What It Means To Be Part of Klal Yisrael - Rabbi Moshe Schochet

the term this week's Parish departures that you guys records the well-known emotional reunion that takes place between Yosef and his brother Benjamin the Torah States and Yosef fell upon his brother's neck and he cried and Bin Yamin cried upon yosef's neck Rashi famously comments that Joseph cried because he had a prophecy that both were going to be destroyed in binyaman's designated area and you shall I am and Benjamin also cried why because he too had a prophecy that the mishkan and Sheila would be destroyed in the part of eretz Israel that would ultimately belong to yosef's descendants asks the obvious question why does Yosef cry on behalf of Benjamin's descendants and what has been Yeoman cry on behalf of yosef's descendants why doesn't Yosef cry on behalf of his own descendants and why doesn't binyaman cry on behalf of his own descendants shares an incredibly powerful lesson he explains that a Jew must always care more about his brother than he does about himself it was for this reason that Rashi notes that Yosef cried for Benjamin and binyamin cried for Yosef in order to teach us what it means to be part of clally Israel and what it means to care more about another Jew than you do about yourself now more than ever we need to internalize this lesson and look out for each other in order to bring our ultimate Destiny to fruition if we want mashiach to come with the rebuilding of the third base hamidash speedily in our days we must care for our brothers even more than we care for ourselves