The Celestial Identity of Yaakov | Rabbi Ari Kahn | November 27th 2025

of words of introduction. One is welcome back to Gil. And Gil Gil claims that he I mean he didn't have to say this. He claims that he listened the last couple of weeks, which means everyone can feel free to test him afterwards if you want and to see uh what he got. But more importantly, what we're doing today is we're going to be continuing from last week. How obvious that will be at any point. And if you weren't here last week, so then uh don't worry. This can certainly stand alone. But I'm I'm just telling you that when I started from the very beginning last week, I'd spent the whole time really dealing with Asov and certain aspects of Asov. So today we're dealing with Yakov. So it was just the other side of the of the same proverbial coin. The the other thing is that at some point everything that I'm going to talk about has this identity in more mystical sources. And I did my best to try to put this together and and and not get to the mystical sources to leave those on the side. And when I do get to some of them perhaps and it's also the way that I got to them is what I mean is the ones I'm accessing are ones which are far more mainstream which means more rashi than Zohar. I'll just put it like that. And therefore I feel that rashi is more uh is more fair to quote in a in a shar like this. But everything that I am going to be quote unquote revealing has it's 1% of the reveal and there's 99% which is hiding behind it and that 99% I'm simply hopefully not getting into it all today but I'm just telling you this there is a a lot more so let us begin >> yes absolutely 100%. This year is sponsored by Rabbi Michael and Jerry for the refuish lame of their granddaughter Vigal Sarah Bacha Arona who had surgery >> emergency surgery last night her second spinal >> yeah so she should have >> okay so she should have her foolish >> and let's let's then begin so just a little bit of background again I I assume that you know the story and the story is that Yakov who has had a very complicated personal life. This is one of these great moments where both of his parents told him the same thing even though they told it to him very very differently. I mean they both in terms of content they both said he should leave here and go there although they said it differently. And then and I can actually ask you which one God agreed with. His mother said run away and right Barack run away. Why? Cuz your brother wants to kill you. And Yetsz look said, "Oh, why don't you go there and try to find your wife?" So, go there is essentially the main point is to get over there so that you can do something there and then presumably come back fairly quickly. And his mother said, "Really ominously, run because your brother's going to kill you and when he calms down, I'll let you know." That's the ominous part because and I'll let you know because she never lets him know. So, that's uh that takes us to next week. So Yakov again as much of as much dysfunctionality there may have been in the home till this point they finally tell him to do the same thing albo although albeit for slightly different reasons. So Yakov runs away. So for and and everything I'm saying right now I've said before and I'm just framing this a little bit in order to get to where I want to get to today. Yakov's journey should 100% be compared to the journey that was taken by the Evid who we call Eleazar when he goes on that same mission. The difference is that he packs up a traveling jewelry store with 10 camels worth of jewelry and YaKob goes running off because apparently he ran away and he ran away no time to prepare. He didn't have time to go and pick his favorite suit. didn't have time to pick his favorite, you know, the engagement ring that he wanted to give that he inherited from his grandmother or whatever the case may be. He uh he he runs away and he runs away with nothing. So it's this nothingness of Jacob which which is really what I wanted to to note because I mean if I'll continue it says so again the you what you can't miss unless you missed it I only say this to make you feel inadequate you know this already and it says three times in this verse the Mak and that that reminds us I say us it has to remind all of us to the term which is used for the beta mikdash in sayem it's used many times it's ham the place so over here when we're told that he he ends up by this place which sounds total what do you want to call it surreptitiousness he ends up it happens to be what why it says because he runs out of daylight means Jacob's running as far as you can. By the way, that's a pretty good run. If you left Burva and you got all the way to what we think Betel is or any place near what we think Bale is, that's not that that's a lot. That's I was just I was just thinking about that. That's really uh a great deal. It means Jacob is running. Maybe he did have a camel. YaKob is running. He's he's he's getting out of there as quickly as possible. But again, if he really did get that far, I'm almost, you know, whenever Kazal say, "Oh, there's over here. There's there really is to get that far." But it also seems to be very deliberate that this is where he's going to suddenly run out of daylight and this is where he's going to just, you know, go to sleep on on the ground. And you realize it did not have to say three times. It could it could have said at one time maximum even says he travels as far as he can. He gets to this place and the sun sets. So when when I see Yakov laying on the ground, right? So obviously his cell phone ran out of power and he wasn't able to book a hotel beforehand and uh the or the app wasn't working, whatever you know our modern-day first world problems are. and and Yakov uh is sleeping on the ground. Sleep sleeping on the ground itself should trouble all of us. What's the irony? The irony is that he has a great deal of brahot that he just now took with him. And those braot should be giving him all kinds of one that should be worth an upgrade. Again, just this all for your traveling that that uh I'll have to tell you a story afterwards about upgrades. There was Yakov is lying on the ground which means you know if something bad happened to him if Yakov were killed that night we'll see right away we're going to be told he's he's going to be protected but if Yakov were killed that night so the initial report to the newspaper would would be that that yeah some homeless some vagrant a hobo >> was uh I I once heard Rosalvich give a shir and describe the whole idea of ela arufaha. So he said what kind of person is found their body is found. He goes it's it's a hobo. So I I just thought it was interesting that that was of all the words to use that was the word that he uh that he used. It's a hobo on the ground and a forgotten person and so on. and if Yakov would have been found so that Yakov was laying on the ground and uh not even covered by newspapers and it sounds very much like a homeless person and so there's this element of Yakov who I'm not just going to say is is the ground it's really a low point I would have to say it's a low point over here running for his life running out of sunlight falling on the ground and there and and and there he is in the darkness then again Yakov when we said that Yakov prays at night of course Yakov prays at eight. Why? Because Yakov's terrified at night. I mean, that that that that's where these prayers are coming from. They're coming out of total anxiety, total angst, total uh difficulty within his life. So, again, I'm just taking this snapshot of of Yakov right over here. Now, if I were to go where I said I don't want to go yet and I were to think about Yakov a little bit more mystically. So, we know that Abraham represents and represents Guru and Yakov represents Terid and Tepherd is really the meeting point between the other two which means Yakov is seen as being somebody who's incred incredibly complete. It it it's the it's the synthesis if you want to use Hegelian terms of if really you you would say that one is a thesis and one is an antithesis and therefore Jacob does become the synthesis but that that there is great truth in that that that that's who Yakov is and I think there are elements over here which point at this and the reason why it may sound like I am perhaps overstating this so that's why I have to keep on stating I'm not overstating reading this. So, just read a little more more and this will all become a lot clearer. And he dreamed. Dreaming is good, by the way, cuz some people can lay at night and be terrified and they can't close their eyes because there's sounds, there's movement, there's something, there are animals, and how can I close my eyes? Something may happen to me. The ability to sleep in this situation is also again I I I think is uh is fascinating because because a lot of you don't sleep at night. A lot of you have things that you're worried about and and everything in the world comes into your minds. I'm just trying to show you that I'm also married. Okay. And >> just don't sleep. >> And he sleeps. But not only does he sleep, it's more than sleeping. He dreams. So the Gmorrah tells us that somebody who goes, I believe it's three nights without dreaming, it says is a sinner. Why? Cuz Jews need to have dreams. We dreams mean that we believe in a future. We believe that every situation we're in right now is going to get better. So there just something so optimistic and and it's part of what I said last week. If you recall when there I spoke more about Yoseph's dreaming, but Yoseph's dreaming and everything about Yoseph has its origins back in Yakov. And the fact that that that again that Yakov could have this dream in this situation running for his life, sleeping on the ground, running out of daylight and just, you know, not knowing what's going to be the next moment, but he can close his eyes and fall asleep and dream. So now the next point is also from the Gamarra. So what is it that you dream about? So the gumar insists that the dreams that we have are the things that are occupying our minds, the things that we're involved with our our more innermost thoughts that sometimes manifest themselves in dreams and we're told any dreams and there is no word is also I've noted many times this is the only use in the Tanakh and we call it a latter because I guess that's what it sounds like. vera shamima. So what is a sulam? It's something which has its feet on the ground and its head in the sky. So this is part of what I want to warn you about. The sulam is a symbol of yakov. Yakov is represented by the sulam. Yakov is a person who even though he's lying on the ground, he has his head up in the clouds. Yakov represents the duality. Yakov represents the combination or the synthesis between Abraham who by the way is very thisworld oriented in terms of the mid of reaching out to other people that's part of having your feet on the ground but Jacob is all also part of the world of which is a person who has divine thoughts which stops them from doing things which they shouldn't be doing which means this whole identity of of Yakov or the combination of Araham and then again Don't misread me. I'm not saying that Aram doesn't have a uh a monotheistic side to him because I can't believe there would be a larger mistake that one could make. But of course, Aram has the mono monotheistic side. Of course, Aam believes in God. But the manifestation of Aram's belief in God really does come out in terms of his while Yeitzk's world is so much more a world of again of augorit which is much more of a I would call this a theocentric perspective whereby God is in the center in terms of how he's relating to things and now I'll say it again and who exactly is Yakov so Yakov is the synthesis Yakov is the who has his feet on the ground but his head is up in the clouds which means this again this sulam represents Yakov and therefore this is what he's dreaming about this is and and this is what he has to reconcile and this is not so simple and again if we're not so sure about this because Yakov's been doing some things which are very much related to this world I mean just think about all the complexity in Yakov's life and that's going to be part of our problem that we look at Yako from one scene to the next and we not so sure how to judge Yakov. Which means generally if one wants to be a little cynical, sometimes even a lot cynical, then you would say that Asov is not really as bad as the midrashaim and Yakov is not really as good as the midrashim. And both and both those sides have validity to it. And that's part of what I am uh really dealing with today because what I am already am trying to say is that when Yakov does things, it's because there is this duality. And whenever you see Yakov doing things where his feet are on the ground, realize there's also a ladder right there which is connecting up up into the clouds as well. And there's always this other consideration. You want me to break this down and make this simpler just in terms of last week's para? Yakov does at least two things which you can consider to be problematic. And if I were teaching last week's para and I was trying to defend Yakov, then I would point out right away between the text and Rashi and Unkos and Targamil, you'll find out that everything that Yakov does is based upon the Nva that Rifco received, which is not just that he's listening to his mother. It's not just his mother loves him. His mother is the beneficiary of prophetic instruction. And therefore she tells YaKob what it is that he needs to do. And therefore YaKob all the things with his feet on the ground are based upon having his head in the clouds based upon direct Nouvo. And and and yes and yes if you're wondering where I'm going today. Yes. Um just like last week I tried to uh paint a very bad picture of Asov. This week I want to paint a very good picture of Yakov. Okay. So let's continue. So at least you know what it is that I uh what I want to do and what I want to say. Um when we continue, not only are we told that we have a salam because I stopped in the middle. I stopped right there by telling you about the sulam and theam itself is tremendous because the sulam itself again has this dual element to it of both being on the ground and connecting to the clouds. But then it continues and it says which by the way once again is another manifestation of that same type of dynamic which means it's the angels going up and coming down. It's this duality and this duality is Yakov. Yakov is the sulam and Yakov is connected to angels going up and going down. But once again that's part of Yakov's inner world. That's of Yakov's dreams. That's what's occupying his thoughts. Now, just in case you think incorrectly that I'm overstating this, you really have copies of the sources for this year. >> No. >> Oh, okay. Fine. I just I just got I got >> You sent them out a little bit too late last night. Some of us need to print them in the office. >> Thank you, Rabbi, for working through the night yesterday and preparing the share today. You're welcome. Thank you. After giving three two-hour lectures in university and going to the cemetery for my mother's shushim and then and then uh dealing with else I had to deal with and making dinner for my wife >> and then and and and and then I don't want to make you feel bad and and and then finding time to uh to put the this together. So no, you're welcome. Anyway, so just in case you think mistakenly that I've over, By the way, I did not clean up afterwards. I I just want you to know there's there's limits to everything. She's very happy when I cook and she's very happy with the creativity and how many things I can get dirty when I cook. >> It's quite impressive. Anyway, just in case you think I've overstated this, so I hope you all recognize, again, this is not an overstatement that Yakov's life is full of angels. Angels are there all over the place. Mo more so, more absolutely more so than other characters, certainly in Beret, probably throughout the Torah. I mean, if you needed an example, you can skip to number two. We're in Peric Lamadal and this is the background of him knowing exactly how to negotiate with love and to win over the stripes and whatever on the animals which means there's an angel involved in all of that. And by the way, the angel identifies Now, I'm going to say it again. I got ahead of myself just now because the angel saying, "Okay, I'm the one who I'm the one who revealed myself. This was that epiphany that you had." And all of your success that you just now experienced was really because of me. And by the way, what kind of success is this? This is this is success which is earthly success, right? It has to do with this world. It's it's financial and so on. But all of that happened because of me. But again, there's an angel. The next two times that we have angels and and by the way, note another thing. He names the place beel. I'm going to come back to the the significance of the L of the Betel. And then we have in source number two, which at the end of next week's para, sorry, the end of this week's para leading into next week, it says. So again comes to Jacob. Um sorry sorry that was two going to three three at the end of the para when it saysoker and they separate again bumps into his old friends. He bumps into angels and right after he says right because he says this is and what happens right after the next he sends on a mission and here rashi says mash and a lot of people say why does he say mash because of the right before there because he says he sees malim so therefore sees angels this is by the way it's not the only time what's the next time and and you're going to start up with me about the next time the next time is when he meets this anonymous person who attacks him and he wrestles with him and of course Rashi says it's an angel. Why does Rashi say it's an angel? Is that or is it an opshot? So the only thing that you need to do is define for me what is so what is phat is a contextual understanding of the Torah and what's the question? What is the context right that that's the whole thing the context over here if you look and say for Hosa that's part of the context of Torah in source number four it says which means in say for Hosa which has a retrospective of Jacob wrestling with angel sorry wrestling with Asov in uterero I I know all of you thought that was a medish right did you know it's a it's Puk. >> Yes. >> Okay. I'm saying but people think it's a mad. Yeah. It's a mad actually goes. They didn't really. No. No. It's a puk right over here. But not only that, it says who was this anonymous person who attacked him along the way. It says it was a malik. It was an angel. Which malik and so on. Okay. But what's my point? Yakov is constantly involved with malim. Now those you those of you who say malamita, right? You know you know names of at least four angels, right? I hope. Oh, you have to hum it now to get to get it right. So, so you you know names. What do all the angels have in common in terms of their names? >> L. >> L. They all have the name L. And right El Gapriel, Mael, Ourel, Rafael. So they they've named they they all have the name L. So what's interesting that this place that Yakov that Yakov struggles with the angel that place gets called in in source threebet pu the place that Yakov sees the angels going up back in source number one in it says betel right because there's angels over there but what's most interesting about all of this of course is that Jacob's name itself gets changed and he becomes Israel. Now, that should cause you to pause for a moment and ask yourself, what in the world just now happened? Okay, because I I'll say it again. That's just so much more interesting because what did I do? And I didn't say it, you know, I didn't even say it, but what did I just now do? I gave context to the calling of Yakov Israel in terms of this whole angel naming or names of angels. And you suddenly realize that the name Israel was not as simple as you thought. By the way, when he does get the name, what does it say in that description? If you look back at source number three, is that's three. It says, and there's a whole thing about the name. What's your name? what's another way of saying that struggles with >> he struggles with things down below and things up above which means this is the same problem or the same tension or the same dynamic which takes place in terms of the ladder this is the same thing again that's what Yakov is Yakov is this duality Yakov struggles with below and he struggles with above and that's what constantly happens until finally this name emerges, this name Israel. So now you realize that I've gotten way ahead of myself and I hopefully have not confused you along the way, but there is a lot more that we have to try to uh we have to try to unpack with this. When we go back to the first source one more time, we're told that he sees these angels going up and going down. Again, the duality, the connection between heaven and earth. We're told that God appears. There is tension with the word Allav. Is Allah the latter or the Allahav is Yakov? And I'll tell you a secret now. It doesn't make a difference because Yakov is the latter. Should I say that again? Yakov is the latter. Yakov is the connection of heaven and earth. And there what? >> Okay, good. At least someone understood. Okay, I could stop now. Okay, but no, but I'm saying that that's exactly the point. Once you understand Yakov's duality, you understand that he is the latter. is the by the way we normally say that is right you have to right is aod is he's the he's the and who's Torah Jacob's Torah why is Jacob Torah so what's your answer I don't know why Jacob's Torah so that that's also we have to get to by the way those of you who don't like gamatrio especially by there's there are couple of gamatrias which are in the medish itself. One of them is connects to salam. By the way, Sulam is always written without a VV, which is really interesting because Yakob is all about VV because VV is connection. It's connection heaven and earth. What exactly is a sulam? It's a connection. But what is aam? So it says salam is equal to 130, which is the same asai. Sai is salam because what is what is sai? Sai is a place that connects heaven and earth. Sai is the place where the Torah is going to come down. And and I'm going to say it again that's not me speaking. I know it sounds like it's me speaking but that is already something which was pointed out by the midrash that the salam and sai are essentially the same thing. So that's not something that you would have imagined, but of course it is because of course is where the Torah comes down and what happens by the mdash which is what he's dreaming of which means essentially the Torah comes from but see but it comes from but there again is going to be this connection between the mikdash and ultimately between but again what's interesting about Yakov is that Yakov sees the multidirection of of this going up and going down, going up and going down. That is that is and that is what else? Well, it's a couple other things which we still have to get to, but that's so he says that feeling with ground, right? The land is yours. Multi multi-directionality. Now I'm going to say this again. I already said this quickly and you didn't hear it, right? You didn't hear it. I refer I already comment on that word. Now, when someone says, "Don't worry, I got your back." What should you do? >> You shouldn't worry. Why? >> Why? Because you said, "I got your back." Which means >> which means there's a bullseye on your back, but don't worry, I got I got your back. So, if somebody says, "Don't worry. I you know, I got I I got you. I got your back. I'll be there for you." So, now you start worrying. So, what happens when God says, "Don't worry." >> So, now you really have to worry because now now it means you need divine protection. Why do you have to worry when God says don't worry >> because now you realize you need divine protection. If you didn't need divine protection, God wouldn't have to say that. I I I understand the other side of it. And and and the way that you're saying it's good, maybe even it's right. Maybe even it's true. But just try to channel a little bit of uh of uh thousands of years of Jewish uh history. >> I I say history. Maybe she's protection always comes with a catch. >> The I would I was going to say Jewish paranoia, right? God God says, "I'll protect you." So, right. No, I know. It's great. It's great. I need God I need God to protect me now. So, there's something over here. >> I think if you believe that God's going to protect you all the time, that's the whole idea. And if you believe it, then you don't have to worry. But if you don't believe it, then you >> Okay, let's go back to context. Why would God say to YaKob, "Don't worry, I'll protect you, you know, wherever you're going." Why? Because somebody's trying to kill him. And now, and now he's had to run away. So God is saying, you know, I'll I'll protect you. So God's protecting is because he is in this incredible precarious situation, which means it's not like he's sitting at home and everything's okay, which means it does fit into the context incredibly. But and I and I understand I understand. I'm just thinking even in this context doesn't he have I mean has a conflict with things he always feels guilty about doing the wrong thing. So maybe that's why God is telling me don't worry often >> perhaps I'm not sure if he feels guilty or not that that's that actually is a great point but I'm going to say it again somebody says don't worry you worry when your kids say don't worry what's the first thing that you do right if you don't worry oh my god now I don't have to worry till then I was fine so so again I'm just noting when God says don't worry I have a little bit of uh it also causes some anxiety. But what I started to tell you is that we don't understand yet what this means. There's something else going on over here which is so much beneath the surface here because we don't understand what's happening. And I still have to see a couple more sources and then again we'll see how far we can get. But he says why have to say I'm going to bring you back because he's going to exile. And again this kind of this kind of statement by God happens a number of times and almost every time one of the is going to leave we have something like this everything will be fulfilled. He wakes up back to the God is here. So he understands the place he understands the significance. And I'm sure someone's going to give some kind of about this because he uses some oil there. Good l which I already got to before. Why specific? Because that's what angels put in your head is an interesting place with a whole interesting history and we'll see if we have time to get back to that. which is what God just said. Okay, that goes back to the same point. And he will take care of him. So we're going to try to remember both about the food and about more importantly the the impression that we get is that just now said that he's going to right Jacob's in distress so okay I'll build a shul what happens afterwards he gets better so the shul can wait when did Jacob actually fulfill That that is a far more difficult question than there is an answer to the the easiest answer that I have and now again I'm getting way ahead of myself is what kazal actually point to and what >> and he comes back there is >> but he doesn't build one then God tells him to he keeps telling him to so remind me that I didn't answer this yet just remind me I owe you an answer so let's continue now there is a oh I also skipped another one. Source number five, you got another malikot. Okay, then again, Jacob speaks it, but but again, it's referring back to the previous case. Okay, very >> is talking about is not really a it's really the family. >> Are you a lawyer? Are you trying to defend him? >> Come on. Come on. Well, just like with the team to bring Yeah. But but he didn't say that. >> Yeah. Yeah. But but still, nonetheless, I have a better answer. So, give give me a little bit of time. In source number six, we have a phenomenal gam. This is in Medusaba. This exists as well, but there's also 10 other explanations. This is the only one mentioned here in the Gamarra. Now, where is this Gamarra? This is in what do you have in paridhan? What do you discuss in ganasha? The ganasha. So while discussing the ganasha, one of the things that you can't eat, what does it go back to? It goes back to the narrative of the ganasha. So we get to the narrative of g of gidan. So who are we talking about? We're talking about Yakov. So then along the way he says, "Oh, let me tell you something about Yakov." And it tells us the following thing. Tan, it was taught. Remember the the the angels are going up and going down. What are they doing? Okay, just stop right there for a second. What what this just now said is that the angels are going up and going down and it didn't give us that much information about what it means and what it's referring to and what it's talking about. And it goes back to the problem which I already delineated and the solution that I already told you. It sees Yakov lying on the ground and who is this? this this homeless hobo lying on the ground, you know, who's got no place to sleep. He's got no home and and and so and he's off running off into exile. Again, the Jewish people all the years we spend in exile and we're chased from place to place. And who are these people? And Christian theology says that we've been rejected by God and forgotten by God. And look at the situation that Jews live in. And the angels go down and look at him on the ground. And then what do the angels do? They go up and they look and they see something above. So now we weren't it wasn't defined and but what do they see above? They see the same thing which means who is Yakov? Is he connected to the ground or is he connected to heavens and what's the answer? Yes. That Yakov is both because what is Jacob? Yakov is the connection. Yakov is the latter. And I'll say it again. What we learned by the building of the Mishkan is the vim. The vim are all of the connections. What's the biggest connector in the Mishkan? The bria. And what do ask? Where in the world do they get such a big piece of wood? And what was the answer if you remember? >> What? >> Not Jacob. Y that that Abraham planted the shel then cut it down and when he went and by the way who provided the transportation who was the what's what's f what do they call the the trucks the >> parro? what who who who parro parro parro provided the transportation because pyro sent his uh his fleet to go and bring it down. So power then brings it down and Yakob says no we have to bring this he tells he puts it down in go all this is in kazal all this I believe rashi quotes this as well and and it says that it gets then when they it's time to build the mishkun what is the biggest connector there because Jacob's the connector by the way if you really understood anything I just now said the which connects the entire mishkun from one end to the other is the same as the but one is vertical one is horizontal which is actually part of the whole issue of yakov is is yakov connected to this ground. It's also of but it's not just it's also up above and and below. Yakov is somebody who goes in every single direction but Yakov does build the Mishkan. That's exactly the point. You like my answer better than yours. Yakov does build the Mishkun and Yakov makes sure to tell his kids, "No, I'm I'm donating the central part of the Mishkan. Make sure that you bring it down with you." So, I'm saying that that itself becomes really interesting. But even that I did not explain this enough because I have to get back to this to this because this gumar is is incredible. I mean he was in danger and and God is above him. By the way, if it weren't a verse, we couldn't say it. But remember, God says, "I'm going to protect you." Right? God is right there protecting him. So yet is homeless on the ground and sleeping on the floor. But that what's happening that God is protecting him right now. God is right there above. But that that first part going up and going down is interesting. Now in order to understand this I'm going to do two things. The second thing I'm going to do is read the rashi. That explains it. But that's the second thing. The first thing I'm going to do is first look at another gamarra. You know why? Because rashi knows the other gamarra also. So let's first look at the second gamarra and then we'll look at the rashi. The other gumaries in verse number seven says I'm like he's like one of the most beautiful people like remnant of the beauty of Jerusalem and the glory gives you a way of trying to approximate the beauty of he tells you what you do exactly. You take a new silver thing and you and you have filled with part of the seeds of a pomegranate and you can begin to understand what looked like in the beauty of the then continues and it says the end the next line right is really so good-looking the but weren't we taught of kahana wasn't the beauty of kahana is beauty of the And his beauty was remnant of was reminiscent of the beauty of Jacobu. And what is it that Jacob looked like? Yakov looked like by the way that is the key. That is the mak of understanding everything that we've seen so far and everything else that we're going to see that somehow Yakov is connected to Marishan. And I'll add one little step nowish before the ordish after the and the answer is is that Jacob is reminiscent of marish before the and that itself you say hold it I don't even know what to do with that but that that is what this gar is saying and that's the beauty of the beauty of Jacob is the beauty of Adam but it's the beauty of Adam before anything else went wrong. Now what's the problem? The problem is the Jacob's laying on the ground and we see this Yakov who's connected to the ground and what are the Malikim doing? The Malim looking say hold it hold it. He is the same thing that we saw up there. Now what is it that they're looking at? So presumably what they're looking at is the kayak and on the there is this image of it's the image of Marishon in at the apex which is when he's created. So Adam is and is on the key and the angels don't know what to do with themselves because they've never seen somebody like Adam Harish before the because what happens we we had a and what happens is the world became tainted and what happens every all the static has happened and now they go up you know there's this homeless guy on the floor by the way now you have to have cover for every homeless guy that you ever see and say there's a homeless guy on the floor and laying over there and not only is he but saleim, right? Sometimes you have to remind yourselves not only is he but Salamelo Kim but it could be that this homeless guy Yakov is but Salamelo Kim in the most perfect way that there is and they're saying hold it a second now again I can start I can start and and try to take this and say how is this possible not just Yakob on the ground YaKob who takes the Borra who dresses up as Asov and does all these things that we have a reason to question him and what is Kazal saying nonetheless oh that's what you think you got it This is like before the and now you don't know what to do with yourselves. By the way, as I was thinking about this, this is already last shabas when I started thinking about this because had to get past as gets back to Yakov and uh any of you ever read Doski's the idiot? >> Yes, >> my husband's reading it now. >> Really? So tell him that that I think is about Jakov who's like before. It's not the one that they ask you to read in school. So good. You have an intelligent husband. >> Oh, sorry. Just fishing. He's on the level. >> Ah, very good. But going from dust to dust. >> Yes. >> Generally only guys from Gush do it, but they only would do it. Yes. >> Okay. I hope you're impressed by Kodes, right? So, um, yeah. So, if you don't know the story, there's a guy who escapes from a or gets out of a sanitary room and, uh, industrious world. So, I apologize for I mean, he's most likely much more of a Jesus type of a redeemer and so on, but everyone thinks he's an idiot because how can there be somebody who's so pure? How can there be somebody who's so good? How can somebody who's so so decent? How could be somebody who's so not cynical in the world because there aren't people like that. So, in those world, it was only meaning if there were somebody like that, we would probably lock him up and think he's an idiot. But that's exactly Yakobinu. So, what do we all do when we look at YaKob? We look at Yakov. Oh, Jacob did this wrong, does this wrong, did this wrong. Well, you know, excuse me. Let's just stop for a second. What would you do if you had interactions? What would you do if loving was your father-in-law, right? Again, just think for a second. It's insanity. This total insanity. You think that the Yakov family was dysfunctional? I mean, that family is crazy. They're all crazy. So, let's just pause for a second. What What do you What if you're a Yakov, but you have to now deal with uh with Asov. But I'm going to say it again. Yakov, who's doing things which are connected to this world, but where is he getting his motivation from? or where is he getting his instructions from? They're coming from heaven. Who? How do they come from heaven? Because they got from his mother. That's the conduit of the Nva coming down to his mother. Which means Yakov is this person who is this ladder. He is this connection. It's this connection of heaven and earth. And you still don't know what I'm talking about. But I'm saying now this is what the angels are looking and saying because the angels are thinking no there's the there's this earth and there's things on this floor and there's things again he's laying on the ground and then they realize no that guy laying on the ground is the perfection of of the avot. He's this beautiful combination of Abraham and he has to deal with both worlds and his life is complex. That's that that's this total complexity. It's constant Yakov's life at every single step of the way. There's complexity to it. But this complexity at least now we can we have a name for it. The complexity is that Yakov is the salam. Yakov is the ladder. Jacob is the bridge. Jacob is the connection. So of course Jacob is the bure. He is the briatikon. He is the thing that goes across the entire Mishkan and and holds the whole thing together. Which by the way the Mishkan then replaces Sai and what's Sai is theam. So what is theam? The salam is the mishkan and of course there's a bri which means the theam goes up becomes the bri going across because of course these things are absolutely the same and if you're beginning to understand me I'd worry about all of you. Okay. So now now we can read the rashi. He's English now. Huh? Who? >> Gibble. >> Whose shar was he in? >> Okay. So, he wasn't my brother. She >> No. >> Continue. Rashi. Source number eight. Did you Did you understand what he just now said? >> No. What number? >> Eight. >> This is with the angels going up and going down. They see him below and they look above. And what do they see when they go above? Oh, he says exactly what they see. >> What? >> Yeah. So, who where are these from? >> And what is it within? It's the considered to be one of the most obscure teachings in Judaism, the masava. And I gave you here a couple sources incl. But one of the faces of one of the sides of this revelation of this chariot, by the way, what does the chariot do? It goes up into the air. This is a flying chariot. So what is the chariot as well? It's a sulam. It's something which is connects to the ground and connects above which means the is the So what is the there is a face on it. And if you need to see this a little bit, look at source number nut. Now when I hear the word Adam at least part of me would say generic person and part of me says Adamish. So now go back and read that there was a face of a person. Which personal look at Rashi again source eight? Yakov was the face. Yakov is the face which is over there which means No, if you if you say, "Oh, wow." That means that you're beginning to understand this. And goes, "That's what the angels see." They go above and they say, again, that is the face on the kayak. But but hold it a second. No, it's not real. It's not really Yakov. It's Adam. But no, that's because the be that's why I showed you the other in between because the beauty of Yakov is the beauty of Adam. But which Adam? Adam doesn't look like that anymore. Why doesn't Adam look like that anymore? Because Adam sinned. So now if Asov is this total total manifestation of sin and by the way this goes back to the pregnancy of Rifka and Rifka's pregnancy was connected to of course she was the one who's told that you have difficult pregnancy so Rifka has the difficult pregnancy and and and then you have the word EV was there as well and you have the over here grabbing onto the leg by the way the leg becomes much more important >> psychological thing of as you said last week >> yes yes yes hold on yes yes that's what I'm saying continuing from last week. But then then you realize that the hold he Yakov is holding on to Asov's leg. And only when he's hold on to Asov's leg is when he's Yakov, but he's going to become something else. Why is he Israel? Because he's struggling with above and below. He's which means that is Yakov. Yakov is this duality. And as long as we think that Yakov is only Yakov is when we don't understand who Yakov is because there's this other side of Yakov which is connected to the heavens. So now I'm going to say it again. You you go back to this dream that he has. Now, just in case you think that I've got carried away with all of this, right? You can think that that I got carried away with all this. No. No. So, so I'm going to say it again. This is what Rashi is telling us. This is what are telling us. It's saying that something is taking place in this dream. But what did I point out right away? That Yakov has this ongoing relationship with Malahim. They're all over the place, right? Not like Paul Simon, I see angels in the architecture. He sees angels all right. He sees angels all over the place. Why? Because that's part of who he is. So now when I say that he becomes Israel, now you just have to pause a second and say, "Wow, that's so much more interesting." So now we have to try to do this a little bit better and we'll see how much time. We don't have a lot of time and we'll see how far we can get with this. um in as well. If you look at the first chapter, you have and then there's also infreel. Do you did you notice that language any place else? Yakov's regal. The kafregel got hurt when he when he wrestled, which is interesting because here it's the kafel and there it's the kaf of uh of yakov and that's where the gdanosha comes from. Alcaine and that's where Israel is used. Israel should not be eating from the ganosha. Okay, it's next week's para, but hold on. Again, still, oh, look at that. I didn't give source nine and a half a number. So, it says again in in source 9, can you keep track of all four? Later on in source number 10, it starts talking about the kim, right? Theim and the and the and so on. And then finally, so what's missing? What's missing is the >> what's missing is the >> is the shore. So the garra which is someplace between 9 and 10 it says that he prayed it turns the shore into a and it says why was he so troubled with the shore because the shore is connected to theel. So now I just have to pause for a second because I know I know that I lost you and I know you have no idea what I'm talking about. And let's let's try one or two more steps and then I'll I'll try to make a little more sense. In verse number 11, which you think is not connected to anything, it says that Yakov comes in dressed as by the way we just went back to the clothing, right? Yakov prays that he has clothing and he and he and he smells the clothing and he blesses him. It's like that field that was blessed. Now what is the sadashem? Rashi writes in source 12 he says so now we just got back to ganed by the way if that's not good enough in the next line he says it's like the field that was blessed by God is that is the field of apples now what in the world is the field of apples answer is that this is a major theme in cabalistic sources and rashi knows of what he speaks over here by the way incidentally this has nothing to do with Adam eating from an Um because that's the eight and that's probably they claim that it's based upon a misinterpretation of Latin and if you need you looked it up you don't need me I don't need to give you misinformation but uh Rashi is not talking about theat he's talking that's the one which is blessed that's the blessing from Aiden is the so's connected to of course Jacob's connected to why is Jacob connect because is Torah more And who's Jacob? Jacob is Torah. What is Torah? Torah is. So of course Yakov's connecting to it. So now take a deep breath because we have to look at something else in source 14. It says, "So what's there to protect the way from people from getting or from getting to the what do you have? You have the kuvim. So here's where the kuvim present themselves for the first time. Of course later the kuim are going to be in the mishkan but here here you have the kuim source 15 which is far more important than I let on even though I hinted at it but you didn't hear the hint. The job of Adam in Eden was to work with Sham. Sounds like mitzvah. Lash sounds like mitzvah to do things. So now what is Yakov going to be doing in his whole sojourn here when he's together in the house of Lavan? He's going to oade, right? He's going to work and he's going to work and he's going to work and he's going to work and years upon years he's going to work. And what does God say to to say to him? Don't worry. I will guard you. I'm going to take care of you. Which means how did Adam fail in the Garden of Eden? I don't know if he worked or if he didn't work, but I do know that he didn't he did not protect what he was supposed to protect. What was supposed to be protected? The shamra. Nobody's supposed to go near that tree. Not supposed to eat from the tree. Which means Adam breaks the negative commandment. That means the shira is what's gets broken. So it's interesting that here in this post Eden world, God says, "Okay, let's divide this up this time. You messed up the shame last time. I'll take care of the shirra. By the way, how do you work? So, you go back to the shore. Now, what is the shore? It's a beast of burden. What do you use the shore for? You use it to work the ground. Adam's draw. But what's the problem? We end up instead of doing what we're supposed to do. Our avua becomes avo. So, instead of using something which is designed for avodua, it ends up becoming avoda zara. And that's exactly where the eagle fits into it. The ago then is the shore is one of these four faces because it's supposed to work in Eden. You're supposed to use the shore. You're supposed to use the power of the shore. But what happens instead? It becomes a bod. And that's exactly what the gumar refer to over there in. So he prays and it gets turned into a croo. Why does it get turned into a croo? Because the croo becomes the replacement for right now. He guards the place to the other tree and he guards to the place to the it becomes a croo. But a croo. So can we now just go in step? You have man who's supposed to work in Eden gets replaced by the crew. A man gets replaced by an angel. And then what happens? But then the angel, the crew gets replaced by Yakov. Because what exactly is a CR as opposed to an Adam? A CR is a younger. This is all the Gmorra. A CR is a younger person. It's like a baby. And what does a baby have? Total innocence. How do you say innocence in Hebrew? What is Jacob Jacobish? By the way, what is a shore who is innocent? Asham, what do you call a shore who's guilty? A muad. So therefore, a sham was supposed to be there. The sham ends up getting replaced. And what do you have instead? At that point again, you have this ael. It's no longer it's muad. There's nothing more muad than than than an aigel. But then what happens? We have a prayer that makes and that disappears and the crew comes because the croo ultimately is what gets replaced. But now what is Yakov's job going to be? YaKob's job is to do the Avoda. Therefore, Yakov at this point becomes Israel because at this point YaKob is going to end up doing this work that Marishon was supposed to be doing before the sin. Which means this whole element over here of Yakov being part of that world or this world. We look at Yakov and if you want to look at Yakov in a negative way, it's very very easy. You just look at all the things that he does and you say, "Well, look at Yakov." And I'll say it again. That means that you misunderstood YaKob because Yakov is an Ihtam. Yakov is an Ishtam. Therefore, Yakov can take over for the groove. What? Why do we say Yakovate? Because what's mate? Mate is the inverse of Tam. If you're not down, that's what and and what happens in the Garden of Eden when they sin from the from the tree, they bring death into the world. But what's Yakov? Yakov. Yakov who becomes the opposite and he's connected to Adam hopefully you get this finally before the so before the is somebody where there's no death there of course you're going to tell me but there is death in the world and so on but no Yakov is connected to eternity which means Israel is connected to eternity is connected we're bac Israel which means that that this role that Yakov has and I'll say it again from the beginning it's very easy to look at Jacob in a negative way and say look at all the problematics looked at all the questionable things and maybe you know what I'm going to read one last source for today because it's too good to skip even though I'm skipping lots of good sources I want to look at the source number 18 it's in the middle of where by we're dealing with the we're dealing with paritis by the way where was the made according to the bar in l where's Lo l lo l lo l lo l lo l lo l lo l lo l lo l lo l lo is betel which means and what else does the say about a city called l it says in l was a city that no one ever died why this is all connects back to yakov so now the is going to be so difficult let's read let's try mitzvah right you do the you remember all the mitzvot Blue is a combination of all kinds of different colors as is well known and that is the connection which goes across the Mishkan that is the he quotes in that and that's Yakov who's up on the ladder you realize what he just now did he just now did what I told you before that the is the is Jacob That's the same thing because what all this is is that is the as it says and that itself is the is the by the way can I go back again now and how exactly did the bri make it back down to Egypt >> in in the agalot in the agalot which is essentially is the meava. That's what Okay, just one second. The agala, right? And as soon as Jacob sees the agalot which is sent, he goes, "Oh, the last thing we got was Eglarfa." What is Eglarufa? Eglaruf is when there's a homeless person who dies along the way, which say, "Okay, that could have been Yseph. It also could have been Yakov." So now you realize there is this double connection when he sees the agal load in terms of triggering in his mind what this is all about. And this homeless person that you think is connected to the ground and is just like again this hobo may actually have a connection to something which is taking place far above and this is the of God and that's the beauty of which is the beauty of and the things are extremely difficult and complicated to those who understand mystical ideas and understand do you know thought I think I explained every single word in this mesh just now which if you would have read this before I started you would have looked at me like I'm out of my mind and say what in the world is he talking about but he just now took everything that we saw which means it it is the salam is the connector between heaven and earth when you put on the and you see this and you see the sea and you see the sky and you see that's the connection between heaven and earth when you it is the and it is the meava and the meava represents the beta mikdashal Which means even though you can see perhaps it connects the and that is the and therefore so of course when you have described the and there's a face of a person so which person in this so you say so so you say ah it's Adam no it was Adam it's Jacob that's Yakov and and what is my point with all of this and it's all theology slashing on mysticism what's my point my point is once you understand Yakov in this way you understand that everything that Yakov does that looks like it's pedestrian. That looks like it's problematic. That Yakov is coming from above. Yakov is coming with a nva. And I love the partnership. Okay, Marishan messed up the first time around Shamra. You messed up the shamra. What does God say? Okay, I got the shir. I'll take care of that what you messed up. You take care of the avoda. Yala, let's go and do it. Go do the Avoda you need to do. And Yakov's role is to bring about this total tikun within the world. And that is the foundation of AmI Israel. And who are we as a people? We're a people who have our feet on the ground and our heads in the clouds. That's who we are. Every single decision we make is a combination of these two. And we live in two worlds. We don't live just in this world and we don't live just in that world. We are the bridge because we are bene in the most literal sense. And people can look at us and always try to judge us. And that's where all the anti-semitism comes from because they don't understand who we are. We are this these people. And that's why I said it again. That's what YaKob dreams about. That's what YaKob thinks about. That's who Yakov is. Yakov sees angels. Yakov becomes Israel. And it's the same thing because he struggles with man. He struggles with God. Yakov struggles with the duality. And Yakov is the connection between the two worlds. And that is what our mandate is. And I hope that after everything that I've said, if you see something which is somewhat problematic with Yakov, my first advice is given the benefit of the doubt. Why? Because this is Yakovu and this is Yeshua.