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Выпуск: 2 ENG VAYEISHEV Chevrutah24x7 #9. Темы: health_mind. CHEVRUTAH24.7 WhatsApp : +1(347) 770-1502 EducationOnTheGo.net Yet a mere two years later, at the beginning of the next parasha, we discover that all this has been leading to Joseph's supreme elevation Pharaoh makes him viceroy over Egypt, the greatest empire of the ancient world. By its end - the death of Joseph in the final chapter of Genesis - he had become a different human being entirely, one who forgave his brothers the crime they committed against him, the man who saved an entire region from famine and starvation, the one Jewish tradition calls "the tzaddik." continued on page 2 @B chevrutah24x7 1 The ending. Everything Laius and his son Oedipus do to avert the tragic fate announced by the oracle in fact brings it closer to fulfilment, whereas in the story of Joseph, every episode that seems to be leading to tragedy turns out in retrospect to be a necessary step to saving lives and the fulfilment of Joseph's dreams. It tells us that every bad fate can be averted (hence our prayer on the High Holy Days that “penitence, prayer, and charity avert the evil decree’) - while every positive promise made by God will never be undone.’ Hence the life-changing idea: Despair is never justified. You can be, in Wordsworths lovely phrase, "surprised by joy’ Every bad thing that has happened to you thus far may be the necessary prelude to the good things that are about to happen because you have been strengthened by suffering and given courage by your ability to survive. JUDAISM’S LIFE -CHANGING IDEAS A weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible www.rabbisacks.org Judaism's Life Changing Ideas is available to purchase at —www.korenpub.com Life-Changing Idea #9 Seen through the eye of faith, today's curse may be the beginning of tomorrow's blessing. “| have real complaints against G-d.” “If you have real claims against G-d," the Rebbe advised, “then you need to take Him to a Din Torah (court case)." The Rebbe called three of his students, announced the case, and took the role of attorney. At the age of twenty-nine he would have been justified in thinking of his life as an abject failure: hated by his brothers, criticised by his father, sold as a slave, imprisoned on a false charge and with his one chance of freedom gone. The Rebbe asked why he was even thinking about converting when so many others in worse predicame

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