This women&#39;s class was presented on Tuesday, Parshas Vayigash, 3&nbsp;Teves, 5780, December 31, 2019 at the Ohr Chaim Shul, Monsey, NY&nbsp;

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yosef

vayigash

dovid hamelech

dovid

yosef's beauty

royalty

davidic dynasty

yehuda and binyamin

malchus

malchus beis david

yehuudah

kingship

transformation

baal yeshuvah

The Longest Speech in the Torah & the Glorious Moment of Transformation

Women's Vayigash Class

When Yehudah Conversed with His Subconscious

This class to women was presented on Tuesday Parshas Vayigash, 1 Teves, 5778, December 19, 2017, at Ohr Chaim,&nbsp;Monsey, NY

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yehudah

vayeishev

judah

confession

integrity

yehuda and yosef

yehuda and tamar

malachus

honesty

The Moment Which Transformed Yehuda

Vayigash Women's Class

Yosef, Yehuda and Tamar: When You Discover That You Got It All Wrong

How Joseph Brought Healing to His Broken Family- A Tale of Three Experiments

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teshuva

repentance

anger

forgiveness

yosef and his brothers

resentment

family fighting

A Tale of Three Experiments 

Miketz/Vayigash Class

How Joseph Brought Healing to His Broken Family

This women&#39;s class was presented on Tuesday morning, 5 Teves 5777, January 3, 2017, At Ohr Chaim shul, Monsey, NY

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vayechi

dispelling darkness

miketz

vyigash

happiness

depression

How Could Yosef Forgive His Brothers for All The Suffering They Brought On Him?

Vayigash Women's Class 

Confronting Your Pain: Were You Sold or Sent?

This weekly women&#39;s class&nbsp;was presented on Tuesday, Parshas Vayigash, 7 Tevet, 5781, December 22, 2020, live from Rabbi Jacobson&#39;s home in Monsey, NY.

The text-based class on Midrash Rabah and Sefas Emes Parshas Vayigash explores two enigmatic Midrashim on the portion, about Yehudah surrendering to Yosef, and Yosef&#39;s &quot;rebuking&quot; his brothers. How do we deal with our wounds inside and our challenges outside? Does the world hate us or love us? Is G-d my best friend or just my heavenly boss? How my own mind and actions can cause what is really love to be seen as hate, what is really light to be seen as darkness. We are given a blueprint of how to face every trauma and challenge and see it as an opportunity for infinite love and growth.

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faith

yehuda

trauma

Your Darkness Is Your Best Friend & the World Is Your Greatest Ally

Women's Class - Sefas Emes Vayigash

The Day You Discover that Everything Is Love

This is a text-based class in Likkkutei Sichos vol. 3&nbsp;Parshas Vayigash. It is a Sicha (address) presented by the Lubavitcher Rebbe on Shabbos Parshas Miketz, 5722, (December 9, 1961), and was&nbsp;taught by Rabbi YY Jacobson&nbsp;on Thursday, Parshas Vayigash, 9 Tevet, 5781, December 24, 2020, streaming live from Rabbi Jacobson&#39;s home in Monsey, NY.&nbsp;

The class explores the question of why did Yaakov ask Yehuda, not Yosef, to build the Yeshiva in Goshen? The Jew lives in a material world, but his roots are planted in the soil of unadulterated spirituality. In his daily life, the Jew must often be a Yosef, but his education must be provided by a Yehuda.

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yeshiva

learning torah

Why Did Yaakov Ask Yehuda, Not Yosef, to Build the Yeshiva in Goshen?

Chassidus: Likkutei Sichos Vayigash #3

The “Litvishe" Sicha of the Lubavitcher Rebbe

Joseph reveals his identity, saying, &ldquo;I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?&rdquo; His brothers were so horrified that they could not respond, the Torah says. Hence, we read: &ldquo;Joseph said to his brothers, &lsquo;please come close to me&rsquo;. When they approached him, he said, &lsquo;I am Joseph your brother &ndash; it is me whom you sold into Egypt.&rdquo; 
Ostensibly, he is trying to make them feel more comfortable and calm them down. Yet his words to them after they are horrified seem to have the opposite effect: &lsquo;I am Joseph your brother &ndash; the one you sold into Egypt.&rdquo; He now makes it clear that they are the ones who committed this heinous crime. Why would he do this at this point when he&rsquo;s attempting to relax them? 
Besides, he already said to them, &ldquo;I am Joseph.&rdquo; Why the need to repeat it: &ldquo;I am Joseph your brother &ndash; the one whom you sold into Egypt.&rdquo; 
It was the second Rebbe of Ger, Rabbi Yehudah Leib Altar (1847-1905), known as the Sefas Emes, who presented a marvelous explanation.&nbsp; 
The chairman of the Siyum Hashas, Shlomo (Sol) Werdiger, shared with me an incredible story of how MetLife became the sight of the greatest Talmudic celebration.

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sol werdiger

metlife stadium

expectations

"I Am Who I Am Because You Sold Me"

Essay Parshas Vayigash

Letting Go of My Expectations

This women&#39;s class was presented on Tuesday Parshas Vayigash, 3 Teves, 5779, December 11, 2018, at the Ohr Chaim Shul, Monsey, NY

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yeravam

rechavam

rehoboam

jeroboam

northern kingdom

yosef and yehudah

southern kingdom

yeravaam ben nevat

haftorah vayigash

Yosef Yehudah & the Split of the Jewish Monarchy: The Deeper Story

To Be Or To Be Not? The Tension Woven Into Jewish History -- Part 1

The Midrash describes an odd detail in Greek persecution of the Jews during the time of the Chanukah story: The Jew&rsquo;s were forced to write a renunciation of their faith on the &lsquo;horn of an ox.&rsquo; What on earth did the poor ox have to do with this sorry chapter in Jewish history?
Kabbalistic and Chassidic thought offers a fascinating answer to this question, by tying the story of Chanukah directly in the story of Joseph&rsquo;s fierce dispute with his brothers. It is a dispute that has lasted for thousands of years, with important implications today.
The children of Jacob were divided into two factions: on one side were ten of the twelve brothers, led by Judah; on the other, Joseph, whose differences with his brothers were the cause of much pain and strife in Jacob&rsquo;s family. The conflict between Joseph and his brothers ran deeper than a multicolored coat or a favorite son&rsquo;s share of his father&rsquo;s affections. It was a conflict between two world-views, between two approaches to life as a Jew in a pagan world.
We learn of the Greeks&rsquo; perversion of Joseph&rsquo;s perspective on Judaism, the importance of oil this holiday, and how we set things right each Chanukah by sharing the light and the oil with the world around us.

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chanukah

yavan

greece

brothers selling joseph

greek culture

Yosef, Yehuda and the Chanukah Story

Judaism Inward Or Outward? The Great Debate #1

On his deathbed Jacob speaks to Joseph: &ldquo;A charming son is Joseph, a son charming to the eye; the women strode along to see him. They made his life bitter and they quarreled with him; archers despised him.&rdquo; Rashi explains: &ldquo;The women of Egypt strode out on the wall to gaze upon his beauty. Of the women, each one strode to a place from which she could catch a glimpse of him.&rdquo;

What is Jacob trying to bring out? Literally, that Joseph&rsquo;s beauty was dazzling. Not only was he appealing to any eye that saw him, but even the Egyptian women were enthralled by his figure. They ascended the walls and fortresses of Egypt to be able to gaze at him. But why is this so relevant on the deathbed of Jacob?

There is a remarkable law in Talmud. While when the Temple existed in Jerusalem you can only eat the meat of the sacrifices within the Jerusalem walls, when the Tabernacle stood in Shilo, in Joseph&rsquo;s territory, you can eat the meat of the offerings as far as the eye could behold the Tabernacle. This law captures the magic and revolution of Joseph which we must appreciate today.

For this we have to understand what was at the root of this conflict in the first family of Israel?&nbsp; Could it be that a multicolored coat or a favorite son&rsquo;s share of his father&rsquo;s affections should generate such profound strife? 

Something deeper was at stake. Joseph and Judah (representing the other brothers) embodied two divergent world-views. They possessed different approaches on the meaning of Judaism, which was just beginning to bud, and the place of the Jewish people in society. The conflict still persists in the Jewish world (though in a different form). At last, perhaps, we can create peace between the weltanschauung of Yehudah and Yosef.

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jerusalem

mishkan shilo

Yosef: Tear Down that Wall; Yehudah: Keep Up that Wall 

Class Vayechi

Judaism Inward Or Outward? The Great Debate #2 

This lecture was presented&nbsp;on Tisha B&#39;Av, 5779, Sunday, August 11, 2019, at 11 Forshay Road, Monsey, NY.

Sometimes when you&#39;re in a dark place you think you&#39;ve been buried, but you&#39;ve actually been planted.

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pain

molestation

seed

sheaves

abuse

Shir HaMa'alos Beshuv Hashem: A Little Seedling Nurtured by Tears

Tishah B'Av 5779

Those Who Sow With Tears: A Prayer of an Abuse Victim

On his deathbed Jacob speaks to Joseph: &ldquo;A charming son is Joseph, a son charming to the eye; the women strode along to see him. They made his life bitter and they quarreled with him; archers despised him.&rdquo; Rashi explains: &ldquo;The women of Egypt strode on the wall to gaze upon his beauty.&rdquo;

What is Jacob trying to bring out? Literally, that Joseph&rsquo;s beauty was dazzling. Not only was he appealing to any eye that saw him, but even the Egyptian women were enthralled by his figure. They ascended the walls and fortresses of Egypt to be able to gaze at him. But why is this so relevant on the deathbed of Jacob?

What was at the root of the conflict in the first family of Israel?&nbsp; Could it be that a multicolored coat or a favorite son&rsquo;s share of his father&rsquo;s affections should generate such profound strife? Why did Joseph&rsquo;s brothers loath him so deeply?

Joseph and Judah embodied two divergent world-views. They possessed different approaches on the meaning of Judaism, which was just beginning to bud.

There is a remarkable law in Talmud. While when the Temple existed in Jerusalem you can only eat the meat of the sacrifices within the Jerusalem walls, when the Tabernacle stood in Shilo, in Joseph&rsquo;s territory, you can eat the meat of the offerings as far as the eye could behold the Tabernacle. This law captures the magic and revolution of Joseph.

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mishkon

potiphar wife

seclusion

shilo

ghetto

universal jew

The Grand Debate Between Judah and Joseph

Essay Vayechi/Vayeishev

Does Judaism Believe in the Wall?

Modesty Today: Loving our spouses &amp; children in a free world. An address to young couples, at the Shaarei Tefilah Shul in Los Angeles, CA, Motzaei Shabbos Vayigash, 11 Teves 5773. The lecture explains why at the moment of their encounter, after 22 years, Yaakov would not kiss his beloved son Yosef.

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marriage

tzinius

family purity

modesty

Loving Your Spouse & Children in a Confusing World: A Lecture to Young Couples in LA

An Eternal Kiss: Does Judaism Believe in Romance?

An Eternal Kiss: Does Judaism Believe in Romance?

Loving Your Spouse & Children in a Confusing World: A Lecture to Young Couples in LA

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