The Soul of Israel: The Empowerment of Yaacov

[Music] Shalom everyone this is limo Katz and you're listening to the soul of Israel on the Land of Israel Network on the land of Israel calm shallow move Roth IRA rabbi re Abramowitz rabbi rabbi jeremy compel Shalom riff slow mo how are we doing this more so good to be here it's cold and wet outside but it's very warm inside no it's warm inside and it's also the first time I can remember in my life through thee that when the rain is falling it's an automatic happiness usually I have to be like oh oh this is good in the butt but it's a little bit of an imposition for me and there's that little moment of selfishness and self-absorbed it's where I'm not enjoying the rain because the land of Israel is receiving water I think is our farm farm is receiving the water yeah it's huge there's actually we've been diving for rain in the rain is coming and those trees are happy and the grass and the wild flowers are going to come out just the amount of energy we put into to watering everything in the drip irrigation and a water thing comes loose and it's like oh that's expensive water you know and now it's like liquid blessing is coming from the sky okay that's wonderful you know I can't have to come back I haven't been in a while you ain't even recognized the Hanukkah blow your mind to see as a heat about what progress we had friends wouldn't it be incredible if we did these sessions broadcasting live once in a while from the farm yes it would be that would be anyway note to self don't see the don't don't preach the obvious live anyway I brothers I'm telling you this this week we literally did a class earlier in the week of Monday night pressure class which haven't been able to do in a quite some time because of traveling but we got back to it this past Monday night and it got me so excited about them but basically the last four partials of the book of Bridget first of all I cannot believe that we even talking in these terms of the last four partial polluted ship flew by flew by craziness but we learned this week from richlum on the name of the issue producer that Yakub Avena was busy doing something for the last four passions from now by Asaph maquettes vacation bothy his bidding is busy trying to determine something he's busy determining through whom machine will come through that's what he's doing for four pushes by Asaph maquettes Vegas magazine till he makes a decision impression buy anything remember the battle is between really two brothers it's not a battle between them they're not fighting each other over who's the leader who's the king who's gonna through whose seed will Messiah come from it's basically it's an energetic it's it's much bigger than just two brothers going at it with each other it's about yaku Aveeno trying to determine okay we built up we built the house but now we have to set up enough light for you know until Michelle comes and who will be the one to come and let Ami's realm known okay you've been redeemed so it would seem to you that you would choose the guy that never did anything wrong and that is resembled by Yosef but really it ends up being through the tribe of Yehuda of Judah who is the ultimate bout Reuben and in recent years we spend a lot of time trying to understand the difference the the tension between the sardick in the ball Trueba yo safe versus yahudim but when i when we sat down this week and learned the parsha from a different land different angle it brought home a lot of very emotional and sensitive points in people I only know this because when people are getting sensitive during a shear they look like they want to slap me it's always like this what I could see like if I'm touching a nerve it's almost like everyone's saying under their breath how dare you reveal all my dirty baggage in front of everyone when really I didn't say anything right I didn't see anything personal it's just that they themselves felt that you've uncovered during the trip in Oman I've never felt so much like that from you I felt like there were times that you spoke that you literally could not have been speaking more directly to me as opposed to the exclusion of everyone else there well just in that case it was [Laughter] yeah there's an anyone like that look when to talk the tourists the tourists kind the toilet keeps on talking to each individual and when the Torrez in a being learned and shared in an atmosphere of authenticity and Jen mom is being genuine based at the Shema it will go to those to those areas so one of the things that came up in this year in this parsha is when you see that your parent still has something to give to the world but they feel like it's time for retiring and they want to relax what's real key boudoir in how do you really honor your parents if you still believe that they have something to give to the world but they themselves feel look I've been through enough what's the proper way of honoring your parents in that situation welcome to the beginning of our pleasure by a chef yaku's Barrett's Magoo review Barrett's Kanaan Jacob dwells in the land of where's father lived in the land of Canaan and Rashi brings the Midrash they're saying because jacques le chef besh silva basically Jacob had been through the wringer a few times and the edge Bitzer explains the great Hasidic master of ICH with the man she loved explains that Jacob thought that after beating fighting off the the energy the dark energies of the world through that were manifested through Asaph and lovin maybe I could call it quits not in a bad way just enough a peaceful sabbatical at least or even a somatic variant a vacation profits a love rugs or shall yourself the grass Jesus which means Joseph's aggravation jumped on to Yaakov and everyone understands that to mean that hohoho Yaakov you thought it's time to rest just wait look what happens now and the truth is we know he goes through a crazy ordeal now with his own sons before it was through his father-in-law and his brother now it's his offspring that are presenting before him that which he could have never imagined and it seems that that would even be a harder test you're fighting for yourself you're fighting is here for your children are now at stake that's like the the test has only begun now yes solutely when it's weak when it's your own Kindle la la da we should know of such things but when you see your own children not getting with each other and then also you've naturally get dragged into it and mind you this is also while one of when two of the kids don't have mothers don't have their mother Russell who died last week so it gets very complicated it gets very complicated over here so everyone thinks that cough at solid rock social yourself means that you're so specially coming in saying the Aqua vino you don't even know what well what what's about to hit you but really is that yosef said abba I'm gonna let you rest you didn't tell us exactly how much it's going to come you didn't determine who's going to be the leader yet that's what you still need to do it's not enough that you did amazing things that were able to fight off certain evil energies in the world building the home means you also give us enough light and a torch to carry with us until the redemption comes in Yakov Ino hears it and says this is a conscious assertion from yourself is that quote India mashallah yeah going to the edge pizza but Sadiq you also were singing ABBA you're not done we believe in you enough that you have a bigger mission than just than just you know getting through the trials and tribulations you've been through until now and for the next four partial Yakko Aveeno is responding to the rogue as of yosef to the aggravation of Yosef saying ABBA you could still do it you could still do it don't rest now there's still more for you to do but we were discussing that all energy of that whole question of when you see that your parents still has more in them but they feel tired what's the proper way of honoring them how do you how do you deal with that one it was a it was a vit with a fascinating insight that we had because each person felt differently yeah just in my family there's just no there's not going to be rest tequilas grandmother is scratching 90 she gets up every morning and goes to the yeshiva that she's been working in her whole life and she's just going to work because this is a the world that's just what she does my dad he'd never gonna stop working he's just gonna work until he works and sigh I don't even know how to relate to that question Ari for me what I've personally done because I faced something similar to that is I've tried to think of you know my parents recently made Holly yeah for a reason so they're in Israel and it's all these new things and I see my father doesn't exactly know where to harness his creative energies and he has tremendous skills and ability to teach so I've been trying to see different ways give him different ideas just see what he latches onto you know that's a very help that's a very it's a tremendous privilege to help navigate your parents at a certain age in life it's a paradigm shift I really because they all they were busy doing for us all those years was neat the opposite there's a fascinating callosum it's uh it's brought down I don't patella it's a minute with something that's really I see certain homes that are very mock be that is a mock bead stringent stringent on the following you never wake up your parents whether from a nap or from asleep did you ever yeah the story about the boy that brought the cup of water to his father you're sleeping he stood there for like four hours until his father awoke a private joke in my home why my father always requests so to give me a cup of water usually asleep when we come back you know when was she off comes it says Vahey she believed a vote on my name we live by name I live with time that Michelle restore the hearts of fathers on to their sons on to their children and children on to their fathers and that prophecy like when you see that starting to take place in the world that's a simin that really this is mushiya times you know is mama Sh'ma she has times and everything we see from there from from the way that things kind of look like they're going crazy it's all a preparation for Yaakov to decide yahoo don italia do hatha like he comes to that conclusion by anything not just that he wanted to tell them exactly how everything is going to happen in writing you see yes Vova Adela same attache created him back right I mean I want to reveal to you everything you're going to feel everything you're gonna go through all the signs of a false messiahs and also the Messiah itself and explain to you how it's going to come down and Rashi says they're up up to that point can't go further nice takamina lena god's divine presence rules rule from him at that point but work why do you have inna want to do this it's all responding to your safes request saying abba you still have more to do in this world we need you to fulfill your mission we need you i know you've been through everything but we know we've seen you we've seen what you've been through we just met your brother last week some of the city can say that it's only because it that that such hatred could happen between brothers because they saw evil with their own eyes last Shabbos when they passed by Asaph it had such an imprint on them oh wow that is freaking out so much that something inside started changing and therefore in the beginning of this parsha they didn't even know it was a possibility for such hatred to exist and inside and maybe that's why there was even more of a neat saying oh my god ABBA we just saw the other side you can't rest now yeah that spiritual encounter really had a lot of consequences also with Dina right the fact that Yaakov here Dina yeah and then she was raped by the club more uh-huh by him but wasn't more than been somewhere she can was the son of somewhere right okay anyway but but it has right it has a lot of that meeting had a lot of implications but the greatest what we see is that when you come across the other side and you start to see it in yourself perhaps you beg God for redemption you realize how much the world really needs to be redeemed and you look to those who you believe that could truly reveal the oneness of God in the world and when you look around and you see it through your father that's the most beautiful thing in the world so yeah but it might be a little bit restful Restless now and I know you wanted to show off a little bit but we're desperate and and I I think that we think we're desperate enough as people today but clearly we're not because if we weren't desperate enough it would lead us to demand the redemption and a much more concrete you know manner constant okay with consistency with conviction with clarity that if you do not send you know revealed goodness and clarity to the world my children will have no way of knowing who you really are - him and I think that's you know I want your lips normal say that's what you really ask 2004 machine you say you got oh mighty only you know that without machine my daughter really can't know how good you really are to us and I want my daughter to know how good you really are to us so the family dynamics the last four pressures are really going up a notch but it's all a preparation like it says in the Midrash for something much greater that's got a time when it looks like everything's going off like a major says after the brother so deals if he also busy being sold to the Ishmael into the median him Reuven sitting there crying what did i do Yaakov sitting there crying saying what happened to my son's Yehuda goes off I era dude I met that have he leaves his brother as he starts it's all Michigan's with his daughter-in-law and the Midrash ends up in saying B's Mancha's while each person is their own stuff and their own Baliga name in Michigan says a college boy who your Chevy was sick a sec ooo beret or Rochelle machine so the major says in this passion well everyone's doing their own mishegoss hashem is sitting down creating the light of machines in the world so the whole shear we had earlier this weekend when i was really coming to life now is what would you what would you feel like is what how are you sense or what would you choose to say that right now is hashem sitting and creating the light of machine what is the energy of the light of machine today now our viewers our listeners cannot see your sweat shirt right now rabbi can i don't know if we want to go there right now but i think it's kind of obvious that you're looking at world Vence now and saying what's the question even yeah to me there's like a tinderbox that's what re always says like something is gonna go North Korea Donald Trump the Embassy is moving to Jerusalem it's just on the edge how it's going to unfold what's gonna the world is going to go through a transformation that it's already happening there's already a storm an absolute storm between Syria and Isis and Iran you have to be like a brilliant caroline glick type mind to even be able to follow everything that's happening in the world the things are so wild and and I'm just sort of picturing the way you just described the picture of yahudah and Yosef Andrew vane and Yaakov and the whole mix and all of this like a storm happening but within you sort of in the eye of the storm FM is something beautiful the light of machine has a beautiful Torah that Tila taught me so you'll read these like stories these epic stories of the oven of the patriarchs and matriarchs and really what are they doing they're just raising their kids and it's like a big challenge it's a big challenge each one of them is fighting with the other and one needs to get sent away in Ishmael and Yaakov in a sieve and the kids and the brothers and Yosef and each one of us that are growing up and they're raising our own families I mean the challenges that we stand before in this generation with smartphones and the internet and just the whole its challenges that no one has ever had to go through ever ever and we are now living through the epic challenges that the UH vote lived through as well meaning in in that of raising our children all the challenges that are there and all the dynamics that need to be brought forth the light of Messiah isn't only in the Donald Trump big pictures but even in each and every one of us raising our children just like the of what we're raising their children right there is the light of mushiya I mean I think that you're hitting the point I think they wanna you know in your own little home in your own dullard I'm more than out it's a big role but in your own house if one of your child believes that their father or mother are destined for greatness you got it right there you got that energy right there those are the homes we're trying to build I'll just take a letter knock us around I want to share with you a lot of Nos um my daughter's think that I'm holy I think they're right that's all I'm saying it I'm saying like my daughter's actually really think that I'm like you know a mala then not a my love but that I'm like arrived and a Kohan is like that's a very big thing by them like I'm a priest but I'm feeding off of their belief in me it builds you up and I'm thinking like Yaakov Aveeno like half a million ways I'm just saying this the family dynamic can you imagine based on the way we learned the issue but Sir what that brought to the love that must exist at that moment between Yaakov and his son that believed in him that you still have work to do not in a bad way but we're dependent on you because of your kedusha because of your holiness but you could still do in the world so if you create a home like that the people keep children believing in their parents that what do you think is the reason your daughter's believe that is it is it not only the way you behave and carry yourself in the fact the whole community comes to you for guidance but is it also bina is she I think what is a combination I think it's a you know avi it must be the combination of everything but I also want to say that on their own I'm observing them much more lately I'm just looking at me like wow who are these people you know if they're their own leaders as well I don't know what to tell you it must be a combination of a million things yeah I don't know I mean I feel like that about my parents do you know I feel like I always feel like if everyone would oven with my father one feeler and hear his voice how he talks that Shama represents the cow huh no one would ever stop davon him they'd want to be part of that Fela forever so I just give us all a brother as these last four partials are really epic each one more and more epic that we go please throw out all your Bible critiques and all those all those horrible books biblical criticism those stuff is mama sh the other side you know look analyzing you know father-son relationship you think it was just you think it was just a simple thing like Yaakov was unaware that he was causing his other sons to be jealous through the chronic passing it's so much deeper than that learned Rama is learned rash learn self go deeper go inside the heart of the dynamic so that Misurata shamon we can continue building world's small world's homes where children believe that their parents can be machine domain please stay in touch with us Shalom or 'the land of israel are a blend of Israel and jeremiad Land of Israel calm a wonderful beautiful day water [Music] during the darkest time of the year we light the Chanukah candles to remember that the truth and values we've brought to the world of Mount Sinai will endure forever and that every person who loves Israel and stands with Israel is a modern-day Maccabee and just as God performed magnificent miracles before the eyes of the world through the Maccabees in those days God is performing even greater miracles through the Maccabees at this time because here in the Land of Israel we never forget that just one candle can illuminate the entire world happy Chanukah from the land of Israel network at the Land of Israel calm