<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>There are very few people/chazal that have the appelation of "tzadik" attached to their names. Yosef was one of them; since he is always called "yosef hazadik".</div><div>there is no mention of him ever forgiving his brothers for what they did to them, in fact, they feared just the opposite, that despite having been told by him not to worry, (that it was because Hashem had orchestrated the whole thing that he was in fact sold and sent to mitzrayim) they feared retribution from him after Yaakov died. </div><div>1. did they ever ask explicitly for forgiveness from him (or was their shock and collective huggingn following him revealing himself, enuf?) and therefore no need for them to explicitly ask?</div><div>1a, if they never asked, explicitly or implicitly, should/did he ever forgive
them? </div><div>2. Just because (in joseph's opinion/knowledge, Hashem orchestrated the whole thing, we are taught that people/nations have bechira (eg, mitzrayim, pharoa, etc). </div><div>Did Joseph still have the option to (or not) forgive them? and what should or should he not have done in this case, and for what reasons????</div><div>3. lo tisneh es achicha did not exist yet, and even if we held that the avos kept the Torah (in/out of eretz yisrael, //machloket) <u>yosef was not one of the avos,</u> so perhaps it doesn't apply??</div><div>hb</div><div><br></div><div style="position:fixed"></div>
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