This is one of the Zohar’s insights on this week’s parashat, where Jacob gives blessings to his sons (and two of his grandsons) whose descendants will become “the tribes of Israel.” ...

And Joseph bound the sons of Israel by an oath to bind their descendants by an oath, saying, “God will surely remember you and your descendants, and when He does, you must have them take my ...

EL CAJON, California — In this week’s parsha, we encounter a profound lesson about life’s challenges and our power to shape how we respond to them. While the events of our lives are commonly ...

This week’s Parshah concludes the emotional saga of Yosef and his brothers, and Yosef’s reuniting with his father [Yaakov] poignantly captures the love and devotion that they felt for each other.

Throughout his odyssey in the strange and perilous world of Egypt, Yosef displayed extraordinary emotional resilience. Merely surviving the ordeal of being sold multiple times as a slave demanded ...

Joseph made it a permanent law regarding all the lands of Egypt, which until today was never changed, that one-fifth of its produce belong to Pharaoh. ~ Genesis 47:26 I think Joseph was the Amazon ...

Every Friday in the home of the Hassidic master, Elimelech of Lihzensk, was like Erev Yom Kippur. Since there were so many guests for Shabbos, the preparations of the multitude of maids and servants ...

The Gemara in Pesachim 119a quotes Rav Yehuda in the name of Shmuel, who teaches that through selling all of the produce during the famine in Egypt, Yosef was able to fill the storehouses of Egypt ...

Like the explosion of the Big Bang, the Book of Genesis begins at breathtaking speed. Its opening 35 verses cover some 13.8 billion years, from that first moment of the universe through the ...

And at the end of the parsha which ends on a cliffhanger, we see Judah speaking to Joseph taking full responsibility as the leader: When Judah and his brothers reentered the house of Joseph ...