🎬 Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, shlit’a, opens with something that sounds simple and turns out to be the axis of the whole life: time. A moment that passes without purpose is not an empty moment — it is a dead moment. And a person who goes looking for ways to pass the time is not resting; he is digging.
“Know that you are building a massive black hole in your life, one that cannot be healed.” Every trouble a person meets, says Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, shlit’a, started in an hour of boredom — company sought only to pass the time, a trip taken only to fill an afternoon. From that void comes the rest. Then the portion of Toldot: two children struggle in Rebecca’s womb, and she does not go to Isaac — she goes “to inquire of the L-rd,” to Shem and Eber. Why? Because whoever loves Torah scholars has sons who are Torah scholars, and the words of a messenger of Heaven enter the heart in a way that the words of a father, however great, cannot.
Then the deep part, says Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, shlit’a. Esau is named for “being born made” — complete, finished, hair and all — while Jacob is named for a heel, for holding on. An animal is born perfect; a person is not, and that is the point: “Let us make man” is in the plural because the Holy One makes us together with us. The highest level is not the tzaddik who says “I have arrived” but the beinoni who never arrives and never quits. “Do not believe in yourself until the day you die” — the man in Seattle who said “what could happen to me?” is the proof. Rashi says Esau was idle, and idleness ends in idolatry; so does losing control of your anger, your money, your mouth. Reish Lakish wept at his death over the saffron he left behind. May the soul of Yosef ben Lula be bound in the bond of life.
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 For the elevation of the soul of Yosef ben Lula
3:10 A moment without purpose is a dead moment
4:58 The most precious thing a person owns is time
6:03 Boredom builds a black hole in a life
6:45 Toldot: two children struggling in the womb
7:05 “She went to inquire of the L-rd” — why not Isaac?
9:03 Whoever loves Torah scholars has sons who are Torah scholars
14:50 Rabbi Meir and the name of the host: “Kedar”
15:53 “Two nations shall be separated from your womb”
16:34 An animal is born complete — a person is not
17:29 “Let us make man” — we are partners in ourselves
20:17 The beinoni: the one who never says “I have arrived”
21:24 Seattle, Tisha B’Av, and “what could happen to me?”
22:56 Esau was born “made”; Jacob held the heel
23:02 Rashi: Esau was idle — and idleness ends in idolatry
26:45 Jacob, a simple man dwelling in tents
28:10 Breaking vessels in anger is like idol worship
30:45 Reish Lakish wept over the saffron he left behind
32:51 A resolution: to know how to rejoice in time
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