Parashat Vayigash, 5775/2014 edition

Quick post between rounds of document-editing.

~ Rav Shai Held wonders why Yosef (Joseph) had to be so mean to the starving Egyptians as to make them permanent slaves of Pharoah.

~ Rav Shlomo Riskin discusses the development of a sense of brotherhood between Yosef and his half-brothers.

~ Rav Dov Linzer hits one out of the park, wondering why Yosef and Yaakov never had a good talk after their reunion.

Previous Vayigash posts of mine, standing on one foot:

~ One of my favorites, from 2007:  Shim'on here.  Remember me?

~ 2010--re favoritism in childrearing

~ 2011--Torah's cliffhanger resolved

~ 2013

With documents done, I'm homeward bound for Shabbat.