Rabbi Minkowicz Weekly Torah Lesson Parsha Vayechi 5777

This week the Rabbi answers the question: "How can you live a great life despite all obstacles?" Enjoy this video of what we hope will be a weekly endeavor into spreading the educational words of our Torah.

Next read in the Diaspora on 14 January 2017. Parashat Vayechi is the 12th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. This is the final Genesis portion.

Next read in the Diaspora on 21 January 2017. Parashat Shemot is the 13th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.

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Thank you very much. The Parshas about Joseph are my favorite. The Torah overflows with treasure on every page, doesn't it. No end.

There's always something. Chapter 50 has so much to say, with both Israel and Joseph being embalmed (*preserved*) in Egypt (v.2, v. 26). "Pakod yifkod" doubled, kind of like one for Israel (v.24), one for Joseph (v.25).

And yesterday, when reading Judah's blessing re: Shiloh, I noticed something new. New for me anyway.. it's surely in the commentaries somewhere. I'll mention it anyway because it draws in the later verses about the embalmings.

49.12. His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk:

חכלילי עינים מיין ולבן־שנים מחלב׃

It's this string, the number patterns:

לילי עינים מיין<<<

>>>40-40-70-70-40-40-70

And also this one:

ם מחלב׃ <<<

>>> 40-40-40

I don't hazard a guess what it means. It's just there. Gotta be a reason. Like a combination lock. The three 40s have a life of their own though.

50.2. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel:
3. And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed; and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days:

The first string reduces down further, to

>>>40-110-110-110

40- קוד - קוד - קוד

26. So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt:

And in regards to the flipped over election, it even reduces again to

40-330

330 = Trump (טראמף)

It's just what's in the numbers, but with the preservation "in Egypt"...

40 Wall Street, also known as the Trump Building, is a 71-story skyscraper in New York City.<<<

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40_Wall_Street

Trump, who is 70. And here's his building at #40, which is the gematria of the milk in that verse (חלב), on Wall Street, which is "Egypt" central. Even the 71 stories connects... being the gematria of dove/Jonah (יונה) (a dove, having red eyes), its root word being wine (יין), 70.

And there's this from the commentary on Joseph at 49:22

of the] women, [each one] strode along to see him: Heb. עִלֵי שׁוּר. The women of Egypt strode out on the wall to gaze upon his beauty. Of the women, each one strode to a place from which she could catch a glimpse of him. עִלֵי שׁוּר, for the purpose of looking at him, similar to“I behold him (אֲשׁוּרֶנוּ), but not near” (Num. 24:17). There are many midrashic interpretations, but this is the closest to the literal sense of the verse. (Another explanation: This is how it should read, because according to the first interpretation, שׁוּר means“a wall.”)]

http://www.chabad.org/dailystudy/torahreading.asp?tdate=1/12/2017

And a שור is a bull.

And also pertaining to the commentary above on Joseph (Nu 24.17), and of Shiloh, i.e. the "two Davids", the gematrias (and division) of all the leftover letters of verse 12 reflect the same:

חכ

= 28 = David (דוד) x 2

ולבן־שני

= 448 = 28 (two Davids) x 16, or דוד x לב

And that's just a cursory glance at one verse!

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