vayigash

yehuda comes to yosef and begs him to free binyamin he even offers himself as a slave yes he offers to stay in egypt as yosef yosef`s slave instead of binyamin! as long as binyamin is set free and allowed to return to his father`s home in canaan at this point when yosef sees how much his brothers care about another he can no longer hold back his feelings he sends all his servants and guards out of the room when he and his brothers are left alone he cries and says "i am yosef is my father still alive?" the brothers are silent they are shoked and terrified is this man the second to most powerful man in all egypt really their brother? and so yosef begs them to come closer and repeats himself "iam yosef!" the brothers finally realize that it is true this is their brother but they are so ashamed at what they have done to him that they sold him into slavery but yosef comforts them and makes them feel comftorbale telling them that it was hashem`s will that he end up in egypt so that he would become powerful and have a chance to save his entire family from the terrible famine wich was still going on at that time yosef then sends his brothers home to tell yakov that he is alive as well as to invite him to come to egypt where he will able to live in peace paroy sends along carriages to help yakov move when yakov sees the wagons and hears the good news he is overjoyed and stops the long 22 years of mourning for his beloved son yosef yakov travels to egypt together with his entire family exactly 70 people(the 70th is born as they enter the city gates the newborn is yocheved mother of moshe ) on his way too egypt hashem promises yakov that he will make yakov`s children into a great nation and that he will take them out of egypt yosef goes out to meet his father as he gets closer to egypt and when they met each other yosef hugs and kisses yakov they then go to meet paroy who gives the land goshen to yakov wich is where yakov and his family will live throughout the next generations yakov gives a brocha to paroy