Shnayim Yomi - Vayechi - Rishon - #1 - Rabbi Jack Savdie - Yosef's Great Success

[Music] Good morning. I'm very excited to be a part of this Shai Mi program. It's truly an amazing program and it's my to share with you this week. We'll be learning various from great but today I'd like to introduce and bring out a lesson very important lesson from the parad we come to the close of is where hashem selects the people who will fulfill his mission on earth starting with Adam culminating with YaKob and his family, his 12 children who will serve as the nucleus of Israel. And in the paras, Yakov blesses those 12 children. But beforehand, he singles out two of his grandchildren, Ephraim and M, the children of Yfa Sadik. And he says something that's very shocking. He says that Ephraim and they're mine. They're like and he singles out these two grandchildren over all of his other grandchildren. And the question is why? We have to understand that Ephraim and Man grew up in a different environment from all of their cousins from all of the other grandchildren of Jacob Ainu. The grandchildren of Yakob grew up in the home of Yakob, that holy home of YaKob. They witnessed him day and night. They saw him in his service of Hashem. They saw him as he worked. They saw him on the Shabbat table. They saw him as he prayed, as he learned. So, it was very easy for them to absorb the lessons of Abraham. Where were Ephraim and Mashe brought up? What environment were they in? They had to blend into the Egyptian society. Their father was second to the king of Egypt. This was a tremendous obstacle that Ysef Sadik had as he wished to bring up his children like the rest of his brother's children were brought up. But Yseph succeeded in his mission tremendously. Ysef educated his children. Yseph told them all about and Abraham. He inculcated all of the values. He was able to substitute being in that environment with his education. And when Yakob saw them and saw how alike they were to his grandchildren and Cananan and to his very own children, Jacob was overjoyed and therefore he claimed them as mine. And that is why he told when is going to bless their children, they're going to bless their children to be like because all of us in Galut are growing up in a similar circumstance and we don't always have the exposure to our grandparents and greatgrandparents and but the answer is education. We can substitute all of it with education as Yusf Sadi did. If we educate our children properly, they'll also grow up to beem claimed by