Parshas Vayishlach: Sciatic Struggles & The Dark Knight

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 .