Mikeitz - The End of Time

you're listening to the weekly para podcast recorded with hashem's never ending assistance in rap Israel 5775 2014 this week's para is par mikat in the para the very very beginning of the par we have ysep atad Joseph he's incarcerated he's stuck in jail he's been there for 12 years and finally two years after the dreams of the sarkim the sarim the Baker and the and the Royal Wine Bearer The Cup bearer of parro of pharaoh to years after that dream by it was the end of two years and parro has his dreams with the seven fat cows the seven skinny cows the seven wholesome uh grains of wheat the seven skinny grains of Wheat and we know the whole story how yosf comes out of jail he becomes the Viceroy becomes the second in command to parro to pharaoh and and the Torah continues and tells us the whole story of his interactions with his brothers now without going into the whole rest of the story I'd like to focus in really on the very beginning of the paraa and also the end of last week's paraa where Yos is forgotten by the sarkim he gives him this good advice he gives him this good Pon this explanation of his dream and he says to him you're going to be reinstated in 3 days please remember me don't forget about me I was unjust unjustly thrown into jail and I would like you to please remember me and ask pharaoh to take me out of jail now the Torah tells us that what happens after that is that indeed he forgets the Sim the cup bearer of pharaoh forgets about Yosef and it's not until two years later when parro has his dreams which is the beginning of this week's parha by Hees at the end of two years that's when that's when the dreams occur and and indeed ysph is taken out and becomes second in command to parro now I'd like to share with you two m one is the very beginning of this week's paraa one is at the very end of last week's paraa and these two M if we understand them at their depth they hold a very powerful message for each of us and I believe it's also connected very much to the concept of Kana the days that we're experiencing right now the Mish begins this week's para par Mikes and it says as follows the Torah starts off the para with the statement that it was at the end of two years now the medish as is its way before giving us the medish the teaching about the par itself will sometimes give us a related teaching that's connected and it says here like this Kates there's a verse in EO in job 28:3 it says that there was an end that was placed for the darkness the understands that when the Torah tells us that there's an end to Darkness that the teaching is that there's a certain amount of time that's a portion in the world for there to be darkness in the world and what is it referring to what's this Darkness what's it referring to As Long As evil inclination is in the world there is darkness and there's a shadow of death in the world because the verse over there the same verse in job in says that there's a there's darkness and and the the shadow of death but there's a set amount of time that this is going to be true that there's going to be AAR an evil inclination in the world that there will be negativity in the world that there'll be a desire for man to do evil now what happens in the future time when when the Messiah arrives the gates of heart the evil inclination is removed from the world so there will no longer be darkness in the world there there will no longer be the shadow of death we'll move on from this state of of there being the potential for death people will live forever that's the first explanation of that verse the first aspect of this Kates this set amount of time now what's another explanation which is connected to our that God created an end a set amount of time for the darkness there was a specific amount of time that was set for darkness in regards to yose Joseph was going to be in jail for a certain specific amount of years k shates once the end of that amount of time came that's when Pharaoh had his dream which would then cause ysep to be brought out of the jail and indeed become the Viceroy to become to to step out of that darkness of his light to step out of the basum the jail in which he was incarcerated now we've noted numerous times that when you have a medish and the medish brings down a few different concepts consecutively in the same in the same breath so to speak in the same mishna the same teaching within the Mish so there a parallel it's not just by coincidence that the medish has a teaching about this verse that that seems to be two completely different ideas one has to do with Messiah one has to do with Messiah coming the end of the the evil inclination and one has to do with ysep the end of his time of being incarcerated now they seem to be unrelated unconnected but when the mes puts these two concepts within the same teaching so it's coming to say that there is a very deep and important connection and we need to learn out we need to understand what is that connection what is that teaching us now before we try to understand the connection between these two what we need to look at we need to try to understand is the concept of the Kates we see that the Torah is telling us that it's the end of two years it's the end of of ysep atad of Joseph's time being incarcerated he's been there for two years beyond the 10 years that he was already there previously so he's been in jail for 12 years and this is the end of the jail sentence so to speak and it's the beginning of a new life for ysf it's the beginning of his rise to power his rise to being in a position position of leadership over Pharaoh but also eventually over the Jewish people as well now we see that the concept of Kates in this smes we see that the end is not just in regards to Yosef the end of his incarceration but it's also true in regards to the end of the the evil inclination of the darkness the spiritual Darkness within which we find ourselves today that we've been in for the last 5,775 years so you have the concept of end in regards to ysf And in regards to thear the evil inclination and and the the Advent of the times of Messiah now what is the concept of Kates what does it mean the end what does mean an end it's not really the end it's the beginning right it's the beginning of a new era but what does it mean the end what's the concept of Kates so I was thinking about the concept of Kates and I noticed that the word Kates which means and is the same exact letters as the word KS the word kits means a thorn but besides for meaning a thorn it can also mean a spike or or a a crown the top of something and I and I'll tell you where you find it we find that in in the letters in the letters of the Torah and the letters of in Hebrew so each of the different letters has a different shape and a different form and the letter yud the way that it's written inside of the Torah is that it has a little bit of a spike sticking up above it it's called a coat it's called a the top of the yud now classically in cabala the the concept of hashem's name which is yud and then a hey and then a V and then and a hey that name you have you have four letters and each of those different letters corresponds to a different aspect of reality a different way that Hashem that God manifests within reality there are many parallels there many different ideas that are connected to it but I don't want to get into that at all what I do want to get it into is that they speak about the yud of hashem's name the first letter of hashem's name as being the highest aspect of our interaction with Hashem but there's an even deeper aspect of hashem's name which is contained within the K shall which is that little crown that sticks up above the yud if you look at at any yud that letter yud inside of a Torah or you look at it in a sitter so it it it sticks up a little bit there's a little crown on top of that yud and the K corresponds to the aspect of the Transcendent realm it resp it corresponds to ker which means the crown and just like a crown sits upon the head so too the aspect of the K of the crown of the yud is something that transcends beyond the reality that we experience into a higher reality into a place beyond Place into a Time Beyond time now I'd like to focus not so much on The Place Beyond place the transcended realm the the reality which contains our physical reality but I want to focus in on the Transcendent time the time Beyond time because Hashem is referred to as Y which means that God was God is and God will be God is beyond time for us we experience God as always he always was he always is he always will be but for Hashem Hashem is God himself is beyond time he's Transcendent he's outside of time and so he sees all times as present that's how the makal and the cabalists explain the name of yud v and so the thing that we're experiencing the thing that we're seeing here in this medish and the concept of Meek cak the concept of reaching an end point it's not really an end point because time always was always is always will be as we experience time time we we're talking about there there's something you know you can't really talk about an endpoint if you think about it in fact there really is no other time except for now yes there was a time that was yesterday but when it was yesterday was now meaning our experience of time is always now so in a certain sense you can't really talk about the end of time or what like what does it mean the end of time we talk about K we talk about the end of days the end of meates what is this concept of Kates what does it mean the end of time what is the kits there there's something here which I think that that's being hinted to or the depth of this concept of mikat the end of time is what's what's really it's what's really coming to speak about is the ks the crown the the Transcendent the the entering into a Transcendent realm I once saw it explained that when ad sin originally there were supposed to be six days of creation on the sixth day Adam Harish was created when Adam sinned when Adam and Eve sinned they created a spiritual implosion of of all of reality with the physical reality the spiritual reality but it had an effect on time and now instead of there being six days six literal days of 24 hours now there's got to be six days of a, years that's why we're in the year 5775 we're now at the end towards the end of the sixth day so to speak each day for Hashem a day is Thousand Years time has imploded and so we have a different experience of time instead of time being straightforward 24 hours one day at a time you now have a thousand years for each day time has expanded and and more time is needed in order to create a tiin to rectify what was supposed to be rectified immediately in a short amount of time now the rectification requires a longer amount of time a thousand years for each day of creation now that's represented in this medish by the statement that hasem set a certain amount of time that there's supposed to be darkness in the world we are in a lower Dimension we can't see Hashem clearly there's an evil inclination there's Darkness there's spiritual darkness that we're speaking about there is a Kates there is an end to the spiritual darkness and when we get to that end so what's the Kates as we said before the Kates is the coats it's this Crown it's this ascendence into a higher spiritual Realm when we hit that point we get in a certain sense ejected out of this lower realm into a higher realm into a place where time is different we go back we're back on the sixth day of creation so to speak after we've completed the retif rectification which took all of this time and which took all of this darkness in order to have the free will in order to bring back the light into the darkness that's another conversation for another time but the idea is that there's a breakdown in time and it requires we have to go through this time we have to go through this expansion or really it's an implosion of time and Yak as well has to go through that and what happens when he gets to the end when he gets to that Kates which is really a k which is which is ejecting him out of the darkness and into the light now all of a sudden he has experienced he's going to experience a new place a new time a new a new experience of Time new experience where the darkness implodes and explodes and now he becomes the leader over M over Egypt you know as I was thinking about this idea I was I was noticing that this could explain you know when we see the story we watch the story progresses so yosef's Brothers come in and it says that yoseph recognizes them but they don't recognize him they're still existing in a lower realm they still haven't reached their Kates each person has their own personal Kates where they get to a certain space in their reality where all of the darkness ends and they're ejected and they come up into a higher Place into a Transcendent place they reach their Kates they reached the ks they reached that crown that Transcendent Place Yosef had already reached that place but the brothers had not yet reached that place they would reach that place they will reach that place by the beginning of next week's paraa when they transcend byash Yehuda Yehuda steps up he moves out of his place he enables all of his brothers to enter into a higher place but they still hadn't reached that place so when yose meets them he recognizes them he can look down from the higher realm and he can see them in their lower realm but they don't recognize him part of the reason they couldn't recognize him is because he was a completely different person he was in a completely different spiritual space than they were they couldn't even touch him they couldn't even really uh grasp where he was and and where he was holding and so they didn't see him at all they just saw an outer manifestation they saw him superficially and so they couldn't even recognize him they didn't see him as their the brother they knew at all they just saw him on a superficial level from where they were now there's one more medish which I want to share with you which is from the end of last week para which I believe is very much connected into this mes you know we can look at this and we can say well how does how does one Reach This Kates how does one get to that place is it something that just happens on its own me we find that that in referring to the K in referring to the Mah's times which is referred to in this m tell us that the Tor ref refers to a time when that Messiah is going to come when the Messiah is going to arrive it refers to it as in its time I will hasten it and our sages tell us what does it mean in its time I will hasten it is there a set time or can it be hastened can we speed things up or not can we get mhia to come faster through our deeds and the meas says the the the say in the G in the that if a if we Merit so then if we have this if we do our our part so it's possible that we can speed things up but be if we don't Merit it so then it comes in its specific special time so there are really two different ways that it can come or it could be that they overlap they overlay that's that's a whole other conversation as well but the idea is that that you have there are things that we can do to to move the Kates to the end should come sooner so to speak and there are certain things that we can't do that it comes in its time and and that we can't change things we do see that for yosf himself the fact that he trusted the sash he put too much trust he said don't forget about me please remember me that was that was too much he he overdid it our kazal tell us that as a result of that instead of coming out of incarceration after 10 years it would be another two years it was it was going to take 12 years that he would have to come out of his incarceration so we see that the the case can be changed it can be affected by our level of Merit how much we're connected to Hashem how much we're connected to the deeper aspect which is where the case the Kates is which is the Transcendent aspect meaning if we're connected if y would have been connected into with through by trusting in hem so then he would have been able to access the Kates sooner we would have been able to enter into the Transcendent realm because he was already attached to the Transcendent realm now the the mes I'd like to share with you if we look at it carefully we can see that there's another aspect of that that really we can access if we want to enter into the Transcendent realm now and thereby draw the Transcendent realm into the present sooner we want to bring the Kates quicker there's a hint in a medish which tells us how we can do that so let's see this med it says like this God says hasem says that the the cup Bearer Pharaoh's cup bear he forgot about you but I will not forget you Hashem is speaking to Joseph before he was uh released from incarceration and then the Mish goes on to tell us that there are other places where Hashem waited for somebody hasem here waited for waited for others there were numerous instances in the Torah where people had to wait and they had to be patient in order to experience a Transcendent reality in order to experience a miraculous reality who was waiting for Abraham and Sarah they were elderly Ben who is waiting for them that they should have a child who is waiting for Jacob he had nothing when he went over to laan's house when he went to he had nothing he just had his stick who is waiting for him to become very wealthy who was waiting for Joseph he had all these challenges who is waiting for him to become the king who is waiting for Moses he was thrown into the Nile he was there he was he was he was forlorn that he would become who he was meant to become who is waiting for Ruth she was Pro that she would become the forebearer of the the kingship of the people of Israel who's waiting for King David and really it's referring to M the Messiah who comes from David who's going to be the king for all of the generations who waited for to come out of the incarceration who waited for and to come out of the fire and the goes on to say a few different things who is waiting for the Exiles to be finished so that the Jewish people will come out and they will will have great honor who is waiting who's waiting for the reinstatement the rebuilding of the temple of David that is going to put upm says I'm going to raise up that temple of David so that the entire world will be one joined together to serve Hashem so what's interesting about the me is it keep saying who is waiting who is waiting who is waiting waiting and it doesn't really answer the question who is waiting it's obvious who's waiting it's hasem who's waiting but the Mish by saying who is waiting it's asking a question who is waiting because it's coming to teach us that there's a question there's a waiting when a person asks the question who it says in the raise up your eyes to the heavens and see who was it that created this me who is it obviously it's Hashem but when a person asks the question and doesn't necessarily give the answer he waits he waits for the answer the natural inclination of a person is to want to give the answer I know all the answers but that's the ego that's the egotistical part of the human being I know all the answers who is waiting who is waiting who is waiting it's Hashem who's waiting but who is waiting the Deep message here is that the the Y is placed into jail why is he placed into jail why does he go through the suffering why is it that Abra Ain that Abraham and Sarah can't have children until the elderly they're waiting so long why are they waiting why is there so much waiting in history why are we waiting for Ruth why are we waiting for David why are we waiting for msia why are we waiting for the Exiles to be finished why are we waiting and the answer is the question the question is the answer that in order to get into the Kates to get into that Transcendent place you have to be in a place which is beyond time when you're waiting when a person learns how to wait when he learns how to ask the question who I don't have the answers who is it that created I can't understand Hashem how can I fathom Hashem how can I fathom when I had the question of how can I fathom where is Hashem who is Hashem what are we waiting for and I'm waiting and I'm waiting I I answer in my waiting I transcend I answered into the Transcendent realm when a person experiences challenges and difficulty he asks the question he says How Could It Be Where Are You Hashem he waits if it's done correctly he's waiting and he touches Hashem there he touches Hashem in the waiting in the challenge in the difficulty he touches Hashem and to the degree that he touches Hashem that's how he's able to draw down the ultimate Kates into this realm he's able to speed up the Kates he's able to touch the coats the crown the Transcendent realm he's able to bring it down into this very Physical Realm Hashem should bless youm should bless me Hashem should help us all to be able to wait to be able to ask the question who who is waiting to be able to reach that casat be able to reach the end of our personal trials and tribulations to be able to reach that personal Transcendent realm and also to to reach the realm which we are all waiting for the times of mesiah when we'll experience the end the Kates of all the darkness of all of the gullas we'll be able to see that light which we shined in kanaka that light that little light that shines through the darkest places the darkest Realms out into the into the entire world and we'll see that that little light was a spark of the incredibly great light thank you so much for listening have a wonderful chabas and a light filled Kaneka this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.wag.com 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