#9 Haftarah Vayeshev - Parallels and contrasts between Yosef and his 10 brothers with the 10 Tribes

This week’s haftorah in Amos 2:6-3:8 parallels the Torah parashah in Genesis 37:1-40:23 about Joseph and his brothers and contains an allusion to the sale of Joseph by his brothers, an incident discussed in this week’s Torah reading.

Amos opens with a rebuke to the Jewish People. God had been patient with them notwithstanding their transgression of the three cardinal sins — sexual impropriety, idolatry and murder. Their fourth sin, however, crossed the line — the mistreatment of the innocent, widows, orphans and the poor… in essence not taking care of the “whole house of Israel”!

God reminds the Jewish people how He lovingly took them out of Egypt and led them through the desert for forty years and settled them in the Holy Land. There, He bestowed the gift of prophecy on some and inspired others to become Nazirites. Yet the Jewish people did not respond appropriately, giving wine to the Nazirites and instructing the prophets not to prophesy. Amos then goes on to describe God’s punishment for the errant behavior: “And the stout-hearted among the mighty shall flee naked on that day, says the Lord.”

The haftorah ends with an admonition from God, one that also recalls His eternal love for His people:

“Hearken to this word which the Lord spoke about you, O children of Israel, concerning the entire nation that I brought up from the land of Egypt. ‘Only you did I love above all the families of the earth; therefore, I will visit upon you all your iniquities…'”

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