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B'resheet/Genesis
011 VaYigash 44:18-47:27
The name of the Parshah, "Vayigash," means "And he approached" and it is found in Genesis 44:18.
Judah approaches Joseph to plead for the release of Benjamin, offering
himself as a slave to the Egyptian ruler in Benjamin’s stead. Upon
witnessing his brothers’ loyalty to one another, Joseph reveals his
identity to them.“I am Joseph,” he declares. “Is my father still alive?”
The brothers are overcome by shame and remorse, but Joseph comforts
them. “It was not you who sent me here,” he says to them, “but God. It
has all been ordained from Above to save us, and the entire region, from
famine.”
The brothers rush back to Canaan with the news. Jacob comes to Egypt
with his sons and their families—seventy souls in all—and is reunited
with his beloved son after 22 years. On his way to Egypt he receives the
divine promise: “Fear not to go down to Egypt; for I will there make of
you a great nation. I will go down with you into Egypt, and I will also
surely bring you up again.”
Joseph gathers the wealth of Egypt by selling food and seed during the
famine. Pharaoh gives Jacob’s family the fertile county of Goshen to
settle, and the children of Israel prosper in their Egyptian exile.
Always remember Yeshua the Messiah is the same yesterday, today and forever.
He is and always will be a Jew.
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