Vayigash: The Gem of the Belzer Rebbe Opens Up the Descent to Goshen and the Coming of The Geulah

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com we're going to uh Hanukkah we're going to speak this morning about parishes the igash and a subject relevant to chanukkah as well in the Parsha the Tara tells us and Yehuda he sent before him to yosefanov to instruct before him goishna to Goshen vayavaya and there's a very well-known remix of artaira that the word geishna is a remed and why does it say goshna it should say why does it say goshna that would have been the simpler way to say it Li goichan famously says that this word geishna is a remnest to the letters of the dreidel that uh gimmel non-gimal Hey and shin are the letters of the dreidel and uh here we have Remus to the yamtif of chanukkah um and the oicimal hey and shin so that's a very famous premise of the banaya saskar and I think it's worthwhile to try to explore that while this is certainly a beautiful remiss parishes is the Parish of Elaine after Hanukkah so you would think it would be more appropriate to be maramis to a dreidel in the pastry Lane on hanaga then the power shall we land after Hanukkah and why in the world does yakovino alluding to a dreidel in his encounter with even more puzzling is in last week's Parsha gives the brothers packages and gifts so the plastic says I'll lay him he gifted them with various matanos vaterrev masas and the gift of binyamin was more numerous than all of their gifts five times and they drank and they became intoxicated with him so here it is the Joseph is reuniting with the brothers and yoshif gives binyam in many gifts and they become intoxicated says this suda that was prominently celebrated with wine you know what that's a reminisce too it says the sudha that Yosef had with the brothers is a remnants to sudas Purim and that's even more puzzling so parishes mikades which is the Parish of Shabbos Hanukkah there's no remist which is after Hanukkah now where maramis to Hanukkah so it's moreover we have another interesting rames to Purim in our Parsha praknum hey possible to all of them he gave teach man changes of clothing he gave 300 silver pieces and five changes of clothing interesting so he gave them all changes of clothing to the gentleman he gave 300 silver pieces and five changes of clothing says that by giving binyamin five changes of clothing he is alluding to him something he's alluding to a future event namely amaravi binyam in barifes remes Rama's like he's alluding to him what's he alluding to himenu that a descendant is destined to come from him with five changes of clothing shine in five changes of clothing he's alluding to him that he will Merit to have a descendant who will go out before the king with five changes of clothing so here it is again we have a remise to the Purim story that Yosef gives binyamin five changes of clothing in order to allude to the uh future ascendancy of binyamin to Mordechai who came from so very interesting in parashas we have a remnants to Purim in vayigash we also are maramis to the Purim story and then at the end of the parasha we have a remiss to the dreidel so why would we have all these ramazan we know that yaakovino came down to matron with a total of 66 individuals what's the significance of that why 66 individuals come down to matryam that's also um a very um that's also certainly of note what's the significance of the number 66. on each night of chanukkah the pismine that's not Israel we sing yeshuasi and we talk about the various golusem we talk about Gola Smiths then we go on to say that Hashem brought us to the base time we had no respite there and the oppressor came and uh bovelle's end was over and zerubavel and finally we were saved at the end of seventh year so this is the golos and the Gula from galaspaval then we talk about the miracle of Purim agagi banamadasa and Hashem elevated Mordechai and he destroyed hamanov Academy talk about the miracle of Purim and furthermore we say we talk about the uh the Greeks who gathered Upon Us in the times of the hashmanim and they broke they breached the walls of our towers and they contaminated all the oils and then finally we end off with with the golus edoim and the Gula from it that we asked Hashem fine this is the pismine we say on chanukkah and the question is why do we mention in reference to chanukkah in the context of Hanukkah the other galusim why mention gala's bhavel in the context of Hanukkah why mention Carlos Paras in the context of Hanukkah and Purim do we talk about Carlos yavan and pesach do we talk about uh golos Paras why bring in all dalit gollusum in reference to Hanukkah what does Hanukkah have to do with all the goals some Hanukkah specific to Galas yavan and the Redemption from why we don't find that any other yamta that commemorates a specific Gula we talk about all the gulas and all the goals and why specifically on Hanukkah the posix says in to Helen by the conductor on the eighths Assam to David very interesting we had this pasok that is uh singing for the eighths what exactly is uh this referring to so there's a medrishi Purim and he brings who made eight days of Khan of Hanukkah because there was no yamta until now how colors Burleson said you thought that you found them you're gonna be oika you're gonna uproot the seven neroys and the eight days of Hanukkah I'm gonna bring upon you eight days you thought that anybody who mentions my name will be struck by the sword I will establish Ed said which is eight days is rooted in the Posse so when you see those words that is a reference to none other than chanukkah in fact says the number 13 in the dvarama that the secret of chanukkah is the secret of the pasok Al Hashem here we have nasanez is the secret of chanukkah this is also brought in the Torah shalima that the eight days of Hanukkah were established um in connection with that which said so we've established this keshare between the eight days of Hanukkah and the possible but interestingly friends the medrish the murder the murder tells us that the possible is a reference to the dalid golu Sim which are really eight Golem we know the daligolosum are Babel madai excuse me Babel Paras yavan and Adam but the matter says that the four golo Sim are really eight Golem because each golos is a uh dual golus namely Bothell kazdi The Babylon of chaladians says so while we usually say four Gallo Sim and the Medusa throughout safe vibrations discusses for galasim and every time you have the number four in say fabricius you could be sure the matter says it's a reference to the four Gala so for example and the four rivers and the Four Kings the four galosim and um so somehow if Hanukkah is the secret of lam not saying that means chanukkah is some somehow a Redemption and an element of redemption not only from golus yavan but Redemption from all the golisim so on Hanukkah we celebrate the freedom of all the goal of them if you look in uh in the medrish um we will praise you that at the time that you gather us from the eight gallosim we will praise your name so what does that mean we will praise God's name when he gathers us from the eight galasam I thought goes bubble is over mother is over Godless the oven is over apparently even though in general we say the Godless is over nevertheless um nevertheless there's elements of each golus that still is in existence and we try we hope we anticipate that one day the revention will take us out not only of golus and but out of the elements of all the gullison now here's a very important question Rabbi say and that is we know they're forgolo Sim which the primarily primary goal of sim are Paras yavan and Adam but what about one major golus that seems to be omitted that that is not recorded what about sriim that's the question of the Ariza the reason he says why is it that when when it's mentioned the Golem why only dalid are mentioned what about mitzrayim in fact in the Torah is mentioned so many times so that result says he aside that the four Golem came to diminish the four Oasis of hashem's name and there's one dimension of one of the letters that encompasses all the letters namely the kudzuyod is equal to all the four letters and golos nutram is the kudzaior encompasses all the four Golem and in fact this idea that goes from time is the showers of all four galasem is actually um marumas in many places in the hamesh for example when Cloud you saw come down to matram it says on those words to all the golasam so the hida writes in the name of um that the word mitzrayim is Russia Tevis mem is stands for mitzrayim Sadi stands for soil the Reed which is Babel race is yavan mem is madai and alsoim stands for IM hey are the five dollars in other words excuse me furthermore there's a safer Igor the kala from the binay saskar and he also says and this is a common theme in the writings of all the ballet darshanim that the word is so it's not that mitzrayim was uh was more lenient or easier but machaim was so to speak to the father head of all the forgolosom and encompassed in mitzrayim is all the four galasim in fact also says okay so this is a very important principle now many years ago I saw this quoted from the and I asked Friedman and he said this is not in the nowhere does this is none other than the belzareba and whoever called Friedman safer and he didn't want to give credit to the belzareba so he blamed it on the this is the incredible of the belsaraba and it has two Dimensions to it says the belzareba that if mitraim is the father head of the four golo some we find that four times the brothers go down to matron first they go down in parishes me kids without binyamin then they go down in parishes me kids with binyamin then they go down in parashas with yaakov and then after yaakov is buried they come back to mitzrayim without yaakov the four descents of the brothers are connected the four golo Sim and each time they go down you could find in that urida ramazim and all the connections to that particular Gullah so the first time the brothers go down to metram and parishes me kids that's golus Babel says Friedman that means in parashas when they go down with binyamin don't you dare see my face unless your brother Benjamin comes with you why was Joseph so medactic and so worried that the brothers should not come down unless they bring binyamin with him very simple says the srila pencas because joycef knew the second Descent of the brothers represents Galos para sumada the Purim story and who's there on the times of the Purim story that come from and therefore um Yosef says I don't you dare see my face I don't want to see your face unless you come down with Benjamin because you always safe knew that the shoyash of the Gula from Galos para sumada is now we understand why at the end of Me Kate and the beginning of aigash which then is the Purim story what do the brothers do when they meet you safe they drink and they become intoxicated and the sasama says that's a Remus to purima we asked why is there a remnants to put him in parashas me Cates that's the Parish of Hanukkah the answer is because pastors mckates is the second descent the second descent is corresponding to goes para sumodi so of course the Purim story will be alluded to in the second descent and that's why five changes of clothing which is a Remnant to the fact that Mordechai will be yatsuna so here we have it now we understand we've cracked the code it's not that it's a mistake that the REM is to Purim is found in the Parish of chanukkah this is the parashah of Purim and by the way that's why there's so many connections between parashas me Cates and Purim and the Magilla for example we have Expressions the word which is found only in two places and me Cates and in glass Esther or we have the as we have it in as we have it in the middle of and by the way there are many other ramazim in the beginning of mikates even before the brothers come down because there when Joseph goes down to mitraim that so to speak the show Resh of all the golasam so now let's move on to parsha's valligash just the egash now before before we do that I want to tell you another the belzareba because if each time the brothers go down to mitzrayim that corresponds to one of the goal of some the first time they go down is the second time in me Kate's that's the Purim Story the third time in taiigosh that's Adam says the belzareba then every time they leave mitzrayim that's a Remus to the Gula from that Galas so for instance in parashas mikades when the brothers go back to yaakov that's Kate's bobel zuru Babel and in parashas me Cates when the brothers go back to yaakov to get the whole family that's the Ula from Purim and in parashas when the brothers and the end when the brothers go to bariakov that's the miracle of Hanukkah and then finally the final is when they actually leave matrium it comes out half full of a fella because when the banaya sastra says that the word geishna is a remnest to the four letters of the dreidel and we ask why is there a random Remus to the dreidel in middle of ayegash why why in the Parsha after Hanukkah as a remnants of the dreidel the answer is because parashas vaigash is the story of Hanukkah when the brothers go down when the brothers uh go down to mitzrayim together with yaakov that is the chanukkah story and by the way in the beginning of which is the Hanukkah story it's trial right it says she says it darkened the eyes of Khali Israel well that's golos yavan as the matter says that in times of yavan by the way so now we understand what the dreidel is doing in Paris now watch this this is how many Jews go down to Missouri anybody know how many Jews go down too much time 66. what's the significance of 66 Jews going down to mitzrayim so there is a uh see if we could find it yeah desire our color says the number 33 um desire Cutler says that the 66 Jews that went down to mitzrayim 60 are connected the 60 s and the sixth Connecticut here I look in the Zaya Khan we have uh 16 and 60 can I get shisha sidere mishna okay that's one um one level of understanding of the uh significance of 66 but there's another dimension over here how can we not reference the the famous maharl the morale says that why was yavan how did they have the power to overcome the you know the ivanim were the only ones who are able to enter the and contaminate what was it about the ivanim that they were able to contaminate and the marao says famously the word hechal is gamatria 65 in order to overcome yavon is 66 so through 66 they're able to overcome oh so then it comes out incredible Jovan is 66. so think about it if powershots is the reference to the story of chanukkah the third time the brothers are going down to mitzrayim that's a remedies to golos yavan soyakovino for season to the Future that he's gonna have to overcome yavan 66 oh if he has to overcome Yama 66 so zelu Maza also like sends down 66 people down to metrium that's the uh the the understanding and the dimension of how the ivanim were able to counteract um that's how the family of yaakovino was able to over overcome Yavin by the way there's a safer yuff and it rashes that you know you always got to be one step ahead so yavan was one step ahead of the 65. yavana 66 who established chanukkah binay Vina Veena is 67. so you always got to be one step ahead of the game but this gives us insight into the significance of the 66 people who went down to matryam furthermore how do you say the uh dreidel galgal you know Gaga is 66 another remix to the significance of Hanukkah some suggest you know the ivanim said the world exists on its own the world spins on its own there's nobody moving it there's nothing that makes this world tick so what do we do we give our kids the gal GAO we give them a dreidel and we say you know do you understand Kindle that the top does not spin unless there's someone on top who's spinning it but if you don't have that person on top spinning that dreidel then it just lays there as chemists it has no Vitality it has no life so that is the how we overcome yavan so we have all the ramazum to Hanukkah where dafka and persius and therefore Marv Rabbi Sai it here's something that's nemamish remarkable so it comes out when the brothers come down with yaakov avinu when that's why he is let's think about the patira of yaakovino because references Hanukkah when did yaakovino pass away we know yakovino passed away on on onsukis and they mourned for Yakov avinu for how long they mourned for aquavino for 40 days and they had they they mourned him for 30 days they embalmed him for 40 days so the morning period for yakovina was a total of 70 days so let's make a kajvin 70 days from when jacovino passed away 70 days from Tesla of tishre takes you to teslav the morning for the Patera of yaakov avinu concluded on Hanukkah and then they mourned Yakov avinu for another seven days and then after that they returned the return in other words the the Salvation from chanukkah of when they left midsream to buriakov avinu which is a remnants of the Salvation of Hanukkah when does that happen it happens on Hanukkah yakovino is nifter on on sukis he's buried on Hanukkah so isn't it incredible that The Descent the third Descent of the Jewish people which is a remedyavan and jacovino counters act that counteracts that with goishna and with the 66 people go down to matron and when is yakovino buried when do they leave mitzrayim they leave mithram and none other than chanukkah itself and the avellos comes to complete foreign and therefore in a sense it is a gula therefore it is from all the eight golasam has in its potential the Redemption from all the various golasam that's why it's connected to Lam not says really not only a commemoration celebration of the Redemption from golos um yavan but it's really commemoration of the Redemption from all the golo some and that's one of the reasons why on Hanukkah we sing where we go through all the golasam we go through gola's Paras and we thank you for taking us out of all the goals from Daft gone Hanukkah because Hanukkah is the hinoch of the third base hamiktas says the arabino bakaye in the karakama so specifically now the parishes that we're reading we could also say that the fact that the Descent of the Jewish people was led by Yehuda perhaps as some suggest Yehuda in parasha Savage perhaps the same could be said but ultimately Rabbi Sai um the ramban tells us that the khash monoam had some degree of uh a fault namely in that they took the maluka and interestingly in the very parasha that alludes to the Redemption of chanukkah we read in Paris is sort of warning and try trying to encourage that something like that not happened so according to the belzareba we understand that golus matrim is not just the root of all the golosim but each Descent of the shavatim corresponds to another Galos and each Ascent of the schwatim corresponds to another Gula so we hope in the closing hours of Hanukkah that as we commemorate the Gula from golus yavan we hope to Revenge them takes us out of all eight Golem and then when that comes we will sing is so we hope is okay that that concludes uh today's share wishing everyone afraid of Hanukkah and uh anybody wants to join us uh Wednesday morning um 10 30 same Zoom Channel and uh hope to see everybody soon yeah you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com