End of Days: Israel & Yishmael - Is This The Final?

I think we understand that that the fires that are being raised all over Europe and spreading has to do with a very fundamental disagreement that happened 3,000 years ago. And that is the disagreement between who we call Yishmael and Yitzchak, the the subject of our parsha at this point. Sorry Mayno was very upset at Yishmael and she actually threw him out with his mother. What's the reason why she threw him out? It seems like such a nice not such a nice thing. So, the answer is is the possuk says that Yishmael was metzachek. Now, listen to the words. Metzachek means laughter. He was laughing. So, some obviously Chazal Meforshim Rashi brings down metzachek means he was busy with illicit things. But the Sforno says an unbelievable thing, something that's unforgettable. He says that metzachek means the same tzoch that was happening at the second birthday of Yitzchak. Yitzchak was given a birthday because it was finally time when he got male that it was time that he was going to start becoming independent, stopping to nurse. And there was a party and over there there were people making a tzoch. They were making a laughter. What were they saying? You know, Sarah, you remember her? She was captured by Avimelech. She was also captured by Paroh before. She was a shvuya. She was a person that was captive for a while and pitom suddenly she got pregnant. So many years she's hanging out with Avraham Avinu and she didn't get pregnant and finally she's pregnant and she was a captive for a little while with Avimelech. It must be that this child Yitzchak Isaac is really a child not from Avraham Avinu. It's not from Abraham. Rather, she's he's a child from Rachmana litzlan chos sham from Avimelech. And it says that and says the Sforno, this Sforno, the incredible Rav Ovadia, Sforno from the 1300s, that that was the tzoch of Yishmael also. Yishmael was heading this whole entire debate. He was the one that was bringing out to the forefront. That's true. Yitzchak is not really an inheritor of Avraham Avinu. As he points out, obviously he has certain incentives here because that would make him the sole inheritor of all of Avraham Avinu's wealth and his future prodigy. We realize that he had certain incentives to doing that. So therefore, he threw Yitzchak out the door saying that he was not really from Avraham Avinu, it was Sarah's own thing. And therefore, he that's the talk that he did. So Sarah made her own out of her way to throw him out of the front door. Not just out of upsetness or annoyed and get him out of here. No, cuz she wanted to prove a point that no, that's incorrect. You're the one who's somewhat not legitimate. He's the one who's the designated child. This son is the only son that's coming out of Avraham Avinu. Beni Bechor, he's the one that will be called the continuation of Avraham Avinu. He also points out that's why he threw him out with his mother Hagar. Why Hagar? Because the Gemara says in Sukkah that a child only does what his mother's and parents teach him. Pare- Parental example, as we are quite familiar, is the prime of all chinuch, of all of all pedagog. And therefore, obviously she was the one that was teaching him these new tricks in order to make sure that he would be the inheritor of the incredible wealth and power and kavod and strength of Avraham Avinu. That is this incredible difference that we find between Yishmael and um and Yitzchak. And that's and and so what changed? What made the tables turn? What was the convincing knockout punch that made him change? Cuz it's very interesting right after the Akedas Yitzchak, it says "V'Yirashei Yitzchok es charei vecha." That it says over there right after Akedas Yitzchak, it says that Yitzchak, you are the one that is going to inherit Avraham Avinu's inheritance. And it says "From your oyvim." From your oyvim. Who's oyvim? The Rabbeinu Bachya says "Soynim." Your hated ones. That's Esav. That has to do with Edom. That has to do with as we say the the the West. But the East, the Arab countries and all that, they're known as oyvim, enemies. One is the soyna, the ones that hate you, like Germany. And then there's the ones that you're enemies, that is Yishmael, what we refer to as the Arabs. You will now inherit the Arab You will now inherit Avraham Avinu and be able to push away the oyvim, Yishmael. Why is that? Because the idea [clears throat] of Eretz Yisrael, which is the battle of the giants, always between Yishmael and Yisrael, is a disagreement who owns Eretz Yisrael. So what's the reason? What's the skhut of getting Eretz Yisrael? Well, if you look in Birkas Hamazon in Birkas Haaretz, it's about Eretz Yisrael, it talks about the bris. The bris milah, the skhut of bris milah, of keeping the bris milah, of trying to stay away from illicit things. The idea of the bris bris the bris milah, that is the skhut, that is the merit that we'll be able to stay in Eretz Yisrael. So Yishmael comes along and says, "Excuse [clears throat] me, sir. You made a bris milah when you were 8 days old. No big deal. You made a circumcision at 8 days old. I did it when I was 13 years old. Even though they do a half-cut job, they don't really do the full thing, but we won't go there. And therefore, I deserve it much more than you. My circumcision, my bris milah was way ahead of you. And as we know, officially, Arabs try to practice being careful in any type of illicit things, also. And I said officially for no small reason. Anyways, so in as much as they say that they say we deserve Eretz Yisrael. So the fight over Eretz Yisrael has to do starts and finishes with the idea of the bris milah, of trying to keep to the laws and trying to keep the bris milah. So said, as we know, right before Akedas Yitzchak, Yitzchak Avinu says to him, to Yishmael, "You know, if Hakadosh Baruch Hu would want my whole body, I would give it to him, not just the circumcision. The whole entire body, I would give it to him." In which case, the Akedas Yitzchak took place. Hakadosh Baruch Hu tells Avraham, "Sacrifice your child." V'chulai, and the whole entire sacrificing of Yitzchak took place. After the Akedas Yitzchak, when Yitzchak when Yitzchak was ready to give himself up in his whole entire body. It's been mesirus nefesh. And the idea of mesirus nefesh means that I give everything to you, Hakadosh Baruch Hu. I completely envelop myself with kedusha and tahara, with purity. So then, what happens? So then automatically, he deserves Eretz Yisrael more than Yishmael. He was willing to give himself up at the Akedah, and as a result of that, he deserved Eretz Yisrael much more than Yishmael. I throw in parenthetically, and it seems very clear, that the reason why the Arabs these days are trying to kill themselves left and right, left and right, and trying to knock themselves off, is because they want to usurp the Akedah Yitzchak and say that it's really us. In other words, since we know the Akedah Yitzchak is the reason why the Jews deserve to live in Eretz Yisrael, in Israel, so the Yishmaelim, the Arabs come along and say, "Okay, so let's kill ourselves." The problem is that first of all, it's too late. And second of all, no one meant to kill yourself and knock people off on the way. Innocent people blowing up buses, blowing yourself up together with killing people, hundreds of people for absolutely no reason, who didn't do anything to you. That's evil and absolute torment and ridiculous. Anyways, that is this battle that has always been around and the zechus to live in Eretz Yisrael. I heard from Berenstein said a beautiful story from the Piazetzna Rebbe, the Esh Kodesh. His son got killed in the Holocaust. And at the yahrzeit of his son, the first yahrzeit of his son who got killed in in during during in Auschwitz, he said at the yahrzeit an incredible thing. He said that we know by the Akedah Yitzchak that Avraham Avinu wanted to kill Yitzchak. His ratzon, his will was 100% invested to go ahead and do it, but it didn't happen in the end. It was kulai machshava, it was complete interest and wanting, but in the end of the day, the action didn't actually take place. The action was still felt, because Hashem told him not to. But in the end of the day, it was ratzon without ma'aseh. It was an interest and a complete absolute investment to do it, but the action didn't take place. Said the Piazetzna Rebbe an incredible thing, the action did take place in the Holocaust. By the Holocaust, it was completely action without any rotten. No, it was the first time in history that so many Jews got killed without being asked. Always it was bow to the cross, bow to the Avodah Zarah, do this and you'll be free. Spanish Inquisition, just be like us and we won't throw you out. Go and you have the Crusades. Everything was be Christian, do this, do that and you'll be okay. Here's one of the first times where doing nothing and even the people were not even practicing Judaism, they were still being tormented, destroyed and obviously sent to the concentration camps. And that is because it was complete action ma'aseh without any machshavah, without any type of ratzon, without any type of will that lies behind it. That's summation. The Holocaust was a summation of the Akeidat Yitzchak. It was a completion of the Akeidat Yitzchak and therefore immediately after the Holocaust, we find that we entered into the Holy Land. We walked into the Holy Land, it became ours and we won the wars k'viyachol b'zchut the Akeidat Yitzchak, the sacrificing of 6 million kadosh Yisrael's in the Holocaust. That is the incredible machloket, the disagreement that has happened between us from the beginning of days. But I will end with a point of good and you should realize that it ends this way also. Because the Meshech Chochmah points out, you know what happened? Yishmael ended up in Chozair B'Tshuvah. At the end in the end of Parshas Chayei Sarah in our Parshat over here in Chayei Sarah now, Yishmael is chozair b'tshuvah. You know he's chozair b'tshuvah? He goes back and he was repentance and he lets Yitzchak goes first. When they're walking Avraham Avinu to his grave, he lets Yitzchak go first, his younger brother. As the Meshech Chochmah says, just because he let him go first, maybe he was just tired, lazy. Who says that that means he had repentance? Who says that he he renounced everything that he said? But the answer is, says the Meshech Chochmah, that was their battle. Their whole battle was who will be first? Who is the one running the show? The until this day, the Yishmael him say the Arabs say was a Kedachi Yishmael. It was the Kedachi of Yishmael that when it was they changed the gears said no problem. You can tell you in the olden days you used to put white out now you can just do a little bit AI and they put Yishmael on the altar instead of Yitzchak. A little bit of a change here and there. When we say no Yishmael Am Adam Hamor you stay on the bottom of the mountain. You are not walking up this mountain he told Yishmael and Eliezer you're staying down here because you are similar to a Hamor and you didn't get up. In the meantime eventually Yishmael was Hazer Betuba. He was in the end of days at the end he was Mitkaret and he let him go first. He let him walk in front of him his younger brother which was a sign and a sign to say at the end I agree. I acquiesce. It really does belong to you. And that is exactly the famous Gemara with this we end in Makot. On Chaf Dalet over there it says that all the Rabbis were standing by the Kodesh Kedoshim and Har Tsofim. They were standing with their crying and seeing that there were Shualim they were foxes which are called Shualim walking and scrabbling around the whole Beit Hamikdash in the area of the Kodesh Kedoshim and the Holy of Holies. They were crying how could it be? In the olden days nothing could even walk there except for the Cohen Gadol and now there is foxes walking around there. And the famous Rabbi Akiva was laughing. He was Metsachek. He was laughing. You know why he was laughing? Because he said just like this was Mitkayem in the end of the day we know that the Psukim says that Shualim will be there so eventually we know that we will be able to walk the land. What did Rabbi Akiva mean? A Shual is the same words as Yishmaeli. The Shual and Yishmael yes the Yishmaeli will be on the land and be what does it say in the Gemara was on the Kodesh Kedoshim and Holy of Holies they have marked off inside their mosque the gold the gold dome over there. Inside of it they have the place exactly where the Kodesh Kedoshim is. I think they're off a little bit but it doesn't make a difference. They have because they hijacked basically our religion they hijacked the Kodesh Kedoshim they hijacked everything. But in the end of the day they put it there to be Mitkayem this Gemara that the Yishmael and the Shualim will be in that spot. But don't forget, says Rabbi Akiva, he was mitzachek. Mitzachek from lashon tzchok, the same tzchok that Yishmael did in the beginning. The same laughter that he was doing when he was saying, "Ah, it's not true. Yitzchak is not true. He's not the real thing." That tzchok that he was doing at that time when Sarah threw him out of the house. That same tzchok is what Rabbi Akiva was laughing. You know why? Because the last laugh goes to Yitzchak, the man whose essence, his name, is tzchok, is laughter. Yitzchak is the idea of laughter, "Az yimale tzchok pinu." When we will have absolute laughter at the end of days because they will finally acquiesce and agree, just like Yishmael did, that you know who's the boss, you know who's the one that really belongs to Eretz Yisrael, you know who's the chosen people, you know the one who did Akedat Yitzchak. That is, of course, Yitzchak Avinu bechvodoi beatzmoi. As the gemara finishes over there, "Nichamtani, Akiva, nichamtani." You have appeased us, Akiva, now you have appeased us because he said so much truth in there. Yes, we're going through difficult times. Yes, current events are showing a Yishmael that is acting wildly without out of control. You can look at the previous year, which I spoke about the French riots. But in the end of the day, this is all a sign, it's the first step and the last step to finally get to the geulah, bimheira viyamenu. Amen. And the last laugh will be there.