Rav Frand - Why Yosef Could Not Hold Back Any Longer
Rav Frand By Rabbi Yissocher Frand To Dedicate an Article click here Parshas Vayigash Why Yosef Could Not Hold Back Any Longer These divrei Torah were adapted from the hashkafa portion of Rabbi Yissocher Frand’s Commuter Chavrusah Series on the weekly portion: #1143 – Oops! I Forgot today is a Fast Day after I Made a Bracha on Food. Good Shabbos! In what must be one of the most dramatic events in all of Chumash, Yehuda pleads with his brother and asks one more time for Yosef to relent and not keep Binyamin as a prisoner in Egypt, which would minimally cause his father great pain and might even in fact kill him. Yehuda goes through virtually the same story he related at the end of Parshas Miketz, except that this time it has a different ending: “Yosef was not able to hold back… I am Yosef. Is my father still alive?” The Torah’s narration continues: “The brothers were unable to