What Yosef Taught His Brothers About Guilt & Anguish

What’s said in this shiur

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

Welcome everybody. Thank you for gracing us with your presence. Today's class is dedicated in the loving memory of Esther Bastrik for her yard site on the fifth day of Tavis. If you remember, she was murdered last year in the forest in Talmanasha. And uh this class is dedicated in her uh holy and beloved memory by her husband and her children and her grandchildren. Hashem Kamma. May Hashem avenge her blood and uh her memory and her light and inspiration will always remain with us for eternity. The class is also dedicated by Farah Azar as well as by Harry Levy. Thank you so much for your friendship and contribution and partnership. The trio of the three paras ves mik vigash each year when you learn them you can reveal new layers of meaning and depth within them. the the suspense and the mystery doesn't Wayne from year to year even though we have heard and read the story so many times but the buildup and the depth of the tragedy and the journey of Ysef ultimately till the day he reveals himself to his brothers and reunites with his father in parash which continues through vay of mikates and vayash always challenges us to go a step deeper and to uncover deeper layers of meaning. So in previous years we have explored these portions quite elaborately. We have discussed Ysef's secret of resilience by reframing his life and saying to his brothers, I was not sold. I was sent. We spoke a lot about the transformation of Yehuda from the person who sold Ysef into slavery to

Jump to a moment

1. 0:00Welcome everybody. Thank you for gracing us with your presence. Today's class is dedicated in the…
2. 5:38father and you remain here. It's at that moment that Vayigash continues the narrative. I love…
3. 11:59You did not send me here. Hashem has sent me and he created me as the…
4. 18:05this. Doesn't have anything better to do than to hide his personal goblet's back. Despite the…
5. 24:48medish that's so easy to gloss over and say okay ata means chuva. You have one…
6. 31:00in this work called which means the waters of the spring which is from where they…
7. 36:50even if it's conscious, but it's still relegated to the realm of thought, not to the…
8. 43:08of genes that you have inherited. They call it epigenetics today. There's a lot of things…
9. 49:49would be 1898. We know our sages say always represents. So when Ysef told his brothers…
10. 56:06this doesn't mean somebody who didn't do any who did something wrong is not responsible if…

Every second of this shiur plays inside Lehallel — a filtered YouTube library of Torah, music and shiurim. No ads, no comments, no autoplay.