Parshat Vayeshev- Do you know where you come from?
Parshat Vayeishev 5771 We all have a deep and intense yearning to connect with our roots. We all want to connect with the history, concepts and ideas of what made us who we are. Memory is sometimes so incredible, but at other times so fleeting. People tend to do whatever it takes to capture a memory. But sometimes pictures just don’t cut it. Yosef, like the rest of our forefathers, was blessed with the ability of rising to the top. Yosef went from being a slave to becoming a master practically overnight. Yosef fought a battle with his evil inclination when his master’s wife constantly tried to seduce Yosef into lying with her. When she grabs Yosef’s garb, the Midrash says that he saw his father’s face and he ran. “ Now Israel loved Yosef more than all his sons since he was a child of his old age… (37:3)” What is the Torah trying to tell us when it says that Yosef was “a child of his old age”? RASHI points out that Yaakov was in his old age when Yosef was born, which allowed ...