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VaYeshev - a Secret from the Kabala - from my friend Yoel the Yemenite!
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VaYeshev - a Secret from the Kabala - from my friend Yoel the Yemenite!
How many ways can you go wrong – and still be in the right place at the right time?
It all depends on how you look at things -
If you look at it one way – it's this – and if you look at it the opposite way -
It can be STILL like this!
The Hebrew word is NATAN (which means "to give" or Gave" – and it's also the Hebrew for the name Nathan) –
And if you look at it forward or backward - in English like in Hebrew - it's spelled the same and comes out the same.
IN HEBREW YOU LEARN A LESSON FROM EVERY LETTER!
And you can learn the deepest truths from every word of the Torah!
Et Achai Ani MeChapess – I'm searching for my brothers – from this week's portion - is a song recorded by Aron Raizel
Joseph was "searching for his brothers" - for the GOOD in them.
" Because of My Bothers - and Sisters - and friends" – Words by King David and tune by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach
a song that continues "Please let me ask – peace to you".
When you do somthing for someone ....
My friend Yoel said this morning he (about 60) invites his elderly mother every shabbat to be with his family - and he knows the more he gives to them all - the MORE HE RECEIVES!
So the word NATAN is N T N (no vowels in the Torah) in Hebrew - and the secret is - if you see you are giving - and you see you are receiving - you have learned the secret of that word from the Torah!
Jacob gives Joseph a striped coat - why ? Because every stripe stands for a different brother - each one being different ... and Joseph goes looking for them at his father's request to bring them some home-cooking while they are out watching the flocks. To GIVE - but he never gets to give them anything -
He knows there's a danger - but he's looking for them - for the good in them. And he ends up in prison.
As my friend Rabbi Sholom Brodt wrote this week about the Joseph story:
These stories are about opening our hearts to our children, opening our hearts to our brothers and sisters.
Joseph ended up being in prison for 12 years [one year for each of the twelve brothers, including himself]. Where he learns toGIVE to the needy ...
AND HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM FAMINE -
AND EVENTUALLY HOW TO GET HIS BROTHERS TO ACT AS A FAMILY
"The Torah is teaching us these stories so that we should know what we have to fix, that we have to fix it and how to fix it."
Shabbat Shalom
Rabbi Andy Eichenholz