Shnayim Yomi - Vayechi - Sh'vi'i - #7 - Rabbi Jack Savdie - Preface to Shemot: The Two Aronot

Good morning. Today we come to the close of with the death of Yusf Sadik. He dies at age 110 and the Torah tells us that he was buried in a coffin in Egypt. And the question is what is the significance of these words? Why does end with these words? And I want to share with you a thought of one of the great from Spain Abraham Sabah. He lived during he suffered galut. He went from Spain to Portugal and then to Morocco. We have vestigages of his writings, his beautiful pirushim on the Torah in a book entitled Hamore. He writes that these words are teaching me the greatness of Ysef Hassadik first. He was placed in a coffin in Aron. And he says similar to another Aron Aron, the Aron of the Mishkan that contained the Torah. He quotes a midrash said in that when they were traveling in the desert there were two aronaut in front of am is there was the aron of and the aron of the bit and people asked what are the two aronaut for why should the coffin of ya sadik be next to the arona berit And the answer was that the one in this aron ya sadik buried in this aron fulfilled the Torah that was contained in the other aron is teaching us that it was an impure land and therefore was never buried there. rather he remained in a coffin. That coffin was visible and he explains that it teaches me that is left. How is that? We know there's a famous midrash that is to leave Egypt because they didn't change their names. They didn't change their language. They didn't divulge secrets. They didn't engage in illicit relations. All four of these practices and behaviors they learned from Ysef. Ysef didn't change his name. Like we begin in Shot Yseph as Yseph. Ysef continued to speak Hebrew. Yseph never divulged what his brothers did to him to Jacobu. And and Ysef withstood the temptation of this means left Egypt. Yseph they learned from his ways and he was placed in a coffin. It was visible to all. They took the model of Ysef Sadik as they were in Egypt. And therefore, these words are actually the perfect preface to