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In listing the names of Bnei Yisrael who descended to Mitzrayim? The Torah mentions thirty-two descendants of Leah, yet numbers them as thirty-three. Who was the unnamed descendant?

Why did Binyamin cry when he and Yosef embraced (after Yosef revealed himself to the brothers)?

Which of his brothers did Yosef imprison?

What did the malach answer when Yaakov asked his name and why?

When revealing himself to his brothers, Yosef told them, “…And go up to my father and tell him…” Why did he say “go up”?

Why is it that when famine struck Mitzrayim, only Yosef had grain?

וַיֵּצֵא יַעֲקֹב מִבְּאֵר שָׁבַע Yaakov departed from Be’er Sheva and went to Charan. What is the Torah alluding to by the seemingly superfluous word ויצא?

Why didn’t Yosef’s brothers recognize him?

Since Yitzchak knew that Yosef had not been killed, why didn’t he tell Yaakov?

How did Paroh realize that Sarah, whom he had kidnapped, was actually Avraham’s wife?