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"And they will take the sacrifice of Joseph, and slaughter the city of Azim, and will soak the sacrifice in blood"

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  "And they will take the sacrifice of Joseph, and slaughter the city of Azim, and will soak the sacrifice in blood" מכון המקדש #המקדש_בפרשה "And they will take the sacrifice of Joseph, and slaughter the city of Azim, and will soak the sacrifice in blood" (Genesis 5:5, 6:5) In our affair the brothers sell Joseph, and to hide the issue of selling and to tell Jacob that Joseph has gone crazy, they slaughter a goat's hair and dip Joseph's skin in blood. Why specifically in the blood of a hair? The seminary says that 'the hairy blood is very similar to human blood' and thus the brothers made Jacob think that Joseph was indeed a 'crazy predator'. For this sin of the brothers, we were admonished for generations to bring to the temple during the holidays, with the public sacrifices, even a city dares to sin. The Temple symbolizes the place of unity and peace in the people of Israel (the next thing next to me is an expression, for example on a pilgri...