Shnayim Yomi - Vayechi - Rabbi Jack Savdie - DVAR TORAH

[Music] It's been a pleasure sharing with you this week and I'd like to share one final Torah with you on the parad is the close of the Ramban calls the book of creation. The entire book is called not just parasit. Even though the world was created in parasit, the world is not complete without Israel. Planet earth without Israel is like a body without a head. If the people on earth are the people of Habul and that is not the creation that God wanted. Only when Abraham, Isak, and Yakov come on the scene does the world begin to come closer to its mission and fulfilling the will of God. And with the children of Jacob Ainu, finally the crown of the head is created, the nucleus of Israel, our paras contains the blessings of Jacob to his children. But before he blesses his children that enlightens us to a story that's happening behind the scenes where wants to ensure that each of his children are following the path of him and Abraham and the path of the and that they fully believe in Hashem as they do. is explaining why we say after. And he says that when gathered his children in Egypt, he commanded them and he encouraged them to believe in the one God and he asked them maybe one of you is impure is pul Somebody that doesn't believe in the one God as I do and they answered they answered listen Israel meaning's other name is Israel listen our father is no Hashem Hashem is our God Hashem is one When heard it, he said he blessed on the fact that all of his children are continuing with his great legacy. But there's a question because a book of Mishna is meant to give us halaka. Why is it including this backstory of Shemma over here with Yakov and his children? And the answer is that Yakob Au orchestrated a response from his children. He didn't just command them to believe in Hashem. He challenged them. He asked them a question. Do you believe in Hashem? Because he wanted them to answer with conviction. He wanted them to answer wholeheartedly and sincerely. He wanted them to declare their belief in Yehoud Hashem. And the Rambam is writing it because when we say we have to declare our belief in Yehood Hashem with the same conviction as if somebody's challenging us and we have to prove ourselves that we believe in Hashem. It means that Shemma is not just a story of the past. It's a story of the present as we confirm each day our belief in Yehud. But it's also a story of the future. If you open up Rashi on the par of Shem in Rashi explains as follows. Shem is listen that is our God nowad ultimately will be the one and only God in this world like it says in the Torah on that day all of the people on earth will recognize God as one so it's a declaration of our conviction iction in the belief of Yehud and it's a destination of where we need to get to where the world needs to get to in belief of Hashem as Hashem and it's our job is job to bring the world closer to that day. That's our mission to bead Shayim to do all that we can to spread the knowledge of one God in this world. You who are all studying, studying God's Torah daily, ingesting all of the messages of the Torah, you are now more worthy than anyone to go ahead and to bring further God's mission in this world to bring the world to its final destination. May you all have the strength the energy to continue with this tremendous project to continue your studies to go further further.