Vayishlach - 3rd Portion

Join me in learning for Tuesday the third Torah reading in paras verse 31 chapter 32 called that name of the place because I saw God beheld I saw God face to face and my life was spirit Verse 32. The sun rose upon him when he passed and he was limping on his dislocated hiphod. What does it mean? Was the old sun only shining for Yakov? Why does it say the sun was shining for him? What about everybody else? It's a terminology that people use that we came to this place. It became light for us and therefore the Torah uses a simple interpret a terminology that people speak in this is a simple interpretation explains that God made that the sun should come out because of Jacob. That's why it says the sun was shining because of him. It was a miracle. to heal him from his dislocated joint. As it says in the book of Mali, the sun comes out and brings healing to the world. Those few hours that the sun hurried to set before its time because of him when he left beh in this case it came out early that it should shine because of him. This way he should have healing on his hip. What does it mean? And he was limping meaning he was initially he was initially limping because of this dislocated hip. However, when the sun came out, that's when he was healed. Verse 33. Al came because of this. Therefore, the Israelites do not eat from the nerve of the of the displaced of the hip which is in the hip joint because it was angel touched hip joint in the nerve that was temporarily displaced. Verse 33, I'm sorry. Verse, yes, verse 33. What does this mean? The nerve of the hip joint. Because hit on his hip joint because of that the nerve bounced out of its place. The word comes from the word removing, jumping, being out of its place. We find that Manasha calls his son Yseph calls his son Manasha because he was yearning, he was desiring, he was very far, he was at disloc meaning the joint of the hip. Anytime you have meat flesh that is higher and is hanging like a round circle is called a spoon because it looks like the spoon like Rashi explained before which is explained in the uh laws of Nida of what's considered the sign of what is a mature individual talking about how it becomes the size of but it becomes round and he uses the terminology calf as a spoon. Verse 1, chapter 33. Raises his eyes and he sees and he sees As is approaching accompanied with him is 400 men divided up his children in two camps with Leia and Alv and with the two bonds women. Verse two. And he put the and he put the and he placed the bonds women and their children in front and their children in front of and her children then behind them and then went behind him behind them and Leia and his children behind them because we know the last ones are the most cherished. So who were the last ones were Yoseph and Rahul? Verse three. For who of Jacob went ahead of them all of the whole family before the family approached and he prostrated himself seven times as he approached his brother. Why did Yakov go first? Why was he the one that approached them first? Yakov put himself in front of everybody and he said as follows. Omar, he said to himself, "If that evil guy wants to make a war, let him start with me first and not touch my family." Verse four, ace of friends towards him and he hugged him and he embraced him and he fell on his uh threw himself on his neck and he kissed him and they wept. What does this mean here? And he hugged him. He embraced him. At that point, even though yes, he maybe didn't remove his complete hatred for Yakov, but at that point, he had mercy on his brother. So when he saw his brother bowed down to him seven times, all those things, all the times he bowed, that brought him to a level of mercy for his brother. Now if you look in the Torah, the word and he kissed them has dots on top of it. And in the Torah, there are dots on top of it as well, there are dots on them. And if there are dots on them, that means there's a hidden uh interpretation in here that has to be explored. And there's actually a dispute of opinions in the bry concerning what this means in the say that the fact there are dots on here it's actually an exclusion. It's coming to say that it's not the way it really seemed even though he kissed him but he really didn't mean it and he really didn't mean it at that time and he really had no intent in kissing him. It was just on the outside. It was external made as if he liked him saying he did not kiss him with his whole heart. Said meaning if you want to know that because in the simpler interpretation it means that he did not kiss him with all his heart. Why it is a law it is well known as hates and he will forever hate him. Ella what happened was why is there do that on it because that few moments he all of a sudden his mercy he melted away his hatred at that point he kissed him with all his heart was well known with the descendants of recognized and said no as really hates Jacob but what's the dots telling me that even though technically he does hate him but for that moment he really did kiss him with his full heart the Reb explained something fascinating here that when we talk about writers rashi bring about these different opinions whenever he brings these different opinions and especially multiple opinions that have a relationship with one another not only that and he mentions the name of using a terminology of that it's a law so as we mentioned had to do with the ancestors of as so you very well knew that as did not like and even when they made all the different streets in Rome as he expressed himself then was only to be able to uh for themselves, but they still have this hatred towards Yak. But what was he saying the don't be convinced and don't think you're going to flatter the enemy and they're going to all of a sudden like you and therefore you're going to try to appease the government and do things which may not be in accordance with Jewish law saying you need to find ways to appease the government and thinking that they do like us. Remember as of the way it is and that's the way it's going to be until Mashiach comes. However, what does he say? There are times that we can get them to have mercy on the Jewish people. How is that? Not by giving and capitulating to them. But on the contrary, by learning from Yakov, when YaKob says, "I was with love on and I didn't compromise on one of those commandments." By standing tall and proud in who we are as Jews, we get even the asovs to have mercy and to see the greatness of the Jewish people. Verse five. And as raised his eyes and he sees the women and the children and he says, "Who are all these responded? These are the children that God has been kind enough to grant to your servant. Who are these? Who are these? That they are what your relationship that you have all these people that they belong to you. This concludes the Torah reading for the third Torah reading.