Rabbinic Pastor Reb Carl Viniar looks at family dysfunction in Genesis, with particular focus on the Joseph Story in Parsha Vayigash. [Read more…]
Chaplain Barry Pitegoff, BCC, discusses estrangement and reconciliation in the Torah portion Vayigash, in which Joseph reunites with his family. [Read more…]
As “The People of the Book,” we should know how to end a book. Vayechi is the end of the first book in our Book of Books, in our canon. Vayechi concludes Bereshit, the first [Read more…]
In this d’var Torah, Chaplain Barry Pitegoff urges readers to teach the lessons of their values and beliefs to their families. [Read more…]
Letting the heart have more space than the head can open the door to softening the estrangement, says Chaplain Barry Pitegoff in this Davar Acher on Parsha Miketz. [Read more…]
Rabbi Susan Elkodsi notices that while the Torah loves genealogies, up until this week’s parashah, Vayechi, the Torah is silent about any actual relationship between grandparents and grandchildren. [Read more…]
Vayigash continues unfolding the stories from last week’s parshah Mikeitz between Joseph and his brothers. Joseph, Judah, Rueven are all revealing their struggles. How each remembers what transpired years before tells us much about the [Read more…]
Editor’s Note: This week’s D’var Torah is from Rabbi David Levin. Living in the state of Florida, initial conversations with new acquaintances usually had two questions asked early on. The first question was: Where are [Read more…]
The Torah cycle that we read this month deals a lot with Joseph and his sojourn in Egypt; his rise from prisoner to minister and his eventual reunion with his family. Indeed, one of the [Read more…]
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