[Avodah] how to reconcile

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Micha: 
> Mah beinaihu? 
> Isn't the point of every Divine punishment to teach a lesson?» 
 
1 Blame 
2 Guilt 
3 does it apply to others 
 
As I explain it Yosef is blameless, but he inadvertantly set himself
up. G'zeira shema he might take out the wrong lesson
 
#3 is key. BY YOSEF he had to know that sar Hamaskim was not a factor 
 
OTOH By others meihacha teisis we should be so careful? 
 
So it matters if Yosef's ordeal is for g'dolei baalei emunah or for stam
vanilla menschen. I say Yosef was on the madreiga that Huzqaq to wait
 
Also when discovering this and re-reading Rashi, we can see both HKBH and Rashi in a more compasionate light -- not nitpicking people, but molding them for greatness. 
 
The gefeel to me is very different! 
 
If Yosef "goofed" then Mommies and Daddies may feel license to scold
the kids for lacking emunah.
 
If Yosef was being groomed for greatness, then the approach for the kids
might appear like discipline -- but it would come from Hessed and not
from Din.
 
But ein hachi nami, most punishments -- especially for tzadikkim -- are
indeed lessons. Here the word punishment is popular but not in Rashi. I
wonder what the original Midrash says.
 
Think of Hillel "m'karvan leTorah" viz. students of my classes got a
warmer-fuzzier feeling about Torah when I showed then this hilluq.
 
KT 
RRW 
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