Category: Ancient Paths

it’s not about me: what Yosef taught Pharoah

1) The symbolism of Pharoah’s dream doesn’t really seem all that hard to figure out.  Why none of his advisor’s could  make sense of it seems more of a mystery than why Yosef got it. The Midrash contrasts “Pharoah omeid al h’ye’or” with “Hinei Hashem nitzav alav.”  The Egyptian diety was  subservient to the Pharoahs…

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Vayeshev וישב “He settled”

Full Kriyah 1: 37:1-11 (11 p’sukim) 2: 37:12-22 (11 p’sukim) 3: 37:23-36 (14 p’sukim) 4: 38:1-30 (30 p’sukim) 5: 39:1-6 (6 p’sukim) 6: 39:7-23 (17 p’sukim) 7: 40:1-23 (23 p’sukim) maf: 40:20-23 (4 p’sukim)

PARSHAT VAYESHEV

SECTION IX. VAYESHEV.   And Jakob dwelt in peace in the land of the sojourning of his fathers, in the land of Kenaan. These are the generations of Jakob. Joseph was a son of seventeen years. He had come forth from the school, and was a youth brought up with the sons of Bilhah and…

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Only One Messiah

Our Messiah must go through many physical sufferings before He can be the atonement for our souls. What factual questions need to be asked about our Messiah? To explore these questions and find the truth is no shame, for God himself has put forth His truth so we would not be misled in any way….

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Praying for a Miracle

ain somchin al ha’nes — praying for a miracle Rashi quotes from Chazal that Leah was supposed to have another son, but given that there were going to be only 12 shevatim, she realized that if she has a baby boy, it would mean that Rachel would be the mother of even fewer shevatim than the…

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Who’s Your Teacher

The Sages, seeing that his mind was clear, entered his chamber and sat down at a distance of four cubits. ‘Why have ye come?’ said he to them. ‘To study the Torah’, they replied; ‘And why did ye not come before now’, he asked? They answered, ‘We had no time’. He then said, ‘I will…

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