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The Alef Kabbala Group (10 December 2013) studied a discourse by the Lubavitcher Rebbe taught in 1966 for Sedra Vayechi. The theme is the journey of the Soul into This World in order to 'live'. To...
The Alef Kabbala Group (6 January 09) explored a discourse by the Lubavitcher Rebbe for Sedra Vayechi 5738 (Dec 1977). This begins with the words of Jacob's blessing to Judah, and presents the four...
The Alef Kabbala Group (18 Dec 07) explored the Chassidic-Kabbalistic discourse by the Lubavitcher Rebbe taught on Shabbat parsha Vayechi, 14 Tevet 5732 (1 Jan 1972) entitled "I have given an extra...
This discourse was taught by the Rebbe in December 1964. It discusses Jacob's attempt to 'reveal the End'. His children had not yet reached the spiritual level at which that would be possible. But...
This discourse was taught by the Rebbe on Shabbat Vayechi in December 1969. It focuses on the blessing to Judah, the ancestor of the Davidic Kings: Judah, you, your brothers will submit to you, and...
The essential difference between men and women through Jacob's final conversations: his concern to be buried in Hebron and his account of Rachel's burial at the wayside. The primary goal of both is...
The Sedra's name Vayechi, meaning he lived, to explore the question of what it means to truly live. Jacob's seventeen years in Egypt are described as genuinely alive because he lived in full...
How to deal with an unfamiliar or hostile environment while preserving and even developing one's sense of self, using Jacob's blessing of Joseph's sons as the central example. Jacob's crossing of his...
Who we are as Jews: Jacob the spiritual, or Joseph the man of the world, or both? Jacob's insistence on being buried in Hebron rather than remaining in Egypt expresses his refusal to become...
The spiritual significance of the names of Jacob's sons through the imagery of sight and sound as two levels of perception of the Divine. Seeing represents a clearer, more direct awareness of...
This discourse was delivered by the Rebbe on Shabbat Parshat Vayechi, 5727 (1967). The Sedra tells us Jacob lived seventeen years in Egypt, and the Baal HaTurim says these were the best years of his...
This discourse was delivered by the Rebbe on Shabbat Parshat Vayechi, 5725 (1965). At the end of his life, Jacob called his sons to tell them 'what will happen at the end of days', but the Shechina...