Joseph and the Risks of Power (Mikketz 5780)
Download the accompanying Family Edition here! Mikketz represents the most sudden and radical transformation in the Torah. Joseph, … Read more
Parsha: Mikketz
The Universal and the Particular (Mikketz 5779)
The story of Joseph is one of those rare narratives in Tanach in which a Jew (Israelite/Hebrew) comes to … Read more
Jews and Economics (Mikketz 5778)
We know that Jews have won a disproportionate number of Nobel Prizes: over twenty per cent of them from a … Read more
The Author of Our Lives (Mikketz 5777)
It was Joseph’s first real attempt to take his fate into his own hands, and it failed. Or so it … Read more
To Wait Without Despair (Mikketz 5776)
Something extraordinary happens between last week’s parsha and this week’s. It is almost as if the pause of a week … Read more
Appearance and Reality (Mikketz 5775)
Finally after twenty-two years and many twists and turns, Joseph and his brothers meet. We sense the drama of the … Read more
Mikketz (5774) – The Power of Dreams
In one of the greatest transformations in all literature, Joseph moves in one bound from prisoner to prime minister. What … Read more
Mikketz (5772) – The Author of our Lives
It was Joseph’s first real attempt to take his fate into his own hands, and it failed. Or so it … Read more
Mikketz (5771) – Sibling Rivalry
There has been massive debate in Anglo Jewry in the past few weeks as to whether we should take a … Read more
Miketz (5768) – Faith, Universal and Particular
Pharaoh has two dreams: one about seven lean cows eating seven fat ones, another about seven scorched ears of corn … Read more
