Vayigash

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Vayigash

Seventy souls to Mitzrayim descend,

There are seventy faces of Torah,

Seventy nations with seventy tongues,

And seventy elders for Moshe.

It wasn’t enough for just one to go down,

Or forty or twelve or five,

It had to be based on this number profound,

And the parsha works hard to comply.

So when you attain three score and ten years,

In the fullness of life, thank Shamayim,

You echo through time with those seventy souls,

That descended, back then, to Mitzrayim.