The Majesty and Tragedy of Eisav - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

so [Music] let's learn together arashi arashi and this week's parasha parshas told says the first source in your source streets this has told us our weekly parshav the children grew up rifkin the youngest they grow up this is a brief and concise description of the two boys asap is a man who knows how to hunt he knows how to trap he's a man of the field yaakov is a tom is a wholesome person a dweller of the tents says rashi you ideate he knows how to hunt he knows how to trap you might think it means literally he was a great hunter a man of the field says rasheed sayed actually is a hint to something it's a parable lotso de la ramos is of he knows how to hunt had a trap had to deceive how to slyly deceive his father through his mouth later deposic would of course say that yitzhak loves yaakov because he brings him the hunt into his mouth so either it means literally he would hunt and feed him or befit his rash he says here he knows how to trap him with his mouth how does he deceive his father with his mouth he asks how does one give mice or how does one tithe salt and straw cassava of if his father thinks he's extremely meticulous in mitzvos what is the meaning of this rashi which has its source in madrid so everybody knows there's a mishna the next source masek the maestro is the first mission of massachusetts maestros claude um this rabbi has established a halachic principle when it comes to mice what is my sir of course there's a toyota obligation inert israel that the produce the grain the fruits that grow in a jewish field or a jewish farm a certain percentage of it must be contributed for zduk must be given for charity so there is around two percent that goes to the cayenne who worked in the bay samitas and therefore didn't make his own income which is called truma there is 10 percent after that which goes to the levy who also worked in the base of migration which is called my series there's another 10 percent which goes to the poor man poor people around the land which is called myself that latter meister is interchangeable some years with another mice are called myself which was the percent that you brought to yerushalayim you ate it there or you exchanged it one money and you brought the money to your shalom and you bought food there and that's how every jew had a chance to visit yerushalayim to build the economy of yerushalayim to be inspired and become part of the life of jerusalem even if you lived in a far in a farm far away in the north or in the south or wherever it was that's my si what's the cloud by my side what do i give myself from that give my son from cheese do i give my sir from meat i give myself from chicken do i give myself some eggs mysterious culture oil number one it has to be human food number two the doula of minorits it must grow from the ground the missionary accounts another few details but this is what we want to discuss so number one human food human it's a it's it's what a human can consume eggs is human food meat is human food but doesn't grow from the ground it comes from an animal straw comes from the ground but it's not human food it's animal father so you have to have oil and get dull of minarets salt doesn't grow from the ground heaven straw grows but it's not human food so asuf comes and he's trying mazel tov oh was it something i said i thought we were just learning a mishna peacefully okay now i see everybody who doesn't come to my shear mama's okay so knoxville let's go back lush lushen that's fine so com comes rashi and says asap is trying to trap his father he wants to appear to his father as a super religious a super froome a super holy child so he comes to his father and he said i have a cash kate said maastri and how do you give my sir from salt how do you give my sir from straw i want to also give this to charity i also want to give this to the kyanim to spiritual people who serve god to poor people how do i do it this is how he's deceiving his father this is the rash seems like an innocent rashi every jew learning and actually every child knows this rashi come all of many of the commentators of rashi and raise a few major questions in ash number one if asav would actually be the type of child who took salt and took straw and gave myself from it so you could say ah yitzhak looks at the sun and says well he goes the extra mile he's a mahmed he's a mahada he doesn't do what you have to he goes beyond the letter of the law granted but ace of doesn't say asaf did that asap is asking him a question how do you give myself a melakan heaven how exactly do you do it this demonstrates what does it demonstrate in your opinion it demonstrates extra religiosity it demonstrates that he's more from that he's more holy it demonstrates first and foremost amiratus vistamirat's ignorance imagine he would come to yitzhak and say i have a question how do you put sitsis how do you place this on the four corners of the table cloth that we use for shabbos or he would say how do you put fill in on your leg i want to know how do you put filling on the leg or another question how do you what do you do exactly in order to observe shabbos on tuesday or to observe there's no such a thing this is a signature there's no mice for malek there's no myself at heaven it's not an impressive question it demonstrates ignorance what is more asap is growing up in yitzhakovinu's house if he's growing up in his house so he apparently he's watching what he's doing all his years yitzhak is not mafrish myself from ella and heaven because there's no mice from elect heaven so how is it that asap is trying to impress his father by demonstrating absolute ignorance and absolute apathy not looking at what his father was doing all of these years and not giving myself a melancholy then there's a third question the mufarsham raise what type of question is it what does the word ma astrin mean anybody what does the word ma astrid mean my sir what is my circum may yes sir ten percent so he asks how do you give ten percent from salt and straw just like he give ten percent from anything else you take the salt you take the straw you divide it into ten parts and you give ten percent if you don't wanna give from the actual you take the value of it whatever the value is and you give ten percent of it if it costs a hundred dollars you give ten dollars because ten dollars you give one dollar what questions it's not so complicated either in the volume or in the value but midnight there's ways of giving mice to what's called the middle the mishka dominion the volume the weight the the the value the price whatever it is you take 10 to give it what's fascinating is that rashi changes the source rashi didn't invent this idea the khazal articulate this story in the madrid that's where it actually took it from when you look in the source it says something different take a look which is the source of rashi says that asap came to yitzchak and he said heaven sultan straw mao what's the is it obligated in my sin oh now i hear up sakasha ace of mamish i see that yitzchak has not been giving myself amelican tevin and i would like to know if this episode gathered of meister and salt and in tev and you may even want to become lumbish a little bit and say that the cause i'll say that if somebody um if there's like what are these called those those mountains of salt and your coits of you uh what's the word you uh huh you mine you mine salt from its source on shabbos kai of mushroom koitzer it can be a form of harvesting so asap is asking his father is there a gether it's not ignorance he's asking a question and it's obviously he knows that there's a difference between rashford doesn't say that rashid says heaven how do you give myself motherhood heaven asap you don't give myself a melanchol just like you don't put on filling on your leg and you don't celebrate travis on tuesday you don't put scissors on a tablecloth you put citrus on a baguette on a garment major shrabba also says the story but again different madras rabbit says how do you fix salt how do you fix raw rashi changes it from a sacrament to my astrid now often in the literature of shas miss sacrament to be messaging produce means to give meister that's how you masak in it that's how you make a tikkun that's how you fix it up and you can eat it because before that it's devil which means tavloy it's not good but it's interesting in the med rish if you wish you can impose an interpretation that's actually very impressive what asap is telling you it's hook is i have a problem the reason we're obligated to give mice from our produce from our grain from our fruits et cetera is in order to demonstrate la shmoop some lawyer that the world our resources our wealth our affluence belongs to the ribonucleolum and therefore we share a certain percentage with the community with the poor with the destitute with the cayenne and with olivia that's the imposed taxation that represents that you're not just an absolute extreme capitalist and everything is me me me freaked how do you create the tikkun in salt how do you create the tikkun and straw how do you demonstrate in these foods that la shema are some lawyer because there's no obligation of my sin that would be an impressive question but rashi changes the words from huma and for madrid what she says is how do you give myself from straw and soul where were you all these years why weren't you watching your father and how why are you thinking that this is going to impress him when really it's going to demonstrate absolute absolute amiratsu's ignorance the meforshim struggle with this rashi different befores from different commentators give different perspectives you have the gurari you have the mahral you have rebellion you have the masculine david you have the divrei david of the task rashi has many many commentators and different ones give different perspectives some are difficult but today i want to focus on one hashgaffer one perspective given on this rash it was shared by the laboratory rabbi at a fabrian shabbos parties told shabbos told us 1973 published in his volumes of lakuta sikkis and parshas told us i think volume 25 and he said that this rashi truly if you go into it literally word for word you will see that every single word is consistent with rashi's view and rashi's perspective according to mikra the literal interpretation of the sukhman i want to share with you his perspective [Applause] we ask a question how can aesop ask such a foolish question anybody who knows the basics of mice and knows you don't give myself true you don't give myself salt but one second let's remember arashi earlier in parties take a look at the next source avraham avinu went to war against the four kings that defeated zdoym and took all of its members including his nephew light and his family into captivity and avraham avinu was successful he defeated he defeated them he liberated all those who were abducted who were kidnapped and melek's doing tells them he says tenley nefesh varun all the spoil of the war you can take for yourself just give me back the captives says i will take nothing i will not take the thread i will not take a shoelace from you i will take nothing then the terrorist says avraham meets a very interesting man his name is malki tsedek he's a king of a place called shaolin the rabbis and rashi associated with shame the son of noah who was the king of jerusalem at the time and they have a meal together they eat bread they feast with wine and then the pasta says the king of shalom took out bread and wine to celebrate the victory of abraham avinu and he's a cayenne to the god on high and malkit tells avram baruch and miguel blessed is the god of above who has protected you and delivered your oppressors in your hands vayitan loi maiser mikoy and he gave him meister from everything who is he gave he of course the mufasam argue about that there's nothing we don't argue about even when it's not ambiguous certainly when it's ambiguous but let's see what rashi says he gave a mice from everything that he owned while if he saw you of course when ashley says he was a coin he doesn't mean literally a cayenne aaron hakai wasn't born there were no kayanum yet at the time he means he represented the idea the notion the status of a kaya somebody who's dedicated his life to spiritual service dedicated his life to teaching dedicated his life to the service of god and therefore he represented the idea of a client the way it was in a pre-matantera days in the world of avraham of in the world of monotheism of a moon so avraham of innova is a mysore from everything what's this everything we call this is not from his produce avramavinu certainly had produce but as the passage says ram was a wealthy man he had soy new book or casa vezova vadim he had all types of things including gold and silver things that are not kaka they're not produce they're completely mobile they're not animal they're not human human food he gives him iso from everything gives him iso from everything so we see that avraham avinu the father of the jewish people felt the importance and the obligation on himself to give to the cayenne myself the cayenne the poor person the kayan who was may have also been poor person might say from everything in fact deposit says hashem says he died if i love avraham avinu as bonavez bay sayaka of hashem lassos i cherish avram because he educates his children to follow his way to ge to do tsudaka and justice charity and justice so if avraham avinu did this the uniqueness of rama venue is he shares it with his children in fact take a look at his grandchild there's apostle king say yakov is traveling next week's parasha and what does he say he promises hashem if you're with me perek has [Applause] everything that you give me everything that you give me whatever you give me i will give part of it from the word mice like the word myself a part of it a 10 percent of it i will give away to you and in fact i believe it says that this is my sir not from produce but is everything it's maison and a moment from anything he has anything that's worth money including produce of course but anything else in fact even without this clear rashi about avraham avinu and others have different interpretations what vayitan loi mais and mccoy means if it means from the spoil of war that's apparently what the rambam believes according to many mephirshim and hilki's malach and pereira test but we're going now the view of rashi we're learning arashi today really we all understand another basic notion the gemara says it it's a you saw it among the gemara says it at the end of massachusetts the of ramavinu observed now everybody understands there's a mitzvah known as myserk soften this micer we give from produce and artistro but there's meister that we give from money money means all revenue all profits i make whatever form of profits whether it's kaika whether it's methaltolen whether it's cash whatever type of revenue i make there's a mitzvah to give a portion of it for the poor person and this is a halacha that is applicable today as it always was year a day is simmering you have to give in order to satisfy the needs of the poor people or minimum ten percent and if you could till hamish which is twenty percent what's the source of this mitzvah where do we know it from so let's see this is famous gemara quoting apostate and parishes twice my sir you should give my sir from all the grain of your seat in order to gain wealth and as the gomorrah continues this is the one mitzvah you're allowed to test the reborn shalom this is what the free says this free is the commentary to say for dwarim from the tanoyam and early americans actually the text of sifi that we have i don't think it's here but twice was obviously had an older version of sifri that disappeared over the ages this happens often that there is showing him quote madrashim that they had that we don't have because unfortunately with all of the xaviers and expulsions although we have so much we also have a tremendous amount that has been lost of course the biggest losses complete volumes of shahs of tamid irishalme that are completely gone from your produce from your grain that's what the mishna says in my stress it has to be guided of menaris ribis what about revenue that you make from ribs from interest not to a jew rebus revenue you make from ribose from interest business the whole shire of him and any other profit you make so you made this year but hashem three hundred thousand dollars profit okay three million dollars i'm sorry pragmatism and all other prophets meenayan how do you know talmud whenever the toyota uses an extra word superfluous it always wants to add something all the grain if it would have said from the grain we wouldn't know it should be from all the grain what's some of the grain out the rabbit this includes any revenue any profit you make you have to give mice this is known as maestro suffer many are showing him as it sounds like from here from toysvilus and more from murder and others believe it's been a tiger it's an obligation that i have to give for my all my prophets others argue that holds in yahdayah sim and shin la meralif and hilkistramasamystress that the view of the base yosef is and others that it's not a key of mina tyre it's meaning we glean we use this passage as a source but it's not mamash a biblical commandment the bach is unique he says in yahdayah simon shin lamida allah if it's not a mitzvah and it's not even a mitzvah medinan it's a minute it's a jewish custom the khawasiya parenthetically and it's also chuvas i think simulation of dalit writes on this book he says i don't know how we can say this when there's a possible and the sifri says that this is a clear limit that you have to give maester from everything so he says even if it's not minator it's certainly a key of maduro and he finishes the trivia he says which is a a a paraphrase of the possibility the barrel the pak the jug broke and we escaped so he says he has no way of legitimizing this view of the book but this is a big discussion if it's regarding our conversation however it's very clear if ramavinu observed the whole turtle before it was given even of their abundance certainly even a rooftop shilling which is not a die rise so avraham avinu gave my sir from all revenue all profits anything he had whatever he owned rib is pragmatic produce not produce human food not human food not food at all we have a passage by itunes and we have a mitzvah that a jew gives maison from everything and avram educates his children with these with the with these principles with these precepts as well if that's the case our initial premise that asap is a vista amarett he's displaying absolute mockery of his knowledge he's displaying absolute ignorance by saying how do you give micer from salt and straw maybe erroneous true if we put it into this specific genre of mice or which we usually call myself carcass mice that you give from produce of the earth what grows from the earth you're right it doesn't fit into the category of massachusetts not salt and not straw but if we look at myself in the more general idea of mice as we use it even today in jewish slang did you give myself yet as we see this which is not referring to produce and we see by yaakov which is not referring only to produce my ashram could include salt and straw or bazoo if so let's now go to the next step what's asap's question what is here might be his question according to the rebel laboratory this is what he says all foods all substances in the world have their unique purpose and as a result of that their unique value basically based on supply demand malach and heaven are unique items salt and straw are very unique why salt on its own independently is quite insignificant what do you do with salt what are you gonna do with an item assault however we all know that what it contributes is very significant you're making a bar mitzvah you're making a chevy brachas you make a huge challenge for all of your guests one problem consults and the oilum starts eating the challenge the heirloom starts eating the yolks the soup the island starts eating the salad and the plates come back to the kitchen full why i've already lamented about this job and paired with his friends come to explain to him why he suffered so much tragedy they rationalize his pain and iaf you're going to eat bread without salts is there taste in the saliva of a healthy man somebody's going to eat saliva and he's telling his friends this is what your arguments taste like your arguments taken of the saying like toffel mibli mella like tom birch that's what they're like that's what he says in other words the lack of salts can destroy the whole might and then when you ask what's the value of salt it depends if you tell me what do you want to eat for breakfast today for lunch i'm not going to tell you just give me a cup of salt what am i going to pay you for salt but on the other hand if you're giving me a beautiful wonderful salad or a wonderful soup now the value of the salt in terms of what it contributes to something else it's very significant without it you could throw it out into the garbage sahaknes maybe a smell but not a taste they say a mice by hasidim they say a very interesting story there were two students of the masrita magette rip of karlin elena of kaliner he was a talmud of rabaran of carlina baranagada and the balatani rabbi once came to the city of lyajna which is in belarus to visit the bawatanya they knew about it before so the rabbitson decided to arrange a kabbalah spawning a beautiful feast to welcome this great sardic to her home of course she had a messiah a maid who helped a cook like a chef in the house who helped out with all the meals and all the feasts so they got into an argument who gets the schools to cook for this great meal the regular chef the woman who took care of the kitchen said it's not fear i'm always the cook now you're going to do it it's not free rebecca said the representative of the balatanya her name was stanish then i want to do it so they had an argument so they went for a semi dintoto to her husband so he said let's make up shara split up the menu and you'll do part of it and you'll do part of it but so each one did another dish one thing they didn't discuss is who's going to put in the salt so at the end they each decided i want the source of putting in the salt so she put in the salt and the other lady also put in the salt so now the soup was barak hashem very very exalted the meal began islamic kaliner was a kodachalyan sits down takes a spoon and starts eating the soup he takes one gulp of the soup in his mouth and he tastes what it's like and he moves it away tanya wasn't looking at him eat but he finished his bowl so he turns around and he sees it wasn't touched he says why didn't you eat the soup so he says kenneth christensen you can't eat it my question is how did you eat it so he told them that when i came to ms rich to my rabbit the mazucha margaret who was the successor and student of the balsham tiff the first shabbos i was there the maggot of mr was eating kugel when he finished eating his piece of kugel he gave me the plate of the kugel and he said nah esther kugel and he said since i tasted that kugel i lost my taste in any food in alamaza so for me there's absolutely no difference if it's salted i've not thought that i didn't taste it but we all understand that for the ordinary human being salt is quite valuable now let's take straw a very similar feature exists with straw independently what is the value of straw okay it's animal fodder but there could be a bun abundance of it you can also use it for fuel in a fireplace as the mission says taven la hasaka you use straw to as fuel for a fire but there the value the it's quite something but it's insignificant it's not worth a lot however there's another major use of straw and those in the business of construction and bricks know very well this usage of straw and you don't have to go back already to the beginning of time the day of logan parches there was a whole drama around this in particular take a look in shmo by itself pyrex in bombay straight to blamer losses what used to be the system was the egyptians used to give the hebrew slave straw and they would develop they would form the bricks how are bricks formed take mud anybody of you formed bricks ever ah you never did this as leisure okay you take mud you take mud but that's not enough even if you bake the mud in the oven it's not gonna be a brick you have to put in straw a nice amount of straw and then of course you put it in a mold so it should be the form that you want the briquette and then you put it either in the sun depends where you live or you bake it in an oven a kitchen and you have a wonderful brick with which you could build pissim and ram and hopefully more enduring edifices and buildings that's bricks so para used to give the jews the straw so they had to make the bricks and build he says stop let them go search for their own straw tikka so straw on its own like salt not very significant almost valueless but when you look at a brick bricks are expensive construction material is expensive then another here without the straw it's like the yo-yo it's like the soup without the salt you can't make your brick here the value of the straw is exaggerated dramatically so these are two interesting items on their own a minuscule value but when you look at what they contribute to something outside of themselves whether it's food whether it's bread soup salad meat challenge whatever it is or bricks here the value is much more dramatic i have a brick and i don't have straw what am i ready to pay for the straw i really need a straw even if there's no shortage but its value is far is far more dramatic if this is the case let's take a look now at rashi asap comes to yitzchak and he asks a question and his question is i know you give meister from everything and it's clear everything you give ten percent avraham avenue gave my sir yaakov is going to give my si yitzha gave my sir we know that gave myself from produce we're going to learn the parties told us but you give myself them everything how do you give it's not a question ten percent ten percent of the value of the volume ten percent of the value ten percent of the weight i mentioned before this mid mishka and minion it's a separate discussion but one of those three ways my question is how do you give mice exactly those words how do you give myself from salt and straw ten percent very well but ten percent of what how do i look at the value of salt or straw ten percent of water if i look at the salt independently it may be 10 of 10 cents so i give you one penny but if i look at the value of salt in terms of how it enhances a dish so significantly and dramatically the price of salt is far more significant i give myself from that maybe then it's a dollar maybe it's ten dollars maybe i give you ten cents maybe i give you a dollar the same as with straw hey their significance exists in and of themselves even if by their contribution to others to other items their value becomes more dramatic but nonetheless it's obvious that you give mice from the way they exist on their own but here with melanchol on their own that's not really their shivers what are you going to do with salt you're going to make it the centerpiece of your meal where you're going to design it as a piece of art what you're going to do with salt is put it into a dish so maybe here the whole meister has to be measured not based on what it is today but my what it might be next week when it actually saved your trolling or saved your salad or made you a brick that's the question now take a look in the words of rashi the first words the fir the second source cassava rashi is a medactek what would be the right word here asav wants to give maester from salt and straw even though your potter in the literal understanding of rashi before our discussion so rashi should [Music] from everything including salt including straw he's a doctor he's a doctor mitzvahs how do you give meister do you give mice to 10 percent of the salt and the straw itself or do you give mice of the salt and the straw the way it may contribute significantly to the food or the brick these medical mixes now you can't ask a question of amiratas it's not a miraculous and you can't say why weren't you watching your father he was watching his father but this is not something you can easily discern or observe exactly what was the ten percent of the melaka that heaven you can add even more by avraham it says in other words the objective here is i should look at all of my nakasan all of my property all of my re resources anything i own and i'm giving myself from everything mikhoyla sherlock if that's the case i may in this perspective asap says look at all of my wealth as one entity and i'm giving my summit koila surely if so when i'm looking at the salt and the straw i'm not only going to look at them as individual items i'm going to look at them vis-a-vis all when i look at them vis-a-vis everything else now they're far more significant than they are and he indeed is trying to impress asap with i'm sorry he's trying to impress yitzhak with something very significant the shir now officially crosses borders from the world of nigler to the world of nister yes you see how good he was he's asking what's the ramosa base of sago takashi that's what a good ramay does that you're making a very good point now kevaldek what do you think ramos says you come in and you say ich bin aligner you come and you ask along this akasha mckenzie falcon of them but what's your cavanagh the flag's good i was once teaching myself masek and yeshiva so we learned the first choices you get up and you declare the comments is health care completely half killed rashi holds a little different it's half connected so tyson's answers why do you have to be boy the comments why did the khazal care just be make it hefca let all the pizza and the mashka and the bagels and the cake stay pacer just you may come to eat it if it's in your house so the khazal sand get rid of it search for the comets and eliminate it bittle is not enough beer is enough so one of this talmudim is sitting there he says i don't understand this tais doesn't make sense i said why he said who in their right mind is going to come to eat comets who's going to eat comments and pesach i'm like you see you see the ghazal was successful the fact that you don't understand christmas shows that they were successful because if comets would have required only bittel so basically 11 59 a.m every out of pesach every jew would get up and in 10 seconds they would be ready for pesach they would declare all the comments but now and everyone is busy a month a week whatever it is unless you're going to hotel to uh but that twice didn't know about yet to do it so the whole idea of comments became so questionable who's gonna eat comets that's exactly the point so sometimes from the question you can see the success of the story you're asking a good question so asap could have fooled you too it was that's the word if he would have been shown as an amaris then there's no there's no ramos the point is he's asking well and it seems like wow you know a buck who asks such a question it demonstrates sensitivity it demonstrates that like rasheed says kiss us which now brings us to step two this madrish and rashi where asap asks keith sadmason seems like okay we just explained it was a nice question alumnus a question but like in every detail in rashi and every detail in torah there are layers and layers of significance and depth so let's now go to step two and see this rashi and this my mechazal from a deeper more spiritual perspective which really illuminates a general suggy and the whole parties told us the real big question of course for anybody who reads this whole story is was yitzhak so gullible you will know your children can your child really lead you down a deceptive road for 60 years i mean you know your own sons and daughters if your son comes up to you and says tata have a sheila how do you give myself a melanchol beautiful lambda question but yitzhak didn't know his child he didn't know asap not only does he get fooled apparently he loves him yitzchak loves and he wants to bless him he doesn't want to bless yaakov he wants to bless asap what is going on here if yitzhak was even an ordinary person it's very difficult to understand usually parents if they're more or less healthy balanced normal rational people you know your children you know them a little better you know them a lot i shouldn't say about all time some parents are really clueless about their children that's true but because they don't really equals you have to care to know your child you have to care you have to be open to it you have to be sensitive you have to be attentive if you're not attentive you'll never know your child you're busy projecting yourself rather than who your child is we spoke last week for the base salary of yoshi basil of explains the difference between eliezer's words and avraham's words but a person like was certainly attentive he couldn't understand yitzhak and rifka why didn't she communicate with him why didn't they have a conversation over dinner it's not like they didn't have a relationship it's the only couple that it says after the marriage after the wedding now to love your collar before the wedding that everybody does the kiddish is to love them after the wedding you know they asked once asked a woman how was your marriage so she said before i was married married i was incomplete now i'm married and i'm finished but by yitzchak it says after fall hirsch in his commentary he contrasts secular marriages to jewish marriages on this pastor why couldn't if they had a good relationship it says they knew how to laugh together however you explain the word masak but it's a very interesting term it doesn't say by others rifki couldn't speak to him so this is a very big issue and partials tell us we're going to explore one perspective the way it's discussed by anistor in kabbalah and by khash it really brings us to another question i'm going to do this vikitser everybody knows the famous rashi in the beginning of told us it says by israelites so abandoned by kirby rivka becomes pregnant and the children are agitated in her by you straight to the quarrel so what does rashford say everybody knows that rifka would walk when she would walk by a shul whatever a shul meant a yeshiva yaakov would kick gravitating to go out whenever she passed the base of a desire a pagan ashram ace of kicked and gravitated to aveda this means that asa was gravitating to avoid zara from where from when from the stage when he was in the womb of his mother i ask you rabbi say a simple question who makes the decisions for you when you're in the womb of the mother anybody remembers you think it's choice you think it's choice it's not choice who does it huh god hashem or put it in simple terms your nature your genes your genetic makeup which god made for you your soul your body however you want to define it exactly so why are we blaming asa we say ace of herusha in the womb of his mother he had no chance already this is not pira this is not choice he didn't choose to gravitate towards this was his makeup his essential composition in the womb of his mother it seems inappropriate it seems so insensitive it seems almost cruel to calling my russia in the womb of his mother you're telling me that he's gravitating so as we grow up and we learn this we take it for granted as a russian one second stop he's this is a complete setup he's put into this position he's the bad guy really what makes you're the bad guy you make him a bad guy you did it he didn't do it it's already very strange melee you're telling me at the age of 20 he decided shawn at the age of 13 shine by igbo this is in the womb of his mother the most innocent space of the world the kimono says the best time of life you learn the whole torah and in that time asap was chosen to go to gravitate away what shot what's but here essentially lay the truth about asa the beauty of asaf and the tragedy of asaf and we're going to learn now a few sources in sight and we will see how they all reflect a very similar idea let's start with a stickle in tanya perek of zion doesn't say i want one dish i want delicacies there's two types of pleasure it says the tanya i speaking to his son it's a metaphor also for the speaking to her children let's take a physical delicacy says [Music] a culinary expert a chef would be able to explain this better than i but let's see what he says yes there are two types of wonderful delicious delicacies one is you take sweet delicious zissa essen and you make a dish you make me a wonderful cheesecake you make me a wonderful papka you make me a wonderful cookish cake it's sweet you use sweet for those who have a sweet tooth it's oreve it's mosuk and everyone enjoys it they say hashemi but there's another type of dish those who know how to cook no they make a sweet dish with hamutsum they take tarty foods sharp and edible foods sour coimets they're not edible they're sharp they're too spicy rakshay methubalim um but the chef knows how to use them as a right spice and fix them up they put in the right amount the right dosage and the right chemistry in the right dish go ah wow what a dish on their own they're not good for they're not sweet foods you take black pepper you take garlic you take salt you take onions you're not gonna eat them as a meal they're not sweet and you don't put them in a cheesecake either but everybody knows a good chef knows how to take pepper knows how to take garlic knows how to take salt mellow and with the right amount if you put too much you destroy it completely the right amount it has a special unique flavor a special taste a special taina because you converted something tardy and bitter into something that lahasheva sannefish that brings the soul plush says yitzhak assaili one is from sweet dishes and one is from bitter dishes everything hashem does is for him and even our russia for the day of evil so the literal interpretation is that even our russia one day there will be the day that his rishis will end will come to there are two types of people in this world is his message two types of souls two types of journeys the source of it is a rambam in shmoinaprak and rambam wrote an introduction to priyava's called eighth chapters shemaina prakamaram there's a soul that we would call in english a goody goody somebody who's born with a natural disposition gravitating towards the positive the healthy the productive this is a person for whom life relatively speaking is a more tranquil journey in a serene world but then there's another person somebody who's a cravisha everybody knows it with themselves or with their own children you have that child already from the age of two already from when he was born or she was born they knew how to sleep through the night they did everything in the right time they ate when you had to eat walk when you have to walk talk when you have to talk sleep when you have to sleep they grow up they go through what's called a system they go through the school america you never hear a complain you never hear a problem every report card is olive plus a aaa pta this the the the pa this the teachers will say amakaya graduates high school you ship them off there to stroll alt beautiful nakhos comes back goes here a few years later wonderful and then you have another child and already from h2 you see sinish portions at the age of 11 this kid has been in nine yeshivas he's been around the block he's nine going on 83. and uh usually they're very smart sometimes much smarter than others sensitive deep very very deep people but what the system doesn't contain them the boxes that we create often don't work for them there's tremendous creativity there's tremendous individualism there's tremendous potency and power and the rambam says it's two different types of souls with different journeys what is the purpose of this person the worst mistake you could make is dismiss this child as less significant as less valuable or as nebach your challenge or your misery or your source of agony your source of tragedy there are two journeys of two souls one soul's journey is he or she is the person who is good and grows in goodness and holiness and beauty but there's another person and this person is destined to confront darkness and to subdue it and to sublimate it and to deal with it and to find sparks in places that other people are incapable of going this is a person who has to deal with attention and with creative vacillating forces and fluctuations in their life that other people may not understand but this person was given the power of a craving they need a deal sometimes with a strong gate sahara with deep struggles confront it subdue it sometimes transform it sometimes not transform it and sometimes their whole life they confront certain things and they never make perfect peace with it says hashem there are two types of delicacies one is you give me sweet food beautiful but there's another delicacy you give me bitter foods begum russia how can bitter tardy food how can salt become a wonderful sweet food not on its own on its own it's salty but if you use the salt as an ingredient to spice up a salad the salad is enhanced significantly by the salt what does this mean spiritually and psychologically when you face a struggle you could look at the struggle in two ways you could worship the struggle and see it as something self-contained independent in other words i have this struggle and that's basically what it is so therefore one of two things either i'm destined to be miserable or i'm destined to succumb to the struggle and follow it or you could look at it in a much deeper way you could see the struggle as a schliches as a spiritual opportunity which allows you to serve god and to embrace your soul and your depth in a unique way here is where you take the salt and you make it part of your avoidance hashem now the very bitterness the very evil the very darkness becomes a catalyst a springboard it becomes a source of tremendous greatness of tremendous depth of tremendous morality of tremendous majesty why because you talk the very salt and you look at it and you say this is my destiny to take this very challenge this is the way god wants me to serve him to work with it to confront it to elevate it to transform it to sublimate it to fight with it and suddenly the russia derisions becomes liyo it becomes the raw becomes yoiman or kaduska it's an invitation for depth it's an invitation for growth it's an invitation for unprecedented heights it's not an invitation from misery not only don't succumb to it that's a superficial perspective it's an invitation that this itself becomes a tremendous source of away the sasha assailant is two this is yaakov in claudius stroll this is yaakov aesop in the womb gravitates to avoid zara that doesn't make him a russia we often make a terrible mistake when we assume that somebody who struggles with evil is evil it's a great educational pedagogical and religious mistake the fact that you struggle with evil doesn't make you evil in fact that may be your ultimate spiritual greatness because that struggle was not your negative choice that struggle was god's choice the fact that aesop in the womb struggles and gravitates towards doesn't make him a russia in fact that's his path to sitkus that's his only path to sitkus he cannot choose not to gravitate toward zara the path that god designated for him to reach hashem is through gravitating towards our end confronting it dealing with that's his path hashem in fact if you're gonna tell him you have another path that's not true all you're doing is depriving him from his relationship with god because that relationship was not determined by him that relationship was determined by hashem that's what the rambam says we always have to make a distinction between succumbing to a struggle and the struggle itself the struggle itself is never evil and never negative in fact it may be his or her holiest moment the more nayim the helicopter writes in mario and i am at the end of the book it's a fascinating piece i'm going to say one vert the gemara says somebody who comes to be cleansed and to cleanse others they help him from heaven somebody who comes to contaminate himself poiskinloy they open the doors for him they let you do it so the maury renayem gets into a few questions over the end of gemara and he explains the gemara as follows somebody who comes to be cleansed they help him habboli tame somebody who comes to be contaminated he must know this is his pesach for when you're struggling with a particular tuma poiskin loy this is your door to touch god by dealing with this issue by confronting this skeleton by subduing this demon by fighting this addiction by transcending this ghost poison lloyd this is your pesach don't look in the mirror and say wow i'm such a loser i'm so hopeless i'm so horrible poison like this is your door to spirituality you know why because if this is what you must deal with this is the path through which you will find your deepest resources your deepest kaisers your deepest faculties your deepest soul this is what hashem wanted for you assailing there's no one delicacy that judaism offers for god this very different type of mataam there's cheesecake and the spicy foods which is better depends on your taste buds depends on who you are which is sweeter this jacob though the challenge of ace of was not in the womb the womb was his holiness that was a slickest the tragedy of asap was he didn't realize that his struggle with aveda zara was an invitation to connect to hashem in a deeper way he understood if i struggle with this this is who i am this is the mistake that so many of us make if i struggle with something it means there's nothing but that this issue is who i am i define myself by my struggle and i surrender to it rather than don't define yourself by the struggle you define the struggle don't let the struggle define you i'll say it again instead of letting the struggle define you you define it you say this is my opportunity to serve god in the way he wants i should serve him i should serve him you have to serve him differently it's understands asap he appreciates asaph he knows that asav is not the child who he's supposed to become but he never forgets asap's potential and because he never forgets aesthetics potentially as a special sensitivity and he wants to bless him hoping that through the brachus he will be able to help ace of see himself from god's perspective the challenge of aesop is he never sees himself from hashem's perspective he sees himself as an evil person look at yourself from hashem's perspective and then you'll see that all your struggles are god's invitation for you to become as holy as ever but they're an invitation asap doesn't see that so now let's see a fascinating interpretation that has been attributed to the villenegon take a look says and it's fascinating that we read this as the terror of told us the prophet malachi says in perikalov pasik bazen gimo ahafti yes i love you says hashem people think that the word i love you was invented by some people living in our generation but the navi malachi says ahafti eska mama hashem i love you martin now you're gonna tell me really where do we see that you love us says hashem hashem ace of he's a brother tayakov i love yaakov and i despise i hate asap but us heart of snaka i place his mountains become will become desolate so here there's an interpretation attributed to the vilnigan and let me tell you the source it's been quoted frequently what's the source for this interpretation of the villenegon a letter that was written by the first chief rabbi averages printed in igress hariyah iguara scofied bayes uh lim divre is what's the s the s throughout the whole trailer whenever it says s s is toefl for example the gomorrah says verachatz escobe sorry you go to the mikvy you have to wash your whole flesh in the water it could have said viracad scopes are mine what's s s adds s hattopholipsara even that which is secondary to your flesh you're here your heroes has to go into the water even one strand of hair can't be out of the water that's s carbed it adds even that person who's secondary to your father your older brother essie mecca your sister racist has the hosts of the heaven the host of the earth the various planets the s ace of sanesi i don't hate asa you know what i hate s asap the toefl to asap that which attached itself to aesop that which ace have made of himself ace of in his head ace of his source asa in his essence he is concealed with the fathers of the world meaning of course what is he referring to you remember where is asap's head buried with yitzhak with yitzhak why the head of asap represents the source of aself the origin of asap the essence of asap that is evasive is as holy as yitzhak as holy as yaakov in fact he has a greatness even deeper than yaakov that's the head of asa the way hashem sees asa from the source from the perspective the way asap needed to look at himself was i'm not a russia i have the potential to be a great sadiq through a different path through shishitra yes i have to confront lots of stuff and i may have to confront them my whole life but that doesn't make me a russia that makes me a different type of sadiq that's the head of asaf the essays of sannesi what i hate about asap was the tough elevator that which attached himself to what ace have made of his struggles instead of seeing his struggles as an opportunity for unprecedented spiritual growth he saw his struggles as a license to become a promiscuous super superficial person whose behavior was indeed negative so yaakov isha ms sees asan what does he say i see your face and it looks like the face of god really what is this flattery khanifa you look at isabel russia your face looks like god persistent like him he says yeah yaakov says when i look at your face your pine your now i have to say i looked where does the villenegon say this raf cook quotes him comic daily and it's been quoted in many sfarm so today it's easy to search so i couldn't find anywhere in all of the swarm of the vilnigan that he says this however i found it or something very similar in a source far earlier than the villenegon a century more than a century before the villenegon rabbenu menachem azaria afano of italy known as the ramen panda one of the doley hammer cobalam who wrote many swarm and kabbalah as a famous safer called maimfish and he says in heilig v listen to his words from the compassion of god on his creatures even those who rebel against them the terror minimizes their hatred the s ace of sannesi s ace of assad incredible words the s ace of that which became attached to aesop the toefl as hanith that which became um an adhesive on an adhesion to aself like a deep book that connected himself to asa that's what i despise ace of himself we all know that the khazr is compared to the is called khazr shataks early israel ace of himself is going to become tired ace of his shirish is a beautiful beautiful child complicated child uninhibited child complex child struggling child difficult child challenging child but a great child the great soul says that the head of yaakov his origin will remain in holiness and he won't evolve and fall down in negativity ace of himself can return now come back with me to the rashi asap comes to his father and he says kate said let's remember what the tanya said about salt and spices salt on its own is bitter when you contribute it you put it into a foods kevaldik it's not bitter anymore it's a wonderful thing to have salt it gives the flavor to the entire food we explain also about straw that it contributes so much to making making the the brick so here you have two things on their own they're not very valuable when you look however how they enhance other things they become very valuable comes a7 he says abba my father why do we have to put in the word abba rashid says asap is talking to yitzchak we know the first rash he says lots of the rama says he says hey what's abba father we know he's talking to his father that's the whole story here rashid says abba there's a very deep remnants here because here we can explain this question on two levels how asav is in his source and how asaf is in his ultimate manifestation in this world in other words we're going to study now asap on two levels as great psychoanalysts we're going to look at asev from his pristine potential that ace of talking and we're going to listen to ace of the way he actually manifests himself in this world and it's not the same asap race to the ace of the head of ace of the real ace of the authentic case of the naked pure ace of israel was buried where his body was buried with a russian merusha with a navi shecker and the pasik says in malachim there was a miracle of triasse that corpse got up and got buried somewhere else all so that a russian shouldn't be buried near atlantic there's a whole sugy and gamoras and hidden zion on this and it's here yitzhak is buried near asaf surpassed for elisha there was a mason that he shouldn't be buried near the the shot of course is the head of asav is not a rush the head of asaf belongs to yitzhak that's what we're learning here the ass ace of c the s of ace of i despised now you'll ask it says that's the difference by yaka if i love not only yaakov but even the s of yaakov because jacob made sure that his s is connected to his irish by if there's a tragic split so now what do they say the definition of hootsburs you come to your therapist because you have a split personality and you want a group discount so we're going to give ace of now a good split personality and when asap says yeah so freud said sometimes a cigar is only a cigar but we know the truth that's almost never the case so when asap says we're going to hear two ace of speak we're going to hear one ace of speak and we're going to hear another ace of speak first let's listen to the true ultimate asaf the asa who de ramepanu says is us littoring here he puts in the word abba abba my father kate said my astronaut usually what is my sir my series the part that we make holy the ten percent that goes to the cayenne to the levy to the yerushalayim there's a whole some level of kedusha there different levels but some level of kadusha salt doesn't have that straw doesn't have it these are more garbage foods straws animal father malak doesn't grow from the ground there's no mystery mella is bitter kevin is michael bahama who does this remind us this is what they told asavin yeshiva once once somebody told them you're salt you're bitter nobody can eat you nobody can taste you get out and somebody else said to mr behema you remember that's what you are how many people hear that mr behemer you know they say that there was somebody who needed to rent a house so he found a house on in bara park on 14th avenue and there was a condition that the landlord said he doesn't want to have children no family with children because he's a no it's an older couple they go to sleep eight o'clock and they don't want you know a noise at night so i mean the man said fine he signed a lease he comes in he was living upstairs and the landlords were living downstairs the first night the guy goes to sleep it's eight o'clock at night he goes to bed his wife goes to bed and suddenly with tom stuff and cup they're dancing there's seven akaf is going up on till three in the morning they're jumping and jumping couches are moving it's like she runs up finally kansas he runs him and he sees 14 children can i inherit the family has kanyebu 14 children he looks at the landlord and he says i don't understand why did you deceive me we made a deal no children no kinder he says this is kind there this is highest he says this is not children this is animals they're not children right so what did they tell asa you're you're a behemoth you have to eat michael bahama you have feet food of animals heaven comes asap and he says father nobody understands me but you tell me kate said my astronomers how do you find the holiness and salt and how do you find the holiness of straw yes how do i find the holiness you know me in my truth you know who i really am this is ace of subconscious speaking or ace of super conscious speaking abba he says my father you're my father i come from you you're one of the others hey na merkava teach me how to make the salt and the straw holy there's a way to make them holy you know how you make them holy you make them holy by realizing that the michael became that the animal within me is doesn't make me an evil person the animal within me is part of my spiritual schlichters part of my sacred mission to use my animal instincts my animal struggles my beastly consciousness as a tool as a path of my avoidance hashem whatever that means in my life sometimes it means to fight sometimes it means to subdue sometimes it means to educate sometimes it means to refine sometimes it means to sublimate sometimes it means simply to say no in each person's life there are different things just like with your animal what do you do with your puppy when anybody has a puppy here what do you do with your puppy sometimes you gotta zap it sometimes you gotta take it for a walk sometimes you got to give it a little caress sometimes it needs a good discipline that's what it is we all have our little puppy and some of us have a german shepherd okay the bark is bigger than the bite and the truth is as we explained in nicola it's just the same minister what's the question is salt valuable the way it is on its own or the way you look how it contributes to something else that's the story of ace if you look on a savannah's own you look at his struggles you can dismiss him as a russia but if you understand that the salt the spices the straw really has a tremendous power to give flavor and enhance and bring so much positivity to the world you look at it differently you could look at the very evil of the very struggle as an opportunity for tremendous growth for tremendous goodness if you know how to channel it how to harness it how to deal with it now let's look at the question from ace of here below ace of below what does ace of say asap says wants to make salt and straw holy on their own asap wants to give my sir from the straw of life from the salt of life in other words he wants to attribute spiritual worth to animal father instead of exploiting the material to serve the spiritual he wishes to invest the material with independent significance and value of its own and this is the tragedy of asaph instead of realizing that the point of the melaka and the tavern is to serve the spiritual to become an opportunity a catalyst to avoid this hashem he wants to give myself a melech and heaven he sanctifies the struggle itself because i struggle with this this is my path and here from a potential sadiq he falls down he separates his head his great calling his great promise from the way he actually lives his life which in our life would mean i struggle with something and instead of realizing that this is poison light this is my path for growth i give up i say this is who i am and this is my lifestyle and i surrender to the craving to the addiction to the disposition to the instinct it doesn't mean it's not a difficult choice it's a very difficult choice but asaph gives kedusha itself to the melakin the tevin you don't give myself a melech heaven this is ace of below speaking so we have this conversation on two different levels and both are true simultaneously there's the ace of above and there's the ace of below there's the beautiful ace of the majestic ace of and there's the tragic case of there's aesop's head and there's aesop's body now let's conclude and see full circle when we examine tupes says the passage the third to the last source says the position the house of yaakov will be fire the house of joseph will be lahava will be a um a flame the house of asa will become kash straw ah cash and tevin people usually interchange as the same thing straw oh so asaf is the straw asap wants to give meister to heaven and he becomes lakash but wait it's not so simple comes twice this the part that gets cut the shaft that gets caught with the stalk of wheat is called heaven vanish or it's curry cash to block stubble you see ish to blast double the part that remains on the ground doesn't get harvested with the with the grain itself with the stalk is called cash cadex rifka tells rifka tells eliezer come to our house we have kevin straw and we have plenty of food for your camels tevin is that which gets harvested and you're going to feed to your animals that which remains on the ground you don't give to the animal to eat it's too rough even for animals heaven is animal fodder kash is not animal father it says you take together with the stalks of wheat with the kernels to your home because the kernels you're going to feed to the people and the the heaven you're going to feed to the animals the kash is that which remains in the karka and therefore it's not even edible it's too rough even for animals for most animals and that's what the jews had to deal with they had to look the koshish kashlet heaven they had to look for the cash in order to use that for the bricks because the tevin was already gone ace of asks kate saddma astronomers the posix says vahaya base asav lakash here we have the great distinction the cash is the soilless it's the uh the residue of the animal farther can't even be used for animal food the tavern is not the weed itself it's not the kernels but it can be used for animal fatter so both words are translated as straw cassius throat evanestro but tevin is the shaft that is harvested together with the grain and is therefore subsequently fed to your livestock to your animals cash is the stubble as tyson says the stubble that remains in the field and is too coarse even for animal consumption now we'll see the diok the difference in the suck asa was initially entrusted with what with tevin asa had a strong animal soul very strong animal soul in the womb he gravitated to pagan idolatry he was entrusted with the straw that is symbiotically related to the grain it gets harvested with the grain in other words the straw that feeds the animal that serves man this was what we entrusted asap take your tevin take your tevin and turn it into levinen turn it into bricks that will become a dirac other will become a home for a human being the gum russian take your soul take your tevin take your straw and turn it into a catalyst and a springboard for a tremendous destiny in serving god in this world but asap then decided to reverse the relationship meaning to make the straw the focus to make the straw the object of life i wanted heaven itself to be holy i want my behemoth self to be the aim the goal the mission statement the objective it's not here to transform to transcend to subdue to elevate my animal my beast itself becomes holy i have no higher focus i have no higher mish what happened his tevin turned into kash his heaven turned into kash which is a hollow husk depleted of all nutritive potential because that's what happens when i use my skeletons my titus as an opportunity for avoid this hashem my tithe has become an instrument for gdusha they have so much depth they have so much romance they have so much majesty because they're fueling my relationship with my deepest soul but when i worship them i actually turn them into a hollow husk because now it serves nothing but its superficial instincts and ultimately it becomes disappointed with itself because it's not fulfilling its purpose because the purpose of asaf is also just like yaakov to bring light into the world not to bring darkness into the world and whenever you deplete something from its potential ultimately it itself feels empty but now take a look at the last pussac the days of mashiach the wolf and the lamb will shepherd together the aryaka bokker such empty materialism will cease to be the cash of asav will be completely consumed by the spiritual life a higher base asav lakash the crash will be depleted heaven on the other hand will become the staple of the animal kingdom and that's why the lion and the ox shall eat straw aryaka yo because that will be the ultimate sublimation of asap with the two brothers become one only the s ace of sanesi but the head of asov will become completely united with yaakov have a wonderful wonderful week [Music] you