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Our chapter details the family of Jacob who came with him to Egypt (verses 8-27), altogether 70 individuals (see also<\/span> Exodus 1:1-5<\/span><\/a>). This calculation is<\/span> explained<\/span><\/a>: \u201cAll the persons belonging to Jacob who came to Egypt\u2026numbered 66. And Joseph\u2019s sons who were born to him in Egypt were two in number. Thus, the total of Jacob\u2019s household who came to Egypt was seventy\u201d (including Jacob and Joseph). Our chapter explicitly states that Jacob: \u201cbrought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters\u2014all his offspring.\u201d Jacob\u2019s many sons and grandsons are listed by name, but only two of his female descendants are specifically named, \u201chis daughter Dinah\u201d and his granddaughter,<\/span> Serah, daughter of his son Asher<\/span><\/a>. Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and Leah, is known from the<\/span> tragic story related earlier in Genesis<\/span><\/a>. However, Serah is mentioned for the first time in our chapter\u00a0 (verse 17). On this verse, Nahum Sarna comments that \u201cIt is inconceivable that Jacob's twelve sons, who themselves had fifty-three sons in all, should have had\u00a0 only\u00a0 one\u00a0 daughter.\u00a0 In light of the general tendency to omit women from the genealogies, there must be some extraordinary reason for mentioning her in this particular one, although no hint of it is given in the text.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To address this issue, the rabbinic sages imaginatively created a legendary \u201cbackstory\u201d about Serah bat Asher based on where she is mentioned again in Scripture. In the census of the Israelites who left Egypt, the \u201cDescendants of Asher by their clans,\u201d are mentioned, 53,400 men altogether. But among all<\/span> this geneological detail<\/span><\/a>, the biblical text seems to have a flash of historical recollection, and interjects: \u201cThe name of Asher's daughter was Serah\u201d. It was reasoned<\/span> midrashically<\/span><\/a> that if Serah was among those who went down to Egypt in the time of Jacob, and her name appears also in the census of those who participated in the Exodus, she was, in effect, a living link between two great leaders of Israel, Joseph and Moses. It was further reasoned that if Serah lived for the hundreds of years between the going down to Egypt and the 40 years in the Desert, she never actually died, but \u201c<\/span>entered Paradise alive<\/span><\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Later Jewish Tradition also imagined Serah earlier in the Biblical narrative. According to<\/span> Sefer HaYashar<\/span><\/a> and parallels, it was Serah, a skilled player on the harp, who gently informed Jacob that Joseph had not died. While her grandfather was deep in daily prayer she sang repeatedly: \"Joseph my uncle is alive and rules over the land of Egypt.\" Jacob was understandably overjoyed with this lyric revelation. The spirit of God came upon him, and he knew that all that Serah said was true. So he blessed her saying: \"My child, may death never rule over you for you brought my spirit back to life.\" This dramatic episode is retold by Louis Ginzberg in<\/span> Legends of the Jews<\/span><\/a> and more extensively by Thomas Mann in his epic novel<\/span> Joseph and His Brothers<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cJoseph ordered his chariot and went to Goshen to meet his father Israel; he presented himself to him and, embracing him around the neck, he wept on his neck a good while\u201d (46:29). In all of Tanach, the phrase \u201cfall on his neck and cry\u201d appears three times. Joseph is responsible for two of those times. The other was last chapter when Joseph saw Benjamin for the first time, \u201cWith that he embraced<\/span> his brother Benjamin around the neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.\u201d (45:14). Joseph matches his emotional outbursts upon seeing his long lost brother and his father after so many years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But where did he learn to act like this? The only other time this is used in Tanach is Esau in 33:4: \u201cEsau ran to greet him. He embraced him and, falling on his neck, he kissed him; and they wept.\u201d\u00a0 Putting Rashi\u2019s cynical interpretation aside, Esau had a similar reaction upon seeing his long lost brother. Before the encounter with Esau, Jacob placed Joseph in the back of all of his brother\u2019s and their mothers. Jacob \u201cput the maids and their children first, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last\u201d (33:2). After Esau\u2019s emotional reunion with Jacob, Joseph is no longer in the back. \u201cThen the maids, with their children, came forward and bowed low; next Leah, with her children, came forward and bowed low; and last, Joseph and Rachel came forward and bowed low'' (33:6-7).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Notice how Joseph has moved forward a little bit. Perhaps Joseph was curious about what was happening all the way up at the front of the line and he snuck forward just a bit to witness this emotional reunion. Esau\u2019s action must have had an effect on Joseph. Years later when faced with the same situation he emulated his uncle\u2019s crying.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Without much fanfare, God offers his last words of the first book of the Torah, and with them, begins to unlock one of the most puzzling promises made to the forefathers. He speaks to Jacob in a vision of the night, and we are reminded of the first night vision of Jacob's grandfather, Abraham, in chapter 15. Abraham receives a promise as strange as the visions surrounding it, of a future in which his children are enslaved and oppressed, and we are left wondering- what for? Why is this suffering and exile the prerequisite for the inheritance of the land about which Abraham questions God at the beginning of that chapter?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Jacob's vision, God begins to reveal the mystery. \"Do not fear descending to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there.\" The transformation the Jewish people needs to undergo from a tribe to a nation apparently can only take place in exile, just as the first stage of the birth of the Jewish tribe came about as a result of Abraham's exile from his home. We need the experience of the 'smelting pot' of Egypt to form our national DNA. What is it about that experience that is so central to the fashioning of our national identity?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Perhaps the text holds another clue, but this one is far more opaque than the first. God promises that he will descend with Jacob, and that he will ultimately ascend with him as well. And what will happen in between? An enigmatic phrase that baffles the commentators. \"Joseph will place his hands on your eyes.\" \u00a0Do Joseph's actions and the conditions that he creates for his family in Egypt have something to do with the promise that exile holds for the Jewish people's development into a people? For the answer, we will have to wait for the full exposition of those actions in the coming 2 chapters.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The moments of separation and meeting between Jacob and Joseph are a winding embrace of life and death. \u00a0Jacob sees the ornamented tunic and the blood and shouts \u201cJoseph was torn by a beast!\u201d (Genesis 37:33). Joseph is a living dead, a living person considered dead. Years pass, Jacob refuses to be comforted, he feels the life that is beating secretly, behind the fictitious story of death.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When he finds out (at the end of the previous chapter) \u201cMy son Joseph is still alive\u201d (Genesis 45:28), the news almost kills him: \u201cHis heart went numb\u201d (Genesis 45:26). \u00a0\u201cMy son Joseph is still alive\u201d he repeats again as if he he cannot believe it: \u201cI must go and see him before I die\u201d (Genesis 45:28). In Beer Sheva, the edge of the land of Canaan, God appears to him with a suspicious formula: \u201c\u2018Jacob! Jacob!\u2019 He answered, \u2018Here.\u2019\u201d (Genesis 46:2). There, in the Akedah, the Binding of Isaac, (Genesis 22:1 \u201cHe said to him, \u2018Abraham,\u2019 and he answered, \u2018Here I am\u2019\u201d) it was a death notice: \u201cTake your son\u201d (Genesis 22:2). Here it is news about life: The son who was considered dead who is granted him anew, is alive. With a comforting look at what will happen at the time of his death, Jacob is told \u201cand Joseph\u2019s hand shall close your eyes\u201d (Genesis 46:4).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Life and death wind around each other also in the intensity of the actual meeting between father and son \u201che presented himself to him and, embracing him around the neck, he wept on his neck a good while.\u201d (Genesis 46:29). Who is the one who is doing the seeing, who falls, who cries? \u00a0If it is Joseph, as the subject of the sentence seems to indicate, this is a moment, again, that contains life and death, movement and paralysis: Joseph is the active one, the one embracing, crying, and Jacob is the one paralyzed, stunned, frozen in place. When Jacob regains his senses and manages to speak, he again ties his death with Joseph\u2019s life: \u201cThen Israel said to Joseph, \u2018Now I can die, having seen for myself that you are still alive.\u2019\u201d (Genesis 26:30).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As in the Akedah, so too, here, at the living moment of the encounter, a hidden death is concealed: the beginning of the exile to Egypt. Forever, the joy of the encounter between the two of them will be mixed with the sorrow of that exile. 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Dr. Edward Bleiberg, Senior Curator of Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Brooklyn Museum<\/p>\r\n

Dr. Aaron Koller, Associate Professor of Near Eastern and Jewish Studies, Yeshiva University<\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"929 At The Museum","tile_main_caption":"Brooklyn Museum: Royal Genealogies ","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"(and what about Shoshana?)","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","tile_preview_video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rd_qVk3f07c","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Genesis","chapter":"46","chapter_main_number":"46","date":"20251102","wall_id":"46"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"369","name":"Visual Arts","old_id":"769"},{"term_id":"555","name":"Archaeology","old_id":"955"},{"term_id":"590","name":"Museum","old_id":"990"}]},{"order":8,"id":"39986","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Israel Had To Lose Its Freedom Before It Could Cherish It ","post_title":"Israel Had To Lose Its Freedom Before It Could Cherish It","slug":"israel-had-to-lose-its-freedom-before-it-could-cherish-it","old_id":"39986","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":33923,"post_title":"Jonathan Sacks","slug":"rabbi-lord-jonathan-sacks","old_id":"33923","first_name":"Jonathan ","last_name":"Sacks","description":"An international religious leader, philosopher, and award-winning author of over 35 books, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks served as the International President of 929.\r\nRabbi Sacks served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth years between 1991 and 2013, and was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen in 2005 and made a Life Peer. Rabbi Sacks passed away on 7th November 2020, aged 72. He was one of the greatest Jewish thinkers of the 20th century, who bridged the religious and secular world through his ground-breaking canon of work.","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"short_description":"Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z\"k (1948-2020) was the former Chief Rabbi of the Commonwealth, and the International 929 president.","link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":36222,"alt":"","title":"JSacks","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/JSacks-e1532858712594.jpg","width":437,"height":548,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/JSacks-e1532858712594-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/JSacks-e1532858712594-239x300.jpg","medium-width":239,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/JSacks-768x448.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":448,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/JSacks-1024x597.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":597,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/JSacks-e1532858712594.jpg","1536x1536-width":437,"1536x1536-height":548,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/JSacks-e1532858712594.jpg","2048x2048-width":437,"2048x2048-height":548,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/JSacks-e1532858712594.jpg","post_full_size-width":437,"post_full_size-height":548,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/JSacks-e1532858712594-335x420.jpg","home_baner-width":335,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"46","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"Israel became the people conceived in slavery so that it would never cease to long for liberty","post_main_content_content":"

The Torah indicates that there was nothing accidental about the events leading up to Pesach. Centuries before, Abraham had been told by God in the \u2018covenant between the pieces,\u2019 \u2018Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and ill-treated for four hundred years\u2019 (Genesis 15:13). We make repeated reference in the course of the Haggadah to the fact that the whole sequence of events was part of a pre-ordained plan. God \u2018had already calculated the end\u2019 of suffering. When Jacob went down to Egypt he was, we say, <\/span>anus al pi ha-dibbur<\/span><\/em>, \u2018forced by divine decree.\u2019 God himself told Jacob, \u2018Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there\u2019 (<\/span>Genesis 46:3<\/span><\/a>) without giving him an intimation of the sufferings his children would endure. The sages say that at the end of his life, when Jacob wanted to tell his children what would happen to them \u2018at the end of days\u2019 the gift of prophecy was taken from him. Without knowing it, the Israelites were part of a narrative that had been scripted long before.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Israel had to lose its freedom before it could cherish it<\/span><\/em>. <\/span><\/i>Only what we lose do we fully pay attention to. Israel had to suffer the experience of slavery and degradation before it could learn, know, and feel intuitively that there is something morally wrong about oppression. Nor could it, or any other people, carry this message in perpetuity without reliving it every year, tasting the harsh tang of the bread of affliction and the bitterness of slavery. Thus was created, at the birth of the nation, a longing for freedom that was at the very core of its memory and identity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Had Israel achieved immediate nationhood in the patriarchal age without the experience of exile and persecution, it would \u2013 like so many other nations in history \u2013 have taken freedom for granted; and when freedom is taken for granted, it has already begun to be lost. Israel became the people conceived in slavery so that it would never cease to long for liberty \u2013 and know that liberty is anything but natural. It requires constant vigilance, unceasing moral struggle. Israel discovered freedom by losing it. 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Composed circa 1800 BCE, the Hieratic inscription on this ritual figurine contains curses against potential enemies of the pharaoh. The list of rivals includes cities and rulers from the land of Canaan, including the first reference to Jerusalem in the historical record. The text provides evidence for connections between Egypt and Canaanite kinship groups during the Middle Bronze Age\u2014the setting for the story of the patriarchs\u2019 descent into Egypt. Genesis 46 describes how the eponymous ancestors of the Israelite migrated from Canaan to Egypt during a time of famine.<\/p>\r\n

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Jacob was terrified. The last time he left home he was heading to his uncle Laban where he was repeatedly <\/span>tricked,<\/span> harassed, and cheated. Now he is leaving again journeying south to Egypt, a place lacking the fear of God. What will happen to his family, to his people, to their special mission in this Godless place?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God appears to Jacob: Don\u2019t worry, the nation will become great, I myself will venture into exile with you, and bring you back. But this seems to only relieve part of Jacob\u2019s anxiety. How will his long-lost son respond to him? God therefore adds a few more words (v. 4): \u201cveYosef yashit yado al eynecha<\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The exact meaning of the word \u201cyashit<\/em>\u201d is unclear. Will Joseph\u2019s hand cover Jacob\u2019s eyes, or will they close his eyes? <\/span>God is turning from the communal to the personal; Joseph will be there for you Jacob, but what will he be doing?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Remarkably, God uses the image of hands and eyes. \u00a0Hands and eyes played a dramatic role in Jacob\u2019s life until then. \u00a0At perhaps his lowest moral moment, Jacob tricked his father, one whose eyes were \u201cclosed\u201d by covering his own hands with hair to feel like the hands of Esau. These body parts reappear when Jacob himself is blind to Laban\u2019s trick of replacing Rachel with Leah, a trick which according to the Midrash, was aided by Rachel sharing secret hand signals with her sister.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

With these words is God telling Jacob that he will once again be a victim? With his eyes covered will Jacob be unable to see and warn his descendants about the horrors that will befall them during the bitter exile? Is this a \u00a0final recompense for hiding his identity from his father? Or is God telling Jacob that all is forgiven? He has suffered enough for his mistakes, The image is intended to comfort. 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In Chapter 46 of Genesis we reach the conclusion of the back-and-forth narrative between Joseph and his family. After having been sold into slavery by his own brothers, and having risen to second-in-command in Egypt, Joseph encounters his brothers who have come in need of grain because of a drought. After having revealed himself to his siblings, and having sent them to retrieve their father Jacob and the rest of their families to bring back to Egypt, Joseph notifies his family that he will tell Pharaoh of their arrival. However, Joseph asks that that they not reveal to Pharaoh that they are shepherds and instead to say that they are breeders of livestock as shepherds are an abomination to Egyptians.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Without specification in the text, the exact reason of this Egyptian sentiment is unclear, even to rabbinic commentators. Rashi agreed with the writing of Onkelos that sheep were sacred to Egyptians and therefore those who raised them for food might be considered an abomination. Ibn Ezra suggested that the Egyptians would not eat meat and may have even been vegan, which might explain a feeling of abhorrence to those who raise and might eat animals as well. Nevertheless, despite Joseph\u2019s counsel, in the following chapter the brothers tell Pharaoh that they are in fact shepherds.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The text itself pays Joseph\u2019s unheeded advice no mind but I believe the brothers\u2019 choice to be honest about their profession is indicative of a larger pattern in Jewish history. Being a shepherd is in no way a part of Jewish identity, but the brothers\u2019 choice to not compromise on who they were despite pressure from their surrounding dominant culture is reflective of the Jewish historical narrative.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Despite the Jewish people\u2019s history of near-constant forced migrations in and out of countries around the world, the Jewish people maintained a distinct identity. In seeing Joseph\u2019s brothers choose to be open about who they are we may see an early example of our people choosing to maintain who they are despite a lack of power or authority in their new relocation. Notwithstanding Joseph\u2019s status in Egypt, the Israelites were looking to immigrate because of drought and likely would have been without alternative had Pharaoh chosen to reject their entrance after having heard of their profession. 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I was certain that our nation, about which God spoke with my grandfather Abraham and my father Isaac, would be born in the land of Canaan. That is what I found written in the Declaration of Independence \u201cThe Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yesterday, God appeared to me in a night vision, and said to me: \u201cJacob, don\u2019t be shocked by what I am about to tell you. The people about whom I spoke to Abraham, Isaac, and to you will be born in the land of Egypt and not in the land of Israel. You and your children and your entire family are following Joseph to the land of Egypt just as seed is attracted to the womb. \u00a0You are the seed and Egypt is the womb. You will develop there day by day. You will increase and multiply until it is time for your birth. Your reality in the womb will be very disturbing to the entire body of Egypt. They will fear that you are going to take over.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The day will come when you will leave there. More correctly, you will be born there and you will then leave. And like every birth, it will be accompanied by blood. The placenta will leave after you until I tear it from you at the Sea of Reeds. There the work of my midwives will end. \u201cI Myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I Myself will also bring you back\u201d (Genesis 46:4).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Now I understand Joseph\u2019s dream that I kept in my heart all these years. All of us, I, his mother and brothers are bowing down and are drawn to go down after him to Egypt. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

We are entering the first stages of pregnancy.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Are we ever home?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When Jacob returned to the land of Canaan, the land promised to his fathers, he decides to settle down; to welcome himself into his new home. Or at least this is how the rabbis hear it between the lines: \u201cAnd Jacob dwelled in the land of his fathers\u2019 dwelling in the land of Canaan\u201d (Genesis 37:1).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Rabbis sense something ominous in this embrace of domesticity. Rashi, channeling the Rabbis, tells us that \u201cJacob desired to dwell in peace \u2013 but then the terror of Joseph surprised him.\u201d The God that promised him the land has other plans for the world-weary Jacob.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And so several chapters and a terrible famine later, the elderly patriarch agrees to go down to Egypt:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So Israel set out with all that was his, and he came to Beer-sheba, where he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. God called to Israel in a vision by night: \u201cJacob! Jacob!\u201d He answered, \u201cHere.\u201d And He said, \u201cI am God, the God of your father. Fear not to go down to Egypt, for I will make you there into a great nation. I Myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I Myself will also bring you back; and Joseph\u2019s hand shall close your eyes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He stops at one of the homes of his fathers, Beer Sheba, he sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac, and God assures Jacob that He is not wandering alone. God will be with him as he descends into Egypt.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It\u2019s hard not to hear this as a message for all the wandering generations to come. As you take your children in tow and pack up all that you know into a few bags and go out into the unknown, know this: I am with you, I go down with you.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

God can be found in exile, in fact he is more often found in Exile, in the confusion and fog of wandering \u2013freely chosen or forced- than within the peace and tranquility of an imagined home. It is the imagining of home, perhaps, that gives us the dreams that power our journeys away and towards those homes and allow us to create new spaces and find space for other wanderers, others who have lost all that they once knew, and now need shelter and welcome.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cYou shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the feelings of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt.\u201d<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":71333,"alt":"","title":"jer31-home","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer31-home.jpg","width":1280,"height":825,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer31-home-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer31-home-300x193.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":193,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer31-home-768x495.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":495,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer31-home-1024x660.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":660,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer31-home.jpg","1536x1536-width":1280,"1536x1536-height":825,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer31-home.jpg","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":825,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer31-home-1200x773.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":773,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer31-home-652x420.jpg","home_baner-width":652,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"God in Exile","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"A message for all the wandering generations to come","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":71333,"alt":"","title":"jer31-home","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer31-home.jpg","width":1280,"height":825,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer31-home-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer31-home-300x193.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":193,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer31-home-768x495.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":495,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer31-home-1024x660.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":660,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer31-home.jpg","1536x1536-width":1280,"1536x1536-height":825,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer31-home.jpg","2048x2048-width":1280,"2048x2048-height":825,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer31-home-1200x773.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":773,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer31-home-652x420.jpg","home_baner-width":652,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Genesis","chapter":"46","chapter_main_number":"46","date":"20251102","wall_id":"46"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"366","name":"Commentators","old_id":"766"},{"term_id":"384","name":"God","old_id":"784"},{"term_id":"432","name":"Exile","old_id":"832"},{"term_id":"510","name":"Home","old_id":"910"}]},{"order":14,"id":"39983","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"The Reunion Between Joseph And Jacob ","post_title":"The Reunion Between Joseph And Jacob","slug":"the-reunion-between-joseph-and-jacob","old_id":"39983","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":36669,"post_title":"Yakov Azriel","slug":"yakov-azriel","old_id":"36669","first_name":"Yakov ","last_name":"Azriel","description":"Yakov Azriel, who lives in Israel, has published five books of poetry in the USA and hundreds of poems in journals and magazines. 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\u201cJoseph harnessed his chariot and went to Goshen, to meet his father Israel; he presented himself to him and embraced him around the neck, and he wept on his neck for a long time.\u201d \u00a0<\/em>(Genesis 46:29)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Joseph:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Am I dreaming again?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But this white beard, these long strands of gray hair;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>These arms now so feeble, this embrace,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>These eyes I dive into, pulling me in deeper;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Father;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Is this really you?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These fingers that I stroke, more brittle, and thinner;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>This hand that I hold, more creased and weaker;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>This face that I dare touch, more lined and paler;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>This fragile neck which I cling to so as not to stumble;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>This fragile neck, shaking like a bruised reed; Father;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Do you recognize me?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Let me gaze into your eyes,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Let me hold you tighter.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Never send me away again, Father,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Never abandon me again.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jacob:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

My son was but a boy, just starting to grow a beard;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

And this tall, muscular man?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

My son was flabby and pale from reading books and from prayer;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

And this sinewy charioteer, sun-burnt, with these whip-scars on his arm, on his back?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

My son had a coat of many colors, a ready smile,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

Long wavy locks of hair which I could not bear to cut;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

And this prince regent, this viceroy in regal attire, his head shaven,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

Trembling, sobbing;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

 <\/p>\r\n

But the eyes, these two vortexes pulling me in deeper,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

These two oceans swirling in blues and greens,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

These eyes are your mother\u2019s eyes,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

My son.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

 <\/p>\r\n

Now I can die, Joseph, having seen for myself that you live. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

Hear me, Joseph, the Lord is God, the Lord is One. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

Hush Joseph, no need to cry anymore, I am here with you,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

My son.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

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46:5 - So Jacob set out from Beer-sheba. The sons of Israel put their father Jacob and their children and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent <\/span>asher shalach<\/em> <\/span>to transport him;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>28 - He had sent <\/span>shalach<\/span><\/em> Judah ahead of him to Joseph, to point the way before him to Goshen. So when they came to the region of Goshen,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A simple word, and root: \u05e9-\u05dc-\u05d7, <\/span>sh-l-ch<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>\u201csend.\u201d Pharaoh sends the wagons, and Jacob sends Judah along ahead (though Judah probably did not sing to Jacob the words of Sam Cooke - \u201cwhoa oh whoa - you send me\u2026<\/span>\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

That would have made Judah the first <\/span>shaliach<\/span><\/em>, \u201cemissary\u201d from Israel to the Diaspora. Although whereas today\u2019s <\/span>shlichim<\/em> <\/span>at least nominally promote <\/span>aliyah<\/span><\/em>, moving to Israel - Judah was going ahead to prepare the first big <\/span>yerida<\/span><\/em>, moving away from Israel. While (only) 70 souls (or perhaps 66, depending on how you count) - it was the entire Jewish people of the time. Perhaps the Chabad would count him among the first <\/span>shluchim<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>which is what they call their emissaries to spread Torah and mitzvot, \u201ccommandments.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One mitzvah we get from this root is <\/span>mishloach manot<\/span><\/em>, the \u201csending\u201d of gifts of food on Purim. Though an earlier \u201cmitzvah\u201d would be God\u2019s demand of Pharaoh, which we will meet in just a few chapters: \u201c<\/span>Shlach et ami<\/span><\/em>,\u201d \u201cLet my people go!\u201d (literally, \u201csend [away] my people\u201d). For that, though, we need Paul Robeson, not Sam Cooke. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Regarding prayers and their recital, synagogue goers might be giving thought to who will be leading the prayers, a job known as <\/span>shaliach tzibbur<\/span><\/em> (feminine: <\/span>shlichat tzibbur<\/span><\/em>) \u201cthe one sent by the public,\u201d or congregation, to represent them. Let us hope they do their job willingly, and not say as Moses did, to God who wanted him to go to Egypt (Exodus 4:13): \u201c<\/span>Shlach-na beyad tishlach<\/span><\/em>,\u201d <\/span><\/i>\u201cpray send by whose hand you would send (based on Fox and Alter) - meaning, send somebody else! God didn\u2019t like that answer too much.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":103707,"alt":"","title":"-624b52562bf22--624b52562bf24gen46-milim shelach.gif","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/gif","url":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/624b52562bf22-624b52562bf24gen46-milim-shelach.gif.gif","width":640,"height":480,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/624b52562bf22-624b52562bf24gen46-milim-shelach.gif-150x150.gif","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/624b52562bf22-624b52562bf24gen46-milim-shelach.gif-300x225.gif","medium-width":300,"medium-height":225,"medium_large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/624b52562bf22-624b52562bf24gen46-milim-shelach.gif.gif","medium_large-width":640,"medium_large-height":480,"large":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/624b52562bf22-624b52562bf24gen46-milim-shelach.gif.gif","large-width":640,"large-height":480,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/624b52562bf22-624b52562bf24gen46-milim-shelach.gif.gif","1536x1536-width":640,"1536x1536-height":480,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/624b52562bf22-624b52562bf24gen46-milim-shelach.gif.gif","2048x2048-width":640,"2048x2048-height":480,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/624b52562bf22-624b52562bf24gen46-milim-shelach.gif.gif","post_full_size-width":640,"post_full_size-height":480,"home_baner":"https:\/\/cetwpuploads.blob.core.windows.net\/wp929\/uploads\/2018\/09\/624b52562bf22-624b52562bf24gen46-milim-shelach.gif-560x420.gif","home_baner-width":560,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"

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This is what the the descent to Egypt looks like, the first exile. \u201cThe sons of Israel put their father Jacob and their children and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to transport him; and they took along their livestock and the wealth that they had amassed in the land of Canaan. Thus Jacob and all his offspring with him came to Egypt\u201d (Genesis 46:5-6). \u00a0They leave willingly and ostensibly under happy circumstances: The family reunion with Joseph after many hard years and the solution to the hunger crisis. However, the revelation of God to Jacob in a dream opens for us a window into what is happening inside him: \u201cFear not to go down to Egypt, for I will make you there into a great nation. I Myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I Myself will also bring you back\u201d (verses 3-4).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

With joy and concern, Jacob\u2019s entire family goes down to Egypt (the chapter counts and lists everyone). \u00a0Seventy people (not including women) all together.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Once they arrive in Goshen (verse 28), Joseph goes out to greet them. \u00a0The meeting between Jacob and Joseph is emotional, as expected. \u201cHe presented himself to him and, embracing him around the neck, he wept on his neck a good while.\u201d (verse 29), but it is told to us in abridged form, and immediately afterwards, Joseph turns to technical matters and instructs his brothers what to say and what not to say to Pharaoh so that the result of the conversation will be permission to dwell in Goshen.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Jacob-Israel. \u00a0These two names appear in the chapter in a confusing manner. \u00a0Take, for example, verse 8: \u201cThese are the names of the Israelites (alternatively, \u2018the sons of Israel,\u2019 Jacob and his descendants, who came to Egypt. Jacob\u2019s first-born Reuben.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Seventy. \u00a0Seventy people is the number of people in Jacob\u2019s family. It is a round number. It is whole, elegant, and conveys the message that this is a blessed family.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Goshen. \u00a0What is this area and why is Joseph so interested in dwelling specifically there? \u00a0It is common to identify Goshen as the area near the Delta. It is suitable for grazing and is not exactly the center of the city, allowing for Jacob\u2019s family to live separate from everyone else.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. 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