Tafsiran Kejadian 41:13: Tze'enah Ure'enah, Rashi, Rashbam & Tur HaArokh

“As he interpreted for us, so it came to pass” [41:13]. [Midrash] Rabbati writes. A woman comes before Rabbi Eliezer and said. I saw in a dream that the beam of my house broke. He said: you will have a son who will live, and she had a son. Another time, the woman came to the house of study of Rabbi Eliezer to again ask about a dream. Rabbi Eliezer was not at home. The students said: tell us. She told them her dream; a beam in my house broke. The students answered, your husband will die. The woman shouted and cried. Rabbi Eliezer came over immediately and asked why the woman was crying. The students said that they had interpreted her dream that her husband would die. Rabbi Eliezer said; you have killed her husband with your words, since all the dreams follow the words of how one interprets it, as the verse says, “As he interpreted for us, so it came to pass” [41:13].¹⁴Lamentations Rabbah, 1.18.

השיב על כני HE RESTORED UNTO MY OFFICE — he means Pharaoh who was mentioned before, where it is said (v. 10) “Pharaoh was wroth with his servants”. The phrase is elliptical not stating explicitly who restored, for it is not necessary to state explicitly who restored: obviously he who has the power to restore viz, Pharaoh. This is the ease with all elliptical sentences — they leave the matter indefinite as to who has to do the action (i.e. they omit the subject of the verb).

AND IT WAS AS HE INTERPRETED ETC. Me he restored to my post.