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7 years ago
Rachel’s self-sacrifice; more than we think
Yaakov had worked seven years for the hand of Rachel in marriage, but on the night, Rachel swapped with Leah so that Leah would marry Yaakov. Yaakov had suspected ..
Written by Daniel FIne
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7 years ago
A Tale of Two Prophecies
After just one parsha in which Yitzchak is the ‘star of the show,’ our sedra moves the spotlight to the last of the Avos; Yaakov. We are told about Yaakov running ..
Written by D FIne
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7 years ago
Caring for the community
What would you do if you knew you were about to die? I’m sure everyone has their own ideas and answers, some more religious than others. Well, let’s ..
Written by d fine
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7 years ago
The Torah is a Song!
The final mitzvah in the Torah is in our sedra, and it is the mitzvah of writing a sefer torah. Actually, you fulfill a branch of this mitzvah by buying Jewish serafim ..
Written by Anonymous
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7 years ago
Finding yourSelf
Parshas Vayelech; Successor to the Crown If you yawn during the leining of Vayelech you might miss an entire aliyah! However, despite its meagre thirty psukim, there ..
Written by d fine
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7 years ago
Yaakov’s Last Message
There is a Torah concept that the name of something is an exact expression of its essence. The Hebrew word for a ‘thing’ (d’var) also comes to mean a ‘word’. ..
Written by Moshe Kormornick
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7 years ago
The Evil Eye
At the close of the book of Bereishis (Genesis) Yaakov, approaching death, gathers together his family to bless them before he dies. His blessing to Yosef and his sons, ..
Written by Rabbi A Savage
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7 years ago
Veyechi and Shabbos
This Torah portion is unlike any other – “closed” – meaning, without a space separating it from the previous paragraph; and in the commentaries – because ..
Written by Rabbi Shimshon Silkin
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7 years ago
Pakod Yifkod
At the end of VaYechi we read that the exile in Egypt will end when “Pakod Yifkod”, “God will surely redeem” (Bereishit 50:24). These would ..
Written by H Jackson
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7 years ago
life after death
The sedra is called Vayechi; and he lived. Yet this is the sedra in which Yaakov dies. What’s going on? (and The Torah is not sarcastic) Chazal tell us that ..
Written by D Fine
