The Debate Between Yosef & his Brothers; the Yehuda-Tamar Drama & Chanukah - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

[Music] his parents an overlord in a particular province in Eastern Europe is told by his beloved bishop that the Jewish people living in his province profess a special skill they know how to employ cabbalistic methods and teach the dog how to communicate verbally they can teach a dog how to speak this overlord is Forex had a beloved pet he had a dog who was his best friend literally he loved this dog to no end imagine he thought to himself if I can finally complete the missing link and have this dog talk the relationship would be elevated to a completely different level so he summons the leaders of the Jewish community and he says to them I'm going to give you my dog I need you to teach my dog how to talk they say your honor we are clueless it's true we don't know how to stop talking but we don't know how to teach his dog on a talk it's beyond us he has already been prepped that this is what will come the Pirates to all the Lord tell them I have no time for your lives I'm giving you an ultimatum either you take my dog and you teach it how to talk or I will expel every last Jew from my province men woman and child I give you three days to make a decision and let me know your decision they leave the mansion brokenhearted what does one do they realize that somebody instigated the Overlord the Pirates somebody spread a blood libel to their detriment what do you do they decreed a fast they assembled to pray they had meeting after meeting among the Russia I call the leaders of the community three days are passing and nobody has an idea what do we do it's the third day the ultimatum is almost up may I request that everybody takes their cell phone and puts it on vibrate may I request that you do it now not after your phone rings since I know you're not Gentiles so it's hard for you to listen to a Jew the first time so I'll say it a second time if you could please take your cell phone and put it on vibrate now I know some of you may still have a hard time because I am a Jew and you're a Jew and it's hard for one do they listen to another Jew so I guess we'll wait till the next phone rings and I'll rest my case that's request number one quest umber 2 is the quest number two is we love you and we love your babies even more but both in a state of silence very good I want this baby to come with me and all my lectures it's called a good sidekick it's on the menu it's called vibrates on the front menu press menu is something called vibrate and impress on I know you don't know I also know so don't worry I don't judge you the things I don't know to the ultimatum is coming up the three days are almost about that they are clueless time Yankel try me I call the woodchopper says I'm going to the poorest I'll solve the problem they say you you what do you know you're an illiterate you're not educated you know not nothing what are you gonna do he says you guys don't have a better person or a better idea or a better candidate let me go they have no choice hiding ankle goes it comes into the overlord new what is your decision he says on behalf of the Jewish community I say to you your majesty we are ready to train your dog to verbally communicate ah wonderful Wow how long will it take seven years seven years the hip course you teach a dog to talk and one day what does this Balaam's donkey you know how many lessons how many exercises how many meditations how many lectures seminars workshops conventions retreats concerts till the dog can get it seven years it will take me to use my catalystic secrets and teach them if you want it I am happy to do it the perixx thinks and says it's not easy for me to separate from my beloved dog for seven years but you know what I'm thinking about long-term benefits I'd do anything to have this dog talk wonderful give me your dog and with tears in his eyes the poet's bids farewell to his dog and he gives it to high Yankovic my ankle comes back to show everyone is fasting and saying to Hill him and crying and in walks the dog with hi Michael what's this that medical says what happened the leader of the Russia called head of the community begins with puking him entranced icing sugar are you insane have you gone mad don't you realize what you have done we know the truth that you can't teach a dog had a talk you lied to him now after these seven years when this dog is not talking it's not that he will expel us he will kill every last Jew in his palace a lot of your hands blow on your hand we'll give you the high medical thousand relax relax you see in seven years lots of things can happen number one the dog may die the hunting style number two I may die number three the parents makes tired the poets made thy the Overlord made I'm one of the three they said yes and what if none of you die the dog is alive at year eleven the products the one don't worry about it after seven years do I think about it today seven years have passed the dog was alive the parents was alive then Franco was alive whilst intimate what do you do the right time seven years later tiny ankle shows up at the door of the overlord your honor I'm here my dog I do look what's going on D you teach another dog says your majesty I have taught your dog can't talk today was seven years sun rose and your dog Wow What did he say as he opened his mouth your majesty he began telling me everything he has seen in your bedroom go back and show them dead right now sue the Bears Semenko says yes your majesty i will be just out all of us this anecdotal story has in it more than one lesson but one lesson certainly it contains in it and that is to really appreciate something you can't only look at it short-term or from a short time mind you have to be able to expand your horizons in order to appreciate anything they once asked a Chinese politician what his opinion of the French and American Revolution was and he said it's too early to tell America relative to China babies but I would think that nonetheless notwithstanding the honor of the China 200 years is a sufficient amount of time in order to evaluate certain ideas at least from a certain perspective 200 years ago exactly in the year 1812 rabbis slayers almond of Lee Adi the alter rebbe the author of the tanya and the code of lourdes okinawa one of the great disciples of the magnanimous rich the chief pupil of the baal shem tov the founder of the Hasidic movement and the man who himself founded what became known as kebab hasidism rabbi schneider's Armand returns his soul to its maker on the 24th of tavis 1812 tough cough iron gimble which makes this year the 24th of favours the exact 200th anniversary since his past two hundred years have passed one can see patterns and make some evaluation and interestingly this is a convention of women of a national sky by the midwinter 51st convention and I recently came across what to me was a fascinating little episode that characterizes a unique relationship between the outer ever and the role of the Jewish woman and in a very unexpected fashion because this is not the 1960s and 70s and 80s 90s this is the early 18th century the 1700s and we did I come across this little story not in the Habad book not in a Hasidic word not in a Kabbalistic mystical work not an ala barrage publication in a very different type of publication it's called Icarus moisha Icarus moisture is a set of eight volumes that contain the halawet response of ribbing of Hagana moisture fine stained Seifert's article in russia rabbi moshe feinstein was one of the greatest Halleck authorities of the past generation he was a Jew who was born in Russia he was the Rope of Lube on in Russia escaped the Soviet Union ultimately came to the United States moved to the Lower East Side of Manhattan East Broadway when he found that mtj Mississippi at the pharisee or shall I am and became known as one of the greatest authorities and Jewish law in the modern this generation he passed away 1986 and his response which is important reading for any rabba who's entrenched in Halawa is contained in urination letters of moisture the 8th volume was published after his past I opened up the 8th volume and I'm reading introduction the introduction contains a biography of Rabbi Sol Feinstein who passed away a little earlier before that biography based on stories that his family heard from him and there they relate the following story he had a grandmother I believe her name was Rocco she lived in a little town the town in white Russia was called Lea Ozma there was one issue today it wouldn't call it an issue then they called it an issue on that initiative but whatever they called it and that was she was brilliant their father did not know what to do with her often then there were no schools for Jewish girls at the time there was no base yakoo there was no base Sora there was no bicycle there was no Miss rifki it did not exist the Jewish girl grew up with the mama and the Bubba in the home it was intimate and through the chicken soup that mother taught the daughter had to make she learned everything you had to know about Jewish history and about life in the confines of that home she learned everything about life but this woman voice' finds things Bubba was brilliant she was a genius she had to learn there was no structure for it so her father went to whom he went to the Marga doubly Ozma there was the spiritual authority of the Arsenal was who the alter rebbe and the founder of kibbutz what do i do so the alter rebbe in the seventeen hundreds told take your daughter and put her in to the same classroom like my grandson that's zenyk Semak said that was an orphan his mother died when he was two years old doctor up his daughter her name was revered since murder leia so the outer ever raised his grandson like a song he became the third Lubavitch her evidence Emma said that a great I love the Cathar already as well his response is contained in a work called semi seven shallow children stomach seven he was a little boy a little boy a baby hater swatched young child doctor ever told the father take her she'll sit in the classroom they designated a place for her and she received an intense education in learning together with the third Lubavitch ever that's how much I think as a very young girl with a very young way according to the directives of the Altai River and the fact is that her grandchild dementia fine state became one of the luminaries of the Jewish world in terms of halakhah of Jewish law and full today his response is a pivotal contribution to the world of Jewish law in all aspects especially as far as modern developments and technology in the face of Jewish law and who knows of that decision of the author of the show tomorrow arrived the Altair ever that not had a major contribution and effect fascinating historical detail two hundred years later we can look back and as I think about it tonight at this convention and spending with having the privilege of spending with you all Shabbos and this is the moment to express gratitude to the organizers of the 51st convention of anis a kebab here in midwinter who did a spectacular job my dear friend rabbi and Rebbetzin Eisner [Music] and I'll be very very honest with you I've been to many conventions of Kabbalah not Chabad I've been to many dinners I have the misfortune of attending many Jewish banquets and listening to many speeches and watching many documentaries and films and so forth and usually there's one to walking around and saying I'm hungry and usually it's more than one film and here I saw miracle - Shabbos I didn't see anybody complaining not about the food there not about other things so somebody did something very right [Music] [Applause] and I appreciate the privilege and opportunity to be with you here this year again and when I'm thinking about it generally it's not good to applaud rabbis because they think that you want an encore so I'm thinking about the contribution 200 years later being here at the convention and then I notice there are two major teachings of Cassidy's articulated have explained by the alternative and when you study the last 200 years of Jewish history it's almost incredible to see that these two teachings were custom-made for the two of two of many but two of the greatest challenges that confronted and continue to confront the Jewish rule only in the past two centuries unique challenges unprecedented in earlier generations and when I study the teachings and works of the baal shem tov of the Hasidic masters especially the elaborated works of dr. Abbas focus was on developing the teachings of the baal shem tov in a full-fledged articulate definitive and all-encompassing manner literally address both of these challenges the two greatest challenges to face the jewish world in the last 200 years and continue was number one unprecedented assimilation not the simulation of a fringe of the edge of a community assimilation that ultimately encompassed most of the jewish world we sit here at a convention with hundreds of women canaan Jara talk with language and terminology that is familiar to everybody or most people here for this 16 or 50 million jews and how many jews are even familiar with these concepts how many to celebrate noah Chavez and so on and so forth and it's important to me in that perspective because it's the reality of the world we live in and there are our brothers there was once a man who came to Hebrew school his grandson would go to a Sunday Hebrew school of a synagogue and you're in America and he sees his grandson says David how do you like even school and David says it's great and he says David telling me who broke the tablets and he says not me the man is furious he goes to his teacher and he says you're the teacher mr. Cohen I asked my grandson who robbed the tablets he says not me not me teacher says relax I know this boy for seven months if he said he didn't do it he didn't do it infuriated he runs into the principal's office mr. Finkelstein close down your school I asked my grandson who broke the tablets he says not me I asked his teacher what's going on the teacher if he said he didn't do it he didn't do it but that was school are you running principal says relax I appreciate your pain and I respected your agony I understand I make a promise to you here and out the school will compensate you for the broken tablets you just give us a receipt and we will pay you the money unprecedented assimilation they once asked a Jew what's the difference between ignorance and apathy he said I don't know and I don't care the major challenge second challenge was for the first time in hundred thousands of years the ghettos the walls of the ghettos came Crump came crumbling down and the Jewish people had to confront the reality of integration with the larger society with the larger world for the first time in hundreds of years or millennium - suddenly were exposed to a very big world an interesting world that I verse world and it's threatened Judaism to its core take a character like moisture Mendelssohn Moses Mendelssohn considered the father of Jewish enlightenment in Germany who lived the very same years like now forever his humus with her German translation was published a decade and a half before the time he was published he was considered the beacon of future enlightened Judaism but four of his children out of six converted to Christianity the historian and not a very religious historian on the contrary the historian Gretz claims that in Berlin in the early 1800s 50% of Jews volitionally converted to Christianity volitionally that's the crisis that was created when they were exposed other Jews decided to segregate we create artificial walls but today 200 years later even if you're living in Williamsburg and even if you're living at Muncie they just had a major eye sefa you probably heard about it because of the dangers of the internet the exposure to the world to modernity is a fact of life in one way or another every young Jewish boy or girl growing up as isolated in a cocoon he or she may be must confront sooner or later some realities of a large world this was the second challenge and when I opened up the works of the ballot Anya the works of the boss to the works of the custody masters there are two major teachings which were fully developed articulated explained in his teachings and when you look 200 years later you see that these two pillars of wisdom that they taught directly confronts the two perhaps most important challenges that's faced their people and interestingly enough both ideas and somehow articulated in the portion of Aisha which coincides with you tests Kislev the 19th of Kislev which is both the yard site anniversary of the passing of the maggot of mizuage the student and successor of the baal shem tov and the Liberation Day of Romania Zalman of Leon D where he was in prison for his role in teaching custom ISM and became known in Havana's Rosh Hashanah Lucilla's the new year for custody ISM as it was coined by their ashab by the Lama v Lubavitch Rebbe Rabbi Shimon badriprasad wrote in a letter that you test kiss live is the new year of cos citizen the day when we're damn it values now a new meeting Londo the light and life of our soul was given to us he uses two terms light and life or here in science life and vitality of interesting characteristics both of them do not add anything new when you have a room that's dark and then you switch on the light as they will hopefully do here one day no new object is added to the room light allows you to appreciate that which existed there earlier the same is with life the difference between a corpse and something alive is not in the number of limbs or organs or bones or sinews a corpse may contain the exact same bodily facts and structure as the living organism it's just one as lifeless and one is alive light and life he says because essentially what the custody it did not come to add more mitzvahs or add rituals or add customs or add other idea or add new experiences or commandments of Judaism god forbid if Torah is divine you don't add and you don't say Quran remove you don't increase you don't delete what it did was it flicked open the switch oh you're Visayas now shame it allowed us to see that which was there earlier to be able to see it in a deeper fashion and a more sophisticated fashion to be able to appreciate that which you already have but to see it in its full glamour and its full depth to be able to give life to that structure that existed but to give it a new warmth and a new passion to ideas invasive in the week which always coincides with your discus in the two dramatic stories of them in portion at first the story of Yehuda and Tamar it's a complicated story it's a difficult story tonight is not the time and the place to analyze and dissect that - a story in detail although probably quite a few of you would be interested in that but briefly the skeleton of the story is Judah Judah marries a woman you who does Jacob song marries a woman has three sons a Onan and Shayla he marries his oldest to our young woman named Tamar Tamar a dies in the tradition of Hebrew lever right marriages he marries of Tamar to his second son einem unknown also dies you who blames his daughter-in-law instead of his sons she now is bound up in the system of levirate marriages to whom to her third brother-in-law since for them die childless who say Li who doesn't want to marry her off to Shayla because he's scared that she is responsible for the death of the first ones so Tamara's courts caught in a trap she's not free he doesn't want to give her to save them he's pushing her off and then in a very courageous and uniquely singular act she disguises herself according to the humanities Rambam before the Torah was given levirate marriage law ye boom that not only applied to a brother in law Deuteronomy it says if a woman marries a man and he dies childless she if she wishes could marry his brother before the Torah was given it was any relative not only a brother in law including a father in law Tom our disguises herself as a Zion as a harlot she engages her father and will you who'd in a relationship three months later she takes collateral from hitmen in lieu of pay three months later they tell you who they're your daughter-in-law Tamar has conceived a child it's now noticeable obviously he didn't think it was from him obviously she had a relationship with somebody else as she was bound up in a marriage to his third son Shayla the form of adultery as the his scoony explains and other commentators the verdict is a death penalty like see you of his he saw her as she's being taken out to the stake she sends a message to her father will you who then she says we shall share in the law you know fiora how can Allah meeya threesome is absolutely by my toilet the man who owns these items he is the man who impregnated recognize can you recognize these three items choice M as the seal Sealand the cord the Rope mat to the staff I after you who do your the recognizes these items he gave them by Omer and he sashko she's right we Mandy I'm the one on that that's my child parenthetically have a toilet it's not for now but I'm just gonna tell you you who does the grandfather of the machine right you hood is the grandfather of King David his son was parents and then all the way to King David Salomon and mushiya why you who died why Judah perhaps one of the reasons is same reason why he's the father of Jewish dynasty why is due to the father of Jewish dynasty the Jewish dynasty of royalty comes from you other why the courage for somebody to get up and say me many I didn't imagine that she for a by one of the most important sheaf wrappers of the world would condemn somebody to the death penalty because of horrible promiscuity and then the last minute he would find out that he's the one who did it and she's innocent what would he do I think I think the normal thing to do was people they were I found a pisshead sugar I found that about you vague I found the my shell pull out somewhere responsive that he found on Google and according to lad we could find a loophole that Bashar Assad but the ever he's a man she was saved you who the gets up and says me man me how much vulnerability how much courage how much integrity that moment God saw this is this Warner who we can trust with power of aristocracy with the power of Malthus there is the father of the dynasty of machine stops coming many imagine what they said in shul that shop is about it he didn't care he didn't care truth lie but I - Alice integrity above all sucked to me many he knew that in life in life to be happy after the one of two things are they have a clear conscience or you kill your conscience if you don't want to kill it make it clear he also knew the one you have to be accountable more than anybody else is the person who looks at you in the mirror which in other words is also always God so tell me many it's me I impregnated her she's innocent but I'm a father and look evil Everett marriages he was allowed and he explains and she was desperate calp - out till the sale of me I never gave her to Shayla she was stuck in a rock and The Hardball she was stunned and she gave birth to twins parents and so on and parents would become the great great grandfather of boy yes he shall die that's the story skeleton of the story comes the hillock Abbas ayan neva Frome of a brooch one of the students of the magnet of misery and he says every story in Tyre can be interpreted on many layers he said there's a deeper dimension to this story and this is what the BAS I&T ch's us open your hearts who's Tom are you know what Tamar means a palm tree Sadiq khatam are you throw areas pallav on and use again the righteous person grows like a palm tree like a cedar in Lebanon he shall prosper Tamar the Gemara says the Talmud says in tractate suta why do we use a lullaby Lukas a lulav is a branch of a palm tree it has one heart it has a single heart the Jewish people have one heart to our Father in heaven that's tompa tomba represents the jew we say in the high sinus of suka s-- dum saw was somewhere though the vasoya domicile summer she's comparable to the dead tree to the pumpkin which has one heart physically Tamar is the jim lucio buddha you hood is the only name that contains within it all four letters of God's name you'd hey love and hey Buda represents God's name Michele you who then Tama Hashanah the Jewish people it says in Kabbalah that the ultimate verdict for the new year we have Rosh Hashanah we have Yom Kippur we have a shiner ABBA that's why we wish an Arab are getting little a good year but the ultimate final verdict is when come again the eight days of Hanukkah are like the eight days of suckers you've spoken enough in your life or you have a big one no actually I love you okay eight days of Hanukkah it's Rosh Hashanah in the world what happens with your son iam Kippur Jews who don't show up and synagogue all year we call them three we call them the Jews that come three days a year which is Sunday and keep everyone comes to show and everyone thinks the same thoughts God I know I have not been the best human being the best Jew but I'm here I want to do silver I want to repair my life I want to make men's this is gonna be the year um Kippur you buy me a lady scream hi shad woohoo I like him God is the true God seven times and every Jews heart whoever he or she is has a moment a spark of inspiration of openness every Jew says ah it's gonna be a better year I'm going to remove the stains I'm going to remove the impurities I'm going to enhance my life spiritually and morally and emotionally it's enter the marriage between the Jew and the God looks so sweet so romantic so promising via he commish - awesome but almost three months pass and the message comes to you who the in a sunset over color south of a Damini aural is no name your daughter-in-law called your caller Tom are engaged it up for miss newest relationship and she became pregnant from the adultery around three months later when his three months later Hashanah is the beginning of Tishrei Tishrei - and the kiss love of a kiss of it's almost three months Timmy slice cut of almost three months around three months now is the final verdict the Satan comes to the Rabbinical Island to God to you who then says Tom burn your Jew Palace a four year old Brian she left you she's promiscuous Yom Kippur or summer she was inspired but then winter comes a new here comes she left you she couldn't care less for you they're more promising things going on she's busy she's stressed she's overwhelmed she's selfish perhaps or he suffered she forgot about you you're not part of her life they got mean a on this minute sometimes a person engages in a relationship temporarily it's an outlet but sometimes you become entrenched what we call addiction what we call entrenchment she became pregnant from the relationship she didn't only leave you temporarily she's going to build the future with somebody else she is abandoned you she has no God in her life any longer Kippur with you Kippur and now she went out swear by you Amy Okuda you hooda says oh you see you of us is sorry if that's the case I have no need for her in this world the entire purpose of Talmer in this world was to elevate the world to create transcendence in the world to reveal the unity in the world to challenge the status quo of the world if she's like everybody else likes you obviously sorry there's no justification for her in this world and that's the verdict he tells the Satan at the final moment of Hanukkah three months after a Shoshana he would say stopper is being taken she sends a message to God to you hooda and she says you want to know who I'm pregnant from the person who owns these three objects how can I recognize the me I face MS Muhammad of Absalom over who owns three things the choice of the person the matter justice says the boss I mean it's the first night of Hanukkah and a Jew appears in his home or her home of a Noah and as he or she appears the menorah they're actually sending a message to you who they think ha cannot take a look with me hi hi Sema's perhaps Ceylon Muhammad Allah my sadness means what the seal what is she referring to the oil that goes into menorah menorah why don't we like the soil because in the times of Chanukah the Harshman am found one jug of oil that had the seal of the high priest or your costume with high summer I shall claim god--all and they knew it was untouched and untarnished by the greeks that's the oil waha be Ceylon well there's a still mean a wick waha matter how mater became a tree a Kaylee in Mikayla the candelabra the vessel the cave if the c'mon trio so we have the oil we have the wig can we have the candelabra the vessel the Kaylee the you Tennyson how can I recognize who owns the oil the wick and the candelabra the one who owns these three items he is the one I share a noisy Hara from whom I have conceived a child God before you come to a conclusion that I have left you I have betrayed you look at this look at the monoi and the Jewish people litter the prime of Hanukkah and the monoi they have been lighting since it is to you that we are connected Muhammad to the stick refers to one more thing it refers to the wandering stick god generation after generation our forefathers had the courage lifting up a wandering sick and leaving and abandoning the homes in the cities where they live they had the courage of igniting the oil and the wick and the candelabra why because it is from you that we are it is to you that we are committed it is to you that we are connected recognize the item and tell us look at the sacrifice of this nation for thousands of years has sacrificed on your altar its best its holiest its choicest food for you don't say today that we have betrayed you three months after Yom Kippur we went to build a future with somebody else look at this man IRA byock to you who do you who the recognises by a man what does he say SATCOM me many she's right she's loyal to me Trk - Satya with Shayla Bini for I haven't given her to Shayla my son who's Shayla the verse says it passes by if he about shame et Hooda lie yo sir shave it me you who dermis I give my bang rattle of at Keo boy she liked the ruler this ruler will not leave Judah and the scepter will not depart from him till the day that she like comes says Raschi who is she lie Sam Ella Hammer Shia alkane - Satya the shame of me it's my fault I have not given her to say I have not brought Messiah what can I expect you take a people and you leave them for 2,000 years in a bitter and dark exile and you concealed you expect it that nobody drifts that nobody stumbles that no one questions that no one Falls you really expect that okay I'm guilty I never gave her to Shayla and then I say she's pregnant for somebody so Takashi's right she is in the rides I should have given her to Shayla and the juice senses this response and the celebrations of Chanukah begin this was the first great message that the Baal Shem Tov and altar ever taught this idea articulated in bar Sian by a student of the magnitude miss rich namely giving us the methods the way of looking at the Jewish people in the two hundred years when so much assimilation would occur this message aloud and allows us to be able to look at every single Jew ever wherever he or she is and say dumb saw was someone Guru basura Tomsula soul tiene su la fiddly Allah in the words of my shyness to look at the true and superficially you can say sunset summer color sesame in a aural is aluminum she couldn't care less she abandoned you she's alienated but if you look deeper if you look deep into their candles if you look deep into the oil you will find suddenly that's like Easter a Malloy on my see horror that the Jew has never left God that the Jew made me lost the true may have questions that you may be confused that you may be ignorant you may be alienated but who is he pregnant from where does his true passion way where does his true commitment lay witness his true soul a he has never made real peace in assimilation even till today even till today the most alienated Jew has never made full peace with his alienation still what experience as a boy may not know what that void is but still experiences avoid he never fully integrated and built a future with it searches searches searches questions gets angry but there's a thirst is a yearning expressed in one way or another and I want search wherever I didn't have any story about in Stein's else he's walking shoppers in Jerusalem to some attended synagogue in the old city and he meets an artist a very liberal left-wing Israeli artists and you know Americans don't know how to be left wingers Israelis do he says we're going ravans I'm going to the synagogue and where are you going he says I'm going to have a minute I have a custom shop this morning there's a place that serves bacon and eggs and in honor of the holy day of Sabbath I go and have my bacon or things that says and what do you do for Shabbos long she says I have some lobster and Charlotte should this this is in honor of the holy day of shoppers I need some shrimp so if I didn't says you know I'm really jealous of you first of course you jealous of me you're going to synagogue I'm like that funny says that's not why I'm jealous I'm jealous of how meaningful Shabbos is to you how deep it penetrates you you know I have to admit I go to show I come home it's not such a big deal but for you Shabbos is not a regular day Shabbos affects you so deeply you feel that I'm shopping after the bacon and shrimp and lobster he says you see my friend you also observe Shabbos you observe Shabbos with more passion than I do you just do it in a different way and I wish I would observe Hoppus with the same passion like you some of you remember the arbitary in the workmen circle the far votes they used to have a ball a party every year you know which night in kinder so I once asked one of the directors of the Ford I said why do you guys choose him kipper why didn't he make you bawl Erev Yom Kippur he tells because arrogant if it's a minister to eat why'd you have to make it him keeper to make it him keep it because he couldn't just sit in his house in Kippur yeah Kippy has to go make a party new tell me he's disconnected he's disconnected he doesn't have to go party it can be good party a day after him Kippur or as Elie Wiesel says the Junos and a love God or hate God he doesn't know how to work an Oregon it's this teaching of the Baal Shem tune that empowered a generation of Jews especially today to be able to go out to the farthest corners of the world including Southwest Connecticut Northwest Connecticut because Southwest Connecticut is Mama's different in them and you all know the difference of course that's why you're all correcting manner the topography and everything else of course the spiritual one it empowered a generation to go and to be able to look at every single Jew and saying the Easter and lionize pyaara go a little deeper and you'll find you'll find infinite's treasures you'll find an internal fire misha Farish mihai's dum so some are lay back mugged and made me that also explains why the rabbit Allah Babaji never made it such a powerful initiative that the monoi URIs should go up everywhere cominius and somehow people don't even realize that indirect revolution that created not by the jew comes to the menorah lighting the jew goes shopping and sees the menorah and doesn't like it you know what I mean it's too Jewish Church sustains Church the state the cannot smell cheese and every corner every few feet you walk that he appreciates democracy that armor she loves the menorah too Jewish but it touches him and his child sees ah there's a menorah and there's a light that gets ignited in his soul even if he doesn't come home and eat oily lathika's to say night but one day he'll end up in the cabin house and eat oily boxes and even if the story doesn't end that way as I told you earlier not every story ends that way but there's a relationship that's touched that's it finally there's one more message dealing with a second item and this I'll communicate very briefly it's one of the most painful stories in the entire Bible in the entire time ah the story of Joseph and his brothers Joseph and his brothers you know Yaakov calls Joseph in and he says he may affect her royal wish 10 your brothers are shepherding the flock in the city called shrimp in Arabic it's called today Nablus welcome back on Carl a.m. let me go send you to them bye you're my boy Joseph tells his father he made me he made me I'm here and he goes and you know the story it goes and his brothers take them and they remove the tunic the colorful tunic the Zionist possum that his father made specially for him they throw him into the pit they take him from the pit they sell them into slavery you read the story every year and a few sensitive you start crying and you know the Jewish woman who was reading the commercial and Yosef is coming closer to his brothers and she says don't go you saw what happened to you last year and then she reads further Yosef goes they throw them into the pits of not observant you didn't listen to me you win again it's a hard story I want to focus on one detail everybody asks the question what does Jakov mean your brother hello your brothers are separating and Stan let me go send you to them what's the connection that they were shepherding if they were separating in Lakewood or in Crown Heights or not instead I wouldn't send you your brothers are shepherding and stand that's my so some commentators say it was a mahkum secondo was a dangerous place so he wants to send but if it's dangerous why did they go there and why would he subject Joseph to that chain danger and then there's a little detail question but for details you get everything but your email or maybe why not fiery Mary Nene when God tells I've wronged kahshanna my - welcome me to my library love I've wronged God calls I've robbed what's the next word by a man in any other say about your human boy he may me it's obviously it was lying he was talking about you a merry Navy here Jacob tells Joseph I'm gonna send you to stem and he said to him me name it why not by Yuri marry me so let's open our minds and open our hearts the words bashad the words which can not listen I'm gonna do this a little fast a word push them there's an acronym of four words right what are the four words borrowed shame vite monocyte the word lawyer is an acronym of two words which words like I love want Boris a monosyllable your brothers are separating exam in Bartlett said quite most who say I have to send you to them by your him alive he said lullaby meaning meaning is Joseph and his brothers Joseph and his brothers had two very different philosophies on life Joseph's brother is believed but the only way you can connect to God is if you're completely isolated from the material world that's why they were shepherds a shepherd has the unique fortune of spending his or her days in nature this separate spends time with animals with sheep with goals near Brooks of water near grass and hay and pasture away from the hustle and bustle of cosmopolitan urban stressful life that's where you can commute with nature and you could commute with the water of nature with God who is in nature and above nature and then this Joseph Joseph has a dream very different dream and he dreams about a different type of influence the sheaves are bowing down to him the Sun in the moon and the stars are bowing talented Joseph dreams of having global influences of changing the world and the brothers feel that he is undermining the essence of Judaism he wants to expose Judaism to a world that will destroy it at its core the brothers say borrow shame fight Melissa blessed is God and the kingdom of God and what does Joseph say wah wah wah wah wah wah the challenge is to go into the world and reveal in the world the oneness of God me I'm for you struggle Barrett's the paternity on him says who is like your nation is real one nation on earth so everyone says it means who is like your nation Israel one unique nation on earth comes the alter rebbe incessant hanging against a car - go ahead my barrette it's the nation that has the courage to reveal oneness in the earth for this Jacob makes Joseph exciting as passive a colourful shirt what's this colorful show and why are they jealous go to century 21 and buy and colourful shirt why they jealous the answer is what does it mean a colorful multicolored shirt shake up on the stood that Joseph has the power to create unity from the diverse colourfulness of life the tribes believe that you could connect to oneness for awareness through isolation segregation a looseness sublimity Joseph had the ability unique his brothers than Avot to be able to go into a world of diversity a world of contrasts of paradoxes a world that pulls you in so many directions to be able to look at the diversity and what do you do with diversity one of two things either diversity gets you confused or ambivalent but Joseph has the power to reveal the oneness that underlies the diversity to reveal that the diversity are all various colors that manifest from one truth to reveal the oneness within the earth to reveal the soul in the body to reveal heaven and earth to reveal the cosmic oneness within the cosmos the brothers couldn't understand this that's why they didn't get this shirt it's not for them they said Barack same fight mahasaya the ice-sub settler oil employer so Yaakov says hallelujah I understand your brothers only have barakah same coin who say let me send you to them to be able to help them navigate a new future Jacob knows that the future of the Jewish people will take them out of the desert out of the farms will take them at the cosmopolitan Egypt he knows that the walls of the ghetto will crumble and the gang going to have to face a real world culture and civilization in one form or another whether you have internet or you're lucky not to have internet in the house they're gonna have to face a world they will have to learn the depths of Joseph which can show them that a sphere in the world and say Baraka shameful soil um for me I'm cooking straw green apple Boris Vian LOI he may be valuing my lively on the vine he goes as the results ultimately as he ends up in Egypt they must follow him they bow down to him and they learn indeed to embrace to appreciate the depth of yours they learn to understand that Yosef embodies that lasses Louis barýþ dear abit Athena you don't have to be afraid the truth of God is all pervasive and all-encompassing the truth of God comes out of every heartbeat and every grain of sand of every grazing animal and every flake of snow the colorfulness of the world underlying it craves and gravitates to reveal the oneness that's beyond the oneness that's at the core of science physics biology mathematics geology astronomy and all forms of wisdom of science and physics Joseph taught that to them by young annoy for no more than a me so you won't know you won't know that Bigelow Shabbos if your husband makes kiddush in one room and then you're gonna have the meal in another floor another room it's not good you have to make it this again why ain't Kadesh allah the muhkam Sudha kiddush has to be in the place of the meal what does that mean it means this some people scream car Barry's car Barry's car dies in the synagogue but then when they sit down for the meal here they are gluttonous narcissists in the synagogue they close their eyes and they say Kadesh but when they come over they're self-centered beasts in synagogue they scream ain't no evil Valley there's nothing but God but a business sharks a penis element mocking sudah Judaism does not recognize holiness that is not in the place of the meal we don't acknowledge holiness that is the past from the meal key dish is the buckling soda if the holiness does not even form and light and inspire your meal your feast your material life the way you treat people in the office the way you treat your spouse and children in the home this is not the holiness that we acknowledge Jesus bamako soda who's usually they want to make skiddish husband who's usually the one who prepares the soda very often it's the Holy One in either celibate mark I'm so dog the woman has to now reveal the condition the place of the meal that's nice you notice this was the second major teaching major idea developed by dr. ever based on the ideas of the boss Santos borrow a shame avoid Methuselah or a lung for the Gomorrah says I say shabbat hold out that starry Club Rios you know what that means make your Shabbos week day but don't need somebody else which means if you're gonna have to borrow money to make Shabbos don't make Shabbos eat herring eat crackers don't buy sushi I say Shabbat cocoa butter sanika be better not to need anybody make your sharpest like a weekday there comes the hailer carob yak of Yosef of people mothers too emotional and says listen I say shabbat sapphire well that static LaBrie's gevalt make your Shabbos weekdays take your Shabbos and bring it into the weekday the altered spiral oprius and then you will not need any creature during the weekdays if you take Shabbos into your weekdays if you make your Shabbos weekday you're bringing into the week that then throughout the week that you're not gonna be scared of anybody you gonna need anybody and I'm gonna be codependent than anybody because you'll have Shabbos in your week there you'll have our semi-new week that you'll have God in your weekdays then you won't need anybody a whole week you won't be with drama you won't be obsessed you won't be infatuated you won't be codependent you won't need anybody because the Shabbos is in the week things the conditions were Markham sold these two features are the calling of every June in today's generation especially the one responsible for the future and destiny of the Jewish people the Jewish woman the Jewish mother number one to be able to look at every one of our children and every one of my brothers and sisters and say Tamar Tamar is calles aha Lisa she rely on my VR recognize the depth recognized the richness recognize the holiness and number two the ability to be able to look at diversity and see the sinus possum of Jacob see the multicolor fulness as an expression of a singular unity to be able to confront and go every single day into a world as a Shabbat Kahala to make the Highland to shop is by bringing the Shabbos into hell by declaring ain't he dish Alabama claim sudah that God is alive and present in the world in the body even in the most material aspects and meaningless aspects of the world there is a unity that belies the diversity every single where in the world but for this for this every single morning every morning when you wake up or before you wake up or before children wake up you have to do two things number one you have to dedicate a few minutes to talk to God you have to connect to the unity beyond diversity and number two you have to learn something you learn something of Tyre you learn something of Hasidism this wisdom it allows you to connect to that source which then empowers you that throughout the day you'll be able to look at yourself and every person and see Tamar and you'll be able to look at the world and be able to declare borrow a shame avoid mouth who say Milam but until that day when it will be revealed to the whole world by Yahoo yeaaaah Hashem a hug Sushma a hug may it be speedily in our days now thank you very much [Music] [Applause] [Music] Oh [Music] you