THE WORD OF ELOHIM

GENESIS

Chapter 45

Paragraph 2:

     Yehoseph said to his brothers, “I am Yehoseph.  Is my father still well?”  But his brothers could not answer him, so dumbfounded were they on account of him.  

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     Then Yehoseph said to his brothers, “Come forward to me.”  And when they came forward, he said, “I am your brother Yehoseph, he whom you sold into Mitzramah.  Now, do not be distressed or reproach yourselves because you sold me hither; it was to save life that Elohim sent me ahead of you.  

     “So dumbfounded were they on account of him.”  

—Try to imagine how Binyamin felt at the time.  For about 10 years, Yehoseph was missing, and believed to be dead.  Now he appears before them, as a powerful strange leader in Mitzramah.  And he has discovered that his brothers sold him as a slave!  

Try to imagine the journey home and what may or may not have been said.

Try to imagine what Binyamin was thinking and feeling.

Time reveals all truths and you know that Ya’akov will hear about this.  

Try to imagine how Ya’akov felt when he learned the truth.

Ya’akov and Yehoseph have one thing between them that draws them closer to each other, more than the rest of the children of Yisrael.  Both of them were loathed by their sibling(s), both became castaways and endured many hardships and afflictions; however, in the end, they both acknowledged the glory of Elohim.  They had a relationship between them that the rest of them could not comprehend.