Yosef and Leil HaSeder By Rabbi Shai Finkelstein

okay hello everyone so uh we have a lot to do because next week we don't have a class and I preper I guess sources for two or three weeks but we can do whatever we can do no no no okay so no so we are going to talk about uh y y and and we'll see that there is a lot that connects and Le which we don't really which I think I know how to push a button uh but thank you um and we will see something which uh I think we don't think about because we always think about why Moshe is not mentioned in the A and we forget ysep but I think ysep is obviously a lot to do with the letter so let's see says the following so says that they will bring the Pas L and each one of them will basically take it in a way that they will basically take out the skin and they will bring it with them like almost all their shoulders amarish says what he so rash says which means the way that they carried the Pascal the Corban P The Way They carried it home after they brought it into de beta mikdash to slaughter it to it so they took it home the way they took it home it was like now that sounds very familiar right who are thear isim the one who took from the PO from the bow now that itself is very interesting what like a why do we care think about do you would you be able to sleep tonight if you would not know how exactly the Jews would carry their Pascal on the beta mikdash back home I will believe me I have other things to be worried about not this is not one of them and thear goes out of its way to explain to me something that it's totally unnecessary and we will see that kuger is asking the same question in a minute really but the the association is obviously with Med Group came along and they basically carried y from the pit they sold to and is sold to [Music] as you can understand by the way the name he was a very smart person and he was he was he was a very talented scholar and uh he basically says says I don't know for how many years he says I was wondering about this statement why would the think that this is so important to describe to me what how exactly the Jews took their Pascal land back home also he says if you think about discuss things that have enough Kamina which means have some kind of application to my life what is the application to my life today zero right so why do I need to discuss so therefore he says the following meaning one of the questions that are discussed is obviously what is the reason for the slavery in why do we have to go through that and he says and says the opinion of some rabbis is can he says the reason for for the slavery in Egypt is because of what selling of Ys says if you look at there are so many things that we do in order to hint about the and the sh we eat for the we eat mat for the we eat for the right because of the the cement okay and we but there is nothing in Le that try to indicate what the reason for the slavery and therefore says this is why the talmud talked about how the Jews took the Pascal back home from the mikdash in order to teach us the reason for slavy because don't forget you could bring the pascam when after midday but you need to eat it when at night okay so the reason for slavery the reason for what you are about to do is what connect you back to yourself now you would think that this is okay no one thing for make to make a shield the answer is yes so you will see that there are many things that we do during Le in order to remind us the reason for the slavery and to mention y so let's start you take a vegetable which has and then you it in and then you eat measure that you need to eat he and all the people who eat with him everyone needs to eat at least okay that's what the r says says says we all eatass right why why it's it's I forgot speaking English here so we are using Kass why to remind us of theim the dress that Jakob gave to yoseph the L whatever the tuna what is called the coat of many colors right of things happen the first thing almost that we do on Le is we s the vegetable in theet which creates a lot of colors in order to remind us about what the the colorful tunic and this is the reason not the colorful tunic the animosity the hate the divisiveness this is the reason of why we ended up where in MIT we are not we are not done yet the on page two says the following about this colorful tunic he says so first and foremost we need to know many people think like in the show right that it was very colorful tunic according to iben Ezra and many others means pass meaning only the the the like the the Cs like almost like a c Okay C that's what say okay good so only here there was something like very Royal but it was a regular uh dress so it was not like a really colorful coat just that the was something I guess distin okay that's one soob did forri the numerical of that is this is a measure of um some kind of um of a of value of some coins that's what it says in in because of two more dollars that yob spent on y's so who do we blame now yob okay we have someone to blame so the thing is is that because what Yakov did which by the way this is such a rookie mistake and you would think he will get it after 11 children no no really I'm not you think about it this is like a a no no for every parent we even when we don't discriminate there is always one child who thinks what that he is being discriminated okay you can you can do whatever you want but there is always one child mostly it's the sandwich one right the two of your third one that always feel that they are discriminated so why would you do that why would you do so there is a very interesting thing why what did yakob think but let's leave that alone maybe for a different sh but what we see for sure is what now we see two associations or two connections to ysf one is the way they carry the Pascal lamb back from the temp from the BET mikdash to back home and the second one is the okay now the Jerusalem says the following how do we know that you need to drink four cups so you all know out the answer right four languages of gula we have five and that's why we have theth because that we don't drink even though by the way there is a custom to do drink so we don't practice that custom but it used to be a custom in the Middle Ages so the thing is is that we have full languages of G right I'll save you I'll protect you whatever brings a different ruar was an Amora in ER is um in the third Century says it corresponds with the four cups of four cups of since when drank four cups if you remember Pharaoh's dream and sorry the Sim's dream okay the the batt's dream was one I will squeeze the grapes into Pharaoh's cup third one and then says to him you should place the cup the wine cup back to Pharaoh's hand now M the butler dreamed whatever he dreamed about the three mentioned three times Pharaoh's Cup and the four one is Joseph's interpretation but mes exactly the CER is the connection is ysep this is how ysep got out of the pit this is how what from the prison right but later on the Butler had to admit he had to admit what I need to to admit my sins and I forgot someone who asked me not to forget him for two years right so the thing is is that basically y is coming back to the stage because of what of the ca so this is why we drink four cups of wine on PES in order to remember yep's interpretation for the dream and how he was what back back back on to his position okay now skip the two go to so by now we have what we have three we have the way they carry the Pascal m is the deeping of the and the third is the four cups in in it says like that if you ask yourself what's the date of um yosef's um Liberation from prison was on how do we know because it says which means what blow the on that specific day and then immediately the P after it says what on that day that you need to blow the which means that was the day that ysep became what a king over so okay so that's R what does have anything to do with PES what we say every Thursday and then the say the slavery stopped how do we know because here regarding the slavery in it says and I will take you out underneath the afflictions of and regarding ysep it says what do you see the word means suffering so you see cot which means suffering that's cot and S SE regarding ysf means what also cot is just plural of SE okay so it's suffering not sufferings suffering okay so basically what has the gamar tried to do is to to compare what the suffering that ysep had with the sufferings that the Jewish people had and the same day that that suffering came to an end which was R for ysep that was the time for the the sh but also the time for the enslavement to stop which means half a year before the Jews left M they were basically what free of slavery which is interesting I don't know how many of you knew that now are we sure about it no that's the mid that the G brings but we can understand what yet another understanding of connection between Joseph and the people but here by the way this example it's much stronger than all the others why because basically it says that what the Joseph represents what the entire Jewish people it happened to ysep as an individual and because of that it happened to the entire Jewish people that they their slavery ended on the same day that it ended for your okay let's continue in it says so before ysep died he basically called his brothers and he asked them to take an oath to do what surely what will think about you will redeem you and you will need to take my bones with you says the following what does it mean surely redeem you will remember you think about you these two words they became like the ysep told the Jewish people tell told his brothers when he died that they are going to be enslaved and there is going to be a time that P you remember the word word p what is liod to remember to care to give a position okay what to AO very good that's the word I was looking for to AO someone for something for a mission right now yoseph died how many years went from Joseph's death until the Liberation from it until the Redemption 210 years or 400 years it depends on the calculations but let's say at least 200 years for 200 years the Jewish people remember this code of P how do I know that take a look in says to go and the elders them our God the god of ab Isaac and jaob told me same language now turn to page three basically gave the his brothers and they gave it to their descendants he basically gives them a code if the person who comes to take you out of MIT will use that code believe him if not he's a liar part is theode is the code is the code which means yph is not is not only one of the reasons for the slavery because of what happened with him but he is the key for what for Redemption so this is the fifth connection now that we have between Y and Le and the g now look at so we know that what does it meim so one of the most famous one is only one like only 20% but there are other opinions for example which means they went from armed with weapons remember is the one to take yep's bones with him so the in in Proverbs says the following someone who is wise that his heart is wise he is going to collect why obviously the Jewish people were engaged and immersed themselves in what in collecting silver and coins and all of thato and Moshe was busy doing what trying to find out where is moshe's um um so says to the is being fulfilled with you that you are you are a wise person in your heart and you are picking so says to M you really did something incredible ysep had to bury his father why because he he took an oath not only that he son is's also nishal he took an oath to bury him but you Moshe you owe nothing to yourself right you are not his son you are not his descendant and I will add something your great great greata Ley really didn't like yourself he and Shimon were the ones who what who conspired to what to kill him so basically Moshe had zero quote unquote obligation from a family uh perspective to bury yourself take yourself but you did you took his bones by the way he didn't bury him he just took his bones Jewish people buried him later on because MOS didn't go into the land of Israel so says to Moshe because what you did to ysep I'm going to do the same for you who buried Moshe hem okay so it's interesting ysep prepared the slavery and prepared the Redemption Moshe was one to bring the Redemption and to take ysph and to bring him to burial place and then who buries Moshe himself how exactly M knew where is buried you remember she is always around she never dies she she's never born she's everywhere and she's nowhere is like a ghost one time when I'll have some time I might do a research on her and try to understand what's going on with this girl um but it's it's a very interesting thing she was born you know she was born like when they entered MIT but she was basically her mom was pregnant while she was in Israel it's a very interesting idea with but she showed him where he is buried and he was in the N mhe so Moshe call J and says you know it's time you come up so but some people say no he was buried in a cave like all the other Egyptian kings the Egyptians created those dogs that will bark sounds like Indiana Jones right um you know that they will bark if someone will try to take yep's coffin from that cave and everyone would hear it the what palaces palaces yeah plin it's a palace but it's like more of like entry for a palace so then he says Sil them so Moshe is screaming YF wake up it's time it's time for the Fulfillment of your prophecy of and I am the guy I the person you need to wake up I need to take you start shaking so took his bones he took his bones for 40 years they were was wondering were wandering around in the desert now there's something very interesting you remember when ysep revealed himself to his brothers he says to them what don't worry hasem sent me here for a reason I going to sustain you for all those years and hasm says to him you are a bit arrogant saying that you're going to sustain them so now for 40 years you are going to what go around with them now but there is something good which [Music] is this is an incred incredible mid and I'm doing zero Justice to the mid because I'm doing the test that midash itself can go for an hour but I will just highlight a few things they carry these bones because they carry these bones they were impure because they were in touch with the dead body you remember the story of P sheni what is the entire idea of P Shi you a second chance that you have a second chance there is no any other if someone would come to me and says Rabbi I forgot to put fing on Sunday should I put them twice on Tuesday I will look at him and say no I mean you put them only once there is no second I didn't fast on y Kip should I fast on tubish it doesn't work like that the only Mitzvah that you can do it again is PES and why because that's the Covenant that's the connection to the Jewish people that's connection to the history and this Con connection to our destiny and it's all because of whom of yourself which is unbelievable that's the seventh connection I think that we came up with the idea of what of Joseph and and and and with all the animosity that the people couldn't stand him that his siblings couldn't send him for 40 years now he's dead I understand but for 40 years he's hanging around all the brothers all the sisters and he's allowing them to do what to have a second chance that's Joseph's story in a way he himself got a second chance a to rectify what he did and also to rise to a position and he gives his brothers a second chance look at the story with bamin bamin was basically a test for what for a second chance would you be willing to what to sacrifice yourself for your sibling not to sacrifice your sibling for yourself and that was jeuda the second CH as well exactly so now right but the most I think prevalent opinion is that that's not yeah because he twice mean mean he made them take an oath twice why twice but after the first time we got it they took he took an oath he's not upset with them anymore I didn't say he forgave them in my opinion and I think I said it in one of theot I don't think ysep ever forgave his siblings he was not angry anymore he made sense in his own mind for this entire thing he was sent here he had to sustain them he had to prepare Egypt for them I don't think he could forgive them and why because he was not phony you can't forgive for something like that you can go on you can have nice relationships you put them in Goan and you lived in Cairo so you don't see them really only for Thanksgiving right so the idea is is that basically I'm not sure yoseph was able to forgive by the way this is also this is my theory not sure if it's true or not but when yob dies he calls Joseph to come you didn't see your father for 22 years you were so connected and why don't you you know spend some time with family and so so maybe Joseph just felt very committed to his job and everything but also I think is that he didn't want to have too many conversations with his father because the question will come up which is how come how did end up here and yph will probably tell his father how did you end up losing hope and not come to what to search for me to find me so obviously there is a lot of um how do we know so first when he was sick yoseph had to be told that your father is sick which means he didn't see him a b when yov saw Joseph's children he says who are they now leave alone there is a mid that says you know that he saw that one of them has an idol worshiper and what but theot is he had no clue about his grandchildren from yosef's SP so I so I think that there was not too much of a too much of of connection at the end right by the way I don't think Joseph ever believed that story because the only way that jaob would say something like that is that if ysep will tell him what happened now because ysep knew that he never said it and he assumed that the brothers probably didn't confess their sins before jakob's death therefore he he knew that they they made it exactly so the entire letter now is about what it's to bring the brothers and the sisters now because we need to be politically correct obviously but brothers and sisters together they met this is the entire idea of Lea and now I think the lesson especially after October 7 is so powerful it's not about you know the size of I mean the size of the is very important the size of the mat is very important all the and the are very important but the idea behind is the ability to what to come together and you have a variety of people around your table you have a you have a you have a I didn't say that ACC to there is the is out no there is a Tes now you know oh you know what okay you know what I'll give you two minutes I thought about giving I make a out of it but I'll give you one thing yes so there are three sources for three sources for the four children now think about there is always when you look at the list of the four there is someone who is ADD if you take the okay is wise right is simple I mean intellectually is not that bright what is but what about cognitive abilities can be good can be maybe developed right so it's all about cognitive abilities right is evil is not okay now if you take Rasha Tam and you put them together that sounds good rash is the evil guy the is right H does not mean sadik h means what intellectually stimulated smart that's it so basically the way you try to create a let's say a common denominator there is a bit of a problem therefore if I'm not mistaken one of them I saw that many years ago put versus makes sense is smart is not that smart Okay and then the third guy is is the T so we can have different combinations now there's something very interesting too when you take rash and the you can split to two not his piety is against the but his stupidity is against the so now I'm not telling you now to try to admire the rasa but I will tell you listen to what he has to say this is very interesting he is involved and not only that according to the when he brings the he says which means every year he comes to the Seder every year he comes to the beta mikdash and he sees the thing he's not outside he comes but every year he says to them guys what are you doing every year you drive me crazy with all these things that I need to do with all this burden what's the reason for that Give Me A Reason which means at least he does not show empathy he's not an apathetic apathetic whatever guy okay he's someone who is involved they just want to know so to some extent the problem is not so much with him might be with us we maybe don't really give a reason in my opinion the guy who doesn't know how to ask he is probably the same level with the Rasha because to show zero uh interest that's not good so whatever I'm we not giving a about the okay move on okay so um so so he he took an oath that he he's not upset with them and they took an oath that they are obviously for so it's a parable for what for a person who put all these wine barrels into a little uh Mar and uh theves came took the barrels out and they drank the wine Baba so the owner of the winery came along and he saw that they stole the barrel you drank the wine okay but you know what put the Barrel in its place please okay don't leave it like that what's the message so they took y from and they sold and when he was about to die he asked them to take an oath to do what you took me from bring me back to now I will tell you something about sh we don't like sh it's a it's a bad City but there was something else that happened in sh before ysep the story of Dina the story of Dina now in the story of Dina there is also someone who is taking by force Dina but there the brothers showed what tremendous Unity I mean we can criticize what they did because they lied and yov definitely didn't like it but the idea is that they showed that they are willing to risk themselves in order to what to get dinner out which was an incredible thing Unity among the brothers and willing to do thing for someone else so that's on one hand on the other hand was terrible was sold what else happened in in t that's true but later in I'll give you a hint to give you a hint yeah okay generation after schlomo the kingdom split in between and that was now it's interesting because what is she which is almost like a shoulder what does the shoulder do they support and they connect the idea of sh and the Z has something interesting about it is the idea of connection however you need to go through some kind of a process in order to reive this meaning to Shem which is by itself is a very interesting thing okay so again what do we have with Joseph and Le is the idea of what of almost full circle of bringing everyone together what is so the says which means with my prayers and my my beseeching God but the fact is that which means with my with my sword and my weapons okay so the ramban says and this is beautiful the last Source on page three what does it mean when hasem says to when mosha says to sorry when yob says to ysep I'm giving you says yep was considered as what so he got double portion so you will have a double portion all over your over your siblings now now we are going to do something um interesting that uh we're not going to read all the Hebrew there's a lot of people here so what I'm going to do is you everyone can mostly you can okay good your is I don't know how you first is he no yes ra to ra and also if the plan was as it was in the original Rael will be the first wife and Y will be the first first son now and he got right okay y who else is considered as a he's a tragedy he's I gave class about him one is not a is is a so we have is and also is I don't like to call it Jewish Nation it's Yi we are Israel not only isra is the highest okay so we have okay then we know that when ysep heard that uh sorry when y revealed himself to what I'm saying is the when ysep heard that Jakob is coming to what did he do you remember ysph basically got his uh his Chariot okay ready letters what right switch it to okay now one second so we have Mera The Chariot also has the idea of what of the who else got his Chariot ready for something bad when par chased the Jewish people is to yamu it says now will need to do it by himself he's the king the idea is that he was so hateful that he did it by himself he didn't want to wait for his servants so for his servants okay now one more the same okay so what's going on here everything is in the so where's the BR come from one second we'll get there so the idea that rutner wants to uh wants to claim in one two three four pages okay he basically says the following he says the Z states that the aot him that our ancestors abob they are basically are the wheels of the mer of The Chariot the Divine Chariot what does that mean let's bring it down to earth that's what we want because we want to understand it Hashem reveals himself to us as a king here we all know King Char right he's in a world TR whatever he is or The Chariot okay and but someone needs to what to carry him who are the ones to carry him is ABR is and Jakob but there are only what three Wills you need to have the fourth one we are the for we ar Israel through us we are the ones to bring God to this world okay so we have a we are the wheels of the meab however when you travel when you travel even if you travel business class you feel after you travel a lot after you travel for this journey from the Jewish people you travel a lot and you feel a one of the first blessings that gave to AB after you shall go and wander around and you go on your journey what's the that gives to [Music] Abraham and part of this blessing is what that he will not be affected by he will not be affected by what by wandering around he will stay fresh okay so the idea is the can cause you to be tired from the way and you get a now also I don't know if you ask yourself ever why is a blessing because that's the translation I understand but what does it mean I mean yob and as are fighting for a how does it work here in Israel we have every day we have a lot of how does it work you give to your children how does it work but how does it work you say something and how is how it's connected okay I will just add a little bit someone needs to hear it someone needs to be ready for it right you need to connect now that's the beauty of hebra what is a KN we all not say knees are the the part of the body that connects what the legs that allow you to what to do the to walk so the idea is we all know if you have a bad knee it's a problem so the idea is is the come from the world it's basically to connect you need to you said to listen you need to bow down your bit that's what we do in we we do that little bit when you give a a braa to your children they lower their head a bit they don't stand straight so the thing is is what that in order for the to walk you need to definitely have what a you need to have a and if you have both you go to what to become yes is it also related to you also that's with a little danger would prob probably somehow that's true but this is a but but what was the idea behind it okay okay now one more one more but but but one more thing there is in Hebrew and this is the Beautiful the beauty again in Hebrew how do you call that thing now it's show and tail okay now I was never good in painting so I will try oh now it's a Hebrew a Hebrew a minute of Hebrew uh how do you do that okay what is that a tree that's AE this is a tree okay that's a here here are the roots okay this is a tree okay if I take if I take this is obviously this is a branch right this is the ground if I take a branch from here and I plant it here in order to have another tree how does it called in Hebrew in English transplant how do you call it in Hebrew it's beautiful it's also in the Mish already it's called that's a mishna that's in the mishna it's not a made up world like in the 20th century it's in the mishna already like exactly and it comes from the world like planting something that will basically will continue the original Tree by the way there are if for example this tree is already pass the D or after the fourth year this one is also already yes which is very interesting so that's also you need to know the times and all of that but this is the idea of so everything around these letters it's about continuation and carrying some someone else with you so if that's true as I said I I really do zero justice to all of that but just because of time I will just say that part of the idea of Leed is not only just to remember the slavery and the Redemption and but to understand the reason when we understand the reason for something we hopefully hopefully will not repeat it so when I probably should raise this thing people would have no idea what did I say um so the idea is is is how to be a and this is also a lesson for ysep how to be a and to understand not only the Privileges but also the responsibilities we are we have tremendous responsibility to ourselves but also to educate this crazy M world that we live in um and we we have tremendous amount of work to do so I think that especially in two weeks when we sit around Le I think part of this idea of yoseph and the idea of Brotherhood and the idea of unity and to learn how to you know the first mission that sent was what does it mean to see if you can find peace within your brothers jsph didn't even have a chance the minute they saw him from afar they wanted to kill him so he lost it but that was the idea and this is obviously something that we need to ask ourselves okay that's for today