[Avodah] Yosef Kappara and Tamar

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From: "Ilana Sober Elzufon" _ilanasober at gmail.com_ 
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>>Did Yosef really HAVE to accuse the
brothers of being spies,  hide the payment in the sacks of grain,
mysteriously seat them in order of  age, plant the cup with Binyamin and have
his men dramatically discover it,  etc?<<





>>>>>
He had to do all that in order to 1. find out if  the brothers were sorry 2. 
induce them to do teshuva 3. make sure the teshuva  was perfect -- perfect 
teshuva being that if you are in the same situation  again, this time you don't 
do the sin and 4. give them enough tza'ar that they  would have kapara in this 
world and not have to be punished b'yedei Shamayim in  this world or the next.




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