Vayeshev 5774 – English
By Rabbi Daniel A. Kripper Beth Israel Aruba “This, then, is the line of Jacob. At seventeen years of age, Joseph tended the flocks with his brothers…” (Gen. 37:1). Based on this first verse of the parashah, where the names of Jacob and Joseph appear juxtaposed, the Midrash establishes a similarity of events between Jacob’s …