Vayeshev - Life Trajectories

you're listening to the weekly podcast with Ari goldwag recruiter with hashem's never running assistance 5783 2022 this week's prior shows project we have the story of yaakov avinuise Yosef and the brothers selling your saved ultimate shrine the beginning of a story in Egypt the story of Yehuda marrying a certain wife ending up having children from Tamar a lot of intricate and interesting and important details of the lives of our forefathers the schwatim the shifter the 12 tribes of the Jewish people and there's a point at the very beginning of the story which the measure hints to it hints to and if we can discern the depth of what the magician is saying kind of a very deep important and profound lesson for ourselves plus it says Israel or have seismic Israel yakovino Jacob Love Joseph right he loved him because he was a Benz zakunim which not a simple phrase to explain benzokunin literally means Ben as a son zakunim sounds like of his old age all of his kids were the children of his old age was even the final of the 12 schwartam so I'm a fortune try to understand what is the word benzoconium what does it mean that Yosef was loved by yaakov because he was a benzekunu so let's read the message it says famous idea which Rashi brings you because they looked similar which means the the shine of his face was similar Yosef looked like yaakov so what you know parents parent has a child you know child looks like that parent doesn't mean that the parent is going to favor that child or is going to show him love what does it mean that the face of Yosef was similar to his father what is the depth of that teaching um this perhaps we can understand a little bit better that the magic says periakov had given over to his son according to explanations here means I'm sorry Ben zakuna means he was very bright he was very smart Joseph was somebody who had the capacity to understand all of the spiritual teachings of his father yaakov yaakov had spent years in the Yeshiva of Shame the ever in the Yeshiva of his father Yitzhak and ayako was giving over all of that to Yosef who obviously was precocious he was 17 years old at this time he was brilliant still we need to understand so what like what does it mean exactly the other Sons didn't learn they only went out as really at sewing they were out there as as Shepherds they weren't studying the Torah of yaakov why did yaakov sing if Yosef was the only smart one none of the other brothers were smart what's the what's the idea what's the benzocunum what is this benzokunin of Yosef then the measures continues with another seemingly unrelated concept you also like soon as possum the posix says that in recognition of his love for Yosef or perhaps in recognition of yosef's special status yaakov made for him sometimes translated as a coat of many colors but the work science possibly means is a an outer garment possum our lines or stripes it was a striped garment obviously it was special it was unique it was only given to him and what was the result of racial Omar in the name of Allah teaches us like this person needs to be careful not to single out any of his children for a preferential treatment because of this beautiful garment described garment that yaakov made for his son Yosef the brothers hated him they were jealous of him we don't understand yet we don't we don't yet have a grasp but what is what's the exact purpose of this code what is this code represent why did they hate him because of it is it just the simple jealousy of Brothers it's hard to explain it that way I mean we're talking about Joseph is 17 and he's the youngest of them all this is his reuven was probably approximately 23 at this time I'm talking about little kids okay brother is you know this competition between Brothers perhaps you could say we have to understand on a deeper level what is the sinus passing what is this code about with lines with stripes on it what is the concept of lines what is the concept of Stripes what's a pass so it's interesting to notice and perhaps we can have a little bit of a depth of understanding what's the idea behind it that the word pass the two letters of the word pass which make up the word stripe or or line or else in the name of yasif right the isef is letters of his name which are really the root of the name Yosef the root of the name Joseph is saf which means the end as Rahul said I should have another child to add on is to to bring about the really the word scif means ending and in which means the Eran it means I want to come to a greater end I want to come to a greater end I want my completion I want my completion USA represents a completion what is the the word pass what is the word pass which means a line have to do with your safe which means completion why is yes called completion why is that his name Joseph the one who comes to the end so let's let's take a look and see this is some very interesting explanations here in the medrish we're going to try to come back to all the questions that we've had so far and try to understand everything the message continues and talks about the possum the lines the stripes says the message what is passing why would they call it sinus passing why is it called a Garment of Stripes show you some a gas at paciado it doesn't matter something that doesn't seem to add too much information for us it doesn't seem to teach us anything even it says that the stride the Garment would reach to the paciado means to his to his palm to his hand this the the garments it's stretched out until his passion what's a passion the lines it sounds like the lines of his hands the lines of his hands right you look at your hands you look at the lines there are lines on your hands what are those lines and what's the significance that the sun is possum which is the striped garment with lines on it reaches to the lines of his hands what is that idea what is the lines of the hands what does that have to do with the clothing that he's wearing another explanation passim what are these lines should I say dark of a caliberate Vegeta says something even more difficult to understand it says this was a kind of garment it was a compressible garment it was a light garment made out of very light material and you could you could fold it up and fit it into the palm of your hand huh what does that mean s very interesting pass him there's something hidden the word passing in the word lines that indicates many different things we've already seen gets the lines of the hand it gets to the line to the it gets to the it could be crumpled up inside of the into one's hand the third explanation here of the magic is that there was the word pass can also be Milas from the language of Pies the word Pious if you live in Israel you know what a Pious is a Pious is a lottery right you want to win win big in the lottery there's the mifala Pius some of the money goes to building schools some money goes to the winners of the lottery but there's a Pious there was a Pious what was the pious what was the lottery and by the way the word Lottery also Pious has to do with with lines right because what would you do with a lottery with with when you draw Lots you take strings equal strings and one string would be a little bit longer then you would cover up the bottom of the strings and each person would pick a different string right whoever got the longer string was the winner so to speak that's upon whom the lot fell so this was done when the brothers were deciding who was going to tell yakovino about the fact that Yosef was gone and he dipped the sinus I passed him interestingly into the blood they brought it to Yakov and Yehuda said how care no recognize do you recognize this this coat so they drew Lots so the sun is the is the Garment about which Lots shall be drawn got some exercise again the message is begging an explanation next explanation of the measures why is it called because of the challenges and difficulties that Yosef would endure each of the letters of the word pass him is indicative of a challenge that he would endure the letter pay refers to potiphar the challenge that he would endure with potifier's wife trying to trying to have illicit relations with him Samir have the word the merchants each of these letters indicates that different people were involved in his being sold down to Egypt so somehow this son is passing this Garment of Stripes somehow is indicative of the problems that Joseph would endure would encounter you know each of these explanations sounds like just like very far afield from any of the other ones but perhaps we can find a thread that runs through all of these let's keep reading pass him another explanation again I'm sorry you said the name of Allah which we had earlier he was the one who said that a person should be careful about not giving preferential treatment to any of his children um in Psalms chapter 66 verses 5 and 6. go and see the works of God which means you need to look carefully to try to understand how Hashem works in the world Hashem does things that are hidden that are difficult to understand why does this happen to this person what is this problem why does this success why does this person have to endure hardships why does this person seem to have it easy in life go out and see that there are many different ways that Hashem works and the next person says God switches the the sea to become dry dry land what are these tips talking about to do with each other it says he says this took him where we see you look around and you see things are different things are don't seem to be the way they should be you see that Joseph is the youngest brother and yet the brothers hate him why because it doesn't seem fair why is he getting singled up for preferential treatment right but what does that have to do with Chris yamsuf what does that have to do with the the sea being turned into dry land foreign statement about the concept of the possum of the stripes the stripes represent the stripes the the lines that the Jewish people would walk through in the sea right there would be possum there would be walls that would stand up as they walk through the sea as they walk through the yams of the sea would split in front of them it would turn into into Stripes so to speak into lines and 12 tribes will walk through those 12 lines in whose Merit in whose Merit indeed would it would it split so we find that the Merit of Yosef has them before she explained here Joseph's Merit was that which caused that the waters should split there was his urine it was the it was the beer of Joseph it was his coffin that was brought there the water split in front of him why as the magic explains elsewhere because he says the the sea saw and it ran away all right it made it made way for the Jewish people to come what did it see it saw someone else that ran away it was Yosef who ran away Joseph ran away from the wife of potifar and in so doing his Merit the Merit of that incredible Act of self-control brought about the ability for the the Waters of the sea which are meant to flow which are meant to to they're not meant to part and make a way for the Jewish people to come through but since Yosef did something superhuman Supernatural the sea also overcame its natural state of being in order to turn into dry land so the Jewish people could go through there and this Merit how is it brought about according to one understanding of this Manish it was brought about because of the hatred the jealousy of the brothers for you safe ultimately he would be placed into this terrible challenge with Potiphar's wife but he would rise above the challenge and the result would be he and the Jewish people would experience an incredible miracle as the sea would defy its own nature and split in front of the Jewish people now what is the concept what is the concept here what is the concept of passing what is the concept of the lines or the stripes on his coat and how can we tie together all of the different threads in this beautiful Majors perhaps understand it all as denoting a single concept and if we think about it if we think about it what is a pass so as I Was preparing this to our Taurus I was looking I was sitting outside and I'm looking at some telephone wires looking at telephone wires noticing how they're straight and how they lead from one place to another right if we could what is a line what is a pass it's a it's something that leads from one point to another point so what so what what does that mean that means that we're on a journey through life so to speak we're on a journey through reality the Jewish people as a nation are on a trajectory we are going from point A to point B we are going from the creation of the of the world as the attire is describing for us from the creation of the world to the end of the world so to speak to the Messianic age to the moment when all the world will recognize will recognize God yasif is the one who is the safe he's the one who represents the end of the process why why does he represent the end of the process he's the yay safe it's the safe is the end you find it in the concept of this Messiah who comes at the end of time who's the descendant of Joseph but Joseph is two things he's the one who represents the end right his dreams they describe the end point where all of the brothers would bow down to him that's the the final point of the story where they all are beholden to him they are all bowing down to him he is their leader he's the one who guides them in their average Hashem in their service of God so there's a certain completion Messianic moment there as well but he also represents the one who brings them on that trajectory who guides them along the trajectory that they need to discern and Traverse in order to get to that end let's go back to the beginning okay Yosef is the one who represents the continuation of the trajectory really of Jacob yaakov is the one who knows the end as we spoke about in previous weeks he knows about the end he knows when mashiach is coming he knows he wants to reveal to his sons but he can't he's the one who represents the end he's the akev it's the heel is the farthest end of the human body that's yako is militia Yosef also represents the end and therefore when we say that he's that he was the Ben zakunim right so there's a few different um things that we can feel out in that in that idea and that concept is the child is born in his old age that means in the end of his life he he represents the end of what yaakov wants to to continue in the world he represents the goal of yaakov yaakov teaches him the wisdom he's the one who's the bar hakima he's the one who has the wisdom to receive the journey to receive the the wisdom that's necessary to continue to Traverse the journey in order for all the Jewish people to be led by him by Yosef he gets a sinus pass him and we have a different uh perhaps a different hair a different depth of understanding of what is it the science person what is this why did he receive a garment that has lines on it because he's the one who's got the lines he's got the lines of where we're handed he knows it's not just one line on this garment it's not only his line I would like to say perhaps it's certainly not the push-up shot but it's perhaps we could say certainly in concept it's definitely true yes if he's the one who has 12 12 lines on His Garment I would say there were 12 lines on His Garment why do I say that because each of the lines on His Garment represented not just his own line the own path that he needed to Traverse but also the lines of his brothers that they also needed to Traverse their light that that was going to shine in the world right they were stars who need they were the 11 stars in his dream they had a light that they needed to shine in the world and they needed to bow down to him in order for that light to shine properly in order for them to know how to to shine their light and and yaakov is also in the dream as the sun and the moon his Rocco's light also shines into the world through Yosef he's the continuation of the trajectory and the line now does that create a problem yes because if they don't recognize that he's the one who needs to lead them and guide them they're not going to get on their own paths now let's look for the next let's look through this and continue on this trajectory as we understand what the rest of the measures are saying it says to the lines on his hands that's where the Garment got to what does that mean it's very deep it's very beautiful because our sages teach us that the lines on our hands represent the our lifetime they represent all of our characters there are certainly kubalum great uh people steeped in in the deeper wisdom of the Torah they can look at your face they can look at the lines on your hand and they can know everything about you they can understand your tuna salad your your spiritual attributes your ofy your personality traits and they can guide you to where you need to go because they can look at the lines on your hands and see what your trajectory is this garment got down to the lines of the hands means that it that's what the essence of what this garment represented that yes it was that person who could look at each one and say who they are and what their trajectory is but yasiv is the one who continues the trajectory of the Jewish people and helps facilitate that trajectory yeah this is really the same concept it was very it was a very light garment that could be folded up and put into the palm of your hand which means that on the lines of your hand you have the information for all of your entire life just like the DNA that's in every cell of your body has information for your entire body this code represented what Joseph was who yasef was he was someone who had a deep insight into each individual within cloudy straw he knew how to lead them the information was all embedded within him how they each needed to go what their trajectory personally was each one of them is it also represents the lottery right there's a lottery in life so to speak which represents exactly who we are and what our tough kid is and who we are supposed to be you can see that in the lines of a lottery right he draws out the lottery he's the leader the lottery chooses him why why does the lottery choose Yehuda to be the leader and to say it to to yaakov that his son is gone look at the the blood is on the sinus possum what a an incredible um image what an incredible representation the blood is on the Garment is saying that the the the trajectory of the Jewish people is dead who's the one who has to rep you know present this information to Yahoo why is he so distraught and destroyed for 22 years he cries because the trajectory of the Jewish people is Gone without Yosef an accent is possible represents the trajectory of the Jewish people is destroyed without Yosef and Yehuda has to present that why because he also is the trajectory of the Jewish people right from Yehuda comes right so he even when you can't see ice if you want yicef is hidden there's still a leader called Yehuda something to think about but in contained in the trajectory of each individual is also the travails and problems that he has to endure because those troubles those problems right potifier's wife is the pay of of passing and the Sacramento the different problems it has to get through but potifier's wife is the very trajectory that he has to go through to overcome in order for the the seat to split and open up in front of the Jewish people for for that moment of incredible salvation of the Jewish people walking into receiving the Torah it's all because of him see this incredible thing says you don't you don't know we don't know we look at stuff and we say hey it's not fair why is Joseph end up in jail why does he end up for 10 years 12 years in jail does he end up having to become a slave sold by his brothers we don't we don't understand all of the vicissitudes of Life all of the challenges that a person goes through we don't know where it's going but in the end it brings out a miraculous feat miraculous feet on the on the part of Yosef to run away from Potiphar's wife and miraculous feet which is opened up in front of the Jewish people the Jewish people walked through 12 12 tribes walked through 12 different passing 12 different traveling lines through the through the sea through the challenges of life and they're opened up because of yasuf because his the Garment which represents the line that we are the the the path that we are to travel throughout life is represented in Yosef and in this garment I want to bless you ask you to bless me ashram should help us that we should be able to see the line of the Jewish people we should see our place on that line should see where we need to travel and we should see that the troubles and travails that we go through are part of where we need to get to we won't always know about it at the time but we'll see it much more in hindsight the isef is the one who sees at the end some should help us that we should see the mashiach from yasuf we should see the mashiach from Yehuda which really means that we should see we should be able to see the culmination hashem's plan for each and every one of us individually and for the entire Jewish people in the entire world thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shamas this podcast was made possible through the gracious donations of listeners like you for more podcasts like this please visit www.regoldwag.com or search on iTunes Ari goldwag [Music]