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Torah Talk for Parashat Vayeshev

December 5, 2017 by Sharon Freundel (Community)

In this parasha, Yosef’s dreams anger his brothers, and they sell him into slavery in Egypt, where he eventually ends up in prison, still interpreting others’ dreams.

Most of us recognize the names of the most famous twins in the Torah: Yaakov and Esav. In chapter 38, we encounter a second set of twins, which many people have never heard of: Peretz and Zerach, the sons of Yehuda, Yaakov’s third son. Read more >