PARSHAS VAYESHEV
Can you figure out what each picture has to do with the parsha?
Rabbi Dani Staum
KEY to Parshas Vayeshev – Parsha Pix
Twins – Birth of Yehuda and Tamar’s twin sons, Peretz and Zorach 38:29-30
Sheaves of wheat – Yosef’s first dream was of his brother’s sheaves bowing to his sheaf 37:7
I forgot something – After Yosef successfully interpreted the dream of the Sar Hamashkim, Yosef asked the Sar Hamashkim to remember him and plead his case about for the injustice of his imprisonment. The final words of the parsha are that the Sar Hamashkim forgot him. (Subtle Chanukah connection – We say in Al Hanisim that Syrian-Greeks tried to make us forget the Torah.)
One brother for sale – Listening to the suggestion of Yehuda, the brothers sold Yosef 37:27
Snakes And scorpions – The pit which Reuven suggested they cast Yosef into was empty. Rashi says it was empty of water but had snakes and scorpions – 37:24
Butcher shop – Yosef was sold to Potiphar who was Pharoah’s chief butcher – 39:1
Go to jail – Yosef was sent to jail because of the wife of Potiphar’s false accusations against him – 39:20
Sun and moon (and stars) – In Yosef’s second dream the sun, moon, and eleven stars were bowing to him – 37:9
In my mug a bug – The Sar Hamashkim was imprisoned (next to Yosef) because a fly was found in the cup of Pharoah – 40:1, see Rashi
