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Midrash Raba Vayigash 4 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Midrash Rubber on Parachute by Yigash sheer #4 Let's continue
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  to make sense of the opening phrase by Yigash, A Love you
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  Hooda. We've seen so far two different
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  interpretations, one that he they physically came close to
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  each other. We also saw an interpretation
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  that it wasn't about physical space, but about understanding
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  and how language can be used to cut through the misunderstanding
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  and to present levels of depth in in words that perhaps aren't
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  there on the outside but are they're contained in the inside.
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  And here we have a further interpretation of Vaiyigash.
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  So the Madrid says Vaiyigash is doesn't mean that he approached
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  him, but rather he roused himself in preparation for
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  something. Let's have a look.
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  Rabbi Yehuda and Rabbi Nehemiah and the rabbis discuss the
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  phrase Vaiyigash, a love Yehuda. Rabbi Yehuda says Hagashallah
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  milkhammer. This word viagash, approaching
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  was for war. Why?
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  Because the root nun gimmel Shin is used in the context of
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  warfare, as we still have in the puzzle in the book of Shmuel
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  Vayigash Yohavaham. I share you more.
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  They they drew near, they approached la milkhammer, says
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  Rabbi Yehuda. That's what Judah Yehuda was
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  doing in our text. He was approaching yourself for
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  war or being a hemia says no complete opposite.
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  Hagash shall appease. No he wasn't.
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  This word is found in relation to appeasement.
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  Nagash is used with respect to persuasion as it's written in
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  the book of Joshua. The children of Judah approached
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  by Yik Shu. They approached Joshua and that
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  that moving closer to him was to persuade him to do what they
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  wanted. So we've got is it war or is it
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  to try and persuade the Rabbana army.
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  What do the rabbis tell us, Hagasha completely different
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  Litfila. This is about prayer.
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  Nothing to do with war. Nothing to do.
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  We're trying to have a discussion.
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  This was deafening Vagigash Eli Yahuenavi and Elijah the prophet
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  came approached by Omar Hashem. OK.
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  And then the verse continues. We have again the same word.
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  The same root is found in three completely different context.
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  Now here we've got already an interesting debate.
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  How do we understand war? Was it literally?
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  I mean, did the did the brothers or you heard them really think
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  that they could take on the Egyptian empire?
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  That seems a little for a lot far fetched.
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  Not really not even a little far fetched that he thinks he could
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  try and take him down. So perhaps war could be no could
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  mean literal. He's going to try and kill
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  Joseph and Pharaoh and destroy Egypt.
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  Or perhaps he came to fight him in a dispute.
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  But that would work because that's completely opposite of
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  the word Pius, which is to pacify, to persuade, to calm
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  things down. Definitely not a physical
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  altercation. And then we have the concept
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  also of tufila. The term fila is a request that
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  someone in his kindness should grant him something to which,
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  based on justice, he has no claim.
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  You heard the statement to yourself that he should let
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  Binyamin return home because Yaakov would otherwise die falls
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  into this category. So was he really there was some
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  level of I can persuade him, was it really desperate or was was
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  he really quite bold in his assertion?
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  And along comes Robbie El Azahi says Pishat Lahan Judah stated
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  all these intentions explicitly to to Joseph emblem Milkhammer
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  Anibar. If it's for battle that I must
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  prepare myself, I'm coming, Emily Pius Anibar.
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  If it's for persuasion, I, I'm preparing myself to do that.
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  I'm coming. And Emily, it's fila Anibar.
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  If you want, I'm if a prayer, I'm going to prepare myself for
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  that as well. Sin, what's the point?
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  Why is he trying to link them all together?
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  Because strictly speaking, that word, vai yikash has
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  connotations of each of those three very different meanings
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  and therefore each could be applied equally to our verse.
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  So says Rabi El Azar, you must understand its usage here to
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  suggest he prepared himself in each of these three ways.
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  Very interesting. Doesn't that suggest that he was
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  behaving just like his dad? When his dad prepared to meet
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  his uncle Asaf, he also prepared for milk Hammam.
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  The gifts you could say was to persuade him and also fought
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  Fila. So they seem to have an
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  understanding in the family when things go wrong.
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  You got to take a multi layered approach.
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  Have the most wonderful full day.