Parshas Miketz : I Have A Dream

As soon as I saw this question from the Ramban, I knew it was going to be the topic and the content that would make up the weekly Parasha podcast, and it was followed by my mind drifting off into the distant past and relishing in old memory that this question brought back. And in memory. I'll tell you, before we introduce the question and then introduce the wildly dangerous explanation of the answer, how the great Mir Mashiach of Yerchim Levovitz explains it, and definitely the listeners. Discretion is advised as to when and how to use this mindset and outlook on what a person is faced with in life and the memories as follows. I was a young kid preparing to go to camp. Camp was always an important part of my life because it was a way that I got to intersect with in-towners and quotation marks Growing up out of town can be hard to break in, to be with the cool kids Cool, I don't both sides of the definition, meaning mainstream, in the regular world, wearing the things that the normal Jewish kids wear, talking the cool talk, but also in the mainstream Torah approach that has a certain exposure and flavor that I really wanted to be a part of, I wanted to be exposed to. So camp was an opportunity for that and you don't really have an opportunity if you're an out-of-towner to break your way in unless you go to camp. And young boys are created in a weird way that if you can put a blown-up piece of leather or pig skin either across the end zone or inside of a nylon net, then they'll become friends with you. So it was my big opportunity to try to become a good ballplayer, befriend the in-towners and make my way into the Torah in-towners way of life that I so coveted. But before camp there was preparation for camp packing the bags, 15 t-shirts, 10 pairs of tzitzis. My mother would always make sure that I took a Sharpie to write brook with an E on the plastic soap bottles, double taping them closed so the soap would never escape, then putting them inside of two ziplock bags for extra security, like Fort Knox. My dad handing me postcards, a pen stamps saying make sure to write a letter, tell us how camp is going, let us know how your games are, how the learning is. My mother making sure to pack the rash cream and shower shoes and making me give her my word that I will not God forbid, heaven forbid go into the showers without crocs, lest whoever knows lives on the shower floors of camps come in contact with me. But I always believed that that just built character. But all this came back because of my parents asking me to write your old folks. Send a letter, send a postcard, let us know how it's going. I hear my dad's voice echoing, but I kill you to write your old parents a letter from time to time. And it came to head, thought about it. Picture this, the smile on my face, because it's sort of what the Ramban asks on Yosef Hatzavik, and I quote verse nine of chapter 42. By Yizkir, yosef, esachalomas, eschercholam Lohem and Joseph and Parshash, meket is standing in front of the brothers, throwing them through circles, kind of Acting as an antagonist, provoking them, taking some brothers captive, but clearly is showing us how Yosef was trying to make the dreams come true, kind of building up the narrative until a climactic climax. But there are a lot. Has a question on Yosef. A'yekh ze'asah, yosef, let's are as A'vav la'amido, yamim rabim, besichol or besichol. There's no vowels here, so I'm not sure how to read it. Ve'ovel, al shimun, ve'alav. And how could Yosef pain his dad, leave his father mourning and bereft of hope, leave him downtrodden and broken, and not write his father a letter that, hey, I'm okay. The brothers were just fooling around. They made a trick and they showed you my technicolor to coat that you had given me that woollen tunic dipped in blood to try to show you that I had been devoured by a wild animal. But now Let me let you know that it was a bumpy road, but now I'm okay. I'm actually kind of a celebrity here in Egypt. Ps. Send new Sephiram. Love you, yosef. And from that actually gets into the how the postage, the Amazon Prime of Egypt, would have gone. He says e'ich lo sholach kosav e'chod. How would he not send one written letter, lo'oviv to his dad, lo ho dia, to inform him? U'l naachamol, kim et'raim k'arv lech hevron k'eshi she'yamim. It's not exactly next day air, next day shipping, it's six day journey Ve'ilu ha'yam halach shana ha'yar roil ad'yil lechav et'oviv. But even still, even if it would have taken a year's journey. It says dad Kibirav e'aim seems to be in play here in the fifth commandment. That's a big one. How could it be that, because Joseph wants his dreams to play out, that he's able to violate Kibirav e'aim and leave his father in such anguish, ve'yim mo'in l'nachamol that Yaakov did not accept any words of that, would try to appease him, to try to console him, he would deny it. He was so crushed about all that had happened to Joseph, or what he had thought happened to Joseph, and these words ve'eich lo shalach, k'asav echa, l'aviv, lechav et'oviv, lechav et'oviv, lechav, et'oviv, lechav et'oviv brought the memory back. I hear the Ramban asking this question. I hear my dad's voice. Would kill you To write a letter to your father. Tell us how camp is, how did you say, had permission to sidestep a mitzvah To let his dreams reveal themselves? The Ramban's answer it's cryptic, it's weighty, it's complex and yet simple, and I'll give you the words. My parents are in bond. I'm on answers Kiesa Cole, us a Yaffe be ito. Everything has its proper and assigned time, like I am, ha ha lomos, to Make the dreams Established, to make them a reality For Yosef new ki yadash yischaimu bemes. He knew that they were going to be fulfilled, in truth Very terse, but everything has its proper time and the dreams needed and Yosef's mind To be brought to fruition, to be made a reality. And he couldn't tell his father, because it would mess up the destiny and Prophecy, of what needed to happen for the unfolding of Jewish history as a Cole us, a Yaffe be ito writing a letter Would ruin the whole plan. But the Chaira? But it seems that the question still stands. Nobody has permission to fulfill their destiny if it's a direct violation of the Torah. Where do we ever find that you're allowed to violate the fifth commandment because you want to see the dreams come about, you believe that it's your destiny and you are chasing down your dreams. It doesn't work like that. You leave your dad broken. How's it possible and you don't think that I shall? Maybe had or could have orchestrated a different plan. That would have either been with a different dream Yosef could have had a different dream or maybe the Yeshua for the Jewish people could be had without Needing this dream of the brothers and the fathers and their father to come down to Egypt. How did you say, if I have permission to do this, so maybe you'll say well, brooke the Gamar, a Sezon Sanhedrin, on page 89 a, that anyone who has an avua and he goes against it, doesn't listen to the prophecy, says thank you, I shan for the message, but no, I'm not gonna travel to Kanaan now, I'm just gonna stay put here in Lakewood, your hive Mesa, liable to the death penalty. And you'll marry that idea, coupling it with the kuzer ease, logic and explanation, that in fact all dreams have a certain level of prophecy to them. There are messages from Hashem, so maybe this is actually a form of prophecy. The dream wasn't a regular dream, so Yosef could not violate these dreams. Let's he be liable to the death penalty. So he couldn't send his father a letter. This answer Kind of still feels like a patchwork answer and makes us Feel like we kind of want more needs, a bit more explanation, a better plan. The real issue with the answer, this understanding of it, is that it's only if you go against a dream but this would not be Going against a dream, denying it, this is just To go and and he get up and go, fulfill the dream. We never find that the death penalty is if somebody doesn't go and chase down his destiny. It's only if you are told directly that you need to go left and you decide to go right. This wasn't that. This was just a showing of an event. You Don't have a heave on the words of dreams, to go out and get them done. Do we also know that Yosef was clear that this was prophecy? Our all dreams, prophecy. Be it as it may, all this is to get to a aside guzzle that is Glaring inside the words of the Rambam. Every Ruchem explains that this is what he means and he gives us a controversial, powerful and helpful idea. And again, the listeners, discretion is advised. You have to know when to apply this. But the aside is like this we all know that the world was created Buresha's Barra, elohim, and then the man Was introduced, the human being, into the world. We were given the Torah and now it's our job to keep the Torah. The Yikarabah, the measure, tells us that Derek Eritz is Kudmah-la-Torah, that the way of the world believe it's a mission of us also comes before the Torah. Meaning Derek Eritz, gravity, newton's laws of motion, the fact that oceans flow, everything. It's all the way of the world. And now, the way I understand it, it's kind of the playing field for Torah. And when the human being was introduced to us, that Hashem created Adam, adam was given Sechel, he was given intellect, a top notch level of intelligence, common sense. We'll call it wits Sechel, and normally we think of Sechel as it's given to us to kind of do what we want with it. It is our Bechira, after all. But the truth is that at the very beginning, when a person is born, his Sechel is also in perfect unison. It aligns with the world and Hashem's Ratsum. God created human straight and the Sechel, your intellect perfect. And as a person will just mature, his Sechel will, naturally it knows the human does how to use the restroom without being told. The Sechel is wired, pre-wired, hardwired, like when you originally get a phone that comes with already something downloaded on it. It's the very hardwire and software of the phone, before you even change any of the settings. The human being, its intellect, knows what to do at the basic level, like a river knows to flow. And when Sechel is a Machai of something, your Mamosh Machuyevala D'Avar, you must do it, not because you're deciding to do it, because it's the same reason that we stay on planet Earth, because of gravity. It's a law of the universe. The discipline and the obedience to one's Sechel, to the order of reason, to thinking objectively, is the aside-gothel that is actually part of nature. The project tells us that the Chachma Yisdhar, its Hashem, used wisdom, his wisdom, and set up the world, fashioned the world. The world was created and built with Chachma, the Tyra and Seychel and the Bria. It's all one, perfectly balanced. Their twins, it all flows the same direction. The Avos were able to use intellect in perfect Seychel, their derrach ereds to discover Tyra even before the Tyra had been given. With perfect Seychel, perfect intellect, clear-mindedness, objectional thinking, you'll come to the truth. Could you imagine, no matter how much Seychel fire had, that it could make itself not hot? It is what it is. It's a chaykateva. It's the way the natural laws of the universe work. Could water use intellect to change that? It's not going to extinguish fire when they come in contact with each other. The same way, when somebody understands something with Seychel, put food in mouth, you can't use Seychel to do something else. This is the tzaitzanus. The order of reason is our common sense. Common sense is the law of the universe. The Chobos al-Avavis goes into detail about this and Shara Vaitas al-Okim about how, the many calculations that will show you your Ha'aras, haseychel and the different seven faces of your Seychel, and how it relates to Torah. Even if we didn't have the Torah, you'd still, says the Gamar-e-E in Eirven, kufa-me-be'iz, be able to learn mitos from the world, because the world Torah baked in with Derek Eret and it's even at a spot where you can discover things before the Torah. You could see an ant that they don't steal, lech el-Namal-ah. Go and examine the little miniscule ant Namal-ah shows us Gazel-zasser. You could see the issues of promiscuity and how the yonah, the dove, acts with such purity. You can watch a cat use the restroom if you would like to, to see how sneous we should be. These are Ha'aras-sichlias. And at this spot to examine the world with your Seychel, with the order of reason, with your brains. It's a law of nature. We don't really know from this very much the tzitzonas, tzav HaSeychel. We kind of decide what to do, when to do it with rotson, with our gut feeling, sometimes with frumkai, with certain decisions, certain connections to things. But common sense, clear thinking, objectional thinking is like gravity. Jose Vazalic had perfect common sense. He understood Akhlyafa also, be'ito. Everything has its proper time and it was a law of the world that for Jewish history, for life to unfold, the dreams needed to come to fruition because of Derek Eritz Kodmalatora. This is the plain ground of life. I can't violate it. And the scary khiddish is that this spot of Derek Eritz comes even before leaving his father in pain and anguish. A scary thing, as you probably can understand. And obviously this is only for somebody like Yosef, with a last name, righteous hadzadik, as he has perfect, developed, worked on common sense. Use your sehul. Sehul is the idea. Sehul is gravity, and it is wildly dangerous, and we probably should never rely on this idea, because our minds are kind of like a compound mixture, kind of like an air of rav, where we have Torah ideas, some more open-minded ideas, some things, some thoughts, some kind of irrational thinking. So, needless to say, that our common sense is an imperfect unison with the universe, but the point I wanted to touch on and develop is that sehul is underappreciated. The human mind is a terrible thing to waste. The human mind seems to be something that could even live in a spot of Derek Eritz, and how the art of Muser and Rubeer Uchum would constantly encourage. Go for walks, develop your sehul Truly when you think about it, but the biggest Torah scholars are our ultimate Gedolim. They are the most in line with Torah. You may wonder. Why is it, though, that they are haggling and barking back and forth about it? When somebody's cow gored someone else's cow, a certain case study about a car crash doesn't seem practical, but Rava tells us, in Masech, the Brachas, that Agra, the Pirca Svara. The main reward one gets from his Torah learning from the case study is the logic, the critical thinking skills, the sharpening of your sehul, of your mind, of your wits, of your brains, of your intellect, to become one that is a shtik, chevza and entity of Derek Eritz of Torah. You start to see the world differently when you study cases about cows and sheeps and all the different halachos and you're able to extract ideas and apply them to other places in life. I further hear my father in my head again and it makes so much sense to me how he would yell. Not yell, but encourage me softly. Just be quietly and carry a big stick. Get off the idiot box. Why are you rotting your brains playing video games, to watch television as their prohibition? If there is no immorality there or some vulgar language, maybe not. But to melt your mind, to give up or destroy God forbid the most powerful force that you have your mind for this to turn your head to mush. Our sehul is everything and we should strive to develop our sehul more to think about things. The mark of an educated mind, I once heard from a scholar, is when one has the ability to see something, examine it and then pull your mind out and examine it from the other side and see and weigh, compare, contrast. User Seychel. So much of the Yetzahara's Introductions in this generation of his distractions. To get us off the path of good is just to numb the Seychel. It all has the same underpinning. Whether it's technology, just numb the Seychel, don't think, keep scrolling. Whether it be something like drugs or alcohol that distracts a person, it all numbs the Seychel. And Without Seychel Perhaps we've lost it all. The Ramban tells us how cool us a yaffa be ito Yo save knew that these dreams had to come to fruition and it was Derek or its Karmalutira, and Therefore his Seychel was my kind of him. It obligated him to do this. The takeaway for us is to keep developing Seychel, to keep learning how to think, educating ourselves, learning the Tyra, so that we can established constitutional thinking processes in our lives that, no matter what else is introduced into our lives, we have our Seychel. The great ones are always thinking deep in thought about something, but thinking Some of the mirrors describe how they had a practice they wouldn't go in cars when drive. Sounds kind of hard to understand now, but back then it was basically the introduction for a sheltered person who was Pure and pristine. The only way for him to get out there and see the world and really become exposed to the some of the horrors of society Would have been an automobile. But Revolva said that wasn't actually what was behind it. The problem was because driving a car would mean you'd have to focus on what's going on and Turn left, turn right, but it means that you weren't able to sit and think it was a lack of Seychel. It's unbelievable. I think the following is not true. I think the following is not true, but it's cool. It would be cool if it was true. Seychel sounds like she coal, that it's everything. She coal. It's everything. I don't know, because everything, whether or not it adds up in the word of Shin Khaflamin, seychel truly is everything. And if you can align your brain, your Seychel, your common sense, with the Torah, it becomes a law of the land, Like Newton's laws of motion, because Derek Erich called military. So develop your Seychel. Learn to think. So decide times to think, to ponder creation, the pond of your learning to think about Hashem, to think about the Davening, to just think. Use your Seychel, because Seychel is the ultimate gift in which what makes us different. So develop your intellect and use your common sense, use your Seychel.