Familiarity and Strangeness נכר

Genesis 42:1 Now when Yaakov saw that there were rations in Egypt, Yaakov said to his sons: Why do you keep looking at one another?
Genesis 42:2 And he said: Here, I have heard that there are rations in Egypt, go down there and buy us rations from there, that we may live and not die.
Genesis 42:3 So Yosef's brothers went down, ten (of them), to buy some rationed grain from Egypt.
Genesis 42:4 But Binyamin, Yosef's brother, Yaakov would not send with his brothers, for he said: Lest harm befall him!
Genesis 42:5 The sons of Yisrael came to buy rations among those that came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 42:6 Now Yosef was the governor over the land, it was he who supplied rations to all the people of the land. And Yosef's brothers came and bowed low to him, brow to the ground.
Genesis 42:7 When Yosef saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he pretended-no-recognition of them and spoke harshly with them. He said to them: From where do you come? They said: From the land of Canaan, to buy food-rations.
Genesis 42:8 Now although Yosef recognized his brothers, for their part, they did not recognize him.
Genesis 42:9 And Yosef was reminded of the dreams that he had dreamt of them. He said to them: You are

Genesis 38:1 Now it was at about that time that Yehuda went down, away from his brothers and turned aside to an Adullamite man-his name was Hira.
Genesis 38:2 There Yehuda saw the daughter of a Canaanite man-his name was Shua, he took her (as his wife) and came in to her.
Genesis 38:3 She became pregnant and bore a son, and he called his name: Er.
Genesis 38:4 She became pregnant again and bore a son, and she called his name: Onan.
Genesis 38:5 Once again she bore a son, and she called his name: Shela. Now he was in Ceziv when she bore him.
Genesis 38:6 Yehuda took a wife for Er, his firstborn-her name was Tamar.
Genesis 38:7 But Er, Yehuda's firstborn, did ill in the eyes of YHVH, and YHVH caused him to die.
Genesis 38:8 Yehuda said to Onan: Come in to your brother's wife, do a brother-in-law's duty by her, to preserve seed for your brother!
Genesis 38:9 But Onan knew that the seed would not be his, so it was, whenever he came in to his brother's wife, he let it go to ruin on the ground, so as not to provide seed for his brother.
Genesis 38:10 What he did was ill in the eyes of YHVH, and he caused him to die as well.
Genesis 38:11 Now Yehuda said to Tamar his daughter-in-law: Sit as a widow in your father's house until Shela my son has grown up. For he said to himself: Otherwise he will die as well, like his brothers! So Tamar went and stayed in her father's house.
Genesis 38:12 And many days passed. Now Shua's daughter, Yehuda's wife, died. When Yehuda had been comforted, he went up to his sheep-shearers, he and his friend Hira the Adullamite, to Timna.
Genesis 38:13 Tamar was told, saying: Here, your father-in-law is going up to Timna to shear his sheep. Genesis 38:14 She removed her widow's garments from her, covered herself with a veil and wrapped herself, and sat down by the entrance to Enayim/Two-wells, which is on the way to Timna, for she saw that Shela had grown up, yet she had not been given to him as a wife.
Genesis 38:15 When Yehuda saw her, he took her for a whore, for she had covered her face.
Genesis 38:16 So he turned aside to her by the road and said: Come-now, pray let me come in to you- for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said: What will you give me for coming in to me?
Genesis 38:17 He said: I myself will send out a goat kid from the flock. She said: Only if you give me a pledge, until you send it.
Genesis 38:18 He said: What is the pledge that I am to give you? She said: Your seal, your cord, and your staff that is in your hand. He gave them to her and then he came in to her-and she became pregnant by him.
Genesis 38:19 She arose and went away, then she put off her veil from her and clothed herself in her widow's garments.
Genesis 38:20 Now when Yehuda sent the goat kid by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to fetch the pledge from the woman's hand, he could not find her.
Genesis 38:21 He asked the people of her place, saying: Where is that holy-prostitute, the one in Two-wells by the road? They said: There has been no holy-prostitute here!
Genesis 38:22 So he returned to Yehuda and said: I could not find her; moreover, the people of the place said: There has been no holy-prostitute here!
Genesis 38:23 Yehuda said: Let her keep them for herself, lest we become a laughing-stock. Here, I sent her this kid, but you, you could not find her.
Genesis 38:24 Now it was, after almost three New-moons that Yehuda was told, saying: Tamar your daughter-in-law has played-the-whore, in fact, she has become pregnant from whoring! Yehuda said: Bring her out and let her be burned!
Genesis 38:25 (But) as she was being brought out, she sent a message to her father-in-law, saying: By the man to whom these belong I am pregnant. And she said: Pray recognize- whose seal and cords and staff are these?
Genesis 38:26 Yehuda recognized them and said: She is in-the-right more than I! For after all, I did not give her to Shela my son! And he did not know her again.
Genesis 38:27 Now it was, at the time of her birthing, that here: twins were in her body!
Genesis 38:28 And it was, as she was giving birth, that (one of them) put out a hand; the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying: This one came out first.
Genesis 38:29 But it was, as he pulled back his hand, here, his brother came out! So she said: What a breach you have breached for yourself! So they called his name: Peretz/Breach.
Genesis 38:30 Afterward his brother came out, on whose hand was the scarlet thread. They called his name: Zerah.

"Genesis 37:32 They had the ornamented coat sent out and had it brought to their father and said: We found" "this; pray recognize whether it is your son's coat or not!"

AND JOSEPH SAW HIS BROTHERS, AND HE KNEW THEM, BUT MADE HIMSELF STRANGE TO THEM: Rabbi Joshua b. R. Nechemiah said: He made himself a stranger to them.

AND JOSEPH KNEW HIS BROTHERS: When they fell into his hand: BUT THEY DID NOT KNOW HIM: When he fell into their hands. The Rabbis said: He had left them bearded, therefore, AND JOSEPH KNEW HIS BROTHERS; but they had left him beardless, consequently, BUT THEY DID NOT KNOW HIM.

WE ARE ALL ONE MAN'S SONS: The holy spirit was enkindled in them and they said to him [unwittingly]: You and we are the sons of the same man.

Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said to Elijah: When will the Messiah come? Elijah said to him: Go ask him. Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi asked: And where is he sitting? Elijah said to him: At the entrance of the city of Rome. Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi asked him: And what is his identifying sign by means of which I can recognize him? Elijah answered: He sits among the poor who suffer from illnesses. And all of them untie their bandages and tie them all at once, but the Messiah unties one bandage and ties one at a time. He says: Perhaps I will be needed to serve to bring about the redemption. Therefore, I will never tie more than one bandage, so that I will not be delayed. Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi went to the Messiah. He said to the Messiah: Greetings to you, my rabbi and my teacher. The Messiah said to him: Greetings to you, bar Leva’i. Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said to him: When will the Master come? The Messiah said to him: Today. Sometime later, Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi came to Elijah. Elijah said to him: What did the Messiah say to you? He said to Elijah that the Messiah said: Greetings [shalom] to you, bar Leva’i. Elijah said to him: He thereby guaranteed that you and your father will enter the World-to-Come, as he greeted you with shalom. Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said to Elijah: The Messiah lied to me, as he said to me: I am coming today, and he did not come. Elijah said to him that this is what he said to you: He said that he will come “today, if you will listen to his voice” (Psalms 95:7).