CLD #765

This week’s Parasha, Parashat VaYigash is absolutely riveting! We go from the brothers of Yosef not knowing what to do with Binyamin ‘stealing’ the golden goblet to Yehuda getting up fiercely and attacking Yosef, then Yosef wails away and start revealing that he is Yosef, then the brothers are in shock and on and on. What a Parasha!

However, there is a single moment that in the hidden words of the Torah Rashi explains the power of the Torah. It is really exciting. After Yosef continuously explains to his brothers that he is NOT upset with them, and he believes FULLY that everything for the past 22 years (including selling him as a slave and sititng in a pit underground for 12 years) was ALL FROM HASHEM, Yosef tells them: Go get Aba (dad) and tell him to come to Mitzrayim (Egypt) to live here with me!

What does Yosef send to Israel to show his father he still remembers him and to secretly PROVE to him that he is really alive? Besides for the presents, gold, food and other delicacies that Yosef gave to his brothers to bring back to the land of Israel to tell Yaakov that Yosef is still alive, Yosef also sent special wagons. The pasuk says like this (Bereshit 45:27) “ and he (Yakkov) saw the wagons that Yosef had sent to carry him, and the spirit of their father Yaakov was revived.”

 What is going on here? Why does the Torah have to state AGAIN that Yosef sent the wagons, isn't it obvious? 

The word for wagons in Hebrew is “Agalot.” One of the categories of Torah learning is in regard to Eglah Arufa, which is in the case of a murdered individual lying around in a city and the murderer is unknown (found in the ninth chapter of Masechet Sotah). Yosef still remembered the last piece of Torah Yaakov taught him before being sold by his brothers. Rashi says the Agalot sent to Yaakov was to remind Yaakov: “Aba, I STILL REMEMBER THE TORAH YOU TAUGHT ME! I AM STILL JEWISH!”

 

The power of the Torah is in its learning, when one learns Torah it is a proof and testimony they are actually a part of Am Yisrael and a REAL child of Hashem! Be’ezrat Hashem with this powerful Shabbat we will take upon ourselves a nice chunk of time to actually put our heads in the Torah books and become knowledgeable of Torah just like we become knowledgeable for our businesses.

Shabbat Shalom!

Judaism=Think.

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