{"id":2514,"date":"2004-12-21T08:56:29","date_gmt":"2004-12-21T13:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2004\/12\/21\/2514.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:47:29","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:47:29","slug":"parshah-vayichi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2004\/12\/21\/parshah-vayichi\/","title":{"rendered":"Parshah Vayichi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sadly, Your Humble Blogger has little time this morning to write about Parshah Vayichi (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueletterbible.org\/kjv\/Gen\/Gen047.html#28\">Gen 47<\/a>:28-50:26. The reading is not very eventful: Jacob\/Israel dies, and is brought back to Hebron to be buried, and then Joseph dies. There&#8217;s a lengthy rant from Jacob about his sons, and they (and their eponymous tribes) are described in some poetic detail. I had never read that part, and it&#8217;s surely interesting, but it doesn&#8217;t have any Moments of Decision.\n<p>So, if I were leading discussion (which I&#8217;m not, thank the Lord), I would ask what would have happened in Jacob decided to be buried in his new home, near his children and grandchildren. No procession back to Hebron, but a new Grave of the Ancestors in the land o&#8217;Goshen.\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s the end of Genesis. Next week is the first Parshah of Exodus, Sh&#8217;mot, and it&#8217;s a doozie. I hope to be able to write about it in more detail than this, but I&#8217;ll be on the road, so we&#8217;ll see. Before I sign off, though, I&#8217;ll add the traditional phrase we say in shul when we finish the last parshah of one of the five books:\n<p>Be strong, be strong, and let us strengthen one another.\n<p>Thank you,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, Your Humble Blogger has little time this morning to write about Parshah Vayichi (Gen 47:28-50:26. The reading is not very eventful: Jacob\/Israel dies, and is brought back to Hebron to be buried, and then Joseph dies. There\u2019s a lengthy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scripture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17244,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514\/revisions\/17244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}