Vayigash
When humility embraces extravagance, the world is forever changed.
Judah approaches Joseph, pleading for Benjamin’s release. Joseph can bear it no longer. He reveals that he is in fact their brother, Joseph, and asks if his father is alive. The brothers bow their heads in shame. Joseph assures them that his being sold to Egypt was all part of G-d’s master plan. Jacob and all his family – now seventy strong – move from the Land of Canaan to the Land of Egypt. G-d assuages Jacob’s worry; the descent down into Egypt will surely lead to a greater ascent upward and higher. Joseph, the economist, turns Egypt into the center of world finance. Jacob, Israel, and his family settle in the city of Goshen.
The Wealth of Nations
Discover how every object, force and phenomenon in existence has a spark of G-dliness within it. Learn to hasten a personal and universal redemption.
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The Mysterious Sin
From the Chassidic Master, Rabbi Velvel of Zbaricz, we gain insight into the phenomenon of exile.
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Mixed Feelings
Jacob teaches us the proper perspective of exile; refusing to become reconciled with it or accepting it as a state that is normal or comfortable.
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The Soul Throws a Party
Rabbi Yisroel Baal Shemtov explains to us, through parable, the importance of being joyful on the most spiritual day of the week, Shabbat.
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Soldering Souls
The Baal Shem Tov teaches us that The fervor of prayer is a welder’s torch that fuses matter and spirit, heaven and earth, the mortal and the eternal.
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Joseph’s Calf
Jacob and Joseph teach us about our responsibility for things that are in our control and even that which happens outside of our control.
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The Bottom of the Barrel
One of the great Chassidic masters teaches us about sadness and where the pieces of a broken heart should lie.
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A Shepherd in Egypt
Gain insights in to why a person needs aspects of both Joseph and Judah, in order to balance spiritual tradition with new worldliness.
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