To Be or not To Be To Be Me - What appeared to be a victory for Yosef becomes initially a complete defeat, and the beginning of the development of Yosef-to-Yehuda is here, where the Yehuda-to-Yosef was up to here. The main issue between them that brings Yosef’s defeat is that Yehuda is able to show that his problem and the brother’s problem with Yosef is existential, not psychological and not philosophical. The integration of the two approaches is achieved here only as an opening to the future, not as a resolution, for it involves the ongoing translation of the nature of individual יסוד into the framework of universal ברוחי, demands that the emotional context and expression of the individual and his relationships be experienced by him without deriving selfhood from anything but the רוחי and thus relating always through it which is the true source of intimacy and completely separate from the personal. Thus it should be possible for anyone to have the same commitment for the future possibility of “the house in the desert” as God Himself, without any hope of love requited. Thus begins here the long journey which every individual fails innumerable times within ones own life before becoming capable
The emotional or romantic will always be utterly defeated by the fight of another for existence and has no place in the presence of “To Be or Not to Be”. The minute that Ya’akov is a problem to Yehuda of ערבות in terms of בזה ובבא, as opposed to the hopeless attempt of ראובן to achieve ערבות through emotions or mechanics (“Is it a matter of money as Guaranty Insurance?” asks Yosef!) it becomes an איך אוכל וראיתי which is indeed more important than Ya’akov himself, and this is as it must be. Nothing can be more powerful than the existence that is yours alone, and defining it in this way for Yehuda comes from complete רוחי and can only join Yosef through complete רוחי.
there was no way until this moment for יעקב אבינו to translate an existential issue into this world  Without רוחי the דינא קשיא is devastating  But now there is יגער בך ה' השטן – אוד מוצל מאש
The two aspects of Yosef at the end of the book, able to speak both to אל אחיו and to the future, two types of messages.

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