In last week’s parshah, Yosef revealed himself to his brothers after not seeing them for 22 years, The pasuk states: “Vayomer Yosef el echav: Ani Yosef. Ha’od avi chai? V’lo yachlu echav laanos oso ki nivhalu mi’panav. – And Yosef said to his brothers, ‘I am Yosef. Is my father still alive?’ But his brothers could not answer him because they were left disconcerted before him (B’reishis 45:3).”

The Midrash comments on this with words that seem designed to terrify: “Woe to us from the day of judgment, woe to us from the day of rebuke.” The Beis HaLevi tells us that Yosef’s rebuke: “Is my father still alive?” wasn’t meant literally, because Yehudah had already told Yosef that Yaakov was alive. Rather, his rebuke was, “Was my father not alive when you sold me, you were not worried about his health, so why now all of a sudden are you worried about Binyamin?” The brothers had nothing to say to him. The Midrash (B’reishis Rabbah 93:10) states that Yosef was the youngest of the Sh’vatim and the brothers could not withstand his rebuke, so certainly when Hashem will bring a person to justice at the End of Days, he will not be able to withstand His rebuke.

The lesson for us is that we often contradict ourselves. We claim we have no time to learn Torah, yet somehow we find a wealth of time to chat about mundane matters. We claim we have no money for tz’dakah, yet when vacation time comes, we suddenly have all sorts of resources. We should strive to equally match all our energy and resources that we channel to our material existence to the time, energy, and resources in spiritual achievements.

List of People Who Need a r’fuah sh’leimah (a complete recovery)

 

Please recite Psalms 20, 30, 88, 121, and 130.

 

Yitzchak Shlomo ben Gittel

Yosef Chaim ben Ilana

Arkady Avraham ben Mazal

Chaim Shaul ben Esther

Yaakov Yisrael ben Chanah

Yosef Chaim ben Larrisa

Shmuel Nechemiah ben Hinda

Menachem ben Miriam

Yosef Yechiel Ben-Tzion ben Rivkah Beila

Binyamin Yehudah ben Leah

Chaim Mordechai ben Sarah Ita

Shlomo Aharon Nachman ben Malkah

Pesach Yosef ben Hinda

Nisan ben Shoshanah

Binyamin ben Daniella Margalit

 

Esther Hadassah bas Devorah

Mitali Naomi bas Gilah Farcha

Chayah Sarah Leah bas Brachah

Heleni Orna bas Chein Chanah

Esther Brachah bas Chayah

Sima Frieda bas Chayah Rachel

Miriam bas Basya

Gila Raizel bas Gittel

Sally bas Rozy

Rachel bas Leah

Anna bas Roza

Chayah bas Regina

Angela bas Sarah

Rivkah Hila Hodayah bas Rachel

Ariellah bas Hila

Leah bas Esther

Amar Tamar bas Sarah

Chanah bas Miriam Perel

Sarka bas Sarah

Tziporah bas Fibi

Esther bas Sima

 

Israeli Soldiers (Please recite Psalms 25, 26, 46, 83, 142.)

 

Yehoshua ben Aliza Esther

Menachem ben Aliza Esther

Gavriel Efraim ben Chanah Yafah

Netanel Akiva ben Chanah Yafah

Yonatan Ezra ben Chanah Yafah

Chaim Aba Menachem ben Naomi Beila

Daniel Moshe ben Devorah

Chaim Mordechai ben Sarah Ita

Gavriel Yehudah ben Yaakov

Shmuel ben Aharon

Moshe ben Shoshanah Esther

Yehoshua ben Tzvi

Dvir Moshe ben Dinah

Oriel ben Dinah

Dor ben Zehavah

Daniel ben Rachel

Shalev David ben Revital Renanah

Daniel ben Orli

Tal ben Ilana Ilanit

Mordechai Daniel ben Leah Rachel

Yotam ben Efrat Michal

Michael ben Naomi Sarah

Moshe Eliyahu ben Dinah Yehudis

Yosef ben Shlomis

Yosef ben Sarit

Yosef Daniel ben Anat

Yosef Chaim ben Hadassah

Ron ben Ahuvah

Yosef Yechiel Ben-Tzion ben Rivkah Beila

Binyamin Yehudah ben Leah

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