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Review of beg Perek 44 - Mikeitz & VaYigash

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  • (יט) What is יהודה hinting to “You asked about our father & brother”? (רש"י)
    From the beginning you tried to make trouble: Why did you begin asking us such personal questions? But we answered you anyway.
  • (א) What did יוסף command should be put in the brothers’ bags?
     As much food as they could carry, and their money
  • (יב) How did he search for the cup? Why? (רש"י)
    From oldest to youngest. So they wouldn’t realize that he knew where it was.
  • (כ) Why does יהודה say that his brother died? (רש"י)
    He was afraid that יוסף would tell יהודה to bring him.
  • (ב) What should be done with בנימין’s bag?
    Put יוסף’s silver cup by the opening of his bag.
  • (לג) How did יהודה try to convince יוסף that he should replace בנימין?
    I am better than him in every way: strength, battle, and serving
  • (טו) What does יוסף say to them?
    “What have you done? Didn’t you know I could figure out what you did?”
  • (יז) What does יוסף answer back to יהודה?
    "It is not fitting for me to make all of you slaves! Only the one with the cup will be a slave; the rest of you go in peace to your father!”
  • (טז) How does יהודה respond to יוסף?
    “How can we defend ourselves? ה' has found the sin of your servants! We will all be slaves!”
  • (כב) Who will die if בנימין leaves and why? (רש"י)
    בנימין may die on the way like his mother did.
  • (יג) What do we learn from how the פסוק describes מצרים? (רש"י)
    In regards to war, it was considered in their eyes like a small city of 10 people.
  • (ח) How did the brothers defend themselves?
    We returned money back from ארץ כנען, why would we steal gold/silver?
  • (לב) How does יהודה explain why he is defending בנימין more than his other brothers? (רש"י) 
    I took responsibility for him and will lose both worlds if I don’t return him!
  • (יח) Why does יהודה say that יוסף shouldn’t get angry? (רש"י)
    He was going to speak strongly to יוסף
  • (י) What did the man respond about how they should be punished? (רש"י)
    In truth, you should be punished as you said – all of you should become slaves. But I will be nice and only make the one who stole the cup into a slave.
  • (ט) What did the brothers say should happen if one of them stole the cup?
    The one who the cup is found with should die, and we will all become slaves.
  • (טז) What was יהודה really saying? (רש"י)
    We know that we are innocent, but ה' has brought this on us as a punishment.
  • (יח) What does it mean to speak in his “ears”? (רש"י)
    You should hear my words - let them enter your ears
  • (ד) When did יוסף send for the brothers to be chased?
    They had not yet gone far from the city
  • (יח) How is יוסף like פרעה? (רש"י) [4 ways]
    Respect you like פרעה, you will get צרעת like when פרעה took שרה, you don’t keep you word, I will kill both of you if you upset me.
  • (כט) How does רש"י explain what יעקב said (that he will die)?
    When I have בנימין it consoles me about his mother and brother. If he dies, it will be as if I lost all 3 of them at once.
  • (יג) What do we see from how they loaded their donkeys? (רש"י)
    They were strong and didn’t need to help each other.
  • (יג) How did the brothers react when the cup was found?
    They tore their clothes, reloaded their donkeys, and headed back to the city.
  • (ד) What was the “chaser” supposed to say to the brothers?
    Why did you pay back good with bad!?
  • (יד) What do the brothers do when they return to the house of יוסף?
    Throw themselves on the floor before him