Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan - Parashat Vayishlach

[Music] good evening good evening welcome everyone today we are learning parashat vayishlach we are using our scroll homage and we're on page 171. last week yaakov ran away from lavan with his whole family 11 boys and one girl four wives and lavon chased after him hashem came to lavan in the dream and warned him not to speak to yaakov not good and not bad not to hurt yaakov so they made a peace treaty lavan and yarkov and lavon went home so as he continued going to his parents house yaakov met a camp of angels and he called that place means a camp means two camps one the camp of the angels and the second the camp of yaakov and his family now in this week's partial on page 171 yaakov uses the opportunity to send this these same angels that he meant that he met to a son yaakov now reaches such a high level not only he sees the angels live during the day he actually has control over them he sends these angels ahead of him to assad his brother to the land of the field of edom and he commanded them saying you should tell to him like this so said your servant yaakov this is the message that yaakov wants these angels to give to isa so said your servant yaakov i have sujourned which means lived temporarily with lavan and i have lingered until now now yaakov uses the words the word imlavan garthy garthy means temporary resident not a permanent resident means i i yakov's telling asap i did not become a great wealthy personality over the last 20 years rather i'm still a a temporary resident he's telling gaesta don't be jealous of the blessing that i got from my father that blessing didn't work don't worry about it because my father told me i'm going to be in possession of a lot of land and i don't have any land i i was a temporary resident i did not acquire any land all i have is the this uh sheep flocks some slaves but no land and the in verse six he says exactly that i have acquired oxen and donkeys flux servants made sermons but no land the blessing was not fulfilled and i'm sending to tell my lord to find favor in your eyes so yaakov testing the ground he's sending the angels he's giving asaf a nice message asap you are my master i'm respecting you i'm informing you that i'm coming i'm coming not as a boss but rather as your servant yaakov is hoping that asav will be bribed by these words because that's what ace of wands is of wants honor and yaakov is giving him honor but in verse seven the angels returned to yaakov saying we came to your brother to asap moreover he is heading towards you and 400 men are with him so the angels told yaakov you think that he is your brother but he is a self he is still that same wicked asap your enemy and not only that he's not only waiting patiently until you come and then he will kill you now he is preparing for war and he assembled an army of 400 soldiers now we turn to page 173 yaakov became very frightened that's a very heavy message i am trying to apologize i am trying to appease he i'm trying to make make make him my friend and he's answering me with declaration of war yaakov became very frightened and it distressed him now our sages say why double his expression he became frightened and he distressed him so he became frightened that he might be killed and his uh wives and children hustle shalom it distressed him that he might kill asav and his soldiers yaakov doesn't want a war he doesn't want to fight even if he wins he would rather not to have a war in this regard jewish people are unique whereas isab received a blessing you will live by your sword which means not only you will survive by your sword but also you will live by your sword the only life worth living for you is if you can fight that's that is what those nations that came from assad that's their life blood that's what makes them excited that's what makes them feel alive when i can fight when i can kill and when i have a risk of losing my life that's life yaakov says no i don't want to kill and i don't want to be killed that's that's not fun for me what's fun for me the the sages say yaakov islam you shave yaku just wants to sit and learn and meditate and pray that's what's exciting for him jewish people get excited over a piece of gamora over a class in homage that's what we get excited over we get excited when we can have a delicious prayer where we connect to hashem that's what make us makes us happy it's not the competition it's not the fighting it's not showing your muscles that's all as they say heaven that is vanity that is same that is worthless what interests us is eternity and yaakov says here i am building my family i already have four wives 12 children 11 boys one girl and i want to continue i want to visit my father and pay respect to him and my mother she is still alive at this point i don't want to fight just leave me alone and asap is coming with 400 men and yakov knows if war breaks out somebody's gonna get killed and he he's not interested so jakob has to do something and he is doing three things number one he is preparing for war number two he's trying to avoid war by bribing asap with gifts and number three yaakov will pray so he divided the people with him and the flocks catalan camels into two camps that's the preparation for war he is planning the strategy he is planning two war camps for he said if asap comes to the one camp and strikes it down then the remaining camp shall survive a question is being asked what's the guarantee that if you split your camp in half that the second camp will survive on one hand you might argue that if you keep everyone together that's how you make sure that you win the war the more people you have attacking the enemy the stronger you are what is yakov doing splitting his camp in half they're gonna be half weaker and not only that yaakov was saying if asap kills one camp the second camp will survive how do you know that the second camp will survive maybe asa will come to the battle kill one cap and then come to a second battle and kill the second camp you are making each camp weaker and here i'll say just give us a secret and that is that yaakov knew he had a prophecy from his mother his mother told him why should i lose both of you on the same day when his mother told him to run away his mother told him that i have a prophecy that if one of you dies the second one will die on the same day so we see that at the end that's what happened on the day that yaakov was buried that same day asa was killed and was buried also so yaakov knew this secret that ya that he and asap will be buried which means they will die on the same day so he said i can trick asap he will not be able to kill all my children i will put these two camps one day apart he will come to the first camp we're gonna fight if he kills the first camp the second camp will be a day away asa will run trying to reach to get to the second camp before he gets to it 24 hours will pass and he will drop dead something will happen that asap will not be able to survive this will guarantee that the second camp will remain intact we are on verse 10 and yaakov said now this is the prayer god of my father avraham and god of my father yitzhak hashem who said to me return to your land and to your relatives and i will do good to you yaakov says hashem you yourself said that i should leave lavan and i should go to my father and everything will be good what's going on why am i facing a battle with my own brother i have been diminished by all the kindnesses and by all the truth that you have done your servant yaakov is now giving us another powerful lesson when you ask hashem for something you have to say thank you you have to admit acknowledge everything that hashem did for you because if you just ask for more and more hashem is going to say i gave you already so much did you notice it did you appreciate it and if you only say give me give me there will come a time when hashem says i want to first hear a thank you because i'm giving you in order to develop a relationship hashem created the entire world in order to have relationship with his creation and we as his best creation human beings he is hoping that we will turn back to him and say hashem we recognize that you are our creator and we are your creations and we realize and we depend fully on you please give us everything we need that's what hashem wants he is willing to provide us with everything hashem is willing to give us more than we need but he wants us to acknowledge where it's coming from and that's exactly what yakov is doing his first he says hashem you told me what to do and i'm doing it you told me leave lavan go to your father and i'm doing it and before i ask for anything i want to acknowledge what you did for me so far hashem i've been diminished by all the kindness and by all the truth that you have done for your servant which means you have done for me so much that i'm afraid i will never be able to pay back and i'm afraid all my merit has has been used up i recognize how much god and truth you have done for me now that hash that that yaakov thanked hashem and now that yaakov acknowledged all the good that hashem did continues and he says with my staff i crossed jordan which means i did not have any possessions i was poor all i had was my walking stick and now i have become two camps i have become so great that i can divide my people into two camps and they're gonna be a powerful powerful force to fight itself and i have two of them on the other hand this is his request hashem you told me to go to my father and i listened you gave me a blessing my wives and my children however right now i became two camps why did i become two camps because i'm facing more mortal danger i'm forced to divide my family and have hoping that one of them will survive and now his requests request starts verse 12 rescue me please from the hand of my brother why should brothers fight from the hand of asav for i fear him lest he come and strike me down mother and children the non-jews when they hate the jews and they do pogrom and holocaust they don't differentiate whether it's me a man whether it's mother or children and that is why yaakov was saying please save me from my brother and from asap i was saying just say that we have to ask hashem to protect us from two enemies one enemy is in the disguise of our brother and one enemy is openly our enemy who is the enemy that's our brother that's the the time when the nations of the world are favorable to the jews and they welcome us and they say come join us melting pot let us marry each other welcome to our universities we will give you highest positions in all the political offices of the land we will give you highest positions in our businesses and our enterprises you can be c e o c f o and c o o and all the other o's that you can imagine you're gonna be everything and we might fall for it they are acting like our brothers we love you we want to join you you're such a great nation we admire you please marry me that's the danger of living in a country where they treat us nicely like spain in its early times like the united states currently and like european countries before the world war ii it was good for the jewish people and because of that they failed they failed to recognize that when the the nations of the world when they south of the world is treating us like their brother it is dangerous because we are only successful when as as bilum said they are unique they are separate even bilan who wanted to curse us he recognized that the jewish people are beautiful when they are alone they're not counted among the other nations but when we mixed with together with other nations then we're not unique then we're not special and we stop being beautiful we stop being beloved by god and the second danger is openly visible that's when they come to us and you they say you are jew you are the worst you are uh thieves and and all the bad bad things in russia they called us capitalist in america they called us communist and the enemy of the people we got it all and we yaakov is asking hashem please protect me from my brother from the loving hands of the nations and protect me from my enemy assad and you had said hashem you promised me i will surely do good with you and i will make your offspring like the sand of the sea which is too numerous to count that's yaakov's prayer now something strange he does in the next verse verse 14. he spent the night there and he took from that which had come in his hand a tribute to a son his brother that's a good question why aka was scared of asap and one of the reasons he was scared of asa was because af had a merit that yaakov didn't have for the last 20 years asap was close to his father and he was honoring his father he had the merit of kibbut aven the greatest mitzvah honoring your parents and yaakov was righteous but he was missing that one mitzvah the second reason why he was afraid of asap was because when somebody is upset at us that is dangerous when somebody is crying because of us even if we didn't do anything wrong but somebody is crying that is very dangerous as it says the gates of tears are never closed hashem listens to the prayers of the one that cries and asaph cried bitter tears and yaakov knows that since asaph is upset at him and asap cried it is possible that the strict justice of hashem will decide that asap suffered enough he cried and cried for already 20 years maybe maybe his suffering came to an end and perhaps that will help him to win against me because i even though i was forced into it i didn't want to steal the blessing i was the the cause of his crying imagine how much we have to be scared if we cause someone to cry how much a spouse need to be worried not to hurt their spouse i'm not sure what you mean by your second question that the 400 men had the good intentions um right now it looks like isa was coming to make war otherwise you don't uh go armed with 400 men with clubs and bows and arrows and swords to greet your brother that you haven't seen in 20 years so right now everything looks like a war is coming so yaakov is now by the third step of his preparations uh to meet asap and that is the bribe the gift a tribute to ace of his brother and now the torah lists how many animals he sent to his brother 200 female goats and 20 male goats 200 female sheep and 20 male sheep 30 camels female camels and their babies 40 cows and 10 bulls 20 donkeys and 10 male donkeys so all together it was over 600 animals imagine how rich yankov was he sent asa just a small part of his uh possessions over 600 according to some it's 610 animals according to some it's animals now we turn to page 175 and by the way from these numbers the torah doesn't just give us numbers um without a reason the torah can say he gave him donkeys camels cows and sheep and ghosts and all together he sent 600 animals why does it say this amount of males this amount of females this amount of babies this amount of mothers to teach us how to take care of animals and more importantly it teaches us the relationship between the males and females and it teaches us the mitzvah the obligation that the husband has to satisfy his wife from the amount of uh males and females we see the the the obligation that the husband has to fulfill his wife's desires we're on page 175 he made sure that he sent this not as one 600 animal group but rather he divided into many small groups doesn't say how many but let's say 10 groups each one about 60 animals maybe more maybe less groups and he said to each one travel ahead then after an hour or two another group starts traveling another hour another group this way asap receives a gift 60 animals and he has a conversation who is this from oh it's from your yakov from your brother yaakov he loves you he can't wait to see you he misses you he's your servant okay fine and then an hour later another delegation another 60 animals where are you coming from from yakov your brother he loves you he misses you he's your servant he can't wait to see you and like this ten times and slowly yaakov is breaking asap's shield aesop's defense he's breaking his harsh nature he's softening him slowly slowly and that's another a great lesson if you want to influence somebody don't do it with one blow don't fight him head on and say i want you to do this you have to agree now admit obey me then you're not gonna get anything do by little hints if a wife wants something from the husband one day just speak how wonderful it would be another day say oh i have a dream another day say oh imagine and so on and so forth until it slowly slowly cooks in the husband's brain and then he says you know what it's a good idea and the same thing if a husband wants to introduce an idea to her to his wife he should not just demand it immediately but he should introduce the idea slowly that's that's what jakob is teaching us now the plan actually worked and we're going to see what happened when asap met yaakov where in verse 23 he got up that night and he took his two wives and two handmaids and his eleven sons plus dina dean is not mentioned here and the reason is because as we mentioned last week yaakov was afraid that asa was going to see her and desire to marry her and therefore he hid her in a box and he sealed the box that asap shouldn't lay his eyes on dina so that's why it says only his 11 sons and cross the shallow part of the river yabok he took them and crossed them over the stream and he sent over his possessions also they just say that yankov stood in the middle of the river took his uh wives transfer them to the other side his children and all the animals single-handedly yaakov transferred to the other side of the river and yaakov was left alone very surprising thing we hear all his families on the other side of the river and jakov is staying alone on this side of the river the sages say why did he go there because he forgot some small jars what are those small jars in the midrash says these are the jars of oil the small jars of oil yaakov is reminding us now we're coming close to hanukkah yakov says there will come a time when my children will need small jars of oil and jakob risked his life his he went along and spent night on the other side of the river rescuing those small jars and that's the beginning of the miracle of hanukkah and what happened he's alone at night our sages say a person should not be alone at night because they are damaging angels at night if a person is alone they might attack him spiritually or even physically if there are two people that is safer if a person is forced to sleep alone at night he should leave a night light on there should be some light in the room this will serve as his protection yaakov was left alone and a man wrestled with him until the break of dawn all of a sudden someone attacks him who can attack him we just said he is alone in the middle of the night somebody is wrestling with him so the sages say this was no simple man this was an angel the the angel of a son before we have a physical fight there is a spiritual fight everything that goes on on a physical level there is a spiritual reality that is taking place that is taking place above and that is what yaakov was involved with yaakov was involved in a spiritual fight in preparation for the physical fight they fought the entire night until dawn what happened at dawn says at dawn this angel had to go back to to heaven to his spiritual world his time came to sing before hashem when he perceived that he could not overcome him the angel saw the dawn is coming dawn also here means the end of days the end of history where the struggle that the jewish people had throughout the dark night of exile is coming to an end the dawn of mashiach the light of redemption is shining and the angel sees the angel the a the a of asav the malacha mavid the yes sees that the jewish people are winning but hashem were still alive and kicking and he cannot overcome us so what does he do he struck the socket of his hip he cannot kill yaakov the jewish people will stay alive but he injures yaakov the jewish people become partially injured disabled in what part in their legs in their hip the hip is what keeps the person upright what supports the person so it says the sages say there will be difficulty to support torah institutions because yaakov is ishtam yoshibo haleem yaakov represents torah study and his hip the support system was dislocated hurt if you want to raise money for an in a new venture start a new business there's always investors but if you want to raise money to start a new yeshiva much harder why because the the angel of asaf saw that what keeps the jewish people strong is the torah learning and if he can damage the support system of total learning he might be able to overcome yaakov so when we are thinking who should we support with our ceremony number one priority is torah institutions spreading torah knowledge among the jewish people that's number one before everything so the the the angel of a self-struck yakov on his hip and yakov's hip socket was dislocated now we're on page so the angel pleaded with yaakov let me go for dawn has broken and yaakov said i will not let you go unless you blast me and the angel said what's your name he said yaakov and angel said time will come that your name will not be yakov anymore but rather israel because you fought with the divine and with man and you overcame this is the description of jewish history we fight spiritual battles and we fight physical battles and you have overcome we won at the end of days the angels and the nations of the world will admit your name is no longer yaakov which means the hill which means insignificant the last at the end rather your name is going to be israel comes from the word minister prince comes from the word sarita you fought against god and man and yaakov is curious he says what's your name and the angel says why do you need to know my name and he blessed him there so again the ham say that angels do not have a permanent name because an angel is created for a mission his name is his mission for example his mission is healing when he is healing he is called referee gavriel his mission is justice and when he is fulfilling his mission he is called gabriel as soon as the angel fulfills his mission he goes back to heaven so this angel says that's it i fulfilled my mission and again this describes the end of days when it says that hashem will shecht yet when it's no longer needed when yaakov when the jewish people grow to the next level of israel when they win all their wars all their struggles finish they don't need yet anymore so he says i don't have a name anymore i have to go back to heaven i have to disappear from this world may this time come soon in our days yaakov called this place peniel from the words pine the face of divine for i have seen the the divine face to face and yet my life was spared yaakov realized that this was no simple man this was an angel the sun arose as he passed penuel and he was limping on his hip now you'll notice in verse 32 it says the sun rose for him what does it mean sun rose for him for him alone and the answer is yes remember that when he was running away from asav 20 years earlier the sun set for him only for him the sun said earlier so that he shouldn't pass by the place of beta mcdush and he should go to sleep there so those few hours that the sun set earlier for him now the sun arose earlier for him in order to heal him therefore the children of israel are not to eat the displaced sinew the hip of the hip socket to this day we call it the sciatic nerve the this is a negative commandment that jewish people are not allowed to eat the part of the thigh and the leg of an animal where sciatic nerve passes we're not allowed to eat the sciatic nerve itself from the torah and we're not allowed to eat the fatty surrounding area around the nerve rabbinically so we have to either cut out all the endings of the nerve all the places where the nerve spreads including all the fat that surrounds the nerve or if it's too much we just sell the entire lower part of the animal to a non-jew now we go to chapter 33 yaakov raised his eyes now this is the morning and he saw behold asap is coming and with him were 400 men warriors so he divided the children among leia roughly two handmaids each group of children with their mother so that their mother should fight for their children he put the handmaids and their children first then leia and then rahel and yosef and then he himself went out ahead of them and bowed earthward seven times until he reached his brother in addition to all the praises that he sent to his brother with the messengers in addition to all the multiple gifts that he sent to his brother he is also showing his brother tremendous honor by bowing down earthward all the way to the ground and getting up and bowed down again and getting up and walking a little more and bound down again and like this seven times and finally yaakov's plan worked asap ran toward him what is he going to do now yaakov is relying on hashem hashem protect me and asap embraced him what is he gonna do now maybe he's gonna squeeze my soul out of me and he fell upon his neck what is he gonna do now with me maybe he's gonna bite my artery and he kissed him and they wept and the two brothers after not seeing each other for 20 years they're crying and there are two interpretations here if you look in hebrew the word vaishakeru has little dots over every letter when that happens it's a sign that there is deeper meaning here what's the deeper meaning so there's a disagreement between the sages some sages say that even though esther was evil and he hated yaakov but something surprising happened here hashem inspired him to love yaakov at this moment and his tears were sincere he really kissed him and he really hugged him and he really cried according to another interpretation asap was still wicked as earlier and when he hugged jacob he wanted to choke him and when he fell upon his neck he wanted to bite him to death but yaakov's neck turned into marble and aesop's teeth instead of sinking into his flesh crumbled on the marble and jaakov was crying because he stayed alive and asa was crying because his teeth fell out these are the two interpretations now we go to page 179 asap saw the women and the children someone is asking maybe the tears were sincere um again this is an argument of our stages we don't know could be either way maybe both maybe he was sincere and then the last moment he changed his mind and he bit him and then he cried and through crying he did to shiva and he was sincere again but at the end asap didn't marry dina at the end um and that's why dina was abducted later we'll see but in any case asap now says what is this whole camp and yaakov said these are children whom god has graciously given you a servant and he introduced his handmaids and his wives and his children and hashem everything was good now asap said why did you send me so many gifts you can keep all those gifts i have plenty i have so much and yaakov said please take them because hashem gave me everything here i'll say just point out to the difference between a seven yaakov ace of seven i have so much and jakob says i have everything because when you say i have so much means i can have some more but when you say i have everything you're satisfied and asaf offers to travel together with yaakov and yaakov refuses and he finds an excuse he says who knows what this guy has in mind with for me maybe he's gonna kill me on the way so he says asap no go ahead i'm gonna slowly walk and eventually i'm gonna catch up with you so verse 16 asap started back that day on his way towards sierra and yakov journeyed to sukkot and he built himself house and for his lifestyle he made shelters [Music] now verse 18 yaakov arrived intact at the city of shechem by the way yakov is now 99 years old [Music] verse 19 he bought the parcel of land upon which he pitched his tent from the children of hamor shechem's father for 100 kisita and he set up an altar and proclaimed god the god of israel so this is one of those few places in the torah where it says that our forefathers bought land one was one was shechem and one was bought yerushalayim jerusalem the site of the holy temple and surprisingly exactly those three places the torah says openly the jewish people bought with money the non-jews are arguing that those three places belong to them the site of uh joseph's burial now is in the hands of arabs chevron the site of the burial place of our forefathers is in the hands of arabs and the site of the temple mount is in the hands of arabs and we have proof in the torah three times the jewish people bought land with money with document okay now we go to chapter 34 the unfortunate story of dina yaakov tried to hide his daughter from asap and hashem said you're not giving her to asap instead she's going to be taken by someone else dina went out to look over the daughters of the land and shechem son of hamor the prince of the region saw her took her lay with her and violated her and he became deeply attached and he loved her and he tried to appeal to her emotions and he said to his father take me her as a wife yaakov heard what happened and he kept silent until his children arrived hamorn scheme came to yaakov and said please let us marry your daughter when yaakov's children heard that they were very distressed and were fired deeply with indignation we're now on page 183 hamor spoke to them saying my son longs deeply for your daughter please give her to him as a wife verse 13 yaakov's sons answered him cleverly we cannot do this thing to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised verse 15 only on this condition we will acquiesce to you if you become like us letting every male among you become circumcised verse 18 hamar agrees their proposals seemed good in the view of hamor and in the view of shechem and they convinced the entire city to undergo circumcision now we're on page 185 verse 24 all the males all those who depart through the gate of the city were circumcised the entire city of shechem gets gets uh circumcision now verse 25 and it came to pass on the third day when they were in pain the two sons of yaakov shema and levi dina's brothers they each took his sword and they came upon the city confidently and killed every male and they killed hamoran scheme as well and they took dina and left verse 30 yaakov said to shimon and levi you have caused my reputation to be bad in the eyes of the inhabitants of the land they might get together and and attack me and in fact that's what happened discard the alien gods can everyone hear me i hope so discard the alien gods that are in your midst cleanse yourself and change your clothes which means throw out all the idols that you may have gathered from the nations that we we were attacked by and we won and we took their possessions and among their possessions were some idols throw them away and cleanse yourselves and your clothing verse four so they gave to yaakov all the alien gods that were in their possessions and yaakov buried them underneath a tree some say it was a casual tree near shechem and they set out and they felt a godly terror on the cities which were around them so that they did not pursue sons of yaakov thus yaakov came to lose which is called bait el verse 7 and he built an altar there now verse 8 devorah the nurse of rifka died and our sages say that at the same time that she died rifka died as well the torah is hinting to us that rivkah died the torah is not saying openly that rivka died because the family was worried that they cannot even make a a public burial for rifka because the nations hate hated asap at that time so much because asap did so much trouble that they had that they might shalom cursed rifka as the mother of such an evil person so the torah doesn't even mention rivka's death to hide it from people now we go to page god appeared to yakov again and he blessed him and god said to him your name until now was yaakov your name shall not always be called yaakov but israel shall be your name and he blessed him and said i am el shaddai that's one of the names of god be fruitful and multiply a nation and congregation of nations shall descend from you kings that ish and kings will issue from your loins and the land that i gave to avraham and i will give to you and to your offspring yaakov set up an altar he poured the libation upon it and poured oil upon through this yakko fulfill his promise that he made when he was traveling towards lava remember after he woke up he took the stone that was under his head he put it as a monument he poured oil and he said when i come back safely i will serve god on this place and that's what he's doing now now verse 16 the birth of binyamin and death of rachel rachel went into labor and had difficulty in her childbirth and the midwife said to her have no fear for this one too is a son for you and as she was dying she called him ben oni which means the son of my sorrow my pain but his father refused to give him a name with bad connotation and he called him binyamin which either means the son of my strength or the son of my old age or the son of the south because the land of israel is south of iran and iraq where the rest of the children were born and syria so binyamin is the only son that was born in the land of israel that is why he is called the son of the south thus rahul died and was buried on the road to ephrath which is beethoven and yakov set up a monument over her grave it is the monument of rachel's grave until today now we're on page 191. so we see that yaakov lost his mother and his wife at the same time verse 21 israel journeyed on and pitched his stand beyond might and came to pass while israel dwelt in that land that ruben went and lay with bill his father's concubine and israel heard our sages say that this is not to be taken literally in fact reuven did not make such a such a terrible mistake but rather woven just move the bed of yankov from the tent of bilhah into the tent of his own mother leia because reuben said until now yakov loved now that rachel passed away i expect my father to love leia why is my father moving his bed into the tent of bilhah and the answer was simple because bill is made servant of rachel yaakov was trying to console himself and attach himself to somebody who was connected to rahul but reuven stood up for his mother and carried the bed of yakov into leia's tent but that was wrong no one is allowed to interfere in the relationship between a husband and wife and whoever does this is considered adultery even though he did not commit adultery but because he interfered with yaakov's personal marital life it is considered on his great level as if he committed adultery the sons of yaakov were 12. and now we list all of them roof and chairman levi yeah [Music] these are the 12 tribes verse 27 yakov came to yitzhak his father in hebron and now torah tells us that torah jumps forward his hugs days were 180 years and it's like expired even though it's going to happen much later but the torah only tells us that yeshua dies and he was gathered to his people old and fulfilled in days and his sons ethan yaakov buried him now in pageant 193 verse chapter 20 36 these are the descendants of asav he is a dom he had three wives and they gave him they gave birth to many children asap now on page eight uh verse eight asap settled in mount seir and the verse 12 timna a concubine of elifaz asap's son bore him a malek so we see that amalek is the son of a elephant son of the grandson of asav now i would say just saying that really a sav had a adulterous relationship with timna his own son's wife and he bought amalek so amalek was a mum elephant himself was a mum there and amalek is is a monster squared and uh um amalek is the eternal enemy of the jewish people now we turn to page 195 now it lists the chiefs the 14 chiefs of asav and then it gives us in verse 20 the genealogy of sier and in verse 29 it gives us the seven chiefs of the horites now we go to page 197 these are the kings who reigned in the land of edom here eight kings of edom of asav are listed and then in verse 40 11 chiefs of asav uh are listed it's a good question why eight kings and and why list them by name and here secrets are contained the names you'll see they're strange strange names and a lot of information is encoded in these names with this the parsha finishes thank you for joining us have a good night shabbat shalom all the best [Music] you