"Shabbat Shalom" – Vayigash 5776
Parshat Vayigash (Genesis 44:18-47:27) Rabbi Shlomo Riskin Efrat, Israel – “And Joseph went up to greet Israel his father; he fell on his neck and he wept on his neck exceedingly” (Genesis 46:29) In these few words, our Torah describes a dramatic meeting between an aged father and his beloved son who had been separated for twenty-two years. …