Parshas Vayeshev: The Unforeseen Swirl of Divine Redemption-- How the Last Straw of Defeat Can Actually Be the First Spark of Deliverance

 Forsaken by his brothers, sold into slavery, and imprisoned onfalse charges, Yosef seems so far from his dreams of grandeur. By we know withhindsight that these circumstances actually ensure the fulfillment of hisdestiny. This is the theme of Vayashev— our realization that the seeds ofsalvation are sowed within the suffering itself. Via extensive textualpatterns, we will discover this idea writ large not only throughout the parsha,but throughout our own sagas of golus and geulah.