Rosner’s Torah-Talk: Parashat Vayechi

As the Jewish Journal video staff is on vacation this week, we decided to give you a couple of our past discussions of this week's Torah portion.

Parashat Vayechi (Genesis 47:28-50:26) is the final portion of the book of Genesis. The portion describes the final days of Jacob, the blessing given to his sons, Jacob's death and burial, and the death of Joseph.

Here is Rabbi Denise Eger on the transformation of the family of Israel into the people of Israel (full post and bio can be found here):

And here is our discussion with Rabbi Josh Yuter on on the cohesiveness of the people of Israel and the reason why a single patriarch/leader was not appointed after Jacob (full post and bio here):