Parshat Miketz by Rabbi Baruch Taub

K I'm just going to repeat that very important announcement there's one donut left so just the anybody wants to get it okay Mar is M Kates I have um we have two two pieces on the par and one piece on Kana so let's start with uh Mikes number one on the sheet this is uh from the mems the Yakov Yakov ESI and uh the Torah tells us about yosef's two sons that he had with B Bas Pati Farah in in MIM one was Minasha Minasha and the other was a FR Minasha was the Bor and Ephraim is the U second son right so uh and the Torah explains why he named them Masha and Hashem allowed me to forget all my sorus um and by uh El on he made me fruitful from the word right so right if you look at what I said in later on in par we might do this when we get there aside he's going to answer a question here why the order uh there's a little bit of a reversal of the order of the Suns but he's going to say a tremendous Kish here um on the way and it's it's really something it's news and it's something special anyway he says um uh oh did I I missed I missed the line I missed the line sorry sorry sorry I am right there's a a fundamental difference between the the name he gave to aim and the name he gave to manasha [Music] he it's kind of a negative he he he allowed him to forget the past right he remembered his father's house but the and he and he longed to see Yakov ainu but all that sorus he had the the makus with his brothers and so on and and being in in jail the whole business so he allowed me to forget which by the way is the great of zikaron the great of zikaron of memory is the ability to forget right someone loses a loved one and it's it's an Indescribable feeling of loss and hopelessness but with time with time there is a kind of forgetfulness one moves on right sometimes you remember it could be five minutes it could be 50 years you still have that love that feeling but but there's a br that has that's called forgetfulness part of memory very basic fundamental part of memory which is a so here on the one hand this is the negative idea that he caused them to forget one son it was about the forgetting right this is like it's kind of a negative thing right he had he lived on with the memory of his father but it's no more right he he made him fruitful he's talking about all the bras that hem gave me now this is about now the present and the future that Hashem blessed me with all these things so that's why I named my my son right he felt now he felt like you know a a resident in Egypt and he thanked hasem that he he made him successful in this in this country right um now we should not be confused that he became a settler he didn't assimilate right in other words when when uh when after the whole M next week in par Vash when he reveals himself to the brothers and that whole probably the most dramatic moment in all of Tanakh but he sends the brothers back to Yakov and he sends a message tell him that I'm I'm the president in Egypt you know don't foret tell tell him I'm the vice Roy in Egypt right so so there was a um if you remember if you know the history Napoleon started a Sedin Napoleon was friendly to the he started as Sanhedrin was not a kosher Sanhedrin wasn't a real but he and he appointed the the rabbi the chief Rabbi of the son hedrin was R Yosef David sinin now usually you know when you think of a a rabbi like that he's just an amarit right arabam they used to call it in Europe they would appoint in in vill they would appoint aam some guy to be the rabbi and yet you had and so on right usually they say you know the bigger the sh the bigger the Amar it's a small little that's a big right so when rosf when died the was him the I'm a little off topic but it's K here for this um and he he was s was Mas and he um was a God he wrote a sa onim which is used today in yes but he said like this he asked this question that's he sends the message yoseph sends back to his father right I'm I'm the you know I'm the vice Roy right y right so he said no he sent back listen I became the vice Roy of MIT but I Ys but I'm still Yosef I'm still who you you raised me and I am what I am and this is what this is the external externalities of what I do right this is what I do for a living right right this is not who I am you know a lot of times you go to a Sim some so what do you do you know so what do you want to say to the person I do Mitzvah you know no you you do this you're you're candles stick maker you're whatever you are right so that's what that was the message he sent back so that's what ysph means here that he was assimilated in that sense right in any case right now here he's going to what he says in par this is absolutely news epim was really an Egyptian name how is it an Egyptian name if you take a look at the names that are used in in in the par the root letters of parro's name p right k right right renamed them Y shra and pu now there's a reason K tell us Rashi tells us sh why was she called shifra right because she was m at she took care of the baby and pu she CED to the baby right so you can ask yourself you know why weren't they called by the way hatah why would't they call hatah right they savv the baby no Sol me you save the baby but they went the extra mile here Shi but any case these are Egyptian names righta also has the name of parro in it right so and it's for this reason that arim was put first in the broas later on in vayi when he takes the boys the grandchildren to get a broa from Yakov ainu it's a fr and yov gave a to epim and minha it's really Minasha was theor why did he put aim first right and not only that he pushed him F when he pushed him to yov that he should give the the remember he we get it he switched his hands right Yakov knew what he was doing right he knew who the Bor was but but y ysep wanted him to have the the bigger BR not only that but Yosef Yakov learned with eph yoseph was was the one that he he learned Torah with manasha was the secretary of state right and even after they came to mitzraim it was aim who went every day to learn with his grandfather to learn with Yakov masas was the was the head of state um and he writes here why did he do that because a FR was he was he was he spent more time in in Egypt he was more into the Egyptian Society he really felt he was an Egyptian kid was an expert in as we see later on what's he referring to in the paraa remember that there was a ruse Yosef made a ruse with the brothers he pretended he didn't understand what they were saying they were talking to each other so he appointed an interpreter right The Interpreter was Masha right but yse of course understood everything that was being said but so that was the Sham so that's he's just explaining why he put a fry in first he needed that a FR needed the extra strength but I I really brought this a lot of things here but to me the biggest Kish here and rakov really was got into a little bit of trouble from from this this whole idea that all of these names and it's EMS lito it's emito Rak rabaka felt it was EMS he said it right that all of these names are based on on parro now it's not an unusual thing you know the name Alexander still stays with us there are many people with the name Alexander where did that come from where did Alexander come from Alexander the Great was a um was a friend of the Jews right so you have you know we have a we have a a grandson named Alexander right so okay um next piece is Kaneka I sandwiched the Kaneka between the par okay um okay this is from R Mor du who I've quoted in the past Mor Duo was one of the great MIM in yush uh his son who was was the CH was the rabbi of ravia for many years his grandson I think is one of the Rabon in J I think he's the rabbi of the um the the great synagogue it doesn't have an official Rabbi but he's the rabbi there's a minion in the back during the week you know I think he's officially the r there anyway Dr um I have two pieces from him one is on the par and this is on Kana um and he's gonna g something you know we know let's see made a mish right in the desert they started building the mishan on the day after yipper and they on everybody knows that right why is the miracle of Kaneka on the 25th of K because the doveet tales with you know they rededicated the mikdash and therefore on the day that they established the built the mishan so that's not a coincidence that was okay he quotes theave on the 25th of kave they finished the building of the Mish but it was folded up and put in storage until R the mikash did not start the Mish did not start until R right three months three months so the question is what's the big deal that we have like there's three miracles of kekah really right one is the pan right um the other is the mil right and the third Miracle is that the day of Kaneka took place on the same day as when the when the Mish was finished but why is that what's the big deal he's really asking it it it nothing happened on it was put into storage right it wasn't until three months later that the mishkan it came in became maybe a week before a few days earlier it started but it was really three months so what's the big deal about you know what's the miracle what's the what's the Nexus between the unused mishan which was completed but not used and the p and the mil and the Miracle that's what he's dealing with okay so he says like this the Jews were complaining to mosha they there was a rebellion Lish we want the Mish now we want the Mishka now right it was a tremendous Chuka a tremendous passion to have that Mishka to give to have an intimate relationship with right did something with something wrong here had something else in mind he wanted to be to be do the Mish until the month that y a was born for other reasons which he's not getting into now but there was an important thing to have the the spiritual energy of Y into the Mish we're not going to get into but so lost right they finished it right but they didn't they didn't dedicate it so what's what's that all about right what's that all about forget this the next line in the last line that paragraph will come back to so basically what he what he's um he's saying like this in the next paragraph they finished the Mish but they they they were passionate about having caronus right days P was not there listen I'm going to give you theik the Mish on on the 25th of right on the day that it was put away why because it wasn't just a day that it was put away it was the day that showed their passion for Torah they showed their passion and their love and their desire to do Torah to do mitv that was the key to the Mish right he this was the Sim of Kaneka right Generations later the the victory the miraculous Victory the B mikdash it was about the passion of Cl or the fighting of of of theim and the Jews who who held fast the Torah right because remember remember kanah really I think if there's any yum of that mirrors the the polit the sociological situ State of Affairs for us today it's Kaneka because Kaneka there was a battle between the left and the right just to put it in contemporary terms there were there were assimilated Jews who really fell into Greek culture which is what Greece wanted was all about um they were very friendly people they wanted they wanted a unified society and they wanted everybody to assimilate right and there were many assimilated Jews they were called anybody helist in English but in Hebrew MAV name helist they were Helen of good from but me yav is more to the point because it's a name they were like meet yav from yavan yanim are the Greeks they were me yav they were they became right they were worse than the Greeks right they were me yav you don't have meat Bim in G B you don't have such thing as me meat Bim or meat praim from Paras M right but you have mavim right this the enemies the enemy were these Jews these Jews who were fighting the the the the the the faith community the rabim kazal and the the from Jews in in in yavan right that's why I say it really mirror mirrors the terrible times that we've been going through here that people just don't get it every time they they you know they raise their head with um you know I'm not one of these rabbis as I think you know who says that this particular thing happened because of this AA right uh sne or right only a fool speaks like that right there's no na'vi today you can't say that but one thing I know one one thing I do see what we see it's not you see it the tremendous return to Torah of completely assimilated Jews when they see what's going on right it was a story of a kid a university kid and we hear the terrible things that are happening in universities in America and the Iva Le universities but there are good stories also the story about a kid who who who you know and you we have to realize we have to remind ourselves how bad the assimilation is in America these kids these University students never saw grandmother like shabas campus right so here you have a kid who walks into a kabad rabbi on campus and he says I want to learn something he says you know I why do you want to come I want to know why they hate me I have no idea why they hate me I'm just like them so I want to know what's unique about me that they hate me right so this was the miracle this was the miracle of Hanukah and it started because the passion did not die the light you excuse the metaphor but the did not go out from the the Y in in in in Yovan and they won the day it was the so this is the P passion where did this come from this was kler this was the day that the mishkan was built and did not was not used and B Isel showed their their passion Torah they showed the their miraculous said no matter how bad things are how they wanted mes this is the this is the the Cornerstone of of the be mikash of and the rededication in Kaneka right that's what he that's what he's really saying here okay next paragraph why do we have the minora at the same time as the the N right in in the Torah in it's not an accident that in the Torah you have the par of the manur explaining what the the Mitzvah of the manora is in the B mikdash and then you have the par of the see him all of the 12 uh presidents of each of the tribe bringing a gift to the mishkan right lefon when Aon the K saw he saw theuk from is the dedication of the N giving something he was sick was depressed what about me are Le off the hook ha IM not me and not sh I promise you why it really don't don't skip over his response to the Rabon because that really was the the the the reason why there not not that just at that moment but that was AR right his Chuka his love his passion he couldn't be without being part of the dedication of the right so it was because of that right that theam answered him right people skip over that first part of their MERS right that's why he answered him right your portion is going to be greater than their portion you're gonna light them you're gonna light The Manor every day right see ask a question what's the B he's lighting Manor every day okay but that's not ramban takes this a step further that's not what was going on here listen to ramban last par next paragraph the right there says in qu this is a hint this is a hint to the manora the miracle of Kaneka right right and all the that's who that's who did it right it was their passion right but where did it come from from the First Co arav who would light the minora right now in the Mish in the B of in other words right brings this and he says quote unquote I saw in the med since the 12 tribes brought something and Le didn't bring anything speak to and tell him there's another kanuk that's coming in a couple of hundred years or more right and you're going to light the candles and relight the candles right and I'm gonna do this and this is going to be done through your children this miracle is going to come through your children with Miracles and salvation and be on their name the Kan of the House of the Kash now we know why right that one of the third Miracle is that it's on the same day as the kanuk Hamish and it's because of that passion that passion is the key right what you see here he concludes the the energy the spiritual energy from Aon hen and shavit Ley back in the day right is what gave the was that energy was given over from that Coen goal to the cootal in the time of kanuka and that was part of the miracle the miracle was was executed through the passion through the eslavos through the fire of the Nish of the Jews a he was exempt right what is he getting wor but you have other things to do why you worri you want you want a piece of the of the Bas you must have a piece of the mishkan right so that's a I think a tremendous Kish here from R Dr and the the of Kaneka is the passion of Cl Israel right and we have to feel that today by the way hasem who came through for us all the every time history and he's going to come through again and he's coming we see it we seeing hints of it we are seeing hints of it okay uh one more piece and this is from the para um okay so here you have uh the Shi come down the brothers come down and back and forth they come in and the rules they don't recognize Yosef um which is also part by the way a miracle if they didn't know who ysph was absolutely a miracle right said he recognized them they didn't recognize him why what does Rashi say anybody know what what that is because he saw they were all he saw them with beards right but ysep didn't have a beard when he left he was 17 years old right so he now grew a beard he didn't recognize him is that really so I mean you when you see someone with a beard you know I know you I know you I know you but you you don't recognize the person and they didn't see him once twice three times right and all the other things right um he he sat down at the table with them and he put them in their and he announced where they should sit right Ru shim and Ley you know in the order of and and you know I'm sure that the um the Egyptian Times newspaper every day there was a headline about these irim who came down and they're in the palace and and so on he he didn't they didn't what was going on here it's That's A Mir it's part of the miracle sometimes you don't see the forest for the trees and that's the point I think that he wants to make here in this little piece of Torah from R dro the same idea is what he wants to bring out I think that uh okay so what does he tell his sons to do put the the Kish cup the Goblet The Chalice put the silver cup the king's cup into the napsack of Benyamin right remember they gave the he put the money back in their knapsacks and now he he put the child's back and he's going to they're going to go find it going to call him a GF bmen they're going to bring him back which is like the worst thing in the world bmen who they how they convinced yakob finally to let ban come to Egypt okay so now he's going to go let's go so he says that the heading of this is he wanted to bring them to CH but it's more than that he wanted them to see the trees right or to see the forest he wanted them to see what's going on here right like the example we gave okay he sent Masha to put the cup the be Co into the napsack the actually the saddle bag of right was going to be ctured as the gun right why did he want to punish right he had nothing to do with the sale of why did he want to get back at them through b not only did he not do anything to him and and Y he he had such a love to see his brother y that he never met remember these are the only two brothers of Ru right this Rashi brings this in this week's par it's a beautiful thing he named all B had 10 Sons he named every one of his sons for yose Al for the pain that he didn't have him right Bella one was Bella because his brother was buried was was absorbed melted into the The Melting Pot of the nations of the world he was the he was the the first born of my mother was very handsome ai veros ai was one name Ros was one name was my brother Rashi was the first my the first right he learned Torah with my father right why do he name himim this is this is powerful right he never s he never came to my wedding and I never saw his wedding two right he went down to to M beautiful so what do he want from B right what's this all about why did y do this I want to suggest he wanted to teach them a very lesson a very basic fundamental lesson in y in Torah they were so so fanatical that what they did was right now we have to understand something theik they they put a bezan together and they P that y has to go because they felt that the Torah was supposed to be given to all of them when it comes from SI and he's going to take the whole thing himself and that's wrong right all of this and the dreams and Etc right they were convinced of their righteousness right and they were not wrong in the it was to sell y right y wanted to show them there are times that c certain things you see things with your eyes it looks a certain wayu for example you find this Kish Cup in this this be in somebody's napack and sure if that's the saddle bag I needed for sure he's the G right to the point that you call him a g which in fact they did a med they said to him G you're the GH the son of a your mother was a GH right ra ra was a g she stole the TRU him right of her father right so they called him g g son of a G right and met called but the whole thing was wrong you know they didn't see the forest for the trees right he wanted to see maybe they have Tinus on y right they have Tinus on Ys right the whole he he knew very well what they were thinking all right the selling him was wrong right a person can see with his eyes he's convinced that what he's doing is right but he's missing the entire for Point Mish missing the whole point here that's what he was doing here with the Gia right selling me down the river to meet was the worst thing you could have done right okay and the wrong thing now this the lesson right okay now he adds another interesting point here something very strange in the in the Para the the donkeys of the tribes right it says in the par actually three times here I want to show you something a miraculous thing right right they talked about um they came back to Yakov and they had they have to go back to Yosef with all of their possessions and their children and their servants and their they have to bring their back this needs an explanation we got we got to bring our donkeys back right again it's repeated they came with their donkeys Al they brought everything on the of course they did it's like saying they came with their cars or their trucks that's how they brought everything right but donkeys have a central portion in this par of coming down of yov Isel coming to Egypt what is that all about okay interesting C has now listen what he says here uh this is about the animals of sadik for sure the donkeys of the were not stum donkeys they were not stum donkeys they were holy animals they were animals of does not allow anything terrible to happen to an animal that belongs to a he going to bring one example there are no numerous examples in the gorra therefore they have a special what's he says it here's the example he's giving the of a particular Rabbi in the he had a he was a very wealthy man this and he would send the donkey to his workers in the field to collect the his his their pay right the whatever they they the work they did for him and bring it back on the donkey right theu law obat law if they put sent back more money than than they were supposed to or less money than they were supposed to La the donkey didn't move the donkey knew that he was carrying money that was stolen right one day in somebody left a pair of sandals on the donkey right pair of shoes on the Donkey and he didn't move until the do the sandals were taken off off of him right V then he came right the rest of this paragraph he just translates all this in the Hebrew go to the next paragraph second last paragraph so that's what y here what's was a sign for yose yep was taking a tremendous risk here tremendous risk they were gonna they would kill him for bam right he put himself himself in Mortal danger if they wouldn't what's going on here then it's all over right who but he wanted to show them that they were they were goovi the the last people in the world that they thought were wrong with themselves and he had to show it to them and through this m he showed it to them sh he did everything sh to show them that they made a terrible mistake who and of course in the end of the day we know he did they say right they say in in the par right who he didn't know he doesn't he didn't know the he did the Y set this up himself the didn't tell him to do it he didn't know he was going to be successful he taking a big chance he wanted to bring them back to reality right toit what they did wrong to see the forest for the trees right so how do he gonna check it out when they loaded up their their animals with the money with the Goblet if the would come right because he knew his brothers were sadik right who this was a agreed with what he did that's why are mentioned three times here big emphasis on the coming back to Y that they actually came right with the stolen Goblin with the money everything right this was the sign to and of course we know that when he revealed himself they they they understood everything right they said you know you know we use that on yum Kipper we sayu they realized what they had done it's actually a makus Rashi and the ramban what what that means right um Rashi says is talking about they realized they sold him right ran says no what they they felt terrible about is the pain that they caused him so this is the you know that Rec the pain that they caused their brother all these years how do you know that how does the ran know that so I think theat is very simple what's the word AAL but right but everything is that you know it was terrible that we sold them and this but but but there's something else here it's not just the selling the but there's something else here all the years we made him suffer and and we neglected him and and were dismissive of him that's what the that's what they realized was their greatest their greatest sin okay F everybody s