How to Change the World (Vayeshev, Covenant & Conversation)
The Office of Rabbi Sacks
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The Terror Says, Let's Not Kill Him, Let Him Die
The text says, by Ismaru Uvein, by Yitzile, Hulmea Dun, and Reuben heard and saved him, Joseph, from them. We know this can't be true because of what happens next. He knew that what they were proposing was very wrong, and he protested. At this point the terror does something extraordinary,. It makes a statement that they cannot be literally true. By the time he acted it was already too late for returning to the system she found Joseph already sold as a slave. The Israelites would have become slaves come what may.
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