[Avodah] Yosef

[Ilana Sober]

Have noticed some media discussion (e.g.,
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070120.wxkidnap20/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/home )
in the wake of the latest case of a child who was kidnapped and discovered
years later as a teenager - apparently having made no effort, despite
relative freedom, to contact his family or the police. The claim is that
this is not an unusual reaction among kidnap victims.

I am NOT ch"v trying to reduce the Torah or the Avot to psychology, but I
wonder if this could possibly shed light on the famous question of why
Yosef - who for years before becoming viceroy was very much a kidnap victim,
slave, and prisoner - never tried to contact Yaakov from Mitzrayim?

- Ilana