Living On: Vayechi

Parshas Vayechi recounts the death of both Yaakov and Yosef. Yet the parsha is not named for death but for life. I touched on why in this post, http://kallahmagazine.blogspot.com/2017/12/when-star-dies.html. The connection of stars to the theme of Yaakov Avinu lo mes also comes up in Rav Schwab's take on the prohibition to count Klal Yisrael and the impossibility of counting the stars, which are sometimes not visible even when they are present because the light has not yet reached us, in http://kallahmagazine.blogspot.com/2018/10/number-stars.html




Related: http://kallahmagazine.blogspot.com/2017/01/vayechi-unique-form-of-swearing.html

http://kallahmagazine.blogspot.com/2015/12/did-yosef-forgive-his-brothers.html


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