Jacob’s Final Wish In this week’s Torah portion, Jacob passes away. Shortly before his death, he tells Joseph his final wish: “Please do not bury me in Egypt.” Joseph immediately acquiesces: “I will do as you say.” Nonetheless, Jacob isn’t satisfied. “Swear to me,” he tells Joseph — and Joseph takes an oath. And then, the Torah tells us, “Israel bowed at the head of the bed.” This dialogue...
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An Israeli doctor’s ingenious cure, and its spiritual reflection.
What lesson can we learn from Joseph and Benjamin? And why do all Chabad rabbis name their children with the same three-four names?
The power of a prison-stay.
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What really lay behind the war of the Greeks against the Jewish people?
Who, in Jewish history, never gave up on the Jewish people?
Did you ever hear the term, “a kaparah?”
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