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Podcast: The daily Hayom Yom with Rabbi Yosef Katzman
Episode: Hayom Yom 18 Teves - Yaakov's best 17 years were in Egypt
Description: גַּם הָעוֹלֶה לַתּוֹרָה אוֹמֵר חֲזַק חֲזַק וְנִתְחֲזֵק[Like all the other congregants,] the person who receives the [final] aliyah [at the end of any of the Five Books of the Chumash] says Chazak, chazak, venis’chazek.בַּאֲמִירַת וִיהִי נוֹעַם בְּמוֹצָאֵי שַׁבָּת קוֹדֶשׁ כּוֹפְלִים פָּסוּק אוֹרֶךְ יָמִים גו[At Maariv] on Motzaei Shabbos, when reciting the passage that begins Viy’hi noam [and continues with the following chapter of Tehillim, which begins Yoshev beseiser], we repeat the final verse, which begins Orech yamim.אֲבָל לֹא בִּתְּפִלַּת שַׁחֲרִיתThat verse is not repeated [when this chapter is recited] in the [Shabbos] morning prayers.בִּהְיוֹת הַצֶּמַח צֶדֶק יֶלֶדWhen the Tzemach Tzedek was a childוְלָמַד אֶת הַכָּתוּב וַיְחִי יַעֲקֹב בְּאֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם שְׁבַע עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָהand learned the verse, “And Yaakov lived in the land of Egypt for seventeen years,”