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10 December, 2010
Parsha Point to Ponder - Vayigash
In Parshas Vyeshev Rashi tells us that all the Torah Yaakov learned in the yeshiva of Shem and Ever, he taught to his son Yosef. Why did Yaakov send Yehudah to Mitzraim to open a Yeshiva and not give the job to Yosef who was in Mitzraim already?
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Moti leshkowitz
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This past Shabbos parshas Shemos, I heard a vort from the Veretzki Rosh Yeshiva Rav Landau which might shed light on this point which you are pondering.
He was by a bar Mitzvah and was explaining why we are called Yidden- Yehudim. Until the shevatim we were called Ivrim but after Yehudah existed we were called yehudim. What about Yehudah was so special that we are called after him? The Rambam in Shmona Perakim(?) says that there exists two types of people in this world; Chasid meule and moshel begufo. The former is one who is the perfect person. everything he does is successful, and he never makes any trouble. If anything bad happens to him it is really a blessing in disguise. He always makes the proper choice during a nisayon.=YOSEF Hatzadik. The latter is most of the world. To human is to err and we all make mistakes. Our job after failing a nisayon is to build upon our failures to become better people. Sheva yipol tzadik vekam. Bemakom shebaalei teshuvah omdim etc. This is personified by Yehuda, the crown prince of Benei yisrael. He made mistakes in his life; Tamar, and selling yosef, but he did teshuvah he said berabim "Tzadkah mimeni!". He collateralized his olam haba for Binyamin to make up for Yosef's sale, so much so that only Moshe Rabbeinu's tefila at the end of the forty years in the desert saved him. This is who we want as our King not the perfect person who we can't identify with and who can't identify with us. And this is why we call ourselves Yehudim because we want to personify Yehudah who even after failing a nisayon he climbed back higher than before.
I was thinking maybe this who we want as our Rosh Yeshivah too. Only someone who can identify personally with the talmidim is appropriate for a Rosh Yeshivah position. Yes, Yosef did get all of Yaakov Avinu's torah but he was a Wunderkind, the perfect Chasid meuleh, one who perseveres in Mitzrayim, but not a Rosh Yeshiva. A Rosh Yeshivah needs to be one of us, a Moshel Begufo who can guide us with his own nisyonos his yeridos and his aliyos, so we can identify and learn from him.
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This past Shabbos parshas Shemos, I heard a vort from the Veretzki Rosh Yeshiva Rav Landau which might shed light on this point which you are pondering.
He was by a bar Mitzvah and was explaining why we are called Yidden- Yehudim. Until the shevatim we were called Ivrim but after Yehudah existed we were called yehudim. What about Yehudah was so special that we are called after him?
The Rambam in Shmona Perakim(?) says that there exists two types of people in this world; Chasid meule and moshel begufo. The former is one who is the perfect person. everything he does is successful, and he never makes any trouble. If anything bad happens to him it is really a blessing in disguise. He always makes the proper choice during a nisayon.=YOSEF Hatzadik.
The latter is most of the world. To human is to err and we all make mistakes. Our job after failing a nisayon is to build upon our failures to become better people. Sheva yipol tzadik vekam. Bemakom shebaalei teshuvah omdim etc.
This is personified by Yehuda, the crown prince of Benei yisrael. He made mistakes in his life; Tamar, and selling yosef, but he did teshuvah he said berabim "Tzadkah mimeni!". He collateralized his olam haba for Binyamin to make up for Yosef's sale, so much so that only Moshe Rabbeinu's tefila at the end of the forty years in the desert saved him. This is who we want as our King not the perfect person who we can't identify with and who can't identify with us.
And this is why we call ourselves Yehudim because we want to personify Yehudah who even after failing a nisayon he climbed back higher than before.
I was thinking maybe this who we want as our Rosh Yeshivah too. Only someone who can identify personally with the talmidim is appropriate for a Rosh Yeshivah position. Yes, Yosef did get all of Yaakov Avinu's torah but he was a Wunderkind, the perfect Chasid meuleh, one who perseveres in Mitzrayim, but not a Rosh Yeshiva. A Rosh Yeshivah needs to be one of us, a Moshel Begufo who can guide us with his own nisyonos his yeridos and his aliyos, so we can identify and learn from him.
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