Chanukah comes and goes so quickly. I think it may be due to the fact that it falls on the shortest days of the calendar year and before you know it, you are already lighting the next candle. Today is the eighth day of Chanukah. In our teachings, the number eight represents the supernatural. Eight …
Tag: Vayigash
Sep 26
Optimism!
(Torah Portion Vayigash) Optimism! In the Book of Iyov – Job, the verse states, “He (G-d) placed a limit on darkness.” The Medrash says that this refers to Yosef, and explains, “G-d fixed the amount of time that Yosef would be in jail.” Rabbi Shimon Shwalb o.b.m. explains: Yosef languished in jail for twelve years …
Sep 26
Our Heroes
(Torah Portion Vayigash) Our Heroes Yosef, who had become the Viceroy of Egypt, came face to face with his brothers, who twenty-two years earlier, had sold him as a slave. Yosef recognized his brothers; however they did not recognize him. Yosef saw this event as an actualization of his prophetic dreams which had predicted that …
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