Vayishlach 5786: Winning Against "Achi" and "Eisav" - and Both

This great interaction between Jacob and Asov teaches us so much about our own approach to the welcome to shara for parish. We hear those words of Jacobino every year. Save me please from the hand of my brother from the hand of the question is obvious and brought many and the reb brings it as well. Why does it have to say Miyad twice? And why does it say my brother? Even if it could would say my brother Asov, which is redundant because he only has one brother, it certainly could say from the hand of my brother Asov. And so there's an element of two different things going on here which is very clear and explained in many different ways. The Rebah here says that Yakobu knew that this entire contact is the contact between Kadusha and the framework of Rah the framework of evil that will try to draw will try to destroy Kadusha and therefore split his camp into two and he made them into two different if he'll come and hit one of them then the other one will remain. There's an element of how to survive the battle against the atahara that Yakabina was waging right here. And this is how the Reb explains it. There are two camps in the service of Hashem. One is the camp in the service of Hashem. That's Kulo Kadusha. A person who approaches life perhaps he's learning full-time or has some other framework of staying within the framework of Kaduca and does not carry a regular job out there in the world. That is called one camp. That's Kulo Kaduca. And we could refer to that asy from the hand of my brother because that's a comfortable space. However, that space also has a that can drag us down. And the Reb warns of this in many places that it could have a person their mind could turn towards pine vus elements of how my mind serves me to say look at how great I am or whatever it will mean. how I use the Torah as a how I abuse the approach that I'm supposed to have when I'm to be only within the miscar the other person is involved in this world in fact tells us that the involvement in this world is the normal it's the normative approach as we know the garra says in the beginning of the fourth per in many people did like where they only were involved in no involvement in agricultural life at all and it did not work out for them and the gar seems to conclude that indeed the majority have to involve themselves in regular work. Here too there's a there's a very difficult and possible challenge when we're in the space of miad as again is davening for himself and for all of us save me please not just the physical save salvation of being alive but perhaps we could even call it the more important salvation of being connected to and not transgressing here I'm in the workplace here I'm involved in things that are not necessarily in their basic framework elements of kaduca but rather business and other types of matters. And so he's dominating because here there's also a tremendous possible downfall because indeed as we said it's the proper course of action for most but it's dangerous. It can drag us down. The Reb has a tremendous that he brings from the Bram in the name of an earlier that we know there is a concept of we should always involve ourselves in Torah even for the wrong intention and everyone knows from involvement in Torah for the wrong intention it leads to the right intention but says the opposite is true regarding the elements of this worldly matters. I go into it. But be careful. Even though you entered it for but it could end up shalom from the engagement, from the involvement, from the the amount of of of involvement that one can have that it could go down the wrong way. Again, as we said, it's the right way and it's for most people. It's a beautiful way as the mag of mis says and the Reb brings in many places. The world is filled with those things that you created. That's the simple shot of but the Reb says and the mag says means that the world is filled with ways for you to acquire meal. The world is filled with the ways of acquiring you. the workplace honesty. It's very good. But both sides are dangerous. Whether one is involved in the in the world of Tory and Aod only and then he could have the wrong sense of his own hottiness or his wrong intentions or if one is involved in the in the general world out there and even though he got involved for the right reasons, it could drag him down. This is what the Reb is saying is talking about when we're and later on and he says he'll come and hit me. This basically means mother and children together. But the Reb says that the concept of aim and he says this in other places as well about the concept of father's parents. That's the concept of shavos of thoughts of approaches. Banim means the expression of these thoughts through actions to the outcome the the offspring of my thoughts. And so he says for the one who's involved in only the power that is and the and the can come and destroy my shabos. It can send me to the wrong way or it could take me down in my actions. That's speaking particularly to the second camp. Either way, what Yakov was saying is that it's dangerous out there. Be careful. Be misperi and there I fulfilled all the commits. I overcame that kipa, that root of evil that is loving is different than that of as loving is that unadulterated negativity. But as is a mix as a confusion to the mixture of evil and and and and positivity that is the hallmark of what happened to us when man ate from the when we ate in Ganeden. What happened was the yates that was outside came inside and suddenly mixed together was good and evil. You see that kind of of of challenge can be the hardest of all of them. Love on I wiped him out already. I don't have to worry about him. But now my brother and is always called his brother. He sent to his brother. This is redundant. The Reb says we all know that he's his brother. He only has one brother. The element here is that there is a negativity that is mixed with the positivity. That's Asov. That's how could be so connected to Asra. That is the danger in the world that we live in where there's so many things mixed together. Buy something and you say, "Oh, I'm going to spend this huge amount of money in this great indulgent food." Sometimes it is shabas. Sometimes it's not so maybe it's just for my indulgence. It's irv it's a certain ga associated with the way perform mitzvah a certain ga per or or indulgence associated with what seems to be holy but it's ir to there's a mixture of good and bad indulgence showing off whatever it may be this is the hallmark of what happened to us in ganeden the rebba says the meal mashiach will be the one who comes to separate again the tove from the rah so that we can fight in a way that we don't have the challenge of the case of confusion but rather it's just against love and that as it were is a little bit easier the Meliah will come and and divide these that's why the Garan Sahedan says that Mashiach will only come to a generation that's either fully great or fully or fully you know guilty of crying ask the rebel that doesn't make any sense through all the generations with sadikim good things bad things now Mashia will come when there's only bad answer is that that means that the world will have been separated ated that there no longer will be this horrible challenge of the mixture of to of and that is who is and that's why says save me please from the mixture of my brother and of the negativity the mixture that looks like serve Hashem this way but then you get lost in it serve Hashem that way and then there's challenges the bottom line for us is that whether you view it as one camp and the other camp or a mixture of two camps. What Yakov is teaching us is that we have to be we have to that we should overcome the Reb says later in parash the Reb says that at the end of is a statement please save me please let the bad stuff get away from me that I shouldn't I shouldn't sin and please help me a that I should be successful. It's true that we're domining that people should be saved and we're domining that should be saved. The great salvation that we have to d for more than any is that should be saved from the help me whether I go in the path that's Torah but there may be a problem with my help me whether I go in the path that involves work and study work and it's such an admirable thing but it could lead to the the wrong thing the could lead to the wrong outgrowths and save me please hashem for the mixture on tovara that is the gullis that is the exile that is the time so far away from where we need to be separate the evil from the good so that we might be able to see good properly and Mashiach will show us the proper way chabas