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Welcome to Vayeshev (And He Lived), this week’s Torah portion.
We know you will be blessed as you follow along with us in this
portion of Torah that will be read in synagogues around the world
during the Shabbat (Saturday) service. Enjoy !
In last week’s Torah study, Vayishlach, Jacob returned from Haran
with his entire household to settle in the Land of Canaan.
After all the twists and turns of Jacob’s life, he longed
to settle down in the land God had promised.
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Yosef inherited his father's spiritual make-up and also possessed the physical presence to stand up to and
defeat the way of Esau and his descendants, being the living 'flame' to Esau's 'stubble.'
Yosef's spiritual flame is the very flame that kindles the Chanukah lights which drive out the darkness of Yavan!
Vayeshev (Genesis 37:1 - 40:23)
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Now Israel [Jacob] loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a varicolored tunic.
Genesis 37:3
Shabbat Shalom - Parasha Vayeshev - Favor, Inheritance and a Grand Destiny !!!
Shabbat Shalom
Welcome to Vayeshev
(And He Lived), this week’s Torah portion.
We are certain that you will be blessed as you go through
this portion that will be read in synagogues around the world
during this week’s Shabbat (Saturday) service. Enjoy!
VAYESHEV (And He
Lived)
Genesis 37:1–40:23; Amos 2:6–3:8; Romans 8:18–39
“Jacob lived [yeshev] in the
land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.” (Genesis
37:1)
In last week’s Torah study, Vayishlach, Jacob returned from
Haran with his entire household to settle in the Land of
Canaan. After all the twists and turns of Jacob’s
life, he longed to settle down in the land God had promised.
The opening Hebrew Scripture of this Parasha uses the word
yeshev,
which means to settle.
In Israel, a settlement is called a yishuv, and
those who settle in Israel, especially within the disputed
territories of Judea and Samaria, do so at great risk from
Palestinian terrorists who often live nearby.
In this Parasha, we learn about the trials of Jacob’s
favorite son, Joseph, whom God had given the gift of dreams
and their interpretation. Many
of those dreams revealed Joseph’s future exalted position.
By relating these dreams to his brothers, however, Joseph
fueled their jealousy, which had already been aroused by their
father’s favoritism toward Joseph, son of his favored wife,
Rachel.
Joseph's Sheaves (1919 Bible Primer)
The Folly of
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“Now Israel [Jacob] loved
Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his
old age; and he made him a varicolored tunic.”
(Genesis 37:3)
(Genesis 37:3)
Jacob made no secret of the fact that he loved
Joseph more than any of his other children, and he gave him
a special coat of many colors.
By giving him this coat, Jacob was proclaiming Joseph’s
sovereignty and leadership over all his other sons, since in
the patriarchal age, Semitic chiefs wore coats of many colors
as an insignia of rulership.
Perhaps Jacob should have foreseen the negative effects of
sibling rivalry that usually result from such favoritism,
since he was also a
victim of this kind of dysfunction.
His mother, Rebecca, favored Jacob but his father, Isaac,
favored Jacob's brother Esau. This caused a great deal of
animosity between the two brothers. Rather than learn from
his parents' mistakes, however, Jacob simply perpetuated their
parental weaknesses.
Instead of following Jacob's example, we can make a choice
to learn from our parents’ mistakes and decide today not to
carry on with unhealthy parent-child relationships that have
been modeled for us by previous generations.
Of course, to make such a change requires us to be set free
from the past, and that begins with repentance and
forgiveness—repentance for judging our parents (and perhaps
for being a troublesome child), and forgiving them for their
mistakes.
Everlasting spiritual new beginnings are found in the
freedom that Messiah Yeshua (Jesus) offers when we repent of
our sins and receive His forgiveness.
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Favor Follows Joseph
into the Pit
The name Yosef (Joseph) is associated with the modern
kabbalistic (Jewish mysticism) term yesod, meaning foundation, from the
expression, “Tzadik
yesod olam”—a
righteous man is the foundation of the world.
Indeed, Joseph had a great destiny upon his life, the
twists and turns of which would provide a foundation for the
survival of his family; and in the fullness of time, a
freedom that provides a foundation for Jewish life and
salvation.
Jacob’s favored son is so important that he is allotted
more text in the Tanakh (Old Testament) than any other
character except Moses.
But he was not immediately ready to fulfill his divine
purpose. Either Joseph needed to learn humility, which he
gained through painful and difficult trials, or through his
trials, God positioned him to fulfill that destiny. Perhaps
both.
The drama began when Jacob dispatched Joseph on a mission
to check on his brothers. Unbeknownst to both of them, the
jealous siblings had already plotted to kill Joseph.
Their plan might have succeeded except for the protests of
Reuven, who urged them to throw Joseph into a pit instead. He
secretly intended to rescue him later. But Reuven never had the
opportunity to save his brother, since the other brothers
sold Joseph, at Judah’s suggestion, to an Ishmaelite
caravan.
“They sold Joseph for twenty
pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites.”
(Genesis 37:28)
(Genesis 37:28)
This Butterfield mosaic of Joseph being sold is displayed in the Keble
College Chapel at Oxford.
Once in Egypt, Joseph was sold to Potiphar, an Egyptian
captain of Pharaoh’s guard, who soon discovered the greatness
within Joseph. Potiphar came to trust Joseph so implicitly
that he placed him in charge of all of his affairs.
Meanwhile, Joseph’s brothers returned to their father with
his coat of many colors. They dipped it in blood in
order to deceive their father into thinking that a wild
animal had killed his beloved son.
There is a curious
interruption in the narrative of Joseph’s story here,
as the Scriptures turn to the episode of Judah. Judah, fourth
son of Jacob and future ruler of the twelve tribes of Israel,
led the decision to sell Joseph rather than kill him.
“Then Judah said to his
brothers, ‘What do we gain by killing our brother and
covering up his blood? Come, let us sell him to the
Ishmaelites, but let us not do away with him ourselves.
After all, he is our brother, our own flesh." (Genesis
37:26–27)
Judah seems to be a complex character, with signs of
integrity as well as duplicity.
Jacob Receiving the Bloody Tunic of Joseph, by Jan Lievens
Keeping Hope Alive
through Inheritance
At this time, Judah had married the daughter of a
Canaanite, Shua:
“There Judah saw the daughter
of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua, and he married
her and cohabited with her.” (Genesis 38:2)
Shua conceived and had a son named Er, who married Tamar.
But Er died without giving Tamar a child because the
Lord was displeased with this son of Judah and prematurely
took his life.
Judah then urged his second-born son, Onan, to take Tamar
as a wife. It was the duty of the brother of a man who died
without children to marry his widow in order to perpetuate his brother's
line.
“Then Judah said to Onan,
‘Join with your brother's wife and do your duty by her as a
brother-in-law, and provide offspring for your brother.’” (Genesis
38:8)
This kind of familial responsibility may seem alien to us,
but God later included it in the laws found in the Book of
Deuteronomy:
“When
brothers live together, and one of them dies childless, the
wife of the deceased man shall not marry outside to a
strange man; her brother-in-law shall come to her, and take
her to himself as a wife, and perform levirate marriage.
“The
firstborn son whom she bears will then perpetuate the name
of the dead brother, so that his name will not be
obliterated from Israel.” (Deuteronomy 25:5–6)
Reading from the Torah scroll.
Why would God maintain a custom that predates even
Abraham?
One reason is grounded in eternal inheritance. The other
is “for the express purpose of keeping alive the hope of
resurrection in the minds of the chosen people.”
(Elliott’s Commentary for English Readers, Deuteronomy 25:5)
(Elliott’s Commentary for English Readers, Deuteronomy 25:5)
This law of levirate marriage kept alive the hope of an
earthly resurrection of the family name by keeping the
inheritance within the family.
We see this in the Book
of Ruth: the wealthy Bethlehem landowner
Boaz (who foreshadowed Yeshua) gave this hope of
resurrection and eternal inheritance to the widow Ruth (who
foreshadowed those who follow Yeshua) when he became her
bridegroom and she his bride. (Ruth 4)
The hope of our spiritual, eternal resurrection and
inheritance was fulfilled when Yeshua became the
“Bridegroom” of all chosen people—Gentiles and Jews—creating
a marriage covenant with all those who enter into that
covenant with Him. Those who become His Bride receive His
eternal inheritance.
All Believers who put their hope in Yeshua as Savior have
the hope of the resurrection sealed into their spirit.
“Blessed
be the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua HaMashiach!
According to His great mercy, He has caused us to be born
again to a living hope through the resurrection of Yeshua
HaMashiach from the dead, to an inheritance that is
imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for
you.” (1 Peter 1:3–4)
The Marriage of Ruth and Boaz, by Jean-Baptiste Auguste Leloir (Museum Georges Garret)
Obedience Is
Rewarded
Still, we can well imagine that sin might get in
the way of this hope, and it did in the case of Judah's
second son, Onan. In fact, the Lord was
displeased with him, too, because he refused to raise up a
son for his brother. In judgment, the Lord took his life
also.
Instead of admitting
that his sons died early because of their sin, Judah
blamed the widow, Tamar. And though he
promised her that his third and last son, Shelah, would give
her a son, he did not want to risk losing him as well.
He told Tamar to wait as a widow until Shelah grew to
maturity. But when Shelah became a man, Judah still did not
give him to Tamar as her husband, so she took matters into
her own hands.
Tamar disguised herself as a cult prostitute and lured
Judah into an encounter that resulted in her becoming
pregnant. Approximately three months later, when her
pregnancy became evident, Judah ordered her executed for
harlotry; but it was then that Tamar displayed Judah’s seal,
cord, and staff, which Judah had given Tamar as pledge of
payment for her services.
“As she was being brought
out, she sent this message to her father-in-law, ‘I am
with child by the man to whom these belong.’ And she
added, ‘Examine these: whose seal and cord and staff are
these?’"
(Genesis 38:25)
(Genesis 38:25)
Judah and Tamar, by school of Rembrandt
Judah then realized that though Tamar’s actions were less
than perfect, she had acted to fulfill the familial
responsibility to raise up a child for her husband under the
family name. He realized that she was more
righteous than he was, so he set her free.
Tamar gave birth to
twins, one of whom, Perez, became a forefather of Boaz,
who became the great-grandfather of King David, who
became a forefather of the Messiah. (see
Matthew 1; Ruth 4:18–22)
Judah is considered, in traditional Judaism and in the
Tanakh, the father of the Mashiach (Messiah), who we know to
be Yeshua
(salvation), the Lion from the tribe of Judah.
“The scepter will not depart
from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from his descendants,
until the coming of the one to whom it belongs, the one
whom all nations will honor." (Genesis 49:10)
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From Pit to Palace
What does this story show us? It shows us that God, by
His mercies, can redeem us and take us from the depths of
despair to the heights of fulfilled dreams.
Although Judah made some very bad decisions that
tremendously hurt people, and although he fell into
immorality, God still chose to bring forth the Messiah of
all mankind through his lineage.
Similarly, Joseph’s dark descent into a pit, his betrayal
by his brothers, his period of slavery in Egypt, and
abandonment in a dungeon for a crime he did not commit served to position him to
be exalted over all of Egypt, next to Pharaoh.
In this exalted position Joseph was able to arrange for
all of Egypt to have enough food to eat during the
seven-year famine throughout the region. The people living
around Egypt, including his own brothers who came to Joseph
seeking food, survived the famine because of Joseph’s wise
leadership.
Jewish men pray at the Western (Wailing) Wall in Jerusalem.
Each of us may have to endure challenging situations in
life as we journey toward fulfilling our calling in God.
When times are the darkest—when we have fallen into a
pit, either by those who sin against us, or by our own
sin—we can take heart because this is not the end of the
story. God promises to
make all things work together for our good.
“And we know that God causes
all things to work together for good to those who love
God, to those who are called according to His purpose.” (Romans
8:28)
It is during life’s dark times that the light of
Yeshua seems brightest.
Yeshua said, “I am the Light of the world.” His light of
truth and eternal love can sustain us through the darkest of
nights as we continue to place our faith and trust in Him.
“Then Yeshua spoke to them
again: 'I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows
Me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light
of life.'" (John 8:12)
Although today is a
dark time in the lives of the people of Israel as we are
being attacked on streets, in stores and synagogues, and
on social media by Palestinian terrorists, in the center
of this darkness Yeshua can shine His light through us.
Let your light shine in this holiday season and help us
bring the Good News of Yeshua to the Holy Land.
"Arise, shine, for your
light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon
you." (Isaiah 60:1)
"For my eyes have
seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the
sight of all nations: a light for revelation to the
Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel." (Luke 2:30–32)
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