Parshat Vayichi | Rabbi Baruch Taub

morning ending sa I don't know where the time goes uh I just want to mention that um this morning sheer is being sponsored by dedicated by sari and schlomo dren in loving memory memory of sari's Father Mr Joe palansky Z husband of Rosanne palansky this is you this is you on the occasion of his should be alas should only have Simas andas rosan all the best okay we have three um interesting pieces I think there that we've Chosen and I hope we can get through them all so first is from rev hutner I always like to save rev hutner till the end but I'm nervous that the others are a little going to be longer too so um this really could be given next week um and you'll see why in a minute this is from his actually but it do it's this week's part next week by the way this p is in right you have this rather you have um the last p in this week's para is the death of Yosef and in the next week's parote it Al it will list that Yosef died again right so this is first of all the only time that the death of the is mentioned and the death of Y is mentioned at the end ofous and the beginning ofos right why is that right I mean a person can only die once so why is it mentioned why is it mentioned twice there there's got to be some significance to the fact that it's mentioned twice and it has to relate to the that it has to bring out the fact that there must be a difference between saos and saer basus and there has to be something very different about Yosef as opposed to his brothers okay so that's where he's going to go here right it says and it's to to look into this the death of Y that it's repeated right we don't find this repetition by the brothers so again it's going to be something different about ysep and the brothers and something different about about Sao and sa BR next paragraph a you see by the way when you'll see on this the way I do this because I'm such not a professional I there it's a much longer piece so when you see that there's the title again the second time it means that I've skipped and the it just picks it up right away when I when I put it on when I pull it out of the uh out of the um the Baran so the title is there right away so just ignore that title each time okay next week I'll try to take them out if I do that a we know that our aot are three right I'm was kind of confusing in our forefathers are three right AB is and yob right so well what we're going to discover I'm sorry but I David doesn't like that but it's his style and I would say though but what we're going to discover here is that our three fathers are really for that's what we're going to seem to discover okay so it's not so bad now okay ifob ended the period of of fatherhood what what that means right the energy that we receive from Theos each one they different MOS that are transmitted to us right afterwards so the now you have the the the energy of theim of the sons the children that's what we're dealing with afterwards mik that being said with Y there seems to be something else a foot he was definitely one of the sons of Y one of the 12 tribes on the one [Music] dimension the MRE right sorry did I skip something um so on the one hand he's he's a son on the other hand he's a father why why because of Y right ra is the ra is IM IM right is called after ra aside from the other the other IM right so that has to do with the birth of yo when yose was born right and the whole idea that he when he gave him that code of Many Colors only him B so obviously Y is different Ys certainly is an elue of his own with reference to the so there's something a foot here you see he's not just a son right he's he's more than that so ysep is now a shavit but he also is close to being a father an of right there's something right next paragraph which we had is long ago um incidentally Aya the entire saer na is one peric so if you want to get started in learning tanak start with a one peric you can make a on an entire Navi right so but says something very famous y lash yov was the candle the fire ysep was the flame and ASA was the straw in other words the straw was burnt by the candle and the flame that not just by yakob but was necessary to have Yosef involved in ultimately the destruction of Asa will come about through yakob and yose right okay now remember asov is is on yakov's generation right he's he's the enemy of Yakov ainu right which becomes our enemy right but yoseph takes the place here of an a ultimately through this this this statement by this p in of destroying ASA right a below you know a fire without the flame uh is limited right it doesn't go too far right um M I mean let's hope that what's going on in in Los Angeles today uh has calmed down a little bit the flame is really going very far terrible situation M when y was born yov trusted in Hashem so here he was all these years that by the B La when was by love on and finally when Yosef is born he had enough and he went he went and pleaded to appealed that to theom get me out of here it's enough I want to go home right I want to go home he wanted to go back there it's is right that so the point is of this p is that Yakov ysf was the completion of the same way that a flame is the completion of a fire right that in other words the the flame is is only you know temp is only not temporary but it's only in place it's the LA it's the that that takes it further right it's this addition that's going to destroy asov jakov's whole fight with asov the whole time is going to be completed by by y he's going to take it one step further he's gonna it's his power that's going to destroy what how do we understand this who I've spoken about this before Madre Madre B shall is I've spoken about say the difference of of um of is and yob in terms of the development of abrah was essentially the first G right he's the first person that became a Jew and that's why he was right he's not just the father of CLA is's the father of every nation in the world right a billion and a half people claim Abraham to be their origin the origin of their peoples right that's the significance of the the name of the abrahamic Accords is really a good a good name um right but that that's the truth V was the first born Jew the first born Jew he was the first to have a bral at the eth day he was the first to have a perfect wonderful Jewish Family with no problems right nothing is going to befall the Jewish people you can never you know he says right away is a Jew even though he sins he's a Jew and he's going to have to pay the piper because of what he did he can't say well I'm not a Jew anymore right if you understand Yiddish you'll appreciate this that he he says rutner AB the it's kind of poetic AB the gorer Y the gorer yob the right that's what it is right he was the first born he was the first the first the first convert the he became the first and he fell in he fell in right Yakov is is in for Keeps for good that's it you have this this threefold cord right you not take a three-fold cord cannot be broken apart and here you have that three-fold cord right next paragraph um okay where are we okay however but as good and wonderful as this three-fold this three-fold chord is there's something missing there's a danger there is a there is a there is something that threatens the future of ayako is who granted that if a Jew sins he's still a Jew and as terrible as a Jew goes off the D could be the worst thing he can do the worst things in the world right but he's still a Jew however mik there is a place where there's a p there is a place to break through and leave what's there's if someone marries a non-jewish woman the child becomes like the mother as we know right so that is a way that that is the end of the story of the Jewish people right and it's so so tragic when when we see it so many times that we've seen this that you know you feel that this is the last Jew in your family you know what are you doing you're ending there's no more Jews in your family because of this right so um but that still exists that possibility even after yob that possibility still exists how do we stop that right I mean we might have individual cases of it but will never it will never happen to totally destroy CLA Israel why and how yose so because of this danger you still have the possibility sh of losing the name is not being a Jew and now Yosef comes on the scene on the stage and he is going to solve this problem that it will never fully destroyed CLA Israel sh Al through the dramatic action of yose right G he sealed up this break in the wall when he ran out from as party far when he rejected her advances and he ran out right this created the spiritual energy of Eternal for Eternal eternally for the Jewish people we will never turn the lights out this way it can happen and tragically the assimilation is happening it's terrible but we have a promise that it will never completely destroy CLA Israel ultimately cherol will remain intact everybody will come back right that's because of of ysf so this is really something that AB did not accomplish neither nor y nor yob this is an act of a right this is a kind of a fourth a fourth stream of fatherhood right and this is eternal through this who it is promised to us the the existence of the Holiness of the Jewish people it will never destroy the Jewish people and this gives us hope when we see in our generation we see the the enormous assimilation we we can find Comfort at least in the fact that this is not going to be the end game it's not going to be the end game of course we have to do what what we can to bring the the good end game back but in any case and now is called from byov now we understand why ysep is called the completion of Yakov the icing on the cake right the flame on the fire right the flame the flame completes the fire he's repeating H Burns in its place the flame it goes further it takes it to the next takes it to the next step right right that's the essence right the distance hu zaro that's the children so that future like the future the flame is the future of Bob right the Jewish people bov he's the'll never be destroyed again the the fire of yov Burns in its place the the spreading of it by The Flame by The Flame the fire of of yov will can go can just go anywhere every generation Eternal through y the fire was the flame is yov the fire of yov Allah told us is now on the Next Generation is the third of the true it's a three-fold cord he took and ysep takes it a step further so as we said you know the confusing thing in English is our forefathers are three but really our three fathers are four okay next told us yov yov y right that's a that's thing shot in that P what do you mean all discussed this a told yov all the brothers but a told yov in the sense that he is on a league by himself right he becomes aasi of now let's go back to our original question why is the death of Yosef mentioned twice let's go back the death of Y is mentioned at the end of and it's mentioned again at the beginning of where the other tribes you don't see that only the death of is only in the mostes right ra will answer this question because the ran describes for us correctly only ran can say such a thing the raan says intruction is the safer of the of the of the fathers right who who safer and is the safer of the children right you see you see that right that's what you see here now we understand why death is that y's death is mentioned both in and in you don't see the others that yosef's level is is is a son close to being a father he doesn't want to say quite he's a father but you see there's fatherhood and sonh right he's he was both so that's how saer ends right the death of this was the last the last uh The Last Breath of aort of right so why does it say that ysep di if it's right that that tells you the ysep has a a qualities also right clearly that's the the final statement of the saer of father of Begins the death of this is the first step towards the next level because he created that next the possibility of that next level by his contribution to aut that no one that the Jewish people will remain forever there will always be and and because that's the the utility of the flame on the one hand G it's holding on right it's like the candle it's got right it's holding on to the fire the flame but it goes much further right in fact what do they say phys in phys physical reality the hottest part of the flame is the part you don't see the hottest part of the flame is what you don't see so metaphorically that's even the Next Generation it's Eternal right that's that's that physical reality of fire right um so so he ends with this which the the the eternality of of yose okay I would like to end this year with this I mean it's so such a powerful piece for hner so right so beautiful okay let's go to the next two pieces I think we we'll have time for everything I hope yep okay this piece is from the Torah tamima everybody knows the Torah tamima famous puran torim was the son of the the was the RO of L A few years ago wrote a masterpiece and his son the Torah tamima um was uh a very special he was actually a banker he worked in fact he lived in New York for few years it was a fascinating personality tremendous and he wrote the Tor is um some you know what the t is it it's the and Rashia and at the bottom he brings all the sources in kazal on theim or most of them fantastic piece of work um but he added something after he finished it he wrote another say for to BR things that he didn't say in the in the torim I must tell you that the tor is somewhat controversial safer some of the things he says has been controversial uh in his time and a little later um but you did never experience what we experienc in our time the ugly idea of putting in that never happened with with the tor's m but there was there were certain questions on some of the things he said however here's this is listen to this this is um hello this is something special for us and I think it it has um it will resonate for our modern ears right um ra um I I say that because you know one of the things that irks me today is that in in not in in our society but in many societies uh children as they grow up you know they call me by my first name the mother says you have children calling the Mother and Father by their first name right it's it's it's almost obscene right so you you've you you can't you destroy what a mother is you destroy what a father is it's tragic we just spent half hour discussing the uniqueness of fatherhood right and and and childhood right there's there's a unique a uniqueness here but in any case listen to this now what happens in the par at the beginning right um Yakov made Yosef promised to bury him in MIT we had that right we have that in the par promised take me to MIT no problem I'm going to have I take me to Isel bury me in Isel I want to be buried in Mar next to Rifka right and and he promised he's going to do it now before he dies he calls Yakov in again a second time and he has a whole other conversation with him please be me that I'm not being buried with your mother Ro right this is a very powerful moment in in inish right Rashi a very powerful Rashi where he brings theim why ra he explains to him that ra is going to be buried here to protect CLA when they go into gas to give us strength to come back and here we go to ke that's Kevin Kev Ro great the great Kev R actually here last night I spoke about the idea of of Mata a monument and the source of that R says of making a Mata is from uh from this this uh chapter in in the par about Kev right in any case um I say it's a very dramatic Rashi in fact there's a special tune that most people are not aware of anymore today I think it's been lost in many circles I think in kidha circles it hasn't been lost yet there's a special niggan to this Rashi when you teach this to Children right and in fact uh Rob who we have learned some of his stuff in the past luin uh one of the the great Bali makova of the uh the 20th Cent the last the 19th century he actually um uh right he died I think in the in um oh uh I can't remember his years right now that's not important but rodic had a the LED fired in Lublin because he taught this Rashi without the niggan that's how important this niggan is very powerful and the niggan actually Bes speaks and I think there's somebody that recorded some one of the journeys or something it's recorded somewhere on one of the uh contemporary uh music music uh uh Records okay aside from that okay here's the point he tells him when I came from now remember who's speaking to yov is speaking to Y I'm explaining to you this terrible I just want you to know that ra died when I left padan as the T beautiful this this would P go right over our heads right listen to The Genius here why didn't he say to you know your mother died when I left at that point right is that what you normally call call a mother to the children he said it before said another I and your mother again when sent to the of go to the house of B the father of your mother right and get get a a color for yourself from the uh the brothers of your mother right after right this is the way of the world right you're speaking to a son you say you mention about your mother right why did he refer to as to his mother right to his Mo to his wife right so listen to what he says here and it might sound like it contradicts this uh this sociological um abrasion that we we have in our time but it really doesn't I want to bring you a statement of the rabbi of there is a pecking order in the title that we give in the time of the gamor times have changed today right um godav bigger than RAV is rebi this is in the gamorra you'll see by the people who have the rav is important RV so and so but rebi so and so is higher than RV G rebi is raban raban gel so you have from top to bottom you have ra raban raban rebi godan what's bigger than Rano the name itself the who is only referred to by his name he's going to bring other examples you never see R right ran or Reb you'll see b h talking about his but H so there's that's the pecking order the name uh ran rebi right the name is the highest level right the right you don't say right you don't say R Moshe even though it is he is Moshe rabenu he's our rebi but we still don't give him the title right many they're only called by their names I giv you examples but he Saida the list goes on at the end of another so this is the dramatic moment there was a change in in the the power and the knowledgeability of kazal of the rabbis each generation got lesser lesser and lesser until it came to nebuch our door Yos right but the time when when Yosi Yar Yos y name title titl rabbis when they died but ashot that was the end of the period of ashot what's an Esh literally it's a grape vine a cluster of grapes right but what it means is Pur myot what does it mean that that was the end these were people who had it all they had it all so the nameless gener the the titlist generation was the end of the people who had it all and then they were sadik yoser ET and then afterwards we begin with the titles right their names alone below so what he was telling y he was telling Y how great his mother was he was talking about her in the third person right he wasn't saying your mother I want to tell you who your mother is she is RO she is tieless she is on the highest level possible he's not telling him you can call her ruckle from now on he's now just giving him a a picture of who and what his mother is that's what's going on okay final piece okay this is also good um this is from R Schwab and also has a contemporary ring to it we'll soon find out um now this par is a paruma you know what a paruma means it's a sealed para usually you know when the para begins like you see in the you'll see a big or a big in the that's that's that's chapter chapter divisions in the Tor right means means there's a little bit of a difference between them one ends on a different line not not important it's a technical difference but there that's our chat now by the way it's important to point out the chapters that we have today are not our inventions right they are invented by the church because the first publication of the of the Bible of this forum were were were done by uh by secular scholar Church Scholars right so all these chapters we have chapter and verse chapter and verse that's not ours and sometimes they're mistakes you'll see they're they're not they're really not accurate right I so why do we keep using them why do we keep using them right because for Generations already we've been printed sporum we printed sporum chapter and verse right if we would take them out scholarship T Torah would be in disarray right we we rely on them now at least for a reference point there's nothing holy about them but but we rely on on them for a a reference right um so that's that's it but but but in terms of in terms of par there's no beginning it it it it it's a continuation in the in a in a stream on the on the ARA on the on the page uh that's why it's called a par stuma it's sealed and Rashi doesn't comment there's a reason for this and Rashi brings two reasons for itashi l hidden because with the death of Yakov begins Begins the the hearts and eyes of the Jewish people were sealed were closed we were blinded of Israel from the surus of the Shibu the bondage began for the death of Yakov the the Egyptian slavery gas began they began to um to Lord over us right that's Russ that's only we're not going to go the other answer he gives I don't think he's going to mention but um but I want to tell you something the simple statement here seems to be this statement of Rashi the medish contradicts another statement that we have from K this is the statement of in another place at any time one of the fathers is alive one of the right by the way that's how powerful the as long as theim are alive there's no there's no slave was the last was the last of to die and uh shav to die and after ley's death the rabbis are saying kazal are saying right that this was the beginning of shib so you have two beginnings of shib what's going on here but so he's going to he's going to demonstrate that yes there are two beginnings to anti-Semitism two Beginnings to the suffering of the Jewish people there is Nazi Germany in the beginning of the 1930s when the some Jew wrote a book that was this thck about the beauty of German how Germany took care of treated the Jews so so power so wonderfully right this's nothing new what we're going through today right and that's what he's going to explain here there are two Dimensions to the beginning there are two Beginnings one is not so readily seen there are two Beginnings to the slavery to the oppression to the anti-Semitism when you look at at y's actions after his father died there's an amazing thing here I'm going to go quickly because I I don't want to go into the next year's time me y may remember remember that um Yakov called his father in we mentioned and he and he asked to please bury me in AR Israel and he promised him no problem I'll do it I'm the vice Roy in Egypt I'll take care of it it's done right but what do you see here what happens now after his father dies on the 70th on the 40th Day of of the uh when he was being EMB bombed the 40th Day of the morning the Egyptian morning period uh the 30th day on his right he what does he say he goes to par let's say his wife he goes to the queen say could you do me a favor could you please speak to parro and get permission from parro to give me permission to take my father to bury him in ER and Canan there's an amazing point also genius idea here that we would never think of this this is the Godless of you know was in our time right brilliant idea you hear hear what he's asking here all of a sudden right uh the rabbi say in other words you go to the Queen the queen will go to the King right so the actually the he's quoting a medish the medish actually says this right it's not for Opera for a mourner to go in to the Palace that's what he that's what one Rabbi says it's not right for a mourner to go in that's what the I still have a problem with this it's not good enough he was he was the vice Roy of Egypt he was running the show right if without him nobody could raise their hand vower their foot right he was in charge of everything how do you find how do you find that he has to go begging you know he has to go asking could you do me a fa to the queen to whoever could you speak too and let me take my father out what's going on here right the answers okay he already had 70 days of morning he could have done what he wanted what do you have to ask what you right take why didn't he take Yakov immediately what do he have to even ask why didn't he just go at that point in time he could have picked up and taken his father without asking parro nothing right after his father died right you're going to say I mean you know even we know today people get up after Levi they go sit shiv in a different town right Al They is about isues about that but we're not going to go into but why didn't he do that but maybe he had respect for the customs of Egypt this whole IDE of boming or whatever they do he wanted right Al that was according to parro he wanted to give respect to parro right only the only thing you know I I one thing over paros tells him I sit on the on the on the throne right so maybe he wanted to give respect to the throne right maybe that he had to had St it he could have gone himself in he could have walked into parro immediately him before he was wearing it before he r k before he was he was unemp right to tell listen my father ask me I want to take him to I'm going to take him to Egypt right who now I'm G to tell you he says this is the when Yak when this answers our question I've already given away right let the cat out of the bag but he's saying there there are two levels to anti-Semitism there's two levels to their their servitude to their their their making us slaves and the in the anti-Semitism right it goes in stages right it already started it already started he says right somehow ysep at this point when Yakov died he lost his athor authority something had was going on that yoseph could not somehow he was stripped of his power second column now he was just a wealthy guy out there in but somehow he had lost his power obviously otherwise why would he do this right he was no longer the vicey for that reason he didn't like he went in every day he had free reign to go into the palace right it wasn't wasn't honorable to go in at that time and he sent Messengers right with you know pleading right not demanding right this is very similar to how Jews survived how we survived through gos you had you had Jews who would you know they'd pay off the uh the wealthy the guy to get to the king to get to the governor whatever to get out of the country to get over the border right that's what he did that's what he had to do through our our hundreds of years of G right this lessening this dramatic lasting from being the vicey of Egypt that people would would jump based on whatever he said this was the beginning of the sh there two beginnings of the Shea by yob that was the real beginning of the slavery right but here was the beginning maybe unseen the Unseen didn't feel it yet we didn't feel it yet what's happening right just like you don't feel in a par stuma that something new is happening and that's what he's saying that's why it's a paruma because this Gus that we went into you didn't feel it we didn't feel we don't feel it right it's happening it's happening kind of slowly right so it started without our feeling we didn't recognize it it just flows in right at that very time died at that very moment he was afraid to go in to parro as he had done all the years in the past this is the what say that's what it means what Rashi quotes the med right the GS was read again the eyes right and hearts of the Jewish people were blinded were sealed they didn't see anything purush because of their wealth and comfort Jewish people and their right they were living in go right they had it all so their eyes couldn't see and their hearts didn't understand their mind didn't and to feel to sense the beginning of the sh when yov commanded I'll do it done he said the original request that Yakov made and he SAR to me and he SW him right it was clear that he could do whatever he wanted whatever he was asked but knew prophetically what was going to happen when he died and therefore he asked him swear to me that you're going to do this it's not going to be simple swear to me that you're gonna do this because knew an a excuse me like the father of a popper right okay let's see what he says also a tremendous piece of Torah okay so I think we have we had three nice pieces today from my perspective I had nothing to do with it I presented to you three very special pieces today okay