Vayechi – Your Bucket-List

Vayechi – Your Bucket-List

The name of the Parsha means life – Jacob’s life which he finally enjoys with family and Torah learning. What are your goals in life? How truly meaningful are they?  Will you chase a bucket-list of experiences or have the benefit of true fulfilment as did our forefather Yaakov?

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Vayechi – Balance of Work and Study

Vayechi – Balance of Work and Study

In this week’s Parsha of Vayechi, two Jewish tribes are blessed with a synergistic relationship. The tribe of Zevulun would become seafaring traders bringing income and wealth to Israel, and Yissachar would become the scholars who studied in the Yeshiva academies bringing insight and wisdom to the Jewish people. But where is the synergy? It

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Vayechi – You and Me, We’re Gonna be Partners

Vayechi – You and Me, We’re Gonna be Partners

A business partnership is like a marriage with similar tensions and commonalities. But the relationship of the tribe of Zevulun and the tribe of Yissachar is the model for all of us. One was great in trade, and the other was great in education. They exchanged their ‘goods and services’. Zevulun would support Yissachar, and

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Vayechi – Business and Academia. A Unique Partnership

Vayechi – Business and Academia. A Unique Partnership

The soul is reincarnated into exactly the right body, with the right parents, and in the right life’s situation. One person becomes a man of the world – a businessperson. Another lives a cloistered life of an academic. Both are legitimate expressions of a soul’s journey. But when Yissaschar and Zevulun form a partnership of

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