Yosef's economic policy

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  1. Joseph's Economics

    Rabbi Alex Israel | 36 minutes

    This shiur focuses on the economic policy of Yosef in managing the grain in Egypt during the seven years of famine. The plain text is troubling: Is Yosef manipulating and buying people? Two approaches to the parsha are analyzed: Yosef saves the country while maximizing human dignity - or he has a flawed approach, from which we can learn a different type of lesson.

  2. Template of the Diaspora

    Rabbi Dr. Tamir Granot

     The Torah devotes some fourteen verses in chapter 47 to a description of Yosef's economic stewardship of Egypt during the years of famine: he purchases tracts of land - and eventually also the people — as servants to Pharaoh, he oversees a resettlement project, etc. We could read the Torah (and in particular, the end of Sefer Bereishit) quite well without this section about Yosef; it is not regarded as a dominant element in our traditional collective perception of Sefer Bereishit and the history of Israel. What is the Torah's point in telling us this story in such painstaking detail?

    Through a more thorough examination of the passage in question, against the background of its location and the adjacent sections, may lead us to a different conclusion as to the purpose of the documentation of Yosef's activities in Egypt.

    The famine in Egypt, thanks to Yosef's astute analysis and planning, is actually a source of blessing for Ya'akov's family; in the wake of this period the family indeed turns into a national group: "God planned it for the good, in order to bring it about this day that the lives of many people should be saved."  Yosef's actions are a central factor in this process, and thus his leadership becomes the basis for the physical creation of Am Yisrael.

  3. Yosef the Provider and a Lesson for Teachers

    Rabbi David Silverberg

  4. Heavily Taxed or Heavily Armed - Yosef's Grain Tactics

    Rabbi David Silverberg

  5. Yosef's Job Requirements: Intelligence and Wisdom

    Rabbi David Silverberg

  6. Yosef Speaks Up

    Rabbi David Silverberg

  7. Yosef's Economic Policy and his Family in Egypt

    Rabbi David Silverberg

  8. The Bitter Irony of Yosef's Economic Policy

    Rabbi David Silverberg

  9. Erev Shabbat Parshat Vayigash - Leadership

    Rabbi Moshe Aberman | 21 minutes

    What makes a great (proper) leader? We focus on two brothers  - Yosef and Yehuda. They both aspire to leadership, both initially failing in their attempts and both later succeeding because they manage to find the balance between ideas of leadership criteria and personal traits.

    We begin back in Parashat Vayeshev, where they are at odds: Yosef understands that their life as they know it is coming to an end and that they have to prepare to meet a different reality; Yehuda believes in leaving things as they are until it is absolutely necessary to change.

    They both undergo periods of hardship and challenge to eventually realize that leadership is about focusing on others more than the leader himself.