Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan - Parashat Vayeshev

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[Music] good evening happy hanukkah today we are learning and it's a it's a difficult partial to understand a lot of things that are happening in this week's partial need explanation number one at the very beginning it says that uh we're by the way on page 199 in the art scroll 199 in the art scroll humash yaakov settled in the land of his father's sojournings in the land of canaan finally yakov came home after not being home for 22 years and he settled these are the chronicles of yaakov chronicles means either history or it can mean the descendants and as the number one descendant descendant the totalist yosef at the age of 17 years was a shepherd with his brothers by the flock and he was a friendly youth with the sons of bill and sons of zilpah his father's wives so number one question that we have is um why does it say these are the chronicles or the children of yaakov and it says joseph children of yaakov and it says joseph joseph was the 11th son of yaakov why is he listed first so the commentators explain that really he was supposed to be the first because yaakov wanted to marry rashel if he would have married only rachel yosef would have been first number the answer number two is that joseph looked joseph looked very much like yaakov they were like twins so if you would look at yourself you'll say oh that's the son of yaku so who are the children of yaakov the one that is the the that resembles him the most is yosef the third answer is yaakov because he loved rahil and therefore he loved his uh son joseph the most he told him the entire torah everything

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2. 6:25why is yakov doing such a thing why is he giving a beautiful gift to his…
3. 12:41and even though he's young he by nature is a manager by nature he's overseer just…
4. 18:55and really what happened really what happened was that the the brothers they wanted to eat…
5. 25:04because of this both were punished in fact all three were punished it says that if…
6. 31:19their father's flock in shechem and um the commentators say that shechem is a place where…
7. 37:29so let us not kill him let us give over his life into god's hands and…
8. 43:46yehuda and reuven they wouldn't go against them so what comes out that really ten brothers…
9. 50:09[Music] verse 36 the meta knights sold joseph to egypt to potiphar the minister of paro…
10. 56:32there's a question why if she is not married she's just awaiting marriage why is there…

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