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Parashat Va-Yechi
– Bob Marley
This week’s Torah portion ends with the death of Joseph and closes the book of Genesis. The end of Genesis is the end of the story of the family of Abraham, setting the stage for the saga of the nation of his descendants. As Rabbi David Silber observes, people ask why the stories in the Book of Genesis are so often interrupted by genealogies, when they really just want to get on with