By Rabbi Marc Schneier
The end of year 2012 coincides with the end of days for our Patriarch Jacob, which was the focus of the biblical reading last Shabbat.
Jacob, lying on his deathbed, looks over to his children. Will he remember the internecine conflict among his sons, the hatred among the brothers, the attempt at fracticide, and the disappearance of Joseph that caused Jacob so much distress and anguish or will he remember how he, Jacob, provoked his children, favoring one son over the other...
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