{"id":67744,"date":"2019-12-26T10:24:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T08:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=67744"},"modified":"2022-04-03T14:52:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T11:52:44","slug":"the-dreams-and-their-interpretation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-dreams-and-their-interpretation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dreams And Their Interpretation"},"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":[368,369],"acf":{"old_id":"67744","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":46171,"related_cahpter":"1076","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"And then some savvy advice","content":"<p>Avner Moriah\u2019s painting visualizes Pharaoh\u2019s disturbing dream about the fat and the lean cows. The Bible tells us that when none of his magicians could interpret Pharaoh\u2019s dreams his chief cupbearer recalled his experience two years earlier when imprisoned with \u201ca Hebrew youth\u201d (Gen 41:12), who correctly interpreted his and the chief baker\u2019s dreams. Pharaoh sent for Joseph and repeated his dreams nearly word for word for the young servant, who not only interpreted them but offered Pharaoh a viable solution.<\/p>\n<p>Why does the biblical text repeat the dreams in detail and not simply note that Pharaoh told Joseph his dreams? How did Joseph, an imprisoned servant, dare to offer the king a solution for his country even before he knew whether Pharaoh had accepted his interpretation?<\/p>\n<p>Avner Moriah suggests some answers using simple patterns for one of the dreams that shrink the repetitions of the fat\/lean narratives. The picture is divided into four squares. The one on the upper right shows Pharaoh lying on a red bed, a servant waving fanning him; we see pyramids in the background painted in dreamy shades of pink and purple against a dark night sky. The scene to the left visualizes Pharaoh\u2019s words about standing on the bank of the Nile \u201cwhen out of the Nile came seven sturdy and well-formed cows and grazed in the reed grass\u201d (Gen. 41:18). These fat cows are painted with black and white checkers.<\/p>\n<p>The square on the lower right shows the lean cows portrayed with yellow and white checkers. The text reads \u201c\u2026seven other cows, scrawny, ill formed and emaciated \u2013 never had I seen their likes for ugliness\u2026\u201d (Gen. 41:19). The last scene to the left shows the lean yellow-checkered cows after they had consumed the fat black-checkered cows, which seem to have shrunk to very small frames inside the lean cows. This image underscores what Pharaoh added in the repetition: \u201cbut when they had consumed them, one could not tell that they had consumed them for they looked just as bad as before\u201d (Gen. 41:21).<\/p>\n<p>In each of the three scenes the changing cows work with the changing mood. The dream scene on the upper right is the most dramatic. The fat cows, upper left, represent the stable present. They shrink to anemic yellow in the lower right against a foreboding gray sky. The lower left represents the confusing reality, where the presumably healthy cows are consumed by the anemic yellow ones with no effect.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph offers his interpretation about the seven years of abundance being followed by seven years of famine. Eager for Pharaoh to understand that God is guiding his words, Joseph adds his advice about storing food during the good years so that it can be made to last for the lean ones. The larger-size pyramids on the bottom compared to the smaller ones in the left-hand picture above allude to the wealth that Pharaoh will reap during the years of famine from all who will come to buy food.<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":67745,"id":67745,"title":"10 Mikkets","filename":"10-Mikkets.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/10-Mikkets.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-dreams-and-their-interpretation\/10-mikkets\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"10-mikkets","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":67744,"date":"2019-12-26 08:23:37","modified":"2019-12-26 08:23:57","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2500,"height":2431,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/10-Mikkets-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/10-Mikkets-300x292.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":292,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/10-Mikkets-768x747.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":747,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/10-Mikkets-1024x996.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":996,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/10-Mikkets.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1494,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/10-Mikkets.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1991,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/10-Mikkets-1200x1167.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":1167,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/10-Mikkets-432x420.jpg","home_baner-width":432,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"The Chapter Illustrated","main_caption":"The Dreams And Their Interpretation","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"And then some savvy advice","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":{"ID":67745,"id":67745,"title":"10 Mikkets","filename":"10-Mikkets.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/10-Mikkets.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-dreams-and-their-interpretation\/10-mikkets\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"10-mikkets","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":67744,"date":"2019-12-26 08:23:37","modified":"2019-12-26 08:23:57","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":2500,"height":2431,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/10-Mikkets-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/10-Mikkets-300x292.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":292,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/10-Mikkets-768x747.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":747,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/10-Mikkets-1024x996.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":996,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/10-Mikkets.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1494,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/10-Mikkets.jpg","2048x2048-width":2048,"2048x2048-height":1991,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/10-Mikkets-1200x1167.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":1167,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/10-Mikkets-432x420.jpg","home_baner-width":432,"home_baner-height":420}},"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":""},"links":false,"send_noty":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67744"}],"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=67744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67746,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67744\/revisions\/67746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}