“What is this dream that you have dreamed”?
– “What is this dream that you have dreamed”? אשר חלמת רחל מת
– Goat’s milk compared to mother’s milk
Two nice Torah issues:[one as a code and one as a hint]
Years ago i heard in Holland from Dan Raber this beautiful hint in the Torah from this week parsha.
When Josef had one of his dreams ,his father rebuked him………….read further yourself and what Rashi says and how this is hinted in the Torah in Hebrew
“He related the dream to his father and brothers; His father scolded him saying, ‘What is this dream that you dreamed?’ ” (37:10)
When Yosef (Joseph) had a prophetic dream, he saw the sun (representing his father), the moon (presumably meaning his mother) and 11 stars (his brothers) all bowing to him. His father Yaakov (Jacob), reprimanded him, saying (Genesis 37:10), “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall your mother, brothers and I bow down to you?” Rashi explains Yaakov’s objection: Yosef’s mother, Rachel, had died many years earlier.
ויספר אל אביו ואל אחיו ויגער בו אביו ויאמר לו מה החלום הזה אש ר חלמת הבוא נבוא אני ואמך ואחיך להשתחות לך ארצה׃
וַיְסַפֵּר אֶל־אָבִיו וְאֶל־אֶחָיו וַיִּגְעַר־בֹּו אָבִיו וַיֹּאמֶר לֹו מָה הַחֲלֹום הַזֶּה אֲשֶׁר
חָלָמְתָּ הֲבֹוא נָבֹוא אֲנִי וְאִמְּךָ וְאַחֶיךָ לְהִשְׁתַּחֲוֹת לְךָ אָֽרְצָה׃
Another nice “hint” in the Torah that goat’s milk is one of the best forms of milk after breast milk [of course still far from ideal ] could be the following:
the Talmud states: [niddah 9 a]:
As soon as a woman becomes pregnant, her blood [the menses] becomes muddy and turns into milk
[Julius Preuss' Biblical and Talmudic medicine, translated by Fred Rosner]
31 . And they took Joseph’s coat, and they slaughtered a kid [= young goat], and they dipped the coat in the blood.
Rashi: 31. and they slaughtered a kid. [= young goat] Its blood resembles that of a human.
To make it clear: “the blood of the mother turns into milk” and
the blood of a young goat resembles human blood [according to rashi]
July 16, 2007 at 11:09 pm |
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