Rav Zachariash’s weekly blog on the parsha
Better Ask First
“Yehudah said to his brothers, ‘What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?’” (Bereishis 37:26) Often people do things for which they then orchestrate a cover-up so as not to take the blame. The Kotzker Rebbe (Menachem Mendel Morgenstern of Kotzk 1787–1859) says that the brothers were asking: “Is it correct [...]

