Parshas Vayechi - The History of the World in 12 Steps

2:19 In other words The word beginning Is really synonymous with the word purpose. And at the very beginning The reason the Torah says the word baracious is because the Torah is responding to a fundamental question: Does this world have a purpose? If the world was always here Then it just was. But if the world comes into being, if it has a beginning, that means there was something that felt it needed to begin. And if it needed to begin, then the question becomes. Why did it need to begin? What did it need to begin for? What's the purpose of creation? So the very beginning of the Torah says as follows: There is a beginning, which means this world has a purpose. And that's a very inspiring idea for us Because a fundamental question that all of us are asking ourselves is: Does my life matter? That's what we're all asking, really.

3:26 Every time we don't wake up in the morning Why don't we wake up in the morning? Because we're tired. We don't wake up in the morning because why should we? Yeshiva Mevaseret has a good line to the boys. The boys say, "Rebbe, I can't wake up." He said, "You ever sleep through a flight?" Nobody sleeps through a flight, right? It's always one boy in the yeshiva who raises his hand and goes, "I slept through a flight." You always have that one boy who slept through a flight. But you made it. Mar Chasham, because it was important. You always have your exceptions to the rule. But I know that when I go to America Sometimes the yeshiva puts me on a seven o'clock in the morning flight. If I'm in Chicago, you have a seven a.m. flight to Los Angeles. And I'm like, do you realize what seven a.m. means? It means I need to be in O'Hare at five o'clock in the morning, which means I need to be up at four o'clock in the morning. To be in the car by 4:30 in the morning to get to the rental car place by five o'clock in the morning, so that I could be in the airport in time to make it.

4:31 And I didn't go to sleep until 12 o'clock at night the night before. How do you wake up? You wake up because when you have a reason to wake up, you wake up. You can do incredible things when life has a purpose. And so, the very beginning, the first question that we ask ourselves in all of creation, in all of the cosmos, is the question that every one of us is asking here today. Do I have a purpose? And Akol Shemarcho begins our conversation by saying, "This was created for a reason." And that takes us to Parashas Noach. The word Noach means tranquility. To be at rest. If the word Noach means to be at rest, it means that there's unrest that exists in our universe. Something that right now doesn't stem. Two things are not working; they're not going together. There's a level of chaos in the world, and that chaos needs to come to a place of tranquility.

5:30 This is the purpose of the world. The purpose of the world is to find a place of tranquility. What does that mean? In our world, the spiritual and the material are at odds with one another. It's like a husband and a wife who are married and trying to figure it out in the beginning of their marriage. You'll learn this when you first get married. You'll see. It's a very beautiful thing. It's a wonderful thing. You'll have found your husband, God willing. But also, it's learning to live with a man, and that is no easy feat. And women Women have issues with men, and rightfully so. And I'll share with you a very beautiful story. I had one of the biggest bnei Torah to ever come out of our yeshiva. One of the sweetest, nicest guys. Couple months into his marriage, she called me up and he said, "Rebbe, just wanted to catch up." I said, "How's everything? How's your marriage?"

6:27 Rebbe, women are very different. I said, "Yeah, what do you mean?" He said, "My wife notices everything." It's like I don't know. I lived in yeshiva. I never had any shalom bias issues in yeshiva. I was always a good roommate. I said, "I don't know. I don't know if guys like pay attention to what's actually happening." It's like everything I say, I have to be so careful because my wife pays attention to the words that I say. That's what dialogue is like. People paying attention, when guys talk, sometimes they talk at each other. Have you ever seen men talk? Seen this? It's a very low level of dialogue. I'm sure you've seen. They're just talk. It's like actually listening. There's a level of chaos in our world. The material and the spiritual are trying to figure each other out. The material says there is no spiritual.

7:19 The spiritual says there is no material And how do we bring these two things together? From the spiritual perspective, it's looking at the material and going, 'You think you're real?' You're not real. And the material perspective is saying, "I can't touch you. I can't measure you." When you look at a table, you don't see God. And when you look at and when you think about God, you don't think about a table. And so there's a level of unrest that exists in our world. And the Gemara in Gittin says that the Torah was created in order to make peace in this world. And what that means on a deeper level is not simply that people fight with each other But the very reason that anybody fights with anybody in this world is because there's a level of unrest that exists in the world. A lack of harmony between the material and the spiritual.

8:16 Do you realize that if all the material and all the spiritual in this world were perfectly balanced, none of us would ever fight with each other? Because when I look at you and you look at me, we would see if we could see beyond the surface of existence. We would see who we really are. We would see our souls. And our souls are all one. So there would be no strife in this world. There would be no machlokus in this world. The reason why people fight is because we think you're something other than me. But the Mar Yeshami says that every single one of us is actually one soul. Nobody would ever take a hammer and smash their own hand. So when we fight with somebody else, who are we really fighting with? We're really fighting with ourselves But we don't realize that because the material and the spiritual are still fighting with each other. There's no harmony.

9:03 And so Berechiah says there's a purpose. Noah explains to us what the purpose is: to create tranquility in the world, to merge the spiritual and the physical. This is what the Medrash and Parashas Nasal means. If somebody asks you "What's the purpose of creation?" the Medrash tells us, "Nesave Hakadosh Baruch Hu lios lo yisbarach diru b'tachtonim." God desires to have a dwelling place in the world down below. That's the Hasidic answer to this question, based on the Medrash. Hashem wants to feel comfortable in our world. And right now our world is not a place where Hashem feels comfortable. Because the material is knocking Hashem out of the world. So now we know two things And these are very important things to know. Number one, there's a purpose. Number two, what the purpose is. Remember, just like in a marriage, you don't get married for no reason. There's a purpose to your marriage, and the purpose of your marriage is to find harmony with each other.

10:04 Same thing when it comes to Hakadosh Baruch Hu. There's a purpose in this world, and the purpose is for the material and the spiritual to merge and to be at rest with each other. The next three parshios all go together. Listen to the words: lechlecha Vayera, chayesara. Let's look at those three words and see how they all fit together. Lechlecha means to take a journey. What's the journey? The journey is the soul comes down to this world. That's a journey. If you're following the process Bereshis means that there's a purpose. Noach means the purpose is to do what? Hello, everyone, with me? Good. The purpose is for Noach to make Hashem's presence in this world known, so there will be tranquility, a balance between spiritual and physical. So the soul comes down to this world. It's on a journey. When we were growing up, we probably learned something like this: we come down into this world in order to go back up.

11:19 What's the problem with that? I already was up. Why should I come down in order to go back up? Have you ever asked yourself that question? It's like you come down into this world in order to get a reward. What's the reward? Where's the reward? Back up there. So beforehand, what was I doing? I was up there and it was good. So I had to come down into this world just to go back up. It makes no sense. The journey of this world is not upwards; it's downwards. Lech lecha is Hashem says to the soul I want to have a world where I feel comfortable. So go down into the world. That's the job of the soul. But the problem is that a journey always has a destination. Or a vision, vayera means a vision. If I tell you, imagine, who should I pick up?

12:12 I'll pick you up. Imagine I told you to take a journey. What would the first question out of your mouth be? Where? We can't just tell people, and this is what's happening in the world today. We're telling girls be Jewish. Do mitzvos. What are the girls asking? Rightfully, what are the girls asking? Why? What's the destination? What does it matter if I do a mitzvah? Where is this taking me? What's lacking in today's society is not the lech lecha It's the vayera. What we need to be telling people is there's a bereshis, there's a purpose. The purpose is Noach. Lech lecha, go on a journey. Vayera, here's the vision. This is what we're trying to build. A beautiful way of saying it is as follows. Girls, with me. How do you inspire a group of people that are working for your business? Let's say you have a group of people that are working in the warehouse.

13:13 And you want to inspire them to work harder. So an easy answer would be Today I'm paying a hundred dollars to the person that stacks the most boxes. How long will that last? One day, because you offered a one day idea. Let's say you say every day I'm going to offer a hundred dollars. At some point people go. The hundred dollars that ran out. But what if we said as follows? What if the CEO of the company came down to the warehouse and said to all the workers in the warehouse I want to tell you what's in the boxes that you're stacking. What's in the boxes that you're putting on the trucks? What's in those boxes is medical supplies. And we're bringing those medical supplies to communities that can't afford them. And we're giving them away, so that everyone who's sick could be well. A person who's working in the warehouse, all of a sudden it changes. That's what I'm doing.

14:13 Of course, then I'm going to take it seriously. And imagine if you came to someone and you asked him, "What do you do for a living?" Yesterday he would have told you, "I stack boxes in a warehouse." Today, what would he have told you? He would say, "I make sure that people in communities who can't afford medical assistance get products that otherwise wouldn't be able to reach them." All of a sudden, what does he sound like? He sounds like a big deal. It's the same boxes that he was stacking yesterday. That's what the girls today are asking for. They're saying, Rabbi, I don't mind doing a mitzvah. I'll stack boxes, but you're telling me I want you to stack boxes with passion. You're saying I want you to raise a Jewish family with passion. Why should I be passionate about stacking boxes? Because the girls today are missing a vayera They don't know why we're doing a mitzvah.

15:04 They don't know the depth. By the way, if you explain it to them They go crazy. They get unbelievably inspired. When you start teaching a person pnimiya satora, and you start saying things like Just as an example, we're not getting into this right now, but let's say we started talking about the mitzvah of afroshaschala And I said to you maybe something that you didn't know. Probably you learned it this year. That Chava had braids in her hair. Did you know that? That Chava had beautiful braids in her hair. And that part of the reason that we braid the Chava is a tikkun for Chava, and what she did in the chait of the Eitz Hadass. And you might go, 'Wow, I never heard that idea before.' Can you explain to me more about it? And by the way, that shear would be like a three-hour shear because there's so much depth of what happened just in that one aspect of what's the relationship between Chava's hair and the chat of the eitz adas, and then the next time that you're mafreshchala, you might say, 'Oh, I'm not just like doing. I see my kids doing this like one over three, four over six. Like everyone has their like numbers that they use. It's not just doing that anymore. What are you doing now? Now you're rectifying the sin of Chava.'

16:12 You have a vision for what you're doing. So the lechlecha is the journey, the vayera is the vision, and then chayesara. What happens when you have that vision? If it saturates all the way to your very core. Chaye sorrow. All of a sudden, you come alive. That's what we want. We want to be passionate about our Judaism. We want to come alive. It requires a vayera and it requires a lechach on a vayera. We have to tell kids you're on a journey. This is the vision, and we have to say it over and over again until the vision permeates every fiber of your being. That's why we have time in seminary. Shana Aleph, Shana Bet. It's time to really take these ideas in, and open your heart to them, and let them go to your very core. It's why sometimes, 20 years later, I was in yeshiva 24 years ago.

17:11 24 years ago, I want you to know I may not remember all the shiurim that my rebbeim gave. I may not even remember any of the shiurim. But the shiurim got to my soul. They got to the core of my being. And I took on myself a mission. Yiddishkeit. That's it. We're going to do it for real now. We're not going to just pay tribute to our Judaism anymore. It came alive. Chayesara. So far, what have we learned? Bereshis. There's a purpose. Noach. The purpose is tranquility. We want to bring a fusion between spiritual and material. The soul goes on a journey. The soul has to be taught a vision for that journey, so that it knows what the destination is. To the degree that the vision is so clear that it brings chayim, it makes the vision come alive. It's invigorating. It's passionate. Our Judaism is meant to be passionate. It's not meant to be by rote.

18:03 Then we have toldos vayetze vayishlach. What happens when a person has this inspiring vision that gets to their core? The first thing they have is toldos, which means children or production. Then they have vayetze. What does vayetze mean? To go out. And vayishlach means to send. What do these three things mean? Toldos means product, progeny. What does it mean to have a product? Here's the big secret. Ready for this? Every mitzvah that we do, every single mitzvah that we do It actually has an impact. And part of the reason we get so frustrated with our mitzvot is because we don't see the impact. So it's something along the lines of this. Imagine you do a mitzvah. It's very possible that some girls here will do a mitzvah and then they'll say, "So what?" What did I do? I'll give you an example of this. You girls probably don't know this, and frankly, I only know this for tangential reasons.

19:14 But did you know that there was a football player that died on the football field this week? Now he's not dead yet. For nine minutes they were doing CPR on the football field. And then Baruch Hashem he's still alive today. You watched the game. So I saw the hit. He was a football player. He was a defensive player. And he got hit. Somebody hit him in the shoulder. He got up. And then he had a heart attack and he just fell down. An amazing thing happened. It was something. Honestly, I wish Jews would talk about this. An amazing thing happened. All the players They got down and went to a circle and started davening. And the NFL said we have to continue the game. And the coaches pulled their teams off the field. They said We're not playing the game. It was bigger than a game. One of us got really, really hurt.

20:05 And even on ESPN There was a guy that said, let's take the time Right now, stop the show in the middle of the show. He started davening and I was thinking about it. Halavai, we should feel that way about our tefila. How many times do we daven, and then we go, 'What did I just do? I said some words.' I feel bad saying it, but these guys really believe in their tefila. Something we need to do better at. You do a mitzvah. A boy wears tzitzis or tefila, and he says, "What did I just do? I wrapped some cowhide on my arm. I put some fringes on a garment." A girl may ask herself "Does it really matter what I do?" And the answer is yes. A mitzvah is not a good deed. Goym can do good deeds too. Just because you walked an old lady across the street doesn't mean that you did something that a gentile can't do.

21:03 But a mitzvah is more than that. Mitzvah changes the world because you have a godly soul. Remember, that's what you are. You're a godly soul on a journey, lech lecha. You're endowed with a unique power. This is what it means to be a Jew. A Jew has a unique power in this world that when you do a mitzvah, it changes the world. What does it do? It makes the world a more godly place. It synthesizes the material and the spiritual. So you might say to yourself, Why should I daven? Does it matter if I daven? If this person is sick and I daven, is it going to make it better? The answer is maybe. Because every time we daven, what does it do? It makes the world a more godly place. It synthesizes the material and the spiritual. When you give a dollar, when you put a dollar in the pushka Ever do you have that in your homes? You have a pushka by the door that when you leave, what do I tell them? I'm very jealous of him.

22:00 His name is Gershi. Gershi grew up in Los Angeles. This is really sad. He and his wife James are raising a beautiful family. And he has a tzedakah box by the front of his house and a bowl of change. And every time he leaves the house, he takes from the change and puts it in the pushka. He tells anybody who is leaving the house with him to take from the change and put it in the pushka. Then he takes the pushka and gives it all to Tzadok when the time is right. Does it matter if it's just limited to now that money is going to give someone food? It's bigger than that. He did a mitzvah. A mitzvah means to connect. He connected shamayim v'aretz. He synthesizes the material and the spiritual. So that's our toldos, that's the product, that's what we're doing. And we need to teach that to people.

22:49 Because a lot of times the girls and the guys will say, "I did a mitzvah. What does that do for anybody? I learned Torah. What does that do for anybody?" No, you changed the world. What you did, nobody else in the world can do. What it means to be the amanivchar, the chosen nation, is that God gave you a specific mission and a specific talent to pull off that mission. Vayetze. Vayyitze. What happens in Parshas Vayyitze? Yaakov Avinu goes out to where the house of Lavan. It's not enough to do a mitzvah. There's something else we need to do. And this is also important. We need to go out into the physical world, and we need to use the physical world l'shem Shamayim. And today we are doing a terrible job at that. We're doing a beautiful job at that. We're doing a terrible job. I shouldn't say we're doing a terrible job. It's not true. We're doing a beautiful job. We're doing a terrible job. I'll tell you what a beautiful job is.

23:41 Today, Baruch Hashem, we are adorning our Shabbos tables with such fine delicacies because we want our Shabbos tables to be Shabbosik. Lekovet Shabbos Kodesh, we bought a charcuterie board. Lekovet Shabbos Kodesh, don't if you don't know what it is, you're a blessed person. I hope you never learn. Lekovet Shabbos Kodesh, we bought sushi for Shabbos. Beautiful, right? But there's also unfortunately a part of our society today that's not so good. That sometimes we pretend that something is for Hashem, but it's really not. I'm not saying I'm sure everybody that goes is L'shem Shamayim, but it's hard sometimes when I hear And maybe I'm jealous. I don't think I'm jealous. But it's hard sometimes when I hear about these Pesach programs Where people are dropping twenty thousand, thirty thousand, fifty thousand, a hundred thousand dollars on a Pesach program, and everything is of course glat kosher.

24:38 But are we really using the physical l'shem Shamayim? At some point, does it just become indulgence? We have to ask ourselves: Are we using the physical world properly? We grew up. Baruch Hashem, most of us grew up in homes. We didn't grow up in apartments in Eretz Yisrael. Most of us grew up in homes with fancy cars. And at some point, we have to ask ourselves: Did we really need that? Was that l'shem Shamayim? Let's scale it down just for a second, so it could be a little bit more understandable. Imagine you're married. Imagine your husband has a good job. And Baruch Hashem he's providing for the family. You're able to take solid vacations. You're able to go on nice vacations. And you have a beautiful home, and Baruch Hashem you have guests over, and you have cars. And your husband's boss says I'm giving you a promotion, and you're going to make two hundred thousand dollars more. That's a lot of money.

25:34 But now you're never going to see your kids. Because I need you to be in the office till eight or nine o'clock at night. You're going to be one of the real leading members of the company. You're the wife Two hundred thousand dollars, but you don't get to see your husband, and your husband doesn't get to spend time with the kids. I see some of you already shaking your heads, going, 'I don't want the two hundred thousand.' I want a husband. If I wanted to marry a bank, I marry a bank. I want a person. Hakol Shbaruchu feels the same way. Are you using the physical world to bring me into it? There's nothing wrong with taking. There's nothing wrong with baking delicious cookies. What a nice thing to show off to shofmans. One of the girls comes and says, Rebberg, I made you cookies.

26:21 That's how I know I'm a shofman. It feels good. It's a beautiful thing. But it's l'shem Shamayim, right? These are l'shem Shamayim cookies. And I'm gonna save them for Shabbos. But girls, there's also such a thing as we just make cookies because they're delicious. Hakadosh Baruch Hu says, don't just do a mitzvah. Invite me into every aspect of your life. Invite me into the lowest physical aspects of your life. I want to be present for all of it. What are the things that hang on your walls? You're going to get married. What's going to be on your walls? You're going to have beautiful svarim shelves with ancient svarim like we have here. These svarim are the same svarim that Hakadosh Baruch Hu gave to Meir Shabino and Har Sinai. That's how lucky we are to be here in Sfarim. You can, Baruch Hashem, I'm telling you, you could open them up. Sometimes you blow the dust off.

27:09 This is from the early periods in the Sinai Desert. You'll find Baruch Hashem old Sfarim. It could be that Sfarim is worth millions of dollars if we went to a rare Sfarim collector. We could show them these Sfarim. I wish we could do that. I'm joking. Vayyetsay means that we have to go out. We can't just be in the confines of our mitzvot. We have to go out even into the physical world. And then vayishlach. Vayishlach is a very special thing. Vayishlach means we have to send. Girls, I want to share with you a secret. Many years ago, my wife told me this. I'm not sure I understood it then, but I understand it now. My wife had a teacher who was a very choshev a tamachachem a gadol b'yisrael when she was in seminary And he used to say, "I would never waste my time teaching eighteen and nineteen year old girls, but I'm not sitting in a room of eighteen, nineteen year old girls. I'm sitting in a room of bubby's."

28:11 I'm sitting in a room of seventy, eighty year old women. Bubby's people that raised beautiful families. Vayishlach means it's not enough for you to be inspired. You have to be so inspired that you inspire others to be inspired. And every one of you has that mission. It's not enough to be like a tzadik in chassidus. It's called a tzadik impels. You ever hear that term? When it's cold outside, there are some people that wear a fur coat and they warm themselves. Other people light a fire and they warm everybody around them. We have here some young women that were inspired before they got to seminary. They were inspired in NCSY. They were inspired by a dear friend of mine. But I want you to know that dear friend of mine He's not satisfied with the fact that he inspired you. What does he want from you? You know what he wants from you.

29:04 He wants you to now go and inspire others. He wants those people that you inspired to then go and inspire others. And it could be that he'll inspire ten people, and ten people will inspire ten people, and those ten people will inspire ten people. Jews can change the world if we share this message. If we're so passionate about our Judaism, then what's going to happen when we leave Sharfman's? You're going to go back home to Los Angeles, to New York, to New Jersey, to wherever you're from. You're going to go back home, and what are you going to tell those girls? You don't have to put on the act. You don't have to be that fake seminary girl. You know the girl that comes home, and everybody's looking to see and judging to see if she did good or she didn't do good. You know I'm talking about. Remember when you did that last year to the girls that came back? So remember that they had to put on an act to be people that they weren't in order to impress you. Even though they didn't really need to impress you.

29:51 Don't do that. When you go back now, let's say you go back Pesach time. And a girl asks you, "What did you learn in Sharfman's?" You should say: I said, "Sometimes I have up days, sometimes I have down days, but I'm inspired, and I really learned a lot about why I'm doing what I'm doing, and I'm really trying to make this the center of my life." And maybe you want to learn Torah with me. Maybe you want to hear a shiur. Maybe we can go together. Take you have a mission, a responsibility to be loyal to Klal Yisroel. To inspire others, to change the world. And then there comes VaYesev. VaYesev means to sit. VaYesev means integration. What is it? Yaakov said, "Be keshlesev b'shalva." What did Yaakov want? He wanted a life of tranquility. There's a stage in the world where it finally settles in, and here's what it looks like.

30:43 Sometimes a rebbe can impose his will on a student to the degree that the student will become obedient. You ever have that? I'll give you an example. Let's say there's a girl on the phone. Let's say nobody in sharpness is ever on the phone. I know that. But let's say there are girls on the phone, and let's say I shoot that girl a glance. Let's say I catch her attention and I do this move. I'm trying to get someone's attention right now as I'm doing it. And I go just like a quick. So for a second, the girl pockets the phone. You know what I'm talking about, yeah? Did she really change? No. All she did was she was obedient. She listened to the rebbe. The rebbe called her out. She listened to it. Very nice shkayach. That's not enough. Vayeshev means that we want that student, we want that talmidah, to put away the phone because she doesn't want to have the phone out.

31:38 Because she should say something like. It's disrespectful to the rebbe who is teaching for me to be sitting on the phone. There's something I should be learning at this point. I'm interested in what's being taught. You hear the difference? One is from above. One is from external without, and the other is from within. If we come along and tell the world you are godly. Not good. We have to be educating the world. We have to be teaching the world you're godly, so that the world will get up and say we're godly. That's what VeYeshiv means And in the end, this is the most important thing I want to teach you Miketz means the end. VeYigash means union to come together from the notion of Gush. And VeYechi means life. And the end of the world has become a perfect vessel for God. Which means VeYigash. We now know that the world and God are not two separate things, but that the world is just a manifestation of God. It's one union.

32:38 But here's the big message, and the one that relates to our parsha. Vayichii And now there's something called eternal life. Nobody dies anymore. Death was not supposed to be in our world. Before Adam and Eve sinned There was a possibility that the world would have eternal life. The pasuk says that Hakadosh Baruch Hu said to Adam and Eve. On the day that you eat from the Eitz Hadas, most you must, and the Ramban explains, you've brought death into the world. There's going to be a process of things decaying and dying. But that's not the way it's supposed to be. We are all supposed to live forever. We're not supposed to grow old and die. It's what it seems like we're supposed to do in this world. We've become accustomed to the notion of death. But Judaism does not believe in death. Judaism believes in the possibility of eternal life.

33:35 The soul cannot die. Only the body can die. If we're successful in this mission And let's go over it real quickly to make sure that we all get it. If we're successful in this mission, Bereshis, the world has a purpose. Noach, the purpose is to build for Hashem a diro b'tachtonim, a tranquil world where the physical and the spiritual are harmonious. Lech lecha, there's a journey. Vayera, there's a vision that the soul has. Chayesara, the vision saturates the soul to the point where it comes alive. Toldos, so the soul does a mitzvah. Vayetze, the soul uses the physical world in a spiritual fashion. Vayishlach, we're so inspired that we inspire others. Vayeshev, now the world accepts that it's godly, not because of us screaming at it that it's godly, but because it finally gets it, like an addict who finally understands my addiction is killing me.

34:31 I got to get sober. It comes from within. Then there's a miketz. There's an end. Va'yigash. There's no more disparity. There's no more chaos. And it brings us to a place of ayechi To eternal life. There's a lot of different ways of explaining what Judaism is. But my favorite way is that Judaism is a sustained fight against the notion of death. That when we see people in this world suffering, when we see people in this world getting sick And Chas v'shalom tragically passing away And all of us in this room here, the tzaros I know that in Sharfman's this past week there was a loss. The girls, I'm sure, know about it. That there was an alumnus of Sharfman's who lost her husband And I saw that Rabbi Green was posting on his status. And from what I understand, the family Baruch Hashem Klal Yisrael is amazing And they've already raised over a million four hundred thousand dollars for this family.

35:47 Which is tremendous. But it's not enough. Not enough. We have to go even deeper. Va'yichii means we have to bring the world to a place where there's no more notion of death, where there's no more notion of suffering. Where the godliness in this world is so transparent and so apparent that it wouldn't be possible for anything to die. And that's called Olam Haba. That's the world as it will one day be. Yeratzelumt may avinu shabashamayim. We should be blessed to do our mission and beez Hashem to bring the world to a place where there will be no more suffering.