Why did Yosef advise pharaoh to plan for the seven years of plenty and
seven years of famine in a way which would centralize the entire Egyptian
economy under the pharaoh's direct control?
bsorot tovot
joel rich
R' Joel Rich asked:
"Why did Yosef advise pharaoh to plan for the seven years of plenty and
seven years of famine in a way which would centralize the entire Egyptian
economy under the pharaoh's direct control?"
If you read the story as it's written (not how the ganenet tells it) you
will see that, with the exception of pharaoh describing the 7+7 cows, it
doesn't say that the "plentiful years" were gobbled up by the lean years
without any trace.
Au contraire, it seems that the 7 lean years lean on the plentiful years
(pun intended).
Yosef, therefore saw this advise as part of the deciphering of the dream.
That's a pshat I saw recently.
Kol Tuv
- Danny, son of"Nosson ben Bayla who needs a speedy recovery."
In 41:30, Yoseif's intepretation includes "Veqamu sheva shnei ra'av
achareihen venishkakh kol hasava'..."
Tir'u baTov!
-Micha