[Avodah] Fables and Lies

[Michael Poppers]

In Avodah Digest V24#96, RSHM replied to R'Micha:
> Rav Amnon Bazak, in Nekudat Pticha, short essays on all the parshiot of
the Torah, also sees t'shuva as a central theme in the story of Yosef and
his brothers. <
And RJSacks (I don't recall if R'Micha mentioned him or RJSac_h_s in the
msg to which RSHM responded) expands upon this idea in this year's
"Covenant and Conversation" for P'Vayigash. I very much enjoyed the overall
methodology, but I have two Qs:
-1- As R'Sacks notes, this way of explaining the sequence of events as they
are described in the Torah doesn't take B'reishis 42:9 as meaning that
Yoseif "was acting so as to fulfill his childhood dreams" -- OK, but then
l'shitaso what _was_ the point of that pasuq's phraseology?
-2- R'Sacks also states that there can be only one explanation for
B'reishis 43:34, namely, that Yoseif "is trying to make [his brothers]
jealous of their youngest brother" so as to replicate, to the degree
possible, "the circumstances of their original crime" and give them the
chance to either repeat their offence or, OTOH, demonstrate the "t'shuvah
g'murah" of RaMBaM Hilchos T'shuvah 2 -- so l'shitaso how does one explain
the favoritism of B'reishis 45:22, which occurs after the brothers
demonstrated that "t'shuvah g'murah" component?  Thanks.

Gut Voch/Shavua Tov and all the best from
--Michael Poppers via RIM pager
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