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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 667479" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>The Birth of Forgiveness (Vayigash 5775)</strong></span></p><p>22 December 2014</p><p><a href="http://www.rabbisacks.org/category/covenant-conversation/" target="_blank">COVENANT & CONVERSATION</a><a href="http://www.rabbisacks.org/category/judaism-torah/" target="_blank">JUDAISM & TORAH</a></p><p><a href="http://www.rabbisacks.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/CC-5775-Vayigash-The-Birth-of-Forgiveness.pdf" target="_blank">DOWNLOAD AS PDF</a></p><p><a href="http://www.rabbisacks.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/SSVaYIGASH_2015.pdf" target="_blank">DOWNLOAD IN HEBREW</a></p><p></p><p>There are moments that change the world: 1439 when Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable-type printing press (though the Chinese had developed it four centuries before), or 1821 when Faraday invented the electric motor, or 1990 when Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web. There is such a moment in this week’s parsha, and in its way it may have been no less transformative than any of the above. It happened when Joseph finally revealed his identity to his brothers. While they were silent and in a state of shock, he went on to say these words:</p><p></p><p>“I am your brother Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt! And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you. For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will be no plowing and reaping. But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God.” (Gen. 45: 4-8)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 667479, member: 18958"] [SIZE=6][B]The Birth of Forgiveness (Vayigash 5775)[/B][/SIZE] 22 December 2014 [URL='http://www.rabbisacks.org/category/covenant-conversation/']COVENANT & CONVERSATION[/URL][URL='http://www.rabbisacks.org/category/judaism-torah/']JUDAISM & TORAH[/URL] [URL='http://www.rabbisacks.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/CC-5775-Vayigash-The-Birth-of-Forgiveness.pdf']DOWNLOAD AS PDF[/URL] [URL='http://www.rabbisacks.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/SSVaYIGASH_2015.pdf']DOWNLOAD IN HEBREW[/URL] There are moments that change the world: 1439 when Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable-type printing press (though the Chinese had developed it four centuries before), or 1821 when Faraday invented the electric motor, or 1990 when Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web. There is such a moment in this week’s parsha, and in its way it may have been no less transformative than any of the above. It happened when Joseph finally revealed his identity to his brothers. While they were silent and in a state of shock, he went on to say these words: “I am your brother Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt! And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you. For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will be no plowing and reaping. But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God.” (Gen. 45: 4-8) [/QUOTE]
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