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This week\u2019s study is Parashat Vayigash (Bereshit \/ Genesis 44:18-47:27<\/em><\/span>), the Parashah begins with Benjamin having the cup of Yoseph and the sons of Yisrael trying to explain to Yoseph that they must bring their brother back to their father.\u00a0 Judah offers himself in the place of Benjamin (44:8-34<\/em><\/span>).\u00a0 Yoseph reveals himself to his brothers (45:1-8<\/em><\/span>) and declares \u05d5\u05b0\u05e2\u05b7\u05ea\u05bc\u05b8\u05d4 \u05dc\u05b9\u05d0-\u05d0\u05b7\u05ea\u05bc\u05b6\u05dd \u05e9\u05c1\u05b0\u05dc\u05b7\u05d7\u05b0\u05ea\u05bc\u05b6\u05dd \u05d0\u05b9\u05ea\u05b4\u05d9 \u05d4\u05b5\u05e0\u05bc\u05b8\u05d4 \u05db\u05bc\u05b4\u05d9 \u05d4\u05b8\u05d0\u05b1\u05dc\u05b9\u05d4\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd \u05d5\u05b7\u05d9\u05b0\u05e9\u05b4\u05b9\u05d9\u05de\u05b5\u05e0\u05b4\u05d9 \u05dc\u05b0\u05d0\u05b8\u05d1 \u05dc\u05b0\u05e4\u05b7\u05e8\u05b0\u05e2\u05b9\u05d4 \u05d5\u05bc\u05dc\u05b0\u05d0\u05b8\u05d3\u05d5\u05b9\u05df \u05dc\u05b0\u05db\u05b8\u05dc-\u05d1\u05bc\u05b5\u05d9\u05ea\u05d5\u05b9 \u05d5\u05bc\u05de\u05e9\u05c1\u05b5\u05dc \u05d1\u05bc\u05b0\u05db\u05b8\u05dc-\u05d0\u05b6\u05e8\u05b6\u05e5 \u05de\u05b4\u05e6\u05b0\u05e8\u05b8\u05d9\u05b4\u05dd<\/em><\/span> 45:8 \u2018Now, therefore, it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his household and ruler over all the land of Egypt. (NASB)<\/span><\/em>\u00a0 Yoseph calls for Yisrael and his brothers to move to the land of Goshen to live because the famine was going to continue for another five years (45:9-15<\/em><\/span>) and Pharaoh ordered that his family would come and he would give them the best of the land (45:9-24<\/em><\/span>).\u00a0 Yisrael then makes an offering to the Lord God Almighty and travels to Mitzrayim (Egypt) (45:28-46:26<\/em><\/span>).\u00a0 We learn that Jacob (Yisrael) is 130 years old (47:9<\/em><\/span>) and the people were settled in the land of Goshen and Yoseph fed them because of the famine (47:11-13<\/em><\/span>).\u00a0 The famine grew very severe and the people gave all their money in order to obtain food to survive (47:14-15<\/em><\/span>).\u00a0 After the money was gone, the people brought their livestock and cattle to pay for the food (47:16-17<\/em><\/span>).\u00a0 After this the people sold their land and themselves into slavery in order to buy grain for food to survive (47:18-21<\/em><\/span>) and the people grew numerous in the land of Goshen (47:27<\/em><\/span>).\u00a0 When Yisrael heard that his son lived, he brought an offering before the Lord and God spoke to him saying not to be afraid and that He would go down with him into Mitzrayim and there he will become a great nation. \u00a0 Read More here. <\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n This week’s study is Parashat Vayigash (Bereshit \/ Genesis 44:18-47:27), the Parashah begins with Benjamin having the cup of Yoseph and the sons of Yisrael trying to explain to Yoseph that they must bring their brother back to th…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-weekly-parashah"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}