Toldos - True Power

Hi, this is David Olowski. Welcome to the para in five where in five minutes or thereabout. We give you a little insight into the parisha. Abraham is an action character. Abraham does lots of stuff. He goes to war. He does all kinds of amazing things. Yakov also a very actionoriented character. A lot of really cool stories. Yitk not so much. In almost every story involving Yeitzk, he's a bit player. He's born and his brother's shooting arrows at him and his mom has to stand up for him. He doesn't seem to do anything. He's 37. His father says, "Uh, I'm going to take you over the mountain and kill you." And he was like, "Yeah, okay." You know, doesn't doesn't seem to be a player. Then he says, "Gee, he should really get married. I'll send the family slave to find him a wife." And she goes out and finds him a wife. He doesn't go and find not like Jacob who goes out and finds his own wives. Right. He he the family slave finds a wife for him. Yeah. And then his wife has a navua and she doesn't tell him about it. And then his two sons, he's not clear exactly what's going on with them. And both of them are fooling him. Yakov fools him, Asa fools him. And it seems like Yitzk doesn't really get to do too much in the story. He's he's a bit player in his own stories. There's only one story in this week's para where Yitzk has nobody in the story and it's designed that way because it says he goes down to Avi Melik doesn't mention Yakov and at all because we want to make it clear this is the story and what happens he goes down there and he's very successful and a says go away and he says okay and he digs a well and they steal the well and he says says, "Okay." And he digs a second well and they steal his well. And he says, "Okay." And he digs a third well and they don't take his well. And so he says, "All is well that ends well." And he goes back home to Beerva. And then Aimelik comes and says, "I want to make a bris with you." Now when Avi said this to Abraham, he says, "What about the well that your servant stole of mine?" and we make a brisk to make it clear that that's my well here they stole two wells from him and I want to make a birth of you and Yitk says okay and that's it that is the only story why because is gur and gur does not mean strength it means restraint you know who's strong someone who controls his desires and Yitzk was in complete control. If you're a heavyweight boxing champion and a three-year-old comes over and says, "I'm going to fight you." and starts punching you in the leg, you don't feel threatened and you feel like, "Oh, no. I better kill this kid before he gets me." You just laugh it off because you know he's no threat to you. But if you're a small guy and you're being uh bullied and you're being teased and you're being picked on and you feel threatened, right, the famous story of the a New York subway gunman Bernie Gets, who until they found out who he was, they everyone thought he's like a uh that character from a death wish where he's going out and like shooting the criminals. No, we finally find him. a little neb guy and he was afraid and they were three guys him and he felt I had no choice. I was threatened. I had to fight. People who are strong don't have to respond. The only people who have to respond are people who are afraid. And so Yitzk was totally gura. You could never get him to do anything. He did whatever he wanted to do. He was in complete control. That is gura. Gav is completely strained and that's why um who created the world as and then he stopped the world from expanding Shakai who said stop here take control of the world and stop it holding back and that ultimately becomes the challenge of what we're trying to accomplish. Good jobs.