Audrey S. Pollack
Joseph: Mensch or Menace?
With this week’s Torah portion, we enter the final four (Torah portions, that is) of the Book of Genesis. From here on in, the narrative predominantly follows Joseph and his brothers as their dysfunctional family takes a journey downward—first to the bottom of a low pit and Joseph’s individual captivity
Fear and Awe
Then Moses called Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel: "Be strong and resolute, for it is you who shall go with this people into the land that the Eternal swore to their fathers to give them, and it is you who shall apportion it to them. And it is indeed the Eternal who will go before you. [God] will be with you; [God] will not fail you or forsake you. Fear not and be not dismayed!" (Deuteronomy 31:7-8)
