#138: The Coat of Pain

Rashi on Parashat Vayeshev, Bereshit/Genesis 37:3

This flower, Alternanthera ficoidia, is colloquially known as Joseph’s Coat. Credit: Lomilia via Wikimedia Commons, CCA-SA 3.0.

Gimme Some Torah #138

וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אָהַ֤ב אֶת־יוֹסֵף֙ מִכׇּל־בָּנָ֔יו כִּֽי־בֶן־זְקֻנִ֥ים ה֖וּא ל֑וֹ וְעָ֥שָׂה ל֖וֹ כְּתֹ֥נֶת פַּסִּֽים׃

Now Israel loved Joseph best of all his sons—he was his “child of old age”—and he had made …