Admission of Guilt

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1. Navot's Vineyard (Part 5)

   Have You Found Me, My Enemy?!

   Rabbi Elchanan Samet

   Ahav’s utterance “Have you found me, my enemy?!” upon facing Eliyahu’s accusation, is an implied admission of guilt. This is contrasted with Ahav’s utterance of “Is that you, o troubler of Israel?!” when he meets Eliyahu during the drought. In that instance Ahav is accusing Eliyahu of being the enemy of the nation and claiming that he is its defender. 

2. Ramban on Parshat Miketz - But We are Guilty For Our Brother

   Rabbi Ezra Bick | 31 minutes

   When the brothers are accused of being spies and one is held hostage in Egypt until the return of the others, their reaction is to see this as punishment for their cruelty to Yosef many years before. They recall that they ignored his pleading to them from the pit. Apparently, they view their passive cruelty as justifying a greater punishment than the sale itself!  

   We compare their view with Ramban’s ideas about the relative value of intentions, personality, and actions as they relate to Avraham’s test during Akeidat Yitzhak, and compare Avraham at the Akeida with the story and transformation of the brothers.