Venue: Aish Gesher Aish Gesher

Parsha:

Vayishlach 

Collections: R' Yoni Miller The Torah of America

Description

Rav Soloveitchik (from Nefesh HaRav by Rav Schachter shlit"a) teaches that the meaning of Hashem calling yaakov a Keil betachtonim is that He Himself (Hashem) is too distant and overwhelming for us to emulate, however by placing great people like Yaakov avinu and many others in our midst, we have role models who show us how we can live bederech Hashem. Rav Yaakov Kamenetzky explains that Yaakov sent malachim mamesh in order to read esavs mind and heart and see if he would be ready for rectification and reunification just as Yitzchak avinu envisioned. This is also why Yaakov is put to task for insulating Dina as she could have been the missing piece to re-establishing peace and harmony with esav. We need to look for how we can bring rectifi