Miketz: Gd's plan

Miketz: Gd's plan

 

 The word miketz contains the word ketz: the end.  Ketz seems different from sof, another word for the end.  Ketz implies  an anticipated end, a completion. It is the word associated with the end of days, the messianic era.

Ketz implies the unfolding of the divine plan.

 

In Miketz we see this unfolding.  Pharaoh has a dream and the master of dreams is delivered from prison. There is a sense that Gd planted the dream.  Joseph even says that the dream constituted Gd showing Pharaoh what Gd planned to do.  Pharaoh did not have a dream, he was given a vision that was part of plot to elevate Joseph and enslave the children of Israel.  Could Pharaoh have ignored the dream, or found another to interpret it? We do not know. Free choice is a precious illusion; so is the Divine plan.

 

Another small observation: Yosef and Aisov sound very similar. Yosef's behavior toward his brothers resembles what Yaakov feared from Aisov.  Just as Yaakov bows to Aisov, the brothers bow to Yosef.  Just as Yaakov sent a mincha to Aisov, the brothers bring a mincha to Yosef.

 

Patterns, destiny, fate...

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.