Yishai Show: Collision (Dis)Course

[Music] everybody and welcome to the Shai Fleischer show broadcasting on the land of Israel Network to the world your partner wherever you are Shalom and welcome to Los Angeles California City of Angels evangels you have to believe that there's something spiritual and religious in just the fact that it has this name as we say in Latin Roman omen the name is an omen and indeed I am in the City of Angels and I have met some great angels here in the time that I've spent here at an excellent event yesterday in Beverly Hills you know what's fun about California is that like the stereotypes are kind of real it's just it's got a different beat it's got a different pace I find that when I want to get into the beat and pace of California I kind of have to listen to music from there I kind of scroll through the radio dial or scan through the radio dial and when I find something by like you know the the Gentile artists of California if it's Tom Petty or the Red Hot Chili Peppers I find that they have a an understanding of the speed of the city and this is a different City it's not one that I'm always find it to be kind of unsettling in the sense that it's not easy for me to capture the pace of the city owners understand that's it's kind of ebbs and flows I'm a kind of one of my hobbies is to be a student of cities I like to understand the beat of a city and especially the major cities of this world if it's you know London and Paris and Prague and and and ha and Amsterdam certainly are great cities Jerusalem the greatest city and it's kind of matching made in my heart which is New York City and they compare and contrast and Los Angeles is got a beat which is I just I never really quite mastered it I never quite understand it I find that those are that I mentioned before are really ones that somehow are in line with that with the with the pace of this city any case Los Angeles is always mysterious and interesting to me I think maybe but that's why I come back here and when I come back here of course I do events to try to bring this spirit of Israel to to Los Angeles and I try to bring the power of the Jewish people and friends of the Jewish people back to Israel one of the main communities here that's also very fascinating is the Persian community and I got to spend time with some amazing Persian Jews including rabbi show fat rabbi DeVito vet who's the thirteenth rabbi in a long line of rabbis who have led the Jewish community in Iran and of course I say Iran I really hate it when people say Iran and stuff like that it's like come on it's Iran and and one of the jokes around here is that this place is also called Tehran jealous terror Angeles is around Los Angeles there's a course a major both Muslim and you know regular Gentile Iranian community here in a strong Jewish community as well very interesting and there's something very ancient about them and yet in a lot of ways the Persian community is also a community that has has assimilated a lot into California culture for good and for bad in any case that's that's about California and I think the reason I'm starting the the show today with the issue of California other than the fact that I'm in the Pico Roberts the Jewish part of Los Angeles California and Here I am is I think it actually fits smashingly well into the Torah portion that we have to deal with and of course I'm not with rabbi Mike foyer who is back in the Holy Land and I am here looking for shards sparks of the Holy Land and the Torah portion this week is the Torah portion of told out which is really about Yitzhak and we kind of get to meet each talk a little bit this kind of stoic type character that you meet in bits and spurts you don't you never feel like you really have a great clue into who Isaac is who you tuck is his name it means like laughter he shall laugh they laughed and we in this week's Torah portion we see that he actually laughs with his wife he sports or just with his wife or has some kind of marital you know tenderness closeness that that avi Memphis sees through the window but you kind of like when you win when it says that when it says that he loved his wife in the previous Torah portion and that he jests with his wife there's this closeness you're like you're always a little surprised I'm at least always a little surprised because he it's like as a kind of stoic character a type of character who's a little bit removed from this world and I learnt a fantastic piece of piece of knowledge which is going to be a little bit hard to transmit through the radio here through the podcast but I'll try to do it anyway is that we last week's Torah portion when we last left off we saw that Rebekah Rivka and I'm gonna use the Hebrew names we saw that Rivka sees its cook from afar and she she covers her face now the Hebrew the Hebrew terminology is who she says who is this person me huh I shall us then so let me just say that again so Rika is she lifts up her eyes she sees Isaac she falls from the top of the camel or as my explanation last week she prays from the top of the camel and she says to the servant me honey Chavez's a who is that man who is that strange man who's that masked man who is that guy again there's there's a element of romance here like who is that guy right like she's like moved by this person I love these little clues into these moments of the Torah where like a very human interaction happens she's just wowed by him that's that's the bottom line but the word holla Z is a strange word it's it's a strange word not always even a very positive word but it kind of doesn't fit in the context that should be Mia Isha's II me sahaj who is this person but the word holla Z is a strange form and I saw in the rabbi Kohen also known as the Caliban the milkman great scholar that's still alive today and he's called the milkman because he's also a cheese maker and we all know from the from the life of Brian that blessed are the cheese makers and so the cheese maker says that he quotes the McCallum who quotes the revealer of Secrets which is a which was a commentary on the Torah and he says that Hallows M is really four letters hey llama design hey the middle two letters llama design in numerology equal 37 that's the years of 30 37 years that Isaac lived until the binding until the ikeda and basically he actually died at the binding his life he became kind of ethereal otherworldly at the binding he kind of went up he became a perfect offering and the to haze before and after represent also the haze that his father and mother got from God Avraham got the hey Sara got the hey and so therefore here's a man who who carries forward the legacy of his parents with these haze that he has said about him but he himself kind of finished his earthly life at 37 and continues to exist in this world but a little bit supernatural a bit ethereal and the double haze the before after also are represented by the word Hamas Pella the double cave which is hey cool ah double hey okay so Abraham and Sarah are buried there they represented by these two haze the name of God has to haze the letter haze like equivalent to the H sound in in English but but Isaac carries with him this kind of the one hand otherworldly on the other hand he's carrying actually the legacy of his parents and we see in this Torah portion that him and his beloved wife are having a hard time having children they they basically do not have children for 20 years if you make the calculations it says that that they got married when when he was 40 and then when he was 60 he had childrens of 20 years they had to pray and how do I know they had to pray because the tour actually says that they prayed they prayed and this is one thing about Isaac and Rebekah is that they pray together and this is something I also want to kind of try to recommend to married couples try to pray together sometimes tell yourself let's take five minutes let's take ten minutes let's take 20 minutes to say some Psalms together in the same room there's a great power of the Torah teachers system when a husband and wife prayed together and Rebekah becomes pregnant with twins and these twins begin to tussle and fight within the womb she goes and asks God and God says to her she's like what is going on she could feel it's something strange God's oestereich Nagori and Bovina you have two nations in your stomach the Schnee lua meme and two Lumi maybe ethnicities or another way of saying nations me maniacally peridot they'll become separated from your your your innards well the UM Mila Oh Mia Matt's in a nation maybe that means that they will kind of eternally will fight one another one will gain strength from the other the Ravi I vote Cerreta and the multitude the the big one will serve the younger one the big one a sub or Edom right a dome will serve Jacob at the end but the Talmud tells us that this means that there's like an eternal conflict between these two energies these two these two nations and in two directions that I gotta issue forth from Rika and by the way again and look at rifka as I told you last week she is the epitome of of determination and knowing what she wants done and at every turn that you encounter Rebecca you will see this sure-footedness sure-footedness in this case she's pregnant she senses that there's something strange and she demands from God she goes to ask of God but she doesn't hem and haw she wants to know what this means she wants prophecy she wants knowledge she wants guidance - you know and she demands it and gets it and this is why I'm always amazed at this character of God she's an incredible person and at every at every step at every step by the way speaking I just wrote an email to one of the listeners of the show I have such great friends that listen to the show I don't even like the word listeners it's really my friends and people I'm connected with in this case Tami I wrote her letter she's having a bat mitzvah for her daughter and wanted to talk about you know where she should tour tour her daughter to give her a real like women's empowerment tour Wow you know I'm trying to say like like women's strength like what who who our nation is through the women of our nation and I just want to take a parenthesis and say that as my job and have wrong serving the fathers and mothers of the Jewish communities ever owned by the way when I'm out here I really feel like I'm like that's my job to be the Consul iary of of the mothers and fathers and when somebody like rejects me either it's a see me or it's or when I when I ask for help for the Jewish community and funding and stuff I'm just like gee I want to say to them do you understand that I am coming in the name of our high meets I can you go sir I've got like do you get that I'm not even talking the name of myself I am nobody here and like I you don't have to honor me I don't care but like please you know give kavod and to the to the fathers and others and give kavod to give kavod to the people who who live in it of Roane who are heroes standing up and keeping the place open for you and what I was saying is is that I really believe that this year we will start working on much more of a women's consciousness in Chevron I'm looking forward to having more events more tours that are really geared towards women the mothers are there the mothers are there and this term portion is a mother's Torah portion par excellence the hero here from beginning to end is roof car she is heroic throughout especially towards the end we'll see what incredible risks she takes in order to to fulfill her understanding of prophecy in any case as I'm here in Los Angeles we're talking about at least I feel the tension between Israel and a powerful Jewish city like Los Angeles here is the tension right there between the a Savion line and the line of Jacob and and that's told to - Rivka the end Asaph is gonna come out he's starting to come out of the womb and he's being born he comes out reddish he's hairy they called him a sob and then his brother comes out and in a very in my opinion very painting like painting like fashion he comes out Jacob comes holding on to the to the heel of a salve in Hebrew has achieved via dokas at the back evasive his hand is holding on grabbing the heel of a sub and they called him Yaakov right on the kind of the gripper the guy who is on your heels he's on your footsteps that's not that's a tricky name right and that's a tricky name to have yeah my second name by the way is he shy Yakko and it's it's a it's a name it's a name that it's a little bit like I like to say it's the Clark Kent of names right because Israel is the Superman name so Yaakov was the Clark Kent of names and there's a beauty to Clark Kent right he's like he's he's mild-mannered and he's a little bit goofy sometimes in this case Yaakov is in each Tom he is going to be we're gonna learn about him in the next verse that he is a simple or whole man or truthful man that's very important because he's gonna come out to be a bit of a trickster don't take me out of context that kind of shyster right it's a it's a I'm using that as a tongue-in-cheek don't write me an email saying that I'm giving it to anti-semitism I'm trying to you know sometimes stereotypes are useful and even in terms of humor a little bit so don't flip out I'm trying to make a point which is like you think that Jacob is a really kind of tricky Jewish you know character and yet the Torah tells us beforehand no this he's an ish Tom he's he's perfect he's whole he's he's simple he's pure and he's a yeshiva Halim he sits in tents either he studies Torah or maybe he's a herdsman and then it says that the eats loved Asaph each side the thief because hunt is in his mouth and my beloved wife Malka always likes to say that isaac who grew up with ishmael likes and respects the older brother who's who's more physical who was a great hunter probably ishmael was the torah doesn't tell us that but he's you know more of an outside person and ASA has hunt in his mouth he's able to get from this world he's able to grab this world by the horns in any pin and the hunt is in his mouth the hunt is in his mouth not that he's able to tame animals or grow animals but the hunt is in his mouth and this is one of the firt the second clue I guess we get that ASA is animalistic he comes out hairy he's red is bloody kind of and the hunt is in his mouth when you think of a hunt in the mouth you think to yourself there must be blood dripping also from the mouth because if the hunt is in the mouth that means the teeth of sunken into it and there's a there's a wounded animal in your mouth and we get this image that a seven we're going to get that reinforced again that a sub is a type of aggressive violent and bloody and redness is the theme and rifki it says loves in the present tense Jacob rifki loves Jacob and our rabbis add that a Sauve and we with the rabbi's tell us how the hobby of doing it is a known hahaha that ASAP so Nelly akka vase of hates Yaakov ace invasive hates Jacob but rifki she always loved Jacob and loves in the present tense there's a tense shift Isaac loved ASA but rifki continually loves Jacob something in that in that phrase if you think about it deeply as a nation that we have a mother like Rivka who always loves us it's there's something very warming and kind of tragic a little bit about that well it will understand later wine and the first thing that we meet our beloved for father Jacob is that he is stewing a stew he is he is preparing a soup and the the met rush tells us that this soup that he's making is because Abraham dies on this day and he's making a soup of the lentil soup of the kind of this served during the seven-day mourning period but in the simple text he is preparing a soup via voy a soft Mina sudeva YF & Asaph comes from the field and he's tired in this case it means that he's hungry and Asaph sister - yeah Cove give me some of that red red soup he's so hungry he's so physical this moment that he can't even formulate the word soup says give me some of that red stuff and you've got to believe that Yaakov Jacob is is making this soup because he knows that's that a sub has a weakness to read things like some birds you know I think Ravens are something grab like like red string and stuff it's like it's like he's just has a a visceral reaction to read things and and so he says to Jacob give me some of that red red from that song red red wine right give me some that red red soup cuz I'm hungry and it's for this reason that he was called red right and this theme of redness goes throughout his life so says Jacob in this moment of his brother's weakness he says sell me today your birthright Nakayama at bit ho - ha Lee sell me today your birth rates right so some kind of status and answers him Asaph he nana i know Cleo that Len would look I'm about to die is he really about to die but he feels like he's going to die Ville Amma Zelly boy what do I need this birthright for it's something ethereal it's something about tomorrow but I need something today and that's what Jacob says to him sell me today your birth rate because it's about today for you a sub isn't it it's about today it's about what you can get today and Jacob is thinking about what he needs tomorrow or maybe even in the next world to come and that's and that's exactly what a sub says I'm about to die today about to die my body because it's all about my body my body is is expiring lama's le para what do I need this the birthright that's for later however Yaakov continues with his usage of this weak moments exploitation in a sense he says via Mary Yaakov Jakob says he chef Ali Khayyam swear to me as is the day because it's about now for you so swear to me on the net Vasia valo and Asaph swore to him even quoted bill that oh yeah cove and indeed he sold his birthright to jacob first thing like where did Jacob even get this idea about getting the birthright or to even get that idea and where do you get the idea to make red red soup there's like a wisdom here and in also also there's there's something duplicitous or or at least secretive tricky there's a trickiness here I mean we just the only thing we knew about him is he was a baby born holding on to his brother's ankle next thing we know he's exactly when he's coming when when his brothers coming out of the out of the forest or out of the field he's doing exactly the right suit but he speaks exactly the right language and he gets what is he where does he get it from and it's a purchase right it's a good purchase it's a there's no God in here I was I always like to point out you see this is like a contractual moment just like the purchase of the Martha Milo there's a contractual moment here too it's like there's no it's a fair what happens here may be an exploitation of a moment of weakness and yet at the same time you know that all sales are about subjective value right so my dollar at that moment is worth less for me than the paper that I'm going to buy right but the paper may not be for the people who are selling it the paper is where the dollar is worth more than the paper right so right now it's a fair purchase nothing happened here that's really duplicitous in fact everything's out in the open but still though that there is a cunning maybe that's the word I'm looking for there's a cunning movement here via Connaughton the ace of lefm vana Deaton vintners heed of the sheen and indeed Jacob gave his brother a salve the brother I added he gave to ace of bread and this soup this lentil soup for your cow via shhhhht and and the tradition adds that he actually poured it down his gullet he was so tired and and he wanted to be fed he wanted to be kind of really serviced by yo how they ished he eight he drank Viacom he got up violet and he went he didn't contend continued didn't dispute the sale via bez ASAP at the Bora and then the narrative narration of the Torah tells us he lost he was sort of looking for here [Music] it's from the word be Zion he disgraced and he saw it as valueless his birthright right he kind of like threw it away the next part I'm not going to talk too much about but it's the the contention between but back now to Yitzhak now we're gonna meet it suck a little bit right and and there's a disagreement what happened first it could be that this next section actually happened before the section we just learned about and this is the section where Isaac is really still without children and him and Rivka go down to Gras which is close to Gaza today and that's because there's a famine in the land and God says to him don't leave the Land of Israel do not go down to Egypt cool but it's also to live only in this land if it yet ain't Makkah Valvo heck I shall be with you and I will bless you for for your to your seed I would give all this these lands and I will fulfill the promise that I made to Abraham your father I will I will add to your seed like thee I will make your seed many like the stars of the heavens and I'm going to give these lands to your children and through your seed will all the nations of the world be blessed v booba buzzer vide bahu bizarre won't going on it and here's something I said I was today on the Ethan Behrman show here in Los Angeles it's broadcasting in San Francisco actually and I just want I said something that I don't know if it was actually appropriate for American radio what I said was is that this is something I I genuinely believe in is that the Jew in the world is like a yeast we are meant to be a yeast when I say that I mean that in all isms Jews are involved she's always searching for meaning and in their involvement in isms it could be capitalism or communism whatever it is all the other isms as well they spread ideas the Jews and their catalysts for growth in any society and that's what the Torah tells us the heat bulb Asarco going on it's the world shall be blessed through your seed it's on how your seed is a blessing to others that's exactly what I mean that the Jewish people are meant to be a kind of yeast and why why is it that they're gonna be such a blessing the Torah tells us and a God tells Isaac I give a share Shama Avraham bakkali it is because and notice the word a cave which is like the word Yaakov which means in the heels of because of akivasha Marvin bucoli because Abraham heard my voice followed my voice very Shmuel and he kept me schmatta mitzvot tohoku tava taught I kept my and there's a you know various translations here my commandments my Torre's my ways and my understandable laws in any case it's Clark is in gras people become jealous of him they almost take his wife or want to touch his beautiful wife the king there sees that he's actually that Isaac is married to rifki and the cake the cake eats cluck out and the wells that Abraham dug and that eats like used they kind of stuffed up which is reminds us of a Philistine behavior which is that sometimes they just they're not even going to take a well they're just gonna stuff it up because there's something entropic there's some element of entropy reversal of creativity which the Philistines suffer from and I must say that even today's Philistines act in the same manner they really are the opposite of the orderly and creative impulse and what's going to happen is that the the Isaac eats and his servants are gonna go away and they're gonna need to find new sources of water and they're gonna dig wells and these wells are going to be disputed by the by the shepherds of Guerard and Isaac is going to give them names and these names are gonna correspond the first two are going to be these wells that people are in a fight with him so he says you know this is he calls them names that that involved revolve around conflict but the third one that he finds is called revolt God has widened out for us this land and we will indeed be able to will be able to sink roots in this land will be able to take it up will be able to to to be successful in at it and let me just find that first for you my gosh my vote he named it reca vote streets we thought we would we would translate it today biyomon and he said he oughtta he receive Hashem Llano because now God widened out for us who ain't about it's and we became fruitful we shall become fruitful in the land and then he goes up to bear chevre one of the seven holy shiz biblical accounts of seven holy cities if you've never heard my talk about that really I believe that there's the correct way to view it is that there are seven holy cities I think that is the the biblical tale and bear Sheva is one of those it's the southernmost holy city the kind of first city the desert city the flat land city and God showed up in that night to him and he said I am your father god of your father Abraham do not be afraid he eats cotton okay because I'm with you I am with you Keith Ron okay how many of us want God to say that to us kita and okay because I am with you because I got and with you will be rocked ISA I shall bless you the hello Betty Adso I will make your seat plenty but I've wool of ham of the because of my my servant to Abraham and that's what I said to you in the beginning of the show at that Isaac carries with him the promise of and the energy of Avraham and Sarah haleh's at the to Hayes and Isaac turns around he builds a he builds a ramp or an offering altar the kibosh and wash em he called the name of God there and there he stuck his tent and then they found another well and that well is going to be bear Sheva it's gonna be called Sheva and once again the city is renamed for another rationale and that is because of the the the name that was given to the well and then because of the oath that Isaac is going to demand that the Philistines make that this bear Sheva is a Jewish well bear Sheva the Philistines swore to the Jewish people that bear Sheva is Jewish and yet today if you go down to the south there's an effort to really take over the Land of Israel by the better ones and sadly the State of Israel is not doing enough to tackle that problem this takeover and the forgetting of that oath at the end of the Torah portion is the famous and infamous deed of the grabbing of the blessing the trickiness and it was that Isaac became old and he became blind and he calls his elder son Asaph and he says to him he system where are you my son and he says I am here and that reminds us exactly of the of the language that that that Isaac says to his father where are you and he says Here I am right he said he said this almost the same language Isaac sister's father where are you Father and it says here I am so here it says where are you son and he says Here I am and here you you want to have a little bit of sympathy for ASA face of saying the same language that his father that the father of Isaac gave him consolation I am with you my and here's here's the son Isaac who's famous for his keep it out of a me says I'm with you my father to the same person and you want to believe that that ASA is a decent fella and yet he gets clobbered in in the in the literature and that is because he is excellent at putting on a show and we'll see that later on as well he's an excellent show he will see just in a second he puts on shows he may smile outwardly and yet he already has it in his heart to murder his own brother and to wait the day that his father dies so that he could murder his own brothers so what you see is not what you get and I success to him look I've gotten old I don't know the day that I died I thought I shall die and now do me a favor I put on your your battle gear your hunting gear and go to the field and hunt for me a hunt and make me delete the delicacies I was about to say deliciousness --is this is make me delicacies that I loved and bring me to eat so bring me some bring me the food why so that my soul can bless you before I pass away now here's here's my lady okay here's rifka she is listening she hears she remember in the beginning of the Torah portion I told you she had stuff going on in her belly in her womb and she just wants to know what the truth is just she goes and demands to hear that he or she also knows how to put an ear to the tent and she knows what's going on she knows what's up some people just know what's up that's one of the things you learn about about the righteous people they they have these traits that we should emulate one of the things about riff cos she knows what's up she knows what's going on she's not detached she's very much aware and she says and she she hears Isaac talking to his son a sub n a sub and she notices that Asaph goes to the field to hunt a hunt and to bring it and rifka said to Yaakov her son write saying I heard your father speaking to a self your brother saying bring me the hunt so I shall eat and and that therefore I will bless you before God before I die and now my son here's the rifki moment right and now my son listen to me hearken in my voice Sh'ma the listen to me for I'm speaking it's your mama and I'm telling you Sh'ma Bakula a neem it's a vow to listen to me for I am commanding you bang I told you rifki she knows what's up and she says left 'no please go to the cattle bring me two goats good ones pick him good I'll make them delicious delicacies for your father like he likes it you shall bring it to him and so he'll eat it and bless you before he dies so Jacob says to his mother the human Yaakov relief came oh my brother is a hairy man and I am smooth alright and this can be read in two ways one is you know he's hairy and I'm smooth but but the other way is he's a tricky fella in a and and kind of very physical and me I'm I am as we said in the beginning until portion um I'm kind of smooth I'm I'm simple I'm gonna I don't I don't play these tricks maybe it's the wrong you know it's not me to do this maybe and he keeps saying he says maybe my father will touch me will feel me and I will be in his eyes just as trickster and I will bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing and his mom says to her to him reef God never misses a beat with Tomer lo mo I like light at the Kaaba knee upon me is your blessings my son no I said that I said that because I was hard for me to say it's alright so my mind tried to trick me no upon me is your curse as my son I like little cabanne ah Shema bakkali but you must hearken to my voice for left cockily but do what as I say and bring me the stuff Varela Vika Ave Ave there's these de Caro phrases he went he brought he went he took he brought to his mother itas emo I mean his mother noticed this mother son you know the son the mother they're very very closely related she made these delicacies because she'll have a vivre just like his father and here it's not you'd suck but his father there this is a very it's very familiar language here we're all family but now but the caffee forgotten rifka took the Sun the the clothes of her older brother of her older son ace of his beloved clothes these are special clothes and some people say it's the clothes that he inherited from Adam and from Nimrod which were kept with her in the house and she dressed Jacob her younger son and she took the skins from the goats that he brought and she put them onto the arms forearms and onto the neck of the scruff of the neck of Jacob and she gave him the delicacies and the bread which she made she gave it to the two in the hand of Jacob her son and he comes into the tent here we go are you ready let's get ready to rumble right this is it this is it we got we got the son he's trying to fake out his own dad here by getting the blessings in a fake way there's not there's no hunt here and then the the meat came from the flock and it's not really a stop so what is this the Bible hello what's going on here this is not very Abrahamic what is this and he walks into the tent bump bump bomb by Omaha VA of oil of if he comes in to his father via Marathi oh my god now he's using the very of lines that Isaac used in the akkada because the ikeda the binding is the seminal moment of Isaac where madhavi he says my father vien any me accompany and he says I am here just like Abraham answered him originally at the binding says he nany Here I am but he adds who are you my son right so right from the get-go there is suspicion of a Yamaha Kovalev even yak obsessed his father I know he a South Dakota I am a sob your firstborn so wait a minute wait a minute so here's a moment that's very important to catch I am ace of your firstborn he is not a soft but he is the firstborn remember that right so it's a partial fib it's a partial truth because what we're gonna see is that a sub denies his sale of the birthright but he says I know he ace and and there's other explanations some people say that he said Here I am a self is your firstborn right but the simple meaning is I am a sum your firstborn which is partially true partially not true a CTL de batata I have done in which you have spoken to me which is not exactly true come now please arise Siobhan sit down VAR climates 80 meets ad and eat from my hunt bad votive attaining of Chaka so that so that exactly you could your soul could bless me but there is suspicion in the air very memory cycle but no Isaac says to his son mazi me how to tell him so opening how is it that you you were so quick to find my son by your man and and in this case a Jacob answering him he could ha Hashem and look at how the finite because Hashem your God revealed himself or happened before me you need to say he hastened the situation he he helped me with the hunt now this is very suspicious because this is not how Isaac talked sighs excuse me this is not how Asaph talks Asaph is not one to talk a lot about God that God made miracles happen for me remember he gets it done by himself he's got the hunt in his mouth he's not a man of words he's a man of action and it doesn't usually say yet God took care of it for me so suspicion is being a being it's there's a there's a rise of suspicion here vomits kakaako high success to Jacob Jonah vamoose Cobb knee why don't you come close to me and I will touch you I will feel you I will I will kind of pet you ha does Abney a savvy mo let me figure out if you are my son a sub and if not I wonder if this phrase was really set out loud or something that says in his heart but it does to indicate that he says it out loud so he is airing his especial suspicions he's saying what you come close to me let me feel you cuz I'm not exactly sure who you are and and maybe in hindsight we'll see that he's really testing Jacob to understand it did he take it all the way did he take this ruse all the way is this serious via gocheok of at least I could Eve and yuck Jacob comes close to his father Isaac vie ye Mushu who and he touched him and he and he kind of put his hands all around him he felt him biyomon and Isaac says Nicole call Yaakov the voice is the voice of Jacob the hired I'm you day I saw but the hands are the hands of Esau of ASA and I want to say to you friends that I believe that it is this is a seminal seminal verse and the first here is to tell us that Isaac actually blessed Jacob at this moment he says listen the voice is the voice of Jacob I know who you are you're Jacob but your hands including this trickery is the hands of Esau and in in in one understanding is that that's exactly what I want to see from you Jacob you've been too long a man of tents too long have you been a man of studying the Torah in the tents and the simple and a good man I want to know if you can make it in this world because why I like a sob is that he knows how to make it in this world he knows how to hunt so when I hear that you have the voice of prayer the voice of big ideas and and the voice of that is heard in the tents of learning and scholarship that's great but do you have hands to build a country to build a Jewish state to be to have a king in Israel and the answer is a Coca Yaakov yes indeed the voice is the voice of Jacob the voice of prayer the voice of Torah learning but the hands they must be the hands of Esau you got to know how to had a man handle this world so this is the kind of a blessing and then it says village hero but then the Torah says but he didn't recognize him exactly ki hai you Yi da they say savatthi vo it because indeed you know his hands the hands of Esau very hairy that is not yet Yaakov vivace ho so he blessed him vo man Zeb nee vaaya man at as ebony a salve he set them again are you indeed my son they serve but your man honey and he said yes I am the the trickier explanation here is he said I am I I am I that's why he didn't say I am a son he says I am and thereby you know finding a way not to actually lie to his father's face but you don't matter he Isaac says to him he huggie Shelly the clam he'd say Brittany give me offer me up the food and let me eat from the hunt of my son Lamont of a kind of cheese so that my soul can bless you and here's here's another question which is the interplay between the physical body which sometimes needs external stimuli I could tell you that right now my personal body is a little bit exhausted and therefore spirituality doesn't come as easily to an exhausted person exhausted body so says Isaac very very deeply system give me the foods so that my soul can have a better stay in this body the soul is comfortable in the body the soul is not feeling like it has to exit the body because the body is dying and my soul can therefore blessing that's very important by the way that we should know that the external stimuli I haven't have an impact on a person vayigash low and he indeed he offered it you've offered it up to Isaac vo how he ate it via a fellow yang he brought him wine via shhhht this is an important moment right he gives him wine and any Jewish simcha you have to have one yesterday in Beverly Hills I brought three delicious bottles of wine from the Land of Israel and folks you know if you listen to the show and thank you so much all the good folks that wrote to me that they listened to the end of the show that made me so happy and all the people that wanted blessings at the Martha McCullough over facer I got that as well so god bless you from Martha Michaela and here from Los Angeles I want to send you if this is the City of Angels I want to send you good angels wherever you are and thank you to all those folks that listen to the end of the show I don't know I got on that oh yeah wine that's right hey I told them drink Israeli wine Friday night and everybody agreed to that and I brought I brought one now I didn't bring them from Israel because it's hard to bring wines from Israel but here at Glatt Mart right clap Mart you can get mom Ashe wines from the best parts of Aerts Easter L what a blessing it is to be able to bring people wines and I just it's I brought pictures of Martha Michaela to the great event that we had here in in Beverly Hills I brought these beautiful wines and pictures of Martha Michaela and people were drinking the wines and for a few moments there we were outside of time and space and we were indeed in the Land of Israel in a chevron together it was it was so so special but wine can do that good kosher holy wine from the land of Israel will bring you will bring you to the land of Israel that's why you have to drink it not to support Israel please people that's so superficial the real depth of it is when you drink it you are in the Land of Israel so but that's we're not done yet there's still suspicion but you're middle of it stuck Aviv I success to him Isaac his father system Shanna which golly buddy why don't you come close to me and give me a kissy my son give me a kiss give me give me an embrace we're at the embrace of the kiss it says that give me a kiss my son I don't know Wow kiss me give me a kiss my son for you gosh Vasia o'clock and he got close to him and he gave him a kiss via its last big enough and he smelt the scent of his clothing my Eva Pharaoh and he blessed him saying my Omer their company look at the scent of my son or I see the scent of my son I'm blind and but the scent is giving me a visual clue and there's a lot of psychology in depth and spirituality in these phrases but simply put like I can it evokes an image can today I said that because this is the smell of the field I shared before Hashem which God has blessed him with and the word field we met it at the last Torah portion twice we met it in that the field is the marathon appeal ah and that's the field is the scent of the Garden of Eden and we also met it at the end of last week's Torah portion that Isaac came out of praying in the field and I smell that field on you Jacob and anybody anybody who's been to the Land of Israel knows that there's a there's a smell and there's some days when you live in Eretz Israel normally sometimes there comes that smell there like a smell comes in you're like yes that's the smell of the lands of Israel right now I have to tell you I am a little bit missing the smell of the Land of Israel maybe I'm gonna go out to the Glatt Mart and buy myself like a drink that's made in land of Israel when I pop open that cap I will I will take a deep inhale of the scent of the Land of Israel and then and then Isaac will go on to bless very shortly and very deeply Isaac and he says v10 Elohim may the God give you meat I'll share mine from the dudes of the heaven who Miche manejar had some from the fats of the land throw of the GaN vataj and you should have much you know grain and produce from the land and and and the grapes from the land yeah I've Duke I'm a nation serve you viva la la meme and many other nations bow down to you have a little affect that you should be a lord over your brother be foolish on America and may your your your mother's children bow down to you over that's all those who curse you are cursed viva la boca and those who bless you are blessed boom short that's that's Isaac you know he really gets right to the point and you know once he satisfied he channels of spirituality and that's what he says to him very he Kush now ok and then he and then and then okay that was the blessing two verses very powerful very very concentrated bless mihika shaky lights activated Yakov it was when Isaac finished blessing Jacob where he yet saw your tire cope it was just slipped out Jacob just flipped out of that tent met pen aids Aviv from the face of Isaac his father they Sabbath Eve BAM eat say though it's like a play and Isaac his brother comes from the hunt right so it's just as one slips out the next one walks in right but yes come Huma Tamim he too made delicacies Vanya Villa vivre and he brought it's his father but your madam I've even he says to his father u comma V get our father my father shall get up it's a little bit of a harsh language it doesn't have the please it's a little bit more commanding yacuma v brother my father shall rise up vo hallo mede said but no and let him eat from the hunt of his son by a votive of staining of Shekar so that so that your your soul can bless me it's a little bit more materialistic it's a little bit more demanding it's a little bit more privileged but your MUC Aviv and his father his father Isaac says to him Mia - who are you who are you I don't know you my young man and he said I nee bina ha ha ha ASA I am your firstborn son ASA now is that true the ace of part is true but am I your firstborn son you kind of neglected to tell a little thing that happened back then when you came hungry when you one day you said it's no big deal what's gonna happen in the future I need it now so he's not he's also not telling the truth here my god it's caucus of a doctor loud moan and Isaac feared a great fear a very great fear right there's gonna be you're gonna see in a second that there's big things that are happening right now Isaac had a great fear a great trepidation of Aoyama and he said me who was that a fall me a foe who had sat side who was that however who was that who hunted the hunt via Valley and he brought it to me vocally cord but time to Vaughn I ate from everything before you came I thought hey I blessed him gum the hole yeah still though he will be blessed right and this is this is the the depth here the depth here is that there is no resentment of Jacob for being tricky in fact there might even be a bit of of a joy of a of a approbation of a celebration of that I that Jacob knows how to manage this world it's like good for you my son you knew how to yet you knew how to squeeze it out you knew how to make it happen I like that that's what I've always wanted for you Jacob that you don't just be a man of tents that you also know how to get it done in the real world and therefore even though you tricked me I kind of like that and therefore he remains blessed however that's a promise' perspective right link-up I got tricked but look at that look at that that's my son good stuff but that is not a subs reaction a cell's reaction it's not like wow nice one Jacob you really got me Kish my staff when I saw heard at de vivre when he heard the words of his father vite sack sack are Dola kumara add my own he yelled ask a primal scream that was large and very bitter my friends I submit to you that this verse is the root of anti-semitism this moment where Jacob tricks a sub and takes maybe what was partially coming to him what was what was rightfully his but still and he's supposed to be the heir and that's the prophecy but still he did it in this tricky manner this truth is not a sweet true and this bitter bitter very the tour tells us a yell that you can hear to this very day fates Akasaka gadot lama known he yelled a yell that was big and very bitter and he says by your middle Aviv bucks Janie gum Annie AVI he says his father bless me to my father sister then and look at the verse it's like it's like hey Dad bless me - dad I'm your son - right I'm a sob the one who's loved you all these years I'm the key but I am guy this guy came in a tricky way did she have a blessing Mohammed and Isaac says Veeam Abbas disobey me Ramon Vic ability huh your brother came in a tricky fashion and again does that mean that that I'm looking down at that I don't know he came maybe in the way you would come because how do you get a hunt how do you how are you a hunter by sneaking up on things and buying by throwing a spear at the morning or a boat or an arrow right box is helping me Ramon your brother came through trickery of a caucus Edessa and he took your blessing boom vomit and this now here's the moment of truth this is not even a narration but a moment where where where where Asaph is gonna speak frankly maybe because of the situation that he's so distraught that he's gonna say truthfully vo Mara Hashem or Yaakov very much so did they call him Jacob that was a proper name yvv knees upon mine he hung on he followed in my in my footsteps or or or tracked me these two times and again this is a language of hunting right a suffice you could see he's a master tracker right he's a master hunter but the the hunter became the hunted like in pac-man right and the hunter in this case a sob he says about his brother he tracked me twice it bit tilaka he took my first my birthright but did he take the birthright mr. ace ah've or did you give it away did you sell it for some red soup you're not being honest mr. ASA and you got a problem in that you got a problem because you can't be honest you got an honesty issue and I just dealt with the reporter and in this case it was a Jewish reporter and I had to tell her straight out I was like you are dishonest you are not honest and even when I kind of catch you and it's like time for you to admit a little bit you're just not being honest so he says vehicle he tracked me twice he was on my heel twice once he took my birthright he didn't take your birth rate but Vahine at dalek affability now he took my blessing yo man hello South Delhi braja and he says his father don't you have still left for me a blessing Rehan you talk for myself Isaac says Asaph handsome tilaka I made him into a master over you that koulikov no Tati Lola Ovid Amina and I made all his brothers you his servants for the gunmetal horse some Kotov and I gave him grains and grapes I have brought close to him will a high for my Sidney and therefore and therefore what shall I do my son Mohammed a sufferer l'viv in a sub says to his father haha a haughty laugh avi is it indeed that you only have one blessing my father do you is that it is that what's in your satchel one blessing you don't have you don't have something else but a money avi bless me to my father very painful it's very painful you you want to have sympathy phrase of but but then you get this feeling like he's using the word dad a little bit too many times like like like it becomes like a utility thing like hey Dad there's just something for me too dad it's like it's like you start to kind of believe that it's that it's not really because of love but because of utility like I need your blessing to but then vici self cool oh and here comes this big burly strongman right it says that he raised his voice via if and he cried he really broke down you get the feeling that he's given two emotions a little too much to this a sub you know he's very hungry very tired you get what do I need it for and now he's like what do you got one buzzy for me and he starts to cry he's he's a little bit he's not in control of his emotions you get the sense that he's not so cerebral that he's very very physical very given to his own emotions animalistic Vianney stuck Aviv with his father Isak understood and said former love and he said to him he named Ishmael got CMO chef car if in the fat of the land will be where you dwell let me tell us you're mine now and also from up from above you'll get the the dues of the heaven Val acaba al kaba hot efia upon the sword you shall live that v a typhoon and you shall serve your brother Myakka shelter Eid Mubarak all amounts of Mecca but it will be and this is this is tricky language but the meaning is when there will be times when you'll be able to throw the yoke off of your neck and the the traditional understanding is there will be times when when Jacob is not going to be deserving of that blessing because he got it through another on the one hand meritocracy like he deserved to to get this blessing but also through trickery and if he deserves that he gets to keep it but if he does not deserve it if he's not being whole and perfect and following God then he got it through just plain old trickery and if he got it through trickery you'll be able to get it by by you know right of being firstborn so if it's just if he's as bad as you you're you're the firstborn but if he's above you spiritually then he has every right to it but this is a lesson that says if the Jewish people are lower down spiritually then the pendulum speaks swings the other way and then the Jew Jacob is nothing but a thief and a liar and a trickster but if he is indeed holier if indeed he's more separated and more in control of his material wants and needs then he is deserving of that blessing but if they're all the same then you deserve it more based on a savage Cove in a sub n a sub hated Jacob he had a deep loving a seething hate I LeBrock odd because of the blessing a shepherd coffee which which his father blessed him he detested jacob because of that not only because he stole it but because he actually got the blessing and he he wanted to get that blessing my young man I saw Fred Lebow a subset in his heart he could may ever love me the days of my father's passing the mourning for my father will come close so he's not praying for him to exactly get well he says okay my father's gonna die soon that guy at Yaakov Fei shall murder I shall kill Jacob my brother however once again here comes our incredible woman here reef car via godly rifka it was told in prophetic language was told to rifka the words of her a son of her older son Vitesse / with Akali a cove Binaca tun and she she called out and caught as she sent out and called for jacob her younger brother younger son and she says to him your your brother your brother a sob is planning for you to kill you he is he's got it out for you to murder you and therefore now my son listened to me Sh'ma the right Schwab equally says Rivka I know what I'm saying listen to me Vic oom brockless huh and run away get up and run away and levana they go to Laban my brother karana go to Quran that's where I came from in last week's Torah portion via shaft mo America demon you'll be with him just a few days and here you wonder the sheet that she is she saying this is just in order to placate her son does she know that he's gonna be gone for 20 years she says go to my brother sit with him for a few days I - if to shew of Clamato feel until your brother's violent anger she'll subside at shoo-shoo f ha ha when your brother's anger will subside from you and he shall forget what you did to him I will call for you and I'll take you from there why should I see you both die in one day there's a lot of explanations about about this verse a lot of things here have to do with messianic times but the bottom line is Rivka says I shall call you now now Rivka will never physically call her her son again and they'll probably the the simple meaning is they never see each other again but on the deeper level I think that rifka is speaking from the prophetic voice and she says go there and me I'm gonna call you and I will bring you from there that's really God speaking I will call for you and I will bring you from there and and that that's practically the end of the parsha except that that Isaac that rifki tells Isaac some some you know academic types want to say that you know they want to get a divorce after this they've got a broken marriage doesn't look like that at all it looks like I think much much better to say is that is that what I explained before Isaac is kind of proud that his son Yaakov knows how to play play the game and Rivka says to Isaac and they're in perfect communication afterwards she says to him she says to him she says I don't want my son to marry from the the the Gentiles in in this land and I if I if he marries one of these people then then I have no life I have no life this is again another rifka moment she says lammily claim what do I have a life for if he's gonna marry Mary out that's the traditional Jewish response if my if my son is gonna become assimilated out I don't have a life I don't have a life there's no life isn't you can here like you know you can hear Tevye speaking it's like some things will not stand I have no life if you marry out my whole thing was to perpetuate this people hood for God's sakes we've perpetuated for four rina half thousand years and now you're gonna marry out and Isaac calls his son Yaakov he blesses him again and he says to him do not take daughters from from the Canaanites here go to paddan-aram go to the house of bits well the father of your mother take a daughter from there from our family and may the god of el shac I that's the father that's the God that I think represents always the god of fertility meanings God forbid do please do not erase that understanding it's not that there's a separate god of fertility but this is the name of God that has to do with the blessings of fertility right this is the account to the email account of God which is something to do with when you when you need the blessings of fertility and he shall bless you should be fruitful and she'll grow and you shall be a nation of peoples peoples many people will come from you v10 Akkad be cut to Ranma shall give you the blessing of Abraham like a loser if they talk to you into your seed with you Lily staccato as maguro so that usually inherit this land a Sheraton Elohim ROM which God gave to Abraham so that is the again you see that after this event of the the the the tricky procurement of the blessing he is not rejected he is not rejected okay my friends it's been an hour and 10 minutes and I've had a lot of fun with you and thank you so much for the opportunity to give me a chance to go through the store portion and and when I read this chart portion I'm immediately brought to the sights smells and tastes of the Land of 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