Shnayim Yomi - Vayeshev - Shlishi - #3

[Music] this is the famous story of the brothers selling yosef to the ishmaelim the traveling band of israeli arabs who are there to eventually sell him to mitzrayim where he eventually ends up and there is an interesting ambiguity in the pursuit we're always taught in the story is that the brothers take yosef out of the pit they sell him to the ishmaelim that they see and they eventually sell him down to potivar in mitzrayim reuven suddenly comes back later can't find him and he's all nervous but if you look in the sukim it's a little bit more ambiguous than that in fact there's a mahloka between rashi and the rashbom who in fact sold yosef rashid tells us that we traditionally learned that the brothers sold yosef but if you look at the sukim the torah is deliberately ambiguous and the rest bomb in fact says that ishmael sold yosef that it wasn't the brothers at all and they came back and weren't sure exactly what happened to him fascinating why would the torah do this why would it be so deliberately ambiguous as to exactly what happened and one of the ideas is that hashem has a plan hashem is playing it's going to happen whatever hashem wants to do is going to be in the end our job is to do the right thing right now we need to do that which he commands us we need to always stick to the right and true path he has a plan whether it was the brothers whether it was the ishmael there's a plan the torah is deliberately ambiguous about the details because they don't always matter they matter to the people doing the action but to us as the readers we're recognizing the story of seifer bracey who has a plan he has a plan for how ami israel is going to develop and be it this way be it that way the plan is going to be our job is to do the right and the good right now we'll take care of the rest [Music] you