Parashat VaYiggash. An excerpt of our Messianic commentaries. Please quote the source if you share. Shabbat shalom VaYiggash Genesis 44:18–47:27 Haftarah: Ezekiel 37:15–28 Then Yehuda approached vayiggash וַיִּגַּשׁ Yossef and said, “Please, my lord! Let your servant say something to you privately; and don’t be angry with your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself. Genesis 44:18 We are back with Yossef after the suspense left from last week’s Parasha. The confrontation between the brothers is a crucial moment for the history of the Jewish people. Yehuda steps forward and starts to intercede for his younger brother, vayiggash וַיִּגַּשׁ elav Yehuda, and Yehuda approached him. In the last Parasha we saw that Binyamin was a shadow and type of the Temple which will be built later. For it is within the bonds of this family that we discover the Temple. The future kingdoms of Yehuda and of Ephraim (descendants of Yossef) will later separate, but the tribe of Binyamin will never separate from the protective covering of this older brother, Yehuda, the one pleading for him. This reveals to us that the watching over and care of the Temple, both physically and spiritually, has been given to the descendants of Yehuda, from whom comes the Mashiach; He Who gave access to His Temple through His body to all who believe in Him. Yehuda reveals through his prophetic intercession, the grace of G-d, Who will raise up the true Advocate: Certainly not the Messiah Yeshua, who died and – more than that – has been raised, is at the right hand of God (the right hand of G-d represents Grace) and is actually pleading on our behalf! Romans 8:34 Yossef, seeing that his brothers’ love is now sincere, and that they are ready to give their lives for the spiritual heritage and the messianic vocation, can’t restrain himself any longer. Love and compassion flow from his lonely, hurting heart. For many years he has been separated from those that he loves because of their lack of trust and unbelief. He then removes his Egyptian mask and shouts: I am Yossef ! Ani Yossef! אֲנִי יוֹסֵף Yossef said to his brothers, “Please! Come closer.” And they came closer. He said, “I am Yossef, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. But don’t be sad that you sold me into slavery here or angry at yourselves, because it was God who sent me ahead of you to preserve life. The famine has been over the land for the last two years, and for yet another five years there will be neither plowing nor harvest. God sent me ahead of you to ensure that you will have descendants on earth and to save your lives in a great deliverance (to preserve life). Genesis 45:4-5 We can foresee the day when Israel, overwhelmed by the revelation of The One whom they rejected and sold for 30 silver coins, will hear from His mouth: (Yeshua HaMashiach) was arrested in accordance with God’s predetermined plan and foreknowledge… Acts 2:23 In order to: For, brothers, I want you to understand this truth which God formerly concealed but has now revealed, so that you won’t imagine you know more than you actually do. It is that stoniness, to a degree, has come upon Israel, until the Gentile world enters in its fullness; and that it is in this way that all Israel will be saved. As the Tanach says, “Out of Tziyon will come the Redeemer; he will turn away ungodliness from Yaakov. Romans 11:25-26 For if their casting Yeshua aside means reconciliation for the world, what will their accepting him mean? It will be life from the dead! Romans 11:15 Centuries later, Shaul, full of zeal to watch over the Jewish heritage on his way to apply the Torah, will also hear in the midst of a blinding light of Truth: ...I am Yeshua, יֵשׁוּעַ and you are persecuting me. Acts 9:5 Read the following online: sukkatdavid.net
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