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Joseph is a living dead, a living person considered dead. Years pass, Jacob refuses to be comforted, he feels the life that is beating secretly, behind the fictitious story of death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When he finds out (at the end of the previous chapter) \u201cMy son Joseph is still alive\u201d (Genesis 45:28), the news almost kills him: \u201cHis heart went numb\u201d (Genesis 45:26). \u00a0\u201cMy son Joseph is still alive\u201d he repeats again as if he he cannot believe it: \u201cI must go and see him before I die\u201d (Genesis 45:28). In Beer Sheva, the edge of the land of Canaan, God appears to him with a suspicious formula: \u201c\u2018Jacob! Jacob!\u2019 He answered, \u2018Here.\u2019\u201d (Genesis 46:2). There, in the Akedah, the Binding of Isaac, (Genesis 22:1 \u201cHe said to him, \u2018Abraham,\u2019 and he answered, \u2018Here I am\u2019\u201d) it was a death notice: \u201cTake your son\u201d (Genesis 22:2). Here it is news about life: The son who was considered dead who is granted him anew, is alive. With a comforting look at what will happen at the time of his death, Jacob is told \u201cand Joseph\u2019s hand shall close your eyes\u201d (Genesis 46:4).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Life and death wind around each other also in the intensity of the actual meeting between father and son \u201che presented himself to him and, embracing him around the neck, he wept on his neck a good while.\u201d (Genesis 46:29). Who is the one who is doing the seeing, who falls, who cries? \u00a0If it is Joseph, as the subject of the sentence seems to indicate, this is a moment, again, that contains life and death, movement and paralysis: Joseph is the active one, the one embracing, crying, and Jacob is the one paralyzed, stunned, frozen in place. When Jacob regains his senses and manages to speak, he again ties his death with Joseph\u2019s life: \u201cThen Israel said to Joseph, \u2018Now I can die, having seen for myself that you are still alive.\u2019\u201d (Genesis 26:30).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As in the Akedah, so too, here, at the living moment of the encounter, a hidden death is concealed: the beginning of the exile to Egypt. Forever, the joy of the encounter between the two of them will be mixed with the sorrow of that exile. 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