"Yosef Could Not Hold Himself Back"
Parashat VaYigash

Avital Hochstein

Yosef kept his identity hidden from his brothers for a long time, requiring a lot of resilience and fortitude on his part.  These emotions are expressed in two ways in the text: crying and self-restraint (va-yitapak).  A close reading of the text teaches that there is an ongoing process moving from crying to crying and restraint, and finally onto a forging of restraint that is expressed through crying.  Why does Yosef expose his identity in our parashah and stop restraining himself?

 

"Yosef Could Not Hold Himself Back:" Yosef’s Cry of Disappointment
(audio/mpeg, 6.04MB)

"ולא יכול יוסף להתאפק": בכי האכזבה של יוסף
(audio/mpeg, 4.97MB)

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