Commentaire de citation sur La Genèse 41:9

to do evil Heb. הרע, like לְהָרֵעַ, to do evil. [Rashi explains this because the preposition is absent in Hebrew.] Scripture does not have to write מֵהָרֵעַ, desist from doing evil, for so does the Biblical language treat the expression of חֲדָלָה, stopping, [e.g.,] “and he failed to make (לַעֲשׂוֹת) the Pesach” (Num. 9:13); “until he stopped counting (לִסְפֹּר)” (Gen. 41:49). That is to say, the counting stopped, the making failed, here too, stop the evildoing.

And the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, and he forgot him. Since one transgression leads to another transgression, initially, even though Joseph came to his mind, nevertheless he did not mention him favorably before Pharaoh. This [first transgression] led him to eventually forget Joseph completely, such that he didn’t even come to mind. Regarding these two transgressions, he [the cupbearer] said I recall my sins today, referring to these two sins — the sin against Joseph and against Pharaoh. Our Sages of blessed memory said (Genesis Rabbah 89:3) that Joseph sinned in this matter by placing his trust in the chief cupbearer, and he used the language of remembrance twice: remember me and mention me. Correspondingly, he was punished with a double forgetting: the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, and he forgot him.