{"id":39596,"date":"2018-09-06T15:32:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T12:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=39596"},"modified":"2022-04-03T14:38:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T11:38:16","slug":"a-good-solution-starts-with-a-moment-of-careful-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/a-good-solution-starts-with-a-moment-of-careful-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Solution Starts with a Moment of Careful Listening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[439,523,578],"acf":{"old_id":"39596","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":38554,"related_cahpter":"41","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Sometimes all it takes is a question like that to open someone else\u2019s heart to you","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A surrealistic situation: A convicted prisoner stands before a king, listening to his secret, frightening dreams. The desperate Pharaoh is consumed by a terrifying dream, a nightmare that repeats twice, ready for anything that can calm him down (Genesis 41:8 says &#8220;his spirit was agitated.\u201d What does an agitated spirit sound like?). \u00a0The words of the advisers and magicians that he gathers together do not manage to calm him down. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So who can?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The manner in which the chief cupbearer presents Joseph focuses on his abilities to perform: &#8220;This worked, my lord, \u00a0This Hebrew lad interpreted our dreams correctly. My friend died, I am alive, just as he said.&#8221; Joseph, in the words of the chief cupbearer is an outstanding professional, who can be of help where all the others have failed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the chief cupbearer\u2019s sudden mention of Joseph is connected to something far deeper than the successful interpretation. Joseph raises the cupbearer\u2019s trust and that of his friend, the chief baker, with a simple question he asked them one morning: &#8220;\u201cWhy do you appear downcast today?\u201d (Genesis 40:7). \u00a0That is, how are you doing and why do you look so sad? Sometimes all it takes is a question like that to open someone else\u2019s heart to you. People tell their dreams to those who care about them and build their trust. &#8220;How did he notice?,&#8221; others asked each other in the far corners of the Egyptian dungeons (a warm human moment in the abyss of despair where there is a lot of weeping), and they decided to tell Joseph their dreams, and the rest is history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dream interpretation, it turns out, is just a moment of listening. Joseph stands in front of the ruler of Egypt and listens to his dream in the same way he listened to the dreams of the two chief officers: he identifies a dream of terror; he recognizes the grotesque years before anyone invented this word at all: strong cows that consume weak cows, full ears of grain that swallow up parched ears of grain. Food becomes a threat. 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