Torah Down Under: Sydney - Kibbud Av V'eim; Giving Eisav the Final Knock Out Punch

this Torah class is brought to you by Torah anytime.com okay here we go good morning boys um so today we have with us Robert gladin that's my son here ra Ben put up your hand um so Raab glas came all the way to visit us from New York um he teaches a lot of Torah um he goes around the world teaching Torah online he has a he he has about I don't know 9,000 shim or so on Torah any time um people from all around the world Listen he's published books in English he's published books in French now um so he's been all around the world actually looked up yesterday he flew from New York to Sydney and I looked up what is the furthest place in the world from New York anyone know [Music] close close I think actually the furthest flat the furthest place from New York is Perth so it's pretty close to First is Perth then Adelaide then Melbourne um so pretty much Australia is the furthest place in the world from New York so Rabbi came all the way um and he's going to address you give you um some words of K and some inspiration for for El and to to learn Torah and it's a real privilege to have somebody who's grown up in the in the Torah World in New York um and learned from his great his grandfather was a was a holocaust Survivor um he lived to 106 106 years old um he taught him Torah and his father now he's teaching his children and so I welcome Rabbi glastine to come in and talk to you okay good morning boys it's an honor to be here thank you Gary who's uh my host who brought me here for the weekend and Ben right Ben's thank you for allowing me to come uh with the permission of your teachers there is a great Rabbi one of the greatest rabbis of the 20th century RAB yesah caret do you know what who what he was called Kaz is the Kish it's one of the greatest luminaries of the 20th century he lived in Israel in a city called benra and he once came into a classroom to test the boys in their learning in Yiddish when you test the boys in learning they call a far that's just the word for it so they would have uh the Reby would come in and he would be asking questions and there was one kid in the back he's like ooh ooh ooh and the the Reby of the classroom told the boy hey you don't ask the k questions he ask you the questions you know put your hand down but the kid couldn't control says yes he said I have a question I have to ask you he said okay save it for the end of the test so when the fire was over K says you know young man what would you like to ask he said Kish you're the greatest Rabbi of the generation how did you do it what Mitzvah did you do that catapulted you to become the k very interesting you know what the k said the exceptional carefulness he had in honoring his mother aim that he always was was careful to honor and listen to his mother I want to share with you something else a very interesting thing you know one of the other great rabbis of the he only passed away a few years ago did you ever hear of raron La Steinman R Aron you heard of him not yet we we'll have to this he was one of the elderly sages also he lived in benra and he had the following observation he said you know for the first time in history you know my parents didn't really know their grandparents my father never knew his grandparents you know why my father never knew his grandparents because they didn't survive the Holocaust my grandparents survived the Holocaust but my father's grandparents didn't survive the Holocaust you know in the generation before me it was very rare for someone to have grandparents most kids today have not only parents most kids have grandparents many even have great grandparents anyone here have great great grandparents that's already pretty rare but many uh people have grandparents and many even have great grand grandparents not only that RAB Aron leyman observed for the first time in history you could have people who themselves are grandparents taking care of their parents do you know anybody like that do you do you have grandparents that maybe are caring for elderly parents you know my parents who are grandparents they care cared for their elderly parents for many years it's the first time in the history of the Jewish people that we ever had this phenomenon that we have so many grandparents we have have great-grandparents and we have grandparents caring for their parents why is Hashem giving us this Mitzvah what Mitzvah is that when you could care for your parents it's why is Hashem giving us this special Mitzvah more than ever before so said You Know The Enemy of the Jewish people is represented by which figure in tanak amalik good asav andik as asav is the prototypical is the representative of the enemy of the Jewish people who what Mitzvah does ASV have in his Arsenal in other words ASV was a bad guy he was a Russia but there was one Mitzvah that asov specialized in more than any other Mitzvah what do you say in fact there was a Tana by the name of shim said that I don't hold a candle that means I don't compare it to asov when it comes to because asov when he would honor his father he would put on special garments you know ASA put on special garments to honor his father and I said I'm not on that level that I put on special garments when I honor my father does anybody know who in tanak is the antidote to asov this individual is like the force that overcomes asov so you have asov asov is compared to straw and who burns up the more specifically bashov Yakov is the fire but what's the flame of the fire that totally destroys asov who remembers the flame of Yakov coming from Yakov he's the force that really oblit Ates as a son of yov who could think of it very good Y is the flame that o from y that obliterates asov so think about it if asov specialized in then if ysf is going to overcome as he has to specialize in to overcome him okay now I always thought to myself you guys you guys know what the NFL is yes you do yeah how no it's only in America it's only in America no you're not allowed to watch it only in America yeah you're allowed though yeah yeah I thought only in America you're allowed to watch the NFL so you know what NFL is now I'm just joking with you okay so you know how like before the game they want to get everyone excited they have the two helmets like crash into each other with the sparks flying out and they have this dramatic music right I don't know somebody told me about it I don't know it from myself so just imagine yob and ASV I'm sorry ASV and Yosef right these are like the two helmets they're going back to back yosef's job is to destroy as and as's power is which Mitzvah so Ys would have to be able to you know match him you know they both you know when you look at the the stats of how many total yards they both got ysep is going to have to keep up with total yards time of possession right otherwise how's yose going to be able to destroy asov so if asov is such a specialist in does y have the MIT actually some commentaries learn that the P says yov loved Y and the P says and he made for him k so literally it means yov made for Ys you know what the was like the special colored garment that ysf wore but some commentaries learn that ysf knew he would have to destroy ASA and ASA wore special garments to serve his father so Yosef made for himself special garments to serve his father now I always thought to myself you know if ysf is the antidote to asov does ysf ever meet ASV does anybody know did ysf ever meet ASV did they ever see each other no I also didn't think so but I think they did meet one time did anybody know when when in the 20th century close you're right it was only about 3,000 years before the 20th century but you're on you're on the right track when did ysf meet asov who knows when yov ainu was in L's house and yov ainu married Rael and Leia and they had 12 children they had 11 children and now yakob ainu with his family is going back to the land of Israel you remember this yovin is going back to land of Israel and who's coming with 400 men to destroy Dy yob and his family ASA and the PK says first the maid servants bah came before asov with her children and then Zila came before asov with her children and then Leia came before with his her children and then who came ra and Y but not in that order so I always thought this is the big match this is like the Super Bowl between asov and Yosef it's like fourth and one on the one yard line right with 3 seconds left in the game who's going to win the Super Bowl and I always thought this is the only time in the Ys meets up with asov so I would have expected ysf to give asov he's going to run at him with all his might and run him over and what happened did ysf destroy asov no did he say anything to asov no so what happened y's the antidote to asov and nothing happened in this encounter between ysf and ASV it must be I'm thinking to myself in this small encounter between ysf and ASV yose completely obliterates asov how watch this our sages tell us that when bah came before ASA first bah came and then her children then Zila and then her children then Leia and then her children so you would have expected Rael would come and then y what's your name Gil what Gil Jill Gil Gil sorry Gil said but by Rael and ysf it wasn't Rael and Ys what was it Y and then Rael why why did ysf go before ra ah cuz Ys did didn't want asov even looking at his mother and harming his mother cuz you know that asov wanted to marry Rael so y stood there and he lifted himself up tall and he blocked he blocked asav from looking at his mother Rael he blocked asov from looking at his mother raal and in that moment I think Yosef gave a knockout punch to asov you know why because even though asov specialized in the Mitzvah of kav there was something lacking in his Mitzvah you know what was lacking in the Mitzvah of as kav he honored his father but he didn't honor his mother he honored yov he didn't honor he didn't honor Rifka I'm sorry he honored y he didn't honor RKA Ys is showing as that you might specialize in kav but in my little match with you I'm going to block you from even laying your eyes on my mother and that's going to give the final knockout punch to to asov so Yosef represents not only K but aim as well I want to I want to showare with you something very interesting does anybody know where did Yakov get his name from what does the word Yakov mean what do he say he heel he's called heel where why is he called heel um why was yob called heel his who who is born first as right ASA is born first and as asov is coming out Yakov is holding on to the heel of asav actually what's very interesting is that what's very interesting is that um does anybody know what if Yakov means heal why is his name Yakov he should be called aave where did he get the name Yak where did he get the yud from he should be called aave if Yakov means heal he should be called aave by the way what does asov mean rich what does the word as mean hey which means made he's born ready made so why is he called as he should be actually the say his name was originally as butov was holding on to the tail end of asov he grabbed the yud out of as's name who which was originally o and he took the yud and he attached it to his name aave and he became yov by the way it's interesting you know asov is represents which animal what animal represents asav anybody know because asov is always showing off yeah I'm very religious I'm very careful in what what do you make when you take what animal does ASA represent no who sticks out to show his kosher he not pig pig he shows his uh the pig sticks out his split hooves right do you know why Asa has split hooves it's very interesting because yakob was grabbing on to his leg and when yakov's holy Hands Held the feet of isov the feet of Asa became kosher that's why Asa has kosher Simon he doesn't chew his C but because yob was holding his feet why was y so yob did a lot of good stuff by holding on his feet he grabbed the Y and he made his feet kosher why is he holding on the feet of of uh asov what did you say he meant to come he wanted the birthright what's your name Gabriel Gabrielle one of the Reon him the Torah says you know why yob is holding on to the feet of asov because he knew every time a mother gives birth it's very painful now rifo was having twins so it was going to be doubly painful it was going to be doubly painful he didn't want his mother to suffer so he's holding on to his feet so this way rifo would only have to give birth once but I think yakob was very clever in doing that cuz Yakov knows that asov is going to specialize in which it but yov is showing from the moment he's B born he's going to triumph over asov he's going to destroy asov why cuz as yob is being born he's showing asov you might honor your father but look at me what am I doing I'm also showing honor to my mother in the end of days when we have to deliver the final knockout punch to asov Hashem gives us extra opportunity to honor our father and mother when you come home from school and your parents ask you something you should know the way you act your father and your mother is what the Jewish people need for mhia to come it's a very important thing your parents ask how is your day you know sometimes you say I'm not in the mood of talking about it tell them how your day was it's a very big Mitzvah it's a Mitzvah of you're bringing the Gula closer you're helping defeat the enemies of the Jewish people but I want to just end by sharing with you one very interesting idea does anybody know who who remembers this when yobu put on his best asov costume and he was sneaking into y's house to get the birth right y smelled on yobu a certain scent does anybody remember what our sages say Yakov smelled like what did he what's your name Zan what did yob smell like apple tree apple tree good and where did that apple tree come from from G very good what's your namec Jacob from G say that smelled on yob the smell of ganeden why did yakob smell like Ganan what that's like a certain scent you could go to the store and you could get a ganeden scent what is that what does it smell like in GH then going to share with you a very interesting idea when marish ate from theas he changed the whole world nobody was supposed to die nobody was supposed to get sick everybody was supposed to to live forever there wasn't supposed to be any difficulty in this world and by eating from theas he really brought the whole world down many many levels he corrupted and ruined the whole world you know what he else he did he even ruined mitv even mitv are downgraded because of the sin of AD marish there's only one Mitzvah that ad marish did not downgrade and he couldn't tamper with and he couldn't ruin and he couldn't smudge and he couldn't get dirty there's only one Mitzvah that we still have that smells like what it originally smelled like in ganeden before you know which MIT that is you know why cuz one thing adish didn't have what didn't Adam marish have he didn't have a father and mother so Adam could not ruin the Mitzvah of so the Mitzvah of is the only Mitzvah we have that is in in the same pristine beautiful form as before sin so when you do the mitvah that's the Mitzvah that's going to bring the world back to the way it world was before adish s that's why the is the Mitzvah that will bring the and therefore teaches in our generation Hashem has given us more opportunities to do the midst of than ever in his so I thank you so much for your undivided attention and uh for giving me the opportunity to share with you some and I wish you all a happy Sweet healthy new year for us and for all of Cl so thank you very much voice than you thank you thank you very much that was really really enjoyable I'm sure not just for the students you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by Torah anytime.com come