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What you'd do for your kids
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Our forefather Yaakov condemns a "crime" of his sons Shimon and Levi, but it's a "crime" in which he was complicit!! Our foremother affectionately known as "Mameh Rochel" is known by that title for good reason.
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hey let me start by saying that this
episode of the late partial show is
dedicated
to a very special young man who just
celebrated his bar
mitzvah ellie popak
marvel and may you
may do what you need to do bro shimon
and lady
two sons of our forefather yaakov once
wiped out the entire male population of
the city of shechem
yakai very strongly disagreed
disapproved
of what they did and in this week's
torah portion vayahi
in his last words to his children
yaakov reminds shema and levy of
their deed and strongly reprimands them
and even punishes them
curses not them but their anger
that they acted upon in slaying all of
those men
however when they were doing what they
did
some of the people in the surrounding
area came to defend the city of shechem
and yaakov himself took up his bow and
arrow
and warded off anyone who tried messing
with his sons now even though this is an
interesting
dynamic going on over here obviously we
could explain it pretty simply that
this is what a father does even though a
father might disapprove of what his
children are doing
if his children are in danger he's going
to help he's going to do anything he
needs to do to rescue them
we also see the bond that a mother has
to her children
perhaps even more powerfully from this
week's parashant
yaakov tells joseph make sure
to bury me in the future land of israel
in maharashtra
in fact he makes jesus swear to bring
his body there and
when doing so he brings up a
sensitive topic and starts a touchy
discussion
with joseph that surprisingly he never
had with him before
he says i know that you have in your
heart a little bit of resentment
and i'm kind of triggering that right
now by asking you and making you swear
to bury me in maharashtra in the holy
cave
in sevran where adam and chava
avraham and sora gitzhak and rifka are
buried and where
yaakov had just recently buried his wife
leia
i know yaesef says that this brings up a
little bit of
a not good feeling in your heart because
you know that i buried your own mother
ruckel
on the side of the road i didn't bring
her to this
holy resting place that i myself
am so desperate to be buried in
but let me tell you yousef jakob says
you should know i could have buried your
mother in marasa
but your mother didn't want to be buried
there your mother wanted to be buried on
the side of the road
why because she is the epitome of a
loving
mother many years in the future
her children will be exiled
and led into captivity along that road
they will pass by her gravesite
and she will be able to stick up for
them she will be able
to tell god bring them home she will cry
and object to the exile even though
they may have sinned and strayed so much
so that god himself decided
to bring them into exile she will stick
up for her children
she wants to be there in order to do
that friends
we're in five seven eighty one we're in
the new year
secular year of 2021 let us resolve
to view each other favorably
to help each other learn from one
another
let's get in mashiach mode increase in
joy increase in love
increase in terrorist study in
acts of true goodness and kindness and
like this we will demand from our
primordial father
to have mercy on his children and bring
us home
oh by the way my mother asked to mention
that uh i've been filming the late
partial show
in the chabad house in our lease over
here beautiful little chabad house
you get the point i've shown you enough
and
we are right now running a campaign a
charity campaign to cover the lease for
the year
and some other things so here's the link
you know what to do
we are ready to come home so demand that
in your actions by getting in
and demand it verbally tell hashem
demand from hashem
we want mashiach now