Musar su Genesi 41:38
וַיֹּ֥אמֶר פַּרְעֹ֖ה אֶל־עֲבָדָ֑יו הֲנִמְצָ֣א כָזֶ֔ה אִ֕ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֛ר ר֥וּחַ אֱלֹהִ֖ים בּֽוֹ׃
Faraone disse ai suoi ministri: Potremmo noi trovare un uomo simile, dotato di uno spirito divino?
Shenei Luchot HaBerit
Whenever Moses appeared before Pharaoh he appeared as a messenger of that attribute. Pharaoh's reaction in Exodus 5,2 was that he had certainly never heard of such an attribute of any deity, מי י-ה-ו-ה אשר אשמע בקלו? Pharaoh had no difficulty in accepting G–d in His attribute as אלקים, as we know from Genesis 41,38. The Zohar (Sullam edition Miketz page 13) already comments on Genesis 41,16 where Joseph says: אלקים יענה את שלום פרעה "G–d will provide a reply for the welfare of Pharoh." Rabbi Abba said: "Observe the wickedness of Pharaoh who claimed not to have heard of G–d. He was extremely clever and exploited the fact that Moses had not presented himself as a messenger of אלקים -whom he could not have denied- but as a messenger of י-ה-ו-ה. He found it puzzling that Moses did not come in the name of the "same" G–d as the G–d of Joseph whom he recognised. He could not come to terms with that name of G–d. When the Torah writes ויחזק י-ה-ו-ה את לב פרעה, the meaning is that it was the use of that name that made Pharaoh's heart become obstinate. This is the reason that Moses never used a different name for G–d when confronting Pharaoh. Thus far the Zohar.
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Shemirat HaLashon
From all this, we see the gravity of the issur of lashon hara, twelve months for each man having been decreed upon him, corresponding to the [time of] the judgment in Gehinnom. And while he sat there all of Egypt spoke about his being suspect [with Potiphar's wife], as Rashi explains on the verse (Ibid. 40:1): "And it was after these things that there sinned, etc.", and this [(his being suspected)] was because he had suspected his brothers. But after his punishment was completed, the Holy One Blessed be He remembered his righteousness and raised him higher and higher until he was publicized throughout the land of Egypt in glory and renown as a holy man of G-d, as it is written (Ibid. 41:38): "Can there be found such a one! a man invested with the spirit of G-d?"
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