As Rabbi Frand had a family wedding he did not give a live Parsha shiur. However, R' Frand did post a pre-recorded Parsha vort on OU Torah. This week's vort can be found at https://outorah.org/p/242470, but I have attempted to reproduce the vort to the best of my ability in this post. Any perceived inconsistency is the result of my efforts to transcribe the shiur and should not be attributed to the maggid shiur.
As part of Yosef's great "reveal" to his brothers, he utilized language quoted in Bereishis 45:8 which Rabbi Frand called "beautiful" stating - וְעַתָּ֗ה לֹֽא־אַתֶּ֞ם שְׁלַחְתֶּ֤ם אֹתִי֙ הֵ֔נָּה כִּ֖י הָֽאֱלֹהִ֑ים וַיְשִׂימֵ֨נִי לְאָ֜ב לְפַרְעֹ֗ה וּלְאָדוֹן֙ לְכָל־בֵּית֔וֹ וּמשֵׁ֖ל בְּכָל־אֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם: - You did not send me here, Hashem has put me here and I am an Av to Pharaoh and am in charge of his house and am ruling all of Egypt.
How could Yosef had said that he was ruling all of Egypt? R' Frand recalled when Ronald Reagan was shot and his VP said at a press conference after "I am in charge here." People recoiled when they heard that!
R' Frand noted that when the brothers came to Ya'akov to tell him about Yosef's role in Egypt, they don't mention any of these titles and simply said in Bereishis 45:26 - ע֚וֹד יוֹסֵ֣ף חַ֔י וְכִי־ה֥וּא משֵׁ֖ל בְּכָל־אֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם. Ya'akov was unable to accept this and did not believe them, until he saw the wagons that Yosef sent.
R' Frand said that every person who has ever written a sefer on Chumash has written on this pasuk. R' Frand quoted the Chassam Sofer who explains that the reason that Ya'akov was not told of the various titles, because he was not interested in that. He just wanted to know if his son was still Jewish and had not become part of the fabric of Egypt. So the brothers only needed to tell him - Yosef is the Moshel over Egypt and Egypt is not Moshel over him.
R' Frand quoted the Dayan of Manchester who told a Mashal about a family which had one son in England. They sent him to school and he moved to Australia to start a career. The family wanted to know what was happening with him and he would call every Friday and they would ask how he was doing. The family eventually said that they wanted to visit him and he demurred, saying that it was a long trip and they were old, he would come to them. The parents eventually realized that he was embarrassed about how he lived and he did not want them to see it.
R' Frand said - this is what gave Ya'akov strength and allowed him to accept that all was OK with Yosef. He sent the wagons so that Ya'akov could come and visit him, demonstrating that he had kept his Judaism when he lived in Egypt.
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