{"id":1873,"date":"2012-12-02T03:19:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T03:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matsati.com\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2012-12-02T03:19:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T03:19:59","slug":"bits-of-torah-truths-parashat-vayeshev-choose-righteousness-do-not-forget-the-lord-in-your-prosperity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/bits-of-torah-truths-parashat-vayeshev-choose-righteousness-do-not-forget-the-lord-in-your-prosperity\/","title":{"rendered":"Bits of Torah Truths, Parashat Vayeshev, Choose Righteousness, do not Forget the Lord in Your Prosperity!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this weeks reading from Parashat Vayeshev (Bereshit \/ Genesis 37:1-40:23) we learn that Jacob loved Joseph more than his brothers (37:3, \u05d5\u05b0\u05d9\u05b4\u05e9\u05b0\u05b9\u05e8\u05b8\u05d0\u05b5\u05dc \u05d0\u05b8\u05d4\u05b7\u05d1 \u05d0\u05b6\u05ea-\u05d9\u05d5\u05b9\u05e1\u05b5\u05e3 \u05de\u05b4\u05db\u05bc\u05b8\u05dc-\u05d1\u05bc\u05b8\u05e0\u05b8\u05d9\u05d5).\u00a0 Joseph had a dream about his future (37:5-10) as a result his brothers become jealous (37:11).\u00a0 As the narrative continues, Joseph\u2019s brothers plot murder in their hearts (37:18-22) and sell him into slavery to Ishmaelites (37:27-29).\u00a0 Joseph is sold to Potiphar in Egypt where he chooses righteousness (\u05d5\u05bc\u05e6\u05b0\u05d3\u05b8\u05e7\u05b8\u05d4) and God prospers him.\u00a0 He is falsely accused by Potiphar\u2019s wife and then placed in jail (39:1-20).\u00a0 Throughout the days of Joseph\u2019s life he walked in righteousness (\u05d5\u05bc\u05e6\u05b0\u05d3\u05b8\u05e7\u05b8\u05d4) and in justice (\u05de\u05b4\u05e9\u05c1\u05b0\u05e4\u05bc\u05b8\u05d8) before the Lord, more so than his brothers.\u00a0 Even though Joseph chose to walk in righteousness, trials come, and the Lord shows us how He prepared Joseph in the midst of trouble.\u00a0 This week we are told that Yoseph was given the gift to interpret dreams and this gift was given to be used to help others.\u00a0 When in prison, he helped the baker and the cupbearer to know the meaning of their dreams.\u00a0 One was restored to his former office, and the other would die.\u00a0 We read the concluding verses in Parashat Vayeshev stating that the interpretation that God had given Joseph came to pass exactly as Joseph had interpreted them.\u00a0 Read more here:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matsati.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/BTT_Parashat-Vayeshev-2012.pdf\">BTT_Parashat Vayeshev-2012<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this weeks reading from Parashat Vayeshev (Bereshit \/ Genesis 37:1-40:23) we learn that Jacob loved Joseph more than his brothers (37:3, \u05d5\u05b0\u05d9\u05b4\u05e9\u05b0\u05b9\u05e8\u05b8\u05d0\u05b5\u05dc \u05d0\u05b8\u05d4\u05b7\u05d1 \u05d0\u05b6\u05ea-\u05d9\u05d5\u05b9\u05e1\u05b5\u05e3 \u05de\u05b4\u05db\u05bc\u05b8\u05dc-\u05d1\u05bc\u05b8\u05e0\u05b8\u05d9\u05d5).\u00a0 Joseph had a dream about his future (37:5-10) as a result his brothers become jealous (37:11).\u00a0 As the narrative continues, Joseph\u2019s brothers plot murder in their hearts (37:18-22) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bits-of-torah-truth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}