Toldos: Delivering the Final Blow To Eisav to Bring Redemption {Shalshelet Seminary For Girls}

today I want to share with you something about a different enemy that we have I want to talk about is this week we are introduced to Har and it's very important to study the origins of Y because we know that was born and then the says and after him his brother was coming out and his hands were we grabbing on to the heel of you ever hear the name Yakov you know anyone named Yakov yobu why is he called Yakov from the lon of the heel he's holding on to the heel of asav did you ever think about the following question you know a name is not a trivial thing it's not like you know you pick a name out of a head hm oh this is a nice baby here what should I call it yeah now let me randomly flip through the telephone book and come up with a name a name is very important a name captures the essence of a person's personality a name is divinely given by by AES whatever name you have whatever name Hashem orchestrated you should have captures the essence of who you are so why is yov called Yakov oh cuz he's holding on to a heel yeah how inspiring how beautiful why is he called yov oh he's called heel what a beautiful name what's your name heel aave that's his name why would he be called that way why would he be named after the word aave was this such an important event in the lifetime of Yakov that his entire identity is named after that word by the way why was yob holding on to the heel of as both rights because isav represents which animal a pig a pig is not Kosher he only has one kosher sign what's the kosher sign of the pig split hooves so the heel of asav was like the split hooves of the pig yakob wouldn't touch his nose or his ears but at least he has one kosher San they heal the split hooves so yakob is holding on to so to speak the split hooves of Asa but others right M writes that when yov held on to the hill of it transformed the pig now the pig has split hooves you know why a pig has split Hoopes cuz yakob held it by the way it's also interesting yov is called yov he should be called aave if he's named yov because he was holding on to the hill he should be called aave why is asav called asav does anybody know what the word asav means what does Rashi say he's he's ready made he's made so where did the yud go why is he called as he should be called so says an amazing thing his name was originally butov grabbed the heel he stole the yud and he took the yud and he appendaged it to aave and he became yob but still why is this such an important uh feature of yov was this the most important thing that yobu ever did that he's called aave because of it when a bar mitzvah boy would go to kki you heard of kki he God of our times I had the privileg many times to see when Mitzvah boys would go to and say you know I'm becoming a Mitzvah is there any specific I should be that I should focus on that I should emphasize would always say interesting why would he always say you know the's Uncle one of the greatest postum of the 20th century once came to a in to uh you know abish K to far the boys for means to test the boys in the so he would uh K came in and there's a boy in the back you know ooh ooh ooh and the Reb is like mentioning to the Boy you know you don't ask the Kish questions he asks you the questions and the the boy's like you know jumping out of the seat so the K says listen after the test you can ask me whatever questions you want so the test is over and the boy asked KES he asked him a stunning question probably the most difficult question konish ever got the boy asked the konish how did you become the kones now what's he supposed to say Kish said in his opinion he feels that the Merit he has that he became the G is the honor he showed his father and mother very interesting that kki would advise boys that of all the mitzvot when they become they should focus on says that he became um the through the MIT of and I want to tell you something else you ever hear of Aron Steinman also one of the great sadik of the 20th century Aron leyman makes a very uh powerful observation you know in the ashkanazi world you know where I grew up I grew up very different than my parents my grandparents were Holocaust Survivors my grandfather passed away a few years ago at 106 years old but he was he was in alitz he was in so when I say I grew up differently than my parents my parents' generation if you would take a poll in the classroom you know who who here has grandparents I'm not asking you but let's say you would take a poll in my parents generation who has grandparents very few people had grandparents it was uncommon to have grandparents because most people their parents were Holocaust Survivors and their grandparents did not survive the Holocaust so my parents generation it was a rarity to have grandparents I grew up with parents with all my grandparents I knew all my grandparents and I knew many of my great-grandparents and Ron Le makes an observation he says for the first time in history we find in our generation people themselves could be grandfathers and grandmothers and they're taking care of elderly parents never happened before in the history of the Jewish people it never happened before whoever heard of such a thing and in our generation do you know I'm sure maybe you your parents or your grandparents they're taking care of their parents why did Hashem give us this gift this phenomenon that in our times Hashem gives people long life so that not only they're taking care of parents you could have grandparents my parents who are grandparents they took care of their their elderly parents why does Hashem give us this gift so I want to share with you something extremely important you know in this week's par yobu dresses up he masquerades like as and he comes in and of course is blind and he says see the scent your scent my son like the scent of a field that God blessed so again is blind so he can't see yob in front of him he can't see yov in front of him but even so he can't see yov he smells yov and he says you smell like a field that God has blessed Rashi says what kind of field is he talking about says rash the scent of the Garden of Eden came in with Yakov a you remember that Rashi did you ever learn that that when yov ainu went in to get the the blessings was able to smell the smell of ganen why why did the smell of Ganan come in with yov what was so special about what yaku was doing that the scent of ganeden was coming coming in with him so in order to understand all of this we have to have a historical context for what's taking place in our times in our generation in order for mhia to come you see there's a man by the name of asav and asav was a Russia the problem is that asav has one and this Z is so powerful that until mesiah comes we're always battling and we're trying to fight the of because in this that has there is no one in history who is able to do this mitvah like you know what this is nobody ever honored their father like as by the way sayson Steinman since an order from mhia to come we got to knock out as's not going to come till we give him the final knockout punch in order to counteract God has to give us extra special opportunities of in order to knock out asav and that's why in the end of days for the first time in history God has given the Jewish people this phenomenon that we have the privilege often sometimes to honor parents parents to honor grandparents for grandparents themselves to honor their elderly parents for the first time in history in order to knock out is Hashem has given us the opportunity to honor a father and mother well beyond what typically in history one would would be able to do so what we have to understand is why is the of such an important now everyone has to behave you're going to be recorded for posterity when I was a B I used to go to ra Victor Miller you heard of him on Ocean Parkway and before he would start AAR R Miller would say anyone who has to call for sneeze do it now otherwise you're going to be recorded forever and ever and now I'm listening to a tape 50 years later I hear I remember that guy who sneezed during the shear it's on the shear so you have to cough you have to sneeze do it now or hold it in no I'm sorry okay why is the Battleground between yov and until mhia comes until the great day of the coming of mhia the fight between yov and will be about the MIT of you know as's was so powerful was such a force that raan shim benam you ever hear one of the said that I don't hold a candle to the why not said because would put on special when he would honor his father ASA would put on like a tuxedo special clothing to honor his father but IAM says I honor my father mother in my regular clothing from here we learn that the great of of is in fact in the coming week's par we find as yov was about to encounter the PK says it distressed it yob was very scared and he was distressed what was yakob scared about he was scared that as had a greater of so let's explain this further does anybody know there's a man by the name of isav who is the Nemesis of asav first you have to know what the word nemesis means who is the antidote to asav which figure in the Kash which character in the Torah is the Kryptonite you know Superman you're not supposed to know who it is okay who is the Kryptonite of who destroys as does anybody know Y is stra is the fire Y is the flame y destroys now it would have to be does anybody know what the name that yose is given Ys is sit he's the adversary of asav in fact when yov ainu yaku ainu is by his father-in-law's house for a very long time most people they get married they stay by the the father-in-law mother-in-law they have one kid two kids but yakov's there Ru Shimon lei it's a very long time to be by your in-law's house okay and he's still going oh but when he has Isa when he has ysf now he's ready to go home Rashi says why because not until ysep is born could yobu face asav Ys and as are like you know Arch Rivals Ys is the one who could give yov the final knockout punch could give Asa the final knockout punch in fact does anybody know what name is asav given in this week's para when RKA goes to the ISA of sh so the prophecy that shame tells Rifka is you're gonna have two kids ver the older one will serve the younger one is called RAV RAV for many years yob thought yosf was not alive when he finds out the good news that yosf is still alive you know what yob sends word to es he says OD rash is bothered what's the word RAV doing there so the say said he sent word to watch out still alive you thought you're going to overcome me because yep's dead no oh y y's going to get you so I'm thinking to myself if yose is the antidote to asav does anybody know did yose ever meet asav did these two characters ever come together did they ever meet anybody know anybody want to take a a wild guess ones did y ever meet it's his uncle did they ever have a Kaneka party together roses party did they go out for lattes together did ysf ever meet asav what did you say yes yes one time one time when was that very good was finally returning to AR after 22 years and asov was coming with how many men 400 men and I'm like getting all revved up because I know that yob has uh ysf and I'm expecting ysf to come and knock out as me that's what he's supposed to do and ASA is coming 400 men and first he encounters bilha and Zila V and their children then he encounters and I'm waiting okay yeah and and nothing happen nothing happens how anti anticlimactic nothing happen why didn't y knock out asav uppercut in the jaw knock him to the floor nothing happens so I want to share with you a gift from Heaven I think in that little encounter between ysep and asov ysep knocked asov out how so you know if if yose is the Nemesis of asav if he's the antidote to he must you know go head-to-head with him in which mitvah now let's talk a little bit about's number one as always wore special be when he honored his father did ysf wear special be him when he honored his father simply no we don't find anywhere we know yov made for yov made for y a special garment butes don't read the PK that way Yosef knew that he's the antidote to so is loved y from all of his sons y made for himself aim in order to honor his father with special to be able to counteract what else do we find that was unique about the kav of asav in this week's I'm going to die says you know what as was saying I'm going to die through meaning I will risk my life what did ASV do for a living he sold used cars he sold life insurance what did ASV do he's a hunter he's a hunter why is he always hunting he's hunting to be able to provide good meat for his father and it was a dangerous job but you know why ASA did it because he risked his life for K said I'm gonna die from this would y risk his life for Kim on that faithful day when yobu said Y and Ys knew that Yakov was summoning him to check on his brothers now did the brothers like ysep no the brothers wanted to kill ysep and Yosef knew that going to check on them without anyone else around was Sak and when yob said and he called ysep does anybody know what did ysep answer one word h behold here I am who else El used that word in other words yep says I understand my role in this world my role is to counteract asav and asav is so proficient in he even risks his life to honor his father so when my dad asks me go check on the brothers ysep knows here's my chance to risk my life behold here I am I'm ready to do it I'm ready to hold to match up to ASA but friends I would assert that there's only one area there is one area that as great as asav was inav y as great as asav was y was greater what was it in what area was Ys greater in and I would say that once you hear this you're gonna say of course it's obvious if y wanted anything ASA brought it in a Flash you want meat no problem you want me to risk my life no problem you want me to wear special badim no problem but asov was lacking in one part of the Mitzvah you know which part of the mitzvah it's the Mitzvah honor your father and your mother how did as do in in theim part he was lousy he aggravated R we know that asov did not get along with Rifka in fact the ramban writes that when Rifka died ASA did not even come to the L he didn't come to the funeral and that's why the Torah doesn't write that Rifka died because it would be embarrassing to her because Asa didn't show so even though asov was great in he was lousy in kav so if you I I would suggest if y would ever meet you know how he's going to give him the final knockout punch he's going to show show that I beat you inim so you know what you know what YF does as asov is approaching so first meets and their children and [Music] then not ra like y so rashi's bothered why don't the mothers go before their children says Rashi by Ys ysep said I don't want this wicked dirty guy laying his filthy eyes on my mother so therefore what do what do kazal say yose stood in front of asav and he extended himself and he lifted himself up up Al a and he protects his mother and he doesn't let asav who was going to marry Rael by the way you know that as was supposed to marry Rael you see first Rael was supposed to marry yov and Leah was supposed to marry asav but then when they had the big switch and Leia married jakov now Rael is going to fall into the lot of is by the way I would suggest does anybody know why who's yosef's mother ra why was RA to have y listen carefully because she gave up yov to Lea and now she put herself in Jeopardy of maybe having to marry asav so God says don't worry not only will you not have to marry as you'll be to have y who will destroy asov that was her that was her reward in that one encounter in that small encounter you might think it was insignificant it was innocuous I believe yose gives the final knockout punch to asav he says asav you might honor your father but look at me I protect my mother and you don't care for your mother and in that little brief short encounter y delivers the final knockout punch to asav he shows that by claa it's not only it's by the way where did ysf get this from that he was so concerned for the honor of his mother why was he called ysf because ra had no children and when Ys was born y ra shame was gathered in she wasn't embarrassed anymore that she didn't have children so his entire being his entire name was the one who protects the honor of his mother yose let's come back to the name of yov remember why is he called yov because he held on to the heel of asav and we asked what kind of is that a good reason to name Yakov yakob because he's holding on to a heel what kind of name is that you ready for a toot toot writes why did yakob hold the heel of his brother cuz he said my mother is having twins and every time she has to give birth to a child it's painful I want to minimize my mother's distress I'm going to hold on to the heel of my brother so it'll be like my mother only has to do this once that's why he's called yov the reason he held the heelal of his brother is because he wanted to minimize the pain of his mother so so indeed we see this was a seminal event in the life of Yakov ainu his entire name his whole reality his whole Essence was somebody who is concerned not only for his father but for his mother that's the advantage of yov over esav by the way in the the writes that in par next week when yov goes to lavan's house every time yov does anything with Lavan it says and it says again and again and again and again who's laan the brother of his mother the brother of his mother the brother of his mother the brother of his mother and says we get the point we know who L is L is the brother of jakob's mother say the Torah is emphasizing that every single thing that yob did in the house of La he was he was thinking I'm doing this because my mother told me to come here because my mother told me to come here he never wanted to forget for a moment he understood the of is but the of is is and actually this difference is explicit in the end of this week's paraa at the end of the parha asov sees that his brother gets married so he also says I'm also going to get married but listen to the words of the P asov gets married and then yov was commanded to go to p and he gets married listen carefully eliv IMO you know it could have said yob listened IMO he listened to his father and to his mother but asav V asav he says oh my father doesn't want me to go there what about R nah he's not concerned with that that's the difference between yov and asav so coming back to why is it that in the end of days the Battleground the mitzvah that it's all dependent on is the Mitzvah of why is this such an important Mitzvah is this the most important mitvah that you know we always have to worry about and we always have to overcome it why the emphasis on this Mitzvah so I I have a sa for at home Al he brings from Rim Schwab one of the great rabim of the 20th century he says that when Adam harishon ate from the Hadas you know had he not eaten from the Hadas people would have lived forever people wouldn't have to struggle with livelihood people wouldn't become sick and AD from the and he really brought ruination to the whole world now people there's illness there's sickness there's difficulty there's challenge because Adam from he ruined everything whatever existed in the world was downgraded including the T including the MIT everything was downgraded because of the sin of AD there's only one Mitzvah that was never affected by the sin of adish and this was a Mitzvah that was not affected because it didn't exist yet because although Adam and the world had every single possible imaginable thing there's one thing it didn't have a father and a mother Adam harishon had no father Adam harishon had no mother he was the handywork of God and therefore when sinned he ruined everything except for so if there's one that could bring the the world back to the way Hashem created it it's honor your father and mother and therefore when Yu comes into the room of and smells something what does smell G smelled the smell of ganen there's only one way to bring back the Original Scent of ghen you know nowadays they have these things in the you plug it into the wall stify and you could get order any smell you want but one smell you can order is there's only one way to produce that was the smell that smelled when yov came to bring him the meal and in the end of time in our time the mitvah that will overcome theah that will be the Mitzvah that will bring the world back to the way hasem created it is theah and we know the of the Friday Night by K he would go and he would kiss the hand of his mother because we know that Friday night as we're approaching the Shabbat shabat and G are synonymous that's why in Kabal Shabbat as we're greeting the Shabbat we're anticipating the gah so the Aral understood that to bring the G we have to overcome as asav specialized in and is specializes in this is is the identity of the Jewish people why are we called yov because we don't want to cause pain to our mother so in these days when we could sense we could sense that m is around the corner let's all be in this in we should bring and we should all be thank you very much much