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Check out an alternative telling of Va'Yeshev from last year here.
Yakov favors his son Yosef, which makes his brothers very angry. They throw him in a pit and eventually sell him to a caravan of Ishmalites on their way to Egypt. Yosef's story becomes even more dramatic landing him in jail. What we find out this week is that this dramatic unfolding of events is part of God's masterplan.