What would you tell your CHILD if it were the LAST TIME? (Parshas Vayigash)

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

there's a conductor of the Boston Philharmonic named Benjamin Zander he's originally a British musician and he lives in America and he gave a TED Talk and he spoke about music and he spoke about it's uh power to influence people but in this Ted Talk he he relates a story that he had heard personally from a woman Holocaust Survivor a survivor of of Auschwitz Auschwitz who was on the cattle car with her brother they were both children she was the older sister and she looked down and she saw that her little brother was missing his shoes he was standing there barefoot and like many older sisters would react she uh she uh she says to him oh you're so stupid can't you keep track of your belongings you look you went and you lost your shoes and uh I mean obviously these were to us extraordinary circumstances but human nature is human nature and an older sister speaks the way an older sister is want to sometimes speak at any rate they were separated um less than a moment later um less than a moment later and he did not survive and they did not see each other again and those ended up being the last words that she ever said to her brother so when she got out when she survived she said I I walked out of Auschwitz and into life and I made a commitment at that moment that from now on that from now on whatever words I ever speak to anybody in any situation will be words that are worthy of being the last words that I speak to that person so this week our Torah portion we have a reunion the family of uh of yasif of of Joseph who is serving as second in command as

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2. 3:3422 years when they were separated those were the last words until that point um I'm…
3. 7:38which literally means um the son of wisdom and or of old age um that that…
4. 11:46saw each other so yasef wants to hint to yankovino I'm going to reveal to you…
5. 16:00subject at that particular time where they just randomly discussing different Torah topics stream of consciousness…
6. 20:11way that it's described in these verses a Sada or a field is is a place…
7. 24:15family I don't have any sense of security I was betrayed I'm a slave so I…
8. 28:54but he's alive he's spiritually alive he didn't make an excuse and who could fault him…
9. 33:01were I feel confident to say that one could categorize them in some way as a…
10. 37:08he could have easily said I don't know how to handle I'm not equipped I'm not…

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