Daily Chumash & Rashi – Parshas Vayechi Chamishi: Yaakov blesses his younger children (Thursday, 12th Teves)

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Chamishi

  • Gad’s final message from his father: “A battalion will sprout from Gad and he will troop backwards.”
  • Asher’s final message from his father: “From Asher will come rich food and he will provide royal delicacies of a king.”
  • Naftali’s final message from his father: “Naftali is a gazelle who runs quickly, for whom people give thanks and blessing.”

Setuma

  • Yosef’s final message from his father: “Yosef is a charming son, a charm to the eye. Girls stepped up to see him. They embittered him, fought with him, and the archers hated him. Nonetheless, he remained steadfast and became a shepherd, providing for Israel. Hashem will help you and bless you with the blessing of heavens and blessings of the depths below. Let the blessings of my father be upon your head.”

Q&A on Rashi

Gad (Verse 19)

Q1: What does “Gad, troops will march forth from him” mean?
It means Gad’s tribe will produce soldiers who cross the Jordan to fight alongside their brothers until the land is conquered.

 

Q2: What does “they will return on their tracks” mean?
After the battles, Gad’s warriors will return safely to their inheritance east of the Jordan, retracing the same paths.

 

Asher (Verse 20)

Q3: What blessing did Asher receive?
His land will yield rich food, especially olives, producing oil in abundance like flowing water.

 

Q4: Why does Rashi mention Ludkia in connection with Asher?
To illustrate the abundance of oil from Asher’s territory, as noted in Menachot regarding oil supply.

 

Naftali (Verse 21)

Q5: Why is Naftali compared to a “hind set loose”?
Because his land, especially the valley of Ginosar, will produce fruit that ripens quickly, like a swift deer.

 

Q6: What does “one who offers words of praise” refer to?
It refers to Naftali’s descendants inspiring songs of gratitude, such as Deborah and Barak’s song after the victory over Sisera.

 

Yosef (Verses 22–26)

Q7: What does “Ben Porat Yosef” mean?
It means “a man of charm” or “a fruitful son,” admired for his beauty and blessed with abundance.

 

Q8: Why does Rashi say Egyptian girls climbed walls?
To gaze at Yosef’s beauty when he became ruler in Egypt.

 

Q9: What does “they embittered him and became his adversaries” mean?
His brothers, Potiphar, and his wife caused Yosef suffering, yet he remained steadfast.

 

Q10: What does “his arms were bedecked with gold” refer to?
To Pharaoh placing the royal ring on Yosef’s hand, elevating him to power.

Q11: What blessings did Yaakov give Yosef?
Blessings of heaven above, depths below, fertility for men and women, surpassing those given to Avraham and Yitzchak.

 

Q12: What does “to the utmost bounds of the world’s hills” mean?
Yaakov’s blessings extended to the farthest reaches of the earth, greater than those promised to his forefathers.

 

Q13: Why is Yosef called “the one separated from his brothers”?
Because he was set apart through his trials and rose to greatness, remaining righteous.

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Rabbi Yaakov Goldstein is a 6th generation descendent of the famous Chief Rabbi of Izhmir, Rav Yehoshua Avraham Krispin, who authored a number of Sefarim, and was a colleague of Rav Chaim Falagi, and father in-law of the Pesach Hadvir. He currently lives with his wife Shayna, and twelve children K”H, in Tzfas, Israel. Rabbi Goldstein received Semicha from Rabbi Schneur Zalman Labkowski of the Tomchei Temimim headquarters in 2005 and served as a chaplain in the Lotar/Kalatz and K9 unit of the IDF from years 2005-2008. He is also a certified Shochet, and has performed Hashgacha work in slaughterhouses. Rabbi Goldstein is the director of Shulchanaruchharav.com, the world’s leading web-based Halacha database, and is the director of the Home Study Semicha Program, a self-study web-based Semicha program. He is a prolific author of over 50 Sefarim studied by a wide range of readers throughout the world, which is used regularly in Semicha programs around the globe. He is a world renowned Posek, answering questions to a web-based market, and serves as a local Posek, Rav, and Lecturer, in the Tzemach Tzedek community Shul in Tzefas, Israel. His many classes can be heard both from his website, Vimeo and YouTube channel. Students can join live to classes given in the Tzemach Tzedek Shul, through the “בית חבד צפת Chabad Tsfat” YouTube channel.

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