This week’s Torah parsha shows we need to show solidarity with Binyamin, and the ‘parshat shavua’ is good news for Naama Yissachar held in Russia. She said she did not have marijuana with her so we must conclude that it was placed by the authorities there in her bag, as happened to Binyamin with the cup/goblet in this week’s parsha. At first it seemed that he would be sentenced to be a slave to pharaoh, but in fact all of the event was a test of how much we care for our captive brother. So if we will show strong solidarity for the captive of the contemporary Pharaoh, as Yehuda will show next week, on shabbat channukah, perhaps she will have the merit to be freed from captivity.

And of course her case really had nothing to do with her, it is in order to damage Israel, represented by today’s Binyamin.

Perhaps today’s pharaoh saw how such weak ‘evidence’ is used against today’s Binyamin, making him weaker, and this led to the idea to press him further by taking a captive in order to stop the bombing of Pharaoh’s allies in the north…and maybe this perceived weakness led the international court of lies this week to try to weaken Israel… so maybe if we show that we support Binyamin, or at least his policies, and don’t so easily accept weak evidence against him or excessive punishment for tiny crimes, the Eurasian Pharaoh will relent and release the captive.