In this meditation, we look at issues of superiority and inferiority in the Yosef story and our own tendencies to live through the lens of constant comparison to others. And then we touch into our deepest desire, which, like Yosef, is ultimately to seek “our brothers” and our sisters, to seek fellowship and peer connection, to walk along together, neither above or below one another.
Sources:
Genesis 37:3
Bekhor Shor, Hizkuni and Birkat Asher on Genesis 37:3
Idea of stilts is from Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self (1997), p. 36
Rashi on Numbers 22:12
Genesis 37:15-16
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