[Avodah] Yosef advise pharaoh

Micha Berger micha at aishdas.org
Sun Mar 16 06:49:32 PDT 2025


On Sun, Mar 02, 2025 at 02:50:12PM +0200, Danny Schoemann via Avodah wrote:
> R' Joel Rich asked:
> > "Why did Yosef advise  pharaoh   to plan for the seven years of plenty and
> > seven years of famine in a way which would centralize the entire Egyptian
> > economy under the pharaoh's direct control?"
> 
> If you read the story as it's written (not how the ganenet tells it) you
> will see that, with the exception of pharaoh describing the 7+7 cows, it
> doesn't say that the "plentiful years" were gobbled up by the lean years
> without any trace.

In 41:30, Yoseif's intepretation includes "Veqamu sheva shnei ra'av
achareihen venishkakh kol hasava'..."

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha


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