{"id":2786,"date":"2024-12-22T06:46:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T13:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2786"},"modified":"2024-12-22T06:46:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T13:46:06","slug":"parsha-vayashev-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2786","title":{"rendered":"Parsha \u201cVayashev\u201d teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week&#8217;s reading from the Torah, parsha Vayazhev (Genesis\/Bereshiet chapters 37 through 40) shifts the story of the line of the patriarchs to Yosef\/Joseph, the first-born son of Rachel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bible tells us there was favoritism, and that is just part of the reason his brothers resented him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Erev Shabbat reading covers that beginning, and his sale into slavery in Egypt, the house of Potiphar, and then prison. There is far more, too:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SSM-12-20-24-Vayashev-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a number of major themes in the study of Joseph this week, from what he teaches us about dreams, to that issue of favoritism and jealousy, and the results, to a larger question about &#8216;adversity&#8217;, and how it figures in our lives, and His plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in the middle of all that is one of the most notable &#8220;chiasms,&#8221; (Mark prefers the Hebrew term &#8216;atbash&#8217; &#8211; for &#8220;alef-tav, beit-shin&#8221; because the first and last, and second and second-to-last name is so descriptive of the Biblical equivalent of an HTML tag)) in the Bible: about Judah and Tamar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That theme, of what happens &#8220;in-between&#8221; resonates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because we, today, are there too:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vayashev: The Time &#8216;In-Between&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/WT-CooH-12-21-24-Vayashev-Josephs-time-In-Between-xx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined two-part teaching is <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/ark-call-parsha-vayashev-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/ark-call-parsha-vayashev-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>, via Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa&#8217;s 2024-25 Torah cycle teachings for parsha &#8220;Vayashev&#8221; (Genesis\/Bereshiet chapters 37 through 40, also Amos chapters 2 into 3.) <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2786\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,1865,1698,12],"tags":[65,60,2059,391,104,212,170,318,101,1352],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2787,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2786\/revisions\/2787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}