How Joseph Brought Healing to His Broken Family - Parsha Vayigash - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

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[Music] good evening and welcome to all who are joining us here from across the globe tonight's class is dedicated by our dear friends david and edestein in the sacred memory of the kudoshima of mumbai and rabbi gavriel and rifki holzberg the chabad ambassadors to mumbai india also dedicated in the loving memory of a young soul alta shula sword love the daughter of rabbi yossi and hindus wordlove tonight's class is also dedicated from the brooklyn financial group a representative of the guardian life insurance company of america and the merit of hinda for a complete and speedy recovery and in the merit of shmuley farkas in honor of his 10th birthday on chanaka [Music] it is a story of deep mystery sadness pain drama and extraordinary emotion it is difficult not to read and learn the story each year again and not be overtaken by deep sadness and emotion of how this story evolves until its climax in this week's portion of aygash when joseph who has once been despised loathed hated almost killed thrown into a pit and then sold into slavery by his own brothers has now become the second to the most powerful human being in the most powerful ancient civilization egypt and finally he discloses his identity to his brothers aniosup i am joseph i am your brother whom you have sold into egypt but tonight we want to explore the plot behind the story the scheme behind the successive encounters between joseph and his brothers which leads up to the point of him exposing his identity to them many things happen it's a long dramatic intense narrative filled with enigma and mystery and we want to understand why what is the nature of the story what was joseph trying to accomplish

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1. 6:50the entire family all of the children including benjamin come down to egypt this time they're…
2. 13:02that now he will finally take revenge from them and while he is talking to them…
3. 19:12jewish people but this has no basis in the narrative because jacob told joseph go out…
4. 25:39can testify that this person will not engage in this again that is true and what…
5. 31:50and hence the first stage of truva will occur regret remorse of the past indeed what…
6. 38:02the gomura the complete shiva and here is where joseph devises a master stroke he recreates…
7. 44:11and he describes to him the relationship between benjamin and yaakov vinaf his soul is intertwined…
8. 50:26the three step program in rambo milk is true was not studied it was acted out…
9. 56:34she accuses them of spies the third thing is they threw him into a prison so…

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