{"id":39480,"date":"2018-09-05T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=39480"},"modified":"2022-03-31T02:06:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T23:06:15","slug":"heed-your-wise-doubts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/heed-your-wise-doubts\/","title":{"rendered":"Heed Your Wise Doubts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Talmud says that \u201cdreams follow after the mouth\u201d (Berachot 55). The fated power of dreams rests in their interpretation. In this chapter, the fates of the cupbearer and the chief baker unfold, \u201cjust as Joseph had interpreted to them.\u201d The text does not say, \u201cjust as their <\/span>dreams<\/span><\/em> had told them,\u201d but highlights instead the power of interpretation. The Zohar also speaks to this power as it urges us to tell our dreams only to those who love us.<\/span><\/p>\n

Interpretation, as our chapter illustrates, is a dangerous game.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is it about the encounter between Joseph and the baker that leads to the baker\u2019s death? In contrast to the cupbearer who eagerly tells Joseph his dream, the baker only tells him his once he hears \u201chow favorably\u201d Joseph interprets the cupbearer\u2019s. The baker\u2019s intuition knew not to tell Joseph his dream, but he abandoned his own truth when he saw the way that Joseph interpreted his friend\u2019s dream. Perhaps he did not trust Joseph to hold his unconscious imaginings with the love they needed, but since his friend trusted him, he overpowers his inner knowing and says no to trusting himself as he forces his mouth to tell the dream. The baker communicates his dream to Joseph from a place of inner-betrayal, and so Joseph\u2019s interpretation narrates the severance of self-trust.<\/span><\/p>\n

The baker abandoned his inner knowing for someone else\u2019s truth. The cupbearer faired well, so he told himself that he was wrong and sought affirmation from an external voice, rather than from his subtle, internal one. <\/span><\/p>\n

Heed your wise doubts, friends. What is true for one person could be fatal for another. <\/span><\/p>\n

Dear baker, rest in peace, oh how we wish you would have listened to your heart and waited to tell your benign dream to someone who loved you.<\/span><\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"Heed Your Wise Doubts","main_caption":"Dear baker, rest in peace, oh how we wish you would have listened to your heart and waited to tell your benign dream to someone who loved you.","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":false,"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"old_create_date":"","links":false,"send_noty":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103537,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39480\/revisions\/103537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}