Shnayim Yomi - Vayeishev - Shlishi - #3 - Rabbi Meir Simcha Sperling - The Betrayal

Shalom and good morning or good afternoon like we say because who knows when you're watching this and I want to welcome everybody from the world. Welcome back to Parasa. We're holding over here. Ysef is getting closer. Ysef approaches the brothers theatim and what do they do? They just plan to kill him and Ruven said wait let's throw him into a pit. He planned to come and save him. They end up grabbing him. They take the possum off of him and they throw him into a pit. Now this pit was loaded with snakes and scorpions which if you think about it which many of us don't. We're like oh there was snakes and scorpions. It was crazy. Okay there. Where we going for pizza? You know what I'm saying? If you stop for a second and you think about that it's a crazy thing. He was thrown into a bar into a pit and there were scorp. You know scorpions are venomous. They're dangerous. So are snakes. It's a very very scary matzive. You ever had a cockroach in your kitchen? You know what I'm saying? Imagine a scorpion. It's a scary thing. And Ysef, Ysef, 17 years old, thrown into a pit. It's a Sometimes it's Kadai to stop for one second and just try to try to think like, whoa, what what what was he going through? Okay, so they throw Ysef into a pit and then the brothers all get together to eat, which shows, by the way, that they were uh they believe that they were doing the right thing. Like we keep saying, this is the shrutton. This wasn't like me and you like when we're upset. The fact that they sat down to eat shows that they their conscience was clear. It wasn't something that they thought like were being bad. They really felt like it was. Okay. Now, while they were eating, they see a group of Arab merchants passing by. And Yehuda, Yehuda is the one, the Melik. He gets up and he says, "Instead of leaving Ysef to die, let's sell him to the merchants." Right? My beta, what are we going to what are we going to gain if he just dies? So, let's rather sell him. Now in the majush over here which we're not going to talk about we don't have the time but there's a lot going on here there was almost a war there was a standoff it wasn't so much what was going on over here might be if you have time to take a look but anyways the then sell to the merchants for 20 silver pieces and then they take Yf these merchants down to Mitam also he's resold a few times okay now Ruv if you remember from last time when I say last time I mean yesterday and if you watch the other one right before this it's five minutes ago But Ruven when he he when he he had to leave for whatever reason which we'll talk about in a second he wanted to come back and save he was going to take him out of the pit and save him. The only reason he said let's let him die is because he didn't want to you know go against all the so Ruv now who left to do chuva. He comes back to the pit to save Ysef's life. And lo and behold there's no one there. Ysef is not there. So what does he do? He understands what happened and he rips his garment and he asks his brother now what what are we going to do now? What are we going to tell him? And this begs the question cuz what do you mean the puzz said before that they'll say what do you mean he was eaten by an animal? So I'm not sure exactly what Ruvane was uh was thinking over here what the puzz says but what to think about anyway. So what do they do? They take the pasum and they dip it into goat blood which is very similar to human blood and they brought it back to their father and they said do you recognize this begged? That's what they told Yakov Au. Now remember that Ysef was Yakov's pri is like he was his everything. He was his child who learned with him, knew every like they were so close and they had many many many similarities. I think over 20 similarities maybe one day we'll talk about that also. 20 similarities between Yak and Y. They both had the exact same stories and he recognizes it right away. Right away. And he says, "Oh no, an animal must have ripped him apart." and he is plunged into mourning for his son and nobody nobody was able to comfort him. Nobody. Now we're talking about big people there, right? We keep saying theatimwatam and their children. No one was able to say anything that would be give him nothing. And meanwhile Yf is being taken down to so we're going to have to see what happens over here cuz it's getting crazy. All to a good day, a good week, and do not give up. Keep going. Keep going strong. We're all going to make Hashem proud. Have a wonderful day.