{"id":1759,"date":"2020-12-25T16:35:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T00:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2020\/12\/25\/the-5-books-meander-week-10-mikkets\/"},"modified":"2020-12-25T16:35:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T00:35:52","slug":"the-5-books-meander-week-10-mikkets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2020\/12\/25\/the-5-books-meander-week-10-mikkets\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 Books Meander, Week 10 (Mikkets)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In brief:<\/strong><br \/>\nJoseph gets a haircut, some new clothes, some more new clothes, a wife, two kids, and nigh-Pharaoh-like power over the kingdom. So all in all, a pretty good bounce back for this promising young man.<\/p>\n<p>Years of abundance pass.  And years of famine begin, all as foretold by Joseph, who, like a well-coiffed ant from Aesop&#8217;s fables, frugals Egypt through these challenging times.<\/p>\n<p>His brothers visit in search of food. They don\u2019t recognize Joseph, though he recognizes them. And to no careful reader\u2019s surprise, trickery ensues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A couple of thoughts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I loved the names of Joseph\u2019s children: <strong>Manasseh<\/strong>, meaning: \u201cGod has made me forget completely my hardship and my parental home.\u201d And <strong>Efraim<\/strong>, meaning: \u201cGod has made me fertile in the land of my affliction.\u201d Both names of gratitude and resilience. Of moving forward.<\/li>\n<li>I also still can\u2019t believe they left poor Simeon behind and then sort dawdle around, debating whether or not to go back. (And if you think I\u2019m being unkind here, don&#8217;t listen to me, listen to Judah who says: \u201c&#8230;we could have been there and back twice if we had not dawdled.\u201d And he&#8217;s right &#8212; that was some serious dawdling!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to join in\u2026 this is the place for comments and commentary on Mikkets (Gen 41.1 \u2013 44.17)<\/p>\n<p>Next up: Va Yiggash (Gen 44.18 \u2013 47.27)<br \/>\n-Cecil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In brief: Joseph gets a haircut, some new clothes, some more new clothes, a wife, two kids, and nigh-Pharaoh-like power over the kingdom. So all in all, a pretty good bounce back for this promising young man. Years of abundance pass. And years of famine begin, all as foretold by Joseph, who, like a well-coiffed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}