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Covenant & Conversation — Mikeitz 5781

Выпуск: Covenant & Conversation — Mikeitz 5781. Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה, здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש, недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. That had been the sign of Joseph’s elevation at the hand of Pharaoh when he interpreted his dreams: Appearance and Reality 1 Mikketz So Pharaoh said to Joseph, ‘I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt.’ Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his finger and put it on Joseph’s finger. It is therefore with a frisson of discovery that we realise that the Hebrew word for garment, b-g-d, is also the Hebrew word for “betrayal,” as in the confession formula, Ashamnu, bagadnu, “We have been guilty, we have betrayed.” Is this a mere literary conceit, a way of linking a series of otherwise unconnected stories? It was the nineteenth century Jewish historian Heinrich Graetz who pointed out a fundamental difference between other ancient cultures and Judaism: “The pagan perceives the Divine in nature through the medium of the eye, and he becomes conscious of it as something to be looked at. The pagan beholds his god, the Jew hears Him; that is, apprehends His will.”2 “We must make sure not only to In the twentieth century, literary theorist Erich Auerbach look, but also to contrasted the literary style of Homer with that of the Hebrew Bible.3 In Homer’s prose we see the play of light on surfaces. “Joseph recognised his brothers, but they did not recognise him.” The reason they did not recognise him is that, from the start, they allowed their feelings to be guided by what they saw, the “coat of many colours” that inflamed their envy of their younger brother. There is the theme that occurs three times of the patriarch forced to leave home because of famine, and then realising that he will have to ask his wife to pretend she is his sister for fear that he will be murdered. Only when we have read all these stories are we able to return to the first story of all in which clothes play a part: the story of Adam and Eve and the forbidden fruit, after eating which they see they are naked. Lastly, Joseph used the fact that his brothers did not recognise him to set in motion a series of staged events to test whether they were still capable of selling a brother as a slave or whether

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Covenant & Conversation

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3 декабря 2021 г.

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4

Темы: family_education, health_mind, parsha_commentary