And his father refused, and said: I know it, my son, I know it; he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; howbeit his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
English: When shall he become “a multitude of nations”? At the time when the sun stands still for Yehoshua. [From here is a hint that the sun would stand still in the days of Yehoshua bin Nun.]
On the daf / in context: Yehoshua descended from Efrayim. The phrase “מלא הגוים” is read as an allusion to the worldwide wonder of the sun standing still, which filled the nations with awe of Yehoshua.
Type of Learning
Remez / prophetic allusion — the blessing on Efrayim’s seed points forward to the miracle performed for Yehoshua.
What Is Learned
Yaakov’s words “his seed shall become a multitude of nations” allude to the day the sun stood still for Yehoshua of the tribe of Efrayim, when the nations of the world were filled with the report of that wonder.