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Midrash Raba Vayechi 5 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Parish Avayaki, Madras rabbit the last year of the week.
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  So we know that Yaakov says to yourself, I'll now take
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  perennial Mitzrayim. So we looked at this earlier in
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  a previous year, but now the Madras is asking why would
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  Yaakov object even to a temporary internment in
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  Mitzrayim in Egypt? And then later when they would
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  get out, he would then be brought to the land of Israel
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  and be buried along with his ancestors, says the Madras Lama.
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  Why is that so to #1 Because the fate of the land of Egypt is to
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  be stricken with lice. The year Maraka shot photography
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  and I got a swarm inside my body, says Yaakov.
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  Were I to be buried that lefika? I'll not take Bahraini Bermitz
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  rhyme. What on earth #2 Did you get the
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  joke there? The earth where the lice came
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  from doesn't matter. Davarka name.
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  Abika Shark. Why did you not want to be
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  buried? Dimitrium Zara.
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  Would it make an object of idolatry?
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  Make him an object of idolatry for justice?
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  Punishment is exacted from the worship of an idol.
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  So is punishment exacted from the object of worship.
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  Dictif it says in the pasuk overhaul Elohim it's Rayim and
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  against all the gods of Egypt assess Fatim.
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  I will execute judgement. Let's skip in the Madras to one
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  more one more answer. Dava Yaakov Ami Yaakov said
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  Shilohi padu be Hamid swims. It is that so that the Egyptians
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  will not be redeemed through me. They bow to sheep and I'm
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  likened to a sheep and it says Seb Puzra Israel verse in the
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  book of Jeremiah Israel is like a scattered sheep.
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  And further regarding Egypt, it's written, I share Basar
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  Hamorim Basaram, whose flesh is the flesh of donkeys.
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  And it says in the pasuk or Patak Hamaritif the first of a
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  donkey will you will redeem with the sheep.
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  So they're going to be said to the donkey of Egypt will be
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  redeemed by the sheep which represents Yaakov.
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  Have they Alnaty Bahraini but Mithraim do not allow me to be
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  buried. Do not bury me in the land of
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  Egypt. Obviously, the next part of the
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  Midrash is going to play in the flip side for Lama Kolharovat of
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  Imam Khabibin Kurat Eretz Israel.
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  We'll have to leave that for another time.
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  Why they specifically wanted to be buried in the land of Israel.
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  But let's try and unpack this part of the Madras first.
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  So the first one is is the one. I don't really yet have a good
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  hold on this particular midrash. We know according to most
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  commentators dans Vandea Kinim, the first, the third plague
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  Kinim was not didn't bother the Jewish people.
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  Yes, there are commentaries that understand that the first 3
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  plagues did affect the Jewish people, but the mainstream
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  thought in this midrash that they didn't affect the Jewish
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  people. So we know that Yaakov wouldn't
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  have been affected. But the idea was it didn't
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  affect the Jewish people through a miracle.
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  And Yaakov is saying I don't want the miracle to have to be
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  performed for me. What this suggests about the
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  relationship between body and soul after death and the
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  relationship between them and the body feeling things is
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  beyond my understanding right now.
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  Leave it. If you understand this matter is
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  better than me, then please be in touch.
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  The second one that you didn't want to become an object of
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  worship gives highlights an idea from the ancient world.
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  You know, it would make sense you would worship anything that
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  brought you benefit. When Yaakov arrived in Egypt, we
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  know from the rabbis that the famine stopped.
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  It was supposed to last seven years, the plenty seven years of
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  famine. And the famine stopped only in
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  the second year. The rabbis tell us the waters of
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  the Nile were blessed because of Yaakov.
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  They would overflow and then, then they would irrigate the
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  surrounding fields. And they recognized Yaakov as a
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  holy person and therefore it was most likely this is what he what
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  he would happen to him after death.
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  He would be worshipped. Think about how easily we might
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  come to doing that with somebody who we see has brought us
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  benefits and how we might overly worship them, perhaps not in a
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  religious sense, but maybe emotionally as well.
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  And then finally we saw this last understanding which plays
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  on various Persukim and how Yaakov is compared to the sheep
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  and not wanting to be redeemed for the donkey of Egypt.
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  And had Egypt, Egyptian society, the Egyptians themselves been
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  forgiven for their sins, what would have happened?
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  They would never have suffered the 10 plagues and everything.
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  Instead of suffering the templates, God would have put it
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  in Pharaoh's heart to let them go immediately and things would
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  have been very, very different. And perhaps the people we needed
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  to become, we wouldn't have become.
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  Which again suggests that the whole script of the 10 plagues
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  and the experiences we had, whether we understand it to be
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  that the first of the three plagues did affect our people or
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  not, or the general experience of witnessing the plagues was so
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  fundamental to our experiences developing as a Jewish people
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  that Yaakov could not have remained even for temporary
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  moments in the land of Egypt. Have a wonderful day.