Reminds me of the midrash about how Joseph knew that Osnat was a daughter of Jacob...
Jacob had engraved the information about her identity upon her special locket. Then when the girls tossed their jewerly at the handsome Joseph, one piece sure stood out.
It's a simple visual in classic designs, isn't it:
A Jewish heart, full of "ahavah", love.
Makes sense because the Medina is the Jewish state, and a Jew is one who has a Jewish mother.
Medina = "from Dinah"
In the modern world the maternal line is known to come by the same way.. mDNA, m(e)D(i)NA
In the grand irony of flipped over stories, is the little thing of ill repute known as a Chanukah bush.
As the story goes, Osnat was hidden in a bush to keep Simeon and Levi from finding her, and the evidence is in her name, the bush (sneh) in the middle of her name.
The root samech nun, inside the alef and tav. Plays off of the word for hate, sinat.
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It all started when Shechem kidnapped Dinah. Shimon and Levi destroyed the entire city but Dina was left with a baby fathered by Shechem. Yaakov was afraid that this baby girl would become Shimon and Levi's next target, so he hid her under a bush (sneh - thus Osnat, get it?). From there, a Malach (angel) whisked her off to Egypt, but not before Yaakov engraved a message in a locket and stuck it around her neck.
The writing in the locket remained a mystery as Osnat grew up in the home of a rich Egyptian aristocrat. From time to time she would ask a wise man or one of Pharoh's advisors to examine the script. But, let's face it, not too many people outside of Yaakov's family were speaking Hebrew in those days. Little did Osnat realize that she should have asked the house slave from Canaan to try his hand at deciphering the script. That's right - Osnat grew up in the house of Potifar and she never knew that the person serving soup was her very own uncle Yosef!
When Yosef was promoted from lowly prisoner to Viceroy, Pharoh had him led through the streets on a beautiful chariot. Yosef was very handsome. Local women stood on their roofs and threw their jewels at him to attract his attention. Osnat was no different. Since she had no jewels, she threw her locket. Lucky her: Yosef recognized the writing in the locket. It read "Whoever marries this girl should know that his children will be descendants of Yaakov."
http://www.torahtots.com/parsha/breishis/miketz3.htm
That's a lot to fit on a little locket, so how to compact all that down? Joseph was a master decipherer anyway, so no problem.
"Love", Interesting to contemplate what the letters represent. Maybe something really super simple like,
"My husband is the Dreamer." (What Joseph's brothers called him).
אישי הוא בעל החלמות
That would be cute. Say wait just a minute, that story about Shechem happened in chapter 34, but Joseph was dreaming in chapter 37.
You've got to figure that Joseph had already irritated everyone plenty by then, because the dreams in chapter 37 were actually the last straw.
It never ends...
Free men dream of liberty. What became of Joseph's dreams. :)