Jacob Sent Angels Ahead of Him with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] Shalom everybody Welcome Home to Torah a warm welcome home to Tor we are now in the new y b m okay there's only one room that's kind of ready we're doing renovations just let me just introduce this idea that we're going to be using the CLE car first as the basis of our discussion and I really want you to learn Hebrew so down below in the description box you can find not a colored copy but black and white original Hebrew follow it as best you can if you want want to join the English sour sheet uh email list so send me an email and we'll add you to the list just I want to add one more thing we are in the midst of Renovations on our new center and we're coming to completion as you can see we're sitting in new chair some of us and I want to thank those few uh donors who've already given mamish a real thank you um but please we want people to consider various ways they can help ongoing there's dedication list and I'll be sending that out in the next email so there are certain things that are still available and general contributions can be made uh through through my email I'm sorry through the website y.com and if you are interested in a special dedication then definitely reach out to me directly at U Aaron doid a a r o n d o von.com that link that email address will be down below okay so we're in chapter 32 we're gonna look we always learn the fundamentals right we're talking about deep Concepts in Judaism sometimes we deal with things that you're really interesting like for you personally and then sometimes it's new stuff that you would never even have thought of okay so again we're really going to learn the Hebrew because it says and Rashi actually says these are real angels why does Rashi need to tell me that because the word MIM means an agent um a a a messenger it doesn't always mean and many times in the Torah itself malim are referred to as a human agents human Messengers and we're going to see a few of those verses so it's very interesting that he says these were angels he sent them to asov to convey a certain message the main message that he wanted to convey to him maybe that's an indiffer shear and I'll put that link down below is basically he was conveying that I didn't steal the BR the BR that our father gave me was meant for you and I came back to Earth I'm coming back to Earth Israel he's sending this message through these agents through these Messengers through the angels in order to convince or try to convince ASA not to kill him right he stole the Bros or he deceived his father to receive the Bros obviously those words need to be discussed um cuz Yakov is emis he didn't steal he didn't deceive yet the name yov itself actually means deception so we'll have to discuss that perhaps another time but this is the idea of him him sending these angels to convey a message he calls asav adoni he calls himself an evid he's trying to show some of the blessings that were given to him like you're going to rule over your brother doesn't really apply you're still ruling over me that's the underlying message but what the CLE card is going to point out at first even though the verse says it actually says he sent them he didn't send them yet because if you look at the second verse it says he charged them saying what do you mean he sent them and then he's talking to them so he he never actually sends them and we'll see that in a second so you never read the verses like this says he sent them and then the following verse says he charged them you can see this on um number so in number seven on the sore sheet in verse 5 it says he commanded them saying V Tom he calls as my master right th says your servant he's coming in a humbled fashion so he doesn't really send them yet if he's talking to them meaning he charged them to go he commanded them they should go eventually once he finishes conveying the message that he wants to tell over so he charged him saying to my Lord to ASA so said your servant Yakov and this is going to be very important we're going to deal with this he says I have sojourned with Lavan and have lingered until now so this verse right he was imti we're going to discuss the word GTI it's a very strange word to use here and I lingered I was delayed I I I was delayed L until now now I've come and he was away for really 20 years but it took 2 years to return so he was away for a total of 22 years how 14 years working for the two wives seven for Leia really for ra but it got Leia and then another seven years for ruo and then another six years to acquire wealth and then it took him two years traveling time to return I he stayed 6 months in a place called sukot but it took him a total of 22 years let's go into the clear the clear we see he brings down Rashi on the first line Parish Rashi M like what we need to know that okay apparently now how do we know you're going to hear three or four opinions how we know that they were they were actually Angels how we going to see this the CLE says that some say if you just go back two verses remember we're in verse actually it says we're in verse four if you go back to verse two meaning you just turn your page back right in the Kish just one little page and on the English Source sheet it's number two it says yakob went on his way the angels of God met him right the yov we're saying these are actually angel of God so these are real angels he met two verses before like two minutes before 2 seconds before two verses before right he met real angels it says I'm sorry Mal these were the angels of God there's no doubt that he just met a real angels so what happens two verses later he sends Messengers so that's according to the first opinion it's so obvious that they're real angels okay look at um thear he says you can carefully examine from the ju position of the verse which we just read second opinion right if you read this the verse three uh when yak and Yakov said when he saw them he saw these angels He said this is the camp of godak what did he say he actually called the place so ritos are acronyms right it's the first letter well to say the letters of this particular word can spell out a whole new sentence and if you look at the third line down m it was from that group right um of or Army of angels Yakov took these Messengers or in this case real angels that's the second opinion what does the explain raish if you look at verse seven carefully verse seven says that the Angels returned but when were they ever actually sent we already saw the first verse as he sent angels and we know for sure he didn't send them then yet cuz he was talking to them about what they need to do and verse 7 says they returned I mean shouldn't The Narrative have said after he got done telling them what to do then he sent them so the first sending you know the the ISL yov he never really sent them or maybe they didn't go he charged them to go but we don't see let's look at the he says we don't see that they actually departed we don't see that they moved they went anywhere sh before they even left they already returned the there's another way to explain it now this is something incredible it does say that the is he sent them before him even in the English it clearly says that he sent them ahead of him what the cleard is going to describe is whenever malim are sent ahead they're always God's angels they're real angels when the word leun of is not used they're human they're human Messengers and there's a deep reason why we would never have figured it out and he says like this it's mentioned here it's specifically mentioned here that yakob sent them before him in if you look in two verses numbers 20:4 as well as numbers 2121 and you can see this in the last two on the page one um Source four and five Moses sent this is 20:4 in numbers the islim but doesn't say leov and we know that he really sent um um agents human Agents from Kadesh to the king of Edom so so says your brother Israel you know of all the hardships that has befallen us and again in 2121 of numbers Israel sent mess MERS to the king of the amorites saying right you don't see the word leun of so these are humans Not Angels okay so that's what um we're we're dealing with here right 1 2 3 four five six lines then the last two words doesn't mention the but over here in our verse with Yakov sending they're really they're real angels because leun was used now wait to hear this sh because their way the way of the Angel is to go before you now before you remember they're they're not goshas there's no physical body so what does it mean the fun of k um in in Exodus 23:23 which you'll find in number six God himself said for my angel will go before you that's again my Godly Angel right God speaking they're going to go and is the same as it's the same concept and what is this hinting to at this point I usually would ask drum roll please thees this hints to the the idea you know that angels can be in two places at the same time he never had to send them they never had a but I mean look they it says they returned so he never sent them because they could be as soon as he said I'm going to send you I'm going to tell you what this what needs to be said instantaneously they were already by asav having a conversation and return turned with his response which his response was he's coming with 400 men wasn't a very good response I mean it was his response I read the words again meaning the idea they're always before you they didn't have to depart from your presence to be in another place it's like Be Me Up Scotty right R they were constantly in front of yov even while simultaneously they did their thing they did their mission and they were in a different place by as and they could appear in two different places at the same time which are very far apart from each other I understand if I was like here on I could be like you know on the middle of the street looking at the new y center and I could be over at reichman's Pizza across the street it's a great place to eat okay okay so he says the only way that you can be in two places simultaneously is if you're an angel and we have a room full of angels who says we can't Elevate to that level but okay that's for another that's for another Shear now for some reason if you wanted to really argue say you know what maybe the word theu has nothing to do with phys physically returning maybe it's like responded they responded maybe it's just they responded they didn't actually leave and come back and have a have right a return maybe that's what you want to say he already has an answer right that's the Brilliance of what did they you know they did respond and say we came to your brother the very fact that we're not he it's not a response but even if you want to say it was a response what was their response we were there we were there so that's what they say that means they could be real angels in two different places at the same time okay now we're on actual verse five he right thus he says this is the message he's conveying your servant Yakov he's calling he's telling the Angels tell um asav I'm his servant and I was with laan it should have said a I worked for him he worked really for 20 years says I gy I lived with him the and I was delayed Rashi explains two things now the clear is very humble he doesn't like Rashi explanation a very minor point and he says I disagree but in a very um honorable way and he even says if I was not embarrassed in front of my colleagues I would have erased these two words and those two words are things that the clear uses all the time and I think I understand him when he uses those words and I think we can all understand in Judaism it's about unifying everything right the world is really under the opes of God God is one and everything's connected to him everything let's start with this Parish rashi rashi says G which means I live there very strange but okay I only was a gar g implies not having an important position it's like just a regular person I didn't become uh high up Authority I didn't become popular I didn't become ex whatever very important I did not become an important person El I just remained a simple person that's going to be the key words that the CLE car would like to do away with and the reason he wants to do away with them is because normally means alternatively alternatively means that scratch everything we just said and here's a whole another shot I want you to know what I think when the cleart also says it doesn't mean alternatively as scratch what we said but another dimension another level and he puts it really nicely he says it's two sides of the same coin but when you read Rashi the interesting thing is GTI implies as Rashi says I didn't become important I'm just a regular guy I didn't get the bras says means MIT sharti while I was away by Lavan I kept the Torah I kept the 613 misses and if you think about that it means that I am important I don't know if you realize we are Jews we have 613 Commandments we are called aim we are a kingdom of priests go kados and that's because of the Torah and the Commandments that we have so he's going to say these are very contradictory Concepts one is I'm a nobody I'm just a regular person not important on the other hand he's saying I kept all Mitzvah I mean like almost you know you put your chest out a little bit with some pride right I'm a king I'm close with God right the whole world is dependent on what I do it's very different one is which is submission you're my master I'm your slave I'm just a gar I'm just a uh a regular person on the other hand I kept all 63 mitzah and the clear says these two explanations they're completely opposite they they contradict each other and now he spells it out if you're going to say the words lo I did not become a representative in the government I didn't become a minister I didn't become an important person then certainly he's coming towards as in a submissive fashion now on the other hand that I guarded I kept all these 6113 Mitzvah masma adaba you know the word adaba means the opposite it gives the other impression it's a impression of the opposite MIT he's giving the impression because I kept the 60 63 mitz I've nothing to fear from you right the opposite of submission the now there is in chapter 27: 40 it's number eight on the sore sheet when Isaac y gave the broos to Yakov remember according to what we think that he did not know that it was being given to Yakov he thought he gave those Broast to ASA it's going to be play an important part it says you shall live by your sword and it says V You Shall Serve your brother now that's true asov would serve the Jewish people yob bov however if Yakov did not keep the Mitzvah then Asa has the the right to grieve I'm using that word if the Jewish people do not keep the Mitzvah then Asa has the right to complain and has the right to remove the Yoke of his you know the brother he's serving and then persecute right basically rule over the Jews so asav is going to be submissive according to this verse but if the Jews don't keep the Torah so then asav rules over Yakov and what the clear is trying to say by by him saying I kept them mitzvas then it's an then it's it ruins the principle here that you will rule over your brother and if again the the main part is that if he doesn't you have the right to usurp the rulership so that's one idea the another problem is why does yov call as my master the atmo evid and he calls himself in a submission submissive fashion the Slate it's really like exaggerated he's really going overboard in trying to show that he is on the submissive side and another question about the actual language G is another word we all refer to the 613 Mitzvah as Tarak it's the exact letters that we're using right GTI and tag are the exact same letters but in a different order and the message is somehow hinted at and embedded in the word so these are more like questions everything he just said at this point were more questions and answers so the clear wants to answer Al my heart wants to say the following and teach P these two uh explanations of Rashi remember how Rashi used the word it sounds like an alternative answer he says that really in truth both of these answers are like one truth it's all true and it's one truth and that's really the way you know we we look at the gar we say this Rabbi argues with that Rabbi you ever heard of the expression Al the El these and these are the words of the of God one true God so here too they're not alternative answers according to clear k rashi rashi used the words masma when you use those words when Rashi uses those words each one is its own individual independent answer and not necessarily congruent remember what was the message yov was trying to get across the word I did not become an important minister or an important person I just remain the simple person what was the message was those bras that Dad gave me were meant for you they were never filled in me but he doesn't want to make his father look like he gave broos that don't that are not worth anything he says he doesn't want to contradict his father his father gave him the Bros and that to make the Bros like they were um invalid uh past is a little bit of a deception but God forbid that there was anything any funny business going on they weren't superficial they were real but this is going to be very I would say drum roll please at this point it's going to be very important we're about to [Music] say when my father Our Father y blessed me according to what Yakov is saying I don't know if yakob believed it I I I have a feeling that yak actually knew that he was blessing yakob but let's just go with the flow that he's telling asov that when ABA blessed me he thought I was you and with that in mind he blessed me and hear this out when I do something that is deceptive something that's not yes something that not straight I will never benefit from it in fact nobody will benefit if you do something you steal you think you're really benefiting from what you stole listen to what he says I look like I stole this is his conversation looks like I stole looks like I deceived there's the principle a principle is that if it was meant for me I'll get it if it was meant for you it doesn't matter how hard I try I will never benefit from that which was not meant for me um there is a Gamora here I wanted to show you if you look at number 10 we're going to deal this with this verse in number nine uh Proverbs 12:27 but look in Yuma 38b what I highlighted the principle is no person may touch that which is prepared for another by God God prepared you're going to be wealthy there's nothing I can do to remove that wealth from you everybody receives what is designated for them so let's go back into the clear he says the with that in mind that's how I would right that's how blessed and whatever deception I might have done it didn't help me at all because of this verse in Mish Proverbs 12:27 though now that says that you he will not roast his pre of Deceit meaning you know remember asov was a hunter and Hunters they they bring back game so you take this game that's not yours you're not going to sit and have a barbecue it's just not going to happen I mean whatever might happen it's not it look appearances are appearances but it's not happening you're not going to steal and benefit from it um if we want to look at Rashi real quick and this is this idea he will not Rose his prey of Deceit this is connected to the verse above in in Proverbs that is to say that the Way of the Wicked Will mislead him he will not roast the prey of his deceit meaning he will not roast he will not succeed with his deceit it's not going to benefit you at all and as Solomon spoke of the figure with a figure of prey specifically which really relates to asav is an expression of roasting is appropriate for the successful Hunter hunts the birds and roast them in fire okay let's go back into the cleard this is very important principle he says remember Rifka coached him they brought him food to yak and Yak was fed the food so what he's saying whatever I fed our father that I was going to get the bras through giving him food it's just not happening if it's not meant to be for me whatever dad had in mind for you it's still going to you there's no reason to kill me remember this whole thing is that he's trying to uh get out of being killed yeah that's how I'm sorry the next point he's trying to convince as that all the bras are going after whatever father had in mind and according to yov whatever y had in mind was the bras were for you not for me and you'll get the Bras don't worry and I'll stay alive if I can just calm you down proof for this or a sign for this he says right we know this idea he's just a gar in the land meaning he didn't become a important person now if you want to say okay for some reason if Yakov if ASA would turn around say you know what you did get the blessings okay and I got the blessings but I didn't become this important person even today I'm not even an important person maybe it's because I didn't do the Torah but remember what he says G right this was actually known toov when he did receive the Bros that it's on condition that he keeps the Torah T MIT on condition I want every Jew out there to hear this maybe this is news to you we have a special Mission we're Servants of God we serve our creator and it's pleasurable it's extremely pleasurable right there's no greater pleasure so don't think it's all you know hard work it's a lot we we're like living in a musical right Jews if you're really with the program it's like you're living in in in a musical you're going from a Chev to a wedding to a bris shabis in between like life's great so he says um it's all based on that and we go back to that other verse and when the Jew or the Jews don't keep the Mitzvah then asov has the right to complain and then put the Jew back in his place so to speak now we understand why he says he was saying I kept all the mitzvas and nevertheless okay we can call it deception he was trying to save his life he wanted to convey a message to him and the message was I I kept the Mitzvah but I didn't become so important the bras Were Meant for you I did not benefit from my actions there's no way that I would benefit from any kind of Deceit and the that gave he thought he was giving to you and therefore the bras remain on your head not on mine that's why he says had many meanings one of it we said is like a g which implies I didn't become an important person you have nothing to worry about the bras were not fulfilled in me and T even if I kept the Mitzvah you see I did keep the Mitzvah and I still didn't become a an and that's why the CLE car doesn't like the the CLE car does not like the words it's he says they go together it's not opposite messages it's the same message even though I kept the Mitzvah he's trying to convey to him I still didn't become important has to be the caseti why did he even use the word GTI wouldn't have made more sensear he could have said or should have said a he worked for 14 and and then another six years he that's what he did he really was in truth m a slave to Le and that's opposite of the blessing that we saw in chapter 27: 29 it says this is also what was given to ASA I mean literally given to yob but he thought he was giving to ASA Nations Shall Serve You and kingdoms will bow down to you it says you shall be a master over your brothers we all know Yakov got the BR and I believe that y knew that he was giving yakob the bras but okay in the meantime yakob is trying to get you what do you call Live Another Day right something like that so it's the opposite you're going to you know you're going to overpower your brothers have to understand it's the same letters as tag right 613 now at this point he says what I said in the beginning the the ELO if I was not this is the cleart saying if I was not embarrassed in front of my colleagues I would just simply erase those two words according to him it all fits in so nicely that y that yakob is really trying his best I'm not going to use the word deceive anymore he's really telling the truth right as I wink um because it is that you know yakob is EMS you know when he even fooled when he fooled his father it was Rifka that told him to do it she was a prophetess she was and you know they even say not only did he asov sell his Birthright which he had every right to but even in the womb they say who comes out first you have twins it's a little bit uh hard to imagine in what we know about modern science but if you have a test tube you put in two marbles the first marble goes in then the second marble goes which comes out first the second one comes out first asov came out first because he was the second marble Ian using you terminology but he was the second one he was not the first born and even if he was he sold us and Rifka was a prophetes and she had everything under control her a anyway so with that in mind we hope that you did learn something we saw some fascinating principles as we said we got a little bit more insight into the para and I wish everybody not only a good chabis and coming up Hanukkah soon but a good life a good life and we'll see you on the other side thank you for participating [Music]