MiKetz & The Secret of the Son, Part 1: “Swallowed Up” in Ego Death

    MiKetz is a stunning Torah portion– as all of them irrefutably are– that reveals the awe-inspiring moment when Yosef HaTzaddik ascends from the humbling descent into the prison to the heights of authority to become, literally, a “Father” to Pharoah himself. Beginning with the interpretation of a dream– which, the Zohar reveals “come from the side of Nukvah”-- and culminating in Yosef’s brothers falling on their faces at his feet as he ominously tests them over the staged theft of a cup of divination, this portion delineates the uniquely feminine power of that which is hidden in the subconscious, veiled behind masks, and cloaked under the subterfuge that leads to salvation…..