Around the Shabbat Table

1. When have you experienced the balance between closeness and distance in your relationships with family and friends?
2. How do you think the narrative of Yosef and his brothers would have been different if they had been “closer” at the start? Do you think the brothers would have then needed some distance to maintain their relationship?
3. Where else in the Tanach do we consider the idea of distance and closeness?

These questions come from this week’s Family Edition to Rabbi Sacks’ Covenant & Conversation. For an interactive, multi-generational study, check out the full edition at www.RabbiSacks.org/covenant-conversation-family-edition/vayigash/the-space-between/