Torah & Texts

Miketz

By Tobin Belzer

Parshat Miketz is positively dreamy. From cows to corn, this story is full of enigmatic clues to what’s up in Egypt. Sociologist Tobin Belzer brings us inside the brain of the great dream interpreter: Joseph, or Yosef.

Each week, a different storyteller – some musical, some poetic, some just straight-up, tell the story of the current weekly Torah portion…and then we animate it! This particular Parashat haShavua (פָּרָשַׁת הַשָּׁבוּעַ or “weekly Torah portion”) This episode is from Parshat Miketz (מִקֵּץ – Hebrew for “at the end”) in the annual Torah reading cycle of Genesis 41:1–44:17.