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<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. <<[--TK]</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>RRW then wrote:</DIV>
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size=2><BR>>>Mikketz 42:21 "behischaneno eileinu.." <BR><BR>There IS a
brief mention of Yosef's emotions as reported by the guilt-ridden brothers
during their recollection of the event.<<<BR
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<DIV>That was the exact point of my post, which maybe I didn't make sufficiently
clear. AT THE TIME of the sale, the emotional tone is flat, numb -- which
is apparently how the brothers made themselves feel at the time they sold their
brother. The heartwrenching "ra'inu tzaras nafsho behischan'no eileinu" --
the pleading and crying, the sorrow and the guilt -- only show up (in the text
and in the brothers' memories) years later, when the brothers are standing
before Yosef in Egypt. It is only then that the brothers feel the emotion
in retrospect that they didn't feel (or didn't let themselves feel) at the time
of the sale, and it is also only then that we, the readers, feel the
emotion.</DIV>
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