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Chabad Research Unit — rse Summary Vayigash 5725 JOINING WORLDS

Выпуск: Chabad Research Unit — rse Summary Vayigash 5725 JOINING WORLDS. Темы: holidays. Поисковые термины: пурим, песах, ханука, суккот, yom tov, פורים, פסח, חנוכה, סוכות. CHABAD ‫ב"ה‬ RESEARCH UNIT he Rebbe's Discourses T Summaries of points from the Rebbe’s Chassidic Discourses ‫בלי אחריות כלל וכלל‬ ‫פרשת ויגש תשכ''ה ד''ה ויגש עליו יהודה חנוכה מוגה‬ Published for Shabbat Sedra Vayigash 11 Tevet 5784, 23 December 20231 JOINING WORLDS HE SEDRA BEGINS WITH JUDAH DRAWING NEAR TO TJOSEPH. The context of the Haftorah is that after the death of King Solomon, the Jewish people had divided in two: the Northern Kingdom, Israel, ruled by Jeroboam of the Tribe of Ephraim, son of Joseph, and the Southern Kingdom, Judah, ruled by Solomon’s son Rehoboam, from the Tribe of Judah. The discourse explains this ‘equality’ as several varieties of pairs of concepts, which in an unusual way are described as being equal or joined: One pair is Da’at Elyon and Da’at Tachton, which can be translated as Upper Consciousness and Lower Consciousness. 2 We thus see that when Judah approached Joseph, on the one hand he was expressing the lower status of Kingship in relation to Zeir Anpin, as it is now, in Exile, and at the same time hinting at their equality as it will be in the future, and even at the idea mentioned earlier, that ultimately Kingship will be higher than Zeir Anpin: ‘the woman of valour is a crown to her husband’. We see that the joining of Judah with Joseph joins kabbalistic dimensions, spiritual perspectives, Torah, Prayer, and, ultimately, reality, revealing the Divine in this world, as it will be in the future, when the woman of valour (practical reality, Judah) will indeed be the crown to her husband (the spiritual dimension, Joseph). Afurther kind of joining is seen in the fact that the Sages speak of ‘joining Geulah (Redemption) to Prayer’, which means joining the blessing which ends ‘blessed are You, G-d, Who redeems Israel’ with the Amidah prayer in the daily prayer service. The Sedra depicts Judah, son of Jacob, coming close to Joseph, the Egyptian Viceroy, and the Haftorah depicts the unity of the people of Judah and the people of Joseph in the time of Moshiach, after their many years of separation2. SIMILARLY, IN THE HAFTORAH, the Prophet Ezekiel is told by G-d to write the names Judah and Joseph on two pieces of wood, and to hold the two pieces of wood togeth

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Chabad Research Unit

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22 декабря 2023 г.

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Темы: holidays