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By personally handing out rations, Joseph established a human connection and involvement with those for whom he provided.

By judging others favorably and responding to them with kindness, we add holiness to the world.

To be fully educated and human we must study a range of disciplines--humanities and sciences, secular and Judaic.

Joseph's status as an outsider, and the outsider status of the Jewish people, allow for critical insight into the deeper truths of the surrounding people.