Miketz: You Need the Right Dirt
Unperplexed: Parsha Lessons from Maimonides's Guide of the P... by Yitzchak Sprung
Episode notes
You need to have the right dirt.
As is well known, Joseph advised Pharoah to take food from the seven years of plenty and store it away for the years of famine. Pharaoh, in turn, appointed Joseph to oversee this process. As we shall see, in order to do this, Joseph determined that you need the right dirt. And so do we.