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Midrash Raba Vayigash 2 · Rabbi Benjy's Shiur

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  Midrash rubber parachute by yogashit #2.
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  So we're still trying to understand why it is that the
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  Torah tells us that Yehuda came close to yourself when they were
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  talking in the previous passage. So yesterday we saw one
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  approach. Here we have another pasuk.
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  This is very classic. Now we've seen this over the
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  last few weeks with the midrash, or attempt to understand the
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  biblical narrative with reference to verses and other
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  places to try and make sense of what's going on.
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  So there's a pasuk in chapter 48 in to heal him Khene Hamilah
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  him. No, I do.
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  For behold the kings are assembled.
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  Avru Yadav, they came together, says the Madras.
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  Khene Hamilah him OK for behold the kings.
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  And this is a reference to two personalities, that of Yehuda
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  and Yosef. Judah was king over his brothers
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  and Yosef was king over Egypt. So they're the 2 kings that this
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  pasuk is referring to. Avru Yaktav, they came together.
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  Zenit Malay Evra alza. The Zenit Malay Evra Alza Avru
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  which is together. This means that this one became
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  filled with anger. Evra, OK, again, play on words,
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  hearing one word on the bit whilst this was reading another.
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  That's very typical of the Midrash to see words sort of
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  encoded in other words, and that one became filled with anger
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  over this one. Judah and Yosef became angry at
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  each other. Well, that makes sense because
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  they're they've both got different purposes and and
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  objectives to realize, and each one seems to be thwarting the
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  other. At a certain point, the measures
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  tells us even that Judah threatened to kill Yosef, which
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  would have been an unthinkable act of bumped off the viceroy of
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  Egyptian society. The measures interprets the word
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  avrou. They came as similar to that of
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  Evra anger. So the phrase of Ruyakhdav
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  therefore means they both became angry.
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  Helps explain why each one had to come close to each other.
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  But really they were angry together.
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  How does the pasuk continue? Hema Rao Kane Tamahu.
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  They saw and they were indeed astounded.
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  Tam mahu this allude says the Madras to the other sons of
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  Yaakov Hauso Vayit mahuha nashim ish El reyehu, because the pasuk
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  says later on that the men looked at one another in
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  astonishment. Vayit mahu is the same type of
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  word as Tam mahu. Again, hearing codes buried deep
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  in the words that the Torah uses.
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  Let's continue with this Pasuk Nehalu neh pasu, the Lord yehlu
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  Akhav, and with the verse continues.
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  That's the passage entailing. It says they were confounded
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  Nehalu and fled in haste. This too alludes to Yaakov's
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  other sons, not Yehuda and not yourself, as the Torah says
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  later on that the brothers could not answer them because they
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  weren't Nehalu the same language.
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  Radha zatam sham El hashabatim, the the boss that continues into
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  Hilam, trembling grips them there.
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  This too is a is a reference to the the brothers of Yehuda and
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  Yosef. I'm rude, the other son said.
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  Melachim medianim elohim elo. These kings are disputing with
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  each other, but what concern is it to us?
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  It is fitting for a king to dispute with a king.
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  So our verse says Vayigash Yehuda.
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  Vayigash, a love Yehuda. Why was he the only one?
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  Because the other brothers has concluded they their role in the
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  drama here was not a central role.
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  They were they were secondary to the drama.
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  It's for two leaders to fight it out.
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  And that's why the of all the brothers, Yehuda approaches
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  yourself and by moving away from his brothers, you heard I was
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  making a very, very profound statement.
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  They are junior, I am senior and I, the senior member of the
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  family, the royal, the monarch, the sovereign of my household
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  will engage with you, the the sovereign, the monarch, the
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  leader of Egypt. Clearly then you heard that had
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  the qualities of leadership inbuilt, which is demonstrating
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  in our pasuk. There's a bit of a parallel,
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  although Moshe Rabain is from a different tribe later on in the
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  story. But years later when Moshe and
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  Aaron go to Pharaoh and the leaders are supposed to be with
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  him, at least according to one reading of the story, all the
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  other leaders, the elders, sort of ran away as they approached
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  the palace, leaving Moshe and Aaron by themselves at the gate
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  of Paro. Sometimes leadership requires a
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  strong inner determination that you have the qualities to do
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  what needs to be done. For a bit longer today, but I
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  hope you'll cope. Take care my friends, have a
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  wonderful day.