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THE TESTAMENTS OF THE 12 PATRIARCHS: JOSEPH & THE BULL, by                    
First Line: Words of our father jacob (said)
Last Line: Started to strike his brothers
Subject(s): Mysticism - Judaism


& Joseph dreamed & told it to his brothers (said) see I have
dreamed
a dream: & see the sun & moon & the 11 stars bow down to me: &
told it to his father & his brothers: & his father turned on him
& said:
what is this dream you dreamed? shall I & shall your mother &
your
brothers come to you & bow down to the earth?
(Genesis 37.9 -- .10.)
words of our father Jacob (said)
my sons run everywhere
grab what your hands can hold
thrust in my sight
we thought said
what can we make our own?
we only see
the sun
the moon
the stars
he said
whatever your hands can hold
Levi first grabbed a stick
he raised it up
jumped on the sun
& rode it
which Judah saw
he saw him
raised a stick himself
then rode the moon
the nine tribes followed each one
rode his star his planet
in the sky
left only Joseph
on the earth
our father Jacob said
my son why did you not do
what your brothers did
he thought said
I am a man
born to a woman not
sky's child
my end will be
returning standing
back on earth
& speaking looked he saw
a great bull near him
wings were like a stork's
his horns the reem's horns
Jacob said
you mount him Joseph son
you ride upon his back
which Joseph did
he mounted on the bull
when Jacob left him
Joseph then rode four hours gloried
in the bull the bull
flew up with him his hand
reached for a stick
started to strike his brothers


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98368-0271, www.cc.press.org




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