parshat Vayeshev

Relations between Israel's left and the settler community seem to mirror the sort of relations that existed between Joseph and his brothers. The settlers, like Joseph, dream messianic dreams about the redemption of Israel; the brothers are spiteful.

Reuven beseeches his brothers not to kill Yosef; Maybe he really wanted to save his brother?; wasn’t Yaakov fulfilling his parents’ request that he go find a wife? - so why was he punished for it?;