What Did Pharoah’s Drink-Purveyor Do to Land Him in Prison?

(1) Some time later, the Egyptian king's drinks-purveyor and the baker gave offense to their lord the king of Egypt.

(2) Pharaoh was angry with his two courtiers, the minister of drinks and the chief baker, (3) and put them in custody, in the house of the prefect, in the same prison house where Joseph was confined.

Our rabbis said: "The drinks-master - a fly was found in the vial of poterion (a medicinal drink) of his. The baking-master - a pebble was found in his delicate bread." This is what is written 'The drink-provider of the king of Egypt and the baker sinned to their lord' (Gen. 40.1) - in the service of their lord."

Rabbi Evyatar said: "They sought to marry the king's daughter - it says here 'they sinned' (Gen. 40.1), and it says there 'How then could I do this most wicked thing, and sin before God?' (Gen. 39.9)."

"vial of poterion" - A cup of spices he would drink after the bath-house.

"they sought to marry" - and with all of this, the drinks-master was elevated, but not the chief baker, even though their sin was on equivalent; perhaps it was on account of good things having been said of him. Or possibly it was on account of finding gracious aspects in his work. Therefore, he was elevated and not the chief baker.

חטאו HAD SINNED — in the case of the one, a fly was found in the goblet of aromatic wine, in the case of the other, a pebble was found in the loaves he baked (Genesis Rabbah 88:2).

Because the fly in his cup occurred without his ability to stop it, as the fly flies about in the air and people are unable to prevent it from occurring, but the stone is an error. Therefore, he hung the chief baker.

If this is not the case, why did the master of the bakers hang (verse 22) and did not hang the master of the winemakers, but this one found a fly in his cup, and it occurred against his will, just like the way the fly when it blooms falls into the cup, and lest when he put it near Pharaoh the fly fell into it, but the bundle was surely there in the flour Or with a starting tool, and a crime that does not follow this

Here, too, when we discern the sin of the drinker and the baker in the examination of the slaves, the sin of the baker is even greater than the sin of the drinker, and likewise, when we discern the sin in the examination of the ministers, the sin of the minister of wine is greater than the sin of the master of the bakers, because the master of the bakers has not sinned in any way, since he does not bake the fet himself only by The baker, how could he not have known that bundles were found in the bread, and yet he himself did not commit any sin except that he entered into bail for the baker from his servant that he is the sinner and guilty, but the minister of the winemaking sinned himself in that he could not see the wine in the glass if it was free of flies, and why He didn't check the cup first, it was found that if the pharaoh had foamed on the little slaves he would have foamed on the baker first and foremost and the drink after him as a cure and sterile for the sin, but he answered that the king foamed on his two eunuchs who are the ministers who should give an account of God before the king, was The barren of the foam on the minister of the farms who is a crime himself, and after him on the minister of the bakers, who did not sin himself only on the side of the Arabs. And here is the barrenness of this number to let us know how God, in his special providence, goes round and round for Joseph to rise to greatness. His servants in order to give greatness to the righteous, Pharaoh scolded his servants in order to give greatness to Joseph, and if Joseph had resolved the dream as was appropriate for these two ministers in law and justice, that the minister of the winemakers would hang on the tree and the minister of the bakers would sit upright, Joseph would not have ascended to greatness, because they were They think that he resolved for them because the reasoning would have allowed them to be judged according to their sin, that the minister of wine was more sinful than the minister of the bakers, but after he resolved Yosef became what was proper according to honesty and the reasoning, and it was fulfilled, from this they saw that he was a man in whom the Spirit of God was like To be clear, this is why we need to preface this suggestion, that according to the depth of the law it was proper that the minister of the bakers should go free and the minister of the wineries should be hanged, which is the first foundation of Joseph's greatness:

A.D. that we cite in B.R. (box 2) Peligi Rabnan and Rabbi Avitar Rabnan say this is a fly in his glass and this is a bundle in his Gluska, and Rabbi Avitar says ask to mate with the daughter of the king of the 20th, and Rashi agreed with Rabnan's words, and it seems that you saw what When it was said drink and bake and did not mention the language of a minister, to order that their sin did not depend on their wine, and this sin that they sought to mate with his daughter undoubtedly depended on what they were ministers and honorable, therefore they asked to send a hand in the king and mate with his daughter from the side that their hearts raised to corruption, for this they simply called drink and bake between the time of remembrance The sin is in remembering the dream, and it is one reason for both of them to order that their sin was about the business of drink and baking and there was no sin hanging on their chain, and also in the dream they would also order that the dream was about business of drink and baking.

Every minister has under him servants who do his will, and the minister of the wine cellar has under him servants who keep the wine and they bring it to the king's table and the minister puts the cup on the king's table, and likewise the minister of the bakers does not bake the bread, only his servants and they put and bake and bring it to the king's table and the minister will hand it to the king, and the drink and the baker Those who stand under the minister have sinned in their work, although Pharaoh scolded the ministers, not the servants who stand under them, because the sin of the servant is the sin of the minister for his lack of guarding and warning his servants

(20) On the third day—his birthday—Pharaoh made a drinking-party for all his officials, and he lifted the head of his minister of drinks and his chief baker from among his officials. (21) He restored the minister of drinks to his drinks-providing, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand; (22) but the chief baker he impaled—just as Joseph had interpreted to them. (23) Yet the minister of drinks did not remember Yoseph and he forgot him.