Vayigash - Moshiach ben Yosef in Jail

you're listening to the weekly PR podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with hashem's never ending assistance in Israel T Shin 2025 this week's par and I'd like to get into something which is very serious very no very connected to what's going on in the world today has to do with mashia has to do with mhi bin Y and the topic starts it's an extensive topic I don't know if I'll be able to get all the way till the end of the topic but we'll touch at least on some basic ideas we'll read Y which I once said and once that one time we'll get into it but it's an extensive piece in the and it's connected to our it's connected to Y and his brothers it's connected to mhia b y and the depth of it if we understand it we start to understand what's going on right now before our very eyes in ER Israel throughout the world and it starts really with a basic question of the story of Yosef as we read the story of yoseph his brother sold him that's two weeks ago already in the paraa his brother sold him he's in jail for 12 years he suffers with puar's wife for a year he's in jail for 12 years comes out he becomes a leader over Egypt becomes in charge of the food for everybody he's in charge of everybody's parnasa collects the grain for seven years two years into the famine the brothers come in and they bow to him yoseph sees they don't recognize him and he decides to put them through a tremendous trial tribulation a tremendous difficulty an emotional he runs them through an emotional ringer and finally in our paraa he accuses bamin of having stolen his special goblet the brothers come Yehuda steps up Vash love Yehuda and Yehuda says you can't take Benyamin take me instead take me instead let my let my brother go back up to his father that bamin go back up let my father not suffer anymore like he suffered over the loss of his wife raal his son yose he can't suffer anymore by losing bam as well take me instead I guaranteed he would return and I'm willing to replace him as your slave and as we read the story so the questions are many what was Yos what was he doing was he trying to get back at his brothers was he trying to make the dreams come true as the ramban says I'd like to understand on a p shot level and yose says to his brothers after he reveals himself he says it's not you who sent me here yes you sold me down to Egypt but it was Hashem wanted me to come here so that I would end up leading Egypt I would end up collecting all of the grain so that all of you would live through this incredible famine so that all of the really all of the modern world at that time would be able to survive a tremendous disaster a natural disaster of famine which was going to be had been going on for two years it would go on for another five years according to the P him so but yose he was in jail let's be let's be clear he was in jail for 13 12 years and and he was was a slave in pod's house for a year all this because of his brothers they sold him so when ysep puts them through the ringer when he puts them through this difficult challenge emotionally they don't know what's going on it feels unfair it was unfair accused of being spies having to bring down their son Benyamin and let's not forget yakob was also adversely affected by the game that Yosef played with the brothers what was Yosef trying to accomplish or let's even think about it from another perspective why did Yosef have to go through 12 years in jail unjustly what did he do wrong why was he in jail for 12 years okay he comes out of jail he ends up being on top of the world but still he says he said to the to the I was stolen I was kidnapped I was unjustly sold as a slave and I was unjustly placed into to jail for having done something I didn't do what's the understanding of this what's the understanding of what ysep went through and once the understanding of what ysep puts his brothers through pup shot simple understanding and the reason we get to the Y is because the the medish in the Y as we're going to read together teaches us that it's not just an event that occurred thousands of years ago with Yad but it's an event that's going to reoccur and that was actually embedded into creation by Hashem specifically for mhia b y mhia y the gar Suka talks about this person who's going to come and wage Wars on behalf of am Isel right before the Advent of mhia David before the final mhia comes there's an initial Messiah who faces off with the nations of the world and who as we'll see in the mimoni also ends up in jail just like his forbear y was in jail and there's a specific reason why as we'll see very difficult to understand but I want to before we actually read this mes I want to point out something which is as we read the mes we need to think about what theim say in yesah the theim in the very first chapter of yesi of Isaiah it's immediately before the in the second chapter of Isaiah of yesah So it's talking about in the second chapter it says it's going to be in the end of days times of the Mountain of hem will be the home of the B of the bdash everyone is going to stream to theik they're going to come there they're going to come serve Hashem there they're going to come to learn from the Jewish people about what it means to serve Hashem that's the very beginning of the second chapter of yesaiah but immediately before that at the end of the first chapter of yesaiah it tells us what's going to be the preceding what the times before mhia are going to look like which is our times so it's a description of what's going on now and it's a description of what needs to be rectified before Messiah can come and if you listen carefully you're going to hear that it's also a description of what happened with ysep and his brothers and what's going to happen with mhia b y and the generation of mhia BOS which is us the P tells us about the sins of am Israel yesah goes on and on speaking about the Terrible Things That am Isel has done in our relationship with Hashem in our relationship with serving Hashem instead of serving hashm we served idolatry we served all the isms the liberalism the attachment we could say for today's world attachment to TOS to being in a place of wealth not being willing being worried about parosa and therefore not willing to come to Israel being worried about what's going to be with our kids and therefore not willing to come to Israel being attached to the Past being attached to the AO zaras of today but besides for that theuk talk about the sin of Jerusalem and as the malm explains in Jerusalem in Yim people would come there and there was it was a place of tremendous amount of interaction between people and there were there was selling they were shops and there was interactions between to maned his fellow and as a result of that there was tremendous potential for one person to steal from another person to cause damage to other people when human beings interact naturally there can be there can be problems but what is the rectification that is the rectification for Yim in order to reach a stage a point where Jerusalem is rectified and we have a b mdash which represents the coming together of it's also the place of the of the judgments of the the sanedrin of the high courts of the Jewish people which means that it's a place where am Isel comes to for we want we want things to be correct the mistakes that we made maybe I unjustly took something that belongs to somebody else we want everything to be in right balance say like this tells us in the name of hem the master the master of all the the Lord of hosts is the mighty one of the people of Israel when will it be that we will have an opportunity to be victorious over our enemies when are we going to see the kind of things that we're seeing seeing today success of against our enemies we need to remove all of the draws all of the sins of all of the mistakes that we've made all of the secularism all of the atheism all of the liberalism but we also need to remove we need the original way that we were judged explain is referring to and it's spas on referring to and a they made sure that we were properly behaving between man and his fellow Aon was worried about peace between man and his fellow and we had advisors we had people to to show us the path of Hashem once we have once we have the when the Judgment system which today is in shambles what's going on in Israel but look what's going on in the entire world the Judgment system is being misused and abused by the idols of today to justify that which is wrong to find guilty those who are innocent the opposite of Justice we need in order for mashiach to come in order for the full rectification for the to be built from to arrive we need to bring back proper judgment we need to bring back proper Justice once that's occurred the city of Y will be called the city of righteousness of Justice k a faithful City was going to bring about the salvation of the P the the return to goodness to straightness to proper Justice it returns when everything gets straightened out when there's going to be a destruction of those who sin those who are defiant of whether it's those who have left hem the secularists they will end as we see happening in our times there'll be an embarrassment a recognition of all of the idols that people worshiped to protect their parosa the idol of silver and gold the idol of of his less of too much efforts in those times it was the idol of the literal Idol that they would place on their fields in order to protect them or to bring down a to bring down blessings upon them when all of that is finished when there's a recognition that all of these things are fruitless all of these things are pointless immediately then once we recognize that all of our Idols whether they're physical Idols or their spiritual Idols once we've gotten rid of them and they've been destroyed and we've come back to Justice we've come back to truth we've come back to Hashem we've come back to proper interactions between man and his fellow then so can follow that's the end of chapter one of yes and then we get to the beginning of chapter two which is the Bish is built well let's think about the fact that Yosef and his brothers there was a tremendous Injustice that had been perpetrated by the brothers and it caused yoseph to end up a slave and then as things unfolded for him he ended up in jail for 12 years for for nothing that he did wrong this Injustice was caused by the brothers and and yoseph needed to reverse the Injustice the brothers needed to atone they needed to they needed to undo what they did they needed to recognize as they did throughout the story that what was happening to them was because of what they did to their brother yoseph unjustly and they needed to reverse it and it's very interesting and needs thought and understanding why ysf himself felt it was his obligation to bring about this chuva this repentance this undoing of the mistake but clearly that's what he was doing and that's clearly what the brothers needed to go through now that's all an introduction really for something I don't think we'll have the time to read the entire Mish but I'd like to read to you at least a nice portion of it it speaks about mhia and it speaks about how he also has to go through a very difficult time the M starts off and we'll see if I can read everything or just parts of it the PK says in hashem's light we will see light there's an incredible light says the M that hasem stored away under his under his throne of Glory when hasem created the world he created this special light which is the light that's hidden away that's waiting for the times of the messian age which hopefully we start to see that light sooner that light is already starting to shine God saw the light that it was good what did he see that was good he saw the light that is going to reveal in the generation of mhi when we're talking here this whole m is speaking about the or of mhia says the 60th chapter of Isaiah the word Kumi stand let the light stand up let I'm sorry Kumi means stand up Shine Your Light your light is come K is gatria 156 which is the same gatria as Y which is the same gri 156 so we're talking about the light of mhia hasem saw this light and he saw his his actions he saw what's going to happen with the generation of Messiah you saw what's going to happen with Messiah himself himself hid away the light and and his generation so our generation has been waiting yes we're we're the people we are who the mes is talking about our generation the light of mhia and we and mhia himself mhia were hidden under God's Throne now the Satan theara the negative force of creation that hm created he noticed that this light is hidden over there and he said what's what's the story with this light as the gar in Suka points out as well the the Satan the Yar is going to be destroyed by M for in his generation with the war of thear is going to be destroyed the evil inclination is going to be taken away and at the same time as this says is going to embarrass you the Satan the Satan says the Satan I want to see this person he says come and look when the SAT sees him he falls on his face he's shaken and he says this is certainly m is going to cause me to fall and all of the all of the um Sim the Sim are the princes or the or the Mighty Powers who serve Idols that are in they're going to all be destroyed by this Mia is going to destroy the concept of death forever so they see him but what's his power what's his power so the mes continues and says that Hashem has a conversation with mhia with this mhia y with his soul and he says to him there's going to be a generation and they're they're going to be so terrible they're going to cause you to end up in jail and we can think about you know I'm going to take a concept and and extrapolate the concept R cook says that he understood that what was what was happening as this as this it was he was around before was around before the beginning of the current state of Israel but he saw what was happening and he saw it as the beginnings of a a process an incredible process and he saw that the secular were the ones who were commandeering the process of am Israel's return to Earth Israel but he said and in a different context the also referred to M on theim of ofum not going to get into that but R cook said that what's happening is an unfolding where Messiah comes and it's hidden Yosef hides himself yoseph looks like an evil Egyptian he looks like he's someone who's out to get the brothers accusing them of having done wrong but ultimately the process reveals itself that inside is Hashem as it were God is bringing about a Salvation for am Israel Israel is going to get stronger and stronger the says this as well in is everything will turn around everything will be holy it will be revealed to be a positive force but the M says that mhia is going to be incarcerated he's going to be he's going to be in shackles he'll be Shackled by his Generation by the negative forces within his generation he's going to end up Shackled by the justice system which is if you think about it this is what has happened the the the country has become more and more firm the government of Israel today is composed of people on the right people who are are part of the government thei are part of the government but it's the government is Shackled by the the justice system so so the justice system is that which is holding us back so in a certain sense the theim the the M talks about the fact in the week that in the sevene period when is about to arrive or when he's coming he's going to reveal himself they bring mhia is told that if he wants to save his generation and he does and he tells the I can't I don't have time to read it inside but he tells I want to do everything to save your kids I don't care if I'm going to be the one to have to suffer in jail suffer pain on behalf of am Israel suffer because they are the ones who are actually causing me to be in jail exactly parallel to what happened to yoseph he says I'm willing to go through that just as my forebear y went through it he's he's enduring such terrible pain his cries go up to the heaven and a KES says look we're going to split we're going to split the difficulties we're going to split the difficulties and I'm going to take it too I'm going to take part of it who says you're going to take part of it and between the two of us we're going to carry this pain for Amel it's very interesting and the measure says a little further on this thing that I said to you the are going to come back to life in the month of the month of even though they're gonna say like this even though we are your great great great grandparents we're the aice we're the foundation of Amel but in a certain way you're greater than us because you were willing to endure the effects my our great grandchildren will sin against you and cause you through their sins they will cause you to endure such pain think about it through the justice system look what's going on today with Ari Rosenfeld with with um yeah I lost his name right now the the other person who is adversely affected and sent into jail and tortured for helping bring information to to the Prime Minister but they're being tortured right these are all aspects of M all of these individuals that no one else had to endure before has made fun of and is made fun of by the Nations how could this be going on now how could they be taking a prime minister in the middle of a war and and bringing him into the courtrooms to testify Etc your eyes didn't see light it sounds exactly like what happened with what's going on today so but says I'm willing to do this the fact that think about it Yad was in jail there under the the greatest Empire of the time under the Egyptians he was there for 12 years but he ended up coming out and having power over them and subsequently having power over all of am Isel it was because of that difficulty that he went through and he understood that and mashia is going to have the same thing because he ends up under the boot incarcerated in jail um caused so much pain by the justice system ultimately he rises up and also as the me says cause such pain by The Who make fun of him the nations of the world and the evil Persians the evil Iranians that's what the M says it's explicit here so then after it's all over and he comes out Victorious he comes out proven innocent he comes out and he has power you become the judge now of these people you bring out your power do with them whatever you want you could have if if Hashem says if not for my ra my my compassion on you you would have been destroyed by by the justice system you would have been destroyed by the nations of the world by the H by the hog heg however you pronounce it by the IC by the UN says m is m is there any more is there any son who's more precious to me says it says it doubly I will have compassion I will have compassion what is it teaching us says the M the double language is came they were saying terrible things about Isel they were saying terrible things about as he's in jail y every day himself was going through terrible times the wife of podar kept coming and bothering him but Hashem gives him raim Hashem gives him the ability to withstand the troubles as he goes through them there's a second there's a second compassion that hasm has strength that hasem gives as he comes out of that jail shal when right before arrived MH has to face off with 140 not one says not two 140 different nations come against him which is interesting because classically there are 70 Nations but here it's 140 which is the doubling there's a doubling of the Nations there's an incredible power all of the forces of the nations of the world come out against and yet and they're contained I would add which I heard from some they're contained in the 70 nations are contained within the seven right there are seven they keep talking about seven different fronts in the world we're facing now and they all come out don't be afraid of them hem says these will all be destroyed with the with the Wind of your lips M continues but let's think about okay that's basically the mes but let's think about it and wrap this up and understand that what is the concept here Mia when YF is oppressed by his own people by by the negative forces within his own people CLA Isel the righteous amongst us think about it if the pic says that there has to be a a straightening a bringing back into balance of Judgment of ofed of Sedaka of righteousness of Justice when things are out of out of balance that's what prevents M from coming when evil props itself up and says I am the true I am the True Justice the way that I say is the way it's supposed to be think about the liberal world the Western world that says everything the opposite about everything that should be when it comes it's just an example but everything that has to do with started off with women's lib women trying to work instead of the of men and it unraveled and unraveled till the point where you can't there you can't even tell the difference between who's who and what's what lack of clarity lack of proper boundaries the this lack of boundaries has unfolded itself into all kinds of crazy ridiculous far-fetched mistakes and everything needs to be brought back into balance the brothers and yoseph let's bring it back to them the brothers in ysf when ysep said when ysf was given that coat yaku recognized that ysep was the leader of the brothers that it was RA who was the rightful wife Leia's children couldn't accept it they fought it and they brought the proof to to yakob himself by dipping the coat in the blood and and presenting it to Yakov and basically what they were saying is look the one who you thought was the real son the real leader it wasn't ra it was Leia and for 22 years Yakov who knew the truth knew that it wasn't it wasn't that was not righteousness that was not sedic that was not proper those who were supposed to be part of CLA Israel but supposed to be led led by a yos Ys was the true leader of am is Mia the mhi as a result of the brother's misuse of Justice they were trying to grab the throne trying to grab the leadership the result was that ysf had to go through what he went through but the difficulty and the challenge that he endured as he always said to them it wasn't you it was Hashem he recognized his soul lit up with the original message the original willingness that he had he wanted to save all of am Israel he wanted to be the proper leader at tremendous self-sacrifice but still in order for him to reveal himself to his brothers as their leader he needed them to admit he needed them to come back into the proper place of balance and Justice who was the chosen one it was Benyamin it was ysep it was the the children of Rael raal was the main wife they had to reverse and take that take the son sapim the the multicolored coat they had to remove the blood they had to undo the sail they had to revert to who they were before to who they were before they made this terrible mistake of judging Yosef and selling him into slavery and it was yosef's job to to bring them to that and it will be mhia y's job also to bring am isra to to to remove the problems to bring down the false misuse of justice so that the true nature of Kal Isel can return no longer being forced into secularism as it has tried to manipulate Isel for so many years the evil forces within Kel those forces need to themselves fall and be forced to recognize that am Israel's salvation is in Tyra is in Justice is in service of Hashem and ultimately then the Bas mdash will be built on harachi on the Holy Mountain of Hashem and all of the Nations Kumi we will shine finally that light and all of the Nations will stream to Jerusalem and they will grab the four corner Gard of each Jew because we will finally become the people we're meant to be be shining that light and they will recognize it and they'll all want to go by the light of Amel which is the light of Hashem I want to bless you I ask you to bless me should help us that we should be able to see that amazing day but also be able to look for the justice and the righteousness and the truth where are we making our mistakes where are we not respecting those who are studying the Torah where are we not respecting what the T says what's right and what's correct between man and his fellow let's be those people let's be those righteous individuals who shine hashem's light and usus able to witness the rebuilding of the B MDES speedily and in our day our days thank you so much for list listening wonderful shabas this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.wag.com or search on iTunes Ari goldwag [Music]