VAYEITZEI: THE HAND CONTROLING CIRCLE OF LIFE - Stump the Rabbi (183)

we are back here from late at night but uh excited to do a Sho with you guys excited to uh have some uh interesting things to bring to you from this week's tonight Sho is going to be for the and for and all of and all the righteous no that continue to support our organization and the many different uh ideas plans and dreams that uh we have to uh stify name and to help get closer to the T lot of projects are in the works a lot of different uh ideas are flying around and we're trying to do as much as we possibly can we need your help to uh continue watching our continue learning with us so there's more merits in sh when there's more merits in sh then will certainly help us with many other things and that's actually one of the things we want to talk about tonight uh because when you uh deal with the public as much as we do um you know you deal with uh in so many words indirectly deal with people's stresses uh people are constantly stressed with anxieties and worries uh and uh concerns and I could tell you from dealing with thousands upon thousands of people on a regular basis the overwhelming majority uh of people's concerns are about things that are beyond their control and uh things that are not within their control and uh people sort of uh lose their mind uh when uh they don't have control part of the reason is uh because they feel like they need to have control which comes from a uh unfortunately a uh a ego that's bigger than they should have and certainly uh an ego bigger than they uh think they have uh the other the other part of the reason of why they're so concerned about it is because concern of the unknown and they feel like they should know and they want to know and we're all like that we all want to know I would like to know how we're going to get get all the uh money that we need to get in order to build the uh Jewish Empire uh you know that we wanted to build already for several years uh you know I'd like to know all of those details but at the same token you have to know that there is a hand that is managing this whole world very very carefully very precisely and much better than you could ever imagine and you have to submit you have to uh put your head down and realize that you are nothing and is running the world much better than you but that's very hard for people and the reason for that is because most people are not connected to and therefore they uh feel not only that they should know and that they're entitled to know but uh that they have to know or else they uh they can't go on and this gives people an extraordinary amount of anxiety whether it's a person that is anxious about uh finding a z or uh or it's a person that's anxious about a specific job or anxious about when they're going to convert or when they're going to finally buy a house or when this or when that or they're concern about uh geopolitical situations where as I've told you guys repeatedly over the last month of uh how the Satan has trapped trapped people uh you know in our in our communities uh much worse than uh than you could imagine uh by getting them to think that if they watch all of the news and if they keep up to date with all of the uh you know IDF uh videos and all of the uh terrorist videos and all of the uh political videos that means that they have everything under control this is not different than what happened during the Corona virus uh debacle uh where uh people uh were more concerned about what's going to be on the news and all of the conspiracies and everything that was happening then they were even concerned about the virus itself and you know it started with being concerned about the virus and health issues but then of course the conspiracies about the vaccine whether it's a good vaccine or a bad vaccine and whether the uh leaders have been bribed and uh bought uh including some very very righteous rabbis that were uh uh and still are accused of uh being bought uh and and really this shows us how little people know about how little people know about and unfortunately how the Satan literally took the of certain religious Jewish people uh and uh simply uh threw it in the garbage because when you say uh you know evil things against Holy people there is a very very dear price to uh to pay as thear says in multiple places that somebody that speaks against a that's a uh that's a righteous person uh it's there's no cure to his ailment the person that speaks against needless to say when it's when it's when it's gossip when it's outright lies uh and uh and it's uh even more so when it's accusing koser people and in so many words there are similar things that are happening right now uh where uh people are uh so uh Addicted to You know to the uh desire of contr the control the ego uh uh that requires control and understanding and knowledge of everything that is really beyond their control and beyond their uh uh their uh pay grade that uh people have all types of conspiracies and all types of ideas of what's happening in the world oh you see now there's earthquakes and this part of the world and now there's uh volcanoes and now the birds are are flying against their traditional pattern and now the water is turning to ice and now this uh politician is really uh committing treason and uh now this uh Army is doing this and now a leave it alone leave it alone how many times how many times do we have to repeat this lesson leave it alone it's none of yours business your only business in the world is to serve that's it it's in your mouth it's in your heart to do it it's not in your control nor is it your responsibility to uh oversee the political or geopolitical situations in the world and monitor them and report them to people and even be concerned with them at all uh the only reason why we once in a blue moon uh look at the videos or or different uh clips that people send us is just to have certain content of this world uh to give you during the lectures it's certainly not uh because we uh feel a desire to know any of this stuff because we know that there's nothing for us to rely on other than our father in Heaven and the point of tonight's lecture is to give us a uh a refresher a refresher of things we're supposed to know but of course we always have to see them in our holy and divine Torah of how all of these lessons are in our holy Torah and how really really I plead with you stop wasting your lives you know looking at all of these things that are out there the news it's just simply destroying your lives it's destroying youra and it's turning many of you into outright aim and Heretics and disguise what's the disguise you're disguising yourself as a right person you're disguising yourself as a religious person you're disguising yourself as someone who believes in God which we'll see later tonight lvan did the same thing now you say what are you talking about lean was an idol worshiper exactly but you also see in the par that lvan did say that he believed in hem how could this be let's go into it is a beautiful full of pearls and wisdoms and and amazing things literally we could have asua for a million hours and it still would not be finished but I have a few points that I uh I studied tonight and for your in your Merit uh gave us the strength here at 3:00 in the morning in Israel to give this you so we can finish off the week strong because it's certainly necessary for us to boost our and stop stop it with this waste of life news and I'm not talking about major news I'm talking about any news anything that's out there just focus on learning focus on serving and you be fine and to show you that we're going to look at the circle of life everyone out there is uh you know is is is aware of what the circle of life is of how things turn around as the says a story between R and his dear wife the sad and tells his wife a very important lesson he tells her listen anytime somebody poor comes to uh comes to the house to ask for Saka please make sure to be generous with him uh lest our children One Day become poor and we want AEM to be generous to them when they're poor so's wife like any other mother uh is very very uh protective of our children he says uh are you cursing our kids he says no Shalom they're my kids too I'm not cursing them but just their reality in the world is there's a circle of life there a circle of life where sometimes you're up sometimes you're down as time passes as Generations uh go on we see that uh the uh one generation is Rich another generation is poor and we want to make sure that we always have enough merits to make sure that whatever the decree of the world is that a instilled there is still Mercy on us and we see we see how even though there is a uh a really difficult time that we're dealing with right now in the world with the war with the anti semitism the truth is is that we're still doing okay we're still doing okay in fact uh one of the uh uh beautiful things that you see lovers ofh say is that look at all of this situation we have 2,000 years almost of Exile Exile that we've been thrown out of you know every country you know we we went there and just like y went to Egypt built Egypt empowered Egypt enriched Egypt and what did they do the new Paro came and forgot YF and then they enslaved uh you know is and this was not the last time that this happened this continue happening with the Assyrians with the Babylonians with the Romans with the Greeks with the Spaniards with the Germans uh you know and it's it's year generation after generation uh but after all of these Exiles and all of uh the pgms and inquisitions and the Holocaust and the terrorist attacks and the anti-Semitism the truth is look at us right now we're still doing okay okay so we're in an exile we're not at a time where mashia is here but if you live in America if you live in Israel if you live in Europe somewhere you live in Australia you probably live in a house that's worth a few hundred, you probably have a car or some way to to to commute to wherever you need you have the ability to commute you have food on the table you know you have uh enough uh enough ways to manage your life you're not uh in the streets begging for food for the you know you're not in the streets uh you know without anybody even willing to help you because even if you're in dire stetch and you're struggling someone is willing to help you why because even though he's putting us in the Exile the Jewish people were still okay we still okay so he says look at that that even when punishes us if you will look how much Mercy he has on us look how much Mercy he has on us so yes there's a lot of difficulties but if you look at the greater picture of how things are there is endless amount of reasons of why we need to thank but what is the reason of why most people are too busy to thank a Kos if you will because they are looking and focusing on what's in front of them and they don't understand the picture that's on the wall in front of them they want to see what's behind the wall and they are not conscious of the fact that there's a hand that is controlling this circle of life that whatever is due to you you will get whatever is not you will not get there's no power in the world other than that can help you or hurt you and the more a person is conscious of that the better their life becomes because the more grateful they become to everything that they have the more confident they become that a will take care of them but unfortunately one of the saddest things in the world is to see people in stress and even when you give them the answers they simply cannot get out of their own way so let's look at the and see how who manages the perfect circle of life and then we'll come out to a reason of why why is it so beautiful and easy for us to see it there and not in our life and we're going to get to that conclusion so we see in the uh yov leaves the house of his parents goes to Thea of sh and uh studies there for 14 years and uh then uh obviously he's goes on his next PATH going towards the house of lvan uh over there on the way he uh has the prophetic dream where uh he realizes that is uh is with him he's continuing the Covenant that he has with abrah and with him he swears and makes an oath that if hasem will fulfill all that he has said if the word of Hashem will be in my Aid and will guard me on this way that I am going and will give me bread to eat and clothes to wear and I return in peace to my father's house and the word of Hashem will be directed to me to instruct me where I could serve God then this Stone which I have set up as a pillar will be the stone upon which I will serve offerings before Hashem and whatever you meaning Hashem will give me one t a of all of it shall I separate as a tithe as a before you so here yobu starts off this whole path and makes a vow why is yobu making this vow it seems strange Yu is a sadik y just spent 14 years without sleep studying T and connecting to 24 hours a day why is he making this because the more you learn T the more you connect to the more you get to know all of of the kindness that he has put upon has given you that he's he's he's bestowed upon you the more you realize how much in debt you are to him and even more so the more you realize that there's really no way for you to ever pay off that debt which means that anything that you do that is against is even worse than had you not had a debt so y here as he got to know at the one of the highest levels ever even at this point yobu is making this vow not because he is concerned that Hashem will not do what he said he's going to do as part of the Covenant but rather the opposite that yobu will not withstand a test and will make a sin that will ruin the Covenant that aosh made with abah and that passed all their tests meaning yob is not questioning God here he's questioning himself he knows that is just he knows that is merciful he knows that when we say Amen the word amen is an acronym for the god the king that is a reliable that whatever he says he he does as Rashi comments on the word amen uh in the T he says amen is telling you that when God says he will reward you he will reward You When God says he will punish he will punish this is one of the principles of of our faith so yob is in essence making an oath that uh if he passes the test uh and um his own sins don't get in the way and don't give AEM a reason to retract some of this these assurances then uh he promises to do even more good things which is to give myself to give myself now one of the things that I can tell you about M we see later on in the Tora how this uh this whole thing this whole thing uh is is shown to us again and had a today where when it talks about a uhu and uh how he became wealthy after all of the manipulations of lean and despite the manipulations and the still enriched by and it says that Yu separated his sheep from leevan sheep on a regular basis now theat the simple uh uh uh meaning over there is that he wanted to make sure that uh you know his sheep is not taking what doesn't belong him because technically he was still working for lean uh there's also uh uh sages that say that um Yakov did not want leavon to see uh uh his his sheep because he knew that Lavan is a jealous person so even if he has a billion he would still be jealous of yakov's million uh just like all people that are uh you know that are uh jealous people and uh and and also very uh um very selfish people people that are addicted to uh to money to possessions to materialism there's not enough in the world that they could ever have and in fact one some of the things that drive them crazy in the most is when they see other people succeed even though they themselves are successful they're bothered by other people's success so Yu would separate his sheep to the point where he would not be in uh seen by uh lean these are some of the basic translations of it but one of the things that we thought about is that where it says in Chapter 30 uh in a verse uh um in verse 41 42 it talks about where it says that uh um he put ahead of the flock all the white ankled uh uh sheep and all of the brownish ones among Lan's flock and he formed for himself separate droves and did not mingle them with Leon's flocks so Yu separated his and one of the things we realize today is that yaku was delivering on his promise that he made at the beginning of this pal the beginning of this journey nearly 20 years before this time which is that if hasem protects him gives him clothes to wear gives them food to eat and and and protects him then he's going to give m how can you give M how can you give a tithe if you don't keep a precise account of what you're actually making uh so y separated his sheep in order to be able to know how much he's making so he can give Mel this is why it's highly advisable for people to uh to not wait until the end of the year to give their M but rather to give myself as often as possible if that's weekly or bi-weekly uh and uh no no less frequently than at least once a month to give your and support to so it's number one makes it much easier to give a smaller check than a bigger check but the second thing is also much easier to uh to keep count to keep count of everything uh so uh when a person is uh all over the place doesn't really realize what's going on he just gives a or he gives taka randomly then although giving staka is always a good thing you're not going to get that blessing uh that says that anyone that gives m is he could testm with thism was going to assure his protection is his success and the g says that if a person gives which is instead of 10% it's 20% a promises him or her that they are going to be materially wealthy in this life the 10% protect your wealth so even if there's a financial crisis economic crisis whatever crisis that's out there in the world if you've given M you'll be protected you're not going to lose like everybody else but if you give KES you'll be actually rich here we see Yu yov is giving M uh just like he promised so we see the circle already beginning yov delivers on his word uh and in essence one of the things we see here is that the fact that Yu went into it saying that if you allow me to to make a living I promise to give M that in itself gave yov a a merit a blessing cuz yet he had obviously he was looking to go work to make a living in order to uh do MIT with it and the same thing is what I uh you know always try to to uh to teach my kids to teach my uh close students is that make sure that you are continuously giving Saka and supporting Torah on a regular basis don't wait for special times or special conditions or when you have a lot of money do it on a regular basis have some type of way where you're giving money on a regular basis whether it's uh uh you know 10% of your salary or even if if it's not 10% you can't handle 10% but at least you can handle giving some money every month do something where just like your phone bill and your car bill and your uh electric bill that comes out automatically you should do the same thing with staka uh because again these are the things that that are uh are going to make you spiritually wealthy and if you give enough you can actually also become materially wealthy now the next thing that we see is even more uh more more extraordinary uh in my opinion as far as talking about the whole circle of life which explains really the uh the whole scene the the the whole scene of yov meeting his soulmate Rael you know of course his soulmate was also Leah and you know even Zila and obviously were very righteous women that these are the mothers of the tribes but everyone knows that Rael was his favorite and as soon as he sees Rael we really see like a somewhat of a strange scene in chapter 29 of uh of Book of Genesis it says in verse number 10 and it was when yob saw the daughter of laan his mother's brother and the flock of Lavan his mother's brother Yakov came forward and rolled a stone from upon the mouth of the well and watered the Sheep of lean's mother's brother then yov kissed Rael and raised his voice and wept why are you crying yov why is yov crying here and why did he do all of what he did seems kind of strange now we already explained the whole uh kissing Rael thing in last year's sh so we're not going to delve into that there's commentary on it by different me some say there was really a kiss on the shoulder some say it really wasn't a kiss it it's a uh just a show of uh uh of Love uh point being is this is irrelevant some say was a kiss but she was a little girl so it's just not a kiss of affection as far as uh uh inappropriate one but uh something that like a uh a um older brother gives you know the point is is that you know it's a uh uh this was already addressed in the last year here we're talking about that yob sees ra and she's a Shepherd or Shepherd is and he decides to take over before a conversation before anything else and as the sages say that that yov s Rael knew that she was his soulmate knew that she's was created for him and he was created for her the part of the same soul and he takes over the job he Waters her sheep and he starts crying now the say that after yob saw prophetically that uh ra is really his soulmate and it was not a normal encounter with any other human being on Earth but rather he also saw the future and he saw that they're not going to be buried next to each other because she's going to Die Young on the way and these they're not going to be buried together and was very uh already felt the pain of the future but yet we have to explain why did this why did yobu what are the Sheep he's watering the herd he's crying to Hashem and he takes off this round rock or Boulder I should say that's blocking the water we thought about this and we realized that yov is not just seeing the future he's also seeing the past yov ainu obviously grew up in his father and mother's house and how did his father and mother meet when Abu jakob's grandfather sent elazar to go find his son a wife elzar went to the house of betel the father of lvan and Rifka andar prayed to that uh that he's going to help him find a wife for that he knows for sure that she's the one by testing her if she's going to not only offer him water but she's also going to water his camels and after that happened he knew that this is it he's watering lean sheep he's watering cuz is taking care of of a father's sheep he's watering lean sheep just like his mother watered eleazar's camels yakov's father's camels and perhaps Yakov was crying as the circle of life was clear to him that it was the Divine hand of a where elzar cried out to aadh after watering the the watering sign where when he saw that Rifka is the one because she watered she gave him water and she also gave his uh his camel's water and he cried out to Hashem as the verses say he cried out to Hashem in excitement that Hashem answered his prayers and answered the prayers uh of of abah ainu his master elzar cried because he got he saw how is involved in every single act that he does in this world how k literally knows your thoughts knows your ideas and listens to every word that comes out of your mouth and when you hear this it's one thing when you feel this it's something else and lezar got excited when he saw the blessing of a actually materialize in front of his eyes yov feels the same here where he sees look at this is it's not just this beautiful family uh relative of mine that I'm seeing here that's my soulmate but look it's the circle of life's Divine hand is clear here he I am watering leavon lean's uh leavon sheep in essence returning the favor that my dear Mother did for my father and showing that is answering our prayers and so he's watering the herd he's crying to and he's also moving this Boulder this round Boulder which in essence could be symbolic of the circle of life that the Divine hand of manages precisely and when it comes down to the warning that Rael tells yov right away that her father is a uh is a criminal he's a cheater this is the reason why Yakov keeps uh uh mentioning that he is uh the uh also his uh his mother's uh brother meaning that he's also uh comes from the same household if you will because his mother was the sister of lean so if lean wants to be criminal I know how to deal with criminals now when a person sees how life Works in such a fashion where make sure that there's no debt owed to any wicked person out there owed to anyone lean could feel like he's owed something why hey my uh you know when when the family of Abraham and came by us we uh we gave them shelter we gave them food we gave them uh water look at that you guys uh what you guys give us here make sure they uh your sheep yov is going to not only water them but he's also going to take care of them and mult you know have the blessing of multiplying them exponentially to the point where lvan becomes so rich that he knows that he no one owes him anything anymore he's he's the one that benefited out of this whole relationship he's the one that desires it later on after the story of uh the conmen behavior and actions of lvan cheating Yakov we see that uh yov marries both Leah and ra and he's also gets Bel Z as the maid servants which were also the mothers of the uh of part of the tribes the 12 tribes and and here we learn a little bit more about the circle of life and how runs the world and how no one should ever be concerned about anything in the world other than their servitude of Hashem because Hashem literally moves every little chip exactly where it needs to be lets every leaf live exactly how long it needs to live you know every little taste that needs to taste good tastes good every uh smell that needs to smell good smells good everything is precisely managed by we see this when Le starts giving birth and she says something Le conceived and bore a son the firstborn son and she called him ruen now the sages say why did why did Leah call himen the verse says because my humiliation is revealed before hasem uh for now my husband will love me but what what is this what is this humiliation humiliation that perhaps uh she wasn't as loved as Rael it's not that yov didn't love her but it was so obvious that yov loved Rael and was willing to work another seven years for her for ra that it was as if he did not love Le now Leah specifically used the words the Worden see my son what is it see my son why is she Callen she says look see see see my son take a look at this righteous son of mine which she saw in Prophecy of his future look how different he is of the people that came before him where my son even though he lost his firstborn rights to his brother YF when push came toen my son still tried to save the life of ysf where on the other hand asav when he lost his firstborn rights because he chose to lose them because he didn't care about them he didn't try to save yakov's life but rather the opposite he tried to kill yakob so look how great my son is in comparison to my righteous uh father-in-law's uh son so here we see the how the names each one of the names are telling a story furthermore we see this in general with all of the people when we compare ourselves to the Nations one of the things that the anti-semites have a problem with is that they hate the the the torah's love of the Jewish people loves the Jewish people and calls us the chosen people you know uh so much so that uh literally it Stupify them uh even though God himself is saying that he loves us and he chose us and it's his obviously it's his world it's his right to choose who he loves and who he uh who he uh doesn't love and who he loves more and who he loves less uh and really it's not that he just loves us no uh no matter what he loves us because we fulfill his mitv uh whereas the Nations uh you know many of them most of them are Idol worshippers they're worshiping foreign Gods they're uh uh you know they believe in their own powers and so on now when you look at am you see came from abah but ishma also came from abah sacrificed his life in order to honor hem by allowing his father to allowing his father when he knew that his father a was going to slaughter him not only didak not even skip a beat and he continued to go towards the place where he's going to be slaughtered but in fact the mid says that he went happily because he's going to go fulfill a mitvah and when he heard the voice from Heaven that says to aam not to slaughter him he wanted to be slaughtered in fact teaches us the of how you're allowed to tie an animal on Shabbat without causing it a uh uh harm and torturing it but at the same token uh without you know risking that it's going to run away says where where do we learn don't tie it like asked his father Abraham to tie him like the what's the tying the arms and the legs behind to each other don't don't uh don't tie the animal like that don't tie all four legs you're allowed to tie maximum the uh uh um the the three legs so it could still move but it can't run point is thatu was more than happy to sacrifice his life his descendant yov his son yov served theem through and despite suffering and ended up bringing the 12 tribes Ishmael on the other hand did not sacrifice his life for the sake of hem although he himself did Chua he did not teach his children to follow the ways of Hashem and therefore his descendants instead of sacrificing themselves for the sake of Hashem and honoring Hashem what do they sue they kill themselves in order to kill's descendants in order to kill am as on the other hand instead of being like his brother yov that served despite the suffering asav has been known to bring suffering to yov and to yakov's descendants am yov his children of the 12 tribes and brought this is a simple reality this is not racism this is not we hate you you hate us no this is simple reality everyone still has a free choice of what to do with this information meaning whether you're a Jew or a gentile this information exist this information is reality if you follow if you're a Jew and you follow the ways of ab and yob you follow the Torah you will be a continuation of that chain that's been a chain of am for the last 4,000 years and you'll be considered one of the righteous descendants of ab and yob if you choose to abandon the ways of hem you choose to desecrate Shabbat you choose to you know be a a um uh one of the thieves that does uh business in a uh illegal and dishonest way you choose to be an adultery choose to be a wayward person then guess what you'll be no different than amalik the descendant of as on the other hand someone that came from Ishmael or someone that came from asav you can choose to follow the wicked people that came out of those two Nations or you can choose to be among the righteous people that came out of those Nations by following the tah if you choose to follow the heresy of the Quran or the idolatry of the uh of the New Testament then you will be part of the evil people of Ishmael that want to kill am or part of the evil people of AD that's part of am that wants to kill is on the other hand if you choose to follow the holy Tor whether as a righteous nohide or as a convert to Orthodox Judaism you'll be following the righteous path and be part of the righteous people in the world meaning where you came from doesn't necessarily mean that's the path you have to stay on that's just simply a reality that exists you can still have a choice of where to go whether you're Jew or Gentile just because your father was righteous doesn't mean you're automatically righteous just because your father was wicked doesn't mean that you have to be Wicked but the point being is is that when people use their emotions instead of their brains they hate the fact that oh they call themselves chosen they call themselves better look at that to such an extent that literally today there was this 15c uh video clip that somebody showed uh on uh and and sent it around everywhere of one of the uh news stations interviewing an Israeli representative about the hostages and accusing Israel of being racist and prejudice against the Palestinians and what's her proof her proof is that look the Israelis are freeing 150 Palestinian prisoners in return for only 50 Jews so this show shows that the Israelis the Jewish people don't value the lives of the Palestinians as much as they value their own people like this is literally stupidity at the highest level if it was a stock today would have reached an all-time high like you're forgetting that these 150 Palestinians are all terrorists they're all criminals they're all people we don't want to release and in fact we're only releasing them in order to get our people and the deal and the terms of asking for more was actually by the Palestinians by the kamnik they're the ones that value their people less than our people they're the on that say listen we know that uh you know you don't you know the our our people are not uh like yours you know so we'll take uh we'll give you uh one of your prisoners but you have to give us three they're the ones that hate their people they're the ones that they're prejudiced against their own people not us hence the reason of why they use their own people and children as as human Shields but again the fact that the hatred of Jews can get to can get people to such a high level of stupidity and and and blindness of fact is is not a new thing but it's becoming more and more apparent due to the media and how many more people are uh you know shaming themselves by by pretty much exposing their own stupidity and hatred but here we see that manages the world each and every single thing has a reason each and every single word each and every single name each and every single person but in here we also learn another thing this is a that I learned from and we also see that you know Le is proud Leah is calling her son theen because she feels like she was not loved like ra was why because after after he after yov married her in order to marry he had to work another seven years so say and I heard this from that just imagine the suffering that Leah had during those seven years that now yob is willing to work for the sake of being with ra that even though he's married to Le also still seven years that he's willing to sacrifice just to have like that's that's certainly not going to make her feel good so what do to reward her we know the basics is that he gave her sons he gave her more sons and so on but he said no no no the had to be a measure for measure what's the measure for measure just like yov and as were twins ra and Le were also twins ra died at the age of 37 lead died at the age of 44 a difference of seven years why seven years since Leah suffered emotional anguish of not feeling loved by our husband as much as he loved Rael for those seven years says you my dear daughter my righteous daughter Leah are now going to get an extra seven years more than your sister to live with your husband alone just you and him is already going to be in G here we see that literally no matter what no matter what a person does no one can ever take away what is due to you if there was a certain amount of Joy profit goodness due to you don't worry for even a second is going to pay you is going to pay you yeah but it was so hard yes but once you get paid once a gives you that that blessing the blessing is so good you forget that the pain ever existed that's how extraordinary blessings are who would have thought of such a thing where oh you suffered for those seven years not because really yob didn't love you not really because ignored you he was with you obviously you had kids together you lived a blessful life together but no you felt it you had a little anguish in your heart says no my dear daughter don't worry I'm going to give you extra time in this world to benefit from your dear husband an extra seven years an extra seven years this if if if you see the Precision of the Judgment the Precision of the Judgment of aosh here it's it's it's unbelievable how much gives us it's truly unbelievable how much we are in debt to him and there's absolutely no reason for anybody to ever be concerned about losing out on something because if it's yours you're going to get it no one else can take it from you only a can decide whether something is yours or not this is also a story in where one day comes into the mid with a sad face so is says Reb why why the sad face and he says uh well some uh some Bandits stole my wallet immediately got out of the BET mid went into the market and made an announcement he was a former head of the mafia everyone was scared of him even though he was already at tadik at this point still everyone was scared of him he said if you don't return my uh my uh my rabbi's wallet right now I'm going to kill all of you within moments they returned the wallet and he brought back the wallet to when he brought back the wallet was Happ again they were able to study so say wait is concerned about you know it what's what's really the what's really theat here what's really the the the meaning here meaning is simple knew that there's no reason in the world that you're ever going to lose unless you deserve to lose unless you deserve to lose you did something that says because you did it you're going to lose if somebody doesn't observe Shabbat they lose their blessing in all of their P even if they're making a million dollars a year they're never going to have a blessing in their life as far as their money is concerned it's always going to go to things that are not going to be beneficial to you either things that are going to make more SS or it's going to be things that are not enjoyable doctors lawyers uh you know taxes you're never going to have blessing on your money if somebody waste seed they they lose their P somebody goes to prostitutes somebody goes and gambles they lose their blessing and they lose their P says if you gamble if uh you lend money with uh with interest these types of things you're guaranteed to lose your money eventually to the point where you're going to be so poor you're not going to have food to uh you're not going to have money to buy bread so there's certain things that literally destroy the blessing in life destroy the blessing in life but here says you know he learns tah all day he teaches tah all day what did I do in order to lose money not that he's concerned about the money he knows hasm is going to give him money and and going to feed him but what did I do how could I not know what I did in order to deserve this I me at least if I knew I could do Chua for it so when he got the wallet back he oh no no no this was just a test I didn't do anything bad I don't have to do a Chua for anything this was simply a testing me so that's what made him happy so here we see how the think about the things that happen in this world as they always know that everything that happens to you in this world it's all by the Divine hand it's all by the Divine hand it's another story about ran used to be very very wealthy and one day he was walking with one of his T and uh they they passed by uh you know a a very beautiful uh uh Vineyard beautiful field full of trees grapes something that was worth a fortune and uh says to his says you see that that used to be mine I sold it so I could learn toah they saw another field he says yeah that one too that was also mine I saw that so I could learn Torah is tell me started crying he says Reby you sold everything so you could learn to what did you leave for you in your old age says to him no my dear son what do you mean I exchanged something that took a six days to make you know the material world for Torah that's Eternal I'm a head what are you crying about I'm I'm I did the best thing in the world here we see that everything that happens in the world is managed by the more connected a person to a the more they realize that they have nothing to be concerned about they have nothing to be concerned about because if anything that you deserve you're going to get if you want to deserve more you have to do more what mean do more earn more merits learn more Tor do more do more things to serve most people when they want more they figure they'll work more but there's plenty of people that work very very hard but don't make more and there's plenty of people that don't work very much and Hashem gives them a lot the question is whether they get a lot without a blessing or they get a little with a lot of blessing how do you uh why does the one that gets very little sometimes have a lot of blessing another one gets little but without blessing another another one gets a lot without blessing another one gets a lot with blessing why it's all based on how they serve hem the more they serve hem according to the Torah the higher the blessing the more they serve themselves in their desires and not AEM less blessing so everything that we see in this world is something for us to learn from because these are the tools that uses to run the world furthermore as we dove into this circle of life we see that after sees that her sister Leah has already given birth to four children and she has not given birth to even one she learns she learns about our forefathers our matriarchs who are they the same ones that we have is our father-in-law abah is our husband's grandfather this is our in-law's family but this is also part of the same Nation this is also our forefathers so you have to learn from them not just from Ab but also from their wives so she learned from saru what did she learn from s menu s menu also was Barren s menu also didn't have uh children for most of her life life until she passed the test what was the test do you want children just because you want something or do you want to bring blessing to the world because you want to fulfill the mitvah and serve and help your husband serve a what do you want when sah gave Hagar to abam she didn't do it because she didn't want aam the opposite she loved abam dearly she didn't do it because she wanted and she liked no she wanted to fulfill a Mitzvah she wanted her husband to fulfill a Mitzvah said okay I'll build a house through her maybe hasem sees that that I I really want to fulfill this Mitzvah so much that you know I want my husband to fulfill the mitvah so much maybe if he sees that I just want to fulfill mitv he'll also let me fulfill it so when she gave to her husband to bring a child to the world after that also opened her womb and uh she also had a son she had learned that lesson and did the same exact thing and she said the same exact words and she said to yov here is my maid baa come to her that she may bear children and I will raise them and in that way I too May bu may be built up through her just like the the sacrifice of s bringing ra learned a lesson and repeated the same exact thing and also got the blessing as well we see how in this circle of life the the whole purpose is not just to see that wonderful things happen in the end and all ended up Happ a happy ending no no it's not just about that it's also that we're supposed to learn from it and not just we learn from it because uh it's our job but rather we see that our forefathers our Matrix also learn from it so if as great as they were they learned from it needless to say we need to learn from it learned to sacrifice from Sarah Sarah got the blessing got the blessing same thing today when people ask me listen how can I have the blessing to have children how could I have the the blessing to have more how could I have blessing there are certain that open up a world of blessings and then the most critical mitvah that that can bring a person enormous amount of blessings and I've seen this firsthand countless times countless times is when people support kiru when people support our organization that day and night does K publicizes K's name and his to helps people do chuv enormous amount of blessings come to them unfortunately sometimes people think it's a one-time thing like as if you can just bu God so they donate a little bit of money or even a lot of money and then they think it's just going to happen right away as if hasem dances to your tobes sometimes there are Miracles that happen to people right away but that's not necessarily always a good sign that could some simply be a test and it's happened a few times where somebody would donate literally within hours something amazing with happened to them which you would think would actually encourage them to continue donating but in fact instead of continue to donate they sto donating and then they come back to you 6 months later and tell you listen I you know I don't know I need I need another I need a blessing I uh you know it's I don't know what's going on what's going on you did something good and you got a blessing instead of repeating it you forgot about what gave you good you thought that uh you know it's just a uh you want the lot you don't realize what gave you the blessing unfortunately this is a very very sad thing that uh you get to see where people ask for a blessing people do what Tora says what the sages say in order to get blessings and then they forget where the blessing came from I've had people that had medical Miracles uh people that uh had uh children people that had marriages all types of wonderful things happened to them and we always happy the only thing that makes us sad is that when people forget uh about where the blessing came from not because we we think that uh we're losing out on it as far as money I know that whatever we need to get will give us it's just sad that a person forgets that it's because you supported T that's why gave you that blessing whatever that blessing is whether it's finding a spouse or having children or a health Miracle or more money or whatever it is it's sad because you know that it's the next time around it's not going to be so simple it's not going to be so simple but either way it's a uh if a person forgets His blessings unfortunately so that also shows about the big character flaw of ungratefulness and there's not much you can do about something like that a person needs to know uh you know the uh their own they have to reflect they have to reflect there's nothing you can do that you can't you can't do it for them uh now furthermore we uh see that later in the palasha ren finds these special flowers called dudaim which is a uh special plant that the sages say increases fertility and Rael wants this plant she makes a deal with Le sister that because she'll take this D therefore before she could take her night with with yov and uh Leah uh goes out to get yov as soon as the uh she hears the uh the donkey uh you know it's carrying yov uh she goes out to bring uh to bring uh yov to her because he was scheduled to go to ra now the sages say that two things came out of this on one and a blessing came out of this why she enticed our husband to be intimate with her in order to bring more children to the world and that's the in page 20 b page 100b the mid and many other places in the T and especially if you have been if you watched our uh Jewish intimacy series which be will return to very soon uh you know the uh when a woman entices husband to be together with her when she's permitted in order to bring more children to the world that is a very very big Merit it's a very very big blessing that uh could bring Torah Scholars to the world uh and that's actually what uh Lea blessed with she got blessed that she got isak who was a Torah scholar um and zun both of them were were Scholars but isak was a uh known as as the the bigger scholar and that's because she uh enticed her husband to be with her on the other hand the mid says perhaps went too far meaning she was supposed to entice her husband to be with her but apparently uh she went too far by going out there because she got punished for it also as her daughter learned from her her daughter also uh went out and she went out in a place that she wasn't supposed to and she ended up getting raped meaning that it's not this specific act that particular day that uh Leah went out and she got punished for for that she got blessed but rather because apparently Leah went out some other time when she wasn't supposed to go out and for that uh she got punished for and her daughter ended up learning that from her and getting punished for it Dina uh so again we see the how precisely does manage the world where one thing happens it leads to another there's a measure for measure there's a circle there is things always equal out in the world there's always things that there's a Justice uh that's uh you know in the system that is more precise than humanly uh uh uh possible later on we see that uh lvan is very happy with the prophecies made with uh having Yakov uh as his Shepherd managing his sheep uh lvan became extraordinarily wealthy in fact later on we see that Yakov says to lean when I first came to you you only had a few sheep after I came uh you had many uh and this is actually uh a laan even admits this when after yov works for him for 14 years he convinces yov to continue working for him uh even though there's no more wives to give him or wives that he wants still he wants them to work for him because he knows that uh he's profiting from it and lean says to him uh I have assertain and I know it to be true that hasem has blessed me on your account because of your presence with me and yob says yeah you know how devotedly I worked for you and how few your livestock were when they were uh deposited with me for the little you had before I came has increased exceedingly as Hashem has blessed you on account of me so here we see that there's extraordinary amount of wealth and benefits that uh Yakov got as a result uh that lvan got as a result of Yakov this is a fulfillment of the Torah where Tor says promises those who bless you I will bless those who curse you will curse and yov is in essence going somewhere and he's bringing that blessing with him whoever is around him whoever helps him whoever suppor of him in any way gets a benefit of that blessing and we see that that has happened throughout all of history anywhere that the Jewish people went and settled the country the kingdom became profitable as a result of it much more than it could ever be without it and you know whether for example in Egypt and the tah we see that uh when YF got there they were in bad situation but after he got there they became the wealthiest strongest country in the world after they uh uh uh tortured the Jewish people for many many years they obviously lost everything as result we see the uh the Assyrians the Babylonians the Greeks the Romans uh the uh you know uh Americans the Nazis in Germany in Europe all of these countries the the Spanish uh Spaniards Turkish all of these different countries that uh had a Jewish uh Community there that was allowed to uh uh to live in uh more or less peace benefit ited from it drastically where their Nations became the uh most powerful nations in the world uh for a period of time every one of these nations you know but when they kicked out the Jewish people their Nations went to nothing you know Turkey used to be one of the most powerful countries in the world it was the Turkish Empire now they're just led by some terrorist that thinks he's strong uh in reality they're uh they're they're nothing you know Spain used to be the most powerful country in the world when they had a Jewish population but the the Spanish Inquisition as the Jews left so did all of the blessing go with uh the all of the other nations that I mentioned each one of them had a Jewish community in there that uh was uh was allowed to live there in in peace and enormous amount of blessing came with them and uh that's the blessing that aosh gave to our forefathers and each time they kicked us out each time they tortured us each time they murdered us they uh ultimately lost that blessing and went to a complete opposite extrem and uh and and got destroyed you know the uh the uh uh Greeks of today are not the same as the Greeks of uh you know what we learned about uh in in uh you know in in kanuka that's coming up in the next week the Greeks of today live in Greece the Greeks of the Hanukah story were in Syria so it's it's two completely different uh uh people uh they were part of the uh uh how the nation of uh of Alexander the Great was split up a big part of it went to Syria uh as far as the the Spanish of today are not the same as the Spanish of 500 years ago uh the Romans obviously are have turned into the Germans but again it's not the same thing uh all of these uh Nations the Babylonians and the Iraqis of today again it's not the same thing the the where they were and where they are right now are Worlds Apart Worlds Apart there is a DNA connection you can say there is a uh you know uh you know biological connection between them but as far as the uh an even spiritual connection but as far as their status in the world back then when they had the Jewish Community versus today it's a world apart you know many people like to talk about how the uh with modern day Israel how the uh uh there was half a million Palestinians uh or Arabs that call themselves who decided to call themselves Palestinians living in Israel and how they were kicked out uh you know and then they were really nice to us all the Arab Nations but this is obviously anyone that actually researches history knows this is a complete fabrication that's very easily provable first of all if they were kicked out how come there are several million of them still living in Israel how do you go from a half a million to several million and consider yourself being kicked out I'm not really sure maybe perhaps they haven't they're too focused on building missiles and not learning math it doesn't work so well half a million doesn't grow to several million uh and you're kicked out you say yeah but they got kicked out of uh their their houses yeah they lost a war when they attacked us they tried to destroy us they lost the war so we kicked them out of specific houses because they were terrorist cells like what what do you expect the fact that they were allowed to live is uh is is a miracle in itself uh but that's that's the funny thing is that Israel is the only country in the world where the uh were supposed to win the war but allow the enemy to live forever it's it's most bizarre thing in the world second thing is is that uh while Everyone likes to say no you know the the Jews lived in harmony with the Muslims and all the Muslims what are you talking about look at the statistic during the same exact time that we are you know accused of kicking out the Palestinians during the same exact time the Jews in Syria and Morocco and Lebanon and in all of the surrounding Arab countries Egypt what do they all do they kicked us all out nearly a million Jews were forced out of these Arab countries all of their money their possessions stolen from them they were kicked out and left literally with the clothes on their uh on their body many of them died uh you know during the journey many of them were murdered but literally nearly a million Jews were kicked out of all of these countries very few uh are left in any one of these countries in Iran in Morocco and all of these countries fractions of what used to be and in some cases zero is left used to be very very prosperous uh uh you know uh Jewish community ities in Iran in Morocco in Yemen in uh uh Libya uh where my ancestors are from uh where in um and Egypt and Iraq all of these countries kicked out the Jews nearly a million Jews no one likes to talk about that fact you know cuz don't let the facts get in the way of a uh you know of a big lie uh but that's that's unfortunately one of the things that uh the world ignores but at the same token we also have a very valuable Torah lesson to learn from there when the Jewish people were in Syria in Yemen in Egypt in Morocco in uh in all of these other countries the status of those countries was far more Superior peaceful and successful than where they are today far more like there's simply no comparison now even though these countries are still on the map the where their people stand today is has been a uh uh a tragedy to their own people because you see how the rest of the world has advanced the countries in Europe in the Americas you know in uh different parts of Asia the rest of the world is Advanced Middle East much of it has uh has stayed the same and the uh the difference between the uh rich and the poor has become so wide that either you're a billionaire or you're a slave like middle class doesn't exist in these countries and it's a uh this is part of losing their blessing so this again is another example of the words of the and always a fulfills his promises um the next thing we see that when uh when yobu makes a deal with lean to stay for another several years after he's already married the two wives uh he makes a deal with them that uh really is a deal that we've discussed in the past about how he got the pro prophetic dream where he was told how to uh uh meet the the different sheep and uh in in such a way where he's going to uh um increase the likelihood of of the sheep turning you know being born in a certain uh with a certain look and so on but really yaku is teaching us a couple of things here number one he says let my Integrity testify for me on a future day yobu says to lean let my Integrity testify for me on a future day what's this future day the future day happens 6 years later after yobu leaves Lavan chases him accuses him of stealing accuses him of cheating accuses him pretty much of everything that lvan did y says you know what go check everything find me a single pot that's yours go ahead and after he doesn't find anything yov you know repeats again look you tested my Integrity you questioned my Integrity even though I work so hard for you day and night I never cheated you in fact you cheated me my Integrity that I told you about six years ago that's going to stand for me look on a future day today is that future day so here we see that blessed is the one that says and does unfortunately this is one of the things that for my life of several decades I have yet to find a a person in the business world that actually does what he says he's going to do on a regular basis and quite frankly it's one of the uh T that I have uh whether it's a uh people I do business with or uh you know any type of things when it comes to money it's impossible to find people that do what they say they're going to do very very very difficult uh it's part of my uh personal tun and uh because it bothers me a lot because I work very hard to do everything that I say I'm going to do and because I work so hard on it I kind of expect other people to do the same thing and that's also part of the reason why I usually don't negotiate prices if I am you know if I need a certain service or I'm buying something I'm uh a little bit uh opposite of my Jewish brothers and sisters where I don't negotiate you tell me you want this for a certain price no problem all I want I'll pay you the price you want just do what you say you're going to do and unfortunately even though I do that I have yet to find a single person one person one person that actually does what they they going to do and I've dealt with thousands and thousands of people thousands of transactions and uh it's a uh it's a t the only people that I've seen that actually do what they say they're going to do are Torah Scholars that's the only people and it has a lot to do with has a lot to do with and fear of heaven when you don't have fear of Heaven you don't really have much value to the word words and the promises that you make so here we see that Yu is a uh is telling Lavan let my Integrity testify for me in a future day and we see that future Day come furthermore we see that this whole deal is a lot more than just a business deal it's an ideological deal it's an ideological debate between Lavan the idol worshipper the heretic the rash andu theik the holy where lean mocks this deal cuz yob says look I'm going to watch the Sheep all I want is any sheep that is born with specific spots on it that'll be my pona that'll be my pona and the way that it's uh easy to tell that you're going to check anytime you check my sheep you going to see that all my sheep are just the ones that have the spots so lean says indeed if only it will be as you say meaning he's already saying to him yeah but maybe you are going to cheat maybe you're going to do this maybe you really uh say you're going to uh only going to have those but you're going try to steal from me he's accusing him of really what he's doing that's the nature of of liars and cheaters uh they always accuse everybody else of their own crimes but really lean ultimately mocks the idea that Yakov is bringing him why he's saying what are you saying here you're saying that you are willing to live off of just the sheep that open that have these spots even though I'm going to take out all the sheeps that have spots right now and all the ones that you going to have are not going to be like how are you going to have all of these white sheep turn into ones with spots how you going to have all these Black Sheep turn into ones with spots thought you're I'm going to make it impossible so here you have an ideological debate between yov and lvan where lean says you're crazy for thinking that you're going to make a living out of this because I just took out all of your chances because biologically it's impossible for you to have these sheep you're lucky if you're going to survive yov says that's because you believe in science being an independent power of God that's because you think that you believe in your power being independent from God that's because you think that you're making the money you have the ideas you have the good timing you have all of the strength whereas iob I know that I am nothing and the P that I get is only decreed by a as the says in page 16 and and also on the same page 16 one is 16a one is 16b decides in how much how much money you're going to make he already decides in how much money you going to make and the Mish explains that changes that decision every single day and the B explains is that he changes how much P you going to make but rather how you make your P based on your actions the more you do ch the easier your Pon is going to come to you the more blessing the pona is going to come to you that was already decided on but either way lean doesn't believe that manages the P lean believes like most people today he believes that if he works extra hard if he works two jobs if he works long hours then he's going to make more money if he has good timing if he fights a good position for a store if he has a good product if he buys at a good price he's going to make more money Lan is like most people of the world today sadly including people in the Jewish Community where we think that we're going to we're going to decide how much pound we're going to make based on our cleverness and our sales pitch and our marketing material y says this is all bogus heresy all bogus heresy is the only one that's in charge of how much money you're going to make and therefore it doesn't matter what you do to me laan you could take out not just the sheep that we agreed on you could take out the sheep that we didn't agree on meaning even more to make it even more impossible for me to make Pala and I'm still not worried Hashem will still send it to me see here we see that Lan is mocking the idea of P being from hasem even though he said himself that yov I want you to stay with me because I know that I being blessed by hasem so this conflicts on one hand lean you're telling me that you want me to because you see that I'm blessed by hem and you're blessed by hasem because of me on the other hand you don't really believe you're mocking this deal because you don't really believe they'll make any money out of it because you just took out all of the theoretically uh the possibilities of me making money so so what's the truth here the truth is that lvan was a liar leavon was a con man leavon said to yov what ever he knew would trigger him to stay meaning he's saying yob yeah yeah no you're God yeah he's powerful that I'm making money so you like God okay I like God also just stay here he's like unfortunately people today they just pacify you they say what you want to hear in order to get something out of you but he didn't really believe in God he was an idol worshipper believing in himself believing in his uh in hisim that he had these different stat statues that he would uh uh make out of uh people's heads he would murder firstborn children and uh turn their skull into an idol that's what theim that ra stole from him because then these terim would speak and tell him the future lean was a uh wizard so he didn't believe that there is anything more powerful than him so when yov came comes up with this deal he laughs at it he laughs at it now we see that ultimately who wins this debate yov yov wins this debate as his Blessing from aad materializes so much so that he's able to make enough money not only to live but also as the says in chapter 30:39 that he formed for himself separate droves and did not mingle them with Lan's flock as I said earlier today he was making enough that he was able to give M from it but then laan and his sons didn't like it they lost the debate their ideology is in the garbage their truth has been proven to be a lie they see that yob is become successful and they start having a face you know a sad face a sour face sore loser face yov realizes it's time to leave and he tells his uh wives it's time to leave and just so you know even though I didn't complain about your father being a cheater he is a cheater yov didn't say anything that was not useful so even though he was cheated by lvan for the last 20 years he never complained about it even once because there was no purpose of complaining to his wives about it he's he doesn't want them to be sad that he's being cheated for their sake but after 20 years he finally tells him this and what's their response very simple replied 31:14 and they said to him that have we still a share an inheritance in our father's house that we should wish to remain here I meaning it's a question what are you talking there's nothing here why why isn't there a share why isn't there a share because it says we were we not uh considered by him as strangers for he has sold us to you for your labor and later on when you worked for him for payment he also completely consumed our money yeah we're not surprised that he cheated you why because he even cheated us and we're his daughters even the money that was our dowy he took and he stole from us and therefore although we have we do have property nothing was given to us by Our Father rather all the wealth that Hashem took away from our father was given to us only that is what belongs to us and to our children so now whatever hasem has said to you do said we are on the same page as you are dear husband this Lavan he's a rash even though he's our father he's a rash he didn't just steal from you he stole from his own daughters from us and everything that we have is only only because gave us only because gave us just like he said those that bless you will be blessed those that curse you they'll be cursed when lean uh you know hosted you he had blessing come to it but lean doesn't feel the blessing anymore why because he is too possessive too materialistic and and unfortunately ungrateful and everything that we have Hashem took from him so we see again the circle of life of how even though leavon tried to hurt Yakov mocked his deal made it impossible for him to make money ultimately not only gave yov his righteous wives and his kids and his servants and his you know is a uh possessions and his wealth but he also had the connection to a throughout the entire way continued to get stronger as he saw the word of a fulfilled because he never lost faith in him for even a moment despite the difficulty despite the difficulty he never lost a uh he never lost hope in hasem lvan on the other hand and the people that are wicked like LAN they never recognize the greatness of hem even when they get blessings hence the reason why lean in the end feels like he lost out even though he got blessed and he got a lot of good out of it he feels like he lost out why because even when he was everything was good he still didn't recognize the blessing so when things don't uh go good it's a double effect of uh of negativity so lastly we see that Yakov won the debate the ideological debate of believing in The One and Only God one and believing that God is the only one that provides for you one in believing that no one can help you or harm you other than one so you would think that after this becomes so clear that lvan despite making it physically impossible for Yakov to win physically impossible for Yakov to stay a winner because he would change the deal he changed the deal 100 times every time he saw it's not working out he would change it again and again Hashem would change nature to make sure yov wins so it was as obvious as and clear as day that Hashem is running the world here you would think that lean would do Chua and you go okay you know what you're right hasem runs the world Hashem is the most powerful uh and and and uh maybe I'll do Chua you would think after you show him that his idol worship is falsehood his his his ideology is falsehood everything his fault you would think that you know lean being a smart person high IQ would change but he doesn't in fact it's the opposite he gets worse after yov is leaves and lean catches up to him and asks him why did you run away this way like a uh like uh you're taking my uh daughters as if they are your hostages y tells him the truth listen I know that if I would have told you about it you would have probably tried to convince me again to stay or force me to stay and I know that you would have tried to take the money away or something and the reality is you cheated me so many times that is if it wasn't for Hashem the god of my father the god of Abraham and the one whom feared if if he wasn't in my Aid you would have sent me away empty-handed despite the hard labor and a toil so I left that's why I left that way lean says instead of him saying you know what you're right Hashem did help you I tried cheating you countless times didn't work what does he say like a psychopath that he is the daughters are my daughters the children are my children the flock is my flock and all that you see is mine he says to yov everything you have not just the daughters your children your money everything is really mine he's so delusional that instead of acknowledging the fact that you've provided him all the facts and the proofs to show that he is wrong that his ideology his beliefs are wrong instead of him admitting it acknowledging it he UPS the ENT and says no no no the opposite I won I'm right but you didn't prove even a single point you didn't what are you talking about now this may sound strange and you may even be wondering how could lean even earn a place in the tah as someone recognized when he's so stupid but the truth is that there are countless people in the world today just like Lavan if you see any of these people that are fighting right now about the so-called Palestinian cause you know the fre free Palestine these people that are defending it they completely ignore the facts and push all types of things that are lies propaganda now even if you put that aside anytime any one of these so-called Palestinian supporters are questioned with basic level fundamental questions about their beliefs about their uh uh um ideology about their uh principles about facts not only do they not answer the questions but they don't even acknowledge them as important questions but they start accusing the questioner as if the questioner is by biased and wrong and they literally refuse to answer normal questions and it's mindboggling that they're getting so much airtime and so much attention in the world because it's like this person cannot even answer a simple question anytime you ask him a single question immediately they attack you they attack you not with a they answer but they attack you for asking such a question as if they cannot be questioned it's the most bizarre thing I've ever seen in my life simply because it's like you would think that people would learn okay these people are just delusional stop putting giving them air time stop asking them questions because it's a complete waste of time all they want to do is just spew their venom into society as if it's a one-sided uh debate and that's it this is the Way of the Wicked they don't have to be right in order to win they don't have to be with the truth in order for them to preach as if they are the truth all they do is spew Venom and thereby show their position the moment their position is questioned they become even more aggressive aggressive and they start accusing people and threatening people and bringing all types of irrelevant information to confuse people and to get them to different uh uh uh different line of questioning and it's honestly very very disappointing of the inability of those that are questioning them whether it be uh you know different reporters or or or TV person personalities or so on literally they have they're incapable of speaking to these people and debating with them or even talking to them in a normal fashion it's it might as well just be a speech and it's not one not two but literally every single one of them on the other hand when you see the other side you see questions you see answers you see questions you see answers whether you like the answers you don't like the answers is irrelevant but you see normal types of discussions this is what lean was doing lvan didn't have normal discussions even though he mocked Yakov for believing that he could win even though he has nothing to stand on other than Hashem when Yakov was empowered by and he W instead of acknowledging this acknowledging that a is The One and Only God that runs the world he's the one that decides how everything will turn out instead of lean acknowledging this what does lvan do lvon empowers himself by saying no no no I am God everything you have is mine the daughters are mine your kids are mine your money is mine your possessions are mine your life is mine and I'm only allowing you to live cuz that could hurt you it's something that as bizarre as it sounds unfortunately it is very very common in the world today and this lvan does not stop there even when they finally uh want to strike out a deal lvan says it in the name swears in the name of his false god and Hashem why he he wants to compare his Idol to Hashem he wants them to be in the same sentence as we see in chapter 31:53 the god of abam and the god of n the god of n was an idol he says a the god of AR and the god of n shall judge between us so lvan is simply teaching us that if a person does not want to help thems if a person wants to ignore the truth there's nothing that you can do to deter them from that to change that even if you have all the facts even if you have the truth even if you have mosu himself come to them and tell them this is the Torah this is the written tah this is the oral tah what the rabbi is saying is 100% true it doesn't make a difference why they don't want the truth they actually yearn for the lie they want the LIE they want the delusion and it's not because they think that the LIE is true they know the LIE is a lie but they want it they're addicted to it they prefer it they don't want to deal with the consequences of living the truth a person that's not willing to help themselves nobody can help him that's what writes in 750 years ago if a person is is not going to help themselves all the m in the world is not going to help them so there are some people that even after you show them all the facts it doesn't make a difference they're still going to stay their way most Jews are not like that although they're tough pickles at times and difficult and sometimes even annoying certainly most Jews when they have pure if you show them enough information and enough knowledge sometimes even enough care and concern without knowledge you simply care about them show them that you care about them that's enough to get them to acknowledge the right path being the path that they should go on the path of sometimes you could win them in an argument by showing them the facts sometimes you can win them in a argument by simply showing them that you simply care about them like convinced a very wealthy Jew to keep Shabbat when he simply started crying as he was was shaking his hand when he found out that he was a and he cried so much that the guy saw how much the cares about him that he keeps Shabbat that he decided to keep Shabbat sometimes care is all you need sometimes words and uh proofs are what you need but those two things only work if the person wants to live the truth wants to improve wants to go in the right path but when the person does not want to go in the right path whether he's Jew or Gentile nothing can help him even more so when he's a gentile a gentile that is a uh uh used to his Wicked Ways like the isim and theim they don't want the truth in fact they hate it just like lean hated it there are some among them that want the truth and they end up going in the right path you know and some of them even become a very very great people like came from the nation of Adon before he converted to Judaism RAB AKA his father was a convert he came from adom also Ruth some of the greatest people that ever lived came from horrible uh uh families but they chose the right path and they ultimately became great people on the other hand some people came from great path but became really really horrible people you know you have a uh some uh uh people that started great like y a these were all enemies of davik these were all enemies of God yeah kak you know this was he was one of the uh richest people that ever lived and also part of the levie family and he was one of the people that would serve in the mishkan in the desert threw it all away why because of ego they didn't want the truth so it's important to know that if a person wants the truth promises to him if he's if you look for me you will find me but only if you look for me with all of your heart and all of your soul as he says in theph the book of Deuteronomy but if a person is not looking for AEM if a person is looking for lies then lies is what he's going to find now ultimately if a person sees all of this of what we learned today sees how manages the world so precisely how one thing happens in 20 years later the circle is complete Leah Rifka Waters the camels and her son many years later Waters the Sheep of her brother you know the uh Sarah uh makes a sacrifice to let her husband marry ha ra learns from that and she does the same thing and both of them have end up having children that from them come all of these different things you see how it works and it's easy to believe and it's easy to learn it's easy to enjoy and it's easy to really get from it so now the question is what's the difference between this being easy to believe and you applying it to your life the difference is here we see more or less the entire story we see what happened at the beginning of the circle we see what happened at the later stage or what we would call the end of the circle we see what happened we see how it started looked like a big terrible horrible difficult test but we saw ultimately the results and how it was good to have that test and the benefits of having it so it's easy when you read it in the Torah so how come when you have a difficulty in your life you don't get the decision from a court or some authority figure or even question that you wanted or you can't find a spouse or you you're not having uh success having children or you just lost your job or you can't find a job or you lost some money or you didn't make enough money or there's some type of tragedy and somebody dies somebody gets sick or you get sick and and and you hear from a Tora have have everything's okay and you really just can't bring yourself to have or you're just crying all day you wake up crying you go to sleep crying you're constantly stressed out why here you saw the whole story and you enjoyed it you're still watching two hours later but what about tomorrow do you know the difference the difference is the difference is here you saw the whole story in your life if you want to apply the story you have to also see the whole story but before it actually happens that's what having is it's knowing that everything that a is bringing into your life is the best possible thing that you could ever get even before you know what you're going to get and as we've discussed many times in our series and also in the Jewish asfa series is not like people think that if you think good things will happen then you're going to win the lotto or you're going to no is truly knowing that is giving you the best possible option that you could possibly have already now even if it looks terrible even if it feels terrible even if it's painful even if it is something that you can't see any good in having is having the confidence in hem that at the end of that Circle that other side of that Circle that's where the good is that you can't see right now but you have all the confidence in the world in that it will be there and it is already there just like it was in this week's P that we learned together where the beginning of the circle look like an awful terrible test but at the end of the circle we know that the outcome being so favorable wouldn't have happened had that test not been so difficult same concept in your Our Lives you have a difficulty of one or another as long as you serve a to the best of your ability each and every single day whether it's praying with kavana or praying at all whether it's giving and being generous whether it's publicizing Torah whether it's speaking the truth whether it's a uh uh being honest in business being good to your spouse being good to your children and doing the best you possibly can to build a Torah home whatever it is that Torah says you're doing the best you can to fulfill it if you're on that path and you can be sure that whatever obstacles is in front of you ultimately it's for your favor it's for your benefit but if you're doing things that are against hasem then that obstacle that difficulty although it is to your favor but it will be a different way meaning that it's AEM trying to change your direction he's giving you a certain pain a certain difficulty not because the this difficulty will lead to you finding some Diamond no no but rather because he need you to realize he's trying to get your attention you need to change directions how can you know which one it is simple if you're doing the will of hasem then you know that what's happening right now that's difficult is simply a test it's simply a a step towards where you need to be that is in your favor if you're not doing the will of hem then this is also a step that's in essence trying to get you to change your direction so you can get to where you need to be ultimately manages the world precisely he knows each and every single one of our thoughts there's never a reason for you to have any anxiety or worry about things being out of control because a is running the world even when you're sleeping even when you don't know the news even when you do know the news even when you think you know the future even when you acknowledge you don't know the future you don't need to waste your time serving the televisions and the the movie companies and the different social media personalities out there all you got to do is focus all your time and attention on serving a learning as T and following it and you will do your job properly and can continue doing what he does best which is running the world you manage your job Hashem is doing his job pretty good even without your help he did it before you he'll do it after you don't waste your time trying to do hashem's job Focus on focus on turn off your phones and all the other things that trigger you to try to run the world turn off all of these anxieties that make you concerned about things that are beyond your control and focus on things that you are in control of what do you control of serving hasem to the best of your ability and in so many words doing the things that you need to do whether it's working or it's a uh handling your kids or uh whatever whatever it is to operate your life the things that are within your control do and do it the best you possibly can be the best employee be the best boss be the best leader be the best follower be the best student be the best teacher whatever it is that you do be the best at it but be the best thing that you can be running the world you can't be that's A's job once you know your role and you know A's position that's when a lot of that anxiety will go away because you'll know that as long as I'm doing my job will bring me to a positive place thank you very much for learning with me bless each and every single one of you and uh we'll learn more next week and this will this will be a big for you not just for this week's but also throughout the year call to shom to everyone for amen amen