CHABAD.ORG To Wait Without Despair By Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Something extraordinary happens between last week’s Parshah and this week’s. It is almost as if the pause of a week between them were itself part of the story. Recall last week’s Parshah about the childhood of Joseph, focusing not on what happened but on who made it happen. Throughout the entire roller-coaster ride of Joseph’s early life he is described as passive, not active; the done-to, not the doer; the object, not the subject, of verbs.