Vayigash

“And Yehuda approached him and said, “Please my lord, let your servant appeal to my lord and let your wrath not be kindled against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh.” While on the surface prayer appears to be an opportunity to communicate our needs and desires to the Master of the world in the…

The holy Ishbitzer sees the episode of Yosef’s revelation to his brothers as embodying a very deep idea. Reading the episode of Yosef and his brothers in the Torah, we are granted an overarching perspective the Shevatim couldn’t have possibly conceived of. Our knowledge of the joyous resolution to this difficult time with Yosef’s revelation…