Torah Classes

Chp. 40 verse 23 - Chp. 41 verse 38: After two years, Pharaoh has two dreams that no one can interpret, and now the Butler remembers Yosef to Pharaoh. He is taken from prison interprets the dreams and gives Pharaoh advice as to how best to survive the upcoming famine.

Chp. 43 verse 34 - chp. 44 verse 17: After the meal Yosef has the sacks of the brothers filled with grain and in the sack of Binyamin he hides his silver goblet. After they leave he has his servant chase after them and accuse them of stealing his goblet. They search and find the goblet in Binyamins' sack, they all return to the viceroy who chastises them and says that he will keep Binyamin as a slave and that they can leave in peace.

Chp. 43 verse 1-34: The famine continues and Yaakov is forced to send Binyamin to Egypt based on a guarantee from Yehudah. Yosef invites them to his house to eat and he sees his brother Binyamin. They all sit down to a meal and he gives them gifts and they drink with him.

Chp. 42 verse 8 - end of Chp.: Yosef recognizes his brothers but they do not recognize him. He accuses them of being spies. They tell him about their father and younger brother who are in Canaan. He puts Shimon in jail and sends the rest of them home with provisions. He tell them not to return unless they bring back Benyamin. They find the money in their sacks and are concerned. They tell Yaakov about all that had happened but he refuses to send Binyamin back to Egypt.

Chp. 41 verse 39 - Chp. 42 verse 8: Pharaoh appoints Yosef viceroy, with complete autonomy. He gives him a new name and a new wife. She bears him two sons. There are seven years of plenty and then begin the seven years of famine, as Yosef had prophesied. Chp. 42, begins with Yaakov sending ten brothers to Egypt to buy grain. They meet the viceroy and they bow down to him, he recognizes them but does not reveal his identity to them.

Chp. 37 verse 1-8: Begins with the story of Yosef and his dreams. He tells them to his brothers and they hate him.

Chp. 39 verse 7 - Chp. 40 verse 23: Potifars' wife tries to seduce Yosef, but he refuses. She accuses him of rape and he is thrown in the royal dungeon. There he meets the Chief Baker and Chief Butler. They both have a dream which Yosef interprets correctly. The Baker dies and the Butler lives. Yosef asks the Butler to remember him to Pharaoh.

Chp. 38 verse 8 - chp, 39 verse 6: Continues with Onan marrying his brothers widow and he too dies for his sins. Yehudah tells his daughter in law to wait for his third son to mature so that he can marry her, but she sees that Yehudah has no intention of doing so. And so Yehudah's wife dies and Tamar dresses up as a harlot and seduces her father in law without him realizing who she was. She becomes pregnant from that relationship and Yehudah wants her killed for infidelity but then he realizes that he is the father. She gives birth to twins. Chp. 39, begins with Yosef being sold to Potifar, a minister in Pharaoh's court. Hashem blesses Yosef in all that he does in the house of his new master.

Chp. 37 verse 23 - Chp. 38 verse 8: The brothers strip Yosef of his coat of many colors, they throw him in a pit, and then they sit down to eat. They then sell him to the Ishmaelites who sell him in Egypt. They dip his coat in sheeps blood and show it to their father, who mourns for the loss of his favorite son. Chp. 38, begins the story of Yehudah marrying and fathering three sons. The eldest son, Er marries Tamar but he sins and dies.

Chp. 37 verse 9-22: Continues with the dreams of Yosef. Yaakov sends him out to the field to check on the brothers and the sheep. The brothers see him and plan to kill him but Ruevain convinces them to throw him in a pit instead, so that he can later save him.