<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><span style="font-size:small">On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 3:41 PM Akiva Miller via Avodah <<a href="mailto:avodah@lists.aishdas.org">avodah@lists.aishdas.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">.<div>Bereshis 45:27 tells us that Yaakov saw the agalos (wagons) that Yosef had sent. Rashi there explains that Yosef was sending a coded message, by way of a pun, because when Yosef left Yaakov, they had been learning about the eglah arufah.<div><br></div><div>But actually, in Bereshis 45:19, Paro commanded Yosef to tell his brothers to take wagons.
it was not Yosef's idea to send wagons at all. The idea came from Paro.</div><div><br></div><div>Technically, Yosef DID tell his brothers to take wagons, but my point is that it wasn't Yosef's idea. It seems that in order to send this message to Yaakov, Hashem inspired Paro to command Yosef about the wagons.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">My understanding is that there was no coded message.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">He sent a direct message, what were they learning last.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">That is why the possuk says, the wagons that Yosef sent.</div><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div></font><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Akiva Blum</span></div></div></div>