Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Parashat Miketz HE FELL ASLEEP AND DREAMT A SECOND TIME; HERE, SEVEN EARS OF GRAIN WERE GOING UP ON A SINGLE STALK, FAT AND GOOD, AND HERE, SEVEN EARS, LEAN AND SCORCHED BY THE EAST WIND, WERE SPRINGING UP AFTER THEM. THEN THE LEAN EARS SWALLOWED UP THE SEVEN EARS FAT AND FULL. PHARAOH AWOKE, AND HERE: (IT WAS) A DREAM!              (Bereishit 41:5-6)   BETWEEN FAITH AS SATISFACTION OF NEEDS AND FAITH AS A MISSION Said Rabbi Yochanan: The wicked exist by their gods, "Pharaoh dreamt...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Parashat Miketz Then Yosef commanded that they fill their vessels with grain and return their silver-pieces into each man’s sack, and give them victuals for the journey. They did so for them. Then they loaded their rations onto their donkeys and went from there. But as one opened his sack to give his donkey fodder at the night camp, he saw his silver – there it was in the mouth of his pack! He said to his brothers: My silver has been returned – yes, here in...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat (link to original page) Parshat Miketz 'And Pharaoh dreamt': Doesn't everyone dream? A puzzlement!? But, a king's dream is the dream of the entire world. (Bereishit Rabba, 89) Rabbi Yochanan said: The wicked exist on their gods, 'Pharaoh dreamt: here, he was standing on the Nile,' but the righteous – their gods exist on them, as is written, 'Behold, God is standing upon him and He said: I am God, Lord of Avraham.' (Bereishit Rabba 69) At first it would seem that both Pharaoh and Yaakov, who represent in the midrash...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat Miketz (link to original page) Parshat Miketz Your Other Brother, In another Year, Another Place Pinchas Leiser In memory of the souls of my dear parents Natan Ben Yisrael Ya'akov and Shoshanah Leiser Zal, who died on the eighth day of Hanukah 5734 Miriam Bat Pinchas and Chanah Leiser Zal, who died on the 21st of Tevet 5756. "'And he will send away your other brother, and Binyamin': It seems that according to the p'shat, Shimon was not wanted by his father because of what happened in Sh'chem. Therefore it is...

Shabbat Shalom The weekly parsha commentary – parshat Miketz (link to original page) Parshat Miketz Dreams that put in danger and dreams that Heal Joseph was only sold because of his dreams, as it says 'Behold, this dreamer comes. Come now therefore, and let us slay him.'(Gen 37:20), yet also he was healed by a dream:' And it happened at the end of two years that Pharaoh dreamed'. It is written 'For I will restore health to thee and I will heal thee of thy wounds,' (Jeremiah 30:17) Midrash Hagadat Bereshit (Chap 67) Rabbi Hanina said: If one sees...