Vayeshev - Chanukah, Yosef and Completion

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with ari goldwag recorded with hashem's neverending assistance in rubbish in mishra israel 5781 2020. this week's partnership was practiced by yeshev and we have this story the story of yosef atsadek yosef yaakov lived in the land where his father lived in the land of canaan this is in chapter 37 verses one and two ella told us these are the generations of yaakov yosef benjamin he was 17 years old he was with his brothers and they were all involved in watching the sheep shepherding the sheep i'd like to share with you some thoughts from the madrish about yosef try to understand the connection between yosef the story of yosef which we always read during the time of hanukkah what is the connection between yosef and hanukkah what is idea of hanukkah what is the essence of the holiday of hanukkah what is the essence of what occurred in the times of the second temple how does it connect so importantly to the story of yosef so i'd like to read to you from the madrish and we will speak a little bit about mashiach over here not too much but it's important to know that that's part of what's going on in indian the medici points out the fact that if we look at these so we we're immediately following when we start speaking about yoshimotsadik the torah is immediately has a has spoken about immediately before the kings like we spoke about last week the kings of asaf aloofa of his powerful kings his powerful rulers as powerful powerful leaders so what does it teach us whenever we have two concepts placed next to each other in the torah so there's never it's never a coincidence it says yaakov sat okay so what is the idea what is the connection between these aloof him so i'm gonna believe him very interesting analogy okay first concept in the magish hear this well first concept is that that we have an analogy to a pekami is a blacksmith a person who would take he had fire in his place and he would use the fire to shape the different types of metal tin usually tin to create different kinds of vessels so this blacksmith he had a doorway to the rishi sarabham to a to the town square so to speak and his son also had a business right nearby his his son however was not a blacksmith he was a goldsmith they saw that there was tremendous amount of piles piles and piles and piles bales of hay bales of of kotzim it says uh uh thorns thorny branches omar honey kanto called javier solo who said where are these going to fit there's all these branches there's all of these thorns where's it gonna go so the blacksmith and the goldsmith they were concerned there was there they no one could get to their stores i guess we could say because of the fact that there was so much the whole area was filled with these bundles of thorn thorn branches so there was a particular wise person omar lai and he said what are you worried all you need is one little spark from from your blacksmith shop one little smart spark from the goldsmith's shop from your son and between the two of you all of this all of this stuff will just burn away it'll be gone and it'll be gone okay and all the powerful generations who had come from him so he was worried he was worried oh my gosh how will we survive just like these two the blacksmith and the goldsmith were were nervous when all of the when all of the square was filled with thorns that god says to yaakov what are you afraid of gateshead you have to be worried about the offspring of asav all of their power all of their grandeur once we worry about it one little spark from you one little spark from your sun the goldsmith which was yesterday you'll burn them all up so that's what the verse says which we quoted previously also you know that speaks about the fact that yaakov and yosef are these sparks of these flames that burn up all of the shallowness all of the superficiality all of the many claims of the umass of the nations of the world specifically of adam of the west okay and that's what happens ultimately in the end of time it says magicians talking about yosef and yaakov when we spoke about them being similar that what we see happen in those times is an indicator is indicative of what's going to happen in the future time right whatever happened to the obvious is a sign for us of what's going to happen to us they all went down to gullits they went down to exile in order to come up and they became rich so so to close israel goes down into egypt into different the different goliaths different exiles that we've been through over the last 3000 years all of this in order to come out with spiritual wealth or even physical wealth so that was true about yaakov that was true about yosef each of them represented as the of islam as the forefathers of the of the jewish people as the predecessors of the jewish people they represented certain spiritual powers that were imbued into us so that which occurred to them is going to happen in the future yaakov avinu is afraid of the children of asa what's going to be with all of those powerful leaders of asav of his brother of the west don't worry we have yaakov we have yosef when yaakov and yosef come together when we have these two aspects together so then we don't have to be afraid now what i'd like to point out in the analogy it's important to understand yaakov is referred to as a pekami as a blacksmith and yoshi watalik is referred to as a goldsmith it's very interesting why is that obviously a blacksmith makes less money he doesn't have his his caleb aren't as important the vessels that he's creating are not as kosher goldsmith wow jewelry golden pendants things that are purchased by rich people seems to be a much more significant significant idea what is the difference why is yaakov referred to in that way as a perhaps a blacksmith why is he yoshi referred to as a goldsmith okay before we answer that question i'd like to read to you from the next section of the madrish this is what i say just said ela told us these are the generations of yaakov yosef yosef is the is the generations what about everybody else so manchester explain why did all of the other children all the other shivatim the tribes of yaakov why did they come where did they come from in what mayor did they come they came in the merit of joseph and because of him that's what buzzing is saying it's teaching us that yosef was the main reason that everyone else existed why did yaakov go to lovin's house he expected to marry rahul that's why he went there everyone was waiting for yosef to be born yosef was the he was the last of the children to be born in the house of love on right so he was the final one he was the final one he was the of the 11 tribes that were born until then he was the the roundup he was the the sweet the forget the russian the language from baseball he was the sweep up so he came at the end so he represents the fact that he comes at the end and we have to understand this at its depth what does it mean that there's something that comes at the end what is the idea of the thing that comes at the end but the fact that he came at the end meant that everyone came for him and now that jose was born that's when as we know from what we saw in last week's parasha we see this again in this week's parsha ill tell us jaakov yahsev is another expression of the fact that yosef is the one who's the sweep up he's the one who cleans everything out at the end and as shiron khong says because we can't get involved in this i'm not going to get too involved in it either but it's hinting the magician is hinting to the concept of yosef is the sweep up he completes the action he's the one who completes everything all of claudius told us all of that which occurred to chloe's well throughout all the generations 3 300 years since mountain tara since the torah was received everything that's gone on until now will be clarified and completed by yosef it will be justified by mashiach ben yosef the messiah who comes from the seed of yosef at sadiq the subject of our parsha okay kevin chanel is stunning shall i say or russia and who is joseph joseph is the one who balances out the power who's the one who provides for them who's the one who brings them down to egypt why did they come down to egypt because of yosef who is the one that provides from all of their physical sustenance yosef is the one so he's the center he's the reason for their existence he's the reason for their being he's the one because of him somehow needs to see what's so special about yosef besides for the push-up shot so so therefore therefore he's the reason for all the claustral to exist and he is the the ultimate the climax the the final answer to all the problems of cloud israel as well yeah i'm like nicole yeah so very interesting the measure says and this is really important because this is going to be the center of the of the theme that i'd like to give over i why was the sea split chris yamsuf christians of the sea was split the sea of reeds would split for clyde israel in what merit in the merit of joseph 77 17 it says that the the water split the water was fearful why why because god redeemed with his powerful arm the nation of the jewish people the children of yaakov and yosef the children of yaakov and yosef that's the mattress brings us also the yard thing was split because of yasuf the jordan river was split as the jewish people came in these are also because of yasuf the goula happens because of yahushua what does that mean what is the idea the final redemption will also occur because of mashiach what is the idea what is the concept that yosef is somehow the completer of everything so and also of course we're going to try to relate it back to hanukkah and try to understand well how does it relate to the idea of what happened in the story of hanukkah what is the message for us the madness here says on this side it says that even the jordan river split because of yosef the verse tells us that the the sea hayam the sea saw something and it ran away right the water split the lashing that it uses is vayonas which means to run where else do we see that language we see that language by yaise watsadik also runs he runs away from asia's pretty fire the woman who is trying to seduce him to lie with her to have a forbidden relationship with her what does yosef do he runs away so he runs away goes out right and as a result of the fact that yosef and excuse the fact that yosef ran out the water the yamsuf runs away runs away from klaus or moves out of the way let's claustral pass through very strange what is the idea what is the concept because he ran away therefore the water runs away it's very uh ethereal it's very difficult to understand what is the concept what is the essence of this of what our sages are teaching us and i think that if we think about it clearly we get to the essence of who yosef is we get to the essence of why he's the one who completes things he's the one who completes the gulula completes the redemption his offspring is the one yoshua is from the tribe of ephraim joshua he comes from a friend who comes from yahushua he's the one who brings the jewish people into the land of israel he completes it he's the one who completes it and the water splits by the jordan river and exclusive yosef with sadiq the water splits by the by by yams because of yesterday what is the idea what is the idea of running away especially in this context of these these verses i was thinking like this give out such an awesome idea look at these saligas face off with the ultimate challenge the ultimate challenge unbelievable the most beautiful woman in the world is interested in him 17 year old boy me she says to him sleep with me this is in chapter 39 verse 7 8 9 10. by your mind he refuses no way my master your husband he trusts me he trusts me he put everything in my hands and then they go by says i'm the greatest one in this house there's nothing that i lack i can't touch there's only one thing i can't touch and it's you because you're his wife how can i do this terrible thing and sin to god how can i do this terrible thing so very interesting his tactic what's his tactic in trying to get away from the the woman who wants to seduce him his tactic is he keeps giving her reasons why he won't be with her he can't do it he can't do it it's terrible it's not there it's a sin it's a sin against the master who trusts him to sin against god she keeps trying she keeps trying and trying and trying no success she can't convince him finally she catches him alone in the house but it is a victory she grabs him by his clothes let me show him i said sleep with me he leaves his clothes with her so that's our verses he runs out and he goes outside and then the tells us an amazing thing as soon as she sees it as soon as she sees that he ran away then what does she do vertically based of a timer wait she all of a sudden she's saying hey look this guy he tried to he tried to be honest me tried to to do illicit acts with me she now starts saying bad things about him why why is she why does she give up at this point why is why has she given up now the reason that she's given up now on him is because vayana sakutsu he ran out why does running out mean that it's all over for her she's not going to get what she wants why does it mean that default give out listen to this this is what vallanos means and by the way it knows the word vallanos the root of the word is nace which is a miracle what is the idea he ran out he ran out you know until now it's all talk hey you're still here right she says to him meet with me he says no i can't do it be with me be with me no no no i can't i can't i can't it's so sin it's just into your mouth your husband is listening to god as long as it's talk you're still here it's still possible when the action when the words translate into action and not just action but extreme action vayanasa who's just walked out he ran away from her he ran he he ran in terror from this this woman who's just trying to seduce him when the words culminate with extreme action with real action that's when she knows it's over that's when she knows that that she's lost him there's no chance he ran out so what i want to bring out from here is vayanos this running represents not just words not just a desire what you see happens in the end you know we're at the end point when it's run when you see it running when you see the movement when you see the action when you see the real action you know it's over when the action happens right who do people respect who do people respect people respect those who accomplish who bring who bring things out into action you just heard from irish yeshiva this week you gave a whole speech about when somebody's 20 years old when someone's 21 years old and they have potential they're brilliant they're smart so that's very magical it's very endearing it's very people people are attracted to that when a person is 40 years old and they still are just potential and they haven't brought any of that potential into action it's not it's not so impressive anymore where's the action you haven't you haven't proven anything it's all just talk yes if it's someone who we see is not just talk you see that yasif is somebody who takes action he is committed to something he's committed i completely committed to his relationship with akush borku and he takes action he completes what he says is going to complete when he says no it's a real no vayana sakutsa she knows it's a real no she's finished now she's got to put him in jail she knows she's never going to have him that's what vayanos represents it represents the completion where we see that it wasn't just talk it was real one of them before shim says you know what does it mean kaiser didn't have his hus he asked the question it's the enough yes yes the jewish people the reason that the sea split says the magician is because of yosef sadiq khali had notes of their own none of the other schwa matsukusem interesting thing he says it didn't have to be that kind of you know that kind of miracle in order to let klaus out of mitzrayim right they could have been surrounded all the mystery could have just died hashem does that kind of thing too right why did i have to go through this with this awesomeness this awesome miracle of going through the yamsuf that was in the schools of yosef that's what he says what is the idea of that i think in light of what we're saying it's an awesome thing there's no greater way of showing claudius real absolutely positively this is it it's over you will never return to mitsuram it's all over for you you are now free okay good they died but maybe somebody else will come and run after them the the sea splits the the waters open up they walk through dry land oh my goodness there's no going back such an awesome miracle such an awesome miracle there's no going back this is this is not going to be changed this is not going to be we're never going to we're never going to go back to mitsuram we're not going to go back to egypt why young the water split the water ran away absolute just like yosef outside absolutely showed he will not ever beat with her the water shows you will not ever go back to mitsuram you'll never ever go back to egypt it's done it's over the action of the water shows that kind that level of a miracle shows this is for real this is the completion all the talk i could spoke who said four hundred years before to abraham avinu you're people are gonna go through they're gonna be in exile they're gonna be strangers in a strange land they're gonna be uh you know they're gonna be treated poorly and they're gonna come out and they're gonna be freed forever that promise was showed at that point when the when the sea split glycerol comes in there to swell the water the jordan river splits as well also represents an intense proof that we are here at the end at the end of this stage joseph represents this concept this concept of the commitment being brought into action that is what we see from yosef attack and i would like to say that that is perhaps one of the most fundamental lessons of hanukkah what is kanaka hanukkah was a time when the jewish people were being were being seduced by the greek religion by the by the hellenists to to abandon yiddishkait to leave the traditions of our past the religion of our past and to take on the ways of our society to take to be be a member of the society the current thoughts the jewish people said no no we're not going to do that we're not going to do that came the kashmiri and said not just we're not going to do that they said we're going to take action we're going to take action we're going to fight we're going to show that we really mean it it's impossible for us to win yes if maybe even i mean think about it he's running away how can you get away from him this is this is where you work you're gonna run away it's not gonna help you no that's a statement when you run when you run into battle even though you're going to lose you run and you show that you really mean it this is for real this isn't just talk me hashem eli who is for hashem come to me as matasio said right who is for hashem come to me let's see action let's see action and that's where hashem comes in that's where they get the attachment rafters with them you fought for them you judged for them the contest was you ha who were the one who took revenge for them why because aka this book who god is the god of action hashem works through people who are interested in accomplishing who are interested not just interested in accomplishing but who are ready to move bayanos the nace what's a nace an ace is a flag what's a flag a flag is something that you hoist above and it shows us who you are represents this is the jewish people here's your israeli flag this is the flag of beit shemesh this is what this is what we represent this is who we are it's action it's held in front of us it's movement that's it was in the skus of yes and it will be in the skus of mashiach someone who understands that what is the essence what is essence has these aspects completion commitment not just with words with action i'm willing i'm ready to learn what's the godless with the greatness of the da fiomi person takes action he's learning every single day he's committed he's doing it he's up early in the morning there he is every single day that's the power it's the action someone says they're gonna do something and they do it they accomplish something they completed something the vayanos is the completion the sea splitting is the completion the the macabre the ones who recognize that kushboku is the one who does it they get up and they fight in order to rededicate hanukkah to rededicate the base hamikdash so that what is the essence of the base of english it's not just a place where we give lip service to god we walk into the temple and we say god okay here i i'm sorry i saying here's my corbin he has my sacrifice it's instead of me no that doesn't work we need action we need dedication we need commitment expressed in vaionos movement running extreme action extreme display of commitment that's who the makavemore that's who yahusef was and that's the essence of what i believe that we see from these sukkah from these from this madrish and that's the essence of what's going to be soon hashem with the advent of meshiach i want to bless you i ask you to bless me hashem shall help us that we should be able to take this message to heart we should recognize that each and every one of us has desires aspirations commitments that we need to concretize those aspirations those commitments not just with our words but with our actions thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shabbos this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.ariegoldwag.com 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