עֵ֤דוּת ׀ בִּֽיה֘וֹסֵ֤ף שָׂמ֗וֹ בְּ֭צֵאתוֹ עַל־אֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם שְׂפַ֖ת לֹא־יָדַ֣עְתִּי אֶשְׁמָֽע׃
하나님이 애굽 땅을 치러 나가시던 때에 요셉의 족속 중에 이를 증거로 세우셨도다 거기서 내가 알지 못하던 말씀을 들었나니
Toldot Yaakov Yosef
2 It seems to me that it says in the Talmud (Rosh Hashanah 10b), "On Rosh Hashanah, Yosef emerged from prison, etc." As it is said (Psalms 81:6): "He made it a testimony in Joseph when he went forth over the land of Egypt, etc."
Toldot Yaakov Yosef
8 And with this, it will be understood that on Rosh Hashanah, Yosef was released from prison. That is to say, after Yosef understood on Rosh Hashanah that the word הש"נה has the same gematria as שט"ן , with one extra aleph, which is the Chief of the Universe, and that is Rosh Hashanah, who is concealed even within the shells, which are associated with Satan, as in the secret of 'and His kingdom rules over all' (Psalms 103:19), to subdue the klipot, and thus it is Rosh Hashana, and when he knew this all evil was dispersed, for the klipot were a prison for the Shechinah, so, too, in the physical sense, Yosef left the prison when he shattered the klipot through this very awareness. And this is what is meant by 'He made it a testimony in Joseph' (Psalms 81:6), through this knowledge, the letter heh was added to him, so that he would be called Yehosef; this is the secret of daat (knowledge), which is associated with the divine name Y-H-V, as is known, and this is his name as he went forth over the land of Egypt; understand this well.
Kedushat Levi
Another allusion conveyed by the shalshelet over our word reminds us of Proverbs 5,5 where Solomon says of the sexually immoral woman, the זונה, that “her feet go down to death, her steps support ‘she-ol,’ hell.” Joseph reminded himself of that dictum and was aware of the need to keep his distance from this kind of “death,” and to cleave to G’d instead. G’d’s name is always linked to life, i.e. eternal life in the celestial regions, as King Chiskiyah (after recovering from his sickness) pointed out in his prayer in Isaiah 38,11אמרתי לא אראה י-ה, י-ה בארץ החיים “I said to myself that I would not see G’d, the G’d Who is in the land of the Living.” According to Sotah 36 the reason why the letter ה was added to Joseph’s name (psalms 81,6; so that it contained 3 of the letters of the tetragram) was that he sanctified the Lord’s name in the privacy of his master’s house. [Yehudah, who sanctified the Lord’s name in public (Nachshon at the sea of Reeds) had two letters added to his name, i.e. his name contained the entire tetragram. Ed.] The shalshelet over the word וימאן alerts us to when Joseph earned eternal life.