Here is an idea from my essay on #Vayechi, "Family, Faith and Freedom": 🇬🇧 bit.ly/2sUaV6V / 🇮🇱 bit.ly/2T2ohbO / 🇪🇸 bit.ly/2T12Rfm / 🇫🇷 bit.ly/37GQOI4 / Family Edition bit.ly/2QVb55P / Listen spoti.fi/33Npq9s. #ShabbatShalom
#Genesis is not a hymn to the virtue of families. It is a candid, honest, fully worked-through account of what it is to confront some of the main problems within families, even the best.
Genesis ends on three important resolutions: first, that grandparents are part of the family and their blessing is important.
Second, Jacob shows it is possible to bless all your children, even if you have a fractured relationship with some of them.
Third, Joseph shows it is possible to forgive your siblings even if they have done you great harm.
Genesis is not just about the creation of the world, which occupies only one chapter, but about how to handle family conflict. As soon as Abraham’s descendants can create strong families, they can move from #Genesis to #Exodus and their birth as a nation.
I believe that #family is the birthplace of #freedom. Caring for one another, we learn to care for the common good. **END**
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