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Join me as we learn together for
Thursday the fifth Torah reading in
paras chapter 34 verse1. Yesterday we
discussed as Yakov and his family
finally escaped from love and Anov and
they come to the city of Shrem that
Yakov purchased. Today we continue about
the Jewish people's living in the city
of
Dina. The daughter of Leia who has been
born to Yakov went out
to observe the girls of that region.
Rashi,
why does he call her here the daughter
of Leia? [snorts]
Why not bas
which generally the Torah usually refers
to any of the people he refers to the
father
because of the fact that she went out.
She was called the daughter of Leia
because she was similar to her mother or
had the propensity for going out for
living for leaving her confines. As it
says shmar
and went out to greet him which was she
went to greet when gave her the fl when
she gave ra the flowers that wim brought
in
the parable is given
like a mother like mother like daughter
and the son of theite theite
who was at the time the chief of the
region saw her and he took her
and he raped her and he abused her.
What's the double terminology? Sarashi
says
and he raped her in the normal fashion
and he abused her shalad and he was
intimate with her also in the unusual
way.
Verse three.
And he became attached to the daughter
of Dina Basakov, the daughter of Jacob.
Dino, the daughter of Zakov.
And he loved the girl.
And he spoke to the girl's heart.
What does this mean? He spoke to her
heart and trying to win her over as
we're going to see in Rashid.
Alan
on the heart of the girl.
words that will try to uh win her over
that she should be able to be convinced
to be with him. She would he would say
to her, "Look,
look how much f money your father spent
over a small little field.
I will marry you as a woman as a wife
and as a husband and you'll be my wife
and you can acquire all the fields and
all its the entire city."
Verse number four
spoke to his father
saying as follows
get me this girl as a wife. Verse five
and heard now that has defiled his
daughter
and his children were in the field with
the livestock.
and kept quiet until they would come
home.
Meanwhile, father went out to speak with
Yakov to him with him about his son.
Verse number seven.
And the children of Jacob came back from
the field.
when they heard that what did to Dina
and they became deeply agrieved and
upset
and they became very angry
because a terrible sin such a terrible
thing has been happening that such a
such a terrible thing disgusting thing
happened amongst them
that A daughter of Jacob, a daughter of
Jacob was raped.
Such a thing should not happen.
What does it mean?
Meaning that even the nations of the
world who had to observe the seven laws,
this was something that was not allowed
to be done
to rape and to abuse girls as did.
as one of the seven laws was to also
refrain from any type of uh adultery and
type of promiscuity and because of that
this was something that should not be
done even though that they were non-Jews
and they were noites [snorts]
verse number eight
spoke to them saying
my daughter deeply desire
My son deeply desires your daughter
and your daughter.
Please give her, I implore you, give her
to me, to him in marriage.
What does the word mean? Rashi says
verse eight, he desires.
He desires to marry her.
Verse nine.
And into marry with us.
Our daughters we will give to you and
your daughters.
You can we we will give you daughters
and you can take our daughters for
yourselves.
Verse 12 verse 10.
And you'll be able to live amongst us
and the land will be open for you to
enjoy
to settle here and to trade here
and acquire holdings in it as well.
Verse number 11.
And then comes and says to her brother
and her father,
let me find favor in your eyes.
And whatever you tell me uh to give as a
dowy I will give.
Verse number 12.
You demand you can go ahead and demand
for me exceedingly amount of high figure
of dowy
and gifts
and I will give it to you like you tell
me whatever the contract you say for
whatever gifts I will have to give. No
problem.
Just give me the girl as a wife. Rashi.
What does the word mohar mean? In this
case means kassuba. The amount of money
that they commit to give in the kuba.
The amount of money that a person
commits to give in marriage that he also
not only in marriage that he's going to
support the wife but also, god forbid
there is a divorce or death that there
will still be the money a prenuptual
agreement that they agree to.
Verse 13.
And the children of Jacob and answered
and his father
cleverly
and they spoke
that they for they have defiled their
sister Dina.
13A
cleverly doesn't mean that they were
lying but in a way of cunningly to be
able to get you know to deceive them a
little bit that they shouldn't know what
was going on and they said as follows
verse number 14
they said and they told them
that we cannot do such a thing
to give our sister
to a man who is not circumcised
this would be a disgrace for us
previous verse 13
that they defiled. This is not from the
words of Jacob to the people of
the verse is telling us the fact they
were saying this cleverly and they
weren't cheating them.
Why were they coming up with such a type
of plan was because Dina was defiled by
their by by was defiled by them defiled
Dina their sister
what does the mean the word disgrace
it's a kind of disgrace who had slain
a person that comes to embarrass
his friend who he tells him you're
uncircumcised
you're the son of an uncircumcised
person therefore the
The word in any place is a type of
disgrace where a person embarrasses
another individual by it.
Verse number 15.
This is the only way that we will ascend
to such a condition.
If you're going to be like us,
they will circumcise every male.
Then verse 16,
we will give you our daughters to you.
and your daughters we will take for
ourselves
and we will live together with you will
be for a singular nation
the word if you notice the
it has a
stressed is particular
as we mentioned previously that whenever
you have the which has an extra dugish
which has the extra data in it is
telling us because it is taking up a
it's taking the place of an extra non
that's not there because technically it
should be in a double nun. So really
there should be three nouns telling us
that we will give we will give. So the
new is we no which is the root word but
he puts the uh the dot in the to be able
to show that it's in place of an extra
if you look at the actual words of the
verse you will [snorts] find
in the condition that says to and as
well
in the response that the children of
Jacob give
that they put that you can see the uh
importance is on the fact of the
children of Jacob meaning that they use
that the children of Yakov are the ones
giving and are the ones taking they are
the priority here meaning that they
that the children of Jacob can take from
the daughters of
whoever they would like to choose
and they're going to be able to give
their daughters also So according to
their will and desire that they will
have the choice to give and to take
whichever they'd like
as it says
and we will give our daughters according
to what we decide
and your daughters we will take for us
it's according to what we wish as well.
And later on also before later on in
verse 21
you see that when
the people of when talk to the people of
their city they also again
however they switch it cleverly telling
the people the opposite
that we're the ones important and we get
to decide we're going to take their
daughters as we wish
and they're our daughters we're going to
give to them according to their desire
because they wanted that they should
accept that they should accept to
uh circumcise themselves. So therefore
they said that they are going to have
the ability to give their daughters as
well
verse number 17.
But if you're not going to listen to us
and you're not going to circumcise
and we'll take our sister, our daughter,
our father's daughter, which is our
sister and we will depart and have a
nice day.
And these terms were acceptable in the
eyes of
in the eyes of the son of verse 19.
The young man did not delay in carrying
out the
because he was desire. He desired to
have Jacob's daughter
and he was the most respectful person in
his father's household. Verse 20
came
to the gate of the city
and they spoke to the people of the
city. That's where everybody used to
gather by the gates of the city. That
was the place where people would get
together for meetings whenever they had
an announcement to make.
And they spoke to the men of their city
as follows. Verse 21.
These people,
they're fully at peace with us. They're
fully at peace with us. And they let
them live in the land.
They will bring good business here.
They'll make trade and the land that
we're in.
There's ample room here for them to hang
out and to stay and to make business
here. As
their daughters we will take their
daughters as wives
as wives
and our daughters
we will give them
according to our discretion as you see
he's trying to convince the people and
therefore he says it's our discretion
how it's going to go about rashi verse
21 what does it mean
bishim with peace shalim and with a
complete heart without any differences
of opinion. They want to can settle here
without any issues.
What does it mean that the land is ample
space
like a man who has a generous hand and
he's willing to give up?
You guys are not going to lose anything
from it.
They're going to bring business here.
They're going to bring a lot of business
because we have a lot of business, but
there's no buyers. But now that they're
going to come here, we have no worries.
that don't worry about the price going
up. Things they're going to bring
business and everything's going to work
out. Verse 22. However, for them to live
here, they have one condition.
But only on this condition will these
men consent
to live with us to become one nation.
We're gonna have to circumcise all males
just as they are circumcised. Verse 22.
This is part this is made up of two
words
because they aren't circumcised. Verse
after all he says mamm their livestock
and all their possessions and all their
animals
they will all become ours.
Let us just agree to their condition
that we should become circumcised and
they will live amongst us.
Let us agree
this thing to become circumcised
because of this they will stay together
with us and become one nation. Verse 24
and they listened to what had to say.
All the people that came out from the
gate of the city who were there gathered
and they circumcised themselves.
All the people that came to the meeting
at the gateway of the city.
Verse 25.
It was on the third day when they were
in great pain.
A Yakov and the two children of Yakov,
the two sons of Yakov, Shimi, Shim and
Ley, the brothers of Dina,
they took their sword,
and they came upon the city
confidently,
and they killed every male. Rashi verse
25,
the two sons of Yakov. Why is he telling
us that the two sons of Jacob? Don't we
know that they're two sons of Jacob? We
learned in the previous parish already
who Jacob's sons were. What he tells us
is they were his sons became
even though they were the sons of Jacob.
But still in all the verse is alluding
to us the fact that even though they
were the sons of Yakov they made it as
if they were strangers not the sons of
Yakov because
they did not ask Jacob permission before
they went and did this and not as sons
that would respect their father and
asked their father's permission they
went ahead and did it on their own.
The brothers of Dina
were older brothers were the brothers of
Dina. Why only him?
Because they sacrificed their life to
save her. Therefore, they were called
her brothers.
Confidently,
why were they so confident they were
able to they would be able to kill them?
Because they were in great pain from
their circumcision and they did not have
the strength to fight back.
The medish explains but
they were def they were confident
because they had the power of Yakov
behind them though they did not ask
Yakov's permission but they knew that
Yakov was praying for them and that's
why later on when he gives the city of
he says
that I conquered it my sword and my bow
and it's explained because of his prayer
that he was praying that they should be
successful
the Reb points out an interesting thing
that over here from this verse we that
bar mitzvah age is at 13 because Shim
and Ley were 13 at this point and the
Torah calls them ish a man. So from here
we know that a man is at the age of 13.
The interesting thing is that we find
that we use a place in the Torah. First
of all we are their father did not
necessarily agree with what they done
and we call them an ish a man. Why from
this verse out of all verses of the
Torah do we learn the age of bar
mitzvah? The Reb goes on to explain
because as we see the Chim and Ley
sacrificed themselves gave when Amirus
Nephesh sacrificed their lives to be
able to save their sister Dina teaching
us that the first obligation of a man
that are reaches the age of mitzvah that
every man should realize his obligation
to put his life on the line to save
another Jew regardless of its instance.
Verse 26.
They also killed and his son
they killed by the sword and they took
from the house of they rescued her and
they left.
Verse 27.
The children of Yakov. Yakov's sons came
upon the slain
and they plundered the city
that has defiled their sister.
What does it mean? They came to them to
take what they had as their clothing,
their jewelry, and all the things that
were there.
So too the explains
to undress to take whatever they had
from the people that they killed. Verse
and they verse 28
their flock and their sheep their flock
is their donkeys
and everything that was in the city and
everything that was in the field they
took. Verse 29.
And they took all their money and their
children and their wives.
They plundered they took in captivity
and they plundered everything they had
is and everything that was in their
houses. What does the word mean explains
their money?
So too you see it later on in the book
of Deuteronomy when it talks about a
person saying I have accomplished
everything.
my power, my strength made this entire
wealth or you also see it in in numbers
that the Jew made wealth
like it says and they left for others
their wealth
they took in captivity
means captivity
therefore the word is every time the uh
canellation and where you find the
letter is under the baseu it's not in
the meaning the word is where you put
the stress of the word either at the
beginning the first word or second word
telling us that this is
um that they took them in captivity
verse 30
you have taken away my peace you
have taken away my peace of mind
because you have made you embarrassed me
amongst the inhabitants of the landani
by theanites and the pites
say only a few people
they will gang up against me they will
attack me
and they'll wipe out my my me and my
family [snorts]
rashi
what does the word mean comes from the
word dirty. You have dirtied my name.
You have made my reputation bad or
you've made that I don't have a clear
mind anymore.
I don't have a clear mind. I'm
concerned. I'm afraid
the explains
the wine that was in the jug was clear.
You made it dirty. You shook it around
and because of that all the sediment
came up to the top. Why was this?
Because since there was a tradition by
the Canananites
that they were going to fall in the
hands of Jacob,
they would say when was the guarantee
was only going to be later on when
they'll inherent the land
and therefore they were quiet and they
didn't say anything. But now that you
guys are starting to make a ruckus,
you're shaking up the sediment. Things
are coming to the top. They're going to
say, "Oh, he's starting to get us now.
We should be worried."
Misper. What does the word misper mean?
Few people. What does respond to their
father when they responded?
Should we treat our sister like a woman
who is not protected that she's away and
nobody protects her? Is she Hefker?
Rashi uses the terminology.
Is she's everyone's property?
Is our sister Hefker that anybody wants?
Hear means that anybody can come and
take her. No, without protection.
Our sister this is our sister.
We got to watch over.
Chapter 35 verse one. Now the Torah
comes back and telling us about Yakov on
his way back to B.
Yakoving God comes to Jacob and he tells
him get up and go to Bv
and settle there and live there and make
an altar
to the God who has appeared to you
when you were running away from your
brother.
Cut up and go. What happened here? Tells
us here why is God coming to tell him
this? because you delayed
the way you were then punished
and therefore was taken away because you
promised to bring make an altar and
bring a sacrifice and you delayed in
that therefore this episode of Dina
happened to you.
Verse two
said to his household
and told the people that were with him
remove from amongst you from all your
possessions all the idols
that are amongst you and purify
yourselves
and change your clothes.
What does it mean? How do they have
idolatry? Where were they getting
idolatry there? Therefore, he tells them
where do they have it from
that you own from the booty that you may
have collected when you ransacked
purify yourselves from the idolatry
and change your clothes. What is he
telling them? Maybe you have amongst you
garments that belong to the idolatry or
that was used for idolatry. You got to
get rid of it. Then you shouldn't have
it with you. Verse number three.
of we will get up and we'll go to
make alter
to God who has answered me in my time of
distress and he was with me
on the journey that I took.
Verse four, and they gave it to Jacob,
all the idols that they had in their in
their possession and the nose rings and
earrings
name
and the earrings that were in their ears
buried them under the term
that was next to
verse for
what kind of tree was this? A tree does
that not that does not bear fruit
thereby that if somebody were to want to
have fruit from it won't be that he's
having pleasure from idolatry
next to not that it was with
verse five
and they traveled
and they set out to travel and the dread
of God was fell upon all the people
around them
and they did not pursue Jacob. Over here
we're learning and then this is the
verse where it talks about and the word
tells us gives fear. The fear of God is
comes upon the people around them which
tells us that by us learning also causes
the fear of God and the nations around
us that we are protected and protect
ourselves and the Jewish people by the
study of
verse six
and Jacob came to the place called
where is it in the land of he
and the entire people that were with
Verse
seven.
And he built an altar there.
And he called to the name of the place
which was
because over there God revealed himself
and he was fleeing his brother Aske.
What does that mean? How do we explain
this verse? So explanation is as
follows.
God is in Bil
revealed his divine presence in a place
called Bale
and this is what he's coming to tell us
here. Why? How? And this is missing a
base in the beginning bale because you
have at times there are words that are
missing the letter B
which tells us what the word is all
about. In the beginning it's called the
Bashim that tells me what is this word
telling me how I translate it.
And this is sometimes where you find
that the base is missing.
Why does it say in plural? That God
revealed to him many times.
We find this many times
that name of God is used in plural.
The masters of
any time. In fact, the name of Alikim is
plural because that is a terminology of
discipline and judgment and severity. So
therefore, it's here used in a plural
terminology.
And no other of the names
of God will you find in a plural
terminology only not any other one.
Verse eight.
And the vor died. Who was the vorrika?
The nurse. The wet nurse of Rifka.
And she was buried on and she was buried
below baselin
under the tree
under on a plateau.
And they named that area that plane alus
the plane of weeping.
So the rashi asks why all of a sudden
does it start tell us about the which he
died? What's going on over here? So he
explains as follows
what's the have to do with Jacob's
family when he's coming back from
told when he left and I will send and
I'll call you to come back
she send to tell Jacob it's time for you
to come back law tells Mam to leave
there and to escort him and what
happened to me And she died along the
way.
This is from the words of
where did she die? That was on the way
back. So she was the one to tell Jacob
it's time to come back. On the way she
died. Where was she buried? What does it
mean? Under
the city was on top of the mountain.
She was buried on the bottom of the
mountain. And that's why it's called
that means in the plane in the valley.
It was like a valley or plateau
on top where the mountain comes to a
point
was buried on the bottom at the end of
the plane
and the plane of B was called
says
because over there at that time Jacob
was also notified about an second
episode besides the passing of Dvorra.
He was told about a second morning which
was
he was told that his mother died
the word in another language means
another
because why did the Torah not tell us
about the time of her passing [snorts]
that the people should not curse him and
say
that the womb which from him came out
from them came out of
therefore the Torah does not um
the therefore the Torah does not
publicize what happened there as well.
Meaning that because it was disguised
from Yakov and his children about her
passing, therefore it wasn't that people
should say, "Oh, look at this woman who
she's the one that Asov gave birth to."
Others also explain in another place
that this was also not to embarrass
Yakov that he wasn't there to bury his
mother. Another interesting thing that
other commentaries explain as well that
this place where Dvorah was buried was
the same place later on with the second
Dvorra. The judge D'vorah in the time of
Borak, she sat under a tree and judge
the Jewish people. This was by this
exact place where the first Dvorra was
buried.
Verse Nikim
and God again appeared to
And he came to him and he blessed him.
What does it mean?
This is the second time in this place
once on his way to and once on his way
back
and he blessed him. What did he give
him? He gave him the mourner's
comforting on the mourers at this point
because his mother passed away. So
therefore he was con offering him
condolences.
Verse 10.
And God said to him,
"Your name is
your name will no longer be called only
but rather your name will also be
Israel."
And he called him, he named him Israel.
Your name will not only be called.
What's he coming to tell me is
a name of a person who comes connivingly
or deceitly
what's your name going to be which is
like a minister or an important
individual
verse number 11
then God said I am the God Almighty
be fruitful and increase
therefore Therefore, be fruitful and
increase and you shall be a nation and a
community of nations will be from you
will come from you and kings
will be born from you. Verse 11,
what is he coming to tell them? What is
the word special name of God's name over
here?
I am worthy and I'm able to bless you
because all the blessings come from me.
Didn't Jacob have a nice large family by
now? He already had 11 tribes and one
daughter
because still has not yet been born.
Even though at this point was already
pregnant still in all he was giving him
the blessing that he will have another
child a nation which is referring to
which is going to have which will be the
completion of the 12 tribes goim other
nations as well because who's the other
nations
which will eventually come to Yoseph and
they are going to be considered as part
of the 12 tribes
and kings will come from your children.
This was referring to and his son is
that was the king after him
which were from
because
hasn't yet been born. He's saying that
will come from you which is referring to
and the kings that will be born from
this verse.
Aar explained and extrapolated
when he made was king souls after died
and he made king and not which came from
the tribe of Yehuda. His explanation was
because it says kings plural.
So too also the tribes explained this
and they were
um they were able to bring back the
tribe of after the episode of which then
they put them aside and they banned
them.
as it says
because they said in the book of Judges
we have the stories that nobody should
marry into the tribe of but then
afterwards they brought them back
because he was part of the tribes
if he was not part of the tribes then
God wouldn't say that kings will come
from him because God says that kings
will come from him we should bring them
back and remove the ban and allow to
marry into the tribe of
goaly a nation and a nation of nations
nations is that his children are going
to do
they're going to be like the other
nations of the world the other 70
nations
and all these are going to be 70 another
explanation of this is
because his children are going to bring
sacrifices
in the time when the B mikdesh was built
once before that the holy temple was
built people were able to have private
altars in the backyards once the holy
temple was built and it was the altar in
the holy temple in Jerusalem. Nobody was
allowed to bring sacrifices privately
and therefore he says when it was
prohibited while the others did not
bring other nations. They brought
sacrifice where they want that they
brought in every place pimeio like in
the time of Elijah the prophet that only
then was he allowed to bring uh he was
only allowed to bring in that place
because that was a temporary ruling that
he was allowed to be able to disprove of
what was going on at the time but
generally not. And therefore he's
talking about a nation amongst nations
that they have different laws while
there are other nations in the universe
as well the 70 nations. However it's
referring to this idea of the sacrifices
as well. This concludes the Torah
reading for Thursday the fifth Torah
reading of parishes.