Vayigash: The Missing Text | Rabbi Ari Kahn | December 25th 2025

Sponsored by Rabbi Michael and Jerry Lax meter for the foole sorry about Shaina Arona. Is she doing any better? >> A little bit very slow question. >> So we uh we are in the beginning of parash. So over here the story is finally going to get up to its crescendo and let's uh let let's let's read let's be careful let's see what takes place and can no longer contain himself and no one was there when Yoseph it's interesting it's almost the word vidy over here when Yoseph confesses I presume he should add the word identity he confesses his identity to his brothers and Yseph cries and this cry is heard the cry which is heard in Egypt and it's heard in uh in parro's palace yoseph And says to his brothers, so just with that initial statement that I am Yoseph, is my father still alive? The brothers, they could not respond. And that one sentence we've spoken about at length in the past. Then Yseph continues because you know if they couldn't speak till now so let's let's uh well you'll decide what he does next which sounds like an attempt to bring them closer. Come close they come close and he says your brothers who you sold. So again that is certainly a very good way to uh to reconcile but you should not be upset. So now he doubles down on that. Don't be upset that you sold me here because in order to bring about salvation life God has sent me here. So the thing to notice over here is going to be this interreationship between Yoseph's communication with his brothers on the one hand and his noting of divine intervention on the other. But we'll see which one he gives more credence to as he continues. For two years there has been famine. Now there'll be another 5 years that there won't be really any planting plowing agriculture pay attention later on in the para if uh if he tell if everyone knows this which means the Egyptians year after year seem to be involved in selling buying whatever do they know that there's another five years that which my point is this may very well be a state secret that Yoseph has shared you know uh there are certain things about the economy. There's certain inside information that it's illegal to do business on that inside. Unless of course you're a senator or then uh then apparently it's perfectly justifiable and so on. And then he doubles down. And notice again again in order to get some kind of salvation and this is what's going to cause them to be saved. You're not the ones who sent me. So, so this is just great which means they have responsibility and they don't have responsibility. Essentially, all the bad that's taking place is their fault, but all the good which is taking place is God responsibility. God put me then that's a pretty good combination of things. One can call it as a as an adviser but it's much more than that as the master within his entire palace and then functionally to be the ruler of all of Egypt. Maharu hurry up and go up to my father. Of course, notice the should we be nice and not nice today? The passive aggressive of saying my father instead of our father. But I'm I'm not going into that. a love and say to him, "Thus your son Yseph has said you can keep count how many times he's mentioned God in this speech that God has placed me is the master the ruler of Egypt. Come quickly and don't you know don't stand still hurry which is interesting because Yseph's giving orders to his father. is telling him what to do and you'll live sorry you'll live in the land of go you'll be near me you and your sons and your entire family and all of your possessions and I will take care of you financially and again he tells this secret that there'll be another five years of famine again just to to avoid any kind of uh unpleasantness of being in a situation of starvation. So, Yoseph gives his instructions. We have this again interesting, really interesting reconciliation. I mean, we do know Yoseph holds all the cards and it's completely up to Yoseph how to dictate what's going to take place. And the the power that Yoseph has versus the lack of power that they have, I think should be obvious to all of us. Even though even though the midrashim love to talk about the power of Yehuda, but that we talked about last year, I believe. Yes. Yes. And they go and they travel to Jacob. the in this whole section the interaction between and will be uh one which will be difficult to uh really understand but constantly goes back and forth and they tell him oh is alive and he's the leader of all of Egypt by the way there's a certain parallel over here between when they first hear the news they also freeze in this spot and we don't know they believe and don't believe until he calls close over here as well. When he hears it, there is this freezing and as as it were and he doesn't believe it. And then we get to the next Puk and I'll just tell you already now to so we so we'll all know even though I'm going to dance all around it and go in all kinds of different directions or we'll do multiple dances if you will and uh you'll tell us afterwards which dance it was and uh but it's this is what interests us and they tell over all the things that Yseph had said which he said to them and then Jacob sees the wagons that Yseph had sent to bring him back and the spirit of Jacob then returns and Israel says I said that's the shift is Yseph my son Yseph is indeed alive I'm going to go and see him before I die so what exactly happened in that verse and how the shift takes place between the disbelief to the belief is really what I want to get to. And in order to get to that, we're going to look at at the various mafim who are channeling the various midrashim. And then eventually I want to get back to uh what may be shot staring at us, but sometimes when something stares at at you, you don't know exactly what it is. Kind of like Yseph could be in the room with you a whole bunch of times and you don't know that that's your brother. over here the shock could have been staring at us the whole time and nonetheless we didn't realize what we were saying the the this continues into what is for us at least source two in the next chapter and again the shift is and again the the name Israel our tendency is to believe it's more on the national level which means that it and again reiterating it never says that Yakov loved Yoseph it says Israel loved Yoseph which means Israel sees the rational need of a person like Yoseph and it's Israel who again really uh let's just go back to that verse again it's that it's this is aspect that realizes he's still alive and he brings offerings now remember specifically traveled in the same direction when there was a famine and God told him don't So now Yoseph had told him to go and he starts to travel there and then he brings offerings because you know where his heart is. You know what he wants to do and now God appears and and we'll note just in the interim that God has appeared to YaKob numerous times. But it's interesting because he appears to him when he leaves Israel the first time. He appears to him either through again a dream, angels, whatever, when it's time to come back, when he's on his way back, when he comes back and but for all these years that Yseph has been gone, we don't have any communication between God and uh and YaKob, which is actually going to help some of the commentaries to tell us something even though they don't point that out. I mean, that's just you need to notice that. And now God does speak again to Israel. So again this shift back and forth as I said is it's like impossible. Don't be afraid to go down because there is this purpose in your traveling and that is that you can become a great nation there and I will go down with you and I'm going to bring you up as well. And is going to close your eyes. Okay? And that is either something terrible or something wonderful. But I guess for there's something comforting about that and so on and so forth. And they take Okay, this is important. which is almost an inverse of the description when Jacob sorry when Abraham travels right and all the things that he owns goes from totanan and now we have Yakov packing everything up from Eritkan and moving to Egypt so I'm saying there there is this other thing which is taking place or this larger picture which is taking place and it's really the background I keep saying this the background of this entire narrative the starting story of everything Yseph says I think and everything Yoseph believes is that Yseph apparently knows all about the Britain and now it's time for the next chapter to take place But I told you the verse which concerns me is what exactly took place in per invar and we should have been anticipating this and Rashi is going to get there as well in case it sounds familiar to you. The tarum writes and he tells over all of the words of Yseph. Again, we want to know exactly which words were said because it's a little more problematic than perhaps we're taking into consideration if he sees the the wagons that were sent to bring them. So while the PK said that the understands what is the ruesh so as I said that Jacob during all these years did not have prophecy and now the prophecy has returned and that's the target is pointing on and the target is even better because it writes but it but it gets more specific We can read the Hebrew in source six that when exactly does lose his and by the way I would like to believe that Yakov's is connected to uh his role as a Nav'i his role as a patriarch and his role as a leader and it's a Klal Israel need and therefore for the moment Yoseph isn't there there's something lacking in Klra for For the moment Yoseph isn't there, Jacob does not have his kakodes and and if you will there are those who will nuance this and say that we learn from this and then there's sources to support this that Nouvo is connected to to joy and to happiness and therefore the whole time that his heart is full of sadness he's unable to prophesize. I mean the question to ask on that is all of those difficult nuote that we have in Na'vi the ones of the ones of doom. So I don't know exactly how one could say exclusively that NAVO only comes out of joy and celebration but as I said that's what some that's what some try to say over here but I'm I'm not completely comfortable but what we do see is an interesting thing that he's taking it right back to Yoseph is when Yakov loses his Yoseph but he also loses his new and by the way that that dual loss is something which probably impacts upon P Yakov incredibly because again it's one thing to lose a son which is completely you know again completely overwhelming on an emotional personal level but it's another thing when God says or doesn't say just stops communicating lack of communication so you can imagine what Yakob's emotional state would have been then having lost the son on the one hand then having lost again a part of this relationship with God on the other you know again I'm sure God could have said things like was over here which are comforting things. Don't worry, it'll be okay and I'll take I'm going to be with you and so on and so forth and even to bad just imagine that Yakob gets this. Then don't worry, no Yseph's going to come back into the story. Ysef will be there and he's going to hold your hands when you pass on to the next world. As I said, there could be something very comforting about that. But just realize there are these years of silence and everything that you're going to read next week about Jacob loses his rural Kakodes again. So then tap it you know right back onto this uh experience over here rashi goes again in the same general direction source seven is called simma there was a sign over here that was given he sent to I don't know how literally or how didactic I should be in taking this I'll explain to you in a moment that it has to do with the parad elarufa now what rashi is telling It's based on the midrash that yo that he looks up and he sees the agalote agalot means wagons and he sees the wagons and he says oh the last thing that they were learning together was the section of eglarufa and by the way that itself is interesting because what's eggla roofa eglar roofa is the section what happens when you find a uh a dead body along the way which is a little bit of an ironic teaching especi you know there's this idea the garra tells us that when you leave somebody you should leave right on on so Which should he teach him on the way out? Oh yeah, by the way, you know, as you're traveling by yourself, if you happen upon a dead body or perhaps you become a dead body along the way, there is this idea of mate mitzvah. Part of what you do with this is you measure the closest city in order to try to ascertain who has moral responsibility for this. So uh to send back this message, oh yeah, this is what we were learning before and eglarfa also could be again a a deeper message and I've measured carefully and you have no responsibility in this again to because again imagine all those years of Jacob I sent it by himself but by the way there's a whole another level to this if he's really teaching because he's worried and therefore has to give a sim why do you have to give a sim again that this is why I'm saying maybe I'm being a little bit too literal here that he that that he sends them back a Siman. This is what we're learning in order that they'll have a Siman to be able to communicate. But why should they need a Siman? Is he worried that he's sending him over there? So So if he's worried that he's sending him to the brothers, there's some kind of uh jealousy or hatred and maybe he's not going to come back. Okay? So then it becomes remarkable that he sends him the first place. By the way, I I think everything I'm saying now is wrong. So don't don't don't worry too much. I'm just saying maybe I'm taking this a little bit too far. But he says, Agal shal by the way um if you go back to the verses I skipped over here in between in the in peric me it wasn't actually Yoseph who sent the load it was parro parro is the one who says take a load and then bring them and send them to your father so it's be very careful it says that looks up I want to go back to theseto though. So uh again he sees what Yoseph has sent. So that already triggers something within him. So Rashi saying oh it's parl and so so Rashi knows what the gre had said before but he's interpreting that Yseph sent it because it's a sign from Yseph and therefore he knows that it's again this spirit this comes back. Can can I just point out that Rashi is working really hard? >> No, I'm I'm I'm saying that that that that he's working really hard. It's very elaborate to try to explain what is taking place over here. And if you realize that, then very good. The Rashbam is going to use a little bit of what we will call interextuality. You can call it whatever you want. You like that? You don't like it? Why? I don't I don't think I think those >> I I I I understand that you're they just ended up >> I I I understand and that's why I'm saying I'm I'm with you. But let's continue with with the rash. I'm going to come back to signs in a second. The rash in source 8 it's called all the things that were said before. I hope you all realize that if he told them all the things from before, there's a problem. If you don't realize the problem yet, just wait a second. And um and but he but it's interesting where he starts which means he cries and again we're certain that it's him. So they they tell all these things. You notice again the Rashbam knows it's alo but the says he sees what Yseph sent but it was alo but why he writes because he guarded this leote that not only is there a state secret over here in terms of the information there's also advanced technology that you don't share with other countries the advanc advanced technology are the wagons. The wagons over here are actually going to morph eventually into all of those wonderful tank-like again it goes back to the wheel and it goes back to the wagons and it goes back then to the wagons that parro is going to have that going chase bin Israel afterwards but he's point he's noting that the wagons don't go traveling in other places by themselves and there's something a little bit you know just seeing that you realize that somebody of significance had to have signed off on this because he can't just go and export this type of technology by itself. But he but he says as I've noted noted earlier so I'm just going to point out the word over here which the rashbam is most interesting interested in is shamar and the rashbam does this as well by shamarat hold on that for a second but I'll show you what he's referring to directly but he uses this in multiple places in source number nine it says this is after Yseph tells over the second dream he tells over the dream And everyone gets upset, gets jealous and hatred and so on. And his father chastises him. But then it says Rashi says Shamar means that you wait in anticipation which has in the he has a piece where he talks about Shabbat. If those you you know or recall remember of Salvich there's a footnote in Alachub. talks about the Jews in Europe who had not just was shown Shabbat but they were people who f it was the Friday as well. Friday was not a regular day of the week. It was a Friday was already on the cusp of Shabbat. And I think in you feel this in uh in many in many places. >> No no no no you should go to the shook on Friday. It's not the sh it's not >> crazy. >> So you should be crazier. It's uh it's not the shook on Tuesday. There's there's a different ambiance, there's a different feeling, there's air of Shabbat. So, Rav Hutner writes about this and he talks about how you need to approach Shabbat with anticipation. And it's one of the few places that it has the word in English. It says anticipation. And that's what Rashi writes over here. But this is what the rashbam also does by Shabbat that you should anticipate the coming of the Shabbat as well. And and it's something the the hol holiness does doesn't happen. Holiness needs to be worked upon and then you have to create the atmosphere for it. But the here says the rashbam is taking that verse this is even though you don't like inter textuality this is exactly what he's doing he's bringing it right back into our discussion and he's saying is that when he receives the message he didn't believe him and by the way that's our whole concern today I keep telling you back what shifted what took place that now he believes can what else does he know that parro had sent it? I mean that that's what the editor knows. That's what the observer knows. Jacob may have thought something else. As it says that he says that he realized that these can only be sent based upon leadership. And therefore he's been waiting and waiting and waiting for this dream to come true. And now he realizes remember what the brothers say right away. And what is the evidence? Yes, the evidence is the and at that point what is not it's not just that Jacob according to the Rashbam then believes that Yseph is alive. It's much more than that. Not just that Yoseph is alive. Yoseph who all the dreams have come to fruition is alive. Yseph the Moshelle of Egypt is alive. And he's been waiting for this day. Again maybe he thought that he's dead but he's been waiting for this day. you know, we could wait for impossible things and and he says that that's the dynamic according to the rush bomb. But go back to my point about that he said over all of these things again. Do you need me to read the verse one more time for you or even the two verses to realize the difficulty in source one? It says they give him the information and Jacob doesn't believe it. Now, Rashi led us to believe that it was the second part of the P. Everything they say, all their words are meaningless. Then he looks up and he sees the technology. But the question is, is that really what happened? Because in the first verse they he say they say give information and they say that Ysef is alive. And in this next verse they tell all the words of Yoseph. So did something then get added? Now all the worlds words of Yoseph I keep saying are problematic. If you go back and you look at what Yseph says initially right that's the first the next verse he says right come close I'm sold to Egypt. Did they mention that right away? Was that their message? goes do they say Yoseph? Now you realize the problem. How in the world do they say all the words of Yoseph? Now the one who picks up on this is the Ramban. And if you look at the Ramban in source number 12 again, he doesn't want to talk about the the technology and he doesn't want to talk about the signs and the shal cannot believe that they that they ever mentioned. Oh yeah, by the way, you know, we sold him, you know, we got into this little thing with Yoseph and uh because they were terrified that Jacob would be angry and curse them because as he eventually does by the so-called by at least some of the tribes Yseph and I love this part again think a second and whose interest was it to tell Yakov about the sale it wasn't in the interest of the brothers Yoseph we can discuss politically if it was a good idea bad idea but I love the way the Ramban frames it litig low Yseph because of his refined character did not want to say what happened which means this is a very different Yoseph the one that we remember is going telling over what all the brothers did and now we find Yseph has again refined character is what the way the Ramban is reading this so he's again he's he's commenting on Yoseph and what's he saying Yoseph can't be Yoseph it it co cold cannot mean everything right by the way the Rambam in various places. I already tell you the word cold does not mean every means it when when he says that uh that rebua and all the rabbis of the generation believed Bara we know from the wasn't all the rabbis it was most co means most and and and he does this in a number of times I'll just leave it but over here as well doesn't mean cold debrio it means a lot of driese which is very funny about the as of Jacob co and royal continue right I mean they would have terri I mean that would have the whole family would have fallen apart that that's really his point it just can't be that he told so how many of these other commentaries do we need to see how much time do we actually have sworno go focuses on the five years the state secrets That's in 13. The alch points at a number of other hints that we're coming across in this message. This in source 16 uses tomutic principle that whoever put this together worked very hard. Right? All of these uh wagons full of food and stuff. This is an elaborate scheme. People don't go through elaborate schemes unless it's real. which means just by looking at all the effort that was put into this he realizes that Ysef must be alive and again it's based upon a gamarra you can call it an um if you want and I think that that may be enough just regarding going back to the the idea of the siman and who may have sent the siman and was this a deliberate on Yakov's part or not I'll just note that we have one maybe two other times that we find sim and this is all madrashik it's not uh in the text itself and my point is the sim never work out that That that's the point in 18 which is also interesting because you go back to the I think it was who had said don't trust my father and uh and so it's interesting that gave my name. So therefore, when you don't trust somebody and then you give CM, which means it goes back to like having a contract. If you can't trust somebody, you need a contract. Don't write a contract and don't do business with them. Why? Because if you need a contract, the contract is not going to end up helping you at the end of the day. Yes. No. >> Yes. We we >> 100%. You going to charge me for this legal advice? >> Tamar Tamar. Tamar is interesting. But with Yakov, but with Yakov, the other case it according to the beta levy that Asov gave a simit because he didn't trust Yakov and then he spoke in Yakov's voice and then Yak then says ah look it worked Yakov but again this don't seem to work. Okay, Tamar is good. Yes, >> can just turn things around. Yeah. >> I mean the flexing thing here was and the news that the brothers take back that Joseph is alive could could be. >> Oh for sure. So Clint's taking a big chance here and then wanted his dream to look his father would come from it but surely it's a big bigger thing is you know he should actually respect your father and he could have gone to take your absence from there you know for a few weeks and gone up there and come back >> okay >> that's part of getting >> correct because you're making certain assumptions and the question is are those assumptions correct First of all, every assumption you made is defendable. I can find you commentaries who will support you along the way, but I I don't necessarily accept any of those assumptions. And I I'll I'll go point by point if you like. One is your starting point that Jacob is an elderly man. Good. Correct. Correct. That's not that's not simple. Yoseph stated purpose here all all the way was for his father's welfare. He says, "There is a famine. Come here where I can take care of you. I want you to be near me so I can keep my eyes on you and make sure that you are taken care of. He he says nothing about the dreams. He says nothing. I want you to come and bow down to me. So therefore to read that into Yoseph's motivation is actually quite mean. I don't I I'm not accusing you of this. I know which commentaries you saw or were told to you that say that and I would love them to defend it actually in terms of the text. The other second part of it is really the larger question that all the people who ask the question why doesn't Yoseph just how much how much freedom does Yoseph have? Yseph has to work really hard in order to be able to bury his father later on in order to be able to go to the funeral and to arranges to get permission to go and it doesn't seem to be a given that Yoseph can do anything and everything that he wants. So I'm saying that assumption oh why does he just go and take a leave of absence could be parro doesn't give leaves leaves of it could be that parro even though yseph is in charge of everything it doesn't mean that he can do anything and there and therefore let's not again let's not cast upon yoseph these kinds of motivations which are not supported by the text and let's not assume that yoseph has ability which are not supported by the text and actually this contra indications to both of that. So I said you you all the questions are based upon the premise that you have that Yseph could do anything and there Yoseph wanted him to bow down and that's what Yseph is doing here. I I I just don't see any of that. So let's continue because I'm going to try to defend Yoseph's reputation a little bit more as we uh as as we proceed. So, as I said, I think there's something else going on, and we're going to spend the rest of time today trying to figure that out. And we're going to push all the other commentaries to the side for the moment. And actually, what I'm going to try to do is is is very much based upon the silkim. Um, most of this what I'm saying now is based upon last week, two weeks ago. And uh I actually spoke about it on Shabbat and then as I started by I started you know and then I got to the first p and I got to the target and I said oh look he supports everything that I wanted to say. So uh you know if you're already you don't want to listen to anything else I want I'm going to say now you just want to okay close the book and go on and look and see what the tarum says. I didn't tell you which tarum it is. So let's continue. there. When Yoseph started to speak to the brothers, let's just go back to the point of Revelation. We noticed that Yoseph spoke of God once and twice and three and four times. And maybe we read it wrong and we see Yoseph being very self-righteous and God is with me and so on and and and so forth. But I believe that Yoseph's, again, we'll turn to the writers in the room to help. It's Yoseph's God speak, but it's not just the God speak. It's Yoseph's God consciousness, which is the key to understanding all of this. And uh allow me to continue a little bit. We we first notice it when Yoseph enters into the house of Potifar and Mrs. Potifar, hits on Yoseph, and he says no. He repeatedly says no. But he says something else as well which again we're going to use the Torah itself to interpret. Yoseph in source 19 says again how could I be how can I do this after I've been treated nicely from your husband? How can I mistreat him? But then he continues two more words. But his first point is that it would be it would be wrong morally in terms of my relationship with the husband. He treated me nice. I can't mistreat him. But then he adds two words and this would be a sin against God. So I don't know. I don't know if any of us know or can know. Did Yoseph know his Bible stories? Which means as a little kid did he was he taught Kish and Rashi? Did the which means if you go back to the episode of Aimelik when Avi takes Sarah in source 21 where sorry in source 20 where Avi finally questions Abraham how can you say is your sister and so on what did you see what's your outlook what's your there's that there is no fear of God in this place. In essence, what is Yoseph saying is that I fear God. Which means I would love to imagine that Yoseph as a kid, he learned with his father and his father did teach him and forget just teaching him Eglar Rufa. You realize it's far more likely that he taught him the stories of uh of Av and of Yitzk and things that had happened in the past rather than laws which are in the future. Although some of you know that I do have a fascination of uh of connecting things in Dvarim and Bidbar back with Beset which never we're going to do more of. But does Yakob does Yak sorry does Yseph know the story? Has Yseph heard this? And is Yoseph now channeling again better than a cold shower is to say that this is not the morality which I have received from my father by the way. Now take that as Khazal saying he sees the image of his father. Of course, it's the image of his father teaching him that this is not how we act. This is not what we do. The ain't no we have. So my point is that Yoseph in the middle of this pagan country in this pagan palace with this woman who is hitting on him, Yoseph speaks of God. The next time we find, of course, because of this, he's thrown into prison. And in a and in a in a dungeon in the middle of Egypt when the stewards have their dreams, Yoseph again says in source 21 petro God has the solutions. So Yoseph speaks of God. This is not for the camera. This is not you know in order to get on the public record that Yoseph is speaking. the these are these private conversation that Yoseph has and and again maybe the most impressive one is when he finally does meet with parro which could be completely unpolitic to be speaking of a monotheistic god in front of a person who's part of a polotheistic system and Yoseph stands up nonetheless you can look >> so if you look at source 22 too. Again, God will do this. Meaning how many times in one conversation over here but this is Yoseph. Yoseph speaks of God. Yseph again you want to call it God speak you want to call it God consciousness. This is the authentic Yoseph. Now therefore when we get to our section when Yoseph is speaking about God constantly in his reveal to his brothers that should not come as a big surprise but there's something else which is happening. And again, I I just want to chart this and now go in order. It eventually works so well that it gets parro to speak that way. And that's the most surprising still in source 22 which means even again and the is interesting especially with Yakov's spirit coming back and so on. And the tarum here again does speak about nuvoa that look there's somebody here who was prophecy in source 23 is when yseph does meet up with the brothers and again what is said what isn't said is interesting but the you know very quickly the situation deteriorates and then yoseph challenges them and he's looking for something and I'm not going to go through all the negotiations. I do love the way that he swears inv 23 They knew right by the life of parro I love that right probably a lot of people sounds significant but you know you swear by something you went to sacrifice he he does it again in the paro and again he swears by parro and then he puts them in prison for three days and he's trying to take them someplace again certainly emotionally religiously If you want to live, there's you need to do what does Yseph say? Which means now, do they know their Bible stories? Which means again, this is the m this is the rebuke that A had given to the king of his day in his time to Abi, right? There's no fear of God in this place. And Yseph now looks at them and says, "There is fear of God over here." and they probably don't even know what to do with this, but I I do want to read their response. And he then tells them, you know, if you're going to be honest, this is what you do. You leave your brother here and the rest of you go. And if there is fear of God in this place, what else does that tell you? That tells you there's justice. Is justice. It's fear. You do what's right. You do what's based on God's word. But we're guilty. You've heard our brother's cry. We saw the pain that he was experiencing when he begged us and we refused to listen and that's why all this is happening. By the way, there's so many elements over here which are connected to chuva. There's only one thing which is missing and what's that? God. There's no God in in there. And then Ruv continues. Hello. So I don't know what to say. Are they is it implicit that they're saying well look what God has done to this. Well if God has done to us and if they are saying that so there's only one word which is missing and I and I do wonder what would have happened if they would have thrown God into this conversation as well but they don't. Is this karma? Is this uh again what what is it? But they don't speak of God in this situation. Especially when Yseph just took them there and Yseph does speak of God. But but but it's scary because the God that Yseph spoke of is right. You need to do the right thing. And over here you have a group of people who have not done the right thing. And that that leads us in a certain place. Yseph of course puts the money back in the bags and and sends them along the way. And it's there where they run into the trouble in after again this is when they're traveling the way they see that the his money is in the bag. You can track you can track all the heart movements taking place in all the section from Pyro's heart beating to Jacob's Yoseph's brothers they were terrified lanu what is this that God and here they speak of God by the way this is the first time that we hear any of the brothers mentioning God by this point Yoseph has mentioned God so many times but this is the first time we find the brothers doing it of course it's out of ear Ishot of Yoseph and he also O wonder after the first one opens his bag and finds the money there, why don't all the other ones open their bags and say, "Hold it, maybe something's going on over here." But but they're in trouble and only later on when they get back and they all empty their bags and they all find their money and that's the last and they're full of fear. They're full of fear. By the way, doesn't what word is missing? And they're they're afraid. Again, I'm just pointing out again, if you're going to keep follow the God quotient, Yoseph is full of it of God all the time. He speaks of it and the brothers just come so close. Um, I skipped to the next viru. I hope you like that in source 24. And what has happened? They finally travel back to Egypt and they bring Binyaman with them and they want to try to get Shimon out of prison. They want to get more food and they want to close this chapter of their lives and move on. But what has happened? They were summoned to come to Yoseph's house and they're frightened again that that just hope you don't miss the connection. They're frightened all the money and now they're frightened because they have to explain all the money and they say, "Okay, they know it's connected to the money." And now what is their great fear that these people, they want to rob us. They want to take us. They they want to make us into slaves. By the way, just think about all the things they did to Yoseph. They're afraid that this could happen to them. If you get worried about karma, so then you shouldn't be worried about that because but it's interesting and it's also interesting for another reason. What else is missing over here? It's what they want to do. But what are they missing over here? You know, what do they deserve? What are they missing? They're missing talking about God. But God's about to enter into the conversation in a way that I want you to uh at least be concerned about. Definitely to be compared to they come close. And they speak to him and means soft speaking. Please look for food. By the way, even when they're trying, they're all lying right now because it's not when they found out. Only one of them found out at this point. As I just noted in the last chapter, they say, "Okay, they don't want to be too complicated. We all stopped by the hotel. We opened our bags and all the money was there. By the way, there is a question then. So why don't you turn around and come back right then and give the money back, right? Right. And we brought more money back. And what does the guy answer? Don't be afraid. And the guy says to them, "No, don't be afraid. The money came to me." I'm saying it out of sequence. And your God has given you a gift, a treasure. You found a treasure. Now, should they at this point be calm and collected and say, "Oh, of course, our God gave us this because who is more deserving, right? You want to channel your inner hmon right now? Who is more deserving of receiving rewards and honor and treasures and money than we are? Or if you really believe in midadin, you really believe in elim right where God has found our right. What it goes down to what are we deserving? They're not deserving to receive reward. What are they deserving? To receive punishment, but it's fascinating that they're willing to accept this as an answer, which means they were frightened and now they're okay. Well, Shimon was taken out and everything should be okay. And and then they're told to come in and to dine with Yoseph. By the way, I can ask the same thing again. Are they deserving to dine with Yoseph? Are they deserving to be, you know, to to have this wonderful state dinner for them and so on and so forth? Here are these wonderful people. Like, what did you do to deserve them? Oh, we we return the money that we stole. I mean, again, just think about this. If there's anyone who's undeserving, it's them, but they kind of get convinced. And and and all of this should be, I think, part of a setup. And the setup is Yoseph is Yokohim. Are they Yokohim? Is it is Elohim again? Especially Miden is this part of their inner consciousness. Anyway, let us uh let us continue over here because they seem to accept this. And at this point, it it's funny because then when they leave, what's funny is that we all remember that he instructs to put the cup in Byammen's bag. Do you remember that he instructs them to put all the money back in the bag on all the bags as well? Yes, remember that. I mean, it's it says it. So, it's not just the cop. And you know what? If I were them by this point, I'd be a little more careful. I'd check my bag before. You know, you just now arrested and he served, you know, time for drug smuggling. And you claim he didn't do it. You were just an unknown, right? A mule, right? You don't know that. Okay, we won't get into that. And uh and it say source 25. put all the money back and so on and so forth. And then Yseph sends this fellow to running after them and he tells them exactly what to say. And again, Yseph is being a ventriloquist. He's telling the guy exactly what to say. Why are you repaying the kindness that was done right with something bad? But and by the way, they just now experienced the opposite. They received something good despite having acted bad. Which means if you believe in justice then they should have been very very worried. You know, there's a certain midrashic undertone when Ara after he wins the war of the four kings and the five kings that he's worried that maybe he's uh has expended all of uh the good faith that he has with God. And again, there's a midash. They should be very worried at this point ju just because of their whole, you know, they've done a couple things along the way. Yes. Do do I need to I mean, if I say all the things they've done, I'll sound like the UN. So I I I I don't I don't want to give the uh I don't want to give the entire list. I see. I don't know. Okay. But this question about your lack of doing what is right in the face of you know doing wrong in the face of right. But but he but then he tells him to say another thing as well. Let's just continue. that the cup which my master uses that's what he uses for divination. Now this should come as a jolt. Why? Because the whole time Yseph has presented himself as somebody who sounds very much a like a monotheist and b he sounds like somebody who's fair. And now this guy is saying, but that's the cup that he uses for divination. Divination is part of the occult. It's part of a world of superstition. It's part of a world that runs in a very, very, very different way. And that's what they're told. Now, now the question is why is Yseph doing this? And and as you continue, right, and he says over these things, by the way, again, we have these things being said, right? going back to, you know, we had another time that we had something similar to this is when uh when YaKob gets to love on going right back to that same place where our supposed perhaps when YaKob gets to love and it says that he tells over all of the things that had happened. So again, which things did he tell? Did he tell how he stole the bra from Asov? Did he tell how he took the the rock off of the well? Did he tell how he kissed his daughter before the first date? like like like which which which yes I had to yes I had to add that in wh which things is it that that he said so you kind of think that it'd be a little bit selective and over here as well it's not selective he tells over exactly what y because again with ysef it's all with precision so he tells this guy tells exactly and let's just continue we would never do a like this except for last time. And then they say that last time it happened to us, we returned it. But by the way, they should just stop speaking. How could we do this? And if you find it in someone's bag, they should be put to death, which is again completely absurd. And we will be slaves. Again, the thing that they were worried about the not that long ago, they were worried about that. Oh, they're trying to take our money and they want to take our dunkeys and they want to turn us into slaves and now they're saying, "Please turn us into slaves." So, you you you realize that there's at least some guilt over here. And he continues, says, "No, no, just he'll be a slave there." So, he goes free and so on. Again, I'm not getting to all of this, but they get in front of Yoseph first persecute gimmel and now they tear ka. There's still something missing. You know that, right? And they go and they come and they all bow down. I am a man who's full of divination. And suddenly Yseph has revealed his great. Again, you want more state secrets, but this is a lie. I mean, what's the truth? The truth is what Yseph had said from the beginning. God has revealed to parro. What's the truth? Para discerns that Yoseph has navir. What's the truth? That Yoseph sees the hands of God in everything. And now Yoseph is saying, "Yeah, but I'm a Don't you know that I'm a person who practices the occult and divination?" Again, the it's a short skip and a step to a causes a response in Yehuda. God has found our sins. Now, this is incredibly important because Yseph just now did something. And once you understand this, we can then get back to where we started and uh and hopefully understand what happened. Yoseph's belief in God. You know what? I'll be fair. We don't find Yoseph speaking about God until he gets to Potifier's house. My suspicion is that Yoseph already in the pit who's screaming. Yoseph already knows then to pray because that's when you pray. And Yoseph prays there. And Yoseph prays in the house of parro. And Yoseph prays in the prison. And Yseph Yoseph's God consciousness. And Yoseph realizes that the brothers will not get to the point of prayer unless they have nothing else to believe in and nothing else to rely on. Which means there's even some comfort in knowing that the legal system in this country is a fair legal system. I'll trust the courts. The courts will be okay. They're not going to be able to prove that we took it and so on and so forth. There's there's some But once Yos and Yoseph is a fair leader, Yoseph is zero. But once Yseph pulls that from under them, they have nothing else to believe in. Which means Yoseph in a certain sense has put them right back in the pit. Now, which by the way, he did when he puts that puts them all in prison for 3 days. Yseph, but but they had hope. They come out of it. I fear God. So get again they get this real hope of force. So Yseph is trying again Yseph's ventriloquism. He got his guy to say what he wants but he wants them to say something as well. And what does he want them to say? He wants God to be part of the conversation. Can we now go back to where we began and realize exactly what it was that took place? Yoseph when he reveals himself to the brothers, what does he say to them? He says, "Yes, he says that you sold me." But what else does he say? He speaks about God in multiple times. Right? Right? When he tells him to go to his father, what exactly does he say? Look at this is what they need to say. What are they supposed to say? God has placed me in charge of Egypt. And then he says, "And what do they say when they get there?" What does mean? What did they leave out? God. >> And it's a quote. It says Lemore, quote, they left out God. But Yogibo and Yas Jacob's heart goes out. Why? It's two possibilities. Either it's not Yoseph or it's not Yoseph. Either it's not Yoseph because Yseph doesn't speak that way. That's not the Yoseph. And it's somebody else. Or Yoseph is no longer Yoseph. But And what does he then say? He doesn't believe them because that's not Yoseph. He knows Yoseph. If he knows Yoseph better than any of them know Yoseph and what does the next say but de Bruy love it's cold Yoseph what did they add that they didn't say before >> what they had left out what did they leave out now they say and it say okay let let us go back a second again Yoseph speaks with precision and now what do they say the second time it's cold no they don't talk about what do they say exactly what Yseph had told them to say what is it again just just read the words that's what I'm saying the is staring staring at you over here. What is it that he says? This is what you need to say precisely God placed me there. So when they come back and now they say cold Yoseph that Yoseph said God has placed him over Egypt. At that moment what does it say? Then he looks up and he sees the agalot right just continue again. Now just think about the the cause and the effect. The effect is that Jacob's rural kakodes comes back. Now, why should his rural Kodish come back? Which way I can ask very simply, who brought God into the room? What's the answer? Yoseph. How did Yoseph bring God into the room? Because that's what Yseph brings into every room. So, it's Yoseph speaking about God is what brings the Ruesh back. Now, I told you that I found a taragum which uh which just completely clinched it for me and that is on the words. source 29 right he comes close and he says you again the we'll read the Hebrew in 31 Don't get upset that you kept on talking about and now and now you're talking like parro again. You're talking like a pagan again. which means this disconnect which I which again I noticed just by going through all of the talk of Yoseph when he starts talking about Nikush Yehuda is saying you know what happened to you you you were talking about God but that's exactly the point Yseph is doing this deliberately from having spoken about God now he's talking about the occult and that and that jolts them that shocks them because that takes away their hope because somebody who speaks about the occult again the English here is great it is from Hashem that I stand at all you you talked about God what happened to that guy who kept saying that you fear God. Where did that guy go? But that is part of the uh of what moves the brothers to be able to speak about God themselves is because I'm going to say it's Yosephriloquism. Yoseph is he tells people exactly what to say with precision. And he causes be he caused parro to speak about God, right? He causes right he causes the brothers to speak about God and he causes Yakov to have this feeling of God and through the all of this is Yoseph's fingerprints at every single point along the way and as I said once you see this you realize that this is actually the insukim over here I'm sorry I know I I insist that what I'm saying is but you realize this is and I was delighted to see that the tarum picked it up as well because you you only notice that when you realize what's missing and That's Yoseph's uh trip without any explanation into the occult because and I have another way of explaining it. But that that that that I think at least for today is what Yseph is uh doing. So again the that is what brings yo that is what brings Yakov back to life because when the brothers the brothers can't follow instructions. That's what it comes down to is that Yoseph speaks with precision and they repeat what he said without precision and that doesn't work. But when they say exactly what Yoseph says, that brings that brings Yoseph alive again and that brings Yakov alive again.