Weekly Torah Portion Vayeishev Part 11b according to the Kli Yakar Genesis 37:26 part 2 5776

oh okay this is we we're continuing cuz I didn't know how to pause it so I ended up stopping it we're stopping just to discuss this idea where did the B Yakov get the tone in the barar it's on the wall it's attached to the wall you just take it off and click it that um Dena our sister was raped and we had two of the tribes shim Ley came up with the scheme let's they want since they wanted to uh marry our sister okay let's give it to them we'll all intermar provided that they get a circumcision and we all know that the third day of the circumcision is most painful so since they did not have a system of justice which is one of the seven no laws According to some opinions that they were K of Misa for that and um so the scheme was was uh drafted up after they circumcised themselves then will wipe them out now if you go to page not page but if you go to Genesis 34:28 3428 just like a a little recap of the story 3428 34 starts off by talking about Dena and the rape and if you go uh in the whole story and we said go to 28 actually maybe um here 25 and it came to pass on the third day when they were in pain that two of Jacob's sons shim Ley dea's Brothers each took his sword and they came upon the city confidently and killed every male andur and Shem his son they killed with the blade of the sword and they took Dina from shem's house and left the sons of Jacob Came Upon the slain and they plundered the city which had defiled their sister 28 this is the verse their flocks and their cattle and their donkeys whatever was in the city and whatever was in the field they took so we know that these flock the the sheep and the cows were originally taken from sh so why would they go back to this place that is such a uh um a dangerous place to graze the cattle that they took from them to start with so here the CLE car has this idea that let them steal them let let them steal them back the the brothers were not at all concerned that if the enemies would rise up and take back take all their flock meaning to say like this this is what they were saying to themselves if the youngest child Among Us he ends up getting double you know what it's not worth it we're willing to Forfeit our part as long as he doesn't get his double I mean that doesn't really make a lot of sense but there was a jealousy involved and when you're jealous you don't always think properly so in order for him not to get his double we're willing to lose the whole stock this way he doesn't get double and they're willing to give up their part too that they were willing to give up and forfeit each one his own portion in order that yov loses his double portion crazy but remember was the original what was the original question what was yehuda's statement what gain what financial gain is there by killing our brother and covering his blood so we're just beginning we're like opening up Pandora's Box here and he says we just got done this talking about this idea that sometimes through jealousy someone is willing to lose so much Kamas like the story of the jealous women you know the story of the two babies I'm sorry the one baby the two women that uh then then the the one who was jealous was willing to have total loss of course the the real mother stood forward and said let her have the baby but that's how crazy uh jealousy can bring a person so when they went to now who's they we're talking about the brothers here yov already perceived he felt their scheme remember they wanted to kill yoseph but Yakov sends ysep is ysep lore what do what does Jakob say to his son his lovely brilliant budding Tom scholar go now and see the welfare go check out the welfare how things are going with your brothers sh and how the Sheep are doing which sheep the sheep that were from originally from those enemies that actually live in that area I mean that's what he knew y responds now who does he say this too he's on the way and he runs into a man this man is Rashi says Gabriel because there's a a heish you can understand when it says is is it's talking about this man in the field so we saw in the prophets anyway we're not on to that right now by him saying I'm looking after my brothers that's who I'm looking for he doesn't mention any word about the Sheep so a he he was really only looking for his brothers not concerned or worried about the Sheep the even though his father said go look after the welfare of your brothers and the welfare of the sheep but what was his main mission the brothers alar that's why um this is what yob says to ysep hell is it not that your brothers are pastoring or shepherding in so the hello it's a rhetorical it's like is it not that's exactly what it is is it not he was actually saying is it not in a place CU it says is it not in a place that's very dangerous and and dangerous it says rowing B because the the yakob was aware of their their plot to get rid of the the wealth of ysep the jealousy that people were willing to take upon themselves to let say do themselves in that they were shepherding or pasturing in of their their sheep he doesn't say that he says pastoring in this comes to tell us that these the other brothers of Ys were Ro as they were pastoring themselves meaning they were having fun they were they had they had some kind of agenda and they weren't really even thinking about the Sheep either they were not even concerned about the sheep in fact we we saw that they wanted to get rid of the sheep according to the reason that we mentioned above that they wanted to get rid of the property of ysep along with their own property because that's the only way he'll get nothing out of it it says in verse 20 that the the brother said come let us kill him nearish what is this coming to explain it seems like it's explaining that they were considering going ra ra is a tattle bearing this is what they they they wanted to do we just said they wanted to kill him come let us kill him and now we're saying what what kill him it was just it was just lanara it was ttle bearing guess what anyone who goes about tattle bearing pedaling gossip causes death causes murder as it says in men of slander were amongst you in order to murder that's in Ezekiel so we see that there's a concept of leads to murder 15b that La that speaking evil speech gossip is it's like a triple murder the who who's murdered the per there's three deaths involved it's the person speaking it's the person listening and the person being spoken about that's why it says when he had not yet approached before he even came close to them they INSP inspired they were inspired to kill him since they were okay there's a concept if someone is coming to kill you what's how does the rest of the sentence go stand up and kill them first so they felt remember he was also speaking or they thought and perceived he was speaking lushan har against them so yes when they said come let us kill him it was perhaps his defense he's talking L about us which is murder we're going to kill him first so they took this concept when someone is coming to kill you you get up first and kill them and that's in theor hedin 72 now we understand what it says before he came close to them to kill them so then they conspired to kill him before he got close enough to to them to kill them first now we understanding verse 20 verse 20 we just um it's like a language of now so in L Zion verse 20 it's a little bit strange okay so now come and let us kill him and let us throw him in one of the pits and we will say a past a wild beast devoured him and we shall see what will become of his dreams so it's the second time they're coming um the first time was he's coming to them now they're come they had already conspired now again they're saying let's do it already so what does it mean now ter it's all this language of quick now immediate immediacy before he comes to us we have to kill him because this concept if someone's coming to kill you you kill them first Z perar the clear uses this to end a lot of times a concept the CLE car is the name of the safer and he says this is a pikar this is a very nice dear explanation okay now we're going to the next CH next paragraph Ru heard and he went to save him from their hands since he was afraid what was ruven afraid of lest they pin the whole thing on him the whole sin is going to be pinned on Ruan who was Ruan Ruan was the first born and they thought perhaps he thought perhaps if I if he he they're going to the whole point was to get rid of him because of this firstborn ship all the rights that come along with the firstborn well who who is the what they call the main suspect right who's got the biggest motive right who else but the first born the real firstborn will the real firstborn pleas please stand up so he was afraid they're going to pin it all on him in order that it would the Bor the first born ship would return back upon him the one that was taken away from him and given to Y now the you turn the page this is in verse 26 this is the person we started with that you have said what financial gain is there will there be To Us by killing our brother and covering his blood so Bish it all works out well every the theory it works out well if we had the ability to make this matter known if we can just publicize that he was murdered or dead then then then then there could be a financial benefit to us then there would be a financial benefit since after the fact that the firstborn status was removed was taken away from if so then Ru the also will be removed the Y and ysep is dead remember only if R is also dead then what will happen then it will return to I I don't know the word but then we'll all be on on the same plane will also all will receive an equal portion but right now that we all know that it once Aba Israel Yakov knows that his favorite son yoseph has been killed or died he'll experience a great amount of pain well we can't be the ones to tell him right we can't be the ones that are going to announce it to the world and if we don't tell him and we right then all the days he will be in a doubt that may maybe Yos is still alive but just lost well perhaps he was sold to a far away country IM and if that's the case we can't announce it meaning if we can't prove his death we can't bring him a body you need a body right to convict somebody you need a body a weapon and a motive so I mean they're trying to stay clear of any motives cuz then the motives will all come back to them certainly they don't have a body maybe they have a bloody rag but that's about it doesn't tell the whole story right so if if that's the case then after our own father will die so whatever portion remember that extra portion is going to be left aside for some Jewish Court to decide later what to do once it's known what actually happened to Ys meaning you need that body as long as that body is not found that por is going to be put aside until he comes back from his long trip and the only way we're going to get the financial gain is if we produce the body and that's I mean they remember they didn't even kill him so how they going to produce a body since we already said in front of our father that he wasn't dead so in the bottom line in the end of ends there is no financial gain through all this through all this there's no financial gain let us go and sell them to the ishmaelites that was the solution okay how is this a solution to the financial gain by selling him to the isites we are going to have financial gain why is that because once he's sold into slavery to the is isites then he will be a slave forever there's a concept if you have slaves which they are your properties course we don't have any today but the law still apply if you had a slave and he acquired something he found a gold tooth in the street or a gold bar and who gets the gold bar you were the slave of course you do cuz your slave whatever he acquires is yours your possessions acquire game could work out with same thing with a car you know some piece of gold flew into your car your call your car acquires this heer piece of gold okay so certainly what will end up happening is that the our own father reacquires the transfer of that property goes back to him in its entirety why because of this relationship that he has with Ishmael CU Ishmael is basically as how I understood it is not necessarily a personal slave but the enslaved to the Jewish people meaning that whatever benefit there will be to him is that we in the end will inherit and even though it comes to the rabo comes to our father right cuz he's going to acquire it through his slave Ismael and he's going to take all that belongs to him if anybody has a better understanding I think that's was why were they thinking that there's going to be a financial gain if the isim bu acquire ysep as a slave so then the slave yesma also is like a slave to I don't see yeah that's kind of really strange so let's try to work this out when they say let us go and sell him to the isites then there will be to us this financial gain why he will be a slave or enslave to them forever and once you're acquired by this guy the guy own the guy owns you and everything that you own right he owns you and your property so we're talking about y's double portion so at least by the ishmaelites whatever they acquired because they're his owner so they they acquire so certainly to our father father shall be transferred his portion entirely well that's if he understands that he's been sold and then no even again even if you don't know if it benefits you the acquisition is is applicable okay so like my parents don't sell their on PES but I can sell it for them because it's to their benefits I can okay you can acquire something also in the same way if it's to the 's benefit even without them knowing how's this here's a good example at SI our great great great great grand parents said yeah we'll do it we'll do the Mitzvah but not just for us also for those who were not yet born what right do they have to obligate Us in the Mitzvah the answer has to be because it's actually in our benefit it's to our benefit okay otherwise they wouldn't have the right to obligate Us in this Covenant okay but then they to the fathers that to their father they say he's been here's his his tun but they don't say they don't know we'll have to see the words did they really say we saw someone pull the trigger we we saw the dead body no so you don't really have witnesses so is what happens to his portion so it goes to the Father the portion ends up by Yakov yov is still alive right so now when Yakov dies it gets evenly distributed because there is no B anymore so we try to work this last piece out he says then certainly our father is going to be end up being transferred his yosef's entire portion because what benefit would there be to him if we inherit it the yo and comes the master and he takes all which is his so it didn't go to them it went to the father and then well this is what they were thinking and then when he dies then we'll get it so that's how I see it how exactly is yishmael emboldened as a as a slave or as a sub category of Israel that is but I think that's what he's leaning towards that is his conclusion I believe and then we're stuck with this idea of why did they like who who sold who to what you have the isi if you look at the verse or verses you have yesim you have midianites and you have traitors so let me find the verse so if you look at verse 27 actually it's actually verse 25 verse 25 says they sat to eat food they raised their eyes and they saw Behold a caravan of ishmaelites so that's the first thing they saw and their camels were bearing all these things and they were on their way down to Egypt which you might think okay simple sail sell them to Israelites and finished but Yuda said to his brothers our verse okay what gain is there um so 27 come let us sell him to the Israelites this was uh yehuda's idea but let our hand not be upon him for is our brother our own flesh which is going to be very important right now and his brothers listened mean they accepted the idea then verse 28 says midianite men theim and then it says traitors pass by are the midianite men and the traitors the same people not sure they pulled up and brought ysep up from the pit and sold ysep to the ishmaelites who brought him up who sold him to the ishmaelites it sounds like it's it sounds like it's the brothers the brothers saw the midianites and the these Traders passed by and at that point they pulled him up and sold them to the ishmaelites but why didn't they sell them to the isites before like it's really confusing if you look at it so and then I'm just going to end with the last piece over here in the verses then um ysep Yuan returned to the pit and ysep was not in the pit okay and he says the boy's gone and I where can I go so now in the next few sentences we're going to discuss all that it's going to unravel itself very nicely and regarding this sale to the ishmaelites and to the midianites near this seems to be the way it is explained that the brothers did not want to sell him except to the is alone they wouldn't want to sell them to anybody else because the isim were their Uncle basically or great uncle Grand Uncle great uncle they were the brother of Y and from the aspect of the familiarity the the familial relations they felt that Ismael would have R would have some mercy is perhaps that regarding Ishmael they said maybe when they use these words for he is our he is our brother he is our flesh maybe they were actually referring to the ismaeli and not necessarily yose from the language we see before if you look in Genesis 138 where Abraham is talking about lot actually speaking to lot he he says we are men brothers we are so however but you know what they didn't want to buy him okay so we're going back first they sold the isim then it kind of broke down this deal and only when the midianites passed by and these Traders passed by then they brought him up and sold him to the because didn't want to buy him at first they don't do business like that see Jews make long-term Investments okay you can hold on to something and it's going to gain value but the isi made quick Deals they weren't fulltime trades they weren't full-time tradesmans that they would the way they worked was they wanted a quick buck so they would return and they would buy things and it would go immediately from one hand to the next V they had nobody who wanted to buy him they didn't want to buy him but when they saw these uh midianites and these traitors passing by then the isim saw they have someone who would purchase them so they returned and they purchased ysf then they decided they changed their mind they wanted to buy him and this is what it means when it says that says they drew they pulled him up and they pulled they they drew him out from the pit uh yse from the pit and they sold ysep to the so like automatically we learn from this it just comes out that the they sold them to the it was like without the knowledge it was without the will of the brothers without even their knowledge and it was the M that went down and sold him to potifar there's just an idea the word passim is a hint to this you had it's actually in backwards order pasim is that right or maybe it's not any order you have pasim is ptif is going for is and the me is the mid is a little bit of a hint of there okay we're going to end this last piece so Ru returned to the pit and there was nobody there it was empty and he said an and I where am I going to go what was bothering him any any clues at this point remember he's uh suspect number one it was only because of the portion of the first born that they killed you remember he doesn't even know he was gone he was not present he comes back and he sees he sees that he's gone so he figures it was only because of the the status of the first born they killed him anyway he became sheema gamain guess what they're going to do the same thing to me I'm next in line this is it they're not going to return to me the where am I going to go and me where am I going to go I'm ready to split and get away as fast as possible very possible on account of this let's say fear healthy fear that's why he wanted to save him originally when that was his uh Saving Grace that was why he wanted to save him okay we're going to turn this off and shabbat shalom happy Hanukkah we're not meeting