Yaakov gives his funeral instructions not once but twice! Why does he repeat it?And how did Yoseph invest his children and the entire Jewish people with a faith in Redemption?----To support this podcast, please donate on Patreon or https://buymeacoffee.com/alexisrael. Thank you!
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#50 | Genesis ch.49 - Jacob's Blessings
In this chapter, as Jacob is about to die, he is surrounded by his 12 sons and he addresses each one in turn.Is there a single theme that unifies all these blessings? Are they all blessings?
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#49 | Genesis ch.48 - Blessing the Children
Yaakov is sick. Yoseph takes his sons to visit.The Midrash says that Yaakov is the first person ever to get sick. What did they mean by this?And here we see a special blessing to Efrayim and Menashe. What can we learn from this scene?
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#48 | Genesis ch.47 - Joseph's Famine Economics
In our chapter we read about Joseph's economic management of the famine.Joseph saved Egypt but also ended up nationalizing all the assets of the country.Does his policy express care and compassion, or exploitation and opportunistic power? Should we laud Yoseph or be critical of him?
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#47 | Genesis ch.46 - The Exile Begins
If Jacob went to Egypt to visit his son, why didn't he return to Canaan?If the brothers went to Egypt to survive the famine, why didn't they return home?As we shall see, ch.46 is in fact the start of the Exile, predicted in Genesis ch.15 - in the Brit Bein Habetarim.But why Exile?
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