Although this week we read Parsha Vayera,

I would like to share a thought connected to Vayechi.

Because Vayechi is not a parsha about a week —

it is a parsha about the time in which we are living.

Now, according to the Jewish calendar, it is 5786.

Our sages taught that

six thousand years correspond to the six days of Creation,

and the seventh millennium is the Shabbat of history —

yom she-kulo Shabbat.

If so, then we are living at the end of the sixth day.

Not at the beginning.

Not in the middle.

But in the late hours of Friday.

The work is almost done.

Shabbat is already in the air.

Time You Can Feel

If all of history is six days,

that equals 144 symbolic hours.

One such “hour” is about 42 years.

Until the year 6000, about 214 years remain —

roughly five symbolic hours.

This is not morning.

Not midday.

This is erev Shabbat.

“Today, If You Hear His Voice”........

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