Vayeishev/Miketz Essays

[Reuven Chaim Klein]

Essays on synonyms from my What’s in a Word? series related to Parshas Vayeishev:

• The Amazing Multi-Named Joseph - About יוסף, יהוסף, אברך, and צפנת פענח.
• A Real Toss Up - About השלכה and זריקה.
• Mercantile Man - About סוחר, תגר, כנעני, and רוכל.

Essays on synonyms from my What’s in a Word? series related to Parshas Miketz:

• Wake-up Time - About יקיצה and התעוררות.
• Say it Clear (Part 1 | Part 2) - About פשר, ביאור, פירוש, הסבר, and פתרון.
• Famishing Famines - About רעב and כפן.
• Slaughtering and Butchering - About שחיטה, טביחה, and זביחה.

Attached are two essays from my sefer לחם ממרחק (published last year) - Available on HebrewBooks.org, Otzar HaChochmah, Amazon, Google Books, H-Commons:

• יו"ד סימן ט: בענין מחלוקת יוסף ואחיו באבר מן החי.
• יו"ד סימן יד: בענין כיבוד האח הגדול ביוסף ואחיו.

Recordings from my Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer lectures related to these Parshiyos (available on many platforms including: YouTube, Google Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, TorahDownloads, OUTorah.org, Archive.org):

• Episode 78: Chapter 38c - The Life of Jacob = Yaakov loves his Ben Zekunim, Joseph's brothers are jealous / Gavriel helps Yosef find his brothers / Joseph's brothers put him in a pit & then sell him to Ishmaelites to buy shoes / Did Reuven know that Yosef was sold? / How much is Yosef worth as a slave (20 shekel)? / Joseph's brothers impose a cherem (excommunication/ban) on publicizing what they did to Joseph / Including Hashem in the minyan needed to institute the cherem / Nobody tells Yaakov that Yosef was sold / When does a cherem need 10 people (Rabbeinu Tam vs. Maharach Ohr Zarua & Zayis Raanan) / Asara Harugei Malchus (The Ten Martyrs) atone for the sin of selling Joseph
• Episode 81: Chapter 39a - The Life of Jacob = Hashem goes down to Egypt with Yaakov (Yeridah #4) / Yaakov sees the potential danger of being exiled to Egypt / Which of Jacob's wives came to Egypt with him (Was Bilhah still alive)? / Whom did Jacob's sons marry (twin sisters or Canaanite women)? / Counting Jacob's 70 Descendants (are Hashem, Yocheved, Bilhah, & Yaakov in the list?) / About 600,000 Jews exited Egypt / Yosef lives 110 years instead of 120 as a punishment / How is silence considered an admission (shitkah k'hodaah)? / A father is like a king / Yosef resists the temptation of Potiphar's wife / Joseph ejaculates from his fingers / For how long was Yosef in jail (Pirkei D'Rabbi Eliezer vs. Seder Olam)?
• Episode 82: Chapter 39b - The Life of Jacob =  Joseph understands 70 languages & dream interpretation / Yosef escapes harm from the Ayin HaRa / Who was the "translator" (meilitz)? / Yosef never raised the prices / Egypt builds storage houses for the famine / Yosef swears that he will bury Yaakov in the Holy Land / The Egyptians pay their last respects to Jacob & get rewarded / Eisav claims ownership of Maarat HaMachpelah & ends up killed / Who killed Esau (Chushim ben Dan or Yehudah ben Yaakov)? / Yehuda & Dan must join together to build the Temple & destroy Amalek / Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz: Don't get used to undesirable situations / Yitzchak prays on Eisav's behalf

Kol Tuv,

Reuven Chaim Klein

Beitar Illit, Israel

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