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==Confrontation== | ==Confrontation== | ||
| − | Yehuda approached Yosef | + | Yehuda approached Yosef asking to please speak and that his words should enter<ref name="Rashi Berashis 44:18">Rashi Berashis 44:18</ref> into his ears. Despite his harsh words,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 44:18"/> Yehuda asked Yosef not to get angry at him for he is important to him like king Pharaoh.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 44:18"/> By comparing Yosef to Pharaoh, Yehuda was also threatening Yosef that if he would continue to detain Binyamin he would be afflicted with Leprosy, just like the original Pharaoh had been punished because of his great grandmother Sara for the one night he detained her.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 44:18"/> He was also comparing Yosef to Pharaoh who issues decrees and does not carry them out, makes promises and does not fulfill them, so too Yosef said he just wanted to 'set his eye' on Binyomin and now wanted to detain him as a servant.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 44:18"/> Yehuda was also threatening that if Yosef was to provoke him, he would kill him and his master Pharaoh.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 44:18"/> |
| − | Yehuda reminded Yosef how he had asked them if they had a father or brother. As they were not looking to marry his daughter and since he was not looking to marry their sister, all these question were unneeded an proof that from the start Yosef was looking to accuse them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 44:19">Rashi Berashis 44:19</ref> Despite this the Brothers had not concealed from Yosef anything<ref name="Rashi Berashis 44:19"/> and responded that they had an elderly father with a young child of his old age who was loved by their father and whose older brother has died, leaving him as a single remaining child from his mother with no other brothers.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 44:20"/> Although Yehuda knew that the other brother (Yosef) was still alive, out of fear that Yosef would command them to bring him as well, he made a false statement that he had died.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 44:20">Rashi Berashis 44:20</ref | + | Yehuda reminded Yosef how he had asked them if they had a father or brother. As they were not looking to marry his daughter and since he was not looking to marry their sister, all these question were unneeded an proof that from the start Yosef was looking to accuse them.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 44:19">Rashi Berashis 44:19</ref> Despite this the Brothers had not concealed from Yosef anything<ref name="Rashi Berashis 44:19"/> and responded that they had an elderly father with a young child of his old age who was loved by their father and whose older brother has died, leaving him as a single remaining child from his mother with no other brothers.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 44:20"/> Although Yehuda knew that the other brother (Yosef) was still alive, out of fear that Yosef would command them to bring him as well, he made a false statement that he had died.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 44:20">Rashi Berashis 44:20</ref> |
| − | Yosef had then requested them to bring him so he can set his eyes upon him. To this they had replied that the boy can not leave his father out of fear of him dying on the road, just like his mother who had passed away on the road<ref>Rashi Berashis 44:22</ref>. Yosef had then warned them not to return and see his face | + | Yosef had then requested them to bring him so he can set his eyes upon him. To this they had replied that the boy can not leave his father out of fear of him dying on the road, just like his mother who had passed away on the road<ref>Rashi Berashis 44:22</ref>. Yosef had then warned them not to return and see his face again without their younger brother. |
They had gone back to their father and told him the words of Yosef. When he requested that they go back and buy a little food, they responded that they can not return without Binyomin and see the face of the ruler without their younger brother. Yackov had responded that his wife Rachel had born him two children. One of them disappeared and was surely torn to pieces, and he had not seen him since. Now if they take Binyamin too away from him, and misfortune befalls him, for the Satan accuses at the time of danger,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 44:29">Rashi Berashis 44:29</ref> they will bring down his old age in misery to the grave. Now that Binyamin is with Yackov, he comforts himself over the loss of his mother and brother. Were Binyamin to die, it would seem to him as if all three of them died in one day.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 44:29"/> | They had gone back to their father and told him the words of Yosef. When he requested that they go back and buy a little food, they responded that they can not return without Binyomin and see the face of the ruler without their younger brother. Yackov had responded that his wife Rachel had born him two children. One of them disappeared and was surely torn to pieces, and he had not seen him since. Now if they take Binyamin too away from him, and misfortune befalls him, for the Satan accuses at the time of danger,<ref name="Rashi Berashis 44:29">Rashi Berashis 44:29</ref> they will bring down his old age in misery to the grave. Now that Binyamin is with Yackov, he comforts himself over the loss of his mother and brother. Were Binyamin to die, it would seem to him as if all three of them died in one day.<ref name="Rashi Berashis 44:29"/> | ||
| − | Yehuda then asked how he can proceed to return to Yackov without Binyomin since their souls are connected. When he sees that that Binyamin is gone, he will die out of suffering<ref>Rashi Berashis 44:31</ref>. They will cause to bring down their father's old age in misery to the grave. | + | Yehuda then asked how he can proceed to return to Yackov without Binyomin since their souls are connected. When he sees that that Binyamin is gone, he will die out of suffering<ref>Rashi Berashis 44:31</ref>. They will cause to bring down their father's old age in misery to the grave. |
| − | Yehuda then explained that he personally had assumed responsibility for Binyomin and would be a sinner forever is he did not return him. He then | + | Yehuda then explained that he personally had assumed responsibility for Binyomin and would be a sinner forever is he did not return him. He then offed to take the place of Binyomin and be a slave in his place so he could return with the Brothers since he could not return and see the misery that would befall Yackov. |
==Revelation== | ==Revelation== | ||
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Yosef then pointed out that both the Brothers and Binyomin saw how it his mouth speaking to them. They should tell Yaakov of all his honor in Egypt and all they had seen. They should hasten and bring Yackov down to Egypt. | Yosef then pointed out that both the Brothers and Binyomin saw how it his mouth speaking to them. They should tell Yaakov of all his honor in Egypt and all they had seen. They should hasten and bring Yackov down to Egypt. | ||
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==Embracing the Brothers== | ==Embracing the Brothers== | ||
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Yosef gave them wagons by Pharaoh's orders and provisions for the way. He gave them each several pairs of clothes. To Binyamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five pairs of clothes. For Yackov he sent ten male donkeys carrying from the best of Egypt and ten she donkeys carrying grain, bread and other food, for his father's trip. Yosef instructed his brother not to quarrel on the way. | Yosef gave them wagons by Pharaoh's orders and provisions for the way. He gave them each several pairs of clothes. To Binyamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five pairs of clothes. For Yackov he sent ten male donkeys carrying from the best of Egypt and ten she donkeys carrying grain, bread and other food, for his father's trip. Yosef instructed his brother not to quarrel on the way. | ||
| − | The Brothers went up from Egypt and came to the land of Canaan, to their father Yackov. They told him Yosef was still alive and he ruled over the entire land of Egypt. Yackov's heart changed, for he did not believe them. When they told him all of Yosef's words and he saw the wagons that he had sent, the spirit of their Yaackov was revived. Now that Yosef was alive he would go see him before he died. | + | The Brothers went up from Egypt and came to the land of Canaan, to their father Yackov. They told him Yosef was still alive and he ruled over the entire land of Egypt. Yackov's heart changed, for he did not believe them. When they told him all of Yosef's words and he saw the wagons that he had sent, the spirit of their Yaackov was revived. Now that Yosef was alive he would go see him before he died. |
==Stop at Beer Sheva== | ==Stop at Beer Sheva== | ||
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** 68 - Yetzer | ** 68 - Yetzer | ||
** 69 - Shillem | ** 69 - Shillem | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||