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A new Mishna teaches us about the consequences of bequeathing inappropriately.
If one writes a document bequeathing his inheritance to a number of people and he leaves his sons with nothing, this is permitted to occur. However, such a person will be thought of negatively by the rabbis.
If he did this because his sons were behaving improperly, however, then this person is remembered positively.
We read of the story of Yosef ben Yoezer had a son who did not conduct himself in a proper manner and the design of the story raises a significant question regarding the decision to disinherit the son who does not conduct himself in a proper manner; the story demonstrates how the disinherited son turns out in the end to have conducted himself in proper manner.