Parshas Vayishlach: Sciatic Struggles & The Dark Knight

It's a Friday morning, I've got an error of Shabbos, it's paresha svayi yishlach. There's a lot to do, there's a lot to talk about. The paresha tells the story of good versus evil. It tells us the outcome of humble yet dedicated effort. Let's say that Tov tells us about the birth of the ultimate antagonist in the Torah, a molek. We learn about this ultimate showdown between Jacob and a man that echoes through Jewish history and it's very much a masterclass in how to go about our business and our affairs with our struggles. And Thursday, thursday evening, we didn't have so much time to delve into the actual paresha. I spent some of it trying to gather some of the old videos and pictures of the 500 episode journey that is the Motivation Congregation and the Weekly Paresha. But this one, the following talk, is one that I knew I wanted to say at the very beginning of the week and I knew that I was going to save it for the Weekly Paresha. And now here we are in Erev Shabbos with a chance to go into Shabbos with this mimer from Rebochon and Wasserman titled Yeme Ikvysad Dimeshichah, on paresha svae yeshlach. On paresha svae yeshlach, we are treated to a step by step meeting between Jacob and Ace of the preparations made and the eventual meet and greet and the Rimban and the Vilna Gome. They all tell us that this is actually a foretelling of Clalius Rall's future, of our descent from Jerusalem into the diaspora and how we would endure many struggles through the different Gullism Greece, rome, edom and the Vilna Gome actually weaves it through every single Pasek. It tells the future A yasem aseshvachas, viladam rishona, when Jacob was approaching Ace of the Pasek, says that he put certain people at the front, certain people in the back. The Vilna Gome explains Rebochonon expounds upon it that this is a reference to even inside of the Jewish people there being some that are fakers. He references the Egeres Teimon where we went through some tough times when we were forced to convert into other religions, and the Rambam's letter about it and how some people, if they don't have faith, we know that their grandparents didn't stand at the foot of Harsina it's like they are Eravrav. And this is the beginning of Gullus for the Jewish people. Jacob gets closer, the next step in Gullus, that's lehavila daacharainim. This is a Ramez On the good people being mischubid, enslaved by the bad people that are Jewish. Not sure how the Vilna Gome and Rebochonon see this in the Pasek, but he references the Jews maybe it's Marx or Jews that have enslaved other Jews. He says Be rusha uvessoviut f'od barat'echos. I don't know what he was referring to in that one, but another country. I'd love to just say in so on and so forth, because the rest is history, but it's important to hear the examples that the great ones tell us. That's Rachavila daacharainim. At the end, the main players that tell me de chachamim become the disgraced ones. Gullus gets really bad. There isn't another country that understands the real greatness of every Talmud Chacham and what the spiritual forces, the metaphysical forces that come out from the greatness of a Torah scholar. B'chonan talks at length about Balabatim used to clamor, tussle, to throw their money at Talmud Chacham. And please have me in mind when you learn. Please marry my daughter, please do business with me. They were the top of the food chain. And as Gullos goes on, the darkness gets thicker. The Torah study becomes really an intense effort and is studied with total devotion and expertise by a very elite few. They don't get the recognition from the rest of the world. In fact those people are sometimes the ones that are thrown into the streets and spit upon and disgraced. A total backwards, upside down and topsy-turvy world. But this is the descent into Gullos and this is the story that is being foretold to us, between Yakov and Esos meeting and then the eventual struggle when Yakov actually meets this Saros Sel Esov, the guardian angel of Esau. The Apostle tells us that they were boxing back and forth through the night a left hook, a right hook, an uppercut. Yakov was alone. This was a time when he's finally weak. But the angel could not hit Yakov in any way that would knock him off of his feet and pull the Jewish people from planet earth. They would not be destroyed. No matter how many persecutions no much. No matter how many pogroms, tachvetats, chelnitskis, holocausts and destructions that the Jewish people go through, they will not be annihilated. Hitler said it best If Machshamo his name should be erased, and if you even let one of these Jewish people to let live, they're just going to start up all over again. They're like these pests, the way he said it. You can't get rid of them and he's darn right. But Yarkilo Yachalo. The angel said I can't beat you. So one last dirty, cheap shot. Right before the final whistle, he got back half your recho and he touched him in a place that really hurts a place of weakness, the fatty, fleshy part of the thigh, and he just located the Gidhanosh of the Sianica nerve, a mitzvah that we don't eat, that part, that's Nekor, is performed and it's cut out in the proper way Because that's a spot, a reference of weakness, a semen for tumah. And that's the last blow before the morning the sun comes up, the angel disappears, yakov continues on his way, successful, and even gets a blessing. But for us that we're living in the ikvistad de Meshicha, we're clearly looking back on all of these historical references and all of these vayasamesah shvachasvila, deyam Rishonah, and that Eravrav the Ramam writing about the Moranos and the Egerestamon, and we know about the Talmud-e-Kachamim and all the great Torah that has been destroyed and the murdering, massacring of Talmud-e-Kachamim and putting Torah and Ruchnius on a pedestal. We're definitely of the ikvistad de Meshicha, right before the sun comes up and Meshicha shows themselves. And everybody knows the Jewish people Are the ultimate servants of Hashem and they bring the truth to the world. So we focus on what is the final step. Well, the struggle is in the thigh. It's in the Yegabek Hafeer Rachel. We're limping in an order for us To see to it that Mashiach does come. It seems like there's some Avodah that needs to be done in this area where we were hit, to kind of push it forward, limp through and Give a refuashalima of sorts To counteract the cosmic negative influences and forces. The Zohar tells us exactly what this struggle is the Tamch into Arisa by Yegabek Hafeer, rachel Cesar Bachonin. Now the Hr saw that he could not beat the Jewish people. He kept going after the Torah scholars, but to know avail. They would not give up, they would not miss first-aid or they would not close their gamaras, no matter how much propoverty he brought about. But then the itzahara said let me go to the supporters of Torah, let me set up a siege, let me suck out the cash, let me take away all finances. This is what the Zohar says Tamch in the Arisa. He hit him in the spot that hurts. It sounds like this is an area that represents Gashmias. That's maybe where the Kabbalistic Zohar understanding of it comes from. He went right after the area of the thigh that represents Gashmias, the physical aspect of things. So taking away the Rukhnia, spiritual, separating it, the thigh, no more money, no more Torah. I was thinking. I was talking about this with a great Rebbe of mine. Often you find that there are massive Chesed organizations, huge Buildings, enterprises, chesed tycoons but sometimes we're all the time, almost all the time there are Famous yeshivas, but a lot of yeshivas just have to close down because they don't have money. It's not exciting To donate a couple extra gamaras to a yeshiva and Arityasur oh, that just can't Support the Bahram, the Kolo guys, people that want to stay on learning okay, but they can't. Nobody really wants to buy into their Torah learning. Again, this isn't all or nothing. There are many situations in which Torah is actually absolutely thriving, but that was what the struggle is. He hit him in the thigh. Let's get rid of the resources. I wonder if the Zavulan you saw her partnership is something to think about bringing back. I wonder if a Kolo guy said I'm willing to give away half of his life. If a Kolo guy said I'm willing to give away half of all of the scar of my Torah to a balabas and in exchange for them, just covering my basic expenses, if you got a little extra, find the best guy in BMG and say keep doing your thing, give me half your reward and I'll take care of your mortgage. I wonder that used to be a way things went, wonder if anyone would be interested in that anymore. And further, to point it out over and over, one of the main struggles of this generation Is Vigabh Akafi Rehco. He hit him in the spot that hurts Is the area of tummah. It's the area of the Mokken, brismila. We found that Eliezer was told to swear that he was going to go find a wife. He put his hand underneath the thai rash. He says that this area is the area of the private area, the Mokka and Hamila. And they hit him to struggle with Auraas with immorality, as if the final battle would be, in a way, that something that Hashem really hates and doesn't tolerate immorality. Billim used the same tactic you can't get him, you can't beat him. And if we try with immorality, use Benos Mo'ov, get them to sin, then maybe we have a shot. The Yerech, yaakov, the thigh these are two areas that we see clear as day are the current struggles. We know that Yosef had to deal with the Gullos Edom. Yosef is always Keneget the Gullos Edom on a much more deep, capitalistic level, but his struggle was Auraas as well. At least that's how he was tested. So how do we fight back? What's the evo? We know the struggles. We know the challenges. That's nice. How do we get Mashiach to be coming around the mountain when he comes? So it's to double down, says the Chava Tchaim, and success in these areas Seems to be almost self-explanatory. But it's to be Mashiach of Torah, it's to put the Tami-Dichchah on the monopetistal, it's to turn your head upside down so you see the world the right way. And in the learning of Torah, the Chava Tchaim used to say a famous line. I'm going to struggle through the Yiddish and embarrass myself, but just because it's a legendary Yiddish. But Chana says that my Rabbi used to say that the Yetzahara, the Yetzahara erdnet un selfasten, un vernen, un davinen, un ganen tog. The Yetzahara does not care if you fast for sake of holiness or you daven the entire day. He's happy for you to do that, but Avivn't learning. But he just doesn't allow, he doesn't want that. You should sit and actually learn some serious Torah. For this reason, says the Chava Tchaim that the Yetzahara actually went after Yaakov. Ultimately, if you're trying to eradicate the Jewish people from the world, why'd you even let Avromavinu get started? Okay, if he got started, you didn't want to attack him. We don't have this episode of Vayi Gah Bekaaf Yerecho with Avromavinu, but why isn't there a Vayi Ovek Ish-Imo with Yetzchak? Just stomp out the pesky Jewish religion before it even begins and gets going. Why'd you wait for Yaakov? It's as a Chava Tchaim and the Chonan, his Talmud, explains it Because I call it Shparechu with real chuvah is Mevater, not even some of the worst sins. But the Yershamid Chagigah says but V'lai Viter al Avrom bitotira, but Tyrant not. I Subscribe Because as long as we suffer from the Yatesahara ups and downs, we still have hope. It's a marathon because we have the Tyra and as long as one is studying Tyra with intensity Borosula, yatesahara, borosula, tyra, tavelim it's like one is God forbid sick, but he's got the medication that he needs. It just takes time for it to actually kick in. It's like you're fencing back and forth in a battle and one man hits you and then all of a sudden you hit back and even though you've now been knocked out, you're lying on the floor bleeding out, but as you still have your weapon in hand, you still can fight Cesar Borosula. But now came the Yatesahara and he sought to eradicate the pillar of Tyra Yakovavino. He wanted to knock his weapon out of his hands because the Yatesahara hates Torah study, because as long as we have Torah, then we still have breath in our lungs and we have the ability to overcome and the worst sins and the worst struggles. That's why Jesus, asa's guardian angel, went after Yakov, because he represented, in a very heavenly way, tyra. Yakovavino was Tyra, he was the one who was rid of it. If you can make a siege around it, make the Torah scholar so poor that they can't learn. Maybe, maybe it'll stop. Maybe if we get some Arias in there, maybe it'll distract people and they'll run after whatever it is that they have on their phone or in some other situation and maybe that'll ruin the Tyra. Yatesahara will have a shot. So our Avoda, should you choose to accept it, it's to be Mikhazek in our Tyra. God gave us the Yatesahara. It's like a cancer, but if we try to fight it with anything else, it's like fighting back with some Advil Weapons in hand. It's interesting when it comes to Talmud Tyra, somehow the midst of it almost seems extra credit in a weird way, as if if I'm not feeling well, I'm very happy to still get out of bed and fight myself to be able to make sure I put on to fill in to no brainer. But with the Torah study. I'll do the best that I can, but today I'm just not feeling it as if it's extra credit. The truth is it's the same mitzvah. Every person is obligated to learn Torah every day, just like he puts on to fill in. Somehow it became that, no, the rabbis learned and everyone else is exempt. And those that actually do strive to learn, but just frankly, they don't enjoy it. They don't want to do too much of it, it's just too hard for them. Well, there is a way you could support Tyra. You learn a little bit in the morning, a little bit at night. Maybe that's at least just Christmine. You have intention when you're saying it. A little bit of Torah. You say azahum makom on aloha gamar, a little prisa, and there you say the Karbonos, some Tyra. If more is too much to ask, well then, alutamchindarisa, go find yourself a Kolo guy and support him. You're fighting back. Of course this is the way the Ram Bomb says, to fight back against Arayas too. You don't go out and try to fight back in a kumbhase and thinking about it and processing it, but you just fill your heads as the Ram Bomb with words of Torah and all the bad thoughts go out the back door. So that's why Yaakov is called Sarisa, because he lorded over the Yaitzahara and because he was the pillar of Torah, because Torah is always the remedy for the disease and the infection and the cancerous Yaitzahara. With our inspiring ourselves to learn another minute, to learn with a seriousness, with an accountability, with a responsibility, with a day in, with a day out, with a supporting of it financially. It should be Hashem's will that he sees that and he sends Mashiach coming right here right now, bim Haribi al-Menu, and hopefully, when we look up, we'll see that Mashiach truly is coming around the mountain when he comes.