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Parshat Vayechi - Ephraim before Menashe

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BRI Breslov: The Breslov Research Institute

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welcome back to insights in the parha of the week parat which finishes off the culmination of the book of bit so there's just some interesting ideas observations and points in the blessing of yob to his grandsons Ephraim and mashe and in him putting first Ephraim before Bas there's for sure a lot of depth in this in the mid and the Z and the cabala in the mid and the Z and the cabala we'll do our best to bring some ideas on a practical level first of all the the simple reason for the names Mas and EP okay that's in parik where YF says the reason why he called his firstborn Mas on that Hashem May me forget my my suffering in this foreign land in my my suffering in this foreign land in Egypt by being there and and then afterwards being elevated Hashem helped him to forget his past difficulties that he went through and why eph that hasem made me also be fruitful because he had children he had EP he married the osat but the daughter of potifar potifa and he had these two sons okay on uh on another level the name okay on uh on another level the name Mas also can RAB brings this by the way in lesson 56 that the word is like like the G like the sciatic nerve which was moved from its place when the angel hit Yakov in his hip so we we have this prohibition of eating the skic nerve to remember what happened to yov and it's called in Hebrew because it moved it moved from its place the word

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