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GENESIS | 38:1 left — GEN1470 If we refrain from legitimately rebuking ...

GEN1470 If we refrain from legitimately rebuking someone, he will eventually be angry at us.   Rashi explains that Yehuda left his brothers because of the selling of Yosef.   Yehuda’s brothers removed him from his rank as leader when they saw the grief of their father over the loss of Yosef. They said to Yehuda, “You said to sell him.   Had you said to return him, we would have listed to you.”   Rabbi Yeruchom Levovitz notes that at first Yosef’s brothers wanted to kill him and in the end because of Yehuda’s advice they sold sold him.   Even though Yehuda saved them from committing a more heinous crime, they were angry at him for allowing them to sell Yosef.  This behavior is typical of someone who regrets his crime after having committed it; he reproaches others for not having prevented him.   … There always comes a time, said the Chofetz Chayim, when a person who has done wrong has grievances against others for failing to stop him; if not in this world, then in the world to come.   (Daas Torah: Limuday Mussray Hatorah, vol. 1, pp. 224-225). PLYN 110-1

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