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01/27/2023 12:36:21 PM

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nd remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt when G-d your G-d brought you out from there… therefore G-d your G-d commanded you to fulfill the Shabbat day." (Dvarim 5, 15)

 

 

The sale of Yosef  

 

It is brought in the holy books that the reason that we make the blessing on two breads on Shabbat is to remedy the sin of selling Yosef. The source thereof is the new Zohar that explains that Yosef the Righteous corresponds to the holy Shabbat and therefore fulfilling Shabbat as it should be done by Jewish Law is a wonderful atonement for the sin of the sale of Yosef.

According to the Zohar "Come see, it says in the Ten Commandments "And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt when G-d your G-d brought you out from there… therefore G-d your G-d commanded you to fulfill the Shabbat day." Here the Torah teaches us a Heavenly secret. That righteous man (Yosef) was sold as a slave in Egypt and in that sin the decree was made for you to be enslaved in Egypt, to atone for that sin of your having sold him. Therefore the Children of Israel should keep the Shabbat and they will be atoned more, for Shabbat is corresponding to Yosef."

 

Further on the Zohar explains that the seven days of the week are divided as follows: Sunday corresponds to Avraham Avinu, Monday to Yitzchak Avinu, Tuesday to Yakov Aviu, Wednesday to David Hamelech, Thursday to Moshe Rabeinu, Friday to Aharon HaCohen, and Saturday, the holy Shabbat to Yosef Hatzadki. Therefore, by keeping the Shabbat which corresponds to Yosef there is a remedy and atonement for the sin of selling Yosef.

 

Accordingly, the Migaleh Amukot explains the verse "And Yosef saw Binyamin with them and he said… bring these men into the house and have animals… prepared (והכן) for the men shall dine with me at noon".

Accordingly we can say that since keeping the Shabbat is atonement for the sale of Yosef, Yosef therefore prepared a Shabbat meal for his brothers the day before in order to continue their atonement through the observance of Shabbat.

 

In "Chanukat HaTorah" a new idea is brought in the name of the holy Rabbi Heshel of Krakow: "We can say that this is the reason that we cut two breads on Shabbat because the numerology of the wordלחם  twice (78x2) is equal to יוסף  (156). We know that keeping the Shabbat is a remedy for the sale of Yosef as it says "And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt" – this applies to Yosef.

Therefore it says "And it shall come to pass on the sixth day when they prepare (והכינו) that which they bring… it shall be twice as much as they gather daily." Since the double bread is a remedy for the sale of Yosef, for the word לחם twice is equal to יוסף, they therefore baked the double bread on Friday which is the day corresponding to the sixth Trait of Foundation which is the trait of Yosef Hatzadik.

 

The Ari z'l says that when the Tribes sold Yosef who symbolized the trait of Foundation, it was hurt and "dried up". Accordingly, this connects to the idea that the sale of Yosef hurt the trait of Foundation that that includes G-d's name six times.

Therefore, on Friday we prepare double bread in order to remedy the harm of the sale of Yosef, by serving double bread לחם which in numerology is also six times the name of G-d.

 

SHABBAT SHALOM!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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