THEY KILLED MORE THAN ONE MAN!

Robert Obama wants to welcome you to the late partial show welcome they pass your show rabbi towba being an expert scribe is right now finishing up on the last few letters of this newly written Torah I was actually with Robert at about two weeks to go but I figured I would put that in this week's light partial show because this week's Torah portion called vfe is the last Torah portion of the book of Genesis the first of the five books of Moses hey so it's late Thursday night not so late 11 p.m. to be exact there's this away that's true I yeah I guess compared to usually filming us at 4:00 in the morning it's pretty early for me well I guess now they do it's pretty cool actually yeah you wouldn't think I'm in a closet with this background behind me thank you what are you oh you're putting all this money yes a closet with all these holy books how cool is that and it's a perfect set you know and you would never know oh that's that's you putting them away you weren't even gonna put them in the shelf what yeah what is this just like the closet is book to the back this thing no I don't think it's a nope what are you okay okay well on this week's Torah portion Jacob passes on Jacob feeling his final moments gives his last words and parting blessings to his grandsons from Joseph and all of his sons to his sons Shimon and Levy his final words were a rebuke there was once a man named shotgun he was prince of a place named chicken her for father Jacob had a daughter named Dina that once went into this town and was raped by Shem two of Jacob's sons Shimon and lady were furious about this and went and killed the entire male population of the city of Shem for this violent act jacob rebukes his sons actually jacob did agree with what they did he just didn't agree with how they did it but what i want to share with you now is a literal translation of part of the rebuke for in their anger they killed amen yeah that was it in case you missed it for in their anger they killed a man [Music] yeah first of all put those books back then clean up those hangers but yeah you're right a man they killed an entire city okay so the lights in the closet just turned off on us so don't worry we're gonna give the answer to that question because it great question because like why does the verse say that they killed a man when they killed many men but uh let's figure out how to get the lights on right kind of an awkward position okay so I found another closet there's just a guy speaking on a microphone outside and this closet has the light on and a tree and a fridge these closets are awesome okay so I'm sure there's a lot of answers to why Jacob uses a singular term man instead of men which was actually the case but the one I want to share with you is that the term does this deliberately to make us think when the chimin and lady kill just one man perhaps Jacob is referring to some other murder Shimon and lady committed not the one we know about that happened in China and this teaches us an extremely valuable lesson when doing harm in any way verbally physically it doesn't make a difference to another even with very holy motives we can god forbid acquire in nature that can even warrant us being accused of harming others but when acting generously with kindness towards others even with first selfish motives we can actually acquire a truly generous and kind nature to the point that all we truly want is goodness for our fellow shabbat shalom [Music]