Parashat Vayigash
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===Serach Bas Asher=== | ===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 | + | 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 originated from either his father or mother. Moshe completely absolved the excommunication with his blessing to the Tribe of Asher that countered all restrictive laws of an excommunication.<ref>Baal Haturim Devarim 33:24</ref> |
==Embracing the Brothers== | ==Embracing the Brothers== |