[Avodah] yosef

[Eli Turkel]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:32:08PM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
: 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 mitzva
Micha wrote
Midrash Mishlei 1:13 does say they were a kapparah for the sale of
Yoseif. See also Pirqei deR' Eliezer (p' 38).

I am completely lost. Besides the medrash that Micha brings the piyut
states explicitly that R. Yishmael Cohen Gadol went to Heaven and heard
from behind the curtain that they are trapped (nilkadim) by this claim that
the suffer for what the brothers did to Yosef

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Eli Turkel