No, Rabbi, I Will Not Cry for the Other Side. Here is Why

Unfortunately, there is a major hole in her framing of the need to “weep for the suffering for those on the other side of the fence” through the actions of Joseph. Yes, Joseph was a crier (he does so many times within the course of just few chapters in Genesis). But each time he engages in the act, it’s always in relation to himself or his family. He cries when he reveals himself to his brothers during his iconic “I am Joseph” line. He cries when his father Jacob dies. I took it upon myself to re-read these verses of Genesis in an attempt to follow Rabbi Buchdahl’s thinking, and did not find a single line in which Joseph weeps for Pharaoh (whom he was enslaved to), or for other Egyptians living under Pharaoh’s reign. <a href="https://medium.com/the-judean-peoples-front/no-rabbi-i-will-not-cry-for-the-other-side-here-is-why-e690ea0fb312">Learn More</a>