Need support?

At the end of the sedra when the brothers suspected that after Yaakov’s death Yosef would avenge his being sold by them, they came to appease him. He told them not to worry, and that he will continue to support them.

This seems strange, because at the end of last parshah Yosef offered to support them only during the famine. They had brought all their sheep along with them and opened shop in Egypt. Why would they need support after the famine ended?

The kinderlach suggested that the family sheep business proved unprofitable in Egypt. Everyone else worshiped the sheep and didn’t eat them! Hence they needed support.

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