Mikeitz - 2nd Portion

Join me in learning for Monday the second Torah reading of Paras Mikates chapter 41 verse 15. Yesterday we learned as Pharaoh had two dreams. The dream about the fat cows and the skinny cows, the healthy bushels of wheat and the skinny bushels of wheat. and how the butler told Pharaoh that the one that interpreted his dreams while he was in prison was Yoseph. Pharaoh calls for Yoseph. And today we continue as Yoseph comes before Pharaoh. Verse 15. And says to Yseph, I had a dream, but none of my wise men can interpret it for me. But I heard about you reliable reports from somebody that you already interpreted their dream. Lamer saying that you can hear a dream and then you have the ability to understand it and interpret it. Verse 15. Rashi you can understand and listen to a dream to the extent to interpret it as well. They understand it. Not only listen hears and understands people were not able to understand his language answers in verse 16 answers saying without my it is not my it's not but by my power but with Hashem's power I can answer Pharaoh's request tells us I don't take any credit for the wisdom. It's not my wisdom of understanding dreams. God is the one that gives the answer will tell me what to say for the favor and the desire of a parro requests. So therefore, Pharaoh now tells Yseph about his dream in my dream. I'm standing at the bank of the Nile River. Verse 18. Then from the Nile River emerges seven cows robust and wellformed are wellformed and they and they are gazing in the marsh. Verse 19 and then another seven cows emerge after them. Those however were meager and very ill-formed very much so and emaciated. I've never seen such bad cows in all of Egypt. What does it mean? Dalis verse 19 weak. Why are you so weak? When he talks about that he looked weak and he was bad offer. Anytime you find the word in the buser means missing flesh. They were very emaciated. Verse 20. And the emaciated ill-formed cows then ate up the seven robust cows. Verse 20 uh verse 21. These were ingested inside of them into the thin cows was not even known. You would not ever notice wasn't visibly noticed that they had been ingested and they looked just as bad as even before they ingested them. And I woke up. Verse 22. And then I had it fell asleep again and I had another dream. There were seven heirs of wheat, full good-looking ears of grain. I'm sorry. And I saw seven full good-looking heirs of grain were growing in a single stock. They were good-looking and they were healthy in that stalk. Verse 23. And then seven ears of grain shriveled gaunt and battered by the east wind sprouted after them. Rashi explains in Aramaic it means for example it was like a dried out that it's like a piece of wood without any moisture in it and hard like a rockum explains nuts there's only the top of the uh the flower of the actual grain none of the seeds were in it that's how dry it was that all the seeds He just fell off and all you had was a little piece on top. Verse 24. And then the gaunts of grain then swallowed up the seven good-looking grain. And I told I told these stories to my magicians, to my wise men, but nobody can explain to me the dreams. Verse 25 says these two dreams they're really one dream this that God intends to do he told Pharaoh what is it and he says as follows verse the seven good-looking cows are seven years and the seven good-looking heirs there seven good years it is one all one dream verse 26 six. They're all just one seven. There's not a repetition of seven. And you want to know why you saw it twice? Because it's about to happen. But like Yoseph tells him at the end why you saw it twice by the seven years. It says he told him because it was very quick that it was soon going to happen. Therefore, God chose him. And therefore God chose him what's going to happen in the seven years and then what's going to happen at the end of the seven years. Therefore suit that he should see and telling him about what is going to happen showing him of what will happen then at the time as well. Verse 27 and the seven emaciated cows and the bad ones they came after them seven years and the seven empty airs of grain of grain and the ones that were battered by the east wind you are going to symbolize seven years of hunger. verse 28 this is what I have told this what God intends to do as par he showed par what he's going to do to Egypt verse 29 seven years are coming during which there will be a great abundance of satiation in the land of the entire land of Egypt verse 30 and afterwards it's going to come seven years of hunger afterwards and the abundance that was there is going to be all forgotten in the land of Egypt and the famine will ravage the land. 30 says the reason why it was swallowed one into the other because as you saw the cows were swallowed and nothing changed on the cows. So too the hunger will swallow the years of plenty and you will know not even notice that there were years of plenty. Verse 31 the former abundance will not even be known during the years of hunger afterwards afterwards because the famine will be very very severe. This is the interpretation that he didn't notice and you won't see and no change happened to the cows when they were ingested. And now you want to know why you had the dream twice and why you saw the dream the same dream twice two times because it the matter stands ready before God and God is moving quickly to carry it out says he's prepared to do it. Verse 33. Ver verse 33. Now, so now let Pharaoh seek out a man of discernment and wisdom. Does she say all letter to betray him and put him in charge of Egypt? Yoseph does not satisfy himself with just interpreting the dream. But as every good Jew, he decides to give advice to Pharaoh of what he should do. And what should he do then? What should this individual who has good discernment and wisdom Let Pharaoh take steps and appoint officials. Allah over the land and prepare Egypt the seven years of plenty. The word the word comes from the word to prepare and to arm yourself. Like we find that the Jewish people went out which means that they went out armed prepared for what they would encounter later on. Verse 35 and they therefore they will gather all the food that's coming in during these good years and then let them store the grain under Pharaoh's control. The food will be controlled in cities and then they will be guarded. What is he telling us over here? The food shamed. It's a noun. Who? That's why he says that's why it's with a uh you have the the the uh canellations on the al the the vowels on the olive. And over here it has a sele which means to eat which means an activity verb. When you want to say that somebody is eating in a verb then the cancellation will be on. If you want to say that it's a noun food then the cancellation would be on the and the pronunciation is on the alf. And you see one is with a seg which is a noun with a is a verb under his control and in his warehouses. Verse 36 and the food will then be held as a reserve for the land for the year seven years of famine which that will come upon Egypt. And this way the land would not be depopulated by the famashi says food or the one that is stored in the warehouses just like you have any other item which a person puts away and holds for a time when it's needed. This you'll put away to make sure that you have it in the time of hunger to further land to continue to be populated. Verse 37. And the and this. The way Yoseph explained the dream pleased Pharaoh and pleased his servants and all the people that were there. Verse 38. And Pharaoh said to his servants, "Is there a man? Can we find another man like this who clearly this individual who came to tell us the interpretation has the spirit of God with him? They're not asking can we go find somebody else is there anybody like this person meaning if we would look really hard to look would we ever find somebody like this person says it's like asking in a question about a rhetorical question anytime you have a hey in the beginning of a word and it has the with asking a question. Can somebody be found like this in the land of Egypt? Yseph of a year comes and tells Pharaoh a plan to store the stuff for the seers of from the years of plenty for the years of hunger. This concludes the second Torah reading of Paras Mikates.