[Avodah] Yosef Kappara

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From: "Meir Rabi" _meirabi at optusnet.com.au_ (mailto:meirabi at optusnet.com.au) 

>>Aside  from going to his Kever with a Minyan, the obvious answer, there is  
an
implied understanding that even many generations later some type  of
reconciliation can be achieved. Does this mean that the old enmities  were
still being maintained? All the way down to the 10  Martyrs?<<





>>>>>
By the time of  the asarah harugei malchus the tribes that descended from 
Yosef were long since  gone, most of them lost among the nations with the Aseres 
Hashevatim and the  rest assimilated into Yehudah, so there  wouldn't have 
been any  Yosef-descendants around still harboring anger against the descendants 
of  the other brothers.

 


The suggestion is not that there might be ancient enmities  still existing 
between the brothers, but that in Heaven there might still  be a kitrug against 
them for the wrong committed by their ancestors,  the sons of Yakov.  If some 
bit of the original jealousy and sinas  chinam that led to mechiras Yosef 
still adhered to the actions of their  descendants, then the original sin of the 
brothers would not be completely  atoned for, even after centuries.  
 
Then of course you get into the mystery of misas tzaddik mechaperes -- how  
does that work?  Why should the righteous die for the sins of the  guilty?  But 
that's another thread.






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