#vayishlach parshah

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Limping Ya'cov walks upright today because God chooses it.

The Defiling of Dinah – The Defiling of Israel Gen 34:1  One time Dinah the daughter of Le’ah, whom she had borne to Ya`akov, went out to visit the local girls;  People say Dinah is at fault for what happened to her. This is the wrong notion. Women do not desire to be raped. Woman desire companionship. Dinah had no other woman in her family. She was making friends with the neighbors. She could…

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🟪PM’s OFFICE COMPLAINS, HOW ARE THE HOUTHIS GETTING DRONES THROUGH? - ISRAEL REALTIME 

✡️Erev Shabbat - Parshah Vayishlach which means "And he sent" - Genesis 32:4 - Jacob returns to the Holy Land after a 20-year stay in Charan, and sends angel-emissaries to Esau in hope of a reconciliation, but his messengers report that his brother is on the warpath with 400 armed men. Jacob prepares for war, prays, and sends Esau a large gift (consisting of hundreds of heads of livestock) to appease him.

That night, Jacob ferries his family and possessions across the Jabbok River; he, however, remains behind and encounters the angel that embodies the spirit of Esau, with whom he wrestles until daybreak. Jacob suffers a dislocated hip but vanquishes the supernal creature, who bestows on him the name Israel, which means “he who prevails over the divine.”

▪️PM’s OFFICE SAYS.. (complaining about reports from the TV program “Fact”) We will not address all of the false claims presented.. but a few of them are enough to prove the extent to which their mind-engineering enterprise is being mobilized for the purpose of overthrowing Prime Minister Netanyahu in a time of war.

Contrary to what is claimed, the prime minister received no warning and no one bothered to update him - neither before the massacre nor on the night of the massacre. If they had, the October Shabbat would have looked completely different.

Their mind-engineering enterprise will continue with propaganda and a trove of lies, while Prime Minister Netanyahu will continue to lead Israel to a historic victory.

▪️TAXES.. Arnona - property taxes will increase by 5.3% next year.  But in many cities residents said they were charged for property tax increased RETROACTIVELY.   The reason: an unusual increase requested by the municipalities to the Min. Of Interior to charge increases RETROACTIVELY to 2024. If you are in one of these cities or towns, you will have to pay a few hundred more shekels on all the bills you have already paid. (Mako)

❗️TRUMP CONSIDERS?  Wall Street Journal: Trump considering airstrike on Iran's nuclear facilities. 

⭕HOUTHIS SAY.. "We, in cooperation with the Islamic resistance in Iraq, carried out joint operations against Israel. Support Front operations hit Jaffa, Ashdod, and Ashkelon this week.”  Rating: semi-true, 1 drone did hit the Ashkelon area.

⭕HOW ARE THEY GETTING THROUGH?  The IDF estimates that the Houthis from Yemen are trying to take the lead in what remains of Iran's axis of evil in the region. In the past 24 hours, the Houthis have launched four SUICIDE DRONES at Israel Two were intercepted by the Air Force, one in the sea off the Gulf of Eilat and the other over Holot Halutza. Two more disappeared, and it is estimated that they fell in open areas. The four flew the same flight path as the SUICIDE DRONE that struck a residential building in Yavne earlier this week and caused extensive damage, without casualties. 

The Houthis are trying to cause significant damage to Israeli assets: the seaports of Ashdod and Haifa, the power stations of the Israel Electric Corporation, and the gas platforms off the coast of Israel.

The Houthis have established flight paths that challenge the air defense ​​of the Air Force. The path of the tiny aircraft crosses Sinai from east to west. They leave the Mediterranean Sea from the Egyptian Delta region, turn north and enter over the northern Gaza Strip into Israel, and then they descend, making it difficult for radars to classify them.

♦️GAZA - evac order: The IDF has issued an evacuation warning to several neighborhoods of Gaza City, following rocket fire from the area at Israeli troops operating in the Strip.

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Parashat Vayishlach

by Meir Anolick

Written for Shabbat, Parashat Vayishlach, י”ג בכסלו ��שע”ד:

Thank you to Rabbi Geller for teaching me many of the concepts presented here. Unfortunately, I could not quote exact sources.

In the memory of Yeshayahu ben Yitchak and Rivka z”l, who passed away last Shabbat. May his N’shama have an Aliyah.

In this week’s Parsha, Yitzchak Avinu passes away and is buried by his two sons, as it says, 35:29, “his sons, Eisav and Yaakov, buried him”. Chazal teach from this verse that even at the end, Eisav never did T’shuva, as he placed himself before Yaakov. Contrast this to Yishma’el when he and Yitzchak buried their father, Avraham Avinu. There it says (25:9), “His sons Yitzchak and Yishmael buried him”. From here we see that Yishmaeldid do T’shuvah by the end of his life. Furthermore, at the end of the Parshah this week, we are given Eisav’s family tree and taught, through interepretations of the verses, that their was a lot of immoral behavior in his family.

The question is, why the difference between them? When a carpenter sets out to construct an item, the quality of the item is largely dependent on the quality of the materials used; if poor materials are used, then the quality is poor, but if excellent materials are used, then the quality is excellent. So, too, is it with children. When a very spiritual person has a child, then that child is very spiritually as well, and vice-versa. Therefore, why is it that when Yitzchak Avinu and Rivkah Imeinu, two righteous individuals, had their children, one of them became so much worse than a child born to just one righteous parent (Yishmael, who’s father was Avraham Avinu and mother was a Mitzri handmaid)?

Something Chazal teaches us is that everyone has a certain amount of spiritual strength, but this strength does not lean in the direction of good or bad. Rather a person can take their spiritual strength and put their efforts in either direction, thus giving them equal potential for good and for evil. However, how their spend their strength is entirely up to them, and can be subject to various external influences, such as nature and upbringing.

It seems to me that righteous people don’t necessarily have righteous children, but they have children with a lot of spiritual strength. Therefore, a child of two righteous people, as opposed to a child of just one righteous person, has much greater capacity for evil, and the further one steeps himself in evil, the harder it is to come back out of it.

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It's The Little Things in Life...

It’s The Little Things in Life…

Rabbi Stephen Weiss Parshat Vayishlah 2013

  What were those small objects that were of such great importance to Jacob? We do not know; but we all have small objects that hold great significance and blessing for us.

In this week’s parshah, Vayishlach, we find Jacob at the end of his sojourn with Laban, returning to the land of Israel. Jacob, afraid that Esau will seek revenge, sends messengers…

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Parashat Vayishlach / פרשת וישלח

Parashat Vayishlach / פרשת וישלח

UNIVERSAL TORAH: VAYISHLACH By Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum

Torah reading: Gen. 32.4-36.43. Haftara: Obadiah 1.1-21 (Optional substitution: Hosea 11.7-12.12).

THE ENCOUNTER WITH ESAU

At the end of the previous parshah, VAYEITZEI, we saw Jacob at MOUNT Gil’ad in his final encounter with Laban, who represents the evil husk in its spiritual manifestation, fake CHESSED-kindness. At Mount Gil’ad, Jacob…

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Integrating the Old Self into the New: Parshat Vayishlach 5778

In parshat Vayishlach we follow the story of ya’akov, Jacob, whose spiritual journey reaches its apex in this week’s parshah.

ya’akov prepares to meet his brother esav, esau.  they were last together years.  remember, ya’akov fled his home because Esau was furiouis and waiting for the chance to kill him. Why?  For stealing the blessing that had been intended for him.  At the begining of our torah portion ya’akov  learns that esau is approaching with 400 men in tow.  while Ya’akov wonders about esau, we wonder about Ya’akov .  

Who is the Ya’akov who will meet Esau?  will it be the person who took advantage of his brother in order to get his birthright? The one who later used deception to steal Esau’s special blessing?  Or have the painful years he has spent with his deceitful uncle, Lavan, changed him into a different kind of person?

The Torah zeroes in on Ya’akov’s inner struggle. He crosses a river with his family as he prepares to send them away to safety should his brother attack.

That night he arose, and taking his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven children,  וַֽיַּעֲבֹ֔ר אֵ֖ת מַעֲבַ֥ר יַבֹּֽק he crossed the ford of the yabbok. Jacob remained alone. And a man wrestled with him until the break of dawn וַיִּוָּתֵ֥ר יַעֲקֹ֖ב לְבַדּ֑וֹ וַיֵּאָבֵ֥ק אִישׁ֙ עִמּ֔וֹ עַ֖ד עֲל֥וֹת הַשָּֽׁחַר׃ 

Ya’kov crosses the yabok.  And he wrestles, yei-ahveik.   Look (and listen) to the the resonances between these words and the name Ya’akov.  I want to suggest that this is not just wordplay but rather the Torah’s subtle hint that Ya’akov is struggling with himself.  There he is alone, Ya’akov, and he crosses the Yabok, and then he rises to yei-aveik the angel.  As we read these words out loud in shul we can’t help but  notice that Ya’akov is engaging with his own name - with his own identity.  

What is that identity? Who is Ya’akov? Back in Parshat Toldot, as he emerges from the womb he grabbed the ekev - the heel - of his twin brother. A striver, a supplanter, a trickster.  That was ya’akov.  And he is the one who lures his brother into selling his birthright, the person who dresses as Esau to fool his blind father into giving him the blessing intended for his brother. He is the one who seems to use an unfair advantage to take his earnings from his uncle Lavan.  And the person who seems (in last week’s parshah) to make his commitment to God conditional upon God’s protection of him.  We can be forgiven for seeing Ya’akov as one who works constantly for his own gain.

Back to our Parshah.  After Ya’akov wrestles with this mysterious man through the night the Torah relates:

  וַיֹּ֗אמֶר לֹ֤א יַעֲקֹב֙ יֵאָמֵ֥ר עוֹד֙ שִׁמְךָ֔ He said, “Your name shall no longer be Jacob,  כִּ֖י אִם־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל but Israel  כִּֽי־שָׂרִ֧יתָ עִם־אֱלֹהִ֛ים וְעִם־אֲנָשִׁ֖ים וַתּוּכָֽל׃ , for you have striven with beings divine and human, and have prevailed.

This man, it turns out, is an angel who grants Ya’akov the name Yisrael. This name change is repeated much later in the parshah when God tells Ya’akov again that he will now be called Israel.  

The new name Yisrael appears to signify a new identity. After this moment a different person indeed does seem to emerge. He humbles himself before God, he bows repeatedly to his brother, he offers him gifts, he embraces him in a beautiful scene of fraternal unity.   Is this the new person? Is this indeed Yisrael?  The one whose modus operandi was to look out for himself, who struggled to overcome others has transformed into one who strives spiritually, as a person seeking a broader perspective on his life.  

Oddly, however, even after this name change the Torah continues to refer to him as Ya’akov .  Is he Ya’akov or Yisrael?  Is he the old person? Or the new one?  

Listen to the Torah Temimah commentary on this:

 לא יקרא וגו'...., לא שיעקר שם יעקב ממקומו, אלא שיהא ישראל עיקר ויעקב טפל לו

It is not that the name Ya’akov has been totally uprooted but rather that Yisrael is now his ikar, his essence, and Ya’akov is secondary (literally: added to it).  

So, this man has a new essence.  He has transformed himself.  As Rashi says (on 35:10) no longer will he be identified with a name that means a lurker and trickster but rather Israel (ישראל), which Rashi interprets to mean Prince and Chief.  And we can see in the Ya’akov story not just a narrative about a patriarch but one about person as paradigm.  We call ourselves by the name Yisrael because we believe that we can build a ladder to the stars, and climb on every rung to reach beyond what we once were.  Our physical, biological destiny may be set forth in the direction of degeneration but our ikar, our essence, says the Torah, can, like Jacob’s, become new.    

But to change the ikar does not mean to be born again.  We cannot simply wish away the past.  Yisrael has changed his essential nature - but he still at times is known as Ya’akov.  We might say this is so for three reasons.  1) We had to be the person we were in order to become the person we are now.  Israel would not exist if Jacob had not been.  We should be full of gratitude for that person errors and missteps helped create this new essence.  #2) the energy and skills that animated the person we were yesterday are sources of goodness when we learn how to use them.   We transform the misspent talents of yesterday’s youth into tomorrow’s blessings.  #3) we remember our past - our Ya’akov - to avoid being overconfident that we have prevailed over the past.  If we forget about the old negative patterns we will fall quickly back into them.

When Yisrael knows how to bear the legacy of Ya’akov, when the old is integrated with the new, then he - and we - can put our full strength and wisdom into becoming a source of blessing.  

Shabbat Shalom.

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i just realized the parshah when i was born was vayishlach which is like . my Favorite

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Vayishlach: Pain & Confusion

Vayishlach: Pain & Confusion

Vayishlach: Pain & Confusion

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