Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan - Parashat Vayishlach

Shalom I want to share a beautiful idea from rabor Miller it's very useful and important for everyone to understand we learn about the history of our people that they were two brothers yov and esav yov is the father of our nation and esav became the father mother of our cousins who throughout the last 3 and a half thousand years were our enemies unfortunately the two brothers parted ways and instead of being like Moshe and Aaron two brothers that led the Jewish Nation they became two enemies and the sages compare es in the verse in Mish to someone who is running away in panic without anyone chasing him in Mish 281 it says they run and there's no one running after them rash that is how evil people behave now what's the comparison between someone who is running away without anyone chasing him and ASA and RAB Miller says that what is the biggest mistake that asav did in his life it was the fact that he overreacted that he panicked when he found out that yob received the blessing instead of saying what is the next best step I should take in this situation he panicked he screamed he declared everything is lost I have to kill I have to give up there is no way out of it and that's what made him ra says why someone who panics is called an evil person and that is because in Hebrew a word that is made up of same letters even though the letters are interchanged describes a little bit of the Inner Essence of the other word so the word rash Shin is the same as the has same letters as the word Shin the word rash means big noise disturbance commotion Panic so RAB Miller says that how does one become a rash an evil person who makes Makes Mistakes by overreacting by becoming angry by panicking running out of Doubt running out of fear will bring a person to mistake the word Rasha in Hebrew also means the guilty one guilty one means he made a mistake he made a wrong decision so the sages are teaching us what made ASA who he is the compulsiveness the impulsiveness the fear inability to stay calm losing one's peace of mind losing is what leads a person towards mistakes as we come to shabbat we remember that in reality we have God in our world in reality all our problems are behind us we finished with the physical world of doubt and we enter the holy spiritual world of Shabbat the world of God where we realize that God runs all events and we don't have to worry we don't have to panic just relax and everything will be taken care of by God as they say you do what is right and God will do what is left shalom