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Passions like jealousy and hatred and all that follow as a result of these passions lead this chapter. This is the case even though the chapter begins with love, great love.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Now Israel loved Joseph best of all his sons” (37: 3). \u00a0\u201cOf all his sons\u201d is the starting point. From here, we begin – from the difference, from the gap. Even if Jacob loved his other sons too, even if one could find a natural reason for his special love for Joseph, such as “for he was the child of his old age” (ibid.), here is where the story begins.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of his brothers, they hated him\u201d (Genesis 37: 4)<\/span><\/p>\n

From here we see that jealousy leads to hatred. And hatred, we know, will lead us to the gates of hell. It turns out jealousy is also a kind of death. But it derives from something within us and can be controlled.<\/span><\/p>\n

Joseph was not so bothered by this relationship; the opposite seems to be the case. There is a measure of Jacob in him, the Jacob who pushed ahead of his brother to a higher position than he had earned, and at any price.<\/span><\/p>\n

Between him and himself, he fabricates an advantage over his brothers means of a dream.<\/span><\/p>\n

Between himself and his brothers he gains an advantage through speech by telling them his dream. \u00a0\u201cOnce Joseph had a dream which he told to his brothers; and they hated him even more\u201d (Genesis 37: 5). \u00a0It does not help them so much that he insists they’ll hear it. \u201cHe said to them, \u2018Hear this dream which I have dreamed\u201d (Genesis 37:6).<\/span><\/p>\n

Joseph is not easy with his brothers. He is younger than they are and does not leave them be. This picture is fairly familiar in almost every home, in every group. Its continuation, too, is familiar: \u00a0\u201csuddenly my sheaf stood up and remained upright\u201d (37: 7).<\/span><\/p>\n

This dream is so human in my eyes as I realized the first time I translated it into a contemporary idiom. \u00a0In the 1984 elections when Rabbi Ovadia Yosef founded the Shas party, an ultra-Orthodox religious political party in the Knesset that was meant to increase representation of Sephardim, there was a major article in the Israeli press with the headline: “Suddenly my sheaf stood up and remained upright” (Genesis 37:7). <\/span><\/p>\n

It came to my attention how happy Rabbi Ovadia Yosef was in seeing this, which teaches that every sheaf dreams of \u201cstanding up and remaining upright\u201d– then and now.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jealousy is a type of death. \u00a0It is not a punishment, only an outcome.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":103419,"id":103419,"title":"-6240c4a92fe02--6240c4a92fe03gen37-sheaf wheat.png","filename":"6240c4a92fe02-6240c4a92fe03gen37-sheaf-wheat.png.png","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/6240c4a92fe02-6240c4a92fe03gen37-sheaf-wheat.png.png","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/love-jealousy-death\/6240c4a92fe02-6240c4a92fe03gen37-sheaf-wheat-png\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"6240c4a92fe02-6240c4a92fe03gen37-sheaf-wheat-png","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":39104,"date":"2022-03-27 20:10:17","modified":"2022-03-27 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