Tyler Dratch

Tyler Dratch is the Torah, text, and tradition coordinator at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism (the RAC) and a rabbinical student at Hebrew College in Newton, MA.

Modeling Jacob: the Ability to Provide for our Families

Tyler Dratch

 For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased abundantly; and God has blessed me wherever I turned. And now when shall I provide for my own house? (Genesis 30:30)

In this week’s Torah portion, Vayeitzei, Jacob asks his uncle, Laban, for