Parashat VaYechi according to the Kli Yakar Genesis 48 vs 9 and 14

all right I'm starting there you go okay we're going to have a fun night tonight and we're talking about Genesis 48:9 let me open up what is happening here these are the blessings or the approaching of the sons of yoseph to be blessed yoseph himself as well and all the rest of the children of Israel to be blessed by Yakov so verse 9 I'll read it in English then I'll read it in Hebrew so I think I should really read verse 8 as well and Israel that's Yakov saw yosef's sons and he said who are these in Hebrew is he saw the children of the sons of yose the and he said me a who are these the ysep and ysep said to his father El they're my sons which has given me with this we're going to explain what what does with this mean the Yar and Yakov responded by saying bring them close to me and I will bless them okay so we're going to discuss this first will get a little bit further than this so the clear Begins by saying no oh you need to copy something no it's mentioning it right the word used is bz in this so we explain in this means what in Egypt since he asked him earlier right the the verse number eight before me a what yakob was wondering was who are these she who are these children that are not fitting for a blessing now the question really is is dumbfounding because earlier on Rashi mentions that it was aim who learned Torah with Yakov his grandfather so he must have known who he was and yet he turns around and says who are these who are not fit for AA he's about to give AA and he says who are these very strange soar ysep answered and says me bet I'm sorry when what he was basically saying yaka was asking me bet me yatu from whose womb from whose stomach did these come from meaning to say see there was a premonition that Yakov felt they weren't fit for abraa because he saw in the progeny that was Yet to Come many many many generations later yam well at least from one of them also aav another evil King so yam was an evil King at the time of right after schlomo he split the kingdoms the North and South um towards the end of Solomon's uh Reign and you had akab was an evil King and Yu was another evil King and they came from anasha and aim and Yakov through his rues the Holy Spirit prophecy was able to see or feel or sense that somehow or another through the progyny they weren't going to be all kosher ysep and ysep responded Ben they are my children even though they're my children they from that aspect they're fit for this blessing and from the fact that we'll come out from them in the future evil Kings and even though we're in this horrible decrepit polluted place such as Egypt God is the one who gave them to me here in Egypt poim not only that now this this is another strange thing because I understood that osnat who is the wife who became the wife of ysep we attribute her as the daughter of potifar the daughter of Mrs potifar Mr potifar neveress the the tradition is that it was really dena's daughter who Dena was raped by Shem she had a daughter and this is the daughter this is the woman that ysep married but here it says the IM MIT meaning what um ysep is saying that it's true that their mother both manasha and arim's mother was an Egyptian woman basar right the daughter of potifar who was a priest to uh idol worship theu right he was the priest to this Idol that therefore will come out from them sometime in the future children as if they also right worshiped Idols but y still talking but for me my the aspect of who I am they're fit to be blessed if that's not true think about it for a second ysep is basically having this conversation in his head but as if he's talking to Y Yakov listen your own father blessed you and Y himself was blessed Yak had two sons right asav and yob hello yov didn't your own father have two children one a good guy and one not not so good and the negative had come from the mother's side in this case because the mother had come from a family that wasn't so holy and righteous that God is not actually so concerned when giving the blessings of what's going to happen in the future we'll see that he's only concerned about these two children right now they're righteous or whoever it is these blessing is righteous at the moment God is not so concerned about the progeny the seed that will come out in the future that will be ruined but rather you know the blessing should come on account of the seed the holy seed right now that's fitting to be blessed or even in the future so too you should bless them they they deserve to be blessed by you sh again from my side they're certainly fitting to be blessed because they're going to be blessed as they are now and they all are fitting to be blessed by Hashem and this is a little bit of a potic license by the by the clear because if we look on the verse in Genesis 2117 which I'm going to try to open to 21 17 it's talking about yishmael and yishmael was also um he wasn't such a good guy for some of his life but some of his kids are okay let's see Genesis 21:17 just to the mimicking of the language there 217 here we go got so 14 Abraham arose early in the morning took bread and a skin of water he gave them to Hagar he placed them on her shoulder and the boy and sent her off and she went and she stra she stay strayed in the desert of Beva 15 the water of the skin was finished she cast off the boy beneath one of the trees 16 she went and sat herself at a distance some bow shots away and for she said let me not see the death of the child she sat at a distance lifted her voice and wept our verse here and God heard the voice of the youth he did Chua he repented and an angel of God Called to Hagar from the heavens and said to her what troubles you Hagar okay so we're talking about the next verse fear not for God has heeded The Cry of the youth as he is there bahasham just as he was at the moment he was an innocent child well he wasn't such a child but at this point because of the repentance that he went through he had done chba and was judged favorably at that point so that's the poetic license that the clear uses okay we continue with the clear a li so yoseph mentions you should bring them close to me now the ex language of no we're going to also discuss so here the the translation is I have to find it again it's 48 verse 9 what happens when I turn the pages 48:9 here we go bring them to me if you please and I will bless them so the word n can mean now just like it sounds like no or now or please so he he said the clear car says it says to me you bring them to me many to teach us that they're fitting these children are fitting to learn from me or even perhaps anybody can learn from yob right on account of me my father was blessed right remember we talked about there were holy seeds and not a holy seeds yob was one of the Holy seeds so was blessed God was not so concerned that not all the seed was kosher meaning to say they should also be blessed just like I was blessed a li therefore bring them close to me they should be brought close to me the word n it's teaching about the present term the present moment means present tense now if we just turn to back to 121 verse chap 121 the same phrase is used no and he just wants to use that as a proof text that it means now in the presence so where we have that again I said it's in 12: 11 Genesis 12:11 okay and it occurred he was about to come to Egypt and he said to his wife Sarah behold now I have known that you are a woman of beautiful appearance so in Hebrew now I know now the word now is used and that is makes sense and that's understood he didn't know Abraham did not know how beautiful his wife was until that moment okay so we have a proof text that no means now means now that's the explanation of the word meaning to say I'm going to bless them according to the moment right now because right now they are righteous they're entirely righteous and not I'm not so concerned about what's going to happen in the [Music] future all right this is a continuation of our verse again actually I think it's that and it's it's in our par here according to what they will be at this very day and he was not concerned about the future of what's going to happen in the future to their seeds what comes out of their seed this is a concept that was brought down in gamor rashash Shana on 16b that when God judges us the judgment is always based on where we're standing at the moment so one can do Tru at the moment doesn't matter what they lived in their life whether they were all good all those years all those days were full of Mitzvah if right now we're not doing Mitzvah we judg accordingly if all of our life was full of bad things and bad and bad thoughts and at the moment of chuba will be judged positively at that moment so just keep that in mind there's never y means they never give up right there's always hope okay and then there's a little bit of controversial statement here but I I think I figured it out a a an alternative explanation of a lie remember this is jakov speaking he says C says meaning to say that they should relate to me as they are related to me that's why they should come to mear because the father's family is the iar the the prime part of the the F when it comes to family because there's a gor y that is talking about in in terms of and how do we know this only applies to the father's side because the says only paternal relations are called family whereas the female side the mother's side is not called it doesn't have the category of family and look in terms of just our own Jewish tradition we understand that the mother is the real the the the nurturing one the the one who really educates the child in the home from a very young age and that's why we determine jewishness based it's not the only reason but one of the reasons we we determine jewishness based on the mother the mother has the strongest CER even from the time that the Uber the fetus is in the womb and is learning Torah in the mother's womb reim that's like the E of K of the time of instruction from you from your Youth and in terms of tribal famili relations that comes from the father and I think that's what it means here okay now we're going to go a little bit further this is verse 14 we turn to 4814 and now we're talking about something that is discussed quite often this is the idea that when young jakov blessed the children of FR and manasha he crossed his hands okay we're going to discuss where manasha was standing versus where Ephraim was standing and it seems like eph was standing on the left and Mas was standing on the right Mas was the older the Elder and the Bor the first born yet and that's why he was standing on the right of Yakov to write to like in front of his right side right hand yet when yakob blessed them he crossed his hands the word cross doesn't appear but we we'll discuss what that is and how it came about and some very interesting ideasat so the verse says I'll read it first in English this is 14 but Israel extended his right hand and laid it on ephraim's head though he was the younger and his left hand on masha's head he moved his hands with intelligence for manasha was the first born okay so Hebrew and then it says He blesses ysep fine so now so you only find out a few verses later if you turn to 17 verse 17 I'll read in English ysep saw that his father was placing his right hand on a fr's head and it displeased him so he supported his father's hand to remove it from from Aon of's Head to masha's Head 18 and ysph said to his father no not so father for this is the firstborn place your right hand on his head 19 but his father refused saying I know my son I know he too will become a people and he too will become great however his younger brother Shall Serve the become shall become greater than he and his offspring's Fame will fill the nation so he blessed them that day so what did he do he really blessed them together at the same time and verse 20 Goes On by by you shall Israel bless saying may God make you like Ephraim and like manasha and he put a frim before manasha but in between I we skipped because we went from 14 to 17 he's also blessing him I'll read 15 he blessed yoseph and said oh God before whom my forefathers Abraham and Isaac walked God who Shepherds me from my Inception until this day May the angel who redeems me from all evil Bless The Lads and may my name be declared upon them and the names of my forefathers Abraham and Isaac and may they reproduced like abundantly like fish within the land so we see there's a blessing before ysep mentions that the hands are placed illogically the hands are not placed properly so I'll read again there's some the question there there's a difficulty here why did ysep remain quiet only until after they were already blessed and then afterwards we saw in verse 17 it says okay we said that 17 says right that um ysep saw his father was placing his right hand on a fr's head and it displeased him so he supported his father's hand to remove it from 's head to masha's head why did it take why didn't he do it right away why didn't he not as soon as they put the hands on before the blessing make this known that it wasn't the proper order why did ysep not do this before the blessing so this is the Clear Car speaking I'm not sure I understand it totally perhaps since yo it's possible that ysep thought that the left was more important than the right that could be I don't know maybe in cabala in the yph is on the left I don't know to look into this but why would ysep have thought that the left was more important than the right and what's this have to do with Yosef anyway ah cuz of the hands you saw the hands were switched and perhaps that's why he thought it was correct but then what made him think not it wasn't correct so what are we talking about why would the left be more important than the right according to ysf according toar because the is the because the heart I always imagine the heart being in the middle but let's say it's a little bit to the left of the chest so if it's a little bit to the left of the chest and that's the seat of the SE the seat of the spirit the C and the liver is the there's a let's say a physical um uh the the the lower Soul we have five levels of our soul and the neish is the lowest that's like in the blood and it goes through the liver and that is the that's on the right so maybe he thought that since the the SE is on the left and the physical is on the right therefore y must have thought the since was the first born that he wanted to give Masha the blessings of the spirit meaning to put on the right on the on the um left side by the heart to to hand over to him to allow him to to bless him with the with knowledge and and wisdom which has a very high value that the and he wanted to bless a he wanted to bless him with the which was said was on the right side which was the liver which is more physical the all the physical material wealth and blessings but then ysep noticed that yob was blessing them both at the same time simultaneously then ysep saw perceived he understood this was not the way that his father was not intending as he had thought like and he thought maybe his father made a mistake and right cuz if he thought one he was going to give one the first blessing and then the second blessing that would all make sense to him but if he's giving them the same blessing at the same time simultaneously perhaps he thought his fathers make a mistake then between the firstborn and the not firstborn small where perhaps he didn't know the difference between the right and the left alcain therefore the verse States in 177 that the way ysep saw it it was not good in his eyes aiv and he told his father this is not the right way I'm just reading the words of the clear not saying I understand and there's some that asked so some are asking what ysep didn't understand that his father was mov moving his hands with intelligence meaning it was bana with intent that he was switching his hands he didn't see that I mean when you cross your hands it's obvious first of all if the order was wrong it should be the most likely scenario is you switch the two sons you switch the two Lads you put then Minasha on your right and you put a fry on your left you don't leave them where they are Mas on the right and if Ryman and switch hands you switch the lads and you just put your hands straight out that would have been an appropriate thing to do but the fact that he crossed his hands he makes you wonder so certainly he knew exactly what he was doing it was done with intelligence so why was this displeasing in the eyes of ysep this is really a quandry we're in he should have asked him dad can you explain to me why you're doing this I mean with respect of course so he should have asked his father why he did what he did with his hands so it seems like what ysep was thinking kovar so that y ysep was thinking that yov thought shal that ysep took the the the the first born in his right hand right in yosef's right hand and and that epim was on his left so I'm ysep and I'm standing in front of Yakov so I take from on my right side Minasha and on my left side of fry that's me I'm the father these are my first born on my right but when I'm looking at Y at Yakov then manasha is on his left side right that would be a way to think about it small shall yov so then what ends up happening is would be on the left of yob therefore the he um he switched his hands so there would be that the the first born would be to the right of Yakov not that he switched the positions but he switched his hands therefore therefore that's what was displeasing in the eyes of ysep why because this is really according to the way thear explains it that ysf wanted the blessings of the B to go to his to to perhaps to his own um right which is aim which is really the left of Yakov if that's how I'm reading Ito that's that's yep's right although bino it doesn't say who maybe yoseph took him to uh yob right which places him in the order that we discussed all along so the problem with well it's not a problem but I have a whole lot of ideas behind it that I wanted to share first of all why were these two children their grandchildren by the way they're not the sons of Yakov right they are the sons of yoseph why were they given blessings privately whereas the other Sons were all given blessings publicly so that's like one question we have to deal with also Yakov makes them elevated to the status of tribes themselves he says you're going to be just like Ruben and Shimon and and that's it anybody else that ysph has Bourn from him they're not going to have that status but you guys are just like tribes so that's how you have 12 tribes okay all of Y all of the sons are blessed according to age we we see them all according to age are blessed but in this case now even though the B was done simultaneously with both hands a fr's name is mentioned first right you should you should be blessed like a and man right F's name is first so this is an oddball here like on chabas WE bless our children why we don't bless them like all the other any of the other tribes in fact we we bless them like the four mothers right the girls we bless like the four mothers right but when it comes to The Men We bless them only like a FR manasha as opposed to Yehuda or Ley or shim you know ruen it's these two which are grandchildren and yes they were elevated to be Tri why are we blessing them why are we blessing our sons like these two also everyone seems to say that yakob should have just switched the positions right so there's a question why do you leave him exactly like that so first of all there's an idea that there's a hand and a foot involved what do I mean that the feet were standing in a certain place so yes Minasha could have been to the right on Yo's uh right yet right yet he took his left hand and blessed him and and Ephraim was on yacob's left and he took his right hand so the feet we standing in a certain place so you have to realize that the hand represents something spiritual it's high up and it's used physical is the feet are very physical meaning that they're standing in the earth they're grounded well grounded physically whereas the hand can reach up high above the head and is representing the spiritual World also in the encampments when they move forward when the 12 tribes move forward in the desert so frim is be in front of manasha also in the census when the poll is taken how many people in each tribe A fryme always comes before manasha so it seems like what Yakov wanted to do was to bless a fryan with how we go this again even though he's standing in the left H that frme is more physical let's say if that's straight if that's the way we're doing it but the hand the hand no I'm sorry the right hand is on a F's hand head yet a FES in the left so let's just now just before I go deeper into that aspect I have a few more questions to or not even questions just to answer up some of them why were they blessed first as opposed to the other 10 first of all they didn't fight right you had the 10 Brothers Who Sold who s well bami didn't but you had the brothers who sold Yosef into slavery and there was quarreling bickering but by these two children manash FR there was no fighting so there was a certain blessing that can come especially through them also because they had the grandchildren grandchildren are like the future so he was blessing the future through them also because they were born in klar it's me outside the land of Israel whereas the other ones well they were also born in the north but they lived in AR Israel and these were born in and lived their whole life inart and this was a way of strengthening the Jewish people through the Exile um why at the same time and not each separately so really I I mentioned this earlier you see that he was blessing ysep ysep was like he wasn't the first born but as if he was the firstborn because he got what do what does the firstborn get a double blessing so it's as if through blessing them he was blessing yph through double blessing now another idea why switching the hands so you have to imagine now for a second he says a FR first then minha and he takes the right hand and he puts that onto a FR so in cabala they have three specific months that represent these three I mentioned two of them but really it's three you have a is Tish TI is rash right yum kipur and sukus that happens to be the time that the first temple was inaugurated then you have I'm going to skip a month because we'll talk abouton keson is the next month that's Minasha that each each month represents a different tribe so you have Tish of fr the following month kesan is manasha which is the akrav by the way akrav is a Scorpio and okay arim is the mosn is the scales that that month of Tish deals with judgment Khan is Manas deals with the it's the Scorpion and Kev Kev is bamin so these are all right Rachel's children meaning ysep is represented by manash neim and Benyamin now kiss Lev is when the second temple was re inaugurated so you have Tish first that's the order Tish then you havean so fim comes before kesan before Masha in the order but Masha represents the Third Temple which is the last which is the final Temple so you had the first temple that's Tish you had the second temple which was the third of these three months which is Kev and then you have Masha kesan representing because that's when the thir Temple will be established in the month of kesan and how do we know that the Akra the Akra is spelled so it's like an acronym it's like a a statement saying ebot that the ebot that the prime house will be in the month of Scorpio in the month of the Scorpion which is the month of kesan which is masas so that's the last so even though he's the first born of the two there's a special blessing knowing that he would be somehow responsible his Force his spiritual force is responsible for the Third Temple any questions