[Avodah] "VaYakom Melekh Hadash al Mitzrayim..." Self-hatred

[Zev Sero]

Michael Makovi wrote:

> I personally think it was a new king. I see no way to explain how the
> old king suddenly rose against Yosef like this. Even evil gentile
> kings, don't usually have a Jew put in second-in-command and then turn
> on his people a year later.

Sure they do.  See Stalin.   But in any case, even if this "melech
chadash" was not a newly-crowned king but an old one with new policies,
it can't possibly have been the king who first appointed Yosef.  Yosef
lived 80 years after his appointment; the king who appointed him might
have been slightly younger than him, but not that much younger (if he
was younger than 15 or so he'd surely have had a regent), and is very
unlikely to have outlived him.  So if the "melech chadash" was an old
king with new policies, he must still have come to the throne during
the 63 years between Yaacov's death and Yosef's.

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