Category: Parashat Vayishlach Dvar Torah

In Micah Cowan's senior sermon at JTS, he spoke on Parashat Vayishlach and presented Esav's guide to being content.

Micah Cowan December 22, 2025 JTS Senior Sermon Learning

In a world that celebrates exhaustion, we can look to Jacob and Esau for a deeper lesson: we have to value what truly matters.

Boaz Davidoff February 13, 2025 Parashat Vayishlach Parashat Vayishlach Dvar Torah

What can we learn about forgiveness from the Rabbis' boogeyman? Esau is that boogeyman but we can learn from his relationship with Jacob.

Alex Friedman February 5, 2024 Parashat Vayishlach Parashat Vayishlach Dvar Torah

The story of Jacob and Esav's relationship is a paradigm of biblical “Color War” and what really winning actually means.

Emily Kaiman December 8, 2023 Parashat Vayishlach Parashat Vayishlach Dvar Torah

Based on rabbinic midrash from tractate Berakhot, Dinah can be read either as a trans woman or, as this piece argues, a closeted trans man.

Saffron Mala Kaplan December 8, 2023 Parashat Vayishlach Parashat Vayishlach Dvar Torah

Caleb Brommer, RS '24, speaks on finding quiet solace in a stormy world, for his JTS senior sermon, on Parashat Vayishlach.

Caleb Brommer November 30, 2023 JTS Senior Sermon Learning

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