Aliya Summary: Upon seeing his brother Benjamin, Joseph was overcome
with emotion, which he concealed. The brothers sat down and enjoyed a
feast, and Joseph presented them all with gifts—Benjamin's gift greater
than all the others'. In the morning the brothers departed, but not
before Joseph had his royal goblet planted in Benjamin's sack of food.
Joseph then dispatched a posse to confront the brothers and "uncover"
the planted goblet. The brothers were all brought back to Joseph, who
demanded that the "thief," Benjamin alone, remain behind as his slave.
By
giving Binyamin a bigger gift, Yosef was creating the potential for
jealousy so that the brothers would be put into a similar situation as
with him. Yosef was testing them to see how they would react, and if
they'd matured and learned from the mistakes they had made with him.
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