Rabbi Yossi Kantor - Memorize the Torah: Vayechi

and welcome to our weekly tour wrap where we take one aaliyah from the weekly torah portion and we try to put in the rashes so we have a nice flowing understanding of what's going on um this week's parsha is vairi and we'll be wrapping the first aliyah uh this week's parashat yaakov blesses joseph's two sons and friend minashi and a lot of people ask um why when we bless our children on friday night on shabbos night why are those the people that we bless our children to become like may i shall make our children like a framing menace and no one else so we'll find out in the in the chorus that really it's because two reasons one because they were the first children to grow up in exile and not be influenced by non-jewish ways and also that they were two brothers that uh that they didn't have jealousy between them and until that point we'd seen a lot of jealousy so we bless our children to have those same traits so here we go as a jew in exile may you be flourishing by the non-jewish ways may you not be influenced and may jealousy may it not creep in the last partial ends in egypt the jews were multiplying no spaces to our new posture talking about yakov dying to teach the hearts and the eyes of the jews were closed up from the slavery that yachov's death would be gone or cause yaakov wanted to tell his kids when this long exile would end but it was constant from him he lived in egypt the year days of jacob the years of his life were 147 the days came for him to die live shorter than isaac called to his son joseph the only one who could fulfill his request if i found grace in your eyes place your hand under my hip do for me this truth and this kindness swear to me please don't bury me in egypt plagues will come i'll have lights under me at the resurrection at the crease i may seem i don't want the pain of underground rolling and my body the midstream will be worshipping for i will die and go dwell with all my fathers so then carry me from egypt and bury me there and he said swear to me and joseph swore to him and yisrael bowed at the head of the bed to yosef because of this he honored him also to hashem above a sick one he sits or in thanks for the fact he had no evil kids so we sing may hashem make you like ephraim and menashe is a jew in the exile may you be flourishing by the non-jewish ways may you not be influenced and made jealousy may it never creep in later arnie told joseph some say it was a frying your father's sick and he soon to be dying joseph took his two sons to get blessed yisrael was told your son yosef is comment and he sat upon the bed out of respect for the king even though he was his father from here we learn all different kings you must honor yaakov said to yosef kel shakkai appeared to me in luz in kanaan he gave me a blessing he said to me i'll make you full multiply your seed and give you groups of tribes i'll give you this land for your seed after you as a possession that is eternal and now the two children that were born to you in the land of egypt before i came to me they are ephraim and menasha they will to be to me like shimon and rule them like all tribes they'll get an equal part of israel but any more suns won't be like those tribes won't get their own flag won't be a part of land divide i trouble you to bury me in the land of canaan even though i didn't trouble myself to bury your mom in kevron i buried her on the way don't resent me i only did what hashem says so that when the jews are passing by in exile rachel will emerge and ask mercy from a child hashem will answer and promise the jews will return we call that chavu bhanim we pray may hashem make you like your freiman menagerie as a jew in the exile may you be flourishing by the non-jewish ways may you not be influenced and make jealousy may it never creep in may hashem make you like ephraim and minashe as a jew in the exile may you be flourishing may the non-jewish ways may you not be influence and jealousy may it never creep in you