this says was wrong tadarshan you know who you have to fear on power with God he took it too far no you're telling me I have to honor my rebe like Hashem himself no that's that's too far he went beyond the pill so he was punished you think are so great they're like God okay you'll be instead of God that's how the eonyakov learns in fact he writes this in two places in chess the Sanhedrin listen to this Kamar number 25. rich luckish said on the possible that when God created Adam he showed Adamo of the great people who would live in in history he showed him Rabbi Akiva and the it says he was he rejoiced over rabikiva's Torah death says why was why did other Mariah so much very passionate because why did Adam eat from itadas he wanted to be like God doesn't like anybody else's cheer because nobody else said that rabbis could be like God but rabi Akiva oh then Richard loved rabbit but he was very upset why he died because he learned that he died because it made a mistake for going too far to equate my God this is the approach of the eonyakov and it's a Pella because we don't hold this way we hope he was right we pass skin but we give us drusha is throughout we learned it out from assassin and it supersedes all their Mitzvahs throughout chess in factors asks on ION Yakov heaven forbid that rabikiva made a mistake by darshaning look for example the gemara says on the one hand there's a mixer for the idiom to stand on the other hand we have to understand and the honor of tamiyahamim is greater because furthermore s s Hashem the word s is extra most of the time people ask it's just extra it's not needed so but furthermore the eonyakov himself poskins throughout his uh suck him that the Mitzvah of Kavita is greater than other Mitzvahs and how could you say that the Akiva was at fault for darshaning it when Rabbi Kiva passed away they said bottom line Wednesday evening this is where we're holding by the way tomorrow night is the yard side of the tsadiq of ranana so brace yourself for that great evening but before that tonight we have the question of the century on the one hand that Rizal says that Akiva was a kappara for sadik what did Joseph do wrong he incited the makira he got under their skin he he aroused their jealousy and therefore ravikiva is an atonement for yo is safe and on the other hand they said he took the place of God so what was rabi Akiva was he in lieu of or is he in lieu of the Republic good question no this much we didn't know yet right I didn't know for sure so this is how the svilei pincha sets this up I it's unbelievable he takes the most mystical and highest level mystical traditions and he just sets it up he sets it up so clearly and you know who asked this question himself and listen to the answer the the answer of the shla will forever revolutionize your understanding of Yuri dasmitzrayim the starts off by saying that the secret of yatsu son is took the place of the shrina that's what it means he came in lieu of the srina so isn't that Astera to what I always say that Akiva benoitsev that Akiva is it the answer is not at all because yes the shrina took part in the makira safe but we always know that shrina has to rest on someone arrest on your safe is the merkava Yosef is the Chariot so Joseph and God they're in cahoots they're they're attacked him Yosef is the merkava of the shrina when did Yosef become the merkaba of the srina when they sold him and now they have to go down to metraim and we know God always accompanies the Jewish people and to the golos so Yosef now became the receptacle to house and to contain the srina so rabi Akiva was the guilt of your safe but he's but which one it's the same thing resting on your safe Joseph is the merkava of the shrina now watch this this is a very important your side when Joseph comes down to mathuraim it says a very interesting lotion is what word does it keep on saying he indicates like a new entity a new being the banana writes somewhere that the word implies some a new Creator what's this new creation the gracious rabba says they recognize the shrina went down with your safe that's how they knew was on him they saw the braces Robert says now do you remember the gemara in Rosh Hashanah an Rosh Hashanah says how many Exiles did the shrina make when it left aretz Israel when a lefty and corresponding to the Exiles of the screen of the Sanhedrin made Exiles and remember the last stop of the Sanhedrin was in tavaria um how many stops did the shrina make the shrina made 10 stops Rosh Hashanah so too when the Jews went down in tagalus now to mitzrayim There Were Ten Exiles you know in previous June we spoke about how the brothers went down to Messiah four times the truth is says the hafla There Were Ten Gullah Sim went to Shem he went to doi's son he was sold four times then he was put in jail then the brothers went down to mitzrayim then they came down with binyamin and then they came down with yaakov when they came down with yaakov the golis was over so corresponding to the 10 times the brothers and Joseph went down to midsream later on claudiusrall they would leave aritisra on 10 stops you're safe and the shrina is the entirety of Khali Israel what's Yosef gamatria 156 6 times 26. equals Israel 5 41. now this is a revolution does anybody remember when Joseph was sold what happened to yaakov shakina left him so we always said oh he was depressed he was sad he was morose there was an Hiram no you know I Justina left him it went with the ice safe that's why yeah left him because now we're going down so now when yaakov comes down the screener went back to yaakov Once once yaakov was told Yosef is still alive and yaakov is going to join him in the golus so the Sheena goes back to Yakov says didn't leave yaakov because he was sad just couldn't have left lack of because that she wants maybe by the way Who's the talmud of the of the hafla so I'm sorry for some Sophia writes he went down to Egypt compelled by the Deborah contelled by the srina the reason the srina left yakovino is because it already left him because it went to Joseph so Joseph is the answer to the question rabbisai of how could it be that Akiva Ben Joseph Akiva is the Gilgo and rectification of Yosef when we have a tradition that because so he's on par with God so he could take the place of God so who was he was he a gilgal of Yosef or is he a rectification for the shrina the answer is he is in lieu of that great entity namely when did Joseph become the makeover to the shrina when they sold him as soon as they sold him he became them he made 10 stops why the shrinology because he's the one who darshan the S Hashem so you think okay well yeah now it's all clear it's about as beautiful I could say this I could say this at the Shabbos table I could say anybody want to hear about Tara we can say over two sheets of nariza the stira the Schloss answer with the hafla and and the answer is because there are two more shitas here that need reconciliation namely the Ariza writes in the third place that rabikiva was Yakov and then what about the magala mukas that he was Shimon that's why you need to come back next year so don't think okay we already reached the highest madrega and then I'm gonna I'm gonna go somewhere else I'll learn I'll learn a different place now you gotta come back because we still have a lot to do but at least as we conclude say fibrations I hope that this year we were a little bit more elevated and deeper than last year and as a sashem we haven't even scratched the surface have a wonderful night you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com