Torah Portion/Synagogues
Lessons For The Family In Biblical Intrigue
Shabbat Vayeshev:
Genesis 37: 1 -40:23;
Amos 2:6-3:8.
T
his week's parshah (Torah por-
tion) is certainly not lacking
in characters, plot or intrigue.
In fact, it really reads like a prime-
time soap opera or a New York Times
best-selling novel.
Joseph is paraded in front of his
brothers with his newly created beau-
tiful tunic and subsequently has two
dreams that he shares with all those
both willing and unwilling to listen.
He appears to flaunt his skill of
dream interpretation to show that he
is better than his brothers. Joseph is
ultimately thrown into that infamous
Frances B. Pearlman is director of
education at Temple Israel.
Did Jacob love Joseph more than
pit and ultimately is sold into
his other sons? Was Tamar's intent all
Egyptian nobility.
along to lure Judah to her bed? And
The parshah then digresses to the
what about Potiphar's wife?
story of Judah and Tamar.
Why did she lie?
Tamar, now twice widowed,
Chanab inab the names of
appears to be unwilling to
these characters today to
wait for the third son of
more modern names and
Judah and moves into a
changing the coat of many
deceitful act of disguise and
colors to a new 2005
secrecy and becomes preg-
Mustang convertible only
nant with twins fathered by
shows that the intrigue and
Judah, her father-in-law.
the challenges of the famil-
The final segment of the
ial relationships and inter-
plot moves back into Egypt
personal workings are no
focusing again on Joseph
different today than they
who is thrown into prison
FRANCES B.
were then. The difference is
after being accused of seduc-
PEARLMAN
that the lessons that our text
ing Potiphar's wife.
Special to the
teaches are something that
It is clear that each of
Jewish News
should prove to be a guide-
these plots warrants further
post in how we behave and
study and re-reading indi-
vidually, but looking at the entire par- act today.
The caution of favoring one child
shah as a whole presents an interest-
over another; of deceit of a loved one
ing and challenging portrait of what
and lying to protect oneself are all
family means.
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behavior cautions that the Torah
teaches. The examples and the events
that we read in the parshah could eas-
ily be translated to today.
Each of us struggles with sibling
rivalry, and each of us has had to
work extremely hard to refrain from
lying to get what we want. But we
continually work at it, and it is the
lessons of this week's parshah that
make the challenge continuous and
justified. 1
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relationships in the Bible and
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