This week’s parashah is rightly famed for the speech in which Judah stands before the fearsome Viceroy of Egypt to plea for the safety of Benjamin. It contains the moment where the Viceroy finally reveals, “I am Joseph”, and the fam...
In Genesis 41:8, Pharaoh has a disturbed night’s sleep. He calls for his wise men to explain his dreams, but no answer is forthcoming. “And in the morning it was, his spirit was throbbing, he sent and called all Egypt’s magicians an...
Vayeshev is the start of a long narrative, stretching over three parashiyot, that we commonly call the Joseph story – though it should more accurately be called the Joseph and Judah story, as Robert Alter pointed out many years ago in h...
