Parsha Perspectives for Today (Vayigash)

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

yosef nevertheless our parasha begins you approached joseph and he said if you please my lord may your servant speak a word in your lord's ears and let not your anger flare up at your servant for you are like para michamocha ke pharaoh mika moha doesn't mean who mika mukha means you are like para khamaleibo it uses this word in this context to explain apostolic later in safer vayikra we have a myth of via have to learn we have an obligation to love our neighbor as ourselves and famously it's asked love your neighbor as yourself how is that possible how could one love a neighbor as we love ourselves and so she explained look at the words here kika ke pharaoh means you are like paro para the afterlife means love what is like you in your neighbor everyone can find and see something redeemable in the neighbor don't focus on what sets the other person apart don't focus on your differences or it will divide instead focus on the afterlook find the kamoka kika ke para in the other person and in that way you will connect yehuda displays a tremendous amount of courage he steps up and he confronts yosef we mention every year the ramaara moshe is in some we all have to take three steps forward to begin our meet or esray and he quotes it based on the request says why do we take three steps forward just close your feet hold them together and start dominating where you are picture and imagine yourself standing before the almighty why do you have to take three steps forward said okay because in tanakh we have three times the word vayigash is used to describe stepping up stepping forward stepping out confronting on behalf advocating standing up for justice avraham on behalf of stone vayigashi steps up to god

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