Covenant & Conversation | Mikketz | Rabbi Sacks

[@DianaBarshaw]

Rabbi Sacks could have been speaking today! I wish we still had his wisdom to help us understand.

[@IandThou-wt2ui]

This message is at least, I think more, relative now than it was 13yrs ago. This needs to be revived and resent. If I didn't know I would think this just given. Thank you Rabbi, where ever you are.

[@m3t3r]

He was the chief Rabbi of England and has since left us here to Heaven

[@MsARC]

Am Yisrael chai forever. Shabbat Shalom. Thank you Rabbi for this profound interpretation of this week Torah portion.

[@ShoshanaAbicasis]

Wow thank you Rabbi Sacks. Your legacy lives on !

[@chip877]

WOW this was from 13 years ago !!! And is so on topic now !! Well said Rabbi !!! Thank you !!!

[@wendycastellano7402]

🥺🥺 I miss you Rabi

[@midishh]

As I started listening I thought to myself, "what would he think about the current situation with Hamas?" and glad to hear this video captures it really well❤

[@Wendell_Hartlauer]

4:27 "And Israel has not ceased seeking peace [with its neighbors] from then [May 14, 1948] until now. But this is no ordinary conflict. Israel's opponents [Palestine] are not engaged in a border dispute, these boundaries or those. They [Palestinians] deny as a matter of religious, not political, principle Israel's right to exist within any boundary whatsoever." Thank you Rabbi! What great insight. A man ahead of his time. How can you shake hands with a man who wants to slit your throat? Peace is always the goal, but war unfortunately is sometimes the necessity to living safely in the land. HaShem gives the land to whomever He pleases. When American college campuses are filled with militant chants from students, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," I think an honest audit of religion, society and academia is warranted. How many obvious clues have we overlooked in getting here today in history? When justice comes, we beg for mercy. A God of mercy and redemption is real and alive, but a god of irrational hatred, violence, death, destruction and ceaseless warring is no god at all. We are at a critical crossroads. As for me and my house, we will serve, worship and fear the God of Israel. Those that trust Him will not be put to shame. God bless the peace in Jerusalem.

[@glendibben2381]

Shabbat Shalom dearest Chaverims. Dear Moreh Sachs, Teacher of The Sacred Hebrew Scrolls, in the Despiroa. Yah was Glorified, in this Instruction of Yoseph. As We listened to your great Sermon in this most Important Torah Instructions, for Yash'ar'al, we were doing our Shabbat Shalom Readings of Mashul'ya CH 30 verses 1--33. Thinking about Yosheph, and His trials, , and the most Unusual Prophesy, of Agur, to his 3 ? FRiends, or detractors, a Little like Yob, and his friends. What shocked us was verses 3,4,5. Who is G-ds Son.!

[@nextherenow]

Am Yisrael chai

[@mgboubegtiten4129]

A great teacher! While it is true that there will be no peace until Israel is recognised as a brother, I strongly believe that that will only happen when Messiah comes and then we will all go up to Jerusalem as brothers and sisters to celebrate the festivals together and serve the only true God. And since the Sages teach that Israel and Messiah are two sides of the same coin, we can say that Joseph is also a prototype of the Jewish Messiah who has to be recognised by his brothers. But since he wears Egyptian clothes and walks and talks like an Egyptian, they cannot recognise him for the moment. When Judah will draw closer to Joseph he will say : I am Messiah ben Joseph your brother.

[@marchess286]

Rabbi Sacks , OBM, was and still is a great teacher, but, respectfully, when he waded into politics he got a bit squishy. If he is correct, and I think he is, that the government of Iran and the groups Hezbollah and Hamas seek only the destruction of the peaceful state of Israel, then they are terrorists. Gurther, liberals in the Anglo world, whether UK Jews who complain about Israeli steadfastness and military operations against those terrorists or supporters of President Obama and his Iran appeasement policies, are themselves worthy of contempt and condemnation for facilitating terror and attempted genocide. Rabbi Sacks should have directly and clearly condemned those UK Jews and their US counterparts.

[@IandThou-wt2ui]

I heard it differently. I thought he was addressing the disunity amongst the brethren(Jews where ever we are) and encouraging us to focus on doing what is right and stop squabbling to our own hurt. We have a bigger fight to win.

[@marchess286]

@@IandThou-wt2ui - what "fight" is bigger for Jews (and also if great concern for all people of good will) than preventing the Iran regime of fulfilling it's goal of ending the State of Israel? If an intelligent and influential American (I'm writing from the US, but there are British equivalents, I expect) Jew, for example, the politician Rahm Emmanuel, who is rather public about his Jewish identity and it uses it as part of his political image, supports politicians over a long period of time ) he was chief of staff to Obama and an ally before and after) who push policies to align the US with Iran and away from Israel, why shouldn't be be criticized?

[@IandThou-wt2ui]

I would not suggest they "shouldn't" be criticized. I am only saying I did not think that was the good rabbi's point. I think there is plenty of room for concern for Jews who support individuals as well as thought processes to their and many others injury and harm. I did not take that as the rabbi's point.@@marchess286

[@roryasuncion]

The analogy confuses me. Joseph’s brothers are Jewish. The enemies of Israel / the Jews then and now are not Jews but Arabs? Not Joseph’s brothers at all?

[@dramacat1]

Think about the story metaphorically, with each brother representing a different tribe of neighboring people with some divine, creative authority as their father. The Jewish people’s Biblical separate/chosenness has long been misinterpreted as petty favoritism (like the brothers saw Joseph as Jacob’s favored son) and has been used as ammunition for a larger program of antisemitism (and sometimes pogrom). In reality, that chosenness is actually the yoke of covenant. Joseph (an imprisoned slave who has been misused by his masters) is chosen to take on a DANGEROUS job, interpreting Pharaoh’s dreams and taking responsibility, in essence, for the nourishment and well-being of an entire people not his own. The alternative is prison and erasure. Just like Joseph, the Jewish tradition is committed to the preservation of life and the repair of the world. Fundamental to Jewish practice are acts of charity, social justice, and lovingkindness. Jews are a people that believe education and promulgation of beauty are two of our highest responsibilities as humans. Historically, however, Jews have been met with blood libel, ostracism, hateful rhetoric, and targeted violence in nearly every place they call home. In Joseph’s story, his brothers ultimately repent (and Judah ultimately becomes the forerunner of the “historical” Jews), but not before they’ve made a scapegoat out of Joseph, abducted him, lost him to slavery, and passed him off as dead for more than 20 years. The fact that Joseph is portrayed as a little shit in most of his early mentions doesn’t change the fact that the treatment he suffers at the hands of his brothers is reprehensible. Regardless of who we think our father is, and regardless of how we think he feels about us, all of us are humans made from the same stock. It doesn’t matter if you’re Joseph, Judah, Israeli kibbutzniks, or families in Khan Younis. No people deserves to be tossed in a pit, lied about, and erased from history. Long story short: the current geopolitical conflict is not the first time the Jewish people have had reason to fear the world would come to feel that their lives might be a little easier if they weren’t around anymore. The Joseph story is a manifestation of that cultural anxiety.