From The Hand Of Esav - Parashat Vayishlach

He says the speakers were speaking to the people not for sham shamayim, not for the honor of Hashem, but just to convince them to give tzedakah. How do you How do you convince people give tzedakah? How do you convince people to like you? How do you convince people to pay attention, subscribe to your YouTube channel, come to your Beit Knesset? I said, "How?" You bring the Torah down to them. Torah says homosexuality not allowed, YOU SAY, "NO, IT'S not so bad. The act is not so good, but feelings are not so bad." What? What do you mean? You start cooling the tzibbur. You start making it like IT'S NOT SO BAD TO DRIVE ON SHABBAT IF YOU'RE DRIVING TO BEIT KNESSET. It's not so bad to eat NOT KOSHER AS LONG as it's not in your house, outside. Outside, nobody sees you. It's on me, don't worry. I'll buy for you. IT'S NOT SO BAD IF YOU LOOK A LITTLE bit at a woman here and there. It's not so bad. It's not so bad. Everybody looks. That's what they act. Everybody looks. You're just human. Hashem knows you're human. He knows your flaws. He knows your limitations. Making it like everything's okay because you're such a weak enable person. You're borderline so you can't do anything on your own. You can't do teshuvah. You can't do mitzvot. You're incapable. So Hashem understands that you're incapable. So might as well just Ah, it's okay. Don't worry. No, my friend. That guy Sefer Hasidim. So nobody says, "Oh, this guy machmir machmir." Sefer Hasidim, this is the ones, the Hasidim. He says, "That one, he goes to Gehennam." The speaker that says that, goes to Gehennam to such an extent as it says in the Gemara Maseches Rosh Hashanah page 17, Gehennam, their Gehennam, will never end. The world would end, but their Gehennam never ends. Why? Because they destroyed neshamos. They're worse than murderers. Murderers at least kill the body. This one told everybody everybody's a tzaddik, everybody's a navon, everybody's great, everybody's this, everybody's that. He destroyed the NESHAMAH FOREVER. HE'S WORSE THAN A MURDERER. Murderer took a body. He took a soul, shem Hashem. So, it's not that Joseph Dweck or anybody like him is on some list of people that we're trying to pinpoint. Who cares about him or any of his friends? It's that they all are part of a prophecy. Now, what's the prophecy? If you remember, a few weeks ago, we had a prophecy from 4,000 years ago. From Yakov Avinu, who said, "At the end of times," which we know he talks about the end of times, and you know about the end of times because before he died, he told his sons, "Come, let me tell you about the end of times." Meaning that Yakov Avinu knew about the end of times. So, in Parshas Vayishlach, he already gave us a prophecy in the verse in chapter 32, verse 12, Atzileini na miyad Achiv miyad Esav, which we learn from there he says, "Rescue me, please, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esav." And we learn from there that it means hand of my brother and Esau is the same thing it's supposed to be. Well, so what does it mean? When it's my brother, it's Esau, I know who it is. Because he's a murderer. So, I know it's Rome. I know it's Nazi Germany. I know it's the Greeks. I know them. What am I Why is he saying rescue me from the hand of my brother from Esau? Why is the hand first? Cuz the hand is scarier. Why? Cuz that is the brother that I don't know. I don't know THAT HE'S A RASHA. HE LOOKS GOOD TO ME. That's the Messianics. That's the ones that are Christian. That's the ones that are trying to infiltrate with Christianity into the Jewish world. But, my friends, the Zohar Kadush says that Erev Rav has five different levels. And the one that we talked about is just the first level. What's the second level? What's the most dangerous level? Yaakov Avinu also gave us that prophecy. In Parashat Toldot, even before he told us about the Messianics, he told us about the other Erev Rav. In Parashat Toldot, chapter 27, verse 22. When Yaakov Avinu comes to get a blessing from his father, pretending to be Esau. So, he puts the uniform, the jacket of Esau. And the story goes that Yitzchak touches his arms, he sees this hair, but he hears his voice, and he says, "A kol kol Yaakov, v'hayadaim y'dei Esau." The voice is the voice of Yaakov, but the but the hands, the arms are the arms of Esau. So, what's the hidush? The hidush here that Chazal, Rashi specifically, says that it's already known amongst the sages that the voice of Esau and the voice of Yaakov were identical. They're the same. Meaning, there was no way for Yitzchak Avinu to discern the difference between Yaakov's voice and Esau's voice. So, what does he mean? The voice of the voice of of Yaakov, but the arms of Esau. He says it's the way they talked. The way Yaakov Avinu, tzaddik, navon, prophet of prophets, what how did he talk? He talked kedusha. He was someone that would learn Torah all day. Beautiful language, beautiful words. Kedusha coming out of his mouth like diamonds. Esau was a shaman, rasha, was somebody killing and murdering like it was nobody's business. So, he talked like a truck driver. He knew the halachot, and he promised every day to do teshuvah, but he didn't do teshuvah. That's why Hashem says, "It's Esau saneti." "Esau, I hate him." Why? Cuz he promised every day he'd do teshuvah. He never did teshuvah. Promised every day, "I'm going to go to minyan." Nets. Never went. He promised every day, "I'm going to learn Torah." Never learned. Every day he promised. Made every day made promises. Every day made promises, never did teshuvah. "Esau saneti. Saneti, I hate him." He Hashem didn't say, "I hate Nebuchadnezzar." Destroyed Bet Hamikdash. He didn't say, "I hate Haman." He didn't say, "I hate Pharaoh." These people KILLED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. "ESAU SANETI," he says, why? He made empty promises. But here Hazal is telling us A kol kol Yaakov v'eid Yedei Esav. There's no difference in the voice. So what do you mean the voice is the voice of Yaakov? The chiddush here is that Yaakov Avinu is giving us a prophecy. He says, who's the most dangerous? IT'S THE ONE THAT SOUNDS LIKE YAAKOV. But has the actions of Esav. HE SOUNDS LIKE YAAKOV, GIVES A RABBI THE KEYNOTE, and there's 300 people going, 1,000 people going, and he's a dayyan, and he's a this, and he has articles, and he has a blog, and he says nice words, and he went to a university, and he reads a lot of books, and he has great vocabulary. A KOL KOL YAAKOV, BUT HE PERMITS homosexuality and to'avah Hashem and chillul Shabbat and all those things. A yad yad Esav, that's a rasha merusha. That's someone you have to be That's someone you have to be careful from. Why? Can't tell the difference who's a rasha, who's a tzaddik. How do you know who's a rasha, who's a tzaddik? How do you know? You learn this mishna. So finally we're going to get to the mishna. So mishna in Avot tells us how can we tell if a rabbi is tzaddik or rasha? How can we tell if the Torah that they're teaching is pure or tamei? BECAUSE ORACH CHAIM Hakadosh says, if the Torah that it's being taught is tamei, being taught by a min, you have to burn it. It's a mitzvah to burn it. Mitzvah to burn it. Just like a mitzvah to do tfillin, mitzvah to burn the Torah. A mean writes a safer Torah, Rambam says, burn it. Mitzvah. Mitzvah like tfillin. A mean? Well, if it's just a not idol worshiper, you bury it. But if it's a mean, which could be Jew or non-Jew, he's a mean, he goes and he gets other people to go do idol worship, goes tells people that it's okay to be a homosexual, go tell people it's okay to drive on Shabbat. He's a mean. He's someone that gets other people to sin. HE WRITES SAFER TORAH, HOLY SAFER TORAH, IT'S a mitzvah to burn it. Mitzvah. Orach Chaim Kadosh. So, how do you know THE DIFFERENCE? EVERYBODY SOUNDS THE SAME. Everybody reads the book. Everybody says I quote the Talmud, I quoted this more than that more than that you will show me and above me and safer tzaddiki. Everybody is a tzaddik, everybody reads books, everybody has a lot of books. How do you know the difference? How? Rabbi Chanina ben Dosa omer kol she rat cheto kodemeth le chochmato chochmato lo mitkayemeth. Ve kol she chochmato kodemeth le yirat cheto en chochmato mitkayemeth. Rabbi Chanan ben Dosa omer Anyone whose fear of sin is yirat shamayim takes precedence over his wisdom, over his chochma, is more important to him to be afraid of Hashem, have yirat shamayim, than his knowledge in Torah. First yirat shamayim, then Torah, he says his wisdom will endure. That's real Torah. That Torah, IT'S REAL TORAH. BUT, anyone whose wisdom TAKES PRECEDENCE OVER their fear of sin, anyone that says, "No, no, I read a lot of books, just not yirat shamayim." I know all the books by heart. I know all the halachot by heart. I know all the books by heart. I know this one and I know that one and I can quote you secular books and and non-secular books and this book and that book. I can tell you all the details about art. I can tell you all the details about history, I could tell you 15 different languages, everything. You got your mind now? It's not for me. He says, "That? To have a shame, that Torah is not Torah. IT'S NOT TORAH. MHM.