While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew. Faced with the choice between compassion and justice, silence and truth, Wiesenthal said nothing. He looked at the dying SS member and turned his back and walked out of the room. But even years after the war had ended, he wondered: Had he done the right thing? What would we have done if we had found ourselves in a similar situation? Could we show mercy or would we have turned our back and walked out of the room?
Joseph found himself in a similar situation. It was a golden opportunity for revenge. They did not recognize him but he knew them. They hardly expected to find their brother as the ruler of Egypt. After all, he should have been dead years ago and if not at most he would be a slave somewhere.
Continued tomorrow - LW.
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