Midrash Tanchuma

The Day the Viceroy Became Yosef — Insights from the Midrash For twenty-two long years, Ya’akov Avinu sat on the ground, covered in sackcloth and ashes, inconsolably grieving the death of Yosef. And throughout all those years, no one said a word. Why not? The brothers had bound themselves by an oath not to reveal…