what did yaakov expect yosef's role to be when all is said and done? a 4th Av ? a Super -brother ? a king for the moment ? a vehicle to ultimate slavery? yosef melech [al kol] yisrael? just a favorite dad-always-liked-you-best son?<div>
<br></div><div>in the end does he not endow malchus to yehuda? in his bracha he basically says yosef you're great and my beloved and everyone loves you [which is debatable]</div><div><br></div><div>and in the end , malchut came via his 2 brothers [binyamin and yehuda] , except that forbidden breakaway malchut comes thru ephraim, and we know how that worked out, so that ultimately the yosephites are lost to history....</div>
<div><br></div><div>if this is election, what is it worth?</div>