Rabbi Nissim Musheyev - Parashat Toldot - Yaakov & Eisav - The Great Balancing Act

hi everyone it's robin shave wanted to share an idea i was thinking about this week that's really close to my heart this week is parashat we read about the story of yaakov and nasa we read about the love that yitzhak had for his son asaf and that he's willing to give him the bracha the blessing and we read about how rifka and yaakov take the blessing from asa let's understand this on a deeper level let's delve behind the scenes and see what we can learn for our daily lives yaakov and asaph were two prototype souls with two missions in this world yaakov the torah tells us was in ishta yoshev or haleem which means he was a complete person sitting in the tents what does it mean sitting in the tents sitting in the tents means a person is focused on his spirituality a person is focused on growth climbing closer to hashem learning torah being a man who is meditating and connecting to god in the highest levels asap on the other hand was an ish sade each saddam means a man of the field in contrast to yaakov he was supposed to be a person who's supposed to be out in the world connecting everyone to god through the world the power of asap was to take everything this world has to offer and connect it to god but unfortunately we know asap didn't live up to this higher goal and he took this world as a place of pleasure and self-gratification rifka and yaakov knew that they need to take that blessing for yaakov only he can take this world and connect it to god because asap failed so what did they do rifka devised the plan to get the blessing and when she got when they got the blessing now yaakov has two roles he needs to be still yaakov who's sitting in the tent continuing learning delving and being in seclusion connecting to god but he now has an extra role of being an ish sade a man of the field he now has to go out into the world he has to take this world of everything the world has to offer and connect it to god and what happens when he gets his blessing he gets his blessing he goes to his father-in-law's house at 20 years he's working for his wives and he's involved with his father-in-law in business and dealing and and it's not so easy in this friction and he gets married and has a family so now yaakov avinu is taking the role of ace of being an ish sade being a man of the field and he succeeds he's still a man he's a man of the field but still an ishta yoshivo haleem still growing having that balance for us the lesson is that we have two missions in this world yes we are going to be out in the world and we are going to be involved in our daily lives outside but we have to know that we are we are descendants of yaakov who has the mission of ish tom yoshev he's a man who dwells in the tents yes he's a man who has to work yes he was a man he has to have a family but he's a man who's consciously spiritually growing climbing the ladder of spirituality so we have to have that balance in our lives to give time to our families to give time to the outside world to give time to our businesses but never overlooking the old hell never looking never overlooking the tent our personal tent our growth and we have to do things to personally grow spiritually educating our minds and our hearts and this is the balance that every one of us has to have and this is a life life's challenge to have that proper balance and being balanced is the goal of every jew and in emmett this is our this is our goal of teaching our students to be balanced jews to be jews who are going to be outside in the world who are going to be successful in the world who are going to do everything they need to do in the outside world never forgetting to be what to be a man of growth to be a person who constantly grows to be successful in the business world to be successful in the outside world but never forgetting who they are never forgetting their own spiritual intent and never forgetting their own greatness thank you very much