Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan Parshat Toledot 3

green houses of buildings schools all the infrastructure that they need to live successfully and what did they do as soon as they came in they destroyed everything they destroyed the greenhouse they destroyed the businesses instead of Oasis they turned it back into the desert exactly the same and a said to go away from us for you have become much mightier than we can't handle it you are making us successful you're providing water for us you harvest so much you will be involved in our economy and you will make us rich but we just cannot handle that you're more successful than us please go away so y departed from there and encamped in the valley Valley of gar some distance away from the city and dwell there and Y dug new wells of water verse 19 yak's servants Dug Dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water but again the Shepherds of gar quarreled with yak's Shepherds saying the water is ours even though you dug it but it's in our country so give it to us verse 21 then he dug another well and they quarreled over that also they're not leaving him alone verse 22 he relocated from there and dug another well and they did not quarrel over it so he called its name means wide expense that now they are leaving me alone and I can have peace of mind page 133 verse 23 he went from up from there to Beva now he finally decides to leave that place the situation in the land of Israel is improved so he goes back to the land of Israel he comes to be and Hashem appeared to him that night and said I am the god of your fora fora of your father Abraham fear not for I am with you I will bless you and increase your Offspring because of Abraham my servant verse 26 and now just like in the days of Abraham a came and made a peace treaty with Abraham now a went to him from gar with a group of his friends he comes again to make make a peace treaty and Y said why did you come don't you hate me you even drove me away and he says we see that Hashem is with you and therefore we became scared and we want to make a covenant with you that you shouldn't do evil to us just like we have not molested you even though they stole from him they chased him away but they are playing uh righteous self-righteous we didn't molest you we only did good for you say thank you that we didn't kill you and we sent you away in peace now you oh blessed of Hashem be nice to us so he agreed he made the feast and they ate and drank they awoke early in the morning morning and swore to one another and his servants dug another well and dug and found water again now we go forward in time asov was 40 years old and he took a wife yehudit from the nation ofes they are one of the Canan Nations as a wife and he took another wife her name was basmat also from canite Nation now we turn to page 135 chapter 27:1 it came to pass now uh sometime later ASA married when he was 40 years old now we jump 23 more years yakob and ASA 63 years old Yak is 123 years old it came to pass when y became old his eyes dimed so he called asav verse two and he said verse three Hunt game for me make Delicacies and I will eat so that my soul may bless you before I die again Yak was hoping that his Blessing on ASA will have positive effect and perhaps asov will do to sha verse 5 now Rifka was listening to as spoke to ASA verse six and Rifka said to yov her son verse 9 go now to the flock and fetch me from their two choicest young kids of the goats and I will make of them Delicacies for your father and then bring it to your father he will eat so that he may bless you before his death so Rifka relates her prophecy to Yakov and she says I received message from God that you are the firstborn that you are supposed to get the blessing and your father wants to bless ASA he doesn't know and I'm not allowed to tell him cuz Hashem didn't allow me I'm telling it to you because you are the one involved you need to know it and therefore go and get the blessing yakob replied to Rifka but my brother ASA is a hairy man and I'm smooth skinned perhaps my father will feel me and he might get upset and curse me we're on page 137 verse 13 but his mother said to him your curse will be on me she reassured him and said no don't worry everything's going to be good your father is not going to curse you he's going to bless you so Yakov brought the goats Rifka prepared delicious food Verse 18 he came to his father and by the way Rifka put uh goat skin on his hands and on his neck so that in case his father touches him he will feel ha so he comes to his father and Yak in verse 20 tells him how is it that you are so quick to find my son and he said because Hashem your God arranged it for me yes it is unusual verse 21 and is said to yov come close so I can feel you is is feeling something is wrong he felt him verse 23 but he did not recognize him so he blessed him verse 24 and he said you are indeed my son isav so he served him he ate and then he said come to me I want to kiss you ver uh page 139 he kissed him and he smelled him and he said see the fragrance of my son is like the fragance of the field which Hashem had blessed he felt the smell of gedan because yakob was so holy and is blesses yob verse 28 on page 139 may God give you of the due of the heavens your blessing should come straight from heaven and of the fatness of the earth you should have spiritual blessing and physical blessing an abundant grain and wine peoples Nations will serve you and regimes will prostrate themselves to you be a lord to your Kinsmen you should be the master Over All all your brothers all the my descendants should be Subs servant to you and your mother's sons will prostrate themselves to you cursed be they who curse you and blessed be they who bless you ASA y received the blessing and he left and now ASA his brother came back from his hunt and isak said to him who are you and he said I'm your firstborn ASA verse 33 Yak realizes that he was tricked then Yak trembled in a very great perplexity and he said who where who is the one that hunted the game and brought it to me and I ate it and I blessed him now he realizes that was all Min sh and he said indeed he shall remain blessed so he confirms that the blessing that he gave by by mistake was not by mistake it should stay by that person and ASA cries and asks for blessing when ASF heard his father's words he cried out an exceedingly great and bitter cry and he said bless me too father he said your brother took it and ASA said what he tricked me twice and now ASA without realizing he admits he says he tricked me twice he took away my first born right he bought it and now he took away my blessing and now y realizes that it was good that he blessed yob because Asa was lying to him he never told him that he sold the firstborn right to yob and ASA said have you not reserved the blessing for me and Y said what can I do I made him Master over you and I gave him everyone else as servants I supported him with grain and wine what can I do for you and ASV said have you but one blessing father bless me too father and ASV raised his voice and wept and now Isa can't handle his son crying so he decided to bless him behold of the fatness of the Earth shall be your dwelling and of the due of the heavens from above by your sword shall you live but your brother shall you serve and uh when you are AG grieved you may cast off his yoke from upon your neck and that is a prediction that when the Jewish people don't deserve to be the masters of over asav then ASV will be able to be Masters over the Jewish people this is part of the prediction that Hashem told Rifka that the might the power will go from one to another when yakob when the Jewish people are spiritually high then asov serves the Jewish people when Yakov is low then ASV becomes high now verse 41 asa's hatred towards Yakov is increased ASA harbored hatred toward yob and he thought in his heart when my father dies I will kill my brother yob now ASA didn't say it he just thought it and he didn't even dwell on it it just was in the back of his mind but Rifka was told the words the thoughts of her son ASA which means she received prophecy that as es is thinking to kill yob so she called Yakov and said to him your brother is thinking to kill you therefore run away from here to my brother Lavan toan and stay there until I call you back and then she went to her husband and she said to him I'm disgusted with my life on the account of of the daughters of which means I don't like my sons wives ASV was married to two wives and they're both of very low character they're both from the canite Nations I don't like them this was an introduction for her cuz she is not allowed to tell the prophecy to Y she cannot tell Yak that ASA wants to kill yob so she has to make up a story so she says I would like Yakov to marry someone from my family so we're on page 143 chapter 28 so Yak called Yakov blessed him again and instructed him and said do not take a wife from canite women go to padanaram to the house of bwell your mother's brother your uncle and take a wife from there from the daughters of Lavan your mother's brother your uncle and may God kak bless you make you fruitful and make you numerous and may you be a Congregation of peoples this is Another Blessing that is gives to yob may God grant you The Blessing of Abraham to you and to your Offspring with you that you may possess the land of your sojourns which God gave to Abraham so y sent away yov and he went toward padanaram to laan when ASA saw that y blessed Yakov again and sent him to find a wife and he told him don't take a wife from the girls of Canan ASA said okay you know what I want to please my father and I will also take a a third wife not from Canan Nations verse 8 then ASA perceived that the daughters of Canan were evil in the eyes of his father so ASA went to Ismael who was a son of Abraham and took mlat the daughter of Ismael son of Abraham sister of n in addition to his wife as a wife for himself and here our sages say that this was an additional mistake of Asa he knows that his parents don't approve of his wives and instead of divorcing them he's just putting a Band-Aid on top of it he's saying I'm going to marry a good wife also without divorcing the all original ones so the next week po Torah portion we will learn what happens to Yakov yakob is not married yet he's 63 years old ASA already has three wives yakob is not married yet um difficult difficult life is is coming towards Yakov but bem he will survive and we are witnesses to the blessing that he received from Yak twice and we still carry The Blessing of Abraham and yob in us may we all be successful may we all plant and harvest 100 times just like and bem we should dig Wells and draw water and be we should receive the spiritual Bounty and the physical Bounty and bem we should all be married successfully and we should all have good children who will give us only happiness thank you for listening shabbat shalom