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here with banana chefs welcome to the at the end of last week's Torah portion finally after 22 years of suffering Jacob refunds refined that refined in last week's Torah portion after 22 years of suffering Jacob finally reunites with his son Joseph in Egypt Jacob and his whole family joined Joseph in Egypt and I've been living there for 17 years and these have been the best years of Jacob's life in this week's torah portion jacob falls ill and is ready to pass on we read about jacob's parting words and final blessings to his children and grandchildren and actually in the torah the grandchildren come first joseph brings his two sons who were born to him in egypt to get blessed by their grandfather jacob one was named Manasseh and one was named if ryeom Menasha was Joseph's firstborn so Joseph's expected for him to get some extra attention in the blessing however much they surprised the extra attention and affection went to Ephraim the younger son so Joseph said hey Dad Abba Father Tati uh he probably yeah I don't know buddy I don't know what he said he said he's not the firstborn why are you giving him the extra attention Menasha is the firstborn Jacob said I know he's not the firstborn but I choose to give him the attention because he'll be greater okay so Jacob didn't make a mistake he saw that the younger one would be greater and therefore gave him the extra attention but what about Joseph he was on a pretty high level of godly consciousness also did he make a mistake in thinking that his father was mistaken obviously not he didn't make a mistake rather Joseph and his father Jacob had two different ways of looking at things had two different world views without quoting all the verses and saying too many Hebrew words I'll tell you this joseph´s two sons who were born to him in Egypt were each named for a very deep feeling that Joseph had in his heart now again without saying too many Hebrew words let's analyze the first son's name is nasha this means the cost to forget Joseph felt that by divine providence leading him to exile in Egypt he might forget all the holiness that he experienced in his father's house this obviously pained him greatly so he named his son on this feeling his second son is named the fryin which in Hebrew was condoning the fact that Joseph was very successful in Egypt and he named his son this to thank God for the success that he is having the few most commonly felt by Joseph Wow the feeling most commonly felt by Joseph was that of him being exiled in Egypt the meaning behind his first son's name Menasha the feeling of being behind bars tracked in exile this is why Joseph felt the extra attention should go to the firstborn because that was his perspective on life it really stinks being in exile his name specifically expressed this but Jacob preferred the meeting behind the younger son's name as a good outlook for life but even when you're in a place or a situation that you don't like you make the best of it realize that God put you in this uncomfortable position to fulfill a special role and only you can really be successful and that's why he gave the attention to the younger son because his name expressed this attitude there's no mistake on Jacobs or Joseph's Park rather a Jew must adopt both of these perspectives we're not at home in exile and it should paint us we should realize that we're not where we belong and with that said you have the responsibility every day every moment to feel and and actually say I'd Messiah until when when is his exile gonna end but our lives mustn't solely be filled with the feeling of pain being in exile we must also have the second perspective we're here and if that's the case God wants us here why is the painful question but the only answer we have is that if we're in a gloomy and dark situation it's only in order to bring light to it and it's no secret how we light up the darkness of Exile through increased studying of the tour and fulfilling the mitzvahs the holy Commandments from God we are not only able to withstand the Exile but we transform the darkness of it to light and if we'll just all live like this there will only be light Oh [Music]