Remember Who You Are | Rabbi Moshe Tuvia Lieff

This signature initiative this signature movement is called VAYIMAEN “And he held back” The Slonimer Rebbe says an incredible thing. We find VAYIMAEN twice VAYIMAEN with a shalsheles when Yosef HaTzaddik refused to be seduced by Aishes Potifar. There was tremendous, impossible, Nisoyon And we find VAYIMAEN L’HISNACHEM That Yaakov Avinu refused to be comforted he heard that his son was killed VAYIMAEN L’HISNACHEM ERED El BINI AVUL SHEALAH. V’shum Ekover says the Sifsei Chachomim. Yaakov says my son is alive. Od Yosef Chai. He refuses to be comforted. He will mourn his child to his last day. Yosef HaTzaddik, he sees the Dmus Yuknoi of Yaakov and he doesn’t succumb. He's also VAYIMAEN, he holds back. Says the Slonimer when a father doesn't give up, then a child doesn't give up. We envision Yaakov Avinu learning the Ketzos, and the Nesivos, and the Shmaytsa Rabbi Akiva Eiger finishing Shas, Yerushalmi And that's the scene that Yosef sees. He sees Ish Tam Yoshev Eholim and he will not give in to the Yeitzer Horah. But according to the Slonimer, his VAYIMAEN was based on his father's VAYIMAEN. VAYIMAEN L’HISNACHEM His father kept on saying Tehillim, kept on hoping for the reunification with his son, kept on hoping that his son was alive, kept on davening for his success. And because a father didn't give up, Yosef HaTzaddik doesn't give up. VAYIMAEN really means don't Recognize we're Benei Malachim. We come from Avrohum, Yitzchok, and Yaakov. We have Torah Hakidoshah. We have Bubbes, and Zeides, Grandparents... Grandmothers, A Saba, and a Savta Uncles, Aunts, Rabbeim, Rabbonim, Rosh Yeshivahs, Moros, Rabbeim that have invested in us Remember who you are If you remember who you are, you can't give up on yourself. You have to realize you're a Ben Melech. According to Maharal closer to a Malach than a human being. VAYIMAEN. If we want to be Zocheh to catch those moments of refusing to give in, to give up, moving on in our Avodas Hashem. VAYIMAEN, we have to remember who we are. Just as Yosef remembered Yaakov Let's remember our parents, grandparents our Mesorah, ourselves we should be Zocheh to hold back and to grow.