Dear Friends,
“Hu Motiv La Vehu Mefarek La.” “He brings up [the difficulty], and he settles it.” This is a common Talmudic expression used to express the fact that the same sage who has mentioned a difficulty in the text is the one who smooths it out.
This is what Yosef HaTzaddik did in regard to the Egyptian exile. Yaakov and his sons followed Yosef down to Egypt, and their exodus from Egypt was also thanks to the code they received from Yosef, who said at the end of his life. “And G-d will Pakod Yifkod you (will surely remember you). The pair of words, “Pakod Yifkod” is the code that the redeemer will use when he will come to take them out of Egypt. As mentioned above, Yosef brought them to Egypt but had already prepared the redeeming code. “He brings up the difficulty, and he settles it”!
Not only Yosef, but anyone who is taken down or takes himself down to some lowly situation or place, should know that there is no doubt that he has within him the code words that will lead him towards salvation and towards physical and spiritual ascent.
Hu Motiv La Vehu Mefarek La!
Shabbat Shalom,
Rabbi Zalmen Wishedski