פרשת
ויגש
Parsha
Stumpers and Something to Think About
- In the first passuk of this week's parsha there are two times where it says that
Yehuda was the one who approached Yosef. One is straight out (b'feirush) in the
passuk and the other is a remez. Where is the remez?
- In one of the pshatim that Rashi (44:18) says that Yehuda was telling Yosef when
he said “You are like Pharaoh” is: Just like Pharoah makes decrees and doesn't
keep them so too you”. The sifsei chochomim explains that Yehuda was referring
to the decree that no slave should ever rule over mitzrayim or wear royal clothing.
What type of argument is this, though? Yosef could easily respond that indeed
Pharaoh is amazing! After all, he made an exception to the rule for his sake. So
what message was Yehuda trying to convey to Yosef?
- Rashi (44:19) says that Yehuda challenged Yosef asking, “Why did you ask us so
many questions? Were we looking to marry your daughter or were you looking to
marry our sister?”
- What was wrong with Yosef asking questions? He thought they were spies?
- Why did Yehuda give the example of Yosef wanting to marry their daughter
or sister? Being that the brothers were older it would make more sense for
Yehuda to have asked “Were you looking to marry our daughter...”
- What was different between the reason Yaakov said he didn't want to send
Binyamin down to mitzrayim, and the reason that Yehuda told Yosef? Why the
difference?
- In 45:4 Yosef told his brothers “Come close to me, if you please”. Rashi explains
that Yosef showed them his Bris Millah. What would this prove to the brothers,
though? Rashi earlier explained in last wee's parsha (41:55) that Pharaoh
commanded everyone to listen to Yosef – who told them all to get bris millah. If
so, EVERYONE in mitzrayim had a bris?
- Why did Hashem stop the famine when Yaakov came down to mitzrayim? Shouldn't
there have been a concern that people would then call Yosef a liar since he said
that the famine would last seven years?
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