We have seen in the writings of Yohannon that he uses a devise, or I would say a literary signature, of embedding 7’s in his narrative. Also, Yohannon writes topologically rather than chronologically and will say something out of chronological order to explain in his current narrative. He does this both in Revelation and also his Besorah. What if we could detect something like this in the narrative of Yoseph? Would it be important or even relevant? Wouldn’t it be fun to try? Let’s look and see if we can detect a pattern in the narrative of Yoseph.
Category Archives: Bereshith (Genesis)
The Thirteenth Month: Or, “The Day that The Earth Stood Still”
Lesson date: 12/../5854AA
Whenever I read Scripture I never know where or in which direction it will lead me. On 10/28/5854AA we began reading in Bereshith once again and we were finding gems and jewels as always. In preparing for the Torah study for Shabbat on 12/10/5854AA I read Ber. 8:21-22: Gen 8:21 And יהוה smelled a soothing fragrance, and יהוה said in His heart, “Never again shall I curse the ground because of man, although the inclination of man’s heart is evil from his youth, and never again smite all living creatures, as I have done,
Gen 8:22 as long as the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease.”
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Who’s the Stranger Now? The Deeper Story of Hagar
Lesson date: 11/17/5858AA
Around 1979 Arnold Schwarzenegger made a movie named “The Villain,” also starring Kirk Douglas and Ann Margret. It was pretty silly and based on a Bugs Bunny or Roadrunner cartoon backdrop with real people. Anyway, Arnold’s character’s name in the movie was Handsome Stranger and Ann-Margret asked him how he got his name and he told her that his mother named him after his father, who was a handsome stranger. ((No, I don’t smoke anything so we’re not going there.)) It sounds funny (weird) and, even funny (ha-ha) but just suppose it is also applicable to one of the best known stories of Torah? What story is that, pray tell? Abram and Sarai, oops, and Hagar.
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