36. "And it came to pass after these things that one told Joseph, 'Behold, your father is sick'" (Beresheet 48:1). In the Mishnah, Rabbi Chizkiyah said that the verse does not teach us what JOSEPH did, but brings before us the events at the end of exile, at the end of the set time AT THE END OF THE SIXTH MILLENIUM. THE VERSE says that the Messiah, THE SECRET OF JOSEPH, will come and say to him, Your Father in heaven makes haste to welcome you, who looks to the end of the Messiah. "YOUR FATHER IS SICK" MEANS, HE IS WORRIED AND IN HASTE. "AND HE TOOK WITH HIM MENASHEH AND EPHRAIM" (IBID.) MEANS, May it please Elohim in heaven to receive His children, who increased and multiplied (Heb. paru) in exile, FOR WHICH THEY ARE CALLED EPHRAIM, and THEIR SINS forgotten BECAUSE OF THE EXILE, THE SECRET OF THEIR BEING CALLED MENASHEH, WHICH IS DERIVED FROM THE WORD FORGETFULNESS (HEB. NESHIYAH). For the Holy One, blessed be He, truly forgot their transgressions.
37. When Rabbi Aba came, he said he came not to discourse ON THE VERSE, BUT TO EXPLAIN ITS MYSTERY. HE SAID, The secret of this matter is very important AS THAT OF THE VERSE, "Hashem shall add (Heb. Joseph) to me another son" (Beresheet 30:24). As we explained in relation to that verse, the Holy Name written in Joseph -- MEANING, THE THREE -LETTERED NAME Yud-Hei-Vav -- will say to him, Here your Father, the Master over the World to Come, SECRET OF ZEIR ANPIN WITH THE MOCHIN OF SUPERNAL BINAH, CALLED THE WORLD TO COME, wishes to do good for His children, so they may come out of exile. But if you do not favor your Truth BECAUSE YOU FIND THAT THEY DO NOT MERIT IT, here is a four-lettered name, Yud Hei Vav Hei, to set you right in order that the Shechinah may return to Her place.
38. For the fathers are the supernal Chariot FOR THE HOLY NAME on high, as it is written, "And Elohim went up from Abraham" (Beresheet 17:22), WHICH MEANS HE WAS RIDING ON HIM. IT IS ALSO WRITTEN, "You will show Truth to Jacob, Grace (Heb. chesed) to Abraham" (Michah 7:20). THUS JACOB WAS A CHARIOT TO TIFERET CALLED TRUTH, AND ABRAHAM A CHARIOT TO CHESED. And we learned that BY THE UNION OF THE ONE YUD HEI VAV HEI, the Messiah will come.