Vayishlach - Numbers Matter | Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

hi this is dski and welcome to the para in five in five minutes we try to give you an insight into the paraa and it is where Yakov comes back to and sends a message to his brother ASV who is in har and says listen I know you were a little upset at me from that whole bras thing but you know I've come back toel with my family and I hope bygones could be bygones and everybody's okay I hope we're all okay and he gets a message back and says well actually Ace of theide is going to come and visit you with an army of 400 men and Yakov becomes terrified now why was it necessary to say an army of 400 men why didn't he just say that he came with an army that would have been enough well you got to give me the exact count what was the significance of 400 numbers are significant in the V says if you want to know where the secrets of Torah is go to those paros where they just list a whole bunch of numbers that's where all the secrets are hidden numbers are significant yeah um the M says that in the MAA after the whole story with korak how many people died in the plague 14,700 that was not random obviously because the Mal killed everybody at the same time right so 147 14,700 if we take off the zeros it's 147 that's how old Yakov was when he died and said Ley will not carry my iron because he'll carry the iron of Hashem so when you fight against the decision of Ley and the kohanim you're going against what yakob did at his death at 147 so there's a reason for every number say 400 is interesting number Ephron in sells the for 400 shekels and in fact after that Efron's name is written without a v so that in gatri equals 400 abam is told we're going to go down to MIM for 400 years and now we hear that asov is coming with an army of 400 men coincidence I think not says 400 is the Gia of RA evil eye and 400 is the number that is as far away from a KES as you can get because you know we use our letters as numbers unfortunately it only goes up to T which is 400 which is why when you want to write a big number it's tough T Shin lad you know you're spelling it out with all these letters because we don't have bigger numbers than that it ends at 400 cuz 400 is as far away as you can get from AES K created the world in and tough is it's what Yakov was afraid of was not the Army I mean he beat up asa's Malik he was afraid of the ion ra where ASA was going to come in and say so here's my younger brother how's it going wow you got two wives weren't one of those supposed to be mine yeah wow look at all these kids look at all the money look at all the animals wow you're doing pretty good kid with my bras that's what yakob was afraid of so says Rashi what did he do he sent him gifts more and more and more until as Rashi says Lal Lal in Russia to fill the eye of this Russia that he should be able to turn around and say I also got the way to beat a ra the way to defeat jealousy is if you use what you have to be able to help other people people are jealous of you when they see you have so much but when you use that to help other people then other people understand that there's nothing to be jealous of because whatever you have you're happy to share it with others and use your largest in order to be able to make the world a better place to be able to make people better that's how you remove the iron ra Efron was 400 cuz all he cared about was the money here's a person who just lost his wife looking for a grave to bury him and all you can think of is how much money can I squeeze out of him that's the kind of person you are then all you are are the 400 shekels there's nothing more to you and that's what the 400 is is the iron raw the way we can defeat an iron raw is with an iron Tove chabas