What is interesting to note is that in the beginning of Parshat Vayeshev, Rashi explains that Yaakov and Yosef were similar in their looks, so why didn’t the brothers recognize the complexion of ...

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.

As we can see, this phrase has many parushim inside the Rishonim. We can connect all this with the beginning of the Parsha, where To Yaakov worried that if Binyamin travelled tragedy may ensue ...

(Midrash Rabbah, Vayigash 93). From this story, we learn that the solution to complex challenges is not always far off. Sometimes, it takes merely opening our eyes to see that salvation is right ...

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In this week’s Torah reading of Vayigash, Joseph sustained the people of Egypt with enough food to get them through the years of famine. But it came at a huge cost. And possibly contributed to ...

Rav Chaim miChernowitz expounds:’And these are the names of Bnei Israel’: ‘Did we not already know the names of the tribes, the sons of Yaakov, from Parashat Vayigash, which named all who ...

In perhaps one of the most emotional and dramatic scenes in the Bible, Joseph, regent of Egypt, unrecognized by his brothers as the sibling they had sold two decades before into slavery, orders ...

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 ...