Parshas Vayigash is bittersweet. The sweetness is obvious. After 22 years of anguish and melancholy, Jacob is informed that Joseph is alive and is a king in Egypt. Our Parsha is a story of reunion and reclamation. But it's also bitter: Jacob and his family travel to Egypt, a morass that will be very difficult to extricate themselves from. The nation will be in Egypt for hundreds of years and eventually be enslaved and oppressed severely. Only the Exodus will extricate the nation from the tentacles of Egypt. In this Parsha podcast, we examine several counterintuitive elements of the descent into darkness. We discover that sometimes the most brilliant light can only emerge amidst the darkness. If not for nighttime, we wouldn't know of the existence of the stars.

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This Parsha Podcast is dedicated in loving memory and leilui nishmas Moshe Ben David Shalom, our friend Moshe Peter Loth, who passed away a few weeks ago. May his Soul be elevated in Heaven.

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