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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. Binyomin will also pass away because the two can not survive without each other<ref name="Baal HaTurim Berashis 44:20">Baal HaTurim Berashis 44:20</ref> Yehuda argued that even if Binyamin did steal the goblet, it was only because his youth and it should be overlooked.<ref name="Baal HaTurim Berashis 44:30">Baal HaTurim Berashis 44:30</ref> In fact that was even more of a reason that he should be returned to his father, so he can continue educating his manners.<ref name="Baal HaTurim Berashis 44:30"/>
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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. Binyomin will also pass away because the two can not survive without each other<ref name="Baal HaTurim Berashis 44:20">Baal HaTurim Berashis 44:20</ref>
  
 
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 offered to take the place of Binyomin and be a slave in his place and he can do with him as he wishes,<ref name="Baal HaTurim Berashis 44:18"/> so Binyamin could return with the Brothers since he could not return and see the misery that would befall Yackov.
 
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 offered to take the place of Binyomin and be a slave in his place and he can do with him as he wishes,<ref name="Baal HaTurim Berashis 44:18"/> so Binyamin could return with the Brothers since he could not return and see the misery that would befall Yackov.
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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.
 
===Serach Bas Asher===
 
When the brothers sold Yosef they made a group oath of excommunication, were any to reveal what had occurred. Later this was revealed to Serach bas Asher through prophecy, who used it to gently break the news to Yackov that Yosef was still alive. Asher was wrongly excommunicated by the Brothers for revealing this to his daughter, since the conversations of a child originate from either his father or mother. Moshe later completely absolved the excommunication with his blessing to the Tribe of Asher that countered all the restrictive laws of an excommunication.<ref>Baal Haturim Devarim 33:24</ref>
 
  
 
==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. Yackov had not wanted to go to Egypt but now that he heard his son Yosef was there he traveled immediately, like a cow that does not want to be slaughtered but when her son is brought in she follows.<ref>Baal HaTurim Berashis 44:29</ref>
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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
 
==Introduction to Pharoh==
 
Yosef took with him Zevulon, Gad, Dan, Naftali and Asher because they looked weak, so that Pharaoh should not appoint them as his war officers. These were also the Tribes who has their names doubled in the Blessings of Moshe<ref name="Rashi Devarim 33:18">Rashi Devarim 33:18</ref>
 
  
 
==References==
 
==References==

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