Torah Portion #9 – Vayeshev  “And he settled”

This week's Torah Portion, Vayeshev, “and he settled” is from Genesis 37 and following. Joseph, the favorite son of Jacob, becomes mashkiach, an overseer over his brothers. Not only so, he gets a coat of many colors. He has dreams about his father and his mother bowing down to him, and his brothers bowing down to him. This makes his brothers so jealous they decide to kill him. There's an intervention and they change their mind, decide to put him in a pit. They put goat's blood on his coat and bring it to Jacob to say to their father, “your son is gone.” What an irony, because Jacob also used a goatskin to deceive his own father, Isaac and pretend to be Esau in order to curry favor and get the birthright. Joseph winds up in Egypt after being sold to the Midianites and he becomes a suffering servant, a picture of Messiah Yeshua. Joseph journeys from the pit to the palace to the prison and finally emerges as the provider of everything that the Israelites will need. Yeshua is the ultimate provider.