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Thursday, December 24, 2020

Vayigash: Recognizing Yosef In Our Time

by Rav Yehuda HaKohen, visionmag.org

Did Yosef use the famine to bring his family down to Egypt in hopes of implementing an alternative approach to the Hebrew mission in the Diaspora?

Shpinx (Credit: Joseph Ashraf)

Listen to the audio/read the transcript here (25 min)

How did Yehuda thwart Yosef’s plan to realize his second dream? How does the conflict between Yehuda and Yosef echo through history and play out in the State of Israel today? What is the hidden value of the Diasporic Jewish identity expressed by Yaakov (as opposed to Israel)?

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