GEN1572 A child should strive to give his parents pleasure.   Imagine how anxious Yosef was to see his father after an absence of twenty-two years.  And yet on the momentous occasion of being reunited with his father “Yosef appeared to his father,” that is, his only thought was to give his father the pleasure of seeing him.  Yosef’s own pleasure in seeing his father was secondary to his main concern, that his father should derive pleasure from seeing him. (Rabbi Naftoli Trop, Rosh Hayeshiva of the Chofetz Chayim’s yeshiva in Radin, cited in Chayai Hamussar, vol. 2, p. 189)  How important this lesson is for our generation, in which many children act as if their parents are obligated to give them pleasure.   PLYN 123