Vayeishev - 2nd Portion

Join me as we learn for Monday second to reading for parases. Yesterday we learned as Yoseph is special and loved by his father. His father makes from him his special garment as well as Yseph has these dreams which makes his brothers jealous and creates lots of animosity between him and his brothers. Verse 12, chapter 37. And his brothers left to pasture their father's flock in the city in the place of the only one that did not go was Binyam as he was too young as we'll soon see. There's a dot on the letter S to tell us that there's something different about this. Meaning that they actually went themselves to go eat and drink to take care of them their own needs, not necessarily about their sheep. Verse 13 said to Ysef Jacob tells Yseph, "Your brothers are pastoring the sheep in come. I will send you to them to see how they're doing to check up on them." And he said, he replied, "Here I am. I'm ready to do it." What is the word? tells us as we find in other places where they say they're ready humility and excitedly ready to do it. He was excited and ready quickly to do what his father asked him to do without any hesitation. Even though he knew that his brothers hated him and there was a problem that they might he might get in trouble with them but his father asked him to do something is ready to go and do it. Verse 14. And he told them, "Please go and see how your brothers flock are fearing." Now the flock are doing and report back to me. And he sent him thus from the he sent him from the from he came to and he arrived in what does it mean from the valley of seemingly was on a mountain was on a mountain not in a valley as it says they went up the and they came to Hello. What is it telling us? From that great advice from the vision from that was buried this that was told by by the by the covenant that God made with them that they will be a stranger in a foreign land. Now it was about to begin. That means why was he sending them? Little did he know this was a prophetic vision that this was going to begin the descent of the Jewish people in a foreign land. This was a place where problems happened. If you recall that was the place where the tribes made the mistake of selling Yseph. That was the same place where Dina was captured and hurt. That's where later on in the book of Chronicles it's spoken about the kingdom of David was split. that you had who was the children of David became the king of the two and a half tribes and the rest of them went to Yuram the 10 tribes who was not from the kingdom of David. Verse 15. And a man found him. A man who found him wandering. He was wandering in the fields. And the fellow asked him, "What are you looking for?" And a man, who is this man? This is the angel Gavil as we find in the book is Gavl. The man is called Gavil. So Yseph asked, "I am looking for my brothers. Please tell me where they are pasturing." Verse 17. And the man said, "They traveled on from here. I heard them saying, "Let's go. Let us go to Yseph went and followed his brothers went. came and he found them in verse 17. The word meaning they traveled from here but he uses a special language meaning they remove themselves from here from love and fraternity together with their brother and they said we're not interested in acting as brothers together. They know Rashi continues to explain what does it mean according to the extrapolation of meaning. They are looking for ways and methods and tools to be able to you will then to be able to hurt you and to kill you. But according to the simple interpretation of always the verse stays true to its simple interpretation. Verse 18 and they saw him from afar and before he even reached them they conspired against him to put him to death. What does the word mean? They were deceiving. They were planning. They were finding they were conspiring of ways that they can hurt him and finding in trickery ways to be able to hurt him. Who's him also? If you look there's no here. So you can read it meaning with him that they were conspiring to kill him to see what they can do against him. Verse 19. And one said to one man said to another referring to because look here comes the dreamer. Verse 20. So now let's let us go and kill him and throw him into one of the pits and we'll say a wild beast has devoured him and then we'll see how his dreams will come to success. Who and how his dreams will come to fruition. verse 20 said this verse doesn't fit well according to the simple interpretation and therefore dari says I have to explain it wasn't that the Jewish people wasn't that the tribes were saying this or the brothers were saying it the divine presence was saying it hey they said let's kill him the verse responds to them you think you're going to kill him. Let's see who will succeed, who will be right about his dreams. Let's see whose words are going to be right. My words, which is the brothers or your words or the what God says. We cannot say it can't be that they said let's see what his dreams are going to happen because once they kill him, he won't have any dreams anymore. So therefore, you will never able to see if the fruition of his dreams will come to be. Verse 21. However, Ruven heard his brothers planning to kill him and therefore he rescued them from them. He said, "No, let us not strike him mortally. Let's not kill him. This means death." And therefore, he comes up with the plan in the next verse. And therefore Ruven says to them, "Do not shed blood, throw him here into the pit as in that this pit that's in the desert, but do not lay a hand on him because had devised a plan that he wanted to save him from them that eventually he would take him out of the ditch and bring out of the pit and return him to his father. This is again the divine presence saying that what was Ruven's intent didn't say to them put him in the pit so I want to save him. It's the divine presence saying that Ruven would come later on and I'll take him out of the pit. He said I am the firstborn. I am oldest from all of you and if anything happens to this fellow I'm the one that's going to be blamed for it. I'm the one that's going to be punished for it and therefore I am deciding what to do and how to do it and therefore he says do not throw him into the pit. Over here we see that Ruvane was looking to see on how he was going to save uh Yoseph and this was Ruvane's job. He was looking to see that even self-sacrifice to save another Jew and to save Yoseph from his brothers. This concludes the second Torah reading for Monday.