Portion of the Week; Vasyishlah 49-5, Rabbi Gendler

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of princeton new jersey continuing with this running commentary before we extend our marks on several specific points time permitting we noticed that in genesis chapter thirty two years twenty one besides the emphasis on jacob's personal involvement there is also the emphasis oren pass a fine achieving restitution rectifying an injustice key ahmad yakov aha prof bunn no one in ha ha ho lets it live on my cane ethanol law you saw online jacob said i will appease him with the present that go before me and afterward i will see his face for adventure he will accept me the term appease might better be translated in our particular times i shall make restitution i

shall attempt to achieve forgiveness the turnoff cop rock is one which many of you recognize as related to the word for forgiveness the term young people were the day of atonement that day of becoming at one has the same root in its name the active people or the act of restitution is part of jacob's intention why this particular gift or a peace offering and the use of this and the functioning of this intentionally the awareness of a wrong done do another dumb to one's brother the admission of imperfection may again be no insignificant factor in jacob's having achieved this degree of reconciliation it is only after this is done that jacob has any hope that he himself as a person may be received a highway say in an f on our lights off on my

afterwards i will see his face or chance he will accept me there is no attempt to play on sentiment to pretend that personal presence shell and do every wrong every inadequacy irrespective of objective wrongs done previously the person even while centrally involved in sentiment also must meet certain objective conditions and this also is exemplified in jacob's particular act the discussion over says twenty three to thirty one that the episode of wrestling would take an entire series in itself and we shall simply ignore it at on this particular series in the hope that we may focus our attention more on these issues that we're discussing now chapter thirty three verse free is very important for two of our live mayhem by huge dog who arts our

show about the bombing and gish go on he and heath jacob himself passed before them that is before racial and lay out and bought himself to the ground at seven times until he came here to his brother we've spoken before of jacob's honoring and respecting his brother esau we know we mentioned also the general humility of jacob's approach and we see that the humility is not merely a humility via emissaries but the humility personally participated in by jacob the element of personal participation as we've mentioned several times in the brig in these few verses is central to the entire episode finally and i think we must simply read again reverse for buy yachts a solidly drop though by a hub again to buy a paul also borrow why you shot gave who might even coups and a

sought e sul ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him and they wept a beautiful passionate passage of reconciliation reminiscent also of the reconciliation of joseph and his brothers and that had been one to the story which in a realistic documents such as the bible is not easily to be dismissed one last post script chapter thirty three versus ten and eleven one notices that jacob and esau parlay a bit about shelly esau accept the gift sent him by jacob or a shell he returned and by your many are called all now in law marks up the same day never caught a lot of bomb and caught the neon the guild game but the beef on their heart to open a hulking bucket seine and jacob said may i pray thee if now i have found favor and eyesight

and receive my present at my hand for as much as i have seen by face as one see the face of god that thou was pleased with me cause night at bit about the i should walk lock you come on the ilo even if he usually hall my gifts are bought by new cars take i pray thee my gift that is brought to the because god has dealt graciously with me and because i have enough and he urged him and he took it the sign of favor and reconciliation is not merely giving something but receiving something as well now this entire episode we have thus far it designated as one of reconciliation the re establishment of a tangibly felt bond of fellow feeling between two erstwhile photos in this case brothers even twins these are the terms we've chosen to use and with good and substantial grounds i think

but even as we discuss this biblical episode in these terms i find that i asked myself if this analysis of the episode is one which would fight wide excerpt find wide acceptance in the united states today are we for example able to recognize an attempt at reconciliation when we see it or do we simply dismiss it by the bridge or two apiece and the question has sharpened itself for me like we stimulated by the discussion in the newspapers of the case of an ally stevenson an ex con that you should pardon the expression but it seems journalistically he was and the cuba issue and a glance at the terms of this discussion is most illuminating many view i'm sure are familiar with the report in the new york times' fourth of december nineteen sixty two reporting on an article in the saturday in post which claimed that mr stevenson had opposed the quarantine of cuba

and wanted to trade missile bases in italy turkey and britain for soviet bases in cuba <unk> stevenson deny the article and and insisted that this was a misrepresentation of his point of view what is interesting is the terms in which stevenson's point of view is described in the post article by mr bartlett and mr ailes quote only advice stevenson who flew down from new york on saturday despite dissented from the ex con consensus the executive committee of the national security council there is disagreement in retrospect about what stevenson really want to quote adam i wanted a munich close close quote says and an admiring official who learned of his proposal quote he wanted to trade the turkish italian and british missile bases for the cuban bases close quote the stevenson kemp maintains that stevenson was only willing to discuss one time or the european bases with the communist after neutralization of the cuban

missiles but there seems to be no doubt that he preferred political negotiation to the alternative of military action close quote i'm interested now not in the substance of this dispute but rather the terms in which it street and one notices quote and i wanted to communicate the daily news of two fourth of december nineteen sixty two has its headline and lie on skids for passengers stand on cuba and as it continues it mentions that the appointment of mr mccoy quote the ploy is a tough stiff necked operator no better choice could have been made about the apple i was in decision as proverbial and whose inclination is to see both sides of an issue like a tolerant had a dog and vacillated accordingly it would appear then that in terms frequently used in

the press and reflecting the attitudes of many muniz is the term with which we apply to anyone who would urge negotiations ended the ability to see both sides of an issue indicates not human sympathy and breath of understanding but rather had a guarneri and vacillation as indicative and as disappointing as anything in the entire episode is the insistent and i'll buy mr stevenson that he might ever have for any such thing the suggestion that before risking the future of all humankind every attempt at negotiation and even at trading might be appropriate seems no longer within the realm of consideration even by the supposedly moderate voices within the national security council and our federal government i wonder what the implications are if one can no longer urge moderation and the understanding of the

phone was point of view without munich and appeasement being hurled at once this specific issue quite apart it is surely time that someone reminded us that besides the incantation of importation munich there is also the sobering sound hiroshima and let it also be noted for the record that father jacob's the patriarch israel was by the current miss usage of language a notorious peas or the b'nai straw bale of the children of israel we his descendants are still around to make known this fact and in the interim we've experienced much of value in our life as a people even from the time of that sell out to the present day the children of israel still live descendants though they'd be of a biblical the peas or sometimes referred to of course as a peaceful reconcile or it has yet to be established that the b'nai kennedy the khrushchev the children of kennedy and khrushchev will be able to make such a statement thirty seven hundred

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