Vayigash
Bedford Bikers and Satmar Chasidim
Posted by Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld | Tags: Vayigash
Some of you might have heard about the Bedford Bike Lanes controversy. There is a major brouhaha currently going on in New York City concerning a bike path from Brooklyn to Manhattan and that goes along Bedford Avenue. Bedford Avenue goes through Williamsburg which has a very large and...
Stuck!
Posted by Rabbi Avi Heller | Tags: Vayigash
I occasionally have trouble starting and stopping. After each class that I give, I add my notes, handouts and research to a pile in my living room, which precipitously begins to grow. I look at it every time I walk by (afraid that it will one day devour the room) and think to myself that I need to...
My Weekly Drash (a mini D'var Torah) -- Vayigash (3)
Posted by Daniel M. Kimmel | Tags: Vayigash
Parshah Va-Yiggash contains Joseph's dramatic revelation to his brothers and his emotional reunion with his father Jacob, but there's an interesting lesson to be had in between. Pharaoh has told Joseph to invite his entire family to settle in Egypt and promises they will be well treated. Joseph...
My video divrei Torah on this parasha from youtube Rabbi Jonathan Ginsburg
Posted by Jonathan Ginsburg | Tags: Vayigash
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VaYigash 5769: "The Possible Blessing of Encounter"
Posted by Rabbi Menachem Creditor | Tags: Vayigash
I've been spending some time with Martin Buber recently, preparing for a public conversation with my friend Josh Kornbluth, as part of his monologue at the Contemporary Jewish Museum entitled "Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?" Buber is one of 10 Jewish portraits in museum's exhibit, and is himself...
My Weekly Drash (a mini D'var Torah) - Vayigash (2)
Posted by Daniel M. Kimmel | Tags: Vayigash
The climactic revelation by Joseph to his brothers in Parshah Va-Yiggash includes an innocent question that actually raises some issues. “I am Joseph,” he declares. “Is my father still well?” (Gen. 45:3) He’s now been the most powerful man in Egypt for several years and he hasn’t...
VaYigash 5768/2007: "Closer, Come Closer"
Posted by Rabbi Menachem Creditor | Tags: Vayigash
An often overlooked message of the Joseph stories is the theology implicit in the way he explains the story to his brothers upon disclosing his identity. Joseph says: "Then Joseph said to his brothers, "Come forward to me." And when they came forward, he said, "I am your brother Joseph, he...
Israel is Born in Egypt
Posted by Abe Mezrich | Tags: Vayigash
i Jacob and his sons come down to Egypt. They are fleeing from famine. This flight begins the time of the Jewish people in that land. And the verse says, And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen…and they took possession of it. * Note how the verse says...
My Weekly Drash (a mini D'var Torah) - Vayigash
Posted by Daniel M. Kimmel | Tags: Vayigash
Film director Garry Marshall tells the story of actor Richard Gere taking him to meet the Dalai Lama. Gere introduced Marshall as "the funniest man you ever met." Marshall had no idea how to live up to that and blurted out to the Buddhist spiritual leader, "We're both the same age." The Dalai Lama...
Got Oil?
Posted by Jack Kustanowitz | Tags: Vayigash
My son has a funny and slightly troubling habit of sneaking out of his room after getting tucked in -- funny because he's so insistent on trying, and slightly troubling because he's only 2 and a half. Last night I found him playing at the top of the stairs (having gotten through the child-proof...
