Комментарий о цитате к Берешит 43:4

36. “If you build a house, you shall not live in it.” (Deut. 28:30) We find that when Joshua bin Nun cursed the ones who built Jericho, he said, “he shall lay its foundations at the cost of his first-born, and set up its gates at the cost of his youngest.” (Josh. 6:26) He learned this curse from what happened to the Egyptians when they built their homes. Now that they had drowned and could not live in their homes, they were reminded that their children had died so that it was as if they were all dead. It is similar to what Jacob said when he sent Benjamin with his brothers back to Egypt so that it seemed all of them might be dead now.²²²This is a reference to Genesis 43:4 - And may El Shaddai dispose the man to mercy toward you, that he may release to you your other brother, as well as Benjamin. As for me, if I am to be bereaved, I shall be bereaved.”