Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Mikeitz 5781

welcome to this week's torah lesson this week's torah portion is possess me cates the question of the week is is the glass half full or half empty so in this week's torah portion pashas mccates the torah portion begins and it says by yehimi kates and the whole torah portion is called mccates what does it mean cates mean mchates means as rashi says at the end what does the end mean so the rubber explains that mekaitz is referring to the end of a certain period of time the end of the two years when joseph after interpreting the dreams to the two prisoners they forgot about him they didn't remember him and rubber says how could it be that they for they could forget about joseph after he did such kindness to them and derby explains because when you're dealing with me cates when you're dealing with finite limiting world that we're living in so in a finite limited world where the infant is not revealed unfortunately people forget and people don't remember but nevertheless what happens in this week's torah portion that's called me kate's joseph comes out of prison and he becomes the king of the land of egypt the same negates they is a cause for them to forget and the same decades is the cause for joseph to become the king over egypt and there we explain something very very powerful and he says follow follows yes me kate in the finite world people forget and people don't remember it's limited however yays of azadek said by yahimi kate's you know that me kate's that finite limited that's of the past it was we are moving forward we're going to focus on adding expanding and remembering it's all about yosef it's all about infinite the infinite light of hashem is all over the world and because joseph did not accept me cates as a reality he accepted reality as yosef about adding were connected to the infinite hashem therefore he was able to go from a place of prison to become the king over the land of egypt and the answer the answer the question is the glass half full and half empty your choice you can say the world is limited i'm stuck or you can say no yosef there's no limits and the glass is full and it's getting fuller and fuller thanks so much for joining us for our weekly tour lesson this week's thorough lesson is dedicated to the memory of barach bernardi labe yosef and rachel baslipo may the souls be elevated by the torah that we're studying in their memory have a great and blessed week for more information please see our website swf.org happy hanukkah and let's hope and pray that we connect to the lights of the chanukah menorah because by connecting to the lights of the hanukkah menorah we can connect to the infinite light and by connecting to the infinite light we will see as the world with tremendous opportunities the glass is half full