Insights Into Parshas Toldos

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com with Pas has told us many very interesting items in P toos and we begin with the episode of Y and RKA who were childless for many years and the P says on page he opposite his wife now it's very interesting the Torah does not use the word that's the typical word that's the normal word you use when you say you say here it says rash says you know what it means it means rash says he increased he implored he put all his efforts into the interesting why wasn't it enough just to DAV apparently it wasn't enough he needed then the P said says she was Barren God was implored intuned God was intreated he was persuaded okay he was persuaded Rashi says he was importuned he was convinced and he was given in he gave in he gave in to the this is a very uncommon expression V that God was convinced of the need to listen to the of why does the Torah have to use this expression that that that was convinced and and intreated and importuned just say when God listens to the normal word the Torah uses isem God listens to the here it almost seems like had a twist hashem's arm so to speak and finally finally finally Hashem gave in what what was the resistance why was Hashem so resistant to to give very interesting the reason is we're going to see that 15 years later as asov was hunting in the field and he comes back from the field he's tired he's worn out and he sees yakob ainu cooking a pot of beans why was y cooking a pot of beans because it was a suda it was a meal for a mner who was Yobo mning for ab aino his grandfather ab ab had passed away what age did Abraham passed away at 175 died at 175 years old by the way what age did pass away at 180 okay 180 so the question is is why did Abraham live 5 years less than Hashem took Abraham away 5 years early so Abraham should not suffer and see his grandson asav becoming a Russia becoming a wicked person so even though really Abraham should have lived 180 years Hashem took him away 5 years early so that he should not see esav go becoming a Russia okay couldn't see anyway Abraham Abraham he didn't want ABR to see any he could didn't realize tricked by ASA so in other words what happened was Abra really should have passed away 5 years later but Hashem took him away 5 years earlier so here what's going on is daving to Hashem please grant me a child so Hashem says maybe right now it's not the right time yet why because if you have a child which children did y have yob and asov as soon as asov born now the timetable has been set for the soon to be soon to be death of ABR aino because at what age did asov become a Rasha at the age of 15 years old so as soon as asov is born now AB aino is going to have to God has to start thinking about taking Abraham away from the world Hashem didn't want to do that because in fact we see Hashem did take abam away 5 years earlier okay so even though normally maybe Hashem would not have been so resistant to the of Y but Hashem realized that granting y a child of yob and at this time meant that now Hashem has to start to think about taking AB away from this world so therefore God was resisting to the of Y and RKA until finally they D and they D and they D and hasem gave in but it came along with something else it came along now had to be taken away 5 years earlier okay listen to this zeld gave this explanation why the Torah has to use this expression that God had to be ined and he pointed out the numerical value of is five years in other words God had to be intreated and persuaded because of these five years because had Y and yob and ASA been born 5 years later AB would have been able to live an extra 5 years so in other words Reon gave in but it was with slight difficulty let's read this inside actually number one is in English Okay for the English-speaking uh Among Us okay take a look at number one concerning the unusual expression Rashi explains that means he allowed himself to be importuned to be appeased to be persuaded the Torah very often speaks of God simply hearing the prayers of someone why in this instance was there a need for being appeased and persuaded listen to this later on in this passage when the Torah relates that Yakov cooked a stew of lentils the medish explains that it was customary food for mourners and Jacob Was preparing it on account of his grandfather Abraham's death although he died at the age of 175 the medish continues Abraham was supposed to have lived another five years okay God brought about his early demise however in order that he not be distressed at witnessing his own grandson asov rejecting his traditions and embracing instead a life of violence crime and sin at the age of 15 since it was this very day that ASA had undergone this transformation God C Abraham's in immediate untimely death in other words if you want to know what day did asov go off and become a Russia the day that Abraham died Hashem said look ASA you're going to become a r Hashem immediately took Abraham off this world so Hashem did not want to give in to the of right away because he did not want to have to start to bring take Abraham away from this world it emerges from this medish notes of Yim that according to the original schedule Abraham should have died five years later than he did and asov who became corrupted at age 15 should have been born five years later than he was in order not to distress Abraham there was therefore a good reason why the birth of ASV and yob should have been delayed Hashem really wanted to delay the birth of yob and asov in order to allow Abraham to live an extra five years that he was supposed to have lived it was only because DAV so hard that hasem said look I can't ignore your I'll Grant you yob and but that means Abraham has to be taken away 5 years early look in the last paragraph bolstered This Insight by noting that the gatria you know what gatria is g is the numerical value of the words that means every Hebrew letter is ascribed to certain numerical value the letter Alf is a one letter baz is two letter gim is three the numerical value of is equal to that of the words in other words Hashem was intreated to do what to allow yob and to be born 5 years earlier okay we move on to very interesting thing finally R conceives twins two children yov and as says thek the children the children were striving they were struggling okay now what were they fighting about they were they weren't even born yet but these two twins already there was a major struggle going on we know throughout history there is a major struggle in the world between the Jewish people Yakov and the go asov but even in Udo even in the womb of their mother they were struggling they were fighting what were they fighting over Rashi says they were fighting over control of what of this world and the world to come who controls this world who controls the world to come look at number two they were struggling they were fighting over two worlds meaning one of them wanted the other one wanted you can't have both you either have this world you have the world to come listen to the shot that the tour says the tour was the son of the rash he says you know what they're fighting about now this shot is not very philosophical it's not very deep it's actually quite humorous you know what they're fighting over thek says was is not is hay yeah yob was is he was smooth yob was itchy he was itchy ASA was hairy and then yakob was getting itchy that's what they were fighting over he was itchy look that's what the tour says the simple explanation is as was hairy was smooth the hair was bothering him he could it was uncomfortable that's why yob was you know running away from as why did Hashem make it like this listen to this by the way the word listen to this the word asav why was he called asav what does asav mean Rashi says is means ay he's fully made he's fully developed he's mature he's complete how do you spell how do you spell sin V so let me ask you a question if the reason he was called asov is because he's complete he's mature he's made so why they call him asov they should have called him the answer is why was yacob's name Yakov what does yov mean yob means a cave the heel the heel so one second heel so why was he called yob he should should have been called aave the answer is like this he was grabbing a hold of the heel of Asa he stole the yud at the end of as's name and he grabbed it to himself really he should have been called oo asov should have been oo yob should have been aave but he grabbed onto the heel the back end of Asa was the yud he took the yud out of asa's name he took it for himself was he grabing the Y what the Y is the sh why did Asa have it originally if he was a Russian I just th I was throwing it in for your for your I I don't know more than that this is very deep okay as mother was Jewish of course ASA was Jewish ASA was Jewish between Jews and but he went off he went off so much he married a non-jew we married non-jew the children are non-jewish ASA himself was a Jew was not Jewish that time though it's a big uh discussion when did the Jewish people start did it start with AB aino or to start when the Torah was given the calls a Jew who rebelled so apparently he's a Jew though okay let's put I tell you one more interesting thing why did Hashem make them constantly moving you know constantly struggle in uteral you know give the mother some nine months of relaxation why why were they harassing the mother so much listen to this if yob grabbed a hold of the heel of asov that means means they that means they were in the same placenta because now there two types of twins you could have twins each one has their own placenta or they could both be in the same placenta now if yob was able to grab a hold of aso's heel they must have been in the same Shalia the same placenta but in that case there's always a danger that uh you could become siamese twins if two children are developing in the same placenta they could become siames twins that mean yeah attached attached by the neck attached by the shoulder so Hashem didn't want them to become siames twins so what did he do he made them constantly do battle against each other in utero this way they shouldn't develop together that's why it's didn't want them to become s that's why he made he Hashem didn't make them in the same in the same placenta because yob had to grab a hold of esa's heel so if they're in the same placenta if they were in different has if they're in the same placenta though if yob grabbed the hold of his heel that means they're in the same placenta but then they could become sies twins so we said that's why they were Hashem made them struggle so they should develop separately okay enough of that brilliant let's move on did they look alike otherwise no no oh did they have similar features yeah I don't know asov was red he was hairy yakob was smooth but features I don't know why red it symbolizes he was a Murderer let's move on turn to page okay and the children Grew Older okay and all of a sudden they grew up you see when the kids were young when yob and ASA were little kids everyone just thought they were kids you know nobody really paid attention to see this child is going in the right path this child is not going in the right path but once they became older then it became clear what their respective paths in life were the children became gim Rashi says what does it mean to become gim how old do you have to be 18 to be able to to by alcohol 21 to how old what rash says look at number four as long as they were young their actions were not recognizable nobody was really so careful with them to figure out what their nature was when they became 13 this one went to learn in the and the other one went to uh to the house of idol worship question who told him that one second so Rashi is saying that what is the definition of being a God how old 13 years old 13 where do we know that when you become 13 years old you become a bar mitzvah Bar Mitzvah means now you're obligated to keep the mitzvah where does it say that in the whole Torah look through the whole KES you could read it a thousand times where does it say 13 years old you have to keep the Torah maybe 10 years old maybe 15 years old maybe 20 years old why 13 what is special that 13 okay so there are various explanations rash number five very quickly says that we don't find in the whole Torah any human being being called an ish less than third years old the word ish means a man the word ish is never used by somebody less than 13 where do we find someone who is 13 being called an is shim and Le the P says it says in each man took his sword and we know at that time they were 13 years old that is somewhat of a li that is somewhat of a source that when you become 13 you become a man is look at number six the rush says that the law that when you become 13 years old you become obligated in MIT it's what is called what does mean that means you could look through the whole you will not find it anywhere and for example what color arein black if you madein you painted it gold are they ker no no you painted it white are they ker painted red ker no why not where does it say where does it say in the doesn't say anywhere there are certain things that God taught mosu on Mount Si he gave it to him orally and it was not allowed to be recorded okay one of these laws was that at 13 years old you become Bar Mitzvah you become obligated Mitzvah okay now very I'm very excited to present to you a very novel explanation at why at age 13 you become obligated in mitzvos the source of this comment comes from a sa called Liv the livas was written by a grandson of the B it is a very rare safer it's very difficult to get and I was looking all over the neighborhood who has it I called up many many rabim until finally I called up a friend of mine who learns in yiva University and they have a very large Library there and he was able to make a copy for me of this Mara Mak um and we'll read it inside we read it inside and it's really uh incredible okay look at number seven explains this is a statement of our rabbis they became 13 years old we must provide a reason why is a 13-year-old called a god you wouldn't say why should you call him a because he's very tall 13-year-old kid is you know he he has not reached his full height right why then should we call him as if he's some great individual he's just a little kid why should a 13-year-old child be obligated in mitz what's special out the 13th year and one day more than any other day maybe he should be obligated mitos when he's 13 and 3 months where do we get 13 from listen to this and he quotes a zoh okay so this part is a statement from the Zs there's in the beginning of this is what the Z says the wisest of all men said A wise man has eyes in his head you ever hear that expression it's an expression it's a p the wise man has eyes in his head does that P make any sense the wise man has eyes in his head and what the fool has eyes on his toes where else you can have eyes of course you have eyes on your head where else you can have eyes what does it mean a wise man has eyes in his head so the Z asks are Man's eyes in his body or in his arm that we call this guy smarter than everyone else because he has eyes in his head what does it mean that a wise man has eyes in his head listen to this this is what the means we certainly learned a man should not walk four cubits with his head on uncovered don't walk four cubits without a y why because God's divine presence is on your head the reason why one should cover his head is because God resides and rest on the head of a Jew and it's a sign of respect okay so you know what it means a wise man has eyes on his head every wise man you know what it means he has eyes on his head it means his eyes are focused on what is on top of his head his eyes are focused on the one who resides on his head and when your eyes are focused there that that light that is lit on your head what's the light that's lit on your head Hashem okay it's it needs oil okay now listen to this God's presence rests on the head of a Jew God's presence is like a nare a fire a candle every candle needs what oil oil without any oil the candle can't burn begin the man's body is the wick so now we're getting a very interesting metaphor Mas your body is a wick like you know you li on Kan the your body is a wick God's presence is the fire and there's a fire on your head Kingo screams at and says don't be lacking any oil the fire on your head needs oil so what's the oil again God's presence is the fire your body is the wick what's the oil what's the oil anybody what do you say What's the one more time your body is your body is the wick your head is the your head your body is the wick hashem's presence is the nare the candle what's the oil the mitzvos mitz doing good deeds serving hem learning Torah that's the oil that's the oil so a person has to make sure he always has oil okay now listen to he continues what's the okay these are the good deeds this this is what it means your eyes have to be in your head your body is like a wick Good Deeds are the oil to light the candle of hasem okay so one more time your body is the wick hashem's presence is the fire and mitzvos are the oil thees that the human being develops in three stages okay you grow in three stages a human being when they're born yeah they're approximately one am a human being when they're born they're about one am okay two feet a little bit less whatever around there then you get a little bit older you're too Elmo's tall four feet and then the final stage is three almost tall about 6 feet regular height why does a human being develop this way says because every human being's spiritual part has three parts you have a n that stands for nees the Living spirit every animal has that R also a form of spirit that's the high level of the Soul when you're born you're born only with a nees just with a nees that's when you're one am tall when you turn 13 years old you get a Ru that's your two Amal tall and then finally when you turn 20 your three ammo tall you get your Nish fine how big is an Amma how many is an five an average Amma is around five or six five okay so that means when you're born you're five tall when you're 13 years old when you get your you're 10 and then finally at your Peak height you're 15 says the God's presence never goes below that's why has to be a minimum of God's presence never goes below 10 so in other words like this the human body is what compared to a a a wick the fire is what Hashem but Hashem is never going to go on your head until you've develop till T what age do you develop to 10 13 what do you need when you're 13 years old that's why until you're 13 years old you're not worthy yet you haven't reached the stage for to come rest on your head you haven't reached that height yet in order for the to come down you need to be T oh you're 13 years old now you're T now you need oil now you have to keep the MIT do have to do with CU rash says they turn 13 years old we're trying to explain what the source of that okay we move on a little bit we move on turn two yob has successfully masqueraded as asov he dressed up like asov he put on asa's coat his hairy coat and Y was blind so he feels him and he can't feel anything he feels a hairy guy right he and he says I think it's as so gives the but the only thing is it wasn't as it was yob so gives yob the a little while later ASA comes running into the room and he runs to his s he says Daddy Daddy I need you have a br for me I brought the food that you asked for I brought I brought you know I went hunting and I brought some food eat the food and you give me the blessing so it says um y became very frightened he became very scared what do you mean then who did I give the BR before to so then ASA said oh my brother fooled you again he's such a trickster now look look on page 138 said to your brother has come what's not trick trickery right your brother came he tricked me he took the blessing your brother masqueraded as you he was wearing your coat and he when I asked him are you as he said yeah so he tricked me the P says your brother has come with trickery if you look at the tarum on the word b the tum translates said your brother came with wisdom wisdom trick now why is the tum translating the word inaccurately that's not what the word MMA means does MMA mean no you need to be to be a trickster but that's not what the word means why does the T translate the word with trickery as with wisdom listen to this look earlier in was very frightened he said who then was the one who hunted and he brought me food and I ate everything who was that guy then who came earlier and brought me food and I ate everything why does use the Expression I ate everything is that a way for aad to talk who brought me that food and I ate everything like what like he ate he ate like a glutton what does he mean he ate everything just say and I ate why I ate everything what kind of food did yob prepare for right RKA says to yov listen up I know that that your father is going to give the bras to as so I want you to do is prepare a good meal for himash the says prepare for him two goats so Rashi asks Two Goats who could eat two goats two you can't maybe you know you go to a good restaurant you go to Olympic Pizza you have some uh you have some meat you have some but anybody ever come eat two animals worth you know it would be very it's good for business but who could physically eat two goats and is going to eat two goats says Rashi no you know what day of the year it was p and on PES you have to bring two carbonos you have to bring a carbon and a carbon P first you eat some from the from Thea and then when you're full and satisfied you eat the Caron P car P has to be eaten when you're full and once you eat the Caron P you're not allowed to eat anything afterwards there's we say once you eat the car P that's it you're not to eat for the rest of the night so yob pulled a great trick but it wasn't a trick it was what was the trick he gives his father some of the carbona then he gives his father some of the carbon P because because yob wanted not only should he steal the Bros he didn't want that ASA should have any blessing whatsoever cuz he knew that just because he gets the main blessing from his father maybe after his father blesses him and ASA will come in with some some good food so will give him something good also so yob wanted to make eat food in a way that he will not be able to eat one morsel of food from from as so what does he do he gives him the he gives him the says to I ate everything I'm Hally able to eat not I ate everything I eat everything I'm allowed to eat that's why the says your brother came with trickery but it wasn't trickery it wasn't he wasn't fooling him it was it's both they're both true it's and it's says listen to this the numerical value the G the word with trickery is a that he what was the trickery he gave him he gave him the which was the a competing why in get from from their fathers the same equal amount of you see what this is a little bit of a different topic but what had intended is there's a concept that um and were two brothers of Sons of Yakov yakar goes and he learns Torah all day Zulan is a businessman and Zulan supports yakar andar allows Zulan to benefit from his Torah and they split through the physical prophets and the spiritual prophets that's what that's what y had in mind for his two children that asov would be given this world yob would be given the world to come asov will support yob and yob will allow asov to reap some of the spiritual benefits but asov was so wicked and so disattached from spirituality that he had no plan on supporting yov and he had no desire to share in any spiritual Prophet so yob said got to take everything for myself okay but that's just a brief uh brief now we're going to conclude with something again from the sa also something really incredible it's I take a take a open a and turn to page 138 138 so here yakob is about to finally get the Bros from as from from y and again what was yov wearing he was wearing the garments of asov because Rifka was entrusted with asa's garments so Rifka tells asov uh tells yov look your father is going to be feeling you put on these hay garments so you should feel like asov so look at this you have to look very carefully page 138 verse 27 you can look in the English also so yov came near he kisses his father his father gives a wh smells His Garment he smelled the smell of the Garment he gives him the blessing and then says I see the smell of my son it's like the smell of the field that God has blessed so what does he do yakob kisses his father his father smells the clothing he gives him a br and then what he says the smell of your garments is like the smell of a field that God has blessed Gan Rashi says at that point the smell of ganen came into the room and smelled G on and we explained last week knew exactly what ganen smelled like he had spent he had spent some time do mean pass that no no no no not yet again the PK says smelled yov he gave him the braa and then he commented on the smell wow it really smells good it smells like anen there's one word in this P that's completely out of order he smelled him he blessed him and he said you smell like G it should say like this he smelled his son he commented you know you smell like anen and then he blessed him why does the Tor interrupt he smelled him he blessed him and then he commented on the smell smell why do almost as if had a rush and quickly give him the even before he commented that you smell like an another question we have to ask is why did Hashem make yob smell like anen for what purpose for what why why of by the way Rashi says that what do you mean he smelled it it smelled good there is no worse smell in the entire world than the smell of goat skin that you use for hunting it SM bad it's full of sweat it's full of blood so Hashem had a mask Hashem masked it but for what purpose why did Hashem make like for what for what for what purpose was wearing the garments of was in so smell so you're saying that not that hasm had to make it smell like an but that's what it smelled like yeah okay that's one explanation but what we're assuming for now it's something Hashem did specially at this time okay why why okay I I I hear what you're saying another thing is the Mets tells us that when told the words I ate everything that hasem allowed the food that yob served to to taste like the food in Gan so first of all smells G on the food yob is bringing him tastes like Anan why why so listen to this explanation listen to this the Mets tells us that while yakob was quickly busy preparing the meal for y ASA was also going hunting he wanted to hunt some deer and bring it back for his father so the med says ASA would shoot an arrow catch the deer start to tie it up and as he's tying it up an angel would come and untie it then he would have to catch it again and an angel would come and untie it because the Ang Angel was trying to delay asov so that yob could quickly come in and get the blessings okay so if the medish is telling us that Hashem wanted to delay as probably Hashem was doing everything he could to make y quickly give the blessing to yov so what did Hashem do Hashem did like this before y even called in his son asav and said I want to give you a br tells asav you know why I want to give you a br I don't know when I'm going to die why was telling this to that I don't know when I'm going to die Rashi says at this point Y was 123 years old and when a person reaches Rashi says within five years before or after the death of a mother or a father you have to worry maybe your time is coming s IMU passed away at the age of 127 was 123 at the time so tells look I'm already 123 I don't know when I'm going to die so was already afraid maybe his time was drawing near plus what day of the year was this P what day was born remember the came to Abraham p and he said in one year you're going to have a child he makes them pass away on the same day that they're born so not only was afraid that his time had come because within 5 years of his mother's death he thought maybe his time would come because it's pesak time he was born P plus by the way before Yu when somebody would pass away they would not get sick people would go suddenly people would sneeze and they would pass away that's why now when people sneeze you know you say bless you g all the different Bros because it used to be the way a person would pass away you say right because somebody would be M they would sneeze and they would pass away the same way the came in through the nostril it would leave through the nostril so hereu is he knows before you go you don't get sick it was something yob a prayed to Hashem that before people die they should get sick so they have time to repair so here he is he knows he could go suddenly he knows he's within five years of his mother's death he knows it's p and then all of a sudden he starts smelling the matters tells us that before sadim go to the next World God gives them a taste of it just like you know nowadays the sun rises very late in the morning you know by the way tomorrow morning you can't make a before 6:38 a.m. because the sun has not uh come up yet sufficiently before the sun is apparent on the horizon before the sun is appearent on the horizon you see the Rays of the Sun before theim go to God gives them a taste of it so here is he's afraid it's p he might die he's 5 years within the death of his mother he knows you don't get sick before you die and then he starts smelling o the world to come maybe you will be any second now so blind he's sick what if he is blind it means he's safe he's blind but physically he wasn't uh he wasn't weak physically wasn't so the PK says he smells the Garment of yob he smells he doesn't even want to comment you know you smell like because he knows he could leave any second so he quickly gives him the he gives him the before even saying by the way you smell like because he knew he thought to himself I could go any second now that's why the PK says listen to this he smelled his clothing and immediately even before commenting by the way you smell like gives in the bra he sees he's still there he says by the way you smell like but he didn't even want to interrupt that Split Second to make that comment cuz God created this whole scenario to give him to make him rush and give yov the so he shouldn't start to think well is this yob is it not yob he wanted to be Hashem pressured him into giving the so Jakob received the full shal everything everything but now but now if if you said that he got scared right he got very very scared he was afraid very good and then when he found out when he realized it was Yakov he didn't get angry excent scared but he wasn't angry that it was so how do we explain that so that's the next p listen to this listen this it says later on that when ASA then came into the room y got frightened y got scared y said maybe maybe I gave the to the wrong person and then he says you know what you should be blessed he got again one more time when as came into the room y got scared and but then he confirmed the blessing finally he finalized the blessing he said he indeed should be blessed even so at first when y realized that he gave the to yob he uh he was a little hesitant he was worried but then finally he confirmed yes yes I confirm that yob should get the blessing why why did he confirm because tell us what was so scared about I'm sorry what was so scared of it says in the was frightened what was he so frightened of look at rashi rashi says you know what he was frightened about that when that when came into the room y started sensing geham sensing geham sensing you know the bad place okay sensing the bad place yeah so y's thinking to himself that's why y was so scared because when as came into the room he started feeling G so y's thinking to himself wait a second a minute ago I'm smelling on aen and he thought to himself why is he smelling on aen cuz he's about to go to the next world and the closer you are to ganen the more and more and more you should be feeling ganeden so what's happening now that all of a sudden I'm feeling gam obviously what I'm not going to the next World obviously that was hashem's plan that I should think I'm going to so I should quickly give y the Bros and the proof is I'm not going to the next world because now I'm feeling oh that's what hem wants I confirm it now because he was scared that he felt the geham he realized he wasn't going to the next world he realized it was all hashem's plan to get him to give the toob so he said what could I do if this is what hasem wants I acknowledge the BR I confirm the Bros this is obviously the plan of Hashem thanks for you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com