Parshat Vayechi: The Color Purple By Rabbi Ari Kahn

okay so we are in par which means we are get to the end the most notable part of the paraa which we're going to spend I think most if not all the time on is what we call the BR we've uh noticed over the years or noted over the years that it doesn't necessarily seem to be full of brod or blessings as much as as it gets its reputation for and and there's a challenge with it and the challenge is that it's written in a language which is somewhat challenging or I'll put it differently maybe somewhat poetic and just in order to get a little bit ahead of myself so I think some of you know that whenever I get to something which is more poetic so what we want to really look at is uncus because uncus under normal circumstances translates word for word is very literal and tells us what the words mean but when it comes to something which is poetic he does the same thing he tells us what it means but as opposed to what it says so therefore he's literal when things are straightforward and he says what it says but when it's poetic then again he's nonliteral and he tells us what it means and therefore there creates some sometimes really interesting subtexts so with that we'll begin butakov El so yob gathers his children he's on his deathbed and he tells them I'm going to tell you what's going to happen at the end of days now sometimes we get Hol Up on this because there is an approach in kazal which is brought down by the classical mersim and that is that Yakov wanted to say something and ended up saying something else so I just want to point out that in the text itself there's no reason to say that he gathers together and he says tell you happen the end of days and the question is what does the end of days mean does does it mean what's going to happen when you go into ER Isel which by the way can work very well doesn't mean what's going to happen you know the time of mashiah which then maybe he doesn't say things about it although maybe he does so let's just leave that whether there is what we can call a bait and switch that he says I'm going to do one thing and does something else which is kind of what Rashi indicates is uh is is not 100% clear when you read the suum so again this more poetic sense or style is really jumps off of the text so what exactly is it that he says to Ru so again if we go straight to our tarum uncus he adds something in which we did not know when we read the text and sour so that's pretty straightforward which again works pretty well but when he gets to there he adds in something else you were worthy to have received three different portions you should have been the firstborn you should have been the cohain and you should have been the melik now I don't want to argue with uncus but I do want to ask two things one is well how do you know that which means what makes you say that he should have had you know all of those things you know sometimes you do need a checks and balances and you do need a division of power so why would would we suspect that over here there was originally not supposed to be a division there was not supposed to be checks and balances and instead Ruan was supposed to be the beneficiary of all of yakov's blessings and he should have had the as the firstborn that would indicate a double portion and he should have been the Coen and he also should have been the Mel so the the Coen in a sense is easy because we're told that prior to the levim receiving the to be the cohim and levim so before shave at Ley gets elevated then the people who served and people who were the kohanim were the first born so the B and the Kona I think really could go together in a in an easier way but of course I'm not doing anything which is necessarily based on anything in bid rather what I'm doing is I'm using some information which I know further on in schmoe and then reading it back into bid and assuming that what happens later should have happened over here as well and we do that occasionally we read it into to a number of earlier sections we read the Yakov and asov argument or or not even argument when Yakov purchases the B so one of the things that the commentary is point out oh what did he what did he get he got the right to be the Cohen why because that that's what goes along with being the bakar I already noted in passing that being the bakar can have something else and that's the double portion so of course now you can accuse me of not having a shote read of BR but rather having a dorum read of Brit where we see the firstborn getting a double portion but either way that part is easier now the second thing is um I love to see where we're getting it out of theim meaning where did the PK say this and then but the third part the Mal where did we see that he was supposed to be the the melik so that becomes a little bit more difficult to to put ruv in as a Mel I I will remind you that at some point when we looked and the thing which it says that Ruan did and that is that he climbs upon the bed of uh of his father which clearly relates to the episode of bilha so there the way the Torah phrased it is that he climbs on the bed of bilha who is pish aiv I mean later on we find that yose treats the children of Bill and Zila Nish aiv as being the wives so there was a different perspective between at least Ruan maybe ol of Bena and Yosef how to look at these women to look at Bila and Sila but if he is if he has the attitude that she is a pesh then maybe we can say that what Ruan does is he takes a page out of the adoni yahu Playbook or maybe Adon yahu took a page out of the ruin Playbook which would be unfortunate because it didn't work out that well for ruven and by the way it doesn't work out that well for Adon yahu and that is that he tries to get his father to give him his pish doid to give give him his PES in order for him to be able to lay a a claim in the to be the one who will take over and that's the way that Beva reads it that he's trying to declare himself as king and part of the point is he's taking the pish from the king so therefore maybe I can read that into the whole Ruan episode that he's trying to establish himself as king but you do realize I worked a little bit hard in order to say that that doesn't mean it's not true I'm just saying that I had to work a little bit hard to make that to to create that Association but there may be something else over here and let's let's go and take a look at the themselves and let's look at Rashi in Source three yet so he hears the word like the word now some of you can say well that's a bit of a stretch and some you can say okay that made sense as it says and that was because of rin's subsequent Behavior although okay so we we'll leave it at this knowum clearly speaks about the and the and and the Mal the the B as we know gets take especially if we explain it the way that I did is this double portion that gets taken away from Ruan and that moves over to Yosef as we'll spend some time with hopefully moving forward and the kuuna we don't know who gets moved over I know you're going to all tell me you do know and you say it gets moved over to Ley but again my point is at this particular juncture we don't see where it goes to the malut that we will see the malut will go to Yehuda and that will be that will be the thing which perhaps is the most clear over here but the the go not you know to read that in over here is really somewhat mysterious I I would however suggest that maybe maybe reading theim again what brought uncus to say this is what is he seeing over here to say that uncas just has a m you could say it but generally I'm I'm going to say it again he wants to tell us what it says right what what does the PK say and right again what does it mean and he's not being literal over here it could be that the word the word is probably the inverse of K so therefore it's not just that by so it could be that what that's understood as you created instead of and at that point you are unworthy to be a k now again you you don't have to go that far you could have said no that's not what it means what it means is that you lost the right to be the first born because you did not have behave in a responsible way and you know one of the things about the firstborn one of the refer points is I think it's describes the firstborn as a quasi father something between the father and the son he's the one who has the responsibility for all the younger siblings so in a sense he says that the double portion he receives is payment for all of the care that he G it's the babysitting money that you never pay your own kids it's the it's the the the money that he's getting for the work that he has done and taking that responsibility so now if I look at the family and I say okay now who is really the one who took care of the siblings so you could make an argument for ruen although he fails right he fails you know he does step up and he does take responsibility for yose and don't kill him put him in the pit and dead which was not a wonderful plan it did not work out the way that he imagined it would work out so I can say that you know he he steps up and and later on when he tries to sck responsibility again he says to his father you know if I don't do this well then you know you can kill my two kids so that doesn't seem to be a uh a very stable response on the other hand you know you could say Yehuda takes responsibility especially in the whole episode with with bamin but the one who really takes responsibility for everybody is uh is ysf ysf is the one who gives them food and takes care of them and uh takes care of all their needs and he becomes a quasi father for them now it could be they don't love that relationship it could be that they're going to resent that relationship but you still can't deny that relationship moreover when yoseph is described as far as his relation with parro you also have similar things he says you know God may be a father for parro he's called a he's called EV Isel which is a ysep is cabalistic he's consider considered to be the if the three aote are considered to be the three wheels of the Mera ysf is considered to be the fourth wheel of Mera although some of my uh cabalistic friends here can say no ultimately D it is and that's theid Mal but let's let's leave the cabalistic discussion because at least from a brait perspective Yosef is really the he is the continuation Y ysf is the continuation Ys functions as an older brother which is ironic because he's younger than the rest he's the benun and maybe some of these elements will come back to but Ruben loses the status of the Bor so now I can say A B has K but again I'm guilty now of you using a seot read on it why does a b have kadus because of Mak at that point you need to do a p for the B which means the over here this this language of you created a you took something which was KES and made it nones I told you I could read it into the Bor aspect but it's much easier to read that into the Cohen aspect and May and I'm saying what took uncos and then Rashi and others to say oh ruin should have been the Coen and he loses it so yes we have the schmoe aspect of knowing that the firstborn is going to be the cohain but we also have on top of this this word over here so therefore it could be reading the as an inverse of kadus so maybe that's the the de that they felt and why they felt that this reading was compelling so what we have is having been losing it we can also look at again he's having the saer read on it to get the double portion so yes within a family of Kings then the one who should inherit should be the first born and by the way that that's not as simple as it sounds I I'll come back to it a second right so again he's not reading it exactly what I wanted to but he's reading that word right you whenever we start enumerating the tribes we always seem to start with ruing but that's all that remained he is technically the first one who's born but he's not really the the first born as as it were the again what I kind of glazed over and didn't speak of that over here as much as perhaps we could we could have so again I want to read it one more time and maybe read it more carefully so the P of the that seems to be what ysf gets over here so that that becomes clear as I said that something we only find out later the goes to the now I'm not not going to go into a whole discussion certainly not a whole halic discussion on this point but if you read the rambam which I did not bring but if you read the rambam in terms of who inherits the kingdom the ram says something which is very much a qualifier he says that the son of the king who's the first born not that he automatically becomes king but he becomes king if he is R to become king which means if he's not RI to become king it's not an act accident of birth automatically make somebody it's something where that where someone has to decide that itself becomes a very interesting point who decides so apparently it's the San hedrin who decides and how do they decide they decided based upon voting so therefore as much as we imagine that kingship is based upon absolute order of birth and the King's older son will be king when one reads the rambam carefully one could get to a very different understanding that on the one hand there's a there is a part of it which may be Democratic of course Democratic based upon very select few who get to vote but there also seems to be a question of uh who is worthy to be king and it's not it's not unqualified so therefore I could easily say that again maybe that's exactly what this is telling me Ruben you should have been King had you been worthy the meaning the default should have been but you weren't worthy and maybe that's exactly the point over here you're not worthy so therefore or you you lose it now now again there's another problem here which we're kind of ignoring but ruing should only be king if he is the son of a king and therefore he's inheriting the kingship but if Yakov is not a king and we have no reason to call Yakov a king right the these the Kings and as of before there was a king in Israel so yacob's not a king so why should ruing be a king it's that kind of uh we can go back to the Cohen why do you want to be a Cohen well my father was a Coen my grandfather's a Coen well why do you want to be king my father no they weren't King your father wasn't the king and your grandfather wasn't the king so therefore why do you think that you have the right to be king so that's why I'm pointing out again that this default that ruen should have been King because he should have inherited as firstborn is not as simple as we're putting it but nonetheless as I said that's what unus is reading the challenge then is to go back and read the words and say where did uncus get why does he say think that that's what it says here in the text so as I said I made my uh suggestion at least how you can read some of this what's interesting is that when we get to Le shim and Ley over here in bit there is absolutely nothing positive about this to the extent that you would almost except for maybe one thing not even say that there was a blessing here and now it talks about their anger or their their poor impulse controls when it comes to their and he yov does not seem to be very positive we giving them a blessing what is he referring to the simple read of all of this is that he is referring to what happened in they go in although it says they killed a person and we wonder if actually is is referring to ysf but Yos is not referred to as a Shore in bid he's only referred to as a sh inim I know you can look it up and you can be easily fooled but he's not called toore in bid so therefore it would be strange that that really is referring to yosf I'll just get way ahead of myself for a moment but if you look at when uh the tarum explains that verse he does not explain it as being uh as being yosf so the only positive thing perhaps is the very end is I will divide them which means shim and Le together they're going to get into trouble maybe this is also the midrashic understanding that uh of why specifically yoseph took ruen sorry took Shimon and he put Shimon in prison that he knew that the two of them together together are hotheads and can do all kinds of silly things so there but but it's interesting that he that he separates them which is really what Yakov is explaining over here he separates them but he lets Ley you know stay with the group and he separates Shimon that that Shimon is is separated and Shimon is taken away and therefore maybe Shimon is really the problematic one over here and there's a lot more to talk about in Shimon but I will again note as everyone hopefully knows that if you look in Source number five and it's this these the BR of Moshe which absolutely should be compared to the so something positive not too positive Ru let him survive let him live and so on now it didn't also say all that much about about Yehuda compared to what we're going to see yakov's blessing for Yehuda but I really want to focus on Shimon and Ley so we you notice the order gets changed and ruin is first and then Yehuda what you may not note is that shimon's not here at all Shimon completely disappears from mosi's brot which is interesting and maybe disturbing but then he goes straight to Le but it's no longer shim it's just Le and over here we start talking about the and the T tum and so on and yum and so on so it's also interesting the the AR over here the T and the meaning Ley gets rehabilitated that's what's interesting Ley gets rehabilitated and Shimon disappears so then I have to say that maybe there was a br that yakob had given what was the BR is I'm going to separate the two of them and that gets turned into a but other than that and maybe again you can accuse me of working too hard in order to get to that point of able of of being able to rehabilitate Ley but that's only by getting rid of Shimon and therefore in a certain sense Shimon is still locked up in yosef's prison and he doesn't show up in the brot over here now of course one of the things that we should do is track all of the episodes throughout sa B midbar especially in the book of B midbar and take a look where every Shimon is on the wrong side so then uh I think we can find a number of them when uh and the most notably perhaps could be in the story of uh of kosby and Zim where Zim is from Shimon and maybe that's where we have this major rebellion and maybe it's at that point where Moshe decides like maybe moshe's mother said to him if you have nothing nice to say about somebody then don't say anything and he goes okay there goes Shimon because there's nothing to say about him but it is really you know interesting and disturbing that he gets marginalized like this he gets taken away and he's not part of the discussion he's not part of the family so as I said that that is interesting est's asking me doesn't Yakov call Yosef sure in his BR as I said you're going to get fooled so you got fooled you got fooled the there's a difference between a Shore and a Shore so the is right so take a look carefully it doesn't mean Shore there Al Shore means they climbed over the wall right maybe they didn't teach you that in uh whatever Bas Yakov you went to and there it says that the girls found Yosef so attractive they were climbing over the walls to try to see him Harry had probably learned that as a kid but uh but know you're silenced I don't hear it but that's what that PK means again take a look at Rashi but it's doesn't say sure it says sure sorry not sure sure so so take a look over there because it's it's two different words and uh really close and maybe it's too close maybe it's so close that we should be suspicious but I'll say it again yosef's only referred to as a bull when we get later on to Saar and it is not a bit perspective which maybe doesn't bother you at all what bothers you which finally takes us over to Yehuda yes you have to work really hard on that but but especially you need to use moshe's Shore in uh because he does say that inar again if you're not clear about that we can look back atarim again we just now skipped yudu which I didn't want to do but if you look at PK you first of all it's interesting that comes first so you notice the word a couple of times and yes the bet mikdash the first and second will be in Bin's territory and you see the word over here so it's it's interesting that and the bet there again destroys the BET mikdash bam becomes the riling point of unity among all the brothers so therefore that becomes the proper place place for the BET mdash to stand so that seems to make a lot of sense now without explaining one word over here notice that that get the richest braa which means it's just a lot more developed than you look at you look at ruin you look at even Yehuda and it it's really interesting Le gets a longa B is short but ysep gets a very rich braa the other thing which is really interesting here is this point about that it almost sounds there that on yosef's head there is still a crown and that would be interesting because is isn't Yosef not a king now Yosef may have been the first king and Yosef may have been the one who introduced the concept of kingship among the Jewish people even though we can argue whether he was a Jewish king or he was a king who was Jewish well he wasn't really King but he was Jewish but he wasn't really the king of the Jews so all this is interesting but l roio n but the word Nazir is what's also interesting because the Nair is connected to the head to the hair and you know you go back and you look at the Ro again and um and we're not really sure right so the Nazir the Nazir is connected also to the hair but it's also um a Nazir is somebody who may actually be set off from the people somewhat so is this about yosef's isolation is yosef's uh ascendency over the others is because of yosef's greatness is this is this about a crown on his head so I'm saying all of this is really quite challenging by the way in the Israeli Army when you're talking over the keser over the walkie-talkie the code code is the captain so it's interesting that that word actually seems to indicate some kind of leadership and again ysep seems to have a lot in in uh in moshe's blessing but I'll just say in general terms that Moshe is very appreciative of Yosef and mosha takes responsibility to take Yosef out of Egypt and there may be a lot more to the mosha and yosf relationship but we as I said we got ahead of ourselves because we wanted to read over here more about Yehuda so we're back in the First Source and we're up to Yehuda now sorry so I don't know how easy you found that P I know you got the end of it that the the others will be bearing down to it's going to now focus on the power especially the using the imagery of a lion which is much clearer that the scepter will not depart from and the rule being the ruler being the leader creating the laws now whatever the word means over here that's also going to create some challenge now aside from being quite poetic and having even some rhyme there I think we're are we are a little challenged and that's that's the blessing so yud get a very long developed elements are here to it it we have wine at the end we have uh leadership in the middle and we have power there in the beginning and again here is a blessing we can argue ruing doesn't seem to be blessed Shimon and Ley don't seem to be blessed maybe Ley got something over there yehud is being blessed so therefore especially if I you know push away ruin I push away Shimon and push away Ley so then almost by default the next one is Yehuda but that itself is not strong enough but there is a here about Yehuda which we need to understand so you're going to have to give me a little bit of time to come back but first I want to go over to Yos because yose also gets a long developed um benat now what does the word parat mean what is the idea of Ben so notice those letters notice this word and I'll just throw out for the moment that maybe Paradis is related to the idea of Peru or Ru maybe it is related to this idea of becoming numerous so those are the girls that are climbing up the up the walls to take a look at him because he was in fact so good-looking so but you have people who are who are mad at him people who try to shoot the arrows at him but now this is taken in many ways and we're going to keep it to a G-rated understanding but he pulls back the bow and he holds back his uh his arrows Isel so the EV is is I refer to earlier as the and the Ben but he is uh he is he has this interesting perhaps double status so just in case you were not clear about that pru and this issue of fertility ysf absolutely gets blessed I don't know any way of saying this in a uh in a stronger way that he's being blessed from above but he's being blessed From Below he's being blessed by blessings of the breasts and the womb these are blessings of fertility which means that that ysep is going to be plentiful so you see now that element that mosha identified is back over here as well in uh in yakov's blessing but he again this this leadership is there but we still have to now work out the difference between Yosef and the difference between Yehuda but let's you know first spend a little bit more time with Yosef and then we'll move back to Yehuda when we go in Source number six which precedes this I mean we started today in peric Meet which is where the quote unquote BR are but if you go to per Ys already receives BR over there and this is when yosf is called in first and it's really at this point that ysep gets his double portion SH now the name Shai is important because the name Shai is used I'm not going to prove it now but I've said it before I've written about it I've shown it the name Shai is used when it comes to fertility the first time it's used in the Torah is when aam is told to get a Brit and a is 99 and then aam afterwards has that every time it is somehow connected to fertility to Children coming to the world children staying in the world but it has to do with fertility and maybe even the word Shai is is connected to the word breast but it has some kind of ability of divine um shall we say uh some Divine Powers flowing so maybe again it's like the milk flowing from the breast but it is something which is a power of God which allows blessing to take place again very specifically in terms of children and he and yob says by the way look at the blessing the blessing was for children what does God say so that the name is connected to this and yov continues and and he tells him so now he is saying that yet that a blessing is coming to them but I also want you to note something else and that is like from the beginning I pointed out that Ben and you have the and you have the idea of Peru U and you have the name epim which I'll come back to and moving on you have ephata all of these things are connected and that's part of what we need to pay attention to so these two are becoming tribes it means yoseph just received his double portion ysf is not a tribe ysf is a tribe he something else ysf is somehow between the brothers and Yakov which again is the role of the older brother the older brother is the extension of the father he's the one who looks after the others and gets the double portion ysf over here is be given the double portion and now Yakov explains something because he's going to ask your for a favor so now again so now he's going to bless them which is reminiscent I wrote in Source number seven when wants to give his blessings when he cannot see well open I never even imagine to pray to see your face again I've even seen your children I'm not sure much to go into it but just one second again it's this blessing for many children and we will leave it at that so we already pointed out the source number six is when the blessings go over to Yakov but again it comes from y whose vision is limited and now we have a similar scene over here which we may or may not have paid a paid attention to okay I mentioned before that Yosef was called a and that is in in Source eight in PK me giml but I want to read a little bit before this this is when he is selected really as no longer being a slave and he is appointed in his role as king now the word and the word and the word of so we we've learned this before yes and the word all of them are made up of the same letters they're all made up of the of the BET and the cuff and the r which is all the second the second in the single digits the second in the tens the second in the hundreds which really is who Yosef is ysep is always the number two ysep was number two to yakob he's number two to potifar he's number two in the prison and he's number two to parro and the brothers always assumed that he wanted to be number one wherever he was and they never understood that he was always number two and that ultimately is the of mhi Ben y to prepare the way for Yehuda okay or mhia Ben David but over here part of what we should note is the the bar as well the Bowing down is part of this it's the the that I mentioned before that he's the fourth wheel it is the bra and it is the all of this is involved in one way or another involving ysf so I'm just pointing at that in these couple of suum where ysep is given his uh his role in Egypt all of these elements are there staring at us the other thing is the name of frim so again this this name of EP and this idea of blessing having to do with yosf is also interesting when Yos is named Rael does something very similar and she names him and says y again looking for more children looking for more fertility looking for there to be a continuation and more blessing later on when Benyamin is born so maybe again we didn't notice this but we should have put it together already so this is sour 10 so is this place so what is it this this place where the Peru where it takes place so therefore her her prayer from before I want another son so here it is so that's again interesting and then we come back to this idea of Ephraim getting the blessings I'm going to say it again now yosef's blessing over here if we're going again look at the bigger picture of his Blessing there's no there's no Kahuna and there's no kingship even though it was all there in the background and was we were ready for it but it's not there but what is there is blessing and is double and triple and and so on and that he gets this double blessing should not be a surprise because that seems to be you know all over this essence of ysep seems to be this blessing of uh of more of of puru of this Rey and so on and ysep as I said ends up getting this double blessing okay so at this point we're finally ready to get back to Yehuda and now let's try to understand Yuda blessing because there's something over here which takes place that I think is really interesting but let's let's read it one more time and then and then we're going to cheat and read it in English maybe we'll look at Rashi a little bit and then we'll go to the tarum Yuda back in Source number one right so we remember all of these things the power of the line and so on right that the probably the most difficult part is when you get to the the end of this like what is it talking yeah we see wine and some of us like wine so some of us very much appreciate this but we just don't know what to do with it so again what is this last element over here about Yehuda having to do with wine so we'll look at rashi rashi will start with Source number 12o that so much wine is going to flow over there it's going to be a place of wine now again no one diminish that that is a wonderful thing that we're going to have good wine like we like good wine and that's great but we're just kind of wondering if that's all that's here is and you know again we can read so it's interesting y gets the of re in terms of children he gets the BR in terms of uh his Vineyards that it's a kind of a clothing Rashi understands and doesn't appear in other places so you know reading all of this we're not really sure what exactly we're supposed to do butash does he knows so he notes that the tarum takes this in a totally other place where essentially Rashi was sounds very tempted just to leave it in terms of okay he's going to have lots of wine he's going to have Vineyards and nobody knock Vineyards because as I said this sounds like a a very good thing so let's let's go down we'll skip a little bit and you see you see what a fav I'm doing to you look at source 16 whether this is not a classical Rabbi Source we can debate that as well they they have so much wine that they're going to use it to launder their clothing is there anybody here who's ever done laundry who uh who who likes this interpretation are you about to accuse the izra of never doing laundry himself because this does not work well and that's what he writes here told Water Works on laundry wine does not work work well the they don't make things white they make things red so how can you tell me that that this is a question of doing laundry with wine because that doesn't make much sense so again just go back a second to what the pum said and then again you'll see why we are somewhat stuck when it said right B so is clothing you know what you can say it's a word that doesn't exist or you can say it's like it's like clothing but either way it says so you're doing laundry with wine and I hope everyone is saying yeah that was a really good point you that doesn't work very well what in the world do these actually mean good so are we good we understood y's we understood what happened to uan we understand that Shimon and Ley may have not gotten a blessing unless you separate them and then somehow Ley is going to evolve into Ley and we read a lot of about Yehuda again we read Yosef again all this fertility and then we read about Yehuda and he gets power and he gets kingship and the scepter and he gets laundry done with wine which does generally is why you need to do laundry not how you do laundry right if you're with me on this so now I want to go over to the tarum and we'll try to figure some of this out the tarum source 17 on Yehuda and just to help us a little bit the English translation of the Torah is in 18 Yehuda you your brothers will acknowledge your hand right you you your brothers will acknowledge hands of the name of your enemies your brothers will bow down to you so now let's take a look with the Target right Yehuda OD Yehuda you confessed that's really interesting and we're not ashamed and your brothers will acknowledge you he just added a clause in the Clause he added in is that Yuda you confessed now this works in wonderfully with things that we know that maybe maybe Yehuda becomes Yehuda well actually this will depend what is it that he confessed to did he confess and this really intriguing did he confess to to the his part in the S of yosf did he confess to Tamar that's the easier read on it but that's what the tarkum is reading into it let's continue right we're read the English of the you confess and you were not ashamed you Brothers will acknowledge you and you will overpower your enemies your haters will be dispersed they will turn the back there next to you your father Sons will greet you first now this is also interesting because it's not exactly what it said and and again what did the say over here didn't say that they'll greet you first it actually said something much stronger so it's interesting that he s that he softened it when we get to Yehuda it said means they'll bow down to you of course when we when y has his dreams of people Dow bowing down to him we did not love it all that much or the brothers didn't love it all that much but he's pulling away from that and look at the tarum instead of end of and it says they're GNA ask how you're doing doesn't say they're going to bow down again if you're just not sure the English the end is your brothers will bow down to you so there he really you know is uh he's not translating word for word know whatsoever right T N he'll be the ruler at the beginning and at the end a king will be anointed from the house of Yehuda so maybe again we have to read the I should have put it closer so sorry was about the power so that talks about the scepter so PK 9 and 10 n was all about power so if we again look in the tarum on that PK on PK Ted so he will be a ruler at the beginning it's taking the lion and saying that metaphorically you know the lion and the power and he say he be a ruler beginning and at the again and a king will be anointed from the house of Yuda and then it continues again we're still in for from the Judgment of death my son you removed yourself just say hold it a second where in the world did that come from look at look at again pked in the T you moved away from a capital case so if you go back to pket one more time and say yeah that was clear we saw that you know we saw that coming the only problem is you don't see that coming what does it say he just added in a clause into the PK which we didn't know was there and now you have to ask yourself again which capital case did he move away from was this the capital case of that he said that Tamar should die because of her actions or is this that he saved Yosef that Yosef they determined will die and he changed it that'll only be sold so I can assure you that commentaries on the tarum take this in two different ways if it's this is absolutely remarkable to say that Yehuda becomes Yehuda because of what happened in Tamar especially here where he says many that's interesting but to say that Yehuda becomes Yehuda because he stepped in yes Yosef perhaps deserve what's coming but he doesn't deserve to be killed and he moved away from a capital case and if that's what it means that for him saving you none of us read it this way none of us understood that Yehuda could possibly become Yehuda and King because he acted as a king he acted as a ruler this one shall live this one shall die and he saves yosef's life and I'll say it again it's absolutely remarkable if that's what it means but now you realize we're essentially in no man's land cuz we have no idea what it says even but I want to come back to the wine part cuz I think that there's something there which is really interesting and after that we will try to wrap up a bit and um you're going to have lots and lots of homework I gave you so much more to read here so again if posket was bad enough he'll be a ruler king the Judgment moved away he will rest and dwell in the strength of a lion like an awesome lion there is no Kingdom that can make him tremble again all that stuff about the power but it also threw in there about he moved himself from a judgment of death the Rod of the rule will not depart from Yehuda nor scribe of his children Forever Until mashiah will come so it added in adilo it added in mashiah now we have to come back to our wine suim he will bring Israel from all around to his City the nation will build his Temple the righteous will congrate around the mssiah and those engage in Torah study with him and I hope that you're all looking at this and saying well where did he get that may his garments be of fine purple cloth and his clothes of fine wool colored in scarlet and other colors his Mountains will red with Vineyards his wine press will be flowing with wine his Valley will appear white for the abundance of grain and sheep good look what he did with that other PK talking about the his the color the clothes being laundered with wine did you all understand what just now happened he's talking about the garments becoming fine purple cloth and fine clothes of wool colored in scarlet and other color colors that's really important so can I explain to you what I think just now happened again you want the English what it actually says his tethers just fall in the vine and bow his dunkey's cult somehow he got everybody gathering together in Messiah and the beta mikdash and so on he washes his clothing and wine and the blood of The Grapes of his robe so again that's literally what it says but he sees something else and let me explain what he sees what he sees is is first of all the colors are important he's wearing purple and is wearing kind of red and all kinds of scarlet and other colors what is he wearing and by the way this is too easy that's why you can't get it what is he wearing he's easy just the the obvious thing that you have to say he's wearing a coat of many colors how how easy was that and of course what you're saying to yourselves is why didn't I think of that well you didn't think of that because you want me to feel like you still need me but that's what it says over here that that now that's really interesting because you all know that when Yakov gives to Yosef a code of Many Colors essentially what he's doing is that he is coronating Yosef as the man who will be king and uh and again I don't want to work too hard now on the code of Many Colors but hopefully we all know that already that the the colors actually the coat takes you in two directions it could take you towards the the aoda and the beta mcdash some things are made out of all kinds of interesting colors but where this really takes you is to the the children the family of of of David who also have ton P but more specifically what we know is that these are the colors that uh that that Kings wear I mean I I actually much later on over here found for you an interesting article about in in historically the color purples been associated with royalty power wealth for centuries in fact Queen Elizabeth the first forbade anyone except close members of the royal family to wear it purple at least status stems from the Rarity of the cost of die originally used to produce it and again you have a lot more over here to read about this and I also gave you a nice picture over here of the of the color of it is that in the ancient Middle East purple was a symbol of prestige us die of the royal royal color and so on and priest and royalty and King David and Solomon and so on what uncus is reading into this is that this idea of doing laundry with wine and doing laundry which you you would think that makes no sense it gets it dirty no it turns it purple it turns it the color that a king is supposed be wearing but I but I wanted to go one step and I purposely said it in a slightly different way and what I the way that I said it was that he gets a code of Many Colors which means what Yakov is doing now is he's backtracking on what he gave to yoseph he's giving yose something else he gave Yosef wonderful blessings he's giving Yosef even the status which is a higher status of being a double tribe which is the Bor and he gets two tribes of FR and manasha but he's doing something else he's kind of taking back from Yosef the code of of Many Colors which I know you can tell me has long been been destroyed and dipped in blood but no he's giving Yehuda that code of Many Colors and he's saying to Yehuda you're the one who will be king so it's interesting that you know ruin loses something over here when ruin loses it he's essentially left with nothing but when Yosef loses it Yakov replaces that with something else but he does take the coat and he does take the malood and he gives it over to Y to Yehuda which as I said is interesting now I'm leaving at this cuz I I what I did just now is much closer to shot certainly I think it's the way that Uncle would have read it what I did not do for you is reading through theah kados on page it's theah kados on page yeah you can go through Source 27 which is on page seven and page eight and page nine and and so on and he go there's a lot that he says over here regarding Yosef and Yehuda and regarding the king I'm regarding the clothing and regarding the clothing of malood and what is taking place beneath the surface over here and that concerns me less right now beneath the surface but again just like I started today when we have sections which are poetic we look at uncus because uncus is interesting when it comes to Poetic because he tells us what it means even if it's not what it says and over here he did a couple of things which are really interesting because you can go back and look at the pum and say where did he get that from and how did he understand that but over here this point in terms of the clothing and doing laundry with wine on the clothing instead of us focusing on oh that's not how you do laundry so any housewife could have corrected iban Ezra over here it wasn't the question of correcting iban Ezra it was understanding what the result would have been and the result was was producing Royal clothing and Royal clothing is really what what the what the tarum is telling us over here and um I'm I'll say it again it's how he understood theim but once you understand it of Many Colors which he seems to say over there then you also understand at least and by the way you don't have to agree with me that that's what the Kon pasim is and that's what it means there is some discussion over here but if we do understand it in its broadest way that Theon pasim is a code of Many Colors then it's very interesting because that seems to be exactly what Yakov now has rescinded from Yosef given over to Yehuda and ysf and Yehuda you know they win they're the ones who walk away with the blessing bam as well in terms of the BET mikdash Le is going to have to do some work along the way by the time we get to darar and you know do our comparisons Yosef is still there yosf is still on this really interesting higher level but as I said Yehuda is the big winner in bid on right surprise ending Yehuda is the big winner and Yehuda walks off with the kingship and he walks off with with mashiah and he walks off with the with the Cod of Many Colors so who would have thought again there was that that point to that you saved from a judgment of death who would have thought that you know as they rip off the Cod and they dip it in Blood and they send it to Yakov which should have been an incredible stain on them who would have thought that Yehuda that ends up getting a coat of many colors afterwards as part of the blessing that Yakov leaves him with and eventually he will be the one to get the code and he will be the one to get the crown and he will be the one to be