Parashas Va ' eira : - Our Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Va ' eira . We learn in this Sedra of some of the plagues That HaShem Sends upon Egypt , Revealing Himself As The One And Only True G-D And Creator , To the Egyptians and To the World . The Haftorah for Parshas Va ' eira is in Yechezkiel Ezekiel 28 : 25 - 29 : 21 , and just like in the essence of the Parsha so is it in the Haftorah Where HaShem Starts Out the Haftorah With How He Will Take us out from the other nations and how we will dwell securely within our own Land and Home Eretz Yisrael . This Sedra starts with Elokim Speaking to Moshe And Telling him That He " Va'eira , " - " Appeared " To Avraham and to Yitzchak and to Yaakov As El Shaddai , where ' Dai , means ' Sufficient , ' Where HaShem Created Creation with limits within that Creation , by the Laws of Nature and how far those Laws extend but now That HaShem Was Going To Show Mercy To His People He Would Now Extend those normal Laws of Nature And Reveal His Magnificence And Show To all That He Is The One And Only Creator . This is an act of mercy for it gives the people the opportunity to come on to the right path and Follow Him for their own Good and so " A-donai - HaShem , " referring now to HaShem's Attribute of Mercy , Which He Would Now Make Himself Known As , HaShem Would Now Extend Beyond the Laws and Limits of The Nature He Created , Through the Wonders of the Plagues That He Would Perform . HaShem Here In Shemos 6 : 6 - 7 refers to four specific actions That HaShem Will Do For us Jews and these are That " I Shall Take you out ; I Shall Rescue you ; I Shall Redeem you ; I Shall Take you to Me as a people , " and so on Pesach night at the Seder we have four cups of Wine . In the next verse HaShem Tells us That , " I Shall Bring ... and I Shall Give , " and this fifth pronouncement , some say is commemorated by the other cup of wine for Eliyahu Ha Navi where we look toward the Messianic Era in which we will live safely and securely in our own Land of Israel ( also mentioned in this next verse I refer to ) . HaShem Tells Moshe to " Come " speak to Pharaoh to send the Children of Israel from his land . The word " Come " is used and not " Go , " for Pharaoh is still a king and must be respected as such with politeness and not aggressive orders . The Parsha then gives the family line of Moshe and Aharon , back to the Tribe of Levi showing their genuine worthiness of the positions That HaShem Gives them , being descended from this holy line . Aharon married Elisheva Bas Amminadav sister of Nahshon from the kingly Tribe of Yehudah . Torah also Tells us that one of Aharon's four sons Elazar married a daughter of Putiel ( which Ramban refers to as being either Yisro or Yosef ) and this union brought a very holy son called Pinchas who was the only one That HaShem Made a Kohein by his holy actions , due to his own actions of standing up for The Honour Of HaShem and also for the honour of his teacher Moshe in the Book of Bamidbar . Aharon's son Elazar married a daughter of Yisro , who was originally a Midianite priest whom they also called Putiel ( Puti-el ) which meant ' one who fattened offerings for an idol ' as before Yisro became a Ger Tzeddek , Yisro had tried every religion in the World till he came to the true realization that Only HaShem Is G-D And Only HaShem's Torah is to be followed . Moshe was 80 years of age and his brother Aharon was 83 years of age when they went unto Pharaoh and asked him to let our people go . Moshe gave Aharon his staff and Aharon cast down the staff before Pharaoh and Pharaoh's servants And HaShem Turned it into a snake . Pharaoh mocked them and told them that they are charlatans that come to a place of magic and perform and try and sell their magic and that he would not be taken in by tricks . Moshe responded that it is exactly for that reason that they perform By HaShem such an action for the Egyptians would thus be able to appreciate it . Pharaoh called his wise men and they did likewise . Aharon's snake ate up the others . Bilaam , an adviser to pharaoh , was that day present and mocked Moshe saying that such an action is not such a great feat , and if they really would want to show how good they are , let them have their staff consume the other staffs and so Aharon again threw the staff down and Moshe's staff ate up the other staffs , as a staff and this is why The Holy Torah says that Aharon's staff swallowed their staffs in Shemos 7 : 12 but Pharaoh's heart was stubborn and he did not heed HaShem . Every morning Pharaoh would go down to the Nile to bathe in order to try secretly rid himself of the Leprosy That HaShem Had Punished him with for his idol worship of himself . He went early so that no one would know that he was afflicted and needed help , for he did not want others to know that he might need the waters of the Nile to cleanse him for he had told everyone that he himself had created the Nile , what a blasphemy for Only HaShem Creates all things past present and future . So HaShem Told Moshe to meet him there the next morning and again tell him to let the people go . Each Plague that HaShem Sent was in sets of three where in each set of three , only for the first two would Pharaoh get a warning and the third one would come without a warning to Pharaoh . Our holy Rabbonim tell us that the warnings would be for three weeks and each plague lasted a week . No matter how Pharaoh would order his men not to let Moshe and Aharon in they would somehow with the Help Of HaShem still get in to speak to Pharaoh . So Moshe was there waiting for Pharaoh when he arrived and Pharaoh scolded Moshe for disturbing him for Pharaoh wanted to enter the River with nothing on and told Moshe to wait until he had finished bathing which Moshe politely did . HaShem Commanded Moshe to hand the staff to Aharon to start this Plague for Moshe felt that he should not smite a River that protected him as a baby when he was in the basket and so Aharon stretched out the staff and struck the water in the presence of Pharaoh and his servants and all the water turned to blood . It is however interesting that Aharon was not told to strike the water but to stretch out his hand over the waters of Egypt , as Moshe did later on in Torah even though Moshe was commanded not to . Could this possibly be why Aharon was included in the punishment of Moshe when Moshe struck the rock , for both brothers had struck that which HaShem Had Commanded them to do otherwise . Aharon here struck the water in front of Pharaoh and Pharaoh's servants . This first Plague was a punishment for the Jewish babies that were thrown into this very Nile and also for the Jewish children that this Pharaoh had savagely had slaughtered ( 150 of our Jewish babies in the morning and 150 of our Jewish babies at night for seven nights ) for his bath . Also the Egyptians made the Jews serve with rigor and the taskmasters beat them mercilessly so their sweat congealed with their blood that dropped on the floor in slavery . The entire Land of Egypt stank as the Egyptians used to mock the smell of the enslaved brick pit working Jews with the smell of the brick pits . Stones and Wood even in Pharaoh's Palace bled blood as did every drop of water , urine , sweat and tear become Blood to every Egyptian . Even the sweat of the Egyptians was blood as well as when they would go and do their natural habits of ablution . But the Jews had clean and pure water . If an Egyptian came to Goshen and took water , as soon as it touched his or her hand it instantly became blood . Even the saliva in the mouth of the Egyptians and their urine became blood . If their eyes watered , it became blood . Their very sweat was tainted with blood . Only if the Egyptians came to buy water from us did it remain water . The Chartumim - Necromancers of Egypt were also , through their powers of Tum'a Impurity , able to turn small amounts of water into blood and so Pharaoh's heart hardened . The Necromancers - Chartumim were totally impure . We see this within the Hebrew word for them for within the word " Chartumim " is the word " Tamei " - " Impure . " Egypt's disputes of border with Ethiopia was now settled , for though the River Nile was a long river going through Africa only the part that was in Egypt turned Red with Blood . HaShem Sent Moshe to Pharaoh to tell him to let us go to serve HaShem for should he refuse HaShem Would send Frogs throughout the boundary of Egypt , this Plague again would make it clear to Egypt what was their boundary . The word " Frog " - " Tzefardeah " ( which means ' to fit in ' ) named by Adam Ha Rishon , was as prophetic as all his namings of the animals for he foresaw that the Frogs would one day ' fit in ' to the ovens and bodies of the Egyptians , the frogs doing this action of self sacrifice purely for HaShem's Sake . This Plague was a punishment to the Egyptians who used to make the Jews collect all kinds of hideous and dangerous creatures , some far away , so that our Jewish men would be kept away from their wives in an attempt to stop our growth and so , Frogs en masse growth descended upon Egypt . Again HaShem Said To Moshe that Aharon was to stretch his hand with the staff over the rivers and canals and reservoirs and By HaShem , raise up frogs over the land of Egypt . This time Aharon did exactly that . The Plague of frogs was a punishment from HaShem at the Egyptians for throwing our Jewish babies into the River . HaShem Caused to come out of the River a single massive Frog . We see this in Torah in Shemos 8 : 2 where the word Frog here is in the singular . This particular monstrous Frog obviously had a mission in mind From HaShem , for it started to walk up directly toward Pharaoh's Palace . The Egyptians came out with sticks and started to try and hit it . Some of the Egyptians that were trying to strike it , this massive monstrous frog ate , and others it killed and with every blow struck on it , millions of Frogs came out of its mouth . These Frogs attacked Egypt climbing into everything . The Egyptians tried to close up and board up their homes but to no avail as the Frogs came up through the floor boards . This was a terrible Plague . The Frogs continued to croak and go into the Egyptians' food and even their bodies , not giving them a moment's rest , just as the Egyptians had not given us a moment's rest in slavery to breathe . The Frogs even went into their beds and bit at the Egyptians from outside and inside their bodies , even castrating the men - a punishment for the Egyptians trying to stop us having children . The Frogs Croaked from within their bodies that they would only leave when HaShem Would Have Moshe remove them . Some of the Frogs put their own lives in danger by jumping into the ovens and those Frogs were saved . The Necromancers of Egypt were also able to bring up a few Frogs , but could not remove them . Each time the Egyptians hit the Frogs , hundreds of others would appear in their place . Some of the frogs were poisonous and when they touched an Egyptian's skin , that Egyptian would die , each single Egyptian suffering Middah Knegged Middah , in punishment to the same strength as their cruel actions to us , for how much and how far they went in mistreating a Jew , as all our Jewish enemies will suffer at the End of Days . This death by touching the poisonous frogs , HaShem Reserved for the very cruel taskmasters who beat us mercilessly . Pharaoh called Moshe and Aharon , begging that the Frogs be removed . Moshe asked Pharaoh when he wanted them removed and Pharaoh answered trying to trick Moshe , thinking that the Plague would be expected by Pharaoh to be removed the same day , so Pharaoh said " Tomorrow , " and so it was thus making them all suffer an extra day . Moshe did not organize this Plague either for again the Nile that had covered him Through HaShem , had helped save him and it was out of the Nile that the giant frog and other frogs came . Moshe and Aharon left Pharaoh's presence and entreated HaShem and the following day the Frogs died and were piled up , four heaps ( some say ten ) to a household . Those frogs that had jumped into the ovens for HaShem's Sake , survived and returned to the River . The land stank from the dead Frogs as a punishment to the Egyptian's complaints and mocking the Jews for the smell of their slavery from the brick pits . Pharaoh again hardened his heart . So up until the fifth Plague , HaShem Still Gave Pharaoh an opportunity to repent and stop this but Pharaoh did not and so that is why the more Pharaoh changed his mind and hardened his own heart , the more HaShem Gave him the hard heart he kept choosing , but Pharaoh at all times still could choose to let us go . The next and Third Plague came with no warning and this Plague also Aharon and not Moshe was asked to start By HaShem , Who Sent the Plague , for it included the very dust that had tried to help protect Moshe when he had killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand and the dust and sand had helped to try cover his action . So HaShem Said To Moshe to have Aharon stretch out Moshe's staff and strike the dust of the land and it would become lice in Egypt on man and beast . This was a punishment for the Egyptians that used to make the Jews sweep dust in Egypt , a never ending pointless task . Also the Jews in the slave pits were not permitted to wash and so they contracted lice and this was a return attack back on the Egyptians . The Lice never stopped biting and the Egyptians cried out in pain . They could not even rest . Exactly what they did to us , So Did HaShem Do To Them . The Plague of Lice stopped us from being slaves for there was no sand to make bricks , only lice . This is also why Yaakov did not want to be buried in Egypt as the dust around there was to become Lice . Pharaoh called his Chartumim but they could not do this , making dust into lice for their negative Tum'a powers did not hold strength against anything smaller than a barley-corn and so these necromancers had to admit defeat and say " This is the Finger of G-D . " So Was HaShem Revealed To them and they had to acknowledge that our G-D , Is The One And Only True G-D . Evil magic has no power over such a small thing as dust for as it says in the Gemorrah that the smallest size that can contract Tum'a is a barley-corn so their Tum'a - Impurity , would not work on it . Again Pharaoh wanted it stopped but his heart was again hardened . Pharaoh thought if he went earlier to the water he could avoid Moshe But HaShem Had Moshe be there earlier to again ask for us to leave , warning him of the fourth Plague of Wild Beasts . Again another Plague that would only affect Egyptians , while we were left alone . HaShem Sent a swarm of wild beasts upon Egypt . And Egypt and its people were completely under attack . If we look carefully at Shemos 8 : 17 , it says clearly that HaShem Sent the swarm of Wild beasts and also " and even the ground upon which they are . " This meant That HaShem Did Not Only Send Wild Beasts , But Actually Uprooted entire forests , the place where the wild beasts lived , And Miraculously Dropped it On Egypt , so the Egyptian homes suddenly found themselves in the midst of a forest of wild beasts that attacked and killed them at every opportunity as the Egyptians , who acted towards us as wild uncontrollable beasts , so what the Egyptians did to us , was now done to them . This was a punishment Middah Knegged Middah for the Egyptians sending us to far away lands to catch wild dangerous animals in an attempt to keep us away from our wives and putting us in the position to be killed , wanting to try to stop our growth . No matter where the Egyptians hid , it did not help , for even sea creatures and Octopi and giant squids came out of the water , climbed up on their roofs and pulled up their roof coverings . If Egyptians walked with their babies next to a Jew , the Jew was left alone , while a wolf would come and take one of their babies and a bear would grab the other . Pharaoh summoned Moshe and Aharon and begged for the Wild Beasts to be removed , saying we could bring offerings to HaShem , but only in Egypt . Moshe told him that we will offer the sheep that Egypt worships as a fake deity and the Egyptians would stone us . So Pharaoh said we could go but not far off . Moshe prayed to HaShem that the Swarm be removed but as soon as it was , Pharaoh again hardened his heart . HaShem Sent Moshe To Pharaoh to warn of the Fifth Plague as an Epidemic that would hit the animals of the Egyptians , a punishment for the Egyptians not allowing us to tend our own flocks and for trying to steal our livestock , as they would graze some of their livestock near ours in Goshen . Now there would be no doubt whose was whose . This Epidemic would hit the livestock in the fields . But ours would be unharmed . And so the next day , the Epidemic hit and killed the Egyptians livestock . Again , when this was removed , Pharaoh's heart hardened . So the Sixth Plague came without warning . HaShem Had Moshe and Aharon each take handfuls of furnace soot in their two hands . Miraculously , Moshe held his own two and Aharon's two handfuls in his ( Moshe's ) one hand and Moshe threw it so high that it reached up to Heaven , leaving the Earth's Atmosphere ( a miracle , for soot can't be thrown high at all ) and it then all turned from dust before Pharaoh into boils , the Sixth Plague . These boils were unlike anything that had ever hit anyone for inside they were soft and outside they were crusty so that no matter what the Egyptians put on them as a salve it never helped , for what would soften the crusty part added to the wetness inside and what would harden the wetness inside , would harden the crusty part even more thus causing them more pain and discomfort . The Egyptians were known , at the time for their permanent make -up techniques , far more modern than other nations , which they would then use as a way to idol worship so here , HaShem Was Ruining the very skin they tried so hard to fashion for their idol worship and other depraved wants and desires , the very skin they thanked their idol deities for , That HaShem Alone As The One And Only Creator , Had Created . The Egyptians that prided themselves arrogantly on their medical know - how , now had to admit that their knowledge was of no use for they had no idea how to cure themselves of this Plague . Only HaShem Is The True Healer . The Egyptians could not even stand and this was punishment for them making us wait on them and standing all the time , never letting us rest and even stop to scratch an itch and now the Egyptians could not stop itching and scratching . The Necromancers were so hit by the Plague that they could not even stand before Pharaoh and they all died in this Plague and were never mentioned again in Torah . It was also the necromancers of Egypt with Bilaam , that had also advised Pharaoh to throw the Jewish boys into the Nile to try to stop the coming of Moshe . Again when this Plague was removed , Pharaoh's heart hardened . HaShem Asked Moshe to " Come to Pharaoh " much earlier so Pharaoh could not avoid it , no matter how much or how early he tried . Moshe pointed to Pharaoh's sundial and made a mark on it that at that exact time the next day , HaShem Would Send a very heavy Hail against Egypt and warned them to take their Livestock under shelter . Those that did , were saved . HaShem Instructed Moshe to stretch his hand toward Heaven And So Did HaShem Send the Seventh Plague of Hail at the exact moment that Moshe had marked on the sundial . This was no ordinary Hail . Such a Hail had never been before . Each block of Hail was massive , four - hands full large . The bottom of the Hail was pure hard ice and the middle was Ice in which its centre was fire and the top of each Hail stone was pure fire , each one sharp as a razor that cut down trees and people that were outside . Everything that was outside was struck and died . Only the Jews in Goshen were safe . Even if an Egyptian tried to hide among Jews in Goshen , as they had done in the past when they tried to catch out the Jewish Mothers giving birth so as to kill our babies , in the previous Pharaoh's time , the Hail Miraculously appeared in the houses and sliced the Egyptians to pieces , but the Jews were left unharmed . Here , two opposing forces of Fire and Ice were coming together to work together for the Sake of HaShem . Pharaoh sent for Moshe and Aharon and Pharaoh finally admitted his sin and that HaShem Is The Righteous One and that he and his people are wicked . Pharaoh begged Moshe to entreat HaShem To Have the Hail Removed . Moshe mentioned that he would leave the city to pray to HaShem for the city was filled with idols and was certainly not a pure place to pray to HaShem for the Hail to be halted . Our Rabbis tell us that Moshe had actually built a little hut just outside the city where he would go to pray and this little hut place , in our day's time was actually made into a little Synagogue . So Moshe went out of the city to entreat HaShem and as soon as he stretched out his hands , the Hail stopped . Even the Hail on its way down , was suspended in mid air and never fell . Some of this Hail actually fell on our enemies later on in history and the rest will fall on Gog and Magog at the End Of Days . As soon as Pharaoh saw it had stopped , his heart became strong and stubborn again and he did not send out the Children of Israel As HaShem Had Told Moshe that he would do , and so , Does HaShem , If HaShem Sees a person refusing to veer from the evil and wrong path after HaShem Gives them many opportunities to do so , eventually HaShem Let's them carry on in that path and so bring themselves down . So ends the Parsha . This Parsha is so aptly named " Va'eira , " - " Appeared , " For HaShem Shows Himself Through His Wonders That He Performed Here . In HaShem's " Va'eira , " - " Appearing , " so will we Fear Him . The word " Fear " - " Yarei " in Hebrew is within the word " Va'eira " for we are to Fear HaShem and Obey Him Always . Before these Plagues , HaShem Was Known As " El Shaddai , " For He Had Set Limits on Nature in His Creation . Here , HaShem Went Beyond those limits , in Making Nature do and act in ways it never does , and so , HaShem In His Mercy For His People , Would Now Also Be Known As " HaShem A-donai " Who Goes Beyond Those Limits He Sets As Rules For Nature , In Order To Save us . How can we not Fear His Awesomeness And Power Beyond Power Beyond Power . Within this " Va'eira " is the Word ' Ohr ' - ' Light , ' For HaShem Fills His Creation With His Light , Especially When He " Va'eira " - " Appears , " And Even When He Hides Himself , we are to do His Mitzvos and Follow His Torah and thus release His Holy Sparks of ' Ohr ' - ' Light ' and Thus Reveal Him , Having Him " Va'eira " - " Appear , " to us In Love . The word " Va'eira " comes to 208 in Gematriah , which adds up to ( 2 + 0 + 8 )10 , The Number Of Pronouncements That HaShem Made In Creating Creation And The Number Of Commandments At Har Sinai . So Each Time HaShem " Va'eira " - " Appears " And Reveals Himself To us , Whether It Be In The Form Of Tests Or An Actual Vision Or Even His Beautiful Soft Voice Talking To us From within , we are to Let His Light Come Out of us and know That He Loves us And Has Taken The Time to Show us Something . So we must look deeper within each happening and know that we are here to serve HaShem , not ourselves . HaShem Does Nothing for Himself . All That our Beloved HaShem Does And Creates Is Purely For And With His Love For us . So When HaShem Reveals Himself To us we need to listen . The pathway to Him is through His Holy Torah In Which He Reveals Himself . HaShem Reveals Himself To us within every Holy Word of Torah if we only learn His Holy Torah and look deeper into every Word Of His Holy Torah . This is one of the reasons That HaShem Wants us to Learn Torah , for in Revealing Himself Within Each Holy Torah Word , HaShem Is Thus " Va'eira " - " Appearing " To us and Coming Closer To us , For HaShem Wants a Closer Relationship With each and every one of us That He Created . Torah Is Also For us to climb higher Spiritually and better ourselves and grow and Torah brings us closer to HaShem . When we listen , HaShem " Va'eira " - " Appears " to us With Love In So Many Ways . So His " Va'eira " - " Appearing " as I mentioned , is like the Beauty of His Creation and also the Giving of His Ten Commandments ( both having the number 10 within them , For HaShem Created Creation With Ten Pronouncements And HaShem Gave The Ten Commandments In Ten Holy Commandments ) and so the way to heal the wrongs we have done and for us to put Creation back from where we took it from and from where it was heading toward Eternal Life In Gan Eiden , is to Keep those very Commandments and all of HaShem's Holy Torah Revelation to us , and then we can await HaShem's Long- Awaited " Va'eira " - " Appearance " Within The End Of Days Of Olam Habah With HaShem's Love . May The End Of Days Come Soon In our days And Then Will HaShem " Va ' eira , " - " Appear and Reveal His Sweet and Beautiful Glory To us that we so lost and that we so need , as we had in Gan Eiden . May HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu Bring us Soon , The " Va ' eira , " - " Appearance and Revelation , " Of His Shechinah and then we can we bask in the Sweetness Of His Love And Light In Olam HaBah The World To Come With HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish HaShem With Ever Deepest And Everlasting Sweetest Love , A Most Beautiful And Special And Sweet Shabbos Kodesh With Forever Deepest Love and to all my fellow Jews and all of Creation , a very Beautiful and Special and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Parashas Shemos : - The Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Shemos , the Second Book of The Holy Torah . The Holy Book of Shemos Exodus introduces us to a very holy and very humble beloved Prophet Moshe Rabbeinu . The Haftorah for this Sedra is Yeshayahu Isaiah 27 : 6 - 28 : 13 , 29 : 22 - 23 , teaching of the growing of Israel as a holy nation that is descended from holy Fore-Father Yaakov and how , in this Parsha , our holy Jewish nation became a "Shemos " - " Name " ) and the Sephardic Reading for the Haftorah is in Yirmeyahu 1 : 1 - 2 : 3 and relates to the Torah Reading by teaching of another Prophet That Was Called By HaShem , where Moshe was called as a Prophet in the Parsha . I would really like to take this opportunity to thank Beloved HaShem for Giving me what to write in my Parsha writing every week and this week . Thank You Ever So Much my Beloved HaShem . Yosef became the ruler in Egypt after Pharaoh had passed away . Then after many years Yosef and his brothers passed away , the last one to pass away from that generation was Levi and after they passed on , our people stopped being so careful not to mix with the Egyptian way of life , attending their functions and being less careful to shun their idols , wearing their finery and jewelry no matter what it's pagan connotation . Though we kept our Jewish names there ( also one of the points to why this Parsha is called " Shemos - " Names " for that was a big point where we did not mix with Egyptians in this specific way , by keeping our Hebrew Names ) , some of our people unfortunately mixed too closely with Egyptian society and started to forget our holy Jewish Traditions , sadly like what happens today in our times , where today it is not realized how the use of some secular words and pagan festivals and their words are unfortunately so easily used in every day conversation , or when others have their festivals that have origins in pagan Avodah Zorah Idol Worship , such is not allowed By The Laws Of G-D Directly ( Leviticus 19 : 26 ; 20 : 23 ; 18 : 3 and 19 : 27 ; Deuteronomy 12 : 30 ; 14 : 2 ) . The Tribe of Levi though remained faithful to HaShem and did not assimilate and so they were Rewarded By HaShem , by not being included in the forced slavery labour in Egypt . HaShem Caused A Miracle To Take Place that the Jewish People were Blessed to become very fruitful , teeming and increasing greatly in the land and also being very physically strong , some families having sextuplets . After Yosef passed away a new King Pharaoh ( believed to have been a king Seti ) was appointed over Egypt , " New " in the form of one who did not remain faithful to the assistance That HaShem Had Given , through Yosef , in saving the country from the Famine and noticing the increase of our people , he called his advisors , for the Egyptian hierarchy constantly spoke to him of their concern that the Canaanites might attack them wanting their money back that they paid for the grain during the years of famine and seeing that the Jews were from Canaan , the Egyptians feared that we would join the Canaanites and attack Egypt , for Canaan was on one side of Egypt while we in Goshen were on the other and some of the Egyptians feared that they would be stuck in the middle . Of course this fear was unfounded and this Pharaoh tried at first to remind them that it was Yosef , a member of the Jewish people who had helped them but the elite of Egypt would hear nothing of it and they ousted this Pharaoh and for three months Egypt sat without a head ruler . The pressure put on this Pharaoh caused him to change his mind and after the three months , he again ascended the throne , with new ideals ( thus was he also called " a new Pharaoh " who did not know the good That HaShem Had Done Through Yosef and our people ) , pro Egypt and Anti - Jewish , so he could keep his position . How often has this sad happening repeated itself through time for us Jews , where foreign nations forget the good we Jews have done and find ways to kick us out or kill us . Bilaam ( Lot's grandson and terrible enemy of the Jews ) , at the time was one of the advisors to Pharaoh who pushed the hatred of the Jews to even higher levels ensuring that Pharaoh institute new decrees against the Jews , like forbidding Circumcision . How often has that happened to our Jewish people through time . They devised a plan to halt the increase of Jews being born and the idea was to separate man and wife by putting men to hard labour day and night . But this did not happen straight away . Pharaoh and Bilaam and the advisors were crafty and deceitful and at first made the call up to work like a big mission for the country as if to pay the country a great service , advertising a new work project for people to volunteer for , and pay was offered . It was made to appear very lucrative and Egyptians came streaming in to join . Egyptians were told to tell their Jewish neighbors that Egypt had been very good to them and so they too should show their gratitude by volunteering . To make it look even more like a very important task , Pharaoh himself appeared at the work site with spade in hand and showed how he too would dig and work for this important project . But the Egyptians were deceitful and so the places chosen for the project , Pithom and Raamses , were places full of swampy ground where no building project at the time could possibly succeed or ever get finished and any attempt to build there would be never ending for building structures would constantly topple and fall and thus more hard labor would be put on the Jews . Pharaoh carried on with this supposed mock project for a month where Egyptians would still come and partake but suddenly after the first month , every day there would be fewer Egyptians until only Jews were left working . Suddenly pay for the tasks ended and new task-masters were appointed to oversee that the Jews could not leave and had to continue working or be severely whipped should they even stop for a breather break . The following day , the Jews tried not to go but Pharaoh sent forces to force them out of their homes and so , the years of slavery for us started with a vengeance . Women too were forced to do labor and some of the women were put to hard tasks that were for men . At night the Jews hoped for a reprieve of a small rest but then too were they forced by the individual Egyptians to come and slave in their houses , so Pharaoh and Bilaam's plan to prevent Jewish husband and wife from being together , so as to procreate , now was deceitfully in play . Pharaoh saw that no matter how much they slaved , the Jews kept increasing For HaShem Continued His Miracle For us and also the Jewish women would beautify themselves with their mirrors to ensure their husbands would still be with them and our children would still increase . Pharaoh called the Hebrew Midwives Shifrah ( who was Moshe's Ima Yocheved ) and Puah ( who was Moshe's little sister Miriam ) and ordered them to kill every male born , but to keep the female children alive ( and they were ordered to never even tell the Jews what Pharaoh had ordered them to do but to do it secretly ) but they courageously followed HaShem and HaShem's Protection Of our Jewish people and disobeyed . When Pharaoh called them and asked why they had not listened to him , they answered that the Jewish women give birth on their own without even the need of a midwife and so the children get born before they even get there . HaShem Rewarded them and increased our people even more . Torah Teaches Of How HaShem In Reward Made them houses and our Rabbonim tell us that this refers to their houses of ancestry where Yocheved became the ancestress of the House of Kohanim Levites and Miriam became the ancestress of the House of Dovid Ha Melech ( Gemorrah Sotah 11b ) Rashi . Pharaoh had a dream that all his soldiers and strong men were tied up and put on one side of a scale while the Jews represented by a single little lamb was on the other side of the scale and the single lamb weighed down the scale thus overpowering the Egyptians . Pharaoh awoke in panic and Pharaoh again called his advisors who were Bilaam , Yisro ( who became Moshe's Father-In-Law ) and Iyov ( Job ) and asked what should now be done . Pharaoh's astrologers had also seen that a redeemer would be born to the Jews and would be destroyed by water . They had seen wrong for Moshe would not be one of the boys thrown into the Nile . The water that they saw incorrectly was Moshe's punishment for his actions much later on at Massah U' Meriva when he struck the Rock over an issue of Water and so they misunderstood what they thought they saw . Bilaam spoke up and said that it is no use burning them for we survive fire as Avraham did in the Furnace of Ur Kasdim . It is no use fighting us with the sword , for we are very strong and two of our people Simeon and Levi once had decimated a whole city on their own , the city of Shechem , so he advised that seeing as our G-D Said He Won't Send another Mabul , we should as boys be thrown into the River , for he believed that HaShem Wouldn't Punish us or the World again by another Flood . How wrong Bilaam was For HaShem Had Only that there won't be another World Flood But HaShem Could Still Send minor floods Or Punish In Many Other Ways . Yisro advised that seeing as we Jews helped the country we should be left alone . Pharaoh was about to order him killed so Yisro left and took with him the Staff that was once Yosef's that had been passed down from Adam , Shais , Noach , Avraham , Yitzchak , Yaakov and then down to Yosef . Iyov , seeing what might happen if he defends the Jews decided to remain silent and so ended up ( as we see in the Book of Iyov Job ) Being Tested By HaShem . So Pharaoh took the advice of Bilaam and had the male Jewish children thrown into the Nile , but ordered that every female Jewish child be kept alive , for the Egyptian's ugly nefarious purposes . While the Egyptians were trying to destroy the Jews , HaShem Was Already Working On our Redemption and our redeemer Moshe . From the Tribe of Levi , the grandson of Levi Amram was married to Yocheved and they already had two children Aharon and Miryam Miriam , but when Amram who was the head of the Jewish Sanhedrin type - court at the time saw what the Egyptians were doing to the Jewish boys , he thought it was no use for our people to have children who would Chas Ve Shalom be killed so he divorced his wife and ordered others to do likewise . Yocheved at this time was already three months pregnant with Moshe . Miryam Miriam approached him and told him that his decree is worse than the Egyptians for they wanted to stop only the male Jewish children from being born but his decree would halt even the female children from being born and he acknowledged her wisdom and remarried his wife and ordered the other husbands to do likewise . The Egyptians would bring their babies to cry near ours in Goshen and get them to cry so it would make our babies cry and they could then find out where we might be hiding our little children so they could kill them . Egyptians would also move into houses next door us in Goshen and spy on us pretending to be one of us . HaShem Protected us . Pharaoh's astrologers told Pharaoh that the redeemer was still not destroyed and may have a touch of Egyptian connection ( for Moshe was brought up among Egyptians , and his adoptive Mother , though a Ger Tzaddekes whose name was Basya , was originally born Egyptian ) and so Pharaoh then decreed that also Egyptian boys were also to be cast into the Nile . How Wise Is HaShem To Have Confused the Egyptian advisors . Yocheved was able to hide the birth of Moshe for as I mentioned earlier , she was already three months pregnant with him when she and Amram remarried and so he was born earlier than the Egyptians would have expected . When he was born , he was named Yekusiel , but he had throughout his life , other names given to him, like Ben Levi , Avigdor , Avi Socho , Avi Zanoach , Tuvia , Moshe , Chavair , Ben Nesanel and Shemaiya ( Midrash Says - Shemos - Rabbi Weissman ) , ten names in all . Thus Moshe in actual fact had ten names throughout his life that he was known as . When he was born , he was born with a light on his face and he was born circumcised and so , Amram his Father praised his little daughter Miryam Miriam for her wisdom and saving of this redeemer for they saw on Moshe's face and by the fact of him being born circumcised that this child would be a Tzaddik and the Redeemer . Yocheved being very wise knew of their ploys and knew that the advisors of Pharaoh had told him that the redeemer would be destroyed by water and so she ensured that little Moshe would be put onto water so it would look to the Egyptians that he had been cast into the Nile . This was true for as soon as little Moshe's basket touched the Nile , Pharaoh's astrologers told Pharaoh that the Jewish redeemer has been destroyed Chas Ve Shalom and Pharaoh stopped the edict of casting children into the Nile . The very fact that she could not hide him anymore was due to the fact that it might be counted now that he would have had the nine months to be born and so she took a wicker basket and covered it with clay and pitch and put Moshe in it and set it afloat on the Nile , with Miriam set to watch over it . How Sweet Is HaShem And How Sweet Is His Holy Workings , for it was at that time that Basya , Pharaoh's daughter , who was coming down to the Nile to do her Tevilah , for she was converting to Judaism , that she heard a little baby cry . In actual fact little Moshe was very quiet But HaShem Sent the Malach Angel Gavriel , to tap little Moshe on the nose to make sure he would cry out and be heard and , By HaShem , Saved and put in the right position he needed to be . How Holy And Sweet And Beautiful Is HaShem . Basya knew that this was a Hebrew boy and called him Moshe for he was drawn out of the water ( and in honor of this special lady that reared him , HaShem Kept this name Moshe for this ever so holy child ) and it was then that Miriam appeared and offered her own Mother Yocheved to rear the child and so little Moshe was brought up by his real Mother in his very early years and he knew full well of his roots and who he was that he was a Jew . Basya told Yocheved to bring Moshe back when he had grown . Thus HaShem Works His Miracles in Ways Beyond our own small intelligence for in the midst of our enemy Did HaShem Secure His Choice Of A Redeemer . Moshe thus grew up in the court of Pharaoh and Pharaoh himself took a great liking to this special child . One day while Moshe was playing on Pharaoh's lap at the table , Moshe took Pharaoh's crown off his head and put it on his own head and went and sat on Pharaoh's throne . This greatly troubled Pharaoh and he again called his advisors Bilaam , Yisro and Iyov to ask what should be done with the child . Bilaam said to kill the boy , Yisro said to save the boy and Iyov again kept silent and Bilaam advised that the boy be tested with a hot piece of coal or precious jewel to test if the boy's previous action was one of knowing . Moshe was about to put his hand toward the precious jewel When HaShem Sent the Malach Angel Gavriel , to push his hand toward the coal so as to save his life and so Moshe put the hot coal into his mouth and burnt his mouth and thus was hard of speech . Moshe knew he was a Jew and so he would go out with his brethren into the brick-pits . He could have continued as a prince , but he chose to suffer with his people . One day he went out and saw an Egyptian task master mercilessly beating a fellow Jew , Dasan . What had happened is that the Egyptian task-master had waited for Dasan to leave and go to work the egyptian taskmaster had returned to Dasan's home and proceeded to enter the house and force himself upon Dasan's wife Shelomis . She was known as Shelomis for she would often go out and flirt with males saying hello to everyone in a flirtatious way , and sadly even Egyptian ones and on this day Dasan had returned home to find his wife had been abused . Dasan had taken issue with the Egyptian and the Egyptian had beaten him mercilessly . It was then that Moshe arrived and as Torah says " Looked this way and that and saw no man " which actually meant that Moshe was able to look forward and backward into this man's generations and see that none of them would be a good person worthy of being called a man and so Moshe pronounced the " Shem Ha Meforash " - " HaShem's 72 Letter Hidden Name and so the Egyptian was struck dead . The following day , Moshe again came across this same Dasan who was arguing with his wife's brother Aviram , for Dasan wanted to divorce his wife but Aviram objected and so Moshe again intervened . This time he was shouted down and asked who had appointed him as a dignitary , ruler and judge over them , which was so prophetic as this is exactly what Moshe was destined to be and became . It also came up in their words of what he had done to the Egyptian the day before . Moshe realized how the matter was now known and sadly Dasan and Aviram went and told Pharaoh on him so Pharaoh , after investigating the matter sought his life . The Midrash tells us how Moshe was caught and brought for execution and how Miraculously With HaShem's Help , the blade struck his neck and bounced back and killed the executioner while Moshe escaped unharmed . Thank You HaShem . Moshe fled from Egypt . Moshe did not go straight to Midyan Midian , but stopped first with the Cushites and joined forces with King Kokenus . The King had left his palace to attend to certain matters with his soldiers against the Kedemites with whom the Cushites were at war . In the meantime , Bilaam had also made his way with his two sons Yunus and Yumbrus to the same place and had evilly turned the people against their king and they had set up a moat around the city while the king was away and put into the water , reptiles and small dangerous snakes to prevent the king's return . It was at this time that Moshe arrived on the scene . He advised the king to collect birds and send the birds toward the moat where they ate the little snakes and so the king regained entry into his kingdom . Moshe was given rulership after this king died and the king's wife wanted to marry Moshe but Moshe refused and wanted nothing to do with their idol worshiping ways . The queen wanted an idol worshiper on the throne and by now her son Mumcham had grown and he was put as king and Moshe was politely sent off with little thanks . Moshe had left Egypt at the age of twenty seven and now it was forty years later when he finally arrived at the well in Midyan - Midian , making him sixty seven when he got there . Moshe came and saved Yisro's unmarried daughters from Amelekites who had tried to push them aside at the well . Again we have a holy ancestor meeting his intended at a well , like Eliezer met Rivka , Yitzchak's intended and Yaakov had met Rachel his intended and Avram had met Sarai at a well . Moshe was first brought to Reuel , who was actually a Father figure of Yisro's daughters but he was actually Yisro's Father and then Moshe was brought before Yisro . When Yisro saw who it was and realized that this is a fugitive from Egypt , Yisro put him in a ward like a cell for ten years and it was Tzipporah who brought him food . After ten years , where Moshe was now seventy seven , Yisro let him out and so he married Tzipporah , whose holy actions were light and holy like a Tzippor Bird and Moshe watched over Yisro's sheep . Yisro had these unmarried daughters as he had tried many religions and found them all false as he did with the Midianite religion and so people did not want to marry his daughters . One day while Moshe was walking in Yisro's field , he saw a staff sticking out of the ground . He pulled it and it came out in his hand . This holy staff had engraved on it the Name of HaShem and the Hebrew acronym of the Ten Plagues ( DTZ"CH AD"SH B'ACH"V ) That HaShem Would Send Upon Egypt , Engraved long long before this event ever took place back in Adam Ha Rishon's time . He went to Yisro and asked him about this staff and Yisro had told him it was the staff belonging to Yosef that he had taken out of the court of Egypt and that Yisro had stuck part of it into the ground and that no one had ever been able to pull it out again and that it was told then that only the Chosen Redeemer of G-D would be able to pull it out and so did this true story come down in history and became the story that even touched the legend of king arthur and the sword excalibur . So did Moshe have sons with Tzipporah and they were named Gershom and Eliezer . Yisro had allowed Moshe to marry his daughter as long as Moshe does not return to Egypt . One day while Moshe was pasturing and watching Yisro's sheep , one lamb ran astray and Moshe , being a man who would not lose a single one , for all were important to this very caring man , so Moshe left the flock to go and find the lost one . He found it and carried it all the way back on his shoulders , for he said to it , ' come my little one , you need not be alone , for you are with other sheep and even one will be missed . ' HaShem Watched this beautiful caring scene And Said To Himself , " Such a man that will even go so far as to see that not a single lamb ( Jew ) is lost is certainly the one who should redeem my people . It was at this time , that a new Pharaoh was now over Egypt , Seti's son Raamses II ( who had grown up with Moshe ) and this man proclaimed himself deified and told people he had created the Nile . Because of this , HaShem Gave him leprosy and he would go down to the Nile early in the morning to bathe ( early so that no one would see him that he isn't deified and that he would need the Nile to cleanse himself , for all Egyptians at the time , being so reliant on the Nile for watering the land , had thought too that the Nile was deified , but it wasn't helping - Oh what idol worshipers these people were ) , so this evil Pharaoh had little Jewish children killed and bathed in their blood . It was at this very time when the outcry of these children went up to HaShem , for now the Egyptians had gone too far . It was also at this time that Moshe was pasturing the sheep , when he had gone to save this one little lamb and Moshe being the holy man that he was , was pulled to Har Sinai ( Humble Moshe and this particular unimposing humble mountain were drawn to each other for both were so humble ) , for Moshe found himself at its foot . Moshe was called upon to notice that a bush on the mountain was aflame and when he stepped a step closer , he noticed that it was not devoured . HaShem Knew that Moshe would be attracted by this site For HaShem Had Appeared To Moshe when he was a little boy and even then at a young age Moshe had asked HaShem how come his people are left in bondage and Moshe had compared us to the beautiful foliage that is being burnt with the fury of slavery . So this bush that was aflame but not being burnt was a reminder to Moshe that though the nations hurt us and want to destroy us and burn us , we will Be Saved By HaShem and live eternally as a Nation . At First HaShem Instructed the Malach Angel to call to Moshe in his Father Amram's Voice so as not to scare Moshe and so Moshe knew that Amram must have by now passed away and was close to HaShem . HaShem Asked Moshe to remove his shoes for he was standing on Holy Ground . HaShem Introduced Himself Being G-D of our Fore-Fathers and Moshe hid his face in humility . HaShem Told Moshe How He Had Seen our Affliction in Mitzrayim ( Egypt , for the word Mitzrayim meant borders as if locked in for those in Egypt were not allowed to leave unless with Pharaoh's permission ) And How HaShem Would Take us out And Bring us to HaShem's and our Holy Land And HaShem Told Moshe That He Would Dispatch Moshe to Pharaoh And That HaShem Would Take us Out of Egypt , but with trials and Ten Plagues at Pharaoh and Egypt . Moshe replied humbly that he was unworthy . HaShem Assured Moshe That He Would Be With Moshe . Moshe asked what is HaShem Name And HaShem Responded that he should say " E'h'yeh Asher E'h'yeh " - " I Shall Be As I Shall Be " Sent Moshe . Moshe caught on that the fact that two " Shall Be's " were mentioned and that this showed That HaShem Was Actually Saying to Moshe That " I Shall Be in this exile , as I shall be in future exiles , " so Moshe realized this would not be a final redemption for all time for our people and that the Final Redemption would come later in the future and that we would face other future exiles and Moshe mentioned this to HaShem Who Praised Moshe for his compassion and thus Told Moshe to just mention the freeing from this exile , thus saying as His Name " I Shall Be Sent me to you . " HaShem Told Moshe How HaShem Would Strike Egypt With All HaShem's Wonders and how they would eventually send us out with great wealth , for all the years of slavery . Moshe continued humbly trying to persuade HaShem that he is not worthy , and wrongly showed disbelief in the people not believing in him , So HaShem Showed him the miracle of the staff turning into a snake and the action of putting his hand against his chest and it becoming leprous , not just as a sign for Egypt , but as a show that one must not Loshon or slander others or talk badly of others , like the snake did in Gan Eiden and that punishment for slander is Leprosy Tzaraas . The sign to bring the people to this very mountain and to pour water on the ground in Egypt and it becomes blood was also mentioned to Moshe . Moshe continued to humbly try to Have HaShem Choose another and mentioned his speech impediment , And HaShem Reminded him That It Is HaShem Who Makes speech , hearing and sight . Moshe continued to humbly try to step back and said , " Please my L-RD , send through whomever You will send . " Moshe was saying that there must be others more worthy . HaShem Was Angry And Mentioned Aharon , Moshe's brother , who would go with him and assist Moshe for Aharon was already on the way to meet Moshe , For HaShem Also Appeared To Aharon . Because of Moshe's continued disagreeing to be sent , Moshe lost the position of Kohein Gadol High Priest , that was now given to Aharon . HaShem Spoke To Moshe On Har Sinai , while Moshe had continued to humbly try and step back from it , for a period of seven days and after the seven days , Moshe finally had to agree . And so , Moshe returned to Yisro Yeter and asked Yisro to annul Moshe's words to him that he had previously said , that he would not return to Egypt . Moshe told Yisro that the time had come for HaShem To Redeem the Jews , his people , the Children of Israel , from the land of Egypt , and so Yisro told him to " Go to peace . " Still Moshe delayed and HaShem Again Appeared to Moshe in Midyan Midian and Told him to return to Egypt for the people that were seeking his life had died . So Moshe took his wife and sons and put them on the donkey and he returned to Egypt And HaShem Told him that he was to tell Pharaoh that Israel Is HaShem's Firstborn Son ( Shemos Exodus 4:22 ) , And HaShem Told Moshe Of The Wonders That HaShem Would Perform In Egypt . On the way to Egypt , HaShem Encountered Moshe , for Moshe had not yet circumcised his son Gershom , and Tzipporah holy as she was , realized why this encounter was happening and she circumcised her son . Tzipporah was forced to remain with her children for the child had to heal , which is why Moshe had not rushed to circumcise him , himself , as he knew he had to travel . HaShem Appeared To Aharon And Told him to go and to meet his brother Moshe . And so they met and Moshe told him of all the signs and words that were told to him that he could tell his brother . Moshe and Aharon went and gathered the elders and told them the prophetic words that the True Redeemer would tell , remembered through the generations by Serach bas Asher , who was alive in Yosef's time , when Yosef had said what the True Redeemer would come and say , which were corroborated " Pakad - Pakod Pakadti " and so the elders believed in Moshe and Aharon . HaShem Had Instructed Moshe to at first tell Pharaoh that the Jews would go for three days , not at first telling the Egyptians that it would be permanent , because the previous Pharaoh had also not told the Jews at first when they were called to first come for the work project , what the real story was . So Moshe and Aharon went to Pharaoh and at first went with the elders but on the way they saw the lions and other wild animals among the decimated Jewish bodies lying beaten and hurt , but one by one , the elders left in fear and so were they were made to stand lower at a later time when we all stood at Har Sinai . When Moshe and Aharon came before Pharaoh , they asked Pharaoh to send out the Jewish people to serve G-D in the Wilderness . Pharaoh was in the middle of a festival where other dignitaries from other countries also were visiting and bringing gifts and Pharaoh asked these two men standing tall and filled with light , from whom they come and what gifts they brought him . They said that they come from G-D The Most High and their gift is a message to tell Pharaoh From G-D The Most High And Only G-D , ' To Let My People Go . ' Pharaoh responded that he knew not this G-D , and asked his advisors to bring him the book of all the deities names but he could not find HaShem's Name in it . Moshe and Aharon told Pharaoh That HaShem Is Beyond a book and denounces the false and fake deities of the nations in Pharaoh's book , For HaShem Is The One And Only True G-D . Pharaoh was no fool and knew of G-D , but not by the name " Ad-nai , " for his ancestors had known of " El Sh-dai , " and so , he said that he would not release the people for the three day journey in the wilderness . Pharaoh reprimanded Moshe and Aharon for disturbing the people from their work and Pharaoh ordered that now the brick tally of our people was to be the same but we would no longer be given straw , which was actually kept right near Pharaoh's Palace . Pharaoh ordered that the tally of bricks must remain the same and even ordered that the Levites , who had not worked before , must go to work too . The foremen of our people did not want to put our people in trouble and so they took the brunt of the blame themselves and they were aggressively beaten . For this reason Did HaShem Reward them to become leaders of our people in the Wilderness after we left Egypt . The Jewish foremen , after leaving Pharaoh's presence , after hearing that the tally was to be the same without being given straw to make the bricks and that we were to go looking for straw , encountered Moshe and Aharon and blamed them . HaShem Had Actually Asked Moshe to leave Egypt and return to Midian as a test to us that we should have faith in HaShem . Moshe returned to HaShem and blamed HaShem for doing this to the people and questioned HaShem why HaShem Had Sent him and not another . Moshe blamed HaShem for not rescuing the people and this counted against Moshe in the end . HaShem Said to Moshe , " Now you will see What I Will Do To Pharaoh , For Through A Strong Hand Will I Send them out , And With A Strong Hand ( Of HaShem ) , will he ( Pharaoh ) drive them from his land . " So ends the Parsha . This Parsha is called " Shemos " - " Names , " for it is at this very time in our history , that we make a name for ourselves , Acknowledged And Done At This Time By HaShem , for it is at this time that we become a people unto HaShem , when we go to Har Sinai and we become HaShem's People . It is then that we did what no other nation who was offered HaShem's Torah did , we take G-D and His Laws . Thus , we made a name for ourselves , a name connected with HaShem Forever . And how did we make this " Shem-ot " - " Name ? " By " Shema Ot " - " Listening To And Hearing " HaShem And His Commandments . It is then and only then that we are part of this " Shemos " - " Name , " for when people stray from Judaism , Chas Ve Shalom , and leave the Faith and intermarry out of the Faith , Chas Ve Shalom , that Judaism is lost to that family line , and The Name of that Jewish family line that was Jewish for centuries , is gone or gets lost as a Jew . So we , as a people , made our " Shemos " - " Name , " by becoming a people unto HaShem and all that comes with that beautiful action of love . Only by following The Holy Torah that we and no other nation chose to accept , do we make a Jewish Name for ourselves . The other nations were offered The Torah first but they refused , all asking what was in it and finding something or some Law or Laws that they refused to keep . We on the other hand believed in HaShem in total faith and said " Na'aseh Ve Nishma " - " We will do ( first ) and then we will hear ( why ) . " We did not need to know what was in it first before trusting HaShem and having Faith and Emunah In HaShem , for we accepted It without asking what is in It . We straight away trusted HaShem and Accepted It with love . Thus we made a " Shemos " - " Name " for ourselves , and each and every Jew keeps this " Name " as long as we keep The Very Holy Torah we all agreed Spiritually to accept and never let go of at Har Sinai . All Jews , those living at the time , those about to be born and those still to come , even many generations later , as well as righteous Gairim to come , all accepted it , so you , me and all of us Jews , were there accepting HaShem's Torah . Let us never break our word to HaShem , and Bless and Thank HaShem Always For Making us a Holy Jew and forever show our gratitude by following HaShem and His Holy Torah Always , letting HaShem Know that we thank Him for making us a Jew , and never straying from His Holy Torah , All His Commandments and His Love . Thank You HaShem Always for Giving me the opportunity to follow You As You Want To Be followed , for following Your Commandments and Your Holy Torah and for Giving me the life opportunity to come closer to you every moment of every day . Thank You HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu - The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish Ever So Beloved HaShem With Everlasting Forever And Sweetest Love , A Most Beautiful And Special Shabbos Kodesh With Forever Beautiful Love , and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Beautiful and Special Shabbos Kodesh with Love .

Parashas Vayechi : - The Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Vayechi . This Sedra speaks of the passing of our very Holy Fore - Father Yaakov Israel . Yaakov in this Sedra , Blesses his sons and also in this Parasha , his son Yosef is called upon to take care of Yaakov's arrangements . It is Yosef , after his beloved Father's passing that is to become 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 becoming king 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 and his son Shais . 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 Shais ( his son in his likeness ) , Yaakov and his son Yosef , and Dovid Ha Melech and his so Shlomo , tied by deep love through time . No wonder Yaakov's love for Yosef went deeper than just a Father and son 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 his Father , that he would do as his Father requested . 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 in selling 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 beloved 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 just like she had not gotten 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 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 Jews . Yaakov then wanted to bless Yosef's children so Yosef put his older son to Yaakov's right and his younger son 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 son's head ) on the younger son'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 son 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 signifies 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 wrong paths of those around us , who wrongly follow incorrect ways amd beliefs . G - D Is One . Israel Yaakov informs Yosef that 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 with his bow when at the time of the incident after Simeon and Levi who 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 was forced to fight a war with them And With HaShem's Help , had won and so , Yaakov 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 or known and so as Yaakov was about to reveal this , The Shechinah Lifted and so Yaakov was unable 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 . This ' Coming together ' and getting rid of old strife , strictly keeping to 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 disturbed , 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 and 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 , again showing 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 to Canaan , 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 waited for 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 , how in his death would bring down 3000 Pelishtim in their colosseum of their fake false idol worship dagan deity , when he would push over the supporting pillars This sadly would be Shimshon's end too and so would Israel still need to 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 deed that it belonged to Yaakov and his side of the family . Yosef is then 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 , their husbands joining 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 a reference to King Shaul a Benjaminite who defeated Moav , Edom and Philistia , and it is also 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 that he is buried back in Canaan in the Cave of Machpelah and so , sadly our beloved Fore - Father Yaakov Israel passes 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 . But Yosef had another reason for the embalming of his Father , which was that Yosef knew That HaShem Would Keep Yaakov's body intact and Yosef knew that the Egyptians would worship Yaakov as a deity , Chas Ve Shalom , and Yosef knew that the Egyptians would not think it was HaShem keeping the body intact and thus Yosef did not want the Egyptians to see that Yaakov's body remained as it was , for then they might wrongly worship Yaakov and so Yosef covered his Father with the embalming , knowing that HaShem Would preserve Yaakov's body . Even Egypt bewailed Yaakov's 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's body 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 at the time of the Plagues in Egypt , that very dust would become lice . Yaakov also knew , as I just mentioned , 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 Techiyas Ha Meisim - The Resurrection of the Dead . 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 . The place where they stopped for a solemn lamentation was Goren ha Atad . This name has a deeper meaning for it directly translates as ' Threshing floor of Brambles or Thorns ' and our Rabbis of Blessed memory teach us that it got this name because of all the 36 crowns that were put around the top of Yaakov's Coffin , Talmud Sotah 13a , that looked like thorns . Yosef had already put his crown on the Coffin . When the sons of Eisav , Ishmael and Keturah came to attack us at this very sad time and saw Yosef's crown on the Coffin , they all took their crowns and also put it on the Coffin , so was there 36 crowns on the Coffin and as Rabbi Abahu said , ' The verse teaches us that they surrounded Yaakov's Coffin with crowns , like a threshing floor which is surrounded with a hedge of brambles because the sons of Eisav , of Ishmael and of Keturah also came ... ' 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 that 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 would be bereft of both of 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 really 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 , did not 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 passed away , due to the fact that he did not stop his brothers when they kept referring to 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 the Egyptians could keep his bones in 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 Parasha that is about their passing , called " Vayechi , " - " Lived / Living . " This is because a true and holy Tzaddik who is so close to HaShem and who 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 , ' and so is one reason why the the word " Vayechi " is 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 term ' passes on ' becomes 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 need 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 becoming holier 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 to all of Creation , a Very Beautiful and Sweet Shabbos Kodesh with love .

Parashas Vayigash : - The Shabbos Parsha is Parashas Vayigash . This Sedra features two great Tzaddikim of Judaism , Two Tribes of Israel , Yosef and Yehudah facing each other . The Haftorah for this portion is Yechezkiel 37:15-28 and also refers to Yehudah ( The Tribe of Yehudah ) and Yosef ( representing Israel ) , for later on in Jewish history , our people unfortunately 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 May It Come Soon In Our Days , Israel will again become one nation , May HaShem Bring This Soon . This Parsha of Vayigash continues from the Sedra 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 so as 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 . In this Parsha 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 and wrongly , 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 of age . Yehudah made such a caring plea that Yosef could no longer restrain himself any more and so as 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 that they were standing there with . 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 that 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 a few 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 . " 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 told them to come closer , asking about if his dear beloved Aba Yaakov was still alive but the brothers still wondered . When they came closer and looked into his soft Jewish eyes and he mentioned how the incident of his selling took place in detail and also the details of his selling , that only he could know and details of the family and their births right back to Lavan , they knew that they were looking again into the face of their long lost brother Yosef . They begged him for forgiveness and he being the Tzaddik that he was , comforted them and told them how it all happened for a reason that he had to be sent to Egypt so as to sustain them and how it was HaShem Who Sent Yosef there for a good reason 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 had done 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 so , Yosef's brothers 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 their dear Father 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 so her Grand - Father Yaakov blessed her for reviving him and with this Blessing , HaShem Gave Serach Bas Asher longevity to live a long life and enter Gan Eiden Alive . The brothers approached their Father and told him about Yosef 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 of the " Eglah Arufah , " the last lesson that Yaakov had taught Yosef that day when Yaakov had sent him to seek his brothers , which is 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 Yaakov and Yosef could have known this fact of what Yaakov had taught Yosef that day and so , Yaakov's spirit revived and after his sons told him how Yosef is Viceroy in Egypt and most importantly that Yosef still righteously keeps to the Holy Jewish 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 , for it was Holy 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 A 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 rather prepare Yaakov 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 . A most holy man like Yaakov , would always make sure not to let the time of hour for the Shema pass . How holy and ever Faithful is Yaakov . How very beloved 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 dear beloved 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 that moment of time of that Blessing , the Nile rose and watered Egypt and the famine lightened to an extent , but did not stop completely . All money that was collected during the famine , Yosef brought 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 had 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 might 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 , it is also To Give us an opportunity to " Vayigash " - " Approach " HaShem and grow higher Spiritually in Holiness . Everything and all things that happen to us at every moment in our day are really very deep opportunities to grow in Holiness if we only would look deep enough and close enough for then we would 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 put aside our own personal wishes , so as to put HaShem's Selfless Wishes First . That is True Living . The World and our lives are filled with these opportunities , if only we would 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 , ' and even though , because of our wrong actions we may end up in Goshen in exile , we can 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 wrongs 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 , when they approached eachother in caring . 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 , ' the time of testing before Moshiach comes , when at this time we find our own personal struggles , a time that we need to and should use to cleanse and correct ourselves . If we look around us at the World we can perceive that things are reaching a certain point . We await the Final Redemption , May It Come Soon In Our Days . 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 and went to HaShem's Love . 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 , where we can " Vayigash " - " Approach " HaShem's Closeness And Love . 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 . Just as we Jews long ago left Goshen for " Vayigash " - " Approaching " HaShem , and HaShem " Approaching " us , so may 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 Most Beloved HaShem With Deepest And Sweetest Love , A Beautiful And Peaceful Sweet Shabbos Kodesh With Eternal Love and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Blessed Beautiful and Peaceful Shabbos Kodesh With Love .