In the biblical story of Jacob — after a life of hardship, running away from his brother, then running away from his father-in-law — Jacob is back home, or at least he thinks he is, and he wants to settle down. The Torah shows us that’s when things really start to happen.

Joseph’s brothers thought they were doing the right thing.

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Often, for me, the greatest stories are very important occurrences in our life. And as time goes on, we understand them in a deeper ways.

I’ll share a little of the background. Many of you who were with us at Pesach and Rosh Hashanah know about a student we have in the Centre in Israel. Over the years she has become friends with a person named Abraham, who was close with Rav Ashlag. She has become very close to Abraham over the years and he has given her two letters to give to the Rav, to give us.

I hope it doesn’t get too complicated, because there are a lot of names in this story.

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