1. Why does Yehuda rather than any of the other brothers step forward to Yosef to argue for the release of Binyomin?
2. Wasn’t it rather reckless of Yosef to order everyone out of the audience chamber before he revealed himself to his brothers? After all, they might have overcome Yosef and killed this man who was causing them so much trouble. Without anyone present, even the Egyptian bodyguards dismissed, the brothers could have quickly overpowered Yosef. Why did Yosef put his life in danger?
3. What sign by Yosef convinces the brothers that he is indeed their brother?
4. Where in Yosef’s words and actions do we see how he is worthy of the title “Yosef HaTzaddik”?
5. When Yaakov is told about Yosef being found alive and well in Egypt, what is his main concern and how are his fears laid to rest?
6. Why does Yosef tell his brothers that they should bring Yaakov to join him in Egypt? Why shouldn’t Yosef instead make ready to leave Egypt and go back to his father Yaakov in Kenaan?
7. Why, do you think, does Par’o invite Yaakov to come and live in Egypt?
8. What is so striking about the appearance of Yaakov that causes Par’o to ask an unusual question and what is that question?
9. Why does HaShem end the famine in Egypt before the time foretold in the prophetic dream of Par’o?
10. Why, do you think, does Yosef make it that the people and their land all pass into the possession of Par’o?
11. Why, do you think, does Yosef arrange that his family should settle in the Nile Delta region of Egypt?
12. What is the connexion between the Sidra and the Haftorah?
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