Crying

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1. Of Bags and Brothers (Audio)

   Rabbi Chanoch Waxman | 24 minutes

   The brothers’ sacks should contain grain, or cash, but not both. When they find their money (which Yosef had slipped into the sacks) along with the grain in their sacks, they worry. What is Yosef doing? Does he wish to harshly punish, or to kindly provide a way to achieve atonement? Yosef ultimately demonstrates that pursuing morality trumps realizing dreams.

2. The Personal Dimension of Yirmiyahu’s Prophecy

   Part I

   Rabbi David Sabato

   Yirmiyahu stands out among the prophets with the descriptions of the deep involvement of his personal life with his prophecies. There is no other prophet whose prophecies are described as inseparably connected to the prophet's personal life as those of Yirmiyahu.

   Embedded among Yirmiyahu's chapters of prophecy are his personal prayers, in which he pours out his supplications before God and reveals his doubts and troubles. A tension exists between Yirmiyahu the prophet, who is not permitted to cry in front of the people, because this would contradict his standing and his mission, and Yirmiyahu the representative of his people, who identifies with their grief and suffering and secretly weeps with them day and night. On the one hand he transmits God’s prophecies of destruction. On the other hand he attempts to rip up the decree of evil through his prayers. On numerous occasions God halts his prayers, but not because of a deficiency in Yirmiyahu, but because of the nation's inability to repent.

3. Yirmiyahu's Prayers and the People

   Rabbi David Sabato

4. Yaakov and Yosef, Rachel and Israel: Weeping for the Exiled and Hope for Return

   Rabbi David Sabato

5. The Cry of Sodom

   Rabbi David Silverberg

6. The Weeping of Yosef and Yirmiyahu

   Rabbi David Silverberg

7. The Weeping of Yosef and Binyamin and the Exiles to Come

   Rabbi David Silverberg

8. Rosh HaShana Torah and Haftarah Readings - Judgment and Tears

   Rabbi David Silverberg

9. Ramban on Beshallach: Tze'aka - Crying Out

   Rabbi Ezra Bick | 37 minutes

   We will look at two different comments by Ramban on two different verses relating to the word “tza’ak” – to cry out. Bnei Yisrael were on the banks of the sea, on the cusp of freedom, when they saw Egyptians chasing them. Fearful, they cried out. What does “cry out” mean here, though?

   There seems to be a contradiction. On the one hand, they are crying out to God – isn’t prayer a good thing? But on the other hand, they seem to accuse Moshe of leading them to the sea to die. What is going on here?

   One possibility is that different groups had different reactions – different attitudes and different types of “cries.” Sadly, though, there can be a psychologically reality wherein people blame the person in the lower position. They may think “God is good, but his servant is messing things up.” That may be why the Torah emphasizes that, at the splitting of the Sea, the people “believed in God and in his servant, Moshe.”

10. Shelach: Optimism vs. Pessimism

    Rabbi David Fohrman |

    In this week's parsha video, we ask, are pessimists just rationalists, and is hope just naivete? Rabbi Fohrman points out an intriguing language parallel and argues that hope always exists, but we must direct it towards the future, not the past.

     

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