Weekly Torah Portion Vayishlach Part 2 according to the Kli Yakar Genesis 32:5 5776

Okay, good evening. We're going to continue. It's 32. It's verse 5. I think on the sheets it says it's verse four. Is that garti? This is a famous concept, right? We all know Garti is basically a code word for um the tarag mitzvah meaning we'll read it like this. We're going to go to the verse. I'll read it in English in Hebrew. And we're talking about he charged them. This is what he said. This is what YaKob says to the angels to tell Asov. He charged them saying, "Thus you shall say to my lord, to Asov, so said your servant Jacob, I have so joined with Laban." That's so joined as the word Garti and I have lingered until now. So the Hebrew is and he commanded them saying to say this is what you should say to my master to Asavly says your slave your servant I right with love on I have dwelt so joined and we're going to see Rashi in a and and lingered or delayed until now. Okay. So he begins by explaining one of the rashi. Rashi says, "Garti loi ele." What was the message that Yaka was trying to get across to Isan that I just so joined so journed? I was a gay. I was like a wanderer. I was not a very important dignitary or person, but I was a I don't if you want to call it a lowly person, but not a toshave, not an upstanding citizen that was able to build up an empire, but kind of a wanderer, a sojourer. It's all I did. And then he says dar rashi says alternatively now this gonna be this is going to be key that rashi brings a whole another phat a whole another explanation says garti means shamarti that I kept because the word tarag and garti not only the same gamatria obviously they're the same letters. So what was the message that I've kept the the mitzvah I kept the Torah. Now the the main message of this clear is going to focus on the fact that this is two separate explanations. Dvar means alternatively you don't like the first shot it's not good enough or it's not solid so you go to an alternative explanation. So right away the clear car says these two explanations are contradictory. They actually as a steer they they they they rub each other the wrong way. They're going against each other. They're in opposite directions. Now, can you see that? If he's coming and saying, "Look, don't kill me, right? I know you're upset with me, but I'm like a nothing." That's a submission. It's like uh I'm a nobody. I'm a submitted person to your power and authority. Garti, I kept the mitzvah. I have something to be proud of. I have a badge of honor on me. But it's a little it's a lot deeper than that. She Omar lisar. So if we're saying the fact that what we he was trying to get across I did not become a great person uh an official of any sort then what that message he's trying to come across is one of submission submissiveness and if he said hey I kept the mad that he's a great person that he has nothing to fear from the fact that he kept the mitzvah. Interestingly enough, I just want to show one more thing in in the rashi. We're looking at okay one second. Yeah, I I'll read the whole rashi in the way it's written here in the art scroll. So he starts garti I have sojourned I didn't become a dignitary or a notable ele but just a mere sojjoer so it doesn't benefit you know to hate me over the blessing of your father that he blessed me because it says be a lord to your others and har lot is ka that obviously was not right I'm not going to lord over you so if I'm not lording over you the blessing that he gave me was not worthless not going to say that but it didn't become uh enacted or fulfilled through me so you have nothing to fear so coming to him in a humble sort of way then Rashi says right away he mentions that the this the word. So joining is the same as I kept all 613 mitzvah with this evil you know person such as yet I was able to keep these mitzvah I didn't learn from his actions his his evil actions okay why I want to show you that because it's Actually, I can't find it now. Is it here? We're going to come across it later. But it's it's two he he's trying to get across these are two different directions, two different answers to what Garti means. Is this clear yet to everybody by saying that I kept all the mitzvah. It's like he was saying, sorry, it's it doesn't fit into the category. And I think the rash on this P is what I want to show you. O because over there in chapter 27 here it is chapter 27 verse 40 verse m 27 verse m this is what I want to show you. So over here the rashi says like right the word is by okay I'll read the whole verse by your sword you shall live but your brother shall you serve yet it shall be when you will be agrieved when you'll be agrieved you may remove his yoke doesn't quote the whole verse here so right way the Tarum and the bracious rabba they they they're really bothered by the fact and maybe you should as well. What is the connection? What does it mean when you be a grieved? What's the connection to removing his yoke from on your neck? So they explain that there really it's very odd. It must be what we're trying to say is that when Israel transgresses and doesn't keep the mitzvah, then Yakov then Yakov is put down and Asov is above him. Okay? When Yakov keeps the mitzvah, then Yakov is on the top and Asov is down below. So if if Asaf feels that Yakov is not keeping to the commandments, that's the agreement. That's why he's agrieved. Then he can remove Yakov from upon his neck and Rome can destroy the second temple. Mhm. Is that clear? Because that's going to be very key in this discussion. Vicasha. And another problem is why did Yakov tell these messengers to call as my master? right? If we're saying that the on the alternative one is I kept the mitzvah why is it in the submissive form right there is um huh no by using these terminologies as adoni and it's certainly showing much more of of a humility or a submission to Asa. And another question what's very surprising and astounding is the language of the verse. with love on he says I so joined so there's something something very strong about the message of garti which is opposite of the haknah so you have these two conflicting rashis fine but he wants to he wants to in the end put them together he's going to go so far out of his way he's going to say that the words shouldn't even be there he's going to put them together in a very nice poetic way and here he starts leave me ORI. My heart says and concludes that these two distinct alternative answers they appear both of them as one truth meaning they're both sides of the same coin. not like Rashi use these terminology explain as two totally alternative explanations. What does when you use the terminology? It implies that each one is a proper answer standing on its own two feet not related to the other. Omar and this is clarified in the concept that Yakov sent to him saying what were the words he says with love and I so join lo which meant Rashi explains and we understand loi I didn't become a great uh person I just remained a sojourer a wanderer l marlo what he was saying to him was shabos loness kimo bu that those blessings were not I they were never fulfilled within me within this um this life I lived but God forbid that Jacob should say that contradict his father and that these brahas were made faulty or um not not they weren't real they were fake but this is what he was saying to when blessed me when our father blessed blessed me he actually thought I was you now get this this is this is what Yakob is trying message he's trying to get across to Asaf when Aba blessed me he thought I was you and it was it was with this intent in mind with this knowledge that he blessed me and whatever deceit or deception and I'm going to say under my breath that you think I did that that didn't benefit me benefit me at all. There's no such thing as benefiting from deception. How do we know? It says in Mish lo I can open up the the whole but basically it's basically saying that you know you you um you're not going to benefit from from any any type of deceit like the person who catches a uh a pigeon and he wants to roast it. He's not going to get to roast his catch out of deceit. is not going to benefit from any deceit that he con conjures up. Remember he fed he fed his father. He fed his father through this seeming deceit. So so which he fed his father in order to um to receive and accept the braha through this deceit. This is a very important principle. It's brought down in Yuma that a man will never attain or grasp anything that was intended for someone else. There's no you okay we call it stealing but you're not going to benefit from it. It's not going to be your it'll never be yours. And all those ble all the blessings that I received are going after whatever dad had in mind and he had in mind you. So I did not benefit. There was no that was fulfilled in meulu alav that in his mind this was applicable. It was this was falling on the head of and that's the way it's going to be. So, this is Yako's I'm going to say plea bargain, whatever you want to call it, attempt to to get Asov off his back. Don't kill me. I But you think I got your blessings. No, no, no. They were meant for you. They're always meant for you. And you'll get them. And you'll get them. No worries. And a proof for this. He calls himself a G. He was just sojourer never became an important person. Now if you want to say this is like what Yob is basically saying to his brother that really the the were fulfilled in me but and and whatever that I did not become yet at any any important person shalom turn the page Okay, you might have thought ah that's because I have not yet fulfilled the Torah. Remember this was part of the condition at the time of the bra themselves when when gave the braos he meant that the Torah should be fulfilled mitzvah. So Yakob understood that this is only going to happen if I was able to fulfill the mitzvah. And now we understand when he it says remember we read this before that when one of the brothers would become agrieved because of the other one not keeping the mitzvah then you can remove the yoke from the one who's above. I would say to read means fall to read to read. Okay. I mean archro as agrieved but we already meant to understand through the that when agreement refers specific to Israel's transgression of the Torah which would make them unworthy to dominate others. That's the concept there. And it could mean I hear I hear to read. So we're going on we're almost finished here. Almar therefore that's why he says so what is that message getting across that it was the mitzvah that I have kept it's not that I didn't keep them yet I have kept them and guess what I still didn't become important and I still didn't become an important personal remember there's certainly no benefit that I receive from my actions if you claim claim as you do that I was deceiving because there is no benefit to the deceiver through his deception and the blessings themselves applied or fell on the head of the one that Yeitzak had in mind at the time of saying these blessings therefore Before you we were using the word garti meaning both concepts the hak and that I kept the mitzvah and I you know I here in gut the Indian both the limited lower lower sphere humility of submission as well as keeping the mitzvah meaning to say even though I kept all the mitzvah Nevertheless, I still remained a non-important person dee because if that wasn't the case lama mari why would I have used the word garti this is not the conversation he's having with with him he's having with us why would this is the clear why would the word garti be used lama margarti jav wouldn't it been more more impressive more important or more logical to say I worked with love on that's what he did he really worked with love what does it mean um that this actually teaches more on the opposite from the blessing there's another verse if you look in Zion 27 verse 29 it says master of your brother, you will be the lord over your brother and he wasn't. So rather in order to understand from the actual language it was used, garti is the same letters as tarag. So the elo this is how the clear ends off. I don't know if anybody has any questions at this point, but the last line he says, "If I was not afraid of all my associates, all my colleagues, all the other rabbis maybe that live before me and will live after me, I would just remove those words alternatively from the word from Rash's explanation because in truth that you really need both. It's not totally opposites, but one complements the other. Any questions? Okay. So, um there's no brief here tonight, right? No.