In this weeks Parsha we know that Yosef set before his brothers food and wine. And that even though the brothers had not drunk wine for 22 years, now they did drink the wine that Yosef gave them. So everyone has the question, how could they drink? They still didn't know that Yosef was in front of them.
There are many answers to this question. I will tell you just one. It was, remember, that the brothers thought that Yosef thought that they were spies, and so if they did not drink, it would mean that they didn't want to get drunk and inadvertently reveal secrets. So they had to drink to prove that they weren't spies.
Well for what it's worth - I think that after 22 years of not drinking...
ZOT HANUKKA SOMAIACH,
SHAB BASS SHALOM
and this was not my menora, but I thought you would appreciate it.
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