Yosef haTzadik - from shepherd to king
The possuk in this week’s sedrah says: פרק נ׳ פסוק ט"ו: וַיִּרְאוּ אֲחֵי-יוֹסֵף כִּי-מֵת אֲבִיהֶם וַיֹּאמְרוּ לוּ יִשְׂטְמֵנוּ יוֹסֵף וְהָשֵׁב יָשִׁיב לָנוּ אֵת כָּל-הָרָעָה אֲשֶׁר גָּמַלְנוּ אֹתוֹ “Yosef’s brothers saw that their father had died and they said maybe Yosef will hate us and he will return all the evil that we did to him.” The Baal Haturim explains: כשחזרו מלקבור את אביהם עבר יוסף על הבור שהשליכוהו בו ובירך ואמר ברוך שעשה לי נס במקום הזה אמרו עדיין הוא זוכר מה שעשינו לו. “When they came back from burying their father Yosef passed by the pit that they had thrown him into and made a beracha ברוך שעשה לי נס במקום הזה – Blessed is He who did a nes for me in this place. They said – he still remembers what we did to him.” The Baal Haturim is very difficult to understand: Why would Yosef not remember what happened to him? There is a halacha that if someone passes by a place where a nes happened to them they should make this beracha. Why should Yosef not have m...