Audio Summaries of the daily Chumash portions In loving memory of Ousher Zelig ben Myer HaLevi Z”L

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Yosef's Final Words

Yosef comforts his brothers saying that they have nothing to fear and he will not harm them.

He reassures them by relating to them that before the brothers arrived, all of the Egyptians referred to Yosef derogatorily as a slave and then with the arrival of his brothers he suddenly became perceived as a free man. So if he would now kill them, the Egyptians would think that Yosef was lying about them being his brothers for the sake of his reputation, for what brother would kill his brothers?

Additionally, Yosef points out to them that the fact that the brothers were unable to extinguish Yosef when they tried to is evidence that Yosef would not be able to exinguish them even if he tried. This is because the deeper reason behind why the brothers wanted to get rid of Yosef is because they thought that he was like Esav and unfit to be part of the holy nation of Israel. However the fact that Yosef survived in spite of this was proof that they were wrong and demonstrated that "10 candles" (i.e. the 10 brothers) could not extinguish "1 candle" (i.e a holy person like Yosef). So all the more so would Yosef not be able to extinguish them.

Yosef lives the rest of his life in Egypt and dies at the age of 110. Yosef witnessed three generations being born through Ephraim and raised Menashe's son's Machir's sons.

Right before he dies, Yosef tells his brothers that his life is coming to an end but that the brothers will be brought to the land that was promised by G-d to Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov. He says that G-d will remember the brothers and asks them to move his bones out from Egypt.

Yosef dies and he is embalmed and buried in Egypt.