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בס"ד וישב

The פני מנחם, the Gerrer Rebbi, says that the Parshiot of בראשית which we read in the colder winter months, are 'clothed' with the secrets of Torah. The Opta Rav, the אוהב ישראל, says that the first letters of גורימארץ בעקב יישב ו is יבום , which is a tikun for the The. יבום that passed away w/o children. This is the Parsha of נשמהZohar says that the one who dies w/o children comes back in the child that the יבום and the במהי have together, that is, his wife becomes his mother. Yebum is the secret of גלגל telling us that even after a yid dies, there is a תיקון. A certainרב , I believe the אבנינזר said that one should not say ימח שמו on any Jew, even a רשע, since he could be born as a child of Yevamos ח המלך המשי=458 = במותי The משיח will bring a תיקון to every yid. Before the תורה was given there was also יבום, however it was permitted with a close relative, as with הודהי (father in law) and תמר. There was also a יבום between בועז and רות since יאלמונ פלוני, didn't want to marry רות. And so we see that the משיח is born from יבום. In all the פרשיות that fall in the month of כסלו, there are many many hints to the great י"ט of חנוכה.

The uniqueness of חנוכה is that it goes to where no other י"ט goes, that is below ten tefachim, on the left, in the public domain and in the nighttime. On חנוכה there is a תקון for all yiddin, those that are on the left side, and those who find themselves in a very low place, (below ten טפחים) and those who are in total darkness. The טור in the הלכות of חודש ראש says that the אבות are connected to the Chagim, Avraham is פסח ( most of the major events of Avraham's life took place פסח time ) יצחק is שבועות, and יעקב is Sukkos ויעקב

אלה תולדות יעקב יוסף נסעה סכתה - , Yosef who extends from There are various . סוכותwhich is an extension of חנוכה is ,ביעקsimilarities between סוכות and – 1חנוכה ) Sukkos culminates with the חג of eight, שמיניהעצרת , similar to .2חנוכה ) both the מנורה and the סוכה are פסול when above twenty אמות and 3) with the חנוכה לשוןYosef is .סוכה נוי like the בהם תמשלהש רשות לנו אין we are נרותof ספהוה like on חנוכה we are והולךמוסיף . In the second pasuk of וישב it says 'והוא נער את בני בלהה' and רשי says that סףיו would מקרב the בני הבלה , when his brothers would push them away. Rashi says elsewhere in ויקהל that דן was the lowest of the שבטים, the ones that were out of the ענני כבוד in the desert, and thus the ones that עמלק started up with חוץ=104=בני בלהה Like the candles of are to be placed outside, and below ten, all in order to bring חנוכהlight and support to the lower factions of עם ישראל, Yosef was מקרב

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the Bnei Dan. Yosef had a special connection to דן since, sort of speaking, because of Dan, Yosef was born. Rachel gave her שפחה זוכה so that she could be ,'ואבנה גם אנכי ממנה' and said יעקב to בלההto have a child. Dan was born to בלהה, resulting in רחל giving birth to Yosef - = ק יוסף הצדי=365 ן שבט ד . Later יהושע who comes from the ones ,דן טשב who were primarily after the עמלק attacks ,יוסףwho were spit out of the clouds - 'כל הנחשלים' (the weak ones, the late comers), referring to דן. The root of נחשלים is נחשל which is the נוכהחל שר נהדליק ל of ר"ת . Chanuka has the ability to elevate the weak and the lowly, especially our generation, a generation of Dan.

In הלכות ליקותי, Rav Nasan elaborates the beginning of the Parsha.‘קירוב and מגייר גרים Yaakov was involved in 'מגורי אביו , bringing close the ones far from Yiddeshkeit. אלה תולדות יעקב יוסף -Yosef was also involved in this עבודה of קירוב רחוקים. Yosef was בן ,one must be good קירוב of עבודה To be involved in the .שבע עשרה Dan and מקרב Yosef was- והוא נער את בני בלהה .to all ,=טוב17Naftali, as we mentioned already who were of the lowest שבטים. Yaakov loved ףיוס more than the other brothers כי בן זקנים הוא לו- the תרגום says that זקנים בן is םבר חכי , a wise person. Rav Natan explains that one has to have high and deep wisdom to bring yidden close to Hashem. ועשה לו כתנת פסים -Yaakov taught יוסף the wisdom of how to dress up the light of Hashem (the Sfirot) and bring it down to wherever the yid is holding. Here lies one פשט of the מחלוקת of the םבטיש with הצדיק יוסף. The brothers didn't believe in this practice of קירוב. They held that there is a danger in being involved with the lower yidden. Parallel to this is the ט"י of There was also very much controversy in the concept of .חנוכה performing a mitzva on the left? below ten tefachim? In the – חנוכהpublic domain? At night? We see even שהקוד רבינו didn't include מלכות בת דוד was from ביר Some say it was because .משנה inחנוכהand the יםאחשמונ were not supposed to take the מלכות. Others say he was from יהודה, who although he didn't want יוסף killed, he still sold him. Today, where would we be without the light of ?? חנוכה= -is for all חנוכה מתתיהו=861תבני השפחו The מחלוקת between יוסף and his brothers was really a lack of giving כף זכות on the part of the הי-שבטי . In לז:יח פסוק , it says יראו

מרחקאתו - that the brothers sight of, perspective of יוסף was 'far' from the truth- that יוסף was a צדיק . Yosef doesn't have our payos!! He wears a short coat!! Also by the עקידה, it says that Avraham was confused, in darkness, as it says מרחוקוירא את המקום . Avraham closed off his דעת, and relied on וצונו להדליק נר חנוכה= -אמונה

. יה-וה נראה לימרחוק=676

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In our times, the עקביתא דמשיחא, when we are blind to the real that we inherited from אמונה we have to turn on our strong ,אמתAvraham =מרחוקאת המקום (וירא) =946עקביתא דמשיחא . Just as Avraham passed the test then, we have Chanuka to help us through this time-

=והאלה-ים נסה את אברהם861מתתיהו= .

True .. the שבטים saw in הקודש רוח thatירעבם בן נבט , who enticed most of ישראל כלל into ז”ע, and אחאב and Yehu will come from Better to kill him now and he'll die righteous. They judged him .ףיוסas a -בן סורר ומורה775לו נרות חנכה=ומורה סורר בן= . Chanuka is a tikun for every yid, even the rebellious ones. They didn't look at Yosef with כף זכות, that יהושע בן נון and ףיוסבן משיח will also come from Yosef- משיח566תיקון = בן יוסף = . As soon as the brothers saw the Yishmaelim והנה ארחת ישמעאלים באה, they remembered that they cannot judge a yid on what will ,וירא in באשר הוא שםcome from him.The brothers sold Yosef as opposed to killing him. The הטורים בעל says that =זקנים207רז= , that יעקב taught יוסף the secrets of Torah. The brothers thought that since יוסף was a בעל לשון הרע, it was not fitting for their father to teach him secrets of Torah. In the fourth pasuk of בראשית, Rashi says that this אור was the hidden light, the

ור הגנוזא , that was put away for the צדיקים in the future.ב טוי כר האותא=660ר=סת . The last letters spell out ברית. There is a

the bris of sexual purity. Both are ,ברית המעור and a ברית הלשוןdependent one on the other. The brothers felt since יוסף was not pure in the bris of speech, he shouldn't be taught the סתרי תורה. Also why is ףיוס revealing his dreams (which are 1/60th of prophesy) to them, if he considers them unworthy-

=הלשון המעור712 כי יבדל=את האור כי טוב . The Rokeach and the and others all say that on Chanuka we experience a blast בני יששכרof the future light – 8 x 8 = חנוכה x 89 =712=את האור כי טוב ויבדל. The בןזקנים in pasuk ג is ז-קנים referring to the מנורה in the ק”בהמ. The בעל הטורים also says that זקנים is ר"ת for שים נדשים קרעים ז

ועדמעות ושי , five of the ששהמשנה סדרי . What about טהרות? Yosef developed in himself, טהרותסדר . Chanuka was the last ט"י, referring and שייך to our last generation. In the עשרה דברות there are 172 = and תורה from the מצוות words, and 620 letters. There are 613 עקבseven from the רבנן, totaling 620 מצוות .The last word of the דברותהלרעךואהבת of מצוה hinting to us that the ,לרעך is (עקב) or the עשרת the ,ך is extremely important in the end of days. The last letter כמוך620th letter of the דברות, refers to חנוכה, since the last of the seven חנוכהמנורה extends down, hinting to the ך The .חנוכה is רבנן מצוות

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which is placed below ten טפחים. One of the מילוים of חנוכה is 620- אהף כון נת ח=620טהרות= Also ך is 500= חנוכה משמאל. Chanuka is

the טי" of טהרות. Chanuka is the גמר חתימה of יה"כ, which is the main time of purity- - "וצונו להדליק נר חנוכה= ו תטהרלפני ה

םטהר אתכא=676 . Chanuka and יה"כ are times of purity =ת620כתר= of מולוי is the מקוה of the כונה writes that the הקדוש ארי The .טהרוholy name ההוד י ההלף א- אהיה =

=מקוה151 כה כסליו==151

Hashem put the שמהנ of משיח in the most unlikely places. Lot with his daughters produce רות in סדם, the lowest place on earth physically as well as spiritually, (the ר"ת of בסדם is ודדת בלכות מוד ס ), and here in our Parsha with יהודה ותמר. The שטן would never look in places like these. In Parshas וישב, everyone is in a lowly and distressed state. Yaakov is mourning over יוסף, and cannot be consoled "וימאן להתנחם". Yosef is being sold as a slave, and later finds himself incarcerated in a dungeon for a crime he didn't commit, and יהודה has a ירידה due to his brothers blaming him for selling יוסף (Yehuda being the "מלכות" should have prevented the sale). And the after seeing their חטא are in anguish for their part in the שבטיםfather inconsolable, and.. ברוך הוא בורא אור של משיח הקדוש

The fourth עליה tells of the birth of משיח, Peretz- יהודהוירד ויהי בעת ההיא . Yehuda has a ירידה (below ten טפחים), and

he went down to someone he thought was ... ויחשבה לזונה. A זונה really means someone who sins. By the מרגלים, in ד:לג ישלח the term is someone who goes out from where he זונה is used where a זנותיכםshould be. Unkeles translates זונה as נפקת ברא. Chanuka is for those who go out, and the מנורה is placed outside in order to light up the outside world, the פך אחד של שמן = 833 אנפקת בר =- - חוץ .

Tamar sat הוצונו להדליק נר חנכ=670= ם בפתח עיני . The בת עין, a talmid of the Chenoble Magid, says there are many רמזים here to חנוכה. In pasuk לח:כד it saysויהי כמשלש חדשים -three months after the world was created on כה אלול, is חנוכה on כה כסלו. Yehuda says הוציאוה it קפסו lights outside. In the same חנוכה refers to lighting the ותשרףsays להדליק נר חנכה =512= וגם הנה הרה לזנונים . This is a perfect example of a וציונו להדליק נר חנכה=680=ירדה לצורך עליה . Mashiach is born. Zerach sticks his arm out first and the midwife ties a red string on him, however פרץ is born first. זרח means to shine, a רמז to

הדלקת נר חנוכה= 878 =חויקרא שמו זר חנוכה - The light of חנוכה (Zerach) is here before משיח (Peretz). And so the story of יהודה and to רמז is timely and an exact פרשהcoming in the middle of theתמרChanuka- וצונו להדליק נר חנוכה= 676 =יהודה ותמר . The eight days of

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a breakthrough of all barriers, bringing a blast of ,פריצה is a חנוכהthe אור הגנוז into the world, bringing the future into the present. = ת ימי חנוכהנשמו=945מה פרצת עליך . Chanuka is the light needed to endure this long Galus. פרצת =770= ויהי בעת ההיא וירד יהודה and נר ירד יהודהו =250= Why is the משיח referred to, or comes from the name פרץ? The משיח will פורץ, break all the barriers of גלות, especially the three שבועות mentioned in Gemorra כתובות – that is, not to start up with or enter the , ..לא יעלה בחומה ולא דוחה את הקץboundry of the goyim. Chanuka, being a visit from the future, results in these restrictions not being in play, in a spiritual sense -

פרצת עליך=900נר חנוכה משמאל ולמטה מיוד = . On the other side, the הצד הטומא in the פורץ גדר were the יונים . They made thirteen פרצות, breaches in the סורג around the בהמ"ק, and they raped the Jewish brides before their weddings, תחלה להגמון תבעל, all in order to contaminate the ת ישראלקדוש .

The last הלכה that יעקב learned with יוסף was עגלה הערופה which is also a תקון for the murdered yid, the חלל. The עגלה is decapitated in are the letters of the future tense referring to איתן The word .נחל איתןthe future (the future light), and נחל is the acronym of ר נהדליק ל

נוכהח . The deeper understanding of עגלה ערופה is that no yid should fall, no חלל, no void נר של חנוכה=669 = הערופה בנחלל העגלהע . Yosef remembers this Halacha. Chanuka is the י"ט of (שמן זית) זכרון against the להשכיחם תורתך of the Greeks. The brothers, especially which they meant in a ,בעל החלומות was a יוסף said that שמעוןderogatory sense. The truth is יוסף was exactly this. We see in the Parsha and in מקץ, Yosef 's life is full of dreams, the two dreams he had, the two dreams of the שר המשקים and the שר האפים, and the two dreams of פרעה. Yosef was the master of dreams. In הלכות Rav Nasan explains that all dreams are mixture of both good ,ליקוטיand bad. Yosef being the צדיק who is pure good, when he experiences a dream, the רע in the dream is בטל and he's left with the Like a dream is a taste of what's . נבואה of the dream, which is אמתcoming, חנוכה is a taste of the future. Yaakov said מה החלום הזה to Yosef89= חנוכה=החלום . The truth is our lives are one big dream, which could be made into a nightmare or a sweet dream, היינו .comes we'll realize life was all a dream משיח When .כחלמים

.also means to awaken נער The word ... בני בלהה אתנערוהוא Chanuka awakens the low נשמות that weren't affected by ר"ה ויה"כ etc. It awakens in them the five parts to the נשמה especially the יחידה which the משיח will awaken in every yid = לך מ= 453את יחידך says that מדרש The .חנוכה is awakened on יהדות of ניצוץ The .המשיח ,גליות had to endure five כלל ישראל was sold five times, and so יוסף

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the first being גלות מצרים. The fifth expression of Geula is משיח בןוהבאתי=424דוד= . On Pesach we have five cups of wine, four cups

during the Seder and the fifth being כוס אליהו. In our Parsha, the word כוס is mentioned five times, four in the dream of the שר is שר המשקים and the fifth at the very end when the המשקיםreinstated. This fifth כוס represents the fifth Galus, גלות ישמעאל - -

נפש רוח נשמה חיה יחידה=1099=ימי מתתיהו בן יוחנןב=1099=חנכהלו נרת של =בעשרים וחמשה בכסלו= 1099 ה=שבת חדש מיל The three גזרות of the

.מילה and שבת חדש were יונים

At the beginning of ,is the twenty fifth word אור the word ,בראשית and is written five times, symbolizing the five from the five גאולות At the end of .גליות when computing the years of תולדות ,ישמעאל Rashi says that יעקב was נטמן in the ישיבה of עבר for fourteen years. He was learning the secrets- ןטמנ , of Torah in order for him to deal with the that is, with the depths of ,ערב This is the .גלות that תורה passed on to יעקב .יוסף In it שיר השירים says ישקני מנשיקות פיהו which says is the רשי of the future. It says that the תורה we תורה have is הבל compared to the Torah of ועשה לו כתנת פסים=-ולעתיד לב

הוישקני מנשיקות פי1477 =

Just as פנחס, a descendant of Yosef, took revenge on Midyan for their part in משיח בן יוסף, מכירת יוסף will take revenge from Yishmael for their part. The Maggid defines the מחלוקת ב"ש וב"ה in that ב"ש holds that the סור מרע precedes the עשה טוב, and משיח בן Beis Hillel holds that in later .משיח בו דוד will come before יוסףgenerations especially, this will be impossible, and so the עשה טוב comes first and then the bad will dissipate. In lighting the Menorah, the סור מרע-הטבת הנרות comes before the עשה טוב- הדלקה . However we see that Kislev, the month of הדלקה precedes טבת the month of הטבה. On Chanuka, we have of fusion of משיח בן יוסף and gives the names for these two מגלה עמוקות The .משיח בן דוד

נחמיה בן חושיאל - - משיחים Mashiach ben Yosef and משיח בן דוד -מנחם בן עמיאל

=נחמיה בן חושיאל מנחם בן עמיאל861=מתתיהו=861בית המקדש= . Hashem said to Aharon after he was upset that he did not contribute to the inauguration sacrifices in the Mishkan, that his lighting of the Menorah is greater than their עבודה of bringing theקרבנות . One clear difference is that the קרבנות are only brought when there is a בהמ"ק, whereas the lighting of Chanuka candles are forever - =חי861מתתיהו= .מתתיהו will come אהרן From you .יך שלך גדולה משלהם

Chanuka is a ט"י of אחדות. The מנורה was אחת מקשה, one solid unified piece. Chanuka was a תיקון for the הנחש חטא who spoke הרע

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on another yid is הרע לשון on Hashem. Anyone speaking לשוןspeaking against Hashem. The תיקון of this חטא will be completed by

=משיח358 נחש=משיח- . The נחש brought טומאה into the world - is סףיו and also טהרה Chanuka is .זהומה בה והיטל הוה על הנחש באולהלל of ט"י is the נחש of the עהר לשון for the קוןית The .טהרהקנה comes from the דבור The .להודות , the windpipe- = 155קנה =רע דבתםה The . בכסליו בכה that יוסף spoke was really for the benefit of his brothers and he only spoke to his father, but still יוסף was incarcerated for ten years, one year for each brother, and another two years for putting his trust in the משקיםה שר. In פסוק לט:כ ,when יוסף was thrown in jail, it says אסורי but the קריאה is אסירי. When Yosef told יעקב of the החי מן אבר or העריות על דיםחשו, of his brothers, then he spoke against all ten of them, therefore אסר י י with a חותהשפ בבני who were שבטים really spoke against six יוסף But .יtherefore ,מזלזלין ריואס with a אס אשר מקום=יו אסורים המלך רי- ו

ויבאר דבתם את סףיו עה אל הםאבי=1386

When the brothers saw יוסף coming toward them, they sent dogs after him. It says of someone who speaks הרע לשון that אותו תשליחו בכלב, but the dogs didn't touch Yosef- נרחנ=וכה339= לאיחרץ . Also in the pit, if יוסף had really spoken הרע לשון, he would have been bit by the The .הרע לשון didn't actually speak יוסף This proves that .נחשים thought שבטים can't be harmed by dangerous creatures. The צדיקיםthat Yosef was another Esav, but they didn’t realize that he was the on the - י"ט of Esav. Chanuka was also the most misunderstood שטנהleft, below ten, and facing the רה"ר. Some say that the reason רבינו was because the משניות didn’t include Chanuka in the הקדוש and this is why ,לא כדין which was מלכות took over the חשמונאיםthey all died out –(the opinion of the Ramban) However the Rambam disagrees and says that this was one of the great נסים of Chanuka. The מלכות returned to כלל ישראל for a short while even if it was not from that were אובדים and the נדחים On Chanuka, even the .מלכות בית דודaffected byעשו , have a tikun-

=ובאו האובדים83חנכה= and =וןניו ווף קוד ייו ת=750נר חנוכה משמאל The month of כסלו is under the domain of ימינו116כסלו=- יעקב= , while טבת is under the domain of Esav- = אלמשמ411טבת = . Chanuka is the only ט" י that connects two months. The light of חנוכה lights up the low and dark month of טבת. The אמת שפת says that the thirty six candles of Chanuka light up the thirty six days from כסלו.טבת till the end of כה

Our פרשה begins with יוסף learning תורה in י"א with the best Chevrusa יעקב אבינו and ends with יוסף being in a dungeon, in

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complete darkness. The פרשה begins in כסלו and ends in טבת . Yosef is the light of חנוכה countering the חשך of יון. The second פסוק in שיםמפור The .תהום פני על וחשך ובהו תהו היתה והארץ says חומשsay תהו is Bavel ( =תהו411טבת= ), then בהו is Persia the second Galus, חשך is יון the third גלות, and then עמלק240= על פני = and

= ישמעאל451תהום = the fourth and fifth Galus- = יון מלך=יוסף156=אנטיוכס=156 . Yosef who represents חנוכה, had the power

to ניעמכאנטיוכס , the יון מלך.

Yosef was the epitome of purity, מדת היסוד and תקון הברית. The ultimate test was with אשת פוטיפר attempting to seduce him. It was after passing this very difficult test that Yosef was coined יוסף הצדיק. Yosef was then accused of adultery or rape which should have resulted in Yosef being tremendously disturbed. However we do not see one time that Yosef complained –incredible. After being in prison, the dungeon for ten years, Yosef who understood the השגשה that he had to serve one year for each of his brothers that he spoke having his dream, was his way שר המשקים saw that the ,דבת רעהout. Now he had to apply a little השתדלות and remind the שר not to forget Yosef’s interpreting his dream. For this another המשקיםtwo years was added on to his sentence. Why? Yosef was on such a high level of בטחון that this was considered a slight פגם. Yosef again did not complain.

Yaakov did not have any prophesy for twenty two years because of he was mourning for Yosef, and thus not בשמחה. Yosef on the other hand received נבואה in interpreting the dreams in prison. This is because Yosef was always happy. He saw the good in every situation. A yid that has בטחון also has שמחה. One may ask how the Parsha could be called וישב which implies tranquility, peace and ישוב דעת . As we mentioned, everyone was in mourning and sad or have some type of ירידה in the Parsha. The name of the Parsha is the essence and every pasuk is under its title. The acronym of וישב is

מךשודעי יך ביבטחו ו . Yosef is connected to Chanuka, where thirteen yidden fought against and defeated tens of thousands of Greeks, demonstrating unfathomable בטחון.

In the merit of our אמונה, בטחון and שמחה, we will witness the coming of Mashiach and the building of the בית השלישי.