Genesis 44:18. Then Judah came close to him and said, Oh my master, let your servant please speak a word in my master’s ears and let your anger not burn against your servant: because you are equal to Pharaoh. C-MATS
Question: Who sacrificed his life to save Benjamin? Judah
Genesis 44:19 My master asked את־ his servants saying, Have you a father or a brother? 20 And we said to my master, We have a father, an old man and a child of his old age and his brother is dead and he alone is left from his mother and his father loves him. 21 And you said to your servants, bring him down to me that I may set my eyes upon him. 22 And we said to my master, The boy cannot leave את־ his father: because if he should leave את־ his father, his father would die. C-MATS
Question: How does verse 22 foreshadow the House of Judah?Jacob (Israel) sits in a position of authority over the 12 sons as את, and eventually they will have to confront Jacob and confess what they have sworn never to tell him under penalty of death to each other that they were responsible for getting rid of Joseph. This is also a type and foreshadow of the House of Judah one day realizing what they did to Yahusha and having to both confess and seek forgiveness before our heavenly Father. C-MATS
Question: Benjamin had ten sons. Why didn’t Judah mention the grief that Benjamin’s children would experience at their father’s absence? This shows us that parents have more compassion for their children than children have for their parents. Love flows down. Chumash
Question: Judah was ready to put his life on the line and face up to the powerful Viceroy of Egypt in order to prevent him from doing something that would make his father, Jacob, upset. In your opinion, need a person be as careful not to hurt his parents’ feelings as he would be for those of a stranger? No. He should be even more careful! Our parents, besides causing us to be alive, have given us so much and are deserving of an even higher level of our respect than everyone else.
Question: The Torah describes יהוה as being our ‘parent.’ How do you think that description is applied? A parent gives us his life. In a more ultimate sense, so does יהוה. A parent loves us more than anyone else – so does יהוה. A parent’s greatest pleasure is when we are genuinely happy – so is יהוה‘s. Chumash