Parshas Mikeitz: The Divine "Cherem" Not To Reveal Mechiras Yosef - Part 2

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good evening everyone thank you so much for joining us um we're continuing our the subject a very moving subject a a stirring subject regarding this Harem that Rashi said in parashas vaishev that why didn't God reveal to yaakovino where Joseph was what happened to him because the brothers made an excommunication and cursed anyone who would reveal the information and they joined hakadish baraku with them and that is the subject of uh tonight's year um the assure amounts of rich is sponsored by doctors today's class is sponsored by RAB Nelson on Wednesday we learned three basic approaches they are as follows number one the approach to the Mizrahi that no you cannot bind God God is not bound by anything all it means were all it means is that the shottam were pretty confident that God would never let it be known that Yosef was sold because God had his own personal interest in ensuring this remained a secret because we they had a tradition that one of them would be sold and through him the Jewish people would end up in Egypt that being the case because they had such a tradition therefore they knew God wouldn't say but not in any way that God was bound by the shua but God they made a harem among themselves and they knew God would be in on it for his own reasons to make sure they would end up in Messiah that's the approach to the Mizrahi the morale's approach was that you can't bind God when when khazal say they brought in Hashem it means they brought in the makahim they brought in the dimension of that is meshutov with them but God was only brought in vis-a-vis them to bind them because without God there they wouldn't have a minion and Akram is only binding if there's a minion so God was there to bind them but not to bind God it's the muscle we gave is if somebody davened already he could be part of the minion so he doesn't have to dive in at Dominion but they need him to be there so God being there bound the Fatima didn't bind God but Hashem didn't um went along with it because uh of how College brought his own personal hashbonus but he was not technically Bound by it and then we learned the incredible Paris of the lavish the approach of the lavush is that in fact God was bound and you'll ask how could a mortal How could a mere basavadam bind God and the answer is why not they asked him they used the shame they went down to the merkava either Levy or all of them and they said God would you like to be bound and he said okay I'm in they said God in or out God said I'm in why did God say he's in for his own eyes but the question how you could bind God they asked him and Hashem said yeah so why were the punished because they never asked him if they should sell yours if they just asked if we do sell will you say anything and God said okay you want to sell him do what you want and I'll be I won't say anything but I'm not giving you permission to do so those were the three approaches that we learned I want to share with you tonight two approaches it will be um a brief share this evening um the fourth approach is the approach of the now historically the hidayah writes that the social is not reliable as a work of history but this is a approach to a narrative in Hamish which is quite an amazing approach and in his opinion when Ghazal said that they joined the shrina in the kherem the shall show us how Kabbalah writes foreign do not explain the words of Ghazal at face value here you see these words where my arrow is a kid can force his father a student can't force the rebi what means is God had his own reason why he didn't want to say and if you want to know so who is the tenth person in the Hera don't you need a minion has a very unique approach the 10th person because we know Reuben wasn't there and Benjamin wasn't there so it's only nine nah yahi safe himself was the 10th member of the Harem either because perforce he was under their control and because he was under their control they could coerce him and force him to be part of the khairam he had no alternative and he answered amen if the majority of the community agrees to a particular the minority is drawn after them against their will so this is the approaches that this was not bound upon God you can't bind God to do anything and based on that idea says that the reason why Yosef never sent word Dad I'm alive save me I'm in Egypt is because Yosef was bound by the Hera you know the we've learned in previous years that the reason why U.S didn't send where to Yakov is Jose felt he had to bring the dreams to fruition have all the brothers bow down to him and then have the brothers and yaakov bow down to him this is another approach to that question you know I Yosef didn't send word because he was bound by the Hera and now says we understand why Joseph is constantly crying in parashas what does that mean he's crying was he just overcome with emotion it was more than that crying is a feature and facet of Prayer every time he saw the brothers he said God I can't take it anymore please I beg you could we can I be released from can I be mate he pled with God Hashem Please Release Me From This impossible uh prison of being bound by the I need my father to know where I am so for example in park members he turned away from them and he cried you returned to them and he took Shimon from them here it says he turned away and he cried so we understand that he was just overcome with emotion he hadn't seen his brothers it was just too traumatic no it's more than that he turned away and he prayed God okay the brothers are here can we release the Harem can we can I be free to the Harem and God basically did not allow him to be released so he he tried again a little bit later on in the pasta but even then he was not freed of the Harem not until all the brothers appeared before him and Joseph realized that if all the brothers are there then anything created with a certain number can then be released and freed through the same number and when Yosef sees all the brothers present heating he cried to the almighty God almighty please allow me to release my be released from the khairam and in fact at that point he was released from the Hiram foreign says visit by the way this would explain why you always safe never told the brothers originally I'm safe why didn't you say originally when the brothers came down Yosef couldn't say there was a Hiram on him he couldn't tell his own brothers who he was so Kabbalah um the brothers were afraid of him they're afraid to release him from the Hera maybe he would tell the father everything and Yosef pled with them Yosef said come close to me and finally the brothers agreed to release the Harem so this is a little bit of a different shot seems to learn not to take hazal at face value God was not bound who is the 10th member the 10th member was incredibly safe and all the crying of Yosef was yosef's attempt to release the brothers Yo's attempt to be released let's end off with the fifth shot this is the approach to the Schleich others and this is a fundamental understanding in general what were the brothers thinking were did they how could they sell their brother they're going to kidnap their brother throw him into a pit with snakes and scorpions you know the Holocaust if you throw someone to a pit with snakes and scorpions you don't even have to see anything you can immediately testify that they died and the wife could remarry so how could the brothers do such a thing so the approach is that when the brothers say to yourself will you be the king this wasn't just jealousy the concept is that Kahuna belongs to shave at Levy and malchus belongs to shave at Yehuda and they thought that yosef's illusion of grandeur of becoming King was usurping the malchus based of it we know that when Yehuda was born it says we know that God's malhos is Manifest through the medium of the malchus is the fourth Regal of God's Throne Abram Yehuda David holds up the kisak covered David projects God's sovereignty to the world and they felt that Yosef who comes obviously from shaved Yosef did not have the right to take malchus did not have the right to usurp the malchus therefore they held he was a moired by malhos and his Misa that's why they passed in Joseph's in fact I would like to suggest the gemara tells us in Sanhedrin like anyone who challenges the davidic Dynasty is worthy to be bitten by a snake therefore the brothers said look we don't know for sure that this is what Jose's plan is maybe it's just some kind of immature dream we don't know for sure he's trying to usurp the throne here's the good here's here will be the barometer we'll throw him into a pit with snakes and we know anyone who argues on the Malco space that would be bitten by the snake and if he's bit in so obviously we're right in our in our suspicion of Yosef says never tried to usurp the malchus the role of your safe is to be the yesud the foundation to pave the way for the malchus Yehuda this is what it was in the times of borrowed so that later David could be the melach the role of Yosef is to consolidate the people galvanize the people to forge us into an arm and then Yehuda comes in takes damage but the brothers Joseph was usurping the mouthless based of it now here's the clencher says foreign is the projector of God's sovereignty in the world if you start up with marco space David with Yehuda it's like starting up with God the meaning of the khairam the meaning of the Hiram that they put God in Hiram they joined up God they were mashedat if God God was a partner it's because they held that Yosef was challenging the Malachi space David and in effect he's challenged challenging God's sovereignty so in in ruling that Yosef was challenging the sovereignty of God they joined God in until that is the general approach of the and this is something very relevant to chanukkah as we know that even though the Hashem restored Jewish sovereignty and in fact the rambam says they took malachus they restored malchus for another 200 years nevertheless there was a certain uh problem with the hashmanam and that is what the ramban writes in Paris is that they took malachos and they did not return it to the family of David hamalach and because of that the Hashem met a very difficult fate namely wiped out there's even a tradition a controversial tradition from the Samsung that the reason why Hanukkah does not appear in the mishnah is because since it was codified redacted by rebby from the House of David he to stand up for the honor of his family he did not include Hanukkah in the mishnah although it was a great Divine salvation but because they usurped the malchus based off it's similar to what the schwate them held about because of that Ruby did not included in the mishnah so these are another two approaches to this very uh mystical concept that the bro that uh the brothers made a harem not to reveal the sale of Josef and the two additional perusum are it really means that Yosef was the tenth person according to the Kabbalah or God's participation was in that they deemed that the Yosef is challenging the March David which is considered a challenge to God himself okay thanks everyone for joining tonight sorry um I'll make this a little higher what are you saying shows that uh uh somebody in handcuffs in who doesn't want to be part of the minion there's no interest in Dominic he actually counted towards Dominion just because he's physically there I mean it's hard to imagine that you'll say you just use the word coerced it's probably more than coerced he was threatened um and then under those circumstances I wonder whether or not legitimately they could be could be considered part of the make the tent of the heaven be valid right well that's that seems to be a point that the social security addresses um he doesn't discuss whether it works for trila but when it works with for uh um which is a kumrah that's placed on the community the minority has to follow the the majority ruling so even though if that person would not be there it would not be enforced because you don't have 10 people with that person there even though he doesn't agree with it he's sort of he makes the minion absolutely he makes Dominion yeah absolutely so that's uh that's but that's what he says that that's how work if you have a majority then even somebody who doesn't agree with it he could be forced to be mashlum okay thank you so much for everyone we'll see you tomorrow morning I have the information for the sponsorship okay excellent have a good night everyone this is you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com