[Avodah] A few Notes on Parshas Vaychi

[SBA]

From: "SBA" <sba at sba2.com>
48:22 Rashi dh: 'V'ani nosati lecho Shechem Echad al Achecho"
"Shechem mamash hi tihyeh lecho chelek echad yesero al achecho".

It occured to me(and I presume someone MUST have thought of this before me)
that as Yosef - was married to Osnas - who was the daughter of Dinah and
Shechem ben Chamor (according to Targum Yonoson), Yaakov thought it would be
only right to hand over the land of his (Yosef's) father-in-law to his
descendents..

(I drafted the above a few weeks ago and have since been searching -
wherever I could - to see if anyone else has said this. I found nothing
until early this week when I was in London for a simcha that I looked into
my host's Yalkut Meam Loez - who more or less writes this beshem unnamed
'meforshim'.)
>>

An ex-Oz e-pal has now informed me that it comes from the sefer Tzeror Hamor
- who adds that Shechem gave Dina the city in his kesuba (part of the Harbu
olay mohar..")..

Of course if all this is to be taken literally, then it wasn't really a gift
from Yaakov to Yosef - as it was his (or at least her's - Osnas') - anyway.

==
As I probably won't be posting anything re parsha Shemos (we are off to New
Zealand for a few days), I'll 'chap arein' an interesting thing I saw this
morning in the Torah Temima.

He quotes Pirkei deReb Eliezer (and Sefer Hayoshor) saying that Yosef was
Mishneh Lemelech to Paroy for 40 years and then (presumably after Paroy's
death) ruled as king for the next 40! 
And that explains the p'sukim: "Vayomos Yosef" followed by "Vayokom melech
chodosh al Mitzrayim"..

Very interesting, but also a bit strange that such an amazing occurrence
doesn't get a mention in the Torah.

SBA