Parasha Vayigash 5784 - Toby Manolis
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Principle: If we want the grace and mercy of G-D to be evident in our own lives, we have to extend that grace and mercy to others.
Parasha Vayigash
The sons of Israel went to buy grain among the others who were coming, because the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Now Joseph was the ruler over the land. He was the provider of grain for all the people of the earth.
Then Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down to him with faces to the ground. When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he made himself unrecognizable to them. Then he spoke harshly and said to them, “Where have you come from?” “From the land of Canaan,” they said, “to buy grain as food.”
Parasha Vayigash
So he put them together in custody for three days.
Then Joseph said to them on the third day, “Do this and you will live. I fear God.
If you’re honest, let one of your brothers remain as a prisoner in the guardhouse where you’ve been, while you, go and bring grain for the hunger in your homes.
And your youngest brother, bring to me so that your words can be verified—and you won’t die.” So they did.
Then each man said to his brother, “We’re truly guilty for our brother. We saw the distress of his soul when he begged us for mercy, but we didn’t listen. That’s why this distress has come to us.”
Reuben answered them and said, “Didn’t I tell you, ‘Don’t sin against the boy’? But you didn’t listen. Now, see how his blood is now being accounted for.”
They did not know that Joseph was listening, since there was an interpreter between them.
He turned away from them and wept. When he turned back to them and spoke to them, he took Simeon from them and tied him up before their eyes.
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Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come near me.” So they came near. “I’m Joseph, your brother—the one you sold to Egypt,” he said.
“So now, don’t be grieved and don’t be angry in your own eyes that you sold me here—since it was for preserving life that God sent me here before you.
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Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept while Benjamin wept upon his neck,
and he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. Finally after this, his brothers talked with him.
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Principle: If we want the grace and mercy of G-D to be evident in our own lives, we have to extend that grace and mercy to others.
Parasha Vayigash
“For if you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
But if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.
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Then David chanted this lament over Saul and his son Jonathan,
and ordered that the sons of Judah be taught the “Song of the Bow.” (Behold, it is written in the Book of Jashar):
“Your glory, O Israel, is slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!
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Then Adonai sent Nathan to David. When he came to him, he said to him, “There were two men in the same city—one was rich and the other poor.
The rich man had an exceedingly huge flock and herd,
but the poor man had nothing at all, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished, and it grew up together with him and his children. It ate from his own morsel and drank from his own cup, and nestled in his bosom, and it was to him like a daughter.
Now a traveler came to the rich man, but he was unwilling to take one from his own flock or herd to prepare a meal for the wayfarer who had come to him. Rather, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for the man that had come to him.”
Then David’s anger blazed hot against the man and he said to Nathan, “As Adonai lives, the man that did this deserves to die!
So he must make restitution for the lamb fourfold, because he did such a thing and showed no pity.”
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Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Adonai.” Nathan replied to David, “Adonai also has made your sin pass away—you will not die.
However, because by this deed you have made the enemies of Adonai greatly blaspheme, so even the child born to you will surely die.”
Parasha Vayigash
Principle: If we want the grace and mercy of G-D to be evident in our own lives, we have to extend that grace and mercy to others.
Parasha Vayigash
“For if you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
But if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.
Parasha Vayigash
Principle: If we want the grace and mercy of G-D to be evident in our own lives, we have to extend that grace and mercy to others.
Parasha Vayigash