2020-01-02 Rabbi Yitzchok Fingerer, Parashat Vayigash: Protection for Dangerous Times

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okay so so we quoted a verse in the Torah the Torah the verse of the Torah says that Yosef was working on preventing a famine in Egypt so he does what's basically an exercise in socialism and the posix says the Torah says that for ye Ken Yosef his coal on Muslim shrine that he choirs the entire land of Egypt and as diverse concludes by t heart safar the entire land was in by t heart safar the entire land was in Pyro's domain under his jurisdiction everything was acquired by Pharaoh to the exception of odd mosque ohana the land of the priests is not referred to Jewish priests Jewish Kohanim is that was the Levitical n which was later is referring to the pagans it's our idolatrous priests of Egypt and they got a clergy exemption okay that's the Torah then we went to a page in the Talmud tractate Papa basra page 7b which speaks about the fact that if you have residents in the town residents of a town it's compulsory it's obligatory town it's compulsory it's obligatory coughin the Commissioner says you force them to participate in secure in their town from any type of insurrection from any type of Marauders and a type of bandits any type of robbers and how did we force them we force them to participate the construction of doors of watch houses we said that the watch house saw was not referring to a watch houses on the periphery because that would prevent paupers from coming to collect charity and Elijah the Prophet along nothing was critical of a rabbi that said you that we should put watch towers he said because then you're

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