This week’s
Torah Portion:
Psa 119:29 Remove from me the way of falsehood, And
favour me with Your Torah.
Psa 119:34 Make(cause) me understand, that I might
observe(preserve) Your Torah, And guard it with all my heart.
Gen 41:38-57
And Pharaoh said to his servants, “Could we
find another like him, a man in whom is the Spirit of Elohim?” Then Pharaoh
said to Yosĕph, “Since Elohim has shown you all this, there is no one as
discerning and wise as you. “Be over my house, you yourself, and at your mouth
all my people shall kiss – only in the throne I am greater than you.” And
Pharaoh said to Yosĕph, “See, I have set you over all the land of Mitsrayim.” And
Pharaoh took his seal-ring off his hand and put it on Yosĕph’s hand. And he
dressed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck. And
he had him ride in the second chariot which he had. And they cried out before
him, “Bow the knee!” And he set him over all the land of Mitsrayim. And Pharaoh
said to Yosĕph, “I am Pharaoh, and without a word from you let no man
lift his hand or foot in all the land of Mitsrayim.” And Pharaoh called
Yosĕph’s name Zaphnath-Paʽnĕaḥ. And he gave him as a
wife Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On. And Yosĕph went out
over all the land of Mitsrayim. Now Yosĕph was thirty years old when he stood
before Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim. And Yosĕph went out from the presence of
Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Mitsrayim. And in the seven years
of plenty the ground brought forth generously. And he gathered all the food of
the seven years which were in the land of Mitsrayim, and laid up the food in
the cities. He laid up in every city the food of the fields which surrounded
them. Thus Yosĕph gathered very much grain, as the sand of the sea, until he
ceased counting, for it was without number. And to Yosĕph were born two sons
before the years of scarcity of food came, whom Asenath, the daughter of
Poti-Pherah priest of On, bore to him. And Yosĕph called the name of the
first-born Menashsheh, “For Elohim has made me forget all my toil and all my
father’s house.” And the name of the second he called Ephrayim, “For Elohim has
caused me to bear fruit in the land of my affliction.” And the seven years of
plenty which were in the land of Mitsrayim came to an end, and the seven years
of scarcity of food began to come, as Yosĕph had said. And the scarcity of food
was in all lands, but in all the land of Mitsrayim there was bread. But when
all the land of Mitsrayim hungered, and the people cried to Pharaoh for bread,
Pharaoh said to all the Mitsrites, “Go to Yosĕph, do whatever he says to you.” And
the scarcity of food was over all the face of the earth, and Yosĕph opened all
the storehouses and sold to the Mitsrites. And the scarcity of food was severe
in the land of Mitsrayim. And all the earth came to Yosĕph in Mitsrayim to buy
grain, because the scarcity of food was severe in all the earth.
Gen
42:1-17 And when Yaʽaqoḇ saw that there was
grain in Mitsrayim, Yaʽaqoḇ said to his sons, “Why
do you look at each other?” And he said,
“See, I have heard that there is grain in Mitsrayim. Go down to that place and
buy for us there, and let us live and not die.” And Yosĕph’s ten brothers went
down to buy grain in Mitsrayim. But Yaʽaqoḇ did not send Yosĕph’s
brother Binyamin with his brothers, for he said, “Lest some harm come to him.” And
the sons of Yisra’ĕl went to buy grain among those who journeyed, for the
scarcity of food was in the land of Kenaʽan.
And Yosĕph was the governor over the land, he was the one who sold to all the
people of the land. And Yosĕph’s brothers came and bowed down before him with
their faces to the earth. And Yosĕph saw his brothers and recognised them, but
he acted as a stranger to them and spoke to them harshly, and said to them,
“Where do you come from?” And they said, “From the land of Kenaʽan to buy food.” So
Yosĕph recognised his brothers, but they did not recognise him. And Yosĕph
remembered the dreams which he had dreamed about them, and said to them, “You
are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land!” And they said to
him, “No, my master, but your servants have come to buy food. “We are all one man’s sons, we are
trustworthy, your servants are not spies.” But he said to them, “No, but you
have come to see the nakedness of the land.” And they said, “Your servants are
twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Kenaʽan. And see, the
youngest is with our father today, and one is no more.” And Yosĕph said to
them, “It is as I spoke to you, saying, ‘You are spies!’ “By this you shall be proven: By the life of
Pharaoh, you do not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here. “Send one of you, and let him bring your
brother, while you are kept in prison. So let your words be proven to see
whether there is any truth in you, or else, by the life of Pharaoh, you are
spies!” And he put them all together in prison for three days.
Midrash:
Read Gen 32 Vs 38,39
Isa
11:2 The Spirit of יהוה shall rest upon Him – the Spirit of wisdom
and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and
of the fear of יהוה, and
shall make(cause) Him breathe in the fear of יהוה. And He shall not judge by the sight of His
eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears.
ג וַהֲרִיחוֹ, בְּיִרְאַת
יְהוָה
Lit – his scent(harihacho - 7306) is the fear of YHVH. The word “breathe” is
not used in the text. However the prophet seems to suggest that the evidence we
have been in the presence of the Messiah is that we “breathe” in the scent or
fragrance of the fear of YHVH. How many today can witness to this?
2Co 2:15-16 Because we are to Elohim the fragrance of
Messiah among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. To
the one we are the smell of death to death, and to the other the fragrance of
life to life. And who is competent for these? Hebrew word for “fear” can mean
both terror or reverence.
Vs 40 - וְעַל-פִּיךָ יִשַּׁק כָּל-עַמִּי
“upon
your mouth he will kiss all my people”
Psa 2:12 Kiss the Son, lest He be enraged, And you
perish in the way, For soon His wrath is to be kindled. Blessed are all those
taking refuge in Him.
Read Gen 42 Vs 41,42,43 and midrash
Php 2:8-11 And
having been found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient
unto death, death even of a stake. Elohim, therefore, has highly exalted Him
and given Him the Name which is above every name, that at the Name of יהושע every knee
should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the
earth, and every tongue should confess that יהושע Messiah is
Master, to the esteem of Elohim the Father.