Y osef Hatzaddik went to look for his brothers and wound up being sold as a slave in Egypt. So if you think you’re heading in one direction and find yourself derailed comfort yourself in knowing it’s all part of the Divine plan
In this week’s parshah a young man sets out to go somewhere and soon finds himself someplace else altogether someplace he never dreamed of going.
When Yosef left his father’s house in Chevron his plan was to make a short visit in Shechem. But the events that overtook him carried him to a pitiless place far from the safety of home.
The story is well known to us all. Yosef set out at his father’s bidding: “Yisrael said to Yosef ‘Are your brothers not pasturing in Shechem? …Go now and see to your brothers’ welfare’ ” (Bereishis 37:13–14).
