Vayechi
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Carrying on After the Golden Age (Parashat Vayechi)
I wrote this D’var Torah in the early 2000s originally for a Jewish website called socialaction.com, whose weekly Torah teachings I helped edit and sometimes wrote. All of that content including this teaching is now at myjewishlearning.com, which you should make sure to have bookmarked for all things Jewish. This is about Parashat Vayechi, the… Continue reading
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Across the Generations (Parashat Vayechi 5785)
This is the D’var Torah I gave for Parashat Vayechi, the last reading in Genesis, on January 11, 2025. This is an original first album of Peter, Paul and Mary from 1962. Does anyone else here have one of these? I would say if you listed the release years of the music that was played… Continue reading
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Parashat Vayechi — Carrying On After The Golden Age
This is a Dvar Torah I wrote several years ago, originally published on a Jewish site called socialaction.com and currently on-line at myjewishlearning.com. It's all coming to an end. That must have been Jacob's thought as his life and the book of Genesis drew to a close. In Egypt, far from the land of God's… Continue reading
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