Turning tables

We begin with Judah pleading that Joseph take him into slavery in the place of his younger brother Benjamin. Joseph is moved. Then like Martin Landau in the old Mission Impossible TV series, Joseph finally ends the cruel deceptions and reveals his true identity to his stunned brothers. All 70 members of daddy Jacob’s household relocate to Egypt, though the patriarch himself remains thankless and complaining. In all, it’s a very happy almost ending to Joseph’s saga. Except of course for the minor problem that Joseph delivers the Egyptians into landless poverty and feudal slavery. But then, this is not their story.

SHABBAT SHALOM! – a & s