V'zos Habracha - Know who you are

Hi, this is David Alowski and welcome to the last para in five of this cycle of the Kazakh [Music] gives out to all of the and listen to the braha that he gives to is and to they're together they're braa we know why already but I'm going to give it away right uh this is paragl is going out and happy is sitting in his tents. And so Rashi tells us that worked out an arrangement where vulen said I will work and uh you sit and learn and I'll split 50/50. You know, sometimes people say, "Oh, I met Isak's vulin. I gave this guy some money." That's not is means half and half. You split you split all of your money in half and you give it to him. That's called just be careful when you when you throw around these terms. But it occurred to me, isn't this a strange arrangement? Why would do this? You didn't find doni do this. You didn't find God and do this. Why is it that and decided to make this type of an arrangement? And I would like to suggest because if you go back to paras in bacius when Jacob gives the braha there's no hint to this. Here is Jacob's and is going to live by the coast. He's going to go out in boats and uh do business. is a strong boned donkey rails of he he rests with the burden on his back. No hint that they made any arrangement when was saying overim and he comes to par and he says and you don't find Torah with those who go overseas doing business. Could you imagine if you was villain the bra I received from Yakino is I'm gonna live by the coast I'm going to be going out in boats doing business and now says people who go out on boats and doing business are unlikely to be able to come. So he turns to his brothers and says, "You got a special braha. You're so strong. You're going to carry the the uh burden of Torah and the burden of Clay on your back. You're like a strong donkey that lies down with its burden and gets up with the burden on its back. You obviously have a special power to learn to. So let's work out an arrangement. Since my bra is that I'm going to be a businessman and your bra is that you have the potential to be a big yim right from comes those who were able to calculate and from the Sanhedrin says I will support you. So when Mosher Rabenu turns around and gives his bra at the end now and have worked out this arrangement. Why? You got to be real. You got to know who you are. If I see I'm going to be in a circumstance where I'm not going to be able to to learn, right? Shinberg made some kind of a he said uh um I'm not going to be able to learn at this particular time. and he asked somebody to learn for him during that time because I won't be able to learn. So you got you got to know you got to know what where you are and what you're going to be doing. When uh someone's saying kadesh sometimes they realize they're traveling someplace they might not be able to find a minion be able to say kadesh they make arrangements for somebody to say kadesh. So vulin understood I'm going to have the braha of being a businessman. So I'm going to be the executive director. I'm going to support the coil. I'm going to make sure that sits and learns with and has everything taken care of. And in this way both of us will share it. It's a very interesting. If you make a real not a make believe a real and you give half of your money to a even if that isn't learning to his full capacity he decided to smoo in the bish he decided to go for a cup of coffee the gets thear as if he had learned the whole time because I did my thing with complete with complete kavana I did everything I had to I remember when I was in so there was a balabos Mr. Lisker uh and he used to support the yeshiva and he comes to the yeshiva and he sees that the bish is half empty and he says what's going on he says well you know there's this bad cold going around he says a bad cold I go to work with 102 fever what do you mean I have a bad cold I we would learn to like a businessman learns to like a businessman man does business with that same sense of seriousness and integrity. And if so, then every one of us will have the to be able to become that or that to be able to be and all of us should have the strength to be able to do it. Have a good shabas and a good yont.