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I have always been bothered by the approach taken by Rashi on the verses at the start of Parshat Va'yigash. In last week's parsha, Miketz, Yosef seized his younger brother Binyamin, on the pretext of punishing him for having stolen Yosef's goblet (Yosef had actually framed him, by planting the goblet on him as a pretext to arrest him and keep him in Egypt). Yosef has told his other brothers to go back home, to Canaan.
