Rabbi Binyamin Yuhanan - Parashat Vayechi

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[Music] good evening today we are learning parashat we're using art school homage and we're on page 269. this is the final parsha in cepherberry sheet so today we're gonna finish the safe is that hashem the parsha starts with yaakov lives in the land of egypt for 17 years in last week's parasha yakov came to egypt and when paro asked him how old are you he said i am 130 years old and we know that yaakov lived all together 147 years so he lived in egypt for 17 years so now we are in the final uh days of yaakov's life and the days of of yaakov's life and the days of yaakov the years of his life were 147 years pasuk 29 the time approached for israel to die so he called his son joseph and said to him please if i have found favor in your eyes please place your hand under my thigh which is a sign of uh commitment to do whatever the of uh commitment to do whatever the person is asking you to do it's you put your your hand under person's thigh as he's sitting it's a sign that i'm under you i'm subservient i'm willing to carry out any request that you make and do kindness and truth with me please do not bury me in egypt for i will lie down with my fathers and you shall transport me out of egypt and bury me in their tomb so yaakov is telling yourself i'm soon going to die and i don't want to be buried in egypt please i have a request of you it's a very difficult request and we'll see why please take me out of this cursed country and take me

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2. 6:13however that sadik who really on his own merit would would would be able to live…
3. 12:32you don't like us you don't like our country for the last 17 years you lived…
4. 18:42because jaako feels that how is it proper that i'm asking joseph to bury me in…
5. 24:52i buried her there on the road i did not even bring her into the town…
6. 31:03that's a good question someone is asking was jakob cautious that perhaps there's going to be…
7. 37:20ephraim and minashe were raised in a country like egypt outside of the main jewish community…
8. 43:32are friends comrades their weaponry is a stolen craft they took their swords and they went…
9. 49:45blessing for the volume zevolon shall settle by seashores he's going to be a merchant he…
10. 56:06from above blessings of the the deep crouching below blessings of the bosom and womb the…

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