{"id":2342,"date":"2016-05-04T23:40:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T23:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2342"},"modified":"2016-05-04T23:40:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T23:40:18","slug":"vayechi-5761","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2342","title":{"rendered":"VaYechi (5761)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drash Cards for VaYechi (5761)<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n

\u2022 Remember Tevya’s dream (at least in the musical), with Gramma and Tzeitel and a blessing on your head. Keep that in mind as we go forward<\/p>\n

\u2022 In this parsha Jacob dies at 147, after blessing his sons and grandsons, and is buried in Canaan. Joseph dies at 110.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The blessings begin (Ch 47, v15) with recognition of differences in Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ch 48, v 20 pertains to the blessings of our children. Why Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah is obvious. But why Ephraim and Menassah is not so obvious. And why Ephraim before Menassah?<\/p>\n

\u2022 The lineages are these: \u00a0Joshua descends from Ephraim; he is consistent and steady. \u00a0Gideon descends from Menassah; he appears in a flash, does a great thing, and disappears. \u00a0Combining them: May you — our children — be a combination of consistency and great heroic achievement.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ephraim and Menassah are children raised in the galut but identify with Jacob. \u00a0May you — our children — \u00a0be Jewish for your grandparents.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Chazal say that Ephraim focussed on Torah study and Menassah on being involved in the world. May you — our children — be deeply involved in this world but never forget the spiritual one.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Now why Ephraim before Menassah? \u00a0Hirsch says that this is rejection of the cult of the first born, who generally has material but no ethical or moral superiority to the subsequent children.<\/p>\n

\u2022 By crossing his hands, Jacob does not reject Manasseh, but reordered and thus shared the blessing (compare the situation with Jacob and Esau.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The blessing of the sons is really prophecy, but that’s a later drash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drash Cards for VaYechi (5761) by Marc Mangel \u2022 Remember Tevya’s dream (at least in the musical), with Gramma and Tzeitel and a blessing on your head. Keep that in mind as we go forward \u2022 In this parsha Jacob dies at 147, after blessing his sons and grandsons, and is buried in Canaan. Joseph … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2342","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2343,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2342\/revisions\/2343"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}