Parashat Vayigash
Parashat Vayigash
Confrontation
Yehuda approached Yosef asking to speak and he should not get angry, as well as comparing him to Pharaoh. He then reminded Yosef how he had asked them they had a father or brother. To which the Brothers had responded that they had an elderly father and a young brother who was loved by their father and whose older brother has died, leaving him as a single remaining child from his mother. Yosef had the requested them to bring him so he can set his eyes upon him. To this they had replied that the boy can not come out of fear of his father dying. Yosef had then warned them not to return without their younger brother.
When they told their father that they can not return and get more food without Binyomin, he responded that he alone survived from Rachel's children since Yosef had disappeared and was surely been torn to pieces. If they were to take Binyomin and misfortune befalls him they will bring his old age into misery in his grave. Yehuda then asked how he can proceed to return to Yackov without Binyomin since their souls are connected.
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