Vayigash - Unity in Israel

you're listening to the weekly paral podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with A's never ending assistance in R Israel 20123 this week's parash we have the climax of The Story of yose and his brothers and how as we'll see Yosef is able to bring the brothers to a place where they stand up where they stand up for their brother they stand up for bamin and they don't allow to be taken into slavery but rather they stand up for his honor they stand up because of the commitment they have made because of the commitment that Yehuda made specifically to his father and in so doing they bring the mysterious chapter in their lives to a close as Yosef reveals himself to his brothers and they become aware they understand who it is who is this Egyptian leader who seems to be such a thorn in their side I'd like to read to you from the MIM in in the beginning of our para and I want to as we go into it I i' would like us to ponder and think about and consider the fact that these MIM are speaking about the the Earth shattering the the moment in time when Yehuda and yose these two figures who represent Yehuda is the great great grandfather of King David of DAV he's the one who is the kingship within the people of Israel and yph himself and eventually his offspring would also represent an aspect of kingship within the Jewish people and these two kings are coming together they're they're facing off they're facing off in the Moment of Truth and as we'll see the magic speaks about this and but it it doesn't just have you know it's an interesting story it's a climactic story it's an emotional story but it's not just about what happened then these people are they represent Kos certain powers within the Jewish people that came to play then and will come to play or are coming to play as we approach the Messianic age as we approach the time of Tik the time of rectification where all of the parts of the Jewish people come back together in the land of Israel and there is aspects of the Jewish people which have a certain similarity to to yosef's to yosef's to what he represents there are certain aspects of the Jewish people that correspond to what Yehuda represents and these aspects come together and they Clash they Clash the Jewish people returns to the land of Israel as we have and there are elements of the Jewish people that are more religious there elements that are more secular and they come together and there's there's a there's a cataclysmic world world shattering moment in time which perhaps are even experiencing or we have experienced as those elements come back together and they have to live with each other we have to live with each other and ysf and Yuda had to live with each other the children of RA the children of Leia so as we read the MIM together and there's a lot of M here we're not going to see everything obviously but but let's let's think about it in terms of what happened then and what happened in the future I'll just mention something that it says in in the Mish and speaking about this conversation that we're going to see between ysf and Yehuda so it says I'm just going to read you know pick out a small thing because I want to show you how the maam understand that it's not just an event that happened in the past but it's really representative of something that's going to happen in the future says Mish that Yehuda in his conversation with ysf he got angry and he roared with a powerful roar like a lion and his voice the sound of his of his Roar was so loud or perhaps as the mafor explained the spiritual element of his warar was so powerful that it went all the way into the land of Israel 400 parsa all the way from Egypt from the capital of Egypt all the way till till Earth to the land of Israel where where yob was where Dan's son he had a son named Kim just say something incredible which I don't believe is meant to be taken at face value but as for explain it's hinting to something very deep and something powerful the son of Don Dan had a son who was deaf right he couldn't hear his name was kushim interestingly which means senses so he had a very powerful spiritual sense which is why the say that he was able to hear not physically here he's able to resonate with the difficulty that Yehuda was going through that caused him to Roar to to get angry in response to yose trying to take vyam as his slave so Dan sonim according to one of the of excuse me according to one of them had the ability to to he knew how to tap into a spiritual aspect which would make him able to quickly get to Egypt from the land of Israel in a moment so he came he heard the call of his brother and and Don and his children have a blessing of also being like a lion you's called an a lion a gur AR a lion cub and so is done so they Roar together so they says here that so he came says the that the son of Dan came all the way to Egypt and he helped his brother he helped his uncle but it's an example it represents something that's going to happen in the future it corresponds to something that will happen in the future yud of course as we said represents and includes within him the power of messia bavid the Messiah who will come from King David that's ultimately from Yehuda we find that there's going to be somebody named Sheria who's going to come from the tribe of Dan I'm sorry he's going to accompany m in the future in his War as is explained in the Zohar the secrets of the Torah reveal that there's going to be a battle in the future time perhaps the battle that we're looking at is part of that battle but there's going to be a battle which involves mhia David King David the mhia Messi from King David and ultimately from Yehuda as well and one of the players in that battle is going to be from the tribe of dun and in a parallel way kushim the son of dun came all the way from the land of Israel to Egypt to stand by yehuda's side now I wanted to read that so that you understand that what we're going to read together we're going to study together it's not just about what happened in the past it's also also about what's happening in our present which is the future right we're living in a special time I believe we're on a as I spoke about in my mhia podcast we're on the crossover time between the MH Ys time and the mhav time so we're in in that moment of History we're in an incredible moment of history when when the Yosef and the Yehuda aspects are coming together and there's a clash as as we said and the result is as we'll see a threat of war in Egypt and Egypt always represents Egypt is the the root of isma yesma which today is Manifest as the Arab world yesma is rooted in Egypt yesma came from hugar and hugar hit she was the Egyptian woman she was an Egyptian princess so included in all of the story that we're reading is of course theat the simple understanding of it ysep is leading his brothers as we'll see to a certain TK to a certain rectification through their standing up for bamin but there's also in this in this cataclysmic battle between yehud and Y in theud there's also something that affects Egypt and in our time the Arab world the world of is the Muslim world so let's see together says he approaches Yuda approaches Yash means to approach and he says please my master as yose is trying to take bamin he says he stole my goblet he shall be my SL slave Yehuda says please my master let let me say something don't get angry at me you are a great person you are as great as parro you are a great person you're you're as great as par says the medish brings the P Mish in Proverbs Chapter 6 the P speaks about somebody who has been a guarantor for his friend which of course Yehuda was a guarantor for bamin guaranteed his father yob that he would bring back bamin safely PK says in Mish by making a promise by standing as a guarantor so you have you have knocked with the words of your mouth say see the over there Mish 6: 1 through3 do this says the says the what is it talking about so on the second part of this first piece I'm sorry that part was not part of what we need to read right if you have set yourself as a guarant that's speaking about Judah because he says I will be the guarant of means that you you means to clap or to to make a sound with your with your palms which is another way of saying a clap a clap is also like a coming together of hands is is a promise you made a promise for somebody else you said you have said you can you'll be able to request him from my hand he will not go out of my hand says you you knocked with the words of your mouth he made a promise with his words I'm going to bring him back do this in order to be saved says an amazing the me says amazing thing the Torah is teaching us that Yehuda here in order to keep his promise he had to make himself subservient completely subservient to the malus to the kingship and the Mastery the fact that Yosef was his master but he love Yehuda Yehuda in approaching y according to the first m in approaching ysf he was coming in with subservience he was coming in bowing his head and saying I made a promise I have to keep that promise I'll do whatever it takes take me instead to be the servant not Benyamin Benyamin needs to return to his father I I noticed last week when we read the the para when we read the the beginning of the story where Yos becomes the king and then Yosef puts his brothers through this incredible difficulty so the ha that we read last week unusually usually is read on Kana and there's a different there's a different ha but this year we read aor which is the a which is truly connected to par Mikes what was theor it was about King Solomon schl when he first became king at a very young young age he requested from Hashem to have great wisdom and his wisdom was expressed immediately in the first encounter that he had to judge the Jewish people two women came before him one said it's famous Story one said that this baby is my baby the other woman said no the dead baby is your baby this baby is my baby and SCH with his great wisdom was able to say let's cut the baby in half and the real mother said no let her have him I don't want the baby to die because she had mercy on her child and the woman who wasn't the real mother said cut him in half I won't have she won't have and King Solomon in his great wisdom was able to determine that the woman who said let the baby live give give the baby to her that was the real mother was clear so why was that connected okay it's very nice it's a king yose is a King what's the connection you know on a simple level it refers the fact that he had a dream on a deeper level I understood that the connection is and as soon you'll understand the connection to this Mish the connection is that that SCH he understood immediately as May points out he understood immediately who was telling the truth because one woman said this is my baby's alive her baby is dead another woman said her baby is dead first her baby is dead my baby's alive she was focused already on on the negative and that was the woman who was who was lying schl needed to bring out for everyone to see for everyone to hear who was the true mother who is the one who had Rahman who who clearly had mercy on her child who was clearly the real mother through his wisdom he was able to draw out the response that would prove what he already knew schlom King Solomon that was his wisdom he was able to to get the people to say what he wanted them to say by creating a situation which of course was contrived he's not going to cut a baby in half aive baby heaven forbid but he was able through the threat to to bring out the words that he wanted to hear and ysep atad Joseph was also he was a leader that's what a true leader is a good leader has the ability to encourage to bring out to to get his subjects to be all that they can be to say the things that they need to say the brothers needed to rectify something that they had done wrong they had they had failed their father 22 years earlier they had failed in a relationship with a child of Rael they had they had caused Great period they had cut the baby in half so to speak it caused great great separation between yakov's children and as a result they needed to rectify that and they knew that we could read that in the in the Pim as they go through the challenges in last week's para it was clear that they needed to rectify that they knew that themselves yoseph was able to get out of them he was able to squeeze out of Yehuda through his wisdom through his maneuvering of the situation he was able to squeeze out of Yehuda the words that needed to be said I am willing to stand up I'm willing to be in place of bamin I am willing to stand up I I guaranteed my father that Benyamin would return and I will not return without Benyamin and I will be in place of that's what it was y's great wisdom but the purpose was what's going on here is that Ys yose's the king and to our Western years we're not used to Kings we're not not used to people who can just take away someone's life at will at whim we're not used to that kind of thing we're not used to somebody who shows his power who leads in our world a parent is not allowed to use any kind of punishment in order to to get their kid to do what's right but that's not right that's not the trra approach the tra wants us as parents to lead our kids the T wants a leader a government a king to lead the people to show the people what's right to with great wisdom to get out of them what they need to say not necessarily to force them even though we could look at the story like they're being forced but to maneuver the people to maneuver his subjects to do what's right that's the job of a king and it's the job of the people to accept the guidance of the king 22 years earlier Yosi said I had the dreams I am the guy he said then they said will you be our King will you rule over us you'll tell us what to do you're going to tell tell on us to yaku for what we were doing wrong but ultimately though they didn't accept his leadership his rulership 22 years earlier Yosef needed to to guide them and show them that he understood on a spiritual level what they needed he needed them to receive to accept his malus his rulership and that was all the maneuvering just like shom maneuvered these two women to say the thing that needed to be said so too Yosef was maneuvering them and that was right but now hear the next magish because it brings out something which is the other side of the story which is yehuda's power over Yosef Yehuda through his words was able to access a place that no no one else could access listen to the beauty of the words of our sages deep deep Waters PK says in Mish again in Proverbs Chapter 20:5 the Deep waters are the the thoughts of a person the motivating thoughts in the heart of a person what does this mean think about it what motivates us there's so many things that motivate us you look at a person's actions you only see the outside you only see the external The Superficial but what motivates the person down to his depths what's the what's the Mania what's the motor that's turning out all the cogs that you see on on the outside you see a certain action but what's the thought says the it's we have an analogy this is analogy to a deep well which is full of cold water cold water well people wanted to access the water but it was very deep the water was inaccessible was so far down they wanted that refreshing delicious cold water no one could get to it but one person came one person came he took a rope one one short piece of rope and he tied it onto another piece of rope and tied it onto a string and tied it onto another string and attached at the end a a pale and and by doing this he was able to extend down the pale into the into the well and pull up that refreshing water and drink it as a result of This Not only was he able to drink but everyone was able to access that deep water the the cold Waters so to Yehuda said to ysep one thing and another thing and another thing until he was able to draw out of Yosef what was really going on in yosef's heart the brothers are standing in front of this Egyptian ruler they don't understand why is he calling us spies why is he forcing us to bring down our brother why is it that why are we Being Framed in this crime we didn't commit what is motivating him who is this person what have we done wrong what's what's the root of this they couldn't figure it out but Yehuda and as the M says later which we're running out of time so we're not going to read it inside but the me says yud can also be read which means to force somebody Yehuda was able to force the information out of YF YF was able to maneuver them to get them to say what they needed to say for their Tik but Yehuda was able to maneuver y to finally reveal who he was what's motivating you why are you doing this to us until finally Yosef reveals what's in his heart what's in the depths what's the motivating I need is I'm Joseph I'm your brother what's motivating me is my love for you and my care for CLA Israel that we come back together and that we care about each other and we stand up for each other so in this incredible moment this coming together of these two kings which the measure says and I didn't have time to read it either but measure says that as the two kings came together and they're battling it out the brothers stand back they're like we we have nothing to say here we have nothing to add this conversation we're just going to watch so this this coming together of the Kings Yehuda and YF and it's it's a sight to behold the M describes how he comes to with different aspects he's going to fight with him he's going to pray to Hashem he's going to he's going to me him he's going to calm him down but this is us when I think about it this is us us this is us over the last few months This Is Us CL Israel Had Each Other's throats fighting but in his awesome wisdom knows how to bring us to a point where we'll stand up for each other where we will stand up for each other where we'll stand up for the children of Leia stand up for the children of RA and the children of RA stand up for the children of Leia the the dormant spiritual abilities who brings it out through cataclysmic interactions we can all think about how this applies to us personally we can all think about how it applies to the Jewish people generally but I'd like to bless you and ask you to bless me that Hashem should help us that we should be able to stand up for each other that we should be able to help our kids in a in a great with great wisdom it requires great wisdom we can't force anybody to do anything but we can you know move people in the direction that they need to get to with wisdom hasm should help us to have that wisdom should help us to be able to Merit to see the ultimate coming together of the aspects of ysf aspects of yud mash mhav should help us and bless us we should be should Merit to see the coming together of the Jewish people back on our land and the Advent of the Messianic age speedily and in our days thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shabas this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please please visit www.wag.com or search on iTunes Ari goldwag