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Parashat Hashavua - Torah Portion - Vayigash
articles on Vayigash
The Future of the Past
A Shiur by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks for the weekly portion "Vayigash".
Fathers and Sons
A Shiur by Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed for the weekly portion "Vayigash".
Return to Israel the Moment It's Possible
A short video about the Parasha and the land of Israel.
The Unexpected Leader
A Shiur by Rabbi Jnonathan Sacks ZT"L for the weekly Torah reading of "Vayigash"
Lessons on Vayigash
MASHIACH ben YOSEF
the Leadership Duel between Yoseph and Yehuda- The Haftarah of VaYigash
Description: Our sages draw the confrontation between Yehuda and Yosef as the two types of leadership in Jewish history. Through this we can finally understand who exactly is that mysterious "Mashiach ben Yosef", and what Rav Kook (based on the Vilna Gaon) meant when he said that Dr. Herzl had a spark of that Mashiach.
Lessons
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Various Events FOR WHOM NOT TO VOTE
Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
P'ninat Mishpat Fallout from Failure to Install Elevator – part II
based on ruling 85007 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
Rabbis on Vayigash
