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alive
then Joseph said to his brothers come
close to me if you please and they came
close and he said I am Joseph your
brother it is me who you sold into Egypt
now let's look at the Hebrew because
this is one of those verses that without
the Hebrews so much of the depth and the
beauty is just impossible to understand
because you know Ezra viterman explains
in the name of the shemuel that the the
words
are supposed to be read together that's
the club
the Joseph was saying I I was your
brother even when you sold me in my mind
we were always Brothers even while you
were selling me into slavery
so powerful
right it's so clear why he was called
Joseph and Sadiq Joseph the righteous so
great was his love for AMI Israel for
his brothers which is why it perhaps
it's one of the most important lessons
of our times as we see politics
particularly in Israel becoming like the
pendulum is swinging and people who
don't know how to make of it and they're
afraid and they're angry but no matter
how much we may vociferously disagree
with each other we are brothers
nonetheless and nothing can sever that
Bond
now are you ready for this reading
this is so this is maybe my this will be
the highlight for me the word a share
can be read as when as we did above but
it can also mean because
right I am Yosef because you sold me
into slavery into Egypt
did you catch that
again let's put on our 3D glasses for
this because the Torah which is written
by Hashem with the most Sublime Divine
intelligence it's multifaceted and
multi-dimensional this can all be true
at once
Joseph was saying to his brothers I am
now Joseph with the position and the
power of the Viceroy of Egypt because
you sold me not which you sold me I'm
not Joseph who you sold but because you
sold me
but I believe that he was saying even
more than that he was saying that all of
the spiritual growth and the refinement
that allowed him to have the capacity to
so quickly and profoundly forgive his
brothers and recognize that Hashem was
orchestrating everything the Joseph that
they saw before them he was only able to
become that Joseph because they sold him
he's recognizing
to them right he's recognizing to them
that without the sale without what they
did
he's in some way he's crediting them
with the Yosef that he had become
so he understood that all of the
suffering not only created the situation
which would provide salvation for the
nation of Israel from death and
starvation but the suffering made him
into who he needed to be in order to
fulfill his mission in the highest way
possible now the uh the bear mind Pine a
Great Sage of Israel he actually uh
brought up Psalm 118 and Jeremy you know
this this isn't how well we say one of
this verse all the time and he just
flipped it on his head in a way that
will forever change this verse for me so
what's the famous verse
Jeremy can you sing that as we sing in
hello you don't like it when I sing you
always scream at me
no you're not going to do it you say oh
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the simple translation is
I shall thank you
anyways here's here's the translation I
shall thank you Hashem because you have
answered me and you were my salvation
that's how I always thought that that
verse was that's how I read it I always
loved it that way but while I never
thought of it it's true that the word
anitani is not just answered me but can
also mean Afflicted me as we see in
Vegas 16 the day of atonement Yom Kippur
we shall afflict our souls
so it means afflict so red and that
light we're saying I shall thank you
Hashem because you have Afflicted me
and that Affliction was my Redemption
right that's that's such a different
reading of that verse is that beautiful
