PARSHA: VAYESHEV
1)
a. Dream quiz
What’s the fanciest / most expensive thing you have ever worn?
b. Why do people play favorites?
c. Why do parents play favories
d. Text
e. Commentators on the ketonet
2) The power of dreams
a. Do we care about our dreams these days?
b. Why did our ancestors? No snapchat or netflix?
c. Dream interpretation Game:
d. Text
e. Dreams in Talmud- Handout
1. מַטְבֵּחַ
a. Matbucha
b. Maetbaecha
c. Matbeacha
d. Meetbeecha
e. Matbae’ach
2. הַמְנַבֵּחַ
a. Ham’nabea’ach
b. Haminabea’ach
c. Ham’nabeecha
d. Hamaynabaycha
e. Hamanyabubu
3. בְּשִׁעְבּוּד
a. Besheea’bohd
b. Be’sha’bohd
c. Be’sha’bood
d. Be’shee’bood
e. Bansheeaboo
4. הַסְּגֻלָּה
a. Hasgeelah
b. Hasgalah
c. Hasgulah
d. Hase’gulah
e. Hasnackisraw
5. הֱבִיאַנִי
a. He’eviani
b. Hevi’ani
c. Hevani
d. Have’ani
e. Haveaniceday
6. זְרֻבָּבֶל
a. Zar’babel
b. Zur’babel
c. Zerubabel
d. Zerubavel
e. Zerobarbells
7. וְקִנְיָנָיו
a. Vekinyanav
b. Vekine’yanav
c. Vekinyanaiv
d. Vekinyaneev
e. Venkmanlives
8. הַמְּדָתָא
a. Hamdatah
b. Hame’datah
c. Hama’datah
d. Hame’datai
e. Hamadaughter
9. חַשְׁמַנִּים
a. Chamishim
b. Chashmanim
c. Chashmainim
d. Chashmonim
e. Chashbrowns
10. מֵאֻמָּה
a. Me’umah
b. Ma’umah
c. May’umah
d. May’umeh
e. Maybenot
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English |
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אֲנִי |
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I, me |
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אַתָּה |
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you (m.
sing.) |
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אַתְּ |
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you (f.
sing.) |
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הוּא |
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He/Him |
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הִיא |
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She/Her |
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אֲנַחְנוּ |
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We/Us |
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אַתֶּם |
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You/Y’all
(m. pl.) |
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אַתֶּן |
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You/Y’all
(f. pl.) |
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הֵם |
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They/them
(m. pl.) |
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הֵן |
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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 at all.
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, Mar Hirsch made it up.
7) What
happens in a Lucid Dream?
a. You
are yourself and the dream is 1st 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.
Vayeshev:
Genesis 37 1-11
Yaakov settled in the land of his father’s journeys,
in the land of Kena’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 ke’tonet passim.
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 were jealous him,
and his father kept thinking about it.
WHAT’S A KETONET PASSIM?
Sa’adya
Gaon, Babylonia, 9th
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 (13th 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, 11th and 12th 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, 13th 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, 19th 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 (14th
Century, Zaragosa): ועשה לו כתונת פסים, “he made for him a striped coat.” This was a superior quality
garment. It even 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, 13th 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!”
1. I dreamt I was
on a long flight, on Spirit air. Every time I went to the back of the plane 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 Cantor Josh, 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.
BERAYSHEET/GENESIS
CH. 40
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. Par`oh was angry with his two officers, the chief butler
and the chief baker. He put them in custody in the house of the captain of
the guard, into the prison, the place where Yosef was bound. 4The captain of
the guard assigned them to Yosef, and he took care of them. They stayed in
prison many days.
The chief butler told his dream to
Yosef, and said to him, "In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,
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. 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." Yosef said to him, "This is the interpretation of it: the
three branches are three days. In 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.
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. 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."
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. 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." Yosef answered, "This is the
interpretation of it. The three baskets are three days. 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."
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. He restored the chief butler to
his position again, and he gave the cup into Par`oh's hand; but he hanged
the chief baker, as Yosef had interpreted to them. Yet the chief butler
didn't remember Yosef, but forgot him.
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THOUGHTS
ON THE MEANING OF DREAMS
FROM THE TALMUD
BAVLI, BRACHOT 57A-57B (200-500 CE)
A)
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.”
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