"You Alone Did I Know" Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz Vayeishev

[Music] to everybody I actually have to make a short trip to Hungary a few days ago so British gentleman came back the short trip really just like going to New York to Chicago on the ducking anyway we're looking we're now beginning in the comments were beginning the largest narrative section of safer braces really the largest in the whole Torah and that is the story of Yosef started with the maturity of the fact that Yosef is 17 years old and he is sold by his brothers apparently out of jealousy because of his dreams because of his pretensions to grandeur and the like now the haftorah of the parsha of the faith nervous well before I get to that we know that just as the HOA giao was a fate that had reverberations for all of Jewish history as though actually saying every single peroneus every single tragedy that happens to the Jewish people is somehow connected to the cato a go we find similarly that the faith of mecir a co safe has all sorts of repercussions in fact many smaranam connected this way we know that the first base of mikdash was destroyed because of the sins of avodah Zarah Delia Reyes Shapiro stunning the roots of that was the fatal a girl experienced the Phaedo ego is a form of idolatry there was murder poor Miriam son was murdered and there was also gilja riots as part of the idolatrous rituals byaku move it's a fake they got up to fool around cause out dharshan that that is a lush own of Delia riots so in a sense you could say that the the negative action which inculcated within the Jewish people avodah Zarah Delia rifle stuntman culminating in the Corbin bias tree shown was the fatal ADA now we know that the Corbin bias shaming in the hands of the Romans the Jews were relatively observant they were keeping the mitzvot there was no avodah Zarah no gilja rice nurseries of stuffing so why was the basin macness destroyed so the same reason that the guar gives us is because of sin us-china the hatred the polarization being different the coldness and modifying it specifically because people think hatred is only when you're throwing rocks at somebody and although unfortunately we still have that today as well but the truth of the matter is that a sinner can be hot or cold sinner can also be indifference coldness the idea that I have my clique and anybody outside my clique doesn't count whether he's to the right of me or to the left of me Bennett has a very famous I've done for which limits it was criticized but then it the great deceiver Shiva bloggin writes that the synoptic unum of the bio Cheney was a form of what we would call religious triumphalism in which people who regarded themselves as firmer than the other more religious than the other looked at other people and said you're not pakoras you're a min or like people say the expression goes anybody to the right of me is a fanatic and anybody to the left of me is it not be covers its where exactly I am that's right so then it's if said that when people look at other Jews and they start being critical of how religious they are etc that is synonym that's now that's a very interesting point because the average critic is not going to think that it's clean up right now it was who is not against hatred for no reason I hate somebody I say I have reasons then the sieve is saying that even little ashamed shamayim reasons are not really valid reasons of course then it's if himself got criticized for being too lenient and too liberal it reminds me a little bit of when the Pope issued a statement that too many Muslims were violent so he was met with a violent demonstration to say that his statement was untrue in the sense the very reaction to his statement proved his correctness and in minutes if case I'm not comparing there wasn't a thing but this is the same thing the reaction and criticism of his statement actually that his statement was was valid now if we ask ourselves where in our history is the show rich of Sinope sina misteriosa so in a sense but here a co safe is kind of the indirect cause of the Corbyn by in shaming and the Cato a Gao is the indirect cause of Corbin by region historically of course it's interesting that which he was Joseph took place earlier than the Phaedo a dome but maybe that suggests that Sonata keenham is a deeper more difficult of era in other words we have it at an earlier point in our history and of course the human race had it all the way back from TYIN and hello and that's why it's extraordinarily difficult as the Gemara tells us the first Galvis that had the worst sins of our borders our regalia riots wreaths of thumb in only lasted 70 years the second garlis which is the RA Rev sin Athena is a godless that unfortunately still lasts to this very day because until we get over it there can't be a guerrilla famously rough cook who and of course a great exemplar of about Israel in all of its manifestations says that if the Corbin came because of senator Koenen it will only be reversed when there's about Trina beyond any rational reason and intellect so but here sto she was a very serious point and again let me remind you as well of what we read in the mustafa yom kippur and aunty Shobha although it's two different versions if you remember the story there's a fitted famous agatha about the ten martyrs ten great rabbis who every Akiba was one of them who were killed by the Romans now it comes in multiple there are actually many many different versions and the lists are not all consistent but in our liturgy we actually read two different versions we read it in the Muslim of Yom Kippur the preservers of shots of the Mustafayev Kippur and there was a lioness Cara and then on T Shabaab in the keynote at least Raskin Azam we read the kena of ours a hollow venom and citizen you ever want to sit down and do a comparative study of those two you'll see different versions of the light but one thing that is common about all of the versions is that although it's true that all of the ha commonly died were murdered by the Romans the impression you get that it all happened at the same time is absolutely not the case in fact their lives span around 100 years poetically they were brought together but if you remember the story that is given okay we don't know if this is historically true or not but it expresses a spiritual idea in Somalia is that the Emperor or the governor called the great rabbis in and said I have a holodeck Shila to ask you oh that's interested in Hiawatha what is the din what is the law gonna wish if you steal a person kidnap a person Omaha ro and you sell him into slavery what does the Torah say the punishment is for such a person and of course the Flemish actually says that is a capital offense kidnapping alone is not but kidnapping followed by a sale into slavery the Torah says most you might try of Mesa so they entered try a Mesa so the Emperor said so what about you you people who represent these shruts him you took your brother yo safe and you sold him are you not high of Mesa and the story basically says the acai raha Wu came out good were killed as an atonement for McCleary Joseph but I think the way I explained it it fits very very logically because essentially Mysterio safe is the show rish of sanity none say not keen on is the reason for the Corbin buyer Chaney so when the poet says when the pricin says they are killed because of material yourself it could actually mean not the sin of material yourself that occurred so many thousands of years before but rather what it represents phenom that exists in army Israel for which the study Kim Erica par and this goes back to Organa again a controversial idea that people people often say hey that sounds Christmas Adak is an atonement for the generation rights whenever you say that people say oh no no no that's Christian well it may be Christian but it's also Jewish and Christianity took it from the juice in that sense and they distorted it cuz I'll say the favorite that Mississippi Kim is a Coppola for the generation now how does it work it's a little complicated some say it's not some automatic process but when a sadiq dies and I feel the void of the emptiness in my life and in the generation and I do Chuba and I try to fill the vacuum so that's a Katara because this is the stimulus that brings a person to true but so ultimately it's your personal tumor that's the caprara Mesa study Kim is off and the mechanism that brings a person to chew okay so be it as it may the Cirrus Joseph is a very very cataclysmic event that dementia Kaufman says that he wants to be Medea he wants to pay close attention to the wording of the the Brooklyn young in the Yom Kippur Service it says keyattr so hung leaves for L o Miquelon we shift a you shouldn't be called or beador Kia toss sock on you are the forgiver of Yisrael McCullen also a different lesson of forgiveness Mithila with ships de Assurant to the tribes of your children which is apparently another name for Israel but called Ovid or now obviously the two phrases seem to be more or less duplicitous poetically liturgy you Satan on one approaches well you know liturgy repeats but reversible so the metric customer wants to say they are referred to two different things yes right L is a remand to the state or a go where the Jewish people said Allah LOH ah yes Rael and therefore it represents the fat saw him bein a dumb llama Kong between man and God he attacks all Connolly's RAL God you forgive the fact IM that we commit against your name as exemplified in israel where we said in rebellion allah right to the a goal a level of Haifa Israel now Yeshua is a term that Moshe Rabbeinu used when he blessed the Swart team of the day of his death and he said in fact this is a famous megan we sing economist by he be sure run Mela that behold in Yeshua in Israel there was a king a sham missus F Russia are when all of the heads of the of the nation get together Jakob ship day Israel so Rashi explains that when is a sham truly a Mela only when there's attitudes and unity so we see that in a project that is describing unity and togetherness the Jewish people are called Yeshua Yeshua so consequently when it says muscle on you forgive to say Sharon that means that when we try to do chuhwa on our Sinatra nom by becoming yuxuan you will forgive us and therefore the mention customer says at us all currently Israel is connected with the Phaedo ego that is been Adam Lama column well what how long will shift Asia run is connected to mysteriously Oh safe which is Bahamas are a row in which we try to become the issue run together and I sure will forgive me now don't look how they row as well provided of course we try to make amends with the people that that's we know right so in a sense again a go and receive Akio say are the idea votes they are the sure option of the negative that exists in so the AFT I read per se introduces a new Nami we haven't had him yet this is the nutty almost and almost it's very interesting navi he's one of the tray asar he's one of the twelve again they the English phrase twelve minor prophets is absolutely inappropriate and its irreverent there is no such thing as a minor prophet but smaller it's a smaller book right so the twelve small books were put together they're called and I remain at the tre ups are the twelve and almost is actually very popular even in the general Christian commune or the general community because almost is one of the big social reformer prophets he talks about social justice not oppressing the widow being fair Martin Luther King always quoted to almost may justice roll like water but there now I even here guys politicians who are very very far from any connection to religion who like you said all my favorite the properties Amos because you know it's fact he's probably the only the only verses in the Bible that they know at all but okay so all of us is is quite a popular in this way and almost though it's interesting that almost is used as a springboard between the Rambam and via Barbra Nell to discuss the qualifications of prophecy in general what why is that so unusual because here almost is given a profession says Debray almost this is not that serving this is the beginning of the book I Sheryl hiyaah been nope dim meet Accola so first of all almost we're not give we're not given his father's name which is little unusual most of the VM we have some type of family identification we're given not no detail about him except the city town that he was from which is Toccoa the colors more or less where Toccoa is today near usual I am and he is not a no Kevin okay it is essentially somewhat of an unusual word for a shepherd and on one hand cuz I'll considered being a shepherd as a very very noble idea you know Yaakov Avena was a shepherd etc Alpharetta does not say was a shepherd Avram had row a a brown but but you know but certainly Yaakov himself was a shepherd for many many years mm Ella Moshe Romania and there are really two reasons why cuz I looked at shepherding as an ideal for spiritual leadership one is that it teaches compassion and recommends that you have to take care of sheep in a very very careful way like I once came across a book I'd like to get it I'll Chuck in Amazonas if they have it this was a book written by a Christian Erica who says who said this was not fifty maybe forty years ago he said Jews don't understand the 23rd psalm like the 23rd psalm is motherland of is a sham Rowi hashem is my shepherd low outside the average urban jim come here to sell there aren't Jews who understand but no the average urban feel like I got some of some of your deference we don't know what a shepherd really really does without a shepherd takes care of sheep but we're not sure whether it what exactly is involved he said if you understood what a shepherd must do with this flat you would then understand in a much more graphic deep way how Hashem deals with you in compassion and goodness so he basically described what a shepherd does when he did and then he connected it to the verse it's a very nice example of using life to explain the procurement Tanakh which is actually a very useful thing a lot of times the medieval before don't quite do it because they were not familiar necessarily with the details of life but the sheriff shepherd makes the points that sheep are very skittish they're very frightened they don't see very well their vision is clouded and they know because of the heavy wool they know that if they fall over and lose their bow they will not be able to get up again and as a result they're very afraid to approach water because if they approach water and lose their balance there's an instinct what can happen is their wool is going to get waterlogged and they won't be able to get up again it's an instinct that the animals actually have and as a result unlike those goats are very confident and goats are very independent and goats are also very sure-footed so they can kind of navigate all these things cheaper actually not and therefore the Shepherd has to calm them the Shepherd has to carry the Sheep the Shepherd has to hold the Sheep with the Sheep drinks because it's frightened and he says realize that that's what Hashem is doing with us you know we live in a world where we'll often confuse we're pregnant we don't know where to turn our vision is not very clear not only in the physical sense maybe but you know we just don't know what the future will hold but when a person has a Munna he has the serenity of knowing that Hashem is looking after them that doesn't mean we're not polyamic that doesn't mean everything will happen the way we want I mean we did have colic less and we do have to do it unfortunately even to this very day but it does mean that ultimately Hashem cares we don't understand why something's happen why they know but it's not simply a matter of indifference or rejection and ultimately there's a God that knows what he's doing and therefore we can trust that there's some ultimate good that we won't always be able to perceive right away so one reason for a shepherd why Hashem likes to choose shepherds is the idea that the Shepherd has a quality of recommen and it's a calico mare if you even have recommend for the animals then hopefully you will show recommend for people now maybe it's not a total cobble children because sometimes it's the opposite sub-sect people find it much more easy to have compassion to an animal that's right that's why the dog is man's best friend right you know a dog you know he's not going to be moody he's not going to reject immediate back into one softly no so to speak but nevertheless the concept is before you go to the major leagues you got to go to the minor leagues so a Shem wants you to work with the animals first and if you really do a good job a ship might promote you that's one aspect in second estimate is almost the opposite a little bit it's not referring to the fact that the Shepherd is so busy being the top al with the sheep but it's the other way and Shepherd gives you many long hours of isolation you're away from the crowds it's a bit of a solitary type of job you're living in the fields and because I've understood the god ones are explaining the Torah because I've understood that to be a man of God although ultimately you need to accomplish in the world you need to do what needs to be done but you also need a certain amount of what the rest of it all is supposed to do I know getting away from the crowd when you think about a sham you focus on your life etc and therefore the two ideas of the shepherd are both the idea of Rosh Minuit's and the idea of hits both adults and both of them are essential qualities of leadership right we normally associate leadership with what you might call extroversion but in fact if one is simply a person that is out there with the crowds eventually you just try to become a crowd pleaser or a rabble rouser and this is true in politics and it's even true in religious leadership as well and you're an empty shell there's nothing in there so a person has to make time to be with Hashem to be with themselves Ivan Stein's also once remarked many years ago he said that the reason why people were so interested in exploring outer space allow is there was so frightened of inner space allow me the emptiness within us so I don't want to look at the emptiness within me so I look at the emptiness out there what's out there and of course that correlates with the incessant addiction to social media where people have to be connected to somebody every second of the day why why can't we be alone with our thoughts maybe we don't have any thoughts that's one possibility and the other possibility is our thoughts might be so depressing that they drag us down so we don't want to be alone without them we want to be distracted in so many ways so this is looking at the shepherd in a positive way but what's interesting is that the Rambam has an opposite take you don't have to take your Bible no gravity in the wraparound but look to it the way I described it that is the question becomes this prophecy is certainly a gift that I Shem gives a person it's not something you can study for now it's true that throughout Tanakh we have what are called banana being with their disciples of the prophets there were prophecy schools but the mmm under the body chaplin suggests that prophecy schools taught meditative techniques they taught breathing they taught various ways to focus and concentrate but when all is said and done prophecy is a gift from God some people get it some people don't get it there is a minimum requirement that you be a righteous person and in fact the Gemara says that Naboo is only how on a person that's rich but but the first to say that means rigidly Pirkei avos sense so may of michelle co d bore strong but again that's defined and the creepy elbow said as covet she threw one who conquers the eight Sahara on earth must be modest as well so if you're if you don't have the character qualities you're not going to be a rabbit with rare exceptions such as bill um because I wanted to make a point but that's an exception that's not the rule but just because you have to be very righteous to be a nothing doesn't mean every person that's very righteous will be another in other words it's a necessary but not an automatic condition it's necessary but not sufficient so according to the the Rambam in order for a person to be a nubby even if he has all the moral qualities he does need to train he needs them to go to nubby school he needs to meditate he needs to do deep breathing he needs to learn techniques of navoo so here's where the barber Nell argued the Reverend Nell says almost was obviously not a professional nothing almost was a working Shepard so if God zapped him been a black another my focus basically is does Navarre require professional training or is it a divine gift that is given selectively to righteous people and the point I'm making is that the almost text is actually the source of this debate there are those that say that almost proves the case that neva is given to these selectively righteous person even without any - not without any training others say that we have to understand that almost must have taken a least a correspondence course in the Ruhr techniques and the lecture that that's one one must focus ok now what is the connection to have Torah for precious relationships is in Perak base of our most beginning with classic dollars and it begins with a formula co amar Hashem so says Hashem ow I'm looking at the wrong thing it's parrot base plastic bottom sorry commercial auto shop ishe Israel we all are by Louis Evander now this is a famous expression that only almost uses and uses it many many times as he gives prophesies against many nations but it says God says that where I could forgive up to 3 sins but the fourth one I'm not gonna forgive meaning there is at some point a critical mass there is a straw that breaks the camel's back now the pontiff says here I will forgive 3 sins of Israel but I will not forgive the fourth now he then doesn't tell you what the three since he's forgiving is yes of the fourth one but cuz I'll say the three sins are I go to Zara hylia rice reason some of my Shem says if that's all they had I would have forgiven it but there's a fourth one when added to the other three makes their sin unforgivable and what is that fourth one and this is the prusik why this is the haftorah for precious variation Joseph's name is not mentioned because I'll say that the following words are referred to yo save me from my cat cept subject because they sold for silver a righteous person DF young and a poor helpless victim Bob or Nile I am for a pair of shoes now again this person does not say at all that it's referring to make-- ratio same but Kazama in the metric saying that's exactly what it is that Joseph was considered to be righteous he is called yo safe ascetic and there is a metrics that said he is called there beyond he is called poor because it's not a question of money obviously he was he was didn't have any money per se but poor is when a person is so needy that he's begging for your assistance I mean your safe is begging his brothers not to do this and they're not listening and it says that they took the money that they got from his sale and they bought shoes for themselves and that's what almost is Muromets - they sold in Avignon for a pair of shoes now what is the symbolic meaning of shoes so it actually it actually says the Metis explains that symbolically in Rome it was the custom that if somebody was assert with a slave they would have to go without shoes because shoes represent mobility the ability to get around the ability to go where I want to go you take away somebody's shoes or somebody's sandals they're kind of confined to the house now they're not going to be able to walk long distances and barefoot those on some of those renters in Africa can go 300 miles barefoot for whatever it is so shoes are a sign of mobility and freedom and when your mobility was limited and when you didn't have options that was symbolically expressed by taking away your shoes now Joseph is telling the brothers one day I'm gonna rule over you one day you will all bow down to me one day you will acknowledge me as your Mela which of course happens but the brothers couldn't take them they were jealous they were resentful disappoint oh by the way adds an interesting point the supporter says that the brothers actually had covenant I mean they thought he had a coven of James Romanian because what happened was this they had already seen in all of the generations from Avraham that there was a period there was a division there was a bifurcation but see who would get the heritage of creating a nation of God there was a variety Ishmael elleny it's cut yes rail was cut off and the Brits who only went to you Scott yet Scott had a Yaakov and an ASA and the Covenant only went to Yaakov and that Lisa now they see Joseph having dreams of grandeur and not only that but the oh say brought the bottom Araya Joseph brought Lashon Hara about his brothers he accused them of eating Avram in a high a limb separate from an animal he accused them of improper behaviors so what did the brothers afraid come alive cut it yeah cutting a limb from a live animal a bear minify without properly slaughtering the animal first so what are the brothers afraid of they were afraid that the same thing that happened to you sh ma l and the same thing that happened ASA is gonna happen to all of them and the Brit is only gonna be with yo safe and maybe being a min as well who are the children of Russia which makes a lot of sense by the way since Raquel is the wife that Jakob wanted to marry anyway so the support him says they looked at yo safe as if he is a rogue aim what's their road age somebody that is trying to kill you now they felt this is spiritual ridhima he's not trying to kill them physically but he's cutting off their destiny and therefore they felt they had a right to get rid of him now obviously the problem was it was compounded with their personal jealousy and rage but at least ostensibly they gave justification for what they did that's very very important because nobody would accuse the shut him of simply acting as violent criminals say they did have a freshman they did have a calculation they did have a rationale but it happened to be it was tainted by animosity but and the proof is that's why he brings the shoes and the proof is that it was through jealousy and they were not totally objective because when they said we got rid of this kid who thinks he'll BOTS us around now we can get shoes we're free he's no longer our master I have young Bob or Bob Dornan online right so this is the only reason essentially why this is connected to participation because of this pursuit all Misquamicut subsonic we have young Bob or Livorno line but there's another part of our mas which is actually not in the haftorah for this week but I want to talk about it that is also connected to make us feel safe or at least the story of you're safe in a very very powerful way that is at the very end of the book of our month I'm sorry before I get to that again just just to just call to your attention some of the very very famous Pursuit game there's some very very famous verses in almost that you should notice and this is it still in the haftorah Rock at 10 we are dotting Nicole Mishra kotodama alkane f-code are they said they'd call everyone attention very interesting personally it is only you the Jewish people your daddy I know and I know means I love from all of the families in the world I love you the most and that is why I'm going to punish you so severely so this makes the interesting point that people say how could the Jews be God's people we get punished so severely for Corbin and Garland's and Crusades and programs and Holocaust and terrorism and people don't acknowledge our right to exist and we're expels from place to place and wherever the Jewish people lived in spite of the fact that we've always been productive and we've always contributed to every society we've lived it in a positive way quite amazing okay somebody sent me an article by a Spanish non-jewish non Jewish journalist who was writing about the influx of Muslims back into Spain as well as France and Germany and England and he said seventy years ago Europe decided it didn't want the Jews so God gave them the Muslim instead which would you rather have had the difference in them so what's going on God loves us and we contribute to the world why does everybody hate so the nuddy says the hatred of the persecution he's really coming from Gaza because he loves us so much he wants us to be the best type of people that we can be we're off course by assimilation by ignorance by adopting corrupt ways God will allow the floodgates of hatred to open up to remind us that if we forget that we're Jews there will always be that will be there to remind you that you are Jewish semen this way although we obviously don't want anyone to suffer but anti-semitism is one of God's gifts it raises the funny word to use but it is one of the mechanisms that are colorful uses that we should remember that we have to be different we have to be distinct we have to be unique and that's what almost is saying it is how Shems love bring evening that makes us them be so demanding just as if I see somebody else's child misbehaves I'm not usually not gonna dismiss I try to diss the one them I may get in big trouble right I'm not gonna discipline somebody else's child but part of it is that's correctly you know I may not care as much my own child I care enough that I'm going to intervene and that is why I Shem is strictly with the Jews then he is the idea that the are sometimes Hashem shalyah to make us remember who we are is really encapsulated within when I brought my veena was negotiating to buy more atomic kala to barrysarah to a relatively new premises remarks by saying Garrett Oh shove a no shima him I am a stranger and I am a resident lab salivating says that is the paradox of a Jew in the world a Jew is Atocha we are resonance of course in our own country of course that's the case but even in the government Jews are citizens and residents of the lands that they live in they contribute they don't withdraw from society but they jus also has to feel that there was stranger you have to feel different they're not supposed to be totally comfortable and even in and although we're not dis relative in here as well there's that as well because on one hand we have to support the medina you have to be grateful for the Mickey not but you know in a population where not everybody shares the same religious values one needs to be strong and willing to again not to demonstrations not to all of that I think that's not a good way to go at all but in I wrote commitments just to be firm in terms of what we're committed to doing in our lives and our family's life so there has to be a certain amount of strangeness meaning there are aspects of society that we don't embrace and bring that's that's the gear gear Vitosha now then it goes on almost doctora ends with again a famous rhetorical pairing how Yale who should I am Yaakov if two people are walking in the street together and they seem to be walking together does that not mean they have something that they need to talk about there must have been some plan to get together meaning from what you see you draw certain obvious conclusions how you shag are you a B are you hear the roar of a lion from the forest tariff in LA it's not going to have some prey that is captured because lions roar when they get the prey you hear the roar you know there's pretty high you taint to fear Colome in monotone if a young lion is roaring from its lair guilty of Licata is not something been captured and brought to the young lion in other words from what you see you draw reasonable conclusions haughty both si por el Paco Eretz if you see a flying bird that's all of a sudden laid low doesn't that mean it was captured in some trap some nests in me Takas shofar but here when you hear the blowing of the shofar shop we used to be blown as a warning was like a siren it reminded you that were warned you that the enemy was coming so says when you hear the shofar sound I'm low yeah Roger those people know that they need to be afraid right when you hear a siren right it means they have to go to the right to the shelter as soon as you could by the way this park is the Makara this person is quoted by Pierre k2 Rebbe Eliezer as one of the reasons why we start glowing show for from Rosh Hodesh ello until Arab Rosh Hashanah because kodesh yellow was the time when we try to do Shula and the shot sound of the shofar inspires casa da it inspires trembling as the pus success in the takasho Farva ear beyond logic hood and therefore almost the same are you shocked with the lion roars who does not fear when Hashem speaks who will not prophesy meaning almost sad I gotta give this message I know the message is hard it's not touchy feeling it's not that everything will be great but I have to act on what I get and what I see Hashem gives me the message who can deny so that's kind of the haftorah and again it talks about Sinatra nom it talks about social injustice it talks about oppression of the winner and it's connected to McKee Rocio same because once again but see what Joseph is the show rest of Sonata phenom but there's another passage at the end of the book of Ramos that is not in this October that I think is also very very beautiful and worthy of pondering and this is a message of hope that as bad as things are almost says there will be Gulen in the history of of Israel and he says he nay young man volume no mush em behold days are coming Vinnie - call - black Jota that the flower will reach the harvester not with it when that is describing it - finally a harvest will be so abundant that they'll still be harvesting throughout the summer so when it's time to plow they'll still be a harvester gathering the grain so the simple meaning is the prosperity that the focus will be ro rage and they'll still be a code Sarah who is harvesting and similarly dough raised under him there will be somebody that will be stepping on the grapes to make wine the Moshe kazar at the same time that somebody is planting the new seed so simple shot is economic prosperity ruck up your tolerance but here is what the Metra says the Metra says that because the measure as a vow has an exquisite linguistic sense of language and they connected by me gosh - buggy gosh we're gonna read in a few weeks when you who the plate please for Yosef by the dodge a love Yehuda so bonny gosh is connected to the future unification of Yehuda and Yosef and that is the caleche is called yahuda and the code ser is called Yosef and of course let me just remind you that malice yahudah was ruled by the descendants village by the descendants of Yehuda governor Ehrlich mouth closed Israel the ten tribes were ruled by a friend so whether almost is really talking about the court when when almost talked about the invitation of yehuda and yo safe he's actually talking about the unification of the southern kingdom and the Northern Kingdom and the return of the ten tribes and the ultimate unification about Israel in a sense nabiyev don't talk about this so much whether it's we have these two kingdoms the northern kingdom of the ten tribes and the southern kingdom of a 2000m it just happened when it happened it was a rebellion against Shlomo's son Rehoboam and we have these two tribes we have these two kingdoms right the ten tribes were exiled first and the Corbin etcetera the Nadeem don't talk about I mean they give butcher to the southern kingdom and they give motion to the northern kingdom but they don't talk so much about the tragedy of the Jewish people being split into two kingdoms that was just a given and they dealt with their the individual sins of each Kingdom but once in a while there's kind of a subtle undercurrent of how tragic that division was and maybe it was so painful that you know then the vm don't didn't even talk about it so much and eyeshadow didn't even talk about it so much to the vm but you see in the consolation that the ultimate consolation that almost offers us is there will be the unification of all of the Jewish people once again which by implication if that's the comfort the implication was that forget about the court even before though is a Corbin when both kingdoms were doing great that was such a tragic that the Jewish people were split and the greatest part of the redemption is the coloration the culture will be combined now the question though becomes as a matter of symbolic language why is you who they're called the Co race and Yosef called the culture right the Metro says Coleridge is Yehuda code sir is yo safe why is that so so the spice ms says very very beautifully and he actually uses Hilco Shabbos as as the model and he says the problem he says Co reg by plowing one of the block of the job is plowing plowing is lyrically a Allah when you soften up the land right you make the land ready to be Makka Bell seeds so you've softened it about it you will plow through it koats air is when you uproot something from the ground to the specimen says yo safe and yehuda represent two different models of jewish leadership yo safe when your safe is confronted with temptation with Potiphar's wife yo same as the color and the strength and the fortitude just say no that's called co-chair he removes himself from his art ciothes home rios he removes himself from his lowly time' his lowly lust and he just says I'm not gonna say that's called Coetzer because you take yourself away from the dirt you get out of the mud now yahuda represents a different mode of leadership Yehuda when you did subject to sexual temptation and Preston has to be his daughter whether you don't know that when Tom Ward disguised as a prostitute in Tyson he gives in to his sexual desire he fails he was Mitchell but you who that teaches us to be honest in acknowledging our mistakes in coming forward in taking responsibility remember Tamar was not going to identify by Tamar they're gone I got pregnant and they didn't know it just from your hooter and he was going to she was going to be burnt at the stake and she just said the man that gave me this staff of this money belt and cuz I'll say if you who the wouldn't of said except owe me money she's more righteous than me she would have gone to her death because it is better to go to your death in a fiery furnace and not humiliate somebody publicly so you who they represent what you might call the flawed person the person who failed but the person who shows us that even when we fail we can come back to a sham and Shuba and honestly and that's called courage you take the dirt but you soften it you soften it you refine it you make it something good now paradoxically the mouth was that I sham gave - I'm Israel is primarily through double-shaded you enjoyed under the same situation with Baba it repeated itself so from Southwark so I sense a lot of reciprocity does make a point that God didn't want a leader who is so perfect that he doesn't make mistakes because such a leader cannot teach me anything because I fail I make mistakes I look at Paragons of perfection and all I can say is that's not me Hashem wanted leaders we do have weaknesses but they show us that even when you fall you get up again number one we're subject points out there's an occupational hazard of being a person who doesn't make a mistake and become a ball geyser which is the biggest mistake but the person who fails and understand the smaller ability number one can be a better role model for me and number two knows how much he depends on the professor of God because he knows that his own he's not gonna make it and therefore paradoxically although yo safe of some level is superior to you who then but the Maoist was given precisely to shave it yahooza to cover develop and ultimately mushiya what is I think there's a song by let it come again very interesting person in his own in his own right on and off with Judaism but I think the other professor actually he was more involved with Judaism he said that it is the crack that lets delight in the light it comes in through a wall of a bell it is the crack that allows the light to penetrate meaning if you don't have a crack you know there's kind of an egotism and that fills up and God cannot enter without that there's no space for him right so that's the deep thought and it's something that is very very relevant to this idea now the Camaro expresses did this was really a tomorrow the Torah says Ain a Dom its massive amount for a person is not drawing to be an LF L AM Cain Koopa shell Sharat sim to Willie along the Asura unless there is a bag of dead rats or dead shorts in that he's carrying we would call it skeletons in the closet well obviously almost all our politicians have plenty of skeletons in the closet but the point that Kumar's making is not that you have all sorts of a virus but that you have a virus but you've done Shuba and you've acknowledged and you showed us how to live you know I've mentioned before that reporter was very critical of the genre of judoma biographies great great people vanities because they described superhuman people when they were four they knew the Babylonian Talmud them when they were five - did you show me and buy their Bar Mitzvah they made any their 1000c mother - Leonora and they recited about the ocean by heart you know now these are entertaining stories deserving of their idea I mean I'd like to do they're fascinating stories but you know you then ask okay so what's my message and what is the message that I should teach my children if he doesn't make his CMI shots at it in the sports birthday you know I'll get over what am I going to do you know so we're putting her pointed out that we really make a mistake when we think that people were born gaedola they also had trials and mistakes and failures and it would have been very instructive to kind of see what struggles they had because then I could say ah I had a similar problem how I see what a great person can do or how a person becomes great right they didn't they thought that they worked right then but the way they dealt with those struggles made them grin sheva read Mel says Sheva episodic for trouble deciding falls seven times and gets up again and thus Farnham say what makes him excited is that he fell and he figured out how to get up again and he didn't allow the defeats the spiritual defeats in life to crush his spirit and take away his hope and take away his faith in Hashem and take away his faith in himself which he has to have as well REM Southwark writes ashamed um hi Yahoo I'm in back Rhoda Sparkle just as a person must believe in Hashem Kaku who you might be as well a person must believe in himself as well because it is not possible that I Shem gave you a mission and didn't give you the tools to accomplish your mission and that is what correlation is that we will fail will be in the mud will be in the dirt but we will soften it and refine it and make it the ground out of which there will be productivity and so it's a very beautiful metaphor Joseph is the code sir who'da is the co wrench the unity of ami Israel is the most beautiful thing almost can say but at the same time it also shows us that the ideal model of a spiritual leader is the flow rates perhaps even more than the more than the culture yes and I want to point out this is not contradicted by Cesaro although cuz I'll say all the technicalities were there but that's technicalities writing it is clearly a spiritual signal and it's repeating because when nothing uh nothing comes to David and gives him the parable dove it says courtesy I acknowledge and Dermot had excuses he could have given all the abuses the Gemara gives him and he didn't he refused he said I did wrong that's on the fundament you know I mean listen not that this is the measuring rod but if all of this every politician caught up in a scandal would just say he right off the bat Nixon even I did wrong they would be forgiven even by even by the population yeah but we're always looking denial excuses today route soon you know so the may let it gets if it gets much worse and that's the way it is with that job too and of course Kim knows the truth you give it you give some excuses that's not it's certainly not gonna work you know you got anything I was wrong the Seder let's move on now we can move on something good the only lucky yeah yeah yeah yeah I tried to India but when the 9/11 a 23-3 you see the students were kidnapped yeah what can I tell you I mean a demonstration that we've got like we had two weeks ago whatever it was you know this is why the you know this reason but this is one of the reasons why mushiya was not yet the prime KFC and reverently Steinman cadet condemned yeah but they know that the greatest of the condolence a it's absolutely not it was not proper I think that the Italian pronunciation is to warn them see PO know that's right oh is it with a partner in them I said it with the purple you see that that sounds of that that you could see sorry about the [Music]