[Avodah] yosef

[Zev Sero]

Eli Turkel wrote:

> Why does the piyut on asarah harugei malchut say that these 10
> were the first capable of being a kapparah when the brothers were perfectly
> legitimate in their actions and did nothing wrong and don't need a kapparah

The piyut doesn't say anything of the sort.  The wicked king claims to
be exacting justice for the sale of Yosef, and says he would have killed
the shvatim themselves if they were still alive, but since they aren't
he'll kill these 10 as their proxies.  None of this is supposed to be
just or legitimate; the paytan is just showing the wickedness of the king,
that not only did he kill these 10 tzadikim, but he dressed the murder up
as some sort of mitzvah.


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