Parashat Miketz

Joseph's fall and rise teaches us that the last chapter of our story remains to be written.

Parashat Miketz teaches us about teshuvah and forgiveness.

Joseph serves as a model of creating opportunities for repentance and forgiveness.

By judging others favorably and responding to them with kindness, we add holiness to the world.

Joseph's status as an outsider, and the outsider status of the Jewish people, allow for critical insight into the deeper truths of the surrounding people.

Prayers can help repair the world.

To prevent world hunger, we must dream big dreams and take wise action.

We must use our gifts of wealth, education, and influence to improve conditions for the poor and powerless.

Joseph's tears, public and private

Fear paralyzes us, rendering us incapable of addressing our most pressing problems.

Joseph's actions in dealing with the famine challenge us to strive for a delicate balance of power and compassion.

By personally handing out rations, Joseph established a human connection and involvement with those for whom he provided.

To be fully educated and human we must study a range of disciplines--humanities and sciences, secular and Judaic.

A Torah teaching for the Western environmentalist.

Judaism can provide spiritual sustenance to those who need it, to those who seek it.

In naming his sons, Joseph communicates his thoughts on living in Egypt, alone and distant from his family.

We can choose how we respond to situations over which we have no control.

Joseph's brothers are blinded by denial.

We must give our children opportunities to view themselves as successes.

Miketz: A resource for families.

Wisdom and how to wield it.

Test your knowledge of this Torah portion.

Joseph interprets Pharaoh's dreams and is appointed to implement Egypt's anti-famine plan, which brings him into contact with his brothers again.