Risk All To Gain All

Vayeshev | Genesis, Bereishit | 5770

How risking everything for one's ideals brings out the deepest qualities of character, connecting Joseph's dangerous obedience to his father's instruction to the Chanukah theme of risking all for Jewish identity. G-d's promise to Abraham of slavery followed by redemption is seen as putting Joseph's story in its wider Divine context.

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