Vayetzei - Staying Connected

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold Wegg recorded with oceans never-ending assistance in Rome on pitch emission 5780 2019 this week's partials partials I ate say the very beginning of our parsha since I ate see a commercial viola Haruna Yakko is on his way to establish the Jewish people to give birth to the twelve tribes of the people of Israel and he goes to her and he goes back to his mother's house his grandfather's birthplace his grandfather's the place where he grew up and he's on his way post-acute Alafia you've come in welcome I Ellen Sean he reaches the place and he sleeps there akivasha Shemesh the Sun had set he kept me on a hammock on posix says verse says something very interesting that we may not have noticed if not for the fact that there's some interesting magician on this bus like he took from the rocks of that place oh yes MRI shows up and he put it by his head use it as either used as a pillow or he surrounded himself with a rock to protect himself from animals game Vice Cove bamako who so he says he went to sleep in that place bristles go on to tell us the famous dream the famous vision of Yaakov avi know that he saw the Seulong Jacob's Ladder then after the whole vision of sham promises him what he promises him Bostick says in post-acute has Josh came yacuma by karai you got herself Avinash sure Samira show yourself Yaakov got up in the morning and he took the stone that had been by his head okay so went from pleural stones to one stone I asked my son what save oh he made it into a mat saiva a marker a spiritual marker by each section already poured oil on it he made a promise coach Miroku you know we made a deal soon as people - um - um should protect him bring him back to Eretz Israel and this rock is going to be by Ivan as a specific 22 puzzle called a so I haven't as I said something might say but yeah basically Kim it's gonna be a house of God this was the foundation stone Jara bias on the Temple Mount okay so it's very interesting what is this stone what's the stones what's the stone so there's a Rashi here which quotes am a Jewish and the meddra SH is not exactly as Rashi quotes it I'd like to read you the measure inside matters is amazing measure says like this what was what were these stones by you cough me a veneer Mach cone review them in the camera button there's a mock like as three ways I'm not gonna get into all three of the shooters of three opinions but reviewed I marry Seamus Ravana no Tom there were twelve stones there he took the twelve stones all Meyer he said like this car goes recover who show mommy massage bottom God decreed it was known they had a couple of animus Sarah had a tradition that the Jewish people was going to consist excuse me have twelve tribes I remember him in done yes I mean the Yahoo said himself Arvin didn't have twelve tribes yes I didn't have twelve tribes he wanted to see if he's going to be the one to have the twelve tribes so I said like this i nee amiss oculus hinged a mystery Ivana Missouri Deanna shiny mamma jamma so schwate he said if I take these twelve rocks and the twelve rocks combined into one Rock then I know that I'm gonna be the one who's going to birth that's going to stand up twelve tribes Kevin China South who you'd based on bottoms of the other shoe mommy debase want him the moment that he saw that all the rocks came together when he woke up he saw that all the rocks had become one so he realized he knew that he's going to be the one to bring about twelve trot bring twelve tribes into the world and that's exactly what happened now this mesh I think is very difficult to understand and for a number of reasons first of all okay how did he know that there was this what weird this tradition come from we're gonna actually see that in siren and see the tradition what it was based on there were a few other places where there were twelve tribes you Schmoll at twelve Nassim and and was riff really am sorry riff his mother had riff his parents is her father had 12 children altogether 8 children from regular wife for from concubines just like yak who was going to have as well so there was a tradition already and based on that tradition we need to understand ok so that's true by your smell it's true about maybe riff cos parents but who says that that's going to be the case for yaku Avena fur for Jacob for Klaus real hot how do they know that just because it happened there it's gonna happen to them what is the idea the number 12 I'm not will get so much into that but we need to understand that as well what his idea of 12 tribes why did they have to be 12 tribes but a deeper question that I don't understand that I want to understand is what was this test what was the idea behind the test and why did it happen now why did Yaakov take these 12 rocks and why did he even want them to combine if anything I would think it should be the opposite he should take one Rock and see if that Rock separates into 12 he wants to know if he's going to have 12 tribes why does he take 12 rocks and bring them together instead of trying to get 12 different rocks out of one Rock what's the idea and what is the idea that it's happening at this point in Yaakov inos life Yaakov is going off to Quran he's leaving artists role at this moment he decides is this the moment I'm going to so the Posche upshot is the simple understanding is because he's headed out now to find his wives to find women to marry or a woman to marry didn't know perhaps that he's gonna have four wives but he was on his way so so we could say push upshot simple understanding we could say that he was on his way to establish his own household to have children so he wanted to do a test but I want a deeper understanding of what is the concept of why he's doing it at this point on the cusp of leaving Eric's Easter oh that's that's what I won't understand that's what I want to address the begin to understands we need to take a look at another metric measures at the end of partial aha Hashem is promising our movie know that he's going to have a child named years clock and I reserved a leash Marla Shem says don't worry you Schmalz going to be a great person as well but there's a difference between them says the Madras the public says that's breezy alchemist it's like I'm going to uphold my covenant with Isaac I'm rabbi yitzhak interestingly it's a reviewer who says the following see the verse says called aylesh 50s Welsh name SR there's a difference between how he referred to the children of Yitzhak really Yaakov Aveeno and how he refer to the children of Ishmael Yeshua as 12 Nasim he has twelve Prince's who come from him but when we speak about the Jewish people we speak of them as twelve tribes what's the difference between twelve tribes twelve sons the twelve swattin a Levine egg Veera the twelve schwa Tamar a reference to the children of the master - sorry I mean it was Sarah and she had her maidservant which was Hagar had Ishmael call a Lachey's roshni Masseria Luba nag Veera Vishwa anima animus or Li Santa seemed he doesn't have 12 Shabbat Tim didn't have 12 tribes he has 12 princess what what's the idea what's the difference between a prince and a tribe what's the idea so in the posh upshot the simple understanding so the Prince sounds really good shave it is a tribal two tribe interestingly also will soon see that the word shavette the word Mata both of those towards me in the tribe but both of those tours also mean a stick a staff what is the idea that a shavette is a staff a shave it is a is a stick of some sort a tribe is a stick with his idea will soon see you know what the difference is has the magic to between a Nazi and a shavette says like this hey commander at all mine is Siva rock the Geshem onion the word Nassim doesn't just mean a a prince the word not lin so means to raise up there's something else is raised up it's a cloud the word nazi' can also mean a cloud the verse says in proverbs chapter 25 verse 14 refers to clouds to wind terrain uses the word nazi' to refer to a cloud so the clouds on there nothing they have no they have no my mushrooms they have no they have no materiality they're not significant okay but so when it comes to you Schmo so he's referred to as 12 me see him he's 12 tribes I'm sorry as twelve Prince's but not twelve tribes about a LaMotta is Kumada a tomar in regards to the twelve tribes of the people of Israel their matter is there something solid they are a stick they are a branch commander Tamar shrewish mutters I'm Ursula verse says Habakkuk chapter 3 verse 9 there's an idea that that there are there something powerful there's something solid just like a shoe and oath is something real it's my word when I make it significant and real so to the matos the staffs stance of something significant and real okay but we need to understand what is the idea why why is a shaded of staff why is a shaven a tribe also a staff okay but we certainly clearly see that the difference between Shmuel and Yaakov Aveeno Ishmael at twelve Prince's who were not solid who were not really were just ethereal as opposed to Yaakov twelve tribes they were real they were solid now the measure shines off with something very in context difficult to understand the connection there's bricio chemistry of soccer in front of a shimmer of EDI session of a bear so sir I'm going to I'm going to uphold my confident with the Alexis Runa BRE shamera of edy that I'm going to uphold this covenant that doesn't sound like it has anything to do with this statement but he says that year was a shun embarrass it was a leap year right on the Jewish calendar so the Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar but it's connected to the solar calendar because we want Pesach Passover to always be in the spring it's the holiday of the spring so the lunar calendar is 11 days shorter than the solar calendar every three years you have an extra 30 days you've moved back to you've lost a month so we have an extra month of the year that we add every two to three years seven of them every 19 years in order to align and keep aligned the lunar and solar calendars okay so that's called a leap year that year the year that you chuck was born was a leap year says the Madras what does this have to do with upholding the the brisk the covenant with the it stuck well polling the common with Avram it was a leap year okay the Gemara Michonne says why we mean to know that it was a leap year because the Malakand the angels came in in took his time six months later if it would have been pay stuff pay so he was born in so was born pace huh it's only six months it's not enough time for a child to be born to be normal so there was a leap year system or in Rosh Hashana seven months but what does that have to do with us what is the idea of a leap year in this context we need to understand the concept of the leaf here we need to understand the concept of the shavette of the tribe being connected to the staff and the idea here is like this is an amazing thing very interesting very deep the idea of a shavette what is it a staff what is a stick it's a branch it's a branch that's an extension of the tree it comes out of the trunk Yaakov Aveeno you must have 12 children once that 12 children who are extensions of himself I'm from Aveeno my two children a douche Marlin you suck the it's leggy car the Hazara you suck is the extension of Avram of you know but now you smile you suck has two children Yaakov and Asaph he has two branches but one of the branches breaks off that's that's not a motto that's not a shave it you can't have you can't have a shave it a tribe which is an extension of the is a branch of the tree you can't have that if one of the branches falls off Yaakov you know all twelve of his sons meet us Ashley mow all 12 of them were an extension of himself they were all said he can they were all righteous therefore when we speak of twelve we speak about the concept of well they're really it's really 13 pies at 13 because they're all attached to the root the trunk itself yeah Covino himself with the the spiritual and physical progenitor of his 12 children of the 12 tribes of the 12 branches so he himself is the trunk he's the 13th aspect he's the combining aspect from him call it comes all of their spiritual power so that's the 13th it's the concept of the number 13 okay so born to understand that we're gonna we're gonna see that that's the essence of what we're gonna speak about here that they were all combined what his idea of the twelve rocks being combined it means that all twelve of his children are going to be one they're all going to be a piece of him an extension of him okay now what is the idea of the thirteenth aspect in regards to the months of the year the ever the extra month of the year is a spiritual month it's the month that we have a gula of pouran it's connected to the month of Nisan it's deep I'm not gonna get so into it but the idea the 13th aspect is the combining aspect is the extra spiritual aspect which is Yacouba vino and which is also um yo safe and Lavy I'm not gonna get into that see my safer perfectly imperfect for more of a discussion of that but the idea here is an amazing idea you smile they capped it they kept by the lunar months as well right they have 12 months but Ramadan can be it gets pushed back by ten days every year so it can be in different seasons of the year they never account they never try to align their calendar with the solar calendar but there's something deeper about that because what it really means is that they don't have that's 13th aspect that's spiritual aspect your Schmalz 12 nnessee him they were their own things there were their own princes there were separate beings they were separate and disconnected from their grandfather Avram Avena from that spiritual legacy okay so that's that's the difference between 12 and 13 and that's the difference between between yesh Melanie's sake so now we have this idea and by the way I saw Sean I'm embarrassed hi so this is the depth of what's going on over here this is what this measure is saying that there's something spiritually powerful it was just it was an extra every year it was it was and there was an extra month there was that connection to the 13th aspect which was something that Yitzhak would have this breezy alchemist Yitzhak I'm going to establish I'm going to keep my covenant with Isaac okay so that's the idea in this Meldrick that's the idea of the number 12 and that's the idea of the number 13 now coming back to Yaakov evene who tried to understand we saw before that Yaakov he you know why didn't he break it why didn't he look for the rock to be broken into twelve parts and then you would know that that rock was going to be he's gonna have children or extensions of him or twelve different aspects of himself why didn't he why didn't he do that as a test and why did he do this test here so there's an amazing thing in regards to the test being the test being at this point in time it's really important to understand Yaakov Aveeno is leaving artist row and he's going to hooks Lars now we need to understand what is the difference there are many differences but what is the difference between Aaron see strong roots Lars Eric sees trouble is a place aeneas Chemeketa are Shannon's eyes so to speak my chakras Shana shams eyes are constantly on the line of use or what is that what does that mean it means that artists are also placed a greater oneness with a coach for who it's a greater closeness to Hashem when person is energy strong if person is spiritually sensitive they can feel it you walk into your shell I am that's the place of even more close to some more connectedness see we shall I am is an ocean Shalom it's the wholeness it's complete it's complete because we're one with ha kodesh bara cool when we come the artsy's relative a person lives in Eretz Israel there's a higher spiritual standard energy so there's a higher level of connection to a coda sparkle in the land of Israel a person needs to lead our distrust sometimes because they have to go to a place of P root the place of goods arts is the idea of separation this idea of it being separate and distant from a Kaddish for who being far from a college brothel being far from God that's idea I've akka vovinam he's living arts Israel but why is he going to host arts there's gonna be now appeared in himself a separation within himself he's going to have twelve tribes gonna have 12 children it's going to be a good word for it but splitting up of his caucus an efficient two twelve parts right whenever we have spirituality being brought down into this world so it's it breaks down sometimes the number is a number called seventy sometimes the number is a number called twelve in this context the idea of the number twelve is that there's time we speak about months there's 12 months we speak about the day there's 12 hours of the day 12 hours of the night time has broke really time ins in a in a higher realm time is indistinguishable we speak about Chris Rock who is being timeless God is beyond time is above time but in this round we have 12 months we have 12 hours in the day 12 hours in the night time is broken down into 12 parts so to in regards to the schwa time when ya Covina's going to hold starts there's a breakdown there's a separation of the wholeness and that is what he's concerned about he's concerned about there's this breakdown I'm about to have children are they all going to be extensions of myself am I gonna be able to get home in peace so it's an amazing thing when he force the oil onto the onto the rock as I quoted to earlier so he says heaven as I said sure some team at Sevilla basically came sorry the previous poss of the shaft Eva Shoen wabi-sabi he's making he's he's pronouncing upon this rock I want to return in peace to the house of my father an amazing statement from Yakima Vina what is he saying he has this bris like we saw in the in the magician left huh he asked this coven Shem which is that connection to God it's that inextricable in a being inextricably bound to occur - walk with that oneness but he's going to a place of distance yourself wasn't allowed to live air two surrou he wasn't allowed to distance himself from a sham he was always connected Turkish Berkeley he was offered as a carbon as a sacrifice or sham he was completely bound the icater bound him to Hakadosh barukh who to God he couldn't leave your earth Seastrom Yaakov is going to who starts because that's where his wives are that's where his destiny is that's where it's going to be making the twelve SWAT team is going to establish the 12 tribes 12 branches of himself but he wants to see I'm going out there am I going to return am I going to return in peace am I going to have a wholeness and I'm gonna return to the house of my father that's what concerns him he knows he's going to go out there he's gonna have children are they gonna be extensions of myself are they gonna be attached to the to the root you me attached to the trunk of the tree are they gonna be branches they're gonna break off that's what he wants to know is he gonna get back in one piece or his children his twelve children the 12 tribes going to be one he needs to know that right now as he leaves artsy's well go to a place of P Road that he's gonna be able to get back here in one piece and that's how it takes the twelve rocks that's what concerns him wants to know are they gonna combine into one and that's the promise of a cause for who in the dream that yes you will succeed not only in this godless not only in this exile you will succeed in all of the exiles welcome I love the yard and boy that was the dream that he had while his head was upon this rock that was made out of the twelve tribes that had come together and combined they had come together because they were going to remain to adhere to the route they were going to remain with their fidelity to the truth to the oneness to the breasts of the Covenant of yitzhak of our American Yaakov and that is the depth of what's going on over here that's the difference within the Jewish people and you smile that's the difference when y'all go vanish man Yaakov has 12 children or all attached to him remain attached and they return to Eric C Sorel in the end that's our rights it's our birthright why because we remain attached to a Kodesh bahu to the extent that we remain attached to our spirituality into God we deserve to be here your Schmoll doesn't deserve to be here why why don't they deserve to be in the Land of Israel because they don't didn't retain their attachment to the promises of our mobility they were their own people they went their own separate ways and therefore they don't retain that attachment in that connection to accoutrement who only the Jewish people have that promise only the Jewish people have that covenant only the Jewish people are those 12 tribes those 12 sluttin those 12 stabs 12 branches of the tree one more point which is really interesting is that why is it that he takes a stone why doesn't he take a piece of wood why doesn't he take a what why is he thinking stones in order to combine them why don't you take some some dirt why don't you take uh you know he's wallet some coins this is very interesting I noticed that the word Evan which is a stone if we look at the word Evan we can notice that there it's made up of towards I've and been father and son now I'm not sure exactly why a stone is referred to as a father and son but certainly it's very interesting that we see that that he specifically took stones because he wanted to see if they have and the ban would be one and Evan a stone combines the word Ivan Ben into one he wanted to see if his sons would continue his legacy and therefore use stones I want to bless you and I ask you to bless me as well because if Sparkle should help us then we should be xenca to be able to recognize that spiritual power that since inside of us that attaches us we are not our own beings we are not separations Tulio's were not separate we're attached to him we are attached to the Jewish people we are attached to the root of everything we are attached to the root to the trunk of Yaakov II know thank you so much for listening I have wonderful Shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.opm.gov/life [Music]