Yosef asked:
Somone once told me there is a signifigance to the reason the Gemurah uses the name Yosef Ben SHimon, is this true, and what is it and where is the MAreh MAkom?
The Kollel replies:
R' Tzadok ha'Kohen mi'Lublin (in Pri Tzadik, Parshas Korach) says that all of Bnei Yisrael are called Yosef as the Pasuk says that we are "She'eiris Yosef" (Amos 5:15). Being that Shimon shares the Midah of being "Shomer ha'Bris" with Yosef (despite the fact that twenty-four thousand from Shevet Shimon were killed because of Bnos Midyan), we call a regular person Yosef ben Shimon.
All the best,
Yaakov Montrose