Vayigash 46:4 · unit 3

Parashas Vayigash · Passuk 46:4

The Complete Passuk

אָנֹכִ֗י אֵרֵ֤ד עִמְּךָ֙ מִצְרַ֔יְמָה וְאָנֹכִ֖י אַֽעַלְךָ֣ גַם־עָלֹ֑ה וְיוֹסֵ֕ף יָשִׁ֥ית יָד֖וֹ עַל־עֵינֶֽיךָ׃

I Myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I Myself will also bring you up again; and Yosef shall put his hand upon your eyes.

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Source Citation

Torah Temimah points to Berachot / dream literature.

TT lemma: גם עלה.

Core Text of Chazal

Core Text
תָּנוּ רַבָּנַן: הָרוֹאֶה גָּמָל בַּחֲלוֹם — מִיתָה נִקְנְסָה לוֹ מִן הַשָּׁמַיִם וְהִצִּילוּהוּ מִמֶּנָּה. אָמַר רַבִּי חָמָא בַּר חֲנִינָא: מַאי קְרָא? ״וְאָנֹכִי אַעַלְךָ גַּם עָלֹה״.

English: Our Rabbis taught: One who sees a camel in a dream — death has been decreed upon him from Heaven, yet they have rescued him from it. Rabbi Chama bar Chanina said: What is the verse? “And I Myself will bring you up, also going up” (gam aloh — whose letters allude to the camel).

On the daf / in context: A notariqon-style reading of “gam aloh” is applied to the interpretation of a camel-dream.

Type of Learning

Derash on the verse (Bavli dream sugya) — not a formal named middah of the 13.

What Is Learned

A camel seen in a dream signals that a heavenly death-decree has been averted, linked by letter-play to “gam aloh.”