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Midrash Raba Vayigash 1 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Madras Rubber Parrish up by Yogas sheer #1 As we've seen
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  over the last few weeks, the Madras picks up on new answers
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  in the text that perhaps are easy to overlook.
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  So for example, the very opening password in this week's Parrish
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  Up by Yogas, I love you Hoda Yehuda approaches Joseph and
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  speaks to him. Well, we know from the end of
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  last week's Parrish are that they had been speaking already.
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  So the obvious question is, why did Judah now approach Joseph
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  when continuing to speak with him?
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  And by now have you been following?
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  What do you expect to happen? Correct.
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  We're going to bring a verse from somewhere else entirely in
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  the Tanakani Hebrew Bible, which will then shed light on the
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  drama, the psychological drama, the goings on in our particular
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  pasuk. So the pasuk says in the book of
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  Proverbs, Binny my child, I Ravta Lariaka, if you have been
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  a guarantor for your friend, if you have given your handshake
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  for a stranger, you have been trapped by the words of your
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  mouth, snared by the words of your mouth.
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  Do this therefore, my child, and be rescued.
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  For you have come into your fellow's hand, go humble
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  yourself before him and placate your fellow.
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  And on that verse, all those verses from chapter 6 in the
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  book of Michelaine Proverbs, I'm Rabbi Khanino.
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  Rabbi Khanino said Barack min shalosh, we davek bashalosh run
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  from three things and cleave to three things.
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  So first of all, let's understand the corn is the
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  simple and understanding of the pasuk.
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  There's passage teaches that it is advisable, it's not advisable
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  to become a guarantor. And on that Robert Karnina now
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  tells us to run from acting as a guarantor as well as a range of
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  other relationship moments you could get yourself into.
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  So Barack Minha picked Donald run from accepting deposits for
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  safekeeping. Well Minha may unim and from
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  refusals Mian is where you have a young girl who is potentially
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  being married off by her family and she can refuse.
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  And the the Madras are telling us here one should not advise a
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  minor to refuse. It's obviously within the
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  context of what used to go on in the olden days because she might
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  regret it. So you'll be blamed.
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  Essentially. These are moments where you
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  could be blamed for things that perhaps or really are not your
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  fault and therefore avoid getting into situations of
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  difficulty and from acting as a guarantor on a loan between a
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  man and a man and his friend. What should you do?
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  Hita vek bakhalitsa cleave to Khalitsa and to hafarat
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  Nidharim, cancelling of a of a vow and the most beautiful 1 and
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  cleave to over havat Shalom spena damla haviro and cleave to
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  bringing peace between people. And the idea is that you perhaps
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  are allowed to not always tell the truth, not always give all
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  the facts that are necessary, because the value of bringing
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  peace between people overrides the value of the entire truth in
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  the moment. I'm Rabbi Barakia.
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  I'm Rabbi Shimbun ABBA by ABBA. Rabbi Barakia said name of Rabbi
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  Shimon the son of ABBA, the word Picardon, which is the word we
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  use in Hebrew for a deposit. He says a deposit is not called
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  Picardon except for the fact that it's a contraction of 2
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  words puk Don take and this meaning take this out of your
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  house. IE do not accept a Picardon, OK?
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  Because again, if people will deny giving it to you, you could
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  lose it. Lots of things would go wrong
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  when you try and help others. And by now you're wondering what
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  on earth has this got to do with Yehuda moving closer and closer
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  toward Yosef? Well, remember what did Yehuda
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  say? Yehuda said to his father, I
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  will guarantee the safe return of Binyamin.
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  He was that person who gave a guarantee.
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  So when the pasuk says, my child, if you have been a
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  guarantor for your friend, this pasuk is an allusion to Yehuda
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  who said I will personally guarantee his safety.
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  If you have given your handshake for a stranger, this also refers
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  to Yehuda who said of my own hand, you can demand him me
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  adita vakshenu. Then if you have been trapped by
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  the words of your mouth, this too is a is an allusion to
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  Yehuda that if I do not bring him back to you, says Yehuda to
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  his father, then I will suffer the consequences.
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  And how did the verse concludes here?
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  Go and cleave to the dust of his feet, and accept his kingship
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  and his mastery. For you, gashe, love you Huda.
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  Therefore your Huda approached Joseph and accepted his mastery
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  and his kingship. We will come back to this next
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  time. For the moment, let that Mull
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  over in your thoughts. Have a wonderful day, Happy
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  Hanukkah and Kholestov.