אלשיך — וימהרו ויורדו איש את אמתחתו / ויחפש בגדול החל

Q — A familiar derashah explains why the servant searched 'בגדול החל ובקטן כלה' — so as not to be suspected of knowing where the goblet was. But the Alshich asks a different question: each sack also still contained the brothers' returned silver. If they had searched their own sacks freely, they would have noticed the silver — and immediately accused Yosef's people of planting both the silver and the goblet. So why didn't this happen?

A — The servant's cleverness was procedural. The verse says 'וימהרו ויורידו איש את אמתחתו' — the brothers only *opened* their sacks; they did not search them. The searching was done by the servant alone, and he revealed only the goblet — never letting them discover the silver still inside. Once the goblet was found, no one bothered to look at anything else. Without this maneuver, the brothers would have rejected Yosef's earlier explanation that 'אלהיכם נתן לכם מטמון' and the entire plan would have unraveled.