tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30550193.post1486470763283433738..comments2023-10-31T18:06:37.075+02:00Comments on Sfas Emes: Toldos 5639 First Ma'amarMoshe David Tokayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18201862051914605921noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30550193.post-70606634744536606102014-12-14T04:36:28.930+02:002014-12-14T04:36:28.930+02:00while Yitzchak blesses Yaakov with repeated connec...while Yitzchak blesses Yaakov with repeated connection to God<br />thru dagan v'tirosh*, 27:28, thru foods for the mizbei'ach, he 'blesses' Eisav with life by the sword, 27:40**, with life by an item expressly forbidden any connection to an altar, Shemos 20:22;<br /><br />backing up one pasuk from the last<br />(to 20:21), & sidling to Pirkei Avos 3:7, final pasuk-- Yaakov was left alone [va'yivaser l'vado] in a tent to recall, without his brother for chavrusa,<br />The Name (without Avos 3:7 wherein two sit together,<br />based on Malachi 3:16); so Yitzchak sent his hairy huntsman<br />away with a sword, yet sent him<br />away*** with mercy (as per Malachi 3:17), as if Eisav had really sometimes tented with his brother for day & night talks of Elokim<br /><br />*at the conclusion of Yaakov's year of aveilus for his father Yitzchak, Yisrael blessed in a wishful surge, blessed she'b'lev,<br />his missing son, with dew & fatness, with rov dagan; then was Yosef released from prison & connected to God thru His interpretation of the dream of imminent abundance in Egypt [connected first by chubby cows, & then again by pudgy corn]<br /><br />**Eisav missed his cue at the word 'mah?', in 27:37; had he answered his father, not with 27:38, but with mah tov chelkeinu,<br />u'mah na'im goraleinu, u'mah yafa yerushasheinu, he'd have joined himself mightily to the coming Israelite cause<br /><br />***sent away? or did Eisav remove himself to a mountain other than Avraham's, 22:14, to a mountain in Se'ir, 36:8? remove himself to a field other than Yitzchak's, 24:63, to sdei Edom, 32:4? deny himself even passing contact with Yaakov's House (in its portable form), 28:22, at Bamidbar 20:18?<br /><br />{where've you gone, R. Moshe? the Sfas Emes will soon start to wonder from Olam Haba, at this lessening of his lessons...}Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30550193.post-90352672462452924112014-12-07T08:31:29.548+02:002014-12-07T08:31:29.548+02:00"when the nations are subservient to" &q..."when the nations are subservient to" "the nation of Israel"<br /><br />when the peoples will acknowledge You, Tehillim 67:6,<br /><br />"he must accept upon himself to draw the plenty into the world for the benefit of the nations"<br /><br />and Israel has kavanah that earth will yield its produce, 67:7*,<br /><br />"God will give"<br /><br />then God our God, 67:7 [our's, for "He will give you God"] will<br />bless us, 67:7,<br /><br />"and then give again"<br /><br />and then bless us again 67:8 [& the ends of earth revere Him, that<br />the cycle may repeat...];<br /><br />*where this psalm is put to the menorah, 67:7 corresponds to yom<br />sheini, with its waters above<br />(Yaakov's dew, in first position),<br />& waters below (Eisav's dew, in second)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30550193.post-82595022855857333012014-11-30T03:42:10.141+02:002014-11-30T03:42:10.141+02:00Eisav would not necessarily have received the part...Eisav would not necessarily have received the particular blessing given to his brother, nor its current interpretation, even HAD HE COME FIRST to his father:<br /><br />Eisav wore not his special clothes (27:15), the clothes that<br />Yitzchak smells & of which he then<br />speaks (27:27); without that initial utterance, there might be no pashut level "vav/and" to begin with [Rashi records the obvious meaning of "and", phrase one, 27:28], & so no vav/and for<br />the drush! Eisav would likely have heard "may He give...", give once-and-for-all, leaving manifest nature thereafter to run its obdurate course...<br /><br />& as to giving ha'Elokim/Godliness, Eisav was so<br />preoccupied with the imminent blessing, so excited about plenitude & power, that of all times not to err in meal preparation for his father, he erred, leaving Yitzchak's tavlin<br />Torah, mesiras nefesh, for just this once, out of the preparatory<br />mix: Eisav omitted, 27:31, the ingredient that his father loved,<br />27:4 (& could sense in the food before him);<br /><br />the tavlin of self-sacrifice, mesiras nefesh (what Rivkah demonstrated when she did prepare<br />food as Yitzchak loved, 27:14, saying, "on me is your curse",<br />27:13); what Yitzchak demonstrated at 22:9, lifnei "ha'Elokim", when he grasped Eloka mi'b'saro, that is to say, b'nafsho (27:4, 25),<br />b'mesiras nefesh (which spice he loved);<br /><br />Eisav's test was to prepare/serve<br />his father food lishma (while opposite him shone the impending<br />blessing), the way he'd prepared many times before in chasing around for game, simply for kibud<br />av; if lishma, selflessly, Yitzchak would bless Eisav b'nafsho, that ha'Elokim would give Himself to the recipient of dew & fat & grain & wine; if she'lo lishma, Yitzchak would bless the hairy hunter pro forma<br />only, that He would Namelessly [the point!] supply, b'dei eved,<br />the taker of dew, fat, grain, wine (or fat, dew): "may He give<br />you (once-&-for-all) stuff x stuff y stuff z...have at it"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30550193.post-16200777920036156032014-11-23T06:55:15.382+02:002014-11-23T06:55:15.382+02:00"...the extra vav implies that God will give ..."...the extra vav implies that God will give and then give again"<br /><br />so too, the extra* word mei'al in<br />27:39-- give (from the heavens/<br />ha'shamayim), and then give again (from above/mei'al);<br /><br />but unlike 27:28, Ha'Elokim, by Name, hides in 39, & hides at the pasuk's end (in the final word); from this we see that Dev. 28:13 (head, not tail), told to "the nation of Israel, Ya'akov's progeny", refers us back to these very blessings from Yitzchak;<br /><br />or say that mei'al of 27:39 =<br />"through him" of the post = l'malah of Dev. 28:13 {heaven's<br />dew to Israel to Edom/world}<br /><br />*where be the heavens, if not<br />above?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com