Ari Goldwag - Vayechi - Double Blessings

you're listening to the weekly par Podcast reced with nevering assist 5776 week and in the week one of the main topics is the blessingsak Jacob bestows upon his children and the describes the story the events that occurred and howob Jacob calls his sonf along with him brings his son in life so BR son Blob was reitpen throughout the B bra the genes and principle is times the seem toess seem to small the one who is younger the younger of the ones even though officially the blessings and the firstborn rights and the spiritual rights belong to the older one the one who first has those rights nevertheless many times the younger one JF is the younger of his brothers he one of the last of the children born the youngest one is the one who receives the blessings whoes double Portion even he doesn't seem to deserve it had this Jacob he himself took the blessings from as we know and here in does the son soner andobcob takes takes Hand whichents the of strong places his right hand on the child who is to his left which is a which is the younger one he places his left hand on the head of manasha who the older one so he gives a different level of blessing to these two children of again reitating con even though he was younger nevereless he is the going to great in a certain as the pass as time go on and this is what we spoke about last we we spoke about the concept of that dan was somebody who only had one son and this son was only someone who he couldn't hear he didn't have the normal senses so he was one son and we contrasted that with the fact that benamin had children and nevertheless benamin is the one who ended up with a smaller tribe with much less people and Dan was somebody who ended up with a much larger Tri and it was because of the he was smaller that he became greater and the same idea here with story of J the blessings that was giving to his sonff was the lesser and he was born later and he was one of only two childrenuda and ru and Shim l and those there were six children who were born from le she was the one who was the greater one she had more children neveress firstn dou por as it to yoseph went to Joseph he had two tribes out of the 12 tribes and Levy lost that tribe Levy didn't have his own tribe many times when you have a counting of the 12 tribes so whenever you have Josef counted as two so we don't count Levy Levi is counted separately counted differently in a certain Sense he's not part of the 12 tribes in a certain Sense he's beyond he's higher than Lev the Levite tribe is a tribe which has a certain greater spiritual aspect as well less becomes more Look little the blessing gives son deep as that I connected talking the ang thatede all evil speakedtion Personal heedeed all Ex God out God so speak expain of Norm expence when it speaks giving birth so speaks the pain the sadness of giving birth that that was curse of of eaeledurse was there a great pain great pain in the curse of having make a having bring livel thaturse is deepurse more challenging Curse than the curse difficult one of the here on the explains that the pain of childbirth is a pain that occurs during childbirth it's something that's not constantly all day every day happening it's a one time deal and not only that but it's accompanied by Joy because when a person knows that they're about to give birth even though it's pain but it's good pain as as they talk about it it's pain that's that's in order to bring a human life into the world so that pain a different type of pain the pain difficult all time day person has to wake up he has to challenged he has be able to sque out that livelood and that challeng something difficult in out have nedtionn to livelihood and the concept of livelihood is connected to Redemption so we can learn things out many times when you have two concepts that are written next to each other so we can connect them we can connect them and say that whatever is true by this idea is true by that idea all of the concept conedcept next other out like it Redemption which is something which we find a doubling there asfor explain here like we find double consolation when it comes but the point is doubly challenging something that doesn't come easily Redemption is not something just with snap of the fingers we have thatedemption you look at a great exle he went through all kinds of Tris and tribulations before greatedemption on personal lel on national is is challenging difficult so to par Person livelood also has that aspect Sim Redemption in difficult WE in other is like comelood chle sotion is that challengle day but interestingly every person experiences at a certain level Redemption perhaps a hidden kind of redemption but Redemption neless every single day Mees one last point thenas chep that challengestion weedemption in speak Angel thatedeem all difficulties God ises over God is the helpel and I think that we see again there's an underscoring the fact to the degree that a person diminishes or receives challenges which diminish them diminish the ego make it more challenging more difficult to that degreeems in their life rece Spirit Bounty rece great rece greater res so to so when it comes to parna when it comes to the challenge of making a livelood as we saw something which is a deeper difficulty in a certain Sense than even giving birth giving birth is is yes it's challenging yes it's great intense pain but it's for a short amount of time when it comes to paran comes to livelood something that a person has to go through all of the time person has to go through day day Look eyes open you have the chance to experience God even more a place where person can see that hasem is constant and thised evenedtion when we speak aboutedemption where you know God is there and hes that's beautiful that's nice and yes the challenge is great when it comes to walking through that and GA is compared to a woman giving birth but when it comes to parnasa when it comes to a person's challenges day in day out to receive his livelihood so that's a place where a person can see Hashem even more it's very interesting interesting that we having as part of a discussion of the blessing ofose we think aboutose yes he was some experiencedemption yes he was some who experienc challenges whiched in awesome redemptions true but who else was Josef Josef was the JF Josef was the person who gave par gave livelood to in the entire place of Egypt he was the one who gathered those blessings day in and day out for years he had amazing blessings and he was able grab on that a sense you know analy Front you know to thathem is giving me Bounty single day not take it for granted recognize that livelihood by definition is challenging and then when the challenge becomes Open in those seven years of challeng S years of Fam when the challenge becomes open no one has anything to eat but Yos day in and day out still has because he colcted in and day out from theood the years he you know See soon in the next few weeks idea of the man which the Jewish peopleed in the desert the man was something whichesents our our liveloodents the that on a deep Level possible to to Perce to recniz miracous on the surace l looks like we the ones who are doing it you know we putting in that effort we facing off with the challenge of our livelood day in day out it's something which we have to break through and nevereless this is teaching us the concept of the teaches us as well that it's not true the very difficulty itself is what brings Hashem into our lives in Open chenge difficultous work challenge of it is what brings hasem into our lives in an open way there's a thought that I've had recently it's based on this discussion which we had last week and and and I shared this idea with my children my son with my wife the idea is I said it this way that there are many things in life that Hashem gives us for free but we have to pay for them are many things that we receive in our lives spiritual acquisition spiritual gifts us in rece those gift for free we needay some sacrifice Spirit sacrifice that we need to make in order to rece those gifts i want to bless you and please bless me back help us to be able to recn in order to receive the gifts in to rece spirituality in to receive that double Portion that comes with Spirit like order to rece that to Perce godl our our lives as challenges we face help us able to receive that good to be able to be willing to go through those challenges to diminish ourselves to sacrifice in order to receive those free gifts thank you so much for listening have a wonderfulcast was made graous donationsen like you for morecast like www.wag c or search on iTunes goldw