Vayechi: Gather Togetherness Before Parting - Rabbi Yamin Goldsmith

Shalom alaikum everybody in this week's Parsha yaakov avinu gives bracos to his children and to his grandchildren and the Torah tells us in the very beginning of peric mentas that before he gave them brachos he told his entire family hey usfu gather together come together and I will tell you what's going to happen at the end of days why what was so important about hey asfu what was so important that they all come together many McPherson discussed this fundamental question a beautiful explanation comes from of yaakov kamenetsky who died in 1986 in his safe around the homish MS liyakov reviakov kamonesky says that the most important thing for Yakov avinu to impart to his children before he passed away was a deep belief in and a deep understanding of the gaullah they each needed to hear about their specific roles in Claudia Israel each according to their specific talents and each according to their specific abilities Yakov avinu knew very well that Claudia Israel was not in any way meant to be made up of one kind of person everybody of all one mind all one voice all one opinion absolutely not Yakov avinu knew that Claudia Israel is and will be made up of different people with different opinions it's made up of 12 schwatim each one with their own job each one with their own role you and I are different we have different roles we have different opinions but we are all each and every one of us critical parts of the whole critical parts of the seabor and that is why says of yaakov kamenetsky Yakov avinu had to gather the children before he blessed them and before and he prepared them for the for the galus and he prepared them for the Gula if someone were to erroneously think that cloudy Israel needed to be one-dimensional everyone acting and thinking identically then that could lead to devastating machlokas if I have the opinion if any of us have the opinion that I'm right you're wrong my way is right your way is wrong that cannot be and therefore yaakov avinu gathered his children and family and he said hey us food come together gather together and listen each of you have specific talents each of you have specific skills that are necessary for Claudia Israel to survive yeah and Thrive during the galus and to come back during the Gula but in order to to understand that you must come together and listen to what the other schwatim have to say they have specific talents also not just you they have specific skills not just you they may not be the same skills as you have they may have different opinions as you do but hey us who come together you're all important goes further and he says that not only must every shave it know that every other shavets have other talents and other perspectives and other opinions which are valued but they also learn from this that the survival of Claudia Israel is not only dependent on them themselves the job of ensuring binay Israel's survival in the galus and the job of ensuring and bringing the ultimate Gula is a joint effort I need you and you need me so long as there we are all under the umbrella of course once we say that there are many ways to serve a karishbaraku and I have to respect your way and you have to respect mine and that is the only way that we can bring the emir sashem