Weekly Torah Portion Vayeitzei Part 1 according to the Kli Yakar Genesis 28:10 5776

all right good evening so we're going to deal with parus the Y that's found in Genesis 28: 10 I read it in English and then in Hebrew and Jacob departed from beeva and went to Khan I really should read the next verse as well but I think when we get to it we'll get to it shortly so we'll deal with it then say okay now Rashi interestingly enough says you didn't need to say all this all these words you could have just said yakob went toan why does it need to say why did the verse have to add and he went out of beeva so I mean it could have Rashi says it could have and he quotes this is a famous concept it's coming to tell you that when a Sonic leaves a place from a place he leaves behind he created some kind of impression some kind of you know as he's leaving or the fact that he was there for so long then he's leaving there is a impression that was made as he's leaving or because he has left or because he was there we'll have to figure that out what that means but this is a famous concept you just imagine likei comes to town and all the flowers start blossoming right the sadic leaves and then the flowers wither away that's assuming he's the only sadic there so the cleard wants us to really contemplate to think about this a second one should really contemplate this why well first of all we know that ab and they must have gone from place to place and it doesn't mention anything about them leaving it's a rhetorical question what we didn't know that's not known we already know that yob that Abraham and they also went from place to place L if such a concept concept exists and we know that they were sikim how come when they went from place to place the D the Tor didn't let us know earlier on that such a concept exists that when a a holy person leaves from a place he leaves an impression why did the Torah wait until Yakov to tell us this and if it's true that it's it's supposed to happen by anyad so why didn't the Torah tell us why we don't know that it happened at all by AB Abraham and you got the question clear so he starts by saying there's different aspects different ways to look at it there are perhaps more than one way to glance and view what we're dealing with here and how to answer the question at quick glance at in a quick Pace we'll just like sum it up here part of the question part of the answer the y that the reason here it it added included the mentioning here of Y the yov left was because when Abraham and left from a place they didn't leave behind anyone else any other sadik like them like in other words who went with them their whole families so actually does say that yet but obviously so obvious they went from place to place but they didn't leave behind any any other righteous people so they leaving obviously left an an impression of Alan but here and I'll just stress that again he he will mention it when they left they took their wives their children their cattle everything with them but but here in our verse we know that and there were left behind so you might have thought mistakenly so you might have thought because there were Aon left behind that of course it didn't want it didn't make an impression because only when there's nothing right no righteous people left behind that that one that that one person let's get like this you might have thought if there were people left behind you would not have made an impression because there's righteous people there of course the flowers are going to still be blossoming as I mentioned but no the fact that one sadic leaving behind other sikim it doesn't matter there's still an impression made and a an example to this was mentioned and brought and quoted in the medish and the medish brings a proof from ready for this from Naomi that she was going to leave and go back home to to Israel from The Plains of Moab that it is mentioned by Ruth you can find that verse in Ruth number one 1 verse 7 so you see that the word t the concept of leaving a place is mentioned by her but you can easily ask from there that's that rests well according to the opinion the person that said it wasn't only that one person who was righteous meaning Naomi there was Ruth there may have been other people as well uh we we'll talk about that in a second Ella but here you had and Rifka so you have two people here as opposed to the quote as as opposed to the example by Ruth but you no onlyi leaving you still had Ruth behind but we say here RAR this is a quote from he basically saying that you don't have a comparison you cannot compare the Merit the advantage ages or the credit is left by one person or is incurred by one person to the credit or advantage of merits that is incurred by several sadikin meaning that you needed to learn it out by Ruth as well so you have it by Yakov he left behind two sadiki meaning his parents that be yak and Rifka whereas in Ruth it had to be mentioned as well because noi left and who'd she leave behind she left behind Ruth and you couldn't learn one from the other you needed to learn both okay he says which means now we're going to explain the other side remember originally said these words of there's different aspects different ways to look at it so now we're going to shelf the opinion whatever we just said now and we're going to look at it a little bit differently not much but it's a little bit of a twist that it was specifically the leaving the departing of Jacob that made the impression what was the original question how can we only have you know by the third of the four fathers this concept of a Ys that we learn out that a righteous person who leaves a place leaves an an impression if he departed an impression is Left Behind why didn't we learn it earlier the fish remember they left they took their whole tribe they took whoever was with them their wives their children their cattle every time they move from place to place okay okay I'm sorry when they left they didn't leave behind any other righteous people therefore no impression was made upon their departure when they exited the city or whatever encampment they were in any evil people that remain there they're not so concerned when a righteous person leaves the in fact quite the opposite they're quite Overjoyed by their Pious neighbors leaving the area because they're not really interested they're not walking in their footsteps they're not interested in having a mentor or a role model around in fact they actually were considered a thorn in their eyes or they mock their righteous Behavior it wasn't exactly a good sh for these kind of neighbors to be around in fact they quarrel with them on account of their I'll use the word good behavior right the the rash the evil people didn't really appreciate these good Role Models around but if one leaves he goes from away from a place where sikim are found then what happens to the left well first of all that's when an impress is going to be made when there are there being left behind because those righteous people that are being left behind it's difficult there's some kind of a difficulty upon them regarding this departure separation from these righteous people were leaving town menu since their minds become rested or calmed right just like misery loves company the opposite is true people who are trying to live a Torah lifestyle and observant lifestyle living you know moral lifestyle would would appreciate and do appreciate the comfort that other people who are living the same lifestyle afford them and that's probably why I mean Judaism is is a very commun community community oriented lifestyle religion and we get back to this other principle it's almost the same concept we had before we said you can't compare one the SC of One S to the to the SC of many it's the same thing you couldn't have learned one from the other in our case by yob when he left there was left behind his parents Y and RKA therefore the impression that was when he when he left when he departed was obvious was somehow recognizable and that because of this we need to say that even when Naomi intended to leave and go the um the plains of Moab that she left behind not only not well she didn't really leave behind Ruth cuz she followed her but at the moment she was about to leave Ruth behind that there were other righteous Gentiles in that area that also were pained by Naomi's departure okay is an alternative explanation we have by Abraham I'll explain in a second so therefore we have mentioned here the language of leaving but we're questioning one second in another place by Aram if you look in Genesis 12:10 it doesn't use the language of Y as we already mentioned but what language is used that when AB departed from arish Isel where did he go he went to Egypt but it doesn't say that he left it says that he went down to Egypt since is the place for the revelation of the divine presence holy when you go out from the land of Israel you re you go down you descend it was A dissension for him it was like a dropping of levels of spirituality shall we say or of the the connection that he had very interesting very poetic language here that he was re leaving his line of balance or his equilibrium you understand leaving ER Isel is like leaving your essence where you find yourself where you have balance in your life okay and that's true by any any leaving from a place from the place where you're most fitting and appropriate to be which obviously for a Jew it's Israel the land of Israel and for a fish that would be the water and laav fish but we're going to talk about God in a second what did God say in in in Exodus 11:4 he says right during the plagues last plague I am going out into the midst of Egypt so that means god also left his equilibrium God also left his comfort zone he left the place that's most fitting for him to be so that the the the the impression that God left when he came down so to speak into this world into Egypt you think he wanted to go to Egypt I mean who wants to go to Egypt so when he left his mome his special place he left an impression within himself can you imagine he he loves the Jewish people so much he Mish came and went to MIM and he left an impression within himself okay that's a that's a heavy one to get your head around left an impression within himself and the me mentions this is really cool what he's going about to say I'm sorry sometimes right your soulmate comes to you and sometimes you go to your soulmate we all know that right sometimes right you're surprised that some one of the two partners is being we'll call not in a negative sense taking the initiative maybe being aggressive calling making sure that the the the that this is going to happen so so sometimes it's the other way around here we're talking about going to for what purpose he wanted to find his wife sh as it says that's our verse we said we didn't need all that right just enough to say the Yakov went toan Yakov departed there's a Departed how are we supposed to learn from this verse that yob went on the way to find his soulmate when we all know he was really just running away from asov asov wanted to kill him he was so upset about this Birthright well first of all this is not the only question vov we just got done saying in this medish that he was that there's a concept of h h means going in a forward direction right you're you're looking forward and that's where you want to go Y is departing I'm not saying you're turning around looking from where you're departing from but departing is more connected to the place you just came from and is more connected to the place you're going to so it should have said if he's going on as the the med says he's going to find his Ze he's going to find his soulmate shouldn't the the PK have said what the medish intends for it to say it doesn't it says yakob departed it should have said yakob went forward to obviously to find the we're forced to say that yob had removed from his mind or his thoughts everything it was entirely removed from his thoughts from the place of his parents dwelling from his parents' household that's why it says he went out as opposed to he went forward call that he he had like an entire departure he left his parents and that was it actually when you talk about it in the sense that you're departing entirely that comes to exclude someone who travels for in for some to some place to to towards something with intent to actually return if you're telling me he went out that means he had no intent to return because then if he had intent to return what happens then he's always thinking and wandering about the place even though he's going somewhere else he's thinking back about the place which he had left from other words while he's still in the place that he's at where he went to he's still thinking about the old place that's called at traveling forward and not departing we said departing is like a clear cut right and H is going like a traveler they always think about going home at some point in fact they call it homesick when people maybe when you're young or maybe when you're in love maybe you have lots of family you're always thinking about home you didn't depart entirely you just are traveling and you know where your destination is really the place you left from that your thoughts are always and are still there therefore this is really a difficult difficulty to the author of this medish why who actually gave permission to Jacob to leave behind his parents entirely there we can come up with as as an answer that's what we mean that he went to find his his soulmate how do we know the PK says in Genesis 2 verse 24 therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and cling to his wife and they shall be as one flesh so we do get this idea that what that that's what a man's job is to do in this life after he's you know grown up he has to leave his parents' home he has to leave their presence and find his wife and yes to be V in other words how do we know that V doesn't just mean um that he's going and coming back but rather that he's going out to find his Ze because that's what the T that's what ultimately the man has to do I know it's sad for a lot of mothers very difficult and I'm sure it's just a difficult on on the men as well alternatively you know we find that yakob was actually punished for those 22 years that he did not fulfill the command to honor one's father and mother right he was away for 22 years you can ask one second I kind of sort of remember that he was given permission right was he not g wasn't he given permission by his own parents according to their command how why was he punished why should he have been punished for those all those 22 years CU he didn't call he didn't he didn't send the pigeon that even if you find to say that he would have transgressed about what his mother said what did his mother say to him you can find this in ch in Genesis 27:44 that she said and dwell with him for a few days until your brother's wrath subsides this was what she said to her son as he was departing she was getting him you know all bundled up to go and she said go but it does say what is y a few days so okay but he was punished for 22 years so maybe he should only have been punished for 21 years and 30 and some days but he was punished for 22 years which okay so that means he was punished the whole time so nevertheless we see that he was punished for the whole amount of time and he didn't transgress with his Mo well even if you want to say he transgressed if we want to understand is just a few years but remember what his father said to him look up chapter 28: 2 this is just a little bit ahead earlier sorry it says right y said arise get up to P in order to take a wife so he did go with permission right gave him permission to go what did he not give him permission to do not to forget about his parents not to divorce them not to like you know get them out of his mind because we said anybody that goes we're talking about the forward Direction was with intent to return or that still his thoughts were wandering there then it would have been called not but we see the P says y but he didn't do the he did the the says was y he went out meaning a clean departure without looking back it's as if as if he no longer thought about his parents which is why he was punished therefore he was punished for this concept that he departed okay now the the the the son of one of his sons well we're talking about yoseph being one of y's Sons this is one ofo Jacob's sons he did not honor his father meaning Yakov for 22 years cuz he was in old and in and Y did not remember his father in other words we say m punishment is measure for measure and just like Yakov did not call write email text send the pon home and wish his parents happy birthday every year or anniversary so two ysf also didn't remember his father and didn't invol right he was away from his father for 22 years now it says in later on Genesis 21 sorry 41 verse 51 when he uh he named Manas El says Jacob called the name of the firstborn manasha for God has made me for get all the hardships of my father's household yoseph knew this forgetting came from God he tried to remember his father he tried in fact when he was running away from uh from potifar his wife even the the image of his father came up for a second but he couldn't muster up all the time that he was there for those 22 years Al Elohim that's why he was able to say God made me God caused me to forget but from his own side from his own righteousness from within him he wanted the desire he really wanted to be at his father's side constantly and to remember neged anav and to have his remembrance you know the the cognizant of his father in front of him but always he just wasn't able to because God caused him forget K shahu Elohim okay we're going to end here one second