Mikeitz - 7th Portion

Join me in learning for Shabas Parasik the seventh Torah reading of Parasik. You can use your and follow along to today's verse 30 chapter 43. and Yoseph hurried because he was overcome with compassion for his brothers and he wanted to cry. So he went into another room and he cried there. He was overcome with emotions. The word he says means became warm. overcome. When something is overcome, it's ripened because of the warmth of his flesh which means that because it became hot because of the hunger he was so u his whole his skin creased any type of flesh when you heat it up it becomes creased. So therefore in this case as well he was so uh overcome by the emotions that is uses this terminology verse 31 he washed his face and he went out he held himself in he was held his emotions restrained his emotions and he said put bread verse 30 I'm sorry we missed one rashi verse 30 and we missed the rashi the first rashi which he asked about [snorts] he asked him do you have he asked Yseph asked do you have another brother from your mother told him I did have another brother but I don't know where he is so Yseph asked him do you have sons said yes I actually have 10 sons Omar Yseph asked him, "What are your 10 sons names?" Omar told him all the different names. Yseph asked him, "Why did you give them these interesting names?" Omar told him, "All of my sons were named about my about my brother and the suffering that he went through." Bella, he was called Bella. is because he was lost amongst the nations. He was the first born from my mother that God brought upon him pain suffering that he's living in a place that's not his name. He was a beautiful fellow. He was my brother who is above me. He learned from my father. He never saw me get married. I never saw him get married. We weren't able to celebrate at each other's the he went down amongst the nations and we don't know where he is. This is the way it's explained in the track date of when Yseph hears that named all his 10 brother 10 children after the events of Yseph's life. This caused him that he was overcome by emotions because of it. Verse 31 as we mentioned he washed his face went out to him he was able to restrain himself and he said put bread what does the word mean says he was able to restrain himself being strong to restrain oneself verse and they served him separately and them separately and to the Egyptians that were eating with them separately as well because it was not befitting for Egyptians to eat with Hebrews because it was abomination for the Egyptians. What was an abomination? Rashi says this was something which was considered disgusting for the Egyptians to eat with the Hebrews. Davlas gave the explanation about it was because they ate meat and the animals and they the Egyptians served the animals as we see later on as well and therefore they did not participate together with them in the same meal. If so the question that the Reb asks then if they don't eat meat what then did he tell them to go prepare? Didn't he tell them before and go food? The Reb explains the differences as we see what was the reason why uh which animals died during the plague of the firstborn were the firstborn of the animals. The Egyptians didn't eat firstborn animals but they ate other animals while the Hebrews ate all kinds of animals. Verse 33 and Yoseph had them seated before Yoseph. firstborn according to seniority and and the youngest according to his youth and the men looked at each other in amazement how does he know who's older and who's younger verse 33 Rashi says how it actually happened and says as follows what he did was what does it mean the older according to his according to seniority Yoseph made as if he was a magician would knock his cup and You're all part of one mother according to this order according to the way you were born. That's what he did with all of them. When it came to said this one doesn't have a mother I don't have a mother said let him sit next to me. Verse 34. And he had portions served to them from his table. And portion was five times is five times more than all the other ones. They drank and they became intoxicated with him. Masses. What does this mean? Masses. Rashi says verse 34. portions. If he divided amongst it with his brothers, it was because what he did was he gave him according to Yseph and a frame. So that's why he got five portions more than them because from the day they sold Yoseph, they did not drink wine. either shall say drank wine and because both of them were in pain from the very fact they were not together. However, that day they did drink wine. Chapter 44 verse one. He told the people that are in charge of his household are saying fill the people's bags full of food as much as you can as much as they can carry and place the money each one in his the top of his pack. two verse two and my goblet the silver you're going to put into the pack and the opening of the pack of the youngest and his money that he used to buy produce and they did exactly as Yseph said as he spoke verse two what is ga means a big cup which was like a big bearish and it's called madnish Verse three with the light of the morning and the men were sent on their way them and their donkeys they were able to rest up from their intoxication and now they were able to travel. Verse four they had already left the city. They did not get too far. Yseph said to the people that were in charge of his household, get up, chase after those men and reach them, you will tell them. Sit down and pursue them. You will tell them, "Wow, dare you pay back good with evil." Verse five, isn't it this, after all, the goblet from which my master drinks from? uses it for his divination. You have done such an evil thing that you have done that you have taken his goblet they caught up with them and they spoke to them these words. Verse seven. And they said to him, to the people that caught up to them, sir, why would you say such things? It would be a disgrace for us to do such a thing. Could do such a thing. Verse seven. This is something of weak day. Meaning this is something of disgusting how even you accuse us about it. to your servants. May God protect us from such a thing. These similarities we find in the Talmud and one of the famous terminologies which are well known to everybody meaning God forbid may this happen that God should not allow such an event even to happen. They continue verse eight. Not only after all we brought you back the money that you found on the top of our bags. We returned it to you from the land of canan. That means we are so honest that even when you gave us back the money we came and returned it. And how would we steal from your master's home? Gold or silver we would steal from your master's home. Rashi tells us something fascinating. If you look at the terminology that they tell us this is one of the is a method of learning something when you have something uh severe and something light that you learn the severe thing from the light thing. So over here as you s see as well Rashi tells us this is one of the 10 komers that are mentioned in the Torah. The medish goes on to enumerate what those 10 are sorry verse n whichever one of your servants with this is found will die and the rest of us will be to our your master to our master as slaves. Verse 10. And he replied, "Although it should be as you have said, that's the way it should be. However, the one that finds it of it will be to me for a slave and the rest of you will go free." Verse 10. While technically what you're saying is true, this is true that all of you are liable. However, the law is that if 10 men, one of them found a stolen thing only in one of them. They're all partners and therefore you're all guilty. But I'm a nice guy. Says, I'm going to go beyond a letter of law. Only the one that found was found by Evan will be a slave. Verse 11 and they quickly each one removed his bag put it to the ground and they opened up their bags. Verse 12 and they searched each one beginning with the oldest they started with and they ended with the youngest and they found the goblet in the bag of why did they start with the older one that the brothers shouldn't feel or know that they knew exactly where it is. Verse 13. They tore their garments and each one loaded his donkey by himself and they returned to the city. They were very strong. Why did they have to do it themselves? They did not have to help each other because they were very strong people. They were able to load their own donkeys. They returned to the city. Weren't they in the city? Weren't they in the capital? They were in the capital calls it city like it sounds like a regular city teaching us while this may have been a capital city of Egypt but for them it was nothing of importance for them it was just like another average city that 10 people are able to overcome these 10 could take war and fight against these the city in no time verse and his brothers came to the house of he was still there and they fell to him fell on the ground before him. What does it mean was still there? He was waiting for them. Verse 15 and Yseph tells them what is this action that you have done that you have done? Don't you know that I, a person like me, I can determine the truth by logic. I know what's going on. I have that divinity. Verse 15. Don't you know, a person of my importance that I'm able to logically figure out? I'm an intellectual. I know how to figure out things. You think I wouldn't realize that you are the ones that stole the goblet from meuda said what can I say to my lord what can I how can we speak how can we prove our innocence god has together found the sin of our servant behold we are slaves to your master to our master as well the one who has found the goblet in his possession says um I'm sorry verse 16 this is what Yehuda was saying in the name of his brothers we know we did not do anything wrong but being that this happened to us this is because God did it. They used to bring this upon us. God found who? A debtor and the person came to collect his debt and therefore we know that we have we did nothing wrong. However, God brought this upon us and therefore he's punishing sins that other sins that maybe we have done from the word. How can we improve our innocence? So to every word that has in it, the foundation of the word is coming to tell me a certain action that's happening before it. He puts a test instead of the VV. doesn't put it before the first letter which is the root word like he puts it in middle of the main word [snorts] over here gives us multiple different uh places where this is done from Yeshua and all different places where we see and all of these cases where he moves the letter to the middle to be able to change its present tense. Now Rashi also continues to say we also find this when a person is uh other words that are changed we are depending where you put the letter that they will change it's present tense to past tense for example so he says letter a word that begins with happening will then separate the root letters and they go between the root letters So he gives us again a bunch of different verses from Daniel all different places where one letter moves over comes into the place right next to the root letter root letter making the root word a different past tense present tense or making a verb making how it should work and react to the verse that it's talking out verse 17 and Yehuda responds I'm sorry and Yseph Yseph replies to them this would be a disgrace for me to do that to make you all slaves the one who is found with the goblet in his hand who you love it he's going to be a slave and you guys you can go in peace to your father As we said earlier that this was Yoseph trying to bring the brothers to the exact same scenario where the brothers put Yseph in the pit and how would they stand up for their brother? Now Yseph can see would they come to the same to to the actual appropriate tshuva because they're put in the same scenario. A brother is taking away being taken away. Are they going to stand up for that brother? They can go back. They have now the opportunity either to defend their brother or go back to their father in peace. This concludes the seventh Torah reading of parasites.