Vayechiויחי

“Gather yourselves and hear oh sons of Jacob, listen to Israel your father. Reuvein you are (or could have been) my first born, my strength and the first of my potency. You are (or could have been) greatly uplifted (with the priesthood as t…

The concluding Parsha to book of Bereishis is short but quite revealing. The revelations contained therein are about Jacob and Joseph and his brothers. You may have been wondering if Jacob ever was aware that Joseph’s brothers conspired to…

“And now, your two sons who have been born in Egypt prior to my arrival here to you in Egypt, they are for me (alt. belong to me), Ephraim and Menashe will be like Reuven and Shimon are to me. And myself (what happened to me), when I came f…