<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Mitchell Morgenstern</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:mitchellamorgenstern@gmail.com">mitchellamorgenstern@gmail.com</a>></span><br><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Boruch - do you have a group that you can ask my question to and come up with an answer. I have an answer, but I want to see what others say.<div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><span id="m_-8692375335432325419gmail-docs-internal-guid-24aa5342-7fff-44e8-a77d-8e4e469b8789"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Shabbos Morning:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">At 8:45 AM left to go to Chabad of East Lakeview, a six mile walk. Thought about the Shiur I would give and the time flew by. Arrived in Shul at 10:45 AM, in the middle of Leining. I leined the Haftorah in Amos which starts with the following Pasuk from Amos 2:6:</span></p><br><p dir="rtl" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהֹוָ֔ה עַל־שְׁלֹשָׁה֙ פִּשְׁעֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְעַל־אַרְבָּעָ֖ה לֹ֣א אֲשִׁיבֶ֑נּוּ עַל־מִכְרָ֤ם בַּכֶּ֙סֶף֙ צַדִּ֔יק וְאֶבְי֖וֹן בַּֽעֲב֥וּר נַעֲלָֽיִם׃</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“For (the) three sins (I could forgive) Israel, but for four I will not forgive, because they sold the justice of a righteous man for silver and cheated the poor for a pair shoes.”</span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Gutnick Chumash says “This Haftorah alludes to the sale of Yosef who was sold for silver by his brothers. The Haftorah is a harsh rebuke by the Prophet Amos for the sins of the Jewish people during the reign of King Yarovam II (8th century BCE).”</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Is the linkage of this Pasuk in Amos only superficial or is it on a deeper level. Is it an indictment of the ten brothers who sold Yosef and by this linkage is the understanding that they sold Yosef without justice? As Targum Yonason Ben Uziel says, “And the Midianite men, masters of business, passed by; and they drew and brought up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Arabians for twenty mahin of silver; “</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">which were used to purchase sandals”</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. And they brought Joseph to Mizraim.”</span></b></p><b><br></b></span></div><div><br></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ילקוט שמעוני על התורה קמ״ב:א׳</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">... (בראשית ל"ז כ"ז) "וימכרו את יוסף לישמעאלים בעשרים כסף" – כל אחד ואחד מהם נטל שני כספים לקנות מנעלים לרגליהם, שנאמר: "על מכרם בכסף צדיק ואביון בעבור נעלים".</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(153,153,153);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">מדרש עשרה הרוגי מלכות (אייזנשטט, אוצר המדרשים 444):</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">פעם אחת היה יושב הקיסר ועוסק בתורה ומצא כתוב (שמות כ"א) "וגונב איש ומכרו ונמצא בידו מות יומת" – והלך וטח הבית בנעלים ודבקם בכתלים, ושלח אחר ר' שמעון בן גמליאל וחבריו ואמר להם: אם כן אתם חייבים מיתה, קבלו על עצמכם דין שמים. אמרו לו: למה? אמר להם: בשביל אחי יוסף שמכרו את יוסף, דכתיב "וימכרו את יוסף בעשרים כסף" וכתיב "על מכרם בכסף צדיק ואביון בעבור נעלים", ולכן טח אותו רשע את הבית במנעלים, כדי שיכירו באיזה דבר מכרו את יוסף, "בעבור נעלים" – בדמי נעלים.</span></p></div><br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Mitchell A. Morgenstern</div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:mitchellamorgenstern@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mitchellamorgenstern@gmail.com</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br><div>773-647-8097</div></div></div></div></div>
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