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On the health and well-being level, a little cholesterol, climbing blood pressure or recurring bronchitis might be thenot-so-subtle signs that it's time for a change of lifestyle.These are the medical wake up calls we receive in life. Do wereally have to wait for a heart attack, G-d forbid, to stop

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The plot thickens. At the end of last week's portion, Yosephaccused the brothers of stealing his magic goblet. Yehuda, incharge of the troupe, denies even the remotest possibility thatany one of the brothers could be a thief. So confident wasYehuda that he pre-ordained the would-be thief to a deathpenalty and offered the remaining group of nine brothers asslaves were if the egregious accusations proved correct. Unfortunately, Yehuda was unaware of Yoseph's precontrivedruse of planting the goblet in Benjamin's sack. This week's portion begins as Yoseph wants to keep Binyamin, and onlyBinyamin, as a slave, something that Yehuda will battle to thevery end to prevent. Yoseph and his brothers confront eachother. In a mixed array of rage, fury, and emotional pleas,Yehuda bargains with Yoseph. Almost threatening war over thematter, Yehuda explains that "Benjamin cannot be taken as aslave as he has left an old father who awaits his return. If hewill not return to his father, the old man will die of grief andaggravation. After all, he already lost one son to a terrible ac-cident."

After seeing the concern that Yehuda has for his youngerbrother, Yoseph makes the startling revelation. "I am JosephIs my father still alive?" (Genesis 45:3) Yoseph then forgivesthe brothers and tells them that his episode was divinely preordained. It set the path as a lifeline from the ensuingfamine. He then sends his brothers back to Canaan to bring

his father, but before doing so he presents eachof them with a set of clothes. However, Yosephgives his youngest brother Benjamin five sets ofclothing and three hundred pieces of silver(Genesis 45:22). The Talmud (Megillah 16b) asksa very poignant question. How is it that Yoseph,a victim of jealousy, provoked his brothers by favoring Benyamin? Didn't jealousy spur the hatred that led to the original calamity? Why didn't he learn from past experience, not to showfavoritism? The Talmud explains that Yosephwas very calculated in his actions. He was alluding to a similar event that would occur inthe future. After being saved from the gallows,Mordechai, a descendent of Benyamin, miraculously rose to power and prestige. He wasgifted with five changes of clothing as he left thepalace of Achashveirosh. Benjamin's fivechanges of clothing were symbolic of a futuresartorial gift that Benyamin's descendent wouldone day receive. Some commentaries ask a powerful question. Obviously, Yoseph did notexplain the deep meaning of his actions to hisbrothers. What then was gained by favoring Benjamin in front of them? Would the symbolicreference negate any ill feeling? Would somemysterious token resolve a problem that may

have been simmering? Why does Yoseph, in the midst of the turmoil ofhis startling revelation, decide to make a ceremonial gift thatfavors one brother over the rest, in order to foreshadow anevent destined to occur in more than 1,000 years in the future?Could he have not saved symbolism for a more complacentsetting?

Rabbi Paysach Krohn tells this beautiful tale in his latest work,Along the Magid's Journey:

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Perhaps Yoseph is telling us the secret of our people. Momentsearlier Benyamin stood in shackles. He was accused of stealinga magic goblet and was humiliatingly sentenced with life-longenslavement to Pharaoh. Moments later he was not only liberated, but identified with honor and integrity as the bloodbrother, from both mother and father, of the most powerfulman in the world. Yoseph gives the former slave-to-be a speciala five-fold gift as an announcement to the world. With

Benyamin, he declares the destiny of his people. Yoseph declaresthrough Binyamin that today's events are our manifest destiny.Due to the courageous actions of Yehuda, Binyamin, the slave-to-be, walked away triumphantly, not with one change ofclothing but with five. This was not a symbolism for thousandsof years to come, but rather a symbolism of the ever-presentcharacter of the Jewish people.

The events of Benyamin in Egypt manifested themselves inalmost direct comparison and beautiful symmetry with events

that occurred centuries later in Persia. Mordechai the Yehudi, adescendant of Benjamin and by many accounts Yehuda, stoodhis ground under the greatest threats of death and humiliation.He defied the prophets of doom and walked away with gloryand splendor.

Yoseph's message was no riddle, it was no illusion, and it wasno mystical prophecy. It was our destiny. Courage in the tryingtimes yields greatness. It was not a message only for the future.It was a message of the future - for today. That was a messageall the brothers could appreciate -- at that moment. It is a message we too, can appreciate --right now.

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