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2 1247 24_Judaic Seminar: Vayigash0_14_Ebenun@AOL.COM29_Fri, 17 Dec 2004 15:42:35 EST649_ISO-8859-1 Judaic Seminar Volume 12 Number 6<br><br>Date: 12/16/04 From: Moshe Shamah <mshamah@judaic.org> Subj: Perashat Vayigash<br><br>Part I<br><br>1. Yehudah's Plea<br><br>When the viceroy rejected Yehudah's declaration that all the brothers will be his slaves, insisting that all are free to leave except Binyamin, he created a situation that tests the brothers on the essential elements of the case that occasioned their dreadful transgression many years prior. Are they prepared to leave a son of Rahel in slavery - paralleling their sale of his older brother into slavery - and face their father without him? Or will they truly go all [...]