PARSHA POSTS: VAYECHI

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Jan 29, 2025, 9:49 PM

Comparing Yourself to Others

The quickest way to starve the soul is by feeding the ego It’s really important to visualize your dreams. If you don’t know where you’re going, then how on Earth can you get there? Vision-boarding is a popular, emerging trend in...

Jan 16, 2025, 9:44 AM

From Frailty to Frailty

The trauma of October 7 still weighs heavily on us. As Israelis, we find ourselves torn—grieving the unimaginable loss of innocent lives, mourning our brave soldiers, and yearning for the safe return of our hostages. We cry out for...

Jan 13, 2025, 8:28 AM

Family Conflict through the Mediator’s Lens: A Wrap Up

Jacob & Family courtesy BibleFunforKids

Over the last three weeks, the weekly Parshahs have taken us through the story of Joseph and the relationship he has had with his family. The Torah portions of Vayeshev, Miketz, and Vayechi provide profound insights into family dynamics...

Jan 12, 2025, 4:58 PM

The Cost of Redemption: Yaakov’s Silence and the Journey to Moshiach

End of life moments are extremely potent. They stick with you for the rest of your life. They even have the power to transform. The power necessary to cause a life to leave this world is earth-shattering. The residue...

Jan 11, 2025, 8:29 PM

Parshat Vayechi is known as a פרשה סתומה, a closed Parsha. This is the only time that we do not find in the Torah scroll, some kind of spacing between the end of one Parsha, and the beginning of...

Areyah Kaltmann

Jan 10, 2025, 6:12 PM

How to Raise Healthy & Secure Jewish Children

In this week’s Parsha, Vayechi, our forefather Jacob is reaching the end of his life and blesses each of his Children. Jacob also blesses Joseph’s two sons, Ephraim and Menashe, elevating them to the status of his own sons...

William Hamilton

Jan 10, 2025, 5:39 PM

‘Because I wasn’t running alone’

“I was so worried about you,” said the young rabbinical student, Gerald Wolpe, to a frail Holocaust survivor in 1947. They were awaiting a Madison Square Garden viewing of the UN vote, authorizing the State of Israel. Everybody had...

Tzvi Gleiberman

Jan 10, 2025, 5:26 PM

Imparting Real Values

29: When the time drew near for Yaakov to die, he called for his son Yosef, and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please place your hand under my thigh that, you will do...

Jan 10, 2025, 5:38 AM

Vayechi: Blessings in Darkness

As Bereshit comes to an end, we are met with another ending: the end of Ya’akov’s life. His last acts, his lasts words, are filled with blessing. Having secured Yosef’s promise that he will be buried with his ancestors...

Jan 10, 2025, 12:55 AM

We Are So Much More Than We Ever Imagined

After 22 years of absence, Jacob had believed that Joseph was dead. When they are reunited in Egypt in parshas Vayechi, an overjoyed Jacob says to his son, “רְאֹה פָנֶיךָ לֹא פִלָּלְתִּי וְהִנֵּה הֶרְאָה אֹתִי א-לֹהִים גַּם אֶת־זַרְעֶךָ/R’oh panecha...

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