Why didn't Yosef Contact his Father?
Why didn’t Yosef contact his father for all the years he was in Egypt? Why did he make his brothers suffer such hardships? What was the motivation behind this plan? This class explores these important…
Read more ›The story of Yosef and his brothers takes a surprising turn when Yosef reveals himself to his brothers. Just when it seems that Yosef wishes to permanently cut himself off from his brothers, and when …
Read more ›After Joseph was sold into slavery, why didn't he ever get in touch with his father? In this video, Rabbi Fohrman will help us attempt to look at the story through Joseph's eyes, and explore the possi…
Read more ›What is Yoseif doing? For anyone learning Parashat Miketz, this is the paramount question - and a perplexing one. For the first two decades of his exile, Yoseif seems to have no desire to return home;…
Read more ›We find a number of different approaches among the commentators to explain Yosef’s plan in what appears as his heartless and vengeful treatment of his brothers in Parashat Miketz. After living their l…
Read more ›The rejection and choice of sons is a theme throughout the book of Breisheet. This principle may have guided the Yosef's brothers to reject him by selling him into slavery. Likewise, this principle ma…
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