Vayehi
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 Published On Jan 11, 2020

Vayechi
Usually, there is some physical space between the sections in the Torah Scroll. Sometimes, it is a whole line; sometimes it is nine characters. But here, between the beginning of this section (Vayechi) and the end of preceding section (Vayigash), we have only one letter’s width of space.
The commentary says that this closed space alludes to the fact that Jacob had wanted to tell his children about the End of Days, meaning the time when the Messiah would come and initiate the Final Redemption. However, he could not do so because his prophetic vision was stopped, or closed; the information about The End of Days was concealed from him.

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