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Vayechi - 7th Portion
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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