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Midrash Raba Vayechi 3 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Parishat Vayiki, Madras Robert shit #3 there are moments where
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  you just got to love our tradition and etcetera that
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  details the death of Jacob Avinu and Yosef is called Vayiki.
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  So classically Jewish approach. It's a little bit like Haye
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  Sarah where three people die, but yet we encounter the name of
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  the parish as being all about the life of Sarah, when in fact
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  the first part's about her death and it doesn't really encounter
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  her her life at all either way. Parachute by Yahi by kravuya may
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  Yisrael Albert the days approached for Yisrael no Yaakov
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  maybe has two names. Yisrael's always a more
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  significant form of his name and his days approached to die.
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  What happens save the rabbis when you are close to death.
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  So let's start off with a classical approach, quoting A
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  pasuk from Tanakh Katya. It's written in the book of
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  Kohlat Ayn Adam Shalit Baruah Likhlauah, the ancient ton
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  beyond a mavit, a person doesn't rule over the spirit to restrain
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  the spirit, nor is their authority.
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  And this is the punchline here on the day of death, says Rabbi
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  Yoshua of Sikhning, the name of Rabbi Levy.
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  So it's Racha Assam Moshe Bahmidbah.
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  We're going through a bit of a bit of a tour of Tanakh
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  personalities. The trumpets that Moshe made in
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  the desert to call the people to attention were as he, when he
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  drew near to dying, were removed from circulation.
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  Why so shallow? Yeah, hey, Aheritor, care behen
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  behen by Emetzler. So no one else should be able to
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  blow those trumpets and gather the people.
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  Why? Because.
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  Because they were made for Moshe Rabenu.
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  And when did this happen? This happened towards the end of
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  the Torah, he says. At the end Hakilo Eliad
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  callsigneshiftekham Moshe commanded the trump of Levy on
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  the day of his death. You go and gather.
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  Why couldn't he blow those trumpets?
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  Because by Crevoria May Moshe's death was coming.
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  And in the time period before a person passes away they want,
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  the individual already loses authority and some form of
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  control. It quotes the puzzle from
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  Kellett again for ancient on beyond her movet.
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  Another interpretation, Keshasa Zimri or Tomasa, when Zimri, the
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  tribe that the head of the tribe performed his immoral act with
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  Cosby, what did it say by Avar? How is she throughout El Hakuba?
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  Pincus followed Mr. Zimri into his tent and he stabbed them
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  both with a spare. And the obvious question was why
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  was Moshe Arbenu the great leader?
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  Why was he not taking control in the moment?
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  And more than that, or Pincus medabellevni Moshe, How could
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  Pincus do anything in the presence of Moshe that Moshe
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  hadn't sanctioned? But it comes to teach us like
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  Kayemi. This episode fulfills what we've
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  learned in the book of Kahalat that ain't Shelton beyond her
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  mother. There is no authority on the day
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  of death. And we know from other times in
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  the rabbi's that it's not just the physical death.
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  Different experiences in life can be considered to be a form
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  of death, a living death in this case, but a form of death that
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  ain't mother and lashon hashpella death in this context
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  is because it's humbling. Moshe was humbled because he got
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  the halakhah and therefore he experienced that moment of Oh my
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  gosh, it's like I'm not here anymore, I wish I was dead or
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  and it's so humiliated that he didn't know the law and Pinchas
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  had to come and take care of it. Similarly, in relation to King
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  David, it says that Hamela David Zakhen the King David was old
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  and then as he get when the verse continues, It then says
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  via Kravuya may Hammerak David ankative concept doesn't say the
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  life of the King David, but rather via Kravuya made David
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  the day's approach for David to die without the honorific title
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  of king. How does this all relate back to
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  Yaakov in our apostle the last part of the Madras since he was
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  he had to humble himself before yourself in what father speaks
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  like that yourself is the child he could Yaakov could have
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  commanded him take me to Israel, bury me in The Cave of
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  Machpelah. What is Yaakov doing If I found
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  fever in your eyes and I could talk like begging him.
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  But the teenagers that when you come close to your time for
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  death, Ke$ha karaba mita, then like the POSIX surge, you have
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  no authority. And that is what's being said
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  here. But you, you may Israel amut.
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  That's the understanding of what's going on in the world of
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  Yakov at the time. Have a wonderful day.