A Short Thought on Parshat Vayigash | by Harav Asher Weiss Shlit"a

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

[Music] so dear friends and dear tamirim once again i want to share with you a thought on the weekly pasha pasha's so the story of joseph and his brothers comes to a dramatic climax in this week's pasha when you say finally after so many trials and tribulations and pain finally could no longer stand in hiding your syphilis he breaks down crying and he tells his brothers when did that happen when you the stands before yousef and he musters the courage to speak up and he says no no we must be been yumming back and i am willing to serve you an evid as a slave let him go that is when joseph finally says enough is enough why i think this is such a profound thought we don't judge the office section whatever they did is above and beyond the realm of our understanding but ghazal did teach us yes we analyze and we judge just to the extent to learn to learn with us why is jaisal putting his brothers through all this pain through all this suffering why is he tormenting them again and again when he first sees them why doesn't he simply say i'm yours of being your father everything is okay everything will be okay i think this is a profound thought and last week's partial process mchates in a moment of private reflection where the joseph's brothers are sitting in a dungeon in custody in this foreign land and they make it fish they say one to another we

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2. 1:02and he says no no we must be been yumming back and i am willing to…
3. 2:36where the joseph's brothers are sitting in a dungeon in custody in this foreign land and…
4. 3:38that was the crime but what's the what was the origin of this crime what was…
5. 5:13for the coming generations for the future of claudia it's not something personal between him and…
6. 6:15it is not only that i took responsibility i am willing to bear the consequences let…
7. 7:48and i was afraid it's not over it's going to be back with a vengeance and…
8. 8:52we're not listening we're not hearing how many of us don't seem to care and that…
9. 10:27that is only one case that i happen to know people are dying families are shattered…
10. 11:27he's entitled to do so i know that a mask is not foolproof and neither is…

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