The Secret of the Ger and Unity of Israel with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] and bate midrash a very very warm a warm welcome welcome back so tonight is parashat the asia tonight we're going to talk about partials the yeah chapter 37 verse 1 in genesis however i just want to mention that um i encourage everybody really i encourage everybody to learn hebrew and the way to do that obviously you can do your own thing but to pay attention i gave source sheets they're on my website and you just have to follow one of the links below that will take you to the right page and you have to know which book it's in and which year um the shoe was given in and put your finger on the place right and read with us or read on your own do hazorah do repetition what you call review review is so important if you don't review you'll never get it you know we say that if you don't learn it four times it's like you never even learned it so just because you're listening okay if you really grasp it great but review is uh is absolutely necessary okay that's the var results the first thing second thing i also want to mention is we're not going to deal with hanukkah tonight in particular i mean there is an aspect at the very end that i will touch on that has some aspect to do with hanukkah but i gave a shir i gave a previous class about hanukkah mystical aspects of hanukkah and i'm going to put that link below too so please go into there and check that out as well as believe it or not today tonight is what they call thanksgiving in america and i also gave a class how it's really the roots of thanksgiving is really rooted in a jewish holiday because we must as jews and those who have attached themselves to the jewish people should always be in a state of joy and simcha and gratitude okay so thanksgiving is every single day a jewish holiday every single day so also there's a link below to that class as well and i encourage you to um to go over it okay so let's start we're beginning in the we're starting at the very beginning where it says yaakov dwelt in the land of his father's so joinings now in hebrew the word for dwelt and so joinings are different words right look it says yaakov yoshev yeshiva or a yeshu right is a settlement is to settle so that means to dwell in the land of miguel ray aviv in the so joinings the land of the sojournings of his father in other words what's a gear we're going to talk about what a gear is a gear is a stranger or as is not politically correct an alien now could be a legal alien it could be an illegal alien but an alien nevertheless a stranger okay so keeping that in mind what the clear car begins to do is to show you there's an anomaly that's worth paying attention to because it's inconsistent what we like to see is uniformity and if there's no uniformity it's like a a neon sign going off wake up there's a message here what he claims it should have said let's look at the clear car hialulomar halalomar should have said the yay shave yaakov yeshivat aviv right that yaakov dwelt in the land that his father's dwelt in right or the agaryako bears meguri aviv or it should have said that he so jordan he wandered in the land which his fathers wandered in you see the inconsistency correct great so that's going to be one important point that we have to uh figure out right get in touch with meditate resonate and think about when the clear car will enlighten us i guarantee you that the odd he says and furthermore it actually says baris kanan if you read the verse you don't need the words eretz kanan do you what does it say again jacob dwelt in the land of his father so joining in the land of canaan we all know that we all know that why do you have to tell me baertzkan what does it come to add it has to be coming to add something okay remember every single word every single letter is absolutely holy mystifying transcendental and electrifying i mean it it's the word of god right and every single syllable that you utter from your mouth from the holy torah is giving life right the word itself gives life so we have to ask ourselves what is eric's kanan he says lamale what do i need it for ella fema at yaakov what does that mean it's very interesting what he's saying is that there is some aspect of guilt called a sin if you want but there's some kind of guilt on yaakov's side from the fact that he was looking he was seeking he was requesting bhikesh to have a um to dwell in this world olam hazeh allah means this world like this world that is fleeting by the world that is not eternal the world that we live in for up until usually not more than a hundred and twenty years a yeshiva shall keva let's see shiva shokeva in a permanent type of way living here what forever come on now this is interesting because there are some people today who think that if they get a jab or whatever it is they're going to live forever okay let's not go there let's go on lyot katosha bola maze actually wanting to be like a dweller a resident in this world bimkom miguri aviv in place of what do you mean in place of in instead of being like his fathers who lived in this physical existence as a as a visitor as someone who's just going through it's a journey enjoy the journey this is it of the vloger saw now his fathers didn't do like he wanted they didn't ask for a permanent dwelling in this world they understood what it means to be a gare aguer means wandering through a stranger that's how they understood this world elohim rather what did abraham and isaac do they lived in this world like a gare like a an alien like a stranger like a visitor oh reach like mamish a visitor who just is spending the night that's all we're doing here we're just here temporarily because you know what god says to him he said to isaac to yah to yaakov's father in chapter 26 verse 3 you see that number two on the sword sheet god says to him sojourn in this land in hebrew gore he wanted him to just feel like and be in existence as a pastor a passer through right gurba artsazot he says to him okay now it does say at the end of the verse right i'll read the whole verse in english so sojourn in this land and i will be with you and i will bless you for to you and to your seat i will give all these lands and i will establish the oath that i swore to abraham your father just so we understand clearly this was the directive from god to isaac to yitzchak okay let's go back into the clear car he mentions his kilos and gore as we see in that verse in 2063 this word gore gore is like a directive to be just a a passer through a wanderer god did not want abraham isaac nor jacob to have a permanent residence but to just be like a gor aguer in this world not to make a permanent residence here but his carelessness lolo now keep this in mind even though by abraham he himself says he says gervatoshav in chapter 23 verse 4 when he is negotiating over the maratha to have a burial place for sarah he says i am a stranger and an inhabitant with you i'm a gayer and i'm a toshav now why did he say that so this is why it was to do negotiation with them i want you to look at that rashi in a second let's just continue with what clear cars to say lamar one should not say this is why it says ger or the word gore because at that time he was living in a land that wasn't his listen god already promised this land so in a certain sense the land of canaan the land of israel belonged to abraham and isaac and even jacob but because it belongs to you it doesn't mean that you should live here like this is a permanent world yeah i'm giving this particular real estate for you to dwell in but okay but nevertheless you should live in it like a stranger the hadaba arts nikriya nikra gare right living in a strange land we already know that's like a gear that's what it means canaan and that's why he says in the land of canaan in that particular land that's where yitzhak was dwelling kisha lohi because it did belong to him it really was given as a yerusha as an that's inheritance avraham himself said as we already mentioned in 2034 he mentions ger the torso of now just look at the rashi so you understand what i'm talking about and it's on to the very bottom of page one right i'm a stranger from another land and i have settled among you that's what he was telling them and basically that's why i have no ancestral burial plot but the minister got explains it like this that what he was doing he was negotiating what he was saying was if you're willing to sell me the land right as a burial property i'm a gear i'm a stranger i don't have a right to it i'm willing to pay full price right if it belonged to you you would never pay full price but he was willing to pay full price because he didn't want it as a gift that's a whole nother story but he said but if not if you're not going to sell it to me i'm going to take what's rightfully mine as rashi says but if not i will be as an inhabitant and there and will take it legally for the holy one already the holy one blessed be already said to me in chapter 12 verse 17 to your seed i will give the land so it was just for negotiation purposes that he calls himself a toshov okay he didn't look at himself as a toshaf it was purely for the negotiation purposes okay so now we have that under our belts let's move on in the clear car the la the next statement is basically basically rashi in tier 2 rainy gear meaning in the negotiation if you want i'm just a gear the low now if you're not going to give it to me as a full price as a wanderer at lenimonodin i can take it from you by force right i can take it from you because it's legally and rightfully mine in kane if that's all true that means that yitzhak also had this dual not a dual citizenship but a dual not even dual personality but this dual aspect that he can be a gear which he should be and he's also a torso kirusha he lit low because the truth is it belonged to him um and so then what does god mean when he says gubaaraz he told he told isaac gore be a gore right be a traveler but rather what the message that god was inferring was teaching yitzhak was to be like aguer to have this thing called gerus to have this understanding uh intellectually metaphysically physic metaphysically spiritually and emotionally that this world is not for you your your place is going to be in the world to come and when you what this is just a cruise door this whole world that you're in right now this hologram that we're in is an illusion and it's not permanent and we're gonna you're on the journey and guess what shalom yeshiva feel about shalom and this is so important because this is the point here that you should not be looking for a permanence in this world don't request loyavakes a yeshiva shava it's almost like synonymous with keva kevin means permanence shava means more than peaceful what's that word i'm looking for tranquil tranquility for sadiq tsadikin out there don't look for tranquility if you're looking for tranquility you're looking at all the wrong places but what should you be looking for now this is also going to be a little bit of a hot potato a political hot potato kim kim dayer bodina now this is in gemara rosh hashanah what do we know i'm from philadelphia originally and there is a bell a famous bell in fact we have a liberty bell park here in jerusalem in the neighborhood and there is although i never saw it a replica of the liberty bell from philadelphia and what does it say it actually has this verse chapter 25 of leviticus verse 10 written on the bell i don't think the whole verse is there and it's not in hebrew but it may it says like this and you shall sanctify the 50th year and proclaim freedom through right for slaves throughout the land for all who live in it it shall be a jubilee for you and you shall return each man to his property and you shall return each man to his family now in hebrew on the fifteenth of the year of the kidash time as shana tramishim and then the hebrew says the karate you shall proclaim liberty right throughout the land they call joshua all of its inhabitants now that part i do believe appears on the liberty bell how do we know what's the word drawer drawer means liberty the roar not door the roar dalid resv drawer now i want you to look at this gemara it's number four in the sourshi so the gomorrah asked it's a clear meaning to everybody that the term drawer means liberty so we're all right this is a god-given this is a god-given right liberty and i really feel for all those people who live in countries who don't have that liberty now what exactly is the definition of liberty the definition ready for this i hope this resonates with everybody who is in a country where they are either have taken away liberty or are you eroding away your liberties listen to what it says how do we know from where did this may be inferred the gomorrah says and abrasive that the word drawer can only mean liberty rev yehuda said what is exactly the meaning of draw what is the hebrew the roar actually means a sparrow what does a sparrow do it flies around and does whatever the heck it wants but listen to what it says this is another idea it is like a man who dwells midair right when you're living in an apartment you're the dr right you're midnight in any dwelling diarrhea adira right and moves merchandise around the entire country meaning he can live and do business wherever he wants that's liberty okay and that's why mail if a country doesn't have the ability for you to send mail to wherever you want freely and what is what's the hebrew for mail doar right because that's the liberty the freedom of movement of merchandise the freedom to do business just think about how beautiful the hebrew language is right it's the liberty to live wherever you want and move about wherever you want so i'm praying for the world that we should mamish be liberated from some of the most oppressive regimes and some that are um the biggest hypocrites of regimes who claim to proclaim liberty and yet take them away okay that was a little bit of a political uh installment let's move back to the clio car uh the yaakov lola madbi menola came for some reason we're not sure but yaakov failed to in in in calculate this important lesson because he sought this idea of shalva chava means tranquility al cain cuts all of roger yosef that's why and i'm going to use the word sprang upon him jumped upon him the word kaftsa a kfc is like a spring okay so kaftsa came upon him sprang upon him this this anger of joseph no it doesn't mean that joseph was angry at his father it's something about the sin of joseph caused a shaking a quaking like an anger in yo in yakov yaakov was looking for tranquility and this ruined that tranquility right he was going to live out the rest of his life right well guess what as soon as he thought for tranquility joseph is sold he loses his rocha kodesh he loses his tranquility he loses his simcha he's almost like in a state of mourning for the next 22 years it's unbelievable so we're going to call it roxo yosef something that joseph did but it's actually something that yaakov did we're going to talk a lot about what we call measure for measure if joseph did a sin if he did something let's just say he made a mistake why should it affect his father shouldn't it just affect him well guess what his father was also deserving measure for measure for whatever consequences i mean why should a 17 year old get sold into slavery because of his father but it couldn't just happen to his father this has to be something that joseph also did that caused it and we'll see that the way hashem works it's so perfect measure for measure that it's custom-made this world is custom-made for every single one of us hashem loves us and he wants to correct us like a loving father who will send prophetic messages through the circumstances that surround our lives we just have to have the eyes to see it right the heart to feel it so let's go on alternatively shakovanayama it was already and we used the word promised to avraham it's not necessarily a curse right because we became royal slaves in preparation to become royal slaves to god we weren't slaves of the individual egyptians i know we lived in their houses and we served them but we actually belonged to pharaoh we were okay we belonged to pharaoh we were already royal slaves in preparation to become royal slaves to krish barco in other words to give hashem all his glory as proper servants it says in chapter 15 verse 13 in genesis right this was the promise and this is where god said to abraham during the um brit bain batarim the covenant between the parts he said to abraham you shall surely know that your seed will be strangers in the land that is not yours so the abraham you will surely know yes they will surely be strangers see the word gare there will be strangers in the land doesn't belong to them it doesn't say egypt which means what that even when they were in the land of canaan they were supposed to be like air meaning not making a permanent residence and they didn't build cities right i'm sure you look at history throughout mesopotamia throughout other parts of the whatever civilized world they did have cities at that time but we were shepherds and we did not even become major agricultural civil civilization we were really like nomads um okay so then it continues and they will enslave them and oppress them for 400 years which for 100 years when did this begin how long were we in egypt we were only in egypt for 210 years and how do we know that because we know but also look at in genesis 42 2. you can see this in the rashi right we're counting the 400 years from the time isaac was born in other words this took place this covenant between the parts took place 30 years before isaac was born which means 430 years before we left egypt true it's actually 400 years before we left egypt because it was meaning the isaac was born 400 years before right so you talk about 30 years before isaac was born and then that's for 30 years and then 400 years from the time isaac was born but we were actually only in egypt for 210 years so in other words from the time isaac was born until we went down to egypt there was what 190 years correct so look at arashi that your seed will be strangers from the time that isaac was born into the illusory lights left egypt was 400 years how does that work i'm not going to go through the whole i don't want to confuse anybody but basically it comes out to the 210 versus 190 until that point so here we'll continue they were in egypt for 210 years and what's that it's the numerical value of radu radu in chapter 42 of genesis verse 2. so yaakov spoke to his sons after they discovered that they can get all the food they wanted in egypt and he says behold i've heard that there is grain being sold in egypt go down go down there and buy us some food from there so that we will live and not die when he says go down to egypt he says radu radu is the gemachi of 210 and that's exactly what happened we were in egypt for 210 years okay i want to go to the very bottom of this rashi where it says in a land that is not theirs remember the pusa could have said you're going to be in egypt but it doesn't say you're going to be in egypt it says you're going to be in a land that's not theirs it doesn't say in the land of egypt but in the land that's not theirs and from the time isaac was born okay keep this in mind the time isaac was born they avraham and isaac and supposedly yaakov were supposed to be garem meaning not permanent residents in order to fulfill the 400 years think about if god says you're going to be wandering for 400 years that included the 210 in egypt and 190 before they went down that means they had to be gary now if any one of them decided to make a permanent residence in this world it would take off the time it's like the clock would stop the clock for the 400 years would stop and pick up once they became exiled or wandering again and this is what yaakov sought to make a permanent residence and god says nothing it's not going to happen because it would stop the clock it would delay what the redemption and we know that the redemption could not have been delayed because we were already in the 49th level of impurity and it would have been a no-no it would have been game over and perhaps but anyway hashem's in control but just take a look at that um that rashi more intensively and you'll see the how the kashmir works out so let's go back into the clear car the last thing we said was this is what god already said to abraham that you will be garim you'll be aliens you will be non-citizens you'll be wanderers okay and your seed and your and your children in a land that doesn't belong to them keep in mind that yaakov is part of the fulfillment of this obligation right the word the freight means payment you had to pay as the jewish people as as the early israelites as abraham isaac and jacob as the fathers there had to be this 400 years and guess what meaning yaakov was a helicopter yaakov was part of that that time period the rubik's yeshiva shadow bimakum bimkom nagori aviv but this was this mistake he sought to have a permanent residence or a res a red a life of tranquility in the same place that his father was what a so joiner as sojourner does not have shalva ki mishin no because the moment that isaac was born that's when the gerus began the uh the the sojourning the wandering now keep in mind that both abram and kept themselves as let's say kagerim meaning within the category within the status of non-permanent residents hall no dim they were wandering um and they were moving about me masa la masa from one journey to another vlog they didn't acquire neither fields nor vineyards they were they were not really much into agriculture the kolasu why did they do this they all did this in order cadet le chale maher they wanted that to get through that 400 years so they can come back to the land and make a permanent residence as the verse said in 15 13 that your seed will be strangers so one second what about asaf asav is also part of that seed right but you know he sold his birthright he wasn't interested in land of kanan he was not interested in the transcendental the spiritual life he was into this world and he went to say here so it says bish lama esav if you take a look at asa of it all make sense shahala khloe el eritz he went to his own land shapiro amar and it works out well with the verse with the verses i actually have here where is it it's number seven right in genesis 36 verse six it says and asaph took his wives his sons and his daughters all the people of his household and his cattle and all his animals and all the property acquired in the land of canaan and he went to another land because of his brother yaakov i do want to show you just at the very bottom it says the elec el eris he went to a different place but guess what i want to just show you now because we're going to deal with this at the very end it says that he took all in english all the people of this household look at the hebrew it says the eth called nafasos beto he took all of the souls of his house right that's what we call people souls he took all the souls of his house all the people of his house it's plural i just want you to i want you to let that sink in right now it's it's not important but it's going to become important when we get to a very uh apropos moment later on okay so let's move forward where we just read the right the yelik el eritz concerning asoth he went away but what about yaakov no ava yaakov of hayabaras kanan yaakov remained in the land of kanan and he wanted to receive rosalie he was interested in the right in the in the birthright he was interested in the spiritual inheritance that came with the gift of the land of israel but the problem was he didn't want to pay the price the lord wrote he didn't want to pay those years he didn't want to pay the obligation of kiger yes that your seed that god said to avraham your seed will remain strangers al cain because he wanted this life of tranquility al king cuffs all of roxo yosef that's why sprang upon him jumped upon him this we're going to caulk anger of yosef again i described it as a mistake of yosef a sin of yosef but again measured for measure it affected yaakov that's why it says kanan in the land of kanan because iluhaya that if yaakov would have negated this yeshiva keva and sought out a yeshiva menuha which is basically tranquility lawyer yummy melo those years of manuka would not have been included in the years of being aguer of being in a state of a journey and moving about and that certainly would have pushed off delayed the gula the redemption that we experienced in egypt okay that is really the first part okay so now we're on verse two ayla todos yaakov yosef what does that mean look in the english these are the generations of yaakov colon when joseph was 17 years old and you have now what does it mean these are the generations of yaakov and you're telling me all about joseph because joseph was his favorite son joseph was his whole existence right in other words yaakov loved this boy more than everyone else you can read on right joseph was 17 years old being a shepherd he was with his brothers with the flocks and he was a lad and he was with the sons of bilhah with the sons of silpa his father's wives and then joseph brings his evil tale about them to their father now we do have to go into these interesting rashes now i don't know where to begin let's just see um let's start with the clear car it says that ghazal tell us in breishit rabbah that doesn't just mean you know look alike yes he did he looked like his father but he was similar to his father in all of his life details in the cv right in uh in all the aspects of his life story doing the killer yosef and it was as if joseph was the prime todah the prime progeny right i mean he bought them the code of many colors okay major is this soviet what is the midges really thinking that what the yaakov wanted to fix remember yaakov was away from his own parents for 22 years and did not fulfill the mitzvah of kibbut of the aim of honoring your father and mother he left that out okay we're not going to go there right now but it was a mistake and something had to there was a price to be paid for this so the very fact yaakov wanted to fix this martial avi he wanted to fix that alkane yoshi barrett's maguri of you and that's why he wanted to stay around in the land of his father yitzhak the hush of kiba zayatuk he thought he considered perhaps this will fix what happened in the past he had good intentions ubiquish lay shaped basharva but it was a sin nevertheless it was a mistake nevertheless he sought to have this tranquil life al kane kafsa oh love ragsusho yosef that's why this anger whatever we're describing this mistake of yosef it's coming to him that joseph gets sold and he's missing him the cabell oinish that yaakov himself is going to receive an ownish zaro that he's going to end up having his own son joseph also not able to fulfill for 22 years the same problem but it's going to somehow reflect upon him because he's the one suffering as well from his son not honoring him for those 22 years that yaakov is going to miss the 22 years that his son could have honored him for the as payment for the 22 years that so now i want to examine those rashes in genesis 37 2. right these are the generations of yaakov the first cause of their wanderings when joseph was 17 years old in other words the gay root this wandering continued it was almost going to stop when yaakov wanted a permanence but guess what it didn't yoseph was sold into egypt and this were is where the events unfolded and they eventually wandered and descended down to egypt now the midrash however interprets the passage as follows meaning these are the generations of yaakov yosef scripture bases the generations of yaakov on yosef as the story unfolds it's all because of joseph whatever happens to joseph is happening to jewish people because of many things one is that with his entire being yaakov served lavon only for rachel and that was his love of his life and through rachel we have yosef and then the story continues through yosef in addition jose's features resembled his father's yaakov so it's not just a simple resemblance but whatever happened to yaakov happened to joseph this one was hated and that one was hated right the brother sought to kill him right meaning asap sought to kill yaakov so too the brothers yoshi's brothers sought to kill him as well now it's further expounded upon the word dwelt which we talked about in the beginning that rashi says that when yaakov sought to dwell in tranquility the troubles of joseph sprang upon him you hear those words are very familiar and what it means we talked about this in our gemara ashir in gemara brachas we're discussing right now why do bad things happen to good people in other words sadik varalo things that are troublesome challenging painful can happen to righteous people listen to this the righteous seek to dwell in tranquility so says hashem the holy one blessed be he what is prepared for the righteous in the world to come is not sufficient for them right but then they want also to dwell in peace in this world not happening sorry yeah i want you to know that if you are almost perfect and you have a little bit of a a little bit of sin i'm gonna make sure out of love i'm gonna make sure that you will suffer in this world so you don't have to suffer in the world to come okay i want to skip down a little bit if the verse said right he was with the sons of bilhah now who was she she was one of the four mothers right but not one of the two main mothers she was a shifter so he was frequently meaning joseph was frequently with the other brothers from her because the other brothers would make fun of them they would call them sons of slaves right they it's not nice this is not the way brother should act but he acted very friendly towards them he was empathetic he was sympathetic he was emotionally connected with them he understood what it meant to be on the other on the other side let's say now so but there's a problem because he didn't handle it so um let's say maturely right so any evil that he saw in in his brothers the evil that he saw who the sons of leia were the ones making fun of the other brothers he would go ahead and tell his own father about that's called lash and horror right there's a way to do it but he would tell his brother that number one they ate limbs from living animals which is obviously one of the even as a knockhide right before the torah was given but even after the torah would be given it's certainly one of it's an asura to have ever also they demoned they demeaned the sons of the handmaids by calling them slaves these were the 12 tribes the other people and yet he called them slay they called them slaves and he told his father about it and they also he suspected them suspected of illicit sexual relationships now happens to be measure for measure that these things that he told his father about he himself then was afflicted in certain ways i don't want to go through all of them but basically it's interesting how rashi goes through it for these three tales meaning the lash and hara he was punished for the report that his brothers ate from living animals remember they didn't really i just tell you quickly that if you take a she let's say an animal whether it's a cow or a goat a sheep and you slaughter it while it's pregnant meaning it's towards its end of its pregnancy you slaughter the mother and then you immediately open up the stomach and remove the child animal that animal does not need to be slaughtered it's considered slaughtered already now we're not talking about sorry balikhaim right now i don't want to get into it the idea is that if you didn't slaughter correctly then then what then you're not over because it's already slaughtered correctly it was like a limb of the mother who was slaughtered correctly and therefore if it appeared whether it was still moving twitching or whatever the laws were that they seemed to violate okay i don't think they were doing tsar by haim of taking off a full limb while the thing was moving alive but if he saw that happening that they took this baby cow or sheep whatever who was in the status and they didn't slaughter properly he could claim to his father that they're eating the limbs of a live animal for a jew right okay but that was not true so any anyway any of these things were not really so severe but anyway let's continue and for the report that he told them about that they called their brothers slaves now as a result measure for measure this is important in psalms 105 verse 17 which you can see on number 9 king david says and he sent a man before them joseph was sold as a slave what does this mean joseph was hello evan nimbra yosef it's so amazing if you look at genesis 45 verse 5 right this um um this idea but now do not be sad and not let it trouble you that you sold me here this is yaakov i'm sorry this is joseph talking to his brothers after he had revealed who he was telling them don't worry you know what hashem sent me here to preserve life for it was to preserve life that god sent me before you before you similar because he was sold as a slave right look at the hebrew again in the in the psalms 105 17. shalaq lift hashem sent the the cure he's it's all god's movements that i ended up being a slave here right you that i came before you to preserve life right but the hebrew in psalms 105 17 is joseph joseph was sold as a slave he told his father hey my brothers are what's making fun of the other brothers calling them slaves in other words it may be true but it was wrong for him to do to go ahead and spread this la shanhara there's other ways to deal with it so he was sold as a slave measure for measure okay let's go back into the clear car and i believe where did we leave off umasha amar now remember what the measure said it said katsu allah of roxasho yosef jumped sprang upon him the again we don't know exactly what it means i know what it means but anger of joseph so what does it mean from the language of cuffs or what does it mean kofta like feeds us to jump like a spring what is that language kafsa what it should have said in the medrash was yosef that what that came to him came to yaakov the concept of yosef what does it mean the concept of youth what happened well what does it mean rugso what does it mean anger what does that mean lama yikes heroges lee yosef why are we referring the word rogues means anger why are we referring to the anger of joseph is affecting the father hakuro villa lomar bezed this is how the clio card will resolve the issue that what it means is like this when it says rogue rock social joseph what we're going to translate is the anger of joseph means joseph the sin of joseph remember if someone sins it causes i'm going to use this term kavyako as if there's an anger in hashem hashem doesn't want his children to sin right we use these terms in an anthropomorphic fashion okay so when one sins ashurbo hear gizla keem that affects hashem of course hashem is not affected by anything but as if we have to try to understand that that would anger hashem that's what we mean the very fact that the children brought right yaakov or as they say you're sorry yosef brought lashanhara on his brothers how some of the brothers are making fun of the other brothers that they're slaves archaea did noise until by necessity that yaakov that joseph is sold into slavery he's telling them he's telling his father that the brothers are speaking about the other brothers like slaves and as a consequence as a result he himself is sold into slavery eem kane if that's the case if that's the case that would mean that even if yaakov had not sought out to live a life of tranquility nevertheless joseph was guilty of something so then joseph would have been sold anyway now zula yoshi ben chavez roshana the truth is like this joseph was only 17 years old i'm going to tell you a little bit of a secret and none of the children are listening because this is a big secret don't tell your kids that in this world children from the age of 13 girls from the age of 12 are going to be held accountable it's very interesting about the benenoch there's a homac locus is it the same age 12 and 13 from males and females or is it even a younger age i would say to be lenient probably but hashem's the judge that it's the same equivalent how do we know this by the way just a side point because uh shimon and levy when they uh what's the word when they um when they killed shem right they wiped out the city of schnem so how old were they they had just turned 13 the younger one was just turned 13 and therefore he's called an ish it's already called an ish that's means a person who's responsible and this is before the torah was given and this would be one reason to think that even are only held accountable in this world for for things they do when they turn of age however just think about this a second that that until the age of 20 you're not held responsible in god's eyes meaning hashem has so much grace and kindness he knows that we're just flesh and blood and he knows that we're all in a journey of life right the 42 stations that we rested in the desert actually represent the stations we go through in life so especially between the age of let's just say it's called puberty and adolescence from the age of 13 12 13 until the age of 20 we're trying to find ourselves we're trying to find out what the meaning of life is all about and where we fit in hashem has tremendous amount of mercy so his judgment is put off so to speak delayed until we're 20. so he doesn't hold us accountable until we're 20. now so that's what it's saying joseph was only 17. if he was only 17 then why would he be punished great question and i'm glad you're asking zara so here we go so lawyer baron china diamond based in shalamala that according to what we just said he wouldn't be considered in the status of being punished by the heavenly tribunal lefician yosef gamma but rather it sounds like this that because of the combination of yaakov's own sin of looking to have a tranquil life and the combination of joseph's we're called mistake at the age of 17. it's only because of both father and son the combination that joseph was event was sold had it not been right for yaakov's own sin joseph might not have been punished but because that's what it means kafsa sprang forward jump forward by a couple years because it should have been from the age of 20 but it happened earlier if the word cuts like quick listen to the words alkane hashem that's why god acted quickly yosef bor onoshim kodam's mano and therefore hashem treated yosef as a bar onshin as a person in the status of being punished before his time and that's the word kafsa olav jumped sprang upon him this whole idea of jumping forward teaches and reflexes reflects something that's fitting to come nevertheless but happens earlier than its time yosef that's why god desired in the end to bring the punishment on joseph kodam's mono before his time meaning while he was 17 kiday levata yeshivato yaakov in order to disrupt that this dwelling in a permanent fashion for yaakov garma you needed both the only way it can happen is if god took both into account kiona show yosef speak because whatever yoseph himself deserved was not enough to be to bring this on him kilia baranashi because he was not yet in the category to be punished via shivato shayakov speak and the the permanent dwelling that yaakov sought also alone was not enough would not have been enough to bring the punishment on yosef had he not sinned as well now see rashi rashi brings an amazing mashal an an amazing analogy and which rash am i referring to i'm referring to the very first rashi that we saw now if you go back to that first rashi in the middle of the page it says this can become this can be compared to a pearl that falls into a sand let me just remind us what we're talking about we mentioned that that um that yaakov dwelt okay now where's all of the progeny of aesop it's not important okay i maybe i should go through it once again in the beginning scripture then goes at length page one page one scripture goes at length to talk about jacob and his lifestyle and yosef and everything that happened to him what about asaf it's kind of flippant it just very briefly discusses him and his progeny the torah is not very interested in asavanus progeny as much as it is in yos in yaakov and yosef as we see and so rashi explains because um why is that because this can can be comparable in the middle this can be compared to a pearl that falls into the sand i don't know if god forbid you ever lost a valuable item in the beach but you're gonna like start digging and as you dig if you even had a glimpse of a glimpse of it it's gone because you start moving the sand and it's it's me you made it worse right have you ever experienced that oh my god i just saw it i'm sure it was there but now it's even further under the sand you all know you all can relate right so but what do you do you take like a sieve you take some kind of a meshy thing and you pick up as much as you can and you get rid of the sand and what are you looking for that valuable item now this is what rashi says why does the torah go at length to talk about yaakov and yosa's prime life and nothing about asaf this can be compared to a pearl that falls into the sand a person searches in the sand and sifts it with a sieve until he finds the pearl and when he finds it what does he do everyone knows you throw away all the sand you're not interested in the sand you're interested in the pearl you throw away the sand he cast away the pebbles from his hand and keeps the pearl very nice now let's go back into the clear car we're in the very last paragraph of page two rashi brought this analogy la margalit shinofla that it's like a a pearl that falls amongst the sand himself elite the analogy uses the house of asav it may it makes an analogous to the sand whereas basiaco of the house of jacob to the pearl the aldera shamasik the yikaraba i want to go through the measures with you but before we do that keep in mind what we're going to see is that asav is six souls and right it says asaf shaishna fasho he had six sons as it says in 36 6 we did see that verse already verse 6 number 7 right all of the people of this household i mentioned look at the word ko nafashot beto so that's plural six souls of asav are called souls with an s at the end right so that's the beginning that's the end plural so the clear card goes on and says but when lush and robbie obviously nefashos is lush and robbing why why ready for this remember asav is the progenitor of christianity of one point i don't know let's just say 1.4 million right 1.4 billion uh people on the planet i know it's a third or close to it okay we have a lot of them they worship many gods and it's not just the trinity that they worship wait till you hear what i have to say that each denomination i think there's like 80 000 denominations each denomination has a different theology and if you have like one little nuance of the difference they basically will say to their other christians well if you don't believe like us you're doomed to hell you're not going to be saved and not only that listen to this that even if you have in the same denomination one church on this corner and you have another church on another corner right on the same city they will say about each other okay that you don't belong to my church you don't have the same beliefs that we have you're also going to hell you're not going to be safe so it's unbelievable we're going to compare that to the sand the sand is not stuck together and the pearls are all strung together we're going to compare that to the jews so hang in there wait till you hear this so as we're in the clear car and he says about the nephashos of asav lethe sha evening ella who's herbe they serve many gods yaakov shiveem not those shows how you lo it's true that when yaakov his his family went down to egypt it says there were 70 souls look at exodus chapter 1 verse 5. it's number 11. now though now all those descended from yak over 70 soul look at the hebrew the the hikonethis yose yarakyako shivimnethesh all of the soul that all of the people that descended from yak over 70 nephesh nephesh is singular from nephesh because they served one god unified in their belief that's the end of the that's the end of the majors from the aspect that they served many gods because they served many gods you have within the society so much fighting infighting infighting marijuana quarrels they do not have one agreement they're not in agreement with each other simple as that why mitsaan rebuy haddad because they have many religions their whole being even though they call christianity and the truth is the same thing is about islam they have the same problem they're not unified and they're not connected which is actually a blessing for us but at least when it comes uh to islam for sure if they were unified we'd be in big trouble right so there's a blessing that they're not unified and now we understand it like the kaho like the sand zest at least we're talking about dry sand right the sand is they're all individual grains particles of of sand and they're all individual not unified that's when it comes to aesop the very fact that we serve one god shalom the the act of peace you know hashem's name is shalom right that what's one of the names that that is acting as an intermediary between all of us that one god is able to unify us hareheim kamar goliyot haruzin just like pearls are strung on a single what threat should the bukim should the bukim zebu zed they actually touch each other right my mother was a jeweler hi mom so she no she told me that you can tell the real pearls from the fake pearls besides touching your teeth with it and feeling the um right feeling the texture but that the real pearls are strung in a way that there's going to be a knot between them all because if the ever broke you're not going to be running around chasing the pearls the pearls are valuable okay maybe you lose one right depends where it broke right but that would be an important point so they're all strung together the the the the string the connected it's the string itself that connects them now wait to hear what it says in song of songs this you'll find on the very last page the very bottom now this is hard in the english but we'll have to see the hebrew and let's look at the hebrew first kahuta chani that means red thread a scarlet thread siftotaya is your lips so look at the he look at the english it's in song of songs four verse three chapter four verse three your lips are like a scarlet thread they translate as the sincerity of your lips i get that okay so what does that mean sifted it's the ability to trans what's the word it's the lips that are that give you the ability to transmit the holy torah it's called the word right this is what it is sifted the torah hamar beam shalom what do we say about the sages they increase peace in the world right it's the through the torah through the sages through the lips it's going to increase peace in the world just as the string that is unifying and is strung through all of the different um through the different um words of torah now i want to go and spend just a little bit of time on this medrush go to i believe it's um the very bottom of page four so this is a majority of the ikaraba that describes described by alicia ruby alicia who's talking about yeshua ben karcher so what happens is there's a certain i'll use the word everyone knows is not a negative term it just means amongst the nations so a certain non-jew comes and asks the very very important question it's only going to find this halfway through the medrash so i want to i want to entice you to listen to the whole thing that basically he wants to know if your torah says to follow the majority how come you guys are just 15 million of you and there's 1.4 billion of us and another 1.4 billion of someone else and another 1 billion plus of someone else your own tortoises follow a majority how come you're not following your own torah you should follow our religion great question the guy asked well let's start with the uh it's um it starts like tanikhitskiya there's a verse in jeremiah chapter 3 verse 17 that says the jewish people are scattered sheep so we just talked about us being unified hello if we're unified why are we called a scattered sheep and the reason is it's like this why is israel compared to a sheep at all we're compared to a sheep because if you would hit a sheep a sheep looks very fat and and plump but not when you shear it when you get down to the to the flesh it's a very skinny and very sensitive thing animal so what happens is that if it stubs its toe or it gets hit its whole body shutters it's a very sensitive animal and just as the sheep would feel the hit the wound from one limb through its entire body so too the jewish people if god forbid one of us sins we all are affected we all feel it now it's interestingly enough in bamidbar in numbers chapter 16 verse 22 it says referring to one person who sins and yet the response even though it's like stated in the question it's a rhetorical question nevertheless if one man sins god you would be angry with the whole congregation do you understand that that if a jew sins hashem has a view of us that is changed because of one jew's sins then the madrid goes on and tani reby shimon we're on page the five the last page at the very top right so um rashby rashby says that this is actually analogous to a man who's sitting in a boat okay i'm sure we've all been a boat in a boat and if you if you've never been in a boat just try to imagine it okay and somebody takes a drill and he starts to drill under his seat and all the other participants right of this boat ride this nice tourist boat ride are freaking out why wouldn't they so they say to the guy what are you doing and he says what do you mean i'm just i'm just drilling under my seat don't worry so um so i mean just i lost my place there so all the friends said to him what are you doing what are you doing so he responds to them what do you care lo isn't it just under my seat that i'm drilling what do you care um well we know that the water is going to eventually rise and we're all going to drown in this boat this is what job was actually saying to his friends in job chapter 19 verse 4. when he says and even if i have indeed heard let my error stay with me what do you care why is it affecting you well they knew better the armor of so his friend said to him in job chapter 34 verse 37 for he adds transgression to his sin um i wanted to skip down to the next point okay ready here this is like this says rebbe elisha that there was a certain guy sha allah and he went and he asked rebbe you should be doesn't it say in your own torah in exodus chapter 23 verse 2 it says you followed the majority well if you're following the majority how come you're not following our religion right he says we are more than you ma how come you're not following us how come you haven't adopted our practices in idol worship so this very smart rabbi you should be says you have kids yeah ah but not only do i have kids why are you reminding me of all my pain so the guy says is cartoni saurasi yeah i have kids but trust me you're reminding me of a lot of pain i have i'm a llama so the rabbi says why why are they so painful why is it so painful to have so many kids he says i have a lot of kids i'm a little because when they're all sitting at my table they're all praying to their different gods they're all thanking their own gods for the food i just served them the enum omdi okay i have to pronounce this word as they don't get up until they're all hitting each other on the heads in other words they're quarreling with each other and they're even it's getting quite violent armor low mashwa tell you muhammad so the rabbi says to him so did you adopt their religion she says no i didn't adopt their religion so he said so the rabbi says well well until you adopt one of their religions what are you bothering me for right go and adopt their religions so uh nitro holy claw he pushed him away and he went now when the guy left the presence of the rabbi all the students of the rabbi said yo yo rabbi would understand you didn't even give him the best argument why did you just in fact he says they say why did you give them you pushed them away with a broken reed you gave them just like a superficial thing what would you tell us so this is this is the secret this is what he told them he says you know what it says by asav it says sheish nafasho six souls and it's written in plural and by yaakov it's written right uh shivimneth i'll tell you what it's all about the konnefish yotsuyako shiminefish whereas asov was serving many gods yaakov asap served many gods and therefore it's plural and his children serve many gods but when it comes to yaakov he served only one god and that's why it was singular and i think this really puts the whole thing i want to just talk about in terms of hanukkah the jewish people are one even if you are secular even if you think you are secular even if you are assimilated even if you just think you're assimilated how many what holiday of all the holidays could we say that even those most secular jews even the ones that don't fast on yom kippur even the ones that won't show up in synagogue on yom kippur they seem to all light a hanukiah they seem to celebrate hanukkah it's like an unbelievable and you know what the holiday is really about there was a i'm not going to say it was a civil war but it was basically a civil war you're talking about a split in the people between the religious and the the hellenists it was a a pull away from religion but they did not succeed they did not succeed because today 2 300 years later the most secular jews are celebrating and saying i want to be part of that everlasting people unbelievable so i think this fits in well with hanukkah this last point because this is what i observed with my own eyes i was brought up not so observant not so religious very proud very connected in a certain way in a certain way in a certain way to my judaism to my people to my nation to my god and that never leaves the jew so those jews who are out there listen up wake up we're waiting for you to join us right welcome home to torah so join us next week and we'll see you again does not hashem happy hanukkah and i'll just say happy thanksgiving every single day of the year 365 days of the year happy thanksgiving anyway so shabbat shalom have a great life and we'll see you next week [Music] here [Music]