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Join me as we learn kumish for today
shabas the seventh Torah reading of
parasash
chapter 47 verse 11. Yesterday we
learned as Yseph and his brothers are
introduced to Pharaoh. The brothers tell
them that they are shepherds and
therefore they are not drafted to war.
They then settle in the land of Gosh.
Yakov is brought before Pharaoh, gives
him a blessing that the Nile River
should rise for him in this way giving
the entire Egypt water and watering the
fields, canals, and rivers any time
Pharaoh would visit the Nile River.
Today we continue with Yoseph settling
his brothers and his family in the land
of Egypt and how Egypt feared during the
famine. Verse 11.
And settled his father and his brothers
and he gave them an estate in the land
of Egypt in the choiciest part of the
land in the Ramseay's region
like Pharaoh commanded. Verse 11. Did he
give them Gan or did he give them
Ramsees? So Rashi explains Ramsees.
Ramsees was the region of where Gosan
the land of Gan was in. Verse 12.
And Yseph provided bread for his father
and his brothers. Asiv and for all of
his family he gave them bread according
to the needs of the young children. That
even though as we're going to see as
Rashi explains though at times the
children may waste, they still gave them
as much as they needed. As Rashi
explains verse 12,
as much that was needed for the entire
family.
Verse 13.
However, as the Torah goes back to the
narrative of what Yseph was doing at the
time, administrating Egypt during the
years of the famine and in this year of
now we're at the year of 2237, the first
year of the famine going back to even
before the brothers came there. The
Torah tells us as follows.
There was no bread in the entire region
because the famine was very severe.
very
and at that point the land of Egypt
[snorts]
and the land of Cananan languished the
land of the land of Egypt and the land
of Kananov languished because of the
famine
so Rashi tells us over here we're going
backwards before even's brothers arrived
as we can see over here he's going back
to the original story to the beginning
of the years of hunger and This is
before Yakov and his sons came down to
Egypt which is 2 years into the famine.
What does the word mean? Like
says
similar we find.
So it means it was tired. They were worn
out because of the famine that was going
on.
Yseph gathered all the money, collected
all the money
that was in the land of Egyptan
and in the land of
by the money that people brought to be
able to buy food
brought this money to Pharaoh's palace
[snorts]
with the food that people were
purchasing.
They would give him money to be able to
buy food. Verse 15
and the money that was in Egypt
finished. There was no money came to an
end
from the land of
all of Egypt came to Yseph saying
give us bread.
Why should we die? Because the money has
run out.
The word
complete nothing left. Verse 17.
And they brought their cattle to Yseph
and Yseph gave them bread for their
horses for their cattle in exchange of
their cattle for their sheeper in
exchange of the livestock
in exchange of donkeys.
And [snorts] he then
took care of them during that year with
bread
because of all their flock in that year.
In exchange of all the lifestyle, Yseph
gave them bread that year so they should
be able to have food.
Rashi says text number verse 17
that he led them, he took care of them.
Similarly, we have
other places which uses the terminology.
There's nobody running it. There's
nobody there leading it. Verse
16.
We're going back to verse 16. I think we
missed it.
Yseph said, "Give me your cattle and
I'll give you uh I'll give you food in
exchange of your livestock if there's no
more money."
And they brought all their cattle to
Yseph gave them bread in exchange of the
horses
in exchange of the sheep in exchange of
their livestock in exchange of the
dunkeys. And he led them and he took
care of them
with bread in exchange of all their
livestock in that year. Verse 18. Sorry
we went off schedule there. Went out of
order, but we're back to order. Verse
18.
And that year came to an end.
And they came to him the following year.
This is the second year of the famine.
And they said to him,
"We will not deny the truth from our
master.
Not only have we finished the money as
much all the money is gone and the
cattle, the livestock is gone. To our
master, we have nothing left.
There's nothing left before our master
built besides for ourselves
and our land.
What does it mean the second year? So
the second year of the famine
to the years of the famine
we don't have any money because the
cattle and the money is now all by our
master and we have nothing left. built
the only thing that's left.
If not for ourselves, what do we have?
We have nothing there. So what does
Yoseph tell them? So they continue to
tell Yseph,
why should we perish before you
us?
Our land
acquire us, buy us
and our land in exchange of bread.
Let us and our land bear
servants to Pharaoh send and then you
can give us seed
and we will then be able to plant a crop
and we'll have for the next year and
we'll be able to live will not die and
this way the land will not become barren
as well.
What are they going to do with the seed
to seed the land
even though Yseph told his brothers
will be another five years that they
won't be plowing and seeding and and
harvest if so what are the Egyptians
going to plant
however once came to Egypt
a blessing came
and they were able to begin seeding and
the and the famine is Finished.
That's what we find in the
what does it mean? The word comes from
the word should not be empty. Not be let
go.
A field which is not plowed is called
empty. It's not plowed. It just stands
there and rots away.
Verse 20.
And Ysef then acquired all of the land
of Egypt for Pharaoh
because all the Egyptians sold their
fields
because the famine had become very
severe for them of and very difficult
for them to tolerate.
So the whole land then became pharaohs
he was purchased because since they had
no money they had to give everything
they owned and that's what they gave to
Pharaoh.
Verse 21.
Thereby he then transferred the Egyptian
people from city to city
from one ed of Egypt's border to the
other edge. Rashi
Rashi explains text number 21 verse 21.
Why did he move them? Why do he take
them from place to place? To remind them
that they no longer own it. When
somebody sits in a place too long, they
start feeling ownership. So therefore,
you have to move them and let them know
you sold up your land. It's no longer
yours.
So he took the people from one place and
moved them to another place.
Really? Why does the verse have to tell
me about this?
to tell you the praise of Yseph.
He tried to remove the embarrassment
from his brothers.
This way the Egyptians should not call
them fugitives, people who came from
another country, immigrants. This way,
what do they say? Because look, you came
from another country, you're settling
here. However, when he moved the
Egyptians from one place to another
place, they themselves don't have any
rights there. So therefore they were
also considered so to speak fugitives or
whatever you may call them people who
are wanderers and for that reason it
took away the embarrassment from his
brothers.
This is what he did to all the cities
that was in the kingdom of Egypt
from one end to the other. He was moving
people around constantly so they
shouldn't feel that they have any
ownership to the land. So who are the
only people that he did not move? 22
the only land he didn't buy was that of
the priests
because the priest had an aotment of
food that Pharaoh gave them from the
lived off that allotment
that gave them Muslim so they didn't
have to sell their land because they
were getting food
who are these Rashi tells us the priests
anytime you have the
which is a priest is serving to a god.
Besides the exception of those places
where you sometimes you find that a
means a person of great leadership, a
person who was a great stature
like it talks about he was a priest of
mid. doesn't necessarily mean he was a
priest or a god there but he was a
person who was respected
as we said before
was a
lotment of food that they would get
bread every single day
verse 23 and said to the people
since the day I've acquired you
and your landfar
here now go have some seed
and go and sew the ground that will have
some produce that will come from it.
behold
and I behold gave your way and led you
the way that you should go with
verse 24.
And it was when the harvest comes and he
tells them you're going to go sew the
land. You're going to go giving your
seedlings and therefore when the harvest
comes
you're going to give a fifth to
the remaining four parts will be for you
to seed grain into the fields to eat it
to those that are in your home and to
give to your children
seedlings that every single year he's
telling The allotment that was going to
be for the coming years as well.
The servants of maid servants that are
in your home. The word means the small
children that are in your home.
Verse 25.
And they said to and they said to
Yoseph,
you saved our lives,
let us find favor in the in the eyes of
our master
and we will be slaves to Pharaoh.
verse
to find favor in your eyes that we will
do as please allow us to do as you said
and we accept upon ourselves this law
to pay this tax of the 20% that we will
give to parro a flat tax that he gave
them whatever they make that's what they
have to give verse 26
Yseph and Yseph made this the law as a
law
until the until today
on the land of that belongs to Pharaoh
for land of Egypt that belong to parro
that they would have to give oneif of
its produce to parro and the only ones
that got an exemption
the only land that did not have to pay
the tax was the land of the priests that
did not belong to parro Maybe that's
where the tax exempt laws come to the
American government as well. But we see
over here that the priests, the
nonforprofits, the religious
organizations to not have to pay the
tax.
Verse 26,
as a law that this would be that they
will not transgress. It doesn't change.
This will be the law as it is. Verse 27.
Now that we've finished talking about
what the laws that Yseph has instituted
for the Egyptians, back to the Jewish
people. The Jewish people then settled
in the land of Egypt that they settled
in the choiciest lands of Egypt in the
land of Gosh.
They established themselves there
and they were fruitful and increased
greatly.
But we are in the land of Egypt. What do
they settle? in the land of Gisha
that that's part of the land of
says
that they were they established
themselves there. They had a private
area that they took their property and
they made that theirs and that's where
they settled. This concludes the seventh
Torah reading of