Rachel’s Mesiras HaSimanim: Selflessness, Tznius, and the Zechus of Klal Yisrael

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Leah, yes, it's spelled right. You know, people are looking, who? It's not a T, it's spelled with above the yud. Homework. Take care of it yourself, okay? Leah, next. U'vLeah, go ahead, keep on reading. Leah, go around the table. Leah, let's go. U'vRashi. U'vLeah lo haysa Leah, lefi shemasa Yaakov siman b'Rachel, k'she'nichnisin Leah, amar, achshav techalem ma'achosai. Amdah masrah le'os. It's pretty simple, the story we know. Sister Leah, barrenness, siman. Homework. Who gave the simanim to who? Yaakov to Leah, one medrash, Rachel—I'm saying Yaakov to Rachel, one medrash, Rachel to Yaakov. The work out the midrashim. Also, there's a chanah. Parshah say, what was the siman? The siman was challah, niddah, and hadlakas— that was the siman. It has to be the bayis, okay? That you'll probably hear on Shabbos from your local rabban. Okay, next. Okay, whatever, that you'll hear. Okay, next, next one, next one. Leah, one more. Ein lecha bayis b'Yisrael, k'maaseh—by the way, the word is not Rivka there, I made a mistake, I was typing late night—Rivka. There's no story from the history of the avos, Klal, that stands alone, separate, that the whole Klal Yisrael is nitzar, lives off that zechus. We would be gone today if not for that. If not for mesiras ha'simanim. You'd be lost. Over. No more. Holocaust finished. We keep on surviving the galus and all the shmad and all the heresy. It's the zechus of the mesirus nefesh. That's how. What's the mesirus nefesh? We have to talk about it. The actual story of this man, in order not to embarrass Leah. So we have to talk about it. What was so huge in mesirus nefesh that that is Klal Yisrael's ticket to keep our kiyum, our existence, today is mesirus nefesh. If not, we'd be long lost and gone. Continue. You do a meforshim medrash. Now it's important to read everywhere the medrash, so a very deep medrash. Medrash: ... Avraham ... He was pulling out his hair and he threw ... his beard and his hair ... He was screaming. You know, one of the greatest bushas is extinction. Extinction. For example, you want to talk about Rome? Look what happened to Rome. That's gone with the wind. So how could you have such—what busha? That's the most embarrassing thing. Look what happened to my nation. Rabbi Yishmael answers him, yeah. And you know what the chatu? They brought an avodah zarah into the Beis Hamikdash. What's supposed to happen? Into the— in the house of Hashem they brought an avodah zarah. Continue. Then Avraham started to beg. What was he begging and praying? Avraham. The first person to beg was Avraham. And he said, Rabbeinu Shlolem, you gave me a son, a hundred, he was 37, and you told me, Lea l'olah, and I became like an achzar. It's against all my rachmanus. It's against everything. Go against what you think is right and want to have rachmanus. Pay attention to the medrash. It means I took my rachmanus and I gave it as a korban to you, the actual rachmanus. So take that rachmanus in the zechus of the... Very lomdish. It's not in the pshat, it really should be, but that's really the lomdus. He's saying, Rabbeinu Shlolem, I was makriv rachmanus. Take korban rachmanus and use the rachmanus for my children. Could you write that down? Because I don't want you to forget. I'll put it in afterwards. It's a tremendous—sometimes the korban is, the rachmanus is the name of the korban. Remember, the rachmanus was the korban. I took and I was... maybe it's like a midah keneged midah. Koveish. I was koveish my rachamim to take that rachamim. Oh, the rachamim in my... It's not midah. I was an achzar. He put away—I'm saying it, the zechus was that he didn't use rachmanus. I was rachmanus to be rachmanus. You're not a rachmanus. That would be midah. Midah keneged midah is somehow, if I was a rachmanus, put the rachmanus in the jar. Take the rachmanus that I was makriv to you.

And store and take that rachmanus and to lump the shevarim. It wasn't for the morning because ... but that's, you understand? Okay, next one, go ahead. Pasach Yitzchak v'amar, Ribono shel olam. Continue, go ahead, go ahead. ... B'ni, lo chafti al kevodecha. I listened. ... I also did akeidah, from the akeidah, I did. Where's my schus? Next. Pasah Yaakov v'amar, Ribono shel olam. I sat 22 years in the house of Lavan. ... right away you sent the eisav, which means I was a good ... I learned Torah with all these ... You know how much yissurim he gave me? Wherever I turned, the minute I left Lavan, I thought, I'm not back again. More, more. It has to have some zechus. ... Torah mitoch hameilus, Torah mitoch nisyonos. Next, yeah. Pasach Moshe v'amar, ... I was the ro'eh ne'eman. I took care Klal Yisrael. You owe it to me to take care Klal Yisrael. I also carried Klal Yisrael. I also overlooked all their ... I also overlooked all their shenanigans, right? You overlook. I was a ro'eh ne'eman. You be a ro'eh ne'eman. Overlook. I think that's the pshat in this. Okay, continue. Now, if you want to ask the ... you want another pshat in the ... I'll tell you what pshat the ... is. ... This is for the morning to wake them up. ... means ... It's the one who carries burdens. Load bearer. Yeah. She's so chamor then. Yeah, she's chamor. Maybe you don't want to say that. Maybe because he's stronger, and because he's fast running. Okay, whatever. Yeah, no, it's good, it's good. All good. Move, move, move, move, move, move, move. Next, go ahead, yeah. Vamar... Yaakov, I love me. I love you for seven years. Seven years he worked for me. When it came time to marry my... he came up with a corrupt, a corrupt scheme, scheme, scheme, that wanted he'll switch me. It was very hard for me. I don't know what a kallah means, the chuppah, right? Wedding. Imagine someone else sitting in that dress. It's unbelievable. It was very difficult. I knew about it. I told my husband here. This medrash is who gave who to who? Rachel to Yaakov. Good. Because she knew her husband, her father. Believe you me, because they all talk about it. They say that Yaakov was very smart. He knew his father, future father-in-law. Here, it's smart. Rachel was smart. She knew her father. All right, a lot of talk about that. Okay, go ahead, yeah. Valachen nichamti baatzmi, vsivalti es tavos. I like the word, vsivalti es tavos. Endure my desires. Endure my desires. Think about it. Richamti al hachoisi shelo teitzei lecherpah. Is everyone looking in my eyes when I say this? Vsivalti es tavosi. Pay attention. This medrash is a gold mine for drush. Every word in this Midrash is literally a gold mine to understand the topic from different angles and lessons in Rosh's greatness. Savalti es ta'vosi. Remember. Are you going to remember the savalti es ta'vosi? Remember. ... shelo teitzei להחרף. ... savalti ... ... Keep on reading. You have to be— you can't do this. You can't read. Go ahead, go ahead. Go ahead. No, no. ... Go ahead. Pick wherever you are and just read from there. ... Go ahead. ... Come on, come on, come on. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

Yeah, the one by the chuppah. Oh, by the chuppah. Yeah. The password was, was under chuppah, the password, because that was the problem. Why? Because he's talking to Rachel. You hear his voice. So he didn't know. He didn't know until the next morning. They were trying to tell him, he didn't hear it. When the Eibishter doesn't want that you don't hear what people tell you, that happens, right? All right, let's go, Vaiter, yeah. Come on, come on, come on, come on, fierce. Come on, come on, come on, let's go, let's go, let's go. Can I have a pen? Let's go. Pen. Okay. Does everybody know the Medrash more or less? Okay. What's the question on the Medrash? Keida, not enough? Not enough. Keida is not enough. Keida, Hashem says. Mesiras Simanim. We don't read Mesiras Simanim every morning. And that's really on top. It's interesting. Akeida is the way he spoke, it was very well said. Rosh Hashanah we don't talk about the simanim, we talk about the Akeidah. In the morning we read the Akeidah. I think it's something that a person can relate to, is the sacrifice for the self, when it comes to sacrifice for everything else, only Rachel. So this is the kasha. This is the kasha, right? Why is the simanim more than anything else? Okay. I like it. I like it. It's not what the Medrash says, though. That's right. All right, so let's talk about it. You ready? Let's have, let's get into it. What is mesiras simanim, that it's such a big thing for Klal Yisroel, all the generations? Who's reading? Go ahead. Next, next one. Next, whoever wants to read. Okay, good. V'yehav gam es Rachel miLeah, u'mahu hakavanah b'tosefes milas gam? So the question, when you want to say that Rachel is also liked, or more liked than Leah, it's completely not Hebrew to say, Vaye'ehav gam es Rachel, also more liked. The whole wording is completely off. So the real story you want to say is that even though she did what she did, something is wrong in the wording. Just say he liked Rachel more. Vaye'ehav Rachel yoser mi... What's gam and also? He liked her miLeah. Says the Kli Yakar, you know what he did? She gave away the simanim. This should have been a good reason to what? Vaye'ehav gam—he liked her even more because of what she did for Leah. The mesiras simanim not only caused Yaakov not to like her, he loved her even more. This was, to him, the greatest thing. Look at Rachel. Even though she assisted, this is happening. This is my Rachel. Look at my Rachel. So now the question is—now the truth is, you'll find in the sefarim, they'll give it to the Barditchever said it, then they write, so all the different—it's a Kli Yakar, it's an open Kli Yakar. I don't know why everybody's getting credit for an open Kli Yakar, okay? But really, you'll look—the one brings it from the Barditchever, this one said that. It's not. It's an first Kli Yakar, okay? And that is the reason, gam, he liked her also more. Instead of hating her, because God ... what she did to Leah. Next, continue. Go ahead. So there was something that made him love her, and that is, it was this: she was able to do this to Yaakov. Now, ... So the pashut pshat in the Chazal is that ... to beisah. The second, right? Pshat in the what? In the medrash? What's so big in the tefillah of the simanim is, yeah, she took the tzarah to beis, ... I took in the second ... But she didn't know. She didn't know when she gave that he's going to marry her. She didn't. At that time, that wasn't the ... She didn't know that Hashem is going to marry me after. No, yeah, it's even better. It's even more, right? It's even more, right? Not because ... because I gave my husband up to my sister. So Klal Yisrael gave you up for the avodah zarah, so what? Now what? And the word kinah, v'lo kinaisi, I didn't have jealousy, right? Now Rabbi ... speaks about it, says ...

Ruch speaks about him. Ruch says, we think kinah, it's not that. It's not the jealousy. It's kinas sofrim shewanted to have Shabbos, and it's not. Okay. The word kinah by avodah zarah is, ki Kel kana, Hashem takes revenge. Jealousness. So it's jealousy, revenge. Revenge, jealousy, kinah, it's the same root word. That's the pashut pshat. That's the basic pshat in the revenge. The kinah, the jealousy and the kinah, the revenge. I didn't take kinah, don't have kinah, bameila even tzarah l'beis. For a woman, this is more than anything, because that— We'll talk about it. But let's just first zoom in on the pshat in the medrash. I have to first get the pshat in the medrash. The pshat is like midah k'neged midah or no? Yeah, something like that. I went and I brought—let the tzarah, you brought a tzarah also. You took instead of me, put someone else under the chuppah, right? And I didn't say anything, and I wasn't jealous. Kel kana stopped, overlooked the kel kana. That's the first pshat. Okay. Let's go one step further. Let's go deeper. Oid yesh lomar. Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. Oid yesh lomar. You don't want to read? Come on, read. Here's the—no, no, haderaba. Oid yesh lomar. Oh, Yitzchak's akeidah was a one-minute thing. Whatever it is, it's not its whole life. It's not his whole life. Her chuppah was an hour. No, it's the whole life. You know what she was ready to endure? She took it. Yeah, he was willing to give up his life. Just everything, forever. Sir, it's— I know people that are ready to give up their lives, but they can't do it for two minutes. After a few days—rather die a kiddush Hashem and not live a kiddush Hashem. Wow. That's a big yesod. Wow, that's amazing. The Yosef says he used to pray to Hashem, ... so the Maggid, the malach told him, you got bigger. Live with Hashem, it's much harder. It's much, much harder to continue every day. Okay. Now, it only answers one part, because Avram also would have lived with his death. So we're going to go one step further. You see, this is what I do. I do building blocks. I do building blocks. You're a storyteller. Uh-huh. I build. Go ahead, right? I have Avram also. So let's go further. Let's first get this part of it. And this is a gilui ... okay, who's reading? Go ahead. ... פיסת, פיסת, פיסת. Come on, let's go. ... שמעשה העקדה היה ניסיון אברהם ולא יצחק, שיצחק היה צריך ... ולכן בתפילה אומרים לזרע של אברהם. There's two ... Either we're remembering the Akedas Yitzchak, l'zar'acha, and means Yitzchak, but there's also nusach in the tefillah, l'zar'oi shel Avraham. Because the real nisayon was what? Was Avram. Akedah is all Akedah. Was Avram's nisayon? Brisker rav's ... Is Avram's nisayon or Yitzchak? Yitzchak, they say, is one minute. Avram is a whole life. Yes, so then why was the zechus of Akedah of Avram? We have to talk about it, okay? What was the last question? What was the last question? The last question? Akedas Yitzchak l'zar'oi — to whose children? That's the bracha. Baruch atah Hashem ... right? L'akedas Yitzchak l'zar'oi b'rachamim tizkor hayom, right? Hashem zocher habris. Okay, so that's the answer. It could be a nisayon for him, but the real zechus might be Yitzchak. Or no, the real schus is really Avram, because he had to live on. So it's a question, how do you... Some have the girsa, l'zaro shel Avram b'rach, going back on Avram. It's Brisker Torah. It's pshat in the words of the bracha. Okay, yeah? Next, next, next. V'hu limud gadol, v'hu limud gadol, yeah? Hemshech. It's very easy to get excited and calm, but the question is, could you keep it? Mi'alav v'har Hashem, yeah? Miyakom, right? Right? U'miyakom. It's, the trick is miyakum, to continue, yeah? Continue, yeah? Nu, miyakum. Okay. Od yesh loimar, sheyoiser kal hu's reading. Go ahead, nu, you want to read? Let's go. Od yesh loimar. Oh, yeah. It's much easier to give up for Hashem than to give up to the other. That's a tough one. Avram, he had to, yeah. You know, she had to live her whole life thinking...

She'll be married to Esav, and her husband's married to somebody else. Shh. That's a tough... Huh? It's easier to jump. It's easier to jump into a fire for religion than to bend for the other guy. Beis Hillel. Go ahead. What do you mean, the Beis Hillel? Go ahead. Beis Hillel, yeah. Beis Hillel said, if you notice, the guy could come, yeah, and throw out a full animal. When the Rav says it's not kosher, safek, might be that, throw it out. You want to eat safek treif? Throw out the meal. If you had to go and— if you had to go and, yeah, fight another guy over fifty dollars, you'd fight till the end. The Rav could tell you, wrong, pay, don't fight with the Rav. Basically, why? What happened? And the answer is, you're ready to lose money, but not the other guy should get. Famous Beis Hillel. Very, very famous Beis Hillel. Beis Hillel says, in the mind of a person, he's ready to literally spend thousands of dollars on something. To give a guy twenty bucks, oh, he won't— he won't, he'll fight till the end. It's a big deal. The Rav says, do it, it's safek. Maybe you're wrong. So, no, no, because to bend and do it for the other guy... I want to tell you a chiddush. It's an open medrash by the Akeidah. Read, read. Next, you read. Go ahead. Let's go around the table. Let's go. ... That's part of the point. You have to be with it. Let's go. ... Who? Yaakov, meforesh? Le'aked. When they went was Yachdav. They both went. Avraham went to— yeah, and he went to get tied. But then the Satan came and started making crazy. You know what he started telling him? Voices in his head. You know what they were telling him? You understand, what about all the good food that your mother makes? Shmuel's gonna eat it. He changed his mind about the Akeidah. It's a פירוש המדרש. Yitzchok said, you know what, you know, I'd rather not do this. Akeidah, yeah, but that Yishmael should come and get my stuff, that not. It's a פירוש המדרש. He tried to get out of the pasuk. Rachmanus, that maybe he should back out of Avramo killed. Wow, this was when people say it about. Are you realistic? Are you realistic? It's a mefurasha medrash, rabosai. I'm sorry to tell you, and the truth is, like I said, I even said it that way. If I said this, you'd send me to the wolves. It's a medrash, mefurasha medrash. You start telling that it's not easy. It's not easy. That kid was rough in this. Giving up a life is one thing, but to give it to another guy, that another guy should have it, not easy. Okay, let's go weiter. You didn't know that Hashem promised Avraham your children would be like... I can't go through that. It's not the time to go through that. It's a quick shiur to get this. Let's go. I'll talk to you afterwards. Next, next, next. Now, so what's the teretz? Avram gives up his life, fine. Rachl is giving... that's enough. Let's continue. Now I'm going to show you one step more. The chumah says clearly that Rachel had uterine motives to give the siman. Monkey wrench. She figured, if she stops the marriage to Leah, he drives Yaakov out of the house. She won't marry Yaakov. This is a way how to get to Yaakov. Who's she going to marry, Esav? Whatever. This is done for ... motives. Aval im hayu ... simanim. Open the Medrash, I'm telling you. If I would say that you'd go out of your mind. Let me do it. Huh? Huh? To secure her ... Aval im ... simanim, ulai yit'aches zman, v'achar kach yitenasa lo. Which is really what happened. That's the wisdom of Rivka; she was smart. So what's ... in the whole tzidkus? Yeah. So what's the whole story? We're making the most amazing story in Klal Yisrael without ... Good kasha, huh? Rabbeinu, what are you taynas? ... bom b'kashya. I mean, it's a stira in Midrashim. It happens all the time. Yes, let's work out the Midrashim. Let's be baalei mussar, because that's what the baalei mussar, you know, they come and they have two Midrashim and they'll give you a ... All right? We're going down that road. Go ahead, next. They don't say it's a stira in Midrash because then we're stuck, you know, because we can unravel all the Torah of the baalei mussar, right? Yeah, two Midrashim. Let's get them to work. Let's make peace between the two Midrashim.

That she took, Hapam eid Hashem, sheltati ois Michalki, because the imoyos were nevios. That's how they gave the names. So that's how they gave the names. So they knew that there would be four wives, they knew the children, so they knew that. So, Rachel, you knew you were going to marry. So what does the Midrash say in the story? The children, I don't really like the kasha that much, even though I saw big people ask this kasha. I saw big people ask this kasha. A, maybe that was later. Maybe they didn't have noah then. Then, I know it doesn't say in the beginning, before the story of the siman they married Yaakov. Maybe when they married Yaakov, and then they got in the book. Second, just because he has four wives doesn't mean that they'll be the four wives. But once they were the four wives, they knew how many children, so, yeah, okay. It doesn't have to. It says clearly they knew who's four wives, twelve children. So Leah says, Okay, I got more than my chelek. So I'm asking, she should have known that they were going to marry four wives, right? Rachel, Leah. Unnamed, unnamed. So either the pshat is they became nevios later, married Yaakov, or the pshat is unnamed. But once they're the wives, they knew about the children. Or the last pshat I would say is, right, or the last pshat, do I bring two of the three pshatim and another pshat? Or the last pshat is—there was one more, there was one more, it slipped my mind. There was one more, one more, one more, one more, one more, one more, one more. And no. Okay, so either way, either way the pshat is, but on the tzad that we take on that they knew all the time, so that's this Tanchuma. She was scheming also, Rachel. Rachel was the smart cookie. Don't, don't. The same way. Yeah. Okay. The point being, the point being, right, the point being, okay, the point being that, right, yeah, so l'choira, the kasha is, so this was with an ulterior motive. The yetzer is garbage. Why? Even with an ulterior motive, you know what it is to give somebody, it still takes midas rachamim and avatzas. You know, a person could have all the cheshbonos that this is good for him, and still not do it because he's giving somebody else his. Rivka, l'vater actually. She wanted to be married first. And to give that up is amazing. To be second. You know, I want to tell you that in yeshivas, maybe, you know, be careful to repeat this, in yeshivas, the smartest thing is to have four... you know, it should... It might be the best thing for the guy, but mi'baroish is a problem. It's always a problem. And you know who the problem came from? Dovid and Menashe. Chazal say, Chazarbuch, right? Not Menashe, the other one, Reuven. Mi'baroish, which means even if it's... it's the best thing for me to accept this deal, mi'baroish becomes a problem. So even with the cheshbon... you know the story? The Rabbeish tells you Reuven, Chazarbuch, chazarbuch, go do teshuva. What did he do wrong? Reuven was the choit hamach. He didn't let them go to... So Chazal said, Rebboisai, you're a big person. Do teshuva, and I'll let you be in Gan Eden. Ani va'ata — ani va'ata, sorry — ani va'ata, טייל בגן עדן. I'll walk with you in Gan Eden. I'll take ... I'll go walk. Right? So you know what he asks? Mi b'roish? Who's on the right? Who's going to be on the right side, and who's going to be leading? Usually they call it right side, left side. David and Yeravam. Hashem said David will be ... I'm not interested. His rivalry was David, David Melech Yisrael. He's the Mashiach ben Yosef, and that's the Mashiach ben David. Mi b'roish — here, and now it's a famous expression in the yeshiva world, mi b'roish. What does that have to do with the yeshiva world? His face. No. When he's giving the shiur, you gotta wait to look. You can't do this here. Mi b'roish means — what is mi b'roish? Who's first? Who's first? That's it. What does that have to do with the yeshivas? Mi b'roish, they talk about it in the yeshiva. You can have sometimes this is a good marriage shidduch. It's always who's ... You could sometimes destroy an entire situation, which is good for you, because of mi b'roish. And I once told you, and I think it's important to hear this, the Mir Yeshiva in Eretz Yisrael is considered the yeshiva above politics. There is no politics whatsoever.

I don't know, maybe he'll tell me this, that, I don't know. Yeshiva runs smooth with their cheretz. Every guy that walks into yeshiva gets a bracha. What is the bracha? Yeshiva, zoche to become Rosh Yeshiva here in the yeshiva. They tell you, every guy that walks in. And I tell you the same thing. Go ahead, teach, learn. I'm good. Let's go. Yeah? You know where that came from? I tained it. Yeshoroshov. The Masan Tzvi Finkel was the Rosh Yeshiva in Europe. The bachurim said they didn't have much for him. We want to bring Reb Yerucham, the mashgiach. Reb Yerucham was a powerhouse. His personality, he was dynamic. The bachurim loved Reb Yerucham. Reb Yerucham they worshipped. So he sent the letter to the Alter, his father, his father, the Alter of Slabodka. The bachurim want Reb Yerucham. Should I take? You know what the Alter wrote him back? For you it's the worst thing. You're going to lose the yeshiva. For the bachurim it's the best thing. You think he did it? Right there and then. It was the shrush, it was the cornerstone. The selflessness of Torah, when it's selfless, is so big, it's so huge. I can't even tell you. The guy goes into the... and he's doing it not for himself, and it's always about for the right cause. That's why I talked about lishma all the time, lishma, lishma, lishma. Right cause. What happens is amazing things, and it stands forever. It stands forever. It stands forever. When it's done. The Mir Yeshiva today is run on that. There's no Mir barosh. They pick Rosh Yeshivas who are young, and then the older Rosh Yeshivas. You know Reb Asher, we asked permission from the new Finkel if he could say shiur. The new Finkel is half his age, right? The new Rav Finkel, the Rosh Yeshiva. Reb Asher, he became Rosh Yeshiva, went into the room and said, I want to ask permission if I can continue my shiur. That me, but it doesn't exist. It's ruch, it's ruch, it's me. I also heard that ... his father, he, like, ... he took in everybody. He wanted to give everybody a chance. I know, but someone that they take, and then they let you grow, they can be bigger. I don't mind. It's a tremendous koach. Okay, so let's move on, yeah? Yeah, let's move on. Mihu, al pi ha-nal yituretz, yeah, she'afilu... This is real. That's a real tzidkus, shebetzidkus. There's a very chashuv sefer I tell you all about all the time. It's called Mei Litz Yosher, Reb Reuven Melamed. Reb Reuven Melamed was a yeshiva ... l'tzeirim, for the high school. He never had children. I'll tell you a quick story. I had this thing with the sefer, I loved it. It was all Reb Chatzkel's ... Reb Levenstein. He was a talmid Reb Chatzkel. All his insights, it was beautiful, short and to the point on the parashah. I loved this. I also had a thing because he never had children. I always had this thing for him. I want to, you know, his Torah was on children. It was a sefarim. I went to buy the sefarim. I went to buy them when I was in Eretz Yisrael. I knocked on the door where it says his house, his back, it says addresses, back of the sefarim. Nobody answered. I came a second, a third time. I kept on knocking on the door. I came different times. I go, how come nobody's... So the neighbor came out and said, What are you knocking? I said, I want to... melamed sefarim. He's not alive, she's not alive. They're both not alive. The Rebbe's died, you died, there's no children. So the house is just left. There's nobody to claim the house and deal with it. So I told him, I'm here for the sefarim. I think the sefarim are still there. They're in boxes just laying in the house. He said to me, Come to my house in Pesach. Jump over to there on Pesach. Pick up the trunks and you'll go in, you'll get the sefarim. I did. I went in there, I took all the sefarim, I brought them to Meron. I gave them out. So here's a pshat three: what's Rachel's tefillah? What was so big about Rachel's tefillah? So the first pshat he brings is, you hear, the lifnei mi she'asar din. You know, a lot of times what's coming to you rightfully. Maybe he's busy, it's mine, it's rightfully. It was Yaakov was rightfully hers. And she was what? Lifnei mi she'asar din. Ribono Shel Olam, banecha chatu, you're right, lifnei mi she'asar din. That's one pshat. He's zooming in on the what? On the lifnei mi she'asar din. On the lifnei mi she'asar din. Second pshat, let's read, let's go.

וכן תובעת רחל, ובספר מאלות יש. And it's not like we're removing a lav, it's a tzad mashgiach rishon, ... של שיעור של תפילת רחל, שיתקבלה, שהיתה לה טענה שלא התייעצל הצדיק, מה שמגיע לה, אלא רחמים. ... לכן תובעת רחל, גם כן קנאה שהקב״ה לא יענש שיעשה משהו מגיע על פי מידת הדין, אלא לפנים. דוק בלשון בקשתה, ... יעקב אהבתני, אהבה ... אהבה בשפילי, אהבה שבע שנים. היינו שעל פי הדין הצדיק מגיע לי, ואני הייתי צריך להיות אשתו. עוד שם רעיון יפה שתתווסף שכמו שני ... ויתרה לאלבון אחותה. Now, if you notice the lashon of the Medrash, she says, 'Yaakov ahavtani, he loved me, he worked for me.' What does he want with all that? Why is that part of her prayer? She's trying to say, so she was the rightful owner. He worked for me, he loved me, so I'm the rightful wife. That's part. Notice, if you learn the Medrash, every answer and explanation is in that Medrash. You got to just hear it in. That's the part where she says, 'He loved me, he worked for me.' So, right, contract, contract. How many people scream, 'Contract, the contract.' If there's a ... even though din means you have to destroy Klal Yisrael, but what? No, but what? ... Go ahead, keep on going. Next pshat, he says. עוד שם רעיון יפה שכתב, שכמו שהיא ויתרה על לילבון אחותה, גם הקדוש ברוך הוא יוותר על עוונות עם ישראל. I gave—I didn't want my .... כלל ישראל. Remember Avram? What was Avram's thing? The busha chlima. The busha chlima, the embarrassment of Klal Yisrael during the churban, right? I also took the ... I got embarrassed for my sister, and I didn't want to embarrass my sister. Huh? You see that part of the equation. Elba, chlima. And he says a third pshat, which is unbelievable. Unbelievable. Read, read. Third pshat, last pshat. עיין שם, רעיון נפלא ... The third pshat he brings from Rabbeinu HaGra. He said, נר מצוה, תורה אור. But what's דרך חיים? You want life. Listen carefully. It's easy to learn some Torah, it's easy to daven and do mitzvahs. ... That's the trick. דרך חיים is ... מוסר. See, he wants to say that's the pshat here too. Avram was chesed. Yitzchak was ... tefillah. Yaakov was Torah. Rachel ... I mean, it takes middos to do what they did also. It's true. What was her ...? What was her ...? ... Let's go back. דרך חיים. You ready? סובלתי את ה..., סובלתי את ה.... Remember I told you we're going to go back to the סובלתי את ה.... ... סובלתי את ה.... ... I mean, Avraham also did that with the mercy. He was kovesh his mercy. All good. You know, it's one thing to be סובל, you know, difficult things. It's one thing to be סובל. Something you want, to give it to another person, al pi Rav. It's the עמוד of רחמים, the עמוד, the עמוד. It's so deep. It's so deep, you hear? שבירות המידות. Now let's go to mavrala. What is the one thing that the Ribono Shel Olam says, I overlook everything, and that is mavrala. כל מי שמעביר על מידותיו, הקדוש ברוך הוא says, I'm ma'avir. That's what Hashem said. He said, I was ma'avir on this. That's it. He just said right out of the pasuk. Mavrala midos. I broke my midos. The idea, you know, a keidah, yeah, I hear it's, rebishter's ratzon, it's good, it's tzidkus, it's chochmah...

I don't believe it. ... the one thing I was ... seriously, gave my sister ... Now, the Gemara. Okay, who's reading? The Gemara, go ahead. ... The Gemara says, like what Rashi says, mesiras ha-simanim, that's the big story, right? That was Rachel's big thing. That's what the Gemara says. The Gemara says, you know what Rachel's big thing was? Tznius. She gave the simanim, she didn't talk, she didn't... So she had Shaul who didn't talk, right, when he became the melech, he didn't tell anybody. And Binyamin doesn't talk in there. Nobody talks in that family, right? It's a family of non-talkers. Why? Because that's really, it's tznius. Okay, perek Rashash, I don't understand: is it the mesiras simanim, rachmanus, or is it the tznius of, wow, what a tzanua, yeah? I want to tie in a big yesod. You ready? Tznius comes. You know, people don't realize, people think tznius is stuckness. Tznius does not mean stuckness. It's not... You don't exist. When a guy's in a room and he's the loudest guy in the room, he's not a tzanua. You know why? It's about him. Everything, everything drawing attention to him, and a person is non-existent, he's a tzanua. You don't see him, you don't hear from him. He cares about everybody. He's not—it's not self. He's mevatel himself. There's no self. A loud person, it's all about him. A tzanua is, don't— not me. Hatzneia leches im Elokecha. He's with Hashem. It's a whole different outlook in his personality. But tzanua means loni. You know what a rachman is, rabosai? The more selfless you are, the more rachmanis you'll have on אחרים. The greatest example is Rachmei Av and Rachmei Eim. Real Rachmei Av and Rachmei Eim is because they're selfish. The more you are not for you—remember we spoke from Hagar. What was Hagar's thing? That even her kid was about her. That's not rachmei Av. That's not what it is. We ask the Eibishter, we say, Ribbono Shel Olam, You're ma'avir al midos. What do we say? Ribbono Shel Olam, You're selfless. You don't have a... rachamim was so selfless, and that's where tznius comes from. The root of it, of her tznius, is the same root of her rachmanis. She was able to say, You know, my friend saw I'm not here. I'm gone. I'm done. I don't want to be part of this. Tremendous omek. We are the shoresh of rachmanis, and the shoresh of tznius comes from. With this, I think we can answer a mighty bomb question, a bomb kashya. Yiddish, they call it a bomb kashya. You ready? Vayizkor Elokim es Rachel. The Eibishter remembers Rachel, and she gives her a child. What did He remember? What does Chazal say? What did He remember? Vayizkor Elokim—the last... lady—vatifka... Oh, He remembered the simanim, and therefore He gives her... The simanim was the simanim. Why didn't she give birth right away? Hashem ... wakes up, remembers him. But I thought we were saying it's in .... Leah had a lot of kids. Let's talk, let's talk, let's talk. You know what happened? The greatest, what do you call it, ... Rachel, that when she takes the dudaim moving, she gets a ... what do you call it, a tongue lashing from Leah. You know, ... 'You took my husband.' What are you talking about? It's almost like a humor story. Leah should have taken a bat beating her up. That's it, I can't take it anymore. But think about it. After everything, you're going to turn around to me and scream at me, ...? And she keeps quiet. ... Take more, take more. ... Baalimuser of ... She was so selfless that Leah herself didn't even realize the chesed. Leah didn't understand the chesed to the point that she thought, 'Yeah, I'm the rightful wife, you're the second.' How is that possible? How does it mean inside of Leah? How does she not know? ... Where was Leah's ...?

Hakaras hatov. It was Leah's hakaras hatov. Did she know about the simanim? Did Leah know about the simanim? Sure. I think. No, did she know that Rochel is doing for her? Of course she didn't know. That's the only way to explain, right? I'm not ... I'm trying to remember, you know, in a computer of my mind, where I saw the kasha. They do ask this kasha. So it comes out that Leah is like, true? Is that the real story? She doesn't know hakaras hatov, and that's Yehuda, ... Hashem. It doesn't fit with Leah. Maybe they say that that's what Chaim from ... She might not even know. You're saying that it's hilchos niddah. She just told her that. Yeah. Right, right. Except that she was under the bed. That doesn't fit so well. Doesn't fit so. Because then they knew that. They knew. Yeah. The kasha is, the kasha needs a shiur for itself. What, maybe one day. It could be it was just emotion. It could be that what Leah said was emotional, not logical. No, no, she really did know, but since she was in a lot of pain, she was in a lot of pain. Maybe Leah was like ... she was trying to make Rochel daven. Maybe it was like ... like ... It's like you said, when Hashem doesn't want you to ... Yeah, maybe for the sake of Rochel that she didn't see. Right, right. And maybe it was for the sake of Rochel that she didn't see. Homework for Shabbos. This, I gave you enough to work on. I got to finish, so let me just finish, okay? I'm with you. This is all אחרי that work there, okay? Now, getting back to a chidah. I'll give you a chidah. As far as ... with Chida, with the ... The Chida says. Why Yissachar? You notice the baby that was born from this duda, Yissachar. It was on purpose Hashem put it in her. Why? Yissachar is the matrya, Rachel, matros... Wow. Rachel, matros... Now the Chida, I have news for you. It's more than that. It's in Rishonim. Reb Lezer miGarmiza brings. Reb Lezer miGarmiza brings, see here, he brings this here. Reb Lezer miGarmiza brings a Torah, he brings this. So it's rishon. And why now? Amad kach dekrisishi? Yeah, really? That's the story, amad kach dekrisishi? Yeah, yeah. You took, you forgot the Rachel, matros... Yeah. Let's settle this slowly. It's Rachel, right? Don't forget Rachel. Now let's talk. If you notice, I finished with the final, and that is: this is the chasima. The serious chasima. The serious ... was selfless. The epitome of it came through. She was able to turn around, ... and she still ... one word. So selfless that there's no Rachel whatsoever. It doesn't exist. In her midah of bitul, of giving and rachmanus, there's just no person there. Yissachar. ... She had a kid two years later. Yissachar. Yissachar. She got Yissachar. ... Chaya Leah has ... selfless. We always say a vort: Rachel mevakel baneiha. It's not her children. Most of Klal Yisrael is not her children. But they are. They're all because of her. She looks at everyone. She's the ... She's the ... This is the ... That's where it comes from. That's the ... That's how we survive. ... I was trying to say that when the stone fell out of the Kotel this year, it had the face of Yeravam. It said because before he passed away, he wanted every time Bnei Yisrael came to ... I see the ... waiting the whole time to say it. As soon as your mouth stops.

Stop talking. It came out.