Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz: The Tale of Two Moshiachs - Yehuda the Plower and Yosef the Harvester

[Music] okay hi everybody thank you for coming and uh first let me just announce the dedications uh today's shir is lea liat of benyamin israel and halevi the young man that we dive in for for so long and uh unfortunately he was taken from us but the gangster family very generously sponsors this year almost every week at sevilla bastavids and also sponsored by max and esther slomyansky in memory of the art site of her father joelle bin abram whose your side is on the sixth of te base and sponsored as well by ephraim and naomi finkelstein uh hillel and freddie danziger i should say rep hillary friend and uh ghani and rabzev their father harav moshe official ben rob michael rabbi philip finkelstein i had mentioned last week that i grew up in hartford connecticut and rabbi filkenstein was a dominant dominant influence on me and many many other people who we came from and went to yeshiva uh because of rabbi finkelstein's influence he was uh an attorney by vocation but he was a uh teacher of torah and a mentor in kier kirov that was really the uh the passion of his life and really i'm very very happy and honored uh to give a shirt and the first yacht site is the sixth of te veis uh a refuse leima to shayo bansara as well as all of those who are ill inoculated or uninoculated whether cobalt related or not covet related and those who are healthy should be ezra hashem remain that way my final little notice is biasres hashem ibane will be launching an end of the year fundraising campaign in the next few days and uh ibanez a wonderful wonderful organization uh they sponsor maishira of course but there are many other shiorim that they sponsor we like write other people special speakers and they also are an organization that's involved in hesed of a very very high order and that's a very very worthy cause and i'm told it is tax deductible in most countries but check with your financial advisor if that will be an important uh consideration so anyway we're hopefully we're still living off the hanukkah glow as it were today was israel although there is no israel by tonight already it's the day after israel of chanukah but hopefully the orr that dispelled the khoshakh is still within us and it will give us inspiration as we face the winter uh just as the old uh bumper sticker says tgif thank god it's friday or friday is coming so have courage purim is coming this year it's the neighbor you are leap year a little further but purim is coming down the pike and then pesach and goula all good all good things and of course at any point mashiach can come as well and we hope that that will be a very very soon there are really two unrelated thoughts i want to share with you i'm not sure if i'll get to both of them i'll try the first is really almost not connected to the parsha but connected to the language of the pursuit that we know that yosef is framing his brother binyamin and yehudah comes forward to try to defend binyamin and the parsha begins by yigash a love yehudah that yehudah approaches the isis so the medrash as madrashim often do kind of takes these words out of context and it talks about the notion that the confrontation or the reconciliation because by egos can have two different meanings one is yehuda is confronting yosef and the other is yehuda is approaching yosef for reconciliation the medras says that this is a harbinger this is a precursor of the messianic process of the process of gaula and it quotes a passage at the end of the navi almost behold days are coming of now what does that mean days are coming when the plower shall bump into the harvester and the one that is pressing the wine into grapes will bump into the also the harvester now what this means is the pasta says that it's describing a fertility and a productivity that's so great that when it's plowed time to plow for the new year you're still harvesting the old grain there's so much grain that you're still harvesting when it's time to plow nigash so the madras says the following is a reference to yehuda and kotzer is a reference to yosef a love yehudah it's a very enigmatic madrid first of all why is yehuda called the khoresh why is yahsef called the kitesur and in what sense is that passer connected to vayigash a love yehudah so the avenger was the son of the administer great great fascination by the way the avenaser of ram bornstein called the success he was very very famous not only in hasidis he was famous as a post sake as a goddel as a mayship he wrote really thousands of chubas in the avni nasir and a very important safer and shabbos called the aglaital so he was a absolute guttural patera recognized as such even among the misnomer even among the literature yeshivas that generally didn't even recognize the khasid shikidolum of poland or the like but the avenaser says the following he says and of course you think about this because he has the sharpest orientation because he wrote the egg lay tao he says one of the 39 malaccas of shabbos is khoresh ploughing another one of the 39 malachos is kotzer harvesting what is the halachic definition of kaurish to prepare the ground so that it will be capable of receiving a seed and in the language of the gemara larpuya ara to soften the soil what is the halaq definition of harvesting to be ocare davar migue dulo to uproot something from the place that it's growing so says the avne naser soil adama dirt symbolically is understood as hombres as gash me as a person's attachments to materialism and baser instincts right if a person has typhus a person has desires for various physical pleasures that's kind of his connection to the adamah his connection to the dirt because man is body and soul our spiritual essence is the breath of hashem that's our neshamas our guf craves the physical so he says the following he says that yehudah and yahsef represent two different models of available yosef is like the kaiser when yahsef is subject to sexual temptation in potiphar's house yahseth as nancy reagan said years ago just says no yosef just says i'm not going to do it ok davar he uproots himself from the ground he separates himself he distances himself from all of the typhus that could drag a person down and that type of sitkus yasafasadik in which you don't give in to faith no matter what is called the kitesur i separate myself from the rao yehuda represents a different type of avaida because when yehuda i remember when he didn't let his daughter-in-law marry because he thought she had she was responsible for the deaths of aaron onan so she dressed up as a prostitute she enticed him he was with her he got her pregnant he didn't know he was with her he thought he was with designer again a very difficult story on a lot of levels and she was going to be burnt at the stake by the all the whole hollow quickly the whole story viewed in tamar is a is a difficult story to understand but she was going to be burnt and she was not going to reveal the identity of the man she was with because what do ghazal say very very important gemara it is better to be thrown into a fiery furnace to your death than to humiliate someone barabbin but she just said the man that you had given her a deposit the man that had given me the staff and this money belt he is the man i was with and yehuda then said ah sadkami she is more righteous to me by the way it's interesting that there is a mahloka sri shainam even though tamra was willing to die and ghazal seemed to darting from here it is better to throw yourself into a fiery furnace than to humiliate your humiliate somebody barabbin there is a muslin shining him if we actually possibly that way to that degree meaning am i obligated to die before i embarrass somebody many of you can say yeah it's still a big nephesh nicotine if that became necessary even though in the case of tamar obviously it was going to be a literal a literal situation but be it as it may yehuda was niksha yehuda was nik yehuda did not disassociate himself from the dirt the dirt dragged him down but yehuda softened the dirt by chuva and seeking forgiveness yehuda purified his physicality so yosef represents the idea of cutting yourself off from physicality and that is the level of the sadik gaumar who never sins yehuda represents the person who fails but then shows us how we rise above our failure through chuva and the both the the administrator and the swashmis make the point that malchus the kingship of israel including mashiach comes from shaiba yehudah not from sheikh yasip although yahseth had the executive experience yeah actually was the equivalent of a king and there'll be a mashiach before there's a mashiach etc but the permanent monarchy of ami israel comes from shaiva yehuda through david hamelech and actually even through muhammad his david had many sons but the rambam writes the moshiach line comes not only through david but through shalomo etc and culminating in mashiach and this represents the rather than the kaiser because that represents the idea of the person who fails because a melee is supposed to be a role model again it's hard to understand exactly because it doesn't really fit the way we look at cadolum these days he says a role model who is so perfect that he never makes a mistake what do i learn from that right i make so many mistakes i aviate sahara i'm weak i fail but a role model that shows me that even when you fail you come back to hashem with chuva that i can learn from the raf putner once man i think i've said this more than once but i'll say it again because it comes up here rafter many years ago like back in the night you know back in the 1970s raftner was very creative critical of the genre of godolan biographies although brexit i think condolenbaggers have gotten better because you read the typical goddamn biography and it talks about the fact that when he was four years old you know that's when he finished shas and by five years xiaomi and by six kislyari and then his bar mitzvah he did uh like zeiss andersevis by heart whatever and could answer any question that you would ask him and he was an unbelievable sadik you know uh before he nursed at his mother's breast uh he would make a barack or cover up the breast and make a bracha by the way levin said he had a son that actually did that okay so he said it was a true a true story uh and we look at these stories about super genius super righteousness utter perfection and you know we're very amazed and we're impressed and we're even entertained but dr footner says how do i apply that to my life how do i apply that to help my children become greater people these are madregos that are so beyond us that you know we can be amazed by it but we can't really be elevated by it rafner pointed out we make a big mistake when we think people were just born gdelden we know that him as uh in his by the time he was 80 he had trained himself to fall asleep when someone spoke lashinara but what struggles did the khafichayam have at the age of 15 what doubt now again there is a real serious problem of washing hara are you allowed to write a biography that talks about the hidden struggles actually there was one person who tried to write the topic of me that was of nelson kaminetsky as a criminal lebron wasn't it just nifty uh a year or two ago and he wrote uh the book the infamous book called the making of a goddamn and the making of a godol uh i'm not gonna say it was not a kiss and tell story but he talked about the different struggles he talked about some condolence uh used to write letters to girlfriends or different types of types of things in which he showed that these were human beings and these are humans who sometimes did things that were not perfect but they then were able to direct their co-hosts in phenomenal ways and what happened to the making of a gut was the making of a guttal was banned it was put into karem you weren't allowed to read the book you couldn't get the book rav nasan issued a revised edition that was a little bit uh less revealing and that got in here too uh of course some people made money on it i remember the original book was sold for 25 after it was banned and with nuts in himself was a russia shivas or if nothing would not even though he very much disagree i mean he would say he very much disagreed with the man he said it was a big mistake and it was wrong but if uh gdalum said such a thing he was macabre he would not sell the book but there were bootleggers who sold the book so i remember you could get a bootlegged copy for 500 on ebay all right so some people made a killing on it although i understand that someone else downloaded it for free on the internet so you can actually you can actually get it for free don't tell me but i have my private uh downloaded uh copy copy of it and the like but you see what drove nothing was trying to do if not trying to do a tremendous thing he was trying to show us that hedolim or people who became godolam also had their struggles they had their failures they had their mistakes and the svasemes and and and the sakura traveler are saying hashem wanted the malchus to come [Music] to righteous people who made mistakes and who failed because they can show us the directive true and in fact he points out it's really based on a zoar that it's not just yehuda tamar the whole chalce of malchus based of it culminating in mashiach is filled with things that look like pigamim defects going all the way back lot is with his daughters in an apparent incest and they have amon and moa and then the descendant of moab marries boaz ruth in the middle of the night in a way that looks highly irregular right a woman comes in the middle of the night and lies down by his feet right bose himself is afraid he says get out of here before before before daybreak so people shouldn't say a woman came to the uh threshing floor and the like and then uh by david malek it's a whole story that yeshi separated from his wife because he thought he was a moabite and he was not allowed to marry into claw israel and he thought he was with his maidservant when he really he was with his wife and when his wife got pregnant he thought his wife was masana with somebody else and therefore david was a momser for all those years comes and then of course you have mohammed himself that had a thousand wives and america had all sorts of things that the pastors look like aveiros and david and batsheva remember comes from bathsheba the wife that it looks like david committed adultery and got her husband killed even though ghazal say technically there was a ghats and everything else in other words it's a very strange family history it's a family history that is filled with things that look like a verus and the gemara in yuma says we see from here that a person is not nich the person does not enter monarchy unless there's kupa shall she ruts him unless there's a bag of of of dead rodents or we would call in english skeletons in your closet and part of it is once again that the malek is a role model when he can show us how to get up from failure how to how to be masaka mistakes and that's an important idea and that is why yehuda is called the because he takes the physicality of the earth he softens it and dedicates it to hashem as opposed to yosef that just has the kawak to just say no and that's why the mashikhas comes from from yehudah from david rather than coming from uh from from yasuf and that's because there and that's the rem of yehuda meaning claudithral needs two types of inspirations we need the inspiration that gives us the strength to resist sin we vote i need that i need role models that tell me you have the kawak not to give in i need that but i also need and maybe even more so the backup that tells me that even when i sin i can recover from it i can come back because otherwise a person simply gives up hope and a person says my sinning is inevitable this goes all the way back to other parishion you know when i killed boracay said after the height of the eight sadas why are you naked why are you hiding so uh other mauricion said the woman he blames he blames him he blames kraven he blames god he says the woman that you gave me notes that you gave me she gave me the fruit and i ate so number one adam is uh evading responsibility he's doing the timeline of course that was the first time it was done but since then we've all taken on that minute of blaming our wives at least the men blaming our wives time honored mina going all the way back he blames his wife but he also blames hashem you gave me this woman and she led me she led me astray but the madras has another comment when he said and i ate it could also be read as a future i will eat i ate and i'll do it again wow talk about kritzma he's telling god i did it once and i'll do it again but i would like to suggest that this is not a statement of defiance it is a statement of pain he's saying to hashem this is not going to be the last time that i'm going to mess up i did it once and i am going to do it again not not defying he's just hopeless saying how do i get out of this and that's where shiva comes in shiva basically says you can fix it you can fix it you can make it better you're not stuck forever and that's what yehuda teaches us and that is what malchus bastavi teaches us and that's why yehuda is called the khoras and yosef is called the kitesayer and when mashiach comes the khoresh and the kotzer will get together because we will have both of those models in mashiach ben yosef and then eventually mashiach benjamin and together they show us the derek of aveda by the way the arizal says in the bracha of in shimon ashrae for the shalom when we pray for the establishment of yerushalayim so it says for david maher you should prepare so that particular line is actually out of place in the bracket right because you understand that the bracha right after you shall i america prays for us so the devil is almost a line that belongs in the next rakha now the truth of the matter is this is a whole talk in its own that in the original version of the bracha as found in the talmud ushami the sheeta and eric israel was that instead of shimon ashrae being 18 and then omalcina made it 19 it's really the other way around the original version of schmonastery was seventeen brachas because bonney was shalayam and that's one bracha and it ended up on so it was seventeen and willa malshenim made it 18. as opposed to the bravoly that said it was originally 18 or while sheena made it made it 19. so according to the ushami it is still accurate to call the amida because indeed that's that's what it is and you actually see this again it's fascinating in the putin that were written to be inserted on special like emporium on special occasions for each bracha you will notice rabbi lazaro khalir if you look for example in the sitter look at the piace for purim which which most people don't say but it actually is in the sitter where before the end of each bracha you say a paragraph or so you will notice that is skipped it goes from and the next one is but the answer is very very simple rabbi lazara khaleer's that included him and that's so there was no separate bracha abusal and right okay but so that's that's that would explain why uh david is in that bracket because originally it was one bracket like you showed me but the arizona gives a different reason the arizona says is a prayer for mashiach ben yosef that will be the foundation of mashiach that the throne of david which will allow david to be re-established is the coming of mashiach ben ben yosef and the arizona says when you say david and the also says by the way even though the government sucker tells us mashiach bin yasip will be killed in the wars of gogan mug the gilnergone says that this is not inevitable uh this is a scenario but it's shaykh by tefila and the like that mashiach can also survive and kind of be a mishna lamella to mashiach kind of side side by side okay so that was one thought that i wanted to say and it's a tricky thing you know if you think about this this is actually a tricky type of problem both for teachers for rebbies and and and women teachers as well and for parents that is what do you do taka i mean let's let's say your kid or your talmud is going through difficult times and you in your past life had these nicionos and you made mistakes it's a hard question do you talk about your failures with your kids on one hand you know you don't want to tell your kids everything yeah everything that you did you know some of it may not have been so good on the other hand maybe that's going to give them the reason that they see you know if hopefully they respect you if they respect you and they see you're a good person and they can see that you went through some of the very same things they went through that could help them immeasurably so even as a parent we have to grapple with this do i want to tell my kid the mistakes that i made because i want him to know that you can survive these mistakes and you can come back in a good way right so it's a delicate issue how much does a rebbe right how much does a rebbe reveal of himself to his tummy them right sometimes you'll be a tremendous friezak right if i look at my rebbe as my god somebody who never makes a mistake you know that is no shyness to me you know that's why what that was one of the godless of nussens three fingers of finally the rest of shiva mir uh so everyone knows the story already it's a it's a it's a famous story uh i mean besides the fact that for so many years he had multiple sclerosis and he led a gigantic yeshiva with tremendous tremendous masira snfish mamish and that itself was a a miracle to see that a human being could be so so committed to torah and to his talmidam loving his talmudim like they were his own children but you know the story i mean he came from a from family i mean he came from the mirror recognitive family but he grew up in what you might call a more modern orthodox environment in chicago he went to a co-ed high school he was on the debating team he was on the basketball team you know had the the girlfriends that you have in the modern orthodox high school so it comes to eric israel in fact he usually mentions when he came to eric israel to learn in mir uh you know he had never learned more than you know an hour and a half straight there was nothing no no beyond that already is is too much so when he had to learn a morning seder like 9 30 to 1. he was totally you know totally exhausted and then he said to escapusa so what do you guys do in the afternoon here he figured maybe there's a nice nine to one and then you know you go to the movies in the afternoon or something whatever he says he couldn't believe it i mean you learned the afternoon too you know he said it wasn't checked but the thing about gravinastan's fee is that he never he never hid that background he talked about he didn't make i mean i know i mean i know i mean i know khashoggi people there's a sister of a very very close of a person who lives in maryland and this sister always complains that her brother totally makes believe that they never had this modern orthodox uh existence and he covers it up and you know she she has a lot of tithes whatever whatever it is but he he has a sheta that he has to like not acknowledge that part of his life okay i i understand i do understand that but nothing sweet had a different cheetah he thought that if an american kid who also plays basketball and has a girlfriend and goes to movies could hear from the person who went through those very things and became a great talmud and marbet store that could help a person a lot more than simply having somebody who's so different than me that there's no connection i have to that person so if necessary always talked about uh you know he was in a co-ed school and then you know all those different things so we as parents also have to sometimes wonder how much of ourselves do we reveal but we have to know that that can sometimes be a tremendous source of inspiration and to a struggling person to reveal a little bit of your little bit of yourself okay so that was really the first thought i i wanted to share with you love yehudah that yehudah is the is and yosef is the kitesair uh the second is really a more general idea and that is you know the story of yosef and his brothers is probably the single longest story in the torah it's a long story it goes on right the three partials of ayesha mike's failed even some of i see already is kind of the end of that story as well it's a big big big story and there are certain questions that we ask every single year and you know we're going to ask it next year too uh because you know we always wonder like what's going on here i mean you know we say uh that these are the shivatim shift daika right we say okay avraham had you know the bad son yeshmael although ishmael did shubha and yitzhak had the bad son but but yaakov avinu is the jewish people in fact i always say you know in arsenal one of the questions that you know bali truma in particular but everybody asks us how do i know the torah is from god how do i know the torah is not man made so i have a simple answer it's a little tongue-in-cheek my simple answer is that if we wrote our own story we would never say it that way because the truth of the matter is the jewish people don't come out so great you know in this story uh yaakov steals the broncos from asap the brothers cellulose their own brother into slavery after they wanted to kill him and then the kaido egg of the crater it has to come from god what are you going to say we we wrote the story that way you know that's not how we do it you know so that i think is a little bit of a proof perhaps that the terror must come from akadesparco who always tells the truth right god does not god does not lie human beings lie uh but what's the story number one what's the story with the brothers selling yo say okay i understand they were jealous of jose they resented the favoritism okay those are even then we would say couldn't they rise above it but even if you're gonna say you know they're human okay they're human i can be jealous of somebody okay i could be jealous but i'm i'm gonna want to kill him i'm gonna want to sell him into slavery and bring that grief both to him and to my father like you know it's inexplicable because none of us would do that none of us would do that even if we were jealous of our brother or whatever it would be so it's yaduwa a very well-known explanation of the the soporno and even that is hard to understand but the soprano actually says that the brothers had discerned a certain pattern in the history of the of ice in which the the the mission of starting a jewish nation a nation of sanctifying god's name was given to a segment of the family and the other segment was cut off so ishmael was cut off from the avraham the british of avraham and then asap was cut off and then they see that yosef seems to be replicating this pattern because yosef is coming to their father and saying that the brothers are sinful they either again without going into that that's another schmooze they're eating average and they're nikshan and various other other avedos so the brothers are afraid that yosef is driving a wedge between them so the same thing that happened to yeshmael and the same thing that happened to asaph is now going to happen in which all of the breaths of abraham is going to go to the two children of rachel which is yosef and binyamin and therefore this is affecting not only their destiny but the destiny of the entire future of all that would ever be born from them and therefore the soporno says they considered yaysafe to be a roadif right if somebody is endangering your life you are allowed to kill them if you don't have any other way to remove the threat and since being separated from your destiny as a founder of the jewish people is a faith that is even worse worse than death the sapporono says halachically they had the right to adjudicate yosef as a rodev and kill and either kill him or yehuda says we don't have to kill him we can sell them into slavery et cetera in fact the arakayam goes even further because they're kind against a very famous arachim and a very controversial arachim and it's subject to many many many interpretations you know it says that ruvain comes up with the idea right ruben says hey why should we kill him let's throw him into a pit and that way we're not going to be responsible for killing him now because i'll say when it says the pitch was empty it did not have water did not have water but it was filled with snakes and scorpions so the arkham asks if ruben says let's not kill him let's throw them into a pit of snakes and scorpions the halluca is if a man falls into a pit of snakes and scorpions and there's a witness that said that see that he fell into snakes and scorpions his wife is allowed to marry even without witnesses of death because it is such a certainty certainty that at least the scorpions are going to kill him that he's a he's a goner so what's reuben's cushman let's throw him into a pit of snakes and scorpions all right so one shot might be ruvain didn't know i mean that might be like that's how the bill madone seems to learn gives a complicated hushman but the arkham says an amazing thing and i would have to say do not try this at home the aurachaim says that the brothers consider yosef a rodev and he's high of misa but ruvain is about musser and ruben says maybe he is high of misa and this is this is a legitimate sock but maybe we're misevaluating the situation because of our jealousy and our envy how do we know that we're not no gay or bedover how do we know that this is a truly objective disinterested suck maybe it's coming from our jealousy and hatred so the test is this if we kill him that's not a proof that hashem approved our actions this is a big killish because the arachim says since human beings have free will they are able to harm someone even if hashem did not want that person to be harmed this by the way is kenned has a very famous teaching that no human being can harm another human being unless god decreed that that person died or be armed meaning my bachira cannot negatively impact you unless it was hashem's direct will that's a again that's that's a pretty extreme thing that would suggest that if hitler would not have set into motion a mechanism to kill six million jews those six million jews would have died in some other way it's hard to imagine but the aura does say the opposite the arachiam says if i have free will then by definition i could affect you with it even if it's not the will of god at that point so this is what reuben says if we kill him that doesn't prove our judgment was approved by god we killed him because we have bakira but if we throw him to the snakes an animal cannot harm a human being unless hashem decreed that that human being is supposed to be harmed and therefore if the snake's killing that's a validation of our judgment if the snakes don't kill him that's proof our judgment is wrong now as i say do not try this at home uh in a way it kind of reminds me of a famous joke they tell uh a person no it's coming all right i'll say just as a joke but again when that's them you'll hear in a moment a person wanted to build a house and he wasn't sure how to do it so he went to a rov for aidsa and the rope said no problem at all rashi and masaka's airborne tells you exactly what to do so the person builds the house according to rashid massachusetts and the house collapses right afterwards so he goes to the rev and he says the house collapsed says ah that's tysos kasha you know so don't don't try the rfim simply because there are those that say that is like the khabib so so so mela uh and i'm the other way around uh that an animal can harm a person even uh even uh if he's not high of me at that particular point huh no no no so reuven basically says like this rubin basically says if the nakashima nakaravim killed yasif that's a gili arpasak was emmaus and it was the rust of hashem that he would die now i want to point out though that you see from here how strong the power of bias is because la maisa yes if was not killed so if i cared if jacob was not killed they should have concluded our sock is not right the answer is you know when you're consumed with jealousy you come up with another answer whatever i guess i guess these snakes aren't aren't the dangerous kind or something i mean reuben had this test that the brothers agreed to and you said passed the test and that felt beefing okay so this is a famous hasbro of the soporno that we're dealing with the principle of raedev the principle of raidif but we then have akasha okay that explains the brothers behavior to some of the to some degree how do we understand joseph's behavior number one the isif is separated from yaakov for 22 years uh and you know why doesn't you know why doesn't he send a message to yucca right before him deal with it he couldn't he would be accused of a spy i mean these are difficult answers he couldn't send the message especially all right so for the years that he was uh in in prison that's one thing but but afterwards before he was in prison or afterwards he was either the doula and then what is this business about he doesn't reveal himself to his brothers till they bring binyamin and then he frames binyamin by putting the gevia in after hearing that this could kill his father so there are different explanations here the most famous explanation is that of the ramban right the ramban has a well-known idea that yahsef had two khaleemis when he was a young man of seventeen and in these khalamayas the khalim of the sheaves bowing down to him the eleven sheaves and the khalima of the eleven stars and the sun and the moon and yasef understood that this is as yakov understood that this is from hashem this is not just a fantasy in a person's mind but this is from that yahsef is a melech and his brothers must bow down to him and in the second dream the son and the moon even his father and his mother now it doesn't mean his real mother because his real mother rachel died but billa who was still alive and raised him as a mother must bow down to him so yahsep saw himself as having a divine mission to kind of manipulate his brothers in accepting him as a king initially when only ten brothers come that's great that's a good start but it's not yet 11. he has to have been yemen to be muslim to complete the fulfillment of the dream and then indeed the ramban even says that the only reason yasif revealed himself after yehuda made the speech was because yasif couldn't hold himself back yasif actually wanted to go further yaesef wanted to take binyamin as a slave so that yaakov would come down not knowing this was the sun yosef and yaakov would beg and bow down and that would have been the final fulfillment of the khalim but yahsev at some point he broke down he couldn't hold himself in anymore so this is the ramban shita that all of the isaf's behavior was to be gairam the fulfillment of his dreams that he would be a melech because he saw those dreams as a message from hashem and if yahushua would if stamiza revealed himself to his brothers they wouldn't have looked at him like a melee he would be like their brother it wouldn't have that wouldn't have had the same awe that they had therefore yosef had to behave the way he behaved this is what the ramban says the abarbanel acts say on the ramban and he says uh it's like do the ends justify the means yeah you have a dream you're supposed to be a melon so hashem is telling you what's going to be but are you allowed to do evil immoral improper things are you allowed to engage in lying and deception and causing your father pain because you have a dream that comes from hashem remember hallelujah is not a mitzvah hashem didn't command yosef make yourself a king no matter what hashem gives yahseph and abua that this is going to happen okay but that doesn't mean i can do whatever i want to make it happen even if it involves shekker and khazov and pain and sorrow banel says there is no concept that jacob has any acharas to make this dream come true it'll come true the way hashem chooses for the dream to come true so because of this theobarbanel offers another explanation again it's a well-known explanation and he says that jacob's behavior is designed to bring his brothers to a chuva shalama a shuva and that is the following the original source of the jealousy animosity that the brothers had for yahseth really goes back to their mothers that for whatever the explanation is yaakov had a greater love for rachel than for leia and as a result yaakov showed a certain favoritism to the children of rachel over leia effective i mean the gemara actually considers that a little bit of a time i think actually says based on this that a parent should not show overt favoritism to one child over another child because it could be it could be gairam difficult things obviously when we look at the others we have to understand this on a much more deeper level but on the simple level it was the favoritism that yaakov showed rachel over leia that passed down to the favoritism that yaakov showed yahsef and even binyamin over the children of leia and the maidservants and the light so yosef wants to be sure that his brothers have overcome their jealousy and their envy for the children of raqqa so initially only ten brothers come yahsep says i need binyamin is brought yosef then puts binyamin in apparent danger now the brothers could have had the attitude well it's not our fault what happened is what happens instead yehudah who is the leader of the children of leia yehuda was like the melech even then is willing to give up his own life and his own freedom for a child of raqqa namely binyamin so yaysafe sees ah barak hashem the child the leader of benelea is my surname for raqqa that shows they have overcome their jealousy and animosity they have done shiva for what they did to me now i'm ready to reveal myself so unlike the ramban that says yosef's behavior was intended to fulfill his dreams the abar banel says yasif's behavior was intended to determine that the brothers had done a tsuva shelima so here is my question could we not could we not ask on the abar banel the very same question that the ibarbanel asks on the ramban the ravenel asks on the ramban it is not yo safe's business to cause his dreams to be fulfilled that's up to god well is it my business in other words if somebody did something wrong to me yeah i mean i could i could tell them and you know and say they should ask makila and everything else but am i allowed to lie and cheat and and cause pain especially to my father because i gotta be sure you're gonna do chiva even if it kills you i mean what do you do i mean you have the right to do all of these bad things because i gotta be sure that the brothers do chuva yeah they have to do chufa but is that yosef's business here and isn't there a very significant do the ends justify the means in terms of all of the things yosef is doing right so the kaira the abarth now is equally difficult with his kash on the ramban so i would just add a little to the ibarbanel and say that indeed it is yosef's business because the chuva of the of the brothers is not just the private shiva of 10 people who did something bad really bad against one person if that's all it would be that these 10 people because binyamin was not involved of course these 10 people wronged me and they must do chuba that wouldn't justify yosef's behavior over a private thing that was done to him but here is the problem yosef looks at his life and yosef's life is very extraordinary talk about rags to riches right uh you you know the movie would be unbelievable this was a truly truly miraculous life coming first of all being sold as a slave but doesn't make any sense it's not a normal thing and then being a slave and languishing in prison for 10 years actually exactly 12 years 12 years and then coming out and becoming the most powerful virtually the most powerful person in the world how does it happen and yosef contemplates his life and says hashem put me here and hashem put me here for a reason this is not just an accident this isn't just a regular thing that happens to people and yosef understands that it is his divine mission to prepare us for gullahs because remember the notion that the jews are going to be enslaved and persecuted although it didn't say mithraim goes all the way back to the covenant of the parts the brisbane up sauron without brown so everybody knows they're waiting for the shoe to drop are they expecting the shoe to drop from the other foot they're waiting it's going to happen we don't know when we don't know where but yosef already seems to understand it's going to be here it's going to be yosef was probably the first one who understood that hashem then tells yaakov after yahshua revealed himself tells yakov you're going to go to mitsuranim and this will be the slavery and everything else but yosef was probably the first one who understood hashem put me here because this is going to be a bitter and long gullus and it's my job to be the advanced party that prepares ami israel for this gullis and not only this dollars the grass says mitzrayim is the prototype of every single golos army israel will experience we'll talk more about that when we get into safer schmos so that's why yosef goes through all of the different experiences that yidden will have regardless not only in mithrillium on one hand he represents the jew that is oppressed that is persecuted that is enslaved whose very life is threatened and that's one type of messiah and then he represents the messiah of being the pinnacle of power of wealth and that's another type of messiah and yosef shows us the coats there how you can be faithful to hashem whether you're in the throes of poverty and oppression or whether you are great and powerful and influential yosef has to experience that because he is our teacher of how to survive gullis and he understands that it's not just his personal struggle with hashem because he understands this is why hashem put him here which makes no sense his life makes no sense with their records heaven you couldn't make it up people wouldn't believe it so you know that in the 210 years that we were in mitsuram we suffered tremendously we reached a very very low madriga we are in the 49th first of all four-fifths of the jewish people died they didn't even leave mizrahim they hit level 50. of the one-fifth we were on the 49th level of tuma and we were sinking very very rapidly and that's why even though we should have been in mitzrayim 400 years hashem had to take us out early 190 years early because had we waited even the amount of time the arizona says i don't even understand this that it takes for dough to become comets 18 minutes we want to fit level 50. i don't even know what that means but you have to go now you wait another five minutes you're going to hit level 50. but because i'll say in spite of the fact that we were on level 49 and slipping fast we had certain merits that kept us around we didn't change our names we didn't change our language uh according to other majors we didn't intermarry there are different lists we discussed with each other the point of this is this clearly in mitzrayim we were over there buddhists are we actually worshiped idols except for shaved leaving the men stopped doing bris mila except for saving living so we weren't what you would call from we were not observing even the few commandments that we had so what's the big myla of having a hebrew name right a guy is called rafi and he goes to a discotheque in tel aviv and his shirt is open to his uh belly button uh but he wears a magen david and has a hebrew name you know i mean that's a is that that's and the answer is it is it's not the the end result but this is across it basically says i want to identify myself as a jew i want to have a connection with my people i don't know you know pre-corona when people were traveling even now people are beginning to travel a little bit although not this particular moment but sometimes you know you're in an airport and somebody goes over to you you know they see you wearing a kippah or you're obviously a an orthodox jew and they kind of whisper conspiratorially they say you know i'm jewish too now i have to admit that usually annoys me because usually i'm doing something with something and you know and they got a smile you know but that's my that's my problem the truth is that's my story that's not their concern because what they're doing is actually a very nice thing they're basically saying i want to identify with you i want to be connected to you you're my people you're my family and that's very very beautiful and in mitzrayim that is what we had we had that sense of family of being together and even though that's not the end point because the end point is montantora the end point is the mitzvos but that was the beginning without that unity there would be nothing we would have hit 50. mimeila when the brothers come and yosef knows this is the beginning of the egyptian exile it is his divinely appointed mission to give us the survival strategy that will enable us to survive that goddess the refua before the makkah he cannot allow the sheba to begin until he is absolutely sure that we have the thing that will enable us to survive and if that was an ah israel it is yosef's job to be sure that the brothers did shiva not because of the personal grievance that 10 people caused him that would not justify this behavior but because the survival and the nitrius of israel depends on the teaching of yosef right because we survive only because of not changing our names which are really actual and connection right and that so i think we can add this to the environment and this could explain yosef's behavior why it was his divine mission to ensure like that so yes hashem uh we're having the first uh well actually not through so many values the first one but sorry but the fast day that's coming up is the earliest i mean in in the in the calendar year it's the second one after some italian but it's the earliest fast that commemorates the events surrounding the hormone of the bass on mikhtash because the tenth of tevas is when the netsar began the siege around jerusalem culminating in the corbin it is interesting though i remember we'll talk about this later that a cerebellar base does not commemorate unlike tissue above which it commemorates both the corbin bias reshon and the khorbin bayashini a surya batay base only commemorates the carbon bias region there there is no acerobite-based event that occurred in the bioshiny that we are fasting because of but nevertheless it's brought down that even though it's commemorating the carbon bias region we think about all of the khorben bias including the second base of mechdash that was destroyed because of srinam and indeed rabbi fischer the criminal of raqqa it's interesting that i don't mention him that much but he was just nifty so it's interesting that uh hashem put the thought of saying he's saying from him mom is shortly after his interview he was a tremendous not that well known not not that well known he was uh fisher was really probably the greatest guddell that many people never heard of i've heard of a tremendous tremendous gain in kola tarakula as well as an expert in uh philosophy and science and rafale fisher is an old you show me family oh you shall meet a totally high rating person the old yish of ayoshin but he was a very very unusual person not not so famous except for people who you know were learning everyone that knew him uh and uh he was just sniffed or just sniffed her maybe a week two weeks ago uh but islamic fisher has different riots that yosef actually happened in asari batavis so in a sense asari but also has a connection to sinatra so it's something that we should think about as we enter the fast of the tenth of tables so you all have a good week and a good shabbos and thank you for coming [Music] yes