[Avodah] asara harugei malchut and mechirat yosef

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 04:12:47PM +0300, Eli Turkel wrote:
: 1. Medrash Ele ezkarah (anyone know anything about it?)

There are two complete copies on Google books. See
http://books.google.com/books?id=WGwpAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s
and
http://books.google.com/books?id=Rl8OAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s
(The latter is annoyingly scanned in in reverse page order; it looks
like the person Harvard hired to scan it looked at the cover and presumed
German page order.)

Both are in the public domain and can be downloaded as PDF.

What I think is important to take from the medrash is to see how
the cheit of mechiras Yoseif reflects itself in the sins of the
generations of the churban and of Hadrianus, why this meant that
we needed to be bereft of leaders who couldn't pull us out of this
morass (thus the Zohar calling them in diyuqnayhu of the brothers),
and how we as the eternal community finally do teshuvah for it all.

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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