{"id":2326,"date":"2016-04-21T00:07:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T00:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2326"},"modified":"2016-04-21T00:07:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T00:07:53","slug":"vayeishev-5760","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2326","title":{"rendered":"VaYeiShev (5760)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Drash Cards for VaYeishev (5760)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 We have the start of the Joseph story: Jacob settles down, favors Joseph over his brothers who sell him, and Joseph ends up in prison.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 I want to focus on Ch 37, v15-17: \u00a0A man found him. \u00a0Who is this man? \u00a0An actual man? An angel?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Does this tell us the importance of chance events \u00a0&#8211; or that there is a plan but we don&#8217;t see it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Old joke: River rising. A woman refuses to be rescued by a 4 wheel drive, boat, helicopter because &#8220;God will save me&#8221;. When she meets God she asks why God did not save her and God say &#8220;I sent a warning, a 4 wheel drive, a boat, and a helicopter. Why did you not use any of them&#8221;? This is the fundamental problem of monotheism &#8212; why do evil\/bad things exist in a world with an omniscient and omnipotent God.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022We also have Er&#8217;s death (Ch 38, v 7): God caused him to die, but then with Yosef in Egypt (Ch 39, v 2): God caused him to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Back to Ch 37, v20: God is missing from this story; Reuben is the one who saves Joseph. From this we learn that God does not always intervene (think of Cain and Abel, Ch 4, v 3)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 When we think of human-induced evil in the world the question is not &#8220;Where is God?&#8221;. The question is &#8220;Where are the righteous humans?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drash Cards for VaYeishev (5760) \u2022 We have the start of the Joseph story: Jacob settles down, favors Joseph over his brothers who sell him, and Joseph ends up in prison. \u2022 I want to focus on Ch 37, v15-17: \u00a0A man found him. \u00a0Who is this man? \u00a0An actual man? An angel? \u2022 Does &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2326\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2326","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2327,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2326\/revisions\/2327"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}