Vayigash/Vayechi Essays

[Reuven Chaim Klein]

Essays on synonyms from my What’s in a Word? series related to Parshas Vayigash:

• Coming Closer - About גישה and קירוב.
• Speaking in Tongues - About לשון and שפה.
• A Biblical Feast - About אוכל, דגן, שבר, תבואה, תנובה, יבול, בר, and מזון.

Essays on synonyms from my What’s in a Word? series related to Parshas Vayechi:

• Jacob's Three Names - About יעקב, ישראל, and ישורון.
• Shouldering the Burden - About שכם and כתף.
• Say your Prayers - About תפילה and בקשה.
• Crouching Lion, Hidden Blessing - About ארי, אריה, גור, לביא, כפיר, ליש, שחל, שחץ,
• Through the Grapevine - גפן, שרקה, and שדמה.
• White is Light - About לבן, חור, and צוחר.
• Boats, Ships, and Nautical Rhapsody - About אניה, שיט, ספינה, רפסדות, עברה, סירות, דוגית, צי and more.
• Good and Pleasant - About נעים and שפיר.
• Them Bones and Themselves - About עצם and גרם.

Other written work related to the Parsha:

"סוד הנשיקה בתנ"ך ובחז"ל", קובץ חצי גיבורים-פליטת סופרים גליון ח' (לייקוואוד, אלול תשע"ה)

"Chapter 4: The Jews in Egypt" from my book Lashon HaKodesh: History, Holiness, & Hebrew [the full book is available for purchase at Amazon.com or wherever Jewish books are sold].

Pirkei D'Rabbi Eliezer Shiurim related to this week's Parsha (available on many platforms including: YouTube, Google Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, TorahDownloads, OUTorah.org, Archive.org):

• Episode 81: Chapter 39a - The Life of Jacob = Hashem goes down to Egypt with Yaakov (Yeridah #4) / Yaakov sees the potential danger of being exiled to Egypt / Which of Jacob's wives came to Egypt with him (Was Bilhah still alive)? / Whom did Jacob's sons marry (twin sisters or Canaanite women)? / Counting Jacob's 70 Descendants (are Hashem, Yocheved, Bilhah, & Yaakov in the list?) / About 600,000 Jews exited Egypt / Yosef lives 110 years instead of 120 as a punishment / How is silence considered an admission (shitkah k'hodaah)? / A father is like a king / Yosef resists the temptation of Potiphar's wife / Joseph ejaculates from his fingers / For how long was Yosef in jail (Pirkei D'Rabbi Eliezer vs. Seder Olam)?
• Episode 82: Chapter 39b - The Life of Jacob =  Joseph understands 70 languages & dream interpretation / Yosef escapes harm from the Ayin HaRa / Who was the "translator" (meilitz)? / Yosef never raised the prices / Egypt builds storagehouses for the famine / Yosef swears that he will bury Yaakov in the Holy Land / The Egyptians pay their last respects to Jacob & get rewarded / Eisav claims ownership of Maarat HaMachpelah & ends up killed / Who killed Esau (Chushim ben Dan or Yehudah ben Yaakov)? / Yehuda & Dan must join together to build the Temple & destroy Amalek / Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz: Don't get used to undesirable situations / Yitzchak prays on Eisav's behalf 

Kol Tuv,

Reuven Chaim Klein

Beitar Illit, Israel

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