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Parshat Vayeshev December 17, 2022 23 Kislev, 5783
TORAH Rabbi Sacks on Vayeshev
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HERTZ 141 We live life looking forward understand life only when it dream of a fellow
but we understand it only
prisoner, who had once
has become our past.
looking back. been Pharaoh’s cup-
HAFTORAH Nowhere is this set out more bearer, he predicted his
ARTSCROLL 1142 As we live from day to day, clearly than in the story of release and return to his
HERTZ 152 our life can seem like a Joseph in this week’s parsha. former elevated role. And
meaningless sequence of It begins on a high note: so it happened. Joseph
random events, a series of “Now Israel loved Joseph asked only one thing in
Shabbat Mevarchim accidents and return: “Remember me
Rosh Chodesh Tevet more than all his sons,
happenstances that have no because he was a son of his when it goes well with
Molad: Friday Dec 23 shape or inner logic. A old age, and he made a richly you, and please show me
@11:12:9 AM traffic jam makes us late for embroidered robe.” But with kindness: mention me to
Rosh Chodesh: an important meeting. A dramatic speed, that love and Pharaoh, and get me out
Sat/Sun December 24, 25 stray remark we make that gift turn out to be of this place. For I was
Bar Mitzvah offends someone in a way Joseph’s undoing. His forcibly taken from the
we never intended. By a
land of the Hebrews, and
brothers began hating him.
Avi Lemonik hair’s-breadth we fail to get When he told them his dream, here also I have done
the job we so sought. Life they hated him even more. nothing to deserve being
Times as we experience it can His second dream offended put in this pit.”
(Monday Edition) sometimes feel like Joseph even his father. Later, when
Heller’s definition of history: he went to see his brothers The last line of the parsha
Week of 12/11 “a trashbag of random tending their flocks, they first is one of the cruelest
coincidences blown open in plotted to kill him, and blows of fate in the Torah:
Mon/Thurs 6:35/7:45am a wind.” eventually sold him as a “The chief cupbearer did
Tues/Wed/Fri 6:45/7:45am slave. not remember Joseph; he
Yet looking back, it begins forgot him.” Seemingly his
Mincha 4:15pm to make sense. The At first, in Potiphar’s house, one chance of escape to
opportunity we missed here he seemed to be favoured by freedom is now lost.
Shabbat 12/17 led to an even better one fortune. But then his master’s Joseph, the beloved son in
there. The shame we felt at wife tried to seduce him and his magnificent robe has
Candle Lighting 4:11pm our unintentionally offensive when he refused her become Joseph, the
remark makes us more advances she accused him of prisoner bereft of hope.
Mincha 4:15pm
careful about what we say attempted rape and he was This is as near the Torah
Hashkama 8:00am in the future. Our failures, sent to prison with no way of gets to Greek tragedy. It
Parsha Shiur 8:30am seen in retrospect many proving his innocence. He is a tale of Joseph’s hubris
years later, turn out to have seemed to have reached his leading, step after step, to
Main/Beit Midrash 9:00am been our deepest learning nadir. There was nowhere his nemesis. Every good
Youth 9:00am experiences. Our hindsight lower for him to fall. thing that happens to him
is always more perceptive turns out to be only the

than our foresight. We live Then came an unexpected ray prelude to some new and
Gemara Shiur 3:35pm
life facing the future, but we of hope. Interpreting the unforeseen misfortune.
Mincha 4:05pm

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