Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan Parshat Vayeshev 2

ancestor of Abraham and yob either she's literally the daughter which means either Shem had her at a very old ripe age or Tamar was very old herself but air was evil and Hashem caused him to die then yehudah said to his second son Oran take your brother's wife enter into leverate marriage with if your brother doesn't have a child then you have to marry his widow so that the brother's Soul can come into the body that you will provide and you give your brother another chance uh to live however Onan knew that the baby will have the soul of his brother and therefore he didn't want to impregnate his his wife and he would let his seed to go to waste to the ground what he did was evil in the eyes of Hashem and God caused him to die also from the word also we see that the reason why air died was for the same sin now verse 11 yudah then said to Tamar remain a widow because my son Shah is still young wait until he grows up and he'll enter leverate um marriage with you but the Torah tells us that he really didn't want he him to marry Tamar because he didn't know that his sons were evil so he thought what a coincidence that two of my sons die from the same woman maybe she somehow causes them to die and he said I don't want my third son Shah to marry her because maybe he'll die also God forbid so he tricked her said wait wait but he really didn't have an intention to um allow Shah to marry her vers 12 many days passed a few years passed since then and his wife died and uh yehudah decided to go check on his uh Shepherds page 211 and Tamar was told behold your father-in-law is coming up to our vicinity and Tamar thought to herself you know Shah is growing up and uh Yehuda is not fulfilling his promise but I want a baby and Tamar had a prophecy that she will have a baby from yehuda's uh family so first she thought it's going to be from his first son didn't work out okay maybe from the Second Son didn't work out so she's waiting for the third son cuz she knows the prophecy that she will have a child from yehuda's family third son is also not working out so she said maybe it means that I'm going to become pregnant from Yehuda himself so she covered herself with a veil she sat by the crossroads and she was waiting for Yehuda and she would try to seduce him to become pregnant from him when Yehuda saw her he thought her to be a harlot so he went to her and he said if you please let me concort with you and this is an unusual behavior for yudah for a great man so I would say just say that it was was Satan sent directly by God to change the course of events yudah himself would never do such a thing because this was wrong but God knew that this is the right thing Hashem knew that Yehuda and Tamar supposed to have a child that will eventually bring mashia and he said I have to help yudah do the right thing even though he thinks it's a wrong thing so basically Hashem created a test for Yuda that he could not pass Satan himself came and pushed Yehuda towards Tamar and Tamar said if you provide me with a pledge until you send me a payment so he said what is the what is the Pledge what is the collateral and she said leave three your three of your personal items your um ring with which you seal letters your wrap the uh garment that you wrap yourself in I say just say this was talit and your staff that is in your your hand three things that identify yudah specifically and she conceived from him she went back and pretended as not as if nothing happened and Yuda didn't know however on page 213 after 3 months passed Yehuda was told your daughter-in-law Tamar committed harlotry because she's pregnant and she doesn't a husband Yehuda said take her out and let her be burned she's the daughter of a high priest of malit sedc of Shem she has a higher status she's my daughter-in-law and I am the leader of the large family of of yov this is not proper what she's doing so he made her um he signed the death penalty for her however as she was taken out she sent word to her father-in-law she sent message to him identify if you please who are this ring this rap and this staff and yudah recognized and he admitted he said she's right the baby is from me and uh she was saved and uh when the time came she had twins in her womb the first one was called Perez I'm sorry paret and the second one was called Z and now chapter 39 we go back to the story of YF what happened to YF in Egypt ysep had been brought down to Egypt and potifar the minister of Paro a prominent Egyptian purchased him from the ishmaelites page 215 verse two Hashem was with YF and he became successful man his Master perceived that Hashem was with him and whatever he did Hashem made succeed in his hand y found favor in his eyes now Hashem is with him but wherever there is Success there is test and the test is happening verse five and it happened that from the time he appointed him in his house and over whatever he had Hashem blessed the Egyptian and his household on yosef's account verse 7 after these things his master's Wife cast her eyes upon ysep she desired him and she said lie with me but he Adam adamantly refused and as much as she tried to seduce him she was not successful I'm until she found an opportunity when there was no man in the house and now we're on page 217: 12 that she caught hold of ysep By His Garment saying lie with me and even though there was no one in the household they were alone and she grabbed him ysep could have said oh I'm being forced it's not my fault and plus I want it anyway I'm 17 18-year-old boy I have hormones also and not only that I'm a slave she's my mistress she's my Master's wife not only she can hurt me or even kill me but on the other hand she can save me maybe if I listen to her she'll free me so there was so much on his mind but he left his garment in her hand and he fled and went outside even though he would remain a slave even though she might hurt him he was strong and when she saw that he ran away she called out to the men of the her household and said look my husband brought us this Hebrew man to play with us he came to lie with me but I called with a loud scream and he left his garment beside me and fled and went outside catch him so he she kept the Garment next to her until her husband came verse 19 when his master heard his wife's words his anger flared up yph Master took him and placed him in the prison verse 21 Hashem was with yoseph even in prison and he endowed him with Charisma and he put his favor in the eyes of the prison Warden and the prison Warden placed all the inmates of the prison in yosef's custody and whatever ysep did Hashem made successful now ysph was 18 years old when he went into the prison and now 9 years later ysph is now 27 years old and he's still in prison chapter 40 it happened after these things that the butler of the king of Egypt and the baker trans gred par was enraged at his two ministers page 219 the Chamberlain of butlers and the Chamberlain of Bakers and he placed them in the prison and they remained in the word for a period of one year now yoseph is 28 years old verse five the two of them Dreamed a Dream another dream and uh when yoseph came to visit he saw their agitated he asked them why do you appear downcast today and they said we have a dream and we don't have an interpreter so he told them relate it to me if you please and the butler began there was a grape vine in my dream and on the grape vine there were three branches and it bothered and blossomed and clusters ripened and I took the cluster of grapes and I squeezed them into the cup of par ysph said to him this is the interpretation the three branches are three days in another three days par will bring you back to your post and you will again serve him his wine the last line on the page if you please mention me to parro and get me out of this building he asked the butler to to help him when he is free and our sages say that because he asked a human being for help instead of asking Hashem for help he relied on someone other than God he was punished and he had to remain in prison for another 2 years verse uh page 221 he explains his request uh ver verse 15 for indeed I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews and even here I have done nothing for them to have put me in the pit imagine ysph feels like such a victim his brothers went against him and conspired against him threw him into him into P into into pit wanted to kill him sold him into slavery into a foreign country and even there again they conspired against him for nothing and they again threw him into prison for 10 long years he's in prison he feels there is no way out I'm already for 10 years in prison how long can I stay here for maybe I'll be here for the rest of my life the Worden of the prison likes my job so he probably will keep me here forever I don't want to stay here so when the the chief Baker saw that ysep interprets the dreams so well he said I too in my dream behold there were three baskets on my head and in the uppermost basket there were all kinds of par food Baker's handiwork but the birds were eating them from the basket above my head so ysep said this is its interpretation the three baskets are also three days but in 3 days par will chop off your head and hang you on the tree tree and birds will eat your flesh from you such a terrible terrible dream he had and the sages asked what made ysep interpret this dream so negatively so some say that actually the Chamberlain of Bakers mistreated ysep and because of that ysep chose a negative interpretation and we have a rule that the dreams go after its interpretation the way you interpret the dreams that's what the meaning will be and that's what will happen as it says in the talud a covenant is made with lips that whatever lips say Hashem makes it it happen and ysph knew this um secret so to the butler who treated him nicely he gave good interpretation he wished him well and to the baker who uh mistreated him he gave him negative interpretation some say that it wasn't because ysph was taking Revenge rather ysep saw it in a dream because he saw that the birds were sitting on top of his head on the basket and eating the food and he said birds are usually afraid of people unless they are dead and from there he understood that in the dream the baker was dead and that's why birds approached him and ate bread from top of his head so from there he realized that the baker is destined to die and some say a third interpretation that yoseph understood that the butler really wasn't guilty the butler served par with a beautiful clean cup of wine but as par was talking to his servants a fly flew into the cup and uh par got upset but it wasn't the butler's fault it was Po's fault that he left the cup unattended so therefore he ysf realized that par after judging the butler will be merciful to him because par will realize that it wasn't his fault however the baker it it was his mistake parro found a stone in the bread Stone inside the loaf doesn't happen after it's served it happens while it's being needed that means the baker didn't do a good job he wasn't watching the process he allowed a stone to remain in the dough so ysep understood that the mistake of the baker is punishable and the mistake of the butler doesn't exist and that is why he understood that the dream is um has a negative interpretation now verse 20 and it was on the third day after their conversation it was P's birthday this is the only birthday mentioned in the Torah not birth but a celebration of a birthday so par Made A Feast for all his servants and he appointed the butler back to his post verse 21 He restored the Chamberlain of the cup Bears to his job however verse 22 he he hanged the Chamberlain of the Bakers just as ysep had interpreted to them yet what happened later the Chamberlain of the cup Bears did not remember yph but he forgot him so the double expression means that he didn't want to remember ysep he didn't want to to save him so he chose not to remember not to remind himself and he forgot means you usually don't forget uh consciously that means it was against his will that means Hashem caused him to forget as a punishment for ysph not trusting God instead trusting Flesh and Blood Hashem caused the butler to forgive get ysep and ysep remained in prison for another two years as we're going to see next week's partial this concludes this week's Torah portion as we will see this week and in the coming weeks there are dreams in the next week we're going to have um parro's dream we had uh the butler's dream the baker's dream yosef's multiple dreams a lot of Dreams a lot of interpretations and uh we will leave it as a separate topic why so many dreams why specifically now what do dreams mean but very often an idea once it appears in the Torah it appears multiple times as if it's bunched up on purpose and we have to ask ourselves this question why the idea of Dreams is bunched in these weeks be as it may parev um is um right before kanuka it's preparation you could say it's the the beginning of the dark period and then the light will appear right now it seems it's dark ysep is sold he's in trouble yehuda's two sons died he was embarrassed yakob was mourning he didn't see his son already for 10 years he's not going to see him for another two years and then for another 10 years it seems dark time and out of that dark time we will see at the end all of a sudden light comes and that's the connection to kanuka kanuka happens in the winter and it happens during the days that are the shortest hanuka falls out on on days that are shortest and the nights are longest and all of a sudden we see the light just like the Greeks they conquered the the Jews they were oppressing us not letting us do mitv and it seemed like everything is lost as if the Jews and the Jewish religion is going to disappear and all of a sudden From the Ashes from the darkness comes out great light beem we should celebrate the the holiday of kanuka peacefully and beem we should have a lot of light in our lives light of Torah happiness we should see um n pleasure from our children and may we see coming of mashia and we should relight the candles in bet mikdash very soon thank you for listening shabbat shalom and happy kanuka