Chloe N. '18 tells the story of how Yosef is sold into slavery and ends up in Egypt.

2. Yosef was Yaakov’s
favorite son. To
show how different
their relationship
was, Yaakov gave
Yosef a beautiful
piece of clothing.

3. In Yosef’s first dream,
Yosef and his
brothers were
gathering sheaves.
In Yosef’s second
Suddenly, Yosef’s
dream, the sun,
sheaf got up and the
moon, and 11 stars
brothers’ sheaves
bowed down to him.
bowed down to his.

4. And you
Commentaries: were all
stars and
Why would Yosef tell his brothers bowing
these dreams? down to me.
Yosef was immature. He thought
that if he convinced his brothers
that his greatness came from
Hashem, they would like him.
Yosef hoped that the brothers
would one day depend on him
and know that it was unwise to
hate him.

5. While the
brothers
originally
wanted to kill
Yosef and
blame a wild
animal, they
ended up
throwing him
into a pit.

6. A couple of
Inside: merchants
Yosef
Please bought
send far
away Yosef and
brought
him to
Egypt.
What was Yehuda’s reasoning for
changing their decision about what to
do with Yosef?
Yehuda’s reasoning was that there was
no benefit that they weren't gaining
from simply sending him far away.

7. How do we know that the brothers acted with a clear
conscience?
We know that they acted this way because the brothers were
able to sit down and eat while thinking that they may have
killed their brother and would never see him again.

8. Why did
Yehuda
separate from
his brothers?
Yehuda left his
brothers
because he
lost respect for
them.

9. Yehuda’s first two sons Tamar, the woman who
got married and then was going to marry
died because Hashem Yehuda’s third son,
did not approve. His dressed up in a costume
third son was going to so she could try to trick
get married, but Yehuda into marrying her.
Yehuda stalled the
Rashi:
wedding.
Why did she do it?
She wanted to have
children in Yehudah’s
family.
Tamar was almost burnt
and killed because of her
sins.

10. In jail there was a
Potiphar’s wife cupbearer and a baker. The baker’s dream was
wanted Yosef, The cupbearer’s dream that there were baskets
and Yosef was that there were on his head with food for
refused. She grapes blossomed on a pharaoh and birds were
was so mad vine; then the cupbearer eating the food.
she told squeezed the grapes Yosef said that this
people that he and gave them to meant that he would be
committed Pharaoh. Yosef said that hung in three days.
adultery, so this meant that he would
Potiphar put be reappointed as the
him in jail. king’s cupbearer in three
days and Yosef told him
to tell Pharaoh to let him
out.

11. The cupbearer was The baker was in jail
in jail because a fly because there was a
was in the wine pebble in the bread
when serving it to that Pharaoh was
Pharaoh, and he eating, and he
thought that the thought that the
cupbearer was trying baker was trying to
to poison him. kill him.

12. Mizrachi and Radak:
Why were the punishments
different?
They where different because
the fly could have just flown in,
whereas the pebble in the
bread must have been there
all along from the beginning.
Unlike the fly, the pebble could
have killed Pharaoh. This shows
that the baker was careless,
while the cupbearer is careful
but just had bad luck.