Vayechi - Gathering in the End of Days

you're listening to the weekly partial podcast with Ari goldwag recorded with hm's never running assistance in Rat chish Israel 5785 2025 this week's para is par It's the final para of saer braus of the Book of Genesis and today is also a Ser it's the fast of the 10th of Tav and it's the day in history when the uh old city of Jerusalem the city of y was surrounded six months previous to Tish is destruction so it's quite appropriate that we read is yakob ainu giving the blessings to Yosef and his sons and then to all of the 12 tribes all of yakov's sons receive blessings and he says I want to I want to reveal to you what's going to to be in the in the end of days how things will look and uh so it's the Tik Bish was destroyed so many years ago 2,000 years ago also 2 200 years ago approximately first B English and yov is talking about G he's talking about Redemption and there's a few points in here there's a lot I I I read through almost all the M on this para this week looking for the thing that excites me there were a few little points and some larger points and I'd like to share them with you as Y is about to give the bras give the blessings to his sons yob calls his sons PK in chapter mes 49 first verse calls his sons as is the way of those who have those who have divine inspiration in the Torah there's a doubling there's a poetic way of speaking and he says gather together and I will tell you that which will occur to you in the end of days and then B he says he another language of gathering together one is a is uh he both of them mean coming together Gathering come together and hear oh sons of Yakov listen to that which your father Israel is going to say to you now what is this Gathering what is the idea of gathering before we get to Gathering and the double language of the Gathering so the me says how did he communicate with his sons did he have I say this did he have a WhatsApp group for the 12 tribes for his sons the people of Israel how did he communicate and say to all of them together did he send the messengers so the Meer says something very interesting and I'd like to draw perhaps a parallel to our times which as you know I believe were very close to the end of days said over sometimes in the name of sometimes in the name of the rabbis from the fact that y says to gather together we can deduce that they were not in the same location they were spread out in Egypt says the med a Malik an angel went down came down from heaven and gathered them together so y says gather together an angel somehow communicates to the brothers that they should all gather which is interesting says that actually it wasn't the Mal but it wases it was the Holy Spirit what is this holy spirit so it could be one of two things could either mean that they heard hashem's voice whispering in their ear as it were but we also find that AES can mean in t that for example Mal that it there was a certain strength a certain ability a certain Supernatural sense either a sense or a power that's given to them so yov wants to gather them together they hear the whispering in the ear may maybe it's a Malik an angel maybe it's maybe it'ses whispering in their ears but in any event there's a whispering in their ear and as a result of that they all come they all gather together and I was thinking that it says a double language right what's the double language and it's gathering together to tell them about the about the end of days and what came for me thees that hasem put in my mind is that today as we are in the moments before the his death and his burial parallels in many many ways as you see from the MIM what's going to happen in the end of days there's a parallel there's a coming together of Amel right K Gus there's 7.7 million Jews now in Earth Israel ever stronger there's a returning and before what inspires the returning says he it's not just for the for the for the for Sons but it's also Y is speaking through time to us and there's a Mal that's been waiting since that since that mad since that moment when the tribes when the 12 tribes gathered is gathering and it parallels and there's an angel that comes to each and every one of us wherever we are and says come back come back to Isel gather back together and sometimes the angel speaks loudly through the nations of the world sometimes the angel speaks loudly because we have it we hear it inside of our heart maybe it's a little softer that that voice it's not as the but we hear thees speaking inside of us and reminding us and calling us to return to return to gather together to Earth Israel that's my first the second concept that I would like to share with you clearly also has to do with mashia has to do with the Messianic age all these blessings have to do with there's a that gives to bamin to Benjamin his son the last of the tribes and let's understand that because he's the last of the tribes the last one is the K he's the all inclusive aspect he's the one that's born in Israel the only one of the tribes born in Israel so he represents G he represents the Final Redemption and the theak gives him is bam is like a wolf that goes out he finds his prey brings it back now we see that the tribes some of them were referred to as animals Yehuda is referred to as an AR B is refer to as a Zev UD is a lion bamin is a wolf and we also find that there were different nations Mal in a parallel way as we're going to see in the medish also referred to as this type of animal and it's not a coincidence each animal in creation has a certain power is represent represents a certain ability and so each Nation in the world has a certain power and a certain ability and each of the tribes has a certain power and ability says the magish in this context a few times in the the connects the BR of yobu with the BR ofu yob right before he passes away gives blessings M at the end of the right before he passes away he gives out blessings to each of the tribes Yakov creates a parallel between two of his sons and two of the malus we have four malus we have four kingdoms that the Jewish people has to live through and Vanquish Yakov gives a mush an analogy to to two of his sons that parallels two of those malas two of those kingdoms and mosu also parallels two of the tribes to two of the kingdoms and as we'll see each of these four tribes vanquishes takes the power away from those kingdoms and brings it over to the side of good brings it over to the side of am Israel Yehuda the first of them is Yehuda Yehuda corresponds to the kingdom of Babylonia right after the Jewish people were the Bish was destroyed the first temple so we were exiled by the the king of Babylonia which was which by the way in we speak about all of them in Z they both we find in tanak Yuda is compared to a to a lion and B is compared to a lion zud yob says to Yehuda you're like a lion cub in the which speak about also an analogy of the four malas the four kingdoms so B is referred to as an AR as a lion listen to this this is very interesting in whose hand does the kingdom of bubble fall it falls by the hand of Daniel we have to understand what this means Daniel Daniel the Prophet he is the one who caused the downfall or took the power away from B Babylonia he is the one who comes from Yehuda he's from the tribe of Judah he's the one who has that power what does it mean so thefor explained in two different explanations Daniel was somebody who had the power of prayer according to one version of the mag she says Daniel Michel vazar from not mistaken is that correct I think so they had the power of prayer these great Nim they were prophets I'm sorry I'm mixing it up something else but I'm pretty sure I saw something about them too but okay well let's leave it with Danielle that's what the M says here Danielle he daved and through his prayers he was able to take down the power of B that's one explanation that's the it's brought here in the Ral the other explanation that brings is that and this is very interesting as we'll see in the continuation of the M that that uh Daniel was the second in command he was given power he was the advisor to and Danielle interprets this is my addition he doesn't say this but interprets the dream thear is a dream the writing on the wall he interprets the dream and and he's the one who tells him you're about your kingdom is about to fall which is what happens but that's a that's a parenthetical point but the main point is that Danielle is as the second in command he's the one who wields the power he's the advisor to the King this is very interesting the one who is advisor to the king wields the power think of Yosef par says to yoseph no one will be higher than you you're going to be the second in command I'll be higher than you but really who is who was the one with all the power was yose same thing with Danielle so he's the one who takes down takes away the power of B says Benjamin corresponds to the next we find as we said vam Benjamin was compared to a wolf and so to the the malus the kingdom of modai was also compared to Wolf Z like we saw Benjamin is like a wolf that goes out for its prey so the P refers to this Mal to this Kingdom of mod and it says that it's comparable to a now normally the word Dove means a bear the doesn't say dove with a v in the middle which would therefore be read as Dove it says it without a in the middle so it could be read as da is Aramaic for also says based on in chter 5 Verse 6 that B is referred to I'm sorry modai is referred to B is the AR is the is the lion and and M is a reference is referred to as Z as a wolf so what happens and whose power who has the power over mod who causes it to fall Mor how so according to the Ral through his prayers he destroys hamon he causes the downfall of hamon who's the main advisor of modai who's taking over the power perhaps of mod that's the idea of am he takes over the power according to the morai is is the new advisor to the king of a he takes the power he's the second in command just like Yosef was like we said before that's what Danielle was Mor is the adviser to the king he's the one who has the real power he directs the king's mind the Jews take over so to speak the power of madai ultimately Esther's son Daves is the one who says to rebuild the second so that's the second one the third one and this this comes to this is very interesting we wouldn't usually think about this but Ley is the one who has power over the Greek Empire what's the parallel interestingly this one does not involve an animal the third of the tribes Ru Shimon Ley Le is the third of the tribes and the Greeks Yan are the third of the malus the third of the kingdoms that has power over the Jewish people so there's a parallel that they're both third this one has three letters LE is interestingly two of those letters are the same as the name for the Greeks y the Y and the of Y is the same letters but yavan is also three letters and I'll add it doesn't say this in the magish but generally speaking the concept of three the third it's also true in the third is the one in the middle it's the balance you have two extremes and and in the middle you have to fer you have two one saying one thing one saying a different thing the third verse comes and tells us which is the correct way to go it comes in the middle and it defines so Ley is the the one in the middle the Greeks have a certain aspect of b a certain aspect of M perhaps we could say they're in the middle they're the third aspect so they correspond the leim the Levites so there's a certain they blow theer in theik the the Yan and the Greeks also would blow their their horns in order to go out in battle the when they served in the bdes they wore special hats M the Greeks when they go out to battle they would wear helmet show their power protect themselves against their enemies interestingly of course that means or that implies that the Lev with their hats they're protecting am Israel from spiritual eny according to one paman sorry these were the special pants that are the bigun the Greeks also had a certain kind of pants that they wore that was special for them interestingly the Greeks were the many right and the levim really is referring to the kohanim the priests who come from the tribe of Lei who were the ones who fought against the Greeks the who just experienced again in kanaka the Greeks were many the Le were few so what was the Merit that allowed these Le these Kim to be able to conquer and destroy the the Greeks the evil Greeks they have the power to destroy their enemies who's the one who conquered and took away the power from the Greeks it was the the priests the they were the ones who come from Ley from the Levites they had that power to take down that malus what's the final malus and who takes down that final malus it's interesting because it leaves out MAV it takes out that's a different discussion but let's see what it says here corresponded is the one who has the power over the kingdom of Edom Ze is each of them is described as an animal with horns is referred to by as the the first born the one who was the ox Ed the final malus that we're in today the West is referred to it had 10 horns and there were also other aspects was able to overcome a great challenge in the area of being with another man's wife ASA on the other hand was PES in this area he did this did this sin he cared he kept asking about his father he showed great honor for his father ASA on the other hand said when will my father die so I can kill my brother it says about he feared says about was the main seed the main offspring of of asov that they don't fear Hashem in whose hand ultimately will will the will the power of asov be extinguished will be destroyed or will be in the hands of we have a a a tradition that Isa will fall in the hands of the the children of RA it's a reference to the youngest of the the Sheep which is a reference to the youngest tribes which is Bam and Yosef those are the tribes that has the power to destroy asov and I'll add based on what we said earlier in the med that it doesn't necessarily have to mean an absolute destruction can also mean just as Mor was second but he had the power he was the advisor Danielle was second to to nessar he had the power he was the adviser so too it could be that the people of the Jewish people look what's going on in the world today it could be that this is what we're looking at right now who is leading the world in a fight that they don't even recognize the danger of with Iran Paras today am Israel today is leading in that battle against the forces of evil in a certain way we are second to the nations of the world we're dependent on them in a certain way but at the same time we're leading so so we're thinking about that's the second Mish that I wanted to to review and we see there's an incredible power there an incredible power that Yakov and His blessings gave for all time down to today all the way away from that time till today that power exists that power existed through history through all of the kingdoms through all of the challenges that Isel went through we always came out on the other end successful with what power the power of the blessings of yako with the power of the blessings of M and finally I'd like to share with you the last piece in the Mish on this week's par which ends off speaking about what's going to be in the future with the Advent of dies and they make for him they bring him to be buried in in Israel and there's a s day of there's a sday morning period now where does this seven days come from the end of somebody's life it corresponds everything in the world just as we saw with the with the kingdoms there's a power of evil and there's a power of good there's a power of death and there's a power of life there are seven days when a person gets married and and the main goal of marriage is to procreate to bring about the Next Generation marriage starts with a 7 Day holiday for the and for the bride and the groom the beginning of Life there's seven days of celebration of course they celebrate for the rest of their lives as they build a family there's a sday initial celebration Z corresponding to that there's a seven there's seven days of sadness to recognize when a person passes away the measure says an amazing thing there were seven days that everybody even the Egyptians were involved in the Aus the morning period for the 7day morning period for Yu's death there's going to be an incredible seven days of ecstatic joy for the entire world hasm is going to pay back because of those seven days of sadness that were given and recognized for y the PK says in that everything is going to turn around Z for all the sadness all of the Exile all the gulls all of the destruction all think about it look look back just 75 years ago is went I mentioned this in the B podcast I just read a book from Rabbi Emanuel Feldman about the sixth day war incredible Joy but immediately before that terrible before that incredible Jo was a terrible time the the World War II am Israel was decimated but immediately after that there was a turnaround for am Israel coming back to Earth Israel getting back the entire land of Israel 20 years later 19 years later AEM turns around the AV the morning into Joy just like I'm going to I'm going to give you a consolation I'm going to give a consolation to into Jerusalem and all of the places that were destroyed like the says in yesah when Hashem consoles Zion is going to console all of the destruct the the destroyed locations it's going to change the Wilderness all of the deserts are going to be turned into a place of of growth it's going to become a place of the garden of there going to be an incredible Joy that's going to go on and the main constellation what are we waiting for and what are we trying to listen and hear the voice of hem as hem says come come together and hear come together and here what what is it what's it going to be like in the end of days it's going to be this come and settle what's special about is the place where when you learn there's no greater place to learn T the T of is the the strongest you can't get that anywhere else it's a place of incredible feelings of gratitude it's a place and this is the ultimate this is what we're waiting for this is the joy there's going to be an incredible Joy as we greet mashiach we're we're already starting to experience it we're already starting to touch it already starting to taste it I want to bless you and I ask you to bless me should help us that we should hear that voice we should hear the we should hear the calling us back to Earth Isel we should recognize that stuff's going on here there's a power that's returning to am Isel we should be able to see it should help us to get back here and experience the ultimate Joy the ultimate of the thank you so much for listening have a wonderful shab this podcast was made 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