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Reading one of my blogs can be rather perplexing. The first paragraph may seem clear enough, but by the time you have reached paragraph three – having consumed a myriad of re-definitions of names and words with their associated etymologies – your mind may feel a bit jumbled. Similarly in Pharaoh’s first dream, he sees cows that are beautiful of appearance and sculpted of flesh, but they are followed by cows that are poor of appearance and gaunt. In his second dream, he sees ears of grain plump and good, followed by those that are thin and blasted by the wind. In both dreams, those of poor appearance, coming after, consume the former. These dreams are descriptions of how your mind might feel by the third paragraph of my blog. At first everything is clear and you feel confident (בשר)1 that you understand all that you have read, but by the third paragraph, all those re-definitions and etymologies have become so jumbled within your mind that you no longer feel confident of your initial understanding.