As we started the new week, we started reading Parashat Vayechi, the final portion of the Book of Genesis. With it, the great narrative of beginnings comes to a close: families that are formed, relationships that grow strained, wounds that do not always heal, partial reconciliations, promises passed from generation to generation—and silences that linger in the air.  Vayechi places Jacob before us at the end of his life. He gathers his children not to distribute possessions, b