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Heart to Heart - Parshat Vayigash
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The language that needs no translation. To buy Rabbi Sinclair's book on the weekly Parsha - click here: https://www.israelbookshoppublications.com/store/pc/The-Color-of-Heaven-54p652.htm
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one of the greatest human beings that
walked this planet in the last hundred
years was rabbi israel mayor kagan
known as the khovitzkaim the
khovitzkainen
was venerated by jews and non-jews alike
polish farmers would try to get him to
walk through their fields
believing that his feet would bring
blessing to their crops
once there was a jew who was arrested on
a trumped-up charge and the defense
lawyer brought the prophet schaim in as
a witness for the defendant
the defense lawyer explained to the
judge who the khofitzheim was
and he told him of a story where someone
had stolen fruit from the khovitskheim
store
and this thief ran out into the street
and the khovitzeim ran
after him shouting i forgive you i
forgive you
the judge said come on do you really
believe that story
the defense lawyer said i don't know
your honor but i know one thing
they don't tell stories like that about
you and me
the russian judge spoke no yiddish and
the prophets came
spoke little russian and so a translator
was positioned between the khafitzheim
and the judge
the prophet's crime began and he poured
out his heart
in front of the judge the court was
still
and when he finished speaking the
translator began
your honor the jid says
said the judge you don't have to
translate
i understood every word at the beginning
of partial
yehuda judah steps forward to save his
brother binyamin benjamin from slavery
at the hands of an egyptian potentate
that he doesn't recognize as his younger
brother joseph joseph
yehuda pleads in his native tongue ivrit
hebrew
what possible good did yehudah think and
appeal in an incomprehensible language
would do
he didn't know that the prince with whom
he was pleading was his younger brother
joseph
there once was an irish poet who coined
the phrase
the inarticulate speech of the heart
there's a language of the heart and that
language is international
it knows no barriers or boundaries