Parsha:

Vayechi 

Description

The final scene in Yaakov's life, where he assembled his twelve sons around his bed and "blessed" them, if both elegant and enigmatic. What was father's purpose in this gathering? Why did he first disempower his eldest sons before "crowning" both Yehudah and Yosef? What is the rhyme and reason behind the order of the sons as they are blessed? All this - and more - in this shiur