Doomsday Speaker: Parashat Vayigash

oh you're a doomsday speaker why you so negative so what if it's been terrible for the last couple of years things are going to turn around you got to be positive and then YF tells them go bring my father and everyone here because there's going to be a famine for another 5 years it's already been two years is going to be a famine for another five years now if YF was coming to synagogues today if yourf was on YouTube today if yourf was on national television today if yourf was anywhere today saying to people ladies and gentlemen there's going to be a famine for another five years people would boo him off the stage why oh you're a doomsday speaker why you so negative so what if it's been terrible for the last couple years things are going to turn around you got to be positive you got to be optimistic that you know if you think good good things will happen no you have to have a reason to think good you have to have some type of valid reason that justifies the good that you think but if you're just looking blindly optimistic get ready to declare bankruptcy both spiritually financially and otherwise why you can't just think that things are going to work out without actually having a valid reason they going say yeah well I work hard many people work hard doesn't mean they're going to succeed well I uh you know I try many people try well you know I I want to be optimistic ISC so what if you want to be optimistic your personal desire to be optimistic doesn't mean anything oh I have an idea that's because I have hoped that God will help me that's nice that you have hope that God will help you but why should he why should he help you well he's God exactly why should he help you you have a problem you have a tragedy 2,000 people were murdered in a single day in Israel we're now at War we've been telling the public that we're winning for the last two months but in reality nothing has changed terrorism still goes on missiles are still being shot the world hates us even more than they did on October 6th why should things change why should God help you did you change anything has anything changed over these last couple of months the problems have skyrocketed for God to help you because if God brought you the Wrath a punishment a terrible situation you lost your money you lost somebody you love you lost whatever it is that you lost that's causing you to cry crocodile tears and the Torah tells you this will continue horrible things will follow this horrible steps that you have now why because that's the decree he said no no no why you so negative why are you such a doomsday speaker I'm not a doomsday speaker I'm telling you what the Torah says YF sadik says there's been two years of famine and five more years to go you're going to call him a doomsday speaker now if you're going to say well God will help me don't you think the tribes could have said the same thing they were much more righteous than you you Shimon they could have said no God will help us but they didn't why they knew there was a decree they knew that something had to be done but they also knew that also gave us the tools to deal with it what we must do when there's an evil decree in the world is blow the chaar that's what the of the ram says when the tragedy hits we have to blow the to wake up all of the spiritually sleeping people to make them realize you want the decree to change you must change not change your sleeping habit change your uh diet change your clothes oh no no change your whole life and make sure that and his become your number one that mean something to you and not just something you saw or say once in a blue moon if you want to decree the change then you my friend have to change you can't just there want to be optimistic you can't just say oh think good and good things will happen it doesn't work that way if it would have worked that way the brothers would have said oh 5 years come on yourself no come on you're sadik now we're friends again everything's going to change the cre over two years finished now even though the had say that the five other years that YF said were going to happen it wasn't another five years when yob eventually arrived apparently the decree ended but some say no it actually last another five years how do we know look at what the rest of the par says which is that he had to distribute the food he had to buy the land from the people the whole process of what happened in the second half of the par either way yov didn't just say you know what let me just stay home and I'll go visit once in a while we'll visit you no no he said wait we don't have any food my son's over there he can help us I'm going why that's the right thing to do doomsday speaker I'm listening why because he's speaking real he's speaking the truth we are meant to be a light unto the Nations not to follow their misguided practices remember every Jew has to remember that he's a Jew and she's a Jew we don't celebrate non-jewish holidays even if they seem harmless it's a z disrespect to the Torah and could lead to CH Hashem desecration of God's name stick to our holy Torah and our own holidays that's the path of a true Jew