Bulletin MIKETZ

The real mother, horrified, demands that the other woman take her
child, just so long as he is allowed to live. Solomon devises a test between
two seemingly identical women which reveals a hidden truth. .
Similarly, Joseph hears two nearly identical dreams twice over. First, he
hears the parallel dreams of the baker and the cup holder. He is able
to discern, through careful attention to minor detail, which of the two
will live and which will die. Second, he hears the two similar dreams of
Pharaoh. Joseph is able to recognize that these are two dreams carrying
the same message, a divine message that allows for action. He is able to
uncover the truth obscured by the medium of the dream.
Both Joseph and Solomon are able to see differences, to make
separations. They are good leaders, good judges, because they look
for objective truth and are able to find it. This ability is lauded again
in Deuteronomy. When we read about which of us survived the
wanderings in the desert to make it to Canaan, we learn that it is those
of us who are wise and discerning. Moses explains that our wisdom
and discernment is to keep God’s laws and to do them. It is to live in
a system of truth and to structure our lives in ways that uphold that
system, whether we are sovereign in our own land like Solomon or
living assimilated lives in the diaspora like Joseph.
Lecture Series Continues
December 19 th – 7:30 p.m.
Dr. Stuart Mest:
“Displaced Persons Camps
following WW II”
Dr. Mest will analyze the situation of survivors of the
Holocaust who found themselves adrift in the wake of their
unspeakable ordeals.
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