Comentários de Citação sobre Gênesis 43:28

Zeror ha-Mor writes. Because Joseph kept the Sabbath in Egypt, therefore, the Holy One said, you may bring your sacrifice on the Sabbath. Furthermore, the Zeror ha-Mor writes. Why did the Torah not mention the name of Joseph by the chieftains of Ephraim and Menashe, as we find by the counting. When they counted the Israelites, the name of Joseph was mentioned by Ephraim and Menashe. How much more so would it have been just to mention the name of Joseph at the offerings? The explanation is, our sages say that Joseph died more quickly than his brothers. “Your servant, our father” [Genesis, 43:28]. This means, the brothers said to Joseph before he identified himself, your servant our father said thusly, and this was a sin that he should have allowed to be said about his father, Jacob, about how he was a servant to Joseph. Because of this, the verse did not want to mention him by name at the sacrifices. Nonetheless, Joseph had enough honor that his two sons brought sacrifices.⁵⁷Zeror ha-Mor, Numbers, 7:54.