3 Ways of Relating to a Confusing World - Likkutei Sichos Vayigash #2 V.25

so the posix says in tehillim joseph yoshivac psalms chapter 80. the shepherd of israel please listen the one who led joseph joseph as flock the one who dwells among the cherubs please appear and rashi explains what does it mean the one who led yosef like flock the one who leads leads joseph like flock all the jewish people have the name of joseph because he sustained us during the days of hunger and therefore we assume the name of joseph so when it says hashem leads his flock and the name of his flock is joseph katzen yosef he leads joseph like his father like it's like it would say he leads the jewish people like flock like a shepherd leads flock our name is joseph because since joseph sustained there's the literal interpretation of since he sustained this our very existence was dependent on him so therefore our very identity our very name is so much connected to joseph because he is the one who guaranteed our being our very name our very existence the fact that we can be that we can endure the question is however number one does it really make sense to say because of a very short period thousands of years ago when he sustained us during the times of hunger because of that itself for eternity we assume his name joseph seems a little difficult to comprehend and number two furthermore this verse these this chapter and psalm is trying to bring out special unique virtues of the jewish people to so to speak warrant and invite and and and arouse and hashem the desire to to listen to appear and here we're called joseph this means that somehow the name yosef sometimes some brings out something special about the jewish people but what is it it brings out something special about joseph what does it bring that special about us we have his name because he supported us because he gave us livelihood because he fed us and in a way as he said deeper than yestral even the explanation we learned in the first classes everything in the physical world begins in the spiritual realities and then it evolves so when we say that yosef sustained the jewish people during the times of famine it doesn't only refer to the physical famine also to the spiritual famine this physical famine when there's no food god forbid there's also spiritual famine when a person's life is in a state of concealment when a person's light is eclipsed there's a hunger a thirst the thirst for meaning for purpose for truth for integration for synthesis for unity for happiness for inner healing for there's a search for for your godliness for your for your truth for the truth of reality joseph's unique quality is that he sustained the jewish people during the times of hunger as not just a physical reality but rather there's something he gave the jewish people that allowed them to be fed and nurtured and alive during times of physical hunger but also it begins with the fact that he gave us something to give us existence during times of spiritual hunger and that's why we are forever called by the name of yosef because this wasn't a gift of a few months or a few years a year and a half or a little more this was something he embedded within the jewish psyche an approach a gift an attitude a perspective a way of living that it would allow the jewish people for eternity to live survive and thrive during a time of spiritual hunger in the capital tehillim in the chapter of psalms that deals with gullus and all the three different exiles which is why we say three times in this psalm it's of course appropriate to define us as yesef because the great merit of the jewish people during the time of exile is joseph even more than yaakov in israel and here the explanation was that joseph was unique from all of his brothers in the fact that he is the one who lives most of his life in exile under the domain of a stranger under the authority under the control of a stranger not just a stranger you know a neighbor a stranger completely a person from a a person or people from a different culture and ideology and very opposite ideology than the one he grew up in in his father's and grandfather's home he's sold as a slave so he's now a slave in the house of patiphar then he's a prisoner even later he becomes the prime minister of egypt so he's quite an independent person nobody's controlling him but he's still an employee of para para he says the throne is greater than you you work for me you represent me you are my man you are my prime minister you are my viceroy you are second in command and the money that he acquires is going to power the putting away over the food he's doing on behalf of para everything is on behalf of para in other words he's in an environment where he's in exile he's in exile throughout all the stages of his life and this already begins at the age of 17 so this is most of his 110 years he's in exile and this is consistent with the fact that joseph's life is so different than the life of his brothers the life of his brothers they are shepherds their vocation is really saying they're shepherds and it's explained in different places the reason they were shepherds is so that they should be able to retain their deep connection to spiritual harmony because the shepherd is segregated from the anxiety and stress and density of a material life the shepherd is in communion with nature there is a serenity there you're celebrating nature hanging out by rivers and brooks and canals and streams posturing the flock in in the various grasses there's a certain serenity and tranquility there it's also not such hard work it's not just stressful work he always says the exact opposite already at a very young age he dreams already of a very different trajectory for his life the sheaves are going to be bowing down to his sheaf even the sun and the moon and the stars will bow down to him the reality of his life takes on such a different form he is in charge on the entire asset of poetifera then he's in charge on the prison where he's cast in and then ultimately he becomes the chief economist and not only the chief economist he's now in charge on everything that's happening in egypt the superpower of the time in other words he is in apparently entangled and enmeshed and deeply entrenched in a very very stressful life in new dated with work the tiger monkey says he had to do all the calculations of counting also he didn't only do the work and oversee the work he had to do the accounting as well in egypt when he becomes the prime minister he says the whole nation is going to be run by you and joseph couldn't sit in an ivory tower with a joystick and run egypt this involves tremendous involvement on every level mental space and physical energy and resources and connection with people he is he is the egyptian leader he he's representing egypt and yet the kiddush of yourself was the revolution the revolution that joseph begins the gift that joseph imparts to the jewish people is that despite the fact that he is in exile despite the fact that he's under the control of people who are alien to his ideology and upbringing the fact that he is apparently so in you not apparently the fact that he's so inundated with so much work it never takes him away it never confuses him he remains serene at his core he remains a servant of god nothing can take him away and distract him and overwhelm him to the point that he loses his devacus he loses his intimacy with oneness that's a unique unique kiddish of yosef so by the other shivatrim their devacus and hashem their connection to hashem is connected to their isolation it's dependent on their isolation it's because they're segregated from everything in the world that they can retain this spiritual oneness and intimacy if they would be in exile if they would be under the control of strangers this would undermine their relationship with hashem they have to be independent they have to be in their own cocoon they have to be in their own environment there is interaction but ultimately they go back to their tribe to their region to their vocation and there they can thrive as the first hou as the first jewish house the first jewish family joseph creates a new paradigm in jewish thought a new paradigm in history a new paradigm in jewish life that he can be in exile under the control of others they are dictating his life and he's not detached he's completely involved he's running the show nonetheless he reveals that he reveals the oneness of the world that you could find godliness everywhere in every situation and under all circumstances and you could retain your completed vacuous your complete serenity your complete inner equilibrium your inner tranquility your alignment with the essence of life with the divine under all of these circumstances joseph is the one who gave the jewish people the gift that they could go to gullis they're not in their own land they're not under their own authority they're sometimes involved in so in so many aspects of life that naturally can be very very stressful and should cause them to assimilate to forfeit their identity collectively and individually it was joseph's gift who tells us that in the days of hunger you could still live and not only live you can thrive you can actually maximize yourself and reach your ultimate spiritual potential foreign the passage begins by yeshev these are the offsprings of yaakov joseph so it means joseph is the hamster told us of course jacob had many children but somehow that told us of yaakov the continuity of yaakov is expressed in yosef our sages saying the madrish on this passage whatever happened to jacob happened to joseph in other words there was a unique similarity between yaakov and joseph alder zebine the same is true in this topic is already intimated and expressed in the uniqueness of yaakov his father and his grandfather ela told us yaakov yosef yosef is the ultimate realization of yaakov so what you're going to find in joseph's life is going to first exist in a more subtle way in yaakov's life and that's why our sages say whatever happened to yaakov happened to joseph it's not exactly the same way as we will see but yaakov is the progenitor especially of joseph in the sense that what's going to transpire in joseph's life will first see in yaakov's life and the same is true when we talk about this reality this unique contribution that joseph's make joseph makes to the jewish world this is already something we see by yaakov in his unique contribution and life story in contrast to his father yitzhak and his grandfather avraham [Music] if we look at the story of the three others the three patriarchs of ramitakanyakov the only one who endured many years of exile and subjugation was yaakov 20 years he had to spend as an employee in the house of lover and this was no easy serene journey it was not a peaceful cruise on tranquil waters as he describes to lovin at the end of parishes vayitze 20 years have been working he says i was scorched by the heat during the day and experienced frostbite that night i made sure to supervise and i was in charge of all your flock to the point that lovin tells him at the end everything you have is mine the daughters are my daughters everything you see is mine you are mine in fact i could take everything from you i can harm you your god told me not to touch you so i'm gonna let you go this was lovin's attitude this shows you the atmosphere the environment in which jack have worked for 20 years such a type of exile and subjugation to somebody else you don't find avraham in itzhak they all interacted with people sometimes there were difficult interactions but they retained their independence on every level physically and therefore spiritually as well and ideologically and they had to do it because of rama venue was of rama ivory he was on the other side of society the same is true with yitzhak but yaakov had to really go into the trenches nonetheless even during this difficult era of exile before he will come home tara to surah it does not weaken or destroy the spiritual oneness of yaakov with hashem as he tells asaf rashid across the beginning of rashford i was living with love on but the 630 mitzvahs i observed this is how does this happen within zelda the uniqueness of yaakov zaihar says yaakov represents the attribute of emma's titan m we say in the morning on a volatile and from the prophet ms is associated with yakov what's the concept of ms what does truth mean so the rabbis says explains what's doesn't only mean i'm saying the truth i'm not lying of course that's the basic notion of truth midway stay away from lies speak the truth and only the truth ms represents something that is eternal something that's timeless something that does not change in different circumstances and different climates and different situations the euro xiaomi says tamil usami says something fascinating that even the word ms is a synthesis of the first letter of olive base the last letter of olive base and the middle letter of olive base aleph in the beginning tough at the end and mem in the middle because that's what emma says ms in the beginning in the middle at the end it's all the same it pervades the entire aleph base which means it pervades reality when i am connected to something truthfully what does it mean i'm going to say truthfully it's not circumstantial sometimes i can be very excited and very inspired and very involved in something when i am in this environment because i'm influenced by the environment i'm influenced by the people i'm influenced by the vibe by the ambiance by the community by the social pressure there's an element of social conformity but the moment you pluck me out of this environment the host the moment you pluck me out of this environment that you put me somewhere else now and now even we learned a few weeks ago yak of his entire bed his entire family remains wholesome he says says nichayak sulbazara it's not even possible that one of his children will be disqualified will leave him yatsemanu by avram and yitzhak even though you're talking about the holy office one of their children ultimately departs from them one of their children detaches from them there's always some connection of course but in a revealed and practical way they went their own way by yaakov this can't happen it can't happen if you're my child our connection is going to be eternal and timeless and none of the children will ultimately leave every single one of them will remain connected in the deepest way to yaakov in fact on his deathbed it says yaakov saw that went away and he was afraid perhaps one of his children or some of his children are spiritually blemished and that's when they tell them refers to their father they told them just like in your heart as one in our heart is only one why is this why does this not happen and by yakov does it happen so the rebbe says it's based on the kuta toyota from the balatani parachute as he says in footnote 37 because this is the quality this is the uniqueness this is the virtue of me ms the attribute of truth in truth he says there's no shino there's no change there's no there's no going away from it if it's ms it pervades every reality and therefore every single one of the offspring of yaakov avinu is going to experience that connection with truth because if it's truth it does not exclude anything and it does not exclude anybody and does not exclude any environment so therefore when he's in gullies by love and he still retains the same connection to god because it's true and truth ultimately it will not change and the same is true it's expressed in his family there's no such a thing that one of the children ultimately is uh is lost the truth pervades everywhere again so the reality we spoke about of yosef already begins by yak but there's still a dramatic distinction and that's why we say that the energy of a jew to endure and thrive in exile comes from yosef because there is a little difference between the exile of yaakov so to speak and exile of joseph and you could probably guess it he's going to say three things number one by yaakov is nice if them was olives and shipwrecked salvation as washington blaze and them were said by love and also safe service love and it given each other number one jaakov was never loved on slave in the classic sense of the word he was lovin's employee love and did not own him that's the big difference he was a shepherd for him he worked very very hard it was not a tranquil experience there lovan was a crook and he deceived yaakov but ultimately yaakov did not belong to love number two loving was not a stranger love one was of course his uncle rifka's brother loving himself said atmi absoriato you're part of my you're part of my flesh you're part of my essence now this doesn't mean he was an easy character not every uncle is the easiest character but ultimately it was mishpache it was family it's different furthermore besides all of this what was he doing in lovin's house he was working hard he was subjugated to love him love him had to control love and deceived him was a difficult gullis but he was still a shepherd the apostle says in heishai yakov escaped from asaph to the fields of aram he was in the field he was a shepherd as we said before the vocation of a shepherd is one that allows you transcendence communion with nature with the divine as he says in 42 the madrid says that 20 years in the house of love on yakov would go through the 15 shir hamala sin of sefer tahilam in other words he could sing he can pray he can meditate he can celebrate the inner heartbeat the inner music of god's cosmos is tachless hakadusha the reason for this is yakov represents the ultimate light the ultimate kedusha completely transcending the darkness of exile in the language of siddhis yaaka comes from the world of atsilus the highest level of consciousness and reality where there's no experience of ra of detachment there's no darkness there's no nothing that eclipses godliness so even when yaakov goes into a dark place he retains a level a state of transcendence um this represents a general difference between the first generation the avoids and the three generations of the office and their children there is an important distinction to be made between the others and the shivatam even though they were both shepherds before we get to joseph what's the difference the shavatim they actively try to separate themselves from the world that's why when they come to egypt joseph says to paris and they say to pyrrha they say tomorrow we were always shepherds and we want to live in a segregated way they actively tried to segregate themselves because they knew that the world and involvement in a very material and pagan and immoral society will destroy their inner equilibrium and their avoidance hashem this means that the world was significant it had a power over them and that's why you have to run away the moment i have to segregate from something is because it has an appeal if not i can get sneered i can get caught up in its trap so the others are not completely aloof on the contrary they recognize the threat and the danger and therefore they choose a vocation and a lifestyle that affords them insulation and isolation so that they could survive and they could thrive you understand because there is a relationship there when something is very appealing to me when there's a connection i have to go away to another environment in other words in other words it affects me there is relatively speaking there is an effect there he says it occupies space the materialism and the society of the pagan tribes at the time occupied space in their mind to the point that they had to actively choose a different vocation by the others it was different the others were transcendent he says they were meru members it's a very very subtle distinction the schwa and the others at the surface lived a very similar lifestyle but it came from a different place the others never landed fully within the materialism of the world the others lived in a reality where that says in tanya of heinen that their entire being was just a channel for godliness an environment of complete light and holiness there was no space for the darkness of the world it didn't even register so therefore it reflected itself in their physical life that they were shepherds even when he's in exile he never really landed there physically he was there he was working hard but ultimately he never struggled with the darkness of the world because the others lived in an environment of a nightmare where there's one reality they never even had the struggle of dealing with the darkness so therefore he was by lavan but he remained aloof transcendent above and therefore physically he was also a shepherd this shevatim they chose to be shepherds because if not they can be overwhelmed they could be brought down they could be schlepped down so they had to go into isolation and this is perhaps one of the things that disturbed them about joseph they felt that joseph's choices joseph's dreams joseph's vision would ultimately undermine and destroy the entire future of the jewish story of the monotheistic family you can't have the cake and eat it too so the shvatim have to choose a life of isolation a life of precious a life of spiritual segregation so they can retain their spirituality by the obvious it's not that they had to choose it they were essentially segregated you understand the difference wherever they were they were just on a higher plane they operated in a higher plane they were meru members they were essentially exalted they never fully landed in the physical world so wherever they were it expressed itself in the fact that they would transcend and then that's why they were shepherds by yaakov it came out that even when he was mamish in the environment of love and it wasn't affected but even when he was there he was not of our slave he was with his cousin with his uncle and of course he was always a shepherd which means he was living in a in a sacred space this quality of yaakov even when he goes down into exile he remains aloof he remains transcendent he remains above gullus physically he's there but mentally emotionally he's not really there it's expressed that even when he's in a war he's fighting with that angel of ace of the middle of the night there is a war there is a wrestling match what happens cerisa you prevail over god and man yaakov becomes sarisa asar a minister a ruler a baalabayas on his adversary to the point that aesop's guardian angel must confess and say your name is not yaakov your name is israel in the ultimate battles of life you come out on the top because you are essentially connected to heaven even when yaakov comes down to mitsrayam he ultimately will make it down to egypt but he'll never live and become enmeshed in the reality of egypt just like by lovan he remains his own human being to a certain extent even in egypt he's going to move to goshen a beautiful part of the land with his family there's still going to be isolation not only that even his relationship with paris is one where he blesses para he comes upon he blesses him rasheed says he blessed them that the nile delta should rise when para visits the delta because the nile delta rises and then irrigates the soil in egypt because it's very the almost no rain in egypt and they always depended on the nile rising in the summertime in august and irrigating all of the soil in egypt so yaakov is the one who blesses paris pyre recognizes that the livelihood of egypt which was dependent on the nile delta because without that they could not live egypt was so fertile and such a powerful economic country such a powerful country economically because of the nile rising and saturating the land and this was for thousands of years until they built the dam in the 1800s and this was a big celebration that's why they worship denial ultimately and pari recognizes that this is dependent on yaakov's blessing so even when it comes down to egypt there's a certain transcendence aloofness a royalty a spiritual aristocracy that yaakov maintains not only where he lives but also his relationship to paris it's very clear who is the giver and who is the taker yaakov is the one blessing para ultimately even on that issue the nile which is the source of egypt's livelihood and here we come to appreciate the uniqueness of joseph by joseph none of the above is true but joseph went down into galas not like yaakov and he emphasizes the word uretha you see in italic because yaakov never went down yaakov remained in a place of transcendence he says in footnote 46 quoting the mitila rabbit turdus 46 master clash this is in the language of khabar siddhis the others didn't experience the symptom so therefore they didn't have to run away from anything you only have to run away from things when you experience that symptom that symptom is of course the act of infinity restricting himself to create room for otherness for detachment that symptom is what arizona speaks about in the beginning of creation god withdrawing or recoiling into himself allowing for otherness allowing for a perception of detachment from infinity if the symptom is not part of your vocabulary you don't have to run away from everywhere just like god doesn't have to run away from anywhere deposit says in tehillim darkness doesn't eclipse your vision darkness eclipse your vision when you're in an environment with this darkness lilac night shines like they but the others that simpson was not a reality so therefore they didn't have to run they didn't have to segregate themselves they remained in a place of infinity they never fully landed so even though they were involved they were practical people they they were very successful they built they built a yak vino a mass great wealth and avramovina was a very successful person and fought wars and thus but as the says you're among us but you're a prince you're a king you're royal even though he commanded no military and no territory i live with you but i'm a guy i'm i'm a foreigner i'm a stranger where he's from before the title the father gave it down from before that gave a touch i live with you i i pay taxes i need to negotiate a plot of land but they come from a different reality and they remain in that different reality so even the octave when he comes into lovin's house he's there but he never really descends this is the kiddish this is the difference in the office and the she's but them have to segregate themselves because there is a connection that simpson does affect us what them to some degree and because that symptom does affect them they have to separate themselves they have to consciously say we need to be insulated and isolated and here comes the kidneys of yourself joseph is not like the others the yosef is one of the shvatim but his story is a completely different story yosef goes through where you need the ingalls he goes down my iphone is coming you cannot say joseph comes into egypt and he retains his transcendence he's a slave he's under the absolute authority of potiphar and then in prison and then of para working for them under them and as he said earlier yaakov was not a slave jacob was an employee and what type of employee he was a shepherd but joseph experienced the he was in that place nonetheless in this situation he goes down into egypt he's not aloof and sublime and so to speak spirit detached no he goes down and in other words he experiences the pain the stress the turmoil of mitzrayim and everything and everything that represents he experiences it he experiences the challenge he touches the texture of egypt every single day of his life and within a person's life what that means is he goes into those places he goes into a place where there's there's real darkness or as we would say today there's real trauma there are wounds there's scars he touches them he doesn't remain aloof what's the heritage of joseph joseph is he goes down into every one of those places and yet he retains his vacance he retains his vacus he's always one with hashem under all situations he always senses as he tells his brothers you did not sell me sell me god sent me. who am i i am a divine light i am the divine ambassador going into each one of these places to bring in light over there to serve god in this place and i don't serve god out of this place i look at it no i go in and i'm not afraid of going in and touching it touching the texture of pain touching the texture of the anxiety touching the texture of the trauma touching it feeling it experiencing it that's the reader we speak about there's gullus physically there's goddess emotionally spiritually psychologically and yet joseph becomes the paradigm he becomes the role model he is the one who teaches the jewish world this reality and in that sense he is the most inspiring figure of all and it's always important to emphasize elo velo de vivre ella we learn from the ava's because there's a piece of the aves in us we learn from all the shmatim because there's a piece of the shevatam in us and we learn from yasif because there's a piece of yosef in us but we're not called shim and levi we're called yahudah yehudim we're not called yasakarsvulen danaftali god arsha binyamin freya menasha we're not given those names we're given the name israel israel we're not even called avraham or yitzhak we're with children of abraham and israel becomes our name and yahsef here until the most becomes our name yehuda also becomes our name much later in galos mcgillis esther is the first time we're called yehudam because basically it was the tribe of judah yehudah binyam and the rest of the tribes are similar where were exiled and yehuda means gratitude i'm going to tell you a beautiful beautiful word from this fascemas mama's a beautiful vart you read it over there he says it is in three lines mama's three lines let me open it up we all know the story that uh when yaakov meets yosef they've been separated for 22 years what happens joseph falls on yakov's neck called he weeps excessively on his father yaakov so rashi says the famous rashi but yaakov did not fall on joseph's neck and he did not kiss him joseph falls on yaakov's neck he kisses him he weeps yaakov did not for amrura so the sages teach that yaakov was laning she was saying it was early in the morning when they met it was a time for krishna so yaakov was saying that's very difficult to understand he couldn't say shema earlier or maybe it wasn't the time of krishna yet so he could have said shema and then met yosef could have said shima after it's hard to understand like you you're meeting your son after 22 years and he's busy he's weeping on you tata tata and yakova saying so there's the famous explanation of the maharao that at that moment yaakov experienced the deepest outburst of love the deepest emotional connection with joseph and he directed it towards the source kriya shema represented the fact that yaakov took the love and he sublimated it and he immortalized it by aligning it with became even stronger and more powerful because yaakov took the very emotional experience and he aligned it with the source of everything with the source of all love with the source of all happiness with the source of all pleasure the question asked this fascemas is what about joseph so listen to his words venire this is 1871. a few lines what does he say he says the kiddish of joseph is listen to this he could be inside of patiphar's home as a slave entrenched in the most material aspects of daily living and he's still saying for yosef to say australia doesn't have to close his eyes and go into a transcendent space even when joseph is involved with material life for him is a constant yosef doesn't have to stop what he's doing to say shema yesterday because joseph reveals that everything he's involved in is an expression of shema so yosef is kissing his father crying on his father's neck falling on his father embracing his father that's ishmael this is what joseph reveals the real anoint mulvaney you can come into the world and be involved and touch the texture of messiah and still retain complete vagus he says yaakov is beyond teva yaakov remains aloof and therefore it's expressed in aloofness he's a shepherd even by love and he's a shepherd it's expressed the fact that he the swat them are shepherds because they choose to be shepherds they need to be shepherds avraham is shepherds because naturally organically they become shepherds because they're aloof they're beyond eva and joseph goes into mitzrayim he goes into the world and yet reveals that oneness that permeates even the texture of mitzrayim itself so yosef doesn't have to stop anything to say she's my israel because joseph revealed the shema syrah within every aspect of his life he says back here the last few paragraphs of the system um is so the power the confidence the resilience the strength that every single jew has to endure the experience of exile physically emotionally psychologically spiritually because our experience of gala similar to joseph is that we do fall under the restrictions and there is juris juris jurisdiction and authority of the nations we sometimes go into places where we feel controlled and we feel restricted just like joseph joseph was not not sitting in an ivory tower of emancipation he said was a prisoner you know he said was a slave and even later joseph is paradise man he is the one who gives the jewish people that ability to go through gullus and emerge triumphant this is what it means he sustained the jews during their hunger he gave every single jew a gift he shared his own gift with every single jew he didn't only give them food and grain and bread during the days of hunger he gave them a gift that wherever you are in all circumstances your eternal light will never ever be extinguished your flame of faith and inspiration and resilience and fortitude and confidence will never ever falter the fact that you're anchored in infinity and that your identity always remains true to your deepest light and deepest potential will always remain intact no matter what you touch in your life what you experience in life what you go through in your life this is the gift that joseph gave them penis from the hill columbia mayor of he fed them during the days of hunger in other words he gave them a gift that goes into them it becomes part of the dna of the jewish people joseph those years he gave his brothers and his nephews and his nieces and his great nephews and great nieces and as a result the jews throughout all the generations he gave us this if i could say this little genetic mutation maybe not so little he gave us this gift that becomes part of us like parnosa like we learned yesterday we learned in the first part of the sith it becomes part of your flesh part of your blood part of your bloodstream he gives something that becomes ingrained in the jewish psyche and it's a unique gift and look at it after thousands of years we're still here learning about the isiv being inspired by isis of connecting to yosef and most importantly internalizing in our lives the message of joseph joseph is not afraid to touch anything and to go anywhere because yaakov's ms is revealed in joseph in the most powerful way even when you descend in a post-symptom reality you could connect to that infinity that ultimately is everywhere in that sense joseph accomplishes something that even the others don't accomplish the others didn't land fully joseph lands fully and there's only one way he can do it the midas ms of yaakov the premiers of yosef the middle yosef has to be able to learn to say shema even when he doesn't close his eyes the hearst yosef has to learn how to say shema even when he doesn't close his eyes in other words i can close my eyes beautiful amazing what happens when i open my eyes what happens when i open my eyes what happens when i go to the office what happens when i go on vacation what happens when i'm dealing with stressful situations what happens when somebody triggers my insecurities what happens when i face the pressures of life i open my eyes joseph is still saying sir now at last we come back and understand the order of the dav of the tv and tehillim the shepherd of israel should listen the one who leads joseph like flock show us the countenance of your face and help us so first we say israel we define the beauty and the greatness of the jews as israel descendants of yaakov yeshua what does israel mean we learned before sarisa you became a tsar you prevailed over eli kim over god and over men and you triumphed and this is the quality that every jew has from yaakov there's a part of us that always remains higher aloof sublime royal you're always a tsar and therefore we tell hashem israel you're the shepherd of this people called you strong hazina listen to us but then you go even to a deeper place the power of yosef that exists in every jew why are we called joseph because of a different quality even the way i am in the darkness of gullus and i'm affected by the darkness of goddess at first glance i'm a slave and i am a slave it's not a joke it's not fiction i'm a slave nonetheless nonetheless what does joseph see how does joseph see he doesn't see himself essentially as a slave he sees it as a schlissus to bring the divine infinite light into this place in order to bring the light into the darkness you have to touch the texture of darkness i have to go into this place but when i'm going into this this place i am ultimately defining it it's not defining me so the way i come into it is not one where i become a victim of it rather i transform it but in order to transform it i have to go into it in order to transform it you can't transform something from the outside it only transforms something from the inside so i go into that place and i feel everything that's there but as i am inside even in the darkness of gullus it does not affect or confuse his devakis and hashem and they remain wholesome in their yiddish and they in abu sasham this is even deeper than yes wrong so in the miserables we go on stages and then no yeah which represents that aspect of the jew that's not like israel israel is the aspect of the jew the plymouth unleft the core of the soul that always remains higher the part of joseph is the one that goes in and still retains its spiritual integrity and that's where as he says in and and that that's the kiddish and this changes everything yaakov avino could nullify the exile because it doesn't exist joseph is the only one who can transform the exile there's a very big difference between the two joseph takes the guy la and he makes it the word goyle is exile is redemption what's the difference the aleph joseph is the one who takes the gail and he reveals the aleph in the garland and he transforms the goyle into into gula he says that's why it says in 57 so that's why by israel it says israel the shepherd of israel should listen by the by says appear be revealed don't just listen to me fear means reveal be appear appear show us the aleph in the gaila because joseph is the one who reveals the lacus inside of the gala he says something fascinating in fifty five take a look versailles so this is connected to our generation the nasi is referring to his father-in-law his father-in-law his first name was joseph he passed away 1950 tough shannud he was the predecessor of the rebbe his father-in-law so he says his name was joseph and he said and he sustained and he gave livelihood and he uplifted the jewish people physically and spiritually during the terrible days of famine of the double and re-double darkness of the last days of mashiach this was his role and mission as with the name joseph she said there's a special everything we're talking about it especially it's not just it's very specially connected to this generation in 56 he says the ace of shades is we see even the nullification of the gullets of ace of three akov it's ultimately happens through joseph the passage says in avadya the house of yaakov will be fire but the house of joseph will be aloha will be a huge torch that will reduce the negativity of ace of into straw so joseph is the one who teaches us how to transform the galas so as a result of joseph's work and what joseph represents in jewish history we create an eternal goula that doesn't have gullus afterwards what's the connection what's the bimela because if the goddess is not transformed it can ultimately resurface but once the goddess itself is transformed now the gool is eternal the moment you can go into the darkness and transform the darkness then not only do you eliminate it or suppress it but you transform it for eternity because you took the very forces of toxicity and you transform them so that creates eternity in gula the ultimate and complete gula through the amenoma speedily in our days literally mamesh let's take some questions you're welcome okay comment number one rabbi rushim levitz of mir explains why joseph circumcised the egyptians when somebody comes under your domain you need to give him all the goodness in the world physically and spiritually so yahis have felt responsible to elevate the egyptians it's interesting in fact there's a sikh of the rebellion explains that even halachically because yosef ultimately the egyptians were under the authority of joseph to the point that he acquired all their property etc so therefore perhaps isa felt that the same responsibility hashem gave to ramavinu that everyone working in his home should be circumcised so the whole mitzrayim became like a vadim of yosef okay somebody in the comments quotes a beautiful shame ishmael in vayigash that yosef had the power always to see that everything is divine everything is hashem as we were talking about anoid movado yet this is also connected to machadik explains you once gave a shirt that yosef's uniqueness in interpreting paris dreams was that you don't detach the years of plenty from the years of famine perhaps it's also connected to this that you never detach the years of darkness from the years of light in other words even in the darkness you have the light just like joseph accomplished that even in hunger you should have the years of plenty so spiritually it means that joseph showed how even when there is hunger you could still hold on to the light of plenty yeah that's beautiful that's the idea of spiritual hunger what joseph did for the physical hunger he also did for the spiritual hunger why do we need why did we need the lesson of yosef when we ultimately were with maestra bainu at har sinai in the desert for 40 years when we had a bay samika schneider syrah for more than 800 years we were not in gullis then why is it so important excellent question and that's the uniqueness of joseph the uniqueness of joseph was that when jewish people will not be at mount sinai and will not be inculcated and isolated in the clouds of glory and will not always be in their own land physically or emotionally and will be subjected to the tumultuous journeys of exile it's joseph who who set the paradigm and infused us with the ability and the vision to be able not only to survive those situations but thrive that's exactly the point joseph is the one who gives that gift to the jews in their history leaving aside all the shortcomings and misdeeds committed by the brothers you say that mitosis his bed was wholesome so why was shimon and levi left out of the blessings well it says later yaakov included them in the blessings because he blessed everybody collectively the fact that shimon and levy that the fact that he excluded sherman from the blessings doesn't mean he excluded shipment from the jewish people he never did even after uber and did what he did with billa the terrorist says that yaakov's children remained 12 everybody was made everybody's jewish identity was fully maintained until today we speak about claudius all comprised of twelve shepherds not of eleven shmot them not of tenshwatam somehow there was something about yaakov that made sure that every child always knew that he completely belonged and that's what midas is it's really a very powerful insight what truth means what mira samus means midas is completely adoptable we sometimes look at ms as very extreme in other words i'm truthful and i don't compromise and that is part of emis on a deeper level what it means is that i can also adapt to situations that other people don't other people won't adopt because they're comfortable in their comfort zone ms doesn't have a comfort zone ms doesn't get stuck in any particular paradigm ms is very adoptable in the sense that it can be everywhere and retain its ms because even as it adopts itself it never loses its core aleph mem tough in every situation i may have to adopt to this situation i may have to ask what is my mission in this place it may be very different than what my mission was elsewhere but ultimately it i maintain that same connection and that's what yaakov could reveal in each of his children each one of you may have his own personality and his own colors and his own contribution and his own story and his own inner journeys like joseph himself was an outcast his brothers expelled them from the family but of shammar yakov understood that every soul has its journey and when you have that connection with ms with deep ms so you know infinity is everywhere god is everywhere so then nobody is excluded you say that joseph is the first one to be enmeshed in a non-jewish society establishing the possibility for all the generations to do likewise yosef sustained us in galas he did not redeem us from galas maishirabenu ultimately redeems us from galas maisha was also a shepherd yeah maisha redeems us from galas but the kiddish of yosef is that even when the jew is in galas he transforms the goddess into gaula which is what allows us to be redeemed from goddess ultimately by transforming it as explained at the end of the session many of us are still isolated from the non-jewish world but some of us are enmeshed in it in certain segments of the religious world the ideal that many people sacrifice greatly is that you should remain cloistered in a life of kyle for a lifetime so which approach is correct the approach of the brothers of the approach of yosef that's why i said earlier a louis vuitto there is in yiddish guy there's always this two streams there are people who sliches from hashemos mission from hashem is to remain shepherds to remain cloistered by the way it's just they were shepherds they worked but they were in an environment of closeness to hashem but there are people who have the schools and the merit that they could learn all day they could learn title all day there are those who work but their working environment is more like shepherds and then there are those who have the mission of yosef but regardless throughout egg gullus jews had to be able to learn this skill and quality of joseph you quoted earlier the maharal what the morale says i think is different the morale says that when yaakov saw yosef baba liboy avasivi rasadash what he experienced was his love to hashem how hashem's middles are good and perfect and he rewards everybody this is how hasidim they meet the attribute of the pious ones that whenever something happens that's positive and good it causes them to connect deeper to hashem to be thankful for all the good and truth that he did and that's what krishna is krishna is you recognize the malchus and the love of hashem so when he saw joseph and he had so much pain and now he sees him as a king what does it do to yaakov it triggers within him a deep ah a deep love to hashem and he accepts hashem's maljos and his love and his awe in other words the great goodness that he experienced at this moment it's expressed in gratitude to tasha it's not what you said that yo said that he channeled the love of yosef to hashem to the source of all love what he's saying is that when he sees joseph what does it do it right away it triggers within him gratitude to hashem it brings him closer to hashem so therefore he says and that's why he says shema not yosef according to the maharao because he is the one who is so grateful because it's his son and he's the one he is the one who had so much pain you're right you're 100 right thank you for the clarification i was just going one step further and that is ultimately according to teresa of al-shamdev the two are not a contradiction meaning when joseph expresses his love to hashem his gratitude hashem at that moment i'm sorry yaakov it doesn't mean that he is negating his love to joseph on the contrary he's elevating his love to joseph to the source of all love which makes the love to joseph even deeper well to put it in different words once gave a shirt about this yakov could have kissed joseph i love you i love you i love you he certainly could have done that how long would that kiss last a few seconds a few minutes a few hours yaakov wanted the kiss should last for eternity so what did he do he said shema yes that kiss the yosef last for eternity every day when i say and you say you can experience the kiss of yaakov because yaakov took this love of joseph and he aligned it with the source of all love with the source of all gratitude hashem and that's so i was explaining the maharao i think one step deeper based on the teachings and the hashkaf of the world of siddhis where ultimately the two there is oneness then this facebook goes deeper and he says so why doesn't joseph do it so peep shot according because he didn't have that gratefulness because he wasn't mourning for his son even though you could still ask because he was he was mourning he was probably very nostalgic for his father which brings us to the question why he never sent the letter why he never sent a notice home the separate separate tsuginat for today so that's what this facebook says because because the kiddush of yosef is that he doesn't have to close his eyes to say shma everybody have a wonderful day thank you very much see you tomorrow at 7 30 am you