The End of Infatuation and the Beginning of Living - The achievement only after the “death” of Ya’akov, the loss of all infatuation, of a level of life that was true חיות. This was a direct result of his own resolution of Yehuda/Yosef in ואת יהודה שלח לפניו אל יוסף להורות which became the source of integrating the נערות ישראל ואהבו, the source of his infatuation with the נער יוסף, Thus these seventeen years make up for the seventeen years that had been infatuated, causing him the loss of his family and potentially the entire future: he knows now that they were indeed מעט ורעים and had taken from him what he had desired.
(BW) : In Vayechi, we discover that the existential nature of Yehudah’s hoda’ah provides a tikkun for youthful infatuation and a path to mature love. A hoda’ah that is related to the nature of Being recognizes the nested levels within the universe and is open to an infinity of possibilities. This allows for an expression of the totality of self, in contrast to a preoccupation with a limited self wherein one is doomed to lose everything one seeks to gain. Though infatuation and love externally may appear identical (sharing the same central ingredient – joy and passion for life and relationships), they are contextually and psychologically different: infatuation is personal, attached to a context and moments that are local; love is meta-personal, attached to moments that are eternal. This is the insight that Ya’akov achieves in his old age and imparts to b’nei Yisrael as he gives over his last words which define the interrelationships necessary to achieve Malchus in the End of Days.

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