[Avodah] my mistake: re: yosef's dreams

[Harvey Benton]

my mistake, the quotation was to the butler and baker:
from mechon mamre:
'Do not interpretations belong to God? tell it me, I pray you.'  9 And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him: 'In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;  10 and in the vine were three branches; and as it was budding, 
its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe 
grapes,  11 and Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and 
pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's 
hand.'  12 And Joseph said unto him: 'This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days;  13 within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head, and 
restore thee unto thine office; and thou shalt give Pharaoh's cup into 
his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.  14 But have me in thy remembrance when it shall be well with thee, and sho
 
hmz
















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 From: Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org>
To: Harvey Benton <harvw613 at yahoo.com>; The Avodah Torah Discussion Group <avodah at lists.aishdas.org> 
Sent: Sunday, January 1, 2012 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Avodah] yosef's dreams............
 
On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 12:53:42PM -0800, Harvey Benton wrote:
: when yosef was approached in prison, didn t he say.....
: to Hashem belong the interpretations??? (or something
: like that???
: but then, he was the one who gave Pharoa teh inter-
: pretations of his dreams.......????? 

I don't know what you mean. See Bereishis 41:16, 25, 28 -- where does
Yosef claim anything but the pitaron coming from HQBH?

"Bil'adai -- E-lokim ya'aneh es shelom Par'oah."

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha
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