Parashas Vayechi :- Our Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Vayechi . In this Parsha , we read about the passing away of the very Holy Yaakov Israel , our very beloved Fore-Father . In this Parsha , Yaakov Blesses his sons to receive their Blessings . Also , his son Yosef , is called upon to take care of Yaakov's arrangements and top a certain extent , be the leader of that generation after Yaakov , which certainly fits this Sedra's Haftorah , which is to be found in 1 Kings 2:1-12 , which refers to the passing of Dovid Ha Melech , and his son Shlomo after him . The Neshoma of Yaakov , seeing as Souls Migrate , according to HaShem's Wish , and according to What HaShem Deems , that soul and the generation needs , was in Dovid Ha Melech , as was a the case with the Neshoma of Yosef's humble soul , also in Shlomo Ha Melech . The Spiritual bond between Yaakov and Yosef's Neshoma , goes right back to Gan Eiden and Adam Ha Rishon . Within Adam's Hebrew name , is an Alef , Dalet and Mem , which hides the line down to Moshiach , where the Alef is Adam , the Dalet , is Dovid and this line , comes down to the Mem , for Moshiach . In fact , HaShem told Adam , that his descendant Dovid , would pass away just after birth , and so , Adam , who was to live a 1000 years , gave up 70 years of his life , to give to Dovid , who passed away at 70 , while Adam passed away at 930 years . So are the souls of Adam and Sheis ( his son in his likeness ) , Yaakov and his son Yosef , and Dovid Ha Melech and his so Shlomo , tied by deep love . No wonder Yaakov's love for Yosef , went deeper than just a Father On relationship , at the time . So deep is HaShem and so beautiful , is HaShem's Torah . Yaakov Israel knew his time was coming and he was the first to get ill before passing on , and so , he called for his son Yosef , knowing that Yosef would be in a position to get Pharaoh to allow Yaakov to be taken back to Canaan , out of Egypt , so that he could be buried with our Fore-Fathers and Fore-Mothers and so , he had Yosef assure him that Yosef would have him buried in Canaan in the Cave of Machpelah , near Mamre in Chevron , where Adam Ve Chava , Avraham and Sarah and Yitzchak and Rivka were put to rest . Yosef assured hi Father , that he would do as his Father asked . Yosef did not spend that much time with his Father , for he was trying to avoid telling on his brothers for what they had done to sell him , but Yosef's sons did spend time with their Grand-Father , and it was them who informed Yosef that their Father was ill , so he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim at the advice of his wife Osnas and came to his Father . Yaakov assured Yosef that Yosef's sons would share in the inheritance in Eretz Yisroel , just like the other sons of Yaakov . Yosef asked his Father why his Mother Rachel was not buried in the Cave of Machpelah like the other Fore-Mothers , but on the side of the road to Ephrath Beis Lechem . Yaakov explained to Yosef that HaShem would one day in the future take our people into exile in Bavel , due to Avodah Zorah idol worship of some of the people , and they would travel past that place where Rachel was buried and Rachel would thus be able to pray for us , her children , begging HaShem not to be angry that some of us had strayed , for nor was she angry that she gave her place to her sister in marriage to Yaakov , So HaShem Too , Should Be Understanding And Forgive us And Bring us out of exile , and no doubt , because Rachel had been in such a position of giving her beloved Yaakov to her sister Leah , so could Rachel be the only one to ask of HaShem the same kind of request to be understanding , when sadly , our attention was diverted from HaShem and so , HaShem Accepted Rachel's prayers for her children - us . Yaakov then wanted to bless Yosef's children , so Yosef put his older son to Yaakov's right and the younger one , to Yosef's left , but Yosef saw that his Father Yaakov placed his right hand ( the hand that would usually go on the first-born's head ) , on the younger one's head and Yosef wanted to correct him , but his Father Yaakov assured Yosef that he had a good reason out of fore - knowledge for what he was doing , for Yaakov said that the younger one would become greater than the older one , and this was in reference to Joshua Yehoshuah , who would in the future come from the younger one Ephraim's line , generations later . And so Yaakov blessed Yosef's sons with the same words we say to our children every Erev Shabbos , " May G-D Make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh , " thus putting Ephraim before Manasseh . This Blessing signified , that our people should be like Ephraim and Manasseh , who lived among other nations in exile , and yet still kept true to Holy Religious Judaism and never strayed . So may our children always be so , and keep faithful to HaShem And His Holy Torah , and never stray or follow the wrongs paths of those around us , who wrongly do . Israel Yaakov informs Yosef he is about to pass on and that HaShem Will after the time in Mitzrayim , bring us back to Canaan . Israel Yaakov gave Yosef an extra portion more than the other brothers , the place Shechem ( showing that deep down , Yaakov knew what the brothers had done to Yosef , for it was that place that was connected to where Yosef was sold by his brothers ) that Yaakov had taken with his sword and his bow , when , at the time of the incident after Simeon and Levi had killed all the Shechemite men , where their sister had been forcefully taken , the other nations came up in defense of the people of Shechem , and Yaakov had fought a war with them and with HaShem's Help , had won , and so , gave this area to Yosef . Then Yaakov called for his sons to give them his final Blessings from HaShem and he was just about to reveal to them the time of the End of Days , for the Shechinah was resting above him , but HaShem Did Not Want this time to be revealed at that time or known , and so , as Yaakov was about to reveal this , the Shechinah lifted and so , Yaakov was not able to complete his words of when that time will be . We also note that Yaakov wanted to tell us of the End of Days , starting with the words " Ha'asfu " - " Assemble yourselves , " which shows that one of the ways to bring Moshiach and usher in the End of Days , is for our Jewish people to " Assemble , " in other words come together as one people under HaShem in obedience to all His Laws , and so , this " Coming together " and getting rid of old strife , and strictly keeping HaShem's Commandments , is one of the ways to bring Moshiach . Yaakov Israel , then Blessed the Tribes . Reuvein , was reminded of his Aveirah , and how the Shechinah was desecrated , That Rested on that particular couch that only the Shechinah of HaShem Rested on and how Reuvein had moved that couch out of Bilhah's tent and into his own Mother Leah's Tent . Yaakov gives Reuvein a Blessing in disguise , which is that Reuvein will and can go far as long as he learns patience and not to be impetuous . Yaakov then refers to Simeon and Levi's actions in how they handled the Shechemite issue and that Yaakov's soul will not enter into their actions of violence . Yaakov refers to them murdering a people , in reference to the Shechemites and maiming an ox , in reference to Shechem himself . This is also a hint to what these two brothers did to Yosef , who is referred to as a "strong boned ox " who keeps to HaShem's Commandments without wavering , even in exile , and so , this again shows that Yaakov knew without Yosef telling him , what these two specifically had done to Yosef , where Levi had been the one who said of young Yosef , " behold the dreamer comes , " and Simeon had been the one who threw him into the pit . So Yaakov ensured that these two sons would be kept apart from each other , not only in their travels as Tribes when we all came back from Egyptian slavery , but also in Israel , when the time came for the Land to be divided , for when these two Tribes get together , they are ever so strong , as they were when these two , as small boys , wiped out the Shechemites single-handed . Yehudah , is Blessed and noted as the leader of the Tribes as the Tribe of kingship , like a lion , and from this tribe , will Mashiach come - noted as " Shiloh . " Wine and Milk referred to here refers to Mashiach and the Torah of Milk and Honey . When our children first read and learn Torah , we dab a little honey on their tongue to remind them that the Torah always be sweet on our tongues . Zevulun will be given those places on seashores , to bring trade and wealth to his brothers and he and his brother Yissaschar , mentioned next , work together hand in hand , where Zevulun toils while Yissaschar studies Torah and so , will each get the Kavod of both as if they are one , yet both will and are to study Torah . The people of Yissaschar bend themselves humbly to HaShem's Torah and Will . Yaakov Israel Blesses Dan next , and here , Yaakov sees in prophecy , a man who , from this Tribe , will avenge his people against the Philistines , and this man , Yaakov sees , is Samson Shimshon the Judge of Israel , who will be like a single serpent on the way , in other words one single man , who will attack at the very enemy's foundation , all by himself , a viper by the path , as Shimshon was , when he hid and awaited the enemy to walk past and the reference to the horse's heels and rider , refers to how Shimshon killed so many by himself , just with the jawbone of a ass / donkey . Yaakov ends his blessing to this Tribe with words that show how salvation is still awaited from HaShem , for Yaakov fore-saw how this Shimshon , regaining his power from HaShem , once his Nazarite hair grew again , in his death , will bring down 3000 Pelishtim , in their colosseum of their dagan deity , when he pushes over the supporting pillars , this sadly would be Shimshon's end too and so , would Israel still await the Final Redemption . Gad , Yaakov Blessed from HaShem , with powerful fighting men , who would overcome the enemy , for Gad's portion of territory , would bring them into constant contact with Ammonite raiders . Asher , was Blessed with " kindly delicacies , " in connection with the abundance of olive oil in his region in Eretz Yisroel as well as spiritually beautiful women who would marry Kohanim . Naphtali is referred to as a " hind let loose who delivers beautiful sayings , " and this refers to the incident that was to take place when Yaakov had already passed away and was being buried in the Cave , and Eisav came along and claimed the site for himself , and Naphtali , fleet of foot , ran quickly back to Egypt , to get the title that it belonged to Yaakov and his side of the family . Next , is Yosef Blessed , and Israel Yaakov , makes reference to Yosef's inauguration as he was led through the city in Egypt . Yaakov also makes mention of arrow-tongued men hating him , a reference to Yosef's brothers and also to the men of Egypt at the time Zulaicha and her friends and husbands made false accusations against him , where their husbands joined in . Yaakov refers to Yosef's " bow being firmly emplaced and his arms gilded from the hands of the Mighty power of Yaakov , " and this refers to the constant taunts of Potiphera's wife and how at the last moment of that last attempt of Zulaicha to entice Yosef , just before Yosef got accused , how Yosef held himself in check and did not fall and sin and how , Yosef saw an image of the mighty Yaakov his Father , that kept him at that moment from doing anything wrong . So would Yosef receive abundant Blessings . Yaakov then Blessed Binyamin , as a " predatory wolf , " of how " in the morning devouring prey and in the evening , distributing spoils . " Here , Yaakov prophesies reference to King Shaul , a Benjaminite , who defeated Moav , Edom and Philistia , and also it is a reference to the happening of the Concubine of Gibeah in the book of Judges 19 and 20 ( Radak ) and of course to the coming of Mordechai and Esther , who were from the Tribe of Binyamin , who were HaShem's Servants against haman the amelekite and both rose there in Persia , to high state . Yaakov Blessed the Twelve Tribes and the very fact that they were mentioned as Twelve Tribes again , refers to their holiness . Yaakov then again instructs them to make sure he is buried back in Canaan in the Cave of Machpelah and so , sadly , our beloved Fore - Father Yaakov Israel passed away . Yosef , who wept deeply and heavily , had his Father embalmed , which our Rabbis believe was incorrect, for trust should have been there that HaShem Would Keep Yaakov as he was . Even Egypt bewailed his passing , where the passing of such a Holy Tzaddik , leaves in its place an emptiness and lack of Blessing , in its place , in that specific place , so was Yaakov fearing that Pharaoh might not let Yaakov leave Egypt and be buried in Canaan ( for Pharaoh knew that Blessing From HaShem , had come with Yaakov's presence in Egypt ) , but Yosef assured Pharaoh that he had given his word to his Father to do this very thing and so , after Pharaoh first objected , and Yosef reminding him of how Yosef had kept his word to Pharaoh before , never to reveal that Yosef knew one more language more than Pharaoh , so did Pharaoh consent to allow Yaakov to return to Canaan . Yaakov certainly did not want his body to be buried in Egypt , in the very dust there , that in the time of Moshe , in the Plagues in Egypt , that very dust would become lice . Yaakov also knew that since his coming to Egypt had brought with it , HaShem's Blessings , Yaakov knew that the Egyptians , being idol worshipers , may worship his body or his burial place , even though it was HaShem Who Had Sent the Blessings , in Yaakov's Holy Honor , and so Yaakov did not want such a thing to happen , not wanting to be buried there in such an unholy land . Yaakov , wanted to be buried in the Holy Land , where his Fore-Fathers were buried , standing up , ready to walk out of the Cave , at the time of Techias Ha Meisim . So Yosef and the brothers carried Yaakov all the way back to Canaan , also with a following of Egyptians . Yosef put his crown on the coffin as did other nations , whom , they passed on the way back , for Yaakov was known as a very holy man . So was Yaakov Israel buried in the cave of Machelah and as I mentioned earlier Eisav came at that moment and contested it . Chushim , Dan's deaf son saw the commotion Eisav was making at such a holy time and struck Eisav to the point of death and Yehudah , struck the final blow . Eisav's head rolled into the cave but his body remained outside , and was given to his family to bury on Mount Seir . So was their Mother Rivka's words fulfilled that she was bereft of both her sons on the same day ( Bereishis 27:45 ) . So was our last beloved Fore-Father buried in the Cave of Machpelah , a great light was gone from the World . After the passing of their holy Father Yaakov , Yosef's other brothers became afraid that now , Yosef would come down on them , for Yosef , dealing with the sadness of his Father's Passing and also not wanting to take the head place at a table with them over his other brothers , didn't invite them as before , thus making them mistakenly worry and mistakenly misunderstand his actions , and so they approached him making out that their Father had wanted him to forgive them . Yosef reassured them that he would still take care of them and would not hurt them and that he held no anger to them at all . Pharaoh passed away , and Yosef stood in as ruler of Egypt for many years , and Yosef saw three generations through his sons . Before he was about to pass away , Yosef asked his brothers that they must bring his bones out of Egypt and bring him back to Canaan , when the Jews leave there after the time of slavery is completed . Yosef also told them that after the period of slavery in Egypt , HaShem Will Send a redeemer who will be known when he speaks the words , " Pakod Yifkod , " ( Bereishis 50:24 ) - " G-D Will surely remember you , " and so , Yosef passed away before his brothers at the age of One Hundred and Ten , ten years before he would have otherwise , due to his not stopping his Father being called ' servant ' ten times , when the brothers were before him as viceroy . The last brother to pass away in Egypt was Levi . Yosef was placed in a coffin and sunk to the bottom of the Nile , so that no one might take his bones out of Egypt , for the Egyptians believed his being there brought them blessing and blessings to the nile , though all Blessings Come From HaShem Alone . So ends the Parsha and the First Book of The Torah Bereishis . This Parsha is called " Vayechi " - " Lived " although the Parsha is actually about the passing of Yaakov Israel , and at the end of the Parsha , the passing of Yosef . So why then , is such a Parsha about their passing , called " Vayechi , " - " Lived / Living . " This is because a true and holy Tzaddik , who is so close to HaShem and has become so holy and spiritual , continues on to greater Life and holiness after their physical passing . Physical passing , is yet another part of ' True Living . ' So is the word " Vayechi " used . The same was the case , with the passing of Sarah . The passing of Yaakov , was only a physical passing . The Neshoma continues closer to HaShem , growing ever closer to HaShem , climbing ever higher toward HaShem . Life is not what it seems . Physical Life itself , if we choose our choices Given By HaShem , wisely , and follow and listen to HaShem And His commandments , is only a pathway toward getting closer to HaShem . When a person passes , only their physicality remains and returns to what HaShem Made it from , and the terms ' passes on ' become more apt , for that is exactly what is happening . The person passes on from one way of being , to the next , whether that be as a person again , or as whatever HaShem Deems them to become , so that they can continue to spiritually grow . We see only a tiny minute picture of all things and so , does " True Life " actually continue in all its Brilliance , toward HaShem . The very fact of living , is a step toward the time of Mashiach . We see this in the very first word of this Parsha " Vayechi , " which comes to 34 in Gematriah , and 3+4 = 7 , the Gematrical value of Moshiach . Thus , when we live according to HaShem and His Commandments and Ways , we continue to live , beyond the physical existence of what we see , working toward holy beings coming ever closer to HaShem , and so , by following HaShem and His Commands and Torah , we thus work to bring in Moshiach and usher in The End Of Days . Life is not about having value-less parties and a frivolous good time for the moment . These things have no long lasting or worthy value at all . True Life , is truly using this Physical World as a preparation to earn our place in the Eternal Home of Gan Eiden . So says Pirkei Avos , that the World we are in , is the antechamber to prepare ourselves to enter the banquet hall , of the Eternal World To Come Olam Habah . That is True Living , not just for the here and now , but Truly for Eternity . For True Life is Life With HaShem . That is what we are all actually here for . To do otherwise , would not be ' living ' at all . Every moment of every day of every moment of every moment , is a Gift From HaShem , to Gain True " Vayechi " - " Living . " Yaakov and our Fore-Fathers knew this . Now it is time for us to know it too . This Physical World Existence , is your opportunity and mine , From HaShem , to Work toward Olam Habah The World To Come , and so , this very working toward an Eternal Blessed Destination with HaShem , is really and truly , what is ' True Living . ' Let us all stop wasting our lives that HaShem Gives us , and from now on , " Vayechi , " - " Truly Live " for HaShem and so will we get " True Vayechi , " - " True Life Eternal , " in HaShem's Olam Habah Gan Eiden in Shamaim within the Beauty Of HaShem HaKadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Eternal And Deepest Forever Love , A Very Beautiful And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh With Eternal And Deepest Love and to all my fellow Jews and all of Creation , a Very Beautiful and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Parashas Vayigash :- Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Vayigash . In this Parsha , two great Tzaddikim of Judaism , Two Tribes of Israel , Yosef and Yehudah face each other . This matches the Haftorah for this portion , which is Yechezkiel 37:15-28 , which also refers to and mentions Yehudah ( The Tribe of Yehudah ) and Yosef ( representing Israel ) , for later on in Jewish history , our people separated into the Tribes of Judah and the rest of Israel , after the rule of Shlomo Ha Melech's Son Rehoboam . At the End of Days , Israel will again become one nation , may It Come Soon In Our Days . In this Parsha of Vayigash , we continue from the Parsha before , where the brothers were brought back before Yosef , and Binyamin was standing accused of taking the silver goblet belonging to Yosef . The goblet was purposefully placed in Binyamin's sack , to test the brothers if they would stand up for and defend their younger brother Binyamin , the full brother of Yosef , both being born from Yaakov and Rachel . And in this Parsha continues we see that the brothers do step forward to do the right thing this time , as Yehudah steps forward and " Vayigash " - " Approached " Yosef to plead for Binyamin , even being prepared to stand in for him as a slave . Yehudah makes a heart-rending plea for Binyamin , explaining how their Father Yaakov will have great sorrow if Binyamin does not return . Sadly , while Yehudah is speaking to Yosef , Yosef lets their Father be referred to as his servant , on ten occasions , something that Yosef , even during his test of his brothers , should have corrected and not allowed , and so , Yosef , for those ten times that he allowed this , loses ten years of his life , passing away at One Hundred and Ten Years old . Yehudah made such a caring plea , that Yosef was no longer able to restrain himself any further and in order not to embarrass his brothers , Yosef had everyone else leave the room , putting himself in very great danger from his brothers , who did not at that time realize it was Yosef , they were standing there with . The brothers fell silent , not knowing what was coming now from this viceroy of Egypt . Yosef stood up from his throne and took a step toward his brothers and asked them if they know where this long lost other brother was . They responded , 'No . ' Yosef took another step toward them and said that he knows of this person they seek and they asked him where he is . Yosef responded that he had bought this ' Yosef ' himself as a slave and that this person now works for him . The brothers were astonished not knowing what to now believe , if this was another ruse . The Viceroy said they should hold on and he would call for him and he went to his bell plate that always hung on the wall and banged on it , calling out ' Yosef , Yosef , Yosef ben Yaakov come out , ' while the brothers looked on , silenced . Yosef called out ever louder in a louder voice as Egypt heard as did Pharaoh's household hear and Yosef stepped behind the wall and then returned , without his crown and said , " Do you recognize me ? " They did not , wondering if this Viceroy was either not too well , or again trying to trick them . The Viceroy then took more steps toward them and said , " Do you not recognize the one who you seek ? " They still did not . Yosef stepped right near them and removed his mouth cover , looking them in the face and , with tears rolling down his face , he called out , " Ani Yosef , " - " I am Yosef . " How the brothers were silenced and totally surprised . This is what will happen at the End of Days , when Moshiach comes , for HaShem Will Then Show Himself to all , even the doubters and those following false ways and will say " Ani HaShem " - " I Am HaShem , " and those who followed false ways will be ashamed and cover their faces . The Brothers still were not sure , as before them , stood an adult bearded man , much bigger and stronger then they remembered him , with a voice much stronger than they remembered him to have . He asked them to come closer , asking about if Yaakov , his Father and their Father was still alive , but the brothers still wondered . But when they came closer and looked into his soft Jewish eyes and he mentioned how the incident of his selling took place in detail the details of his selling , that only he could know and details of the family and their births right back to Lavan , they knew they were looking again into the face of their long lost brother Yosef . They begged him for forgiveness and he , being the Tzaddik he was , comforted them and told them how it all happened for a reason that he had to get sent to Egypt , so as to sustain them and how it was HaShem Who Sent Yosef there and that they were to go up to Canaan and fetch our Father Yaakov and bring him to Egypt , and not to fear him ( Yosef ) telling their Father what they did , but to hurry and not delay and bring Yaakov to Egypt . The brothers and he wept and even Pharaoh and his household got to know that Yosef's brothers had come and Pharaoh organized wagons prepared and loaded to go and fetch Yosef's Father Yaakov . Pharaoh had to organize the wagons , for he knew that honest and trustworthy Yosef , would never take the wagons on his own , or use Pharaoh's property without Pharoah's permission . To Binyamin , Yosef gave much more clothing and silver than to the other brothers . It says twice that Pharaoh sent wagons , where the second time it refers to Yosef having a hand in the sending . The reason for this is that the first set of wagons prepared by Pharaoh , had deities carved on the wagons and Yehudah , refusing to have anything to do with idol worship , burnt them and so Yosef organized another set of wagons ( now knowing that Pharaoh would permit the wagons to be used ) . And off they went to fetch their Father Yaakov . As they approached home , they feared surprising their Father suddenly with the news of Yosef so quickly , and so wanted to break the news to him gently . As they approached their Father's Tent , Serach Bas Asher ( Serach the daughter of Asher , where Asher was one of the brothers ) was sitting outside with her harp-like playing instrument . They told her to go inside to her Grand - Father Yaakov and play and sing to him that Yosef was alive and well , in Egypt . She did so and thus revived him and he , Yaakov , blessed her for reviving him and so , with this Blessing , HaShem Gave her longevity to live a long life and enter Gan Eiden Alive . The brothers approached their Father and told him , but he still was very surprised , until they related , as the Torah says ,the words Yosef had spoken to tell him , which was the words and lesson last that Yaakov had taught Yosef that day , when Yaakov had sent him to seek his brothers , the lesson of the man who is found murdered by the way and the closest town elders are brought to the scene where a ceremony is performed to assure and atone that there is no responsibility to that town , for we are honor-bound to escort a guest in safety through a town . Only HaShem and Yosef could have known this , what Yaakov had taught him and so , Yaakov's spirit revived and after his sons told him how Yosef is Viceroy in Egypt and most importantly that Yosef , keeps to the Holy traditions of our Fore-Fathers , even in Exile - Yaakov described in the Torah , that keeping of Judaism is , as that " Yosef still lives . " Yaakov was not sure if HaShem Wanted him to go down ( down as opposed to down in spiritual level when traveling to Egypt , a place of lower level , and missing in sanctity there ) and so , HaShem Assured him to go there and that HaShem Would then , in time bring us out of Egypt . Torah then enumerates the souls of ours that went down to Mitzrayim . If we count the names of those souls , it comes to sixty nine , yet Torah writes that it is seventy souls that came to Egypt of Yaakov's family . The reason for this is that as the family of Yaakov arrived at the border of Egypt , ( where the sons of Yaakov respected their Father so much that they would not even have him on a wagon , but carried him personally all the way there ) , Levi's daughter Yocheved , the Mother of Moshe , Aharon and Miriam was born , just as they entered into the border of Egypt Mitzrayim . So while we were headed down into Egypt , HaShem Was Already Preparing our pathway out , With the birth of the Mother of Moshe , who would lead us out of Egypt and back to the border of the Holy Land . Also , HaShem Joined us to fill the number , For HaShem Goes Down With His People , The Jews , into Exile . Yaakov sent Yehudah ahead , to Yosef , to prepare the way , which meant organizing a Mikvah and Praying and Learning Centre . So must we as Jews always do likewise , to ensure that wherever we stay , we ensure for our family and children , a proper Torah education and a place of prayer , which in days of old , was always begun by first building a Mikvah . Pharaoh organized us to stay in Goshen , the place originally given by a previous Pharaoh to Sarah . Yosef had five sets of chariots ahead of him harnessed , when he went out to meet his beloved Father , for he did not want to shock his Father but prepare him slowly for the meeting . Yosef sent his sons ahead on the chariots . Yosef walked to meet his Father and when Yosef approached his Father , Yaakov asked his sons who this was , dressed so royally and regal looking , with his face shining with holiness , and they said that this is our Yosef . Yosef , fell upon his Father and wept and our Rabbis tell us that Yaakov did not respond straight away , for out of thankfulness to HaShem , Yaakov first stopped to say the Shema and acknowledge HaShem's Oneness . How holy and ever Faithful is Yaakov . Yaakov noticed the holiness that still surrounded Yosef , and again commented how " Yosef is ' still alive ' " in Torah Mitzvos . Yosef wanted to ensure that we keep separate from the Egyptians and thus keep to our Faith and not stray Chas Ve Shalom , and so , he instructed a few of his brothers that they will be brought to meet Pharaoh and are to say they are cattlemen , for he knew how Egypt , who uses the sheep as a deity , would thus keep separate from us . So he was trying to ensure our spiritual survival as Jews in exile , separate from others around us and their idol worshiping ways . Yosef also wanted them not to mention that they were shepherds , for that would be abhorrent to Egyptians , and Yosef wanted them to be allowed to stay in Goshen . But the brothers took faith in their hands and said outright that they were shepherds , showing their faith in HaShem . They spoke of Sojourning in the land , for this exile would not be forever , thus the word ' ' sojourn , ' and not stay permanently . Then Yosef brought his Father to meet Pharaoh and next to Pharaoh was sitting the giant Og , who we know from Avraham's time . Og at first wondered if this man Yaakov was actually Avraham , as Yaakov at that time looked very old . Pharaoh turned to Og and asked him how come Og had said that Avraham had passed , when here stood a man who looked like Avraham . It was then that Pharaoh asked Yaakov's age , which was at that time , One Hundred and Thirty , for Pharaoh wanted to be sure that this was not Avraham . Pharaoh was not used to seeing men at that time reach that age . Og now realized this was not Avraham , but Yaakov who stood there . Yaakov commented about his hard life , and made a comment that was thirty three words long about the hardness of his life and that his life had not reached the lifespans of his Fore-Fathers and so , his life was shortened by those very thirty three years and thus he passed away at One Hundred and Forty Seven , where his Father Yitzchak had reached One Hundred and Eighty years . Yaakov Blessed Pharaoh and from the moment of the time of that Blessing , the Nile rose and watered Egypt and the famine lightened to an extent , but didn't stop completely . All money collected during the famine , Yosef brought it to Pharaoh . The people then had to sell their livestock to buy grain and then eventually they had to sell a part of their land and then , as Yosef organized it , became serfs to Pharaoh and one fifth of their harvest would be Pharaoh's . The priests of Egypt never had to give up their land , for Yosef never forgot their kindness to him in standing up for him in the incident of Potiphar and his wife Zulaicha and her false accusations . And so , Israel Yaakov settled in the land of Goshen , and " they acquired property in it and they were fruitful and multiplied greatly . " So ends the Parsha . Yosef never ever told his Father what his brothers had done to him and so , even Yosef , had learned not to make reports to his Father anymore , about the brothers , even if his intentions were pure at the time that he had done that . When we come clean and work on what we have done wrong and face up to our responsibilities , it is then that we can think to approach HaShem . This Shabbos Parsha , is called " Vayigash " - " Approached , " where Yehudah approaches Yosef , but in reality , when we have done something wrong , it is to HaShem , that we actually stand before , even though what we see , is a ' human viceroy . ' To truly change and do Teshuvah , we must not just give lip service . It takes a proper and full realization of what it is we did wrong and a full and true intention , to correct it and never do it again . For when we approach HaShem , HaShem Opens Himself Up To us And ' Approaches us ' In Return . Life is for learning and every day is an opportunity to grow and become more Holy and closer to HaShem . Every morning that we awaken and HaShem Returns our souls to us , is to Give us an opportunity to " Vayigash " - " Approach " HaShem . Every thing that happens to us at every moment in our day , are deep opportunities to grow in Holiness , if we only look deep enough and close enough , for then we will notice what it is in that moment we are to do to spiritually and not just physically grow . In each moment , is an opportunity to be good and kind and follow HaShem Only , and calm ourselves and our own personal wishes , to put those aside for HaShem . That is True Living . The World and our lives are filled with these opportunities , if only we look close enough for them . If we look at the first word of this Parsha , " Vayigash " - " Approached , " we have the words " Va " and " Yah " and the first part of the word " Goshen " where we ended up staying there in Egypt and where we left from , When HaShem Had Moshe lead us out of Egypt , as we walked toward holiness and freedom , and went home . According to Silverman's Hebrew English Dictionary , this word also is a part of the word ' Gashir ' ( which means ' bridge ' ) . So within the first word of this Parsha , is also , when looking into the word deeper , and putting all these words together , we get , And Yah - HaShem , Approaches us And Forms a bridge with us , even where we end up in Goshen in exile , and so can we be freed from this physical World and can then enter Gan Eiden , if only we obey HaShem fully , thus " Vayigash , " - " Approaching , " HaShem fully . Wherever we are , HaShem Will Approach us , if we are pure and obedient to Him . This also means not putting the wishes of other people , before HaShem's Wishes . If we can " Vayigash " - "Approach " HaShem in proper repentance and fully change the wrong we do , not doing it again or repeating it , keeping HaShem's Torah Wishes , and doing what HaShem Wants and not what we or others want or like or feel is right , then HaShem Will " Vayigash " - " Approach " us too and , like a ' bridge ' we will join with HaShem , in harmony . This is what the brothers did and this is what Yosef as one of the brothers did . This too , is what each and every one of us must do . Approach HaShem With Faithful Love and Obedience to His Will and not our will or others' will , keeping all His Laws and never straying from His Way or Wishes . Then there will be peace and harmony between HaShem and us and within Creation , and then will we be within the End Of Days , Where HaShem Will " Vayigash " - " Approach " us And Say " Ani HaShem , " - " I Am HaShem . " When HaShem First Created Gan Eiden and Adam Ve Chava , HaShem's Wish , Was To Walk With them In The Garden . How long , Has HaShem Waited , in our time frame , To Walk With His Creation . HaShem So Wants our closeness and love . We are all in that time right now of the ' Pangs of Moshiach . ' If we look around us at the World , we can perceive that things are reaching a certain point . We await the Final Redemption . Within this word " Vayigash , " is the word ' Goshen , ' where we stayed during the period of Egyptian Exile . It was from Goshen , that we finally left the land of Egypt . So Goshen was the point before leaving Exile . So is this period we are all in right now , where we await The End Of Days . Just like the word ' Goshen ' is a stage to and part of attaining HaShem's " Vayigash , " - " Approach " and showing us His Shechinah at the End of Days , so is this period we are all in right now , a part and stage toward the End of Days , may it come soon in our days . So just as we , long ago , left Goshen , for " Vayigash " - " Approaching " HaShem and HaShem " Approaching , " us , so me we all , come to HaShem and do His Mitzvos , and Bring on the final " Vayigash , " with HaShem , " Approaching " us and Showing us , His Most Ever Beautiful Essence , as HaShem Brings on the End of Days , With HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Deepest Love , a Beautiful And Peaceful Shabbos Kodesh With Eternal Love and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Beautiful and Peaceful Shabbos Kodesh With Love .

Parashas Mikeitz :- Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Mikeitz . The Haftorah for this Parsha is 1 Kings 3 : 15 - 4 : 1 . Both the Parsha and the Haftorah talk of a dream . In the last Parsha , with the Help Of HaShem , Yosef had helped interpret the dreams of the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers and the Chamberlain of the Bakers , and the Chamberlain of the Bakers was hanged , while the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers , was restored to his former position . Yosef had asked him to remember Yosef , when the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers was restored to his position , but The Torah Tells us at the end of the previous Parsha , that the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers " did not remember Yosef but forgot him . " The reason this verse repeats the idea of how he did not remember Yosef , and also forgot him , was because the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers , tried many ways to remember Yosef to mention what Yosef had done in interpreting the dreams , with the Help Of HaShem , trying to remember , to tell the authorities and Pharaoh , but he kept forgetting . He even tried tying reminders around his wrist , fingers and arm , but still kept forgetting . We are told the reason he kept forgetting , was because Satan came and kept making him forget , and also removed the reminders he would put on his fingers , wrist and arm . And so , Yosef had to stay an extra two more years in prison . The reason HaShem allowed this , was because Yosef was a Tzaddik and so , was judged much more harshly . Yosef , as a Tzaddik , should have rather had faith in HaShem , to let him out , rather then try and rely on human help . For this reason , our Parsha this week , starts with Yosef two years later , when HaShem was ready to let Yosef out . So Yosef the Tzaddik , had to spend another two years in prison because he asked the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers to speak to Par'o Pharaoh for him so he could get free . All HaShem Does is for our own benefit , even though it may not appear so at the time , for even though he had to spend that extra two years in prison , the time had to be right for Yosef's sudden rise to power, which would not have happened , had he come out earlier . He had already spent ten years in prison before the extra two years , where that ten years was to atone for each of the ten brothers that he brought reports back to his Father , a year for a brother report , so now , the " Mikeitz " - " The Happening " which also has within it , the Hebrew word " Keitz " - " The End / Final Point " had arrived , and Yosef was to suddenly rise to power . The day was Rosh HaShanah , when HaShem Judges the World , that Pharaoh had his dreams , and so , Did HaShem Judge that the Years of Plenty and then Years of Famine was to occur . We are told that Pharaoh had before , had minor dreams up to this point to do with this happening , but the day came , " to the day " as the Torah States , that the History of the Jewish people was to make their prophesied occurrence , where it would result in Yaakov's family coming to Mitzrayim Egypt . Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing over the river , out of which came seven cows of beautiful appearance and robust flesh , and they were grazing in the marshland, after which , seven more cows of ugly appearance and gaunt flesh came out of the river and they stood next to the other cows and then ate them . Pharaoh awoke and then fell asleep again and dreamed of seven ears of grain that were sprouting on a single stalk - healthy and good and then after them grew seven ears thin and scorched by the east wind , that swallowed up the healthy and full ears and then Pharaoh awoke . With these dreams , HaShem Had Given to Pharaoh the interpretation , but hidden within them , and would only reveal itself for the correct interpreter's interpretation via HaShem , so Pharaoh would know who is interpreting for him correctly . The dreams also bothered Pharaoh , for at the time , the Pharaoh's were falsely thought to be deified , and here , Pharaoh had to stand over the River and watch the happenings , yet was shown he had no control over anything , thus a blow and a showing of how he and all Pharaoh's are just human beings , and that they did not create the Nile , unlike how they thought at the time . Here was G-D , The True G-D , Showing , How Only He, HaShem G-D , Created the Nile , and Creates Creation , and that no human , or man , is deified . Only G-D , Is G-D . Pharaoh called all his advisers and necromancers , but none could interpret the dreams for him , testing them , by leaving out parts of the dreams , to see if they would know the dreams , but none of them did . One adviser said he would have seven sons and then seven daughters . Another spoke of a wonderful harvest of wheat and still another spoke of seven nations being beaten by Pharaoh and being forced to be under Egyptian rule , but would rebel . None of these interpretations were acceptable or true , for deep down , HaShem Had Given Pharaoh an inkling of the meaning , and nothing they said , matched this inner feeling , HaShem Had Given him . It was then that the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers remembered Yosef and told Pharaoh of what Yosef had done - With The Help Of HaShem , in interpreting his and the Chamberlain of the Baker's dreams and how they had come true , only with the Help of HaShem , and only through HaShem . Suddenly Yosef was rushed from the prison and cleaned and shaved and dressed and brought before Pharaoh , to stand on the bottom of the seventy steps leading up to Pharaoh's throne . Yosef gave credit to HaShem , who is the True Interpreter of dreams , for all things come from HaShem , Who Makes all things . Pharaoh tested Yosef , by saying that he , Pharaoh was standing on the bank of the river , and Yosef corrected him by saying that , ' No , but you were not standing on the bank of the river , but you were standing over the river . ' Pharaoh asked Yosef how he knew this , and if he had been standing behind Pharaoh while he ( Pharaoh ) dreamed , but Yosef again gave correct credit to HaShem . From HaShem , Yosef related to Pharaoh that there would be seven years of plenty followed suddenly by seven years of terrible famine and that Pharaoh should appoint someone to organize grain for the years of famine , during the years of plenty . The fact that there were two dreams similar , showed that HaShem would hasten its happening , for it stood ready to take place . Pharaoh knew this was the true interpretation , for as I said , HaShem Had Implanted within Pharaoh's dream , it's interpretation , to reveal itself only for Yosef . From one moment being a prisoner , to suddenly be brought before Pharaoh and win his favor By HaShem , happened not a moment too late or too soon , from when it was supposed to . Yosef's sudden rise to fame , happened in it's time , with not a single moment more to wait , thus the suddenness with which he was brought before Pharaoh . This will be just like the coming of Moshiach , though he tarry , at the Time Of HaShem Sending him , it will happen very quickly in its time , like a flood , when the time of the " Keitz " - " the Final Moment " comes - thus the Word " Miketz , " - " The Happening in its time . " Pharaoh wanted to appoint Yosef Viceroy of Egypt , but Pharaoh's advisers objected , saying he is a Hebrew and a slave . Pharaoh answered them that Yosef does not appear to be a slave , but is of obvious cultured and well mannered stock ( Kavod to his Father Yaakov and Grand - Father Yitzchak and Great Grand - Father Avraham . The advisers to Pharaoh , still objected , that a viceroy must know all seventy languages . HaShem that night sent the Malach Angel Gavriel ( the only Angel to also know Aramaic ) , to teach him all the languages of the nations . To aid and assist Yosef , HaShem Added a ' Hey ' Letter From His Own Name to Yosef's name , so it could also be ' Yehoseif ' and so , did Yosef learn all the languages , and then appeared before Pharaoh and the advisors the next morning . Yosef starting on the bottom step , had Pharaoh talk to him in each language and as Yosef answered in that language , Yosef would climb a step per language he answered in to Pharaoh ( who also had to know all the languages , in order to be Pharaoh ) , until he , Yosef , had climbed all seventy steps and stood directly before Pharaoh , who made him Viceroy of Egypt and gave him a name " Tzafnas Pa'neach , " - " He who explains what is hidden / Revealer of hidden things . " According to the Zohar , this was ordained by HaShem , so that when Yosef's brothers would come before him , they would not know his name is Yosef . Yosef knew one more language more than Pharaoh , the language of Hebrew , for no matter how Pharaoh tried to learn it , he could not grasp it for it was too holy for him ( for he was filled with Tum'a Impurity ) , and Yosef had to assure him that this fact that Yosef knew one more language more than Pharaoh , Yosef wouldn't reveal . Pharaoh handed Yosef his ring , and Pharaoh only outranked Yosef by the throne . He dressed him in fine linen , put a gold chain around his neck and set him on the royal chariot , appointing him over all Egypt . Pharaoh also gave him Osnas as a wife , who still wore Yaakov's family emblem as a pendant around her neck , for though she was adopted by Potiphar and Zulaicha , she was originally Yaakov and Leah's grand-daughter , daughter of Dinah and Shechem . As Yosef was being taken through the city on royal horseback , the females above tried to get the attention of the new viceroy , but Yosef , only looked up toward Heaven , thanking and blessing HaShem . It was then that Osnas threw him , her pendant , and looking up at her , knew her and who she was , for when Yosef was younger and living with his Father Yaakov , Yosef and Asenath ( now Osnas ) had often sat and spoken to each other by streams and in the open field , as he taught her of the sweetness of HaShem's Light , in the Creation of Life of all of Creation . Asenath , was treated at the time in her youth , as a bit of an outcast , having been the daughter of the union of Dinah and Shechem , and so , Yosef took it upon himself to watch over her and remind her of her holy value . Yosef was thirty years of age when he stood before Pharaoh . Pharaoh had a throne made for Yosef of pure gold and silver , with a picture of the Nile River engraved on it . As HaShem Had Shown Yosef and so had Yosef related , the years of abundance came swiftly . Yosef had told Pharaoh that the dream , was a " single one . " By referring to the dream as a " single one , " here again , With HaShem's Help , Yosef had shown that by the very fact that it had become a " single one , " it showed , and he was telling Pharaoh , that they were actually two separate dreams , and coming one after the other as one single dream , even though Pharaoh had not directly told Yosef that they were two separate dreams , and that Pharaoh had awoken in between . The very fact that they were two separate dreams , showing the same things , this showed HaShem's Urgency To Fulfill HaShem's Word to Pharaoh and so , after the years of plenty , in which Yosef had stored one fifth away for the years of famine , while people still had food on their table , as the years of Famine started , instantly , that food rotted and devastation and hunger became the state of the day . People hungered and came to Pharaoh for grain , but Pharaoh told them to go to Yosef . Yosef told them he would give them grain only if they praise HaShem and if some even circumcise themselves . Yosef's hidden reason for requesting this , was that he prophetically was shown that we would end up in Egypt and he did not want us to lose our keeping of this Law of circumcision , so he thought it would be easier if those around us did too . The people complained at what Yosef asked for and they went to Pharaoh saying that Yosef wants ' outrageous things . ' Pharaoh questioned them as to what Yosef had asked them to do and when hearing what it was , reminded them that if not for HaShem and Yosef , they would not have any food at all , and so they must listen to Yosef . Yosef had two sons with Osnas , Manasseh and Ephraim . Yosef knew that his brothers would eventually come to Egypt to buy grain , knowing that even there in Canaan , the famine struck , so Yosef instituted certain laws to ensure that they would be brought before him . All who bought grain , had to come themselves , and were not allowed to send a servant or messenger , thus ensuring that the brothers would have to come personally . All who bought grain , would only be allowed to carry one donkey - carrying amount per person , thus ensuring that all his brothers would have to show themselves . All who came to Egypt to buy grain, would have to give details of their name and their Father's name and from where they came , so that Yosef , who requested every night , the list of incomers , would straight away notice his brothers arrival . All who bought grain , were not allowed to sell it as a business , but could only buy it straight from Egypt , thus ensuring that his brothers would have to come directly . The Parsha says that Yaakov perceived that there were provisions in Egypt . That is a very hidden way to put it . The reason for putting it this way , is that Yaakov never lost hope that he would find Yosef again and so , the word for " Provisions " - " Shever " also means " Hope , " thus pointing to a hope that the brothers might find Yosef , who might have ended up there . So the brothers were sent to Egypt to buy grain , where Yaakov told them to try to look for him there , but to separate and enter through different gates when they would go over the border and make a search for him . Every night after his day's work , Yosef would ask for the list of incomers to be brought to him , to peruse . One night , while reading through them , Yosef noticed that through different gates separately , were the names Reuvein ben Yaakov , Levi ben Yaakov , Simeon ben Yaakov and all his brothers names , entering through separate gates and looking around the city in different areas . Yosef knew what they were doing , but decided to accuse them of being spies , as this is what spies do . They were all caught and brought before him . Yosef recognized them , but they did not recognize him , as he was now a grown strong man with a beard and part of his face covered , and a different name , the name that Pharaoh had called him , which was " Tzafnas Pa'neach . " He accused them of being spies over and over again . He put them in a ward for three days and no matter how they asked to be released , they were not let out . They remembered what they had done to their little brother Yosef , who cried and begged them to release him and to please not send him away and now , they knew they were paying for that sin . Yosef didn't do any of this out of malice , but wanted to test them to see if they had changed and if they would finally stand up for Rachel's other son Binyamin , when he would eventually be brought before Yosef . Yosef had the brothers released and only kept back Simeon , and told them to return to their Father and bring back Binyamin , to prove that they were not spies . It was Simeon , who had thrown Yosef in the pit as a boy . Reuvein reminded his brothers that he had warned them not to hurt Yosef and now they were all paying for what they did . They were forced to return home without Simeon , for Yosef had told them that he would release Simeon when they returned with Binyamin , so as to ' prove that they were not spies . ' Yosef had their money returned to their sacks and it was Levi who first had the worry and heart-ache of being the first one to find the money returned , thinking a charge would be leveled on them , for it was Levi , who had said , when Yosef was a boy at the incident of them selling him , " Ah behold the dreamer comes . " Yosef was actually giving them all a spiritual opportunity to atone for what they did . When they returned to their Father , Yaakov never let them go with Binyamin , even when Reuvein offered to have his two sons slain if he let his Father down Chas Ve Shalom , but still Yaakov never let them take Binyamin , reprimanding them for telling this Viceroy so much , that they had another younger brother . They spoke up and said that this Viceroy seemed to know spiritually a lot about them and how should they know not to tell him that there is another brother , that this Viceroy would ask for him to be brought down there too . The brothers told their Father Yaakov how much this Viceroy seemed to know about them . This Viceroy told them he could foresee their births and what wood was used in their baby cradles , what their habits were , and even what each one liked and didn't like . The brothers told their Father , how this Viceroy had told them they are searching for a relative in Egypt , and that was why they entered different gates and that if they might have looked hard enough and close enough , they may have found him . The brothers did not tell their Father how this Viceroy had said that they had once committed an act against a relative and that he ( this Viceroy ) seemed to know their wrong . The one thing Yosef did not fully consider , was how much anguish , this new worry to Yaakov , of keeping Simeon back and wanting to see Binyamin , before releasing Simeon , might cause Yaakov and for all the time that this was the case . This caused Yaakov very much pain and anguish , and surely , Yosef is and would truly be sorry for this , for surely , Yosef never meant to cause his dear and very beloved Father , any pain or anguish . May HaShem , and Yaakov , forgive Yosef for this and Bless Yaakov with many Brochas , for each moment of anguish Yaakov ever suffered and felt . The grain the brothers had brought back from Egypt , dwindled and their Father Yaakov again asked them to go to Egypt to go and buy more grain , but they refused , saying that they would only go if Binyamin would go too . Yehudah assured his Father that he would personally guarantee him and only then did Yaakov allow them to take Binyamin and go . Yaakov told them to take the returned money , back to Egypt , a letter to the Viceroy pleading to let Binyamin and their other brother ( meaning Simeon , but also prophetically meaning Yosef ) go and also a tribute of things from Canaan as a gift . The Brothers returned to Egypt and again came before Yosef . This was now the fulfillment of Yosef's dreams with them . When Yosef saw his younger brother Binyamin , the son of both his Mother and Father , he asked that preparations be made to dine with him in his palace , which Pharaoh had built him for three running years . The Brothers returned the double money they had brought back , to Yosef's son ( not knowing it was Yosef's son ) and were put to wait for Yosef to return home . Yosef had food prepared in the Kosher way , and the brothers were amazed . Yosef held up his silver cup and pretended to look into it and so , place set everyone at the table from oldest to youngest . Yosef said to Binyamin , ' do you have any children ' and Binyamin responded yes and that he had , and he had named all his children in a way that had a hidden connotation to the dear beloved brother of his , Yosef , that he had lost . It was then that Yosef could no longer contain himself and he had to leave the room to weep . He returned and asked Binyamin about his Mother and Binyamin told him that she had passed away . Yosef responded , that seeing as he also had no Mother , they would both sit together . Then they ate . The brothers were forced to eat a meal with anxiety , wondering what charges may be brought on them . This was a punishment for the meal they sat down to eat , straight after they sold Yosef . Yosef purposefully had Binyamin served a portion five times the portion of the other brothers , to test them if they had gotten over their jealousy issues . Yosef left the table and returned shortly afterwards with an astrology chart , asking Binyamin if he was able to read it and Binyamin said that he could . Yosef asked him to study it closely and to see if he could work out where his lost brother was . Binyamin , was shocked to see that his beloved brother Yosef was sitting right next to him , but Yosef quickly took him aside , Yosef putting his finger on his own mouth as if to motion to Binyamin not to say a word and so , Yosef revealed himself to Binyamin and told Binyamin that he would now test the brothers but not to say anything or let anything on , of what was being done , to test them . The Brothers spent the night there . Yosef told his son to prepare for them to leave early in the morning , and to put Yosef's silver goblet in the sack of the youngest one . They were then followed , caught up with , and the search made , with the goblet being found in the youngest one's sack , and so they were forced to return to Egypt . Yosef told them that only Binyamin must be the one to stay and be a slave and that the others could go . It was then , that one of the Brothers Yehudah , stepped forward and spoke to Yosef and this is where this Parsha ends . Ever so deeply and sweetly , in this Parsha , do we see the Holy Hand Of HaShem . HaShem Knows the exact time that things need to happen , and this is In His Own Time - and His own " Ketz , " and not before it . So When HaShem Chooses when that time is the right time , then all that follows it , comes like a flood . HaShem Is The Only One , Who Knows every tiny and minute detail and HaShem Is The Only One Who Knows when that Right Time Will be . Only HaShem Can See the full picture and Only HaShem Is All Knowing and All Seeing . To be worthy to behold HaShem's Shechinah , we need to be totally pure and totally Holy . Just like the purity of the one single drop of Olive Oil , that is squeezed from that very first squeeze of each olive , that is the only pure unsedimented drop of Olive Oil , worthy to light the Menorah . So must we be the same , squeezed with tests of Holiness , and pure of heart and soul , in the service of HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu . Our Haftorah , is of the Wisdom , Given by HaShem , of Shlomo Hamelech . In the Haftorah , two women appear before King Solomon , both claiming the remaining child is theirs . When the first one started to speak , she spoke with respect and purity and modesty , and when she addressed the King , she humbled herself , referring to herself , as the King's maidservant - " your maidservant ' ( 1 Kings 3 : 20 ) , thus showing her humility and modesty , while the other woman was brash . The first woman , also felt quite moral to say that it was only them in the house ( verse 18 ) , which showed the King her confidence and honesty that she felt quite confident in her own truth , to be saying that there could not have been anyone else but them , thus showing her own innocence . The very humility and moral respect of the first woman , and the very brashness of the second woman , already told Shlomo Ha Melech , whose child it was , but to make sure , he tested them , with the sword , and with his Wisdom , for sure , the real Mother would care more for her child's life , then for herself , and so , with the Help Of HaShem , the true Mother was revealed . Such is the purity and modestly of the true followers of HaShem . Our people , are to be a holy people , faithful and humble to HaShem , just as Shlomo Ha Melech was humble , as was Yosef humble and faithful to HaShem . True Tzaddikim , show HaShem's Light to the World . Even when Shlomo Ha Melech built the Temple , he built the windows smaller on the inside and larger on the outside , to show how HaShem's Light Spreads outwards , as it must do with us . Each one of us are HaShem's Messengers and we are each and all , to let that Holy Purity spread outwards to the World . We are always to be pure , and if we keep ourselves pure , just as Yosef kept himself pure , in the impure surroundings of Egypt , HaShem Will Then Bring the " Ketz " - " The End Of Days , " that we all await , for when This Holy Time Comes , it will , just like in this Shabbos Parsha with Yosef , " Mikeitz , " - " Happen and Suddenly Come like a flood . " If we all obey HaShem. And rid ourselves of foreign ways and beliefs , following only In The Footsteps Of HaShem And His Holy Torah , then we can usher in This Final Time of the ' End Of Days . ' HaShem Waits every day and every moment To Bring on the End Of Days , the " Ketz , " but by our wrong actions , and by those who do not follow HaShem and His Holy Torah and Laws and by those who stray , Chas Ve Shalom , we are delaying the Time , The Ketz , of the End Of Days With HaShem . If one Jew goes away from Judaism and Torah , it affects us all and delays the Time of Redemption. If just one Jew shuns a Torah Way of life , The Way of HaShem's Will , that affects us all . One Jew that doesn't keep Shabbos , can hurt another Jew even far away . Each Jew , as our Tradition Teaches , is responsible one for another . We are all one . We are all HaShem's Creation and so , must learn to behave like it . Yosef , a very holy man , would not , in any way , no matter what test was put his way , stray from HaShem's Will . Even though he was in Galus Exile , he still kept to HaShem's Laws . His sons did too . In fact , when we bless our children on Shabbos , we bless them to be like Ephraim and Manasseh , who , even though they grew up in a non Jewish environment , never forgot who they were , and continued to follow the Tenets of HaShem for our people , not letting themselves be tempted away from Torah Yiddishkeit Judaism , for our Forefathers kept the Torah instinctively , even before it was given to us on Har Sinai . For HaShem and His Instructions , we are to stay strong in Torah Yiddishkeit Judaism , and so , warrant and deserve the " Mikeitz Ketz " - " The Happening of the Final Days , " at the End of Days . The World today is similar to how it was in Yosef's day , in the wrong temptations to other false beliefs and wrong faiths , which were plentiful then as they are now . Let us remember That HaShem Rewards those who are faithful to Him , Just As HaShem Did With Yosef , And Just As HaShem Will Do with us . This being just a few days after Rosh Chodesh Teves , and a few days into the New Month of Teves , it is a good time to change , as is any . On Rosh Chodesh , we Jews are as a people renewed , as the New Moon , and so , Rosh Chodesh and the first few days afterwards , is as good a time as any time , to renew our faithfulness and love of HaShem and His Laws Faithfully kept Al Pi Ha Torah . So let us all work together , as Yosef did , to stay faithful and true to Judaism , and shun foreign ways and beliefs , like the foreign beliefs that the Chashmonaim shunned and fought against , in the time of the hellenists , which the Festival of Chanukah reminds us of , which we just celebrated , where the purity of pure Olive Oil , like the purity of faithfulness in HaShem Alone , as the One And Only G-D And Creator , teaches us , to stay faithful to G-D , and to shun all foreign ways and beliefs , and so , to work together , to bring on the " Miketz Keitz , " - " The Happening of the End Of Days , " May It Come Soon In our days , With HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With The Very Deepest Of Love , A Very Sweet And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With Everlasting Love , and to all my fellow Jews , with love , a Blessed Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love . Shabbat Shalom to all of Creation . May the End Of Days Come Soon In Our Days . Shabbat Shalom with Love .

Parashas Vayeishev Chanukah :- Our Parsha this Shabbos Chanukah is Parashas Vayeishev . The last Parsha finished on the subject of Eisav's descendants and so this Parsha continues with Yaakov's descendants , focusing on Yaakov and Rachel's son Yosef . Seeing as this Shabbos also comes on the Second Day of Chanukah , we also read as the Maftir , Bamidbar Numbers 7 : 18 - 23 , and the Haftorah for this Shabbos Chanukah , is Zechariah 2 : 14 - 4 : 7 , and connects with Shabbos Chanukah by referring to the Menorah . Yaakov " Vayeishev " - " Settled " in the Land where his Father and Grand-Father sojourned , in the land of Canaan . This Parsha refers to Yosef being seventeen years of age . It was about this time that Leah passed away and seeing that Yosef's Ima Rachel had passed away at the birth of Binyamin , Yosef was actually raised by Bilhah , Yaakov's other wife , linked to Rachel . Torah refers to Yosef as a "Youth with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah , " for Yosef used to be closer to the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah , as the sons of Leah , except Reuvein , used to talk down to Bilhah and Zilpah's sons , referring to them as 'sons of the maid , ' so Yosef ' being the kind of Tzaddik that he was , put his time more to the looked -down - upon sons of Yaakov . Torah refers to Yosef as a " youth " in reference to his teen years being cognizant of his appearance . Torah Says that Yosef used to bring " Es Dibatam Ra'ah , " - " Evil Reports , " about his brothers . Not that Yosef was Evil , but his intention was that they be Tzaddikim , and he reasoned that reporting them , would give the opportunity for them to be corrected and grow into Tzaddikim . His reports , were not based on fact , but rather his opinion of what he thought he was perceiving . As an example , he once witnessed his brothers eating from an animal and , because the animal , even though it had been shechted , still quivered , so he perceived that they were eating from a living animal , which they were not . There are certain Halachic rules regarding this , and what they did , did not go against strict Halocha , though he perceived it wrongly . Another time there was question about the animal's unborn , within it , and there again , he doubted their correctness and so , with other instances , did he misunderstand what he saw and reported them to his Father , again not for the reason of malice , but with pure intentions , that they be taught the right way . He should have approached them himself , but he reasoned that due to their ill feeling toward him , they wouldn't listen anyway . Torah Says that Yaakov loved Yosef more than all the sons since he was a " Child of his old age . " Though this may sound self-explanatory , there is certainly more meaning here . Yosef, would stay home learning , unlike his brothers , and seeing that Yaakov was aging , Yosef , would put himself out to look after his Father and be a physical support to lean on and so does Torah refer to Yosef as a son of Yaakov's old age . Also , Yosef , was a soul very much like his Father , the two looking alike , and having similarities in their life-course , like both having a brother or brothers that hated them , both dreaming holy dreams , both marrying women away from their birth-place , both having a total immersed love for HaShem's Laws and Learning , and both Yaakov and Yosef , being connected with the woman Yaakov loved most , Rachel . Also , Yaakov knew what it felt like when his Father put Eisav as First-born , though Yaakov was the holier , and so , Yaakov did make sure this wouldn't happen again and so was Yosef accredited for his holiness and made the favorite , though this was wrong to the others . So , to inaugurate Yosef's holiness , his Father did something that would appear as though he was being made higher , for Yaakov made for him a " fine woolen tunic . " Such things , in that day and age , were usually worn by royalty or by those , put in a high position above others , and so , the other sons hated Yosef , as if he was being put over them . Torah Says that they couldn't speak to him peaceably and so , some of them didn't even speak to him at all , for as Tzaddikim , they couldn't be false and hide their hatred for him with sweet false words , so they rather did not speak to him at all . Yosef dreamed a dream and he told his brothers , not in order to boast , but hoping they would respect him more and love him more . He dreamed that they were binding sheaves in the middle of the field and Yosef's sheaf arose and remained standing and his brother's sheaves gathered around and bowed to his sheaf . This was actually a future prophecy , for later on , his brothers did come before him when he was viceroy of Mitzrayim . His intention was not a bad one , but they hated him even more , wrongly thinking that he was after ruler - ship, when he wasn't at all . He then dreamed another dream , where this time the sun and moon and eleven stars bowed to him . Again , this was not his own doing , but prophetic , for eleven of his brothers would in the future stand before him when he would be viceroy in Egypt . Yosef related it to his brothers alone first and then to his Father and Brothers again and his Father scolded him , not because his Father didn't understand Yosef's holiness , but Yaakov tried to play it down so that the brothers wouldn't be so angry at Yosef . Yaakov knew it was prophetic , for Yosef's dream had referred to Yaakov as ' the sun ' a word HaShem called Yaakov when he had the dream of the ladder , so Yaakov knew this dream was from HaShem . The moon, was in reference to Bilhah , who raised Yosef , for Yosef's Ima Rachel had so very sadly passed on . Yosef's brothers hated him even more . Yosef's brothers had gone to pasture their Father's flocks in Shechem , and Israel Yaakov called his son Yosef to check on their welfare and the welfare of the flocks and so Yaakov sent Yosef from Chevron to Shechem . On the way , Yaakov taught Yosef the Law of the Eglah Arufah , the Law of the man who is a stranger and visitor to a town and is found killed near but outside the town and no one knows who killed him and what the closest town does . That would be the last time Yaakov would see his son for as many years , as Yaakov went away from his Father . Torah Tells us how Yosef couldn't find his brothers and came across a man in the field . This man was actually the Malach Angel Gavriel , who told him , " They have journeyed on from here , for I heard them saying ' Let us go to Dothan . ' " This was actually a warning hidden , to Yosef , meaning that his brothers had now 'gone far away from brotherhood towards him and have journeyed on to Dothan , ' where Dothan is from the root " Dat " which means ' to judge ' in other words they have gone to sit in judgement against Yosef . Yosef , knowing in the beginning when his Father asked him to go , that his brothers hated him , could have said no , but being a Tzaddik , he obeyed his Father and said , as his Great Grand-Father Avraham used to say to HaShem , " Hineini , " - " Here I am , " ready to do Your Bidding HaShem , no matter what the cost , I trust You HaShem . The brothers saw him from afar and wanted to Judge him as to be killed Chas Ve Shalom and Levi said , " Look , the dreamer comes . " Simeon was the one who said to kill him and throw him into one of the pits and say a wild beast killed him . Simeon knew full well that these pits contained snakes and scorpions as Simeon had once had a previous encounter almost falling into one of these pits and almost getting bitten and so , was that the character of Simeon , wanting Yosef killed . Reuvein , the eldest , knowing he had lost the First-born right to Yosef , still wanted to try and save Yosef and so he intervened . Reuvein said he should not be killed , first intending to rescue Yosef from their hands and then return him to his Father . And so , they stripped Yosef of his fine woolen tunic , beat him and threw him into one of the pits . Ishamaelites came with spices and it says that Midianite traders bought Yosef , for Yosef was sold from one set of travelers to another , a few times , before he got to Egypt. The Midianite traders who first bought him , didn't at first believe such a handsome and pure looking person as Yosef , could be these men's slave boy , but again Simeon spoke up and a bill of sale was written out as a guarantee that they had a right to sell him . Ishmaelites usually traveled this route from Gilead to Egypt , to sell their spices and wares , and so , Yosef was brought to Egypt , crying and longing for his Father and his home . Reuvein had left to go and pray , as he did day and night , repenting for his Aveirah of disarranging his Father's Couch , and when he returned , he found the pit empty and Yosef gone and so asked , " where can I go , " in reference to him ( Reuvein ) being the First - born and losing that position to Yosef , because of Reuvein's Aveirah , and so wondering that if now Yosef is gone , what position is Reuvein now in level spiritually and also that he felt responsible now for coming back and not finding and being able to save Yosef . The brothers slaughtered a goatling in the proper way , thus a middah knegged midah against Yosef who questioned their shechting methods , and they dipped Yosef's tunic into it's blood and brought it to their Father and Yehudah handed it to their Father , and he said similar words to his Father as Yaakov had said to Yitzchak when going to his Father to get the Blessing instead of Eisav , so middah knegged middah , those words returned to Yaakov . Yaakov rent his garments and did not stop mourning for his son . Yitzchak was at this stage around 168 years of age . After the sons had sold Yosef , they sat down to a meal , fully believing they judged him correctly . This Aveirah was carried over the centuries , and exacted from us at the time of the Romans when the famous Ten Jewish martyrs were executed . This we read about in the Service of Yom Kippur . Yosef was changed many times from traders to traders , who finally brought him to Egypt . A man by the name of Potiphar saw him , and personally desired him , and so , bought him only after seeing the right of sale contract signed by the brothers ( not knowing they were Yosef's brothers ) . The name ' Potiphar , ' comes form ancient Egyptian dialect from the word ' Potiphara , ' and translates to ' Mutilated one , ' for after a disease that he had when he dared to desire Yosef for his own debased wishes , was punished with ending up like a eunuch . Torah describes Potiphar as " Seris Par'o , " where the word " Seris " can also refer to being mutilated as a eunuch . HaShem Sees All and so , the son Yehudah who would have been listened to , if he would have told the other brothers not to do this to Yosef , but said nothing , and also gave his Father such pain , in being the one to say to his Father , when bringing Yosef's tunic with blood , " Identify if you please , " was punished straight away by also losing his own sons and being kicked out by the other brothers , for the brothers saw that their Father was inconsolable , and so blamed Yehudah , for not stopping them . So Yehudah moved away from them , or as some Rabbis say , was chased away . HaShem Juxtaposes the story of Yehudah among the happenings in Torah of Yosef , To Also Teach us that HaShem Always Punishes for wrongs done , in HaShem's Own Time That HaShem Knows Best . Torah Tells us that Yehudah " Went down from his brothers , " and turned to an Adullamite man Hirah and there met and married the daughter of a prominent Canaanite , though many Rabbis and Onkelos translate the word K'na'ani as merchant . If she was a Canaanite , it might explain one of the reasons she and her two out of three sons had to die , for we , as a people are not to marry Canaanites . Three sons were born to Yehudah and this woman , Er , Onan and Shelach . Yehudah took Tamar for a wife of his first son Er . This woman Tamar , was actually a very holy woman as she was the daughter of Noach's son Shem ( also known as Melchitzeddek that Blessed Avraham after the war of the four kings against five , that Avraham had won and defeated when his nephew Lot had been captured - earlier on in the Book of Bereishis ) . Because Er did not want to spoil her beauty , he reasoned that she should not be made pregnant and so HaShem Caused him to die . Yehudah was the one to whom the Laws of Yibum were first given and so , in Levirate marriage , Yehudah then gave his second son Onan to Tamar , but Onan , thinking the seed would not be his , also did not want to impregnate her and so did not want to bring up children in his brother's honor and so , HaShem Caused him to die also . So did Yehudah feel how it is to lose a son , and in this case Yehudah lost two sons , thus being punished for what he put his Father through . Seeing as he blamed Tamar that she must be a woman who causes her husbands to die ( for he did not know that it was their fault ) , he withheld his third son Shelah from Tamar and had Tamar continue to wait in her Father's house . Tamar saw that Yehudah wasn't going to give Shelah to her when he grew up , after she waited many years , and Yehudah's wife had also died , so she decided , for the reason of genuinely wanting to have progeny through Yehudah's holy line , that she would remove her widow's garb and sit at the crossroads on the road to Timnah , seeing that Shelah , now grown , was still not given to her as a wife . When Yehudah saw her , he didn't recognize her , as she was always modest in his home , never showing her face but always keeping it covered . She agreed to be with him , had him sign a marriage contract as our Rabbis tell us and he was to leave as a pledge of the union , his signet ( the ring position of the royal line of Judah ) as his wedding ring to her , his wrap ( royal cloak cover ) and staff ( the staff representative of a king , for Yehudah's Tribe , was the line of kings ) . Tamar conceived by him and it was told to Yehudah that she was pregnant . Yehudah wanted her taken out and burnt , for she was as a Priest's Daughter ( daughter of Malchitzeddek ) that was still in the bounds of awaiting Levirate marriage to Shelah and if not him , then Yehudah would have been next in line to take her . She did not name Yehudah openly at her trial , but only had delivered to him , his signet , wrap and staff and asked " Identify if you please , " the same words Yehudah had said to his Father Yaakov , when hurting his Father with the Tunic of Yosef . Satan tried to hide the pledge she had gotten so as to try and kill her and stop the line of Dovid and Moshiach , who would be Satan / Samael's eventual downfall , And HaShem Sent the Malach Angel Michael to retrieve it and make it appear and now it was up to Yehudah , whether he would own up and embarrass himself , or hide his embarrassment and have her killed . Yehudah chose to save her and embarrass himself and do the right thing . The Holy Line of David was now born , from Yehudah and Tamar , that would come down generations later , as very holy Dovid Ha Melech and his line . This story of Yehudah and Tamar , was also interposed here within the story of Yosef , for both Tamar and Zulaicha ( Potiphar's wife ) both foresaw that they would have children with this holy family of Avraham Yitzchak and Yaakov , yet , Tamar's intention was one of holiness , unlike Potiphar's wife Zulaicha ( who ended up having her adopted daughter Asenath , who was originally Yaakov's grand daughter from his daughter Dinah , marry Yosef , even though Zulaicha thought it would be her herself who would be with Yosef ) , but Zulaicha who wasn't at all holy , had no holy intention at all . The Torah narrative returns to Yosef in Potiphar's house . A Hebrew was not looked upon favorably at that time to work in an Egyptian's house ( how that changed when we went into slavery in the Book of Shemos ) and a Hebrew was not even allowed to touch the food of an Egyptian , for they said we contaminate their Treife - UnKosher food . Potiphar saw that Yosef was very special and honest and trustworthy and eventually put Yosef in charge of his house , everything except , as Torah Says , " The Bread he ate , " for as I mentioned , we were not allowed to touch an Egyptian's food . This also means that Yosef was permitted all things , except Zulaicha , Potiphar's wife . Potiphar couldn't help but notice that Yosef was very physically appealing and nor did Potiphar's wife Zulaicha . Yosef felt more at ease in Egypt now , and so , HaShem Very Quickly Reminded him that a Jew should never feel totally comfortable and relaxed in Galus , And So , Sent Against him , the bear personality Zulaicha . Zulaicha saw in her astrology that she would have a family connection with Yosef and so she took it to mean that she would have children with him . This was totally incorrect , for the only family connection she would ever have with him , would be that he would marry her adopted daughter Osnas ( Asenath ) , who wasn't Egyptian at all , but , as I mentioned earlier , the Grand-daughter of Yaakov , and daughter of Yaakov's daughter Dinah . Thus Osnas was Dinah and Shechem's daughter ( Shechem being the the man who had taken Dinah forcefully and had kept her and had wanted to marry her , that the two sons of Yaakov , Simeon and Levi , had killed , when they freed their sister from that place ) , for Osnas had also been brought to Egypt . Thus she was actually Jewish . Zulaicha was completely taken by Yosef's looks to the point where she thought about being with him night and day . She pursued him continuously , changing and redressing herself five times a day to try and attract his attention , but Yosef would not even look at her . In fact , Yosef tried his best to avoid her and not serve her , but she continually called him , to run her bath , set her clothes , cream her , which he refused and fix her perfumes . Day after day , she hounded him and day after day , he refused her , saying he would not insult his G-D and his boss - master Potiphar . She even offered to kill her husband , but nothing worked and he removed himself from her presence . Yosef served his master Potiphar faithfully and whatever Potiphar would ask to drink , hot or cold , it would instantly be put that way by Yosef from HaShem , into Potiphar's hand . Potiphar even asked if Yosef is a magician , able to perform such magic , and Yosef , told Potiphar that it was all the Work Of HaShem , The One And Only True G-D And Creator Of Creation . Yosef taught Potiphar about HaShem . HaShem Revealed Himself To Potiphar , for the sake of Yosef , as a Spiritual Light above Yosef and so , Potiphar could not deny Yosef's holiness . Thus Yosef could not be swayed by Zulaicha . Zulaicha's friends noticed how Zulaicha was depressed and she invited them to dine with her and she called in Yosef , to show how she must look at him all the time and desire him . They too were taken with his looks , which he had obviously gotten from his Mother Rachel and Father Yaakov , and they advised her to command him to do her will , but that too didn't work . Yosef would not sin against HaShem . The day came which was a festival in Egypt for the overflowing of the Nile , an abundance of water for irrigation , that Egypt celebrated . Potiphar had asked his wife to come with him , but she refused , making out that she was ill and she sat in the doorway awaiting Yosef to walk past her , knowing he always came that way . She knew no one else would be in the house and so she planned to catch him . As he walked past her , he didn't even avert his eyes to the scantily clad silk-gowned Zulaicha , who tried to coax him to follow her , but he refused . She put her hands on him and tried her best to get him wanting her , but seeing an image of his Father Yaakov , he stepped back , thus slighting her , and leaving her rejected . She tried to physically grab him , but he managed to step free , and he turned to flee , and it was then that she caught the back of his garment and it got left in her hand as he ran from her . Knowing that she may not be believed by her husband , she got the other wives to lie and also deceitfully say that they had been molested by Yosef , and so when Potiphar returned , he found the husbands at his throat verbally , accusing his slave of things Yosef never ever did . Yosef truthfully maintained his innocence even though Zulaicha argued , and so , Potiphar called the Egyptian priests to judge and they asked where the garment of Yosef was grabbed . Hearing that it had been grabbed in the back , they said , he must have been fleeing and so , she must be lying . Yosef never forgot their kindness to him and repaid them royally when the future famine came . Zulaicha blamed Potiphera for bringing a Hebrew into their home and so , was Yosef judged wrongly . Even the adopted daughter Osnas , stood up for Yosef , saying how Zulaicha had constantly hounded him . Potiphar knew Yosef was innocent , but to save face , Yosef was put in prison . Not the usual prison for criminals , but another prison that was kept for those who insulted the royalty of Egypt . HaShem Watched over Yosef and even there , in the prison , Yosef was seen to be a man of worth . At night , Potiphar , the actual head of this Prison , would have Yosef come out , just to clean his house and then have to go back again . Still Zulaicha hounded him , but to no avail . HaShem Alone , Who Is Solely In Control Of All Things , Works His Special Works To Help us , and so , one day , the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers and the Chamberlain of the Bakers for Pharoah were put in the prison . It was the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers job , to put the cup into Pharaoh's hand , for drinking . That was his job . He had been blamed for an insect that had flown into the cup of wine , purely by accident . The Chamberlain of the Bakers , on the other hand , had purposefully tried to hurt Pharaoh , by putting a stone into what he had baked for Pharaoh . One morning , Yosef saw them downcast and they said that they had both dreamed a dream . Both had miraculously dreamed their own dream and hidden within each one's dream , was also the interpretation of the other's dream . Yosef had them relate their dreams , first the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers who dreamed of a grapevine with three tendrils that budded , blossomed and bloomed into grapes and the Chamberlain squeezed the grapes into Pharaoh's cup and then put it into Pharoah's palm . HaShem Gave Yosef the dream's interpretation which was that in three days , he would be restored to his post and do as he did before in his job . Also Yosef saw a prophecy for our people , of how HaShem Would Redeem us from Egypt with three individuals , Moshe Aharon and Miriam . Yosef asked this Chamberlain to remember him , when the Chamberlain would be set free , to please ask for his release , a mistake and lack of trust in HaShem . Then the Chamberlain of the Bakers , who already was given , as I mentioned , in his dream , the interpretation of the other's dream , knew that Yosef had with the Help Of HaShem , interpreted correctly , decided to then relate his dream of three wicker baskets on his head , where in the uppermost basket , was all kinds of food for Pharoah , where the birds were eating it . So did HaShem Give , Through Yosef To the Chamberlain of the Bakers , The Interpretation of this dream to mean that in three days , on Pharaoh's birthday , Pharaoh would hang the Chamberlain of the Bakers . So did everything happen , as HaShem Had Shown to Yosef . The Chamberlain of the Cupbearers tried many times to remember to help Yosef , but was repeatedly made to forget . So ends the Parsha . The Parsha is called " Vayeishev " - " Settled , " and starts out with Yaakov finally settling in the Holy Land , not yet ours . No sooner does Yaakov feel settled , then tragedy strikes and he is forced to be without his beloved son Yosef . HaShem Tells the Tzaddik , " Don't be settled and content yet , in this World of Olam Hazeh , for you have work to do , to bring this World to the Light of HaShem . " HaShem Tells the Tzaddik , that his peace and rest will come only in " Olam Habah " - " The World To Come . " Only in Olam Habah , will we finally " Vayeishev " - " Settle . " Everything else that we go through , every day , as Jews , is just a journey , even from one Gilgul to another , from one incarnation to another . Both Yaakov and Yosef , were Tzaddikim . Both had to go and Settle in strange lands for both Yaakov and Yosef had to settle in Egypt . Yaakov also had to settle away from home with Lavan . But Egypt was not our home . Only Eretz Yisroel is our true home . Wherever we are , HaShem Is Always with us . We are now celebrating the Festival of Chanukah , where a miracle was performed for us , for where there was only a cruse of Kasher Oil to last for one day , it lasted throughout the Eight days . Again , A Miracle From HaShem , That HaShem Reminds us , that no matter where may we find ourselves , our only place of " Vayeishev " - " Settling , " is with HaShem , and not with foreign pagan ways , Chas Ve Shalom . This is one of the Sweet Truths of Chanukah , and here , in our Parsha , is this message reverberated , for no matter where we find ourselves , we are to keep HaShem's Laws , no matter what outside pressure is put upon us . Yosef , in Egypt kept to our Laws , and remained a Holy Hebrew , even though he lived among heathens . So did Yaakov , who lived among those who so srongly worship idols . So must we also stay strong in our sole faithfulness to HaShem Alone . These places of and in Galus , are not our home , but a temporary abode , to do Miztvos and bring the Light of HaShem and raise ourselves to Heaven . Only is Canaan , referred to here , as " Vayeishev " - " Settling . " For only HaShem and His Holy Land ( the Land of our Fore-Fathers ) and HaShem's Way , True " Vayeishev " - " Settling . " We all face many trials and tribulations , and many tempters , like in the Story of Chanukah , that try to pull us away from HaShem's Path , Chas Ve Shalom , but these paths of falsity , couched in false religion , will never lead a person to where HaShem Instructs us , In His Holy Torah . The Way , Is Only HaShem's Way , And The Truth , Is Only HaShem's Truth , And The " Vayeishev " - " Settling , " Is Only With HaShem And His Holy Torah True . No Jew , who is a True Jew , can ever truly settle in anything else but In HaShem and In HaShem's Way And In HaShem's Holy Torah . It may feel physically okay for now , but the Jewish Neshoma cries out to HaShem , and Only HaShem's Settlement is True Home . As we light each Candle on the Chanukiah , so must we work to Light up HaShem's Creation with His Light , and as each candle on the Chanukiah burns upwards , so must all our works and actions , be for the sake of HaShem And His Heaven . Eight Days are Chanukah and Eight is the number into the Spiritual , into Olam Habah . It is only in Olam Habah that we Jews can truly " Vayeishev " - " Settle " and it is only in Olam Habah that we as Jews find True Settling Peace . Until we get there , we have much work to do , for we Jews are to be a Light unto the Nations ( Yeshayahu Isaiah 49 : 6 ) , and lead the World to HaShem's One And Only Truth Of Oneness . Chanukah teaches us to be faithful and true to HaShem Alone . This Parsha of " Vayeishev , " shows us that only within HaShem can we truly Settle . So let us use this World of Olam Hazeh to its full potential , and not lose a single opportunity to prove our faithfulness to HaShem's Torah Truth , making this World , into a Place , as Intended , where HaShem Can " Vayeishev , " - " Settle , " Among us , As HaShem Wanted To Do in Gan Eiden . May the World finally come to the Knowledge and Truth Of HaShem , For Within HaShem , Is The Only Place To " Vayeishev " - " Settle . " Our Fore-Fathers knew this . So may we all come to know this and do this and make " Olam Hazeh , " - " The Present World , " into " Olam Habah , " - " The World To Come , " In The Loving Care Of HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With The Sweetest Love , A Very Beautiful And Very Special Shabbos Kodesh And Chag Chanukah Sameach With Deepest Love , and to all my fellow Jews , a Very Special and Very Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh and Chag Chanukah Sameach with love . Shabbat Shalom to all of Creation . May " Olam Habah " come soon in our days .

Parashas Vayishlach : - Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Vayishlach . The Parsha Speaks of Yaakov and Eisav , beginning with a ' Vav ' as ' Va, ' which means ' And , ' showing as so many Parshas in the Torah , that each Parsha continues from the Parsha before It and that Torah continues eternally from Creation to the End of Days and beyond eternally .The Haftorah of this Parsha , is from Obadiah 1:1-21 and the Prophet Obadiah , is Given By HaShem , prophecies of the future of Edom , which relates to the Parsha , that also speaks of Eisav Edom . Obadiah himself was originally from Edom and he became a very righteous proselyte to Judaism and a very holy man . Those who come to HaShem , are HaShem's Special Jewels and Treasures . May the whole World come to HaShem , and shine and sparkle , bringing Creation ,back to HaShem's Beautiful Light . Our Parsha this Shabbos starts with Yaakov returning home and preparing to face Eisav , his brother . Yaakov sends Malachim - Angels , to Eisav his brother with a message saying that Yaakov had stayed with Lavan , a swindler and an evil man filled , with Tum'a Impurity , and had overcome him , as a message to Eisav that he , Yaakov could overcome Eisav . Also , that Yaakov is sending gifts to Eisav in peace . Yaakov was so holy that HaShem Had Given Yaakov power to command Malachim - Angels . The Malachim returned to Yaakov to tell him that Eisav was headed to meet Yaakov with four hundred men , thus suggesting that Eisav was not intending peace . Yaakov prepared in three ways to meet the threat , which was, by Tefillah Prayer , Appeasement of the enemy and failing appeasement , Yaakov prepared for War . Yaakov leading in front , separated the droves , putting Bilhah and Zilpah and their children of his , in front , walking behind him , then Leah and her children with him next and Rachel , shielded by the holy Spirituality of Yosef last . Each carrying under their cloak a sword . He separated each drove , so should Eisav smite one drove Chas Ve Shalom , the others could escape . They reached the ford of the Jabbok and Yaakov had his family go over , and then his animals and his possessions . When he returned back over the Jabbok to get the rest of his things , a man was there with flocks . The man asked Yaakov to help him with his things and that the man would also help Yaakov , even though there were just a few jugs left for Yaakov , but kind Yaakov offered help and took some of the man's things across . When Yaakov came back to help the man with the rest , those things that he had already carried over , had returned . And so , Yaakov carried on through the night carrying the man's things , just to have some of them return and more appear . Yaakov asked the man if he was a magician or an evil spirit and a fight broke out . The man attacked Yaakov and they fought till dawn , with dust rising from Earth to Heaven . Yaakov being extremely strong , over-powered and beat the man , but Yaakov himself was injured on his hip-socket , and so today , we remove this part when eating basar , called the Gid Hanashe . This is indicative of our history , that through time , the nations try to harm us , but we will always survive , though we will be hurt and injured and suffer through this time . The man was an Angel . The Angel Samael , the Angel of Eisav Amalek . Yaakov prevailed , as will we , at the End of Days . When dawn broke , it became one of the Time - Watches that Malachim Angels sing Shira - Songs to HaShem , and it became this Angel's time and first opportunity to sing Shira and so asked Yaakov to let him go . Yaakov said he would only let him go if the Angel Blessed him , thus an acknowledgement of the Blessing to Yaakov over his brother Eisav . The Angel did so and so was Yaakov then called Yisrael . The Angel , obviously unable to get back up in time , started to sing Shira from the Earth . Yaakov called the Place " Peniel . " HaShem Caused the " Sun To Rise " as it says , which meant , That HaShem Sent a Special Light From the Beginning of Creation , To Help Heal Yaakov . Yaakov and his family continued on their way and so , met up with Eisav and his four hundred men . Yaakov hid his daughter Dinah , which our Rabbis say was wrong as she , being so holy , might have had an effect on Eisav and so , was one of the reasons for what happened with regards to her , in this Parsha . Yaakov bowed seven times to the ground , in actuality , bowing not directly to his brother , but to HaShem's Shechinah and allowed himself to call his brother master and " adoni , " and because of this , HaShem , Who Did Not Want us to humble ourselves to Edom , made sure that Eisav would have that many rulers in number to the amount of times Yaakov called his brother by that title , before Israel as a nation , had a king . The Midrash describes how Eisav tried to keep overcoming his brother , but the meeting between the two ended up peacefully . Yaakov said he would meet Eisav at a later date at Seir , and our Rabbonim take this as a future prophecy . Seir belongs to Eisav . There are other Rabbinical opinions that say that Eisav was actually very friendly and and nice to his brother Yaakov , at this meeting . The two separated . Yaakov arrived in Shechem and bought a parcel of land and set up an altar there . Yaakov had not tithed to HaShem yet , as he had said he would , and so is this one of the reasons for his trials and his record constantly being brought up to HaShem , for scrutiny . So the next trial came upon the family . The Parsha says that Dinah , " the daughter of Leah " went out to look at a market festival of the Shechemites . We note how Dinah is mentioned here specifically as " the daughter of Leah , " for she , as her Mother Leah , liked to " Go out " as we were told, when in Torah earlier , Leah had gone out in the incident of the Dudaim . This teaches us how our men and women must be modest and keep to ourselves and not display ourselves , but have Tznius . Shechem , the son of the king in the land where they were staying saw her when she ' went out ' from her family to look over the daughters of the land at the festival , Shechem desired her and took her by coercive force and raped her . He spoke to his father and asked his father Hamor to get her for him as a wife . When Yaakov's sons heard , they were outraged . They agreed on condition that Shechem has its men circumcised . Yaakov's sons reasoned that all Creation is to live by the Seven Noachide Laws , and that seeing as Shechem had broken them by robbery of stealing by force their sister , and that the town had not set up a court to judge the crime , they were all guilty of breaking the Seven Noachide Laws . As Midrash Bereishis Says by Rabbi Weissman , a man called Chedkam and his sons were angry at the idea of the town having to be circumcised and they threatened murder to all those who went through with it . Members of the town persuaded them to wait and after they had been circumcised , they would rob and kill Yaakov and his family and take all that was theirs , hinted at , in the Torah Words in this Parsha , where the townspeople were persuaded with the king Shechem's words that about Yaakov's livestock and possessions and animals , " will they not be ours ? " Dinah managed to get word to Yaakov and the sons Shimon and Levi at the age of thirteen , on the third day after the Shechemites had circumcised themselves , that the Shechemites were planning to attack Yaakov's family , and these two sons of Yaakov , set upon the town and killed all the males and took back Dinah their sister , who by now was carrying within her a daughter , who later was born and was named Asenath , who married Yosef in Egypt . Yaakov was angry at their anger and feared reprisals , which did take place , for the nations around them got together and attacked Yaakov and his family . HaShem Saved them with massive dust storms and Yaakov and his family escaped unharmed . We are also told how , after Yaakov and Eisav parted , they did attack Yaakov and his family , but ended up dispersing , as they were beaten and Eisav was injured . HaShem Appeared To Yaakov And Told him to go to Beth-El Luz and make an Altar there and fulfill his promise of tithes . Yaakov rid themselves of all the idols that were carried and only taken as spoils by the foreign people that followed them , from Shechem , and they were left under the Terebinth near Shechem , in the ground . Torah then tells us that Devorah , Rivka's wet-nurse passed away . She was very close to Rivka , Yaakov's Mother , and that she was buried in a place Yaakov called Allon - Bachus - Bachus ( this word is in the plural ) , meaning Weeping . This part is put in here to tell us that at that very moment , Rivka , Yaakov's Ima had also passed away , but it is not directly mentioned here , for no one was there at the time as a close family relative to bury Rivka , except Eisav , whom Rivka would not have wanted to bury her and that all would say she mothered such a Rasha and so , she was buried quietly , for Yitzchak was blind and Yaakov was still on his way to her . This is why the word Allon - Bachus is plural , for the double weeping , of Rivka and Devorah . Thus after Yaakov left so many years ago , he never got to see his Ima again , and it was Devorah who had just come to meet them as they were on their way back to see Yitzchak and Rivka . HaShem Then Renames Yaakov Yisrael and Yaakov set up a pillar where HaShem Blessed him and called the place where HaShem Had Spoken To him " Beth - El , " which actually means , " House of G-D . " They journeyed from there toward Ephrath and it was there that Rachel went into labor . It is at this time when a woman is in labor when Satan scrutinizes a woman's account and so , it was remembered Yaakov's words that whoever has the teraphim will die , and so , as she was giving birth to Binyamin , whom she actually called " Ben-Oni " - " Son of my Mourning , " that she passed away and Yaakov called him " Binyamin " - " Son of my right hand , " so as to give him a positive name and destiny . And so was she buried on the road to Ephrath Beis-Lechem , not in the Cave of Machpelah as the Fore-Fathers and Fore-Mothers were , as she would in the future , when our exiles were , passing this exact place , going into Bavel under Nebuchadnezzar , that she prayed for us to HaShem and HaShem Listened to her prayer , for it would be there , that they would walk past on the way . HaShem Would Acknowledge her prayer because as she was prepared to stand aside and not be angry at her sister marrying Yaakov , so could HaShem Please put aside His Anger at some of us following Avodah Zorah Idols , that caused us to go into exile , as worthless idols . Yaakov set up a monument there at her burial place , which is still there to visit today . Torah then tells us how Reuvein did an Aveirah . This has to be understood in its Hebrew depth . Not that Reuvein Chas Ve Shalom , lay with his Father's wife , but that in each of his Father's Wives tents , was a Couch for the Shechinah of HaShem , so Yaakov would know which Tent to go into when conceiving the Twelve Tribes , and that when Rachel passed away , Yaakov moved his Couch into Bilhah's tent , and Reuvein , standing up for his Mother Leah , moved it out and into his Mother Leah's tent , so that his Father should not slight his Mother . We know that Reuvein did not commit a crime with his Father's wife , for the very next verse says , " The sons of Yaakov were twelve , " suggesting that they were all worthy of being part of the Twelve Tribes and were all Torah Keeping not to break Torah Laws and so this is what really happened , but seeing as Reuvein , as all the others then were Tzaddikim , the punishment for even a slight Aveirah , is great and so Reuvein lost his first born right and so , spent every moment praying to HaShem day and night for forgiveness . Even at the end of Yaakov's life , Yaakov still Blessed Reuvein as holy , so Reuvein's action was never one of taking his Father's wife , Chas Ve Shalom , but interfering with the Couch of The Shechinah and his Father's couch . Torah then tells us that Yaakov finally came to Yitzchak his Father , not Rivka , for she had passed away . We are told that Yitzchak passed away at 180 years of age , which was the same year ( according to Midrash Bereishis Says , by Rabbi Weissman ) , that Yosef was released from prison in Egypt . Yaakov and Eisav buried their Father Yitzchak in the Cave of Machpelah Chevron near Mamre . The Torah then goes into the line of Eisav and his wives . We note a lot of incest and intermarriage among Eisav's family . We also note how their arrogance had them calling themselves ' chiefs , ' and how the chiefs did not live that long as chiefs , for murder was and is rampant in Eisav's line . Out of Eliphaz , son of Eisav , came Amalek , our enemy who tries to kill us through time , among others . Magdiel , that is mentioned came down to Rome . We are repeatedly told here how Eisav is the father of Edom . So the Parsha ends . The Sedra is called " Vayishlach , " which means " Sent . " Where Yaakov sent Angels ahead of him to his brother . The whole idea of sending and being an Emissary for HaShem , Takes great Holiness . It is not always an easy path to travel , as we note with Yaakov's life and trials . We often wonder what exactly is an Angel . If one looks closely at the phrasing of the first three words of this Parsha , " Vayishlach Yaakov Mal'achim , " and we read these words in another context , it can almost appear as if saying , ' And Yaakov was sent as an angel . ' The " Vayi " part of the word " Vayishlach , " can be put also as ' And He , HaShem , Sent , ' as if saying , ' And He HaShem Sent Yaakov , as an Emissary . ' So what is an Angel ? An Emissary of HaShem . So we all can be Emissaries Of HaShem if we choose . If we keep HaShem's Commandments in The Torah . We all can be like Angels , working For HaShem and not for ourselves . No doubt that real Angels are Spiritual Entities . Even their negative counterparts , are too . Even those , do a job to bring about faithfulness to HaShem , to test all our true following of HaShem Only , above our own wants and desires . So to be like an Angel , is to be an Emissary for HaShem , working solely for HaShem and not for ourselves , just as Yaakov did his whole entire life , so no wonder , Yaakov was referred to as one . HaShem Sends us all out as His Angels and Emissaries , to do His Bidding and make Creation a place of Holiness where HaShem Can Dwell Among us . To make Creation a place of Holiness as intended , so each of us are HaShem's Emissaries , to use our lives in His Service to bring all around us to HaShem . We are all HaShem's Shaliachs Shluchim , like Angels , working to make all things Holy . But how do we start ? With ourselves , for the best way to teach , is through being a holy example to others and to all those around us . The Angel That HaShem Sends , is not to be asked for a name , for it is HaShem Who Is Important and the Sender of the Message , thus the messenger is The Hand of HaShem . The same is with us . To get close to HaShem , is very beautiful , but not just to be done for ourselves . What is Most Important , is to be a Messenger , an Emissary Of HaShem , The One Above . This is the way to be with HaShem . To be The Hand Of HaShem's Sending , in all that we do . We are only HaShem's Emissaries . The World around us has forgotten this and so , it sadly goes its own wrong way . This is why the World is in such a bad shape and is suffering so . The way to stop the suffering and change the World , to the Sweet and Bright Welcoming of HaShem , is to change ourselves and do our tasks as Creations of HaShem , as HaShem's Emissaries , not working for our own way , but For HaShem , following Him and doing As HaShem Tells us To Do , starting with ourselves , and working outwards . This will bring the Creation to where it is supposed to be and the World will improve . So stand up right now , and say to HaShem that from now on , you will be His Emissary Angel , working only for Him , Doing All That HaShem Tells you To Do , In His Torah , and be His Emissary to all of HaShem's Beautiful Creation around you . Let us all make this World , HaShem's Delight , As HaShem Created It , and be True and Faithful Shaliachs to and of HaShem , HaKadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Utmost Love And Faithfulness , A Truly Special And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh With So Much Love , and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , HaShem's Special Emissaries , A Truly Special and Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love .