"I enjoy your post but not prepared for it. 🤔 Surprised; off guard... I see you have been around since 2000. Blessings..."Thanks. I never know what kind of related news I might happen upon by freely wandering around on any given day. Keeps me motivated. Never Boring.
As for the "Spirit of God" / Ruach Elohim [רוח אלהים], it is the one that appears first, hovering at the time of the First Light -- the "Ahas-Я-US" moment of epiphany, as it were (date of Flight 71: Jan 6).
The second place as per the Hebrew is that one I quoted, where Pharaoh describes Joseph. Pharaoh was impressed with Joseph's ability to extemporaneously rattle off the understanding and solutions. That particular Pharaoh was not only not offended by Joseph's 110% Can-Do spirit, he hired Joseph immediately based on merit and abilities. "DIE" er DEI was obviously not how he ran things.
Genesis 41:38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is[אשר רוח אלהים בו]?Besides, the Torah states that Joseph had been put in charge of the prisoners, so he could detect a regime change just on that avenue of intel alone, say if the new arrivals shifted from being odious child predators to J6-ers who were guilty of being at the wrong place at the wrong time according to a sudden change in the definition of "wrong.".
And the way that [second] verse goes, the phrasing weaves in the detail about "the light" [האור] because the word in front of the Spirit of God is "asher", the relative pronoun introducing the clause (= which, that, who, whom).
Specifically, as the returning light (the "ohr chozer", the reflective light e.g. of the Moon) because the letter order is bounced back; i.e. reversed.
As long as I'm at it, here's the phrase, with the [reflected/reversed] light in blue, and "Яachel" going forward in red:
אשר רוח אלהים בו
That may look like abject nonsense (heh, if I desired a personality cult I sure am doing it wrong), but the folks I pinged would already know the background concepts inherent in that, especially as it weaves in Rachel who is Joseph's mother, aka the Mother of all Israel, and the symbolisms involving the Moon.
"Яachel" going forward in red..
That reminds me of a funny story. A long while back in my travels, I had come upon a wiki page that provided examples of Hebrew portmanteaus, הֶלְחֵם בסיסים -- lit. a welding of bases, also shortened to הלחם. The sad AI translators can't keep up though, seeing "הלחם" (helchem) as ha-lechem, "the bread". But then again not wrong, depending on one's choice of diet.
Words merged with "ohr" were heavily represented, because the explanation was demonstrating how the alef א of "ohr" אור disappeared in the new words.
Well, one of these words is a traffic light, which is even the representative image on that page:
רמזור (רמז + אור)
That's "hint, suggestion" (remez) + "light" (ohr). It struck me as funny because since when are traffic lights "suggestions"? If anything on the roads demands strict adherence to traffic laws, it's a traffic light.
Red means stop. It's not just a hint. It's a commandment.
A person taking this concept to its logical conclusion would then see then that the "Ten Commandments" really are those "Ten Suggestions" that everyone jokes about. Or as in the case of Mel Brooks as a quick-thinking Moses, 15 - Oy! - 10, TEN! commandments for all to obey.
Crazy. Everyone knows the real story is that he broke all of them so that the guilty people of Israel would not be guilty of non-existent laws. Now *that's* Ingenuity, in-Jew-new-ID. Street cred. How to run red lights without being guilty of moving violations. Then it's back to driving school.
Then what? A bunch of crumbs to round up (no genuine Jew is going to be a litterbug, that would be wrong). The *Mosaic* Law in a nutshell.
Winning!
Blessings to you and yours.
~ EZ
(The hovercraft is one of my favorite subjects. I get sucked right in.)
So Potiphar did not send Joseph to a prison for slaves, he sent him to a prison for the upper class - where he made him an advisor from the start.
Of course the rest of the story is told in Genesis. Undoubtedly Potiphar gained status from Joseph being chosen by Pharaoh as his chief advisor. Joseph reveals that his being sold into bondage was intended for evil but God (haShem) turned it into good to serve His Perfect Will.
Which brings up the story of Joseph and his difficult reconciliation with his brothers. In rabbinical writing, Joseph is secreted behind a curtain as his brothers talk and come to the realization that all their misfortune has come upon them because of their evil deed of selling their brother into slavery and deceiving their father into believing that Joseph was dead.
Joseph is weeping and finally emerges and reveals himself to his brothers. The story also serves a prophetic purpose because it represents the reconciliation of Israel with their Messiach in the Great Tribulation; the veil is removed from their eyes - God's Perfect Will. 🤔
It's important to continue on the subject of Ingenuity and the Spirit of Elohim hovercraft [taking up residence within Joseph], because
I've wondered if Joseph's office had one of the greatest views in the whole land of Egypt, toward the Great Pyramid of "Kufu".
I'm simply basing that on how the world works. The people at the top get the quiet view from the top, the grand space and vista for inspiration, minus the usual distractions from down below.
Turns out it is the last surviving Wonder of the Ancient World, yet
to this day, nobody knows what that huge stack of stones is all about. Not who built it, or what its purpose was. And it's got all of those interesting chambers and passageways.
And literally to top it all off is the mystery of the missing capstone. As far as anyone can tell, it's always been missing, so what could that be all about?
One of the ideas floating around is that the Great Pyramid functioned as some sort of... power plant. Then the alien theories got a foothold and well
what continues to this very day is that all kinds of hypotheses and theories are... generated... to explain its building and use. No shortage of... ingenious ideas. It's a cottage industry.
Then the obvious sails right on by, that the Great Pyramid of "Kufu" is veritable ingenuity-generator that keeps on keeping on in real-time while no one has a clue that it is doing that. Clever!
As a matter of fact, one of the example sentences under the definition of ingenuity ("The ability to solve difficult problems in original, clever, and inventive ways.") is:
The pyramids demonstrate the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians.
"Ancient Egyptians" looks more like a code for Jews, going by the real root and offspring of ingenuity:
From Latin ingenuitās.:
ingenuitās f (genitive ingenuitātis); third declension
(originally) The condition of being free-born or noble
noble-mindedness, ingenuousness
Noun
ingenuity (usually uncountable, plural ingenuities)
1. The ability to solve difficult problems in original, clever, and inventive ways.
2. (now rare) Ingenuousness; honesty, straightforwardnessDerived terms
Yankee ingenuity
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A lot of people roll their eyes at the name being "Kufu", because those "in the know" insist that the can't-miss-cairn predates any pharaoh by thousands of years, and also that the scribbled interior hieroglyphics that identify "Kufu" as the builder pharaoh are of dubious origin. The whole account is sketchy.
So, what's in a name?
In the language of the place named for being the origin of the Sun [🔴],
ingenuity, device, scheme, laborer, worker:
工夫
Kufū
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The Pharaoh who knew to put Joseph in charge was also the one who knew just the right girl for him: Osnat, who hailed from On (versus Off) -- aka Heliopolis, "Sun City". I suspect that she was the kind of girl who flipped every switch merely by walking into a room. Even Buck Owens sang a song about a girl who came from the place named for being the origin of the Sun. The face... of analog time.
All of which goes together to make sense of the "strange" tradition that Osnat was actually a member of the tribe -- the daughter from Dina (medina) by way of Shechem. And from being the result of an illicit union, she had been "sold down the river" by Jacob for a good cause: to keep her safe from the wrath of Simeon and Levi who suffered not only from anger management issues, they lacked a rudimentary grasp of the sublime.
Anyone recall the story about Elijah's Violin which concerned the reflected light of the mirror? Here's a PDF scan of the tale. Or here, from Elijah's Violin and other Folktales.
How many people are sure that these kinds of stories are all fake? Yet here's Elijah's Violin awaiting rescue (as long noted on my FR about page). It's a "kinnor".
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And the old man said: "There will come a day when you will repay me in full, for your daughter will set free the imprisoned melodies."
And the king wondered at this, and he said: "Tell me old man, what is your name?"
The old man replied: "My name is Elijah."
And then the old man returned to the shadows of the cave, and the king set off to rescue the princess who was imprisoned in stone.
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-- Egypt: oral tradition
Then there are the keys that Pharaoh handed over to Joseph when he gave Joseph the special code name.