Vayishlach - 7th Portion

Join me as we learn together for Shabis, the seventh Torah reading of paras chapter 36 verse 20. The Torah up until now was telling us about Yitzk's passing and even though as we mentioned it wasn't in chron the Torah is not in chronological order. However, the Torah yesterday told us about all the families of Asov. And over here, the Torah continues to tell us about the families of Aser. These are the children of Seer. They were the original inhabitants of the land of Seer. And verse 20, what is the Torah telling us? They were the original inhabitants. And says as follows. They were the ones that were settled before as came there. The rabbis explain they knew exactly where say where to know and how what place of the land was important. The measurements on each place of the earth where it was good. They were so perfect that they knew the land really well. That they knew which parcel of land was good to plant olives, which parcel of land was good to plant grapes. They were able to taste the earth and tell you what and where it all came from and what it should be used for, what kind of planting. [snorts] I think they say the better today have that ability as well in the desert that they can see which land comes from where. The Torah now continues in verse 21. these were the tribal chiefs of amongst the sons of in the children of Leighton was and the sister of Leighton was Tim verse 23 and these are the children of and verse 24 of and these are the children of who this is The same Anna Ashim who discovered the mules in the desert while he was tending to the donkeys that his father had. So what does this mean? So Rashi explains as follows verse 24 there's an extra V here you have this in a lot of times like he's giving you another example where there's another which tells me this is extra but it's not coming to add anything like orus in other places as well who does it mean this is an which ano are we talking about here Omar that we spoke earlier in verse 20 about the brother he was the brother of but over here he calls him his son even though he was his brother this is teaching us about that actually married his mother and because he was intimate with his mother and gave birth to Anna so again you have he was his father and his brother the illegitimacy that was pervasive amongst as children. What are they? They were mules. How did he find them? He he realized that when you put a dunkey and a horse together, that means a male dunkey and a female horse and it gave birth to a mule who So he himself was a legitimate child. Not only that, he also brought illegitimacy into the world of making creating these mules. Why over here did they call them? If they were mules, why not per usual terminology? Because they were scary. They've scared people. said, "Nobody ever asked me how to heal themselves from the bite of a mule." Meaning, nobody ever was made survived. But haven't we seen that people were bit by a mule and they didn't die? So he says don't call it that they lived but they lived on with this pain meaning because that even though yes they may have lived but the wound was never healed. He really didn't have to tell us they were from the family of only because Tim was the concubine of to tell us the greatness of a that all these families were trying to marry into the family of a verse 25 and these are the children of verse 26ish these are the children Verse 27, these are the children of verse 28. These are the children of verse 29. These were the chiefs of the families of the chief of verse 30. Chief Dishan, Chief Acer, Chief Dishan, these are the tribal chiefs of the Horites, the chief by chief in the land of Seir. Verse 31, being that we counted above gave a blessing to Yakov that he will be a master over his brothers and told Asov that he too would that he and his descendants would serve Yakov's descendants. So the Torah now describes how these blessings went into effect and how it appears that Asov's descendants were independent and a self-governing nation. And therefore he tells us about the future kings that will be coming from As these are the kings that reigned in Adam. These were the kings before any king reigned over the descendants of the Jewish people. And he explains as follows in Rashi verse 31. The there were eight kings that As had connected Yak and also Yakov put up eight kings and therefore took away and got rid of the kingdom of Asov in their times that the kingdom of Adam was not able to stand up against the kingdom of the Jewish people. The aloh who are the eight of them? Scholas in the day of the son of At that time rebelled and they were able to put up a king. That means already at that time Edom would no longer were under the jurisdiction and they were able to fight up against them. However, in the time of there was no king in Edom. Verse 32. Bella and who were the kings in Adam? Bella the son of the name of the city was Bella and Bella died and instead of him became king who was succeeded by Zerak the son of he came from a place called Rashi. What does it mean? is a moit. It says I'll curious because put a king to they later on also got punished at the same time. God will punish the people of Edom as well as it says that God will make a slaughter in the people of Betra and in the land of Edom because they join together with the people of Edom. Verse 34. died and instead of him became the king from the land of the tonites. Verse 35 died and instead of him became the king who killed out who defeated Midan in the fields of Moab the city that he came from was called a verse 35. What does it mean that he he was defeated by the people of Midan? came to wage war against the Moabites of war. And then the king of Edom went to help Moab. From here we know that Moab were not getting along with one another. They made Bum. But what happens in the time of Bum when they made they made peace? What happened was Mid and Mo were always in a fight with one another. when then they needed bum to be able to go curse the Jews. So they made peace to be able to fight against the Jews. And died and he was succeeded by simil from similar and succeeded by schol from the place called and died and succeeded by Akbar by the son of Akbar. Verse 39. died and replaced by and succeeded by the king of the name of a city was the name of his wife was Mahavl and Mavl was the daughter of Mat the daughter of Basahov the daughter of Mahav Rashi wants to know who is this Mahav Ma Zahov why does it say he was the daughter of Zah of gold used to say Ma What is gold? It's very wealthy. That gold was nothing worth for him. That even gold wasn't of value because he was so wealthy. [snorts] Verse 40. These are the names of the chiefs of according to their families. according to their regions by the names that they were given of their families the chief of Alva the chief ala and chief of the tribe of that why were they given these names they were named by their countries after who was the last king of Edom and then the Edom kingdom stopped the dynasty stopped that we mentioned the first eight These are now the names of the families of the children of as it's described in the book of chronicles. And then who were the generals and the chiefs of Adam and so on. Verse 41, the chief of the tribe of Ali, chief of the tribe of chief of the tribe of Pan. 42 alaz. Alfan, Alf Miffsar, the chief of the tribe of Kaz, Tan and Msar. Verse 43. Alf Magdal, the chief of the tribe of Magdalom. These are the chiefs of the places of Adam according to the places where they lived in according to their settlements. Who? Asov. This is all comes from Asav that he brought all these people into the world. Aviadim he was the father of the Edom kingdom and dynasty. If you look at the first name Alf Magdal the chief of the tribe Mdel Rashi tells us by the way do you want to know who this magdal is? He is he this is Rome that's why we know that the kingdom of Rome and the exile of Rome refers to Asaf. This concludes the seventh reading of V