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THE TORAH TELLS US THAT YOSEF TOLD HIS BROTHERS ABOUT HIS AMAZING DREAM IN WHICH THEY WERE ALL BUNDLING BUNDLES WHEN HIS BUNDLE ROSE AND THEIR BUNDLES BOWED TO HIS. THIS HE RECKONED WAS SYMBOLIC OF HIM BEING THEIR LEADER .THEY WERE HORRIFIED BY THIS SUGGESTION AS THEY WOULD NEVER TAKE HIM AS THEIR LEADER.
THE TORAH CONTINUES BY SAYING THAT THEIR HATRED FOR YOSEF INCREASED DUE TO HIS DREAMS AND HIS WORDS.THE COMMENTARIES ALL WONDER -WHAT WERE YOSEF'S WORDS FOR WHICH HIS HATRED WAS INCREASED?
RASHI POSITS THAT THE WORDS REFERRED TO HERE WERE THE EVIL TIDINGS ABOUT THEM THAT YOSEF BROUGHT TO THEIR FATHER. FOR YOSEF APPEARED TO ENJOY BRINGING WHATEVER NASTY BIT OF GOSSIP ABOUT THEM TO YAKOV.
MY PROBLEM WITH RASHI'S COMMENT IS THAT THE TALE BEARING OF YOSEF HAD GONE ON FOR A LONG TIME EARLIER. WHY WOULD NOW BE THE TIME THAT THIS CAUSED EVEN GREATER HATRED. THEY HAD HATED HIM BEFORE FOR HIS OBNOXIOUS WAYS INCLUDING HIS WORDS-WHAT TRIGGERED ADDITIONAL HATRED?
ABOUT 250 YEARS AGO A TZADDIK IN POLAND WAS KNOWN AS THE YID HAKODOSH I.E.
THE HOLY JEW. HE WAS GIVEN THIS TITLE AS HIS NAME WAS THE SAME AS HIS MENTOR REB YAKOV YITZCHOK OF LUBLIN ,ALSO KNOWN AS THE FAMOUS CHOZEH-SEER OF LUBLIN.
AS IT WAS INAPPROPRIATE TO REFER TO HIM BY NAME IN FRONT OF THEIR REBBE, THE OTHER STUDENTS OF THE CHOZEH CALLED HIM THE YID HAKODOSH, FOR HE WAS INDEED A HOLY JEW.
ONCE A MAN POSSESSED BY A DYBBUK WAS BROUGHT BEFORE THE HOLY JEW. THE HOLY JEW DEMANDED THAT THE DYBBUK IDENTIFY HIMSELF. THE DYBBUK REFUSED AND THE HOLY JEW WAS FORCED TO INVOKE MYSTICAL POWERS CALLED YICHUDIM IN ORDER TO PUNISH THE RECALCITRANT SPIRIT AND FORCE HIM TO BE IDENTIFIED. INSTEAD OF CRYING IN PAIN THE DYBBUK BEGAN TO LAUGH. WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING ASKED THE HOLY JEW?
ANSWERED THE DYBBUK BECAUSE YOU ARE EXERTING YOURSELF TO YOUR SOUL'S LIMIT IN ORDER TO REACH THESE YICHUDIM AT 70 WHEN I EASILY DID THEM AT 12!
IF YOU KNOW THESE MYSTICAL THINGS THEN WHO ARE YOU REALLY-FOR HE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN AN ORDINARY SINNER AS ONLY THE RIGHTEOUS EVER LEARN THESE SECRETS OF TORAH.
I AM A PROPHET FROM THE FIRST TEMPLE ERA,ONE OF MANY WHOSE WORDS WEREN'T RECORDED FOR POSTERITY ANSWERED THE DYBBUK. THEN WHY DID YOU BECOME A PERSECUTED SOUL? FOR A PROPHET WAS A MAN OF G-D?
THE DYBBUK ANSWERED , I WAS THE FIRST JEW WHO THROUGH AN ESROG FRUIT AT THE PROPHET ZACHARIAH AS HE PREDICTED THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE.
OTHERS FOLLOWED MY EXAMPLE AND ZACHARIAH DIED IN THE BARRAGE .I WAS RELEGATED TO WANDERING WITHOUT END AND I ENTERED THE BODY OF THIS MAN IN ORDER TO ESCAPE MY PURSUING ANGELS OF DESTRUCTION WHO HAVE TORMENTED ME EVER SINCE THEN.
HOW COULD YOU A PROPHET HAVE SILENCED A MAN OF G-D ON HIS MISSION?ASKED THE YID.
THE DYBBUK ANSWERED,A PROPHECY UNSAID CAUSES THE DEATH OF THE PROPHET. HOWEVER, IF IT REMAINS UNSAID IT WILL NOT HAPPEN. THEREFORE I OPINED THAT ZACHARIAH REMAIN SILENT AND HAVE SELF SACRIFICE FOR THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE TEMPLE. EVEN THOUGH IT WOULD MEAN HIS DEATH BUT THE TEMPLE AND THE MASSES WOULD BE SPARED!
YOU HAVE A POINT,HOWEVER YOU ARE FORBIDDEN BY OUR HOLY TORAH FROM ENTERING AND HARMING A FELLOW JEW. I BID THAT YOU LEAVE HIM IMMEDIATELY BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE HOLY TORAH SAID THE YID.
ALTHOUGH YOUR DECREE WILL PAIN ME HERE I CANNOT LEAVE FOR THE PURSUIT OF MY PROSECUTING ANGELS GIVES ME FAR MORE PAIN!
THE YID SAW THAT HE COULD NOT FORCE THE DYBBUK TO LEAVE. HE THOUGHT FOR A MOMENT AND SAID"WHAT IF I SET UP A BETH DIN TO HEAR YOUR CASE AND IF I FOUND IN YOUR FAVOR WOULD THE ANGELS LEAVE YOU"?ASKED THE YID.
THE DYBBUK SAID"IF THE HOLY TORAH FINDS IN MY FAVOR HERE THE COURT ABOVE MUST COMPLY"!
THE YID BROUGHT IN HIS TWO DAYANIM - JUDGES AND TOGETHER THEY REVIEWED THE CASE OF ZACHARIAH AND HIS ANTAGONIST THE WANDERING SOUL.IN THE END THE BETH DIN CONCLUDED THAT THE SOUL WAS CORRECT IN HIS ACTION AS A PROPHET COULD BE EXPECTED TO HAVE SELF SACRIFICE FOR THE COMMUNITY. THE DYBBUK LEFT IMMEDIATELY FREE TO GO HIGHER INTO THE SPIRITUAL REALMS AND THE ANNALS OF CHASSIDIC LORE HAD AN INSIGHT INTO AHAVAS YISROEL.
HERE WE SEE THAT A PROPHECY UNTOLD IS A PROPHECY UNFULFILLED. IF INDEED THAT YOSEF HAD A PROPHECY,FOR THE SAKE OF THE COMMUNITY HE SHOULD HAVE KEPT SILENT. FOR ONLY THROUGH SAYING IT COULD THE DREAM COME TRUE.
THE POWER OF SPEECH IS NOT ONLY THE ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE.
RATHER IT IS THE FORCE OF CREATION,THE POWER TO MAKE THINGS HAPPEN.
FOR THIS REASON WHEN WE SAY WE WILL DO SOMETHING, THE WORDS THEMSELVES GIVE US THE POWER TO MAKE IT REAL.
WE MUST DREAM. WE MUST ALSO STATE OUR DREAMS SO THAT THEY BECOME REALITY.WORDS MAKE THINGS HAPPEN IF THEY ARE SAID RIGHT!
WATCH WHAT YOU SAY!