Chasidut sobre Gênesis 49:6
בְּסֹדָם֙ אַל־תָּבֹ֣א נַפְשִׁ֔י בִּקְהָלָ֖ם אַל־תֵּחַ֣ד כְּבֹדִ֑י כִּ֤י בְאַפָּם֙ הָ֣רְגוּ אִ֔ישׁ וּבִרְצֹנָ֖ם עִקְּרוּ־שֽׁוֹר׃
No seu concílio não entres, ó minha alma! com a sua assembléia não te ajuntes, ó minha glória! porque no seu furor <span class="x" onmousemove="Show('perush','Refere-se não à carnificina de Chekhem, que foi feita segundo os ditames das Leis de Noé, segundo recebera de Deus - pois nela o raptor deve ser julgado e condenado à morte por espada, e a cidade que não julgar o infrator, incorre toda ela em julgamento e execução igual à do infrator - senão ao fato de que quase levaram ao exício a semente de Abraham, que quase teve fim por seu ato de vingança em seu furor, ao matarem os habitantes de Chekhem. Nestas palavras, Jacob se dirige a eles como se não houvesse ocorrido o milagre do livramento do ataque dos demais cananeus de outras cidades, que é como se houvessem matado a todos os filhos de Israel.');" onmouseout="Hide('perush');">mataram homens</span>, e na sua teima <span class="x" onmousemove="Show('perush','Heb.: /Um touro”, e refere-se a José, que adiante é comparado a um touro em sua bênção tribal. Quase deram fim a ambas as tribos de Efraim e Menachê com o assassinato premeditado, ou com a venda de José ao Egito.');" onmouseout="Hide('perush');">jarretaram bois</span>.
Kedushat Levi
Our author, clearly not too enthused with the Talmud’s answer, suggests a different way of understanding the Talmud’s answer. Our sages, understood that Joseph foresaw and hinted to Binyamin that Mordechai, a distant descendant of his brother Binyamin, would play a great part in the miracle of Purim. He intimated that he and Binyamin shared a similar experience, seeing that they were both the sons of the same mother, Rachel. He had attained high rank as a result of someone’s dream (Pharaoh’s) and Mordechai also rose to eminence as a result of a dream, as our sages in the Targum on the Book of Esther (chapter10) have told us. According to the Targum, on the night when the king could not fall asleep (again), he had been dreaming that Haman wanted to assassinate him. This is why he became angry at Haman and commanded him to dress Mordechai in the Royal robes, and paraded him throughout the capital on the king’s horse. Joseph had been paraded similarly. (41,43) Just as Joseph remained under the rule of Pharaoh at the time, so Mordechai would remain under the rule of Achashverosh. (Compare Rashi on 41,40)
This is another example of the approach of our sages to the details the Torah has revealed about the lives of our sainted forefathers, i.e. that they always were at pains to perform deeds that foreshadowed future, critical, events in the lives of their descendants. (Our author lists more examples of this theme when relating to Shimon and Levi’s killing the inhabitants of Shechem as being a forerunner of the Hasmoneans in the Chanukkah story). [I will omit the balance of the paragraph as, seeing this portion is also read sometimes on Chanukkah, the author felt compelled to introduce this subject here, although those events occurred in post-biblical times. It is somewhat forced, as it requires us to see in Levi rather than Shimon, the principal activist, otherwise the connection with the Hasmoneans who were priests is too tenuous. Ed.]