The Bones of Yosef by Nathaniel Helfgot
January 27, 2010 by Nathaniel Helfgot
Filed under New Posts, Tanach
The Torah, in an apparent aside at the beginning of Parashat Beshallah (Ch. 13:19), informs us that as the Israelites were leaving Egypt, Moses recovered the bones of Joseph to fulfill the request/oath that Joseph had made the people swear to him long ago that when the redemption would come they would take his bones [...]