Writing Your Will: Practical Parshah - Vayechi
In this week’s portion, Jacob gives his sons his last will and testament. What does Jewish law say about how to bequeath an inheritance to heirs?
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Anonymous
Lenexa, Kansas
January 7, 2012
death and revival My teens and I enjoyed this teaching as part of our Shabbes study. My daughter has a question, please. If you bequeath everything, pass and then are revived, what then? Reply
Binh Tran
unioncity, us
December 17, 2010
Writing Your Will
B"H.
Thank You Rabbi Kaplan. Great teaching.
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Nadav Sandroussy
Montreal, Canada
December 16, 2010
Inheritance
Beautifully spoken Dvar Torah.
I did not really understand what happens with the inheritance in the case where a father only has daughters?
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My question is why the doubling of the phrase פקד פקד? It is also repeated in Exodus chapter 3, verse 17.