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Выпуск: The Yeshiva.net — hiva.net — Va'etchanan 5781. Темы: parsha_commentary. Поисковые термины: недельная глава, парша, parsha, פרשה, פרשת השבוע. Instead G-d tells Moses: “Ascend to the top of the cliff and raise your eyes westward, northward, southward, and eastward, and see with your eyes, for you shall not cross this Jordan.[1] The Midrash, which transcribes the oral traditions passed down the generations, presents a moving dialogue between Moses and G-d:[2] Moses said to G-d, “Master of the universe, the bones of Joseph will enter the land, and I will not?!” What he meant was this: At the conclusion of Genesis, Joseph the viceroy of Egypt, just before his death, adjured the children of Israel, that they take his bones with them when they leave Egypt. More than a century later, when the Jewish slaves embarked on their path to freedom, “Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he [Joseph] had firmly adjured the children of Israel saying, ‘G-d will surely remember you, and you shall bring up my bones from here with you.”[3] Joseph’s casket wandered with the Jews during their forty-year sojourn in the desert. Since then it has become forbidden for Jews to visit the site, besides for certain occasions.) This was the irony hinted in Moses’ plea to G-d: I was the one who carried Joseph’s bones for forty-years; yet these bones that I carried all this way will enter into the Holy Land, while I will remain behind! Joseph asks of the butler: “If only you can do me a favor, and mention me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this place, for indeed I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing to them to put me in the dungeon.”[6] Here again Joseph proclaims his connection to the Holy Land. “I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews.” Indeed, when the butler does present Joseph’s case to Pharaoh, two years later, that is exactly how he describes Joseph: “There [in the dungeon] with us was a Hebrew youth, a slave….[7] The first characteristic by which he defines Joseph is his being “a Hebrew youth.” Why Risk Your Freedom? In Egyptian society, to be a Hebrew was a badge of shame.[8] That may be the reason why Potiphar’s wife when seeking to gain credibility for her version of the story that Joseph attempted to violate her, defined him first and foremost as a “Hebrew man.” She knew that this would help her case. It was the core of th

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