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Rabbi Frand-Parsha Vayechi Part 1
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Rabbi Frand speaks about "Relationships in a family, that a parent dreams of". 12/16/2010 Part 1
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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