Yaakov and Yosef's Final Days in Egypt and the Messianic Prophecy that Wasn't

The Book of Genesis draws to a close with this week's Torah portion of Va'yechi. The patriarch Jacob spends his happiest years reunited with Yosef in Egypt...but if father and son were so close, why is it that Yosef rarely saw his father, and why didn't Yosef ever spend any time alone with him? In this week's Jerusalem Lights podcast, Jim Long and Rabbi Chaim Richman take a close look at these last, formative years in Egypt, shedding more light on the amazing Yosef, his children, his brothers...and things that can't be spoken of. It's the end of the beginning, the era of the forefathers and the book of Genesis, and the beginning of the end of life as we know it, as the dark clouds of Egyptian exile and servitude gather on the horizon.
Recorded in Ora Studios, Jerusalem Israel
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[@DonnaMinighini-rd5md]

Jim Long always brings hidden jewels of understanding.

[@DonnaMinighini-rd5md]

I really enjoy Rabbi Richman and Jim Long's Torah discussions.

[@AnitaCasados]

Thank you Rabbi, I love hearing your teachings on these sacred Scriptures 🙏🏼

[@김지호-x8q-m9n]

Targum Jonathan on Isaiah 52:13 - Behold, my servant the messiah shall prosper, he shall be exalted and extolled, and he shall be very strong.

[@Red2mybones]

Love this..thank you rabbi 🤍

[@ChayaRose613]

Sorry for the typos. Lastly, I wanted to say I really dont know why Hashem has shown me so much, im just thankful that Gd is so kind and merciful. Like you stated, Hashem is hastening it if I'm able to see more the 5th layer. I wanted to say, the science of Torah is very advanced as well. A clue to this is that I can already see the basic concepts of molecular biology you would study in graduate school. The thing is just for this science. In last weeks parsha, Hashem gives another clue. After a certain plague the magicians could no longer duplicate the plagues. The meaning behind this, is after a certain point those scientist, kabbalist and Torah scholars who end up working on this will no longer see the science thats published in journals like science and nature... instead, what Gd is really saying is that from a certain point forward Gd will be teaching the rest of the science that we have yet to discover to show the "finger of Gd" etc. So you can see if you start to read the Torah from a scientific perspective you'll start to understand the 5th layer which deals with structure-function... the words of items, animals, bread, wine, water, clouds, even Israel's enemies have a concept in science that Gd is teaching. For example Pinchas is the concept of T-RNA... you'll have words like chamber and linen and on and on... all these words or every Word take on a new meaning in the sciences and they build upon each other. When Gd said that the magicians aren't able to create movement is because the words themselves when written in different ways will show a molecule in a rested position and also when it's activated. So it's absolutely beautiful. The nekudot dots and dashes show the charges on each letter (molecules that come together... and the cantellation gives the dots and dashes and letters where to go)... because when I first started learning Torah I never understood how it was that Gd spoke and from there Gd Created... now with seeing how it works i can see how in fact Gd spoke and you actually see these words come to life... with the nekudot and cantellation as emphasis... not to mention the Akiva crowns are also important as well with connecting these letters and the gematria is really advanced as well. Its why there are so many different types of gematria that will help advance the physics math, and also prove what molecules Gd is describing. Another way to see this is Gd also took fruit and other items like bells... for example the pomegranate, bell is to also teach what the structure is going to look more like at the molecular level, to the science it is describing. So im really excited to when this all comes together. I don't speak Hebrew, but I'm trying to learn Hebrew. I'm just thankful to Hashem for showing me so much that I feel is being shown to many.

[@Randy-xv8sf]

Wow. These podcasts you both do....are so deep and precious to us...Noahides. Thank you, both.

[@CarlJohnson-kk4pr]

The Land of Goshen was awarded and the Title of the land was given freely over to Sarah when she was known still as Sari, and Pharaoh gave it to her when he was told Sari was Avraham's/at the time Avram's wife, and Pharaoh was plagued from H-Sh-M for trying to mess around with Sari.

[@artichoke60045]

19:20 I've wondered about that. Did Joseph really have no more children? Do we know that? What is the meaning of his having no children of his own -- if we really say that Jacob adopted them? Retroactively saying he was a tzadik even when he had those boys?

[@geoffrobinson7293]

Good discussion. If you are open-minded on archeology, you might was to research the ancient community of Aravis on the Nile in Egypt. Their existed a large "Cananite" compound that fits Yosepf. An interesting interpretation comes from David Rohl. His indings interesting.

[@darlenestillinger1951]

Doesn’t Daniel fill in more details about the “end-of days”? Was not he told to”shut up the book until the time of the end”?

[@debradbolton4571]

Could it be that Joseph’s sons were a repeat of Jacob and Esau in the birth canal?

[@coyotech55]

When I've read the section with the blessing of the sons, I took it to mean that the blessings themselves were the prophecy. Not a juicy apocalyptic story, but information you have to pluck out from the blessings. So maybe that was a little true, but now I learned the actual prophecy wasn't given. I'm kind of glad that it might be more than that.

[@AB_Cargo]

45:29 i have seen this in my life.

[@malfordurbanproperties7385]

At 45 minutes. If Joseph didn't spend time with Jacob, he wouldn't have seen his brothers. Is this not why he got the lies from the brothers? They may have believed he wasn't seeing them because of the earlier deed?

[@debradbolton4571]

Even IF someone had been eaten, where is the body? 🤷🏻‍♀️ wouldn’t that be a question of that day? I mean if my child were eaten I’d want the body to bury it. That would certainly cause me to wonder especially if they could recover his garment

[@user-pd7il3xz5j]

@13:10 Such a shame. Yosef should have had his brothers have their vows absolved, Yaakov would have had the brothers make a complete teshuvah and the weight of guilt would have been lifted, then they could all openly interact on a higher level.

[@DonnaMinighini-rd5md]

Id like to know WHY Joseph is not named as a Tribe? The TORAH doesnt state why. Was Yaakov's acceptance of Joseph's 2 sons (Manasseh = 1/2 Tribe due to Jewish and Egyptian parentage, and Efrahim = 1/2 Tribe (same reasoning) equal 1Tribe? But WHY wasnt Joseph their Father, mentioned as a Tribe. Joseph IS one of the 11 sons of Yaakov?

[@CarlJohnson-kk4pr]

The Washington D.C. of today's Time and The British Empire of today.

[@fjd6423]

Refer to Tim Mahoney's "Exodus" -- they discovered what likely was Joseph's house and tombs for his brothers in Joseph's back yard.

[@user-pd7il3xz5j]

@7:57 Yosef didn't have his father Yaakov living in the palace, but Michelle Obama had her mother live in the White House, when Barak became president.😂