Vayeitzei - 2nd Portion

Join me as we learn together for Monday Pares Viet. The second Torah reading of Paras Viet chapter 29 verse one. Yesterday we learned in paras Yakov was heading to Kuran to his uncle Aan and as he took a little nap on Haruya mount Mariah and Hashem came to him and promised him and guaranteed him that he will be safe and protect him as he goes to his uncle in chapter 29 verse one was light on foot and he set out to for the land of the people of the east. Why does he use a terminology that Jacob lifted his foot? Once he was told the good news that now God promised him and guaranteed that he will be protected. His heart picked his feet up. Meaning he was excited and delighted by it and it became easy for him to go. This is the way the medish explains it. Verse two, and he saw and he looked and there was a well in the field and beside it there were three flocks of of sheep that were lying on the side of the well because it was from that well that the the flocks would drink. They would have to water from the I'm sorry. However, there was a boulder covering the opening of the well and it was huge. Rashi, what does it mean? Why does it use future tense? So, Rashi explains as follows. The shepherds would give to drink their flock. The verse says it in the short hand doesn't say who's the one that gives the shepher the flock to drink but that's what it means but it alludes to they would drink from they would drink from the well verse three every day when all the flock were gathered there was and then the shepherds would come and they would roll the boulder off the opening of the well and they water the flock the and then they would replace the boulder over the opening of the well. Why is again using the terminology of the future tense? It was customary they would usually gather there together whenever they had to give their flock water to drink. Evangela because it was such a great boulder and they needed everybody there together to roll it off. This is also used in the future tense and they would roll it off and as the explains it to roll off the boulder. Many present tense terminologies can also be used in the future tense. Because when we talk about something which is in the present tense, it continues from the past to the present and ultimately to the future. This as well was written in future tense like the tarum says and they would return. Verse number four. And said to them, he asked them, "My brother is from where are you?" And they replied, "We are from verse 5." So Jacob says to them, he asks them, "Do you know the grandson of Yes, we know him. So he asked him is it is he well is peace for him and he said yeah he's well and here is his daughter approaching with the flock the word many times we've mentioned earlier that the word depending on where the vowel is which will make the word tell you if it's future past [snorts] and over here the katam al the kat is on the olive And the explains she is coming now. She is coming with the sheep. However, if you want to say somebody already arrived, then the the vowel would then be on the base that she already came. Harish the first one with the one on the Ba is present. And the one when it's on the is when it already came. Verse seven. And he says to them, "The day is still broad daylight. It's not yet time to round up the livestock. Why don't you give your flock water to drink and go off and pasture them? Verse seven, Rashi explains what's going on. Why is Jacob questioning the shepherds of what's happening here? That they were just relaxing. It looks like they want to just gather the flock and not shepherd them for the day. He told him two complaints. Number one, it's still a long day. If you are people that work full-time, if you're getting paid by the day, you still haven't yet finished the day, there's no reason that you're cutting work early. And number two, and if you're not workers, but these are your own animals, it's not yet time to gather the flock. you guys could still go out and shepherd your flock and give them to pasture. So they responded. They answered him. We can we cannot why can't we go and shepherd the flock? We need first all the flock have to be rounded up to goal and then we can all roll off the boulder of air from the opening of the well of and then we can water the animals and give them what to drink. Rashi in verse 8 their answer to Jacob why they weren't giving what was going on. They said we're not able to give the because this is a large boulder that's sitting on top of the well. We are not able to give them water. Because of that, we're waiting around. So, it's not like we don't want to take our sheep out the pasture. It's just that we have to give them first water and we're not able to do it on our own. Verse 10. And when it was when the daughter of love and the of his mother's brother and the flock of the mother his mother's brother and steps forward and he effortlessly rolled the boulder off from the opening of the well and he watered the flock of love on his mother's brother the previous rashi which means again using a terminology and they will of a future tense saying that when they get together they can roll off the stone. Verse 10. What does it say over here? It doesn't say as in the previous times, but it says it in one giml meaning that he revealed saying it's like a person taking off the lid or the cap off a bottle out of a jug. To tell you that Jacob did it with ease. It wasn't the strenuous effort that he needed to roll off the boulder. He did it like somebody just taking the lid off a bottle or take or out of a jug. He was able to take off that um that lid that was there. He was able to take off the boulder easily. Verse 11. And Jacob kissed and he wept aloud. Why did he cry? What was he weeping about? Shouldn't he be excited to meet his cousin? So, Rashi explains verse 11 because he saw with divine intuition that he's not going to be buried together with her in the cave of the patriarchs. That's one reason. Another reason why he was crying, he came empty-handed. Omar, he said to himself, Evaba Alzar, my servant of my father's father, of my grandfather. He came when he came to approach to marry his wife and he was looking for a wife for he had with him plenty of gifts. He had nose rings, he had bracelets, he had gifts. I don't have anything now. Why didn't Jacob have anything? So Rashi tells us of the mitzvah of because Alifas the son of Asov was chasing Jacob because his father told him go get that Jacob and you get rid of him kill him and Alifas reached him but because Alif grew up in the arms of in the family of therefore it helped that he wasn't yet so anxious and angry to kill Yakov Moshov he pulled back and didn't kill Jacob. But Alifas was stuck with a conundrum. What does he do here? He asked Jacob, "What am I to do? What am I going to tell my father? My father told me, I got to kill you over here. I don't want to kill you. So what do I do?" Yak told him, "Take everything I have. And because you're going to take everything I have, I'll have zero left with me and a poor person as if is dead. So you can tell your father that now I'm dead and this way you have fulfilled your obligation as well. verse 12 and told that he is the brother that he [clears throat] that her that they were both relatives that her father is his mother's brother and he's the son of Rifka and she ran and she told her father [snorts] what does it mean of if you literally translate it means her father's brother how does that work out he was she her mother was her father's brother. So it means relative of her father like saying we are brothers that we found before pre previously told even though they were cousins he said we are brothers the terminology brothers means relatives why then continues the says that is sending a message here if you wants to cheat me if what over here if uh if a if love wants to cheat me then he says listen here then I'm also his brother I am as I'm also able to trick him because he was able to trick as in the past but if he's a befitting person I'm also the son of Rifka his sister who is the most fitting one the proper one the great one why was Is she only telling her father? What happened to her mother? Didn't we generally say last time Rifka ran to her mother to tell her about Eleazar? Why is she going to tell her father her mother died? There's nobody else to say besides her father. Torah now continues verse 13 and heard the news that he heard that the son of his sister here. He ran to greet him. He hugged him and he kissed him and brought him into his home and told all the wonderful events that happened. Rashi he ran towards him. Why all of a sudden was he running towards Jacob? He thought who told him that he's carrying money because he said he made a calculation. He said as follows when he then servant of his family came to greet my sister when he came here he had 10 camels laden laid him with things over here for sure he has money he's bringing with him. So he hugged him. Why did he hug him? So you had nothing with him love and set themselves. Maybe he's carrying these gold and he's hiding it in his pockets and then he kissed him. He saw that in his pockets he had nothing. He saw didn't see the camels. Maybe he brought these gemstones and he's hiding it and they're hiding in his mouth. And he said this way by hugging him and kissing him I'll be able to feel what he has. When Jacob realized that [snorts] the whole purpose of why Loving came out to greet him was only because he wanted to check if he had money. So therefore he told him I didn't really want to come here. I got into a little conflict with my brother as therefore I had to run here because my brother wanted to kill me and not only that my brother sent a son to kill me. So I had to give him all the money I had and therefore I came here with nothing. Verse 14. said to him, "You are truly my own flesh and blood." He stayed with him a month of time. Rashi 14, you are my flesh and blood. Meaning, now that you're my relative, now I know that you don't have anything with you. I can't take you in because of your money because I value what you have. The only reason why I'll bring you into the house You're coming empty-handed. The only reason why I'm going to let you in my home because you're related. So, I'll take care of you for a short time only for a month. And that's what he did. This even this hospitality that loan gave to his nephew, don't think that love did it for nothing in exchange. He was already being a shepherd for his flock. And that's why you see after being there 30 days as we're going to see that Jacob tells him why should I work for free let me do something and earn something because of it as we see in verse 15 just because you're a close relative of mine doesn't mean you have to work for me for free tell me what do you want to get paid meaning in a question just because you're a relative of mine should work for free in the future meaning you will work for me so too any word that you'll find which is in past tense and you have to add a v in the beginning of it it's called that by putting a v in front of the word I change it from past tense to future tense. Torah continues verse 16 and bunnies and love and had two daughters the older daughter was Leia and the younger daughter's name was verse 17 and the eyes of Leia were tender and while was a beautiful features and complexion rashi the anak Why were her hand Why were her eyes tender, soft and red from crying? Because she thought that she was going to have to marry Asaf and she would always be crying. Everybody would say there were two boys for Rifka is and Lavan had two daughters the older one that means Le who was the older daughter was going to marry the older boy who was Asafana the younger daughter which was Raul was going to marry the younger boy who is going to be Yakov and therefore Lei was crying because she did not want to marry Asaf. This is how the Talmud explains it in the track. What does it mean? A beautiful complexion. The word that's the complexion of the individual as it says in Isaiah the that he would describe it or he would show the complexion of it. [snorts] I'm sorry is the features and as it says that the features of the actual item is how they would shape it cluster that's the complexion the beauty of a person's face of how it would be showing. This concludes the Torah reading for the second uh Torah reading of Paris Viet.