Archive for the ‘ Miketz ’ Category
Pharaoh had two dreams and it was only Yosef who was able to interpret them for him. Yosef was taken out of the dungeon where he had been for years and brought before Pharaoh. The Midrash Tanchuma (MiKetz 3) directs our attention to a number of changes that Pharaoh made in relating the dreams to [ READ MORE ]
We see in the Torah the contrast between one Pharaoh in his generation and another Pharaoh in a different generation. When Yosef tells Pharaoh that Hashem was warning him about the approaching famine, this Pharaoh believed in the words of Hashem. He took them to heart and began acting on what he had heard from [ READ MORE ]
Pharaoh summoned Yosef from his prison to interpret his dream which neither he nor his wise men were able to explain[ READ MORE ]
When Yosef interprets the dream for Pharaoh he adds a word of advice: VE’ATA YEREH FAR’OH ISH NAVON VECHACHAM, “And now let Pharaoh find a man discerning and wise and set him over the land of Egypt.”(Gen. 41,33) Yosef was brought before Pharaoh to interpret a dream. Not to give advice. What made him so [ READ MORE ]
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