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L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah

Or Yochai Taylor and Michal Kohane

A mother and son explore the weekly Torah portion from our two worlds: she’s an Israeli rabbanit, he’s a American vet student. Together, we unpack the parsha like we"re across the Shabbat table. New episodes weekly. Parsha blog available at https://miko284.com/ to ask questions and leave comments.

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Vayechi 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/12/31

As we close the book of Genesis with Parshat Vayechi, we sit with Jacob and Joseph at the end of their lives, listening to blessings that are as complicated as the people receiving them. Together, we explore exile and home, sibling rivalry and reconciliation, Rachel’s lingering presence, and what it means to carry Jewish identity in a foreign land. This episode reflects on how families—and how we—learn to live with contradiction, forgive old wounds, and move forward together as Genesis gives way to

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00:32:59

Vayigash 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/12/25

Vayigash opens mid-plea: Judah steps forward and time stops. In a room thick with power and memory, he argues for Benjamin, hints at a truth no one dares to name, and forces a reckoning. Joseph breaks the charade—“Ani Yosef”—and suddenly every prior scene rewrites itself. Can a family choose reconciliation over retribution, providence over grievance, future over scorekeeping? As Jacob prepares to leave the Land and descend to Egypt, we track distances—near and far, embrace and clinch, Goshen’s safe

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00:29:43

Miketz 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/12/18

Miketz moves Joseph from the dungeon to the palace by way of dream interpretation. Joseph, forgotten by the cupbearer who “did not think of him and forgot him,” waits two more years until Pharaoh’s double dream pulls him up. This time Joseph names the Source: “God will answer,” then reads the seven fat years and seven lean years and proposes a plan. We wrestle with the brilliance and the danger of that plan, the grammar of vayehi as a signal of darkness, and how a Hebrew prince of exile names his

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00:45:22

Vayeshev 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/12/09

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Vayishlach 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/12/03

Vayishlach picks up where Vayetze left off: Jacob turns homeward and sends messengers to Esau, splitting his camp, arranging gifts, and praying. Night brings a wrestling—man, angel, or inner shadow—after which he limps away blessed and renamed Israel. “Katonti mikol hachasadim u’mikol ha’emet… ata hayiti lishnei machanot”: humility before kindness and truth, and the burden of becoming “two camps.” The reunion with Esau lands between embrace and careful distance; in Shechem, Dinah’s story forces hard

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00:31:55

Vayetzei 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/11/26

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Toldot 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/11/20

Toldot shifts our focus from Abraham and Sarah to Isaac and Rivkah. “These are the generations of Isaac… Abraham begot Isaac...” Does the Torah repeat itself? How do we emphasize the continuity and different characters as we move from founder to formation; chesed and din. Isaac is unique in many ways. He stays rooted in the Land, sows and reaps me’ah she’arim, reopens wells, and grows “until very great.” Rivkah shows aspects of both Abraham’s generosity and Sarah’s prophetic clarity. What do we make

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00:33:11

Chayei Sara 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/11/12

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Vayera 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/11/04

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Lech Lecha 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/10/30

Lech Lecha summons Abram to “go to yourself”-to leave land, lineage, and the familiar for a future written in promise. Between famine’s detour to Egypt, Lot’s separation, battlefield rescue, and a midnight covenant under the stars, the parsha reframes faith as movement: altars mark waypoints, not endpoints. By week’s end, circumcision inscribes belonging on the body itself, and names - Avram to Avraham, Sarai to Sarah - expand to fit a mission larger than comfort.We unpack:• “Go to yourself”:

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00:34:50

Noach 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/10/23

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Bereshit 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/10/14

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Vzot Habracha 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/10/09

The Torah closes not with laws but with love: Moses, “the man of God,” gathers every stratum of Israel and blesses the tribes - different strengths, one people. From Levi’s teaching fire to Benjamin’s refuge “between the shoulders,” from Joseph’s overflowing bounty to Zebulun/Issachar’s commerce and learning partnership, the parsha sketches a map of communal interdependence. Moses then ascends Nebo, sees the land he will not enter, and dies. Yet, the story refuses to end: “There was no prophet like

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00:25:43

Ha'azinu 5786

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/10/02

The Song that Teaches, the Rock that Holds“Give ear, heavens… let the earth hear.” Ha’azinu turns Torah into music - parallel lines, “brick over brick,” a poem meant to be memorized, sung, and lived. Moses teaches like rain and dew: gentle, steady, life-giving. We sit with the parable of the Eagle who stirs its nest, the Name as Tzur (Rock), and the command to “remember days of old”-how a people survive by telling, retelling, and arguing the story at our own tables. From Berlin’s stones of memory to

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00:32:05

Vayeilech 5785

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/09/22

Episode 14Vayeilech: Handing On, Hiding Face, Holding SongMoses is 120 and still in motion. Vayeilech is a study in endings that make beginnings: leadership passes, Torah is written and handed to the Levites, and a “song” is commanded as Israel’s enduring witness. The parsha names the hard truth—failure will come, and God will at times “hide the face”—yet insists on a path of return. As Shabbat Shuvah hovers between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, we talk about aging with purpose, leaving well, and

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00:28:27

Nitzavim 5785

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/09/17

Episode 13 – Nitzavim: Nearness, Return, and Choosing LifeWe’re all standing—leaders and laborers, woodchoppers and water-drawers—bound into one covenant. Nitzavim pivots from history to decision: the mitzvah is not distant, “not in the heavens,” but on our lips and in our hearts. Out of exile comes return (teshuva not just as repentance, but as a homecoming and an answer), and with it a promise of heart-circumcision, restoration, and a clear charge: “I have set before you life and death… choose

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00:36:22

Ki Tavo 5785

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/09/11

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Ki Teitzei 5785

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/09/05

Episode 11 - Ki Teitzei: A Nation of LawsLast week in Shoftim we sketched the Torah’s civic blueprint. This week, Ki Teitzei pours content into that system with 74 mitzvot spanning war and peace, home and street, family and community. We start with the Torah’s ethics of war and move through everyday responsibilities that build a just society.We explore:• Laws of war continued: exemptions, restraint, and why “a person is like a tree of the field” shapes conduct even in siege• Communal responsibility

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00:36:08

Shoftim 5785

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/08/27

Episode 10 – Shoftim: Checks & Balances; Prophets & Sorcerers |This week in Parshat Shoftim, we hear the call to appoint judges and officials in all your gates. From here the Torah builds a framework for justice and governance: judges to interpret the law, officials to carry it out, kings bound by limits, priests serving in the Temple, and prophets guiding the people. We explore how these roles balance one another and what it means to pursue justice, mishpat tzedek, as the foundation of a

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Re'eh 5785

L"Dor Vador: Generational Torah ·

2025/08/20

Episode 9 – Re’eh: Seeing Is Not Necessarily Believing |This week’s portion, Re’eh, begins with a choice: blessing or curse, set before the people as they prepare to stand between Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal. We ask what it means to “see” and why Judaism often calls us instead to hear and listen.We explore:• The difference between seeing everything at once and hearing slowly over time — and why both matter in Torah• Standing between Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal: two peaks so close together, yet

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