Secular society often stresses the importance of "working through one's feelings" in the aftermath of a tragedy. Therapists, for example, often encourage people to express and delve into their ...

In case of abuse, Report this post. “Each of the twelve tribes is like one part of the external body, linked by the joints” (Zohar Vayechi 241a). This is one of the Zohar’s insights on this ...

Worshipping the idols of Mitzrayim naturally followed. In the Torah portion of Vayechi, to be sure that his children wouldn’t turn Mitzrayim into a new Promised Land, Yaacov requests that he be ...

The story of Yaakov’s life comes to an end in this week’s Parsha, but the story of Yisrael is simply just beginning. Moshe Rabbeinu wrote the entire Torah from the beginning to the end, as ...

Any long-distance grandparent can relate to this moment. A man in his old age sees his young descendants and almost can’t believe who’s in front of him. So much time has passed, they might be ...

Joseph son of Jacob enters with his own two sons, Menashe and Ephraim, to visit with his bed-ridden father, Jacob (Genesis 48). Jacob inquires as to who is accompanying Joseph. Joseph responds ...

The haftarah (reading from the Prophets) of this week’s Torah portion, Vayechi (“And he lived”), invites us to compare and contrast the last will and testament of King David with that of our ...

And Joseph bound the sons of Israel by an oath to bind their descendants by an oath, saying, “God will surely remember you and your descendants, and when He does, you must have them take my ...

The haftarah (reading from the Prophets) of this week’s Torah portion, Vayechi (“And he lived”), invites us to compare and contrast the last will and testament of King David with that of our ...