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Rabbi Marc’s A Dash of Drash – Episode 84: Life in Death – Vayechi

Rabbi Marc’s A Dash of Drash – Episode 84: Life in Death – Vayechi

Rabbi Marc Soloway December 20, 2018 Jewish Life Comments Off on Rabbi Marc’s A Dash of Drash – Episode 84: Life in Death – Vayechi

Life in Death is Episode 84 of A Dash of Drash and marks our second anniversary!

Vayechi  (Genesis 47:28 – 50:26) means “and he lived” and is the last parsha of the first book of Torah.  It refers to life and yet both Jacob and Joseph die in the story indicating perhaps that there is life in death.  We end each book of Torah with a blessing of strength, perhaps here asking that we have the strength to see life in death.

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About Rabbi Marc Soloway

Marc is a native of London, England where he was an actor and practitioner of complimentary medicine before training as a rabbi in London, Jerusalem and Los Angeles. He was ordained at the Ziegler School of Rabbinical Studies at the American Jewish University in 2004 and has been the the spiritual leader at Bonai Shalom in Boulder ever since. Marc was a close student of Rabbi Zalman Schechter Shalomi and received an additional smicha (rabbinic ordination) from him in 2014, just two months before he died. He has been the host and narrator of two documentary films shown on PBS; A Fire in the Forest: In Search of the Baal Shem Tov and Treasure under the Bridge: Pilgrimage to the Hasidic Masters of Ukraine. Marc is a graduate of the Institute of Jewish Spirituality, a fellow of Rabbis Without Borders, has traveled to Ghana in a rabbinic delegation with American Jewish World Service and co-chair of the Rabbinical Council and national board member of Hazon, which strives to create more sustainable Jewish communities. In 2015, Marc was among a group of 12 faith leaders honored at The White House as “Champions of Change” for work on the climate. Marc is a proud member of Beit Izim, Boulder’s Jewish goat milking co-op.

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