Chevra, this week’s parsha is Vayeshev (וישב). This week the parsha takes a deep dive into a number of family problems within the family of Yaakov. We have Yosef’s dreams, the hatred of the other brothers towards him, the whole plot to throw him into a pit and then sell him into slavery and a different story being “sold” to Yaakov. We have the problem children of Yehuda, where one son dies, the next refuses to perform yibum or marital rights with with the widow and then the refusal to have the widow, Tamar, marry the third son. Tamar then forces the situation and becomes pregnant by Yehuda himself. I’ll come back to this story. We then have Yosef in Egypt, he is doing well, but the wife of his owner tries to seduce him and then blames him. And Yosef ends up back in jail.

There are many family issues and challenges here. We all go through challenging times. I was fighting with a docker yesterday that upgraded itself and changed paths on all the data sources in the docker. We fight with the technical challenges and we do our own deep dive into the problem. Eventually, we will find the problem and work out a fix or a temporary workaround (that is still there 5 years later).

Coming back to the Tamar story, Yehuda saw that she was pregnant and ordered that she be killed for her infidelity. And Tamar did not say “you, Yehuda, are the father”. She showed signs that indicated who the father was. And Yehuda had to take responsibility.

With my docker problem, I had to take responsibility that I had automated upgrades setup (via watchtower) and knew that this could break some things. The logs and the documentation guided me (and kiro-cli) toward the solution and eventually I got it fixed.

On the other side of the problem, we have (hopefully) grown a little (or a lot) and we evaluate our previous decisions to see if we had enough information to do better. And we strive to do better.

I bless you all, and please bless me back, to always be making better and better decisions.

I want to give a final quick shout-out to the DevOps Days TLV crew, it was an amazing conference yesterday and I really enjoyed hearing the history of how Docker was created from Solomon Hykes.

Shabbat Shalom