The Encounter

THE BIG IDEA

Don’t be surprised if big things get revealed this week. 

The week after 8 days of Chanukah light is a time of healing, reunion, and reconciliation. Past mistakes are available to be forgiven, dramatic ordeals can come to a sense of closure, and a healthier reality has space to blossom and breathe. 

Whether you identify in this moment as a Yehudah - a leader prepared to live his life as a slave, in order to right his past wrong. 

Or you feel yourself more aligned as a Joseph, a master of control, so moved by this shift in his brother that he cannot hold himself back. 

Be gentle with yourself and your new understanding. Appreciate the family and people together with you, and around you at this moment. 

This week might feel like a shock in some way.  God’s wisdom is hard if not impossible to understand — you might even feel like the brothers, needing time to absorb the truth.

This is the beginning of the end of an era. A chapter closing with grace. A family torn apart by jealousy and mistakes, now reunited. 

Allow the sense of deep calm and peace to settle into the cells of your being.