Rabbi Frand-Parsha Vayechi Part 1

so we're expecting an inch of snow which is enough to cause panic in the city of Baltimore okay I see you wearing sweatshirts what does it say on those sweatshirts basketball it's the basketball basketball game tonight ah Abram Hebrew Academy basketball team okay can we play the n Israel basketball team uh I don't think so let's not go there okay de okay so uh I want to this class may be a little different because I I want to solicit and get your opinions as well to the question I'm going to raise over here you know in in this week's par we have the the bro and the blessing that yobu gave to the sons of Yos so yaku calls asks yose to bring his two sons in if and Masha who is the older of the two manasha or frim anybody know Masha Mas was the older and y y brings them in now we know that in Judaism the right hand is always more prestigious than the left hand so you know that you're looking now is this is my right hand but it's against your left and my left hand is against your right so therefore yose wanted Mas who's the Bor and who's the older son to get the blessing with the right hand and aim who's the younger son to get the blessing with the left hand and that's how he places them in front of Yakov ainu so Yak yoseph says to his father you know his father at this point is blind he maybe doesn't understand who standing in front of him so uh he tells um he tells this father is the older one he should get the right hand says I know exactly what I'm doing but I want to give the more prominent more prestigious BR to the to the younger child on that day he gave them a the BR that he gave him is that all from now on when you got to give a br to a child to a person so the is that you should grow up to be like a FR in manasha now let me ask you a question and I want to take answers do who do you think are the most prominent brothers or prominent people in the history of the Jewish people if you wanted to give a br to somebody you should be like so and so and so and so who would you pick the person who's raising hand in the second row who would you pick M mosha and Ain that's an excellent answer perhaps the most prestigious set of of siblings in the history of all of claw Israel are in fact MOS and Aon mosenu was The Giver of the Torah Aon was the Kain God you can't have a more prestigious more prominent more successful team of Brothers than MOS Ain and yet the let me ask you do any of you do any of you have the custom on Friday night that your parents give you a br that fell on the yellow shirt and what and they give the BR have you ever wondered why if fman manasha Clos to like the fellow in the blue shirt said MOS and a um I don't know you don't know okay yes I would say because they grew up in the G oh so that that's one answer that they grew up out of you know they were not living in Israel and they are going to and they they succeed seated and prospered while living in GIS that's a good answer I think there's a girl in the back who's raising her hand huh no the question is why you know when you get married all of you get married God willing on the day of your wedding your your father your parents will give you the you don't remember this but many people have the custom on the day of your bris that that they also give the the question becomes why epim and manasha why why why those two siblings