Shulchan Aruch, Chapter 174: Din Birkas HaYayin b'Seudah 9a

Instructor: By Avraham Meyer Zajac

Instructor: By Rochel Holzkenner

How would you feel if your parents showed blatant favoritism to one of your siblings? How did a great patriarch like Yaakov not see the discontent brewing between his children? Why was Yosef much more like his father than any of his older brothers? How was Yaakov a fire, and Yosef a flame? Was Yosef actually vain and childish? What does a knock on the door in the middle of a freezing Russian night have to do with Yosef’s mission in this world? Let’s find our answers in class one.