Vayechi - 7th Portion

Join me as we learn kitas for today for the seventh Torah reading. Shabas pares the final Torah reading of the book of Genesis verse 21 chapter 50. Last week, la yesterday, I'm sorry, we decided, we discussed about [clears throat] Yakov's passing and how the sons brought Yakov to his burial place in the cave of the patriarchs. And they told Yoseph the message from their father that he should not take revenge for the harm they did. Yoseph says, "You thought about harm. God thought about the greatest good that I can be here to save so many people." Today we continue as Yoseph encouraging his brothers, calming them. And the last words and testament of Yoseph to his family. And now don't be afraid. I will provide for you for your children. And he comforted them and he spoke to them reassuringly. Verse 21. What does it mean? And he spoke to their heart literally things that were accepted upon their heart. Meaning reassuring and telling them that nothing is going to happen. until you came down here. You would say they would make fun of me over here that I'm a servant. I'm a slave. I don't have a family. But because of you, people found out that I'm a family. I was sold as a slave. Really? I was a free man all this time. Nobody even knew who I was. And if I'm now going to kill you, what will people say about me? He see a group of fellas that he likes them that made him feel good. So he says they're my brothers and then he wants to prove that he's not a just to prove that he's not a slave. But now once he had no purpose for them he killed them. Is there such a thing that a brother should kill other brothers? How can that even happen? Another explanation. If 10 candles couldn't put out one candle, you think that I'm going to be able to harm you? If 10 of you couldn't kill me, how much more so I couldn't kill you? Verse 22. Those were the comforting words that Yoseph told his brothers to reassure them that everything would be okay. movies and Yoseph remained in Egypt. He and his father's household and Yseph lived in Egypt and he lived the rest of his life till 110 years old. Verse 23 and Yseph lived long enough to see Aphraims Besim his great grandchildren. He even lived long enough to see the children of Maker the son of Manasha Yuldu Alberf were born between his knees meaning that he was able to see them and teach them while he was still alive. Alberfi says like the says that he brought them up. He was able to teach them. Verse 24 said to his brothers, "I'm about to die. But God will surely remember you will bring you up from this land. Take you up from this land. However, bring you to the land that he swore that he's going to give that he promised he's going to give." Verse 25 made the Jewish children, the Jewish people take an oath saying when God will surely remember you and then you will make sure to take my bones with you from here. Do not leave them here. Promise to me that you will take this that you will take me out of Egypt when you leave Egypt. Verse 26. and died at the age of 110 years. And the Egyptians imbalmed him. They placed him a coffin in Egypt. The Egyptians actually sunk his coffin in the Nile River, thinking that his presence, the same way the Nile River was considered a blessing for the Jewish people that were there, so too should be continued to be a blessing for them. As we see at the end of this week's Torah reading, while the Jewish people are about to begin the exile, they have the promise of Yoseph that Yoseph tells them and he reassures them, "Yes, the exile is about to begin. Times might get tough, but remember that God will surely remember you and he will take you out of this exile." So too, Yoseph was telling every single one of us that every single time we may be feeling that we're deep in the exile, we should remember the promise that God gives us that he'll remember us and reassures us that he will take us out of this exile. This completes the entire book of Genesis of Matious and completes the Torah reading of