Joseph threw himself on his father and wept over him and kissed him. The fifth and final recorded weeping of Joseph is the weeping at his father's death — the last of the five grief-points across the Joseph narrative. The application: the grief at the death of the parent who loved you most, after seventeen years of restored relationship following twenty-two years of separation, is a grief that requires the full presence of the body — falling on him, kissing him.

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