Weekly Essay
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Parashat Vayeshev ThemeThe need for vulnerability that contains no element of psychological protectionism is the center of achieving עד שאבוא לאדני שעירה. The destruction here in history and in the personality of יעקב אבינו is traced directly to the need to control דינה and עשו, with disastrous results. The expression in economics of Yisrael’s success is only meaningful if it is not in terms of על חרבך תחיה but the real outgrowth of becoming a nation engaged. This is why psychology becomes the basis of all the future here, though it has no place in the boardroom.
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Overview of Vayeshev
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Vayeshev-Miketz for Executives — Executive Learning Group, 2000 ThemeThe מ''ט פנים לטהרה ומ''ט פנים לטומאה (assuming that the מ''ח פנים of סומכוס תלמידו של רבי מאיר are part of a larger whole*) appear in the מנורת זכריה and are the alternative to נכלי דתות, for even within the consistency of one פן לתורה there need to be openness to all the potential אור. This is why רבי מאיר is both אחרים and נהוראי, because לא יכלו חביריו לעמוד על סוף דעתו. *Same relationship as תורה נקנית במ''ח דברים and מ''ט ימים של ספירת העומר
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Vayeshev-Vayigash Transitions ThemeThe need for vulnerability that contains no element of psychological protectionism is the center of achieving עד שאבוא לאדני שעירה. The destruction here in history and in the personality of יעקב אבינו is traced directly to the need to control דינה and עשו, with disastrous results. The expression in economics of Yisrael’s success is only meaningful if it is not in terms of על חרבך תחיה but the real outgrowth of becoming a nation engaged. This is why psychology becomes the basis of all the future here, though it has no place in the boardroom.
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Vayeshev-Miketz Developments
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Advanced Vayeshev — Advanced FrameWorks" Series presented to Kolel Fellows, 1995 ThemeThe search for שלוה is a search for primal innocence which is nonetheless aware of בושה and vulnerability. There can be no short cuts, and the entire history of Yisrael is defined by this short parasha which contains the subconscious of a people and the issues that must be rectified before we can become whole, before תשובה. This is the deeper element of חנוכה which ends with משה ואהרון, those who discover joy in the other’s doing as the final תיקון of relationship and thus of the journey of רגל to end the גיד הנשה .
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