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Hebrew			English
אֲנִי			I
אַתָּה			you (m. sing.)
אַתְּ			you (f. sing.)
הוּא			He/Him
הִיא			She/Her
אֲנַחְנוּ			We/Us
אַתֶּם			You/Y’all (m. pl.)
אַתֶּן			You/Y’all (f. pl.)
הֵם			They/them (m. pl.)
הֵן			They/them (f. pl.)

 

 

 

 

 

Quiz on Sleep and Dreams

 

1)   What is the name of the stage of sleep where you dream, and what does it mean?

a.   PIFF- Prefrontal Involuntary Focus Formation

b.  SED- Serological Evolution of Dreaming

c.   STP-  Serological Transient Programming

d.  REM- Rapid Eye Movement

e.   BURP-  Bulging Underneath the Retina’s  Pringle

 

 

2) How many stages of sleep are there before REM sleep?

a.   1

b.  3

c.   6

d.  10

e.   Close to 200.

 

 

3)  What are those  three stages called?

a.   Aleph/bet/dalet

b.  Alpha/beta/delta

c.   Ichi/Ni/San

d.  I/II /IV

e.   Frazzle /Glibble/Ping

 

 

 

4) What happens when the body enters the delta stage of sleep?

a.   Brain activity is minimal, breathing is deep and slow

b.  Brain activity is high, breathing is normal.

c.   The body rarely enters delta stage, we know little about it

d.  Dreams have begun, breathing is rapid.

e.   No brain activity or breathing.

 

 

 

5)  How many hours of sleep do adults need nightly to stay healthy?

a.   4

b.  6

c.   7

d.  8

e.   3 if they have coffee

 

 

6) What is the difference between a nightmare and a night terror?

a.   Only Children get night terrors

b.  Only Adults have nightmares

c.   Nightmares are upsetting dreams,  a night terror is a frightening short-circuiting of the sleep cycle.

d.  Night Terrors can happen every night for months on end.

e.   There is no such thing as Night Terrors, you made that up!

 

7)  What happens in a Lucid Dream?

a.   You are yourself and the dream is 1^st person

b.  You know you are dreaming and may be able to control the dream

c.   You have an omniscient view and know what will happen next

d.  You are someone other than yourself in the dream

e.   You meet Lou and Syd in your dream.

 

8) Hey,  I had a cool dream!  In it I…

a.   Was a Jedi Knight

b.  Was President of the USA

c.   Was part of Taylor Swift’s band

d.  Was living in Tokyo

e.   Was selling used cars in Cleveland. 

 

 

 

9) What is dreamcatcher in Native American culture?

a.   A healer or Medicine Man who interprets dreams

b.  A person of destiny or great potential who can achieve greatness

c.   A special tent or lodge which blocks nightmares

d.  A willow hoop with a netting and other elements.

e.   Dreamcatchers are Brazilian, not Native American.

 

 

 

 

10)                 What actually causes sleepwalking?    

a.   Hormonal imbalances from stress

b.  Positron emissions from fresh lumber

c.   Pollution from Plastics

d.  Excessive exposure to UV rays

e.   We don’t know what causes it.

 

 

 

 

PARSHA: VAYESHEV

1)     What’s a the fanciest or most formal garment there is?

2)   Do we care about our dreams these days?

Why did our ancestors?

 

3)  Why do people play favorites?   Why do parents play favorites?  What about teachers? 

 

Vayeshev: Genesis 37 1-11

Yaakov settled in the land of his father’s journeys,
in the land of Ca’na’an.   These are the (stories of the) offspring of Yaakov: 
Yosef, seventeen years old, used to tend the sheep along with his brothers,
for he was serving-lad with the sons of Bilha and the sons of Zilpa, his father’s wives.  And Yosef brought a report of them, a nasty one, to their father.

Now Yisrael loved Yosef above all his sons,  for he was a “son of old age” to him,
so he made him a ketonet passim*.

 (*a kind of garment, translations vary).

His brothers saw that it was he whom their father loved above all his brothers,
so they hated him,  and could not speak to him in peace.

Yosef dreamt a dream, and told it to his brothers
—from then on they hated him still more—;

he said to them:
“So listen to this dream that I have dreamed:

So there we were, binding sheaf-bundles out in the field,
and suddenly, my sheaf of wheat arose, and it was standing upright,
and suddenly, your sheaves were turning round and bowing down to my sheaf!”

His brothers said to him:

“Would you imperially be emperor over us?
And would you ruthlessly rule over us?”
From then on they hated him still more—for his dreams, for his words.

But he dreamt still another dream, and recounted it to his brothers;
he said:   “Look, I have dreamt still [another] dream:
See, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me!”

[When] he recounted it to his father and his brothers,
his father rebuked him and said to him:
"What kind of dream is this that you have dreamt!
Shall we certainly come,  your mother and your brothers,
to bow down to you to the ground?”

His brothers envied him,
while his father kept thinking about it. 

 

 

WHAT’S A KETONET PASSIM?

Sa’adya Gaon,   Babylonia, 9^th Century:  Linen in its warp, silk in its woof. (Silk would have been immensely expensive). Silk, as we learn in tractate Sanhedrin (Babylonian Talmud)---  Raba bar Mehasia also said in the name of Rabbi Hama ben Goria in Rab's name: “A man should never favor one son among his other sons, for on account of the two sela's (ancient pounds) weight of silk, which Jacob gave Joseph in excess of his other sons, his brothers became jealous of him and the matter resulted in our forefathers' descent into the house of slavery.”

Chizkuni (13^th Century France): A different explanation sees in the word פסים as a “compensation,” for being a half orphan, not having a mother anymore. Yaakov tried to compensate him by having a costly garment made for him.

Daat Zkenim (group commentary, 11^th and 12^th century France and Spain)

כתונת פסים, “an embroidered garment;” extending down to the palms of his hands (and likely to his ankles as well).  [Not a garment for working in.]

 

Ibn Ezra (Spain, 13^th Century) A COAT OF MANY COLORS. Ketonet passim means an embroidered coat. The word passim (many colors) is similar to the Aramaic word pas (part) in part of (pas) a hand (Dan. 5:5).

                                                               

Malbim (Rabbi,  Meir Leibush ben Yehiel Michel Wisser,  19^th Century Poland, later Chief Rabbi of  Romania)

Ketonet Passim--A long colorful cloak. The other brothers were dressed like shepherds, but because Yosef was his father’s attendant he was required to dress in a dignified manner.

 

Rabbeinu Bahya (14^th Century, Zaragosa): ועשה לו כתונת פסים, “he made for him a striped coat.” This was a superior quality garment. It may have resembled the כתונת תשבץ/ketonet tashbetz worn by the High Priest (Exodus 28,4). The brothers were envious of Joseph on account of this garment. According to Bereshit Rabbah 84,6 the expression פסים (plural) is used because these stripes were as wide as two פסות ידיו, two handbreadths.

 

Radak (Rabbi David Kimchi, Provence, 13^th century): ועשה לו כתונת פסים, the word פס is related to the same word in Daniel 5,5 פס ידא, palm of a hand. The cloth was made of differently colored surfaces similar to garments made of soft wool which are made in a number of differently colored stripes or sections. The garment looked very impressive, arousing the hatred of the brothers in addition to the fact that they hated him for spreading tales about them to their father.

 

AND TO SUM IT ALL UP…..

 

Rav Jonah Berele, z”l  (one of Mar Hirsch’s teachers): “Any of the possible answers to what made this garment special meant it took time to source its elements and create it. Surely the brothers were expecting this to be Jacob’s  robe indicating his status as patriarch, chieftain, and father of many.   Surely they watched it being crafted, or had to bring progress reports from the artisans making it to their father. Add in that  fact, and then imagine the brothers reaction when this garment fit for royalty,  long under construction, now winds up not around their father’s shoulders but wrapped around Joseph!”    

 

BERAYSHEET/GENESIS CH. 40

1 It happened after these things, that the chief butler [in charge of the wine]  of the king of Mitzrayim and his chief baker offended their lord, the king of Mitzrayim. 2 Par`oh was angry with his two officers, the chief butler and the chief baker. 3 He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Yosef was bound. 4 The captain of the guard assigned them to Yosef, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.

5 They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man’s dream with a different meaning, both the butler  and the baker of the king of Mitzrayim, who were bound in the prison. 6 Yosef came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and saw that they were sad. 7 He asked Par`oh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?" 8 They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it." Yosef said to them, "Don't interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me."

9 The chief butler told his dream to Yosef, and said to him, "In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me, 10 and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and the clusters of it brought forth ripe grapes. 11 Par`oh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Par`oh's cup, and I gave the cup into Par`oh's hand." 12 Yosef said to him, "This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days. 13 Within three more days, Par`oh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Par`oh's cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his butler. 14 But remember me when it will be well with you, and show kindness, please, to me, and make mention of me to Par`oh, and bring me out of this house. 15 For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Ivrim/ those over the river, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon."

16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Yosef, "I also was in my dream, and, behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head. 17 In the uppermost basket there was all kinds of baked food for Par`oh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head." 18 Yosef answered, "This is the interpretation of it. The three baskets are three days. 19 Within three more days, Par`oh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you."

20 It happened the third day, which was Par`oh's birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and the head of the chief baker among his servants. 21 He restored the chief butler to his position again, and he gave the cup into Par`oh's hand; 22 but he hanged the chief baker, as Yosef had interpreted to them. 23 Yet the chief butler didn't remember Yosef, but forgot him.

  

 

1.    I dreamt I was on a long road trip,  on a greyhound bus.  Every time I went to the back of the bus to use the bathroom, my bubbe Phyllis got in my way and said  very angrily: “Why don’t you like my brisket?”  Then I woke up.

 

2.    I dreamt I  was rich and happy because I had a great job.  One day, I took the morning off and went to help rabbi Dror build a new building .  When I was done helping him,  I had lost my job and had to go work in a soup factory.  Then I woke up.

 

 

 

3.    I dreamed I was a cat, dreaming I was a cat.   I woke up and I was still a cat. Then I woke up.

 

 

 

4.    I dreamed I was a roach, and I was leading the other roaches on a long journey.  We came to the light at the end of a long tunnel, and we came out onto the stove  in my best friend’s house and she was cooking bacon. She screamed and smushed me.  Then I woke up.

 

 

5.    I dreamed I was at my summer camp and everyone was telling me to call the new kid a “mudblood”.  They kept yelling at me  until I said “BUT Harry Potter books are bad for Basketball players.”   Then I woke up.

 

 

 

6.    I dreamt I was studying for my bat/bar with Hazzan Mizrahi, who gave me a page of music and said “Don’t lose it, no matter what!”   But when I went home I was hungry, so it turned into a pizza and I ate it.  Then I woke up.

 

 

 

7.    I dreamt I was working in a particle accelerator lab, and when the director came  to ask me to work an extra day, I said “I don’t roll on Shabbes.”  He said I had to work on Shabbat or I would be turned into a unicorn.  I said “not if I get you first,” fed him a rainbow, and he turned into a half-unicorn half-snake.  And then I woke up in the main sanctuary, I had fallen asleep during Shabbat morning services.

 

 

8.    I dreamt I was reading Torah for my brother’s bar Mitzvah, but I was floating above the bimah because I was wearing a jet pack.  Rabbi Seigel  told me my application to Rabbinical school had been accepted, and handed me a kitten with black fangs. Then I woke up.

 

 

 

9.    I dreamt I was Google, and everyone just kept asking me questions all day, and some of them made no sense, like “How heart pumps to California sideways?”  Eventually, I just put up a few pictures of cats being cute, and then sat and cried for an hour. Then I woke up.

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PARSHAT VAYESHEV  ---6^TH GRADE  BRAUN RELIGIOUS SCHOOL

THOUGHTS ON THE MEANING OF DREAMS

FROM THE TALMUD BAVLI, BRACHOT 57A-57B  (200-500 CE)

 

A)  Rabbi Johanan also said: “Three kinds of dream are fulfilled: an early morning dream, a dream which a friend has about you, and a dream which is interpreted in the midst of a dream.” Some add “also, a dream which is repeated, as it says in Genesis,‘the dream was given in two forms to Pharoah, it will soon come to pass, etc.” 

 

B)  Bar Kappara said to Rabbi [Judah the Regent]  “I dreamt that my nose (aph)  fell off!”  He replied to him “It means you will no longer lose your temper (charon aph).“

 

C)  The elephants in a dream are a good omen  if saddled, a bad omen if not saddled.   If one dreams that he is reciting the Shema', he is worthy that the Divine presence should rest upon him, but his generation is not deserving enough. If one dreams he is putting on tefillin, he may look forward to greatness.

 

D)  The Emperor [of Rome]  said to  Rabbi Joshua bar  Rabbi Hananyah “You [Jews] profess to be very clever. Tell me what I shall see in my dream.” Rabbi Joshua said to him “You will see [your enemies] the Persians making you do forced labor, and robbing you and making you feed unclean animals with a golden shovel.”  The Emperor thought about it all day, and in the night he saw it in his dream!

 

E)   Rabbi Samuel bar Nahmani said in the name of  Rabbi Jonathan: A man is shown in a dream only what is suggested by his own thoughts, as it says in the book of Daniel, “To you, O king, as you lay in bed came thoughts of what would be after this….”    Or if you like, I can derive it from here: “So that you  know the thoughts of the heart.”    Raba said “No- this is proved by the simple fact that a man is never shown in a dream a date palm of gold, or an elephant going through the eye of a needle-- that is to say something he has never seen before or that is impossible.”