Audio and Essays Parashat Vayigash

Audio and Essays Parashat Vayigash

http://arikahn.blogspot.com/2020/01/audio-and-essays-parashat-vayigash.html

 

New shiur:

·     Missing Words

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/1159457/Missing-Words

·     YouTube

https://youtu.be/Uy1UsLeMRgw?si=4b_D2eYekMhdniIO

 

 

Essay 

 Parashat Vayigash – The Missing Words

http://arikahn.blogspot.com/2025/12/parashat-vayigash-missing-words.html

 

 Parashat Vayigash – The Whisper of Reconciliation 

http://arikahn.blogspot.com/2025/12/parashat-vayigash-whisper-of.html

 

Yakov’s Pain     

Audio

YouTube

 

Excerpt from Healing and Repairing

A Dream Surrendered PDF

 

5 Minute 

In the Name of the Father

YouTube

 

YouTube

Parashat Vayigash

Seeds of Anti-Semitism

 

Special – 

Musings on Anti-Semitism

 

Five-minute Torah –

Becoming Whole

YouTube

 

Five-minute Torah –

Is My Father Still Alive?

YouTube - Is My Father Still Alive?

 

 

Audio:

Is My Father Still Alive?

 

The Whisper of Reconciliation

 

Giving up on a Dream

 

Plots, Schemes and Repercussions

 

Vindicated

 

Becoming Whole

 

Isolation or Integration

Video

 

Polytheism and Monotheism: The Benei Rachel

 

Is My Father Still Alive?

 

Manifest Destiny

 

Honesty and Empathy – The Inner World of Yehudah

 

Brothers and Others

 

Parshat Vayigash / The Inner Meaning of the Wagons

 

Parshat Vayigash / The merger of Yehudah and Yosef (The Haftorah for Parshat Vayigash)

 
Escaping from Yosef's Trap

 

 Yosef; Tour Guide of a Guilt Trip

 

Making Dreams Come True

 

The Stature Of Yosef

 

Seeds of Anti-Semitism

רגע של אמת

 

יהודה ואחיו ומלכות

 

שנאה ואהבה במכירת יוסף -שיעור לט' באב

 

Essays:

Emotional Truth: Becoming Brothers Once Again

 

Seeing a Ghost 

 

Becoming Yehuda

 

Plan Interrupted

 

Wagons

 

Becoming Yehuda (5775)

 

The Power of an Idea (5761)

 

Joseph From the Kabbalistic Perspective (5760)

Download PDF

 

Essay in Hebrew מי בראש?

Parashat Vayigash Seeds of Antisemitism

Musings on Antisemitism

Audio and Essays Parashat Miketz/ Chanuka

 

Audio and Essays Parashat Miketz/ Chanuka

http://arikahn.blogspot.com/2019/12/audio-and-essays-parashat-miketz-chanuka.html  

Shabbat Shalom

Chanuka Sameach

Chodesh Tov

 

New Essay –  Paroh's Nightmare

http://arikahn.blogspot.com/2025/12/parashat-miketz-pharaohs-nightmare-and.html

 

New Lecture

Paroh's Nightmare

 

The Sequence of Lighting Chanukah Candles

 

Eschewing Revenge

איך יוסף לא נקם את אחיו

 

The Executioner’s Protege

YouTube - The Executioner’s Protege

Pulling the Trigger

 

5 min audio

Is Chanukah More than a Festival of Lights?

Making Things Right

 

Looking For His Brothers

 

5 min. Video

Chanukah - More than a festival of lights

Parshat Miketz Making Things Right

 

Parshat Mikeitz Looking For His Brothers

Audio -

 

Audio:

In Search of Bread

 

Reconstructing a Broken Family

Audio

Video

Chanukah and Yosef - Seeing Up Close

Audio

YouTube

 

Becoming Yosef

 

Polytheism and Monotheism: The Benei Rachel

A Cherished Chalice

 

The Unbearable Burden of Greatness

 

The Beauty of Yosef

 

Making Dreams Come True

Finding God

Escaping from Yosef's Trap

 

Yosef's Plan A, Plan B, and Plan C

האסטרטגיה וטקטיקה של יוסף

יהודה ואחיו ומלכות

 

Why Yosef Never Contacted his Family (new old shiur)

 

God Consciousness

 

Love and Hatred – Yosef his brothers and Tisha Bav  (Hebrew) 

LINK

 

 

  

Essays:

The Executioner’s Protege

 

A Cherished Chalice 

 

Crime and Punishment

 

Staring at the Truth

 

Victim No More

 

Dreams

 

Of Spies and Thieves

 

The Beauty of Joseph

 

Chanukah

Vulnerability, Stability, and Holiness; A Perspective of Chanukah from the Land of Israel

 

 

 

Why are there 8 (and not 7 or 9) days of Chanuka (Hebrew)

link

 

Chanukat Hamizbayach; History and Theology

 

Chanukah - Candles and Unicorns

 

Women and Chanukah candles

 

Parshat Vayeshev and Chanuka

 

Chanuka Candles and Danger

 

Chachmat Yavan - Greek Wisdom

 

Pirsumie Nisa

Link

 

Guests on Chanuka Part 1

 

Guests on Chanuka Part 2

 

Sufgniot Pat Haba Bkisnin

 

Chanukah Candles on Erev Shabbat

Parshat Miketz Making Things Right

Chanukah - More than a festival of lights

Audio and Essays Parashat Vayeshev

Audio and Essays Parashat Vayeshev

 

New Shiur

CONCENTRIC HOLY CIRCLES

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/1157865

BLOG - https://arikahn.blogspot.com/2025/12/concentric-holy-circles-parashat.html

 

YouTube - https://youtu.be/Crxu7aIvUTY?si=UsWeXOkD9WzThH9z

 Essay - https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/details?shiurid=1157866

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/1157866

 

Essay - CONCENTRIC HOLY CIRCLES

 

New Essay

The Imagined Trials and Real Tribulations of Yosef

 

Audio

The Price of Brotherhood

YouTube

 

 

Five minute Audio - Unequal

 

 

Worse than you Thought – 5 min. audio

 

Worse than you Thought - YouTube

Unequal YouTube

 

 

Audio:

Polytheism and Monotheism: The Benei Rachel

 

Fixing Family

Yosef's brilliant plan to unite his family - which succeeded in an unanticipated manner.

Video

 

The Subtext

 

The Strange Origin of Yehuda's Sense of Brotherhood

https://www.yutorah.org/lectures/details?shiurid=1082677

Yosef and Yehuda: Tzadik and Baal Teshuva? Chasid and Litvak?

Audio

Video

 

Dreamers and Prophets

The Imaginary Trials and Real Tribulations of Yosef

 

Theory of Conservation of Characters

 

Blame the Victim

 

And here's to you Mrs Potifar

 

The Man Who Would Be King

 

Reuvain and Yosef

 

המלכות שלא היה

link

 

The Dynamics of a Dysfunctional Patriarchal Family

 

Anointing a King

 

The Light of Mashiach

 

Brotherhood

 

A Dysfunctional Family

 

Yehuda and Yosef

 

Parshat Vayeshev and Chanuka

 

שנאה ואהבה במכירת יוסף -שיעור לט' באב

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נוח לו לאדם שיפיל את עצמו לתוך כבשן האש

Laws of Embarrassing others (Hebrew)

 

Candidates for Kingship

 

 

 

Essays:

Unequal

PDF

 

Worse Than you Thought

Parashat Vayeshev 5776 Family Dynamics

 

Reading the Signs

 

A Contentious Coat

 

For a Pair of Shoes

 

Ketz Bavel –Zerubavel

 

Wisdom of the Tzaddik

 

Clothes Make the Man

 

The Light of the Messiah