<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0000ff">In Avodah V43n1, R' Micha noted:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0000ff">> <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">At the end of </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Bereishis, the brothers tell </span>Yoseif<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> an outright fabrication. (Given</span></div>Chazal's assumption that Yaaqov didn't actually say such a thing in an<br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0000ff"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)">incident that isn't in the chumash.)</span> <</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0000ff">We seemingly had a[nother] fabrication in last week's <i>sedra</i>: compare what the brothers say in <a href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0144.htm#">44:8</a> (<span style="background-color:rgb(253,245,230);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:shlomo;font-size:24px;text-align:right">הֵן כֶּסֶף, אֲשֶׁר מָצָאנוּ בְּפִי אַמְתְּחֹתֵינוּ</span>) with what the Torah relates as happening in <a href="https://mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0142.htm">42</a> (specifically, verses 27 and 35); and note that Yosef's directive that time did not include placing each's money 

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:shlomo;font-size:24px;text-align:right;background-color:rgb(253,245,230)">בְּפִי אַמְתַּחְתּוֹ</span>   (i.e. contrast 42:25 with what happened later, 44:1).  Why didn't they just say "b'amt'choseinu"?!</div></div>