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Portion VaYayShev: Joseph and the brother (on the bus) or the hidden angel?

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Portion VaYayShev:  Joseph and the brother (on the bus) or the hidden angel?
 
 
Basically, Joseph gets lost and someone unknown - maybe the angel Gabriel - directs him
 
JOSEPH Then  ends up in Egypt and in trouble - and
he never again sees his homeland

 

DID JOSEPH GO TO EGYPT ON HIS METROCARD?
No - he was taken as a slave -
 
AND IF ALL JEWISH HOLIDAYS AND PRAYERS CELEBRATE OUR GETTING OUT OF BONDAGE
 
so why is there so much anti-semitism?
is it pushed by
control-freakiness - or jealousy - or greed? (read - hatred and politics?)
 
Why do some fools fan the flame of hatred - AND NEVER SEE THEM SELVES ?
 
(I should maybe ask bob dylan to add that to his 
"how many times must a ....look up?" song...)
 
Modern Day Jews DO need a - what? A transit card? OIY! (Transit to Israel maybe?)
 
WHO NEEDS A METROCARD  (in Israel it's called a RAV-KAV -means "for all public transit lines")
 
In Israel the inspectors some times throw people off the bus and give out fines for cheats ...
 
SO - I am on a bus at night in Jerusalem - and A twenty-something guy is asking people to take his cash and dip for his fare
because his card ran out of pre-pay
 
AND NOBODY HELPS  (not mean - just students and seniors cannot swipe for adults because we get discounts)
 
so I offered him MY SPARE REGULAR CARD (always good to have one)
and we begin talking about Maimonides and about the Kabala (guy turns out to be a Canadian student)
 

Through the ages our Master Rabbis taught that Angels are Messengers

-But when Jacob sends Joseph     and he gets lost    was it an
Angel (in disguise) or just a holy brother out to help ?
In Kabala-

Zohar says – joseph always acted like a brother - even when the siblings were not

Zohar says - what kept Joseph the Slave on the right path to - YES
JOSEPH THE RULER OVER EGYPT 
 
was not his  dreams 
 
but his SEEING BEFORE HIM THE FACES OF HIS FATHERS
(who taught him how to be a Holy Brother to others -
even when his brothers were truly not nice to him (see next 2 portions)
 
SO
 
WE GOTTA BE A JOSEPH WHEN THERE ARE NO ANGELS AROUND 

Shabbat Shalom

Rabbi Andy Eichenholz