VAYEISHEV

Shalom, Shalom. We commence this DEVAR TORAH by focusing our ATTENTION on the title of the PORTION. The title of the PARASHAT is VAYEISHEV. The IVRI transliteration VAYEISHEV can be interpreted to mean “SETTLED.”

The PARASHAT commences with a focus upon our PATRIARCH YAACOB settling in the land of CANAAN. From the PERSPECTIVE of the Holy of Holies in the CONCEPT of MISHKAHN DAVID, YAACOB’S settling in CANAAN is descriptive of the ATTAINMENT of A CONSCIOUS UNION with ECHAD with the GOAL of ACTUALIZATION. The ACTUALIZATION of the ATTAINMENT is destined to give rise to the CONCEALED aspects of ECHAD being REVEALED. The REVELATION will set in motion the PROCESS of ECHAD’S GLORY filling the earth.

The ATTAINMENT that YAACOB had ASCENDED INTO was the product of learning how to EMBRACE what is SEEMINGLY NEGATIVE EVENTS. This is ESSENTIAL in our ASCENSION, for ALL that occurs with us in receiving from ECHAD is of INFINITE BLESSINGS, yea, because ECHAD’S nature is one that is of bestowal, and that which He bestows is of HIMSELF, He is continuously pouring out BLESSINGS UPON US. Our experience of DUALITY causes us to accept what we SENSE as GOOD from HIM, and REJECT what we SENSE as BAD. SINCE the ONLY THING that the CREATOR is capable of GIVING is BLESSINGS, the rejection of what is SENSED as BAD is rejecting what is INTENDED for GOOD. The rejection is what CAUSES THE SUFFERING and the HINDERANCE of the UNLIMITED POTENTIAL that is LATENT within. Once the lesson is learned by YAACOB, the EVENTS that have been predetermined to occur, commence that he might EMBRACE THEM and be BLESSED.

These EVENTS are a PART of what is termed the RESHIMO. The purpose of the RESHIMO is to create PRESSURE that is EXTERNAL with the INTENT of being responded to by the SUPERNAL that is hidden within. It works like a COMPUTER PROGRAM designed to ACCESS the DATA that is within. This process has been PREDETERMINED by ECHAD that we might both REALIZE and ACTUALIZE our CONSCIOUS UNION with ECHAD. Indeed it is ordained to GUARANTEE that the GOAL of CREATION might be made MANIFEST.