Things happen due to more than one factor at a time,
beyond what we see, there’s a complex paradigm.
We ended up in Egypt because God said it should be,
but there’s another deep reason, we don’t always see.
Yaakov gets the idea to send Yosef to Shechem,
where the brothers are tarrying, he tells Yosef to go find them.
You’d think, after a long while, Yosef would look no more,
and then, a man approaches and asks who he’s looking for.
He says, “My brothers.” The man says, “I know where they went,”
and then to Dotan—where they were—Yosef was sent.
This man was a kind of angel, orchestrating the will of God;
this is how we got to Mitzrayim, though it may seem odd.
Things happen due to more than one factor at a time,
beyond what we see there’s a complex paradigm.
Rabbi Neil Fleischmann, an ordained rabbi from RIETS, has taught Torah for over 30 years—primarily at The Frisch School—where he coached the award-winning poetry team. As an integral part of the Yeshiva Poetry Society, Fleischmann is a passionate advocate for the arts within the Torah world. He was named New York’s funniest rabbi and has performed stand up comedy, as well as presenting as scholar in residence, across the city and country. His literary work includes the haiku collection, “In The Field,” and he has contributed close to 20 poems to the “Stories of Our Lives” anthologies, parts 1 and 2. Currently, Fleischmann is working on a book of parsha poems that combines meaningful content with whimsical formatting. You can reach him at [email protected].
