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Vayechi: The Ben L’Ashri on Why Leah's Death is Not in the Torah

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Good morning everyone. Shalom shalom. Thank you everyone for coming. It's a great and joy to see everyone this morning. I know many of you came from far and wide. I want to acknowledge my friend Gary Shapiro who came all the way from Sydney, Australia. Wow. >> And then from Natana he drove 2 and 1 half hours this morning with his son Ben who it's his bar mitzvah. So in a in accordance with the effort so should Hashem answer all of our I want to take this opportunity to thank my dear friend Renas and Wler for organizing this trip literally I don't want to say uh he worked 16 hours a day he worked 24 hours a day people messaging him literally all hours of the day uh for many weeks about this trip we have upcoming trip at the end of January to the north and to Kron if you want to join that and I want Thank for all of his efforts to help bring to should stand up for him and his whole family. >> Okay, I want to take the opportunity. This is the 49th yard site of the saddic of Ranana. In honor of the occasion, we published a new edition of the Benla Ashri. We call it Bhaat Sadik. And people want to know what exactly it is. It is word for word the safer benri. But in the original three volume edition of ben ashri there are many long complicated pieces many very complex gamatrios many cabalistic pieces. So what this addition is is it takes out the pieces that are perhaps more user friendly more accessible. We made it with subtitles with makudis with some explanations on the bottom to make the braha that the sadic offers. Uh if you look on the in the what's called the fours I'll show you what I mean. When you open up a safar the so to speak designed page on the inset of the cover is called the forettes. So on the forets we bring the various school associated with the safer and the middle one that says he gives notification that he decided to d every day call me for anyone who studies the tells over in my name the to others they should be save from any distress that they need a salvation. This is a special that if you study this safer and you say it over to others, he commits himself to pray on your behalf. Okay. So, let's take the few minutes we have going up to the kev to learn uh a piece or two inside. will try to read it and translate it and if you have a chance over Shabas to say it over then my humble wish is that this of this great sadic should stand up for you for whatever you and your family need. Okay. A very interesting observation of the ranana is the last piece in paras page the ranana has an amazing observation you know in the Torah talks about the death of Abraham and Sah it talks about yitzkira rifka's death is alluded to in the words of course we talk about's We talk about Jacob's death but ask isn't it unusual there is no mention of the leu what happened to that why is leu why is there no record of her so in the very last piece in sana says as follows to in the holy work called dictake he has the following observation why doesn't it say when and how Leia died like it says that died. In my humble opinion, it would seem obvious. Do you remember? Leia was coming ra was coming with dud. What the dudam were? Some say some kind of herb, a fertility enhancing herb that Raala was uh that Leia had and Raal asked Leia for some of these dudim and they made a trade. What was the trade? Rael gave Leia Yako for the night and in exchange Leia gave Rael the dudim, the fertility enhancing herb. But Kazal in the batious rabb say that what Rael gave over was not only Yakov of Enu for the night but Yakov was going to be buried with Rael and Rael gave over her right to be buried with Yakov to Leia. So the reason why Jacob is buried with Leia is because Leia Rael traded with Rael the right to be buried with Yakov. So they explain that it's going on being buried in the patriarchs. We know never died. It says that he expired and he died. It doesn't say only he was gathered to his people. So since Yakov never died and Leia won the rights to be buried with Yakov, Leia now becomes subsumed in the identity of Yakov. So just like Yakov never died, Leia never died. So it doesn't say Leia didn't die cuz Kushi was to the same so to speak life cycle as Yakov. Namely, just like Jacob didn't die, Leo didn't die. Therefore, it doesn't say by Lea that the concept of death applied to her. Okay, that is we're going to go to the main entrance. The main entrance. Um, here's another idea that Sakarana says the right. This is referring to the quoted by the Alma is there's a concept. Why did Yakov have two wives? The relationship a husband has with the wife represents the relationship hashem has with rael is the open relationship hashem has with the b make their stood the lea alasay leia represents with hashem and golos. So raha represents the revealed relationship hashem has with the Jewish people and represents the concealed relationship. Therefore, Leia's death is hidden, Leia represents the concealed relationship Hashem has with the Jewish people. I would humbly suggest that's the reason why just like it doesn't say Leia ever died, it doesn't ever say Yakov married Leia. It says Yakov married Rael and in the morning it's not Rael, it's Leia. But it doesn't actually say he married her because her whole essence was of a hidden nature. It doesn't say he married her. It doesn't say she died and lea is in the gulas. That's why in tick there's tick rael and lea tick rael is represents at a time of bignyan shabas. Tika is the time of golos the so that's a concept of no main entrance. Main entrance. Yeah. Okay. This is just one uh I think amazing piece. By the way, I'll just just share with you when uh originally Kev Raal was just in an open area on a road and then when Moses Montafury came and he built the uh the iconic Kev of Raal that everybody sees in the pictures with the dome on top at first the were very upset because this building was covering over Rael's Kev and there's an idea Raal always needs to be revealed and not covered and it was considered a violation of this principle. That Raal needs to be Raal needs to be mainar. >> Okay. Khan. Khan. Yeah. Khan. So but when they saw that the Arabs were it was not safe to so then they they endorsed the building of Moses Montury but originally it was considered proper that Rael's grave be out in the open. Okay. should be Barack.