Commentary on Parashat Vayeshev, Genesis 37:1 - 40:23
These are the descendants of Jacob. Joseph was 17 and a shepherd watching sheep with his brothers. In an evil manner, Joseph reported his brothers’ idle talk to his father. But Jacob loved Joseph more than all his other sons and made him an embroidered coat. When the brothers saw that their father loved Joseph more, they hated him.
Joseph’s Dreams
Joseph dreamed a dream. The brothers did not want to hear the dream and hated him even more. But Joseph said to them, “Please listen to this dream. We’re piling up wheat in the middle of the field and my wheat pile arose and stood upright and your wheat piles formed a circle around me and bowed down.”
“Are you to become king over us,” asked the brothers hatefully, “or perhaps do you rule over us already?”
Then Joseph dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and father. “The sun and the moon and 11 stars bowed down to me,” he said. His father rebuked him, “What kind of dream is this? Shall I, your mother and your brothers come to bow to the ground before you?” His brothers now envied him and his father kept the matter in mind.
The Brothers Plot Against Joseph
The brothers went to tend to their father’s sheep. Later, Jacob sent Joseph to check on them. He found his brothers, but as he approached, they imagined Joseph plotting against them and believed that he deserved to die.
They said to one another. “Behold, here comes the master of dreams. Come let us kill him, let us throw him into one of the pits and say that a wild beast ate him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams.”
Joseph The Interpreter
In Egypt, Joseph was flourishing, with God’s help, under Potiphar. He became Potiphar’s personal servant and overseer of his property. Then Potiphar’s wife sought to be intimate with Joseph. Joseph refused, saying “How can I possibly commit such a great wickedness against Potiphar and a sin against God?”
In response, Potiphar’s wife blamed Joseph for trying to seduce her. Potiphar was livid to hear such news and cast Joseph into the Pharaoh’s dungeon. But God was with Joseph and caused Joseph to find favor in the eyes of the chief of the prison.
The chief of the prison selected Joseph to oversee all the other prisoners, for it was known that God was with Joseph and that whatever Joseph did, God caused it to succeed.
Then the Pharaoh’s butler and baker were sentenced to the jail where Joseph was the overseer. They both dreamed one night. The next morning Joseph could see they were troubled. They told him that they each had vivid dreams and were seeking an interpreter.
“Do not interpretations belong to God?” said Joseph. “Please tell it to me.”
The chief butler went first. “I had three vines which bloomed into cluster of ripe grapes. I pressed the grapes into the Pharaoh’s cup and gave it to him.”
“Your job as butler will be restored in three days,” interpreted Joseph. “Now please remember me to the Pharaoh if this comes true, so I shall get out of jail. I am innocent.”
Then the baker told his dream. “There are three baskets of all kinds of baked foods and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.”
“The three baskets equal three days,” interpreted Joseph. “In three days, the Pharaoh will hang you and the birds will eat your flesh.”
It came to pass on Pharaoh’s birthday that he made a feast for all his servants, including the baker and the butler. The Pharaoh restored the chief of butlers, but the chief of bakers was hung as Joseph predicted. However, the chief of the butlers did not remember Joseph and forgot him.
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These are the descendants of Jacob. Joseph was 17 and a shepherd watching sheep with his brothers. In an evil manner, Joseph reported his brothers’ idle talk to his father. But Jacob loved Joseph more than all his other sons and made him an embroidered coat. When the brothers saw that their father loved Joseph more, they hated him.
Joseph’s Dreams
Joseph dreamed a dream. The brothers did not want to hear the dream and hated him even more. But Joseph said to them, “Please listen to this dream. We’re piling up wheat in the middle of the field and my wheat pile arose and stood upright and your wheat piles formed a circle around me and bowed down.”
“Are you to become king over us,” asked the brothers hatefully, “or perhaps do you rule over us already?”
Then Joseph dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers and father. “The sun and the moon and 11 stars bowed down to me,” he said. His father rebuked him, “What kind of dream is this? Shall I, your mother and your brothers come to bow to the ground before you?” His brothers now envied him and his father kept the matter in mind.
The Brothers Plot Against Joseph
The brothers went to tend to their father’s sheep. Later, Jacob sent Joseph to check on them. He found his brothers, but as he approached, they imagined Joseph plotting against them and believed that he deserved to die.
They said to one another. “Behold, here comes the master of dreams. Come let us kill him, let us throw him into one of the pits and say that a wild beast ate him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams.”
Joseph The Interpreter
In Egypt, Joseph was flourishing, with God’s help, under Potiphar. He became Potiphar’s personal servant and overseer of his property. Then Potiphar’s wife sought to be intimate with Joseph. Joseph refused, saying “How can I possibly commit such a great wickedness against Potiphar and a sin against God?”
In response, Potiphar’s wife blamed Joseph for trying to seduce her. Potiphar was livid to hear such news and cast Joseph into the Pharaoh’s dungeon. But God was with Joseph and caused Joseph to find favor in the eyes of the chief of the prison.
The chief of the prison selected Joseph to oversee all the other prisoners, for it was known that God was with Joseph and that whatever Joseph did, God caused it to succeed.
Then the Pharaoh’s butler and baker were sentenced to the jail where Joseph was the overseer. They both dreamed one night. The next morning Joseph could see they were troubled. They told him that they each had vivid dreams and were seeking an interpreter.
“Do not interpretations belong to God?” said Joseph. “Please tell it to me.”
The chief butler went first. “I had three vines which bloomed into cluster of ripe grapes. I pressed the grapes into the Pharaoh’s cup and gave it to him.”
“Your job as butler will be restored in three days,” interpreted Joseph. “Now please remember me to the Pharaoh if this comes true, so I shall get out of jail. I am innocent.”
Then the baker told his dream. “There are three baskets of all kinds of baked foods and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.”
“The three baskets equal three days,” interpreted Joseph. “In three days, the Pharaoh will hang you and the birds will eat your flesh.”
It came to pass on Pharaoh’s birthday that he made a feast for all his servants, including the baker and the butler. The Pharaoh restored the chief of butlers, but the chief of bakers was hung as Joseph predicted. However, the chief of the butlers did not remember Joseph and forgot him.
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The Language of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis: A Commentary https://a.co/d/im5Zxjh
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https://treasuresofthetemple.com
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