כי איך אעלה אל אבי והנער איננו אתי פן אראה ברע אשר ימצא את אבי…(ויגש מד:לד)

Yehuda was concerned about his father’s pain, fearing that something terrible might happen to him. Why, then, was he not equally concerned about the pain of Binyamin’s children? Generally, people feel their children’s pain more deeply than their father’s pain. This may be because Adam introduced into the world the phenomenon of a father’s pain. Since Adam had no father, he never experienced the pain of a son bearing his father’s suffering.