Parshas Vayechi: Maharal Tzintz - Yaakov To Yosef, Please Don't Bury Me In Mitzrayim
Yaakov
asked Yosef to do with him Chesed V'Emes, to bury him in Eretz
Yisroel. Rashi says (47:29) that Chesed Shel Emes means that the
person performing the Chesed is doing it with pure intentions, because
he will never be paid back. That is why burying Chesed with a deceased
person is Emes. However asks the Maharal Tzintz in the case of Yosef
we see he was amply rewarded as the gemara says in Sotah (9b), in
reward for Yosef burying Yaakov, Moshe himself took Yosef's bones out
of Mitzrayim.
He answers that Yaakov was taken straight after
his petira to be buried in Meoras HaMachpela. Yosef was buried in
Mitzrayim for many years before being taken to his kever in Eretz
Yisroel. Yaakov's carefully chosen words when asking for Chesed V'Emes
says (47:29), "Al Na Tikbireini B'Mitzrayim", please do not bury me in
Mitzrayim even temporarily. For that kindness Yosef was not paid back.
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