Shnayim Yomi - Vayishlach - Shlishi - #3 - Rabbi David Tawil - The Bite of a Kiss

[Music] Good morning for in this aliyah finally confronts his brother and he bows before him. He reconciles with him and they embrace each other. The puk tells us in that they embraced by hugging and they fell on each other and they kissed. The puk tells us the tell us that there were dots on top of the word as she says which some commentaries explain some rabbis explain means that he didn't fully embrace him. He didn't kiss him with all his heart. Others say no usually is here. Hashem made a certain level of divine compassion and mercy to befall to embrace his son his brother Yakov. But I heard a nice explanation about that word. The midrash says that he didn't really kiss him. Instead, he bit him. But what does that mean? How could the Torah present a kiss if it was really a bite? The answer is is that really did kiss him. But when somebody who is your enemy pretends to kiss you, it's actually a bite. You think that you can get close to them. You think that you can uh be be in their environment and as a result you are going to erode your own moral compass. So this kiss of Isav to Yakov which drew him in was ultimately a bite because if he would have stayed with him Yakov wouldn't have never risen to the level of greatness that he had. And so Yakov had the intuition despite urging him to stay together that we have to split and go our separate ways. We may have reconciled but we're not meant to be together forever. A person has to be careful to put himself in the right environment and to know when even those people who might look like they're giving you good really have different value systems that you have to separate from them and make sure that you don't erode your own moral compass. Have a great day.