- When Yosef finally revealed himself to his brothers, he said: "I am Yosef; doth
my father yet live? What was the brothers' response?
His brothers could not answer him because of their fright.
- Yosef tells his brothers not to grieve or be angry with themselves for having sold him into slavery. What is his reasoning?
Because Hashem had a plan and sent him to Mizrayim to preserve life (due to the upcoming famine).
- What was Pharaoh's reaction when he heard that Yosef's family would be coming to camp out in Egypt?
It pleased him greatly and he offered them the fat of the land.
- What did Yosef give the brothers for the trip back to Caanan? What different did he give to Benyamin?
- Wagons and provisions for the way and to each man a change of raiment.
- To Benyamin, 5 changes of raiment and 300 shkolim of silver.
- What can we learn from the gifts to Yosef's brothers?
He hadn't learned all that much about dealing in family affairs.
- One has the impression from last week's parsha and also this week's that Benjamin is still a very young man. Yehuda calls him a lad. Is that so? If you think not, what is your proof?
When the parsha lists who went down to Mizyayim with Yaacov, it lists Benjamin's 10 sons. He was 31 years old.
- Along the way to Egypt, Yaacov had a dream? In the dream, what did Hashem tell him? How was that different or similar to or different from the experiences of his father and grandfather?
Hashem said, " I will make of thee a great nation; I will go down with you, and bring you back." Avraham went to Egypt because of the famine not because of Hashem's commandment and Yitzhak never left the Land.
- How many of Yaacov's family went on the trip down to Egypt, including Yaacov?
67; with Yosef and his 2 sons there were 70.
- On the journey to Mizrayim, Yaacov stopped to make sacrifices to Hashem. Where did he do that?
Be'er-sheva
- What did Yosef tell his brothers to say about how they made a living and why?
That they were shepherds. He knew the Egyptians detested shepherds because they worshiped animals and Pharaoh would shun them and let them settle in the relative isolation of Goshen where they would avoid the corruption of Egyptian society.
- Pharaoh asked Yaacov his age. What did Yaacov reply?
The days of the years of my sojournings are 130 years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojournings.
What did he mean by few and evil?
He meant he had not lived as long as his fathers and his years had been difficult and unhappy.
- After the Egyptians had spent all the money they had, they came to Yosef and asked for bread. Yosef sold them bread for the rest of that year in exchange for what?
All their cattle and herds.
- After the Egyptians had sold all their herds, what did Yosef take next and what did he give them in exchange?
All their land in exchange for seed to plant. Plus they were required to pay to Pharaoh 20% of all they produced.
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