Ari Goldwag - Vayigash - Exile and Redemption

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast recorded with a shams never-ending assistance in rubbish mission Israel 5777 2017 this week's parsha is purchased by you gosh we have the resolution of the climax of the story of Joseph and his brothers you hoot as we left him last week and as this week's parsha begins you Hooda steps up to yo safe and says to him that I have guaranteed this boy this binyomin who you would like to take as a slave I guarantee to his father that I would take him home that I would bring him back and so he steps up for his mother binyomin it leads to yo safe revealing himself and all the the sons of Yaakov being reunited and the all the Jewish people yahoo levine himself jacob and all his children is 70 offspring come down to Egypt and begin their sojourning in Egypt now in the process of this statement of you who'd of you who to steppin of ie gosh I love you who do you who to coming forward and stepping up for Benjamin taking a stand so to speak for the guarantee that he made so the measures tells us something very interesting and very difficult to understand major cells says like this this is in partial sadi gimo 93 section Zion number seven Dover affair my you gosh I love you who dug Amira bnib Evelyn said Bashar shatov seoc fatale against minny omen when yo safe outside he tried to grab Benjamin but I mérla Hamlet a cough and he said his brother syesha sure named saga vob other who yearly love it that the one who has been found the goblet in his hands he shall be for me a slave I'm really who the Buddha said to him in Yamaha tough who's shown leave ASAP you're going to take binyomin there's going to be peace in the house of my father yod casa de immediately Judah was angered he stood up and he shouted in rage was shocked the cold girdle and he roared with a loud voice Olaf clearly I remains parsa and his voice was so loud to troweled 400 parcel which is a great distance I chose Sharma who shun been done until who shun the Sun have done was back in Artie's fell back in the land of israel he heard what was going on the COTS mayor's cannon and he jumped says the Madras from the land of Canaan who I tell you who da he came immediately to you who that he was able to use the the secret concept of confettis are there if he was able to travel in a moment a very far distance he came immediately to stand by the side of Judah hishaku sheesh nahum and they both roared like lions with Vic Sharon's family Hoffa column and the land of Egypt wanted to turn over upon them the message goes on to give us a whole description of the events and it says that both Yehuda and done were referred to in two different new voice and two different blessings which were given through the concept of prophecy as a gharare as a lion cub so both of them have this aspect of lions and therefore both of them had this aspect of roaring of creating this monstrous sound now I don't want to get so far in to the major shuts up but what I do want to point out which is extremely interesting is what the hco safe says in explaining this metric he points out like this he said the pollution been done nickel al-sharia may shave it had Danny included in a concept of who shun Bannon whenever we have whenever we have ideas or people or stories in the Med roush which are fantastic which are unusual which are difficult to understand so we need to understand the message is giving us a paradigm is giving us a muscle and analogy it's helping it might be literally true but it's also giving us a concept first understand not just for that particular circumstance but also other circumstances which are parallel and will have a similar nature to this particular circumstance so he says that cushion band on rushima was the son of Don who by the way interestingly was def he wasn't able to hear so it's very interesting that the measure says that he was able to hear obviously means in a spiritual way he was able to hear that you huda was roaring but houshmand on also represents somebody else and that is his great-great grandson who is called Sharia who's from the shaven who's comes from the the tribe of Don of them i'll show you Slava las it in motion ben david says ACO save that in the future time so there's going to be me chef mondavi the kid is the Messiah the son of Dave is gonna come the king the final king of the Jewish people and he's going to be accompanied by Sharia who's involved in the process of mushiya who's involved in the coming of the Messiah the Mahama in this war is going to help him with the war come of or bizarre and elsewhere as well it's brought down in the 80s it explains also in the navarre the the bracha that that yeah cover Jacob gave to his sons when he gives brockett's done included in an avoids the future the offspring of done which is Sharia this individual is going to be a great great grandson of done is going to be involved in the process of meshia who is going to stand there alongside mushy happened David important understand she a friend of it also comes from King David clearly and also comes from you Hooda from Judah the one who's stepping up here you who does the great great grandfather King Dave it as well so we see here that the measure is telling us that you Hooda stands side by side with an offspring of Don which is in this case who shun and in the future time a messiah when the Messiah arrives you who is offspring which is mushiya who comes from him he's going to stand side by side with another important offspring of Don whose name is Sharia now I want to point out that there's another place where we find that who shun been down appears in a story in a metric type story in our causal our sages in the sagamore and so toned off your demo page 13 and it speaks about the fact that when Yahoo Avenue diamond Jacob passed away they brought his body we brought his bones to Israel to the morrow so much paler to the cave of the patriarchs in order to bury him and the Camorra tells us that when he and his entourage all his children came to bury him there in Hevron so asaph his brother yah hooves brother a civ stud up and said I'm not gonna let you guys bury him there that's my plot Yaakov already used his plot when he buried Leia we are two brothers we have equal rights I want my plot don't you dare bear Yaakov there so they said what do you mean you sold also this burial plot to Yakima vena to Jacob ASA said I don't know what you're talking about a said we have a document but the document unfortunately was left back in Egypt says the kimono so they had to send back Naftali who is light-footed who would be able to run back there quickly in order to bring back this document in order to stop the standoff with a sub the gamarra tells us something very interesting that who shun Van Daan who was deaf so he said what's going on he didn't he couldn't see what was happening he wasn't able to understand what was going on either understand a conversation obviously knew something was going on but he didn't know exactly what they explained to him that I may be the you sign language or maybe he was able to read lips they explained to him that this is the circumstance asa was trying to stop Yoko forming buried there and who Jimmy Don said that's not possible how could he do such a thing when khushi men done got up he killed a sub very interesting if to see the details there he knocked out his eyes his eyes fell onto Yakov's beer onto his coffin you have to see the gamarra there's very interesting Yaakov sits up even though he's dead he sits up and he smiles check out the gamar is very interesting of course everything there every single detail has some kind of deep meaning has a deep significance and there's an analogy here not going to go into every detail now but what we do see is that somehow the aspect of of yeah covina being buried the story of yahoo being buried has a similar theme to what's going on here and who shun been done just like who shun comes to accompany you Hooda in order to to help him out so to speak but also as a CEO civ explains there's some parallel to the story of what's going to go on in the future of a shipment of it of the coming of the Messiah so two over here as well as Yahoo is being buried which somehow parallels also it seems the idea of redemption so who Shimon that also gets up there he also stands up and he gets involved and he moves things along now I would love to get into try to explore and examine the idea of cushion been done who he is his name who Shem is very interesting also hooch I mean senses he somebody who is he has a lack of ability when it comes to his senses and yet at the same time he's somebody who has a very deep spiritual sense and he's someone who is offspring are going to be involved in the process of meshia have gula himself is involved in in these different points of Google of redemption he's very interesting personality but i'm not going to explore that at this but what I do want to understand what I do want to explore right now is that we see over here something very interesting and that is that when we think of gula when we think of redemption we think of a time when all is going to be well when all is going to be transformed when all of the idols going to destroy when everyone is going to know about a sham everyone is going to have an absolute revelation of godliness all of the people in the entire world will have navulla prophecy as though as the new VM as they prophesize about the future time so we think about Google we think about Redemption it's a time of perfecting as a time of moving into a state of perfection but see the issue here is the problem is that the stories that we're describing both in regards to yosef exotic anna garcia co being buried we're not talking about points of apparent googler we're talking actually about points of descent we're talking about a loss of yakima being off Jacob we're talking about a loss of that spiritual inside of a Jacob the one who was the leader of the Jewish people at that time let me talk about the story of yo safe even yes there's a reconciliation between the brothers yes there's a beautiful thing that's going on but we're also talking about a point where the Jewish people are heading down into Gullah setting down into exile and so this is a point in the Jewish people's history which is the opposite of Google of anything this is the beginning of their examines the beginning of the loss of their freedom loss of their spirituality so what is the idea that the ACL civ is telling us that here and really the message is telling us that when we have this point in time which is the revelation of yosef is about to do to his brothers to say here I am I'm yo safe we have this point in time somehow it represents it parallels and there has to be the same thing going on as in gula when it comes to redemption certain things occur and what we see here in this mattress is that when we have stages and points and redemption there's also a going to be a parallel situation that's going to occur at each point at each stage but here it's not a full gula if anything is the opposite so how are we to understand this idea how he took understand what our seizure of hazara teaching us here so in order to answer all these questions I want to share with you one more question the answer of what which will help us to understand what's been going on until now we find that by Yosef at sadak he know at the very beginning of the story so he has two different dreams he has a dream with the Stars and the Sun and the moon bowing down to him and he also has a second dream which is the sheaves of each of his brothers all bowing down to his chief and what's interesting here is that he has two dreams that say the same thing and when it comes to Pyro's dreams the beginning of last week's parsha we see that he also has two dreams and those two dreams say the same thing different metaphor different analogy but they say the same thing and what's interesting is that when Yosef interprets the dreams for power he explains that the reason that it happened twice the reason that power had these dreams twice the same dream two different dreams is because it means that I College broker that God is ready to act on these things information that is giving over to Pharaoh the seven years of plenty the seven years of famine it's something that God is planning to do immediately that's the reason why he had the dreams twice it's something which God is intending right now it's going to happen right now and so when we look back at the dreams of yo see if we have to ask the question because yo saves dreams were dreams that had to do with the fact that he was going to be the leader he's going to he had those shoes they were collecting sheaves it represented something that's gonna happen 22 years later that the brothers are going to come to him and really the whole world is going to bow down to him as it were because he's going to be the leader in regards to Calcutta in regards to providing sustenance for his family and really not just for the Jewish people but for the entire land the entire known world at the time but what's interesting is that he had to dream twice two different dreams that showed the same thing and yet it's not something that occurred right away it was something that was a 22 year process that we experience together with Yosef as you read the partyís over the last three weeks so but it's not something that happened right away so how we to understand the fact that Yosef had those dreams twice the same dream speaking of the fact that he was the leader he was going to be the leader of the Jewish people in light of the fact that it's not going to happen for 22 years and the understanding I believe that the the proper understanding of what's going on here and you'll see that this applies perfectly to the questions that we asked at the beginning the idea here is that while it's true in regards to Paro that there was something that was about to happen it was going to take place immediately and the fact that the dream was repeated represented that fact in regards to yosef there was also something that was going to take effect immediately and it wasn't the fact that there was going to be a a rulership of yosef which was going to be immediately apparent but what would take place immediately what what rolled what started the ball rolling so to speak for the entire process that happened immediately the very dream itself was part of what would spark the process which would ultimately lead to yosef italic being the leader over his brothers the leader over all of them it's time over Egypt and really the conduit for sustenance for the entire known world but it was a process and because of the fact that it was a process Google a redemption is a process the fact that there's going to be some amazing thing that's going to happen for the Jewish people it takes time the Jewish people are meant to be the conduit just like Joseph is a conduit for goodness to come into the world for sustenance to come into the world so to the Jewish people themselves are that conduit and when the Jewish people when the nation of the Jewish people is in a state of T colonists in this proper state so the Jewish people live in the Land of Israel and we act as the conduit for all goodness to come to us and thereby to the entire world Israel itself is the spiritual condo the place where all of goodness comes into the world through artists or through the Land of Israel on a physical level on a spiritual level and whatever happens to the Jewish people is a reflection of what's going on to the entire mankind but that is what happens when we get to a state of redemption that's what happens when the Jewish people are catechu know that's why shlome amela King Solomon he at his time was the the kingship of the Jewish people was in its proper state so he was as consultants or sage astellas he was a ruler over the entire world at a time if you think about the concept of Esther I'm alka Queen Esther she was also had that aspect but the idea in all of these cases is that there's a process through which the Jewish people are to come to a state of gula state of redemption or really a state of being it hakuna Neno in the proper way that the order of creation is meant to be that the chef has to come through them into the world but in order for that to happen there are stages in that process the Jewish people in order to get artsy sorella /em says the Abraham as a Shem says dharam they need to descend into Egypt they need to become slaves strangers in a strange land and then after a certain amount of time after the process has been completed they come out barouche kadhal with great wealth and they come to the line of Israel and they come to state of technics come to say of gula but part of that process is the Jewish people descending to Egypt that is also a significant but you can't have the redemption of the Jewish people without their dissension to Egypt you can have the Google or the redemption without the exile it's something you see very clearly mr. hero save the result of him being sold result it is difficult as a result of all of these things going to jail ending up there for so much time until he meets the particular individuals who will speak about him to pyro so that he can interpret the dreams etc for him to become that leader that was all necessary all of those things those stages those stops along the way were necessary and so it's considered as if he had those dreams hegemons mamaya na so so he had those dreams about the fact that he's going to be the leader immediately mrs. Gallagher lat varam the the matters roll it starts rolling the process begins and so each to hona each station along the way of the process also has a quality of redemption you see you can't really separate the process from the result of the process and so when our house I'll tell us when our sages tell us that certain things take place when there's a redemption there are certain things that take place when we see the point where the redemption is completed where the google that happens and that's the war of gog magog that's the final war which occurs in the end of days at the end of times mushy happened of it himself comes and there are others who are ma him who accompanied in worship and Yosef is involved in that and this offspring share you this offspring from the tribe of done he's also involved with huzzah are telling us is that there's a certain rubric there's a certain way that things go and you see these things whenever you see these things happening you can know that this is a point along the way of redemption this is not it seems like it's the opposite of redemption it's really it seems like it's the death of Yaakov avena the death of Jacob but it's also a point along the way of redemption and not just a point along the way like this is something that we have to get past but it's actually something that we need we need to go down in order to go up we need to have the Exile in order to have the redemption we need to have those experiences in order to experience the elation you need to have that negativity that the brothers of yoseef needed to go through what they went through in order to have that ultimate reconciliation with you Oh safe the Jewish people need to go down to Egypt in order to come out of Egypt in order to be redeemed and in order to receive the Land of Israel and that's true on a national level and it's true on a personal level and while we spoke last week about the fact that when a person is connected to a collage bakwin a person's connected to God completely so the the waves so to speak that a person in doors are not as wide they're not as high they're not as low but nevertheless a person still has to go through process a person still has to go you know like house I'll say when it comes to yo safe if you wouldn't have asked if he wouldn't have depended upon the Sarah masking the cupbearer to help him the the way would have been a lesser wave if it wouldn't have been 12 years in jail would have been only 10 years in jail he still would have had to go through a wave even if he had completely trusted in God but still there there are different levels in different ways that we affect how things go and how things play out in our lives but the idea here is that we do have to have that down so to speak the bottom of the wave in order to experience the crest to experience the top of the wave but the beautiful idea that has Allah are teaching us in a mesh and in a Gamorrean sota is that you can see if you look carefully you can see characteristics of redemption even in the places where it seems that it's the opposite Redemption because those places really and a Shem shows it to us action gives us these characteristics of redemption so we can see them even at the places where it seems like it's the opposite of redemption so that we can gird ourselves so that we can strengthen ourselves with the knowledge that this is a point along the way and that's something that yosik was able to do that was his ability to do that's something that has I'll give us the opportunity to do as well in learning these types of ideas and learning these types of madras them and learning these types of cameras so I want to bless you and please bless me back a shrimp should help us that we should be able to recognize when a Shem is showing us along the way even in the challenges a shaman shows us something that helps us see that this is a point along the way to our personal Redemption and a shrimp showed up was to also be able to see that in regards to our national Redemption should help us see the challenges that we face nationally whether it's the Land of Israel was the people of Israel whether it's in Israel or whether it's outside of Israel all of these challenges Hashem should help us see that they are just the station and sometimes necessary difficult challenging but just the station along the way to our ultimate redemption 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 calm or search on itunes ari gold wag you