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Dimensions in Chumash — Vayechi 5781

Выпуск: Dimensions in Chumash — Vayechi 5781. Темы: health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. Rabbi Immanuel Bernstein 2021 / 5782 DIMENSIONS IN CHUMASH PARSHAS VAYECHI “Yaakov our father never died” Concept: The Worlds of Pshat and Drash Introduction: A Mystifying Exchange The Gemara in Maseches Taanis1 records the following exchange between two sages of the Talmud, R’ Yitzchak and Rav Nachman: ‫ יעקב אבינו לא מת‬,‫אמר ליה הכי אמר ר’ יוחנן‬ ?‫אמר ליה וכי בחנם ספדו ספדנייא וחנטו חנטייא וקברו קברנייא‬ ‫ “ועתה אל תירא עבדי יעקב נאום ה’ ואל תחת ישראל כי‬:‫ שנאמר‬,‫אמר ליה מקרא אני דורש‬ ‫ מה זרעו בחיים אף הוא בחיים‬,‫” מקיש הוא לזרעו‬,‫הנני מושיעך מרחוק ואת זרעך מארץ שבים‬ He [R’ Yitzchak] said to him [Rav Nachman]: Thus said R’ Yochanan: “Yaakov our father never died.” [Rav Nachman] said to [R’ Yitzchak]: “Was it for nothing that the eulogizers eulogized [Yaakov] and the embalmers embalmed him and the buriers buried him?” [R’ Yitzchak] replied: “I am expounding a verse, as it says: ‘And you fear not, My servant Yaakov, says Hashem, and do not become broken, Yisrael, for behold I will deliver you from afar, and your descendants from the land of their captivity.”2 [We see that] the verse equates him [Yaakov] and his descendants: Just as his descendants are living, so too is he living.” The above exchange is most perplexing. Here, too, when Rav Nachman challenged the teaching that “Yaakov our father never died” from the fact that he was embalmed, eulogized and buried, R’ Yitzchak responded by saying “‫ – מקרא אני דורש‬I am expounding a verse.” With this, he was indicating that the realm to which his teaching refers was not the one apparent to the onlookers and reflected by the pshat reading of the verse, but to a more hidden realm, whereby Yaakov, although physically dead, lives on in his descendants. In the course of the Torah’s description of Pharaoh’s daughter going to wash in the Nile, where she would meet the baby Moshe who had been set afloat there by his mother, the verse relates: “‫ – וְ נַעֲ ר ֹתֶ יהָ ה ֹלְ כ ֹת עַ ל יַד הַ יְ א ֹר‬and her maidens were walking on the side of the Nile.”4 Commenting on these words, Rashi cites the following Midrash: ‫ הולכות למות לפי שמיחו בה‬...‫ורבותינו דרשו “הולכות” לשון מיתה‬ Our Sages expounded the wor

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Dimensions in Chumash

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16 декабря 2021 г.

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Темы: health_mind, parsha_commentary