The Sign That Changed Jewish History - Rabbi Dovid Kaplan

about first of all just uh one point there I skipped yesterday. If you take a look at back on 106 just one point over there before we go on page 106. So it says second line from the top comes to eulogize sorrow and and cry her and cry for her. So it says the word vayovo aam vovo aam um according to some vayo aam means he went inside he went he didn't he didn't want to make a public spectacle of his crying but he look at rashi for one second it's the right column of rashi right column of rashi four lines from the bottom on page 106 right column four lines from the bottom vo a mva he came from Beerva. Savver came from Beer Cheva after the Aada. He went to Beer Cheva. Then he came to Kevron to uh eulogize and bury and bury Sara. The medish says he came from Hara Moria, which is where the Aadus came from. And there's another magish that says he came from the burial of Terak, his own father. So you got three different opinions where he came from. either Beer Cheva or he came straight from from Haram Maria which is where the aada took from or he came from the burial of ter make up your mind. So one of the maffort says look literally he came physically he came from Beer Cheva that's where he was in Berev and he came from Beer Cheva but when you eulogize somebody what's a eulogy came to eulogize you you talk about them when you eulogize somebody you talk about them right so when he said his eulogy where was he coming from like sometimes somebody says something outlandish you say where are you coming from where are you coming from? So Abraina when he said his eulogy where was he coming from? So one opinion is that he was coming from the burial of ter meaning ter was an idol worshipper. He even sold he sold he manufactured and sold idols and an entire world of ter type people who buried that ideology was a mino. How did he do it? He had to have the support of his wife. You know, she was a full partner in this project. So when he when he was eulogizing her, where was he coming from when he ulogized her? He came from the burial of Terra. She was my partner in the burial of page page 106. She was my partner in bearing that ideology. My battle against the pagan world. She was a partner. That was part of his eulogy. The other part of the eulogy was he's coming from Mount Mariah. If you have a son, you know the med says that when they went up to the mountain gets was 37 years old and 37 years old and he and he realizes take guys always take there plenty of on the shelf over there. The uh they want to be used the uh a 37y old son and the father's about to sh them. Well, you know, he could probably overpower his father. Like, dad, you know, what are we doing today? Well, we're gonna have a sacrifice. Really? Yeah. You, you know, I'm not, you know, I'm not What's the expression he used? I'm not down for it. Yeah. So, Yitsuk instead, what did he say to Abra? He said, "Tie me up well so I don't jerk and ruin the, you know, if you shuck an animal and you don't shuck it properly, so you've invalidated the offering." Yet like the Med says, he said to Abra, "Make sure you tie me up good so that I don't invalidate the offering." And he's willing to go and have himself offered. Who instilled that value into Yeitz that he's allowed to go and have that he's willingly going to die because this is God's command? >> His mother Sarena. So where's he coming from in the eulogy from Haram Maria? He's praising her that she is the mother who instilled that value into her child. And guys, let's call it uh let's call a spade a spade. When it comes to training kids in the house, the men think that they're the men think they're the big hawkers, right? At the end of the day, it comes from the mother. The end of the day, it comes from the mother. That's the uh that's the the mother has much more influence on the child. The father has to be an example and hopefully not too bad an example. Shouldn't shouldn't set a bad example, but I know a kid who said to his father, "Dad, I think you got a drinking problem." His father decked him, [laughter] >> which obviously means what? >> He had a drinking problem. >> Got a problem. >> Yeah, he obviously had a drinking problem. The father decked him. He said, "Dad, you got by us we when I say, "Hey, Dad, we got a drinking problem." That meant that the Pepsi wasn't on sale that week. They said, "Dad, we got a drinking problem. You got a drink." you hopefully the father will be set a good example but if the father I heard about a guy heard about a guy his kid got caught in school he would took a wallet out of another kid's out of another kid's briefcase in a in a from school so uh the teacher says hey I'm taking you he caught him right-handed he said I'm taking you to the principal's office said okay he says you don't seem too nervous about it I said I'm not he takes me to the principal and principal says you're in big trouble he says yeah he says you don't seem too nervous nervous about I'm not. He says, "You know, I'm going to call your father." Says, "Yeah." He says, "You don't seem too nervous about I'm not." Says, "Why not?" He says, "Because my father walks around all day bragging about how much he rips off the IRS. He'll be proud of me." Now, the kid father won't be proud because in the father's mind, there's a difference between cheating the IRS and taking a wallet out of somebody's briefcase. Even though [snorts] there isn't, by the way, how you can't cheat the IRS. >> Can or can't. cannot cannot let's let's make sure we all get that clear. You can not cheat the IRS. Let's make sure we got that clear. So, but the kid sees that that's what the father does. So, that's what the kid does. So, who instills the value and the value? Who spends more time around the kids? The mother spends more time around. I usually when I get called sometimes I'll get called from a father calls me up. He's having trouble with the kid. So, I'll usually say, "Let me talk to your wife." So, this one guy once calls me up and he says, "You have a kid? What a problem?" I said, "Let me talk to your wife." He said, "Why?" I said, "Because she knows the kids better than you do." She said to me, "What makes you think so?" So I said, "What's your second son's favorite lunch?" Oh, let me talk to your wife. Right. I should have asked him, "What's your second son's name?" Probably wouldn't have been happy to have got that one right. So So the the value in Yets was instilled by an Araino. He's the one who instilled the value. I had my son, I don't know if I told you, I once had my son was like my my oldest son. He was going to the here in Israel and it's a good kid who did exactly what he had to do but not an iota more. So I wanted like many fathers, I wanted this kid, you know, to to to to only speak Aramaic and uh you know and be immersed in become the next Kinyki of course. So I wanted him he was in seventh grade I think. I want him to join this afterchool Mishna program. So I said, you know, you want to go? He goes, he wasn't into it. He did what he had to do. He got got good grades. He was he wasn't into it. So I said, I'll tell you what. If you go to the after school Mishna program, I'll buy you a new set of like that. I said, I'll tell I'll buy you, you know, that really nice Mishna brewer say like that. Then my wife is standing behind him and she's doing like this and like she goes >> and I'll get you that 21speed bicycle that you wanted. What time is the Mishna's program start? You know all of a sudden they know I'm you know I I I you got to you got to talk the kids language. Who instills the value in the kid? Who instills the mother? What is the Aramino is eulogizing her? Eulogizing he's coming from Haramoreia. How can you get a kid to go and say and and and what do you call that's coming? That's the influence of the mother. Okay. Now, Araino, I want to ask you a question, gentlemen. Arainu comes, she's dies. And now he starts negotiating with I want to just point out as he talks to these people. Take a look at how he talks to them. and right and yeah he's he bows to them he he curtsies and then he speaks to Ephro and then he says it's again on page 108 the third line from the top and he says I'm negotiating with you I'll give you this I'll give you that the whole time he's talking to them and he's trying to buy this cave and eventually Ephron asks an exorbitant price and Aram gives him the exorbitant price. Now what is the question? You know imagine you go and you get called in by the boss. I'm just giving you an example. You get called in by the boss and he tells you by the way there could be some layoffs in the company. We're laying you off next week. We don't go boy. You know, so then you call home to tell your wife and your wife says to you, "Oh, wow. By the way, my she says her mother's coming for a week and a half visit." I go, "Oh, man." Right? You know, your mother-in-law is coming. And then you get on the subway. You drive start driving home and your car breaks. They get a flat tire and you get out of your car. It's a hot day. You start fixing the flat tire and just then some you're, you know, you're you're in as bad a mood as you could possibly be in. And just then uh acquaintance comes over. He says, "Hey, how you doing? How are you? How you doing, Non?" And you're under the tire over there, right? Trying to fix a flat tire after being laid off and being told your mother-in-law is coming for a visit and it's a hot day. You're sweating and your car got a flat tire. Hi, Knox. What's going on? What do you think your reaction would be? I would pull out the car jack and I put him underneath. That's what I would do. I would replace the car. That's not what I want right now is a chitchat with anybody. That sort Okay, look at Alraino. He just goes through the biggest test ever. His wife dies and now he's being price gouged and the entire time he behaves with proper etiquette and proper derence. We see from here the importance of a person maintaining self-control. This dovetales nicely with what we said yesterday about how Sarah emanu in spite of all the difficulties of her wife of her life she was always the same sor. That's the challenge of Judaism. The challenge is that [snorts] we have to go against our nature. The fact that we have an urge by the way getting angry. Anger is an urge. You have to control that urge like you control others. I have an urge to shoplift. It's an urge, right? You have to control that urge. You're laughing. I think I'd be a good shoplifter, right? Especially with the beard. People would never expect a rabbi to do that. You know, I can get away with anything now. You know, pickpocketing. I'm intrigued by it, right? It'd be it'd be a great parnosa, you know. And what do you call 100% profit? I have an urge. I have to control your urge. You have to control your urge to get angry. You have to control your urge to brag. You have to control your urge to be selfish. These are all but I'm in a bad mood. So you're in a bad mood. So the rest has to the world has to suffer because you're in a bad mood. Arainu with the ultimate test and Arau behaves. He maintains his and then he buries Sorah. Now take a look at page 108 at the bottom. They're [snorts] over there. They're they're on the shelf over there. plenty of question page 108 the zay is getting older he's coming along in days has blessed Ara with everything so first of all what does it mean he's coming along in days he's getting older so the the the the theor say means All his days are count. They all count. He's making the most of his days. He's making his days productive. He's getting older. His days are coming. Now, the truth is it should really say the days are going out. As a person go gets older, his days are leaving, not coming. >> No. >> When as a person gets older, if your days left you or they're coming to you. >> I would say a child. We're going to the days though. >> You're not going to the day. Are your days leaving you or coming to you? An older person. >> It's kind of both. >> It kind of both. So which one should But which one is it more? >> Are your days leaving you or your days are coming? >> They're leaving. >> Your days are leaving. So why does it say Baim? >> The days are leaving. >> The answer is The answer is that a person who is materialistic and a person who's living for this world, his days are leaving him. He's like, "Whoa, they're all going." And it's like I go, you know, where where where you know that it's all leaving me because he's living for this world. Baba means his days are coming both in this world. As a as a person gets older [laughter] >> like that, huh? As a person gets older, his days are coming. That means he enjoys the days because it gets better the more spiritual are. The more you enjoy the days, then you got the days of the world to come that to look forward to. The person who's materialistic, the older he gets, the more regret he has. Like, oh boy, there's nothing left. All of his drives and all of his all they just reported that Nancy Pelosi is the greatest insider trader in history. She started out, they had a report, she started out with $800,000 and now she's worth she's made $133 million on the market. She's made double, even more than double the best hedge funds. So, it's either that she's really good at it or that she's cheating. Okay. As I was reading this report, she's 85 years old. Her husband's 88 years old, whatever it is. So, they got $133 million. I mean, and they're worth $280 million. Whatever it is, that's just on the investment. Okay. And you know, but you can't even chew. You don't have teeth. What good is all that going to do you? What good is it going to do you? That's that's the days are gone. But somebody who lives properly you can enjoy those days because a person is living for spirituality. Spirituality gets better when you get older, not worse. So is getting older is blessed with everything. Now there are three different opinions here. There's one opinion that he had a daughter and her daughter's name was Bak Hashem is Abraham and he had a daughter. What was her name? Bak. >> And not only that, we'll see later on in the para when Eleazar goes to go get a lov. >> What's that? >> Who did he have a daughter with? It doesn't say. It just says he had a daughter. The medra says he had a daughter. Buckle just like the other tribes had all the tribes had a daughter that they were that that they married. Could be that that she was born with you. It's like doesn't say the medish doesn't say which wife where she came from. It just says but that's one opinion in the medish. The other opinion is that the blessing was he didn't have a daughter. Now that's a difficult statement because daughters are a blessing. >> You make a braha when you have a daughter. You make a shehanu, you make a bigger braha when you have a son, but it doesn't mean that daughters aren't a blessing. They are a blessing because then they can take care of your sons, right? Daughters are a very big blessing till you got to marry them off. Then you got to come up with the money. But the the daughters are daughters are always a blessing. So why would it say Hashem blessed Aram by not having a daughter? Why is that a blessing? Why is that a blessing? Good question. And I told you there are no derogatory statements in the Torah against women or against girls at all ever. Yet the med says he called it he didn't have a daughter. >> Oh, excellent. Alicia, the answer is when you're in a generation of pagans and idol worshippers, who are you going to marry your daughter off to? Because the girl is going to be influenced by her husband. She's going to go live with her husband. A yeitzak will marry the girl and bring her home. So then you can develop her. but she is going to go marry a pagan. In such a situation, you're better off not having a daughter. That's what the say. Now, what does he do? Abraham says to his servant, the elder of his home, who is in charge of all of his fortune, he's the uh CEO of of Abraham Industries. Put your hand under my thigh. Page 110. Put your hand under my thigh. I will invoke an oath. I will invoke an oath by God. I want you to swear. You will not take a daughter from the Canaanites. Rather, I want you to go to my my birthplace from my family. He wants to go to my birthplace to take a family, my find a wife for my for my now the first thing here is that Abrau has him swear. So where does he swear? He puts his hand under his thigh. So Raji points out the same way nowadays how do you swear? You swear with a holy item. The only holy item they had in those days was the brisma. >> But he's obviously not putting his hand on his brisma. Putting it under his thigh symbolically in the region of the be brisma. The same way that you take a safer Torah or toillin to lend a certain severity to the oath. I swear while you're holding a safer door by say with with its villain the same way or the they by the they they take the Bible right you swear on a holy Bible >> theoretically that that will make you more uh uh uh uh take the relate more severely to the to the to the oath. So here too Araino has him put his hand under his thigh. There is a symbolism over here by the way that aino is saying to him I'm completely in your hands. I'm completely in your hands. You ever see that guy with the with the He's got the whole world in his hands. The guy's holding the the globe. He's got the whole world. So Abraino is is putting his hand under the thigh symbolically. I'm in your hands. >> Why didn't he go himself? >> Oh, Abrau saysim is an old man and he can't send himself because a he can't leave Israel. So now what's going to do? So he sends AVO Zo. Now Zakan Baso doesn't mean he's old. Zakan Baso means the elder of his home. >> So Aram is he's too old to go and can't go. So what are you going to do? But we're talking about a serious business here. Now I want to ask a question. Let me ask a question. First of all, he invokes an oath. If I say to you, I want to borrow $10,000. Let's say you had it. Would you lend it to me? Okay. Would you get witnesses? No, you won't get You'd lend it to me without looking, without witnesses, without an IOU. Why? You trust me? Great. At least you gave us some money. [laughter] Uhhuh. Well, according to you can't according to you have to have you have to do you you know that when you lend somebody money even 10 shekels you have to have an IOU because otherwise you're putting a stumbling block in front of the poor in front of a blind man >> that's lending but not like >> I'm not talking about stock I'm talking about lending you could give I'm not talking about >> oh I'm talking about lending if I want about $10,000 would you make me would you would you forget the haka for a second would you do it would you sign something to make sure that I what do you call? >> Oh yeah. >> Oh yeah. Get according to you can't lend money without an IOU or without witnesses. At least one witness because the other guy could the guy could deny it and you're putting a stumbling block in front of a blind man. And even around trustworthy people sometimes it's not that it's not that that I'm it's not that I'm malicious. It's just that I might forget >> and you're going to come to me and say, "Hey, you owe me 10." I said, "What are you talking about?" >> Right? And so then I I don't mean, you know, I'm an honest guy, but somehow I forgot and therefore by by by by show gig by unintentionally I'll be stealing. >> Okay. $10,000 you would sign in double sign. You get a warrant. And not only that, you'd probably get on on on a on a on a on a on a loan. Normally what do you get? You get a guarantor on a loan. You get a co-signer on a loan. Zack, how much if I wanted 10,000 borrow $10,000 and you were going to lend it to me, what would you do? Did you get a co-signer? >> No, I would get collateral. >> Collateral, a co-signer, something. Okay. What about if you want to go to a restaurant here in Israel and you're not sure about the heir? >> Let's say you want to go to a restaurant here in Israel and you come over and you're not sure about the the heir. So, you come to me and you ask me, "Uh, is such and such?" Or you see a friend of yours and you say to him, "Is that restaurant the hexure reliable?" And your friend says, "Yeah, it's a reliable hesser. I eat there all the time. Would you trust them? >> Yeah, >> usually. Yeah. You see when what about if you want need don't have fillin? You don't have fill. You forgot your fillin. Would you borrow your friend's fillin? >> Yeah, sure. Now they can borrow without asking. Do you know anything about the standard of kashis of your friend's fillin? Do you know where he got them? Do you know where he bought them? Do you know how I'm paid for them? Do you know if this guy who wrote them or is reliable? What that means is when it comes to money, all of a sudden, you know, we take every precaution in the world. When it comes to spiritual stuff, as long as he's eating it or if he's filling spiritual stuff, we're much more trustworthy, aren't we? Look at how does the opposite when it comes to his finances. So, this is the slave, Eleazar, his slave. It says Hamosher. Eleazar is the guy in charge of his entire estate. All his finances are in Eleazar's hands. >> But when it comes to something spiritual, he's got to find a wife for this is already a mitzvah there. I want you to swear. Not taking any chances here. Exactly the opposite. When it comes to your fillin, I should make you I should tell you non where did you get them? How much did you pay? Who was the scribe? How long have you had them? When it comes to a loan, I should say, yeah, yeah, here take the money. you're good for. When it comes to money, what do we focus on more on the material? All of a sudden, we take all the precautions. >> So, what was the buying the plot of land? Was it a financial? >> Forget the plot of land. I'd be sorry to get to the plot of land. I'm not on the plot of land. Now, he's sending Eleazar to go out to find a wife. He trusts. So, the Torah describes him. He's the guy in charge of Aram's money and his finances. Doesn't say any no oversight, nothing. Yet when it comes to going and getting a wife for there, I want you to swear you're going to do it. Why? Cuz that's a spiritual pursuit. >> Spiritual pursuit is more serious. Spiritual is a serious business here. Now, number one. Number two. >> Can we like retract real quick? So, you're saying that spiritual is more important. >> The spiritual for >> that's spiritual. >> That's spiritual. >> And there he there he tells the slave to swear. I'm not taking any chances when it comes to the guy who's going to supervise Aram's finances that he puts it in the hands of Eleazar. That he's not worried about. >> No, he put the hands in Elazar for his right. >> No, no, no. Again. Again. Look at the PK. Look at Look, look at the PK. Let's read the PK again. I know. Now we're going to get unconfused. >> One second. What's the question that your confusion your confusion is from? Let Trust Trust me. Trust me. We're talking about trust right now. Trust me. Okay. Spiritual trust. Here we go. Read bottom of page 108. Let's read it again. A is old and he is coming along in age. Hashem has blessed him with abundance. That's the plain meaning. We say in branching mik, right? B refers to a maven's blessings. Mik refers to Yuk's blessings. Bik refers to because each one there's a pock is talking about the blessings to the elos was and that means everything. Now the pix says you with me? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Aradeso a says to his slave the elder of his home who is in charge of everything that belongs to now he tells him to swear. And what does he tell him to swear? He doesn't swear that you've been honest with my finances and that you haven't misappropriated. You haven't done any insider trading. He doesn't swear make him swear about that. He makes him that he trusts him. What does he make him swear? Swear that you won't mess up on this mission. You won't take the wrong wife. You won't take a Canaanite wife. You're going to take the gun to my family. That's what Aram says. Now, first of all, >> could Yeah. >> Could a non-Jew swear? >> Yes. What's the proof? Oh, swears. So, [laughter] yeah. Non-Jews can swear for sure. So Alraino Alra invokes and not only that it was very heavy for them. They they they related to it seriously. Now uh uh sever with severity. Now the mfortim say that you'll notice you need three qualities over here. A's looking for three qualities. Very interesting. You're going on a mission and you're going to go find this girl. On the one hand you might have to be submissive. You know what we call diplomatic. You might have to, you know, know how to >> on the other hand, you might have to be a bit assertive >> and you're also going to need a certain combination of wisdom over here. Salazar's got all the qualities. A, he's a slave, so he knows how to be submissive. B, he's the baso. He's the elder of the house. He's got wisdom. And C, he's in charge of the finances, which means he knows how to be assertive. So he's the perfect schlak, the perfect agent for this mission. Now Abrau says to him, I don't want you to take a Canaanite because the Canaanites are cursed. They're idol worshippers and they are immoral. I don't want them. I want you to go to my family. Now Abram's family was also idol worshippers. Love him. So they were also idol worshippers. But the difference is that character is transmitted genetically. If the father's rotten, there's a certain amount of genetics that's trans certain amount of rot that's transmitted genetically. The Canaanites are out of the running. There's a certain something completely immoral that immorality is passed down genetically. What about idol worshiing? That already has to do with intellectual faith and what we call amuna. Amuna is not passed down genetically. You're certainly going to be a product of your environment, but you could get out of it by developing your own like Arau himself did. He comes from Tak and Aravina developed his own imuna, his own trust, his own belief in God even though he was a product of that school of paganism. So if it's a choice between people who are inherently no good, that's going to be I don't want to grow from there. That means if it's going to be something you're is it could it could be good, but where you're taking a bigger chance. Whereas the other one, you'll take her out of that family. She's not got character deficiency. At worst, she's been raised in an idol worship. So we'll train her. will give her the education to not be a a a pagan. There's more chance. You got a better chance over there. Now, he tells him to go off to the land and then Eleazar goes off on his mission. Eleazar himself, by the way, has a daughter and he really is not happy about this mission because he he's hoping that Aravina will have him make a out between Yitizuk and his own daughter. But uh uh Abraina says, "Listen, you're a Canaanite. You were cursed when Noah cursed. You were cursed. We're blessed. Not a shak. Not going to work." So Leazar goes off on this mission to now go find a wife for Abraham. Okay. Now the uh uh the first shak in history. Now take a look at uh starting from Yud page 110 uh 10 lines from the bottom and then the fun begins. Everybody see that 10 lines from the bottom. Nine lines on the bottom. Page page 110. He takes 10 camels from his master's camels. He's got all How does the art school translate that? He's got all the >> uh all the bounty of his master in his hand. Now, how do you have all the bounty of your master? I mean, that's a lot of bounty to have in your hand. So Rashi says he had a document that Aram is transferring all of his property to Yitzk. >> Oh, >> so you know when he opted a young lady, he say, "Hi, I got a shid for you." Oh yeah, very fine young man. I don't know. I don't ready to get married yet. By the way, his father who is a multi-billionaire uh has transferred all of his property to him. He says, "You know what? I have been thinking about marriage lately, you know, for the last 10 seconds." Exactly. So not taking any chances, he's got this document. He goes off to the city of Dar who is a brother of Arabino. So he goes and he goes to the well. Now obviously he goes to the well because the camels need to drink. But there's another reason you go to the well. >> There's where the women hang out. >> That's where everybody hangs out. Oh, >> everybody's going to be at the well eventually. Like in town, they have to Everybody needs water. So you go to the well. Who else goes to the well? >> Yakovu goes to the well. Mosher Raenu when he runs away to Midyan, where does he go? He goes to the well. That's where that's where besides the fact that the well represents life. Water is a source of life and the wife is the source of life because that's where the child comes from. So he's going to the well and he's going there in the evening when they're all coming out to draw water. Now there's an interesting medish that says when you're checking out a woman, listen to even how the dogs bark. [snorts] >> Hear that? The med says when you're going to check out a wife, you should pay attention even to how the dogs bark. What does that mean? Anybody want to take a hear that? If the men are whistling or things that are >> No, no, no. >> If the dogs, >> what's the dogs barking? >> If the dogs don't bark, >> which dogs are we talking about? The dogs me again, the med says when you're going to check out the qualities of a wife, you should even pay attention to how the dogs are barking. >> I had no >> in Miami where I lived, I would have some guests come over and I had a little English bulldog named Choco and Some girls he would bark at, some girls he wouldn't. [laughter] And >> that's Yeah. Well, we don't know which ones. Yes. And which ones? No. >> If you barked at um you know, >> were better looking. >> Yeah. >> No kidding. Even the dog could tell. No, that's not what the medric is. That's not what the magic is say. The medric is saying the dogs a dog is always considered a a kind of a even you know you know even even when you have a situation where somebody says, "Oh, this guy insulted me." I said, "Listen, if if a dog barks at you, you have to respond." Sometimes when you want to tell somebody not to respond to something, say, "If a dog would bark at you, would you respond?" That's generally used in a derogatory manner. A dog is always a symbol of a of a of a of a kind of a lowly creature. I told you if you want to There's certain animals which he's lionhearted, you know, the he's a real dog. Yeah. A dog is generally considered a lowly creature. When you're checking out a woman, a wife, pay attention to even how the gossip mongers, even the lower people, people are not very nice. The dogs are barking. Think of just pay just catch catch a drift of what they're saying. Where does he go? He goes towards the evening because in the evening you could assume that the sort of gossip mongers are going to be hanging around the well maybe gossiping. Let's hear what let's see catch. Let's see. Let's hear what's what's being said over there. And then you got the next one. Look at the look at the next word where it is with the chain over it. Alicia. >> Where are we? >> Five lines from the bottom. >> Yeah. So, how do you say the word? How do you read it? >> I don't know how you do it. >> You're good. You're good. But a little three times up and down. >> You want to give it a try, Mike? Ready? Five lines at the bottom. Everybody together. >> You don't get too many chances in the Torah. It's only four times. four times. So now what did we say by lot? Remember we had it by lot that it said lo was delaying when the angel said get out of here. What did that indicate? >> He was crying. >> He wasn't too happy about like >> Eleazar says a prayer and he's saying the prayer. There seems to be like this little bit of of of >> hesitation on his prayer. Why? He's got a daughter who he wants to marry Abrau to make this he's he's on this mission but you know and you know he's still got this hope but he says a prayer now what is the prayer make it happen today do act of kindness with my master by the The daughters, the girls are coming out to draw water. [snorts] I'm going to I'm looking for a sign. The young lady who I say, "Tilt the bucket towards me, the jug, and I will drink." say and then she responds drink and I will also give to your camels. That's the one you have proven is for and then I'll know you've done kind of a way to do a you know hi what's your young lady can I have a drink? Sure. And is there some for your camel tooth? Masleto masleto mazletov. You're you're you're the one for my for my master son. That's that's how you close a shak. I mean, that's that's it. What are her qualities? She she she she gives people to drink. Great great great drink. Great a great what do you call it? A great uh great bartender. She gives people a good What's going on? >> What's going on? What's he looking for? >> One sign that we're looking for in a Jewish girl. What is it? >> Kindness. >> We're looking for kindness. That's all we're looking at. That's the sign. Doesn't say anything about a degree. Doesn't say anything about So, we'll see when you go into the subtleties of how the back and forth goes because see, he said, "I want the girl who's going to say, "I'll give you to drink and to your camels." Now, look, we're skipping ahead, but look what Rifka says. We're going to go into it tomorrow, but look what Rifka says. Take a look at Pikud. He sees her. We'll get there tomorrow, but I just want to show you this now because that to so you can compare and contrast. If you look on page 112, it's uh six lines from the top. >> Seven lines on the top. One second, Alicia. So he says to her, "Give me the drink." He finally sees her. First the prayer was what he's he's hoping for this. He sees her. We'll talk about it tomorrow. But then she says to him, She says, "Drink." Then she gives him, she takes down the jug and she gives him the drink. So after he drinks, I'll also give to your camels. Now remember, he wanted her to say, "I'll give you to drink and your camels." What did she do? She said, "I'll give you to drink." and she gave him to drink. Then she said, >> "And I'll give your camels." Now, there are different opinions why she did that, but he sees that tremendous tact. Why? Because if you come to my house, what's your dog's name? >> Sho. >> Shoko. >> Mhm. >> Okay. You knock on my door and I say, "Come on in, Dave. I'll give you the dog something to eat." >> So, what have I just done? You you gave you put them in the same >> put them in the same category as the dog. >> If she would say, "Come on, I'll give you and the camels something to drink." >> Oh, him and the camels. He's a camel. Camels, they're the same level. What does she do? She does it much more. And that's what he asked for. And what does she do? She says, "I'll give you drink." And she gives him the drink. Once he finishes drinking, then she says, "Now I'll give the camels." But we'll see. There are other reasons why she broke it up that way. We'll see. Okay. We'll see you tomorrow. Oh yeah.