“And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
The second son he named Ephraim and said: it is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering. Ephraim means twice fruitful. The name testifies to the fruitfulness that has come in the place of suffering — Egypt, the place of slavery and imprisonment, has become the place of double fruitfulness. The application: the place that was the land of your suffering can become the land of your fruitfulness. The geography of suffering is not the geography of permanent deprivation.
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