Shnayim Yomi - Vayishlach - Rishon - #1

[Music] so we see that Yakov is now returning home right after being away for for for many years and uh he's genuinely concerned about how he's going to be received by ASA his brother who still he knows is harboring a lot of anger and resentment towards him right so he sends soash says he really actual genuine malim to go and see what's going on with yov and he tells them to tell yov the famous words Iman garti right to make sure that he should know that that the the same letters of garti is tag so tag is the 613 mitzvot that we have to keep so he's saying that even though that I was living with love on I still kept my 613 mitzvot right it's a big lesson for us that you should not be a product of your environment no matter where you are you should hold true to who you are right right and and afterwards uh comes word word gets back that he's coming and approaching with 400 of his men so now he's very very nervous he's not sure how to deal with this right he has different strategies different approaches we see that that um um that he has three different approaches of how to defend himself against asov one is with gifts another with prayer and another he's going to prepare for war if that's ultimately what's needed the ramban says that this is the strategy of how we are going to have to deal with all of our enemies throughout time throughout history that what Yakov did over here is foretelling what unfortunately will have to be the approach we're going to take with all the different people that are going to come our way and he says very very famous words that he feels that he's already passed or used up all of his merits and if yakob is nervous about ASA because his merits are lost then imagine how much more so we should feel about our merits and then he says that we should save ourselves from the hands of my brother the hand of asov and this is a Bas says a very very fascinating thing on this the order is first from the Y of then the Y of asov that we have to be more concerned about the ones who present themselves as a brother the asov of the world we defend ourselves against but the ones who present themselves as a brother our guards are down and those we have to be more worried about