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This Week's Torah Portion: Vayeshev

Forgetting to Remember and Remembering to Forget

The story of Yosef fading out of memory is one which is so painful to read but which can be better understood with the psychological lens. Miriam Lorie applies trauma recovery patterns to the chamberlain to determine how forgetting could be healthy.

Miriam Lorie

On Chanukkah

Celebrating Chanukkah: The Hidden Light, Revealed based on the writing of Rabbi Ami Silver

Kabbalistic and Chassidic writings identify Chanukkah as a time in which this Hidden Light takes center stage. We are given special access to the Hidden Light. Rav Tzvi Elimelech Spiro ("Bnei Yissaschar") makes the connection between the Hidden Light and the Chanukkah menorah.

Sefaria Education

Sefaria

On Talmud

Chanukah in the Mishna, Tosefta and Tannaitic Literature

Why is Chanukkah almost absent from Tannaitic literature? This sheet surveys traditional and academic explanations and explores the Mishnah’s few indirect references.

Ephraim Diamond