Shiluach HaKen 5 – Miketz – Yaakov Saw There Were Provisions in Egypt –Vayigash – “I Will Go Down With You to Egypt” – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon.
Shiluach HaKen 5 is based on Likutey Moharan 63.
00:00 – PARAGRAPH 22. וַיַּ֣רְא יַֽעֲקֹ֔ב כִּ֥י יֶשׁ־שֶׁ֖בֶר בְּמִצְרָ֑יִם – “And Yaakov saw there were provisions in Egypt…” (Bereishis 42:1, Miketz).
08:00 – Q & R – various meanings of the word שבר.
09:00 – PARAGRAPH 23. אָֽנֹכִ֗י אֵרֵ֤ד עִמְּךָ֙ מִצְרַ֔יְמָה וְאָֽנֹכִ֖י אַֽעַלְךָ֣ גַם־עָלֹ֑ה – “I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up…” (Bereishis 46:4, VaYigash).
26:00 – Part 3 of the Possuk from the second “v’Anochi” – the return from exile. At this point the forces of evil do all they can to hide Hashem. This is an aspect of the Shekhnina being in exile.
*29:45 – צוֹפֶ֣ה רָ֖שָׁע לַצַּדִּ֑יק וּ֜מְבַקֵּ֗שׁ לַֽהֲמִיתֽוֹ – “The wicked man watches for the righteous man and seeks to put him to death” – (Tehillim 37:32). Reference to Likutey Moharan 208.
33:00 – Esav will not succeed in taking away the blessing of Yaakov.
36:00 – The redemption is taking place even during the most difficult times of exile.
41:45 – Hashem is with Am Yisrael even from the very beginning of exile.
46:20 – The birth of Peretz resulted from Yehuda’s Yerida.
48:00 – Moshiach will be able to smell the truth – the Geulah is hinted in the sweet-smelling spices in the caravan the brought Yosef HaTzaddik to Mitzrayim.
*50:00 – Q&R about Teshuvah bringing the Geulah more quickly and with sweetness rather than bitterness.
52:00 – Q&R about the present war – Reference to the principle of Kiddush Hashem as explained in Choveyl BaChaveyro 3 – Para. 6-8.
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