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Parshat Vayechi 5784

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Blessing the Children

Why do we give our children the blessing to be like Ephraim and Menashe? Why do we do so on Friday night?

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Yissachar-Zevulun Arrangements

Is supporting Torah learning just another form of Tzedaka, or is it something more? How does a proper Yissachar-Zevulun partnership work?

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Being Buried in Israel

Why was Yaakov so adamant about not being buried in Egypt? Is there a requirement or mitzvah to be buried in Israel today?

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Chazak Chazak V'Nitchazek

What is the history and meaning of the custom to announce Chazak at the end of the leining of a sefer of the Torah?

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Recent Shiurim on Vayechi

•	Rabbi Yaakov Abramovitz: Did Yosef's Brothers Need Forgiveness? Did They Get It?
•	Rabbi Reuven Boshnack: Missing a Space, Clouded Hearts and Minds
•	Rabbi Tanchum Cohen: Yaacov's and Yosef's Bones: Close of the Avos, Climax of Jewish History
•	Rabbi Daniel Eisenberg: It's Gotta Be You and It's Gotta Be Now
•	Rabbi Yitzchak Etshalom: Birkat Yosef and Birkat Yehudah
•	Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman: Brachos of Peace Bli Ayin Harah
•	Rabbi Joel Finkelstein: Two Nations under G-d
•	Rabbi Yonatan Shai Freedman: Why was Yaakov Annoyed at Shimon and Levi?
•	Rabbi Efrem Goldberg: Surpassed by Our Children
•	Morah Stacey Goldman: The End of Days
•	Rabbi Yamin Goldsmith: The Brachos of Gad… To Us
•	Rabbi Meir Goldwicht: איך עוברים את השנים במצרים בלי מצוות
•	Rabbi Gedaliah Jaffe: The Bones of Yaakov and Yosef
•	Rabbi Ari Kahn: The Color Purple
•	Mrs. Emma Katz: Yaakov's Final Lesson: Together We Will Make It To The End
•	Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz: Bury Me In Chicago!
•	Rabbi Aaron Leibtag: Davening For Israel Anew Each Day
•	Rabbi Yoni Mandelstam: The Mitzvah of Kevurah and the Kedusha of a Fallen Soldier
•	Rabbi Yonah Sklare: The Magic of Hope and Shevet Dan
•	Mrs. Shira Smiles: Blockages and Blindness
•	Rabbi Yehuda Turetsky: Does Yissachar Get Less Reward When Zevulun Supports Him?
•	R' Ari Wasserman: Don't Take on a Role You Can't Succeed In
•	Rabbi Moshe Tzvi Weinberg: The Birth of Bnei Yisrael: Refining Precious Sparks to Fashion a Vessel for Torah
•	Rabbi Jonathan Ziring: What Droves Yosef's Brothers' Fear?

Recent Articles on Vayechi

•	Rabbi Immanuel Bernstein: Ephraim and Menashe
•	Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander: Our Heroes Never Perish
•	Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald: Can It Be a Mitzvah to Lie?
•	Rabbi Aaron Goldscheider: Going Home
•	Mrs. Michal Horowitz: Yosef’s Enduring Legacy
•	Rabbi Norman Lamm: The Mood in Israel
•	Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik zt"l: Leket Pninei Harav
•	Rabbi Moshe Taragin: How Can Israel Preserve Unity?
•	Rabbi Mordechai Torczyner: Didn’t the Scepter Leave Yehudah?

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