Musar for Gittin 69:15
אמר ליה רב יהודה לרב ירמיה ביראה אדרה בב"ד ואשבעה חוץ לב"ד וליתי קלא וליפול באודני דבעינא כי היכי דאעביד בה מעשה
and put it straight again, but even so he did not escape an illness. Rab Judah said to R. Jeremiah Bira'ah: impose a vow on her in the <i>Beth din</i> and administer an oath to her outside the <i>Beth din</i>, and see that the report reaches my ears, since I desire to make this a precedent.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Rab Judah was a disciple of Samuel, and desired to impose his ruling on R. Huna and the other disciples of Rab. ');"><sup>13</sup></span>
Shenei Luchot HaBerit
The next difficulty is: How could a righteous son loved by his father not inform his father that he was alive and save him an untold amount of anguish? Even if Joseph had found himself at the end of the world, instead of in a country bordering on the land of Canaan, was he not duty bound to let his father know that he was alive instead of letting him suffer pain for twenty-two years?
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