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Dovid Vigler
Jan 14, 2025, 7:33 PM
Moving Past Your Trauma
You Can’t Expect to be Victor If You’re Living with Victim Mentality How do you move on with your life if someone hurt you? If long ago, someone took advantage of you, are you doomed to forever remain a victim? The spirituality...
Jeffrey Levine
Jan 8, 2025, 7:26 AM
Confronting False Narratives Against Israel
Preface: A Thread of Dehumanization The dehumanization of Jews is a recurring theme throughout history. From slavery in Egypt to the Holocaust, this narrative has resurfaced in different forms, targeting the Jewish people with lies and distortion. Today, this pattern...
Gregory Lyakhov
Jan 7, 2025, 6:05 AM
Perry Garfinkel: A Jewish Writer’s Search for Gandhi’s Truth
Perry Garfinkel embarks on a spiritual journey, blending Jewish roots with Gandhi’s transformative principles in 'Becoming Gandhi.' Perry Garfinkel, a longtime contributor to the New York Times and author of four books, has spent a lifetime seeking the deeper meaning...
Pinny Arnon
Jan 3, 2025, 8:29 PM
New Year, Same Old (bleep)?
Yesterday, January 2nd, I was walking out of a store, and I passed a man who I see occasionally but who I don’t know. We seem to be on a similar morning schedule, so our paths cross at least...
William Hamilton
Jan 3, 2025, 5:02 PM
Change-for-the-Better
“We need to talk,” said the father of 17-year-old Barnash, nicknamed the wild stallion. It was back in 2005 when Israel removed all traces of Jewish life from Gaza. Barnash was furious. He and his extremist friends were hostile...
Nessya Kamhi
Jan 3, 2025, 5:00 PM
Vayigash: The Clarity of Vulnerability
Vayigash is filled with emotion from the outset. Yehudah pleads with the disguised Yosef out of fear for his brother and his father. Ya’akov’s heart grows numb in disbelief when he learns that Rachel’s eldest son is alive. Yosef...
Jonathan Sacks
Jan 3, 2025, 12:56 PM
Three Steps for Mankind (Vayigash, Covenant & Conversation)
In his introduction to the Rabbinical Council of America’s version of the ArtScroll Siddur, Rabbi Saul Berman has a lovely essay on the opening word of today’s Parsha, vayigash, “And he drew close.” Because the work is not widely available...
Naomi Graetz
Jan 3, 2025, 12:49 PM
Wagonloads of Tears: Parshat Vayigash
In last week’s Parshat Miketz, we were left with a cliffhanger. The goblet was found in Benjamin’s bag and Joseph said: Only the one in whose possession the goblet was found shall be my slave; the rest of you...
Rachel Peck
Jan 3, 2025, 12:29 AM
Israel At War 5785: Vayigash – When Trust Is Destroyed
In Vayigash, we learn the answer to the test devised by Joseph: could his brothers be trusted? This was an important question for Joseph to resolve. Torah commentators use this week's Torah portion as an example of what constitutes true...
Daniel G. Saunders
Jan 2, 2025, 11:35 PM
Vayigash: Eucatastrophe
Like all sedrot (weekly Torah readings), Vayigash is named after the first prominent word in the section, in this case meaning, “And he approached,” referring to Yehudah (Judah) approaching Yosef (Joseph) to plead for the freedom for Binyamin (Benjamin)....
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