Parashas Shemos Issue – #829 By Pinchas Winston Now Yosef died, as well as all his brothers and all that generation. (Shemos 1:6) I ALWAYS FIND it somewhat depressing. You can feel the storm coming already by the end of last week’s parsha, with the death of Yosef. You can tell it’s going to be…
Parashas Vayechi Issue – #828 Ya’akov lived in the land of Egypt for 17 years, and Ya’akov’s days, the years of his life, were 147 years. (Bereishis 47:28) IT HAS ONLY been a couple of weeks since the loss of Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman, zt”l. True, he was 104 years old at…
THE MIDRASH TELLS us what Yosef did to anger his brothers
and cause them to consider harming him.
He had seen the brothers doing things that,
to his eyes,
appeared like transgressions,
and dutifully informed his father
AS PREDICTED THE food ran out. As predicted, Yosef’s 10 brothers who had kidnapped him had returned to Egypt for more. And, as demanded by the viceroy of Egypt, they had returned with the 12th brother, Binyomin.
Parashas Vayaishev, Issue #825 Once Revealed, Twice Concealed, Chapter 4. TRUE OR FALSE: a candle burns brightest in the dark? The answer is, from the candle’s point of view, no. It burns the same way in the light as it does in the dark. From a person’s point of view, yes, because as the…
