Thursday, December 14, 2017

Light of Torah

Comments and ideas on the parshah of the week.  Let's begin with this week's parshah Mikeitz which always falls on or close to Chanukah.  Please add your comments.

Question:  Why does the Torah tell us Yosef shaved when he is rushed out of prison to appear before Pharoah?  The Torah is very exact and doesn't give a detail for no reason.  Rashi tells us Yosef shaved in honor of the throne.  A further question is that later when his brothers come to Egypt to buy food, Rashi brings that the reason they don't recognize Yosef is that they last saw him when he had no beard, but now he has a full beard.  How  then could Yosef have shaved for Pharoah?  And why don't the brothers recognize him by his eyes, his voice, his whole bearing... ?