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As we prepare to finish reading
Sefer Bereisheet (the Biblical Book of Genesis, first book of the Torah) it presents a good opportunity to look at a question presented by the book as a whole. If you were to read
Sefer Bereisheet from the beginning, without prior knowledge of either the narrative or subsequent Jewish history, there’s a good chance that you would reach chapter 49 believing that the future leadership of the people of Israel would be drawn from the descendants of Joseph. It was Joseph, after all, whose dreams foretold his leadership over his brothers, and, it was Joseph who rose to the second highest rank in the greatest power of the day. It was Joseph, moreov