Birkat HaBanim (Blessing the Children) The custom of - TopicsExpress



          

Birkat HaBanim (Blessing the Children) The custom of blessing the children goes back to the patriarch Jacob and the blessing that he gave to Joseph’s two sons, Ephraim and Menashe. Joseph brought his sons to his father’s death bed. When Jacob realized that these were the children of his son whom he had thought he had lost, he instructed Joseph to bring them forward so that he might bless them. Through his blessing, he actually bequeathed upon the two boys equal status with their uncles so that the descendants of Ephraim and Menashe each received a separate portion in the land of Israel. youtube/watch?v=RjAGzcHywwg
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 06:09:04 +0000

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