Woe unto us from the Day of Judgment, woe unto us from the Day of Rebuke!
“וַיֹּאמֶר יוֹסֵף אֶל אֶחָיו, אֲנִי יוֹסֵף! הַעוֹד אָבִי חָי, וְלֹא יָכְלוּ אֶחָיו לַעֲנוֹת אֹתוֹ (כִּי נִבְהֲלוּ מִפָּנָיו» (מה, ג.
And Yosef said to his brothers: I am Yosef! Is my father still alive? And his brothers could not answer him, for they were startled before him (45:3(.
In the Midrash Rabbah (93:10( on this pasuk it states: “Abba Kohen Bardela said, Woe unto us from the Day of Judgment, woe unto us from the Day of Rebuke. Bilaam, the sage of the idol-worshippers, could not withstand the rebuke of his donkey, as it says (Bamidbar 22:30(הַהַסְכֵּן הִסְכַּנְתִּי לַעֲשׂוֹת , לְךָ כֹּה וַיֹּאמֶר לֹא - ‘Have I ever been accustomed to do thus to you?’ And he said, ‘No.’ Yosef, the youngest of the tribes, and they could not withstand his rebuke, as it says, And his brothers could not answer him, for they were startled before him. So, when Hakadosh Baruch Hu will come and rebuke each and every one according to what he is, as it says (Tehillim 50:21(, I will rebuke you and present it before - אוֹכִיחֲךָ וְאֶעֶרְכָה לְעֵינֶיךָ your eyes,’ how much more so!”
