{"id":2366,"date":"2021-12-19T07:40:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T14:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2021-12-19T07:40:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T14:40:36","slug":"parsha-vayechi-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2366","title":{"rendered":"Parsha \u201cVayechi\u201d teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Parsha &#8216;Vayechi,&#8217; &#8220;And lived Yakov\u2026&#8221; is the last one in the Book of Genesis, and concludes the lives of both Yakov, or Jacob, and later his son Yosef\/Joseph (Genesis\/Bereshiet 47:28 on). It&#8217;s also arguably the first of the &#8220;grafting in&#8221; stories of the &#8216;house of Israel,&#8217; in the form of Yakov&#8217;s &#8216;adoption&#8217; of Yosef&#8217;s two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh (or is it the other way around?) into the &#8216;twelve&#8217; tribes &#8212; depending on how they are counted in context, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it sets the stage for the bondage to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Erev Shabbat, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa first covers the whole story, and some of those important nuances:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/hebrewnation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/18192821\/SSM-12-17-21-Vayechi-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On first reading, this might be one of the few stories in the Bible where there is no obvious antagonist, or bad guy, much less a character that seems to represent &#8216;the Adversary,&#8217; or outright evil. And yet, the word certainly appears, and there&#8217;s a setup for the next Book of Exodus that begs an important question: How did these sons of Israel descend so dramatically into bondage and slavery?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, interestingly, it took about the same time for them as it did for America, since the Revolution for independence, to end up in another form of bondage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark suggests that it hinges on a question that Jacob asks his son, apparently concerning his grandsons, but also for which he already knew the answer: &#8220;Whose are THESE?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sabbath Day teaching suggests the question is about FAR more than meets the eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Vayechi: Dealing With Evil&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/hebrewnation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/18193722\/WT-CooH-12-18-21-Vayechi-Dealing-with-RA-Evil-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined two-part podcast is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-parsha-vayechi-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-4\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-parsha-vayechi-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>, via the Hebrew Nation Radio page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa&#8217;s 2021\/22 Torah cycle teachings for parsha &#8220;Vayechi&#8221; (Genesis\/Bereshiet 44:48 through the end of the Book) and related Scripture. <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2366\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,69,35,31,11],"tags":[46,28,88,1573,1581,1580,1578,892,63,104,1574,114,176,1575,1576,318,92,101,1577],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}