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2025 Parashat Miketz - No Accidents! (Zera Shimshon 13)

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Rabbi Yitzchak Sakhai

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Nishmat Johann and also Nishmat Shahin Bat Yehuda and Muriv Rafael bin Mavar and my uncle Ysef bin Munavar. Okay. Midrash says, "Listen carefully." We're going to learn a very important concept here. The shatim Okay, let's backtrack a little bit. After Ysef is sold as a slave, finds himself in Egypt. Okay. In paras Ysef is appointed as the ruler of Egypt and the entire modern world of that time. Theatim there's a famine and the shvatim realize they need to get food. Where is realize they need to get food. Where is their food? Egypt. They travel to Egypt. Who's the ruler? They stand in front of Ysef. They don't recognize him. Ysef recognizes them, asks them about their family. They say, "Oh, first he says, "You're spies." They go, "No, we're not spies. We're all brothers. We're actually 12 brothers. Um, one is lost and the other one's at home." So, finally Ysef says, "Uh um, why is So, finally Ysef says, "Uh um, why is one at home?" Oh, he's young. My father didn't want. So, you want me to believe y'all? You got to go. You got to bring me your younger brother, then I'll believe you. or else to me you're all spies and what I'm going to do is I'm going to keep one of you here in jail which was Shimon Ysef put Shimon in jail and you go back bringing Minyamin with you if you bring Minyamin with you then Shimon goes free also so now the Shabbatim go

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  1. 1:05Nishmat Johann and also Nishmat Shahin Bat Yehuda and Muriv Rafael bin Mavar and my uncle
  2. 4:10like that. The way he spoke listen and understand. Okay, here what happened? Now listen to
  3. 8:00mention Binyamin to the ruler of Egypt? When you say that in the level of Yakov,
  4. 11:04of this come to your wedding. We'll make we'll make sure that some of them don't
  5. 14:42and there's a decree in heaven that it's supposed to happen. You don't be the one
  6. 17:50you to deserve this punishment to have to be the ones to pass down this punishment?
  7. 21:27It was a process that needed to happen. Jacob saw it as a punishment and he
  8. 24:37So therefore said I'm working to make his son a a ruler in Egypt. Why did
  9. 28:11back only $5. Why did I need to lose that $1? That's important. Why did I
  10. 31:14and maybe braha will come to your home. Well, Rabbi, I was thinking maybe is there

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