Vayigash
When humility embraces extravagance, the world is forever changed.
Judah approaches Joseph, pleading for Benjamin’s release. Joseph can bear it no longer. He reveals that he is in fact their brother, Joseph, and asks if his father is alive. The brothers bow their heads in shame. Joseph assures them that his being sold to Egypt was all part of G-d’s master plan. Jacob and all his family – now seventy strong – move from the Land of Canaan to the Land of Egypt. G-d assuages Jacob’s worry; the descent down into Egypt will surely lead to a greater ascent upward and higher. Joseph, the economist, turns Egypt into the center of world finance. Jacob, Israel, and his family settle in the city of Goshen.
Vistas of Repentance
A moving personal essay about repentance. Release your guilt and shame. You are doing the best you can do. Elevate the past and choose wisely in the future.
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Vayigash: Responding to Sandy Hook
Our children are the best of us, and it is their world that is far more real than our distorted one.
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Vayigash: 2000-2010
The United States now stands at perhaps the most defining moment of its history. We need to fight a war that goes far beyond the military one.
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Vayigash: 2009
No matter what happens this year, whatever up and downs will be coming our way, your destiny will be shaped by your attitudes; you will experience exactly what you allow yourself to experience.
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Vayigash: The Three Brothers
What the soul achieves in this world is the ability to truly fly; the ability to soar into other dimensions and even beyond heaven itself.
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Vayigash: WYSINWYG
The story of Joseph, who went from slave to Pharaoh’s top adviser and governor, expresses a powerful truth about destiny and human value.
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Vayigash: Faith and Reason
An examination of the apparent dichotomy between faith and reason in the modern world, and a realistic perspective of these two forces from a Biblical perspective.
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