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Why did Yehuda respond angrily when Yosef offered to free all the brothers except Binyamin, after Yehuda himself had just offered that all become slaves? Yosef was engineering conditions for true malchus to emerge - not Reuven's leadership through control, but Yehuda's malchus through total responsibility for others. This difference explains why Yaakov rejected Reuven's guarantee but accepted Yehuda's seemingly worse offer.
The shiur begins with a fundamental question: why did Yehuda respond angrily to Yosef's seemingly lenient offer that only Binyamin should remain as a slave, when Yehuda himself had just offered that all the brothers become slaves? The answer reveals Yosef's deeper purpose - not vindictiveness, but fulfilling his dreams by creating the conditions for true malchus to emerge. The Torah (תורה) explicitly states that Yosef remembered his dreams, not the sale, indicating his actions were directed toward their fulfillment. However, the dreams appeared already fulfilled - the brothers had bowed down and offered complete subjugation. What was missing was the emergence of a true melech who would take responsibility for others.
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