<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Toby Katz wrote:</div>This reminds me of something striking that I always think about this time of <br>year, when we read the whole Yosef story. That is, when Yosef is set upon by <br>his brothers, put in a pit, and then sold -- the Torah doesn't say a peep <br>about how Yosef reacted to all this at the time, whether he said anything, <br>fought back or what. He's just -- silent. The emotional tone of the sale is <br>flat. <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">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.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">Best regards/kol tuv,</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;">ri</span></font></div></body></html>