## Radak on Genesis Chapter 50

###### Radak on Genesis 50:1:1
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**וַיִּפֹּל יוֹסֵף.** וְכֵן אֶחָיו, אֶלָּא שֶׁהוּא הֵחֵל לְפִי גְדֻלָּתוֹ וּכְבוֹדוֹ.

**Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
ויפול יוסף, not only he but also his brothers, of course. Seeing that he was the most highly placed of the brothers the Torah mentions him. If he allowed himself this display of emotion, his brothers surely did no less.


###### Radak on Genesis 50:2:1
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**לַחֲנֹט.** הוּא שֶׁחוֹנְטִים אֶת הַמֵּת בְּסַמִּים יְדוּעִים, כְּדֵי שֶׁלֹּא יַסְרִיחַ.

**Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
לחנט, a procedure of embalming the remains of the deceased so the body would not become putrid.


###### Radak on Genesis 50:3:1
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**שִׁבְעִים יוֹם.** אַרְבָּעִים שֶׁל חֲנֻטָּה, וּשְׁלֹשִׁים שֶׁל בְּכִי שֶׁעוֹשִׂין לְכָל אָדָם גָּדוֹל, כְּמוֹ שֶׁמָּצָאנוּ בְּאַהֲרֹן וּבְמֹשֶׁה רַבֵּינוּ (במדבר כ:כט; דברים לד:ח); אֲבָל אוֹתָם יַעֲשׂוּ אַחַר קְבוּרָה, אֲבָל לְיַעֲקֹב אָבִינוּ עָשׂוּ קֹדֶם קְבוּרָה, כִּי חָנוּט הָיָה, וְכָל אוֹתָן הַיָּמִים בָּכוּ אוֹתוֹ הַמִּצְרִיִּים לִכְבוֹד יוֹסֵף. וּלְדִבְרֵי רַבּוֹתֵינוּ זִכְרוֹנָם לִבְרָכָה (תנחומא נשא כו): בָּכוּ אוֹתוֹ גַּם לִכְבוֹדוֹ, לְפִי שֶׁנִּפְסַק הָרָעָב בַּעֲבוּרוֹ.

**Yalkut, Sifsei Chachomim Chumash, Metsudah Publications, 2009:**
שבעים יום . Forty days were spent embalming his body and thirty days of weeping for the absence of this man henceforth. We find that both Moses and Aaron were mourned for 30 days (Numbers 20,29 and Deuteronomy 34 8) The difference was that Moses and Aaron were mourned after they had been buried, whereas Yaakov was mourned prior to his interment. This was permissible as the embalming procedure was equated with a kind of burial. During all these days the Egyptians wept out of respect for the feelings of Joseph. According to a view quoted by Rashi, the Egyptians also mourned him, being aware that this man had been able to arrest the famine five years before it had run its predetermined course. This concludes the manuscripts available of the Redak’s commentary on the Torah. We are all impoverished when reflecting on much has been lost of his commentary.