Parashat: Vaieshev en Inglés.5786

This Parashah narrates the story of Yosef Hatzadik ben Yaakov. Yosef is a figure of great importance as he represents the bridge between two stages of Jewish history: the transition from a family of shepherds to a nation, a people forged in Egypt and in the Sinai Desert. Yosef was Yaakov's favorite son because he was the son of Rachel, his principal wife, for whom he agreed to work with Laban for many years. Even though all of Yaakov's sons were righteous, it was Yosef whom Yaakov saw as his successor, and therefore revealed to him secrets of the Torah and transmitted to him all the laws he had studied in the Yeshiva of Shem and Eber. In addition to the physical resemblance between Yaakov and Yosef, there are similarities in the stories of their lives, among which we can mention: Both were accompanied by angels and blessed through a dream: Jacob in the dream of the ladder and Joseph, who attained his greatness through the interpretation of Pharaoh's dream about the fat and lean cows. Both lived and died in Egypt and requested that their remains be taken to Israel. Joseph's brothers were angry with him not only because he was their father's favorite, but also because of the two dreams Joseph had had and recounted to them. In the first, they were all together in the field tying bundles of grain, and suddenly Joseph's bundle of grain stood up, and the others' bundles bowed down before him—a sign that he would rule them, just as happened many years later when they bowed down to him in Egypt, where they went to buy grain.