This week’s Torah portion is Vayeshev and the comments of Rav Neriah are especially pertinent: “Since we already heard the Torah portions of Yosef’s story in the past, we cannot learn and absorb them as we would if we were hearing them for the first time. We know the end of the story, and so the tragic tale of the sale of Yosef by his brothers is not shocking. But we need to learn every parasha anew in order to experience what happens as if we were there, to feel what Yaakov and his sons felt as the story actually unfolded, and then we will see the entire parasha in a different light and with a deeper understanding.″