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“Deathly Hallows” are featured in the seventh installment of the Harry Potter book series by JK Rowling. They are a trio of objects fabled to have been made by Death. Anyone who possess all three hallows is supposed to become the “Master of Death”. – Urban Dictionary
G-d appears to Moshe at the burning bush and tells him that the time has arrived for the Jewish People to leave Egypt and, to this end, he has been chosen as G-d’s emissary. Moshe is less than willing and he argues with G-d [Shemot 4:1]: “They will not believe me and they will not heed my voice, but they will say, ‘G-d has not appeared to you.’” In response, G-d gives Moshe a trio of miracles to perf
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Jacob lies on his death bed and Joseph brings him his two sons to bless. Joseph lines them up in order of age: Menashe, the oldest, on Jacob’s right, and Ephraim, the youngest, on Jacob’s left. Jacob has other ideas. He crosses his hands, placing his right hand on Ephraim’s head and his left hand on Menashe’s head. Joseph attempts to correct his father, informing him that the oldest grandson is already on his right-hand side. But Jacob is adamant [Bereishit 48:19]: “I know, my son, I know; he too will become a nation and he too will be great. But his younger brother will be greater than he and his children[‘s fame] will fill the nations”. Jacob then blesses his grandchi
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Jacob has not seen Joseph in 22 years, ever since that terrible day his sons brought him Joseph’s blood-drenched cloak. Jacob, who does not know that Joseph has actually been sold into slavery in Egypt, despairs of ever seeing him ever again. So when his sons return from Egypt and tell him that not only is Joseph alive but that he also happens to be the Grand Vizier of Egypt, Jacob is incredulous [Bereishit 45:26]: “His heart went numb, for he did not believe them”. According to many of the medieval commentators, Jacob’s heart actually skipped a beat. But when Jacob sees the large Egyptian entourage that has accompanied his sons back to the Land of Canaan, he realizes that they are telling the truth [Bereishit 45:27]: “The spirit of their father Jacob revived”. Not only did Jacob recover from the shock of hearing that Joseph was still alive, he began to recover the from twenty-two missing years in which he himself was essentially
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A worldwide famine rages on and Jacob sends all of his sons but Benjamin, his youngest, to Egypt to purchase grain. There they encounter their brother, Joseph, whom they had sold into slavery twenty two years earlier. Joseph, currently second only to the Pharaoh, recognizes his brothers but he will not reveal his true identity until he is certain that they have mended their ways[1]. He needs them to bring his brother, Benjamin, down to Egypt. His plan is to force them into a situation in which they must sacrifice their own freedom for Benjamin’s. And so he accuses them of espionage and incarcerates their second brother, Shimon, telling them that if they ever want to see him alive a
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From the moment we first meet Joseph as a 17-year-old youth until he stands before Pharaoh, the King of Egypt, 13 years later, he spends the vast majority of his time in captivity. First, his brothers throw him into a pit to die there of exposure. After a change of heart, they sell him to a band of Midianites who bring him to Egypt, where he is sold as a slave to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s ministers. After he shuns the advances of Potiphar’s wife, she accuses him of rape and he is sentenced to life in prison. According to the Talmud in Tractate Rosh Hashanah [11a], Joseph spends twelve years behind bars. Then one fine day, Pharaoh plucks him from prison in order to interpret his