[Avodah] Mesorah?

[Yitzchok Zirkind]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:
> Nu, so Yaaqov expected the galus.

> What about Rashi on the title word of parashas VaYeishev, that Yaaqov
> was hoping to be done with all the nisyonos in his life? Did Yaaqov
> think the galus would start after his petirah?

Actually the L. Rebbe in Lkutei Sichos Vol. 30  page 177 footnote 11,
addresses this.  The point is that until the time of the actual Golus he
wished to live in peace.



On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Rich, Joel <JRich at sibson.com> wrote:
> And how do you understand the drasha that Yaakov came "lagur" and not
> "lhishtakea"  or the way HKB"H tells him he will bring him back (without
> mentioning it's just for burial) - perhaps he didn't think it would be his
> generation?

See Rashi Shmos 26:15, Ramban Breishis 46:1.

Also see the Meam Loeiz in Parshas Boi (where he has the Pirush on the
Haggadah) who explains that originally Yaakov planned to go and visit Yosef
and return after the femine, however when he stopped off in Beir Sheva on
his way to egypt and HKB"H told him "al tirah ..." he learned that he was
actually going into Golus, when the brothers said to Pharoh "logur" they
said what their original intent was.  And he explains with this the end of
the Possuk when they request "vatoh YEISHVU na.. and not the term Logur.

I would like to point out that the term used in the Bris Bein haBsorim was
"Ki GER yihyeh".

-- 
Kol Tuv,
Yitzchok Zirkind