[Avodah] Yosef and his brothers

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, December 17, 2007 7:02 am, Cantor Richard Wolberg wrote:
: This is not at all uncommon throughout the Torah.  When Yitzchok is
: about to be sacrificed, the Torah doesn't say a peep about how he
: reacted; when Aaron loses Nadav and Avihu, he too, is silent.

Aharon's reaction is a different thing. WRT Yitzchaq, the Torah
doesn't tell us how he reacted. WRT Aharon is does -- his reaction is
described as one of stoic silence, vayidom Aharon. There is a
difference between the Torah's silence and Aharon's.

Interesting to me that perhaps the incident in chumash that seems to
be most replete in description of emotional responses is the encounter
Esav has with Yitzchaq when Esav comes -- just a little too late -- to
claim "his" berakhah.

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha

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