Vayishlah

This Parashash Vayishlach means to send away,  is the eighth Torah Portion, in the yearly Torah Cycle, it continues on the theme of Jacob spiritual development. We learn in the last Parashas how Jacob worked on his character, his ego. Now we see Jacob in his next stage of development, to be sent away and return one day.

To send away encompasses the energy and consciousness required to let go of something or someone. Often, the unenlightened person have difficulty detaching ourselves from negative people an situations, but this particular story of Genesis gives us the power to o so.

Just like a young man is sent away to bourding school where you work on a project, you will be tested to see if the project becomes apart of you, that you may return to your father a better person. What did Jacob learn in Paddan Aram the last 20 years to make him qualify to return home? What have you learn over the last year to help in your spiritual development or to manifest the Light of the Creator in you.

Jacob had to run away from home, after deceiving his brother negative brother, in which his brother Essa swore to kill him. Sometime it is essential run away from certain people in our lives. The old principle of Cause and effect. Now twenty years later this situation will finally come to a conclusion. Knowing that Esau had developed a hate rage Jacob for having tricked him of his birthright and his father’s blessing, Jacob is understandably apprehensive about facing his brother.

The confrontation between the Esau and Jacob is recorded to illustrate how EL YAHVEH sent an angel to save His servant Jacob from the hand of a stronger evil brother Esau. Furthermore, it shows that Jacob did not rely on his own craftiness as before, but strove mightily to ensure his safety through practical spiritual measure.

It shows that in our battle against the spirit of Esau in our lives, we must be prepared on three fronts: In Prayer, in gifts, and in battle.

The Torah tells us that prior to this meeting; Jacob prayed to ABBA YAHVEH, expressing his humility for all the goodness ABBA YAHVEH has given him. Keenly aware of his good fortune and prosperity, Jacob sends messengers ahead with gifts of assess goats, and sheep. When he approaches Esau, he bowed down seven times before his brother as an act of submission.

The Torah teaches us in this Parasha as Jacob realized the only hope he had of protecting himself and his family was to be generous to his brother, a form of the Messiyah and to diminish himself.

Only when Jacob saw Esau did he realized what he was truly battling against all this time, it was his Anochi, the god within. In that moment, Jacob Yisrael, knew that all of his spiritual works, all his prayers, all his study, none of these spiritual tools was going to help him, for his struggle was within his own ego. Jacob like Yisrael today will not recognize Messiyah Yahushua until they learn that their hope was to lower themselves before Messiyah.

It is Witten that the only way a person can become righteous “tzadik” is to throw themselves down at least seven times in their spiritual life. To understand this belief, we need to understand that most of us like Jacob at the beginning of the story. We all have a spiritual work to accomplish, we have our study to finish, and we have our faith to strengthen. We can prepare all we want for our battle against our flesh, the Esau in us, unless we learn to control our Ego, we will achieve nothing.

In order to overcome our Ego, we must first understand the magnitude of the challenge. The Ego is as great a challenge as the forces of Edom that were arrayed against Jacob. Because most of us are still living like proud Jacob, proud of our spiritual accomplishment, we failed to understand that our only purpose in life is to diminish the influence of the selfish Ego over our lives.

By humbling ourselves daily, we diminish the power of our Ego selfish and awaken the desire to share; it is the only way we can bring the forces of Edom, the flesh, under authority. Jacob tried to organize his family into two groups, to hide them from Esau, but it was not until he humbles himself, by bowing down before Esau, that he overcame. Esau had no choice but to accept Jacob. The spiritual forces of the Heavenly realm race to his rescue, shifting the balance of Power from Esau to Jacob. Humbling ourselves is our only effective to exulting ourselves.

We can achieved this level of Righteousness and create the environment for miracle to happen in our lives. We create the condition for miracles when we reach the spiritual level of Ayin or nothingness, for in nothingness there is no selfish Ego. At the level of Ayin we do not care for or worry about ourselves. This is true mastering of our spiritual selves.

Through true purge of our selfish Ego and is the annihilation of our own selfish desire, we remove the spirit of darkness and confusion from us, as we draw near and nearer to the Light of the CREATOR. That was why Esau the spirit of darkness had no affect on Jacob. The Light of this Torah portion gives us the ability to create miracle, provide blessing, and even grant us redemption.

Even when judgment is meant for us, as the forces of Edom was on its way to Jacob. When we humble ourselves it nullifies the judgment and changes it into a blessing. As believers, if we can move one person, one step closer to perfection, it is a revelation of the Light of the CREATOR, it is more powerful than if we teach a thousand persons who never progress spiritually. This does not mean that we should never teach everyone we meet; it does mean that we should always have the goal of perfection foremost in our lives.

This Parashas illustrate the point that even though we may recognize someone’s negative trait, we must always be open to the potential for transformation. This was the mistake Jacob made when he try to hide his family from his brother.

In addition to encouraging us to diminish our Ego, this portion of Vayishlach reminds us to never lose sight of the possibility of redemption and the potential for drawing

Light goes only with the depth of our physical fall. We are awaken by the example of Jacob to appreciate our humility and extreme care must be take when dealing with ours  and other people’s soul.

 Gen 32:4 And Ya'akov sent malachim before him to Esav achiv unto Eretz Seir, the country of Edom. - The Hebrew account of this verse says that, Jacob send malachim (messengers) before him. Malachim or messengers are the Hebrew word for Angels. This teaches that mature believers are greater than angels, for when Jacob had need of an emissary, he had the right to summon angels to do his bidding.

The reason for the greater stature of human beings over angels is that angels are static. Human beings, however, achieve their standing through their own striving for perfection. The word malachim can either mean angel or human emissaries, sent ones or Apostles.

Angels cannot change their status, while humans are the only created being, who have this opportunity to do so. How then do we change our spiritual status? It is by our obedience to the Word of EL YAHVEH. Our perfectness is measure by how well we pass the test. The Text book is the Torah! We will be judge by the Written Word of Torah. The angel like the devil cannot improve their status; they can decline from where they are if they are ever found to be disobedient.

Angels are messengers (Rev 7:11), sons are rulers (Rev 3:21), and servants are the ones who do the work (Rev 7:9, 15). After we die, our spiritual position will never change. Ecc 11:5b and if a tree falls to the south or the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall lie. - As a dead tree does not have the ability to change it size or position, we humans cannot change our spiritual position after we die, we become static. That is why Revelation 7:15 say that those who were standing in front of the Throne had tears in their eyes.

Why? When they found out what they could have achieve while they were here on earth and they did not. They were crying in the spiritual sense. Do not be like one of those my friends; grow spiritually while we are still in this body, or while we are still alive. These emissaries were sent towards the land of Seir, towards the Gulf of Aqaba.

Gen 32:5 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto adoni Esav (My Lord Esau); Thy eved (servant Jacob) Ya’akov saith thus, I have sojourned with Lavan, and stayed there until now; - Jacob wanted his messenger to deliver the message verbatim, including the fact that in his conversations with them he had referred to Esau as my Lord and to himself as Esau’s servant. This was part of Jacob’s tactful approach, because thereby Esau would realize that Jacob truly held him in greatly esteem.

Therefore Jacob meant to convey to Esau, that he Jacob had not become a great prince in the physical sense or have he achieve anything but spiritual status. Something the Esau could not understand, sine spiritual thing are foolish to those who are perishing.