Josef, the great leader in Pharaoh’s Egypt and Jewish leader extraordinaire seems so cruel to his brothers. Imprisons some when they come to him. Drags his youngest brother from the bosom of his doting father. Why? To allow his brothers to redeem themselves for the sin of selling him to slavery. Unless they came to their own understanding and admission of their inner faults, there could be no true personal redemption for them. So he forced them to face themselves in this way