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Vayigash: Joseph's New Year's Resolutions
As we read the Torah, sometimes the stories that we find in our weekly parshiyot
are so utterly distant from our reality that we find ourselves breaking
a sweat forging connection between the text and our lives. Other times the two are so complementary it can send chills down your spine. This week… we’re somewhere in between….
Two weeks ago, we read from the beginning of the story of Joseph. For levity’s sake, I called as an aliyah to the Torah anyone who has seen Andrew Lloyd Weber’s musical, Joseph. Very few people stood up, and I was shocked….until someone said, “does it count if I was in it?” “Of course,” I said, at which point it felt like nearly everyone stood up. Just imagine if it were Fiddler on the Roof!
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