Benjamin's Tears

We complete the series on the tears of the Patriarchs with Jospeh’s final meeting with Benjamin.We investigate the “vale of tears” (in hac lacrimarum to borrow from our neighbor religion) that extends from the biblical narrative through the rabbinic imaginativemidrash to Song of Songs (the temple as the neck of Israel) and subsequent Hurban, down to the Piacetzna’s lcarimosal final parting words before deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto.for further reading on Benjamin see:https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5047de16e4b026a4c324cd81/t/60834eaa36c10f0a0e3475dc/1619218094126/DD340_Yo012.pdf