Rabbi Mendel Kalmenson has traveled Europe, Asia and South America, reaching out to Jews in the remotest areas. He now resides with his wife Chanale, daughter Geulah, and son Dov, in Brooklyn, New York, where he serves as rabbi of the Besht Center, a spiritual center for young profssionals.
Mendel regularly contributes articles to Chabad.org, most of them appearing in his Parshah column, "What the Rebbe Taught Me."
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And even if it was the other explanation.....what kind of fear keeps a child from the presence of the beloved presence of the parent, certainly he had developed the character trait of humbleness that would have allowed him to negotiate the issue of his brothers behaviors....at the least to acknowledge that it was an act of HaShem and certainly Yaakov had been around long enough to be able to turn that over to HaShem as well...
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