Ari Goldwag - Vayeshev - Yosef's Dreams

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari Gold who egg recorded with a chums never-ending assistance and ramappa Sheamus Israel 5778 2017 this week's parshas partially a chef and I'd like to share with you actually not exactly the same as we did last week but a kind of approach looking at them like looking at the Midrash trying to understand what it's talking about and looking for the message trying to understand what it's saying to us and it's amazing when we read carefully because all when our sages teach us when we read carefully the words that they use everything is mosaic everything is specifically and carefully chosen so we need to understand every word and there's some really interesting and deep ideas and connections that we can find if we have some information and we put the put the pieces together connect the dots so I'd like to do that a little bit with you today in the mesh the tyre describes the situation of Yosef in our parsha this is the partial one of my favorites in the Torah the description of how yo safe and his brothers the brothers were jealous of yo safe their difficult time with the fact that he was the chosen one that that Yaakov showed him favoritism gave him makes an opossum a special coat and in so doing and through their jealousy as a result of their jealousy they and sending him down selling him to the Ishmael into the usual Knights and ended and he ended up Yosef ended up tenements Ryan and the whole story of the Jewish people's descent to Egypt begins now in the story I want to focus in at the very beginning of the story when Yosef at Sadiq when he's talking about his dreams he's sharing them with his brothers and the brothers are very upset they're not happy they're there they were already jealous and the dreams just made things worse and in fact Shimon and lady say to each other you know when they're about to sell and they say oh look here he comes here comes the dreamer so the dreamers the the dreams were a point of contention with the brothers but the measures gives us a few very interesting points and need to understand them in regards to the dreams and the way that the dream is expressed certain small details within the dream and the way that you always save himself speaks out the dream when he tells it to his brothers because I'd like to read to from the Madras way a colonial column by Mr Lim Chee muna Yosef had a dream and he says his brothers listen please he said to them you know the fortune talked about did Yosef realize that his brothers were jealous of him did he have a conception that he understand that there was an animosity he would seem from the sukham that it was clear to him it seems you know it says well I flew Deborah the Shalom they couldn't speak to him it felt like they couldn't talk to him and clearly if that's the case and as actually the peace before I'm not gonna read it inside but the peace before the measure says that they were honest they they didn't interact with him in a positive way and pretend that they liked him they were honest about their feelings they couldn't speak to him peacefully so you know they've certainly sensed required a great genius to realize that the brothers had animosity towards him so he knew that but when he said to them Shenmue na he said to them please listen to this dream he was trying to win back their favor as the ATO Civ explains he was trying to say listen like like a person who he was interacting with them like a person who has friends who good friends and he wants to share or loved ones we wants to share his dream with if he has a dream so he said shimu no please listen amar cough you anivia McKeithen SM Sunnah is a sham I meant that in the future time the measures tells us that included in what Yosef said was the fact that in the future so there would be no VM there will be prophets who would say to the Jewish people things that were unpleasant would say things that they didn't want to hear who would give him - jaco we'd give him rebuke in regards to those things that they were doing wrong okay and they would speak with this language Jamuna please listen please here right we find in the souk in Montana in profits it speaks Shimla devar hashem listen to the word hashem listen listen it's ash my mare right the verse says I'm sorry the plastic and mica in in Micah chapter six verse one shumou necessary sham a mare first uses the same exact language please listen to that which Hashem says so yo safe was coming to them in a certain sense when you talk like like what is what is the matter saying here the measure sure is telling us that that Joseph was saying to them I'm getting you to haha in a certain sense he was saying you guys think one thing about me you think that I'm you know this kid who it's not right our Father is treating me differently but understand shim una here please and he says it in a way which is loving he says it in a way which is endearing and trying to bring them in please listen to what I'm saying he wants them to understand that he has a certain level of prophecy and and he's coming with taka he's coming to help them it's not coming to hurt them he's not coming to think that he's greater than them that's not what he's coming to do I want to also point out the language of Shenmue no please listen why doesn't he say why doesn't just you know run into jump into it I want to think about the concept of shamone you know the idea of hearing in regards to in this context and how it relates to the takaka the rebuke what's the idea of listen please listen we'll come back to that point the message continues via Nakhla mamimi lumen so Yosef describes his dream and he says that we were out in the field in my dream and we were we were collecting his sheaves al-amin a looming so there's a few aspects here that he was saying to them is very interesting Atem coins in Paris and he carnies Paris that the man judge tells us the word metal MIM aluminum we need to understand what does it mean collecting sheaves so he says that you guys and I were all collecting fruits interesting the mesh switches the concept of fruits shall ahem recuva Michelly onion mine were fruits that were going to to last and yours were rotten okay so the eight COC points out that in the future when the dreams would be MacWilliam when they would be fulfilled so it was going to be true that whatever yo see if we collect all of the fruits or all of the grains that he would collect so the verse tells us I believe it's a facial empathic that the that which he collected himself all lasted there was nothing there was nothing that went bad there was nothing that went that turned rotten as opposed to that which was collected and saved by others it was ruined so the measure is telling us that included in the dream itself was an aspect of the fact that they were going to collect there's that which was theirs was going to rot and now which was his was going to stand was going to stay what's going to last okay so that's the measure she has explained that the HDI safe but what I want to point out here interestingly is that at the depth of the statement is also the fact that you know Steve is saying there's something that you are doing there's something that there's something in the way that you are holding ourselves in the way that you are doing things that is rotting there's something that's wrong with the way you're doing things and there's something in what I do and what I am doing that stands that lasts that has Q that is going to continue to exist so that's encompass or included in yo safe statement okay hold on to that thought because I'm going to show you that really this idea continues in the Madras even though it's at first glance you might mind a notice that this is a theme that's going on through the Madras Nina come a luma sivagami Java the puss excessive verse says that my my sheaf it stood up and it was getting up and it stood it was yet Seif it was stable it was stable so again there's this something something that's going on where Yosef is saying that my there's something about me that's stable something about you that's not as stable yours are you know going around and around but there's something about me that's stable let's see very belay viver beocca real avian Ravi akka each give an explanation of what this means you believe um I see they're not my size I leave them in him if now gulp shall you rub on valium or a lot of heavy throw so there's that this is very interesting and actually spent a lot of time trying to unravel what this means here but the magic is pointing out the word Malmi Malou mean that which means that they were collecting sheaves that that the word which means a sheaf also the root of it is a la flama DM which is also the word for silence or someone who can't speak someone who is mute is called an Elaine okay so the measure according to rebel AV maybe lady is saying that there's something about the brothers that is going to be mute okay there they're going to have a mute aspect that's going to manifest at a later time so yoseef system look you this is how they the commentaries explain it is very very interesting perhaps you have animosity toward me because in the future time there is going to be an individual his name is Yerevan benefit your oven benefit was in the times of King Solomon's son King Solomon's son was Shalom enough summers were have um and at that time so the mouth was the kingship the kingdom of the Jewish people was split in two and the northern kingdom was the people of Israel was the house of Israel basis RAL there was BC who da there was busy Stroh so you who Dan Benjamin was separated into one part of the Jewish people the the southern kingdom which was headed by Rahab em who was a grandson of King David the Northern Kingdom split off and in Robin benefit became the king over the Northern Kingdom nirav on was from the tribe of you guessed it Joseph now what you Robin did as the sukham described in Melaka my life chapter 12 is that first Kings chapter 12 is that you ratham saw that if the Jewish people would go to the base I'm English to the temple in Judas portion so they would see that who was they would think or they would feel that who is the real king or Hotham the grandson of King David okay so he was afraid that he was loose his mother law he would lose his kingship his kingdom even though interestingly he was appointed by a true Navi a true prophet of God nevertheless he was afraid he would lose his kingdom so what did he do he set up a void Asura's first it wasn't out of a desire he claimed it wasn't going to be an idol he set up these two a golem two golden calves he said look it wasn't the right time in the mid bar in the wilderness but now is the time he set up a temple in bear Sheva one in two different places in two different locations on and on I believe it's if I'm not mistaken and so he created these temples originally for Hashem but eventually ended up being that became an idolatrous temple now Yosef was was saying like this perhaps you have animosity towards me because I'm going to have a great grandson who is going to cause your great grandchildren to serve idolatry which is the a golem the egg glaze of the golden calves of your Rafah says yoseef to them I want you to understand this is by the way the prashanta measures recording today it's Yossi if I'm going to offer slightly different concept or another another aspect or view of this matter ish the associate says Yossi was saying to them don't get all upset at me because of that sin that's going to happen in the future which you're aware of you see that within me perhaps but I want you to remember I want you to understand that your great-grandchildren are going to be the first ones are going to set the precedent of the egg glaze of of the golden calf which is going to happen in the wilderness so it's not something that my great grandson is going to initiate it's saying that your great grandchildren are going to initiate so and and interestingly the the and this is the part we need to understand because it's not really explained so much by the counters I I had to dig deep to find someone who talks about this point in the in the way that I was thinking about it but I did find somebody so he says that you your grandchildren are going to create this eagle has of this golden calves don't get upset at me what my great grandson is going to do now when we read the language of the measure it says I see them at ten lastly I leave them elem which means you are going to make your grandchildren are going to make idols that are mute okay so it grabs on that lecture on my album I Lewin you are going to have mute your grandchildren going to create mute idols so I was thinking like what is the mute what does a mute idle and the excessive does not explain that language you just you know looks at the whole picture without looking at that that specific word but that specific word is actually key because clearly that's the word from the from the puss look from the verse that that the mesh is playing with so to speak that that it's dashing from so we need to know what is the word ilmin what did them what's the mute well it was idea of a mute Idol what does that mean so you know it was I I remembered in my mind summarize you know in my memory that the a golem of the the calves of your ratham spoke remember I don't remember where I saw it I don't remember where I heard it but I did a search actually Google helped me out it was a little bit difficult to actually find it but I was able to it says that gay Kazi who was the student of elisha he engraved in the mouth of the a golem of the calves of your oven engraved in them the name of God such that they started to speak they would say I'm nicely a shaman like a I am a sham your God that took you out of its frame so the a golem the calves of your ovum we're able to talk and that's how the Jewish people were were tricked into serving that idolatry it was because there was something about them that that they were not mute okay they were not mute so so if this is the failure so he's saying so he also was saying to his brothers your idols the idols that you're going to make in the future are going to be mute as opposed to the idols that my great grandson is going to make it's going to be it's gonna be able to speak what is your sub saying here it sounds very strange what is the idea okay so so again like we had last week so we saw in the management sometimes the message will say things that or bring rise that are unusual or strange like we saw with the with the midnight princess the princess of Midian she's called Alisa she's called the sister of her tribesmen the people of her nation because of that thing that we're talking about a funny thing there we're talking about something very negative but we're using it to bring out an idea bring out a concept and I think that the manager is doing a similar thing right here and I think that what Yosef is trying what what what the medes is putting into into yo se for teaching us again is that Yosef is saying there's something about the way that I do things that has Kuhn that lasts longer that has it's more it's stronger than the way that you do things alright so here it's in a negative context you always save is saying to them when you attend my alma mater mean when you create even a Nevada Zara even the negative things that you do when you do it you do it wrong you do it that they're mute they're not able to speak when I when my great grandson will create an idol he's gonna do it right so to speak so to speak pun not intended he's gonna do it right that the the aisle will be able to speak to something about my cough it something about my ability even when it goes into the Clipper even when it goes into the forces of evil that it's still stronger than yours it still works better so to speak okay so that's the thought that I have on this these lines here very interesting I'm arrived aha Ravana gives another explanation of what does it mean in this context the concept of Alain of being mute or Ibaka Sita Mata Mahalo allied varn left-knee a polymer hiya raha la sue there's going to be another time in the future that you're going to be mute that you're going to not speak and you're going to cause a negative effect cuz you're gonna bring Yosef was referring to something wrong that they're going to do which is they're going to bring the cloak of Yosef dipped in blood they're not gonna say a word and the result will be that Yaakov Jacob is going to say a wild animal has eaten my son Yosef so there's something negative about there about that mute aspect of themselves okay so the OC was bringing that out now and here's the final part of the Minish which i want to bring which which is really very very interesting and brings up a really difficult part of the story mankind lay mine Kyle a POSIX says I mean they come out Alamos sivagami sava Yosef said that my my sheaf got up and it stood firm it stood firm it was yet Seif okay what was it says the magic that caused it to be able to stand up to stand firm Mashti Kusa the email come it's the quiet of my mother that caused it to stand now listen to this is amazing the quiet of my mother what happened Yosef was telling him telling them that there was something about my comic Illuma see what is my mute looked like I think that this is a contrast what does their mute look like they're mute their quietness looks like showing a garment which is full of blood and not saying anything and causing someone to believe that their son is dead okay what is my quietness look like Susie Oh safe look at what my mother did Rahul look what my mother did she was quiet when lovin took Alea your mother when lovin took lair your mother and brought her to marry our Father Yakov my mother Rocco was quiet can you hear the depth of what he's saying my mother was quiet her quietude was what brought you into existence my mother's humility her quiet her Elain her mute was not used to cause someone to think that someone was dead their child was dead my my mother's mute was used to allow you guys to come into existence allow Leia to marry Yakov her quietude brought you into reality okay so look at the difference look at the difference between my mutinous my quietude my Elaine and your Elaine mine has kyun - kyun and when we think about it when we think about this story you know like it's so difficult to understand you know as we mentioned last week the brothers stand up for Dina they stand up for her she's she's been violated and they run they destroy a town for her but they don't stand up for you if they don't stand up for their brother Joseph I mean think about it Joseph's mother passed away he was a um he was a he had lost his mother he was really sit so such a sad story she died in childbirth and and that's his beloved mother she lost her can't they have a you know I don't want to come to say anything negative but like this is who he is okay okay saying things that make you uncomfortable his father's doing things to make him feel special can we have a little Rahman it's a little bit of Mercy a little bit of compassion a little understanding very challenging very difficult to understand he's the his quiet his mother's quiet tutors what brought them into existence right but I want to point out that the quiet here the quiet here of a yoseef he doesn't say when he's yelling from the bore he's saying let me out let me I didn't say hey I'm the one I'm the guy he's not saying I'm the guy she's not coming to in guy though he's not coming with an ego to say this he's trying to show them that there's something real about Who I am and it's not a mistake that Yakko gave me the cleanest opossum this colored garments not a mistake Josi was quiet in a certain sense he he's quiet later on in the story as well when the brothers come in he's quiet and he doesn't remember their sin he remembers the dreams right he remembers the dreams doesn't remember that they sold him and threw him in the pit they remember that because for them you know they realized that that was a horrible thing but he remembers the dreams he remembers and he's quiet he's quiet there he doesn't he doesn't say who he is he's quiet he has that GE is that quietude and the result of the quiet yeah Rahul there are those who say that ruffle never told layers she never knew that she would that ruffle was supposed to be the right one was supposed to be the wife of Yaakov they're those who explain that sorry you know it's not the Posche of try doesn't sound like that's what's going on per se in the verses but but Leia Leia it seems or for sure the children perhaps didn't know what had gone on didn't know that layout that Rahul was supposed to be the wife and not Leia so Yosef is the one Yosef is the guy who's supposed to belong to him the the the maluca the the kingship etc but he's quiet he's quiet and Rahul is quiet and that quiet bears fruit later on that quiet that Elain that mutinous bears fruit later on ultimately Yosef is the one who becomes the king ultimately Yosef is the one who rules over the Jewish people as compassion on his brothers despite their lack of compassion on him and they they doubt it after Yaakov Enid eyes they think perhaps he's upset at them it's not that way they've thought throughout that he has negative intentions but he doesn't you know safe doesn't he's quiet he's quiet in the face of injustice and despite that what is the results and that's what I want to bring out here what are the results of the quiet results of the quiet are ultimately that good that which is truly good that which is meant to be wins out that which is death which is supposed to be that's the strong thing that's that that which stands in the end why does his why does his why does his chief stand up because it's called an E lame mail meme Illuma see illumise see my mutinous my quietness now which I inherited from my mother her quietness and quietness is quiet and it continues to be quiet right it remains quiet until the end right but T Scalia my current day the last day that's when there's a laugh that's when we the quietness in the face of challenge in the face of injustice ultimately the truth comes out ultimately those who are quiet and stood and waited the truth comes out and that's it that's what he's saying to them shallow henrique eventually I'm dim your fruits rotten and mine are that which stand because there's something wrong with your approach and my approach a quietness of love despite injustice is what lasts and and that's also the shine I think shamone a sachet a sham a mare the way at the naveen speakers listen here be quiet listen here right it takes time it takes time to hear it as we as we speak the Russian moon oh please listen is a request for quiet and listening that humility that it takes to listen and to be quiet and also the way that the words will put the words together so it takes time we don't understand the full effects of our sentence until we've listened to all of the words of the sentence and then at the end all the pieces come together so there's a quiet and there's a patience which is also implied in a constitution iike in the concept of quietude so I want to bless you and ask you to bless me I Shem should help us that we should learn the lessons of yes if we should understand what it means to be mute what it means to be quiet to understand that the quietude the humility is that which ultimately stands and ultimately the fruits of Yosef we will see ourselves very soon we'll see the Quai the Jewish people are the use of of the world we stand by me watching justice and ultimately after many many years of our being quiet and waiting ultimately a chef messiah will arrive all of the nations of the world will continue to acknowledge that we are the chosen 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