The Shabbos Sedra is Parashas Vayigash . In this Sedra Parasha , 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 Rechav'am Rehoboam . At The End Of Days , Israel will again become One Jewish 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 Mitzrayim 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 and restrain himself , before they tear 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 Mitzrayim 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 of theirs 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 was 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 Mitzrayim Egypt heard and so 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 . The brothers begged him for forgiveness and he , being the Tzaddik he was , comforted them and told them how it had 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 Mitzrayim 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 In The Holy Torah , 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 Yaakov 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 Mitzrayim Egypt . She did so and thus revived her Grand - Father Yaakov and 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 Yaakov and told their Father Yaakov that Yosef was alive and well in Mitzrayim Egypt , but Yaakov still was very surprised , until they related , As The Holy 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 Yosef 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 Holy 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 Mitzrayim Egypt . HaShem's Very Holy Torah Then Enumerates the souls of ours that went down to Mitzrayim Egypt . If we count the names of those souls , it comes to sixty nine , yet The Holy Torah mentions 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 Miryam was born , just as they entered into the border of Mitzrayim Egypt . 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 Mitzrayim 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 his son 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 Yaakov's son 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 that they are cattlemen , for he knew how Egypt , who uses the sheep as a deity , would thus keep separate from us . So Yosef 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 that had been 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 own 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 Yaakov 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 for what we did wrong . 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 , ' HaShem Stands Next To And With His Holy Tzaddikim In Closeness . 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 Come 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 From HaShem , 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 , To Live For HaShem . The World and our lives are filled with these opportunities , if only we would just 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 , that 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 HaShem . 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 Holy Torah Wishes And Doing What HaShem Wants us to do 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 Of 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 Jews 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 Sweetest Most Beloved HaShem With The Deepest And Most Eternal Love , A Beautiful And Peaceful And Sweet Special Shabbos Kodesh With Everlasting Eternal Love and to all of my fellow Jews and to all of Creation , a Beautiful and Peaceful Blessed Shabbos Kodesh With Love .