A gigantic lesson can be learned in analyzing some of the story line from this week’s parsha. A problem with people is that we always seem to think we...

Parshas Vayeishev Yaakov settles in Canaan. His son Yosef, now seventeen years old, is a shepherd with his brothers. He is closest with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah,...

SIBLINGS: A LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP (Based on the Me’am Lo’ez) Last week we read in Parshat VaYeishev about Yosef winding up in Egypt and interpreting the dreams of the butler...

Parshas Mikeitz Exactly two years after the feast, when Yosef is thirty, Pharaoh has a dream that he is standing over the Nile , when out of the river...

Paroh has two dreams in succession Paroh seeks interpretation from his advisors but is not satisfied The Butler remembers Yosef and suggests his assistance Yosef is summoned and asked...

This week’s parsha, Vayigash, discusses the meeting of Joseph and his brothers after twenty-two years away from home and family. The question is: after all his brothers did to...

“To each of them (the brothers) he (Yosef) gave changes of clothing; but to Benjamin he gave 300 pieces of silver and five changes of clothing.” (45:22) Here’s the...

When Yaakov’s household arrived in Egypt, they went to live in the land of Goshen, a separate area of Egypt with the most fertile land. Yosef took great pains...

In this week’s Parsha, Parshat Vayigash, we find the dramatic reunion between Yosef and his brothers. The brothers have not been together for over 20 years, so one can...

“Enlightening Confrontations” Our parsha begins in the middle of the cosmic confrontation between Yosef (Joseph) and Yehuda (Judah). After being sold into slavery twenty-two years before, Yosef is now...