Vayigash 46:4 · unit 4

Parashas Vayigash · Passuk 46:4

The Complete Passuk

אָנֹכִ֗י אֵרֵ֤ד עִמְּךָ֙ מִצְרַ֔יְמָה וְאָנֹכִ֖י אַֽעַלְךָ֣ גַם־עָלֹ֑ה וְיוֹסֵ֕ף יָשִׁ֥ית יָד֖וֹ עַל־עֵינֶֽיךָ׃

I Myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I Myself will also bring you up again; and Yosef shall put his hand upon your eyes.

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Source Citation

Torah Temimah points to midrashic sources on the ascent of the bones.

TT lemma: גם עלה.

Core Text of Chazal

Core Text
מַה תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר ״גַּם עָלֹה״? אֶלָּא אוֹתְךָ אֲנִי מַעֲלֶה וְשַׁאר כׇּל הַשְּׁבָטִים אֲנִי מַעֲלֶה — מְלַמֵּד שֶׁכׇּל שֵׁבֶט וְשֵׁבֶט הֶעֱלָה עַצְמוֹת רֹאשׁ שִׁבְטוֹ עִמּוֹ.

English: Why does it say “also going up”? Rather: “You I will bring up, and the rest of all the tribes I will bring up” — this teaches that each tribe brought up the bones of the head of its tribe with it.

On the daf / in context: The extra “gam” expands the promise beyond Yaakov himself to the bones of the tribal founders.

Type of Learning

Derash on the verse (midrash) — not a formal named middah of the 13.

What Is Learned

At the Exodus each tribe carried the bones of its own ancestral head, fulfilling the expanded reading of “gam aloh.”