I discuss the parsha with Rabbi Rabbs Mondays at 7pm PST on my live cam.
This week we will discuss our Torah portion of Vayigash (Genesis 44:18-47:27).
* What do you think of Rabbi Meir Kahane?
* Dennis Prager: “The greatest human task is to see people different from us as fully human. One of the few places to embark on this task is America.”
* Was it hard for you to grow up to see other groups as fully human? Blacks or women or Reform Jews?
* Do you feel any comfort with Genesis being filled with dysfunctional families and imperfect people?
* Orthodox rabbi Emmanuel Rackman said God created doubt. If we didn’t have doubt, we wouldn’t have freedom of choice. Does anything affect your faith in God and in the divine status of Torah? Sexual tension is a good thing. Is tension with God good? Do you struggle with God? Do children born deformed affect your faith? How about the Holocaust?
* Do you have a favorite book of the Bible? Or character? Do you think your life has been easier than Joseph’s or Jacob’s or Isaac’s or Abraham’s? Do we expect too much from family?
* Rabbi Rabbs posts to FB: Ugh! I just witnessed some frightening child abuse right in front of everyone, and none of us did a damn thing about it. I got so much anger right now.
i’m living proof that years of therapy doesn’t do jack. shrinks are a fraud. I CANNOT STAND UP FOR MYSELF OR FOR OTHERS AGAINST ABUSIVE ASSHOLES and all the therapy in the world can’t changed that.
