Come Together, Right Now

The parashah opens with one word: Vayigash — and Yehuda drew close. Before arguments or explanations, there is closeness. The Torah teaches that when Am Yisrael is tested, the first response is not to explain ourselves or argue our case, but to come near — to one another.

Very little in Yehuda’s speech is new. Yosef already knows the family story, the pain, the regret. And yet, until this moment, he remains hidden behind his Egyptian role. The question is not what Yehuda says, but what he does.

At the end of Miketz, Yosef delivers his ruling: “The man in whose hand the goblet was found — he shall........

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