Happy 80th Birthday, Grandpa! Since you are famous for sharing D'vrei Torah with creative props, we wanted to follow your example. In honor of your birthday, we’ve prepared a short D’var Torah on Parshat Miketz, Itiel’s Bar Mitzvah parsha, using props to help bring the message to life. In addition as tribute to your teaching days we created a worksheet on parshat Haazinu, Tzuri’s Bar Mitzva Parsha. Lastly, we uploaded a picture of Matanya as a Kohen Gadol - a theme that runs through his Bar Mitzva Parsha - Shmini.  
Wishing you good health, happiness, and many more years of nachat from your family.
With love,
The Wimpfheimers

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Parshat Mekeitz - The Puzzle Piece + Magnifying Glass

Maybe We're Only Seeing Part of the Picture
Today I brought a puzzle piece and a magnifying glass.
If I showed you just this one puzzle piece, would anyone know what the whole picture is? Probably not.
And if I use this magnifying glass, I can see the details better, but I still can't see the entire puzzle.
In Parshat Miketz, Yosef suddenly becomes the second most powerful person in Egypt. But if people only looked at one part of his life, they would have thought his story was a disaster. First he was thrown into a pit, then sold as a slave, and later put in prison.
Each of those events was only one piece of a much bigger puzzle.
Sometimes in our own lives we focus on one problem, like looking at a single puzzle piece through a magnifying glass. It can seem huge. But Hashem sees the whole picture, even when we don't.
Miketz teaches us that when things don't make sense right away, we may just be looking at one piece instead of the whole puzzle.