Parshas Vayishlach: Yaakov Encounters Eisav and Prepares for.….Chanukah and Purim

this tour class is brought to you by torahanytime.com and yakovino after 22 years is about to encounter his brother his arch Rivals Arch Enemy who's coming to kill him with 400 men and yankovino plans for every eventuality rash even tells us that he sends malachem and he says sends a message that I've been with love and until now I've kept the Torah I have the Char I have the hamar and jacovino also prepares for the worst by yiroyakov he devised his campaign so there are a lot of things going on here on the one hand he's preparing a very big gift to give to ASAP on the other hand it sounds like he's preparing for war on the other hand he's diving so what did he think would happen says Rashi I'm not gonna initially in other words how will the second Camp leave maybe ASAP will be able to destroy both camps how did yaakov no that if Ace of attacks one Camp the second Camp would flee says Rashi al-kokai again stays as well I'll fight with him Ward him off and in the meantime the second Camp will be able to escape says Rashi his skin is prepared for three possibilities for gifts let's Fila for a prayer and for Warfare Le Daron how do we know he prepared for a gift let's Villa for prayer l-a-k Avi avraham the god of My Father Abraham la malama but later made three preparations one is he sent the gift one is he he prayed and one is he went to war yeah sure the many many took him out with the gift is alive yet was dead I don't think so oh yes two of them eventually Ace of it they came to Barrington oh yeah but she says that since he was uh blind he was Clash of kame so it says okay yeah he said after my father but he's coming to kill him so you know that's like when Arafat says I'm not going to kill you yeah okay Rabbi Sai here's the question here's the question the question is that why was yankovino preparing for so so many eventualities look either he needs to attack um asub or he needs to butter up to ASAP or he needs to pray like well why is he preparing for so many things because what's very interesting is that he didn't know what's going to happen what's very interesting is that we whenever we don't know what to do so we always follow what our ancestors did that's what it says in meaning if you don't know what to do look at what the previous generations did so let's try to look back in our history at times when we were in trouble times when class was with Sarah and let's analyze what was the reaction of the Jewish people how do we respond so primarily there are two times in our history where we were in danger in the times of Hanukkah in times of Purim in times of Hanukkah what was the reaction of Cloudy soil we don't necessarily find that they don't we don't necessarily find that they use bribery but instead we find that they went to war not the Xiao banov they fought and they risked their lives and they attacked to um to try to defeat the ivanim that was the response of kaliswell in the times of the Syrian Greeks the the story of Hanukkah took place when bias reshine which one of those three did it take place or did it take place last year let's see who knows no Kanika took place bayashini 200 years before the destruction of the second day stomach there's Chronicle was the last miracle chanukkah that's why there are some communities and he's standing already of course it was during the time second base they defiled the temple there was no oil in the temple right that's why there's some communities they don't celebrate Hanukkah which communities they don't have all them in hoganica you know why because they were exiled during times of bias reached Corbin by Suicide before there was ever a story of Hanukkah I never made it there not again so maybe I'll give a share on that next week about the various strands of chanukkah and claustra because Alaska and what was the reaction do we find that in times of Hanukkah the people did chuva no do we find that they Davin no what do we find we find that they went to war and now let's talk about the times of Haman times of Haman Haman said yes and what was reaction do we find that Esther said and um and gather weapons and fight the amalek and find homino we don't find any War there was no war in the times of Purim the only thing they did was they would suck to Hashem this is very interesting that we find in our history that in times of Sarah there were two gazeeros and there were two very different reactions in the times of Purim the reaction was chuva in times of Hanukkah we don't find that they did Shiva we find that they went to war and I would add and in the times of yakovine we find that he did all the above so let's try to understand that and this is really the question of Wasserman Hashem and the asks that why do we find such um disparate responses says in the kivators in the back of it you have a section called dugmaus explains various agotic portions of Shas you know in the the dark shot he says he quotes apostle that if you don't know what to do follow the sign and now she says that we should follow what our ancestors did he says on the third lineman can Elena Elizabeth what did our forefathers do at a time of shmadism we find two holidays we were saved from the decrees of Haman and Antiochus there is a very big difference between these two holidays Purim was established as a day of joy in we know that Purim was established as a physical a day of physical celebration and Hanukkah was celebrated well Hanukkah is celebrated spiritually and the lavush explains the famous lavash why do we celebrate Purim physically and we celebrate Hanukkah spiritually everybody knows because in times of Purim they wanted to kill our bodies so now that we were saved we celebrate physically times of Hanukkah they want to take away our souls and make us forget the Torah so we celebrate spiritually abigazira's Antiochus right so he says because Banta is a poem there are zeros on the bodies and it doesn't say that we could have in other words if we would have converted in the times of Haman it wouldn't have helped us but the examples was against our souls they want us to ride on the Horn of an ox we don't have a shirt in the God so says let us take a look what did our forefathers do what means did they use to save themselves from these gazeros we find by the way what I'm telling you now is Devore my human it's unbelievable we find that by Haman the only thing that they did the reaction was gather the Jews the Sumo alai and Esther cried but it did not enter their Consciousness to fight against Haman why didn't Esther say let's fight so don't say that would have been ridiculous that would have been a losing battle to fight Haman no because it was even more ridiculous to fight in the times of Hanukkah it was even more of a losing battle in times of Hanukkah it was she says how many people fought in the War of The Maccabees 13. so don't say oh important they would have lost and Hanukkah is a much much more impossible situation but there's a difference how could he would make this role and I mean I mean I mean 127 which is um so just fight hormone just fight hormones not the whole world officers didn't live in the whole it was just Haman so kill him and fight Hamman and don't say the reason is because they knew they would lose this is wrong because they had no VM and if the Naveen would have known the Russian Hashem is to fight against Haman they would have done so even by the kashmahon it was a losing battle and they did so must be because in the times of Haman they recognize that that's not what God asks of them when there's a decree God doesn't want you to go fight a war so that's the case in the times of Heaven they realize that the correct response is fast and do chuva and pray so then why in the times of Hanukkah was that not to create correct reaction why in the times of Hanukkah is the correct reaction to go to war and the times of Purim the correct reaction was to duchova soman says on your side that he says with Sarah and Tama have though we have to understand the difference between them and this is an idea that he quotes from none other than human awesome we could understand and no and we need to understand enough and I'll translate that even though God's judgments are in the whole world there Comes A Time in this world is very strong La Familia God allows the Satan so to speak to fight against God the Satan is a real entity the Satan is a creation of God but you know as we say you've created a monster the Satan sometimes has the authority to say okay my job is to fight truth fight Judaism fight Torah and to fight God himself and to this concept in his introduction to the class in terms of what the association writes about the exerts of that being the case says there are two types of things that occur in this world what we call Hashem when certain things happen in this world sometimes God is doing it and sometimes God is not doing it sometimes the Satan is doing it likewise when there are decrees against the Jewish people they could be one of two ways and every gazera we need to identify where is the gazera coming from is it God or is it the Satan the Simone the way to know and it's very easy to know is if the guy am I trying to hurt us physically and kill us it's coming from God and what God is then telling us is you got to do chuva he's sending us a message so to fight a war would be pointless because it's Hashem it's a message from Hashem Hashem if Hashem is sending to Hamas then who who's doing that God why is he doing it because he wants us to dive in better to learn more to be more careful so what are you fighting a war you find war against God God wants you to do chuva chuva fighting a war would be pointless however and it won't be successful so therefore in the times of Haman what was Haman trying to do he wasn't trying to take away religion he's trying to kill us who was that coming from that's what we did we never had to have Amino to go to war oh it won't even be successful but if the decree is against our soul and the purpose is then who's doing that would God ever want to destroy our souls would God ever want to take away Tara midsize no so who's doing that not God who's doing that so Satan ah Satan you gotta go to work that's a cloud God all in world events that if they come to attack us physically we don't say a word we do chuva when they come to attack us spiritually we fight I think but in Portland we fought back we killed all these no we never fought back only after Akash videos gave permission then we have a midsummer of Malik but it wasn't in response to the gazera what about the Holocaust they tried to do both but if the decree is on the souls and if the tacos was to take Kai Israel yeah away from Taro midsize then and not to make us Hashem it's not coming from God and in order to weaken needs to be moisture I'm doing allowed it couldn't happen something yeah but some didn't do it Hashem just withdrew Sam allowed it but it's not coming from Hashem no it's not tantamount that don't depend the power it's like something that's what you would have thought that's what you would have thought says there is yep says says that I'll give you an analogy that in our times we see College we see Xerox and Kali Israel in two different countries now what conscious this is talking about he's talking about Russia and he's talking about Germany in Russia is who are those who are they do men the Reds not from Cincinnati who are the Reds the Communists the red circle right the Reds is the communism what are they trying to do they're not killing anybody they're only killing people who are against Communists they're trying to take away belief in God they're trying to they're they're atheists they're mice Israel he says good point I I was in the communist country and they told us the Opium of the masses that's what not only against English all religions okay yeah it's against God well or religions are God all religions are are developedicated okay but it's better for a it's better for a guy to be a Christian than to be an atheist s in another country that's a different thing they're trying to forcibly bring clothes those who are distance what does that mean so either he means he's talking about the Nazis who are trying to murder everyone or he's talking about the um he's talking about it in German in the haskella where just to have a big Melting Pot but let me read to you the words of the time so I just want you to know that this is not me talking and there's not even talking this concept comes directly from the time is is the Socialist bundest communists we needed to go to war said the prophet skyem when communism came to Russia we needed to fight Ms and volton takes a lot of Jews would have died over there we would have weakened it is darker but when we didn't go to war they became stronger where did he hear this in your this quote he heard the cup of time say this time told him foreign and we know in other words in our times where the government is trying to take away religion God doesn't try to take away religion the southern tries to take away religion and therefore says in our times we need to go fight a war I'll eat someone is why don't we go to war and he goes on to say we it's because in our times we don't have generals why because every Muhammad needs sorry Sava to teach them how to be noyag and we are yes and we don't have any Amana in other words maybe we have strong courageous generals but the kind of generals that are needed to fight uh amalek in a straight wear in a direct way so we have to do it in an indirect way um the indirect way is learning Taro because we know amale comes you know what he said Germany or Russia so I think what he's saying is in in Russia the Communists were maesta Satan and the Germans were my sashem how about a simulation Western Conference what do we have to do why well we don't have generals so he says what to do he says we have to learn Tyra the way the more we learn Tyra the more we we can am I like but then again let's get clear what he's saying now we understand why in the times of Hanukkah they went to war and in terms of purima because he wanted to kill us physically what is that it's my sashem that's exactly what we did times of Hanukkah what were they trying to do take away our religion God is not the last thing ivelation wants is to for us to have our religion taken away LMI is my sister my sister Satan the same way when the Satan comes to you to tell you to do another what do you have to do so this is okay this is a very important site it's a tremendous and this is what only could say in the name of the time there is something called Hashem and there's something called writes it foreign [Applause] he's diving he's bribing he's preparing for war so why why is he preparing for everything so there's there's a very famous comment of the base that look at number three jacovino diamonds hatsu save me from the hands of my brother the hands of Asaf by the way from here we learned I believe that huskuni says when you're diving for someone you have to be very precise because why didn't Jacob just say either save me from my brother so you know he only has one brother save me from ASAP when you die you have to be very welcome man my brother might be a different brother but he doesn't have one it doesn't matter it's still not identified or maybe he's maybe a different a stuff but the base halavi sees in this a historical message and this is a very um very piercing piece of the base of Lady where the base of Levy says throughout our history our enemies have always attacked us on two fronts we always have the the attack of akhi of Tolerance and assimilation and tear down the Ghetto Walls and all facets of society are open to you and we could disappear that late and then we have the asovs that we've surely had our fair share of be it the Crusades be it Inquisition be it pogroms be at the holocausted Russia and if you look in number 12 we bring down there's a maclocus between the balatanya and Roman commandment of miruminov when Napoleon was coming to Russia they had a Big Mac like us whether the Jews are better off under the Tsar who does not brutalized them they torture them and I believe the balotanya felt that we were better off under the czar and remember so look we need Liberty we need Freedom we need religious uh we need religious tolerance in order to our midsize and there's a whole shita ramnakumi bresler from Russell was announced Israel at the time and Napoleon made his way all the way to Israel and Napoleon came to yapha and actually I think he circled the encircled the city of yaffa and ravnakman was inside and somehow he got out maybe bashem ice and he put a curse on Napoleon Napoleon had a downfall and he had a retreat and there's a Big Mac like this under who are we better off are we better off in a in a society in a in a country that's tolerant to us that welcomes us with open arms we're all echelons of sire are available to us are we better off in a place where they basically brutalize us and we're forced to go into the ghetto and and deal with a very harsh existence and even though at first glance everybody would say you know come on America is the great safe haven of of the Jewish people it's Medina but on the other hand you know let's be real more Jews have disappeared in America than in any other country in our history more Jews have been lost in America than in the Holocaust yeah I'd say it's a great statement look when my grandfather was in Auschwitz they would beat him and the Arabs said Rabbi the Jews will be nothing left we'll Wipe Out the Jews of Europe the Arabs will kill out the Jews of Palestine and the Jews in America ha the dues of America will take care of themselves and that's the reality that's what's happening in this country you know you we don't see it because we're clustered in our uh in our Jewish cities but bottom line is today the intermarriage rate is 70 7 out of every 10 Jewish weddings that happen in the United States of America are together seven out of ten that means every time you go to a Terrace of rum or a Terrace or some other hole there's seven other Jews marrying in this country that means what Hitler tried to do he was unsuccessful America has been successful in doing what Hitler couldn't do unfortunately so if you want to know who is probably growing portion of the Jewish population is the Orthodox but it's negligible compared to the rest of the Jewish people in America it's negligible you know it's going to take 30 years for their for the Jewish population to rise in this country because yes every Hashem the Jewish people are having large families but the you know it's not even it's not compensating for the the silent Holocaust and the base how Levy says if you want to know which is more invidious which is more which is more harsh and I don't know maybe people are not gonna like this but the briskarov said look at the Jews of Yemen they were tortured for 2 000 years in their country and they come to Israel they were there yeah they were yeah they were they did not live a pleasant existence there and with open arms in their Homeland many of them went lost in in 10 years with two thousand years of goals couldn't do to them 10 years of Freedom did to them foreign he only had to say one with um once he said we know he's talking about once he said ASAP we know he's talking about I and bizaria like I said somebody who davins he has to be very explicit but says that from here we learn you have to be very explicit when you're diving but why does it have to say foreign things over and live with him to Shalom of a shelva like brothers and yaka was afraid of both because yes if he's coming to kill him it's not going to be good because but the Friendship of ASAP is equally as dangerous and therefore yaakov says he was afraid and he was distressed he was afraid he might get killed but he was distressed if he wouldn't get killed if he would have to be friends with him and that's why he died but now we're learning means I'm afraid of when Ace of comes to me brother brother brother brother [Applause] so when he divined that he should be safe from Ace of his teal was accepted but then he sub tried the second technique this is Let's Travel together and he says you know you go there I'll catch up with you I'll get to you well I'll come to you one day when you get to say her and says also Asaf has two tactics with carlisram that first they tried gazeros Royce and shemadais and yusurem and Hashem does not forsake us but at the end they say come join us be part of us let's live together has a lot to say about this but I just want to bring this out in two in a few more ways look at number five deposit says and a man wrestled with him that's how I translate it but the word what does that mean what's the route avak dust Rashi says they kicked up the Dust Till the heavens says Rashi my opinion is V is cashier being entangled it's an Aramaic word bastard being entangled and nodded that two people that that wrestle become you know intertwined with each other so far and like safer says it says and then it says hip socket was dislocated when they wrestled we really you know they wrestled why does that have to repeat again that they wrestled safer if you look at Rashi the tube shot him in Rashi foreign the first shot that they kicked up Dust Till the heavens is what happens when two people can't stand each other that's what happens when people are two people are clawing at each other the second shot of Rashi of people who are going some people are embracing each other in their arms that's what lovers do that's what friends do they Embrace they intertwine well it says except Cipher both Peru Shema right now that these are the two techniques that the that the um Asylum used to try to destroy Carlisle the first shot of value they try to wrestle with us and fight with us and murder us and poison us and kill us and torture us and gas us and burn us that's the first shot of a of Rashi of they kicked up dust to the heavens however says excavator as much as the goyum kill us we always remain loyal to God and we come back stronger than ever ever because but they have another method which even though it looks much nicer and much better is much more dangerous to the Jewish people and that is they try to be makarivas and they throw down the wars the walls and they throw down the barriers and they say come come to our schools and get jobs wherever you want and become part of the government and we say wow Medina said Cipher it's Sahara because this way destroys Cloud Israel much more than the other way and says like stop Cipher Ive yes when they were kicking up dust and fighting we prevailed saw he was not able to prevail when he tried the second technique and that is the technique of embracing Jacob Aveeno with Ava and with aqva that's when bateka reggae there's a shot over here that the South Surfer says and also is found in the safer who I believe is a descendant of the Sam Cipher and he's the father-in-law of chapsi Frankel he says an amazing drush mom is an amazing Josh look at number eight after yaakov was sucked no pun intended in the hip socket what happened to him nothing nothing doesn't say he was limping no it doesn't it says but doesn't say he was limping at the end of the Mysore of I use that means the whole night after he socked him nothing happened to him yeah he dislocated he was able to walk but when the sun Shone all of a sudden he was limping says Robin Joseph this is the whole night the mouth was striking him he dislocated his hip socket but yeah Covina did not limp and that's the verdict of our golos despite all the harigos and all that Sorrows we always emerge strong we're not limping you know when we're limping when the sun shines sun shining represents the guy I'm smiling on us and they say come join us we're not going to persecute you just the opposite you are on equal footing with us that's when that's when we start limping that cloudy soil doesn't suffer until the ghetto wolves are torn down and we live in the Medina one and a half million children a dislocated hip socket is painful but Chrysler as a whole emerged and we're walking we continue on we're able to continue on we're able to continue on but the assimilation is something which which slows us down more yes it slows us down more limp was not recognizable he said righteous when the Sun Shines on us then yaakov is this is Simon and rames to Cloud Israel that during the night of the golos they provoke us they persecute us but nevertheless they don't take us away from ouramuna in other words on a spiritual level the physical brutality did not weaken our emuna but it's the Open Arms of the goyam that was more successful in taking us away from the banished we'll say one more thing there is a mattress Town Huma [Applause] impartial dice when yitzclock realized that the person who he thought he gave the breakfast to was not a sub it was what was yusuke's reaction he trembled greatly says the matter-ish look at number 10 on third line Umar of Levy of Israel here's clock trembled twice in his life one on the altar at the Acadia and one when Ace have entered we don't know which one is worse but since it says here again this one was worse so listen to what's going on over here listen carefully to what's happening on two occasions when he was at the acada and he's like was harad when you start brought him when ASA brought in the matamin we don't know which one is worse but it says so we see from here that one was worse what's the meaning of this 1945 Shabbos shuva a little bit after liberation of Bryce the author of The khakos give the following Russia the meaning of this matter is situations that he endured so he had two different situations in life he was sitting on the Acadia with a knife on his neck and he was sitting in the comfort of his home with Ace of bringing him matamim and those two situations represented two different periods in Claudia's Throne the akeda we had our fair share of acadots akeda represented pogroms it represented Crusade represents Inquisition represented the Holocaust and then ASA bringing matamim my timing represents Germany pre-war represents America represents Liberty and Ace Yitzhak was he was afraid of both situations and we don't know which one he's more afraid of but by the arcade that doesn't say but when ASA when the guy and bring you my tamim and they make gestures of friendship as bad as the Holocaust was for us you have to understand that Yitzhak was far more afraid of a different period in Jewish history the period of Liberty and that is because that is not my sahasem according to him that's my Satan and for that it's not enough to do chuva for that you need mokama so I'd like to suggest then when yakovino is encountering Asap in this period what is he afraid of Savannah says he's afraid of both hatsilenina um so he has to prepare for both he has to prepare for Muhammad foreign in this encounter both for Purim and for Hanukkah further me is preparing for chanukkah he's preparing for Purim that's why the balotun points out hatsulini Nami is Haman is preparing for Haman and that's why he has to PSB misspella he has to do chuva but I believe he's preparing for the Hatsune Nami as well he is what Hanukkah yes that's why yakovino keeps on saying is preparing for chanukkah as well and he has to prepare for both what says he has prepared for chuva and ultimately yakovino emerges Victorious but he only limbs from what he's more scared of is he's more scared of Hudson of the matamim of Asaf and we live in the Medina and should continue until biasco sadak but don't forget to realize what the ramifications of that are and the feel of yakovino should protect Cloud Israel until the great day that we're going to lay in about in the haftarah 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