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Jacob asks Joseph to bring his children near so that he can bless them. What follows next is described in painstaking detail:<\/span><\/p>\n

He blessed them that day, saying: \u201cIn your name will Israel pronounce this blessing: \u2018May G-d make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.\u2019\u201d So he put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh. (48: 13-14, 17-20).<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not difficult to understand the care Joseph took to ensure that Jacob would bless the firstborn first. Three times his father had set the younger before the elder, and each time it had resulted in tragedy. <\/span><\/p>\n

Jacob knew two things. He knew that the stay of his family in Egypt would not be a short one. The other thing Jacob knew was his grandsons\u2019 names, Manasseh and Ephraim. The combination of these two facts was enough.<\/span><\/p>\n

Joseph named his firstborn Manasseh, saying, \u201cIt is because God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father\u2019s household.\u201d The second son he named Ephraim, saying, \u201cIt is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.\u201d (41: 50-52) The past was a bitter memory he sought to remove from his mind. But as time passed, Joseph began to feel quite different emotions. By the time his second son was born, Joseph had undergone a profound change of heart. By calling him Ephraim, he was remembering what, when Manasseh was born, he was trying to forget: who he was, where he came from, where he belonged.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jacob sought to signal to all future generations that there would be a constant tension between the desire to forget (to assimilate, acculturate, anaesthetize the hope of a return) and the promptings of memory (the knowledge that this is \u201cexile,\u201d that we are part of another story, that ultimate home is somewhere else). The child of forgetting (Manasseh) may have blessings. 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