"And Yosef
recognized his brothers, but they didn’t recognize him." (Breishis
42:8)
In this week’s
parsha the master plan of the Almighty to bring the Jewish People down to Egypt
begins to unfold. Yaakov sends his sons down to Egypt to buy food because of a
famine in the Land of Canaan. They approach the Viceroy of Egypt to appeal for
food without realizing that he is none other than their brother Yosef. Why
didn’t they recognize him? Did thirteen years make such a difference in his
appearance that they couldn’t discern that it was their own brother? Indeed,
Yosef recognized them after the years of separation.
The Baal Haturim as
well as other commentators explain that since the brothers sold Yosef to be a
lowly slave they couldn’t imagine that he could reach such a height as becoming
the second in command of the entire Egyptian nation. Think a little about what
this tells us about our nature !!
Rosh Chodesh : When
Rosh Chodesh falls on Shabbas, there is a minhag to prepare an extra dish,
something different as a sign that it is a different Shabbas, and now when its
...
Hanuka : When
Hanuka falls on shabbas, there is also a minhag to prepare an extra dish.
So now we have for this special Shabbas, two
extra dishes. Two items that you might not have on a normal Shabbas
And that’s the
order. tadir ve aino tadir, tadir Kodem. What we do most often, and something
that is not so often, we do the one we do more often - first.
In other words, the
day is short and the time is moving. First prepare your normal Shabbas food,
then the extra for Rosh Chodesh, and finally the extra dish for
Hanuka.
If you want my
Poulet a La Basque recipe, let me know and I will try and write it for you in
the few remaining seconds I have before Shabbas.
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