The "Klei Yakar" and Dubai

Hey DIN ... what does "Dubai" have to do with the Klei Yakar who lived in the late 1500 and early 1600, over 500 years ago?

Did the "seger" the "lockdown" effect your brain?

Not exactly..... I think that the words of the Klei Yakar, a commentary on the Torah is not only connected to Dubai but to the US as well...

You see, lately I have been reading that Jews are not only flocking to Dubai but actually moving there.

In the US ... there is a holy rebbetzin that is luring hundreds of families to Tampa Florida.

Now don't get me wrong, I am all for having peace with the Arab countries... absolutely ...

But moving there? Have we not learned anything from Jewish History? Nothing?

Or have they been brainwashed by the Satmar Yiddish weekly's propaganda  .. Der Yid, that keeps touting the lies that Arabs were good to the Jews until 1948..they won't tell you that Arabs took the father of Boba Sali on a nice sunny Shabbos afternoon and shot him out of a cannon .... way before 1948.

Let's see what the Klei Yakar wrote 500 years ago....

In last week's parsha, in Parshas Va"yigash . in the very last verse, the Torah writes the following:

וישב ישראל בארץ מצרים בארץ גשן ויאחזו בה ויפרו וירבו מאד 

"Meanwhile, the fledgling nation of Israel lived in Egypt, in the Goshen district. They acquired property there, and were fertile, with their population increasing very rapidly."

English Translation taken without permission from The Living Torah by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan.

Simple pasuk or verse, correct?

Sounds like the Torah is praising this .....

Not so fast ....

I am going to try to loosely translate and explain what the Klei Yakar says about this simple pasuk...

Klei Yakar's words in red

"The entire pasuk blames the Jewish people for settling in Egypt...."

(in other words, the Torah is not praising the Jewish people or even stating a fact, it is chastising the Jewish people)

Why?

"Because Hashem decreed:

כי גר יהיה זרעך ... "your children will be strangers" 

but they (the Jewish people) decided to settle in a place that I decreed should be the diaspora"

First the Klei Yakar wants to establish the fact that when the Torah writes the word וישב there can be a negative connotation...to prove that in this pasuk the word וישב  also has a negative connotation

" Just like when the Torah wrote in Parshas Va'yeishav

וישב יעקב ...that Yaakov wanted to settle down and relax...

so then Hashem sent him the troubles of the Yosef abduction ... and there the word וישב was meant  in a negative connotation, so here too in our pasuk the word וישב takes on a negative connotation."

The Klei Yakar continues ... and here comes the punchline!

"This pasuk comes to chastise the Jewish people for settling and wanting to own (see Rashi) parts of Egypt in a country that does not belong to them.

and in fact when they initially came to talk to Paro they told him that they only want to be there temporarily  לגור בארץ באנו 

but they then changed their minds.

Their intentions now were to remain there and in fact they refused to leave Egypt ..Hashem had to remove them from Egypt ביד חזקה with a "Strong Hand" and those that still refused ultimately perished in the 3 days of Makkas Choishach"

So my dear readers .... our grandfather Yaakov went down to Egypt with his entire family ...... with Hashem's blessing ....

and yet the Torah is not happy with the fact that they started buying property in a בארץ לא להם land that does not belong to them .....

B'H we have country, The State of Israel, a miracle, a country established only 70 years ago with  full infrastructure, buses, trains, light rail, brand new highways for cars .... electricity, heat, water, schools and Torah institutions... we are no longer a yishuv.... over 5.8 million Jews living here..

And yes ..we have our problems .... but when did Jews in Eretz Yisroel live in complete peace? .... Maybe when Shlomo Hamelech reigned ...how many years was that... that's about it ...

and yet few give this miracle any thought ...

This is not new... when Ezra was begging  Jews of Bavel to make Aliyah .... ... few took that initiative.....the leaders ..the tzaddikim ignored him ... even though they had a prophecy that they would only be in exile for 70 years ... the Gedoilei Yisrael ignored the prophecy...

and what else was in that prophecy?

What was included in that prophecy was that they should re-build the Bais Ha'mikdash ...

they ignored him...they didn't care about the Bais Ha'mikdash and certainly didn't care about Eretz Yisrael...and this only months after  Haman had scammed too annihilate the entire Jewish people in Chutz Le'aaretz!

 

What was their excuse?

This will sound familiar .... "oh the Jews there aren't Shomrei Torah Umitzvois" ....few Shoimer Shabbos there... "There are Jews there that are assimilated" 

That's what a cousin of mine told me when I asked her why she isn't giving Aliyah any thought...

"oh the Zionists..oh there is Chillul Shabbos in Tel Aviv" The Russians, the Ethiopians aren't really Jews" 

So why are Jews running to live in Dubai? Why are Jews in the US establishing new towns? What is it with us?

Yes Hashem sent us in Galus... but he doesn't want us there ... he wants us to make at least an effort to get the hell out of there ...

Reread the Klei Yakar that states that "settling in Egypt" even with Hashem's blessing is not ultimately good for us.....

We as a people must try to establish roots in Eretz Yisrael ..now...

Don't you guys see the handwriting on the wall?

We had a great friend in the White House who even though he is a goy recognised the fact that Yerushalyim is our capital... he recognised our taking back the Golan Heights, he recognised Yehuda and Shomron as a part of Israel and ruled that all products made there are as if it was made in the territories within the green line ...he made peace with Arab countries and Israel....

 Hashem looked down and took a poll and saw.. that Jews ...yes even frum Jews, even frum Rabbanim and Roshei Yeshiva .... voted for Biden...He looked down and saw that the majority of the Jewish people over 78% voted for Biden .... 

Hashem couldn't believe it ,,,, he checked with all the pollsters saw that  they refused to recognise the gift that He gave them ...He saw  self righteous rabbis who despised Trump writing articles in the media encouraging Jews to vote for the anti-G-D Democratic Party....placing this gift in the trash.....

Just like they continue to refuse the land that He gave them, even though they don't have to conquer it to get there.. ..

"And so they have no Akaras Hatoiv ... so you know what?"

Says Hashem...

"I'll give them a demented Biden with a VP married to an assimilated Jew whose children call her "mamele" and let her give the Jewish people the  Chanuka message ...let Ami Magazine and Mishpacha and Rabbi Avi Shafran pander and slobber over their "Camele" just like they did for Cuomo and DeBlassio who stabbed them in the back and front..

I'll close the borders of my beloved land ... it will be open only for their dead ,,, ....

"Wake up my friends Wake Up From Your Deep Sleep"

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