פרשת ויחי – מח – יא – "פללתי"
- surprise to Yaakov at what H' had wrought, a meeting of Yosef and Yaakov.
- tefilla is largely imaginative, its daring/imaginative (takes courage) – מחשבה – clear thought/focus.
- element of caring – Yaakov cared to see his son again.
- like a tree growing, it helps you grow "עושי פללה"
- דין – judgement also helps you grow, by connecting parts which are wrong.
- דין & להתפלל are similar.
- Its like asking H' to change and fix things. I'm in a situation where i want to move forward and correct my life.
- sense of courage + charity + forward thinking so we can ask for the right requests to be made.
- תופל means to hold together – like "נפלתי" (ויצא ל, ח)
- נפלתי is the embodiment of prayer – the commentators use "אמרי שפר" (בראשית – מט – כא) = a beautiful name.
- the image of נפלתי has become feminine and so תפילה is also a feminine term.
- something to do with the power of speech.
- נפלתי is imagined as running on the hills.
- שופר is part of תפילה.
- rashi talks about נפלתי same "צמיד פתיל" – sealed shut container full of purity תהרא. Like פתיל תכלת where you bind ציצית together. Naftali is tightly bound (?). A race of children between רחל and לאה.
- rashi – פתיל attached to the goal – tenaciously attached like being attached to prayer.
- so i kept pushing and trying, even though i went in different directions.
- onkelos says the letters of פ-ת is swapped around and chopped & changed to arrive at communicating to connecting with H'.
- a strong sense of attachment using many different ways of using תפילה, all different ways of spelling and different words, in order to make that attachment to H'.
- rashi says נפתלתי – "my prayer was accepted"
- rashi shows by contradiction that נפתלתי is multi-dimensional in explanation – there is both tenacious means to connect in תפילה but also that תפילה is accepted.
"נפתלתי"
- נפתלי acts like a speedy carrier (between Egypt and Israel) which shows his ability to be transcendent especially for communication. נפתלי has דביקות – attachment to prayer.
בראשית מט – כא
- reference of נפתלי to הודיא giving thanks (not בבקשה).
(moshe blessed him that he achieved his good - when moshe was blessing the tribes.)
- נפתלי's land of Ginosar is a beautiful and fertile land with magnificent and luscious fruits. (SW of Kineret)
= שפר = beautiful. נפתלי was given that area because they are the most beautiful people and poets and awareness of giving words to the שפר land.
- נפתלי gave שפר ביקורים and they were the 1st to give.
- פלל = judgement.
- rambam shows 3 elements
1. שבח = creates image/vision
2. בקשה = request – evaluation – what's lacking.
3. הודעיה = manifesting – giving thanks – דביקות – creates inspiration
Leads back to element 1.
