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

Our Parsha this week is Parashas Miketz as well as it being Rosh Chodesh Teves and Chanukah . We read the Parsha of Miketz and for Rosh Chodesh Bamidbar Numbers 28 : 9 - 15 and for Chanukah day 6 Bamidbar Numbers 7 : 42 - 47 and the Haftorah Zechariah 2 : 14 - 4 : 7 and Isaiah 66 : 1 and Isaiah 66 : 23 , 23 - 24 and 1 Samuel 20 : 18 , 42 all related to Rosh Chodesh and Chanukah . Yosef had to spend another two years in prison for asking the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers to speak to Par'o Pharaoh for him so he could get free. All HaShem Does Is for our own benefit , even though it may not appear so at the time , for even though Yosef had to spend that extra two years in prison , the time had to be right for his sudden rise to power, which would not have happened had he come out earlier . Yosef had already spent ten years in prison before the extra two years , where that ten years was to atone for each of the ten brothers that he brought reports back to his Father , a year for a brother report , so now , the " Miketz " - " The Happening " which also has within it , the Hebrew word " Keitz " - " The End / Final Point " had arrived and Yosef was to suddenly rise to power , A Beautiful Miracle From HaShem . It was on The day Rosh HaShanah , When HaShem Judges the World , that Pharaoh had his dreams and so , Did HaShem Judge that the Years of Plenty and then Years of Famine was to occur . We are told that Pharaoh had minor dreams up to this point to do with this happening , but the day came , " to the day " As The Holy Torah States , that the History of the Jewish people was to make their prophesied appearance , where it would result in Yaakov's family coming to Mitzrayim Egypt . Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing over the river , out of which came seven cows of beautiful appearance and robust flesh and they were grazing in the marshland, after which came seven more cows of ugly appearance and gaunt flesh out of the river and they stood next to the other cows and then ate them . Pharoah awoke and then fell asleep again and dreamed of seven ears of grain that were sprouting on a single stalk - healthy and good and then after them grew seven ears thin and scorched by the east wind , that swallowed up the healthy and full ears and then Pharaoh awoke . With these dreams , HaShem Had Given To Pharaoh the interpretation , but hidden deep within Pharaoh's dreams and would only reveal itself for the correct interpreter's interpretation Via HaShem , so Pharaoh would know who is interpreting for him correctly . Pharaoh called all his advisers and necromancers , but none of them could interpret the dreams for him . One said he would have seven sons and then seven daughters . Another spoke of a wonderful harvest of wheat and still another spoke of seven nations being beaten by Pharaoh and being forced to be under Egyptian rule , but would rebel . None of these interpretations were acceptable or true , for as I mentioned , the true interpretation was hidden subconsciously deep within the dreams so that Pharaoh would know which interpretation would be the true one . It was then that the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers remembered Yosef and told Pharaoh of what Yosef had done , in interpreting his and the Chamberlain of the Baker's dreams and how they had come true as Yosef had interpreted Only Through HaShem . Suddenly Yosef was rushed from the prison and cleaned and shaved and dressed and brought before Pharaoh , to stand on the bottom of the seventy steps leading up to Pharaoh's throne . Yosef gave credit To HaShem Who Is The True Interpreter Of Dreams , for all things Come From HaShem , Who Makes all things . Pharaoh tested Yosef , by at first not describing the state of the cows in his dream and Yosef corrected him . Pharaoh asked Yosef how he knew and if he had been standing behind Pharaoh while Pharaoh was dreaming , but Yosef again gave Correct Credit To HaShem . From HaShem , Yosef related to Pharaoh that there would be seven years of plenty followed suddenly by seven years of terrible famine and that Pharaoh should appoint someone to organize grain for the years of famine , during the years of plenty . The fact that there were two dreams similar , showed That HaShem Would Hasten It's Happening , for it stood ready to take place . Pharaoh knew that this was the true interpretation , for as I mentioned , HaShem Had Implanted Within Pharaoh's dream , it's interpretation , To Reveal itself only For Yosef . From one moment being a prisoner , to suddenly be brought before Pharaoh and win his favour By HaShem , happened not a moment too late or too soon , from when it was supposed to . Yosef's sudden rise to fame , happened in it's time , with not a single moment more to wait , thus the suddenness with which Yosef was brought before Pharaoh . This will be just like the coming of Moshiach , though he tarry , At The Time Of HaShem Sending him , it will happen very quickly in its time , like a flood , when the time of The " Keitz " - " The Final Moment " Comes By HaShem - thus the Word " Miketz , " - " The Happening in its time . " Pharaoh wanted to appoint Yosef Viceroy of Egypt , but Pharaoh's advisers objected , saying he is a Hebrew and a slave . Pharaoh answered them that Yosef does not appear to be a slave , but is of obvious cultured and well mannered stock . The advisers to Pharaoh still objected that a viceroy must know all seventy languages of the nations . HaShem that night Sent the Malach Angel Gavriel to teach Yosef all the languages of the nations . To aid and assist Yosef , A ' Hey ' Letter From HaShem's Name , HaShem Added To Yosef's name , so it could also be ' Yehoseif ' and so , did Yosef learn all the languages , appearing before Pharaoh and the advisors the next morning . Yosef , starting on the bottom step , had Pharaoh talk to him in each language and as Yosef answered in that language , Yosef would climb a step per language that Yosef answered in , until Yosef had climbed all seventy steps and stood directly before Pharaoh , who Through HaShem , made him Viceroy of Egypt and gave him a name " Tzafnas Pa'neach , " - " He who explains what is hidden / Revealer of hidden things . " According to the Zohar , This Was Ordained By HaShem , so that when Yosef's brother's would come before him , they would not know his name is Yosef . Yosef knew one more language more than Pharaoh , the language of Hebrew , for no matter how Pharaoh tried to learn it , he could not grasp it for it was too holy for him ( for he was filled with Tum'a Impurity ) and Yosef had to assure him that this fact that Yosef knew one more language more than Pharaoh , Yosef would not reveal . Pharaoh handed Yosef Pharaoh's ring and only outranked Yosef by the throne . He dressed Yosef in fine linen , put a gold chain around his neck and set him on the royal chariot , appointing him over all the land of Egypt . Pharaoh also gave Yosef , Osnas as a wife , who still wore Yaakov's family emblem as a pendant around her neck , for though she was adopted by Potiphar and Zulaicha , she was originally Yaakov and Leah's grand-daughter , daughter of Dinah and Shechem . As Yosef was being taken through the city on royal horseback , the females above tried to get the attention of the new viceroy , but Yosef , only looked up toward Heaven , thanking and blessing HaShem . It was then that Osnas threw down at him her pendant and looking up at her , knew her and who she was . Yosef was thirty years of age when he stood before Pharaoh . Pharaoh had a throne made for Yosef of pure gold and silver , with a picture of the Nile River engraved on it . As HaShem Had Shown Yosef and so had Yosef related , the years of abundance came swiftly . Yosef had told Pharaoh that the two dreams being two and coming one after the other , showed HaShem's Urgency To Fulfil HaShem's Word To Pharaoh and so , after the years of plenty , in which Yosef had stored one fifth away for the years of famine , while people still had food on their table , as the years of Famine started , instantly , that food rotted and devastation and hunger became the state of the day . People hungered and came to Pharaoh for grain , but Pharaoh told them to go to Yosef . Yosef told them that he would give them grain only if they praise HaShem and if some even circumcise themselves . Yosef's hidden reason for requesting this , was that he prophetically was shown that we would end up in Egypt and he did not want us to lose our keeping of this Law of circumcision , so he thought it would be easier if those around us did too . The people complained at what Yosef asked for and they went to Pharaoh saying that Yosef wants outrageous things . Pharaoh questioned them as to what Yosef asked them to do and when hearing , reminded them that if not For HaShem and Yosef , they would not have any food at all and so they must listen to Yosef and do what he tells them to do . Yosef had two sons with Osnas , Manasseh and Ephraim , whom Yosef brought up in the Holy Ways Of our Fore - Fathers , in the ways of HaShem's Commandments Given By HaShem To Avraham , Yitzchak and Yosef's Father Yaakov and even though Yosef brought them up in this foreign unholy land of Mitzrayim Egypt , Yosef still ensured that they remained pure and Jewish and so do we on Shabbos Bless our children to be like Yosef's children who , though they were staying in Galus as a lot of us Jews do , they still kept to HaShem And His Commandments and so must we and our children do the same and keep to HaShem And His Torah And HaShem's Commandments . Yosef knew that his brothers would eventually come to Egypt to buy grain , knowing that even there in Canaan , the famine struck , so Yosef instituted certain laws to ensure that they would be brought before him when they did come . All who came to Mitzrayim Egypt to buy grain had to come themselves and could not send a servant ( ensuring the brothers would have to come personally ). All who came to Mitzrayim Egypt to buy grain , would only be allowed to carry one donkey - carrying amount per person ( ensuring that all his brothers would have to show themselves ) . All who came to Mitzrayim Egypt to buy grain, would have to give details of their name and their Father's name and from where they came ( so that Yosef , who requested every night the list of incomers , would straight away notice his brothers arrival ) . All who bought grain , were not allowed to sell it as a business , but could only buy it straight from Egypt ( to ensure that his brothers would have to come directly ) . The Parsha says that Yaakov perceived that there were provisions in Egypt . That is a very hidden way to put it . The reason for putting it this way , is that Yaakov never lost hope that he would find Yosef again and so , the word for " Provisions " - " Shever " also means " Hope , " thus pointing to a hope that the brothers might find Yosef , who might have ended up there . So the brothers were sent to Egypt to buy grain , where Yaakov told them to try to look for him there , but to separate and enter through different gates when they go over the border and make a search for him . Every night after his day's work , Yosef would ask for the list of incomers to be brought to him to peruse . One night , while reading through them , Yosef noticed that through different gates separately , were the names Reuvein ben Yaakov , Levi ben Yaakov , Simeon ben Yaakov and all his brothers names , entering through separate gates and looking around the city in different areas . Yosef knew what they were doing , but decided to accuse them of being spies , as this is what spies do . They were all caught and brought before him . Yosef recognized them , but they did not recognize him , as he was now a grown strong man with a beard and part of his face covered . He accused them of being spies over and over again . He put them in a ward for three days and no matter how they asked to be released , they were not . They remembered what they had done to their little brother Yosef , who cried and begged them to release him and not send him away and now , they knew they were paying for that sin . Yosef did not do any of this out of malice , but wanted to test them to see if they had changed and if they would finally stand up for Rachel's other son Binyamin when he would eventually be brought before Yosef . Yosef had the brothers released and only kept back Simeon and told them to return to their Father and bring back Binyamin , to prove that they were not spies . It was Simeon , who had thrown Yosef in the pit as a boy . Reuvein reminded his brothers that he had warned them not to hurt Yosef and now they were all paying for what they had done . They were forced to return home without Simeon , for Yosef had told them that he would release Simeon when they returned with Binyamin , so as to ' prove that they were not spies . ' Yosef had their money returned to their sacks and it was Levi who first had the worry and heart-ache of being the first one to find the money returned , thinking a charge would be levelled on them , for it was Levi , who had said , when Yosef was a boy at the incident of them selling him , " Ah behold the dreamer comes . " Yosef was actually giving them all a spiritual opportunity to atone for what they did . When they returned to their Father , Yaakov did not let them go with Binyamin , even when Reuvein offered to have his two sons slain if he let his Father down Chas Ve Shalom , but still Yaakov never let them take Binyamin , reprimanding them for telling this Viceroy so much . They spoke up and said that this Viceroy seemed to know spiritually a lot about them and how should they know not to tell him that there is another brother , that they would be asked to bring him down there too , for Yosef even knew what wood Yaakov and the Mothers had used when they were all babies , for their cradles . The grain they brought back from Egypt dwindled and Yaakov again asked them to go to Egypt to buy more grain but they refused saying that they would only go if Binyamin would go too . Yehudah assured his Father that he would personally guarantee him and only then did Yaakov allow them to take Binyamin and go . Yaakov told them to take the returned money back to Egypt , a letter to the Viceroy pleading to let Binyamin and their other brother ( meaning Simeon , but also prophetically meaning Yosef ) go and also a tribute of things from Canaan as a gift . The brothers returned to Egypt and again came before Yosef .This was now the fulfilment of Yosef's dreams with them . When Yosef saw his younger brother Binyamin , the son of both his Mother and Father , he asked that preparations be made to dine with him in his palace which Pharaoh had built for him for three running years . They returned the double money to Yosef's son ( not knowing it was his son ) and were put to wait for Yosef to return home . Yosef had food prepared in the Kosher way and the brothers were amazed . Yosef held up his silver cup and pretended to look into it and so , place set everyone at the table from oldest to youngest . Yosef said to Binyamin , ' do you have any children ' and Binyamin responded yes and that he had and he had named all his children in a way that had a hidden connotation to the dear beloved brother of his , Yosef , that he had lost . It was then that Yosef could no longer contain himself and he had to leave the room to cry . He returned and asked Binyamin about his Mother and Binyamin told him that she had passed away . Yosef responded , that seeing as he also had no Mother , they would both sit together . Then they ate . The brothers were forced to eat a meal with anxiety , wondering what charges may be put upon them now , as a punishment for the meal they sat down to eat straight after they sold Yosef . Yosef purposefully had Binyamin served a portion five times the other brother' portions , to see whether they had gotten over their weakness of jealousy . Yosef left the table and returned shortly afterwards with an astrology chart and asked Binyamin if he knew how to read it and Binyamin said yes . Yosef asked him to look into it and work out where his lost brother is . Binyamin was shocked to see that his beloved brother Yosef was sitting right next to him , but Yosef quickly took him aside , Yosef putting his finger on his own mouth as if to motion to Binyamin not to say a word and revealed himself to Binyamin and told Binyamin that he would now test the brothers but not to say anything . They spent the night there . Yosef then instructed his son to have them set out early in the morning ready to leave and to put Yosef's silver goblet ( silver like the silver the brothers had gotten when they sold Yosef - thus allowing the brothers to atone for that sin ) in the sack of the youngest one . They were then followed , caught up with and the search made and the goblet was found in the youngest one's sack and so they had to return to Egypt . Yosef told them that only Binyamin must stay and be a slave and the other brothers could go . Yehudah , now steps forward and speaks to Yosef and so , this Parsha ends . In this Parsha , we very much see The Hand Of HaShem . HaShem Works In His Own Time - His own " Ketz , " not before . When HaShem Decides That the time is right , it comes like a flood . We are now celebrating the Festival of Chanukah , where the Chashmonayim came and found only a single flask cruise of Kosher uncontaminated olive oil for one day's Lighting and the miracle of Chanukah is that it lasted all eight days . What HaShem Ordains , Is . The story of Chanukah teaches us many lessons , but one of the main ones is that we must be like the pure olive oil ( where a whole olive is used to just be able to squeeze just a single pure drop of olive oil ) , remaining pure and unsullied from other ways that are not Torah . It was the Greeks that tried to contaminate us , but when we stood firm and stayed true to Torah , HaShem Helped us Beat our enemies And Performed A Miracle , thus allowing us to spread our holy Light outside to the World . How interesting that the Hebrew word for Miracle is ' Neis ' and the Hebrew word for Candle ( that we light on Chanukah ) is ' Ner . ' Even when Shlomo Ha Melech built the Temple , he built the windows smaller on the inside and larger on the outside , to show How HaShem's Light Spreads Outwards . We are HaShem's Messengers to shine out That Holy Purity , spreading It outwards to the World and then , if we remain pure , HaShem Will Bring the " Ketz " - " The End Of Days , " that we all await , for when that time actually comes , it will " Mikeitz , " - " Happen " like a sudden flood . But our behaviour and obedience to HaShem , is what can bring it on sooner , for the word " Ketz " is within the word " Miketz . " HaShem Waits every day and every moment To Bring On The End Of Days , The " Ketz , " but we all hold this time back . If one Jew goes away from Yiddishkeit and Torah , it affects us all and delays the Time of Redemption and if just one Jew shuns a Torah Way of life , The Way of HaShem's Will , that affects us all . One Jew that does not keep Shabbos , can hurt another Jew even far away . Each Jew , as our Tradition Teaches , is responsible one for another . We are all one . We are all HaShem's Creation and so must we all learn to behave like it . Yosef , a very holy man , would not in any way , no matter what test was put his way , stray from HaShem's Will . Even though he was in Galus Exile , he still kept to HaShem's Laws . His sons too . As I mentioned , when we bless our children on Shabbos , we bless them to be like Ephraim and Manasseh who , even though they grew up in a non Jewish environment , never forgot who they were and continued to follow The Tenets Of HaShem for our people , not letting themselves be tempted away from Torah Yiddishkeit Judaism , for our Forefathers kept the Torah instinctively , even before it was given to us on Har Sinai . This was the saving in the Chanukah story , where no matter what comes our way to tempt us away from HaShem's Instructions , we are to stay strong in Torah Yiddishkeit Judaism and so , warrant and deserve the " Mikeitz Ketz " - " The Happening of the Final Days , " at the End of Days . The World today is not that dissimilar from how it was in Yosef's day , or in the days of the Chashmonayim of Chanukah . Temptations to other beliefs and faiths were plentiful then as they are now . But HaShem Rewards For faithfulness Just As He Did With Yosef and the Chashmonayim And As HaShem Will Do With us . This Shabbos also being Rosh Chodesh , the New Month of Teves , is a good time to change , as is any . On Rosh Chodesh , we are as a people renewed , as the New Moon and so , is a good time to renew our faithfulness and love of HaShem And His Laws Faithfully kept Al Pi Ha Torah . So let us all work together as the Chashmonayim did and as Yosef did , to stay faithful and true to Judaism and shun foreign ways and beliefs and so work together to bring on the " Miketz Keitz , " - " The Happening of the End Of Days , " May It Come Soon In Our Days . I wish Most Beloved HaShem With Very Deep And Everlasting Love , A Very Sweet And Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh , Chodesh Tov and Chag Chanukat Sameach With Everlasting Love and to all my fellow Jews , with love , a Blessed Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh , Chodesh Tov and Chag Chanukat Sameach with love . Shabbat Shalom to all of Creation . May the End Of Days Come Soon In Our Days . Shabbat Shalom with Love .

Our Parsha this Shabbos is Parashas Vayeishev . The previous Parsha ended speaking of Eisav's descendants and so this Parsha continues with speaking of Yaakov's descendants and focuses on Yaakov and Rachel's son Yosef . The Haftorah for this Shabbos is Amos 2 : 6 - 3 : 8 and relates to this Sedra near the beginning of this Haftorah by referring to the aveirah of selling Yosef . Yaakov " Vayeishev " - " Settled " in the Land where his Father and Grand-Father sojourned , in the land of Canaan . We are told in this Parsha that Yosef is now seventeen years of age . It was around this time that Leah passed away and seeing that Yosef's Ima Rachel had passed away at the birth of Binyamin , Yosef was actually raised by Bilhah , Yaakov's other wife , linked to Rachel . Torah refers to Yosef as a "Youth with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah , " for Yosef used to be closer to the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah , as the sons of Leah , except for Reuvein , used to talk down to Bilhah and Zilpah's sons , referring to them as 'sons of the maid even though Bilhah and Zilpah were also actually daughters of Lavan and therefore sisters of Rachel and Leah , ' so Yosef ' being the kind of Tzaddik that he was , put his time more to the looked down upon sons of Yaakov . Torah refers to Yosef as a " youth " in reference to his teen years and his appearance . Torah Says that Yosef used to bring " Es Dibatam Ra'ah , " - " Evil Reports , " about his brothers . Not that Yosef was Evil , Chas Ve Shalom , but his intention was that they be Tzaddikim and he reasoned that reporting them , would give the opportunity for them to be corrected and grow into Tzaddikim . His reports were not based on fact but rather on his opinion of what he thought he was perceiving . As an example , he once witnessed his brothers eating from an animal and because the animal , even though it had been shechted , still quivered , he wrongly perceived that they were eating from a living animal , which they were not . There are certain Halachic rules regarding this and what they did , did not go against strict Halocha , though he perceived it incorrectly . Another time there was question about the animal's unborn within it and there again he doubted their correctness and so , with other instances , did he misunderstand what he saw and reported them to his Father , again not for the reason of malice , but with pure intentions that they be taught the right way . He should have approached them himself , but he reasoned that due to their ill feelings towards him , they would not listen anyway . Torah Says that Yaakov loved Yosef more than all the sons since he was a " Child of his old age . " Though this may sound self-explanatory , there is certainly more meaning here . Yosef would stay home learning unlike his brothers and seeing that Yaakov was aging , Yosef would put himself out to look after his Father and be a physical support to lean on physically and so does Torah refer to Yosef as a son of Yaakov's old age . Also Yosef was a soul very much like his Father , the two looking very much alike and having similarities in their life-course , like both having a brother or brothers that hated them , both dreaming holy dreams , both marrying women away from their birth-place , both having a total immersed love for HaShem's Laws And Learning and both Yaakov and Yosef being connected with the woman Yaakov loved most , Rachel . Also , Yaakov knew what it felt like when his Father put Eisav as First-born , though Yaakov was the holier and so , did Yaakov try to make sure this would not happen again and so was Yosef accredited for his holiness and made the favourite , though this was not how it should have been for the others . To inaugurate Yosef's holiness , his Father did something that would appear as though he was being made higher , for Yaakov made for him a " fine woollen tunic . " Such a garment in that day and age was usually worn by royalty or by those who were put in a high position above others and so the other sons hated Yosef as if he was being put over them . Torah Says that they could not speak to him peaceably and so , some of them did not even speak to him at all for as Tzaddikim they could not be false and hide their hatred for him with sweet false words and they rather did not speak to him at all . Yosef dreamed a dream and he told his brothers , not in order to boast , but hoping that they would respect him more and love him more . He dreamed that they were binding sheaves in the middle of the field and Yosef's sheaf arose and remained standing and his brother's sheaves gathered around and bowed to his sheaf . This was actually a future prophecy for later on his brothers did come before him when he was viceroy in Mitzrayim Egypt . His intention was not a bad one but they hated him even more , wrongly thinking that he was after ruler - ship , when he was not after rulership at all . He then dreamed another dream where this time the sun and moon and eleven stars bowed to him . Again , this was not his own doing but prophetic , for eleven of his brothers would in the future stand before him when he would be viceroy in Egypt . Yosef related it to his brothers alone first and then to his Father and Brothers again and his Father scolded him , not because his Father did not understand Yosef's holiness but Yaakov tried to play it down so that the brothers would not be so angry at Yosef . Yaakov knew it was prophetic for Yosef's dream had referred to Yaakov as ' the sun ' a word HaShem Called Yaakov when he had the dream of the ladder , so Yaakov knew That this dream Was From HaShem . The moon was in reference to Bilhah who raised Yosef , for Yosef's Ima Rachel had so very sadly passed on . Yosef's brothers hated him even more . Yosef's brothers had gone to pasture their Father's flocks in Shechem and Israel Yaakov called his son Yosef to check on their welfare and the welfare of the flocks and so Yaakov sent Yosef from Chevron to Shechem . On the way , Yaakov taught Yosef the Law of the Eglah Arufah , the Law of the man who is a stranger and visitor to a town and is found killed near but outside the town and no one knew who had killed him and what the closest town would need to do . That would be the last time Yaakov would see his son for as many years as Yaakov went away from his Father . Torah Tells us how Yosef was not able to find his brothers and how he came across a man in the field . This man was actually the Malach Angel Gavriel who told him , " They have journeyed on from here for I heard them saying ' Let us go to Dothan . ' " This was actually a hidden warning to Yosef meaning that his brothers had now 'gone far away from brotherhood towards him and have journeyed on to Dothan , ' where Dothan is from the root " Dat " which means ' to judge ' in other words they have gone to sit in judgement against Yosef . Yosef , knowing in the beginning when his Father asked him to go that his brothers hated him could have said no , but being a Tzaddik , he obeyed his Father and said , as his Great Grand-Father Avraham used to say to HaShem , " Hineini , " - " Here I am , " ready to do Your Bidding HaShem , no matter what the cost , I trust You HaShem . The brothers saw him from afar and wanted to Judge him as to be killed Chas Ve Shalom and Levi said , " Look , the dreamer comes . " Simeon was the one who said to kill him and throw him into one of the pits and say a wild beast killed him . Simeon knew that these pits contained snakes and scorpions , for Simeon had once had a previous encounter almost falling into one of these pits and almost getting bitten . Reuvein the eldest , knowing he had lost the First-born right to Yosef , still wanted to try and save Yosef from their hand and so he intervened . Reuvein said he should not be killed , first intending to rescue Yosef from their hands and then later , return him to his Father . They stripped Yosef of his fine woollen tunic , beat him and threw him into one of the pits . Ishamaelites came with spices and it says that Midianite traders bought Yosef , for Yosef was sold from one set of travellers to another , a few times before he got to Egypt. The Midianite traders who first bought him did not at first believe such a handsome and pure looking person as Yosef could be these men's slave boy but again Simeon spoke up and a bill of sale was written out as a guarantee that they had a right to sell him . Ishmaelites usually travelled this route from Gilead to Egypt to sell their spices and wares and so , Yosef was brought to Egypt , crying and longing for his Father and his home . Reuvein had left to go and pray as he did day and night , repenting for his Aveirah of disarranging his Father's Couch and when he returned , he found the pit empty and Yosef gone and so asked , " where can I go , " in reference to him ( Reuvein ) being the First - born and losing that position to Yosef , because of Reuvein's Aveirah and so wondering that if now Yosef is gone , what position is Reuvein now in level spiritually and also that he felt responsible now for coming back and not finding and being able to save Yosef . The brothers slaughtered a goatling in the proper way , thus a middah knegged midah against Yosef who questioned their shechting methods and they dipped Yosef's tunic into it's blood and brought it to their Father and Yehudah handed it to their Father and he said similar words to his Father as Yaakov had said to Yitzchak when going to his Father to get the Blessing instead of Eisav , so middah knegged middah , those words returned to Yaakov . Yaakov rent his garments and did not stop mourning for his beloved son . Yitzchak was at this stage around 168 years of age . After the sons had sold Yosef , they sat down to a meal , fully believing they judged him correctly . This Aveirah was carried over the centuries and exacted from us at the time of the Romans when the famous Ten Jewish martyrs were executed . This we read about in the Service of Yom Kippur . Yosef was exchanged many times from traders to traders until he was finally brought to Egypt . A man by the name of Potiphar saw him and personally desired him and so , bought him only after seeing the right of sale contract signed by the brothers ( not knowing they were Yosef's brothers ) . The name ' Potiphar , ' comes from ancient Egyptian dialect from the word ' Potiphara , ' and translates to ' Mutilated one , ' for after a disease that he had when he dared to desire Yosef for his own debased wishes , was punished with ending up like a eunuch . Torah describes Potiphar as " Seris Par'o , " where the word " Seris " can also refer to being mutilated as a eunuch . HaShem Sees All and so , Yehudah , the son of Yaakov , who would have been listened to if he would have told the other brothers not to do this to Yosef , but said nothing and also gave his Father such pain , in being the one to say to his Father when bringing Yosef's tunic with blood , " Identify if you please , " was punished straight away by also losing his own sons and being kicked out by the other brothers , for the brothers saw that their Father was inconsolable and so they blamed Yehudah for not stopping them from the action they did to Yosef . So Yehudah moved away from them , or as some Rabbis say , was chased away . HaShem Juxtaposes the story of Yehudah among the happenings in Torah of Yosef , To Also Teach us That HaShem Always Punishes for wrongs done In HaShem's Own Time That HaShem Knows Best . Torah Tells us that Yehudah " Went down from his brothers " and turned to an Adullamite man named Hirah and there , met and married the daughter of a prominent Canaanite , though many holy Rabbis and holy Onkelos translate the word K'na'ani as merchant . If she was a Canaanite , it might explain one of the reasons she and her two out of three sons had to die for we as a Jewish people were not to marry Canaanites . Three sons were born to Yehudah and this woman . Their names were Er , Onan and Shelach . Yehudah took Tamar for a wife of his first son Er . This woman Tamar was actually a very holy woman as she was the daughter of Noach's son Shem ( also known as Melchitzeddek that Blessed Avraham after the war of the four kings against five , that Avraham had won and defeated when his nephew Lot had been captured - earlier on in Sefer Bereishis ) . Because Er did not want to spoil her beauty , he reasoned that she should not be made pregnant And So HaShem Caused him to die . Yehudah was the one to whom the Laws of Yibum were first given and so , in Levirate marriage , Yehudah then gave his second son Onan to Tamar , but Onan , thinking the seed would not be his , also did not want to impregnate her and so did not want to bring up children in his brother's honour And HaShem Caused him to die also . So did Yehudah feel how it is to lose a son and in this case Yehudah lost two sons , thus being punished for what he put his Father through . Seeing as he blamed Tamar that she must be a woman who causes her husbands to die , Chas Ve Shalom , ( for Yehudah did not know that it was their fault ) , he withheld his third son Shelah from Tamar and had Tamar continue to wait in her Father's house . Tamar saw that Yehudah was not going to give Shelah to her when he grew up , after she waited many years and Yehudah's wife had also died and Tamar , for the reason of genuinely wanting to have progeny through Yehudah's holy line , removed her widow's garb and sat at the crossroads on the road to Timnah , seeing that Shelah , now grown , was still not given to her as a husband . When Yehudah saw her , he did not recognize her as she was always modest in his home never showing her face but always keeping it covered . She agreed to be with him , had him sign a marriage contract as our Rabbis tell us and he was to leave as a pledge of the union , his signet ( the ring position of the royal line of Judah ) as his wedding ring to her , his wrap ( royal cloak cover ) and staff ( the staff representative of a king , for Yehudah's Tribe , was the line of kings ) . Tamar conceived by him and it was told to Yehudah that she was with child . Yehudah wanted her taken out and burnt for she was as a Priest's Daughter ( daughter of Malchitzeddek ) that was still in the bounds of awaiting Levirate marriage to Shelah and if not him , then Yehudah would have been next in line to take her . She did not name Yehudah openly at her trial , but she only had delivered to him , his signet , his wrap and his staff and asked " Identify if you please , " the same words Yehudah had said to his Father Yaakov , when hurting his Father with the Tunic of Yosef . Satan tried to hide the pledge she had gotten so as to try and kill her and stop the line of Dovid and Moshiach , who would be Satan / Samael's eventual downfall But HaShem Sent the Malach Angel Michael to retrieve it and make it appear and now it was up to Yehudah , whether he would own up and embarrass himself , or hide his embarrassment and have her killed . Yehudah chose to save her and embarrass himself and do the right thing . The Holy Line of David was now born from Yehudah and Tamar , that would come down generations later as very holy Dovid Ha Melech and his line . This happening of Yehudah and Tamar was also interposed here within the happenings of Yosef , for both Tamar and Zulaicha ( Potiphar's wife ) both foresaw that they would have children with this holy family of Avraham , Yitzchak and Yaakov , yet Tamar's intention was one of holiness , unlike Potiphar's wife Zulaicha ( who ended up having her adopted daughter Asenath , who was originally Yaakov's grand daughter from his daughter Dinah , marry Yosef , even though Zulaicha thought it would be her herself who would be with Yosef ) , but Zulaicha who wasn't at all holy , had no holy intention at all . The Holy Torah narrative returns to Yosef in Potiphar's house . A Hebrew was not looked upon favourably at that time to work in an Egyptian's house . How that changed when we Jews went into slavery which is related in the Book of Shemos and a Hebrew was not even allowed to touch the food of an Egyptian for they said we contaminate their Treife - UnKosher food . Potiphar saw that Yosef was very special and honest and trustworthy and eventually put Yosef in charge of his house , everything except , as The Holy Torah Says , " The Bread he ate , " for as I mentioned , we were not allowed to touch an Egyptian's food . This also meant that Yosef was permitted all things , except Zulaicha , Potiphar's wife . Potiphar could not help but notice that Yosef was very physically appealing and nor did Potiphar's wife Zulaicha . Yosef felt more at ease in Egypt now And So HaShem Very Quickly Reminded him that a Jew should never feel totally comfortable and relaxed in Galus And So HaShem Felt A Reminder was due And Sent Against him the bear personality Zulaicha . Zulaicha saw in her astrology that she would have a family connection with Yosef and so she took it to mean that she would have children with him . This was totally incorrect for the only family connection she would ever have with him would be that he would marry her adopted daughter Osnas ( Asenath ) who was not even Egyptian at all but as I mentioned earlier , the Grand-daughter of Yaakov and daughter of Yaakov's daughter Dinah . Thus Osnas was Dinah and Shechem's daughter ( Shechem being the man who had taken Dinah forcefully and had kept her and had wanted to marry her , that the two sons of Yaakov , Simeon and Levi had killed when they freed their sister from that place ) , for Osnas had also been brought to Egypt . Thus she was actually Jewish . Zulaicha was completely taken by Yosef's looks to the point where she thought about being with him night and day . She pursued him continuously , changing and redressing herself five times a day to try and attract his attention but Yosef would not even look at her . In fact Yosef tried his best to avoid her and not serve her but she continually called him to run her bath , set her clothes , cream her , which he refused and fix her perfumes . Day after day she hounded him and day after day he refused her , saying he would not insult his G-D and his boss - master Potiphar . She even offered to kill her husband but nothing worked and he removed himself from her presence . Yosef served his master Potiphar faithfully and whatever Potiphar would ask to drink , hot or cold , it Would Instantly Be Given that way From HaShem through Yosef , into Potiphar's hand . Potiphar even asked if Yosef was a magician able to perform such magic and Yosef told Potiphar That It Was All The Work Of HaShem , The One And Only True G-D And Creator Of Creation . Yosef taught Potiphar about HaShem . HaShem Revealed Himself To Potiphar for the sake of Yosef As A Spiritual Light Above Yosef , thus Potiphar could not deny Yosef's holiness From HaShem . Yosef could not be swayed by Zulaicha . Zulaicha's friends noticed how Zulaicha was depressed and she invited them to dine with her and she called in Yosef to show how she must look at him all the time , desiring him . They too were taken with his looks which he had obviously gotten from his Mother Rachel and Father Yaakov and they advised her to command him to do her will but that too did not work . Yosef would not sin against HaShem . The day came which was a festival in Egypt for the overflowing of the Nile , an abundance of water for irrigation , that Egypt celebrated . Potiphar had asked his wife to come with him but she refused , making out that she was ill and she sat in the doorway awaiting Yosef to walk past her knowing he always came that way . She knew no one else would be in the house and so she planned to catch him . As he walked past her he did not even avert his eyes to the scantily clad silk-gowned Zulaicha , who tried to coax him to follow her but he refused . She put her hands on him and tried her best to get him wanting her , but an image of his Father Yaakov appeared to Yosef and he stepped back , thus slighting her and leaving her rejected . She tried to physically grab him , but he managed to step free and he turned to flee and it was then that she caught the back of his garment and it got left in her hand as he ran from her . Knowing that she may not be believed by her husband , she got the other wives to lie and also deceitfully say that they had been molested by Yosef and so when Potiphar returned , he found the husbands at his throat verbally accusing his slave of things Yosef never ever did . Yosef truthfully maintained his innocence even though Zulaicha argued . Potiphar called the Egyptian priests to judge and they asked where the garment of Yosef was grabbed . Hearing that it had been grabbed in the back they said that he must have been fleeing and thus she must be lying . Yosef never forgot their kindness to him and repaid them royally when the future famine came . Zulaicha blamed Potiphera for bringing a Hebrew into their home and Yosef ended up being judged wrongly . Even the adopted daughter Osnas stood up for Yosef saying how Zulaicha had constantly hounded him . Potiphar knew Yosef was innocent but to save face , Yosef was put in prison . Not the usual prison for criminals but another prison that was kept for those who insulted the royalty of Egypt . HaShem Watched over Yosef and even there , in the prison , Yosef was seen to be a man of worth . At night , Potiphar , the actual head of this Prison would have Yosef come out just to clean his house and then have him go back again . Still Zulaicha hounded him , but to no avail . HaShem Alone , Who Is Solely In Control Of All Things , Works His Special Works To Help us and so , one day the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers and the Chamberlain of the Bakers for Pharoah were put in the prison where Yosef was held . It was the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers job to put the cup into Pharaoh's hand , for drinking . That was his job . He had been blamed for an insect that had flown into the cup of wine purely by accident . The Chamberlain of the Bakers on the other hand had purposefully tried to hurt Pharaoh by putting a stone into what he had baked for Pharaoh . One morning Yosef saw them downcast and they said that they had both dreamed a dream . Both had miraculously dreamed their own dream and hidden within each one's dream was also the interpretation of the other one's dream . Yosef had them relate their dreams . First the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers , who dreamed of a grapevine with three tendrils that budded , blossomed and bloomed into grapes and the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers squeezed the grapes into Pharaoh's cup and then put it into Pharoah's palm . HaShem Gave Yosef the dream's interpretation which was that in three days , the Chamberlain of the Cupbearers would be restored to his post and do as he did before in his job . Also Yosef saw a prophecy for our people Of How HaShem Would Redeem us From Egypt With three individuals , Moshe Aharon and Miriam . Yosef asked this Chamberlain to remember him when this Chamberlain would be set free to please ask for Yosef's release , a mistake and lack of trust in HaShem To Free Yosef When the time was right . Then the Chamberlain of the Bakers , who already was given as I mentioned , in his dream , the interpretation of the other's dream , knew that Yosef had , With The Help Of HaShem , interpreted correctly and he decided to then relate his dream of three wicker baskets on his head where in the uppermost basket was all kinds of food for Pharoah , where the birds were eating it . So Did HaShem Give , Through Yosef To the Chamberlain of the Bakers , The Interpretation Of this dream to mean that in three days , on Pharaoh's birthday , Pharaoh would hang the Chamberlain of the Bakers . So did everything happen As HaShem Had Shown To Yosef . The Chamberlain of the Cupbearers tried many times to remember to help Yosef , but was repeatedly made to forget . So ends the Parsha . The Parsha is called " Vayeishev " - " Settled " and starts out with Yaakov finally settling in the Holy Land , not yet ours . No sooner does Yaakov feel settled , then tragedy strikes and he is forced to be without his beloved son Yosef . HaShem Tells the Tzaddik , " Don't be settled and content yet in this World of Olam Hazeh - this Present World of Preparation in which we are to do Mitzvos following HaShem's Commandments also so as to enter Olam Habah - The World to Come , for we are to bring this World to the Light Of HaShem . " HaShem Tells the Tzaddik that his peace and rest will come only in " Olam Habah " - " The World To Come . " Only in Olam Habah , will we finally properly " Vayeishev " - " Settle " and have True Holy ' Settling . ' Everything else that we go through , every day , as Jews and as all Of HaShem's Beautiful Creation , is just a journey , even from one Gilgul to another , from one incarnation to another . Both Yaakov and Yosef were Tzaddikim . Both had to go and Settle in strange lands for both Yaakov and Yosef had to settle in Egypt . Yaakov also had to settle away from his home with Lavan . But Egypt was not our home . Only Eretz Yisroel is our true home . Wherever we are , HaShem Is Always With us . HaShem Is Always With us wherever we find ourselves . Though we find ourselves in Galus Exile , HaShem Does Remind us from time to time that no matter where we may find ourselves , our only place of " Vayeishev " - " Settling , " Is With HaShem and not with foreign pagan ways , Chas Ve Shalom . Here in this Parsha is this message reverberated , for no matter where we find ourselves , we are to keep HaShem's Laws , no matter what outside pressure is put upon us . Yosef in Egypt kept to our Laws and remained a Holy Hebrew even though he lived among heathens . So did Yaakov , who lived among those who so strongly worship idols . So must we also stay strong in our sole faithfulness to HaShem Alone . These places of and in Galus , are not our home , but a temporary abode , to do Miztvos and bring The Light Of HaShem and raise ourselves to Heaven . Only is Canaan , referred to here as " Vayeishev " - " Settling , " are we at home . For Only HaShem And His Holy Land ( the Land of our Fore-Fathers ) And HaShem's Way , Is The True " Vayeishev " - " Settling . " We all face many trials and tribulations and many tempters and temptations that try to pull us away from HaShem's Path , Chas Ve Shalom , but these paths of falsity , couched in false religion and false ways will never lead a person To Where HaShem Instructs us In His Holy Torah . The Way , Is Only HaShem's Way , And The Truth , Is Only HaShem's Truth , And The " Vayeishev " - " Settling , " Is Only With HaShem And His Holy Torah True . No Jew , who is a True Jew , can ever truly settle in anything else But In HaShem And In HaShem's Way And In HaShem's Holy Torah . It may feel physically okay for some now but the Jewish Neshoma cries out To HaShem And Only HaShem's Settlement is True Home . As we light this World With HaShem's Light , With Every Mitzvah Of HaShem , that we do , working to Light up HaShem's Creation With His Light , so must all our works and actions , be for The Sake Of HaShem And His Shamayim Heaven . We must all work toward Olam HaBah the World To Come . It is only in Olam Habah that we Jews can truly " Vayeishev " - " Settle " and it is only in Olam Habah that we as Jews find True Settling Peace . Until we get there , we have much work to do , for we Jews are to be a Light unto the Nations ( Yeshayahu Isaiah 49 : 6 ) and lead the World To HaShem's One And Only Truth Of Oneness . We must all be and teach all those around us to be true To HaShem Alone . This Parsha of " Vayeishev , " shows us That Only Within HaShem , can we Truly Settle . So let us use this World of Olam Hazeh to its full potential and not lose a single opportunity to prove our faithfulness to HaShem's Holy Torah Truth , making this World into a Place , As HaShem Intended Where HaShem Can " Vayeishev , " - " Settle " Among us , As HaShem Wanted To Do In Gan Eiden . May the World Finally Come To The Knowledge And Truth Of HaShem , For Within HaShem , Is The Only Place To " Vayeishev " - " Settle . " Our Jewish Fore-Fathers knew this . So may we all come to know this and do this and make " Olam Hazeh , " - " The Present World , " into " Olam Habah , " - " The World To Come , " In The Loving Care Of HaShem Ha Kadosh Baruch Hu , HaShem , The Holy One Blessed Be He . I wish Most Beloved HaShem With The Sweetest Most Eternal Forever Love , A Very Beautiful And Very Special Shabbos Kodesh With Deepest Eternal Love and to all my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Very Special and Very Beautiful Shabbos Kodesh with love . Shabbat Shalom to all of Creation . May " Olam Habah " come soon in our days .

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